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
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
“Khamosh”: Actor Shatrughan Sinha adds flavor to Bengal Lok Sabhaby-poll
Shatrughan Sinha. 76, is the TMC candidate from Asansol in West Burdwan district, which was vacated by former union minister Babul Supriyo after he joined the TMC last year.
Published on Mar 22, 2022 01:52 AM IST
CPI(M) fields actor Naseeruddin Shah’s niece Saira Halim for Kolkata by-poll
Saira Shah Halim will be contesting against singer-turned-politician and former union minister of state Babul Supriyo, fielded by the TMC.
Published on Mar 17, 2022 01:13 AM IST
As the CPI(M) makes a comeback in Bengal civic polls, BJP see TMC’s hand
- Days after, saffron camp leaders raised allegations of rigging and violence, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed that the CPI(M)’s resurgence was “sponsored” by the TMC.
Published on Mar 07, 2022 11:56 AM IST
Ukraine crisis: Indian restaurant in Budapest serves free meals to evacuees
Kulvinder Singh Jham , the restaurant owner, said being a devout Sikh, he immediately opened a langar (community kitchen) to serve the food
Published on Mar 04, 2022 08:27 AM IST
At Anis Khan’s village, locals point finger at TMC, police for his death
Salem Khan, father of the former student of Kolkata’s Aliah University, alleged that Anis was thrown off the roof by three civic police volunteers, who ran up the stairs soon after he opened the main gate on hearing them knock at 1.10am on February 19.
Updated on Feb 27, 2022 05:28 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Amta
RSS holds meet in Naxalbari, plans to set up units in West Bengal, Sikkim
Union home minister Amit Shah in 2017 launched the BJP’s expansion plans in Naxalbari and had lunch at a tribal home there
Updated on Feb 21, 2022 03:30 PM IST
TMC retains Abhishek Banerjee as national general secretary
The TMC chief also rewarded her trusted aides by giving them plum posts, amid a rift between the old guard and the new.
Updated on Feb 19, 2022 01:42 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata
Hemmed in by Mamata loyalists on all sides, Abhishek Banerjee retains portfolio in TMC
Mamata Banerjee made Rajya Sabha member Sukhendu Sekhar Roy the national spokesperson although Derek O’Brien played the role in Delhi for almost 15 years. Another veteran, Saugata Roy, found no place in the new national working committee.
Published on Feb 18, 2022 11:48 PM IST
BJP’s defeat in 4 Bengal cities increases rumblings against state leadership
The BJP petition has sought re-election following its stunning defeat in the previous round of civic body elections. The petition will be heard on Wednesday.
Published on Feb 16, 2022 02:46 AM IST
Mamata calls meeting amid TMC rumblings over ‘one-man-one-post’
The party had adopted the policy during its organisational rejig last year. Abhishek has been an outspoken advocate of the policy since 2021, when he was made TMC national general secretary
Published on Feb 11, 2022 11:33 PM IST
Loyalists of Mamata, Abhishek face off amid social media row, leaders to meet
Top TMC leaders said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asked four of her loyalists and Abhishek Banerjee to attend an emergency meeting at her residence on Saturday afternoon although Bengal will witness polls at four important civic bodies during the day.
Updated on Feb 12, 2022 05:48 AM IST
Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee’s election agent named in 5 post-poll violence cases by CBI
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s election agent during the April 2021 election from Nandigram has been named in five cases of post-poll violence
Updated on Feb 11, 2022 01:36 AM IST
‘Internal matter,’ says Mamata as slugfest begins in Trinamool over I-PAC
Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra, I-PAC officials dismissed speculations over TMC severing ties with Prashant Kishor.
Published on Feb 07, 2022 10:36 PM IST
Differences between CM Mamata, Abhishek led to civic poll candidature fiasco: TMC leaders
Discrepancies in around 150 of 2200 names in two lists announced almost simultaneously on Friday evening triggered agitations on Saturday in 19 Bengal districts where elections will be held in two phases in February.
Published on Feb 06, 2022 11:28 PM IST
BJP turns spotlight on 1979 killings of refugees in Bengal
KOLKATA: Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Monday paid homage to the refugees from Bangladesh, who were allegedly killed in police firing in West Bengal’s Marichjhapi on January 31, 1979
Published on Feb 01, 2022 02:56 PM IST
