) Following are the top stories from the Eastern Region at 2100 hours.

) Following are the top stories from the Eastern Region at 2100 hours.

CAL8 WB-RIOT OPPOSITION

Kolkata: Leaders from various parties have slammed the TMC government for preventing them from visiting riot-hit Basirhat with the BJP politicos saying they would meet the governor tomorrow to demand President's Rule in West Bengal.

CAL9 WB-MITTAL MAMATA

Kolkata: Billionaire industrialist and chairman and CEO of world's largest steel company, L N Mittal says that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is very passionate and has the state "in her heart".

CAL11 CBI-LALU REACTS

Ranchi: RJD chief Lalu Prasad today terms the lodging of a corruption case against him and CBI searches at the premises his family members as a "BJP conspiracy" and "witch hunt" and claimed he is innocent.
 

CAL13 WB-RIOT LD SITUATION

Kolkata: The situation in riot-hit Basirhat in North 24-Paragana district shows signs of improvement today with no untoward incident reported, even as the Internet services remained suspended and the police and para-military forces intensified their patrol.

LGC1 HC-DARJEELING

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court today seeks to know if the Centre did not think the Darjeeling hills stir for a separate Gorkhaland needed to be quelled quickly, given the strategic location of the area.

CES13 OD KANGAROO COURT

Angul/Bhubaneswar: A man has been forced by a kangaroo court in Odisha's Angul district to go around a village beating a gong and 52 people were booked by police today in connection with it.

CES14 JH-MINEFIRE-SECY

Dhanbad (Jharkhand): People living in the danger zone of underground mine fire in Jharia would have to be shifted at any cost, Union Coal Secretary Sushil Kumar says here today.