HIGHLIGHTS

Kolkata, Apr 6 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Eastern Region at 5 pm.

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    *NIA officials attacked villagers in Bengal, not other way round: Mamata
    Balurghat: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused NIA officials of attacking villagers at Bhupatinagar in East Midnapore district and not the other way round.

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    21 SAIL employees under medical observation after fire breaks out at Bokaro plant
    Bokaro: All 21 employees of SAIL’s Bokaro steel plant, who were kept under medical observation after a fire broke out on Saturday morning, are stable, an official said.

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    Very serious situation, has to be dealt with all seriousness: Bengal guv on attack on NIA team
    Kolkata: Describing the attack on NIA officers as a "very serious issue", West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said the matter should be treated with the "all seriousness that it deserves".

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    Dibrugarh opposition candidate visits rival Sonowal's family home
    Dibrugarh: Lurinjyoti Gogoi, the candidate backed by the United Opposition Forum, Assam (UOFA) for Assam's Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency, visited the family of his BJP rival Sarbananda Sonowal at their residence in Muluk Gaon on Saturday.

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    Fire breaks out at NTPC's Kanhia power plant
    Bhubaneswar: A fire broke out at NTPC's Kaniha plant in Odisha's Angul district on Saturday, fire service officials said.

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    Will win by over 2 lakh votes against Gaurav Gogoi in Jorhat: Assam BJP MP
    Jorhat: Sitting BJP MP from Jorhat Lok Sabha seat, Topon Kumar Gogoi, on Saturday exuded confidence of retaining the constituency by trouncing his rival Gaurav Gogoi of the Congress by a margin of over two lakh votes.

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    CAA ensures Matuas' legal citizenship, protects against future NRC: Union Minister Shantanu Thakur
    Kolkata: Union Minister and Matua leader Shantanu Thakur believes that the CAA will safeguard those belonging to the community by granting them "legal citizenship", thus preventing them from being labelled as foreigners in the event of "a potential NRC exercise in the next 100 years".

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    NIA vehicle attacked in Bengal: Police
    Kolkata: A vehicle carrying NIA officials was on Saturday attacked by villagers in Bhupatinagar area of West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district, where they had gone to investigative a 2022 bomb blast case, police said.*

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