West Bengal

According to the official, over 41,000 cadets who have already enrolled in the NCC, a youth development movement managed by the armed forces open to all regular students of schools and colleges, will be unable to participate in annual camps.

Disaster Management Authorities in Meghalaya have been kept on high alert as Cyclone Sitrang is likely to bring heavy rain in many parts of the state. At least four districts bordering Bangladesh, the administration directed the authorities to keep all educational institutes shut on Tuesday in view of the cyclone.

The weather department, in view of the imminent threat of the cyclone, issued an advisory pertaining to the suspension of offshore activities in the north Bay of Bengal from October 24-25 along with issuing a warning of the possible impact of the storm in North and South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore districts of West Bengal.

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Both Bengal and Odisha are likely to experience fairly widespread rainfall due to the weather system. According to Sanjib Bandopadhyay, the deputy director-general of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata, isolated places in North-24 Parganas and South-24 Parganas districts will get heavy to very heavy rainfall on October 24.

The system is likely to trigger heavy rainfall when it crosses parallel to the state's coast on Monday. Mallick said personnel of the fire service department, the ODRAF and NDRF are on standby for any emergency situation.

Odisha's Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Pramila Mallick said the state government has put the administrations of seven coastal districts on alert in view of the IMD's forecast of a possible cyclone.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the BJP-led Centre is depriving former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly by not nominating him for ICC Chairman post.

Saurav Ganguly is likely to be replaced as the BCCI president by World Cup winner Roger Binny. The former India all-rounder is expected to be elected unopposed as the president of the BCCI ahead of the board's Annual General Meeting, which is scheduled for October 18.

According to hospital officials, Dr Mahalanabis, whose name has almost become synonymous with oral rehydration solution (ORS), had been treating age-related ailments for some time.