Bengal Covid Curbs: Bengal's Covid restrictions include closing of all schools and colleges, as well as cinema halls, gyms and swimming pools, and beauty salons. Attendance at government and private offices will be capped at 50 per cent.
Bengal s Covid Quota Downwardly Revised Every Day: Mamata Banerjee Writes To PM Modi Mamata Banerjee Letter To PM Modi Over COVID-19: We were told we shall get 70 pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants, now we are told that we shall get four in the first phase with no clarity on the remaining plants (sic), Mamata Banerjee wrote in her letter to PM Narendra Modi.
Updated: May 14, 2021 7:34 pm IST We were told we shall get 70 PSA plants, now told that we will get 4 , Mamata Banerjee wrote to PM Modi
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to be fair and quick in allotment of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants for the state, amid the relentless surge in COVID-19 cases.
West Bengal Covid-19: Mamata Banerjee said she has written to PM Modi seeking a policy on Covid
Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced extensive restrictions across the state today immediately after taking oath for a third straight term in power, in view of the exploding coronavirus infection. Local trains will be suspended from tomorrow and Friday onwards, those entering the state will have to show a negative Covid test report. Quarantine facilities will have to be arranged by airport authorities. There won t be total lockdown. Emergency and essential services will be outside the purview of restrictions, the Chief Minister said.
Election Commission Faces Court s Wrath Over Bengal Polls Amid Covid Election Commission Faces Court s Wrath Over Bengal Polls Amid Covid Bengal Election: The Election Commission is empowered to act, but what is it doing about polls in these Covid times? The EC is just passing circulars and leaving it to the people. But the EC has implementing authority, the court said.
Election Commission today faced censure from Calcutta High Court over its handling of ongoing mammoth.
Kolkata:
The Election Commission today faced censure from the Calcutta High Court over its handling of the ongoing mammoth, eight phase elections in Bengal in the middle of a lethal Covid second wave. Amid concerns that poll rallies might become super-spreader events, the court observed that the Commission is not doing the enough in this respect even though it has the powers to do so.