“Many political parties promise many things before elections but never fulfilled them. We have always tried to fulfil all our promises. Today our Cabinet decided to implement three such projects,” Banerjee told reporters after a Cabinet meeting.

Banerjee, who attended a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, said that while the Centre has agreed to provide an advance of Rs 400 crore to West Bengal, smaller states such as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh were being given Rs 600 crore each.

According to the Met Office, the cyclonic storm is very likely to make landfall near Balasore in north Odisha with a speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph, gusting to 185 kmph around noon on May 26.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee virtually inaugurated the centre and thanked the Kolkata Police for the initiative supported by Medica Hospital and Bandhan Bank.

The high death toll over the last month in the city has meant that many schools have seen multiple children lose a parent. They are now engaged in counselling and helping them.

They were granted interim bail by the court of the Special CBI Judge (1) that was stayed by the Calcutta High Court which frowned on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s dharna at the CBI office earlier in the day.

Dhankhar said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “described the incident of firing by the Central forces in Cooch Behar's Sitalkuchi (on April 10) in which four persons were killed as 'genocide'. But she was silent about the situation in Nandigram.

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has significant influence in his home district of East Medinipur and also in other parts of the entire region.

Cooch Behar MP Nisith Pramanik and Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar won Assembly seats of Dinhata and Santipur, respectively, in the recently concluded Assembly polls.

Hailing from a respectable family of judges, Soumendra Nath Roy started his career as a judicial magistrate at Chinsurah in Hooghly district in 2005 before going on to serve in the capacity of a Munsif at Lalbagh in Murshidabad.

The Governor on Tuesday tweeted, “Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar will be leaving Kolkata by BSF Helicopter on May 13 to visit post-poll unprecedented violence-affected areas @MamataOfficial #Sitalkuchi and other places in Coochbehar to connect with sufferers.”

“The situation arising out of post-poll violence in the state is worrisome. I will be visiting the violence-hit areas,” Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said.

A five-judge Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice I P Mukerji, Justice Harish Tandon, Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Subrata Talukdar was hearing a PIL on post-poll violence in Bengal.

The record fresh fatalities on Monday dragged the state’s overall toll to 12,461. Of the 134 deaths, 55 were due to comorbidities where Covid-19 was incidental, the state health department said.

“We need 10 crore vaccines but demanded only 3 crores. However, they (Centre) only sent us one lakh doses. I also urged the central government to let us buy vaccines from outside but it did not give permission for that as well,” the CM said.

“I will try to fulfil my duty and responsibility as the Leader of the Opposition,” Adhikari said after his election. The BJP leader, who joined the party last December, defeated Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram by 1,956 votes.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday unveiled her new government, retaining almost all the senior ministers in the previous administration.

According to government sources, it is trying to bring all ambulances, which were arranged though MP-LAD funds or by different municipalities and panchayats, under one umbrella.

Accusing the Centre of vaccine politics, the CM said, “Instead of helping states manage Covid-19 by sending timely oxygen supplies, they are sending a team to probe violence.”

Mamata Banerjee had advocated free vaccines for all in the country during her election campaign and after the TMC swept the polls in Bengal, she even threatened to launch an agitation for the same.

TMC sources said that women MLAs and those from from the SC/ST and minority communities may be picked by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her new Cabinet.

On Saturday, the state had reported over 100 deaths for the first time with the fatality count at 103. The active caseload on Monday was 1,19,961.

In fact, as per election results and leads till 6 pm, the BJP's vote share stood at 37.70%, a decline of nearly 3% from its 40.30% votes in 2019. On the other hand, the TMC had increased its vote share to 48.20% from 43.30% in 2019. In other words, a 10% vote gap stood between the two parties.

The TMC chief said the Rs 600 per dose cap for private hospitals would encourage “unscrupulous” practices in the market.