New Delhi, June 13 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), is conducting searches at seven premises linked to TMC MLA and former minister Madan Mitra in connection with the Municipality Recruitment Scam.
Mumbai, June 12 (UNI) Samajwadi Party MLA from Bhiwandi East, Rais Shaikh, has written to Maharashtra''s Marathi Language Minister Uday Samant, urging that Marathi language training classes be started in Bhiwandi and Byculla.
Kolkata, June 11 (UNI) The sitting Bardhaman Uttar MLA and Trinamool Congress leader Nishith Malik has been accused of illegally appointing seven women as cooks at least in seven ICDS centres in exchange for money.
Kolkata, June 11 (UNI) West Bengal police have arrested three persons in connection with the alleged harassment of BJP MLA and actress Papiya Adhikari during the 2021 West Bengal Assembly election.
Kolkata, June 11 (UNI) A political controversy erupted at Rajarhat-Gopalpur in Kolkata''s north east fringes on Thursday after relief materials allegedly meant for public distribution were recovered from the party office of former Trinamool Congress MLA and noted folk singer Aditi Munshi.
Mumbai, Jun 11 ( UNI) Amid concerns over a shortage of urea and other chemical fertilizers during the ongoing kharif season, several legislators have approached Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Dattatray Bharane, demanding immediate availability of fertilizer stocks in rural areas.
Bahraich, June 10 (UNI) A team from the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Department arrested former Congress MLA Mukesh Srivastava, alias Gyanendra Pratap Srivastava, one of the main accused in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, from Wave Mall in Lucknow on Tuesday.
Bengaluru, June 10 (UNI) The upcoming biennial elections to seven Karnataka Legislative Council seats have triggered intense political manoeuvring, with expelled and rebel MLAs emerging as decisive factors in a closely watched contest that could test the balance of power between the ruling Congress and the Opposition JD(S)-BJP camp.
Jamshedpur, June 10 (UNI) Jharkhand MLA Saryu Roy has sought a detailed report from the Mango Municipal Corporation on the status of the Mango Water Supply Scheme and implementation of civic development projects in the area.
Shimla, June 9 (UNI): The Himachal Pradesh Congress Disciplinary Committee directed all party leaders and office-bearers to refrain from making statements against fellow party members in the media or on social media, warning of strict disciplinary action against violators.
New Delhi, June 8 (UNI) Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has strongly condemned the political statements made by AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha and other leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party on the action being taken as per the court''s orders against constructions in the marked O-Zone area along the banks of the Yamuna river.
Asansol, June 8 (UNI) The statement of Durgapur East BJP MLA, Chandrasekhar Banerjee, to kill those accused of Sunday’s gang rape incident in a hotel in West Bengal''s Durgapur district, through police encounters, has triggered a political row. The legislator has also urged the state''s home minister and Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, to consider his proposal. The four accused were produced in a court on Monday amidst agitation and sloganering by BJP supporters. The Durgapur Court has sent them to five days'' police custody.
Bengaluru, June 8 (UNI) With more than 60 Congress legislators reportedly vying for just 20 vacant ministerial positions, the party leadership in Karnataka finds itself walking a political tightrope as it prepares for the next phase of Cabinet expansion in the newly formed government headed by Chief Minister D K Shivakumar.
Kolkata, June 7 (UNI) A government notice served on an old age home associated with Canning West MLA Paresh Ram Das has triggered fresh controversy in West Bengal''s South 24-Parganas district, with the administration seeking explanations over alleged filling up of wetlands and construction on the char lands of the Matla River.
Kolkata, June 7 (UNI): Security cover for five Trinamool Congress MLAs from Birbhum has been enhanced amid ongoing political turmoil within the party and a wider reduction in security arrangements for several TMC leaders across West Bengal.
Kolkata, Jun 7 (UNI) Trinamool Congress MLA from Kamarhati, Madan Mitra, has alleged that his vehicle was attacked and vandalised by protesters when he visited an area in Kamarhati, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, following reports of unrest.
Kolkata, Jun 6 (UNI) A special court remanded former Trinamool Congress MLA Saokat Molla to 14 days custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Bhangar blast case on Saturday, a day after the central agency arrested him.
Chennai, June 6 (UNI) Having slid to a distant third for the first time in its history in the recent elections adding to the long list of successive poll debacles, desertions continued in the opposition AIADMK in Tamil Nadu with four former Ministers, all popular faces, and ex-MLAs quitting the party and joining the ruling TVK of Chief Minister Vijay on Saturday.
Durgapur, June 5 (UNI) An angry crowd on Friday raided a Trinamool Congress party office in West Bengal''s West Burdwan district and recovered hefty volume of government relief materials in presence of police.
Kolkata, June 5 (UNI) Former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Saokat Molla – an accused in the Bhangar bomb blast case - surrendered before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday night, sources said.
Kolkata, June 4 (UNI) West Bengal''s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths on Thursday reached the South Kolkata home of sitting MLA and former state minister Firhad Hakim as part of the probe into the ongoing alleged signature forgery scandal in the legislative assembly.
Hyderabad/New Delhi, June 4 (UNI) Adilabad MLA Payal Shankar on Thursday announced that Telangana’s largest Joint Airfield Airport after Hyderabad’s Shamshabad Airport would soon come up in Adilabad district, describing it as a historic step towards transforming the region into an industrial and economic hub.
Kolkata, Jun 4 (UNI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches at the residence of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Saokat Molla in South 24-Parganas of West Bengal in connection with its probe into the Bhangar bomb blast case.