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Locals report on unfamiliar, suspicious items seen floating in Teesta, police issues notification

Locals have started reporting on any unfamiliar objects, suspicious items, crates, packages and even firearms seen floating in the river Teesta to the nearest police station following a notification from the Jalpaiguri police

Govt sets up panel to assess flood damage in Sikkim; approves ₹44.8 crore relief

So far, 2,011 people have been rescued, while the calamity has affected 22,034 people, according to the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority

CJI: SC to constitute 7-judge bench to hear money bills issue soon

The Supreme Court on Friday said that it will list on 12 October, before a seven-judge constitution bench, petitions challenging the introduction of various stringent provisions in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, as a money bill - part of the Finance Act 2018

Freebies before polls: SC asks MP, Raj to respond

PiLalleged thattaxpayers' money is misused to lure voters

At Hangzhou, India inch closer to dream three-figure mark

Indiawas dealta major blow after PV Sindhu crashed out of the women’ssingles badminton quarterfinals

Jon Fosse, Norwegian dramatist, wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.

Russia launches drone attacks as Zelenskyy travels to European forum

Ukraine's air force said that the country's air defenses intercepted 24 out of 29 Iranian-made drones

Kharge urges Centre to declare HP & Sikkim floods as national disasters

Expressing concern over the Sikkim flash floods, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged the central government on Thursday to rescue people in safer locations and trace those missing

Agencies must adopt ruthless approach against terror: Shah

HM says the governmentis firmly committed to rooting out terrorism from the country

Inclusion of Indian bonds in emerging market index to attract inflows worth $23 bn, says FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the inclusion of Indian bonds in JPMorgan's emerging market debt index could attract inflows worth $23 billion in the country

Market uptick as bulls maintain momentum

Banking, IT, Media Financial Services stocks SOUrEe roe’ during the trading day

'So many scams in MP, yet ED hasn't made a single raid'

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged today that the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has been involved in more than 250 scams in its 18 years’ rule and yet the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has never conducted any raid here

Nishad Party firm on caste census, wants more seats in 2024

Nishad Party chief and Uttar Pradesh minister Sanjay Nishad has reiterated his party’s demand for a caste survey in UP and said that he hoped that “elder brother” BJP would ensure that his party got “respectable number of seats” as part of the seatsharing agreement in 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Congress has gone from being anti-BJP to anti-India: PM Modi

Hesaid thataCongPM hadsaid thatoutof onerupeesent from New Delhi, only15 paisas reached the intended beneficiaries

CEC: Committed to ensure inducement-free polls in T'gana

EC has appealed to voters to use its mobile app to curb the free flow of liquorand money

Pawan Kalyan still in NDA

Telugu actor and politician Pawan Kalyan has said that despite being in the NDA he was standing by the Telugu Desam which was currently weakened due to the recent incarceration of its president N Chandrababu Naidu in connection with the multi-crore skill development scam case

Matribhumi local to get makeover with first class coaches

Durga Pujas could bring some good news to the commuters of Sealdah Division

Boy dies at city hospital, family alleges negligence

A 15-year-old boy died in a city hospital on Thursday owing to alleged negligence in his treatment. The incident took place at a nursing home at Netajinagar in the southern part of the city early this morning

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Municipal job scam: ED raids food minister's house

Raids coincided with aCPM protestagainstcentralagencies' delay in ongoing probe

Court deadline of 31 December to finish probe

High Court today in a ruling virtually issued a deadline of 31 December to Enforcement Directorate (ED) by which the central probe agency would have to complete probe in the recruitment scam and also ordered Abhishek Banerjee, CEO of Leaps and Bounds and Trinamul Congress national general secretary to hand over documents entailing details of his assets to the central agency by 10 October

Bankura, East Burdwan records deaths, collapse of houses

The Damodar river downstream has recorded partial inundation, collapse of houses and two deaths today in the wake of further elevation of the level of discharge by the Maithon and Panchet upper dams of Damodar Valley Corporation

As floods ravage, SCADA centre at Durgapur has no operator

The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) based automatic operation system of Durgapur barrage, installed in 2019, has faced difficulty during the prevailing flood situation for want of an expert operator.

Nature never betrays the heart that loved her, says Governor

The Governor of West Bengal Dr CV Ananda Bose today said ‘nature never betrays the heart that loved her

North Bengal floods: Nearly 50 houses washed away, many homeless

Nearly 50 houses have been washed away at Teesta Bazar and hundreds of people have rendered homeless due to flush flood

Indian Army's search and rescue efforts intensify in North Sikkim

The catastrophic cloudbursthas already claimed the lives of 18 people, while more than 98 individuals remain missing

Sikkim flash flood death toll rises to 18

The confirmed death toll in the flash floods that hit parts of Sikkim and northern Bengal yesterday has risen to 18, while over a hundred persons are still missing, according to authorities in the two states

Abhishek goes on sit-in after Guv evades meet

Protest to continue tillGovernor gives TMC delegation appointment

Men'shockey team secures final berth at Asian Games with thrilling 5-3 victory over Korea

Playing to a plan, India overpowered four-time champion South Korea 5-3 to storm into the final of the Men's Hockey tournament of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Wednesday.

Keep pressure factor aside, focus on job at hand: Rohit

India captain Rohit Sharma stated that while there would be pressure before leading the side in the 2023 Men's ODI World Cup on home soil, his point is to overcome it by keeping that factor aside and focusing on the job at hand.