Banerjee, during a programme to felicitate meritorious students at the secretariat, said she was in favour of the ranking system, as it recognises a student's talent and hard work

The government is aiming to implement all the four labour codes in one go by December this year and complete the final stretch of labour sector reforms; With total cases standing at 32.4 million or 0.4 per cent of the world's population, every 250th person on the Earth is now infected with coronavirus; A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address at the UN General Assembly, assured the world that India's vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help humanity in the COVID-19 crisis, world's largest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adar Poonawalla said SII also shares and applauds his vision. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: SBI announces special benefits on home, auto, gold, personal loans

PVR and Inox Leisure share price rallied upto 12 per cent on BSE after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that cinema halls and open-air theatres will be allowed to operate in the state from next month

After six months, cinema halls in West Bengal will be allowed to reopen from October 1, with COVID-19 restrictions, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has stated. All cultural activities will be allowed with 50 participants or less. With this new step, West Bengal becomes the first state in the country to reopen movie theatres and allow cultural activities. Watch the video for more. Read: COVID-19 pandemic: One in every 250th person on Earth now infected

Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa, who hails from Punjab, describes the proposed laws as \"ill-conceived and ill-timed\" and says his party \"completely rejects\" them. He says the bills are against land owners across the country, especially those of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh

Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, Naveen Patanaik, Amarinder Singh are also on the list. Not only politicians and leaders, scientists, academicians, journalists, actors, sportspersons, activists are also being monitored

Social activist and former legislator Swami Agnivesh passed away on Friday; political leaders across party lines came together to pay their respects

Calling it an attempt to \"undermine federalism\", Mamata said it was a travesty and an abrogation of the fundamental basis on which the states gave up 70 per cent of their taxing powers to usher the GST regime

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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has flagged issues, which have hampered work on the Rs 81,000 crore dedicated freight corridor, in letters to nine chief ministers urging them to intervene

Banerjee also announced that her government will also build a deep-sea port near the proposed site of the Digha landing station, adding that the state will come up with a broadband policy soon

JEE, NEET exams 2020: Congress announced that it will conduct a nationwide protest opposing the JEE and NEET exams. Apart from coronavirus, floods in certains states have also led to the opposition of the exams

NEET, JEE exams 2020 updates: Around 150 academicians, in a letter to PM Modi, stated that the dreams and aspirations of the country's youth cannot be compromised

GST Council meet: The total compensation paid to the states in 2019-20 was Rs 1,65,302 crore whereas the amount of cess collected during the period  was Rs 95,444 crore, a shortfall of Rs 70,000 crore

Mamata said that lives of aspirants should not be put at risk by such \"unilateral and bureaucratic decisions\"

West Bengal CM Banerjee said, 'States can jointly appeal against Supreme Court order on holding JEE/NEET examinations if the Centre decides not to do holding JEE/NEET examinations if the Centre decides not to do so'

The JEE (Main) will be conducted for around 8.6 lakh students, while the NEET will be organised across urban centres for about 15 lakh students

JEE Mains exam news: With the internationally acclaimed climate activist in the league, the demand for postponement of JEE Mains 2020 as well as NEET entrance exam 2020 is growing

Mamata Banerjee said that West Bengal has seen as a decrease in the unemployment rate at a time when the country is witnessing an all-time high of 24 per cent joblessness

Coronavirus cases in India: These 10 states have a high population density and the PM will discuss strategy being adopted by them to bring down COVID-19 numbers