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Shaheen Bagh's permanent garbage pile: How waste took over a public road

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- At Thokar Number 8 in Shaheen Bagh, garbage is no longer just waste it has become a permanent landmark. An open dumping stretch running along a busy roadside has turned into a dai... Read More


West Bengal CEO urges ECI to extend SIR process by 7 days

India, Feb. 8 -- West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Saturday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to extend the final date of hearing under the Special Intensive Revisi... Read More


Police recommend mandatory verification of domestic help

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Kolkata Police recommended mandatory verification of household employees through its digital registration system, after it was found that domestic help and caregivers have figured i... Read More


Fix unsafe buildings or shut them: KMC warns owners

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a clear warning to owners of privately run markets to carry out immediate repairs to unsafe buildings or face closure. Citing ris... Read More


Who won yesterday in ICC T20 World Cup 2026? What happened in India vs USA & Pakistan vs Netherlands matches?

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- West Indies fast bowler Romario Shepherd, Pakistan's Faheem Ashraf and India captain Suryakumar Yadav grabbed headlines on an eventful opening day of the T20 World Cup 2026 on Sat... Read More


HC issues guidelines on creche facility operated within premises

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Calcutta High Court has notified guidelines regulating the use and operation of the creche facility within its premises, providing childcare support to parents and primary careg... Read More


Police hunt for contractor who kept lid on Delhi biker's death for hours

India, Feb. 8 -- The death of 25-year-old banking telecaller Kamal Dhyani, who died after falling into a 15 to 20-foot deep pit dug by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), has laid bare a sequence of events whe... Read More


Calcutta High Court upholds sentence of man for wife's murder

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Calcutta High Court has upheld the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his wife in 2015, holding that procedural lapses in the investigation cannot outweigh clear and ... Read More


ZSI discovers 2 new marine worm species off Bengal coast

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- A research team from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), working with international experts, has discovered two new species of nereidid worms (polychaetes) from the coastal waters... Read More


IndiaAI chief outlines roadmap ahead of Summit

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- As countries compete to build ever larger AI models, India is choosing a different path. "We are not.into the race for artificial general intelligence (AGI)," said Abhishek Singh,... Read More