Despite Ajanta Biswas’ apology in her reply to a show-cause notice and promise to not repeat her actions, the party’s teachers’ union was not satisfied and proposed to the state committee that she be suspended, sources said on Tuesday.

Additional Director General (Correctional Services) Peeyush Pandey, Inspector General (North Bengal) Devendra Prakash Singh are the other senior officers on the list of awardees.

Banerjee, who also conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected regions in south Bengal, said a delegation of TMC MPs would visit Delhi to urge the Centre to approve the Ghatal  Master Plan.

Bengal Covid-19 update: At present, there are 10,215 active cases. Of them, 8,724 are in home isolation while 299 are in safe homes. According to the health bulletin, 724 people were declared recovered in 24 hours. The discharge rate at present is 98.15 per cent.

The chief minister had earlier announced that her government would promote sports on ‘Khela Hobe Divas’, which will be observed in the memory of fans who were killed in a stampede during a football match 40 years ago.

The saffron party has claimed that the crime was orchestrated by TMC men as the victim’s husband is a BJP supporter. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.

In the letter, written in Bengali and signed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state government has praised its “Krishak Bandhu” scheme for becoming a "model in the country".

Bagnan gangrape case: Two of the six accused have been arrested. They have been identified as Sheikh Saiyed and Joynal Mullick. Trinamool block president Kutbuddin Mallick and local unit youth president Debashis Rana are among the accused.

‘95% of Jhargram tribal population has received benefits from state schemes’

As part of its week-long 'Paschimbanga Bachao Yatra' (Save West Bengal), the BJP had planned to take out torch rallies across the state to protest post-poll violence and fake vaccination drives.

The latest deaths took the fatality count to 18,240 people have died due to the virus while the active case count at present is 10,312. With 719 people recovering from the disease in 24 hours, the discharge rate in Monday’s health bulletin was 98.14 per cent.

The state had banned bicycles on 64 major roads, including Camac Street, Shakespeare Sarani, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Rashbehari Avenue Connector and Ashutosh Mukherjee Road during the second Covid-19 wave.

In his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the senior Congress leader warned of a fresh explosion of cases in West Bengal considering its dense population.

The Regional Meteorological Department in Alipore said light to moderate rainfall may continue in 15 south Bengal districts, including Kolkata, over the next few days.

“They came to India at the behest of their friends, but the friends tried to push them into prostitution,” said an official.

Cumulatively, 3,06,68,770 people have been vaccinated in the state till date. At least 87,43,263 have received both doses.

The government on Tuesday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was likely to conduct an aerial survey of areas in Howrah and Hooghly, the two worst-hit districts, on Wednesday to take stock of the situation.

A senior West Bengal government official said, “We have a huge number of migrant workers. Now, the state government realises that if the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme is not implemented then migrant workers will be deprived. So, we decided to implement it.”

According to the BJP, the body of booth level worker Indrajit Sutradhar (32) was found hanging from the ceiling of a room, with his hands tied from behind, in an abandoned building at Khoirasol in Birbhum district.

TMC MP Sisir Adhikari, the father of Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP had shared the stage with Union Home Minister Amit Shah at an election rally of the saffron party before the state Assembly elections.

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, however, did not specify the“accused” or the “sitting judge” of the High Court.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal who represented the state police opposed the prayer of the petitioners, claiming that the NHRC report was baseless, and politically motivated as many of its members had links to the BJP.

Banerjee was seen playing with a football and expressed confidence that TMC’s 'Khela Hobe' (game on) slogan, first used during the recently held Assembly polls, would be popular across the country.

Supriyo, who has served as a Union minister for the Narendra Modi government, was removed earlier this month in a major cabinet rejig.