Abhishek has so far been interrogated for more than 14 hours in two rounds, the first time for around six hours on June 11, and later for eight and a half hours on June 14.
Maidul Islam, a popular face of TMC teachers’ cell, was initially detained by the police early this morning for interrogation. Later on, he was shown as arrested by the Diamond Harbour Police.
TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has sought Kalyan Banerjee's expulsion from the Lok Sabha, alleging repeated misogynistic remarks, verbal abuse and intimidation of women parliamentarians.
State Health Minister Sharadwat Mukherjee alleged that evidence and information related to the case had been systematically destroyed. He said the department would try to identify those responsible and examine whether a larger network was involved in the alleged irregularities.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is consulting both factions of the Trinamool Congress before deciding on a merger claim submitted by 20 rebel MPs who have aligned with the NCPI.
Banerjee said the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the national rural jobs programme was deeply distressing and reflected a lack of respect for national icons.
Trinamool Congress All-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday reminded the party's Members of Parliament in Delhi about the party's "code of conduct" and issued a three-point directive along with a warning, a party insider said.
West Bengal unit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday dropped a subtle hint towards projecting the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, as the chief ministerial face for the Assembly elections scheduled to be held next year.
Amid the exclusion of 58,20,899 voters' names in the draft voters' list in West Bengal published on December 16 -- thus marking the completion of the first stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state
A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday cancelled the jobs of 313 teachers attached to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools spread across the hill regions of Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong in the northern sector of West Bengal.
