“The truth surrounding the death of my son must come out. He did not take his life. We feel that he was murdered. We have prayed for a CID or SIT probe into his death,” Ahmed told mediapersons.

But in the death certificates of Vishnu Saha, TMC president of Ward 23 of the Siliguri municipality and Nantu Pal, a local resident, it was mentioned that the two died of “multiple organ failure”.

Chatterjee, who is lodged in Presidency Correctional Home, pleaded for his bail on health grounds. He reportedly told the judge, “I have been here for 100 days but they are not getting anything. They are trying to find fish in muddy waters. But my body is not cooperating. Let me live.”

A large number of SSC and TET candidates have been staging a sit-in and protests for nearly 600 days, demanding teaching jobs at state-run schools.

Habibul,who had left for Gujarat to work in a jewellery shop owned by his uncle, last spoke to his family earlier in the day on Sunday, it is learnt. He was the only child of his parents.

An official in the Panchayat and Rural Development Department said this time the 100-day work under the MGNREGA has been excluded from the programme since the central government is not releasing funds under the scheme.

The dengue situation in various areas of the state, especially in Kolkata, is quite alarming this year.

Accompanied by ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Bakshi, the chief minister urged people to stay cautious, saying “there are people who are trying to fuel unrest by creating”.

Zakir Hussain, the victim, was sitting at a tea shop with his friends in Shivdaspur locality of Naihati when 10-12 bike-borne people came and hurled some bombs before opening fire at him, officials said.

Started in 2022, the scheme intends to ensure monthly basic income support to women heads of 1.6 crore households in the state. Under the scheme, the state government provides Rs 500 per month to general category families and Rs 1,000 to SC/ST families.

According to sources, Dhrubajyoti Sen resigned on October 19, but the students were informed about the development at an open house convened by IIT Director V K Tiwari on Friday.

His counsel alleged that the CBI was conducting the investigation only to target a particular political party. Opposing the bail plea, the CBI counsel said that Mondal was not cooperating with the investigation.

The accused was identified as Sanjoy Kumar Singh, director of Tulips Infonet (India) Private Limited.

BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh visited the site of another protest at Matangini Hazra's foothills. He distributed sweets and clothes to the job seekers and also celebrated 'Bhaiphonta' with them.

Local residents said some supporters of a former block president, Bishnu Kumar Sarkar, were sitting in a tea shop on Tuesday evening when 7-8 youths allegedly accosted them and beat them up.

Over 41,000 cadets who have been already enrolled in the NCC, a youth development movement managed by the armed forces which is open to all regular students of schools and colleges on a voluntary basis, will not be able to take part in annual camps, the official said.

Bengal CM may attend La Ganesan’s brother’s birthday, along with other political leaders

BJP's Raju Bista & Sankar Ghosh meet Ashok Bhattacharya, who once stitched together a “Siliguri Model” with Congress for civic polls; TMC alleges bid to “destabilise” its government.

The ED had earlier arrested Mandal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain. The central agency has claimed that several illegal properties of Mandal were registered in the name of Sukanya.

In Bangladesh, Sitrang left at least 35 people dead and about 8 million without power. The Bangladesh government said about 10,000 homes were damaged and more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of crops were destroyed. Thousands of fishing projects were also washed away.

Calling it a “courtesy visit”, BJP Darjeeling MP Raju Bista said, “Ashok Bhattacharya is a former minister, MLA and mayor of Siliguri. I came here to extend my Diwali greetings to him. It was also the death anniversary of his wife. Therefore, I wanted to meet him at his residence.”

Blaming the ruling TMC for the incident, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar called “Bengal a hub of arms and ammunition”.

Bhattacharya, the former president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on October 11 in connection with the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers and non-teaching staff of government-aided schools.

The police officer said out of the total 948 people, 480 were arrested for burning banned crackers, while 468 were arrested for disorderly conduct.