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  • After Torres goal, city relives U-17 memories

    Kolkata: Long before Ferran Torres broke Argentine hearts in the Fifa World Cup final on Sunday night, Kolkata witnessed his talent first-hand.Nine years ago, a teenage Torres turned out at a packed Salt Lake stadium in the 2017 Fifa ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Rain swamps Kol airport, blocks access

    Kolkata: Heavy afternoon rain and extensive waterlogging brought air traffic to a crawl and crippled access to Kolkata airport on Monday, disrupting flight operations for hours and leaving thousands stranded in snarls. While no flight was cancelled, multiple diversions ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    ‘Worse than Jallianwala Bagh,’ says report on firing on 1993 West Bengal rally

    KOLKATA: “There was no need to fire bullets to control the crowd located far away from Writers’ Building,” Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari read out from the Sushanta Chatterjee Commission’s report on police firing on a Mamata Banerjeeled Youth Congress ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Kol Hits The Streets, Rallies Behind Sonam Wangchuk

    Kolkata: Citizens from different walks of life either took to the streets or observed a symbolic hunger strike on Monday in solidarity with activist Sonam Wangchuk, the students and the Cockroach Janata Party. They highlighted the irregularities at national ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    4 Rehab Staff In Cop Net After Minor’s Death in Bansdroni

    Kolkata: Police have arrested four employees of a local rehabilitation center after a 17-year-old boy, who was suffering from mental health issues, was allegedly thrashed to death in Bansdroni on Sunday.Parents of the deceased boy, who was a resident ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Spaniards’ victory lap 8,500 km from home

    Kolkata: For around 45 young Spaniards living thousands of kilometres away from home, Kolkata became a little corner of Spain on Sunday night as La Roja defeated Argentina 1-0 to lift the 2026 Fifa World Cup.Working for an NGO ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    La Roja ecstasy in Kol pockets as Spain derails ‘Comeback Express’

    Kolkata: The city was stunned into silence as Spain demolished Argentina and snatched the World Cup away to halt Messi’s dream run. While a vast majority mourned the loss, pockets of the city erupted in celebrations after a mesmerising ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    163.3 mm in Dum Dum, 5.9 mm in Alipore: Rainfall throws up north-south divide

    Kolkata: The city received a few spells of rain for most part of Monday, but the rainfall pattern was marked by a massive north-south divide. While Dum Dum clocked a whopping 163.3 mm of rainfall between 5.30 pm Sunday ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Saurav Palodhi Dedicates National Award For Film To Sonam Wangchuk’s Protest

    Kolkata: Saurav Palodhi, director of “Onko Ki Kothin”, which saw its three child actors win National Awards, has publicly declared his support for Sonam Wangchuk. Palodhi dedicated the film’s recent success to Wangchuk, who is leading a youth-driven movement ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    40-Year-Old Arrested For Sexual Assault On Minor

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl after distracting her by handing over a mobile phone, triggering widespread protests in Dum Dum. Police also arrested a former councillor of Dum Dum ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Centre to train state officials on VB-G RAM G implementation

    Kolkata: The Union rural development ministry will conduct a four-day training programme for Bengal govt officials this week to accelerate the implementation of the VB-G RAM G scheme. According to officials, the programme will be held from Tuesday to ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    HC denies TMC relief over ED bank a/c freeze

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to grant interim relief to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool against the ED’s freeze on three of its bank accounts, observing that the remaining 36 accounts — holding around Rs 164 ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    The great empty: Sudden void after days of football fiesta

    Kolkata: For the past one and half months, evenings had a fixed routine. Dinner was planned well ahead kick-off times, sleep schedules were abandoned, WhatsApp groups buzzed through the night and neighbourhoods echoed with cheers and groans till dawn.Then, ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    July 21 firing unnecessary: CM quotes judicial commission

    Kolkata: “There was no need to fire bullets to control the crowd located far away from Writers’ Buildings,” CM Suvendu Adhikari read out from the Sushanta Chatterjee Commission’s report on the police firing on a Mamata Banerjee-led Youth Congress ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengali must for all official state government work: Suvendu

    Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on Monday that Bengali will become mandatory for all official work in the state from Sept 1, a day after Union home minister Amit Shah suggested the move in a letter to him.“From ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Three Martyrs’ Day rallies at three points may choke city heart today

    Kolkata: Three rallies marking the July 21 Shahid Diwas—one led by the Mamata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress, one by the Ritabrata faction and the third by the Congress—are set to hit the city on Tuesday, putting Kolkata’s traffic ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    40% students stay off classrooms

    Kolkata: Several schools and colleges on Monday saw half-filled classrooms, as on average 30 to 40% of students were absent. The hangover from last night went on almost all day, as several school teachers and principals noticed that during ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    After 8-day gap, rain and cloud cover pull temp below 30°C

    Kolkata: Brace for more rain between Tuesday and Thursday as the three synoptic conditions become more favourable for enhanced rain activity in Kolkata and its surrounding along with other south Bengal districts. Met officials said that the city will ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    ‘DJ remark’ case: HC extends Abhishek Banerjee protection to Oct 6, rejects urgent hearing of fly abroad plea

    Kolkata: Even while extending the interim protection against coercive action granted to Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee in the ‘DJ remark’ case till Oct 6, the Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected Banerjee’s urgent plea to fly abroad for eye ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Adhikari directs officials to fast-track Rs 55,000-crore central projects

    Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari has sought faster implementation of 12 infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 55,000 crore that have remained stuck in Bengal over the past several years due to various bottlenecks.Officials said the projects — by central ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Himadri to set up carbon nanotube manufacturing unit

    Kolkata: Kolkata-based Himadri Speciality Chemical may soon become the first company in India to set up a carbon nanotube (CNT) manufacturing unit, said company’s CMD and CEO Anurag Choudhary.“We have successfully developed indigenous carbon nanotube (CNT) technology through our ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    July 21 martyrs’ families caught between loyalty & uncertainty

    Kolkata: On the eve of July 21, a date etched in Bengal’s political history, the families of those killed in the 1993 police firing find themselves caught between loyalty, uncertainty and fresh political controversy after CM Suvendu Adhikari’s dramatic ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Devotees brave rain as Tarakeswar Shravani Mela starts

    Tarakeswar: The century-old Shravani Mela commenced at the Tarakeswar temple on Monday with massive security and enhanced pilgrim infrastructure under a special initiative by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.While a spectacular helicopter flower shower (pushpa brishti) delighted thousands of devotees ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal targets 27cr person-days under 125-day job scheme

    Kolkata: With focus to expand livelihood opportunities while strengthening rural infrastructure, the state aims to generate 27.2 crore person-days in the remaining nine months of the financial year under the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) ...

    21 July 2026 Times of India
    Lalbazar’s Get-Off-Cellphone Order For Cops On Road

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has prohibited its personnel from using mobile phones along with other hearing devices on duty.The top brass has warned that any violation of this directive will attract severe disciplinary action.The official order, which was sent ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Declare holiday or relax attendance for World Cup final, govt tells morning schools

    Kolkata: The state on Sunday asked all state schools which have morning classes to either declare holiday, or relax attendance, due to the post-midnight start of the Fifa WC final. The order said, “In view of the fact that ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Jury’s bias or dip in standard: Behind the decline of Bengali wins at the National Awards

    KOLKATA: At this year’s National Film Awards, the regional jury selected five Bengali films — Anjan Dutt’s "Chaalchitra Ekhon", Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s "Mayanagar", Saurav Palodhi’s "Onko Ki Kothin", Samik Roychowdhury's "Beline", and Sayan Bandyopadhyay’s "Doaansh" — from a pool ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal targets 27.23cr person-days under 125-day job scheme

    Kolkata: The state govt on Monday announced the rollout of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 (VB-G RAM G) from July 1, replacing the MGNREGS 100-day employment guarantee with a 125-day rural employment ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Asansol-Durgapur Metro Survey Soon

    Kolkata: The state govt has engaged RITES to conduct a feasibility survey for setting up the proposed aerial metro alignment connecting Asansol and Durgapur. The plan is a part of developing Asansol as a smart city.Urban development & municipal ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Banabitan waives daily entry fee for morning walkers

    Kolkata: The daily entry fee of Rs 10 for morning walkers from 5 am to 7 am at Banabitan bio-diversity park in Salt Lake has been waived. The green projects wing under West Bengal Forest Development Corporation issued a ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal govt to mandate Bengali in official communications from September 1

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal government will make Bengali mandatory for all official communications from September 1, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the Assembly on Monday,The CM was reportedly reading out a letter from Union home minister Amit Shah ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Study Finds Clear Link Between Pollution And Lung Health

    Kolkata: From airway inflammation to increased susceptibility to respiratory infection and reduced lung function, pollution is taking an increasing toll on lung health of individuals.Doctors said children whose lungs are yet to get developed are the most vulnerable to ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Demand-Supply Gap: At 1,100 & More, Mutton Prices Stay Firm At City Markets

    Kolkata: Mutton prices in Kolkata have climbed to Rs 1,100-1,200 per kg at several meat shops across the city following a fresh spike in wholesale livestock prices that traders attribute to a wide demand-supply gap.Retailers across the city said ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Minister’s Assurance On Water Body Fill-Up

    Kolkata: The state urban development & municipal affairs department is taking up stern action against filling up of water bodies and illegal building construction in all 144 wards under Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).Minister Agnimitra Paul on Saturday received several ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal plans to restrict totos to last-mile routes, ease congestion on main roads

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Transport Department has drawn up a plan to realign the operation of toto, or e-rickshaw, services across urban local bodies (ULBs), restricting them primarily to last-mile connectivity and keeping them off major roads and highways. ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Woman molested at night club, fiance assaulted

    Kolkata: A 30-year-old woman was molested at a night club on Park Street in the early hours of Sunday. A venue employee was also involved in allegedly assaulting the woman’s fiance when the latter tried to intervene, the woman ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Woman arrested, cops find guns, ammo in purse

    Kolkata: A 38-year-old woman was arrested and CID found her handbag packed with pistols, ammunition and cash in Ashoknagar on Sunday, exposing what investigators suspect could be an interstate arms trafficking network.“Dressed in a salwar-kameez with her head covered ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Stressed pvt bus routes plot fare revision in Kol

    Kolkata: There is a flux among bus operators struggling to cope with rising diesel prices. After the route 37 (Dhakuria-Howrah) buses tried it a few weeks ago, before reversing the decision, route 237 (Birati-Babughat) buses have started charging extra ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Woman held for tying up & robbing senior citizen

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old woman was arrested for leading a robbery in which the victim had been tied up at her own house. Cops have recovered the stolen gold jewellery worth lakhs within days of the robbery in the Rajabagan ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    FIR after teen, friend tortured & filmed

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old youth and his friend were allegedly ambushed, abducted, and tortured by a group of men over a grudge in the early hours of Friday, before being stripped and filmed. The victim, a resident of Kabi Tirtha ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Shah’s law-and-order review meet mulls NIA-type agency for Bengal

    Kolkata: Bengal can become the first state to have a Special Investigation Agency (SIA) modelled on National Investigation Agency (NIA). The proposal was among several discussed at a law-and-order review meeting chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah and ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Gujarat will keep bringing investments to Bengal: Amit Shah

    Kolkata: Gujarat will keep bringing investments to Bengal, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday while virtually laying the foundation stone for Amul’s Rs 700-crore integrated dairy complex. The plant, to come up at Sankrail Food Park in ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Man arrested for stealing gemstones worth Rs 5 lakh from Behala store

    Kolkata: A man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a customer to steal gemstones worth nearly Rs 5 lakh from a jewelry shop in Behala on Thursday. The accused, 40-year-old Prabhat Debnath, was tracked down to his residence ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Calcutta High Court grants interim bail to pregnant woman in Rs 63 crore drugs case

    Kolkata: Considering the advanced stage of pregnancy and “the availability of obstetric facilities in jail”, Calcutta High Court on July 16 granted interim bail to a Mominpur woman arrested for possession of drugs worth Rs 63 crore till Sept ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    HC halts demolition of Abhishek’s Amtala office in urgent hearing

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court, in an urgent hearing on Sunday, ordered a status quo on the demolition of the five-storey Amtala building in South 24 Parganas which serves as Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s Diamond Harbour constituency office, until the ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Protest over ban on temple entry in West Burdwan

    Salanpur (West Burdwan): Protests erupted in West Burdwan’s Salanpur block on Sunday after locals belonging to the Bauri community alleged they were being prevented from entering a Durga temple in Karmakar Para of Athora gram panchayat.Community members gathered outside ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata Fans Divide Loyalties between Argentina and Spain on Big Night

    Kolkata: As the city favourites squared up with the dark horses who showed a late burst of brilliance, threatening to halt the blue-and-white brigade’s march to glory, Kolkata split, almost right down the middle, to root for the finalists ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Spain Gains Support in Kolkata as Big Teams Exit Ahead of Final

    Kolkata: Loyalties changed, colours were switched and heroes altered as some of the big teams tumbled in the run-up to the World Cup final, swelling support for Argentina’s relatively less fancied opponent on Sunday. Fluid loyalty shored up Spain’s ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    TMC opposes delimitation, FCRA bills; NCPI backs NDA agenda

    Kolkata: Trinamool and NCPI took sharply divergent positions on the BJP-led NDA’s legislative agenda on Saturday, with the Mamata Banerjee camp urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to halt two proposed bills, even as NCPI pledged support to all govt ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Messi Jerseys Drive Record Sales in Kolkata Amid World Cup Fever

    Kolkata: It was literally the Bijoya Dashami of World Cup football on Sunday but the magic of Lionel Messi or LM 10 and Argentina helped traders fill their coffers not just at Bidhan Market, but even the official stores ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Time to make Bengal global beacon of culture again, says Shah

    Kolkata: It was time Bengal, once “a global beacon of Indian consciousness”, was made capable of awakening the consciousness of the entire world, despite recent efforts to alienate the state from mainstream culture, said Union home minister Amit Shah ...

    20 July 2026 Times of India
    Govt plans to procure machines to transplant trees

    Kolkata: The state govt plans to buy or rent special tree spade machines to transplant trees instead of cutting them down.Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said the machine can lift a full tree with its roots ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bridging borders: Indo-Bangla film collaborations get a fillip

    Kolkata: Jaya Ahsaan’s “Aajo Ardhangini“ (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising. While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Restore sewage flow into EKW to revive indigenous fish: Experts

    Kolkata: Restoring sewage flow into the East Kolkata Wetlands is essential to revive small indigenous fish and strengthen wetland fish farmers’ livelihoods, farmers and experts said at a workshop organised by CGIAR-IWMI and implemented by the Society for Creative ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    49 of 66 transferred cops to return to Kolkata Police after 10 years

    Kolkata: Forty-nine of 66 Kolkata Police personnel, transferred to Bengal Police in 2016 in what many described as a “punishment posting”, would return to their parent cadre after nearly 10 years, stated an order issued from Nabanna on Friday.Those ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Eastern Railway sanctions 7 new low-height subways to end dangerous crossings

    Kolkata: To end dangerous track crossings, Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division has sanctioned seven new low-height subways beneath live railway tracks. This will also overcome land acquisition hurdles that often delay construction of road overbridges and underbridges. The subways will ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    3 of family electrocuted in Haldia

    Haldia: In a tragic attempt to save each other from a live wire, three members of a family, including a 12-year-old boy, were electrocuted on Saturday evening at Kumarpur village in Haldia.The incident took place around 7 pm when ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Crude bombs hurled at ex-MLA Nirmal Ghosh’s home

    Kolkata: Crude bombs were hurled at former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh’s house early on Sunday, hours after his son Tirthankar Ghosh was paraded by police through parts of Sodepur-Panihati.Police said masked assailants arrived on motorcycles around 1.30am, lobbed bombs ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bridging borders: Indo-Bangla film collaborations get a fillip

    KOLKATA: Jaya Ahsaan’s "Aajo Ardhangini" (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising. While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Kol, northeast have potential to emerge as major defence manufacturing hub: Ex-Army chief

    Kolkata: Former Army chief General Manoj Pande on Sunday said Kolkata and the entire northeast had the tremendous potential to develop into a major defence manufacturing hub, and urged the state’s industrialists and academics to work together to strengthen ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    City may get light rain today: Met

    Kolkata: The city and south Bengal remained cloudy and received drizzles on Saturday. Moderate rain is expected in Kolkata and surrounding districts on Sunday, while north Bengal is expected to be lashed by heavy rainfall on Sunday. The monsoon ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Knife attack on woman

    Kolkata: A lawyer has lodged a police complaint, saying two men attacked her with a knife outside the Patuli Police Station, demanding that she should withdraw cases linked to former Trinamool councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta and party youth member Sourav Ghosh.

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bridging borders: Indo-Bangla film collaborations get a fillip

    KOLKATA: Jaya Ahsaan’s "Aajo Ardhangini" (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising.While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka to ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    From Nandan to Baguiati, Bengal govt powers football fest

    Kolkata: From Nandan to Baguiati and from district headquarters to subdivision towns, Bengal is gearing up for a statewide football carnival as the state govt prepares to screen the Fifa World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on giant ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Big screens ready, fans prepare for bigger cheers as Kol counts down to showdown

    Kolkata: From multiplexes to open-air arenas, from sports cafes to nightclubs, multiple venues across Indian footballing mecca Kolkata are decking up for the clash of footballing titans as reigning champion Argentina takes on European champion Spain in the 2026 ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Final frenzy reaches fever pitch: Kol wall of support for Messi as others consolidate behind Spain

    Kolkata: The soccer-crazy city has surrendered to football’s oldest ritual — choosing sides — as the countdown to the Fifa World Cup final between Argentina and Spain enters its final hours. From clubs and tea stalls to offices and ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Ichhapur fan pins faith on Messi’s victory swansong

    Ichhapur: While Argentina supporters across Bengal are planning community screenings and late-night celebrations for Sunday’s World Cup final, Ichhapur tea-seller Shib Shankar Patra will stick to a ritual he believes has already brought Lionel Messi luck once.The 59-year-old, whose ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    19-year-old boy falls from 12th to 9th floor, survives

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old resident of Merlin Ultadanga survived a fall from a 12th-floor corridor window of the 13-storey Block III early on Saturday as he landed on the terrace balcony of a ninth-floor flat instead of plunging to the ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    85-year-old man dies after fall from 7th floor

    Kolkata: An 85-year-old man died after he fell off the seventh-floor corridor window of a 15-storey residential building inside a housing complex at Belgachhia Milk Colony on Saturday afternoon. Arun Kumar Basu lived on the seventh floor.Security guards and ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Lok Bhavan warns against impostor

    Kolkata: Lok Bhavan, Bengal, has issued an advisory, warning people against a fraudster allegedly impersonating the governor as well senior officials, and calling dignitaries, govt officials and citizens from a mobile number, +91 98365 40163.The governor’s office has urged ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Clear pavements: Police order spooks Burrabazar traders, hawkers

    Kolkata: Cops from the Jorasanko Police Station visited several parts of Burrabazar on Friday evening and instructed traders, shopkeepers and hawkers to immediately remove plastic sheets used to cover their goods, clear encroachments from pavements and carriageways and dismantle ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Shabdalok Showcasing The World Of Word Opens Today

    Kolkata: The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has adopted advanced technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, sensors capable of reading hand gestures, acoustically designed hallways and sound concentrators to make the Museum of Word.Also known as Shabdalok, ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal’s 1st owl survey records 11 species across 13 dists in 4 months

    Kolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on the state’s ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    ‘Over 12L PNG connections in 3 months’

    Kolkata: Eastern India is poised to become the next major growth centre for India’s city gas distribution (CGD) sector, industry leaders said at the 14th City Gas Distribution Conference-cum-Exhibition in Kolkata.Addressing the conference, Jayant Narayan Das, member of the ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Shah: Smart border grid plan to be first implemented in Bengal

    Kolkata/Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the govt is committed to making the country’s borders impregnable through the concept of “smart borders” and announced that the project to fortify India’s borders with a quadrangular security grid ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Beagle swallows earpod, undergoes 20-min non-invasive op after a week

    Kolkata: A three-and-half-a-year-old female Beagle, Khushi, who swallowed an earbud and suffered immense abdominal pain for about a week, underwent a 20-minute surgery to remove the foreign object lodged in its stomach. Veterinary doctors stated that the canineis stable ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bomb Goes Off In Rajarhat Home, NIA, STF Start Probe

    Kolkata: A powerful explosion ripped through the ground floor of a four-storey residential building in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport on Friday evening after a crude bomb exploded.Police later recovered two more bombs from a room in the building. Preliminary ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Health minister inspects RG Kar Hospital, flags cleanliness issues

    Kolkata: State health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee on Saturday made a surprise visit to RG Kar Hospital and expressed strong dissatisfaction over the cleanliness, inadequate management and alleged broker syndicates at the hospital.Mukherjee visited the hospital around 12.30 pm and ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata Police forms STF to track illegal migrants

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has set up a Special Task Force (STF-D) to identify, trace and process overstaying foreign nationals and illegal migrants in the city, acting on directions from the Union home ministry and the Bengal home and hill ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Howrah teen shooter found near ghat 2 days after disappearance, mystery remains

    Howrah: Fifteen-year-old national-level shooter Damayanti Sen, whose disappearance from her Howrah home on Thursday morning triggered widespread concern and viral social media appeals, was found on Saturday morning near Ramkrishnapur Ghat. But her return, as puzzling as her disappearance, ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    ‘Don’t fall prey to racket collecting money in ministers’ names’

    Kolkata: State urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Pal on Saturday appealed to citizens not to fall prey to a racket that collects extortion or cut money in the name of state cabinet ministers, including herself. “If someone ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Samik, Saumitra may get bigger roles after cabinet reshuffle

    Kolkata: The proposed Union cabinet reshuffle is likely to see several Bengal BJP heavyweights secure important berths.Ahead of the expansion — expected after Parliament’s monsoon session — the names of several Bengal netas have started doing the rounds. The ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Bulldozer action on Abhishek’s Amtala office, TMC MP vows to fight case till SC

    Kolkata: A five-storey building in Amtala, South 24 Parganas, which serves as the local party office of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, was partially demolished with bulldozers by the district administration on Saturday following an unauthorised construction complaint.Banerjee denied ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    1st state-wide owl survey records 11 species across 13 dists in 4 months

    Kolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on the state’s ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    National Film Awards: Anjan’s tribute to Mrinal Sen, 3 Bengal kids bag top honours

    Kolkata: A poignant cinematic tribute to legendary director Mrinal Sen and a joint triumph by three child artists marked Bengal’s presence at the 72nd National Film Awards announced on Friday. The state’s creative legacy swept honours across generations, celebrating ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    Gateman, PWI suspended after Behrampore rail crossing crash kills 5

    Behrampore: Railway authorities have suspended gateman Anup Karmakar and his superior, permanent way inspector (PWI) Koushik Mal, following Friday’s level-crossing accident near Karnasubarna. Police have taken Karmakar into seven days’ custody.The accident occurred on Friday morning after the Up ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    ED zeroes in on Rs 164cr mismatch in TMC bank a/c

    Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate has zeroed in on alleged discrepancies amounting to Rs 164 crore in one of Trinamool’s bank accounts which are under the central investigating agency’s scanner. The ED has written to the bank seeking explanations for the ...

    19 July 2026 Times of India
    KP seizes ₹2crore hydroponic ganja, arrests one

    Kolkata: The narcotic cell of the detective department seized hydroponic ganja, valued at over Rs 2 crore in the illegal, following late-night raids on Thursday, first on a guest house at Tagore Park and then, a home in Tiljala. ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    NKDA to reconstitute New Town’s town vending committee to manage hawkers

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to reconstitute its town vending committee, including representatives from registered associations of street vendors in New Town in the committee for better management. Officials said the process was underway ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Afghan national arrested for five-year illegal stay

    Kolkata: An Afghan national, Jamil Khan, was arrested from Bhowanipore for allegedly living illegally in the city for five years, using forged ID documents. Khan Police said Khan arrived in Kolkata in Feb 2021 on a temporary three-month visa ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal govt likely to unveil industrial policy with incentives by Aug 15

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt is working on an industrial policy, including a series of incentives, which it’s likely to unveil by Aug 15, state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said on Saturday, adding that the govt would acquire land for ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Mitsubishi to scout Durgapur, Panagarh for semicon unit soon: Minister

    Kolkata: Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Group is set to inspect sites in West Burdwan’s Durgapur and Panagarh for a semiconductor manufacturing unit, Bengal commerce and industry minister Tapas Roy said on Saturday. Roy was speaking on the sidelines of the ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    ‘Chor’ chants as cops parade TMC neta through Sodepur, Panihati

    Kolkata: Arrested Trinamool neta Tirthankar Ghosh was paraded by cops through parts of Sodepur and Panihati on Saturday as part of their investigation, with residents shouting “chor, chor” (“thief, thief”) at him.Tirthankar, a CIC member of Panihati municipality and ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Bikers snatch smartphone from man on Bypass

    Kolkata: Cops have launched a hunt for two bike-borne accused who snatched a premium smartphone from a pedestrian on E M Bypass early on Thursday morning. According to the FIR, the incident occurred near Sanjha Chulha restaurant in the ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Tagore-linked autograph book, works by Indian masters to go under hammer

    Kolkata: Works of Indian masters, including Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, MF Hussain, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Chintamani Kar, Sunil Das, Ganesh Haloi, Jogen Chowdhury, Paresh Maity, Kishen Khanna and Manu Parekh, will go under the hammer in what is being billed ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Missing for 2 days, national shooter Damayanti Sen found safe in Kolkata

    HOWRAH: National-level shooter Damayanti Sen, who had been missing since Thursday afternoon, was found safe in Howrah on Saturday.The 15-year-old, who was recently selected for national team trials, had left her home on Thursday to buy household items but ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Bulldozer action on Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee's office in West Bengal; heavy police deployed

    KOLKATA: A demolition drive targeting a Trinamool Congress party office linked to the party's national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee began in Amtala on Saturday, with district authorities alleging that the five-storey building had been constructed ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal STF launches terror-check SOP

    Kolkata: Bengal STF has set up a State Terror Monitoring Grid to track, detect, and break up extremist networks across the state. The grid will work as a central system for counter-terror operations, keeping real-time digital records related to ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Bengal NEET topper chooses engineering over medicine, to start IIT-Kharagpur classes

    Kolkata: Sabyasachi Laskar, the Bengal topper in NEET (UG), the national entrance test to medical colleges, has decided to forgo a career in medicine and instead, study computer science engineering. Sabyasachi, who said his ultimate goal was hardware research ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
    Congress’s Mohammad Mukhtar arrested over Metiabruz Muharram violence

    Kolkata: The Congress functionary from the port area, Mohammad Mukhtar, was arrested on Friday in connection with alleged violence during Muharram in Metiabruz.Police sources said Nadial Police Station had registered a suo motu case after the incident and later ...

    18 July 2026 Times of India
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