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Food safety officials raided hotels, restaurants and food outlets across West Bengal, finding mouldy meat, flies in milk, unsafe food colouring and expired pastries.

Continuous rain is pushing up DVC reservoir levels, increasing releases from Maithon and Panchet and raising flood concerns in the lower Damodar basin. A fresh subsidence incident has also triggered panic near a mining settlement in Pandabeswar.

Heavy rain continues across South Bengal, with orange alert conditions in Kolkata, Hooghly, Howrah and South 24 Parganas.

Bihar authorities have advised residents not to buy, sell or consume unfamiliar fish caught from floodwaters following floods in Nepal.

The Enforcement Directorate is conducting searches at 14 locations across seven regions, including Kolkata, in a money-laundering probe into alleged fraudulent toll collection at National Highway toll plazas.

At least eight people have died in Uttarakhand after relentless monsoon rain triggered landslides, house collapses and flash floods, while land subsidence damaged homes, roads and farmland in Rudraprayag.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien appeared at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station on Wednesday after a second notice in the Camac Street unrest case involving Abhishek Banerjee’s office.

West Bengal has launched Arjun Vahini, a 200-member special disaster response squad modelled on the NDRF, with future recruitment of Agniveers planned.