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  "id": 12651633,
  "title": "Patna High Court fixes November 19 as next hearing in Bihar’s ‘dustbin scam’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/patna-high-court-fixes-november-19-as-next-hearing-in-bihars-dustbin",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T15:12:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/patna-high-court-fixes-november-19-as-next-hearing-in-bihars-dustbin-scam/article71555577.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The ‘dustbin scam’ refers to the alleged purchase at inflated prices of plastic dustbins to collect biomedical waste in government hospitals, when BJP leader Mangal Pandey was the State Health Minister under the previous NDA regime",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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