Shankudeb Panda

Actor Nusrat Jahan appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday for questioning in a housing fraud case. The ED is investigating allegations linked to a Rajarhat housing project where a firm allegedly collected money from buyers without delivering flats. Jahan, previously associated as a director, has denied all allegations.

In 2013, when police were hot on the heels of an elected Trinamool Congress politician from the Port area, a well-wisher in the party advised him to seek help from a relatively junior colleague to "broker peace" with the authorities.

When Shankudeb Panda approached Nawazuddin Siddiqui for a role, he refused to do it

Why was Shankudeb Panda, the state general secretary of Trinamool Congress, paid from several Saradha Group accounts? Was his role limited to media houses or was he part of the bigger game plan of the Saradha Group?

Trinamool’s roar on Monday — Hok Gorjon — paled before Saturday’s spontaneous Hokkolorob.

After Bhangor college, Trinamool Chhatra Parishad state president Shankudeb Panda is seen as the man behind the unrest at Surendranath Evening College on April 23, that forced the college authority to suspend classes till May 15.

Trinamool general secretary Shankudeb Panda arrived at the Enforcement Directorate’s office on Monday on a bike marked ‘police’ and with his face covered in a black shawl

What started as college politics few days back has now snowballed into a full-fledged crisis for Trinamool Congress. On Friday, party MLA Sikha Mitra, who is also the governing body chairperson at Surendranath College, criticized her own party and alleged the simmering issue aims to target her husband and Trinamool MP Somen Mitra.

Bengal BJP on Sunday appointed former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee the party’s observer for Kolkata zone, 16 months after he defected to the saffron party from Trinamool Congress.

A day after former mayor and BJP’s newly appointed Kolkata zone observer Sovan Chatterjee skipped Monday’s rally, he was active again on Tuesday following intervention of a few senior Bengal leaders. Chatterjee held back-to-back meetings with several office-bearers of the Kolkata zone to chart out the next course of action.

Two first-year students of the Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) have complained that they were being threatened with ragging by four seniors on Facebook.

Mukul Roy, till now the undisputed No. 2 in Trinamool Congress and the architect of the party’s spectacular show in the Lok Sabha elections, will no longer call the shots in the organization.

Despite a sweeping victory of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad, the students’ outfit of TMC in the first two phases of the college polls in Kolkata, tension continued in pockets of the city.

Actor-MP Nusrat Jahan addressed the media on Wednesday to clear things out on the accusations labeled against her. She claimed that she ended all her ties with the company on March 1, 2017, and since then has had no involvement in the company's activities. The Trinamool Congress MP also made it clear that she does not have any stake in the company.

Calcutta high court on Wednesday raised questions about the impartiality of a Kolkata Police probe into the Narada sting after pointing out that police did not register any FIR under Section 154 CrPC initially despite going through the video footages.

Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday summoned a close aide of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Shankudeb Panda, for questioning in connection with the Saradha scam while restricting the sale of properties of noted painter Subhaprasanna and former union minister Matang Sinh.

Hours after the CBI indicated that they were planning to question Madan Mitra inside Alipore jail regarding certain "inputs" received from sidelined Trinamool Congress leader Shankudeb Panda, sources said the sleuths are also likely to ask for the custody of Rose Valley owner Gautam Kundu in Odisha in a case registered there.

If the Shankudeb Panda episode has put Trinamool Congress in a spot of bother, the CBI raid at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's office on Monday gave it a fresh breather which the party lapped up readily.

Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) - the students' wing of Trinamool Congress - may not contest the Presidency University union elections slated on March 1.