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
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
2 firms owned by TMC leader Mondal’s daughter got ₹27cr in 2018-22
The loan amounts were declared under a new rule notified under the Companies Act in 2014 primarily to help funding of start-ups, shows the acceptance of deposits statements filed by the two companies since March 2019
Updated on Aug 28, 2022 01:38 AM IST
Abhishek Banerjee’s hoardings promise ‘new TMC in 6 months’
The hoardings come even as multiple senior TMC leaders are under the scanner of government agencies for alleged corruption on a host of issues.
Updated on Aug 18, 2022 04:57 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Row brews over new districts carved out in West Bengal
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on August 1 announced the creation of seven new districts. The announcement, however, stoked protests in Muslim-majority Murshidabad and Hindu-dominated Nadia, with local residents and political observers claiming the proposal will de-link the two regions from their history and pride
Updated on Aug 17, 2022 03:32 PM IST
Lots in a name: Row brews over new districts carved out in West Bengal
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced the creation of seven new districts on August 1, saying the move was as part of administrative measures aimed at better governance
Published on Aug 17, 2022 01:17 PM IST
Tracking journey of Anubrata Mondal arrested in cattle smuggling case
For Mondal, the downfall came months after he became the TMC’s only district-level leader to make it to the party’s national working committee without ever contesting an election. TMC insiders said he was rewarded for his loyalty to chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Updated on Aug 12, 2022 04:45 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
From cattle to coal smuggling, why Birbhum is under the scanner
Probes by the CBI and ED into several TMC leaders along with officers of the ECL, BSF, Customs department, and police officers have put the district in the spotlight.
Published on Aug 10, 2022 06:27 PM IST
West Bengal: CBI, ED probes in big TMC-linked scams put Birbhum under spotlight
Made famous by Rabindranath Tagore who set up Visva Bharati, the state’s only central university at Santiniketan, Birbhum is now under the scanner because of a spate of raids and arrests made since 2020
Published on Aug 10, 2022 03:02 PM IST
In prison, ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee spends time reading
Officials said Chatterjee has been having oily snacks he should be avoiding and sought paper and a pen on Monday saying he will write about his life
Published on Aug 10, 2022 09:47 AM IST
Arpita Mukherjee built garden on garage that blocks fire shelter at Kolkata high-rise
The apartments at Diamond City South are registered in the names of two companies of which Mukherjee and her brother-in-law, Kalyan Dhar, are recorded as directors
Published on Aug 07, 2022 07:43 PM IST
In Bengal, Abhishek Banerjee stamps his political authority
Though Banerjee groomed Abhishek since in 2014, TMC apparatchiks say that current developments showed that the CM is now letting him take crucial decisions.
Published on Aug 06, 2022 12:20 PM IST
Bengal CID says Delhi, Assam blocking probe into Jharkhand MLAs’ case
A CID team visited Moti Bagh in Delhi to raid the house of Siddharth Majumder, who is allegedly connected to the case, while another visited the Guwahati airport to gather CCTV footage of the Jharkhand MLAs reaching the city on July 29 and leaving the airport next day, senior CID officials in Kolkata said.
Updated on Aug 04, 2022 05:46 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Mamata reshuffles cabinet, Supriyo and 7 others take oath as ministers
Four MLAs – Supriyo (Ballygunge constituency), Majumdar (Durgapur East), Snehasish Chakraborty (Jangipara) and Udayan Guha (Dinhata) – were sworn in as cabinet ministers by governor La Ganesan at Raj Bhawan on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of the chief minister.
Updated on Aug 04, 2022 01:12 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, New Delhi