As per the rules, the executive committee of Tankara taluka panchayat can have up to nine members, including the chairman.

The Diamond Harbour MP also targeted PM Modi over the searches conducted by the Delhi Police on Tuesday at 30 locations connected with NewsClick and its journalists in a case filed under the anti-terror law UAPA.

Banerjee also hit out at West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose who is currently involved in a standoff with the state government over the appointment of interim vice-chancellors of state-run universities.

West Bengal chief minister said that three unidentified bodies were found near the Teesta Barrage area in the Jalpaiguri district and they could be the victims of the Sikkim flash flood.

Currently, the taxi fare is Rs 12.5 per kilometre.

Residents shift to safer places from a flood-affected area as the swollen Sal river inundates nearby areas following heavy rainfall, in Birbhum district on Sunday. PTI

The protest will coincide with TMC's protest at Rajghat in Delhi.

The MGNREGA and the PMAY have led to a political firestorm in the state with the TMC alleging that West Bengal is being unfairly targeted by the Centre since people didn't vote for the BJP in the Assembly elections.

The Governor named Professor Achintya Saha as the interim V-C of Murshidabad University, Professor B B Parida for MG University, Professor Nikhil Chandra Ray for Coochbehar Panchanan University and Professor Rathin Bandyopadhyay for Alipurduar University.

According to a release issued by the West Bengal government, Banerjee gave directions that vulnerable people living in the low-lying areas and other affected areas be shifted to safe locations and sufficient Relief Centres be opened.

Around 50 buses carrying Trinamool Congress workers and supporters left Kolkata today to take part in the party’s agitation programme at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on October 2-3.

The woman was a Bangladeshi citizen employed in a beauty parlour in Mumbai and was returning home when she was killed apparently for money, Basirhat Police District Superintendent of Police, Joby Thomas SK, said after preliminary investigation.

A TMC functionary said that nearly 50 buses have been arrangedto carry protesters and that they were making more arrangements for more people.

Reacting to Banerjee's statement, the West Bengal BJP unit accused the TMC leadership of not cooperating with the probe.

“The Governor pins down the government for playing hide-and-seek with the swearing-in of Roy. He is still ready to have the oath administered at the earliest," the statement said.

A resident of Dunlop area of the city, the youth travelled nearly 20 kilometers to play chess at the Gariahat Chess Club in south Kolkata, the famous open-air space under the Gariahat flyover.

While dengue cases have been rising across the state, districts like North 24 Parganas, Howrah, Kolkata, Nadia and Murshidabad have reportedly recorded a higher number of cases.

The state government has made provision for its own 100-days employment guarantee scheme in the current financial year. Recently, the chief minister announced that the scheme will be known as Khela Hobe.

According to the sources, the Governor was earlier scheduled to return on October 7 and had received required clearance from President of India.

A purported video of the incident has also gone viral on social media, making Mursalim a local celebrity.

The Congress hit out at the TMC over the arrests and alleged that it was the ruling party who gave “licences to such brokers”

The single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha also questioned the progress of the investigation and expressed doubts over the central agency’s probe.

According to idol-makers, there's an acute shoratge of labour in Kumartuli and the crisis has pushed labour costs by at least 20 per cent.

The boy was kidnapped on Saturday afternoon from near his father’s transport office