The merger of 20 rebel TMC MPs with the little-known NCPI has thrust the party into the national spotlight. The move could prove crucial in helping the breakaway faction navigate India's anti-defection law while backing the NDA government.
Today's ED interrogation comes a day after Abhishek Banerjee faced an eight-and-a-half-hour questioning session by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police in connection with the signature-mismatch case.
Mahua Moitra publicly accused senior TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay of misleading party colleagues about his health and travelling to Delhi amid a growing rebellion by a section of Trinamool Congress MPs.
The letter pleads the Speaker to "decline to accord any recognition, status, or facility to any purported separate group or faction of the AITC."
Senior TMC leaders who have now joined the rebel faction including Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Arup Chakraborty, Kakoli Ghosh, Mala Roy, Satabdi Roy, Prasun Banerjee were spotted arriving at Bhupender Yadav's place in Delhi.
The agricultural marketing department at Khadya Bhawan has issued a notification regarding the extension of the potato storage period in the state’s cold storages.
Sebaashray 2, an initiative to provide health care to the residents who stay in the areas under Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat will start from 1 December.
Majumdar, who returned to Kolkata yesterday night after a foreign tour, was travelling to Diamond Harbour to meet party workers when he was allegedly attacked.
A Bangladeshi national, identified as Nadeem Sardar living for 15 years in the industrial town of Dankuni in Hooghly district, was arrested after his abortive attempt to fill up the enumeration form (SIR) in the name of a dead person in the locality, official sources said.
The state government today appointed Ekam J. Singh, a 2020 batch IAS officer, as the Commissioner of Asansol Municipal Corporation. The Chief Executive Officer of Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) Aditi Choudhury (2014 IAS batch) had been holding dual charge.
