Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* PTI update at 2.00pm: Tea Board expects that the production of the crop, which was severely affected due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, will improve significantly from June onwards as good monsoon is predicted by the meteorological department, an official said on Tuesday.
* ANI update at 1.00pm: Two students from Jamshedpur, who had returned from Kolkata, have tested positive for COVID-19, Jharkhand Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said on Tuesday.
* PTI update at 12.10pm: The West Bengal government has transferred Health Secretary Vivek Kumar to the Environment Department and named Narayan Swaroop Nigam as his replacement, officials said on Tuesday. Kumar's transfer to the Environment Department as secretary comes days after a row over the state's COVID-19 data, said official sources.
* PTI update at 11.20am: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education has asked its affiliated schools to promote all class 11 students as their annual exams could not be completed due to the coronavirus-forced lockdown.
* Update at 10.45am: An Assistant Sub-inspector of CISF deployed in Kolkata lost his life last night due to coronavirus infection: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
* ANI update at 10.00am: A 'Shramik special' train brought back migrants to Bankura from Bengaluru today
* Update at 9.00am: Spike of 3604 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours; total positive cases in the country is now at 70756, including 46008 active cases, 22454 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 2293 deaths
*No politics please, let states frame dynamic plan: West Bengal CM
*West Bengal government has requisitioned 549 rooms in luxury hotels for paid quarantine of foreign returnees, anticipating a load of them during the second phase of the Vande Bharat Mission, sometime later this month.
*Seven weeks into the lockdown, central Kolkata’s landmark zone and a booming business centre — Park Street, Loudon Street, Rawdon Street, Short Street and Lord Sinha Road — is now part of Kolkata’s containment map.
*West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Examinations (WBHSC) has asked schools to promote students of Class XI to Class XII for this current academic year.
*With the Covid-19 pandemic triggering a redistribution of the global manufacturing network, specially in the fields of electronic components, telecommunication and data centre, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) has floated an expression of interest (EoI) for allotting land at West Bengal Silicon Valley IT hub in New Town.
* PTI update at 2.00pm: Tea Board expects that the production of the crop, which was severely affected due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, will improve significantly from June onwards as good monsoon is predicted by the meteorological department, an official said on Tuesday.
* ANI update at 1.00pm: Two students from Jamshedpur, who had returned from Kolkata, have tested positive for COVID-19, Jharkhand Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said on Tuesday.
* PTI update at 12.10pm: The West Bengal government has transferred Health Secretary Vivek Kumar to the Environment Department and named Narayan Swaroop Nigam as his replacement, officials said on Tuesday. Kumar's transfer to the Environment Department as secretary comes days after a row over the state's COVID-19 data, said official sources.
* PTI update at 11.20am: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education has asked its affiliated schools to promote all class 11 students as their annual exams could not be completed due to the coronavirus-forced lockdown.
* Update at 10.45am: An Assistant Sub-inspector of CISF deployed in Kolkata lost his life last night due to coronavirus infection: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
* ANI update at 10.00am: A 'Shramik special' train brought back migrants to Bankura from Bengaluru today
* Update at 9.00am: Spike of 3604 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours; total positive cases in the country is now at 70756, including 46008 active cases, 22454 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 2293 deaths
*No politics please, let states frame dynamic plan: West Bengal CM
*West Bengal government has requisitioned 549 rooms in luxury hotels for paid quarantine of foreign returnees, anticipating a load of them during the second phase of the Vande Bharat Mission, sometime later this month.
*Seven weeks into the lockdown, central Kolkata’s landmark zone and a booming business centre — Park Street, Loudon Street, Rawdon Street, Short Street and Lord Sinha Road — is now part of Kolkata’s containment map.
*West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Examinations (WBHSC) has asked schools to promote students of Class XI to Class XII for this current academic year.
*With the Covid-19 pandemic triggering a redistribution of the global manufacturing network, specially in the fields of electronic components, telecommunication and data centre, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) has floated an expression of interest (EoI) for allotting land at West Bengal Silicon Valley IT hub in New Town.
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