According to police, they reached the woman's house on VIP Road in Baguihati area after they received information that she could have been harmed.

According to the police, the accident took place around 2:20 pm on Rashbehari Connector near Rajdanga Nabapally. A Tata-407 vehicle loaded with stone chips hit the official car of Bandopadhyay, who is Forest Affairs Minister.

“They (TMC) are asking why I did not form a regional party. Yes, with your blessings, I could have formed a small regional party. I had the capability. But then after me, my ‘nephew’ would have been its leader," said Suvendu Adhikari.

A commerce graduate and Kolkata-based businessman, Vinay Mishra has close links with influential political leaders, sources said. The CBI has claimed that he is closely associated with many people directly involved in the cattle smuggling case.

This is the first time that a TMC leader has directly been named in the cattle smuggling case.

With the government starting to enrol names for the scheme, private hospitals are worried that it might increase their financial burden and lead to large-scale patient refusal.

Ghosh told reporters, “We are appealing to all people to come and join the BJP. He [Ganguly] has every right to meet the governor of the state. He is the former captain of the Indian [men’s] cricket team and now is the BCCI president. "

The total death toll in the state rose to 9,625 on Monday. The cumulative number of discharged persons became 5,25,685. The recovery rate also has increased to 95.85 per cent.

State urban Minister Firhad Hakim, who was present at the site said, “Demands can't be fulfilled like this. If we inform CM about it she will definitely do something. Power Minister Sobhan Deb Chattopadhyay was also a part of the program.

Last month, the Jharkhand government convened a special Assembly session and passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter recommending it to recognise the Sarna religion and include a separate code for it in the next census.

The Nobel laureate asserted that the Visva-Bharati land on which his house is situated is entirely on a long-term lease, which is nowhere near its expiry. "Additional land was bought by my father as freehold and registered in land records under mouja Surul," he said

“We all salute Amartya Sen. Just because he isn’t inclined towards BJP's ideology, they’re levelling such allegations against him,” Banerjee said.

The state health department is conducting genome sequencing of the two passengers to determine if they have been infected by the more transmissible new strain of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the coronavirus disease.

According to the police, Debdutta was found lying on the floor of a bedroom in her second-floor apartment at the three-storey building. There were bloodstains on her nose but no other injuries.

In a statement, the Railways said some passengers purchase tickets through agents or the accounts of other people, and their own contact number does not get registered in the PRS system.

The CBI recently raided 40 premises in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand in connection with the alleged scam.

The saffron party has started referring to Abhishek Banerjee as “bhaipo [nephew]” — he is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew — and has levelled corruption allegations against him.

Dhankar alleged that the state administration was distancing itself from the rule of law and the soul of BR Ambedkar.

The TMC leadership, however, was “open to hearing him (Suvendu Adhikari) out, if he has something to say to the TMC chief”, they said.

Addressing an event in memory of late freedom fighter Ranjit Kumar Bayal at Mahishadal in Purba Medinipur district, Suvendu Adhikari invoked Bhimrao Ambedkar and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and said that he will uphold the Constitution and serve Bengalis and Bengal as their “sevak”.

After a virtual meeting with vice-chancellors of state universities, State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said campuses “cannot be opened for students due to the Covid-19 pandemic under the present circumstances.”

Addressing party workers in Kurseong, GJM general secretary Roshan Giri asserted that this time, the GJM would support TMC to elect Mamata Banerjee as the Chief Minister for the third straight time.

“The way TMC MLAs are leaving the party, the Governor may all of a sudden ask the Chief Minister to prove majority. There is a possibility as several ministers in the Mamata Banerjee Cabinet are ready to switch over to the BJP,” claimed BJP MP Saumitra Khan.

Sharpening his attack, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday called Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya as outsiders. He also called state BJP president Dilip Ghosh a "goon".