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The Centre has announced toll or user fee exemption for tankers and containers carrying liquid medical oxygen — treating such vehicles as ambulances — for the next two months or until further orders. The move aims to ensure uninterrupted movement of tankers and containers with liquid medical oxygen (LMO) over national highways across the country. The ministry of road transport and highways (toll division) authorities instructed the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is responsible for the construction and management of national highways, to implement the de...

The BJP’s newly elected MLAs met in the Bengal Assembly for the first time on Friday, deciding to boycott the House till post-results violence in the state stopped completely, but the absence of the party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy created a buzz. Former railway minister Roy — previously Trinamul’s de facto No 2 who had switched sides to the BJP in 2017 — won the first election of his life as the BJP’s Krishnagar North candidate, emerging as one of the saffron camp’s 77 MLAs in the 294-seat House. But the 67-year-old’s absence from the crucial meeting, which followed ...

Interns attached to the Kalyani-based College of Medicine & JNM Hospital staged a demonstration, accusing the authorities of negligence after oxygen cylinders at the 1,000-bed healthcare facility ran out of stock, triggering panic among patients and their relatives. The interns alleged that oxygen at the hospital ran out around 12 noon on Thursday, but the authorities did not bother to ensure its arrangement to meet the emergency requirement where 80 per cent patients had been admitted with breathing troubles. Sources said the Domjur-based supplier of oxygen cylinders had failed to provide ox...

The BJP may have 77 MLAs, making it the primary Opposition party in Bengal in 2021, but its charge against Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress in the Assembly will have to be led by former Trinamul leaders, a prospect that is making the saffron camp deeply uncomfortable. Although only a handful of Trinamul defectors to the BJP could make it to the Assembly this time, only Suvendu Adhikary and Mukul Roy carry enough political acumen and experience to take on a firebrand leader like chief minister Mamata Banerjee. After all, they were both part of Mamata’s inner circle when they were with T...

Our Bureau   |     |   Published 23.04.21, 01:40 AM The sixth phase of the Bengal Assembly polls involving 43 seats spread across four districts passed off relatively peacefully on Thursday, barring a few incidents. The Election Commission of India said it had received 1,992 complaints from various political parties during the day and addressed all of them. Some of the major incidents of the day: Police firing At least two persons were injured when state police allegedly opened fire to...