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In a setback to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena group, 66 out of the 67 former party corporators of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) have extended support to the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The term of the 131-member TMC, which has been a stronghold of the Shiv Sena, ended sometime back and its elections are due.

The 66 former Sena corporators, led by ex-mayor Naresh Mhaske, met CM Shinde at his 'Nandanvan' bungalow in Mumbai on Wednesday night and extended support to him, a release from Shinde's office said.

The BJP has removed Arun Yadav as the IT cell chief of the party's Haryana unit this evening amid a rising chorus for his arrest over a 2017 tweet on the Prophet and Islam.

The calls for his arrest grew stronger against the backdrop of AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair's arrest over a four-year-old tweet.

Social media was abuzz since evening, with #ArrestArunYadav trending on Twitter and users sharing his tweets from May this year and from 2017. The hashtag has over 50,000 tweets.

Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday night was airlifted to Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), days after he suffered multiple fractures following a fall from stairs at his residence in Patna.

This came hours after his son Tejashwi Yadav said that Lalu's body is "locked" and he is unable to move much. "He has a fracture in three places after the fall. Complications increased after the fall as the body got locked, he is unable to move much," Tejashwi was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

Tejashwi also said that there were plans to take his father to Singapore for a kidney transplant, but "following his recent fracture, we will go by the opinion of what doctors in Delhi suggest. If they allow, we will like to take him abroad".

If you go abroad, who will run the country and the State? Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee questioned the youth of the State. Her request is to study abroad and come back to the country. Because this land is our motherland. This was stated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a function while distributing student credit cards at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Thursday. 

The opposition claims that the trend of leaving the State among the youth has increased since the Mamata government came to power in West Bengal in 2011. They complain that there are no jobs in the state. As a result, whether highly educated or general educated, everyone has to leave the state in search of work. Highly educated people are migrating abroad, some to cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. And the general educated are going to the western states to work as labourers or drive cars. They claim that the number of migrant workers during the Corona lockdown has made the picture clear of Mamata Banerjee's government's failure to create jobs. 

Less than a week after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee set the opposition camp aflutter with her statement that NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu could have been the joint consensus candidate if the government had made a serious effort to reach out to the anti-BJP bloc, it has been decided that the joint opposition presidential nominee Yashwant Sinha will not campaign for votes in West Bengal and in his home state Jharkhand, where UPA ally Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has also taken a U-turn.

Ostensibly, Sinha's decision to not campaign in Bengal follows Banerjee's assurance to him that "she will take care of things there".