The city this week
Top local news from this week at a glimpse.
TMC slams BJP over ‘Transforming UP’ ad with ‘Kolkata flyover’ image
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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) slammed the Uttar Pradesh government and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday for publishing an advertisement in an English-language newspaper featuring images of a Kolkata flyover. Several TMC politicians resorted to social media to accuse Yogi Adityanath of "stealing photos from infrastructure seen in Bengal."
As the issue grew on social media, the newspaper that ran the advertisement acknowledged the blunder and stated that the picture had been deleted from all digital editions of the paper.
BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal to challenge CM, Mamata Banerjee from Bhawanipur in by-election
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named advocate Priyanka Tibrewal as its candidate to face Trinamool Congress (TMC) party leader Mamata Banerjee in the Bhawanipur by-election on September 30. The BJP has also fielded Milan Ghosh and Sujit Das from the state's Samerganj and Jangipur seats.
Tibrewal, an advocate, is the vice-president of the BJP's state youth wing. She was also a petitioner in the post-election violence proceedings before the Calcutta High Court, which resulted in the court ordering a CBI investigation.
As soon as the government gives the go-ahead, Jadavpur University will begin offline classes
Jadavpur University has directed all department heads and school directors to “take stock of the laboratory, equipment, and other classroom facilities” so that the university may start on-campus academic activities whenever the government grants permission.
The university's instructors wrote to education minister Bratya Basu earlier this week, requesting that the campus be reopened for research scholars and final-year science and engineering students who require laboratory access. In addition, the institution has begun an exercise to assess the vaccination status of research scholars and students.
Schools offer fee reductions and payment plans, for pre-primary classes
At least two schools in the city have cut their admission costs for pre-primary courses, and a few others are offering the option of paying in instalments, in the hopes of encouraging more parents to apply for their children's enrollment.
Nursery admissions have been reduced in several schools. According to the principal of one school, the situation this year is worse than it will be in 2020. The Kolkata branch of St Augustine's Day School has cut the fee for pre-primary admission by nearly half, from Rs 88,000 to Rs 50,000.
Gems Akademia International School has maintained its entrance price of Rs 35,000, which was cut from Rs 50,000 previous year.
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Vasundhara Tiwari
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