Eastern India

Durga Puja organisers in West Bengal will have to be cautious this year. The Suvendu Adhikari government has told Puja committees that idols, pandal designs and themes cannot depart from “Sanatan traditions”.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee says it was BJP workers who attacked and vandalised the party's Camac Street office. Party MP Mahua Moitra alleged Kolkata Police did not respond to calls for help.

Bristy Mukherjee, the 28-year-old niece of niece of Mamata Banerjee, was one of the 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members who were laid off in the teachers’ recruitment scam.

At the rally for which the FIR has been filed, Mamata Banerjee had hit out at what she called “political atrocities” being inflicted on her party’s supporters in West Bengal, alleging these were being orchestrated “at the initiative of the BJP.”

The body of 74-year-old Ashish Banerjee, who was a five-time MLA, was found hanging at the office of Trinamool Congress in Rampurhat on August 16.