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  • Bengal polls 2026: Bipolar Behrampore becomes a triangular fight with Adhir in fray

    BEHRAMPORE: For the past five years, Behrampore, a historic town, has largely witnessed a bipolar fight between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP, with the latter registering a dramatic 35% surge in vote share in the 2021 assembly ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Steel belt Durgapur reinvents itself as medical & education hub

    DURGAPUR: From revival of industry, local employment based on service sector growth - medical and education hubs - to changing skyline, with high-rises and malls, contestants for forthcoming assembly election in Durgapur are trying to score on development. Regarded ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Breach of diplomatic protocol’: Kolkata Police directs officers to stop searching envoy vehicles after Russian protest

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has instructed its officers to avoid checking vehicles belonging to any consulate general, following a protest by the Russian consulate general over alleged inspection attempts.Joint CP headquarters issued a late-night order to all units in this ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    That’s why you have fielded fewer women than us, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee hits back

    KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “address to the nation” on Saturday was an election campaign speech, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday, describing the move as “cowardly, hypocritical and fork-tongued”.Compared with TMC, she said, BJP nominated fewer women ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Women’s welfare is Narendra Modi’s guarantee: PM at rallies amid Bengal polls

    KOLKATA: Stressing that “women’s welfare is Modi’s guarantee”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed Congress and Trinamool for “conspiring” against women and blocking the passage of amendments to the women’s reservation law in Parliament.Modi alleged that “anti-woman” Trinamool ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Max 33.8°C, Kol to stay hot & humid for 5 more days

    Kolkata: Scorching westerly and northwesterly winds kept Kolkata hot and humid on Sunday even as the maximum temperature slid marginally to 33.8°C. The Met office warned that warm and humid conditions will continue to prevail across most of south ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Hydroponic’ ganja worth 3.5 cr seized at airport

    Kolkata: A passenger arriving from Bangkok, was arrested on Thursday by the customs officials, for carrying hydroponic ganja worth Rs 3.5 crore. Airport officials said that the marijuana was ingeniously concealed inside decorative items. The passenger was intercepted after ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    No-fly zone for PM, Soren misses event

    Jhargram: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's helicopter was unable to land in Lalgarh on Sunday due to a "no-fly zone" established for PM Narendra Modi's rally. Soren and his wife, Kalpana, were scheduled to attend a campaign meeting in support ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Will induct all I-PAC staffers in TMC, none will lose job: Mamata

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday pledged to induct I-PAC personnel into Trinamool and ensure no one loses their job as she lashed out against BJP for trying to "scare" members of the political consultancy firm engaged by her ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    In Kol, CAPF chiefs take stock of poll security in mega meet

    Kolkata: In a first-of-its-kind exercise in a poll-bound state, the chiefs of all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) held a high-level meeting in Kolkata's Science City to review the security situation and deployment of nearly 2 lakh personnel during ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Naka check dampener on Akshay Tritiya gold sales

    Kolkata: Akshay Tritiya started on a muted note on Sunday with lower than expected footfall across jewellery stores in Kolkata. City jewellers however expect a better turnout on Monday as the auspicious occasion stretches over two days. They also ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Poll agent’ CEO won’t win Suvendu N’gram: Abhishek

    Nandigram: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee hit the campaign trail in Nandigram all guns blazing on Sunday, saying he didn't know "who Suvendu Adhikari's election agent is, but I feel it is Manoj Agarwal"."But I challenge you, neither ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    CU to review college infra for honours with research prog

    Kolkata: Ahead of introducing honours with research in the fourth year of the undergraduate programme, Calcutta University is set to review how many of its affiliated colleges have the required infrastructure.A marathon meeting with the 146 affiliated colleges has ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Digha Jagannath Dham footfall touches 1.3 cr on 1st anniversary

    Kolkata: On the eve of its first anniversary, Jagannath Dham, Digha, has crossed a remarkable milestone, welcoming over 1.3 crore pilgrims since its inauguration last year. The landmark comes just ahead of Akshaya Tritiya, when the temple will complete ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    HC nod to surrogacy route for Darjeeling couple in 50s

    Kolkata: The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court has allowed the surrogacy option for a Darjeeling couple in their 50s, taking into account the pain undergone by the couple to become parents and successful cryopreservation of embryos, which ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    4 days before polls, EC shunts two cops on Suvendu turf

    Kolkata: The EC on Sunday removed the SDPOs of Haldia and Contai in East Midnapur district, just four days before the first phase of assembly elections on April 23.East Midnapur, Suvendu Adhikari's turf, will go to the polls in ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Cal HC rejects VB appeal against asst prof’s payment

    Kolkata: Different pay scales for posts with the same degree of responsibility, reliability and confidentiality are invalid, Calcutta High Court held on April 17 while rejecting Visva-Bharati's appeal against paying assistant professors of a school under the university the ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Seniors demand 1 L, singe engg student with cigarettes

    Kolkata: A first-year engineering diploma student of a private university in Salt Lake has alleged that he was ragged, assaulted, burnt with cigarettes and threatened with death by a group of senior BCA students if he didn't pay them ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    IIT student died due to situational pressure: Kin

    Kharagpur/Kolkata: Deceased third-year IIT student Jayveersinh Dodiya's grandfather on Sunday said the boy may have been a victim of "situational pressure" from the institute or "outside forces", rather than academic pressure. Dodiya died on Saturday after falling from the ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    City hospitals empty out as staff return to dist home towns to vote

    Kolkata: Several hospitals are apprehending a staff shortage as hundreds of employees plan to leave for their home towns for the first-phase elections on April 23. At many facilities, OPD appointments and planned surgeries are being deferred or scheduled ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    EC set to use AI tech to monitor polling booths

    Kolkata: The EC will use an AI-based video analytics programme to monitor polling booths across Bengal. The system will analyse live footage from webcasting cameras and instantly flag signs of trouble, enabling authorities to identify troubled booths and dispatch ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    24-yr-old dies after falling into elevator shaft, 2 held

    Kolkata: Two men, Mohammad Tasir and Sai Ansari, have been arrested on Friday afternoon for their alleged involvement in the death of their friend, Mohammad Sahab (24), in Anandapur. Sahab, a resident of Martinpara, allegedly died after falling into ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    5 L new voters enter roll, take state count to 6.82 cr

    Kolkata: The EC has reported a fresh rise in the number of voters in Bengal, with nearly 5 lakh names being added to the electoral roll in the past month, taking the total count to 6.8 crore. Bengal, which ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Will we, won’t we: SIR-deleted voters oscillate between despair and hope 24 hours before SC deadline for EC

    Kolkata: Murshidabad resident Sagar Shaikh ekes out a living by plying a horse-drawn carriage for tourists at Hazarduari and wins bread for his wife and two kids. Four days ahead of the assembly poll in his town, he travelled ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    At Ladies’ Park, Didi meets constituents of ‘mini India’

    Kolkata: "Election is the festival of democracy and not autocracy," said CM Mamata Banerjee at a community meet at Ladies' Park in Bhowanipore where representatives from different communities had gathered on Sunday evening. Speaking before a packed audience, Banerjee ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    Black-tailed gull, bird from East Asia, makes India debut on Bengal beach

    Kolkata: Amid the Poila Baisakh Bird Count, that's on across the state, Bengal has given India its first record of black-tailed gull, a bird native to the shorelines of East Asia. This is also the 933rd bird species from ...

    20 April 2026 Times of India
    STF seizes firearms, 77L cash in run-up to election

    Kolkata/Durgapur: Ahead of the upcoming polls, law enforcement agencies across Bengal have intensified their crackdown on the movement of illegal arms and unaccounted cash, resulting in a series of major seizures in Kolkata and Durgapur. On Saturday, the Special ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ED searches premises linked to Kolkata Police deputy commissioner, Sun Enterprise MD Joy Kamdar in PMLA probe

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday carried out raids at premises linked to Kolkata Police deputy commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and another individual as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged criminal and his associated syndicate ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Advocate held after SL gang-rape plaint

    Kolkata: A 29-year-old man, an advocate by profession, was arrested on Friday night for his alleged involvement in the gang rape of a massage therapist in Salt Lake. He denied all charges against him. On Saturday, he was produced ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘If you have guts come to my home,’ Didi dares after I-T raids

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dared BJP to raid her home after Income Tax raids at the homes of her chief proposer in Bhowanipore, Miraj Shah, and Rashbehari Trinamool candidate Debasish Kumar. The CM alleged that the EC ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC plaint against Himanta for ‘inciteful, divisive’ remarks

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma over "inciteful and divisive" remarks made during an election rally in Cooch Behar. Trinamool also accused Sarma of making communally-charged statements and ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Complaint against BJP’s Tapas Roy for ‘forced entry’ into housing complex

    Kolkata: A complaint was filed against Tapas Roy, the BJP candidate from Maniktala in North Kolkata, for allegedly entering a housing complex by force to campaign. Residents of two housing complexes in Ward 31 reportedly filed complaints against Roy ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Court grants bail to 15 in Beldanga case

    Kolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period. The court granted ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Court grants bail to 15 in Beldanga case

    Kolkata: An NIA court on Saturday granted bail to 15 people arrested in connection with the Beldanga violence in Murshidabad in Jan, after the agency failed to submit its charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    BJP neta held for ‘slapping’ woman, minor

    Asansol: A BJP neta was arrested on Friday night after a woman alleged he slapped her and her minor daughter during a door-to-door campaign visit at DVC Colony in Pandaveswar, after she said she would vote for Trinamool, reports ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Ex-IPS BJP pick threatens to thrash voters

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday lodged a complaint against Rajesh Kumar, the BJP candidate for Jagatdal, for allegedly violating the MCC and threatening to "tie [voters] upside down and beat them up on the day results are announced".The party provided ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Plaint against BJP Barrackpore pick for threatening woman

    Kolkata: A homemaker lodged a complaint with Titagarh police station on Saturday against BJP's Barrackpore candidate Koustav Bagchi, alleging that he threatened her during a door-to-door campaign visit to her residence. Police said an inquiry is underway and CCTV ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Stand with Didi’: J’khand CM woos tribals for TMC

    Purulia: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, campaigning for Trinamool in Purulia on Saturday, delivered a sharp attack on the Election Commission, alleging it was acting as BJP's instrument in Bengal."Everywhere else, elections are happening in a single phase. In Bengal, ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Bidhannagar: 20% voters struck off roll in 3 key seats

    Kolkata: A sharp reduction in voter rolls across Salt Lake, New Town, Rajarhat-Gopalpur and adjoining areas under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation post SIR has set the stage for an unusually tight contest in this year's assembly election, with all major ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Cooch Behar daily wager, Hwh advocates, Madhyamgram teacher among crowd thronging SIR tribunal office in Joka

    Kolkata: Running from the pillar to post to know about the status of their appeals made after deletion of names, many ‘deleted' voters, including advocates, knocked on the door of justice at Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee-National Institute of Water ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Old problems vie with new SIR woes for Asansol voter attention

    Asansol: Amid grievances over the SIR process and long-standing concerns such as pollution, illegal coal mining, the ‘mafia raj' and drinking water shortage, Asansol — one of India's key coal trading hubs — is gearing up for a high-stakes ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    On the ground, TMC counts sympathy ‘gains’ after I-T raids

    Kolkata: Friday's 15-hour-long I-T raid on Debashis Kumar's house gave the seasoned politician a shot in the arm as the party activists touring neighbourhoods across Rashbehari constituency (after the release of the leader) felt the Trinamool Congress would gain ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    KP constable suspended

    Kolkata: A Kolkata Police constable was placed under suspension following allegations of influencing voters during the ongoing election process.According to an official order issued by the joint commissioner of police (headquarters) on Saturday, Constable Sk Masud Karim of the ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    IIT boy dies after fall from hostel terrace, cops suspect suicide

    Kolkata/Kharagpur: A third-year IIT Kharagpur student died after reportedly falling from the eighth-floor terrace of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence on Saturday. Preliminary findings hinted at suicide, police said. Jayveersinh Dodiya (21) is the eighth Kharagpur campus student ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Met: City to stay warm, humid over next 5 days

    Kolkata: The city would stay warm and humid over the next five days, with a possibility of the maximum temperature reaching 37°C in this scorching spell, warned the Met office. While thunderstorms occurred at some places in Murshidabad, Nadia ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    CU gets first PG calendar, profs hope for uniformity

    Kolkata: Calcutta University syndicate, the highest decision-making body, has approved a new postgraduate academic calendar—July to June—aligning it with the national academic schedule. The new schedule will be implemented from the upcoming session.CU has never had an academic calendar ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    EC’s 100m ‘Lakshman Rekha’ for booths to ensure free & fair polls

    Kolkata: In an unprecedented move to ensure free, fair and peaceful election, the EC plans to create a strict 100-metre perimeter — a ‘Lakshman Rekha' — around every polling booth in Bengal. The boundary will be marked with white ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    Observer removed in Chinsurah

    Kolkata: The EC on Saturday relieved the observer for the Chinsurah seat in Hooghly, C Paulrasu, an IAS officer of the 2004 batch, and asked him to leave the constituency and Bengal immediately.Another IAS officer, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, who ...

    19 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Diverting resources for infiltrators’: Remove Mamata as Bengal CM, else Bangladeshi Muslims will snatch state from us, says Himanta Biswa

    KOLKATA: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday accused the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of diverting state resources for “Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators” and said she must be removed from power, warning that “otherwise we will lose Bengal.”Addressing ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    1 detained, weapons seized in central Kolkata ahead of West Bengal polls

    KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) seized a cache of arms and ammunition near Rajabazar Science College in Kolkata and detained a man days ahead of the two-phase polling in West Bengal, officials said on Saturday. Acting ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Ahead of polls, Mum’s ‘Devabhau’ woos Marathi manoos in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday addressed the Marathi ‘manoos' at Maharashtra Niwas near Kalighat, asserting that "only a safe Bengal can ensure a safe India".Fondly known as ‘Devabhau', Fadnavis highlighted the contributions of both Bengal and ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Noted academic, who taught Eng at JU for 4 decades, no more

    Kolkata: Sati Chatterjee, a former professor of English literature at Jadavpur University, passed away on Friday at her Lake Gardens residence. The 91-year-old academic was suffering from a lung infection.In 1950, Chatterjee joined Presidency College to study English literature ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Experts moot carbon credit from EKW to boost climate resilience

    Kolkata: Experts at the India-Germany Climate Talks in Kolkata on Thursday said it was time to recognise and monetise the economic value of wetlands, like the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), citing their potential to generate carbon credits while delivering ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Kabir moves HC, seeks probe into sting video

    Kolkata: Bharatpur MLA and AJUP chief Humayun Kabir on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a court-monitored probe into the 19-minute viral sting video purportedly featuring him and an unidentified man. Kabir said the video, which purportedly shows ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Star Health targets 25% growth in Bengal this fiscal

    Kolkata: Star Health Insurance expects a 25% growth in Bengal in the current fiscal and has set a target of Rs 1,250 crore premium in 2026-27 from the state. Anand Roy, MD and CEO of the company, said Star ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    72 hours before first SC deadline to add voters, EC mum on SIR tribunal decision

    Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court's first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Delimitation will erase Darj, Cooch Behar, N Dinajpur: Didi

    Kolkata: Darjeeling, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur will cease to exist if the delimitation bill is passed, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, slamming the BJP-led govt's move as a "deliberate attempt at dividing the country"."They tabled the ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Poll-eve tax raids on CM’s proposer, TMC candidate prompt Didi battle cry

    Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee's poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state's biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool's Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP "cowards ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Bombs hurled at BJP neta’s house in Nandigram

    Nandigram: Crude bombs were allegedly hurled at BJP neta Abbas Beg's house in Nandigram late Thursday, hours after he filed a police complaint against TMC neta Sheikh Sufiyan.Beg, BJP Tamluk minority cell general secretary, said the attack in Nayana ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Rahul dials Abhishek to thank him for floor coordination, Akhilesh speaks to Mamata

    Kolkata: Hitting the pause button on the acrimony of an election season where their parties are pitted against one another in Bengal, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool's leader in the LS Abhishek Banerjee spoke on a ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Haringhata’s TMC councillor arrested

    Kalyani: Police on Friday arrested Trinamool councillor Rajib Dalal in Nadia. Dalal, who represents Ward 17 and is the first ever chairman of the Haringhata Municipality, was picked up from his residence in Barajaguli.The arrest was reportedly linked to ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Docs move against ‘Jai Shree Ram’ doc

    Kolkata: The Association of Health Service Doctors (AHSD), West Bengal, has written to the police commissioner against cardiologist PK Hazra, alleging that the doctor has posted a photo of the RG Kar rape-murder victim on social media. Calling such ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Cal HC’s election duty relief for professors

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the requisition of state colleges' assistant professors for the duty of presiding officers in polling stations, pulling up the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not showing any "unavoidable" circumstance for their ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Noted academic, who taught Eng at JU for 4 decades, no more

    Kolkata: Sati Chatterjee, a former professor of English literature at Jadavpur University, passed away on Friday at her Lake Gardens residence. The 91-year-old academic was suffering from a lung infection.In 1950, Chatterjee joined Presidency College to study English literature ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Home voting for electors with mobility issues: BLOs seek clarity

    Kolkata: Several electors who are sick and aged below 85 are seeking clarifications from BLOs whether they can avail of the postal ballot facility at home. Recently, a BLO from Shyampukur constituency has written a letter to the public ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    School concert celebrates Bengal’s culture

    Kolkata: The annual concert of Sri Ram Narayan Singh Memorial High School, ‘Jhankriti 2025', was held at Kala Mandir auditorium with eminent personalities from the fields of education and performing arts in attendance. The concert's theme, ‘Bengal', celebrated the ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Chinese film fest returns to Kol after a decade

    Kolkata: The Chinese film festival returned to Nandan after a decade on Friday. The festival, inaugurated by Chinese consul general Xu Wei, will continue till Sunday.The last time a Chinese film festival was held in Kolkata was in 2016.The ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    EC removes Bidhannagar top cop

    Kolkata: Less than two weeks before the assembly election in Salt Lake-New Town-Rajarhat, the EC removed Bidhannagar Police commissioner, Murlidhar Sharma, from office. The ECI appointed IPS Tripurari Atharva as the new CP. Atharva was previously serving as the ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Vehicles parked on roads are reducing usable carriageway’

    Kolkata: Rampant on-road parking is choking Kolkata's already strained road network, with transport officials warning that unchecked encroachment of carriageways is severely impacting mobility across the city. "In a city with extremely limited road space, parked vehicles are reducing ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Brace for hot, sultry days ahead: Met

    Kolkata: The temperature has started rising once again a day after thundershowers pulled it down below the normal mark. On Friday, the maximum temperature in Kolkata rose to 34°C from 32.4°C the previous day. With no possibility of rain ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Alumnus’s son pledges 15cr to IIT-Kgp to launch AI centre for mining solutions

    Kolkata: IIT-Kharagpur is set to establish an interdisciplinary research initiative aimed at advancing data-driven innovation in the mining sector, named Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence for AI-Enabled Geological & Mining Systems, with a funding commitment of Rs 15 crore ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    2 new Bengali films to be screened at Moscow fest

    Kolkata: Two contemporary Bengali films — one adapted from a Tagore play and another on the jatra culture of Bangladesh with a Kolkata-based sound designer — are being screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. This is in addition ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Face-off: I-T teams overrun Didi’s south Kolkata neighbourhood, Trinamool workers stand on vigil

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress candidate for Rashbehari constituency Debasish Kumar has always been a late riser. Friday morning would have been no different. Kumar had been on a whirlwind tour of his constituency on Thursday night, returned home well past ...

    18 April 2026 Times of India
    Ahead of polls, armoured cars Shourya, Marksman roll into Bengal from Jammu & Kashmir

    KOLKATA: People in the city are in awe of the multiple armoured capsule-based infantry mobility vehicles deployed for polls. It is hard to miss their sight. Be it on arterial roads or at crossings in the city.A few of ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    ED conducts fresh raids on Merlin Group, searches multiple locations in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into Kolkata-based real estate firm Merlin Group and its linked entities, officials said to news agency PTI. The latest action comes ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Chitrakars see red over deletions: Politics enters Bengal’s patachitra, courtesy SIR

    PINGLA (WEST MIDNAPORE): Their art, passed down from one generation to another, brings alive tales from Indian mythology on scrolls. But ahead of the assembly elections, the Chitrakars of West Midnapore’s Pingla are wielding their brush to paint a ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    1 cr gold goes missing from dead woman’s bank locker

    Kolkata: The Gariahat Police have moved a local court seeking permission to initiate a full-scale criminal investigation into the disappearance of high-value gold jewellery from a bank locker of a deceased senior citizen.The move comes after a preliminary enquiry ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    FIR after Maidan horse death

    Kolkata: A severely emaciated young mare, found in a near-dead condition under the Hastings flyover near the Maidan, has triggered an FIR by PETA India, exposing yet another instance of alleged cruelty linked to the city's horse-drawn carriage trade. ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Why only profs as presiding officers, why not use me, too: HC judge slams EC

    Kolkata: "You (Election Commission of India) can appoint judges also under Section 26 (of Representation of People Act) as polling officers... I am ready to go," said Justice Krishna Rao of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, slamming the ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Shyam Steel signs MoU to set up Rs 10,000-cr facility in Maharashtra

    Kolkata: City-based Shyam Steel has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Maharashtra govt to establish a large-scale manufacturing plant in Chandrapur district for over Rs 10,000 crore. Shyam Steel has a strong presence in the eastern region, with ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    UCC to dictate religious practice, will hurt STs, Kudmis: Abhishek

    hargram: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised BJP's poll promise to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Bengal within six months of coming into office, alleging it would dictate how people practise their religion."Earlier, Amit ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    TMC complains of MCC breaches by BJP netas, Kabir to CEO

    Kolkata: Trinamool has submitted a series of complaints to the Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) against several senior BJP and AJUP netas for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).TMC alleged that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Matrishakti card to Yuvashakti hopeful: TMC pans BJP goof

    Kolkata: A day after launching "Matrishakti Bharosa card" for women, BJP on Thursday unveiled the "Yuvashakti Bharosa card" for youth, a physical token of the party's commitment to both sections in its manifesto. Trinamool panned the saffron party for ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Yogi & Himanta attack TMC over ‘infiltration’, ‘mafia raj’

    Kolkata: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma led a coordinated BJP attack on the Trinamool govt on Thursday, alleging that Bengal was "nurturing infiltrators" and had surrendered to "mafia raj".Addressing a rally in Phansidewa, ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    No one happier than me: Didi after SC clears tribunal-restored voters

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said "no one happier" than her after the Supreme Court allowed those, whose names were deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) but restored by appellate tribunals, to vote in the Bengal polls."Congratulations ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    HC grants interim relief to TMC Nandigram candidate

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday granted interim relief to Trinamool's Nandigram candidate Pabitra Kar in an FIR alleging criminal intimidation and robbery.Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee directed that while the probe may continue, no arrest or stringent steps can be ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Students beat stroke, cardiac issues to shine in CBSE class 10 exams

    Kolkata: Aniket Bhattacharyya scored 99.4% in his class 10 board exam despite serious health setbacks in the months leading up to it; Aarav Bengani, who was hospitalised just before the boards and missed some unit tests, secured 86%; Avishi ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Good scores prompt many to withdraw 2nd-test plea

    Kolkata: With good scores in the class 10 boards, several city CBSE schools have reported that students who earlier wanted to appear for a second board exam have started withdrawing their names. However, schools on Thursday issued fresh circulars ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    4-hour op: Crane, pumps called in to rescue cow from VIP Road sewer line

    Kolkata: In a dramatic four-hour operation that pushed the city's disaster management units to their limits, a fully grown cow was pulled from the depths of the city's subterranean drainage network on Thursday evening.The rescue near the perennially busy ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    One school’s buses get off from poll duty, others see breather in HC order

    Kolkata: Calling the state's requisition of eight buses of South Point High School for election duty "arbitrary", the Calcutta High Court on Thursday quashed the requisition order under Section 160 of the Representation of the People Act, which gave ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Another nor’wester before dry spell: Met

    Kolkata: Spells of thundershower pushed the mercury down on Thursday in Kolkata. While the showers were not uniform across the city in terms of intensity and duration, most pockets received a spell or two, bringing a respite from the ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Phase 1: 106 of 152 BJP candidates, 63 of 148 Trinamool nominees have criminal cases

    Kolkata: Of the 1,478 candidates contesting the first phase of the Bengal elections, almost one-fifth are crorepatis, most of them being Trinamool contenders. The poorest candidate, with assets of Rs 500, is from the new Aam Janata Unnayan Party. ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    ‘Stray run over’: 25K extorted from truck driver

    Kolkata: A truck driver, Raju Kathat (43) from Rajasthan, was allegedly terrorised and robbed by a local family and their associates in Bansdroni on Tuesday, allegedly after a stray dog was run over by his vehicle.According to the complaint, ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Orders are fine but when and how do we get to know about our right to vote: SIR-hit electors

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court's order on the supplementary revised electoral roll on Thursday is yet to address the anxiety among several deleted voters who are still waiting to know about the tribunals' take on their voting right in the ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Prod house accepts forum demands, shoot to resume

    Kolkata: Shooting of ‘Kone Dekha Alo' will resume on Friday after the production house and channel agreed to West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum's demand to provide all necessary documentary evidence confirming that Leena Gangopadhyay has been officially removed ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    After hostel death, NUJS allows distraught classmates to take exams later

    Kolkata: West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, on Thursday decided that some students who, following the death of a first-year law student on Monday, were too distraught to take the end-semester exams from Friday could take ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    CBSE class 10 results out, schools say only a few may take ‘improvement’ tests

    Kolkata: The CBSE announced the class 10 board results on Wednesday with an overall pass percentage of 93.7, an increase of 0.04 percentage points from the previous year's 93.66%. Though students have another chance to reappear for the exams ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Man seeks voluntary death after deletion

    A 43-year-old resident of Madhyamgram, Sumitava Mukherjee, submitted a written appeal to the DM on Thursday seeking permission for voluntary death for himself and his family after his name was struck off the electoral roll following the SIR.Mukherjee alleged ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Ex-MLA nursing home owner falls foul of SIR

    Kolkata: A general physician and owner of one of the port area's most prominent nursing homes, also an ex-Trinamool MLA, will not be able to vote this time — along with four of his family members — thanks to ...

    17 April 2026 Times of India
    Met spies thunderstorm, gusty wind in city today

    Kolkata: The maximum temperature dropped slightly in the city on Wednesday. But high moisture continued to unleash heat and humidity. Certain weather conditions are expected to trigger a nor'wester spell on Thursday, the Met office, which is keeping a ...

    16 April 2026 Times of India
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