Replica LPG cylinders, cricket bats, bicycles, sacks of potatoes — in the Bengal theatre of assembly polls, such props have occupied centre stage, each of them carefully chosen to signal a message, trigger emotion, or to sharpen a political ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cases of digital arrest fraud were reported from south Kolkata on Tuesday. The victims, one aged 72 years and the other 80, were swindled of Rs 64.5 lakh by fraudsters, who posed as investigators from federal agencies, ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops from the Chitpore Police Station have initiated an investigation into a complaint of persistent stalking and criminal trespass after a 25-year-old human resources (HR) manager was reportedly targeted by a former theatre colleague. The man has been ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata: At least two corporate entities — a real estate firm and a hospitality company — have jumped onto the election bandwagon and introduced campaigns urging citizens to step out and vote at the ensuing Assembly elections in ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Scientists have rolled out an AI-powered forecasting system to help fishers locate hilsa shoals in the Bay of Bengal — a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at boosting catch, but already raising concerns among sections of the fishing community over ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman from Anandapur and another one from New Town were duped of Rs 31 lakh after they were lured into investing in a fake loan scheme and an investment platform.The Anandapur woman, living in a condo, was ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Darjeeling: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday made a slew of promises targeted at north Bengal on Wednesday, including the withdrawal of "false" cases against Gorkha representatives and the inclusion of the Rajbanshi language in the Eighth Schedule ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fire broke out on the top floor of a two-storey residential building on Ekbalpore Lane in Mominpore, located in the densely populated Naptani Bagan locality. No one was injured. An Ekbalpore PS officer said it was around ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A rape survivor told the Calcutta High Court that she had "suffered enough" and did not want to pursue further charges against her brother-in-law, who had raped her in 2013 when she was 17. Respecting her wishes, the ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKarandighi (WB): Hitting the campaign trail in West Bengal, defence minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday slammed CM Mamata Banerjee for deindustrialisation of the state, alleged a reign of fear and appeasement on her watch and projected the polls as a ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said central forces approached her car while she was at the Dum Dum airport and she asked them to check it, and questioned why vehicles of Trinamool seniors were being checked while those ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Days before polls, Smriti Irani handed out ‘Matri Shakti Bhorosa Cards'—linked to BJP's Rs 3,000-a-month promise for women—to five party workers, prompting Trinamool to question the timing.Explaining why she was distributing these cards before the elections, Irani said: ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's distribution of weaver cards to handloom weavers in Bengal on Wednesday drew a model code violation complaint from Trinamool and a sharp rebuke from CM Mamata Banerjee.Sitharaman visited weavers in Serampore's Ashram Para ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal governor RN Ravi chose a Poila Baisakh programme in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to urge the state's youth to be a "part of change" and underline Bengal's "decline" over the years, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to hit ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Falakata MLA Dipak Barman, also the constituency's BJP candidate, was allegedly roughed up by locals on Tuesday evening at Kadambini tea estate, where he was on campaign.As Barman reached the garden and got down from his vehicle, a ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal has emerged as a leading state in financial inclusion, contributing nearly Rs 1,000 crore to the over Rs 10,000 crore total balance in financial inclusion accounts operated through BLS E-Services' business correspondent network across India, the company ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal Home Industries Association, founded by Rabindranath's nephew Gaganendranath Tagore and Lady Carmichael (wife of the then governor), has turned 110, surviving the test of time, multiple changes of address and stiff competition from the cottage industry ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cases of online trading fraud, with losses of over Rs 43.4 lakh, were reported at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime PS in 24 hours.A Hatiara resident alleged he was lured to invest in a fake online trading platform and ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Manchester-based lecturer Mehebub Sahana desperately wanted to vote in this assembly election and booked tickets for himself, his wife and their 18-month daughter. But he cancelled his trip after his name got deleted from the electoral roll.Sahana is ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From queuing with devotees and offering pujas at local temples to holding colourful campaigns and greeting passers-by, the first day of the Bengali New Year focused on Bangaliana, setting it apart from the usual election rallies and door-to-door ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing poll season, described as Vote Puja, has forced major Durga Pujas in the city to defer their khuti pujas. The ritual is usually held on Poila Baisakh, as well as on Rath Yatra. But this time, ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The footfall at city restaurants surpassed last year's Bengali New Year figure on Wednesday. The crowd at most of the leading restaurants on Poila Baisakh eve was also higher than last year's. Both lunch and dinner seats at ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Trinamool Congress councillor Nirmal Dutta was arrested from Salt Lake on Wednesday for allegedly issuing veiled threats to voters, police said. He was produced before the Bidhannagar sub-divisional court, which rejected his bail plea and remanded him ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After stirring a controversy over its ‘Burnol' post, the Kolkata South district election officer on Wednesday withdrew it.In a statement, also on social media, the DEO South said: "To instil voter confidence and for making all of us ...
16 April 2026 Times of IndiaChef Amrita Bhattacharya’s The Blue Carbon Table residency moved beyond a traditional culinary showcase to present an applied anthropological study of coastal ecosystems. Working alongside Amit Sen, whose research focuses on the "soundscapes" and visual textures of the kitchen, ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Payments for actors who have been working for ‘Bhole Baba Par Karega' and ‘Chiroshokha', the two serials being produced by Magic Moments, have started being disbursed. Work on the two serials has stalled since actor Rahul Banerjee died ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: App-bikes are rapidly emerging as the city's new last-mile lifeline, stepping into the gap created by the shortage of autos on the road following the soaring LPG prices.A sharp rise in auto LPG rates — from around Rs ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaTrinamool has alleged all along that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls was designed to favour BJP. But in the Matua belt along some of Bengal’s border districts, it is the local BJP that is crying foul ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A boy from Lake Town, Subhojit Das (15), reportedly drowned in the Hooghly off Jagannath Ghat on Monday. The disaster management group fished out his body. tnn
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The alumni association of Naktala High School, actor Rahul Banerjee's alma mater, held a memorial service for him and issued a charter of demands, seeking answers from the "competent authorities" and the production house, for which he was ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal is accelerating on the road to cleaner mobility, with electric vehicle adoption witnessing a robust surge despite the continued gap in the charging infrastructure.EV registration in Bengal increased by 154.7%, rising from 52,327 units in 2023-24 to ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Midnight raids and arrests won't be able to scare or halt Trinamool, CM Mamata Banerjee thundered on Tuesday, her words coming barely a few hours after ED arrested I-PAC co-founder Vinesh Chandel in New Delhi late on Monday."If ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Gorkha issue will be solved in a constitutional manner without dividing Bengal, if voted to office.Signalling a shift from the earlier position of Bengal BJP netas, who had been ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kilburn Engineering has appointed Amritanshu Khaitan as non-executive chairman of its board, effective April 21, 2026, following the completion of the term of current independent chairman Manmohan Singh.Amritanshu, who was previously a director at the company, belongs to ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: India returned to net exporter status in finished steel in FY26 for the first time since FY23, with outbound shipments of 6.6 million tonnes marginally outpacing imports of 6.5 million tonnes, according to data released by the ministry ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Tuesday alleged that the EC had issued instructions via WhatsApp to police observers and central forces to check vehicles of all state govt protectees, including those of TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and his wife.The ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Gorkha issue will be solved in a constitutional manner without dividing Bengal, if voted to office.Signalling a shift from the earlier position of Bengal BJP netas, who had been ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda/Behrampore: Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Trinamool of ushering in a "dictatorship raj" in Bengal and paving the way for BJP, saying people in the state were "stuck" between an "anti-people" TMC and a "hate-spreading" BJP.Addressing a rally at ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Gated communities across the city are looking forward to assurance from the administration about the law-and-order situation on the campuses that will host polling booths and also see an inflow of "outsiders" who will enter the premises to ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A beautification drive ahead of Poila Baisakh has turned the section under the Nagerbazar flyover, also known as Ramkrishna Paramahansa Setu, into a vibrant zone, with pillars being painted in vibrant colours and in different styles. Additionally, the ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city is set to add 41 lakh sq ft of retail space over the next five years. At least four formatted retail spaces, including two stand-alone malls, are scheduled to become functional in the next couple of ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The alleged girlfriend of the businessman, Arup Mondal, who was found dead with a bullet injury at Narendrapur on Sunday, and her cousin were arrested on Tuesday. But more than 48 hours after the murder, police are yet ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Clashes erupted across multiple parts of the city as tensions flared between supporters of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP, with incidents reported in Bhowanipore, Baranagar, and Dhapa between Monday night and Tuesday morning. In Bhowanipore, violence ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In Bengali homes, recipes lived in memory, in the rhythm of hands, in the smell of mustard oil and the aroma of coconut paste. And many were cooked and savoured in the peak of summer when Nababarsha was ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the first time since the rape incident on a law college campus in south Kolkata last June, polling booths that used to be located on its premises have been shifted to a nearby school. Instead, the college ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "It is very hot now, have ice cream, keep yourself cool," CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday responded to a South Kolkata District Election Officer's April 12 social media post warning law breakers to keep adequate stock of ‘Burnol' ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Not a single applicant approaching the appellate tribunal against SIR deletion nor their lawyers seem to have any clarity about the process to follow if they want to get back on the voter roll.Haridevpur resident Aloke Basu had ...
15 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of co-founder of consultancy firm I-PAC Vinesh Chandel, calling his arrest “electoral sabotage” ahead of the West Bengal elections.The ED arrested Chandel on Monday, a director and ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 37-year-old man was found dead with a bullet injury on the right side of his head inside his flat at Nabagram under Narendrapur Police Station on Sunday night. The deceased has been identified as Arup Mondal, and ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: In a strange turn of events, Falakata MLA and BJP candidate Dipak Barman was assigned election duty as a presiding officer for the April 23 phase-I assembly polls. In fact, he was also issued a show-cause notice for ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: NIA arrested two Congress functionaries and one ISF worker in the agency's first arrests in the Mothabari violence case. Congress candidate Sayem Choudhury, also detained, was released after questioning.Those arrested are INTUC functionary Sahadat Hossain, district Chhatra Parishad ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A couple, who are known for saving East Kolkata Wetlands, find themselves disenfranchised by Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Bonani and Pradeep Kakkar had shifted to Hindustan Park from Ballygunge Circular Road last year. They flagged concern about not ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: For 28-year-old Sayan Sarkar, a hotel employee in Kuwait for the past seven years, life has been thrown into uncertainty after his name was deleted from the electoral rolls. Originally from Buniadpur in the Harirampur assembly constituency of ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday accused Trinamool of embezzling more than Rs 5,000 crore through multiple scams in Bengal and promised to make its netas accountable for "every penny" looted from people.Addressing a rally at Mayureswar ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: In response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment that he was BJP's candidate in all Bengal constituencies, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked if Modi "wished to be the CM of Bengal or remain the PM of India." "If ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ficci West Bengal State Council brought together over 120 stakeholders from the elderly care industry in Kolkata on Friday to chart a growth map for the state's silver economy, with participants arguing that the sector deserves recognition as ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday pulled up the Election Commission of India (ECI) for deploying assistant professors of universities and colleges as presiding officers due to the dearth of 1,000 polling staff, "At the last moment you cannot ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: Leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari warned Muslim migrant workers in Nandigram, reminding them that "they would have to return to BJP-governed states" for work after the votes. Speaking at rallies in Sonachura and Gokulnagar ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: The death of a 77-year-old woman led to an unrest in a Raiganj village on Monday. It all started when electoral officers, out to collect elderly citizens' votes, visited the house of 85-year-old Kalu Sheikh in Viti Katihar ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: There will be fewer women voters per 1,000 male electors than previous years in the 152 Bengal assembly constituencies that got to poll in the first phase on April 23.The special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal's electoral roll ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIT Kharagpur has launched its first series of online executive certification programmes in artificial intelligence, machine learning and technology leadership, designed to equip working professionals with end-to-end, production-ready AI capabilities. The courses are being launched as part of ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rubbing salt into the wounds of residents of Kolkata North Parliamentary constituency, where hundreds of booths have 150 or more voters deleted from the electoral roll in the SIR exercise, the EC has decided to declare those booths ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following Monday's Supreme Court hearing, the fate of lakhs whose names have been deleted in the SIR process and have applied to the tribunal remains uncertain, oscillating between faint hope and deep despair over their right to vote ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sixteen out of 19 appellate tribunals started functioning at Joka's Dr Syama Prasad Mookherjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation from Monday. According to EC officials, the dashboard was yet to be set up, hence the number of ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 38-year-old assistant professor at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-Calcutta), who has been exercising her voting rights since 2009, has been knocked out of the electoral rolls. Her father and grandfather had served the Indian Air Force. ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Regulatory Establishment Commission has asked two private hospitals to pay a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to a woman who had to undergo an abortion due to a delay in conducting a TVS (transvaginal ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal said on Monday that the EC had asked for a report from the North 24 Parganas DEO following complaints that some Nigerian footballers took part in a campaign rally for Trinamool's Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC has appointed IPS officer Saravana Vivek M as a police observer, who will be stationed at the office of the chief electoral officer in Kolkata. He will report to the EC till the end of the ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Say Jai Shree Ram, get a discount: A senior interventional cardiologist has come up with this offer for his patients, eliciting criticism and stirring up a controversy ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. While this unprecedented ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC will set up polling booths in six high-rise residential complexes across 11 constituencies falling under the jurisdiction of Kolkata North and Kolkata South electoral districts. Out of these six high-rises, two fall under the Rashbehari Assembly ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 19-year-old first-year student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) died on Monday after reportedly falling from the sixth floor of a hostel building in Salt Lake, police said. No suicide note has been recovered ...
14 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 54-year-old Murshidabad resident, Pradipan Bhattacharjee, who had planned a trip to Shimla with his wife was arrested on Saturday for allegedly triggering a major bomb scare on the Howrah-Amritsar Mail that he was supposed to board.On April ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Economist Parakala Prabhakar dubbed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bengal as a 'bloodless political genocide,' while speaking at an event in the city on Sunday.According to him, the SIR process is leading to large-scale disenfranchisement of the ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Charred bodies of a 32-year-old woman, Sunita Maiti, and her 4-month-old daughter, Shuddhi, were found in a trunk at their Sandeshkhali residence on Sunday. Police have arrested the woman's husband, Biplab Maiti, and her father-in-law.Preliminary probe suggests the ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Trinamool Congress is backing a “tukde-tukde gang”, which he said had once threatened to sever the strategic Siliguri Corridor so the northeast could be split from India. Speaking at a BJP ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday trained their fire on BJP's promise of Rs 3,000 monthly assistance to Bengal's women, citing what they called a consistent pattern of pre-poll promises and post-poll ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/KHANDAGHOSH (EAST BURDWAN): Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday warned Trinamool workers that "many will be detained and arrested" starting Sunday night and urged them to be smart and careful. She also vowed to resist BJP's attempt "to break ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Humayun Kabir has acknowledged that the video released by Trinamool — purportedly showing him seeking Rs 1,000 crore from BJP and calling Muslims "gullible" — is authentic, but alleged it was selectively edited from a 51-minute recording. The ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: NIA has issued notices to 43 Trinamool seniors and workers from Nandigram Block-1, summoning them to its Kolkata office on April 17 — six days before the constituency goes to polls on April 23.The notices relate to violent ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: Deleted voters in Kharagpur's Ward No. 25 staged a protest outside the BJP district office on Sunday, demanding an apology from BJP candidate Dilip Ghosh after he referred to deleted voters as "anti-nationals" during campaigning.Protesters accused Ghosh — ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Bose joined Trinamool on Sunday, in the presence of state education minister Bratya Basu and party MP Kirti Azad.A former BJP neta, Bose quit the party in 2023 after unsuccessfully contesting the 2016 ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaPurulia: Six hospital staff in Purulia — including a doctor and two nurses — have been issued show-cause notices after a Trinamool candidate entered an operating theatre (OT) at Raghunathpur Super Speciality Hospital and filmed proceedings last Thursday. Hazari ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: NIA has detained Congress Mothabari candidate Sayem Choudhury, gram panchayat member Golam Rabbani and two others for questioning in the April 1 Mothabari violence, in which seven judicial officers were confined for eight hours at the Kaliachak-II block ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 20% rise in obesity among children aged 11 to 14 in Kolkata was reported by experts at a meet to observe World Obesity Day. A multi-specialty joint consensus on obesity management was launched at the International-Standard Obesity–Metabolic ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Only 14 out of 800 members of West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum who attended a meeting on Sunday agreed to work with Leena Gangopadhyay and Saibal Banerjee, and firms they are associated with. The Forum has approximately ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the world celebrates the centenary year of Art Deco, a style of architecture that incorporates geometric patterns, sleek lines, zigzags and sunbursts in buildings, conservation architects and heritage experts in Kolkata called for preservation and adaptive reuse ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal paused this Sunday as the voice that breathed life into the poignant ‘Jete dao amay deko na' fell silent, marking the solemn closure of a seven-decade musical love affair with Asha Bhosle. As a ‘ganda-bandh shagird' of ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city is gearing up to welcome the Bengali New Year, and The Times of India is celebrating TOI Amar Paray Barshabaran — a vibrant and culturally rooted Poila Baisakh initiative that brings communities together through the timeless ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The maximum temperature touched the 35°C mark after a break during which the city was lashed by repeated thunderstorms. While the maximum clocked 35.2°C on a warm Sunday, the minimum touched 26.2°C.Last Friday, thunderstorms pulled the maximum temperature ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After the mysterious disappearance of Bangladeshi professional photographer Syed Abdullah Johi (38) from the Kestopur area a month ago, his family members and relatives want to come to Kolkata to intensify the search process. Johi, son of renowned ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 35 nuns of the Missionaries of Charity (MoC), an order formed by Mother Teresa and headquartered in Kolkata, have found that their names have been struck off the voter list following judicial scrutiny. The MoC has now ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 19 appellate tribunals are set to hear appeals for inclusion or exclusion of electors from Monday at Joka's Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation after 23 days of their formation by the EC ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission has transferred five more inspectors — all of them posted across three police commissionerates — barely 10 days before the first phase of assembly election in Bengal. The transfers come barely 24 hours after 59 ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jasmit Singh Arora, popularly known as the ‘Gutli Man of India' for his nationwide mission to collect discarded mango seeds and turn them into fruit-bearing trees, has been deleted from the electoral roll.The 54-year-old entrepreneur-turned-environmentalist has been living ...
13 April 2026 Times of IndiaAs a prelude to Naboborsho, Kolkata has been humming with festive energy at exhibitions over the past fortnight. From handloom saris, breezy cotton shirts, and chikankari sets in soft hues to quirky jewellery, bold bindis, aroma candles, embroidered cushion ...
12 April 2026 Times of IndiaLegendary playback singer Asha Bhosle passed away in Mumbai on Sunday at 92, following multi-organ failure. We spoke to members of the city's film, television and music fraternity to know what Asha Bhosle meant to them — and the ...
12 April 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has stepped up its probe into the high-profile ‘Sona Pappu’ case, issuing summons to two individuals for questioning in connection with the investigation. Officials said notices have been sent to Howrah Joint Commissioner Gaurav ...
12 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four class 9 girls, who went missing from north Kolkata, were rescued by Amherst Street Police and Asansol Govt Railway Police on Thursday night. The girls, who fled their homes fearing parental backlash after visiting a local cafe, ...
12 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "Bahut khel khel liya hai tumne (you have played for far too long)," PM Narendra Modi said in Bengal on Saturday, snubbing Trinamool's ‘khela hobe' poll cry, and terming the assembly elections a fight to save Bengal's identity.Addressing ...
12 April 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Raiganj resident's allegation of being robbed by an app-bike aggregator rider on E M Bypass near Ajay Nagar on April 7 turned out to be a case of a drunken brawl rather than a planned crime, police ...
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