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Rahul, a student of Bagbazar High School in Kolkata, lost his home in Wednesday night fire that engulfed the entire slum, leaving over 100 families homeless in few hours.

At least 25 fire tenders were pressed into service as the blaze engulfed several houses in the slum on Kshirode Vidyavinode Avenue beside the Bagbazar Women's College near the Chitpore Lock Gate Bridge.

Individuals with political links are also under CBI’s scanner as it has widened the probe. In a significant development, the central agency issued a look out notice last week against Trinamool Youth Congress leader Vinay Kumar Mishra.

This is the first time that a TMC leader has directly been named in the cattle smuggling case.

Breaking down at a press meet, Khan, who is also Bengal BJP Yuva Morcha President, said, "I give you full freedom. This is my appeal to you to remove my surname 'Khan' from your name."

The state government has rejected a  move by the Union Home Ministry to summon to Delhi the three IPS officers who were responsible for providing security to the BJP chief.

The governor urged the chief minister to apologise for the incident, adding that he had summoned the chief secretary and the DGP.

The two-time former chief minister has been suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a respiratory ailment.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday stoked a controversy after videos appeared in which she was seen describing a reporter as “two-paisa worth”.

According to sources, Roy's name allegedly cropped up during the course of investigation. He has also been questioned by the CID earlier, following which he had secured an anticipatory bail from the high court last year.

Minister for transport, irrigation and water resources, Adhikari has been distancing himself from the TMC for several months now, organising programmes without the party banner

A huge police contingent and fire tenders have been sent to the spot and efforts are on to clear the debris. The police suspect there could be more people trapped under the debris.

Artisan Kush Bera, along with his two children, had started working on this idol around June 2020. The 12-feet-long idol is made of and decorated with clay. No other decorative pieces have been used, General Secretary of Md Ali Park Durga Puja Surendra Kr Sharma told indianexpress.com

The artisans usually start receiving orders from February, following which they start purchasing raw materials. However, as lockdown was enforced from March end and strict restrictions continued till recently, the potters said they lost even the confirmed orders.

With the latest incident of political violence, things appear to have come to a head. On Sunday night, local BJP leader and strongman Manish Shukla was gunned down by masked assailants in Titagarh while he was chatting with some people at a tea stall near a makeshift party office.

TMC leader Nirmal Ghosh said the killing was a fallout of an internal BJP fight. He accused the Opposition party of "trying to malign the image of the TMC”.

In a tweet tagging Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma, Nusrat Jahan shared a screenshot of the advertisement, and said she would seek legal action.

"The NIA had learnt about an inter-state module of al-Qaeda operatives at various locations in India including West Bengal and Kerala. The group was planning to undertake terrorist attacks at vital installations in India with an aim to kill people and strike terror," the agency said in a statement.

After Bangladesh gave special permission to its traders for hilsa export, the state has already received 70 metric tonne hilsa in the last two days.

“A special 30-member anti-Maoist force has been set up by Jhargram Police in wake of recent suspicious activities in the Belpahari police station area,” a police officer told The Indian Express.

The police have arrested three of the five accused, and charged them with rape and abetment to suicide. They were were produced in Jalpaiguri court on Tuesday and sent to police custody for seven days.

According to sources in the police, Roy fell unconscious while being questioned in the station in connection with a robbery on August 28. He was then taken to Raiganj Medical College and Hospital, but was declared dead.

“At least Bengal's data is better than the national data. Across India, only 14 per cent of the school children have been able to continue their education," said Prabir Basu, Joint Convener of RTE Forum (Campaign).

The pandemic has prompted the city police to change its Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) in stations. Officials living in barracks have been asked to move to rented houses, and a mobile application called “Niramoy” has been launched to monitor the health of personnel.