Addressing a workers' meeting at Shalbani on Friday, Srikanta Mahata had said, “The party is listening to the bad people who are looters. If this continues, we can not continue in this party.”

According to eyewitnesses, the truck driver lost control, as a result of which the truck overturned on the car, police said, adding that people first tried to rescue the car driver but couldn't as the vehicle had got badly damaged.

According to the minister, once the process kicks off, teachers of state-aided colleges will be able to apply for their transfer online instead of submitting applications by visiting the Higher Education Department office.

The officer said Rafikul Sardar (40) would be brought to Bengal on transit remand and they would produce him in a court, seeking his custody for the interrogation.

The central agency has claimed that its teams have been trying to get in touch with Bhattacharya but could not trace him.

The central BJP leadership had sought a report from the Bengal BJP on Ghosh's remarks against the CBI.

Following the arrest of heavyweight TMC leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal in the SSC recruitment scam and the cattle smuggling case, respectively, Opposition parties, especially the BJP, have branded TMC leaders as “thieves”.

The alleged incident took place on Sunday when “TMC-backed goons” kicked a pregnant woman on her stomach in Narkeldanga area in north Kolkata. Eight persons were arrested in this connection.

The second day of the three-day event saw yet another series of lectures and discussions by professionals from the field of technology. Kumar thanked Technology Sabha for recognising the effort of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

On three occasions, one of the cars in Adhikari's convoy was hit by a truck.

The decision was taken after finding that its members, in most of the students' unions where the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad is in control, are from a significantly higher age bracket of 30 to 32 years.

Anubrata Mondal was arrested by the CBI on August 11 in a cattle smuggling case. The Birbhum unit president of TMC had sought bail on August 20, citing poor health.

Ten people, including six women and two children, were burnt to death after assailants hurled petrol bombs at several houses in Bogtui on March 21.

The CBI has also made some enquiries with the office of District Controller of Food & Supplies, Birbhum, about this suspected “link” between the state government and these two rice mills.

After holding a meeting with the organisers of the Durga Puja functions in Kolkata's Netaji Indoor Stadium, the CM announced a grant of Rs 60,000 each for 43,000 committees across the state against the last year's Rs 50,000 each.

There have been numerous protests over the years, with the most recent being the protest at SSKM hospital in November last year after which there was a hearing in December wherein the court ruled that the demands were to be fulfilled in a month.

The central BJP leadership has sought details of a video that showed Ghosh purportedly speaking against the CBI and the Hindi and English translation of his speech.

MP Sougata Roy said that the opposition parties continuing to call all their party leaders "thieves" will be taught a “proper lesson”.

The arrested persons were produced at a city court that remanded them in judicial custody for three days.

Sources said Mondal's counsel informed him about Banerjee's stand on him and following that Mondal stopped cooperating with CBI sleuths.

According to a schoolteacher, speaking at the Independence Day event at the school, Lakshman Das (55) suddenly fell unconscious and was rushed to a local hospital where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.

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Commonwealth Games medallists from the state were also felicitated by the government on this occasion.

"By not giving Bengal’s share, the BJP government at the Centre is accepting the fact that they are miffed that the state didn’t vote for them," Abhishek Banerjee said.