Lekhi attended a cultural event at the Indian Museum, where the Centre felicitated 30 artisans and artists — including ‘dhakis’, idol makers, pandal makers and others associated with the Durga Puja festival — to mark the achievement.

Sources said the CID raided several locations but failed to trace the three — Jahangir Alam, Humayun Kabir and Mehdi Hasan.

SSC candidate Priyanka Shaw had filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court, alleging that despite her name being featured on the merit list in the 2017 WBSSC exam, she was deprived of a job.

The youths in the state have raised their voice as even after having good qualifications, they failed to get a job here, he said

Traffic on the Howrah bridge came to a standstill during the office hours. The commute between Howrah and Kolkata turned harrowing as the Howrah bridge was closed for traffic.

In the PIL, advocate Ramaprasad Sarkar claimed that the BJP's march to Nabanna resulted in harassment of the common man and the destruction of public properties.

Agitated local residents vandalised the house in question and set it on fire. A woman member of the family was arrested, the police said.

The youth and student wings of CPM held an ‘Insaaf' (justice) rally at Esplanade to seek justice for Anis Khan, who died under mysterious circumstances in February this year. The Left has accused the police of killing the youth, a charge denied by the state government.

Earlier, the CBI sought Bhattacharya's remand for 10 days to probe the case, claiming that he was part of a “larger conspiracy”.

The minister informed that distance between the schools, teacher-student ratio and other factors are being taken into account to conduct the survey. The report of the survey once received will be sent to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said Basu.

It was conducted by the Sankrail Block administration in co-ordination with Sankrail Panchayat Samiti on September 17 at Rajgunge Ganga Ghat. Local handicrafts were displayed in stalls.

The federal agency said that Samrat Chakraborty (37), also known by his aliases Amit, Argha, Nirmal, Nirman and Nilkamal Sikdar, was arrested from from Mahispata on the Kalyani Expressway.

The West Bengal Maritime Board will issue the LoI to the Adani group, who was the highest bidder for the mega project, Hakim told mediapersons after a Cabinet meeting held in the Assembly.

In the report, state home secretary BP Gopalika said that permission for such rallies at the Santragachi bus stand and Howrah Maidan in Howrah district and Kolkata was denied by the police.

Apart from Chatterjee, former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) chairman Kalyanmoy Ganguly and former SSC screening committee convener Shantiprasad Sinha are in CBI custody in the case.

Booked for murder attempt, they threw bomb for personal grudge, say police; BJP seeks NIA probe

Without naming Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee or her party, the Trinamool Congress, Ramesh said there “cannot be an opposition unity without the Congress.” He urged other parties not to “backstab” or “weaken” the Congress.

Around 11 am on Saturday, students and teachers at Free India High School on South Station Road in Titagarh heard a loud explosion that blew up a portion of the roof, said local police.

The rally will be organised to protest against the TMC government in the state, demanding justice over “corruption”.

According to a senior CBI officer, many financial transactions have taken place, and they want to know about those transactions in detail by Chatterjee, Ganguly and Sinha simultaneously.

According to a senior official, the government has set up a portal where details about all dengue and malaria cases have to be reported daily.

As a result, BJP leaders and workers staged a sit-in on the College Street and protested against police for putting up barricades to stop them from moving further.

Police said the accused have got their head tonsured and moustaches removed to evade arrest. Police identified the two arrested persons as Raj Kumar Maity (68) and Bikash Ghosh (27).

The Assembly on Thursday witnessed chaos as the TMC and BJP legislators carrying posters raised slogans against each other inside the House.