Apex court ordered reassignment of Bengal’s SSC case from Gangopadhyay’s bench in the wake of a petition by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee. HC judge has said he 'won’t run away’.
CBI Monday lodged FIR over alleged 'Rs 200-cr' scam, days after Calcutta HC order to probe. ED status report says it stumbled upon 'racket' while investigating teachers’ recruitment 'scam'.
Supreme Court hearing petition filed by Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, who has said the Calcutta HC judge made observations against him in the interview last year.
Bhattacharyya is also a former School Service Commission (SSC) Chairman. His arrest come after his residence and office were searched by the agency in August this year.
The Enforcement Directorate has also arrested former Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, who was Education Minister when the ‘cash-for-jobs’ recruitments took place.
ED recovered Rs 21 crore in cash from the residence of one Arpita Mukherjee, who is a 'close associate' of West Bengal minister and TMC leader Partha Chatterjee.
The order passed by single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay followed claims of evidence tampering in alleged 2016 School Service Commission recruitment scam being probed by CBI.
Inquiry committee constituted by Calcutta HC had reported how 609 allegedly illegal recruitments of Group ‘D’ staff were carried out by West Bengal SSC in 2016.
An alleged scam around staff appointments in West Bengal schools has become latest instance where Mamata has resisted a CBI probe in matters pertaining to the state.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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