Kolkata

South City mall management said they received a better response this time than the first day of the reopening after lockdown 1.

Dhankhar, who has been at loggerheads with the Trinamool Congress government on several issues since taking over in July 2019, also accused the police and administration in the state of being partisan.

In a series of tweets, the state Home Department criticised the letter that was shared by the governor on Twitter, claiming that it was violative of all established norms.

At a meeting with farmer leaders like Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh, the TMC chief said that there should be a platform where states could converse on policy issues.

Hearing of the matter is likely to be taken up before the appropriate bench of the court later this week, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Four fire tenders were fighting the blaze at the fourth floor of Apeejay House, they said.

The 'vaccination on wheels' initiative was launched by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Thursday in cooperation with the Health and Transport departments of the West Bengal government.

Elections for 107 municipalities in the state are to be held this year and the BJP is particularly focused on the 144 wards in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Officials said that the administration was trying its best to reach out to people in need, but the inclement weather is impeding relief work in certain pockets.

Counsels appearing for ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, MLA Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee mentioned the matter before a division bench presided over by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal on Tuesday.

The hospital also put calls through to the police and the health department, where an official reportedly said the doctor who spoke to them sounded in tears and begged to help them with oxygen cylinders.

Kolkata and North Parganas together are reporting nearly 50,000 active cases which is 40% of all active cases in the state.

The HC directed the advocate general for the state to specify in the affidavit the names of areas where violence broke out, and steps taken to stop or control it.

Mamata Banerjee has announced that from May 7 onwards RT-PCR negative report (72 hours prior) is must for all passengers to enter West Bengal through Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport and at Bagdogra Airport.

Vijayvargiya, who is also the BJP's Bengal minder, also said that he has received a call from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who enquired about the party's poor show

Kailash Vijayvargiya said that the saffron party, which had managed to secure just three seats in the last assembly elections, is making good progress