Malda: GRP on Saturday detained five Bangladeshis in Malda Town station, reports Subhro Maitra. The five arrived from Delhi and Gujarat and had planned to go to Bangladesh through Malda border, said cops. Police also said that the detainees ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaChanditala (Hooghly): Trinamool chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused BJP of "murdering democracy" after her party's Lok Sabha chief whip Kalyan Banerjee suffered head injuries in an assault during a protest near Chanditala police station.Serampore MP ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city woke up to a stifling morning and endured a scorching Sunday, with the maximum temperature soaring to 35°C, after a brief one-and-a-half-day respite from the sweltering summer heat, triggered by the squall on Friday afternoon. Sunday’s ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The decomposed bodies of a 26-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, believed to have been in a live-in relationship, were recovered from a rented one-bedroom flat in Golf Green’s Aravinda Nagar on Sunday. The incident has triggered a ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after an FIR was registered against former state sports minister Aroop Biswas and others in connection with the Lionel Messi GOAT India Tour controversy at Salt Lake Stadium, Bidhannagar Police has begun the process of issuing ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaSrishti LakhotiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Sunday upheld the demolition of the fourth floor of a building under Howrah Municipal Corporation, while observing that flat buyers cannot claim that unauthorized construction be regularized purely on the basis that they ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State-run schools are preparing to introduce 'Vande Mataram’ in morning assemblies as schools reopen on Monday after the summer vacation. Several schools have decided to play the original version on loudspeakers to guide students during the prayer session.Ahead ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The shockwaves of the ongoing crisis in West Asia have travelled thousands of miles into the kitchens of Bengal. Across the country, fuel prices have skyrocketed by over Rs 7 per litre, triggering an immediate spike in neighbourhood ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the deadline approached for receiving applications for undergraduate admission across state-aided colleges, there was a surge, with around 23 lakh applications submitted through the centralised admission portal. Over 4 lakh candidates registered for 9 lakh UG seats, ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A massive anti-encroachment drive was conducted by railway authorities and police at Dum Dum Junction railway station throughout the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, which demolished more than 200 illegal shops and evicted hundreds of vendors.According to ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Orange Line Metro project has gained more speed with RVNL successfully bridging two more pillars at Chingrighata. The agency is now all set to start construction of the foot overbridge (FOB) — also the most important access ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced a major expansion of his government, with 35 ministers set to be inducted into the state government during an oath-taking ceremony scheduled for Monday.The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will hold a sit-in protest on June 2 at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in Esplanade under the leadership of party chairperson Mamata Banerjee in connection with alleged post-poll violence and attacks on TMC functionaries.The announcement ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The state govt’s decision to provide free rides for women on all state-operated buses from June 1 has been widely welcomed across Darjeeling. Women have hailed the scheme, stating that it will substantially cut travel expenses on the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaAHMEDABAD: Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane on Sunday linked the attack on Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee to the ruling party's governance in West Bengal, saying that people are the ultimate authority in a democracy.Rane said political leaders must ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A training programme for the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2026 counselling process was held on Friday at New Town, Kolkata.A total of 53 Verification Centres, including 31 National Institute of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Technology (IIIT), ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday assaulted and abused by a crowd of protesters in Sonarpur as he tried to reach the home of ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A BJP functionary has lodged a complaint against former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and a TMC MLA alleging misuse of annual Eid congregations on Red Road in central Kolkata during her stint in office for political purposes in ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tobacco use was one of the principal triggers of cardiac diseases that now affect more people under 40 than ever before, said cardiologists on the eve of World No Tobacco Day on Sunday. One in every four heart ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Vehicular traffic on Vidyasagar Setu will remain suspended on Sunday from 6 am to 2 pm to facilitate the replacement of stay cables and bearings, police said.A notification issued by the Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand said the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Centre has set a target of installing rooftop solar systems for 2.7 lakh domestic consumers under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana over the next two years. Additionally, the Centre has also directed the state govt ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister and Bhowanipore MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday evening visited two key public parks in former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s neighbourhood, flagging what he described as a worrying pattern of encroachment and restricted access in city green ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister and Bhowanipore MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday evening visited two key public parks in former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s neighbourhood, flagging what he described as a worrying pattern of encroachment and restricted access in city green ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Private hospitals in Bengal that have acquired land from the govt at a nominal cost for building the health facility will have to keep 15% of their beds for free treatment of poor patients. This was among the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands of members of the Jain community participated in a silent rally in Kolkata on Saturday under the banner of Sakal Jain Samaj. The rally was organized to seek justice for the revered Jain Aryika Matajis who tragically ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: NITI Aayog is working on a long-term economic and industrial blueprint for Bengal, identifying key growth sectors and structural reforms for the new state govt to prioritise. The think tank is expected to stress balanced regional industrialisation to ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Kalyani/Kharagpur: Police on Saturday arrested 12 persons associated with the Trinamool, including an Amdanga panchayat chief and three municipal councillors, in cases linked to post-poll violence, extortion, intimidation and alleged corruption, as the administration widened its crackdown on criminal ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (WBSEDCL) has completed the construction of underground power distribution networks in Rajarhat, Baruipur, Kharagpur and Chandannagar under a World Bank-funded project aimed at strengthening and modernising the state’s electricity infrastructure.Work ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement of “maach-bhaat” for Rs 5 at Maa canteens twice a week, people have started enquiring about when the new menu will be introduced. Those running the heavily subsidised canteens across the city ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt wants to give a push to e-transport, improve city connectivity and renewable energy under the Centre-assisted schemes.Speaking during the launch of Swachh App on Saturday, Adhikari said that the Prime Minister has repeatedly said that ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Jadavpur University has unveiled a functional prototype retrofitted electric Ambassador taxi, demonstrating a practical pathway to accelerate India’s transition to electric mobility without forcing the premature scrapping of existing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles. In a country where ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When the BJP began preparing for the West Bengal Assembly elections of 2026, it avoided “a generic national campaign pasted onto a difficult state.” The strategy was “focused and targeted,” built around specific public grievances against the incumbent ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: For unitary universities like Jadavpur University (JU) and Presidency University (PU), it is ‘zero year’ for postgraduate programmes in order to facilitate the shift from a two-year PG programme to a one-year PG programme as per NEP 2020.As ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A West Bengal CID team arrived at Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s residence on Saturday, serving him a notice to appear at the state CID headquarters in Bhawani Bhawan on Monday afternoon. This relates to ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of Kolkata is among the 17 sailors being held aboard an oil tanker hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast more than a month ago. Tanviruzzaman (36), who works as a chef on the oil tanker ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While Kolkata remained cloudy and windy on Saturday, it will now get warmer, said the Met office. The 88 km/hour nor'wester that lashed the city on Friday afternoon kept the maximum temperature nearly two degrees below normal at ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A resident of Kolkata is among the 17 sailors being held aboard an oil tanker hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast more than a month ago. Tanviruzzaman (36), who works as a chef on the oil tanker ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) parks department is seeking urgent permission from the state forest department to cut dead trees and prune branches that are leaning dangerously, citing the risk of uprooting those during Norwesters.It has gained urgency ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Centre has set a target of installing rooftop solar systems for 2.7 lakh domestic consumers under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana over the next two years. Additionally, the Centre has also directed the state govt ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The season’s strongest squall disrupted flight operations at the city airport for nearly an hour on Friday, forcing five flight diversions and delaying around 20 services. The squall recorded at the airport was 74 kmph.Flight movements were suspended ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mix of an extended Eid weekend, school summer vacation and a growing appetite for quick getaways has sent travel demand soaring in Kolkata, with bus fares to north Bengal becoming comparable to air tickets.Fares for luxury buses ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaHOOGHLY: Abhijit Majumdar, who resigned as Assam Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief, has alleged that the party has “lost its vision” and has “become a sectarian outfit, chasing Muslim vote banks instead of standing for all communities.”Majumdar, who submitted his ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was allegedly beaten and pelted with stones and eggs during his visit to West Bengal's Sonarpur to meet families of post-poll violence victims, he said the entire incident had been captured ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amin Ahmed alias Cheena Gabbar, a history-sheeter known for dropping names of some junior cops to carry out extortion, has been arrested after a home-invasion incident on Wednesday. According to cops, Ahmed routinely extorted money by falsely claiming ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari will flag off the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccination programme for teenaged girls from Bidhannagar Subdivisional Hospital on Saturday.While most states in India started the pan-India vaccination drive in Feb, the implementation in Bengal ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Eight people were killed, including two in Kolkata, after a severe squall with a top speed of 88 kmph and intense rain left a trail of destruction across south Bengal districts on Friday.CM Suvendu Adhikari aannounced a compensation ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: TMC councillor from Beleghata was named in an FIR lodged regarding post-poll violence cases from 2021 to 2024.A case of trespassing, ransacking and theft has been registered against KMC Ward 35 councillor Ashutosh Das and 13 other party ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fearing drainage issues during monsoon due to stalling of day-to-day functioning of KMC and the deferment of 54th Corporation meeting after the change in political party in the state govt, KMC chairperson Mala Roy moved Calcutta High Court ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One person was crushed by a heavy tree branch and another died when a chunk of concrete from a dilapidated building crashed on him while three others were seriously injured by uprooted trees in Friday afternoon’s storm, in ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 88 kmph squall swept through Kolkata on Friday afternoon that brought much-needed relief to the city as the temperature nosedived by 7°C. Accompanied by an intense spell of rain and thunderstorm, the season’s most powerful nor’wester also ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a ‘Swachh Bharat’ push, the state municipal affairs department on Saturday will launch the Swachh App, a dedicated, geo-tagged mobile application for cleanliness.The app will be launched in the presence of Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar and ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: If all went well, at least two of the seven feature films made by Anik Dutta would shortly be screened at Nandan 1, actor and BJP MLA Rudranil Ghosh told TOI on Friday.Only one among the feature films, ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Speculation intensified on Friday about a potential expansion of the Bengal cabinet, likely on Monday, after the state's home secretary met governor RN Ravi at Lok Bhavan. While the purpose of the meeting was not officially disclosed, sources ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Darjeeling: The Bengal govt has started implementing the Rs 1,000 crore central development package for tea garden workers in the Hills, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday. Around Rs 300 crore will be released this fiscal under the PM ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt on Friday started disbursing pending dearness allowance (DA) dues to retired state govt employees, sources in the finance department said. The payments currently cover arrears accumulated between April 2008 and Dec 2015.Serving govt employees, however, have ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A viral video showing a group of men claiming to be BJP workers allegedly threatening a Hindu family in Narayanpur's Beraberi Ghoshpara area over their Muslim son-in-law has triggered a political controversy and sharp reactions on social media.The ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The new BJP govt will bring back Tatas to Singur and talks have already begun for their return, state party president Samik Bhattacharya said on Friday."Exit of Tata Motors from Singur sent out a wrong message that Bengal ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The number of holding centres set up across Bengal to house suspected Bangladeshi infiltrators has risen to 11 within barely a week of the first such facilities coming up in Malda and Murshidabad amid an intensified statewide crackdown ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC on Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a report on its probe in connection with former minister Sujit Bose's arrest, reports Srishti Lakhotia.Bose had moved the vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is finally set to step out of his Kalighat residence this Saturday, marking his first public appearance 26 days after the party's bruising defeat in the assembly elections.Banerjee plans to hit the ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed demolition notices served to multiple buildings in Tiljala and Kasba for the next 30 days, directing the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to hear not just the owners of unauthorised buildings but ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Sundarbans, India’s biggest mangrove ecosystem that serves as a natural barrier protecting coastal Bengal and capital city Kolkata from the ever-increasing number of Bay of Bengal storms, faces immediate climate threats that can jeopardize both its unique ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIM Calcutta’s decision to put 10 dogs in a newly-built enclosure has triggered reactions from alumni, teachers and students. More than 100 alumni have written to the institute, opposing the move.Director Alok Kumar Rai said, “The institute identified ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Police has come up with a new supervisory post of ‘divisional reserve inspector’ for all police divisions.The move follows directives from the newly formed state govt to sharpen responses to field-level challenges. Senior police inspectors from ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state health dept has taken disciplinary action against Birupaksha Biswas by terminating his senior residency. Biswas has been barred from state government employment. Biswas, who was into his first year senior residency (pathology) in Burdwan Medical College, ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Are people (whose names were deleted in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral roll) expected to travel from districts to Joka for appellate tribunal hearing?" Calcutta High Court remarked in the context of appeals not being taken up ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed no coercive steps against actor and director Parambrata Chatterjee for four weeks in a Gariahat police case filed against a social media post linked to 2021 post-poll violence.Chatterjee moved the vacation bench ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Seven people lost their lives in rain-related incidents across six districts of West Bengal on Friday, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said.The chief minister announced that the state government would provide a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A row erupted on the city’s southern fringes on Friday after political workers, locals and police recovered a hoard of govt-marked disaster relief materials and public distribution supplies, allegedly illegally stockpiled inside a local Trinamool office in the ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Admirers, relatives and people from various walks of life gathered to bid their final farewell to film-maker Anik Dutta, who died on Wednesday after a fall from the terrace of his residence, on a rain-soaked Friday afternoon.The adman-turned-film-maker’s ...
30 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has started a new policy, booking errant motorists not only under the Motor Vehicles Act but also adding a criminal case section of the BNS for violations that turn out to be grave, such ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 100-year-old Ogilvie Building will now serve as the second campus of Scottish Church College. The college spent two years renovating it after the four-year degree programme was introduced. The building will be inaugurated soon, and classes will ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The engineers who drew up a river-training scheme for the lower Hooghly in 1981 — to keep the approach to Haldia port navigable for large cargo vessels — knew that part of their plan would intensify erosion along ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The rags-to-riches story of Baduria Municipality chairman Dipankar Bhattacharya — who was arrested on Tuesday after unaccounted cash and tarpaulin sheets allegedly meant for disaster relief were recovered from his premises — is stranger than fiction. From being ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaBehrampore/Midnapore: Two men have been arrested in separate incidents for allegedly drawing financial benefits under Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, a state welfare scheme meant exclusively for women.In Murshidabad, Behrampore Police arrested Rakibul Sekh of Sialmara following an FIR lodged by ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A city court on Wednesday sent Santanu Sinha Biswas, accused in a land grab and money laundering case, to judicial custody till June 1. Biswas was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the case.During the ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CID officers visited the residence of Chowringhee MLA Nayana Bandyopadhyay on Thursday regarding an FIR lodged by the Bengal assembly secretary, which alleges that her signature proposing Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) was forged. ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City cops investigating the death of 66-year-old film-maker Anik Dutta are now certain it was a case of death by suicide.The sleuths have cited several findings — from the postmortem report, witness accounts and the recovery of a ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: A class 6 student allegedly drowned in the swimming pool of a private English medium school in Asansol during a summer camp session on Thursday morning. Aadvik Hilarian, 11, was among 30 students participating in a swimming session ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: India's engineering exports rose 8.8% year-on-year in April 2026 to $10.3 billion from $9.5 billion in the same month last year despite logistical and production disruptions due to the West Asia conflict.The growth was primarily driven by aluminium ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Stacks of voter, Aadhaar and ration cards were unearthed from a locked Trinamool Congress party office on Thursday morning. The party office was under lock after it was painted saffron recently.The recovery on Tangra Lane No. 2 in ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From Sept 1, civic bodies across the state will start imposing fines as per the existing act for littering on roads in municipal areas. The state municipal affairs department will develop infrastructure, including installing waste bins at 100-metre ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Concerns of transporters over rising operational uncertainties and fuel costs have triggered the private operators to urgent call for state intervention to “revive the transport sector” following the recent political transition in Bengal.The Joint Forum of Transport Operators ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaDebashis Konar & Kaushik PradhanKolkata: The state govt on Wednesday released the 11-page application form (12 pages in Bengali) for the newly launched Annapurna Yojana, a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme under which eligible women will receive monthly financial ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The airport mosque shift will give Kolkata airport a lifeline of 10 more years, aviation industry experts said.While the civil aviation ministry and the state govt have cited airport’s safety and security to push for the relocation of ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three incidents of political clashes were reported in the city in the past 48 hours.In the first incident, a BJP worker was beaten with an iron rod and injured in the head in the Labutala area close to ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Trinamool strongman Abhijit Roy, alias Bonny, of the Bijpur assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas, who was earlier arrested in connection with extortion and Arms Act cases, was paraded through several areas of Kanchrapara-Bijpur on Thursday afternoon ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Veteran parliamentarian Saugata Roy ran into protestors at a Nimta police station on Thursday as they shouted “chor-chor” (thief-thief) slogans and hurled eggs at his vehicleAccording to cops, the 78-year-old Dum Dum MP had gone to the police ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt is planning to revive state-run lottery services, including the now non-existent “Bangalakshmi” scheme, aiming to increase state revenue and introduce greater transparency in lottery operations.Sources in the administration said the state finance dept has begun ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to probe an AI-generated eviction notice that was circulated among traders in the New Market area. The purported notice asked for all hawker stalls, dalas and encroachments near the Metro Esplanade station ...
29 May 2026 Times of IndiaDwaipayan.GhoshKOLKATA: Four people , including a four-year-old child, were injured as a clash broke out over illegal parking outside a barber shop on Bijoy Bose Road in Kalighat on Monday night. Police said the altercation started around 9.45 pm, ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A civic volunteer, attached to the Sealdah Traffic Guard, was reportedly assaulted by a biker, and his friends, in the Palmer Bazar area when he and a sergeant stopped the accused for not wearing a helmet. During a ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: After a complaint against Mamata Banerjee, another was lodged against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.The complaint against Abhishek was lodged at the Bhowanipore Police Station for allegedly making provocative and hate-inciting remarks on social media. But Lalbazar ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Sougata Roy on Thursday faced protests outside a police station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, with demonstrators shouting “thief” at him and hurling eggs at his vehicle.The 78-year-old parliamentarian had gone to the ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Dr Santanu Sen has resigned from his post as the party’s national spokesperson on Thursday, according to news agency ANI.In his resignation letter addressed to party chief Mamata Banerjee, ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Despite RG Kar outrage and citywide protests, Kolkata has once again emerged as India’s safest metro city, recording the lowest rate of cognisable offences per lakh population among 19 Indian cities with populations exceeding 20 lakh, according to ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At a time when the Trinamool bigwigs in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are witnessing spate of resignations by its councillors, they are also keeping their fingers crossed for the rainy season.The preparedness for the monsoon has taken ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Award-winning director Anik Dutta, 66, the man behind a new genre of political satire in Bengali cinema, died after falling from the roof of a six-storey residential building at Hindustan Park near Gariahat on Wednesday. He was taken ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Nearly 30 lakh beneficiaries of the previous government’s flagship Lakshmir Bhandar scheme will be ineligible for the new government’s Annapurna Yojana, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday while launching the application form for the new direct benefit ...
28 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As TMC grapples with a deepening internal crisis following the party’s crushing poll setback, former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appeared to hit back at dissenters within the organisation through a sharply worded poem titled “Girgiti (Chameleon)”.Penned ...
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