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Abhishek called to meet Birla while being in ED office

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will hear the defected TMC MPs as well as the faction led by Mamata Banerjee before deciding on giving recognition to the breakaway faction, sources…
Arrested TMC leader Jahangir Khan paraded second time in a week

Kolkata: West Bengal police on Sunday, June 15, paraded Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan on the streets of Falta in South 24 Parganas district for the second time in a week.…

Rebel TMC MPs announce merger with Nationalist Citizens Party

New Delhi: The rebellion in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) appeared to reach a crescendo on Sunday, June 14, as dissident MPs announced their merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party and met Lok…
Bengal CID conducts marathon questioning of Abhishek Banerjee

Kolkata: The West Bengal CID on Sunday, June 14, conducted marathon questioning of Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and party MLA Kunal Ghosh in Kolkata in connection with its…
TMC’s Sudip Bandyopadhyay meets Union Minister, sparks speculation

Kolkata: A meeting between senior TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Union Minister Bhupender Yadav in New Delhi on Saturday, June 13, sparked fresh political speculation amid turmoil within the party, raising questions…
Bengal Police search Abhishek Banerjee’s home in 3am raid

In a predawn raid certain to deepen the political faultlines in West Bengal, police personnel, accompanied by central forces, searched Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee’s residence here for more than four…
TMC’s LS revolt: Signature sheets go viral, feature names of 19 MPs

Kolkata: The scale of the TMC’s parliamentary revolt came into sharper focus on Friday after purported signatures of 19 party MPs surfaced on a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker seeking recognition…

Kolkata fire destroys 4,000 EVMs used in Bengal elections

Kolkata: West Bengal minister Kaushik Chowdhury on Thursday, June 11, said that around 4,000 EVMs were gutted in a government building fire here, as the police launched an investigation following the registration…
Signature forgery: Abhishek reaches CID HQ for questioning

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday, June 11, appeared before the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) to face questions in the signature forgery case over the party’s…
Won’t abandon Mamata Banerjee in hard times: Shatrughan Sinha

New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday, June 11, asserted that he would not abandon TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee in difficult times, saying she had stood by him when he was going…
Abhishek Banerjee granted interim relief from coercive action

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court granted interim protection from coercive action to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday, June 11, in the alleged forged signatures of newly…
Questions remain unanswered over BJP win in Muslim locality

Kolkata: Questions remain unanswered as scepticism continues to rise over the landslide victory secured by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in the Muslim-dominated Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s capital. The controversy…
TMC leader arrested for extortion, people throw eggs, cow dung

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Sabyasachi Dutta was arrested early on Tuesday from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on charges of extortion and criminal intimidation, and was remanded to police custody for…
‘Fake signature’ row: CID enters Mamata’s residence-cum-office

Kolkata: A CID team on Tuesday, June 9, entered Trinamool Congress’s central party office-cum-residence of party supremo Mamata Banerjee in Kalighat area, after a brief standoff with security personnel and a party…
TMC crack deepens as 20 rebel MPs write to Speaker backing BJP-NDA

Kolkata: The crisis engulfing the TMC deepened on Monday as 20 Lok Sabha MPs, led by Chief Whip Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, wrote to Speaker Om Birla declaring support for the BJP-led NDA,…