Kolkata: Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 was tabled in Lok Sabha on Monday by the minister of statistics and programme implementation Rao Inderjit Singh to provide for a comprehensive statutory framework to the 95-year-old institute. The bill, which Singh ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state launched its Road Safety Week on Monday, with the administration stating that this year’s motto was about explaining that following traffic rules and using safety gear should be more about ensuring protection on the roads rather ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Over seven unforgettable days, more than 50 West Bengal schools gathered to celebrate talent, passion, and perseverance at Talent Hunt 2026, organised by The Times of India with Times NIE and Being Iban Academy.Spanning July 17 to 24, ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Varsha Ashok Aglawe on Monday assumed charge as the 54th director general of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), becoming the first woman to lead India’s premier geoscientific organisation in its 176-year history.She succeeds Asit Saha, who served ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City-based IT-enabled services provider Fusion CX recorded a 128% jump in net profit to Rs 169 crore in 2025-26, with revenue from operations rising to Rs 1,818 crore from Rs 1,329 crore the previous year.The company has filed ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A private tutor in Howrah helped police arrest her husband after allegedly catching him raping a 14-year-old Class 7 student inside their home on Monday morning.The accused, Sk Hafizul (40), was arrested from Munshirhat in Jagatballavpur under the ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Heavy rains lashed parts of south and central Kolkata leading to waterlogging in areas like Chetla, Kalighat, Alipore, New Alipore, Park Circus, Jadavpur and Southern Avenue on Monday. The rain, triggered by ‘local factors’, was accompanied by frequent ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While multiple viral infections have seen long and severe spurt in Kolkata over the last one month, dengue cases are yet to be reported.A possible reason behind this could be the predominance of other viruses like Influenza A, ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Burdwan/Howrah: The Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a 21-year-old college student in Howrah for allegedly being involved in a plot hatched by suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative Hamim Mondal to abduct junior state minister Umesh Rai’s son.STF ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The overwhelming response to the resumption of India’s tourist visas for Bangladeshis after two years has been accompanied by a surge in medical visa approvals, giving a fresh boost to Kolkata’s medical tourism.Over the past three weeks, most ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city has received 5% excess rain this monsoon, while south Bengal recorded an excess of 2%. The city, however, had a deficit of 12% in July while south Bengal received an excess of 14%. The July deficit ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya warned partymen against any demand for cut money or extortion, state ministers Dilip Ghosh and Agnimitra Paul said on Monday such people would not be allowed to continue in the ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around Rs 2.5 crore in cash, thousands of bottles of banned cough syrup and a small quantity of gold were seized during an overnight raid in West Bengal's Malda district as part of a probe into an anti-cold ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was allegedly strangled to death by his father at Baduria in North 24 Parganas on Monday after the accused became enraged over his father’s decision to transfer the family’s ancestral property to the child instead ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at their own party functionaries, including a mandal president, during a clash over attempts to bring Trinamool panchayat members to the Chhoto Salbari gram panchayat office in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Monday evening.The ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: Three persons were shot by motorcycle-borne assailants in Birbhum’s Nalhati on Sunday night, leaving two critically injured.The incident took place near Haridaspur village under Nalhati police station limits, where Viki Sheikh, Habibul Sheikh and Joni Sheikh were allegedly ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CenturyPly, the Kolkata-based plywood and veneer manufacturer, has drawn up a roadmap to double its turnover to around Rs 12,000 crore by 2031 through capacity expansion across the country. The company plans to invest about Rs 2,500 crore ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: In an ongoing probe into cough syrup smuggling, police recovered Rs 2.4 crore in cash, 20 gms of gold and 9,000 bottles of a banned drug worth nearly Rs 90 lakh from a trader’s rented room in Malda ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Posing as a committed BJP supporter, Aditya Singh, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata and an alleged associate of suspected militant Hamim Mondal, had reportedly been gathering information on minister of state Umesh Rai ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Tripura has experienced remarkable advancement, said agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Ratan Lal Nath on Monday in Kailashahar of Unakoti district.The minister inaugurated and laid foundation for five significant development projects across various areas of Unakoti district, with ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy in Salboni’s land fraud case but granted him anticipatory bail in Debra’s jobs-for-money case.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh observed that since ...
4 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 69-year-old woman has complained that gold and diamond jewellery estimated to be worth Rs 20 lakh was allegedly stolen from a locked almirah in her Woodburn Park Road home. According to sources, the theft came to light ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An ATM fraud gang has duped a 58-year-old resident of South Port of Rs 1,61,500. The victim’s debit card got trapped in an ATM in the Ekbalpore area around 2 pm last Saturday. When he contacted a helpline ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt on Monday appointed Anil Verma as the new chairperson of West Bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC).The position of the WBPSC chairperson was vacant since the resignation of retired IFS officer Debal Ray.Verma, a retired 1989-batch IAS ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) – including time-bound tax collection, follow-up action against defaulters and identification of alternative sources of income – for improving the revenue of gram panchayats. The govt has set ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ITC has concluded the acquisition of Century Pulp and Paper (CPP), marking the formal integration of the business into ITC Paperboards & Specialty Papers portfolio. The completion, announced through a regulatory filing, makes ITC India’s largest integrated paperboards ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) is probing how a Pakistan-linked terror module used social media and an online gaming platforms to identify, recruit and assign operational roles to youngsters, as investigators widen their probe into the ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 44-year-old man, an ISF functionary, was allegedly murdered by his cousin over a family dispute in Bhangar on Saturday night. The accused later surrendered at the local police station. Victim Atabuddin Molla was a resident of Beliadanga. ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have launched a multi-agency probe after a businessman residing in an eleventh-floor apartment of a gated complex on Sarat Bose Road in Bhowanipore alleged that he received threats and an extortion demand of Rs 5 crore from ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the madrasa education system, alleging that some institutions have become "factories for producing 'jihadis'" and calling for strict government regulation and sweeping reforms to curb religious ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a third associate of suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)-linked operative Hamim Mondal as part of its probe into an alleged Pakistan-backed terror module.According to police, the accused, identified as Aditya ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suspecting that construction materials piled on the roadside could have led to Saturday’s fatal accident in which two young siblings were killed after a truck hit their scooter, cops have launched a hunt for the builder accused of ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters on one of South Kolkata’s crucial transit corridors were left in the lurch on Sunday morning after auto services along the Baghajatin–Ranikuthi route were abruptly suspended following an argument over unauthorised autos trying to ply the route. ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kashmira Sheikh, 36, visited the Kultali Jamtala branch of PNB in Bengal’s South 24 Parganas to check whether the subsidy for her LPG cylinder had come through. She froze at the sound of what the bank official said ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 22-year-old woman from Jharkhand, arrested alongside a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative, was allegedly being groomed by Pakistan-based handlers to run espionage and honey-trap operations in India, according to investigators.The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) said it ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Above 90% engineering students at Jadavpur University (JU) bagged job offers in reputed companies across the country in this year’s (2025-2026) placement season. The hiring trends witnessed strong traction in core engineering sectors. A student from the computer ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A rapid transition to zero-emission vehicles could save thousands of lives in West Bengal over the next quarter century, with Kolkata expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries because of its chronic air pollution, dense traffic and location ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two persons died in two incidents in the city on Sunday. Basirhat resident Ranjit Ray (25) died after allegedly coming in contact with a live high-voltage electric line in a building on Taratala Road. Co-workers and locals took ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A retired scientist from New Town who was allegedly defrauded of more than Rs 1 crore in a digital-arrest fraud earlier this year finally has hope of a full recovery of his money. Bidhannagar cops have arrested three ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A dispute over feeding stray dogs near the main gate of a complex in the Sovabazar area escalated into attack and death threats last week. A complaint by residents of the apartment has prompted cops to register an ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that a section of party workers was engaging in corruption, senior BJP neta and state panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh said extortion culture can’t be ended overnight.“This (extortion) culture cannot ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A class 10 student of La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, Aarav Agarwal (16), has won two medals at the First Para National Rowing Championship in Pune, marking another milestone in a sporting journey shaped by resilience and discipline.Representing ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite a cloudy sky and moderate rain in some parts, Kolkata experienced a humid Sunday when the maximum temperature climbed up to 34°C, nearly two degrees above normal.While the cloud cover has been predicted to persist on Monday, ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 42-year-old hawker, Md Bellaluddin, was severely assaulted by fellow vendors for trying to set up his stall along Chowringhee Road on July 31. The altercation started due to reduced vending space in Esplanade.According to police, the incident ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hamim Mondal, the alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative who was arrested in Burdwan last Thursday, communicated with his Pakistani handlers first on the now-banned Element X and later on Session, both end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, officers of Bengal’s Special Task ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh-born author Taslima Nasrin said she “wants to believe” that the BJP govt in Bengal will protect freedom of expression and the fundamental rights of every citizen. “I believe they (the govt) will accommodate those with differing opinions ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: How does it feel to suddenly receive Rs 100 crore in your bank account?Not good, as Kashmira Sheikh — a poor zari worker from Kultali in South 24 Parganas, more than 100 km from Kolkata — is finding ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata’s next phase of growth must be guided by where the city can expand safely and where expansion must stop. A new IIT Kharagpur study, 'Heat island, pollution load and urban sprawl in the Kolkata metropolitan city of ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Every person — Pakistani or of any nationality — should be given all opportunities to prove his/her case, Calcutta High Court said on Saturday, criticising the Centre and state for taking 24 years to decide on the citizenship ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sharp spike in vegetable prices over the past week has left households across Kolkata and its adjoining districts grappling with soaring kitchen expenses, as the cost of several daily vegetables has nearly doubled following supply disruptions and ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday cautioned party workers against using loudspeakers as a show of strength and warned them of strict action if members are found collecting “protection money.”“There is no reason to blare loudspeakers during ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A social media buzz about former Bengal minister Shashi Panja meeting NCPI MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar at a fertility clinic in Bhowanipore on Saturday has led to speculation over the former’s political future. Kakoli’s husband Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaTaslima Nasrin said denying Joy Goswami the opportunity to speak was an insult to him. She said, “I felt bad. I invited Joy and requested him to speak. I spoke about freedom of speech — people can have different ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: Fear and concern over security gripped residents of Renaissance Township after STF arrested Md Hamim Mondal on Friday on suspicion of terror links.On Sunday, the Renaissance Central Welfare Society met to discuss security and communal harmony. Member Bapi ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: From Sept 1, the govt would launch a state-wide enforcement drive against illegal construction, encroachment, plastic pollution and public nuisance. Builders found storing bricks, sand, stone chips or other construction materials on public roads would face strict penalties.“If ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal and his father, Maniruddin Mondal, operated a business from the ground floor of 7 Alam Mistry Lane in ward 13 of the Howrah Municipal Corporation— the same ward where minister of state for urban ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal health dept has barred 11 blood banks from collecting blood at donation camps anywhere in the state till further orders. The dept had started an investigation against 11 blood banks accused of severe irregularities, including ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Arpita Sarkar, a 22-year-old from Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district, has emerged as a key figure in the Bengal Special Task Force’s probe into an alleged Pakistan-linked terror module.Sarkar, who was arrested from Barharwa, is described by investigators as an ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Faculty members, scholars and students of Indian Statistical Institute on Saturday requested the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) to initiate discussions over the bill with the “stakeholders of ISI”. They alleged that there are “serious anomalies” ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mid-day meal scheme through Iskcon rolled out from Saturday with a target to serve nutritious meals to more than two lakh students every day. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, from the programme dais, announced that every student where ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 22-year-old aspiring influencer from Jharkhand — known online for reels of motorcycle rides and travel — has been arrested for her alleged role in a Pakistan-linked terror module, Bengal's Special Task Force (STF) said on Saturday. Arpita ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: The densely packed slums of Howrah have come under the police scanner after claims that Hamim Mondal, the suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested from Burdwan on Friday, lived in the city’s slum belts. Mondal is accused of plotting attacks ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 10 residents’ associations at Renaissance Township in Burdwan, from where suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Mohammad Hamim Mondal was arrested on Friday, have convened urgent meetings on Sunday to discuss tighter security measures and stricter checks on tenants moving ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who returned to Kolkata after 19 years on Friday, said criticism of Islam or speaking the truth about Islam was not an attack on Muslims. It was necessary to bring about reforms, evolution and ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An attempt by the Calcutta High Court to work on a Saturday to meet its 210-day yearly working roster was frustrated as few lawyers turned up for the weekend hearings.On July 3, Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first day of the Census self-enumeration process passed off smoothly on Saturday, with most users completing the online questionnaire in under five minutes and reporting a hassle-free experience. Some respondents, however, encountered minor hiccups with the captcha ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt will review the utilisation of leasehold land allotted to private companies during the previous Trinamool Congress govt, with an eye to reclaim unused or misused plots for productive industrial use.The decision comes as the govt ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rinku Das, holding on to her daughter’s hand, was writhing in excruciating pain when her husband threw acid on her face following a tiff over dowry about a decade ago. Das, now in her late thirties, travels around ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Bengal rolled out its first fully digital Census with the launch of the self-enumeration process on Saturday, the authorities issued a strong warning against cyber frauds and urged citizens not to share documents, bank details or one-time ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Launching the 2027 Census in Bengal on Saturday, CM Suvendu Adhikari said the status of those excluded from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls remain under consideration, saying the guidelines were clear but stopping short of ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl was rescued from an Indo-Bangladesh border village in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas after she was allegedly trafficked into India by a human trafficking racket. Police said the girl was drugged with sedatives mixed in ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Burdwan : Police on Saturday arrested suspected Jaish terrorist Hamim Mondal’s girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Jharkhand’s Sahibganj and said they are probing the duo’s alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of last month’s students’ protest. ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/BURDWAN: West Bengal Police STF on Saturday arrested suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal's girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Sahibganj in Jharkhand and said they are probing the duo's alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of recent student ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A young woman, Pratigya Gon, suffered serious injuries after being hit by a govt bus while attempting to cross a busy road near Webel More in Salt Lake Sector V, the state’s IT hub, on Saturday morning. The ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two siblings died in front of their father, who is critically injured, after a speeding truck hit their two-wheeler on BT Road in Baranagar on Saturday morning. According to cops, the accident took place near Mallik Colony, close ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: Until Special Task Force (STF) personnel surrounded the Renaissance Fitness Studio gym on Thursday night in Burdwan’s upscale Renaissance Township off NH-2, local residents had no idea that their neighbour of three months had been under scanner for ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Friday cited the ‘Force Majeure’ clause due to the war in Iran to grant a four-month extension to real estate projects across the country, KMC on Friday ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The plot to assassinate Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant to Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, was put into motion in Dec 2025, when cash movement began for the operation.Investigators claimed to have established the timeline and operational outline of ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Saturday that despite the party’s efforts a section of party members is indulging in extortion. The state BJP chief and CM Suvendu Adhikari have both repeatedly cautioned against extortion rackets.“It will ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP govt in Bengal has given citizenship certificates to 5,966 persons under CAA, and pending applications will be cleared within six months, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.After handing over citizenship certificates to beneficiaries from North 24 ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested by the West Bengal STF had planned to target chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and disrupt the recent students’ protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar by disguising himself in a police uniform, a senior STF ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaMONTESWAR: Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar, barely an hour’s drive from where he was arrested, learnt that the 24-year-old was a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative at 10 am on Friday.The family has been in the rice trade for ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Centre on Saturday released Rs 7,866 crore to Bengal as an additional instalment of tax devolution, part of a broader Rs 1,09,019 crore release to state govts on August 1 — ahead of the normal monthly devolution due ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has missed the second deadline — July 31 — to submit a draft report on the delimitation survey. On Friday, KMC commissioner and administrator Smita Pandey stated that the deadline would be further extended.Previously, ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaCHENNAI:/KOLKATA: The first phase of Census 2027 began on Saturday in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, with lakhs of enumerators beginning the houselisting and housing exercise. While around 1.15 lakh enumerators will conduct a month-long door-to-door survey across Tamil ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traders of BC Roy Market, or more popularly Maidan Market, seemed resigned to fate 24 hours after the state govt pasted a notice asking them to shift to the temporary stalls to facilitate construction of Purple Line’s Esplanade ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as India grapples with an unpredictable monsoon, Bengal has emerged as an anomaly, recording near-normal rainfall despite a 30% deficit across eastern and northeastern India, a Climate Trends briefing has found.Monsoon 2026 began under the threat of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 24-year-old man suspected of being a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative was arrested by the state's Special Task Force (STF) from a gym inside a gated township in Burdwan on Thursday night, with investigators alleging he had been tracking ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ripon Street looked like any other normal weekday on Friday afternoon. People dispersed peacefully after offering Friday prayers at local mosques, garment shops at the busy AJC Bose Road crossing remained open, customers walked in and out of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 1.8 lakh enumerators led by 30,000 supervisors will hit the streets and cover around 3.1 crore establishments after the first phase of Census 2027, which is set to begin from Saturday with an online self-enumeration process.On Saturday, ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police on Friday threw a tight security ring around Bangladesh-born writer Taslima Nasrin following her arrival in Kolkata after 19 years.Acknowledging the persistent threat perception surrounding the author, the Special Branch (SB) of Kolkata Police has ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 4.4-acre nature study park, complete with nature trails, biodiversity zones, a butterfly garden, a meditation space, an open-air gym and an amphitheatre, was inaugurated on the campus of IIEST, Shibpur, on Friday.The project is a collaborative environmental ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have registered a criminal case and launched a multi-pronged probe after a 75-year-old retired businessman from Bhowanipore was cheated out of Rs 10,22,353 by a cyber-fraud syndicate impersonating officials from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have started a probe after two bike-borne miscreants snatched a purse from a 34-year-old woman on Strand Road near the Adi Bhootnath Mandir early on Thursday morning.According to police, the incident took place around 4.15 am on ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Narkeldanga Police on Friday has arrested two men, one of them a key accused from Bantra in Howrah, for stealing a bag containing Rs 20 lakh from a vehicle on Wednesday. Cops recovered more than Rs 1.1 lakh ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Non-smokers and the young, who do not use tobacco in any form, are increasingly being diagnosed with lung cancer, leading to concerns among oncologists about environmental pollution and other undetected triggers that could be causing the disease.There is ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state will prepare a ‘Vision-2047’ document for Greater Kolkata Metropolitan Region for urban expansion and long-term infrastructure planning, including elevated urban corridors and economic growth in MKA and its immediate influence areas for the next 20 years.KMDA ...
1 August 2026 Times of India24-Yr-Old Picked Up From Gym In Gated TownshipBurdwan/Kolkata: A 24-year-old suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative, who was allegedly tracking CM Suvendu Adhikari’s movements, was picked up from a gym within a gated township in Burdwan by the state’s Special Task ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh-born author Taslima Nasrin was overwhelmed by the response on her return to Kolkata after 19 years on Friday, saying she was thrilled to be back in the city which gives her a “sense of belonging”.“It is homecoming ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Iskcon will start serving cooked midday meals to 309 state schools in Kolkata from Saturday, benefiting around 30,000 children. The programme will be inaugurated by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.Of the 309 schools, 178 are in north Kolkata and ...
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