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UP, Bengal top list of states in custodial death cases: Centre tells LS

Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal top the list of states in terms of cases registered in respect of custodial deaths, the Parliament was told on Tuesday

ED gets 10 days' custody of Partha Chatterjee, associate

A Kolkata court on Monday granted 10 days' Enforcement Directorate custody of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee, who were arrested in connection with the school jobs scam.

Arrested West Bengal minister needs no hospitalisation, says AIIMS

The next course of action will be taken as per court directives, he stated, adding that Chatterjee would be discharged soon

WB post-poll violence: Calcutta HC cancels anticipatory bail for 13 accused

CBI had filed a a supplementary charge sheet in the Court of Baruipur additional chief judicial magistrate against 17 accused who were given anticipatory bail by District and Sessions Judge, Alipore

Recruitment scam: ED says Bengal minister's 'aide' ran 12 shell companies

Preliminary investigations have revealed that Arpita Mukherjee, known to be a "close associate" of arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, had been running at least 12 shell companies

Calcutta HC rejects bail plea of 13 accused in post-poll violence case

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of 13 persons accused in the violence that took place in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district

Mamata Banerjee loses pole position in Opposition

Her conduct in the election of the president and the vice-president confirms her image as an unpredictable leader

Mamata's name, mobile number found in Partha Chatterjee arrest memo

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's name and mobile number features in Partha Chatterjee's arrest warrant in connection with the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal

Arrested Bengal minister's 'close aide' remanded to one-day ED custody

A city court on Sunday remanded Arpita Mukherjee, an alleged close associate of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, to one-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody.

Superhigh ambitions led Arpita Mukherjee to abandon her mother: ED

Arpita Mukherjee is currently in the news after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered a huge amount of cash, gold from her residence in connection with the teacher recruitment scam in Bengal

Mamata's silence on Partha Chatterjee 'admission of crime': BJP

BJP slammed the Trinamool Congress and said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's silence over the arrest of the state's Minister Partha Chatterjee is an admission of corruption committed

Centre working with West Bengal to implement NEP in state: Pradhan

The Centre is working with the West Bengal government to implement the New Education Policy (NEP) in the state, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. Speaking to reporters, Pradhan said the Centre and the state government were holding regular talks and if there is any gap, they are ironing those out. "I am not sure for what reason one will be against the NEP 2020. It is employment-generating, modern and contemporary. In the last two years, we got great feedback from all stakeholders," he said on Saturday, when asked about certain issues raised by the West Bengal government. The state government recently formed a 10-member committee to examine NEP, and assess the need for a state-level policy on education. State Education Minister Bratya Basu had said that the committee will scrutinise various aspects of the policy. The state will then formulate its response to the NEP as education is on the concurrent list, Basu had said. Meanwhile, Pradhan praised CBSE authorities fo

NIA files charge sheet against three in West Bengal bomb blast case

NIA has filed charge sheet before a special court here against three persons in connection with a bomb blast that left one person dead in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district in January this year

West Bengal reports 1,844 fresh Covid-19 infection, seven more deaths

West Bengal on Saturday registered 1,844 new Covid-19 cases, 393 less than the previous day's count, taking the tally to 20,83,572, the health department said in a bulletin

Partha Chatterjee hospitalised after arrest by ED in school jobs scam

The minister was arrested following a marathon 26-hour-long grilling at his house, an ED official said.

School jobs scam: ED gets 2 days' custody of WB minister Partha Chatterjee

The Enforcement Directorate arrested Chatterjee, a senior Trinamool Congress leader, earlier in the day and produced him before a judge in the Bankshall court, who remanded him to 2 days of ED custody

TMC running govt of corrupts in Bengal: Jyotiraditya Scindia on SSC scam

"The TMC government is no longer a government for the people, it is rather the government of corrupts. The entire government is knee-deep in corruption," Scindia alleged.

ED grills Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee overnight over school jobs scam

Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogated West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee overnight in connection with the teacher recruitment scam case

West Bengal's active Covid cases dip to 26,727; positivity rate at 14.41%

West Bengal reported 2,237 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and seven more deaths, as per the Health Department. The positivity rate was 14.41 per cent as the new cases were detected after testing 15,520 samples, it said. The active cases declined to 26,727 as 3,258 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, it added. At present, 668 patients are undergoing treatment in hospital, while the rest are in home isolation. The state has so far reported 20,81,728 cases and 21,307 deaths.

Recruitment scam: ED seizes cash in raid, grills WB minister for 11 hrs

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out simultaneous raids at the houses of around a dozen people, including 2 ministers, in connection with its investigation into the recruitment scam