Sensing rebellion, Banerjee at a press conference on Friday said the leaders who were dropped because of age or other reasons would be accommodated in the proposed Legislative Council or given organisational work.

Congress's Lok Sabha leader and party state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had earlier said the party would not part with its seats with new members of the alliance.

The 'khela hobe' slogan is depicted on white-green sweets and 'Jai shri Ram' on orange sweets. According to Mullick, the demand of green and orange 'rosogullas' have also shot up.

The TMC delegation also alleged that the use of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photo on advertisements of various central schemes and the Covid vaccination certificates, distributed by the Union health ministry, violated the model code of conduct.

In the letter undersigned by BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta and others, the party claimed that a section of police officers, under the banner of Welfare Association, was collecting photocopies of voter and Aadhaar cards of their colleagues across all ranks as part of the operation.

A total of 17,079 people were vaccinated on Monday with no case of adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) reported, said a health official adding that the new CoWIN-2 portal was plagued by glitches.

According to sources, a group of around 20 persons vandalised the vehicles. Police sources said around 30 vehicles parked in a godown, to be used by BJP for campaigning, were targeted and a complaint has been received.

The decision comes amid TMC's apprehension that Siddiqui's newly floated Indian Secular Front (ISF) may undercut its support base among the minority community, which comprises 30 per cent of the state population.

The poll panel had announced on Friday that retired IPS officer Vivek Dubey, a 1981 batch officer from Andhra Pradesh, would be sent as police observer, Vivek Dubey is known for investigating the Bilkis Bano case.

According to a Congress source, party leader and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasad, state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Opposition leader in the Assembly Abdul Mannan will share the dais.

Earlier, actors Yash Dasgupta and Hiran Chatterjee and others television celebrities had joined the saffron brigade.

Another three workers were rescued by personnel from disaster management and fire brigade departments. They are being treated at Baghajatin State General Hospital.

A CBI source said the agency was likely to take the help of the Financial Intelligence Unit to investigate financial transactions. The CBI wanted details of two foreign accounts and transactions related to them, the source said.

In a letter to the Prime Minister on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee wrote: “Our universities must enjoy the highest possible degree of self-governance and freedom to conduct their educational activities in regular interaction with their counterparts abroad".

"I had a clear idea from February 1 that either a drug or arms case was being conspired against me," said Goswami, who was arrested along with two others on February 19 after police recovered 76 grams of heroin from their car in New Alipore.

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According to the police, the incident happened around 12.30 pm during the construction of an underground drainage system at Purba Putiary Pump house near Aikyatan club.

The West Bengal chief minister questioned if “it is not an attempt of the central government to introduce thought policing in educational institutions by trying to impose 'One Nation, One Thought?"

The Alipore court in Kolkata Wednesday sent West Bengal BJP leader Rakesh Singh, arrested from Purba Bardwan district on Tuesday in connection with the drugs possession case allegedly involving state BJP youth leader Pamela Goswami, to police custody until March 1.

Addressing a rally in Hooghly, Banerjee accused the Centre of targeting women and daughters of her family.

On February 4, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee launched the app to reach out the common people through digital platform. According to the TMC, within a week the app got more than one lakh subscribers.

ISF chief Abbas Siddiqui lashed out at both BJP and TMC. Abbas said, "BJP is our clear rival and TMC is also our enemy... but with mask of friendship." However, he pointed out that ISF “would not create any misunderstanding with AIMIM”.

Ahead of the CBI team’s visit, Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee visited nephew Abhishek’s residence. She spent about 10 minutes there before leaving with his daughter.

He was also of the view that IITs need to transform from being just Indian Institutes of Technology to Institutes of Indigenous Technologies.