Union minister Babul Supriyo stepped down from the Union cabinet on Wednesday.

West Bengal has 81,375 active COVID-19 cases as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). As many as 10,884 deaths have been reported due to the virus in the state.

Singer Babul Supriyo on the occasion of Dussehra on Sunday unveiled a song 'Tera shukr shukr'.  

The Indian Railways Asansol Division has launched Railways' First 'Restaurant on Wheels' by transforming old train coaches into eating joints. BJP MP Babul Supriyo inaugurated "Restaurant on Wheels" for Railway Passengers, tourists, locals at Asansol Railway station.

Union Minister Babul Supriyo objected to the remarks Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh, who on Sunday had stated that anti-CAA protestors in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka were being “shot like dogs.”

"Brazil looks like Goa. I won't say Goa looks like Brazil. Both the destinations have similar natural beauties," Supriyo said in the presence of chief minister Pramod Sawant.

On Wednesday, Union minister Babul Supriyo had faced a similar protest during his visit to the district. Criticising the Mamata Banerjee-led party for engaging in "dirty politics" over his visit, Supriyo said he would submit a report on the ground-level situation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Union minister, despite clarifying that he was in the district to look into the ground-level situation, was asked to go back by the protesters.

An officer of Burdwan Sadar police station in East Burdwan district said on Thursday: "some arrests have been made" based on Ballav's complaint.

In a statement, JU Registrar Snehamanju Basu said the chain of events at the campus on Thursday was 'unfortunate'.

Dhankar arrived at the hospital in the southern part of the city's Dhakuria area around 10 am to meet Das and pro- VC PK Ghosh, who were admitted on Thursday, following the incident of heckling of Union minister Babul Supriyo by a section of students at the varsity.

"My official car is stuck in jam. I am using the opportunity to sit in an auto in Mumbai, reminiscing the past, the city where I struggled several times in an auto. It is a very nostalgic feeling and it is really making me feel very good," he posted.

Paul said she and Union Minister Babul Supriyo were invited to the campus as guest speakers on Thursday at a social, apolitical programme organised the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad members of the university.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Friday vehemently condemned the harassment and gherao of Union Minister Babul Supriyo for hours in Kolkata's Jadavpur University on Thursday.

Terming the Left student activists as "cowards" who had assaulted him in the Jadavpur University campus, BJP leader and Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Friday virtually challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to charge them for the assault and said no one should be allowed to "malign and tarnish" the name of the institution.

Posting pictures of his assault at Jadavpur University campus on September 19, Supriyo, Union Minister of State for Environment, said those who were involved in his assault would be "found out" soon.

​Union Minister Babul Supriyo was gheraoed for hours on Thursday by a section of students at Kolkata's Jadavpur University. Supriyo had gone there to address a seminar organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad - the student wing of the RSS.

Union Minister Babul Supriyo was heckled by a section of students of Jadavpur University during his visit to the campus to attend an event organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on Thursday.

The Congress on Saturday attacked the government for allowing cutting of over 1 crore trees for development projects since 2014 as the party wondered if the "BJP is destroying our future".

Referring to the clashes between police and the BJP's youth wing in Asansol on Friday, he accused the Trinamool Congress and state police of working together to attack and intimidate BJP workers across the state.