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Top 5 stories from across India: From standoff at Jadavpur University to fire in Mumbai's Govandi

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Fire guts around 80 shanties in Mumbai's Govandi

A fire in the wee hours of the morning gutted around 80 shanties in Gautam Nagar Plot No 4, in Govandi.  The fire started in a footwear manufacturing shop at around 3.30 am and spread to adjacent shanties. Read more

Jadavpur University: Standoff between ABVP supporters led by BJP leader Roopa Ganguly and JU students

A student protest broke out at Jadavpur University over the screening of Vivek Agnihotri’s Buddha In A Traffic Jam. The protest led to a stand off between ABVP supporters and JU students.

A scuffle had broken out between Jadavpur University students and ABVP supporters in the evening and several outsiders were chased away by the JU students. While the University's student union members claim that several outsiders who were accompanying the Agnihotri allegedly molested two students, ABVP supporters claim that they were beaten up by university students. Read more

Mushrooming of illegal brick kilns in Cuttack contributing to air pollution

At a time when Cuttack is reeling under intense heat wave conditions, mushrooming illegal brick-kilns have become a major cause of rising temperature and air pollution in the district, environmentalists have said. Read the full story

This NGO is collecting flex boards to provide shelter for 1,200 street families in Mumbai before monsoon

A Goregaon-based NGO is working prior monsoon to get a shelter for the street dwellers. The NGO – Indian Development Foundation (IDF) is collecting flex boards from people, enough to provide shelter for around 1,200 families living on the streets. Read more

High incidence of encephalitis observed in Bihar: Study 

Bihar leads in reporting the maximum number of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) cases in the country, which is also an endemic problem in the north-eastern state of the country. The revelations have come to the fore in a recent report. Annual incidence rate of AES shows that 1 to 25 persons per one lakh population in each district of Bihar is being affected. Read in detail

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