As of Sunday morning, the storm lay over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal, said the weather office. It is likely to start making landfall between north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha from late Wednesday evening.

So far, West Bengal has recorded 18,736 deaths, including nine in the past 24 hours. The fatality rate stands at 1.20 per cent.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee made the comment at a public meeting organised at Jadu Babur Bazar as part of the chief minister’s Bhabanipur by-poll campaign. The election is scheduled for September 30.

“The BJP is the biggest jumla party in the country. It is the party that offers only lies and hatred to the people. If you speak against them, they will unleash central agencies against you. They are the party of a dancing dragon who will remove your name from the list of citizenship in the name of CAA, NRC and NPR.”

At least 12 Covid patients succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours. Nadia recorded four deaths, Kolkata and North 24 Paraganas two each, and Jalpaiguri, Bankura, Purba Medinipur and Hooghly one death.

The victims, identified as 13-year-old Anushka Nandi from Bandhab Nagar Colony and 12-year-old Sneha Banik from the Motijheel area, were electrocuted after coming in contact with an electric pole, a portion of which was submerged in a waterlogged area.

On August 23, the university administration had expelled three students for allegedly “disrupting the academic atmosphere in the university...and being involved in disorderly conduct in the name of protest”.

A Kolkata Police traffic department official said the downpour led to traffic snarls on the city's thoroughfares that lasted hours.

In the past 24 hours, 35,998 samples were tested and the positivity rate is at 1.95 per cent.

The probe pertains to a case filed by the ED under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following an FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigation

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson is set to participate in a meeting with non-Bengali voters on September 16 at Uttam Udyan in the Padmapukur area of Bhabanipur.

Industries like cold storage, poultry, fish farming, warehousing among others will now be included in industrial parks.

Lawyer Bikashranjan Bhattacharya who represented the petitioner asked the court why the by-polls in four more constituencies were not announced.

The election, in which Priyanka Tibrewal is up against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is scheduled for September 30.

Priyanka Tibrewal played an instrumental role in securing a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the matter.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Murlidhar Sharma said, “The two accused confessed after prolonged interrogation. Both of them are the cousins of the deceased woman.”

The police said the victim, identified as Amarnath Prasad alias Pappu, was beaten to death. His body was found in the autorickshaw in the Bagmari Basak Bagan area at 10 am on Wednesday.

The warehouses are situated at Taratala Road in Garden Reach.

The high-stakes bypoll, which Mamata has to win to remain chief minister, will be held on September 30.

Several legislators of the ruling Trinamool Congress, including ministers, had been charge-sheeted and even arrested in the recent past for their alleged involvement in ponzy scam cases.

According to the health bulletin, 4,99,781 received the vaccine on Friday. So far, 4,57,57,705 have been vaccinated in Bengal, of whom 1,29,97,132 have received both doses.

A number of rods, bricks, choppers and foldable iron made sticks were recovered from the possession of other accused persons in custody.

In the letter, sent on Thursday, Amit Mitra advised the Union government to switch to demand stimulation and provide money to people to revive the economy.

Six fire tenders were initially deployed to douse the blaze, and later 10 more were dispatched.