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.

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.

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.

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.

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.