Following are the top stories of the eastern region at 2100 hours
CAL5 WB-GJM LD RESIGN
Darjeeling: All the 45 elected members of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), including its Chief Executive Bimal Gurung, today resign from the administrative body.
CAL6 POLL-PREZ-LALU
Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad today again appeals to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not to make a "historic blunder" by extending support to the NDA nominee for the presidential poll.
CAL7 WB-GJM GURUNG
Darjeeling: The GJM, spearheading the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland, adopts a confrontationist stand today with its chief Bimal Gurung threatening to intensify the stir and demanding a CBI inquiry into the alleged police firing in the hills on June 17.
CAL8 WB-METRO-TUNNEL
Kolkata: The tunnelling work under the Hooghly river, the first such underwater project in the country, to provide metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata completed.
CAL9 POL-PREZ-CPI
Bhubaneswar: The CPI today urges BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar to reconsider their decision and support opposition candidate Meira Kumar in the July 17 presidential election.
CAL10 WB-KARNAN HEALTH
Kolkata: Former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan, arrested for committing contempt of the Supreme Court, today remains admitted to a hospital with the doctors describing him as "not fit" to be discharged.
CES6 AS-RHINO-POACHER
Tezpur (Assam): One rhinoceros was killed and its horn was taken away by poachers in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, following which Assam Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma seeks a report from officials.
CES16 AS-FLOOD
Guwahati: Flood situation in Assam worsens today with over 82,000 people affected in four districts in the state.
CES17 WB-HEALTH-COMPENSATION
Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) today finds Apollo Gleneagles Hospital as guilty and held three doctors negligent in carrying out the treatment of a baby.
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