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
How money-for-plastic project to save Sunderbans is helping Bengal villagers
The project was launched on World Environment Day on June 5 and collection of plastic started from June 11 in Sunderban villages in Bengal.
Published on Aug 08, 2021 05:09 PM IST
Submit report, orders Calcutta HC after Suvendu Adhikari aide arrested again
The West Bengal government on Tuesday approached the two-judge bench of the Calcutta high court challenging the immunity from arrest granted by Justice Mantha.
Published on Aug 04, 2021 01:18 AM IST
Babul Supriyo has second thoughts after meeting JP Nadda, says will stay MP
Babul Supriyo said he was firm on his decision to quit politics but has decided to stay as Lok Sabha MP in view of his “constitutional responsibility”
Published on Aug 02, 2021 11:17 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee
CPI(M) to discipline former leader’s daughter for article on Mamata Banerjee
CPI(M) leaders have been facing a major embarrassment since Wednesday when Jago Bangla started printing a four-part series on women empowerment in Bengal politics written by Ajanta Biswas.
Published on Aug 01, 2021 08:16 AM IST
Second hearing held on BJP’s plea for Mukul Roy’s disqualification
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, attended the hearing. “The anti-defection law has not been enforced in Bengal in the last 10 years. We have faith in the speaker,” said Adhikari
Published on Jul 30, 2021 05:55 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee’s national plans pose new challenge to CPI (M)
Cracks have emerged in the Left Front as its constituents have blamed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI (M)’s election strategy, especially the decision to forge an alliance with the cleric Abbasuddin Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front, for the latest electoral debacle
Published on Jul 30, 2021 01:49 PM IST
CBI can probe ex-TMC leader Vinay Mishra in smuggling cases, says Calcutta HC
The coal smuggling case, became politically sensitive after CBI questioned TMC’s powerful general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee and her sister Maneka Gambhir in the run-up to the West Bengal state elections this year
Updated on Jul 28, 2021 09:46 PM IST
Bengal prepares list of police officers for UPSC to select DGP nominees
The states are supposed to send names to the UPSC so that three nominees can be shortlisted based on their seniority, experience, service record, and years left in service
Published on Jul 21, 2021 11:36 AM IST
Calcutta HC judge criticises acting chief over case transfer ‘modus operandi’
The case was transferred days after justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya on Friday directed the central project coordinator in charge of the virtual hearing to explain why technical glitches have become a regular feature
Published on Jul 20, 2021 09:25 AM IST
‘JMB leader running business in India; Bengal linkman married Dhaka woman’: STF
Dreaded Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Ansar Ali Hriday, who was jailed in Bangladesh two years ago for committing robberies to raise funds for terrorist activities, was siphoning part of the money to India to run his private business, officers of the special task force (STF) of the Kolkata Police have learnt from the three alleged JMB sleeper cell members and Ali’s Indian linkman who were arrested between Sunday and Wednesday
Updated on Jul 15, 2021 07:09 PM IST
Encouraged since the 1970s, bodies continue to be donated in Bengal
Corpses of 13 people, including nine who succumbed to the pandemic, have similarly been donated in West Bengal over the last two months. The donations coincided with reports of dumping of the bodies of suspected Covid-19 patients in rivers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Updated on Jul 13, 2021 11:56 AM IST
Inclusion of 4 Bengal BJP MPs in union govt seen as part of bigger 2024 plan
Nisith Pramanik comes from north Bengal, which comprises eight districts, where the saffron camp outdid the ruling party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as well as in the recent assembly elections.
Updated on Jul 07, 2021 10:59 PM IST
NHRC panel submits report in HC on Bengal post-poll violence
The document has cited the panel’s interaction with more than 100 families and referred to complaints about 41 murders and rape of 13 women, an official familiar with the contents of the initial report said on condition of anonymity.
Updated on Jul 01, 2021 06:46 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
Statehood for north Bengal: The story of an old demand, new political dynamic
On Monday, Mamata Banerjee alleged that governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is supporting forces that want to divide north Bengal
Updated on Jun 29, 2021 06:15 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and Pramod Giri
NHRC team meets family of BJP worker killed in Bengal poll violence
The NHRC constituted a seven-member panel headed by commission’s member Rajiv Jain to probe incidents of violence that took place after the assembly polls.
Updated on Jun 26, 2021 03:02 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
TMC wants to expand beyond Bengal. But it won’t be easy
To political observers, the TMC’s announcement is ambitious as no regional party has so far been able to form government outside the state it is based in
Updated on Jun 16, 2021 06:04 PM IST
Kolkata Police question Mithun Chakraborty over election speech
Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee, a local police officer, confirmed the questioning but refused to elaborate. There was no immediate comment from Chakraborty or the BJP
Updated on Jun 16, 2021 04:28 PM IST
‘Feeling insulted in BJP’: Party’s Bengal SC front chief, a former TMC MLA
Dulal Bar, a former TMC legislator from Bagdah in North 24 Parganas district, was not given a ticket. He was not seen at any important meeting of the BJP. Prior to the polls, he resigned from the morcha but was somehow pacified by the leadership.
Published on Jun 13, 2021 11:59 PM IST
More TMC turncoats voice discontent
“Mukul Roy, being a senior leader, felt insulted in the BJP for various reasons. I, too, felt insulted and betrayed,” Dulal Bar, president of the BJP’s scheduled caste (SC) morcha (front), said on Sunday.
Updated on Jun 14, 2021 05:23 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Shrewd strategist returns to TMC after rift with BJP
Mukul Roy was a former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member but had never won an election when he was named the BJP’s candidate from Krishnanagar Uttar.
Published on Jun 12, 2021 02:54 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Mukul Roy’s decision to quit BJP driven by differences brewing since last year
Mukul Roy joined the BJP on November 3, 2017, at the party’s headquarters in Delhi where Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya welcomed him in front of the media. He worked hard in the districts and engineered numerous defections from the TMC.
Updated on Jun 12, 2021 12:28 AM IST
Gangster Jaipal was planning to flee to Thailand via Nepal
Dreaded gangster Jaipal Bhullar and his aide Jaspreet Singh of Kharar, who were gunned down by the West Bengal Police’s special task force (STF) in Kolkata on Wednesday, were planning to flee to Thailand via Nepal after gunning down two ASIs at the Jagraon Grain Market on May 15
Published on Jun 11, 2021 12:58 AM IST
Tarsem Singh Deogan, Shailee Dogra and Tanmay Chatterjee
Mamata Banerjee activating TMC’s next generation with eye on future: Veterans
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made her nephew the TMC’s national general secretary, a move some senior leaders in the TMC had anticipated.
Published on Jun 06, 2021 08:13 AM IST
TMC slams Centre over making CVC nod a must to employ ex-bureaucrats
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), in an order on Thursday, said all government organisations have to seek clearance before offering post-retirement jobs to bureaucrats.
Updated on Jun 05, 2021 03:13 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
Row over ex-Bengal chief secy’s transfer, Centre’s notice: All you need to know
Former West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay on Thursday replied to the Centre’s notice issued to him for skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 28 meeting on Cyclone Yaas. The notice has divided opinion on whether the Centre could have sent it
Updated on Jun 04, 2021 09:36 AM IST
Chetan Chauhan and Tanmay Chatterjee
Ex-Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay responds to Centre’s notice
Former Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay was appointed special adviser by chief minister Mamata Banerjee after he retired from service.
Updated on Jun 03, 2021 08:45 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
PM Modi phones Mukul Roy a day after TMC leader visits latter
Roy did not comment on the conversation. But BJP leaders aware of the matter said Modi’s calls lasted around two to three minutes. The two spoke a day after TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee visited the hospital
Updated on Jun 03, 2021 06:02 PM IST
Bengal BJP divided over Centre’s notice to ex-CS, politicians’ arrest
A section of BJP leaders backs the Centre in both cases but another, comprising the older leaders, feels they have turned public sentiment against the party within a month after TMC swept back to power in the state.
Updated on Jun 03, 2021 10:41 PM IST
Abhishek Banerjee’s 10-min courtesy call sparks buzz over Mukul Roy's next move
As the rumours swirled about Mukul Roy’s next move after TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s surprise visit, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh too dropped by at the hospital two hours later to inquire about the condition of Mukul Roy’s wife.
Updated on Jun 02, 2021 11:43 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
Centre stuns Mamata Banerjee, transfers top Bengal official to Delhi after row
West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay's transfer to New Delhi is unusual, specially because the 1987 IAS officer, according to his record on the DoPT website, has never served in the central government.
Updated on May 28, 2021 11:52 PM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata