Bengal
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCC&I) organized a Financial Awareness Conclave – “Wealth: Inclusion, Creation, Protection & Growth” on Friday, bringing together policymakers, regulators, bankers, and financial experts.
The conclave featured a series of engaging expert roundtable discussions. The session on “Envisaging Integrated Financial Ecosystems: MSME Growth through Credit, Cash Flow & Capital”, witnessed insightful deliberations from Mr. Shams Tabrez, DGM-SME, State Bank of India, and Mr. Ujjwal Chandra, Deputy Zonal Head, Central Bank of India, on strengthening credit access and sustainable growth pathways for MSMEs
A big fight inside the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has now reached the bank. Former party treasurer Aroop Biswas has written to HDFC Bank, asking them to freeze the party’s accounts containing hundreds of crores, claiming there is a major dispute over who really controls the party.
Unearthing vital, suppressed records surrounding the legislative inception of the state, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) hosted a high-profile seminar titled “West Bengal: Revisiting its Past” on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Commemorating Paschimbanga Diwas—the historic day nearly eight decades ago when Bengal’s lawmakers voted to sever ties with the expanding map of East Pakistan—distinguished academics, researchers, and political leaders gathered to correct decades of distorted historical narratives. Delivering a compelling video address, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose, a veteran chartered accountant, meticulously detailed how the state’s creation was explicitly designed to dismantle a deep-seated conspiracy aimed at dragging the entire landmass into a theocratic state. Bose positioned Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee as the singular, far-sighted leading light who unified ideologically polarized legislators in 1947 to secure a safe homeland for Hindu Bengalis. Echoing these structural concerns, MAKAIAS Director Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh slammed past administrations for intentionally imposing historical amnesia on refugees, while issuing an urgent, data-driven warning regarding a sharp drop in native Bengali speakers and an active “demographic invasion” fueled by systemic illegal immigration from Bangladesh.
The ongoing political turmoil within West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has intensified into a full-blown constitutional and legal battle. Following a major internal split, rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee declared that his faction is prepared to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) to stake an official claim to the party’s identity and symbol.
The internal fissures ripping through the Trinamool Congress (TMC) exploded into a full-scale parliamentary crisis on Sunday, June 14, 2026, as a powerful dissident faction formalized a strategy to break away from the party’s central high command. The rebel camp, marshaled by several disgruntled senior lawmakers, has officially scheduled a high-stakes meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for Monday morning to demand formal recognition as a separate parliamentary group. Claiming the allegiance of a “substantial number” of sitting TMC MPs, the faction aims to bypass the rigorous penal disqualifications of the Tenth Schedule (Anti-Defection Law) by proving they hold a definitive two-thirds legislative majority of the party’s elected lower-house strength. In Kolkata, the core leadership under West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved swiftly to contain the damage, fiercely condemning the mutiny as a treasonous conspiracy orchestrated to erode the regional party’s formidable clout in New Delhi. While the TMC high command prepares a slate of immediate suspension notices and legal counters, the outcome of Monday’s memorandum submission remains heavily dependent on the Speaker’s structural ruling, a decision that could radically alter national opposition alignments and shift the power balance within West Bengal’s hyper-polarized political ecosystem.
Following a historic electoral rout, the Trinamool Congress is facing an unprecedented internal collapse. With 60 state MLAs and 20 Lok Sabha MPs forming breakaway factions that bypass anti-defection laws, the battle has shifted to the courts and the Election Commission, where the very survival of the TMC name and symbol hangs in the balance.
The Trinamool Congress suffered another massive blow as Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev resigned from the party and Parliament. Citing the impracticality of pursuing Assam politics under a reeling TMC banner, her sudden exit coincides with a wider rebellion of 20 Lok Sabha MPs and 64 state MLAs.
The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has intensified its probe into the alleged signature forgery case by conducting searches at locations linked to Trinamool Congress leaders Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee. The investigation revolves around allegations that signatures of several Trinamool Congress MLAs were forged on a letter submitted to the West Bengal Assembly regarding the nomination of a Leader of the Opposition.
The West Bengal government on Wednesday allocated portfolios to its newly inducted ministers, with Swapan Dasgupta taking charge of the finance department and Tapas Roy being appointed industries minister.
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