The ED had summoned Mahua Moitra on March 28 for questioning in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case. Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani was also called for questioning today. Mahua said that she will campaign in the Krishnanagar constituency for the Lok Sabha polls
The Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, issued the directions to the CBI after receiving the findings of its preliminary inquiry into allegations made against Moitra by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Saumitra Khan was a TMC leader until 2019, before crossing over to the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP once again backed him. The TMC fielded his ex-wife Sujata Mondal against him, making the poll battle interesting.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) directed the transfer of West Bengal's Director General of Police, the state's chief cop.
In a significant development, IPS officer Vivek Sahay has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) for West Bengal.
The five-storey building collapsed in Hazari Mollah Bagan in the Garden Reach area around midnight on Sunday. According to locals, who were the first responders, concrete chunks fell from the building before it collapsed.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Trinamool Congress suffered a significant setback as two of its MPs, Arjun Singh and Dibyendu Adhikari, defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
This is the second incident where the West Bengal CM got injured months before the crucial election. Earlier in 2021, the TMC leader suffered a leg injury while conducting an Assembly election campaign in Nandigram.
ED had registered a case under PMLA in this matter. ED has raids at a total of four places.
In a bold move, Mamata Banerjee disowned her familial connections with Babun Banerjee amidst a political rift over the TMC's candidate selection process.
TMC has fielded Prasun Banerjee from the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency. A former footballer is a two-time Lok Sabha MP of the TMC from the Howrah seat.
Arjun Singh has a history of switching sides. He started his political career with Congress in 1995. Later in 2001, Singh joined TMC. In 2019, he switched to the BJP and won the Barrackpore seat on the saffron party ticket, but due to some differences in the party, he returned to TMC in 2022.
Shahjahan was alleged to have orchestrated an attack on ED officials who had gone to search his premises in connection with an alleged ration scam involving the defalcation of several crore of rupees.
The rules for implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019 were notified, paving the way for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Last week, the CBI conducted searches at the residence and office of suspended TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district as part of its investigation into the attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in the area in January.
BJP's Saumitra Khan had announced split from Sujarat Mondal in 2021 during the West Bengal Assembly elections. TMC has fielded Mondal against Khan in the Bishnupur seat.
"By separating herself from the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, she showed that she is in fear and does not want to fight BJP," Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday announced candidates of Trinamool Congress (TMC) for all Lok Sabha seats giving a blow to seat-sharing talks with Congress.
TMC announced the names of all 42 party candidates who will contest the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. Mahua Moitra, who was expelled from Lok Sabha, has been fielded from Krishnanagar.
In compliance with the orders of the Calcutta High Court, three FIRs were registered at the CBI, ACB, Kolkata, on March 5, 2024, taking over FIRs previously registered by the West Bengal Police.
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