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New Market hotel fire: Kolkata Police arrest leaseholder's wife

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- Kolkata Police have arrested Saba Zafar, the final remaining accused in the New Market hotel fire case. Saba, wife of hotel leaseholder Abu Zafar, was arrested by a special team o... Read More


Chorbagan stampede: 17 of 30 CCTVs at pandal non-functional

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- Seventeen of the 30 CCTV cameras installed at the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal were non-functional at the time of the stampede, exposing serious security lapses at the venue. Durin... Read More


Soil-theft case: Abhishek's PA Sumit Roy shown arrested

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- Sumit Roy, former personal assistant to MAITC MP Abhishek Banerjee, was formally shown arrested by Diamond Harbour District Police on Wednesday in a soil-theft case. Roy, who is a... Read More


NLMC Issues Corrigenda-6 and 7 for RINL Land e-Auction at Visakhapatnam; Revises Auction Schedule

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 28 -- The National Land Monetization Corporation (NLMC), under the Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, has issued Corrigendum-6 dated 26 Octob... Read More


ANALYSIS: The criminalisation trap in Africa's responses to artisanal mining

Nigeria, Oct. 28 -- Thirty-seven boys and young men died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna, Niger State, last month. Accused of being 'illegal miners', th... Read More


Meghalaya cabinet approves 45-year land lease for Northeast United FC academy

Guwahati, Oct. 28 -- The Meghalaya Cabinet has approved a 45-year lease of 19.99 acres of land at Mawkhanu in New Shillong to Northeast United FC for a football academy, with a proposed investment of ... Read More


Calcutta High Court nixes KMC closure notices against 6 hotels before Kali Puja

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- The Calcutta High Court has quashed closure notices issued by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation against six hotels and guest houses in central Kolkata, observing that the abrupt cl... Read More


CBI withdraws pleas to shift Bengal post-poll violence trials

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday reportedly withdrew its petitions before the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of trials in cases linked to the 2021 post-po... Read More


IIT Kharagpur to set up India's first dedicated School of Physical AI

Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- IIT Kharagpur will establish India's first dedicated School of Physical AI with an investment of Rs 35 crore to develop artificial intelligence technologies that integrate scientif... Read More


Liberia: Government says Monrovia's busiest market won't be cleared after hundreds of traders march on Public Works Ministry

MONROVIA, Oct. 28 -- Calm has returned to Waterside Market, one of Monrovia's busiest trading hubs, after government officials assured traders that the market will not be cleared, a day after hundreds... Read More