TMC Councillor Susanta Ghosh arrested from Puri on extortion charges
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor from 108 ward who faces charges of extortion was held by cops from the Anandapur police station.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor from 108 ward who faces charges of extortion was held by cops from the Anandapur police station.
The email has been sent from Messi's team who had come to Kolkata for the GOAT event as his advisor and was present during the fiasco at the Yuva Bharati stadium in Salt Lake.
Udayan Guha had earlier served as the Minister for North Bengal Development in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led state government. Furthermore, he was also invloved in managing the Trinamool Congress Party'S (TMC) organizational responsibilities in Cooch Behar.
The five-storey building is owned by Manotosh Saha, also known as Montu Saha, whose company, Modern Decorators, was earlier in charge of building makeshift stages for various TMC party events.
A woman Maoist leader linked to fugitive commander Mishir Besra surrendered before Kolkata Police with an SLR rifle and ammunition. Police said she had operated for years in the Saranda forest region.
The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has agreed to release an additional 21,000 acre-feet of water from its dams and barrages to support boro crop cultivation in five South Bengal districts, following a request by state panchayat minister and Durgapur East MLA Pradip Majumdar.
In a significant political development ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, senior Trinamul Congress leader Rabindranath Ghosh on Saturday stepped down as Chairman of Cooch Behar Municipality, complying with instructions from the party’s national general secretary and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee.
The Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) had sought a detailed report from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday regarding the sequence of events during the agency’s search operations in Kolkata in connection with the alleged illegal coal smuggling case.
Placing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls at the centre of its 2026 Assembly election campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of panicking over a clean voter list and attempting to undermine constitutional institutions to retain power.
With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections approaching, the Bharatiya Janata Party has begun damage-control efforts in politically sensitive Cooch Behar, where internal discontent within the party has triggered embarrassment from the district to the national level.
