Atri Mitra

According to SFI members, they had started distributing sanitary napkins from March 25 in almost every district of the state. At least 5,000 women have bought sanitary napkins from them, they said.

The services first started on March 22, the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the ‘Janata curfew’. However, the services continued due to the 21-day nationwide lockdown.

By late Tuesday night, two more coronavirus patients died - a 52-year-old man in Howrah and a 62-year-old man in Kolkata.

Yadav is subsisting on a diet of rotis, and one vegetable dish or dal. “I don’t know how many days the lockdown will continue.

To stop the migrants, the state administration has already sealed all iner- and intra-state borders, but in vain.

At the Beleghata office, the team’s workspace includes a small room next to the lab with a round table at the centre surrounded by computers, tabulation sheets, and piles of papers and reports.

A group of people surrounded the flight attendant on seeing she was not wearing a mask. The woman said she had taken it off five minutes earlier as it had become dirty because of the dust from potatoes at the market.

PM Modi’s appeal came as West Bengal and Jharkhand asked the Railways to stop trains entering their states from outside.

Health department authorities are now tracking and putting in quarantine all the people he met in the two days that he moved about Kolkata.

The student's parents and driver have been sent to the newly opened Special Quarantine Unit in Kolkata. "There is mild infection but he is under control. All his parameters are stable," said a government official.

According to sources in the police, Naskar has been attacked by miscreants on at least two occasions, but he managed to escape every time. For the last three years, his security has been increased taking into account his threat perception.

“If you did something illegal, you will have to face the consequences. Police have already arrested three persons. The police will take action in this case,” Mamata Banerjee said.

In 2017-18, for instance, the annual subsidy (see table) bill towards these three entities was Rs 830 crore. But this bill has been coming down and in the current financial year, it is expected to fall below the Rs 700 crore level.

The BJP leader also hit out at the state government on the issue of employment, rejecting the government’s claim of generating jobs.

In a press conference after the Budget, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the live telecast was under the purview of Speaker Biman Banerjee, who declined to comment on the controversy.

The programme aims to empower women in rural India by teaching them how to use Internet in their daily lives. Google claims it has benefited over 30 million women across 20 states so far.

A pamphlet is being circulated urging protesters to unite in front of the UN. “We, a group of Indians in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, and France) have organised a protest at the United Nations, Geneva on the 1st of February.

In the video, shot during a march led by Chakrabarty with a demand to stop “defaming” the university, the V-C is heard asking for photographs of certain people, to which a reply comes that all the names and photographs will be provided to him.

Under the guidance of Samrat Bose, director and mentor of the group, Theatre Traveller, the prisoners will spread the message of communal harmony through the eponymous drama, Lalon.