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Chaos at Salt Lake Stadium: Mamata Banerjee apologises after Messi event mismanagement

Kolkata, Dec 13 (UNI) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday expressed deep shock and anguish over the chaos and mismanagement witnessed during the event at Salt Lake Stadium held to mark the visit of football legend Lionel Messi.

Breaking her silence hours after the incident, the Chief Minister issued a public apology to Messi as well as to football fans, while announcing a high-level enquiry to fix responsibility and prevent a recurrence of such incidents.
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Tripura to use drone for live power line maintenance

20 Jan 2026 | 11:31 AM

Agartala, Jan 20 (UNI) Tripura government is gearing up to launch live line maintenance work and drone technology in March for enhanced power infrastructure, state Power Minister Ratan Lal Nath said here.

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Jharkhand, Tata Steel sign LoI for ₹11,100 crore green steel investment at Davos

20 Jan 2026 | 11:17 AM

Ranchi/Davos, Jan 20 (UNI) The Jharkhand government and Tata Steel signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the World Economic Forum in Davos for an investment of over ₹11,100 crore in new-age green steel technologies in the State.

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West Bengal CEO holds urgent meet with ECI on ‘logical discrepancies’ after Supreme Court directive

20 Jan 2026 | 12:29 AM

Kolkata, Jan 19 (UNI) Hours after the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to publish the list of “logical discrepancies” in West Bengal's electoral rolls, the state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manojkumar Agarwal held an urgent meeting with senior officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in New Delhi to discuss the issue related to the state’s voter list.

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SIR in Bengal: Deadline for voter list objections ends, SC calls for transparency in flagging "logical discrepancis"

19 Jan 2026 | 11:20 PM

Kolkata, Jan 19 (UNI) The Election Commission's extended deadline for filing applications and objections to the draft electoral roll in West Bengal ended on Monday, bringing the complaint and claim phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to a close.

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Nine Illegal water connections detected in Ranchi during inspection drive

19 Jan 2026 | 10:32 PM

Ranchi, Jan 19, (UNI) The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has detected nine illegal water connections during a site inspection conducted by the Water Supply Branch under the Morabadi area.

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