The complainants levelled the misconduct allegations against Registrar Ashok Mahato and Deputy Registrar Tanmay Nag.

Mamata Banerjee needs to win this by-election from Bhawanipur, her old seat, to retain her chief ministerial post.

The Chief Minister had represented Bhabanipur in 2011 and 2016 and her residence falls in the constituency.

“I had opined that as a gesture of courtesy, the Congress should not field anyone against the incumbent CM. It was my personal view then. Now that by-election has been announced, we have to think afresh. AICC will take the final call," Chowdhury said on Monday.

“Someone else will contest from Bhabanipur. Suvendu Adhikari has already defeated her. Why will one person defeat her multiple times? This time someone else will,” said Ghosh.

The most deaths occurred in Nadia district, which recorded five fatalities, followed by three in North 24 Parganas.

Following the expulsion, a section of students started a sit-in outside the V-C’s residence on the night of August 27. They demanded the revocation of the expulsion order and the V-C’s removal.

Speaking to reporters at the Kolkata airport on his way to New Delhi to attend a summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged coal scam case, Banerjee accused the BJP of indulging in political vendetta having lost the state assembly elections.

According to CID sources, Adhikari has been summoned on Monday to record his statement in the case.

At present, the city has 8734 active cases out of which 7473 are in home isolation and 238 are in safe homes.

West Bengal Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee said, “It is a matter of shame for all of us. I feel the university officials should resolve the issue through a dialogue with the students."

On Monday, Bishnupur MLA Tanmoy Ghosh defected to the Trinamool and the day after, another BJP leader and Bagda MLA Biswajit Das also left the saffron camp to join the ruling party.

Each of the limbs of the West Bengal CM’s idol will be shown as holding symbols of ten of her welfare schemes.

He was admitted at the Woodburn ward of the state-run hospital. Some of his vital parameters are not normal, this requiring more tests, the doctors said.

"It was alleged that the officers of South-Eastern Railways were indulging in corrupt practices in the matter of processing the acceptance of tenders, work orders etc,” read a statement by CBI.

The case pertains to the alleged murder of a BJP worker at Matiari in the Pratapnagar area of Sonarpur South Assembly constituency after the results of the Assembly polls were declared.

The agency had recently summoned Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee.

“More than 50 MLAs have changed parties in the past 10 years. The Congress did not take action against them. We will do so, as I promised the people of Bengal," Adhikari said.

"If required, the government will initiate an inoculation programme similar to the pulse polio drive,” Banerjee said.

“Banks need to operate full time now. Many new accounts are being opened due to the ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ scheme. Therefore, we have decided to allow banks to operate as per the usual schedule,” Mamata Banerjee said.

Varsity sources said the petition, filed on behalf of Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty, would seek a direction from the high court to quell the ongoing protests and restore normality to the campus through the deployment of police personnel.

The second phase of the initiative — the TMC government's outreach drive to help people get benefits of state-run schemes at their doorstep — was launched on August 16 with an initial projection that there would be around 17,000 total camps organised in a month till September 15.

According to the state health bulletin, the recovery rate was marginally up to 98.21 per cent after 720 people were declared recovered in a day.

The party claimed that several of its leaders and workers were arrested, including Union Minister of State for Shipping Shantanu Thakur. However, the police claimed that Thakur himself boarded a police vehicle.