NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee was suspended for a day following a dramatic altercation during a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday. Banerjee smashed a glass bottle and hurled it towards the committee’s chairperson, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, injuring himself in the process. Pal condemned the…
NEW DELHI: Acting on her request, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan has been shifted to the departmental standing committee on labour, days after she was nominated to the committee on communications and information technology headed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.Sources said Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who was also nominated to the committee headed by…
NEW DELHI: After days of impasse over distribution of department-related parliamentary standing committees, parties are learnt to have reached a consensus with Congress likely to head four key panels including external affairs, education, human resource development and agriculture.Sources said a notification in this regard is expected shortly. In 2014, with the Congress tally at just…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has filed a complaint with the Lokpal against Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, alleging “improper conduct” and “quid pro quo arrangements”.“My LokPal complaint against Ms. Puri-Buch been filed electronically & in physical form. LokPal must within 30 days refer it to CBI/ED…
KOLKATA: A cautious Trinamool Congress on Sunday tried to rein in discordant voices within the party and said resignation was Jawhar Sircar‘s personal prerogative, to which it had nothing to add.But the party also agreed with Sircar’s “anxieties” and observations”, saying while “course correction” was the need of the hour, foot soldiers would fight the…
NEW DELHI: The Kolkata doctor rape-murder case has snowballed into a political showdown between the ruling TMC and the Bengal unit of the BJP, which has accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “endorsing” revenge politics.Highlighting it before Union home minister Amit Shah, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, who also happens to be a Union minister,…
NEW DELHI: A video of an elderly man, dressed in saffron, facing water cannons, while holding the national flag during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Bengal Secretariat) protest, went viral on Tuesday. The protest was organized against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s…
NEW DELHI: As the doctors continue to voice their protests on streets demanding justice for the raped and murdered doctor, Trinamool Congress on Wednesday compared the situation to 2019 Pulwama attack. This was done in another effort to make the striking healthcare professionals return to their jobs.“With a request to doctors to end their strike,…
NEW DELHI: Amidst ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has denied allegations of a cover-up. She responded to accusations from the opposition BJP, which criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee and elected female representatives, calling them “Gungi gudiya” (mute…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said that a special PMLA court in Ahmedabad has framed criminal charges against Saket Gokhale, a Rajya Sabha MP from Trinamool Congress (TMC), under the anti-money laundering law. The case against Gokhale is based on an FIR filed by the Gujarat Police, alleging misuse of funds collected through…
