Bengal
Saradha chit fund probe: ED notice to Satabdi Roy, Kunal Ghosh and four others for interrogation next week
ED and CBI are conducting probes in Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams.
Bengal
Metro Railway death: Kolkata Police starts case against Metro, asks for details including CCTV footage, Railways starts probe too
Commissioner of Railway Safety is also conducting an inspection today.
Bengal
Kalighat bridge in south Kolkata to be closed for 24 hours from Saturday night, traffic to be diverted
Earlier inspection did not require closing traffic.
Politics
Salt Lake Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta to legally fight no-confidence motion against him
Sabyasachi Dutta is seeking legal opinion to fight the impending no-trust motion against him.
Bengal
Mamata Banerjee walks in rally in Kolkata with “save water” message
KMC is taking stringent measures to prevent wastage of water.
Bengal
CBI writes to Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, questions four officials on visitors to the Mayor’s office since 2014
CBI wants to look into the list of visitors to the Mayor's office.
Nation
Cultivation in Singur on land returned to farmers is reducing, but can’t force them to farm: Mamata Banerjee
The Singur movement helped Trinamool Congress win the Assembly elections of 2011.
Bengal
ED summons Bengali movie star Rituparna Sengupta in Rose Valley probe; to inquire about her alleged travels abroad with the company’s funds
Film star Prasenjit Chatterjee has been summoned as well.
Bengal
Private tutor sexually assaults female student at gunpoint in Kolkata’s Netaji Nagar; arrested
It is suspected that he may have sexually assaulted other female students as well.
Politics
Somen Mitra resigns as West Bengal Congress chief
Mitra took over as Congress head in Bengal for second time in 2018.