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Malda (West Bengal): The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers of vandalising posters and decorative gates ahead of party chief Amit Shah’s rally here. “Gates, welcome arches, posters, cut-outs, festoons have been vandalised ahead of our national president’s rally. Gates have set on […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hit out at opposition parties, saying the fear of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and his return to power has brought them together but said this won’t work in the Lok Sabha polls as Modi remains the most popular leader. In a Facebook post, he said the […]

New Delhi: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has got over 93 per cent of donations of above Rs 20,000 received by national political parties, during 2017-18, pocketing Rs 437.04 crore of the total Rs 469.89 crore donated by corporates and individuals. According to a report by election watchdog, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the BJP’s application for holding “Rath Yatra and/or Ganatantra Bachao yatra” in the state saying there was a “grave apprehension of major breach of peace and communal violence during and in the aftermath” of the programme. In an official communication to the BJP, that was made public […]

Agartala: Six Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators in Tripura are likely to cast votes in favour of NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind in the July 17 presidential poll, a party leader said on Sunday. “We have held a meeting here on Saturday night and decided not to cast our votes in favour of Congress-led opposition-backed presidential […]

Bhubaneswar: A local court here on Saturday rejected the bail plea of TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay who was arrested for his alleged link with the Rose Valley Group chit fund scam. The Khordha District and Sessions Judge court rejected the bail plea of Bandyopadhyay. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested the four-time Lok […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday dubbed the arrest of Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay as “vendetta politics” by the Centre and announced nationwide protests against the Modi government’s “vindictive attitude”. Bandyopadhyay was earlier arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Rose Valley Chit Fund scam. Banerjee demanded […]

Bhubaneswar: The regional parties are strong enough to counter the BJP, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today after meeting her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik, who made no comment on the perceived saffron surge in his state. “The regional parties are enough to tackle the BJP,” Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee told reporters after a […]

Bhubaneswar: Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today decided to field party candidates in the 2018 Odisha urban local bodies elections. TMC state president Arya Kumar Gyanendra said this after Banerjee met the party’s state leaders in Puri. “We have been instructed to create a field for the next urban polls and […]

Bhubaneswar: Announcing its plan to continue with agitations till the ouster of Narendra Modi from the helm, the Trinamool Congress today said it foresaw Mamata Banerjee as a future prime minister. “This could happen one day. After all, we are a political party which is growing by the day. People may decide that (making Mamata […]

Bhubaneswar: Alleging political vendetta behind the arrest of TMC leaders, Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhya’s wife Nayna today said her husband was in the “custody of Modi” and not in the “CBI’s custody.” Nayna, who has been camping here ever since her husband had been brought to the CBI custody for his alleged link to […]

Kolkata: With two of its MPs, Tapas Pal and Sudip Bandopadhyay, arrested by the CBI here in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam, shifted to Bhubaneswar, the Trinamool Congress has decided to hold a protest rally in the Odisha capital tomorrow. “We cannot be cowed down by threats and vendetta politics. The Centre […]

Kolkata: To show solidarity with party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, arrested by the CBI in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam, top TMC leaders like Partha Chatterjee and state President Subrata Bakshi will travel to Bhubaneswar this Sunday to meet the incarcerated leader. Bandyopadhyay was taken to Bhubaneswar soon after he was arrested by […]

In a big embarassment to the ruling Trinamool Congress, its Rajya Sabha MP Srinjoy Bose was on Friday arrested by the CBI for alleged involvement in the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam and West Bengal Textiles Minister Shyamapada Mukherjee was quizzed in another related case

Accusing BJD government in Odisha of being 'neck-deep in corruption', Trinamool Congress leader Soumen Mahapatra on Monday said besides mining and other scams, the state suffered from misrule in the last 14 years as all promises on development turned out to be hollow