More News18 Aug 2026 | 3:27 PMKolkata, Aug 18 (UNI) Illegal clearing of mangroves has weakened West Bengal’s natural defence against cyclones, tidal surges and floods, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday.
see more.. 18 Aug 2026 | 3:00 PMNew Delhi, Aug 18 (UNI) Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday welcomed the agreement reached between students in Jharkhand and the state government, after which the protesting students called off their hunger strike, saying the development showed that dialogue was the right way to resolve student grievances.
see more.. 18 Aug 2026 | 2:25 PMBhubaneswar, Aug 18 (UNI) As part of the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, the Odisha Police on Tuesday administered a collective pledge to create a drug-free society and raise awareness about the harmful effects of substance abuse at the State Police Headquarters in Cuttack and at all police stations and district police offices across the state’s 35 police districts.
see more.. 18 Aug 2026 | 2:15 PMBhubaneswar, Aug 18 (UNI) At least 40 passengers, including the driver, were injured, three of them critically, when a private passenger bus travelling from Daringibadi to Bhubaneswar skidded off the road and overturned in an agricultural field near Itamati on the Nayagarh bypass in the late night of Monday.
see more.. 18 Aug 2026 | 2:06 PMKolkata, Aug 18 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said Kolkata had turned into a “concrete jungle” with very little greenery.
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