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
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
Delhi, Assam police ‘stop’ Bengal CID teams probing Jharkhand MLAs case
In a tweet, the Bengal CID said their team was stopped from doing lawful duty and this will lead to the disappearance of crucial evidence
Published on Aug 03, 2022 05:07 PM IST
The cash-for-jobs scandal and the unravelling of Partha-Arpita saga
Now, four years later, the relationship between the two, and their role in the cash-for-jobs scandal over the recruitment of teachers for government schools is at the heart of an Enforcement Directorate investigation.
Updated on Jul 30, 2022 04:50 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and Joydeep Thakur, Kolkata
The ‘rise and fall’ of Partha Chatterjee, Mamata Banerjee’s trusted loyalist
‘Nobody stays at the top in TMC forever, the fall may come as fast as the rise’, Partha Chatterjee reportedly told his school friends at an alumni meet two years ago and it rang true after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate
Updated on Jul 26, 2022 08:46 PM IST
Partha Chatterjee’s arrest in job scam triggers differences within Trinamool
On Saturday, Kunal Ghosh and three ministers known to be close confidants of CM Mamata Banerjee held a press conference to say that TMC will take action against Chatterjee only if he is found guilty in a court of law
Updated on Jul 24, 2022 10:17 PM IST
India must break out of BJP’s prison: Mamata
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the nation should break out of the BJP’s “prison” and usher in a government of the people.
Published on Jul 22, 2022 12:24 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
India’s smallest Jewish community resumes prayers at Kolkata’s 19th C. synagogue
Two years after the last visiting rabbi, who was based in Cochin, left India due to Covid-19, two rabbis from Israel and England flew down to Kolkata to conduct a prayer at the city’s 19th century synagogue
Updated on Jul 17, 2022 03:57 PM IST
Bengal police initiate fresh probes against Suvendu Adhikari’s brothers
The cases against Dibyendu and Soumendu Adhikari were registered on the basis of a complaint by the ruling Trinamool’s Subal Manna, who was made the municipality chairman after the civic polls in February-March this year, officials said.
Updated on Jul 14, 2022 12:31 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Offerings to Kaali vary from place to place, say priests after Moitra’s remarks
Many priests and believers echoed Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra’s line and said that offerings to Kaali do vary from place to place
Updated on Jul 06, 2022 07:39 PM IST
TMC’s Hossain ordered Birbhum killings: CBI
Anarul Hossain, the former Rampurhat community block-1 unit president of the TMC not only ordered the March 21 massacre at Bogtui village, which claimed 10 lives, but also supervised it while keeping the police away, the CBI has said.
Updated on Jun 23, 2022 08:25 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
HC sets up SIT for Bengal case on advice of ex-CBI officer who probed fodder scam
Retired IPS officer Upen Biswas, the officer who advised Calcutta high court to set up a special team, led CBI probe into the fodder scam under the direct supervision of the Patna high court, which shielded him and his team from political interference and pressure from senior officials
Updated on Jun 15, 2022 07:49 PM IST
Ex-CBI officer who probed Lalu Yadav in fodder scam to help Bengal SSC probe: HC
CBI is probing the alleged corruption in recruitment of teachers by the SSC in 2018 on the Calcutta high court’s orders
Published on Jun 08, 2022 10:36 PM IST
Md Musa, first IS operative held in Bengal, jailed for life for 2014 blast
Musa had links with the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) team that carried out the terror attack at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery in 2016, killing 22 people, mostly foreigners.
Published on Jun 03, 2022 10:12 PM IST
In Bengal, ahead of panchayat polls, Mamata Banerjee and the BJP are back at war
The BJP is gearing up too, having gone through the distress of bagging only 77 of Bengal’s 294 assembly seats in 2021 against an ambitious target of 200.
Published on Jun 01, 2022 04:11 PM IST
Ambition, anxiety likely to have led to 3 suicides in 12 days in Kolkata
A common factor that binds them is that they were born into middle-class families in the suburbs and moved to the city to pursue careers with no formal training. The last two women had attempted suicide earlier as well, according to their friends and family members.
Updated on May 27, 2022 10:56 PM IST
Bangladeshi national contested 2021 assembly seat for TMC, finds Calcutta HC
An inquiry ordered by the Calcutta high court found TMC candidate Alo Rani Sarkar to be a Bangladeshi national by virtue of birth.
Updated on May 21, 2022 09:10 AM IST
Markers of arson fresh, Bogtui village fears violence yet to come
Exactly two months ago, in one of Bengal’s most gruesome massacres, 10 people were burnt alive in Birbhum district’s Bogtui village, on the outskirts of Rampurhat town. Those that lived have not yet mustered the courage to return.
Updated on May 21, 2022 12:04 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Bogtui
Amit Shah gives Bengal BJP leaders a pep talk, sets roadmap for 2024 elections
Union home minister Amit Shah told the Bengal BJP leaders how he and other leaders had to struggle in Gujarat when the BJP was in the opposition but they kept at it
Updated on May 06, 2022 11:28 PM IST
Chidambaram faces protest from Congress-affiliated lawyers
Lawyers claiming to be affiliated with the Congress on Wednesday protested against senior party leader and eminent lawyer P Chidambaram outside the Calcutta high court for opposing a petition filed by party’s West Bengal unit president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Published on May 05, 2022 12:05 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Lawyer Chidambaram opposes Cong leader’s plea in Calcutta high court; heckled
P Chidambaram drew flak from lawyers affiliated to the Congress after he opposed a petition filed by party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Calcutta high court.
Updated on May 04, 2022 07:52 PM IST
Uncertainty over TMC MLA Supriyo’s swearing in
West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has entrusted deputy speaker Asish Banerjee to administer the oath of office to Babul Supriyo. Asish Banerjee has refused to carry out the responsibility, saying it is inappropriate for him to perform the duty when the speaker is in office.
Updated on May 03, 2022 04:15 AM IST
Fears of resurging Maoism in western Bengal after 11-year hiatus
In the past three weeks, handwritten posters bearing the name of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), have reappeared in the western districts of West Bengal bordering Jharkhand.
Updated on May 02, 2022 12:10 PM IST
Babul Supriyo faces ‘minority’ challenge in Kolkata by-poll
He quit the Bharatiya Janata Party last year after being dropped from the Union council of ministers and joined West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress
Updated on Apr 06, 2022 01:51 PM IST
Held for Birbhum massacre, Anarul Hossain’s removal was stopped by veteran TMC MLA
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited Bogtui on March 24 and said in public that Hossain must be arrested because he did not inform the police when the villagers were attacked.
Published on Mar 31, 2022 09:35 PM IST
30 mins to cover less than 1 km: Station diary shows delay by police in Birbhum
Nine people – six women, two children and a man -- died in the massacre that followed the murder of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Bhadu Sheikh on the night of March 21.
Published on Mar 30, 2022 11:56 PM IST
Birbhum massacre: Police took 30 minutes to cover 1km, shows diary entry
Birbhum SP has confirmed the diary entries and said that it could not have taken the police 30 minutes to reach the village from Bogtui intersection.
Updated on Mar 30, 2022 09:07 PM IST
Birbhum victims hacked before being set on fire, alleges TMC leader
Birbhum violence: In two videos, a family member of one of the victims and a local panchayat member said the victims were attacked with axes and then burnt alive in the West Bengal village.
Published on Mar 25, 2022 12:48 AM IST
Illegal mining, extortion charges loom over Birbhum violence
Newton Sheikh, a member of Barshal panchayat, alleged in a video message on Thursday that Bhadu was involved in extorting money from sand and stone transporters.
Updated on Mar 25, 2022 02:05 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Bogtui
Didi faces Oppn, families’ ire over Birbhum killings
The eight people – most of whom were women and children – were burnt to death in a house on Monday night in Bogtui village, hours after a local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader was killed in a bomb attack in public.
Updated on Mar 25, 2022 01:08 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee and Joydeep Thakur, Birbhum/kolkata
Fear and resentment shroud Ground Zero of Bengal arson
The Calcutta high court on Wednesday sought a report from the West Bengal government on the Birbhum violence by 2pm on Thursday
Updated on Mar 24, 2022 04:57 AM IST