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Planters take tea wage hike to High Court

Planters have filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court against the state government's decision to hike wages of tea workers from Rs 232 to Rs 250 a day on an interim basis.

Tea wage up; workers to now get Rs 250

Tea workers will now be given Rs 250 a day, as against the Rs 232 the daily rated workers had been drawing. Minister Ghatak said the state government will issue a notification to this effect soon.

ED issues fresh summons to state law minister Moloy Ghatak

The ED probing the money trail under the prevention of money laundering Act (PMLA) in the illegal coal mine and coal pilferage scam. Earlier, on 6 September, ED had interrogated Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at its Delhi office for eight hours and issued fresh summons of him again for his appearance in Delhi on 21 September.

Proactive attitude of central agencies sparks controversy in Bengal

State Law Minister Moloy Ghatak was asked to come to Delhi and appear before the ED in the same coal smuggling case, but he refused to go and asked the probe agency to come to Kolkata to record his statement. He has told them that they can record his version through video conference.