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The West Bengal assembly's winter session is scheduled to begin from November 1 and will continue till November 18, Speaker Biman Banerjee said on Wednesday.

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Troy Police is asking residents to avoid the area of Brookview Ave in Troy near the North Greenbush city line. There is currently police activity in that area.

About four months after the nationwide rollout of MyMcDonald’s Rewards, the quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant is seeing a bump in customer frequency where the program is available. Still, as the company’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski told analysts on a Wednesday (Oct. 27) call discussing the chain’s third-quarter earnings, the program has a long way […]

In her first TV interview since being accused of cyberbullying, Chrissy Teigen said that she "didn't really think about the impact" of past tweets.

ASTRONOMERS claim to have spotted the first known planet outside of the Milky Way. In research published this week, scientists detailed evidence for what they believe to be a Saturn-sized world 28million light-years from Earth. It sits in the spiral galaxy Messier 51a, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy after its swirled shape. It was […]

It started with a mysterious image on billboards all over the world (and the internet). The sun rising above four dark planets; the only words Abba: Voyage. By the time an announcement was made on 2 September, it had fair claim to call itself the most anticipated comeback in pop history. And the …

Attorney general says payout was driven by internal assessment that Justice Department was likely to lose suit over firing.

U.S. prosecutors have indicted Julian Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of leaked military and diplomatic documents. | AP

U.S. authorities offer to let Assange serve any U.S. prison sentence he receives in his native Australia.

The weekly coronavirus report by the Ministry of Health revealed that the number of new infections had risen from 786 to 981 when compared to the previous week.

Over a dozen vehicles were left burnt out on Tuesday night in France's Alençon and police and firefighters came under fire from incendiaries and other projectiles, after a 16-year-old was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs.
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On October 22, the Bhadrak police had arrested three persons, including two women and seized around 316 grams of brown sugar from them. In the latest case, the accused—Srikant Pradhan (35) and Arjun Sethi (32)—were arrested with the narcotics substance during an enforcement of the motor vehicles (MV) rules against traffic violators.

Plans have been submitted for a new store at Alvis Retail Park and an extension to another city site

How Manchin and Sinema differ — and why it doesn't matter

New FTC data suggests more Americans turned to cigarettes last year amid the stress of a fractured economy and a once-in-a-generation public health crisis.

The Asian Development Bank will provide a $100 million (around Rs 749 crore) loan to promote agribusiness network to boost farm incomes and reduce food losses in Maharashtra

SONY is getting ready to hold a brand new State of Play event, which includes new details on third-party games such as Final Fantasy 16.

The New York-based airline is trying to boost bookings in the slow period before and after Thanksgiving.

This trailer for Lightyear, the forthcoming Disney/Pixar film due out next summer, is apparently not a movie about toys but rather the backstory of the real Buzz Lightyear upon which the imaginary (and then real) toy is based.

Partior, the blockchain-based clearing/settlement platform backed by JPMorgan and the government of Singapore, has begun supporting cross-border payments.  According to Forkast, Partior carried out end-to-end settlements with participating banks recently involving both U.S. and Singapore dollars in under two minutes, a drastic reduction from the often days-long transactions of the past.   With global cross-border transactions […]

Dow industrials down triple digits at midday while Nasdaq is going the other way

Debutant Nishant Dev (71kg) became the seventh Indian boxer to enter the second round of the AIBA men's World Championships with a confident 5-0 triumph over Hungary's Laszlo Kozak on Wednesday.

Over the last decade, climate activists have successfully pressured governments, banks, and corporations to divest from oil and natural gas companies. At first such efforts appeared to be strictly symbolic. But in recent years years climate activists succeeded in driving public and private investment away from oil and gas exploration and toward renewables. The result is the worst energy crisis in 50 years.