Two former Congress leaders, including ex-state Mahila Congress secretary Madhuri Chakma and Milton Chakma, Tuesday joined the Trinamool Congress.

He said this while being taken to a CBI court in Kolkata's Alipore in connection with the school jobs scam in which he along with others is an accused.

Bhaktiprana was suffering from old age-related ailments and was undergoing treatment at the Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan where she was admitted with high fever on December 5.

Recently, Adhikari had raised political temperature in the state by announcing three dates in December (12, 14 and 21), claiming big developments will take place on these days.

They are adamant that the student council elections be held on December 22 as was scheduled.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to investigate the case. After Shyamal did not turn up at the local police station although he was called for questioning, an arrest warrant was issued.

These aspirants are on a dharna for the last 116 days.

The test was held to fill around 11,000 vacancies for the post of primary teacher in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools. A total of 6,90,931 candidates appeared for the test, which was held at 1,453 centres from 12 pm to 2.30 pm.

Five Congress leaders from Tripura, including Biswas, had joined the TMC in the presence of party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in New Delhi last Wednesday.

West Bengal Information and Culture department officials on Saturday said Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan would be the guests of honour at KIFF, while Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Kumar Sanu, Mahesh Bhatt and Shatrughan Sinha would also be present at the inaugural function.

“From today till January 1, 2023, I invite all to participate in the football tournament, which is a great leveller, bridging differences in politics, caste and language. Let's leave behind wrangling and come together to cheer for the game of football, for sports,” he said.

A complaint was filed at Baruipur police station by Nikunj Behari Das on Saturday morning, the former official, said police.

Kolkata Metro and the state transport department have made special arrangements for the commutation of candidates to their respective examination centres.

Principal Indranil Biswas held a meeting with the college council on Friday afternoon to find a solution, but the issue could not be resolved.

They claimed that police refused to take their complaint initially and an FIR was registered nearly four hours after lodging a complaint and that they were made to sit in the police station for several hours.

Police said fisheries extension officer Somdatta Dasgupta and other officials accompanying him were beaten up, and the accused kept them confined after taking their mobile phones away.

On Thursday, Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal made a call to the vocalist and assured him of a proper inquiry into the charges.

A purported video of Golapbag traffic post OC Vishwanath Pyne appearing on the TMC stage in uniform and being felicitated and surrounded by TMC leaders and workers in the presence of local MLA Khokon Da.

This meet was a follow-up of a meeting in New Delhi on December 5 that Banerjee, who was in the national Capital then, attended.

She expressed displeasure over medical services provided at state-run SSKM Hospital, and urged doctors to treat patients first before initiating the admission process.

The incident took place at platform number 4 of the railway station when the ticket checker, Sujan Singh Sardar, was talking to a colleague.

“The injured are undergoing treatment at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital and the state-run SSKM hospital,” the police officer said.

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There was no breakthrough in the impasse till late evening, it was learnt. The medical students have been protesting in front of the office of college principal Indranil Biswas office since Monday afternoon.