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Tanmay Chatterjee

Tanmay Chatterjee has spent more than three decades covering regional and national politics, internal security, intelligence, defence and corruption. He also plans and edits special features on subjects ranging from elections to festivals.

Articles by Tanmay Chatterjee

Eye on 2026 polls, TMC, BJP set out to recover lost ground in festive season

The Trinamool Congress bagged 29 Lok Sabha seats this year while the BJP lost substantial ground, sliding from its record score of 18 in 2019 to only 12.

Kolkata: People shop for Diwali, in Kolkata, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)(PTI10_29_2024_000183A)(PTI)
Published on Nov 03, 2024 12:16 PM IST

CPI(M) blames Congress for no alliance in West Bengal assembly bypolls

The six seats – Sitai (SC), Madarihat (ST), Naihati, Haroa, Midnapore and Taldangra – are going to polls because the incumbent MLAs were elected to Lok Sabha this year.

CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty. (Facebook Photo)
Published on Oct 23, 2024 05:26 PM IST

Protests over Kolkata doctor's murder cast a shadow on the Durga puja festival

Organisers of many community Durga pujas in West Bengal are allegedly facing the heat for expressing views against the state administration.

Dakshin Dinajpur: Artisans give final touches to an idol of Goddess Durga ahead of the �Durga Puja� festival at Balurghat, in Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI10_01_2024_000436B)(PTI)
Published on Oct 02, 2024 06:45 PM IST

TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, daughter to arrive home after release on bail

Anubrata Mondal and his daughter Sukanya’s arrival will coincide with chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s presence in Bolpur to assess the flood situation in the region

TMC leader Anubrata Mondal. (X)
Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:56 AM IST

Kolkata rape and murder: Citizens attack, abuse policemen in disturbing trend

Protesting junior doctors demanded the removal of police commissioner Vineet Goyal, accusing him of shielding the culprits.

Police officers from various police stations across Kolkata told HT that policemen working on the streets either alone or with a handful of colleagues seem to have become targets of the public outrage (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) (PTI)
Updated on Sep 21, 2024 07:24 PM IST

TMC MP Jawhar Sircar to quit politics over doctor’s murder, writes to Mamata

Jawhar Sircar said he was unable to bear with corruption which has contributed to the mass outrage against the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor at a Kolkata hospital

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar. (PTI File Photo)
Published on Sep 08, 2024 03:06 PM IST

Conclude procedure to appoint over 14,000 as teachers: HC to Bengal

The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to complete the appointment process for 14,052 candidates as assistant teachers at upper primary schools either sponsored or aided by the state government.

Conclude procedure to appoint over 14,000 as teachers: HC to Bengal
Updated on Aug 29, 2024 07:40 AM IST
By, Kolkata

Calcutta HC orders appointment of over 14,000 applicants as assistant teachers

The court passed the verdict after hearing 36 appeals that cited orders passed earlier by the single bench of former judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who questioned the transparency of the selection process

Calcutta high court (Representative Photo)
Published on Aug 28, 2024 08:36 PM IST

Kolkata protest turns violent, cops use force

A protest in Kolkata against a junior doctor's rape and murder turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators.

Police use tear gas on protestors during the Nabanna Abhijan march against the alleged rape and murder of RG Kar Hospital doctor, in Kolkata on Tuesday. (ANI)
Updated on Aug 28, 2024 05:56 AM IST
By, Kolkata

Kolkata doctor’s gruesome murder raises questions on civic police volunteers

On May 24, 2023, the West Bengal police directorate passed an order stating civic volunteers will only “assist” police units deployed to manage traffic, tackle illegal parking, manage crowds during festivals, and ensure public safety

 (HT Photo/Anshuman Poyrekar)
Updated on Aug 22, 2024 05:46 PM IST

Up doctors’ security, says Centre as stir snowballs

The central government ordered hospitals to increase security by up to 25% amid nationwide protests by doctors over the rape and murder in Kolkata.

Doctors take out a protest march to Kolkata Police headquarters over police summons to two senior doctors in connection with public comments the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered. (Samir Jana/HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 20, 2024 07:00 AM IST
By, , New Delhi/kolkata

‘Will shut hospital’: High Court slams Kolkata lapses

Calcutta High Court criticized Bengal government and police for failing to prevent vandalism at RG Kar Medical College after a doctor was raped and murdered.

Doctors take part in a candlelight protest against the alleged rape and murder of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital trainee doctor, in Nagpur on Friday. (ANI)
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 12:32 AM IST
By, Kolkata

Kolkata rape-murder case: Chaos as mob storms hospital amid night protest

The mob violence, reported after midnight on Thursday, also prompted health care providers and an umbrella body of doctors’ unions to resume a nationwide strike

A nurse breaks down after the violence at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. (Samir Jana/HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 16, 2024 01:11 AM IST
By, Kolkata

Kolkata rape-murder case: CBI grills hospital doctors, forensic experts

Sanjay Roy (31), a civic volunteer working for the Kolkata police, was arrested on August 10 as the prime suspect

The CBI team from Delhi visited the crime scene on Wednesday afternoon
Published on Aug 15, 2024 08:55 PM IST

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the tragic hero of Bengal’s Left politics, dies at 80

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) bade farewell to the apparatchik who repeatedly strayed from convention to emerge as a leader with an independent mind in a regimented party

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and the former chief minister of West Bengal, passed away on Thursday at his home in Kolkata (File Photo)
Published on Aug 08, 2024 08:36 PM IST

Multiple demands for division of north Bengal gives TMC a new handle against BJP

On August 1, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee instructed all district units in north Bengal to immediately hit the streets and counter movements aimed at dividing Bengal

 (Representative photo)
Published on Aug 03, 2024 03:04 PM IST

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target

Muslim voters play a decisive role in at least 120 of Bengal’s 294 assembly seats, of which BJP could win only 75 in 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah (File Photo)
Published on Jun 01, 2024 04:15 PM IST

For BJP, final phase of Bengal Lok Sabha polls is an acid test

The most high-profile of the nine in the final phase is Diamond Harbour that has twice elected Abhishek Banerjee since 2014

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and party leader Suvendu Adhikari during a roadshow for Lok Sabha elections, in Kolkata on May 28 (PTI FILE)
Published on May 31, 2024 09:36 PM IST

Bengal coast bears brunt as Cyclone Remal makes landfall

Severe Cyclone Remal hits West Bengal and Bangladesh with winds of 110-120 kmph, causing destruction.

Police personnel make announcements ahead of Cyclone Remal’s landfall at the Hooghly river, in Kolkata, on Sunday. (PTI)
Updated on May 27, 2024 04:40 AM IST
ByJayashree Nandi, , New Delhi/ Kolkata

Remal intensifies into ‘severe cyclonic storm’, landfall tonight

The cyclone is forecasted to hit West Bengal on Sunday, bringing extremely heavy rainfall and strong winds to the coastal areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal

Cyclone Remal is expected to make landfall between Sagar Island in West Bengal and Bangladesh’s Khepupara on Sunday midnight (HT Photo)
Updated on May 26, 2024 02:29 PM IST
ByJayashree Nandi,

At Kanthi, it’s a prestige fight between Adhikari family and Mamata Banerjee

For the BJP, which set a record in Bengal in 2019 by winning 18 of the state’s 42 seats, winning Kanthi is crucial for meeting this year’s target of 30 seats

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Suvendu Adhikari (File Photo)
Updated on May 23, 2024 07:22 PM IST

Calcutta HC cancels OBC certificates for 77 groups, Mamata rejects order

Calcutta High Court scraps OBC certificates for 77 communities, mostly Muslim, calling the process illegal. Political controversy ensues.

The judgment sparked a political controversy with chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying she won’t accept the ruling, and Union home minister Amit Shah accusing the Bengal government of appeasement. (PTI)
Updated on May 23, 2024 05:59 AM IST

LS polls: In Bengal’s Tamluk, it’s a battle between an ex-HC judge and a poet

The BJP has fielded former Calcutta high court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay while the TMC has fielded Debangshu Bhattacharya, a young party spokesperson in Tamluk

Debangshu Bhattacharya (left) and Abhijit Gangopadhyay (right). (ANI Photos)
Updated on May 22, 2024 06:01 PM IST

Citizenship for Matuas takes centre stage in Bengal

CAA fast-tracks citizenship to Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Parsi and Sikh refugees who entered India from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh before December 31, 2014, to escape religious persecution.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with members of the Matua community in Bangaon on May 14. (PTI)
Updated on May 22, 2024 08:46 AM IST
By, Kolkata

Dissident Bengal BJP leaders resurface for ex-state president’s poll campaign

Several dissident BJP leaders from across Bengal are campaigning for the party’s former state president Dilip Ghosh’s election campaign in Burdwan-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency

BJP candidate Dilip Ghosh interacts with a vegetable vendor during his campaign for the Lok Sabha polls in Bardhaman on May 8. (PTI)
Published on May 11, 2024 04:12 PM IST

Polarisation marks campaign in Krishnanagar as Moitra battles to return to LS

Ranaghat, which is reserved for the scheduled caste community, was wrested by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019 by a margin of a whopping 2.33 million and a vote share of 52.78%

TMC’s Mahua Moitra campaigns for Lok Sabha polls in Nadia (HT Photo)
Published on May 11, 2024 01:20 PM IST

Shahjahan bought arms in Bengal on licences from Nagaland: Police

Police said Shiekh Shahjahan bought three firearms from an authorised gun dealer in Kolkata between 2016 and 2019 against licences issued in Nagaland

Police officers said this after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from the home of another TMC leader’s relative in Sandeshkhali on Friday. (HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 29, 2024 06:40 AM IST
By, Kolkata

CBI to probe crimes against women, land grabbing in Sandeshkhali: Calcutta HC

The main accused, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan, and two TMC-run zilla parishad members, Uttam Sardar and Shibu Hazra, have been arrested by the state police

The high court said all state officials must cooperate with the federal agency. (Representative file photo)
Published on Apr 10, 2024 03:19 PM IST

Modi kicks off eastern push of poll campaign

The PM first travelled to Jamui in Bihar on Thursday afternoon and then to Cooch Behar in northern West Bengal, underscoring his party’s focus on development

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally in Cooch Behar on Thursday. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 05:54 AM IST
By, , Kolkata/patna

Empower religious outfits to certify CAA applicants under CAA rules: Matua body

The CAA rules require signed affidavits from applicants along with documents issued by the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh

Matua community people celebrated after the central government notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. (PTI)
Published on Apr 03, 2024 09:32 PM IST
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