The high court on Friday asked the Calcutta Municipal Corporation to file an affidavit by March 9 stating the steps it had taken to open malaria clinic-cum-laboratories in all 141 wards in the city. The bench of Chief Justice M.S. Shah and Justice P.C. Ghosh passed the directive after CMC lawyer Alok Ghosh submitted that his client had scrapped the plan to set up a hospital in Kalighat for malaria patients. “Instead of setting up the hospital, the CMC has undertaken a programme to open clinic-cum-laboratories in each ward for malaria patients,” Ghosh said.

CU test: The first semester test of the first year of Calcutta University’s LlB course will begin on February 22. The students of CU law department will write their papers at Surendranath Law College, while those of Surendranath Law College will go to South Calcutta Law College. The examinees of South Calcutta Law College will write their papers at Jogesh Choudhury Law College and the students of Jogesh Choudhury college at the CU law department. The students of the three self-financed law colleges will write their exams at Jogesh Choudhury college.

Death: A 27-year-old homemaker died of burns at a Kalyani hospital on Friday. Anindita Dey’s parents complained against her husband and in-laws, who are absconding.