The total Covid case count in the state till date now stands at 20,72,307. On Monday, Bengal witnessed five Covid-related deaths.

The TMC alleged that the BJP MLAs tried to “influence votes” by wearing symbolic dhoti and badges while casting their votes.

Purulia BJP MLA Sudeep Mukherjee alleged that Abhishek entered to vote with a convoy of 19 vehicles.

The four have been booked under IPC section 302 (murder) and sections of Explosives Act. The area around Gopalpur in Manikchak witnessed group clashes in the early hours of Sunday night.

Ganesan has been given additional charge of West Bengal. Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Prakash Shrivastava administered the oath of office to Ganesan in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, state Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee and other dignitaries.

On Sunday, BJP had taken its MLAs to a hotel in Newtown in the outskirts of Kolkata. Amid rumours that BJP has sent messages to tribal TMC MLAs to vote for Murmu, a tribal leader from neighbouring Odisha, the TMC leadership also tasked several top leaders to secure the MLAs ahead of the voting.

Police said they initially suspected that Pooja Sarkar died by suicide. However, no suicide note was found from the spot, they said.

While the BJP claimed that some TMC MLAs will vote for the NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader from neighbouring Odisha; the TMC, on the other hand, also asserted to have some of the BJP MLAs support for the Opposition's joint candidate Yashwant Sinha, who hails from neighbouring Jharkhand.

The TMC has drawn a similarity between the AIIMS recruitment “scam” and the alleged irregularities in appointment of teachers in state government schools in which its leaders are in the dock.

Four BJP leaders, including Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar, Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar, Bankura MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana and Chakdah MLA Bankim Ghosh, have been named in FIR, accusing them of using their influence to get jobs for their relatives at AIIMS, Kalyani.

This is the fourth time that Ghatak has been summoned by the agency, while Mahato has been called for the first time.

The remarks from the Union Minister for Women and Child Development came after TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar accused the BJP government at the Centre of insulting the national emblem by installing an ''aggressive version of the Ashokan Lions'' as a national emblem atop the new Parliament building.

Recently, separatist group Kamtapur Liberation Organisation’s (KLO) chief Jiban Singha released a video, dubbing the state government “bohirgata” (outsider) and claimed that BJP MPs from the regions were “supporters” of a separate Koch-Kamtapur state.

According to party sources, around 65 MLAs and 15 MPs of the party were present at the meeting and assured her of their support in the presidential election.

Speaking after the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected board of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, Banerjee emphasised that she was ''not here to capture the hills, but to win the hearts of the people''.

The arrested suspect, Hafizul Mollah, gave chocolates and cold drinks to children in the area to get information about the CM’s house, police claimed.

West Bengal logged 1,915 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, a state health department bulletin said. With this, the total case count stood at 20,53,626 with a positivity rate of 21.29 percent. Also, two more persons died of the infection, taking the state’s total death toll to 21,246.

According to CBI sources, it is alleged that the family members of the victim were threatened by three other accused by colluding with the prime accused, preventing them from taking her to hospital. She died the next day.

TMC leaders, who were invited by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (KMRCL), boycotted the inauguration, alleging that the Indian Railways has “insulted" Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by inviting her at the last moment.

The Chief Minister will be present at the swearing-in ceremony of GTA members at the 'Mall Chowrasta' at 11 am on Tuesday. Jalpaiguri Divisional Commissioner Ajit Ranjan Vardhan will administer the oath of office to the newly elected members.

The chargesheet, which has named the officer in charge (ASI) of the local Amta police station too, indicates that Khan wasn't murdered but died after falling from the terrace of his two-storeyed residence.

JEE Main 2022 topper Ashutosh Agarwal said he missed playing badminton and cricket as he put in long hours to prepare for the test.

CPI’s Darjeeling district secretary Animesh Banerjee. said that their joining the CPI will give much-needed oxygen to the party’s organisation in the district.

Barsha Mahuri was missing from Friday and her body was recovered on Saturday, officials said here on Sunday. According to Mahuri’s family, a group of six persons from Baruipur had left for Amarnath Yatra on July 1.