Following are the top stories from the Eastern Region at 1745 hours.
CAL 1 PREZ-REFORMS
Kolkata : President Pranab Mukherjee says there had always been a thread of continuity during every reform process initiated in the country.
CAL 3 WB-GJM-MAMATA
Burdwan : Amid the ongoing stir in the Darjeeling hills for carving out a separate 'Gorkhaland' out of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rules out further division of the state.
CES 2 WB-SABITA
Kolkata : Popular singer Sabita Chowdhury, who was suffering from cancer, dies at her residence here.
CES 3 WB-SCHEMES YADAV
Midnapore : The Centre may stop funds to West Bengal for the implementation of some central government schemes if it was found that names of those schemes were changed, Union minister Ram Kripal Yadav says.
CES 4 MZ-GST
Aizawl : Mizoram Finance and Taxation Minister Lalsawta says the state would implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with the rest of the country on July 1, the date set for rolling out the new tax regime.
CES 5 TR-CBI MINISTER
Agartala : CBI officials interrogates Tripura's Social Welfare Minister Bijita Nath in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam at the Civil Secretariat here.
CES 6 STAT-GOWDA
Kolkata : The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is in the process of finalising a draft programme to monitor India's progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the UN.
CES 8 WB-MAMATA-COW
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that killing in the name of 'gau raksha' must stop and just words were not enough.
CES 10 WB-GST-MEGHWAL
Kolkata : With the Trinamool Congress deciding to boycott the midnight Parliament session called to launch the GST, a BJP minister says that the party had supported the move both in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha and their opposition now was political.
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