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
BJP will be finished like Congress for misusing probe agencies: Akhilesh
Pressing for a nationwide caste census, which, he said was the biggest issue at the moment, Akhilesh Yadav claimed the BJP is trying to avoid it
Published on Mar 20, 2023 12:50 AM IST
Akhilesh Yadav demands caste census, action against SBI, LIC top brass
Akhilesh Yadav, who is in Kolkata for the SP’s national executive meet, said that after Bengal, it is UP where political workers face maximum probe by federal agencies
Published on Mar 19, 2023 08:33 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee makes changes in TMC after setback in bypoll
The decisions were taken at a closed-door meeting the TMC chairperson held on Friday with legislators and parliamentarians at her south Kolkata residence to formulate a strategy for the upcoming panchayat and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
Updated on Mar 19, 2023 04:03 AM IST
Mamata holds meeting over Sagardighi bypoll defeat, reshuffle Muslim cell leaders
In the meeting, Banerjee blamed organisational weakness and sabotage by a section of leaders for the defeat in recent bypolls and replaced Haji Nurul Islam and appointed youth leader Mosaraf Hossain as the unit’s new president
Updated on Mar 18, 2023 03:35 PM IST
Mamata, Akhilesh agree to maintain ‘equal distance’ from BJP, Congress
The TMC announced that Mamata Banerjee will travel to Odisha next week to meet her counterpart Naveen Patnaik as part of her plans to talk to parties that can defeat the BJP
Updated on Mar 18, 2023 10:12 AM IST
Bengal job scam: Several TMC leaders’ kin in lurch after HC order
Several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders and their kin have lost clerical jobs in West Bengal government schools because of a recent Calcutta high court order, which sought termination of service of those who paid bribes for employment, leaders of the ruling party said
Published on Mar 13, 2023 02:05 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
TMC leaders, kin lose school jobs after Calcutta HC order in appointment scam
A recent Calcutta high court order sought termination of service of those who paid bribe for employment in Bengal government schools
Published on Mar 12, 2023 08:50 PM IST
‘CM is concerned’: Mamata Banerjee sets up panel to look into Sagardighi defeat
Mamata Banerjee wants to know why Muslims voted for the Left-Congress alliance although she is running so many welfare schemes for citizens, said Bengal minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury
Updated on Mar 07, 2023 05:41 PM IST
No PMAY funds if...: Centre writes to Bengal govt
The Union rural development ministry has written to the West Bengal chief secretary saying that a spot inspection by the central teams has revealed several irregularities in the PMAY scheme
Updated on Mar 02, 2023 07:01 PM IST
West Bengal job scam proceeds may have been used to finance movies: ED, CBI officials
All arrests are in connection with a cash-for-jobs racket in which teaching and non-teaching staff were allegedly appointed, in violation of due procedure, in government schools between 2014 and 2021
Published on Feb 21, 2023 01:13 AM IST
PM Modi’s nudge on Muslims leads Bengal BJP to tweak its strategy
West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s appeal came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told party leaders at the BJP national executive on January 17 to reach out to Muslims without expecting their votes in elections.
Published on Feb 07, 2023 06:57 PM IST
Bengal minister accuses Centre of intentionally delaying PMAY funds
The state set the March 31 deadline for the completion of the construction of houses for the rural poor after the Centre said the next instalment will be cleared only if the money sanctioned earlier is fully utilized.
Published on Jan 16, 2023 08:59 AM IST
Accused names TMC leaders before CBI in Bengal job scam case
More than ₹100 crore was allegedly raised by TMC leaders from job aspirants to employ them as teachers and staff at state-run schools across West Bengal between 2014 and 2021, CBI officials probing the case said.
Published on Jan 14, 2023 11:10 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Bengal cooperative bank facing CBI probe in cattle case faced insolvency in 2014
The Birbhum District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. reopened after 17 months in October 2015 following efforts by the state government but got back its licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in September 2016
Published on Jan 07, 2023 05:07 PM IST
‘People of Meghalaya want a new govt’: Mukul Sangma
Mukul Sangma’s party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), announced its first list of candidates for the February 2023 Meghalaya Assembly polls on Friday
Published on Jan 06, 2023 06:34 PM IST
Political slugfest takes centre stage ahead of West Bengal panchayat polls
While the ruling TMC has cited recent arrests of its leaders to claim it does not tolerate corruption, the BJP called it an ‘eyewash’ to save ‘big fishes’
Updated on Jan 02, 2023 08:41 AM IST
4 months after meeting in Delhi, PM Modi, Mamata to share dais at Kolkata event
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will attend NGC meeting where union ministers and CMs of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand will be present. State officials said she might also attend the Vande Bharat Express event at Howrah
Updated on Dec 30, 2022 12:38 AM IST
Ahead of Panchayat polls: Anubrata Mondal’s aide joins BJP amid buzz over TMC rejig
Biplab Ojha is seen as close to controversial TMC Birbhum unit president Anubrata Mondal, who is in judicial custody in a case related to alleged cattle smuggling
Updated on Dec 28, 2022 12:15 AM IST
Housing scheme irregularities spark political slugfest in Bengal
The West Bengal government has struck off names of hundreds of people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) housing scheme for the poor after it found applications of people having multistoried homes were approved in at least nine districts, officials said. This has led to a political slugfest in the run up to the panchayat elections to be held in early 2023.
Published on Dec 19, 2022 11:23 PM IST
TMC eyes Meghalaya assembly polls after expansion plan fails in Goa, Tripura
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, while on a three-day Meghalaya tour, said that her party has been able to enrol one lakh members in six months in the state
Published on Dec 15, 2022 03:22 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and David Laitphlang
‘No quiet tie-ups with BJP’: CPI (M) orders cadre for Bengal panchayat poll
West Bengal CPI (M) secretary Md Salim said a sizeable section of our supporters voted for the BJP in 2019 thinking that it is powerful enough to oust the TMC. ‘They have realized their mistake ‘
Updated on Dec 09, 2022 07:27 PM IST
Deaths in police firing fan tensions near Assam-Meghalaya border
In February 2003, Myrten’s elder brother Dia, and five others from Mukroh were killed in a militant attack on the village. Nineteen years later, Myrten’s husband, Thal Shadap, 48, and the four others from Mukroh were killed after being chased and shot by policemen and forest guards from Assam on November 22. Their deaths that have triggered a furore, and rekindled a five-decade old border dispute between Meghalaya and Assam.
Updated on Dec 06, 2022 03:49 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and David Laitphlang, Mukroh
Centre clears ₹8,200 cr PMAY fund for Bengal under rural housing scheme
Adhikari, who was a cabinet minister in the TMC government and was considered Banerjee’s protege, joined the BJP in December 2020
Updated on Nov 26, 2022 12:17 PM IST
Bengal rural polls: TMC, BJP set to slug it out again early next year
Opposition parties failed to field candidates for 34% of the seats in the last panchayat polls in 2018 due to alleged intimidation and around 20 people died in the violence during the elections
Updated on Nov 23, 2022 06:26 PM IST
From St Peter’s Basilica to Altamira: Durga Puja amid politics, Unesco tag
Welcome to Kolkata during the Durga Puja, where the pandals compete to outdo each other, the only thing that matters almost as much as the festivities is politics, and often, both coalesce.
Updated on Oct 03, 2022 11:52 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and Joydeep Thakur, Kolkata
TMC ex-minister created shell firms to buy properties: Charge sheet
ED, which filed its first charge sheet against Chatterjee and Mukherjee who were both arrested on July 23, may use the latter as a witness for the state during trial if she does not turn hostile, an agency official said on condition of anonymity.
Updated on Sep 23, 2022 07:28 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
ED trying to turn Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita against him in court: Official
An ED official said the agency cannot rule out the possibility of Arpita Mukherjee turning hostile in the case and they have provided security to her because of possible threats to her life
Updated on Sep 20, 2022 09:20 PM IST
Teacher recruitment case: ED seizes Partha, aide’s assets worth ₹103 crore
Partha Chatterjee was arrested on July 23 after 27 hours of interrogation in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in government schools, in which the ED has thus far recovered cash worth over ₹50 crore. He was the state education minister from 2014 to 2021 when the alleged irregularities took place.
Published on Sep 19, 2022 11:44 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
WB recruitment scam: ED files 14,000-page charge sheet against Partha Chatterjee
The mammoth 14,000-page set of documents contained details of 35 bank accounts, 40 immovable properties, 31 life insurance policies and 201 shell companies that are under the scanner
Published on Sep 19, 2022 06:20 PM IST
Legal troubles fail to dent Mondal’s influence in Bengal belt
“Can you see that row of trees? A few years ago, the land beside it was purchased by Kesto Mondal’s men. Several patches of multi-crop land have changed hands in recent years,” Ajijul Sheikh, a small farmer at Nanoor in Bengal’s Birbhum district, says as he wipes his face with a gamchha
Updated on Sep 13, 2022 02:18 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Bolpur
