The DoE directed the heads of all schools to implement 10 bagless days in schools for students of classes six to eight.
Schools will be shut in South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram, Bankura, Hooghly, Howrah and Kolkata.
Supreme Court bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra heard lawyers.
CRPF received a hoax email threat claiming its schools in Delhi and Telangana would be targeted with explosives, sources said Tuesday. The schools in Rohini, Dwarka, and Medchal are safe and operating normally, they added.
According to the UN Children's Fund report, children in Mexico have the highest consumption of junk food leading to obesity.
Odisha schools to be closed in the districts of Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Jajpur among others.
All primary and upper-primary government schools in the state will hold meetings where teachers will share September examination results with parents and discuss individual performance.