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TopicAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Topic: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Congress to choose new Bengal chief after Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury resigns over LS debacle

Kolkata: The Congress West Bengal unit was caught by surprise after All India Congress Committee (AICC) state in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir referred to Adhir...

Adhir in pickle as Congress high command takes stern view of defacement of Kharge poster

On Sunday, three posters on wall of party headquarters in Kolkata which had Kharge’s photo next to Sonia Gandhi's were smeared with black ink & 'TMC dalal' written on it.

How Yusuf Pathan is batting for Berhampore — Pasmanda outreach, sports academy, staying on post-polls

TMC’s Yusuf Pathan is pitted against 5-time Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Murshidabad’s Berhampore. TMC is banking on Muslim identity and cricket fame to shift fortunes.

Dairy giant, maker for Parle — Kolkata-based Keventer, which bought electoral bonds worth Rs 617 cr

Group with 125-year history has been identified as third biggest buyer of electoral bonds, according to data compiled by SBI and shared by EC at directions of the Supreme Court.

Why TMC picked former KKR star Yusuf Pathan to contest LS polls from Adhir’s stronghold Berhampore

The former cricketer, who was part of the 2011 World Cup-winning team, is contesting from a Lok Sabha seat held by Congress's Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury since 1999.

Former Naxal, Sonia’s ‘Royal Bengal tiger’ & people’s ‘Robin Hood’ — who is Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

A close aide of Rahul Gandhi, the Bengal Congress chief has not lost a Lok Sabha election since 1999. The TMC has blamed him for the seat-sharing debacle in the state.

‘Clearly an RSS/BJP event’ — Congress says Sonia, Kharge, Adhir won’t attend Ram temple consecration

Party says inauguration of the ‘incomplete temple’ by BJP and RSS ‘has been obviously brought forward for electoral gain’.

Adhir writes to Lok Sabha speaker on ethics panel proceedings in Mahua Moitra ‘cash-for-query’ case

The Congress MP in the letter pointed at the 'unclear demarcation of roles' of the Privileges Committee and the Ethics Committee, especially in case of exercising penal powers.

‘I was kept in dark,’ says Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury, writes to President over CIC selection

Chowdhury has alleged that his plea for changing meeting time of selection committee, headed by PM Modi, was not heeded, and that he was not even informed about the decisions taken.

G20 summit: Both LoPs not on guest list for presidential banquet, Adhir says ‘unprecedented’

Former PM Manmohan Singh, all CMs get invites. Former Rashtrapati Bhavan officials say LoPs of Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha being dropped from guest list perhaps a first in recent past.

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Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.