The ruling party also promised to create Dhupguri sub-division “for better development of the area”

Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “At a time when INDIA is planning how to defeat the BJP, Adhir Chowdhury and Mohd Salim are trying to make the BJP happy. They are basically agents of the BJP.”

Educationists’ forum terms move ‘illogical and omnious’

According to students who spoke to The Indian Express, an hour after the Durand Cup semi final ended, they had to be escorted out by the Army and the police. After a 2-2 score at the end of the match, East Bengal had won the game in penalties.

The proposal was pitched during a cabinet meeting chaired by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state legislative Assembly on Monday.

Soon after the blast that took place around 9.30 am in the house, a group of locals entered the brick kiln and vandalised a four-wheeler parked there. Locals alleged that explosives in the house were sent from the brick kiln.

The Governor said the state needs a “multi-pronged approach” to ensure that such incidents do not take place in future.

The STF claimed that the suspect was engaged in the clandestine transmission of images and videos of places from various Indian cities and and defence installations to a Pakistan-based woman.

The court on Thursday allowed Suvendu Adhikari to hold his programmes on Saturday.

Prabir Kumar Chanda and Pranab Kumar Das, the directors of MPS Greenery Developers Limited, were arrested on August 24.

On Wednesday, the central probe agency issued a statement claiming that it had seized “various incriminating documents and digital evidence

Student leaders say CCTVs not enough to curb ragging, need more security

The court allowed the police to interrogate him in jail, it is learnt. When entering the court on Friday, he did not answer any questions from the media.

Earlier in the day, the BJP's student wing, ABVP, also held a march in Jadavpur. The police, however, stopped the rally, claiming the outfit had no permission  to hold a procession.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam said, “It is not the Governor’s job to act as a representative of Indian Railways. Either the Railways Minister, who is in Kolkata today, or the MoS should have met the families.”

Recently, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee indicated willingness to rejoin the scheme if the Centre was committed to fully fund it.

Criticising the Central government's decision to celebrate June 20 as “West Bengal Day”, Banerjee wrote in her letter, “I did not hear that West Bengal was established on June 20. The Centre's unilateral decision is surprising and alarming.”

The Berhampore Congress MP also held a talk with Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga over the phone and requested him to look into the plight of the migrant labourer families in West Bengal. He also asked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to pay compensation to these families.

The ED's statement comes a day after TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said that her family was being targeted by the central agencies every day.

The chief minister said there should not be any “divisive politics” as “we are one when it comes to matters involving the country”.

Kolkata Police, which is probing the death of the undergraduate student, has pieced together the chain of events at the JU Main Hostel on the night of August 9, minutes before the 17-year-old fell from the second-floor balcony of the four-storeyed hostel building, leading to his death.

Banerjee also announced that her government would be launching an anti-ragging helpline that would be managed by the Kolkata police.

The incident took place at around 4pm on Monday when stones were allegedly thrown at a procession of Mahaviri Akhara.

April 15 is the first day of ‘Poila Baisakh’, the Bengali New Year.