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ED summons TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, his parents in teachers' job scam case

Sep 29, 2023, at 01:59 am

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a summons for Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and MP Abhishek Banerjee to attend an inquiry related to the teachers' recruitment scam case on October 3.

Abhishek Banerjee faces 9 hours of ED grilling in Bengal teacher recruitment scam, rates outcome as 'minus 2'

Sep 14, 2023, at 07:21 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee Wednesday slammed the Narendra Modi-led Central government for "using" the probe agencies to harass opposition leaders like him after losing electoral battles in the state.

INDIA alliance to hold first public meeting in Bhopal next month: KC Venugopal

Sep 14, 2023, at 04:53 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The INDIA Alliance Coordination Committee Wednesday decided to hold the bloc's first public meeting in Bhopal in the first week of October on the issue of rising prices and unemployment, as well as the "corruption" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Bengal recruitment scam: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee reaches ED office in Kolkata

Sep 13, 2023, at 06:18 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's office here following the summons sent by the central probe agency which is investigating the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.

ED quizzes TMC MP Nussrat Jahan for nearly six hours in alleged financial irregularity case

Sep 13, 2023, at 05:08 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday questioned actor-turned-Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Nussrat Jahan for nearly six hours at its CGO Complex office at Salt Lake in relation to the alleged fund siphoning of buyers, who paid in advance to Seven Senses Infrastructure Pvt Ltd to purchase flats at New Town area of the city, official sources said.

ED summons to Abhishek Banerjee political vendetta: Mamata Banerjee

Sep 12, 2023, at 05:17 am

Kolkata/IBNS:  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday termed the Enforcement Directorate summons to Trinamool Congress National General Secretary and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as a "political vendetta".

SC directs ED to withdraw lookout circular against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife

Jul 29, 2023, at 01:45 am

New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court today on Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to withdraw the lookout circular issued against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in connection with the money laundering cases against them linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.

Bengal jobs scam: SC refuses to interfere with central agencies' probe against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee

Jul 11, 2023, at 05:21 am

New Delhi/IBNS: In a huge setback, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe against TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the West Bengal teachers' recruitment scam.

'BJP is virus, Trinamool, Mamata its vaccine': Abhishek Banerjee in Bengal panchayat poll campaign

Jul 06, 2023, at 05:25 pm

Baidyapur/UNI: Hitting out at the BJP, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said just as Corona is a virus, and Covishield its vaccine, similarly, BJP is the virus, and Trinamool and Mamata Banerjee its vaccine.

Abhishek Banerjee's 2-month-long mass outreach campaign concludes in Bengal

Jun 17, 2023, at 02:14 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee's two-month-long "Jono Sanjog Yatra" ahead of the three-tier Panchayat election concluded at Kakdwip in Bengal's South 24 Parganas on Friday.

ED quizzes TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira for four hours in coal scam case

Jun 09, 2023, at 05:56 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday quizzed Rujira Banerjee, wife of Abhishek Banerjee (MP), for about four hours at its CGO Complex, Salt Lake, in relation to the alleged coal scam case.

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira appears before ED in coal scam case

Jun 08, 2023, at 07:22 pm

Kolkata/UNI/IBNS: Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, appeared before the ED officials at the CGO Complex, Salt Lake, in the alleged coal smuggling scam, official sources said on Thursday.

Bengal coal scam: 'Can't fight against me so targeting my family,' says Abhishek Banerjee after wife Rujira stopped at airport

Jun 06, 2023, at 07:12 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allegedly targeting his family for political gains.

Coromandel train accident: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee slams Modi govt

Jun 03, 2023, at 06:19 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has come down heavily on the Narendra Modi government over the Coromandel train accident that led to the death of over 200 people.

Bengal: Lone Congress MLA Bayron Biswas joins TMC

May 29, 2023, at 08:50 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Lone Congress MLA in West Bengal, Bayron Biswas, who had created ripples in the state politics defeating the mighty Trinamool Congress in Sagardighi earlier this year, joined the ruling party on Monday.

Abhishek Banerjee's mass outreach programme faces violent protest by Kurmi community in Bengal's Salboni

May 27, 2023, at 05:37 am

Kolkata/Salboni/IBNS: The agitation by the Kurmi community demanding ST status and inclusion of their language in the eighth schedule of the Constitution turned violent on Friday at Salboni in Jhargram district in West Bengal on Friday.

Bengal jobs scam: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee can be quizzed by probe agencies, rules SC

May 26, 2023, at 06:40 pm

New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled the probe agencies, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED), can go on with their quizzing of Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, media reports said.

Bengal school jobs scam: SC to hear Abhishek Banerjee's plea against CBI quizzing on Friday

May 22, 2023, at 06:36 pm

New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's plea against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s quizzing him in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam will be heard by the Supreme Court on Friday, media reports said.

CBI quizzes Abhishek Banerjee in teacher recruitment scam for hours, TMC MP says 'waste of time'

May 21, 2023, at 06:02 am

Kolkata/UNI: The CBI on Saturday grilled Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee for a marathon of more than nine and a half hours at its office at Nizam Place in regard to the alleged teachers' recruitment scam in the state government-aided schools.

Abhishek Banerjee appears before CBI in Bengal teacher recruitment scam

May 20, 2023, at 05:06 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Curtailing his 60-day mass outreach political campaign, Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday reached Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s Kolkata office after the probe agency summoned him in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.

TMC teaches us to serve people selflessly: Abhishek Banerjee at 'Nabo Jowar' campaign

May 12, 2023, at 08:11 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, whose Jono Sanjog Yatra from Cooch Behar to Kakdwip as part of the Trinamoole Nabo Jowar campaign entered the 17th day, marking the completion of 2000 km of yatra, on Friday asserted that regardless of caste or political affiliations, class or creed, the party has taught to serve people selflessly.

'Neither will we do nor will allow NRC in Bengal': Mamata Banerjee in Malda

May 05, 2023, at 04:29 am

Malda/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday expressed outrage against the Centre's National Register of Citizens and clarified that the politics of polarization by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the name of NRC will not be tolerated at all in this state.

'BJP is driving a wedge between religions': Abhishek Banerjee during Jono Sanjog Yatra in Bengal

May 02, 2023, at 01:00 am

Kolkata/Siliguri/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of "driving a wedge between religions and creating unrest".

Bengal: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee calls for establishing Gandhi's Panchayat model

Apr 30, 2023, at 06:49 pm

Kolkata/Siliguri/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has called for establishing the Panchayat model in Bengal as was envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi.

Bengal: 'Nobody is above party discipline,' says Abhishek Banerjee in mass outreach campaign

Apr 29, 2023, at 07:16 pm

Kolkata/Siliguri/UNI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who has embarked upon a two-month-long Jono Sanjog Yatra (mass contact outreach) ahead of the West Bengal Panchayat polls, on Saturday said nobody is above party discipline and none can blackmail the party for an election ticket.

Bengal recruitment scam: Abhishek Banerjee welcomes SC's transfer of cases from Justice Ganguly's bench

Apr 28, 2023, at 09:53 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has welcomed the Supreme Court order of transferring all cases from Justice Abhijit Ganguly's bench owing to the latter's television interview with a local private channel on the corruption issues.

Bengal Teachers' Scam: Justice Ganguly's TV interview prompts SC to remove him from the cases

Apr 28, 2023, at 08:17 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of all West Bengal teacher recruitment scam cases from Justice Abhijit Ganguly's bench owing to the judge's interview with a local private television channel on the corruption issue he was hearing, media reports said.

SC seeks report on Calcutta HC judge's alleged interview on Bengal job scam to media

Apr 24, 2023, at 11:08 pm

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought a report from the Registrar General of the Calcutta High Court on whether Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay gave an interview to a news channel about the case related to the school recruitment scam in West Bengal.

Bengal: Abhishek Banerjee takes dig at Suvendu Adhikari, calls him 'empty balloon'

Apr 21, 2023, at 03:24 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday came down heavily on Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari, terming him as an "empty balloon".

'Grave state of affairs': Abhishek Banerjee after CBI summons in Bengal jobs scam

Apr 17, 2023, at 11:16 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has called the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summons to him in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam a "grave state of affairs".