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The veteran investigator and former IPS officer submitted his resignation from All India Trinamool Congress KOLKATA: Upen Biswas, former Trinamool minister and the man who was among the intelligentsia who supported Mamata Banerjee when she ousted the 34-year-old Left Front in 2011, has resigned from the party. Upendra Nath Biswas, whom Mamata affectionately called “Upen da” retired as additional director of the CBI in 2002. The man who was responsible for sending Lalu Prasad Yadav to jail,...

Can celebrities help the Trinamool defeat the BJP? Mamata Banerjee has fallen back on a tried and tested strategy of fielding well-known faces as party candidates. Filmmaker Raj Chakraborty and other Trinamool celebrity candidates with party MP Derek OBrien. | Twitter On Sunday, headlines out of poll-bound West Bengal were dominated by the news of actor Mithun Chakraborty joining the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the prime minister’s rally in Kolkata. But when it comes t...

Mithun, The Cobra Who Could Sting Mamata Hard Mithun, The Cobra Who Could Sting Mamata Hard Updated: March 08, 2021 4:54 pm IST I moved to a new school when I was 10. My neighbour, who knew me already, introduced me to others in the school bus as Mithun Chakrabortys cousin. This spread like, as I am told, wildfires do, and caused me much shame. Mithun, for all his popularity, was a Disco Dancer. I was a junior bhadralok. But the memory of our fictitious kinship came to my aid 25 years later....

Mamata’s ex-minister says Saradha is country’s worst scam, bats for Rakesh Asthana in new book Former additional CBI director Upen Biswas, widely known for his probe into the fodder scam, has written that Saradha scam is a ‘monumental fraud that overshadows all scams of India’.  Madhuparna Das 18 February, 2021 10:02 am IST Text Size: A+ Kolkata: A former member of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet has written ...

BJP takes leaf out of Mamata’s book, woos Tollywood ahead of Bengal elections BJP takes leaf out of Mamata’s book, woos Tollywood ahead of Bengal elections By getting more people from the film industry into its fold, the BJP is not only trying to break Mamata’s support base in Tollywood but also hopes that their popularity will pay rich electoral dividends for the party in poll-bound Bengal. advertisement UPDATED: February 18, 2021 01:37 IST With elections in Bengal round the corner, the...

TMC MP Satabdi Roy takes a U-turn, says will not quit the party The statement from the Birbhum MP came after an hour-long meeting with Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee this evening. Jan 15, 2021, 11:24 PM IST The TMC-BJP war in Bengal has now reached a fever pitch ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections. Many top echelon TMC party workers are now switching over to BJP. This time TMC saved themselves from another embarrassment amid speculations that actor-turned-politician Satabdi Roy wa...

Kolkata International Film Festival aims to bring cheer during the pandemic Anubhav Sinha explained the rationale behind his recent socially relevant films as a guest speaker at the 26th edition of Kolkata International Film Festival on Saturday. Image Credit: Supplied Kolkata: It took some courage on part of the organisers of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) to host their 26th edition in the middle of the country still fighting the pandemic - but t...

Iconic film characters don masks in KIFF posters Updated: Updated: International festival to begin in Kolkata today; 131 films will be screened Share Article AAA A poster of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival shows Marlon Brando’s character in The Godfather wearing a mask.   International festival to begin in Kolkata today; 131 films will be screened Just like in the past, posters of iconic films have come up in several prominent arterial intersections in Kolkata to mark the ann...

The inauguration of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) will be held virtually though screenings will take place on site. Only government venues — Nandan, Rabindra Sadan, Calcutta Information Centre, Sisir Mancha, Chalachchitra Satabarsha Bhavan in Tollygunge and Rabindra Okakura Bhavan in Salt Lake — have been chosen this year to screen 81 feature films and 50 short and documentary films from 45 countries. Bookings, though free of cost, will have to be done on the portal bo...