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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, leading the fodder scam cases against him, was one of Mamata’s most trusted lieutenants when she ...

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 O'Brien. | 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 to the celebrity quotient, the Trinamool Congress is not far behind. On Friday, as Trinamool chief ...

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 Chakraborty's 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. That was at a London hotel where I was holidaying with wife and 9-month-old. The hotel had an anno...

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 that the Saradha chit fund scam is the country’s worst corruption scandal.  In a book titled...

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 fight over Tollywood has spiced up between BJP and TMC (File: PTI) On March 14, 2007, police firing...