New Delhi/UNI: In a major setback to the West Bengal government, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Calcutta High Court's order directing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe into the six FIRs related to the violence allegedly unleashed on Ram Navmi processions in the state, in which police supposedly did not record bomb attacks during the procession, under Explosive Substances Act.
Following IMCT's letter, West Bengal sets deadline for generating Covid-19 test results
Kolkata/IBNS: Hours after the MHA's Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) deployed in Kolkata had questioned the delay in generation of Covid-19 test reports, West Bengal government on Friday night instructed state health machinery to ensure the final test results within 12 hours from the sample collection, officials said.
Covid-19: Amid Centre-state data mismatch, Oppn accuses Mamata-govt of suppression
Kolkata/IBNS: The Covid-19 data clash between the West Bengal government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the central government in New Delhi along with the state's Opposition raged even as the situation worsens in the eastern state amid an outpouring of scary social media accounts of people's experiences.
ICMR-NICED provided defective Covid-19 test kits causing delay: Mamata's health dept hits back
Kolkata/IBNS: A week after ICMR-NICED had claimed that West Bengal government was sending minimum number of samples for Covid-19 tests, state health and family welfare department on Sunday accused the Central virus research lab of providing "defective" test kits to the state-run medical colleges.