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  • News from West Bengal | 26 Aug, 2025 | ১০ ভাদ্র, ১৪৩২
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  • 68-yr-old loses 1.1 crore in six-day digital arrest

    Kolkata: A 68-year-old resident of Dum Dum Park fell victim to digital arrest, losing his retirement savings of Rs 1.1 crore to scamsters who posed as CBI personnel and judges. The fraud occurred over six days from July 10 ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    All wares seized, FIR against 5 detained New Market hawkers in Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: After five hawkers were detained and their merchandise worth thousands of rupees confiscated, New Market Police lodged an FIR against these vendors for illegally occupying Lindsay Street and Bertram Street. The detention comes as a part of ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    NSG leads hijack & terror-attack drills at airport

    Kolkata: A dramatic hijack of an aircraft, tense negotiations, and finally, the storming of the aircraft by National Security Guard (NSG) commandos, followed by a terror attack on the Airports Authority of India office at the Kolkata airport and ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu, Dilip to lead separate BJP events on July 21

    12 Kolkata: When TMC workers from across the state gather in Kolkata to mark Martyrs' Day on Monday, BJP's Suvendu Adhikari will be leading a BJYM rally to Uttar Kanya while former state unit chief Dilip Ghosh will be ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Like CPM, BJP bars people from voting: Mamata

    12 Kolkata: Like CPM in the past, now BJP did not let anyone vote, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, on the eve of the Martyrs' Day rally. While Banerjee did not explicitly refer to EC's special intensive revision in ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Moth Week kicks off at Eco Park, Banabitan

    12 Kolkata: The National Moth Week kicked off on Saturday with enthusiasts conducting a count after dark at Eco Park and Banabitan. The participants set up a moth trap using strong lights and a white sheet to do an ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    IT firm employee found dead in drain

    Kolkata: The body of a youth, Manash Kori (32), who worked in an IT company in New Town was found in a drain at a short distance from his home, in the Chatterjeehat police station area of Howrah on ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Hry releases 27 Bengal workers, 3 still in detention

    12 Kolkata: As many as 27 of 30 Bengali migrant workers, held by Surajkund police in Faridabad since July 15, have been released, Trinamool Congress MP and chairman of West Bengal Migrant Workers' Welfare Board Samirul Islam said on ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops to keep 4 major stretches clear of rallyists from 9 am to 11 am

    123 Kolkata: Even as lakhs are expected to take over large stretches of central Kolkata — extending into parts of north and south Kolkata — for Trinamool Congress's Shahid Diwas rally at Esplanade (CR Avenue-Bentinck Street crossing) on Monday, ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Tortured migrants to be at forefront of Trinamool rally

    123456 Kolkata: Uttam Brajabashi, the 50-year-old Rajbongshi from Cooch Behar's Dinhata, arrived at Sealdah station on Sunday morning to be a part of Trinamool Congress's Martyrs' Day rally. With several hundred party supporters backing him, the soft-spoken Brajabashi questioned ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    Fly ash leak from barge raises environmental concerns in Sunderbans

    123 Kolkata: After widespread media reports on the midstream mishap involving a Bangladeshi fly ash barge, ‘Suhan-Malati', which is now nearly 80% submerged in the Muriganga river, authorities stepped up their response. A large-scale operation was carried out on ...

    21 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT files plaint in 4th-year student death

    Kharagpur: The autopsy of the fourth-year mechanical engineering student, Ritam Mondal, was conducted on Saturday at Midnapore Medical College. The IIT Kharagpur authorities filed a written complaint with the Kharagpur Town PS for an investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Afternoon showers derail KMC’s repair drives on battered stretches

    1234 Kolkata: The road-repair drive being undertaken by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) suffered a setback after heavy rain lashed different parts of the city on Saturday afternoon. The civic body decided to fill up the potholes and craters with ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata scam trail leads to foreign cyber gangs; Salt Lake residents targeted

    Representative image KOLKATA: Bidhannagar Police, probing a series of digital-arrest cases where hundreds from Salt Lake, New Town, Kolkata and adjoining areas have been duped of several lakhs, is preparing to send a team to South-East Asian nations ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata tourists help Digha earn Rs 100 crore during first Rath Yatra Season, boosting local economy

    KOLKATA/DIGHA: The first season of Rath Yatra in Digha has yielded a net cash inflow of Rs 100 crore for the coastal town, a final count by various trade bodies and the Jagannath temple management has revealed. The business ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar cops’ cyber bus joins e-safety campaign to raise awareness

    123 Kolkata: The Baranagar police station under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate launched the "E-Prahari" programme to raise public awareness to tackle the growing menace of cybercrime through the use of technology and interactive outreach. The campaign was inaugurated on ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s date with kingfisher: Third Sunday every July

    Kolkata: Every year, third July Sunday will be celebrated as the ‘Kingfisher Day' in Bengal. Starting today, the third Sunday of every July will also see Bengal birders undertaking a survey to know status and distribution of kingfishers in ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Horror memories return to haunt New Town condo, flag subletting concerns

    Kolkata: On Saturday morning, residents and security guards at the Sukhobrishti complex in New Town were alarmed by a team of plainclothes police officers emerging from a convoy of 15 cars and rushing towards a building within the complex.Minutes ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Didi slams Himanta over mother tongue ‘persecution threat’

    Kolkata: Persecution for speaking in one's mother tongue was both "discriminatory and unconstitutional", CM Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday, stressing that she stood by the "people of Assam who are fighting for dignity of their language, identity and democratic ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata 5th on global list of airports in congested areas

    12 Kolkata: An international study found that residents around Kolkata airport are at 17% more risk of being affected by pollution and accidents than those in Ahmedabad, where a flight crashed last month, killing 260 people, including 19 who ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur to set up student task force at hostel wings

    Kharagpur: A day after 21-year-old Ritam Mondal was found hanging in his hostel room, IIT Kharagpur authorities on Saturday have decided to set up a student-led task force at the wing level of every hostel. This initiative aims to ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    James Long Para Behala

    123456 Once the path of a chugging narrow-gauge railway meandering through sleepy hamlets on Kolkata's outskirts, James Long Sarani (JLS) has transformed into one of the city's most vibrant culinary corridors. The metamorphosis is so complete, it is hard ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    2 held with 10cr fake notes in Sandeshkhali

    12 Kolkata: Two persons, Debabrata Chakraborty of Maheshtala and Sirajuddin Molla of Motordighi, were arrested on Saturday with fake Indian currency notes worth Rs 10 crore from a guest house in Sandeshkhali, allegedly owned by former TMC functionary and ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    We’re fighting infiltration, not our own people, says Assam CM

    12 Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday hit back at his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee following her social media allegations that BJP was pursuing a "divisive agenda in Assam". Sarma said his administration's stance targeted "unchecked" Muslim ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC man killed in bomb blast

    Suri: A TMC worker was killed in a bomb blast in Birbhum on Saturday night. The deceased, Baitullah Sheikh (40), was the former karmadhyaksha of Mayureswar-I panchayat samiti, police said.The incident took place around 8pm at Bishiya village in ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    8 women ill after childbirth at Balurghat; kin blame ‘injection’

    Balurghat: At least eight women who had recently given birth fell ill after they were allegedly administered an injection at Balurghat District Hospital on Friday. Chief medical officer Dr Sudip Das said the patients were stable.The incident comes months ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Jumbo deaths: Rlys, forest dept discuss steps for prevention

    Kharagpur: Day after three elephants were mowed down by the Barbil-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express near Jhargram's Manikpara, forest and railway officials met at the office of the chief conservator of forests in Hijli on Saturday and discussed measures to ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    SIR attempt to bring NRC through back door: Abhishek at oppn meet

    12 Kolkata: Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar is an attempt by BJP and the poll panel to introduce NRC through the back door, said Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday. The TMC national general secretary was speaking at ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    84 mm rain in less than 2 hours, high tide combine to sink city pockets

    123456 Kolkata: Heavy showers left Kolkata drenched and streets inundated for several hours on Saturday afternoon. The spell turned out to be the second heaviest of the season, triggering 84 mm of rain between 8 am and 2.30 pm. ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Take us home’: Birbhum women seek Didi’s help in vid appeal from B’desh

    12 Kolkata: In a video message, members of two Birbhum families pushed to Bangladesh by BSF made an appeal to Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to arrange for their return to India.TOI had earlier reported that six Birbhum residents, including ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    CS takes stock of flood situation in S Bengal

    Kolkata: Chief secretary Manoj Pant held a meeting on Saturday with the DMs of south Bengal districts along with various departmental secretaries to take stock of the flood situation. Several parts of south Bengal, especially Khanakul in Arambag, Hooghly, ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Life in jail for 9 in first digital-arrest conviction

    Kolkata: In possibly the first such sentencing in the country for cybercrimes, a Kalyani trial court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to nine scammers who had extorted Rs 1 crore from a Ranaghat resident by threatening him with ‘digital ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC lauds PM’s ‘poribartan’

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Friday feted the "poribartan (change)" in Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours after he began his speech at Durgapur with "Jai Ma Kali, Jai Ma Durga". "The PM said he wants poribartan (change). But what ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    After central advisory, singara & jalebi set to make debut on party faithfuls’ menu this Martyrs’ Day

    Kolkata: Singara and jalebi are likely to make a debut on the party faithful's menu alongside the usual egg-rice this year at the Trinamool Congress organised camps. Party supporters are staying over the weekend to take part in the ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    57-yr-old’s decomposed body found in Dum Dum house

    Kolkata: Residents of NC Garden Road in Nagerbazar were left in shock after a highly decomposed body, reduced almost to a skeleton, was recovered from a house on Saturday evening. Police are probing whether it is a case of ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    B-school rape plaint: student gets bail

    Kolkata: The 26-year-old MBA student, Paramanand Toppannawar, accused of raping a 24-year-old woman inside the hostel room on a premiere B-school campus in Kolkata was granted bail by an Alipore court on Saturday, a week after his arrest. The ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Rain on KP mind as cops ready 9-11 plans after HC order

    Kolkata: With rain on mind, which can slow down traffic on July 21, Kolkata Police will deploy 5,500 cops at the city centre, and thousands more will be posted from the city's fringes to the Maidan for smooth commuting, ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Sinking barge: High tide worry for fly ash unloading

    Kolkata: The Bangladeshi barge ‘Suhan-Malati', carrying fly ash, started capsizing near Kakdwip on Friday morning and is almost 80% submerged in the Muriganga river. Efforts to unload the fly ash have begun. A team of engineers inspected the ship ...

    20 July 2025 Times of India
    Chandan Mishra Patna hospital murder: 5 arrested in Kolkata’s New Town after joint operation

    NEW DELHI: Five men have been arrested in Kolkata in connection with the killing of gangster Chandan Mishra inside a private hospital in Patna, police said on Saturday.The arrests were made during early morning raids at a housing complex ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Slushy tech route makes commute difficult

    Kolkata: An important 1km stretch connecting VIP Road with New Town near the Mahisbathan Bridge, which is mostly used by IT and other professionals to enter the IT hub from Kestopur, has become a motorist's nightmare, with a significant ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Rainy friday with warm temperatures and humidity

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata residents can expect rain showers this Friday, July 19, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 27.6°C and 34.3°C. The city faces an ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Broths, pickles and fritters: Comfort food gets a monsoon makeover

    Traditional ingredients & memories are finding new life as city food pop-ups are reclaiming the flavours of monsoon.The greens returnKolmi and kumro shaak are finding place in light sautés, while dumur & kochur loti are being used in fritters ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Leopard kills boy in Kalabari tea estate

    Jalpaiguri: A three-and-a-half-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack at Kalabari tea estate in Banarhat on Friday evening, triggering protests from locals.The child, Ayush Kalandi, was sitting on the verandah of their garden quarters in Bholas Line when ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Rlys, forest blame game as calf among 3 jumbos mowed down by Jan Shatabdi in Jhargram

    Jhargram/Kolkata: A male calf was among three elephants killed after they were hit by an allegedly speeding Barbil-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express in the early hours of Friday near Jhargram's Manikpara. Rail services were paused for a few hours following ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT Kharagpur student found dead in hostel room; 4th death in 7 months

    12 Kolkata/Kharagpur: A 21-year-old IIT Kharagpur fourth-year mechanical engineering student was found hanging in his room at Rajendra Prasad Hall on Friday morning, three days after he had returned to the institute after a two-month summer break. Police have ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    4th suicide in 7 months rocks IIT-Kharagpur

    12 Kolkata: The IIT-Kharagpur campus was shaken by the news of another death after a fourth-year undergraduate student, Ritam Mondal, was found hanging in his room at Rajendra Prasad (RP) Hall of Residence on Friday morning. The death has ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    No entry, detours & diversions: Cops gear up to keep city moving on protest day

    Kolkata: Senior Kolkata Police Traffic officers gathered for a series of meetings on Friday following the high court directives for the Shahid Diwas rally. Sources said that with barely 48 hours left, officers are keen on implementing a "dynamic" ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Modi woos Bengal with Kali-Durga chants amid TMC’s bias barbs

    12 Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second rally in seven weeks in Bengal, in the industrial township of Durgapur on Friday, started with a "Jai Ma Kali, Jai Ma Durga" homage to the state's two biggest Hindu deities and ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Bangladeshi fly ash barge capsizes near Kakdwip

    Kakdwip: The Muriganga river might experience a potential environmental disaster after a fly ash-laden barge developed a crack in its hull, causing water to gush into the vessel. The incident, which unfolded on Thursday evening, intensified overnight and raised ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Release my sons, says dad of Matua bros held in Maha jail

    12 Kolkata: Two brothers belonging to the Matua community from Nadia are reportedly languishing in a Maharashtra prison for the last six months despite prod- ucing multiple Indian IDs and even identity cards issued by the All India Matua ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Rain queers cops’ rally day car parking pitch

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police is facing a new challenge in managing vehicle parking for the upcoming Shahid Diwas rally on Monday, as persistent rainfall threatens to render designated parking fields unusable. The fresh spell of rain on Friday, ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Release my sons, says dad of Matua bros held in Maha jail

    12 Kolkata: Two brothers belonging to the Matua community from Nadia are reportedly languishing in a Maharashtra prison for the last six months despite prod- ucing multiple Indian IDs and even identity cards issued by the All India Matua ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘People who killed 13 in 1993 cannot block rally’

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool counsel Biswaroop Bhattacharyya on Friday questioned the All India Lawyers' Union's stand against holding the July 21 Martyrs' Day rally in front of Victoria House at Calcutta High Court. He asked what right they had to ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Pathologists’ body, health dept plan workshops

    Kolkata: Lab medicine specialists have said that conforming to good clinical lab practice (GCLP) is essential in averting errors seeping into reports. Calcutta Association of Practising Pathologists (CAPP) and the health department will conduct a series of workshops involving ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Nicco Park death: Enlarged heart, pancreas may be cause

    Kolkata: The 18-year-old BBA student, Rahul Das, who collapsed at Nicco Park on Wednesday and died minutes later, had an enlarged heart and oversized pancreas, which possibly led to a cardiac arrest, a preliminary post-mortem report indicated on Thursday ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Sudden shower drenches city, dry spell likely till Tue

    Kolkata: What started as a sunny day turned wet after an intense spell of localised shower hit the city on Friday afternoon. Alipore recorded 32.6 mm of rainfall in an hour. The maximum temperature, which went slightly above the ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Need five days of dry spell to repair roads: Hakim

    Kolkata: The KMC has its fingers crossed, hoping for straight five days of no rain to be able to repair city roads, which have sprung craters amid the continuous rain over the past few days."All roads in the city ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Man lynched on suspicion of theft

    Mahishadal: A man suspected of stealing from local temples was lynched at Amritberia village under Mahishadal PS in East Midnapore on Tuesday night.Sources said three men came on motorbikes and broke into a Kali temple and a Sheetala temple ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Bandhan Q1 FY 26 net slumps 65% over microfin asset stress

    12 Kolkata: Bandhan Bank's net profit in the first quarter of FY 2026 recorded a 65% slump at Rs 372 crore compared with Rs 1,063 crore posted in the year-ago period. Partha Pratim Sengupta, MD and CEO of the ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    India’s CAFE norms penalise small cars: Study

    Kolkata: A study by the Indian arm of Nomura Research Institute, the largest economic research and consulting firm in Japan, has said that India's policy on fuel efficiency norms for new cars penalises small ones with disproportionately stringent CO2 ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Eye on sky, KMC kicks off road repairs

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) started repairing the battered stretches of EM Bypass and other roads, including D L Khan Road, Belvedere Road, and Beadon Street, on Thursday night. However, heavy showers in the city on Friday ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Dilip meets Nadda in Delhi while Modi holds rally in Bengal

    Kolkata: Former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh skipped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Durgapur rally on Friday and instead took a flight to meet BJP national president JP Nadda in Delhi.Ghosh had, on Thursday night, made clear that he would ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP MLA’s car attacked in Mathabhanga

    Jalpaiguri: BJP Mathabhanga MLA Sushil Barman's car was attacked near Ghoksadanga railway station on Friday, allegedly by Trinamool supporters. Barman had arrived to board a train to Kolkata when a group confronted him over his performance in the constituency. ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Rain and humidity expected

    Kolkata's weather forecast for July 18, 2025, indicates a warm and humid day with temperatures ranging from 27.8°C to 34.3°C, accompanied by an 80% chance of patchy rain. The city will experience humidity levels of 72% and wind speeds ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Keep central Kolkata free from 9 am to 11 am on July 21 for office commute: Cal HC tells Kol Police

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Kolkata Police to ensure that no procession for the July 21 rally takes place between 9 am and 11 am and that there is no traffic congestion on routes leading to the ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    On first anniv, GSI’s landslide-forecast unit promises nation-wide cover by ’30

    Kolkata: From sudden flash floods to fast-moving boulders cascading down mountain slopes, the Geological Survey of India's (GSI) National Landslide Forecasting Centre (NLFC) has been quietly making a life-saving difference. Marking its first anniversary, the centre on Friday celebrated ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Toddler dies as poor road delays access to hospital

    Midnapore: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl who choked while being fed milk at her home in Kakra Mohanpur village in Debra block died on Thursday, allegedly after a delay in reaching the hospital due to poor road conditions. In protest, locals ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Calls from Cambodia, SIM from India’: In a first in West Bengal, 9 convicted of ‘digital-arrest’; fraud worth Rs 1 crore

    KOLKATA: In a first in Bengal, nine persons nabbed from Maharashtra, Haryana and Gujarat were convicted in a 'digital-arrest' case worth over Rs 1 crore by a Kalyani trial court on Thursday. The court will sentence them on Friday. ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Campaign to save Pancham’s house takes off

    A file photo of Pancham at the South End Park residence KOLKATA: Close on the heels of the uproar over the demolition of the house in Mymensingh with a Satyajit Ray connection, Pancham’s uncle - filmmaker Abhijit Dasgupta – ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    After 11 years in jail: 3 on death row for brutal murder freed by Calcutta HC

    KOLKATA: Three prisoners given death penalty and jailed for the past 11 years were acquitted by Calcutta High Court on Thursday in a 2014 murder case in which the mutilated body of a 28-year-old woman was found at Sealdah ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Need money for parents' treatment’: Businessman duped by woman he met at Kolkata bar; loses Rs 6L gold to sob story

    KOLKATA: A businessman has been conned into handing over his gold jewellery-two rings and a chain, worth Rs 6 lakh-to a woman who befriended him at a bar-cum-restaurant on EM Bypass. The 54-year-old man was at the restaurant on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    No bar on TMC's July 21 rally but Calcutta HC adds 11am rider

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to stop the July 21 rally from going ahead but told police that congregations could happen only after 11am to allow normal office-time traffic.The HC, which would hear the case again on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    PhD student files harass plaint with CU against guide

    12 Kolkata: A research scholar at Calcutta University lodged a complaint of mental harassment against her guide over the past year. The husband of the research scholar, who is pursuing PhD in the education department, recently made a social ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Kol airport flags off DigiYatra for transit flyers

    12 Kolkata: Some passengers, transiting Kolkata airport on Thursday, had a smoother experience with the commissioning of DigiYatra services in the domestic-to-domestic (D2D) transfer area.The facility can make a big difference to more than 3,500 flyers who travel between ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    4 out of 5 women face violence from parents, siblings, finds survey

    12 Kolkata: Contrary to the social myth that a woman's birth family is a space of safety, a study has revealed that natal family violence (NFV) is a pervasive and under-recognised form of domestic violence. The study, drawing testimonies ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    City amusement parks plan to deploy more medics & lifeguards, bolster safety checks

    Kolkata: A day after an 18-year-old student died at Nicco Park's water park, the authorities of three major amusement destinations in Kolkata — Nicco Park, Aquatica, and Happy Valley Park — initiated a series of precautionary measures to prevent ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Extra time, extra fuel, risk to life and limb: Bikers count the cost of battered roads

    Businessman Asif Iqbal, who drives down the Park Circus Connector at least five days a week, is taking at least 20 minutes extra this monsoon due to cratered and undulating roads. Despite driving carefully, his car hit potholes several ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Pilots: Deliberate ambiguity in report timeline to shift blame

    12 Kolkata: Serving and retired pilots have expressed concern over what they term "deliberate" ambiguity in the timeline mentioned in the preliminary probe report by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the AI 171 crash. They allege this has ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Death due to negligence? Park faces probe as dad blames lack of infra

    12 Kolkata: A case of death due to negligence was initiated against Nicco Park authorities following a complaint lodged by the father of the 18-year-old BBA student who died during an outing with friends at the water park on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Modi in Durgapur today, will launch projects worth Rs 5k cr

    12 Kolkata/Durgapur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Durgapur on Friday, from where he will inaugurate projects worth Rs 5,000 crore in Bankura, Purulia and Durgapur.The largest of these will be the Rs 1,950 crore piped ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Mamata: Tell me where to find ‘17 lakh Rohingya’ in Bengal

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday challenged those "claiming there were 17 lakh Rohingya" in Bengal to give her the addresses of these illegal immigrants if they really knew where they were.Launching an attack on a campaign to "equate ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Techie helps cops arrest molester

    Kolkata: A techie who was molested near her home in Salt Lake chased the tormentor and helped police nab him within 18 hours.The 25-year-old Sector V employee was allegedly molested in Salt Lake FD Block around 5.30 am on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Victim-naming: HC exonerates Goyal after apology

    Kolkata: Former Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal was exonerated for naming the victim in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case following an apology to the Calcutta High Court. The HC was convinced that he named the deceased unintentionally.While dropping the ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘House being demolished not linked to Satyajit Ray’

    Kolkata: The Bangladesh govt has confirmed on Thursday that the property in Mymensingh that is being demolished has no links to filmmaker Satyajit Ray or his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. Filmmaker Sandip Ray told TOI on Thursday that he ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    IIEST teachers write to director over PhD fee hike

    Kolkata: The IIEST Teachers' Association has written to the institute director raising concerns over the exorbitant hike in PhD admission fees. They claimed the rise in fee may act as a deterrent to the PhD admission process that takes ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Dilip to skip rally to avoid ‘seating row’

    123 Kolkata: BJP's former national vice-president Dilip Ghosh will not attend PM Narendra Modi's rally in Durgapur on Friday. Even a day earlier, Ghosh said he was willing to listen to Modi's speech."I am not attending the rally on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Gurugram cops harassing workers for speaking Bengali’

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Partha Pratim Ray, who hails from Cooch Behar, said on Thursday that several people from Sitalkuchi, working in Gurugram, were being summoned by local police for speaking in Bengali.Ray said, "For a long time, several ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Former Kol CP not guilty of any botch-up in RG Kar probe: CBI

    Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday told a Sealdah court that it has found nothing "incriminating" against former Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal to suspect his role during the RG Kar rape-murder probe. The CBI also reiterated in court that ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Awami League calls for mass resistance after 4 B’desh deaths

    123 Kolkata: A day after violence in Bangladesh's Gopalganj killed at least four people and left nearly a dozen Awami League supporters injured, "leaders in exile" of the now-restricted former governing party called for "mass resistance" across the country.Former ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Agra cops arrest 2 in Barrackpore over religious conversion

    Kolkata: The Agra cyber crime cell of UP Police arrested two people from Barrackpore on Thursday for allegedly abducting two women and forcing them to undergo religious conversion. Accused Sekhar Roy alias Hassan Ali is a resident of Bakar ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    B’desh tea board introduces minimum protection price

    12 Kolkata: Bangladesh Tea Board has introduced a minimum protection price to support struggling tea gardens. Though this has been a long-time demand of the Indian tea industry, the Tea Board here is yet to implement it.A circular issued ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Sodepur flyover to be shut on weekend nights till Sept 15

    12 Kolkata: Brace for significant traffic snarls across Kolkata's northern suburbs as the Sodepur flyover, a crucial link connecting BT Road to Jessore Road via Kalyani Expressway and airport-bound Belgharia Expressway, is set to undergo urgent repair work beginning ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Silvered leaf monkey, cuscuses seized at Kolkata airport

    123456 Kolkata: In the third seizure of rare and exotic animals at Kolkata airport since this Feb, a silvery lutung or silvered leaf monkey — an old-world monkey native to Sumatra, Borneo and Java — and a pair of ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    2nd AC rake arrives in city, more EMU services added

    Kolkata: A month after the city got its first air-conditioned local train, the second one has arrived. Eastern Railway has procured two AC rakes for suburban services. The first one will be run on the Sealdah-Ranaghat section. The route ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    CM opens 5 projects worth 455 crore, 4 in New Town

    1234 Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated five projects worth Rs 455.5 crore, four of which will be located at New Town. This includes two separate housing projects for the economically weak, an eight-storey parking complex beside ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    July’s 1st rainless day pushes up mercury

    Kolkata: With the first rainless day this July and the sun emerging from the cloud cover, the mercury rose slightly above the normal mark in Kolkata on Thursday. While the Met office expects similar weather conditions on Friday, officials ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Law college seeks ban on cultural events till union poll, cop outpost

    123 Kolkata: The law college in south Kolkata, where the rape incident occurred, filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court requesting a police picket at the college. The college argued that a police picket should be set up ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Place educationists in school, college GBs rather than politicians, HC tells state

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday said that educationists should be placed in the governing bodies of state colleges and schools rather than politicians. The HC also asked the state to inform it on students' union election notification ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Focus on forensic nursing for medico-legal cases

    Kolkata: Forensic nursing is emerging as an important speciality to support forensic medicine specialists in handling medico-legal cases, including survivors of sexual abuse and other forms of violence. With the Indian Nursing Council recognising MSc in forensic nursing as ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    HC orders 2nd autopsy of Malda student

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a second autopsy of a Class 8 student who was found hanging in a hostel room of a private school in Malda's Manikchak block on July 3.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
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