According to officials, the government has decided to give an allowance of Rs 10,000 to job seekers from the families who have given land for the project after they turn 17, and after a year, when they turn 18, they will be given jobs.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), scattered to fairly widespread light or moderate showers with isolated heavy rain (64.5 mm-115.5 mm) are very likely over Gangetic West Bengal on Saptami and Ashtami (October 2 and 3).

What makes the pandal stand out is the fact that it is managed, including conducting of the rituals, by an all-women team — that comprises volunteers and dhakis (drummers).

A three-time MP and the father of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, Sisir Adhikari was Friday seen inaugurating a Durga Puja pandal in Contai along with BJP MLAs Hiran Chattopadhyay (Kharagpur), Arup Das (Contai South) and actor-turned-leader Rudranil Ghosh.

On the direction of the Labagh Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Friday, the body of Abdur Rahman was exhumed from his grave for post-mortem, said police.

On Friday, 924 new confirmed cases have been detected in the state. A day before, 635 new confirmed cases were reported.

Dutta was killed near his residence on May 6, 2011 days after the TMC came to power in West Bengal.

It has been learnt that ED counsel M V Raju argued that the refusal to allow Gambhir to board a Bangkok-bound flight was an unintentional error and cannot be considered contempt of court.

Out of the 16 accused, ten are those who were illegally appointed, including then WBSSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha, said sources.

The notification said the candidates who qualified for the recruitment examination conducted for the posts of teachers in the upper primary level by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) will appear for the test.

A group of protesters sought the Calcutta High Court's permission to conduct a peaceful protest in Esplanade area of the city.

The BJP leader in a tweet alleged that the state government had “tactfully” opened the State Nodal Account of Public Finance Management System in a private bank where the State Emergency Relief Fund Account was in operation so that Central funds could be “easily diverted”.

“Most of the ministers... I don't know but there is every chance that the CM will be in jail. If that happens, obviously this government will collapse. Without Mamata Banerjee, there is no one to run this government,” said Majumdar.

“Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee does not want anyone to lose their job. The state government is ready to create new posts to accommodate all the candidates. Total 14,977 posts are being created. Of these, 6,861 posts have been created," Basu.

Biswajit's brother Abhijit Sarkar, a BJP activist, was one of the victims who lost their lives in the violence. It was Abhijit who founded the club in 2020 and celebrated Durga Puja in a small way.

Nearly 20 lakh candidates had appeared for the TET in 2014, following which the recruitment of primary teachers was conducted in 2016 and 2020. Bhattacharya, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA, was the president of the primary board during that period.

The single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was hearing around 30 petitions by aspirants who claimed to have been denied jobs as teachers in state government schools despite fulfilling the required criteria.

Addressing a news conference, the board’s interim president Goutam Pal announced that from this year on TET for the primary section will be held every year.

The CBI submitted in the court that Bhattacharya played a key role in the manipulation of marks of job applicants. The agency sought his custody claiming that he was directly involved in the corruption and was not cooperating with its probe team.

The workers have been striking over their demands at the SBSTC depots in different parts of the state, particularly in south Bengal. Bus services have been affected in Burdwan, Durgapur, Haldia, Medinipur, Digha, Siuri and Rampurhat among other places.

Party national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said, “She has already decided that she will pay money to put her picture in the marquees. If not physically, she will inaugurate virtually. She also recites Chandipath wrongly. She has ruined the sanctity of Durga Puja.”

The jobs were not offered by the state government as was being projected by a section of media and some people to malign the state government's image, he claimed.

Of late, Kolkata, North 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, Murshidabad and Darjeeling are reporting relatively more cases, say officials.

“Nowadays, everything becomes a controversy. Is this what our culture has been reduced to? Our Bengali culture and tradition teach us to walk with pride and our heads held high,” she said.