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  • Bankim’s 7th-gen descendant joins BJP

    Kolkata: A seventh-generation descendant of iconic Bengali litterateur Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay joined the BJP on Thursday, sparking a fresh round of political speculation in poll-bound Bengal.Sumitra Chattopadhyay, a former official with the state labour department, took the party flag ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Ageas Fed Life Insurance to focus on term, annuity, rebalance product portfolio

    Kolkata: Ageas Federal Life Insurance (AFLI), a joint-venture company of Belgian insurance giant Ageas and Federal Bank, is rebalancing its product portfolio with a major focus on term insurance and annuities. The company does not have any presence in ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Protest over tribal woman’s assault turns violent in Siliguri

    Siliguri: Clashes took place between police and protesters in Siliguri on Thursday as members of Janajati Suraksha Manch marched towards Uttarkanya, the state govt's north Bengal secretariat, demanding justice for a tribal woman who was seven-month pregnant and was ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Jobs for kin of 56 who died amid ‘SIR stress’

    Kolkata: The state govt will provide home guard jobs to next of kin of 56 people who died and five who were incapacitated — in course of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, it was decided at ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Bengal to upgrade schools & ICDS centres, to tie up with ADB for Rs 4,648-cr projects

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt is partnering with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for projects worth Rs 4,648 crore to upgrade secondary schools and ICDS centres in the state. The plan, under which ADB will provide 70% of the funding, was ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Howrah gang war explodes: Rivalry ends in point-blank execution; victim tried to kill shooter the night before

    HOWRAH: Howrah City Police on Thursday arrested three aides of Harun Khan, the prime accused in Wednesday morning’s Pilkhana shooting, which investigators say was triggered by a gang war over territory and extortion in north Howrah. The trio were ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC refuses to stay NIA probe into Beldanga violence

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to stay the NIA probe into the violence that broke out in Murshidabad district's Beldanga in Jan and upheld a trial court order to hand over the case diary to the agency. ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    3 Namkhana fishermen in Pak jail for 2 yrs

    Kolkata: Three fishermen from Namkhana in Bengal's South 24 Parganas district have been languishing in a Pakistani jail for the past two years after their fishing boat allegedly strayed into the neighbouring nation's maritime waters off the Gujarat coast, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ESI Maniktala gets new 19-bed ITU facility

    Kolkata: The ESI Hospital Maniktala, one of the oldest and biggest in Bengal, opened a state-of-the-art ITU unit on Thursday, adding to its existing ITU bed count. The 19 new beds took the total ITU bed capacity to 52. ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Ambulances, schoolbuses crawl as DA protest blocks city’s heart

    Kolkata: Ambulances, school buses and other vehicles crawled as a section of state govt employees took to the streets and blocked the heart of the city on Thursday, demanding due dearness allowance (DA). The rally, organised under the banner ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    SMPA achieves 1st night-time pilotage at upper reaches

    Kolkata: Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Authority (SMPA) achieved its first night-time pilotage at the upper reaches on Wednesday night. Experienced pilots navigated container vessel Sinar Pangalam Susu on her inward voyage through the narrow channel of Kolkata Dock System ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    North-bound commute from Kol to get faster

    Kolkata: North-bound travel from Kolkata is set to become significantly faster as the upgraded 44.2-km Kalyani Expressway is likely to open on March 2, ahead of Holi. "The upgraded Kalyani Expressway, with 21 signal-free flyovers and a 1.3-km elevated ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Content gripe: On-off suspense plays at cinemas

    Kolkata: Priya cinema suspended all four shows on Thursday due to lack of business; Navina suspended all shows from Friday until March 17; Binodini Theatre (formerly Star) shut for two days before reopening on Friday. This has raised questions ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ’23 ragging accused back at JU Main Hostel, super complains

    Kolkata: The superintendent of the A1 and A2 blocks of JU Main Hostel wrote to the university authorities, stating that former students entered the Main Hostel on Tuesday night and, when asked to sign the register at the gate, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Another ragging plaint on JU campus

    Kolkata: A second-year student from Jadavpur University's comparative literature department lodged a complaint with the dean of students on Feb 18, alleging that his department seniors mentally harassed and bullied him, and threatened to thrash him. The complainant also ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    IIMC logs 100% MBA placement, pay package touches 1.5 cr a yr

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) has recorded 100% placement for its MBA programmes this year, with the highest domestic pay package bagged being Rs 1.5 crore per annum and the highest international pay package Rs ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    IIMC logs 100% MBA placement, pay package touches 1.5 cr a yr

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) has recorded 100% placement for its MBA programmes this year, with the highest domestic pay package bagged being Rs 1.5 crore per annum and the highest international pay package Rs ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Hsg complex seeks JU help after overnight water protest

    Kolkata: Shukhobrishti in New Town reached out to experts at Jadavpur University for a "holistic solution to the water problem", said the housing complex authorities on Thursday, hours after residents of E Block staged an overnight demonstration and called ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Cops shift auto stands away from key city crossings

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has asked all traffic guards to ensure that autos parked illegally on roads should not block normal flow of traffic at crossings. Over the past two days, the cops from three guards shifted the auto stands ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC’s ‘last chance’ to state for paralysed woman’s hosp update

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave the state a "last chance" to provide an update on the possibility of a paralysed woman, lying at a private hospital without bills being cleared, could be shifted to a govt ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Boy ‘expelled’ from school after father’s HIV news

    Kolkata: A five-year-old student was allegedly expelled from his school at Basirhat in North 24-Parganas after it became known that his father was HIV-positive. The incident sparked outrage with the family lodging a complaint at the sub-divisional officer's office ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    S Kol man tricked into clicking fake SIR link, duped of 5.3L

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police is probing a cyber fraud case, in which scammers allegedly used the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, as a lure to trick a south Kolkata resident into installing a malicious android application package (APK), ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Tracking device snags delayed CF for public transport vehicles’

    Kolkata: In a petition submitted before the state transport department, transport operators on Thursday sought govt intervention, claiming that glitches in the vehicle location tracking device system in the state has delayed the issuance of mandatory fitness certificates (CF) ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC rap for CWC for not handing child to parents

    Kolkata: How could the child welfare committee give a newborn to a pre-adoption foster home after police ruled out the parents as culprits and the DNA report confirmed their biological relationship? The Calcutta High Court posed this question while ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Part of a pattern, focus on inter-state probe’

    Kolkata: An interstate probe might be the way ahead for both Kolkata Police STF and the Bengal Police as they grapple with the 3rd successive day of fake bomb scares. The pattern is there for all to see — ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Citizens get last-min calls from BLOs for SIR docu resubmission

    Kolkata: In the past 24 hours, several electors across the city got fresh calls from booth-level officers (BLOs) for resubmission of documents needed for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. This baffled both electors and BLOs, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Passport, post offices in disarray as bomb-hoax season grows longer

    Kolkata: Even before the panic triggered by a series of bomb threats to courts across Bengal could subside, central govt offices came under threat on Thursday, after a hoax e-mail warned of explosives planted at the Kolkata Regional Passport ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Suvendu moves HC over breach of security

    Kolkata: BJP neta and leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari moved the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday over an alleged breach of security after he faced a protest outside the CEO office on Tuesday. It was alleged that shoes were ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Seagull Boy’ Cooper set to visit DHR in April

    Darjeeling: Cooper Wallace, the 10-year-old British sensation famously known as ‘Seagull Boy' for his award-winning European gull-screeching performances, will visit the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in April. A railway enthusiast, Cooper will be accompanied by his younger sister, Shelby, who ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Trained to handle guns’: Electoral observer fires back after Mahua Moitra's ‘quick gun’ jibe

    KOLKATA: In an unusual turn of events, special electoral roll observer (SERO) C Murugan has seemingly responded to Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra's ‘Quick Gun Murugun' dig at him, saying he does have training to handle different kinds of firearms ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    EC defers SIR meetings scheduled on March 1-2

    Kolkata: Meetings of district election officers and police superintendents with senior deputy election commissioners, scheduled in Kolkata on March 1 and 2, have been deferred, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The primary agenda of the meetings was to ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    My fight is for democratic right of every voter: Mamata

    Kolkata: Her fight was to protect the democratic right of every elector, irrespective of language, religion or political affiliation, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, criticising the SIR process in Bengal and alleging large-scale deletion of genuine voters' names ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    HC acts on BJP plea, pradhanto lose OBCcertificate

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamluk sub-divisional officer (SDO) to cancel the OBC certificate of Khukurani Mondal Ghorai, pradhan of Ishwarpur gram panchayat, within a week. Ghorai had contested and won the 2023 panchayat elections on ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘CPM may fight 200 seats, ISF 30’; seat-share talks run late into night

    Kolkata: Seat-sharing negotiations among Left Front partners, Indian Secular Front (ISF) and CPI (ML) Liberation continued late into the night on Wednesday, with sources indicating that CPM may contest 200 out of 294 seats in the upcoming assembly elections.The ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Apeejay in JV with Ambuja Neotia for Bypass property,will tie up with Luxmi for Siliguri 100-room hotel today

    Kolkata: After Oberoi and Taj hotels, The Park is set to expand footprint in north Bengal. On Thursday, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels and Luxmi Tea are set to ink an MoU for a hotel under The Park brand in ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Cut costs to make health covers affordable, Irdai tells insurers

    Kolkata: Irdai (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) has urged the insurance sector to focus on bringing down the high cost of customer acquisition and EoM (expenses of management) in order to achieve more profitability and provide insurance ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Shipping in Bengali blood’: Sanyal calls for leveraging city’s maritime assets

    Kolkata: The Centre has amended laws related to the shipping sector to help the shipbuilding industry flourish and has modified maritime rules to ensure India becomes a major marine power, said Sanjeev Sanyal, member, Economic Advisory Council to the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Acquaintance, his dad beat Malda 18-yr-oldto death

    Malda: An 18-year-old student was beaten to death by an acquaintance and his father after he confronted them over the sending of allegedly vulgar texts in his name.Mirdadpur resident Sk Sohel, who recently took his Madhyamik, had been admonished ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Sukanta leads campaign from RG Kar victim’s assembly segment

    Kolkata: Junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar led Bengal BJP's door-to-door poll campaign on Wednesday, starting with the Panihati assembly constituency, home to the victim of the 2024 RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case."People are welcoming BJP and change is ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Fresh ‘bomb mails’ to courts, STF probes

    Kolkata/Asansol/Suri: Hoax emails to courts continued even on Wednesday, with courts in Suri and Asansol receiving threats that disrupted judicial work, including SIR verification. On Tuesday, judicial activities were disrupted as at least six courts across Bengal received bomb ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Boy collapses, dies during school exam as twin takes test in another hall

    Kolkata: A Class 8 student of a private English-medium school in Kodalia under Sonarpur Police Station collapsed in his classroom while appearing for an examination on Wednesday morning, and was later declared dead at a hospital. The deceased was ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata-Agartala bus services via Dhaka resume after BNP victory

    Kolkata: The resumption of the international bus service connecting Kolkata, Dhaka and Agartala after more than a year and a half has rekindled hopes of a tourism revival in central Kolkata, where thousands depend on visitors from across the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata-Agartala bus services via Dhaka resume after BNP victory

    Kolkata: The resumption of the international bus service connecting Kolkata, Dhaka and Agartala after more than a year and a half has rekindled hopes of a tourism revival in central Kolkata, where thousands depend on visitors from across the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Three arrested for fake Madhyamik paper video

    Kolkata: Three men were arrested from Murshidabad on Tuesday in connection with the circulation of a fake Madhyamik examination question paper video on social media last month. The accused — Masud Ali, Fayed Ali and Chiranjeet Das — were ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kol lab creates ‘mini brains’ to study neuro ailment

    Kolkata: For the first time in India, a team of city neurologists and researchers created ‘mini brains' out of real human tissues and blood vessels to study the trigger for a neurological ailment that affects many, mostly in Kolkata's ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    No more getting stuck in tunnels, Kolkata Metro's Blue Line becomes India's 1st to get battery backup

    KOLKATA: If you commute regularly by Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line (North-South Metro), you no longer have to worry about getting stuck in the tunnel in case of a power failure. The Blue Line has become the country’s first metro ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Maintain confidentiality while checking papers: WBBSE

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education released a set of instructions for storing answer scripts and maintaining confidentiality while checking them. These measures are intended to avoid transit risks and to secure answer scripts and the marking ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Man, dad arrested for shooting at Tiljala youth after cold drink row

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police arrested the main accused, Mohammad Salman, and his father, Mohammad Anwar, in the Beniapukur attempt-to-murder case involving the shooting of a 23-year-old mechanic around 24 hours after the incident was reported. The cops also seized illegal ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Want to come back: Bangla patients contact Kol hosps

    Kolkata: The formation of a new govt in Bangladesh and the resumption of visa services between India and Bangladesh are set to revive medical tourism in Kolkata. Calls have started pouring in from Bangladeshi patients to Kolkata hospitals, asking ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Fans hope Blues cross Zim hurdle before WI test

    Kolkata: City cricket fans had their fingers crossed as they prayed for a turnaround in the all-important Super 8 match against Zimbabwe on Thursday, which now turned into a ‘do-or-die' game for the Men in Blue in the T20 ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    EC to set up polling stations in 57 more residential high-rises across Bengal

    Kolkata: The EC will set up polling stations in 57 more residential high-rises across Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and East Burdwan, a senior Commission official said on Wednesday.Earlier, a list of 78 residential high-rises ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Shukhobrishti families return to be told water still contains coliform

    Kolkata: Following promises of clean drinking water, several residents of Sukhobrishti housing complex in New Town, who had temporarily left their homes after coliform was found in the water from the tanks, returned to the complex on Tuesday, only ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Bihar son to visit Kol to take back Christian mom

    Kolkata: The district administration in Godda, Jharkhand, reached out to Madan Besra, who refused to accept his lost mother until she converted to Hinduism. The son, the district administration said, is ready to accept his mother, Sushila Murmu, without ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    2 injured in clash over Posta water balloon fight

    Kolkata: Two persons were injured in a clash that broke out after water balloons were hurled at unsuspecting passers-by and traders in the Posta region on Tuesday.Hariom Upadhyay, 20, a resident of Radha Madhav Shah Lane, filed an FIR ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    3 with 4 cr forex held from Park St

    Kolkata: Three persons, identified as Sayan Das, Asad Mohammad Punjabi and Firoz Khan, were arrested on Tuesday after Park Street police recovered $4,75,000 and 300,000 Thai baht from their possession without valid documentation. The SUV they were travelling in ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Students, ‘outsiders’ play cat-&-mouse game with guards on JU campus after 8pm ‘curfew’

    Kolkata: A day after Jadavpur University banned gatherings on the campus after 8 pm, the new rule was ostensibly only partially implemented on Tuesday night. While guards patrolled the campus in the "curfew" hours, groups of students and "outsiders" ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Drunk, man didn’t know what he was doing: HC

    Kolkata: "Had he not been drunk, he may not have committed the murder," the Calcutta High Court observed, reducing a murder charge to culpable homicide not amounting to murder against a man, who he set his wife on fire ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Presi’s past and present debate today’s edu system

    Kolkata: Formal education today throttles learning, as it sees curiosity and experiments as distractions, formal education often rewards rote-learning and creates a workforce that is expected to bow to the status quo and fit into set "standards". Yet, this ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Apeejay Shipping to commence Andaman service with new container vessel

    Kolkata: Apeejay Shipping, part of the Apeejay Surendra Group, has acquired a 3,000-tonne multi-purpose container vessel equipped with two 60T cranes to launch a dedicated shipping service to the Andaman Islands. The vessel, APJ Karan 2, is scheduled to ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Believe it or not: Following the GPS can land you in a bog

    An online delivery in Britain took an unexpected detour — straight into the water. Following GPS directions a little too faithfully, the driver steered the van off the road and into a shallow waterway, apparently trusting the blue line ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Believe it or not: This man let AI ensure him a good night’s sleep

    Too hot? Too cold? This Bengaluru man has found the perfect balance. Fed up with manually switching his ceiling fan on and off, the X user @the2ndfloorguy built an AI roommate to handle it for him — literally. Using ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Radical’ reset: U2 returns to activism roots with new EP

    Irish rock band U2 has returned after nine years with Days of Ash, a six-track EP tackling US immigration enforcement, the war in Ukraine and civilian casualties in Israel and Palestine, alongside concerns about democratic backsliding. One track cites ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Kovind advocates circular economy, global tech leadership

    Kolkata: Former President Ram Nath Kovind called for greater investment in research and innovation on Monday, urging India to shift its focus towards building a circular economy even as the govt continues to back artificial intelligence initiatives.Speaking at the ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    One Billion Rising 2026 observed in city

    Kolkata: Kolkata observed One Billion Rising 2026 at Ranu Chhaya Mancha on Tuesday in a stand against gender-based violence, with voices, poetry, music and performances filling the venue. Fifteen organisations across Kolkata collaboratively organised the observance, bringing together activists, ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Poland, Egypt poets set to visit Kol’s arts fest

    Kolkata: International award-winning poets from Poland and Egypt will visit the city for the 1st edition of a multidisciplinary arts festival organised by the Yapanchitra Foundation and the Kolkata International Foundation for Arts, Literature and Culture. The festival brings ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Voting for BJP will mean ban on fish & meat in Bengal: TMC

    Kolkata: Voting for BJP would mean a ban on fish and meat on the Bengali platter, Trinamool said on Tuesday while criticising BJP over Bihar govt's decision to prohibit sale of meat and fish in open areas near educational ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    SSC candidates get letters for new posts

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Central School Service Commission on Tuesday started issuing ‘recommendation letters' to selected candidates for assistant teachers' posts for classes 9 and 10 in state-run schools. They will soon receive their appointment letters from the West ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    IIT Kharagpur to offer BS in AI & data science in Bangla from 2026 session

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur will offer a four-year Bachelor of Science (BS) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science in Bengali from the 2026 academic session, announced director Suman Chakraborty during a press meet on Tuesday at the Renaissance 2.0 ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Srijan Group enters fashion retail with 500 cr investment

    Kolkata: City-based real estate developer Srijan Group has forayed into the fashion retail segment under a new brand, ‘Srijan Style', with an initial investment of Rs 500 crore.The company has decided to come up with about 10 stores in ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal BLO alleges assault, intimidation by BJP supporters led by Suvendu Adhikari; FIR filed

    KOLKATA: A police complaint has been filed by a woman Booth Level Officer (BLO) against BJP supporters, allegedly led by Suvendu Adhikari, in connection with an incident of assault, criminal intimidation, and outraging of modesty. An FIR has been ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Air ambulance went off radar without sounding distress call

    Kolkata: The air ambulance from Ranchi to Delhi that crashed around half an hour after takeoff, killing all 7 occupants, did not sound a distress call before it went off the radar. Minutes before the crash, the pilot sought ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    State Cong urges SC to fix SIR deadline

    Bengal Congress on Tuesday flagged probable delays in the SIR process and urged the fixing of a deadline for its completion. "Unless a deadline is set by the Supreme Court for SIR completion, the process of publishing supplementary lists ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    If Kerala can change to Keralam, why not West Bengal to Bangla, asks Didi

    Kolkata: The "BJP-CPM alliance" wasn't "unwritten" anymore, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday, reacting sharply to the Centre overlooking Bengal's name change proposal while hastening to change Kerala to Keralam. "One day, you (BJP) will not be in office. ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    JU debars 3 boys, 1 former student after prof assault

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Tuesday debarred three current students from entering the campus for at least two weeks, during which time, they will not be allowed to even appear for their exams. The university implemented the prohibition on UG ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Accept ‘PM SHRI’, says Sukanta, prompts Bratya poser on scheme’s prefix

    Kolkata: Junior Union minister for education Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday said state-run schools must accept the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) tag to receive central funds, prompting state education minister Bratya Basu to ask why should ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Fake cops rob man of gold rings, chain

    Howrah: A gang, posing as police, blocked a resident's way and robbed him of his ornaments. The incident took place on Saturday in the Ramrajatala area under Jagachha Police Station in Howrah.Victim Bholanath Chatterjee was riding his bike when ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    2 held for 1.4cr CESC cable theft

    Kolkata: Two men were arrested on Monday for the theft of high-tension power cables, worth Rs 1.4 crore, from CESC's New Cossipore generating station. Ibrahim Sk and Asraf Morol, residents of Natunhat village in South 24 Parganas, were arrested ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Agency: Don’t pay more than 20/hr to park car

    Kolkata: The cooperative agency that controls most of the prime parking lots in central Kolkata, including Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square, said on Tuesday that it asked its members to collect Rs 20 per hour as a parking fee from ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Bengal courts handling SIR work face bomb hoax threats; security tightened

    KOLKATA: Identical hoax emails from rameeza_hussain@hotmail.com, threatening suicide bomb attacks and RDX blasts, landed in the inboxes of district judges supervising SIR verification work in Kolkata, West Burdwan, Hooghly and Murshidabad at 7.59am on Tuesday.The mail prompted police to ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    In times of SIR, Bengal sees record rush to get marriages registered

    KOLKATA: Coinciding with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral roll, 2025 witnessed the highest number of marriage registrations in Bengal. The year’s count of 1.8 lakh registered marriages even surpassed the tally for 2022, when the ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    UK to issue eVisas from today; no need to hand over passports during processing

    Kolkata: The UK immigration system will go fully digital from Wednesday, replacing the physical visa stickers, traditionally pasted in passports, with electronic visas or eVisas.While applicants will still have to visit a visa application centre (VAC) for biometric enrolment ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Rain washes Kol clean, city records best air since Nov 3 after sharp AQI improvement

    Kolkata: An early Tuesday morning shower swept across Kolkata like a natural cleanser, scrubbing layers of grime from the city's tired skyline and delivering the best air quality it saw since Nov 3. The rain rinsed dust-laden tree leaves, ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    YouTuber held for 2cr scam

    Howrah: Cops launched a search for a Youtuber and vlogger, Miraj Khan, after a fake video claimed that branded clothes were being sold for Rs 50 and Rs 100 rupees at a Manglahat shop, leading to a scam in ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Six arrested for 19.5L APK scam

    Kolkata: Six men, belonging to the Jamtara gang, were arrested from Sodepur in connection with a case involving the alleged siphoning of Rs 19,51,000 from a victim through a malicious APK installed on the victim's mobile phone, officials said. ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Pre-teens to 45-yr-olds join self-defence class as KP launches 10th edition of Tejashwini

    Kolkata: Around 300 participants turned up at the Police Athletic Club tent on Tuesday, for the 10th edition of Tejashwini, an initiative by Kolkata Police that empowers girls and women by teaching them self-defence.There are a few perverted minds ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Tram-lovers seek revival of key routes on 153rd anniversary

    Kolkata: Tram users and transport activists on Monday renewed their demand for the restoration of services on key corridors, marking the 153rd birth anniversary of Asia's oldest surviving tram system with a blend of celebration and concern.With tram operations ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Turf war’ pushes hawkers to middle of JL Nehru Rd

    Kolkata: Food vendors with carts selling roasted corns or bhutta, jhalmuri, dal pakoda, green coconut, masala chana and ice-creams lined up in the middle of JL Nehru Road in front of the Oberoi Grand on Tuesday evening. This left ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    BLOs, too, may get calls from judges for scrutinyof docus

    Kolkata: Scrutiny and final disposal of about 60 lakh special intensive revision (SIR)-related complaints pending before the high court-appointed panel will not be a mere tabletop exercise. Assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) or supervisors reportedly alerted booth level officers ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Four days, 60L cases, Sat deadline: SIR scrutiny keeps state on edge

    Kolkata: With only 4 days left for the publication of final electoral roll, the fate of about 60 lakh electors in Bengal is still hanging in the balance.Some 200-odd judicial officers began the scrutiny of documents and final disposal ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Law college rape, gold shop robbery trials among cases on pause

    Kolkata: The ongoing trials in the law college rape case and the Ranigung armed robbery worth Rs 4 crore are on pause as the trial judges have now been tasked with SIR duties.Several major trials that are ongoing in ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    2 accidents on slippery Maa, EMB turmac; 1 killed

    Kolkata: Two accidents, which cops suspected happened due to skidding, were reported on the Maa Flyover-Ultadanga Bypass stretch on Tuesday morning.In the first accident, a 21-year-old biker lost his life, while his 49-year-old father was stated to be critical. ...

    25 February 2026 Times of India
    Shah may launch rath yatra in Raidighi: BJP

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah may be present at the launch of BJP's rath yatra at Raidighi in South 24 Parganas on March 1. Sources in Bengal BJP said they were in touch with Shah's office about the ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Rare honey badger clicked in forests of Jhargram

    Kolkata: A honey badger, rarely sighted in India, has been spotted in the forests of Jhargram, a senior official said on Monday. The animal was photographed by a trap camera installed by the forest department during a recent survey.Earlier, ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Lost, found, lost again: Jharkhand man refuses to take mother back as she is Christian

    KOLKATA: An elderly woman who got lost more than two decades ago, and has been staying at a south Kolkata shelter home, was finally linked to her family at a village in Jharkhand. But her son refused to take ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Bengal tweaks death gratuity rules to include stepchildren in ‘family’

    Kolkata: Bengal govt has included stepchildren as well as widowed and divorced daughters as beneficiaries of death gratuity. A new notification issued on Monday amended the state's death-cum-retirement benefit rules to expand the scope.The new rules state that in ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Terror suspects rented New Town 1BHK, kept low profile

    Kolkata/Malda: The two young men arrested by Delhi Police's special cell in New Town last week over alleged terror links largely kept to themselves, venturing out only occasionally and sometimes disappearing for days, according to their neighbours. The duo ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    To mark his 100th birthday, classical vocalist performs to a full house of 1,200

    Kolkata: More than 1,200 listeners sat spellbound as Sangeetacharya Amiya Ranjan Bandyopdhyay stepped onstage on Feb 21 — his 100th birthday — and reiterated that age is just a number. The hall filled beyond capacity, and another 200 people ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Sacha Sauda Samagam ends with message of unity

    Kolkata: The annual Sacha Sauda Samagam 2026, organised by Gurdwara Behala in New Alipore, concluded on Monday with a display of devotion, unity and service.The two-day congregation commemorated the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev, particularly the institution of langar, ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    A fortnight on, evicted hawkers take back pedestrian channel on road near Grand

    Kolkata: A section of hawkers, who were removed from the pedestrian channel set up by police before Oberoi Grand, had started flocking in again. A fortnight ago, hawkers spilled over from the Grand Arcade to the pedestrian channel along ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
    Mukul Roy, Trinamool batch of ’97 who spent more than 3 yrs in BJP, passes away

    Kanchrapara: From being a co-founder of the Trinamool Congress to helping the BJP notch up its highest Lok Sabha vote tally in Bengal in 2019, former Union minister Mukul Roy was among the few politicians in the state who ...

    24 February 2026 Times of India
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