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Train services were affected on the Patna-Kolkata route of the East Central Railway (ECR) zone due to an agitation at the Barhiya railway station in Bihar, officials said on Monday.A large number of people have squatted on the tracks at the station, about 120 km from Patna. They are demanding stoppage for the Patliputra Express and a few other trains at the Barhiya railway station. They have blocked both up and down railway lines and are not allowing any train to pass through. (IANS)

The iconic “Dada akta ticket hobe? (brother, do you have an extra ticket?)” query was back at the Maidan on Sunday as cricket crazy fans from Kolkata and suburbs crowded the road outside Eden Gardens either to get physical copies of their online tickets or asking people around for one extra ticket. READ MORE

Three persons were injured in two separate road accidents in Kolkata late on Saturday night. On the Bondel Road flyover Datla Ramesh (27) and the pillion rider Ramesh Raia (45) suffered multiple injuries when their motorcycle skidded off the road and lost control. They were taken to the CNMC hospital by the Gariahat police.

West Bengal on Sunday recorded 35 new cases of Covid-19 infection, which raised the tally to 20,19,093, a state health department bulletin said. The toll remained unchanged at 21,203 as no new death due to the disease was reported.During the day, 35 people recuperated from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 19,97,512.The recovery rate stood at 98.93 per cent and the positivity rate at 0.35 per cent. (PTI)

The Saturday squall, a preliminary survey by the civic body and NGOs found, caused more damage to greenery in south Kolkata than in the north. By a conservative estimate, 150 trees were uprooted across the city, more than 70% of which were in south Kolkata. Experts thought depletion of the water table is one of the reasons behind the rapid weakening of the root system of trees causing premature uprooting.“The depletion of water table is higher and faster in south. And as the water table falls, the upper crust gets extremely dry, leaving the root system weak and the tree vulnerable to infections and diseases. Such trees cannot withstand the violent gust of a squall of Saturday’s intensity,” said Bengal biodiversity board chairman H S Debnath.

More than half of children — 52.8%, to be precise — living in polluted cities like Kolkata and Delhi suffer from impaired lung function, according to a study by Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) that also reveals that youngsters in polluted cities were more prone to liver and brain ailments because of frequent infiltration of tiny particulate matter that they inhale.

Bengal's climber Piyali Basak, who is out on an expedition to Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse, made it to the Everest (8,849 metres) summit on Sunday morning. Basak, who attempted the summit without supplementary oxygen, had to be given external oxygen support after she crossed 8,450 metres. Basak, a teacher from Chandernagore, will leave for the Lhotse summit after she reaches camp 2.

Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh on Sunday "returned home" to Trinamool Congress, ending a month of will-he-won't-he suspense, ever since he publicly supported Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee against the price-cap on jute and shot off a strongly worded letter to the Centre in protest.