123 Kolkata: Moyna's BJP MLA Ashok Dinda was cautioned by assembly speaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday. "You are a first-time MLA; be more cautious. Do not issue casual statements. Consider this a warning," Banerjee told Dinda.The warning stemmed from ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CID on Tuesday recovered 98 kg of cannabis from two sedans near Dhulagarh toll plaza and arrested one of the drivers.Acting on a tip-off, the CID team stopped a car at the toll plaza. When they noticed ...
12 December 2024 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The first fog of the season played havoc with flight schedules at Kolkata airport on Wednesday, forcing multiple diversions and delays that left flyers hassled and airlines reeling with subsequent delays throughout the day. During the two ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A health unit on the outskirts of Kolkata has received Rs 63-crore funding from the US-based John C Martin Foundation. Liver Foundation West Bengal (LFWB), the beneficiary based in Sonarpur, will now start research on various liver diseases, ...
12 December 2024 Times of India12 Kolkata/Jhargram: Three forest teams, covering vast stretches from Belpahari to Jamboni, stayed on guard along the Bengal-Jharkhand border after reports of the Odisha tigress moving north in Jharkhand's Chakulia range and coming within 10-12 kilometres of the Bengal ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Principals' Meet 2024, was successfully organized by RCC Institute of Information Technology (RCCIIT) in association with the Times of India. The theme of the event was "Empowering Graduates with Future Tech Skills for Better Employability" based on ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Union ministry of ports has started preparing a feasibility study for connecting the port dockyard on the Kolkata side with the National Highway on the Howrah side through an underwater tunnel running through the Hooghly riverbed. A ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After Bertram Street and Humayun Place in the New Market area, KMC is now struggling to keep up with constant hawker encroachment in and around Chandni Chowk. These hawkers were removed from the area four months ago after ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu said in the assembly on Wednesday that governor C V Ananda Bose was delaying appointment of vice-chancellors to state universities.Basu said, "Following the Supreme Court order, three names from the search-cum-selection panel were ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Thai embassy on Wednesday announced that Thailand's e-visa will be available for Indian passport holders starting Jan 1, 2025. The existing 60-day visa exemption for Indian travellers will remain in effect.Thailand is one of the most popular ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is gearing up to inaugurate the Kalighat skywalk early in 2025. Preparations are being made after chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced in Digha that the much-awaited skywalk will be opened to devotees in ...
12 December 2024 Times of India123 Digha/Kolkata: The new Jagannath temple in Digha would open its doors on April 30 next year, CM Mamata Banerjee announced on Wednesday, adding that she would attend the first Rath Yatra that would also begin from Digha in ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Rs 1,238-crore Ghatal Master Plan will be implemented in Feb 2025, said state minister Manas Ranjan Bhunia in the assembly on Wednesday. Bhunia added that GMP would be a symbol of how Centre's stepmotherly attitude prompted CM ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: KMRC has decided not to proceed with the decision to exchange rakes being used in the East-West Metro's Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section to facilitate work in the incomplete Esplanade-Sealdah stretch. The agency had planned to suspend services on both ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the steady incursion of the chill-bearing northerly wind, the minimum temperature in city's fringes dropped below the 15°C-mark on Wednesday. In Dum Dum, the minimum temperature was recorded at 14.3°C. The same slipped to 13.5°C in Howrah. ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Blame it on a section of middlemen or ‘phore', allegedly controlling the supply chain of cheaper UP potatoes that have already arrived the wholesale markets in the city, the tuber's price still remains high in the retail markets. ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray has written a letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee "apologising" for criticising the party during the RG Kar protests. Following this, Ray got a call from the party's RS leader ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A telephone call from CM Mamata Banerjee to minister Aroop Biswas during the closing ceremony of the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) came as a pleasant surprise at Rabindra Sadan on Wednesday evening. Her congratulations to Biswas, ...
12 December 2024 Times of IndiaRepresentative image KOLKATA: Protesters demanding a separate Cooch Behar state staged a rail blockade at Jorai railway station in West Bengal, causing significant disruption to train services on Wednesday. The demonstration, led by the Greater Coochbehar People's Association (GCPA), ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A sizable proportion of 'medical tourists' from Bangladesh to Kolkata may now be giving the city a miss in favour of Southeast Asian countries, owing to travel disruptions because of the unstable situation in the neighbouring country, say ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of CBI's latest status report and expressed confidence that the trial of the rape-and-murder of a PGT doctor at RG Kar was likely to conclude in a month.On going through ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: A traffic sergeant from Jorabagan Traffic Guard was allegedly manhandled by a young motorist in north Kolkata on Monday morning after the cop chased and managed to stop the accused from driving on the city roads in ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The NGT bench of Justice B Amit Sthlaekar and expert member Arun Kumar Sharma expressed strong dissatisfaction over persistent delays and unresolved issues plaguing Bagjola and Kestopur canals. Clogged canals lead to flooding after heavy rain. The bench ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police will now deploy drones on anti-pollution mission, to monitor encroachments on the East Kolkata Wetlands and burning of biomass, garbage as well as plastic. Tenders have been floated for two drones, costing Rs 11 lakh. Kolkata ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: No flights could land at Bagdogra airport until noon on Tuesday, leading to the cancellation of four flights and the diversion of five flights to Kolkata. This was due to dense fog in and around Siliguri and a ...
11 December 2024 Times of India12 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of CBI's latest status report and expressed confidence that the trial of the rape-and-murder of a PGT doctor at RG Kar was likely to conclude in a month.On going ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the realm of vertical living, two housing communities—Loudon Park in the heart of the city and Sodepur Godrej Prakriti on the northern fringes—stand as testaments to sustainable urban living. Though starkly different in size and setting, their ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday questioned CBI's urgency in arresting Sujay Krishna Bhadra in the teacher recruitment scam. The matter will be heard again next Monday."We will not put you in the position of an astrologer. But ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: A Jalpaiguri trial court on Tuesday ordered capital punishment for a decorator, who suffocated his wife to death with a pillow and hid her body in their neighbour's septic tank in April 2019.The Jalpaiguri district third court sentenced ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The names of permanent vice-chancellors at four more state universities were announced on Tuesday following interactions at Raj Bhavan. The state higher education department issued notifications, naming the permanent VCs at Mahatma Gandhi, Kanyashree, Hindi and Murshidabad universities.Sourangshu ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the realm of vertical living, two housing communities—Loudon Park in the heart of the city and Sodepur Godrej Prakriti on the northern fringes—stand as testaments to sustainable urban living. Though starkly different in size and setting, their ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday heard the bail application of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and other accused in the job recruitment case. Chatterjee's counsel Milon Mukherjee argued that the delay in granting of sanction by the state ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Eighteen constables, including two women, were injured when an empty school bus rammed into a Kolkata Police van at the Agarpara-Tentultala intersection near a private English medium school on BT Road on Tuesday afternoon.The injured officers were ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police on Tuesday launched a ‘Stop, Drop & Inform' campaign to tackle tele-caller frauds that target senior citizens. According to police, the focus of the campaign is to raise awareness amongst senior citizens about the frauds; protecting ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Prodded by CM Mamata Banerjee, mayor Firhad Hakim on Tuesday asked KMC to offer occupancy certificates to the tenants of the dilapidated building at Madan Paul Lane, located close to Harish Chatterjee Street. Large parts of the ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The intelligence agencies have asked all security and law-enforcing agencies to be on the lookout for two members of the banned Islamic militant organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, Sabbir Amir and Ridwan Maruf. The duo had entered Bengal with ...
11 December 2024 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: A day after the foreign secretaries of India and Bangladesh met in Dhaka amid the ongoing turmoil in the neighbouring country, the rakes of the Mitali Express returned to India after nearly five months. Around 9.05am on ...
11 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The anti-rowdy section of DD raided a call centre in Ballygunge on Monday night and arrested 19 people for duping US citizens. Sources said attempts were also made to dupe German citizens from the centre. The fake ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting, Mohun Bagan club has also raised its voice over growing tensions in Bangladesh. Following an executive committee meeting on Tuesday, the century-old club adopted a resolution expressing concerns over "the current situation ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the mercury on a roller-coaster ride, a change-of-season cough and cold outbreak has gripped Kolkata with thousands down with low fever and a runny nose. Though the viral infections could be the usual ones triggered by temperature ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traders in Kolkata's ‘Mini Bangladesh' area, known for its bustling markets, eateries selling Bangladeshi cuisine, and cultural exchanges, have come together to address safety concerns among Bangladeshi tourists. They have decided in a meeting on Tuesday that they ...
11 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Once the Christmas carnival on Park Street is inaugurated, revellers arriving at the festive zone in the evening by metro will be able to exit the Park Street metro station from the exit in front of BFL Estate ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday made light of a section of Bangladeshi politicians' and former army officers' threats of "occupying Bengal, Bihar and Odisha", saying "we would not be sitting eating lollipops" if that happened.She also ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Supply chain disruptions and poor quality products again pushed up potato prices on Monday, within four days of the rates dipping slightly on Thursday. The Jyoti variety, the prices of which had inched down to RS 38 a ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: South Korean director OH Jung-min, who was scheduled to attend the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), couldn't make it to "the homeland of Satyajit Ray". The director was overseas on a private visit while submitting his Indian ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Alerting senior citizens to be more cautious while dealing with their hard-earned money, Bidhannagar Police issued an advisory about a pension scam, a new modus operandi by cyber fraudsters.As part of the scam, fraudsters send WhatsApp and text ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cyber crooks have come up with yet another modus operandi to defraud people. Police cautioned citizens against cyber criminals, who posed as healthcare employees and called to fool people into believing that a close family member—a child in ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday instructed top state govt officials and ministers to take stringent action against anyone impeding the Jol Swapno project. She said 23 officials and 373 contractors have already been issued show-cause notices. ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: On an average, men receive three times more spam calls than women. This was revealed by a study conducted by Bharti Airtel. The study was based on findings from Airtel's spam detection network over the last two-and-a-half months. ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Five Trinamool Congress MLAs from Krishnanagar, who had written to the CM against MP Mahua Moitra and demanded her removal from the post of party district president, met Mamata Banerjee at the assembly on Monday but were ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The membership drive of Bengal BJP has been extended to Dec 31 as the number of members registered is much lower than the target set by Union home minister Amit Shah. Bengal BJP minder Sunil Bansal on Monday ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Nuruddin Halder, a panchayat member of Gazipur in Kulpi, was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants on Sunday night. The incident occurred around 11pm when the 57-year-old was returning home.Police are conducting a probe, though there were ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), the apex body representing the restaurant industry, has warned its members of the potential long-term adverse effects of large-scale in-dining discount programmes offered by aggregator payment platforms. The Hotel and Restaurant Association ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Sree Colony couple, who had allegedly been molested and assaulted by a group of neighbours on Nov 23, and were summoned to Netaji Nagar police station after 9 pm on Sunday in connection with a counter-complaint, were ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 28-year-old woman, an accountant employed with a private firm, died soon after she started feeling unwell on a moving govt bus on Monday morning. The incident was reported from Behala Janakalyan, close to Behala Chowrasta, around 10.45 ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The ongoing project of the state's ambitious Cancer Care Hub (CCH) at IPGMER takes another step forward with the oncopathology lab attached to the hub receiving NABL accreditation. According to sources, the accreditation for histopathology and immunohistochemistry ...
10 December 2024 Times of India12 Berhampore: Three persons were killed in a bomb blast on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday at a house in Murshidabad district's Khayertala village under Sagarpara police station, which is close to the India-Bangladesh border. Locals said ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Calcutta University will seek a detailed list of unauthorised boarders from all the hostel boarders. The list will be requested to be submitted before Dec 16, the date of the next anti-ragging committee meeting.Two residents of Carmichael ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Monday directed the state to arrest the person responsible for inflicting injuries on the body of a prisoner who died in hospital on Sept 2, 2023.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh gave two weeks to the state ...
10 December 2024 Times of India1234 Kolkata: An animal lover, Arundhati Roy, faced resistance from her neighbours while she was relocating around 65 Indian breed dogs and 18 cats — majority of which were ailing — from her Dashadrone shelter in Rajarhat to a ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaHowrah: Moral policing by some residents, including members of a local club, forced a young woman entrepreneur to keep her tea stall shut at Ankurhati on National Highway 16. The woman, Papia Ghosal, who was into modelling and also ...
10 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI, probing the rape and murder of the 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Hospital, is scanning 900 hours of CCTV footage it collected from the hospital. The agency intends to use this footage as a tool to ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: A magistrate of a Barasat court on Monday reprimanded an investigating officer (IO) of Rajarhat PS following an allegation that an accused had been assaulted in police custody. The IO himself has been accused of the alleged ...
10 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: For the first time, Jadavpur University is going to celebrate the first alumni day on January 4 to strengthen the bond between the university and its alumni.Pro-VC Amitava Datta said, "The important information regarding the celebration, like ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed the West Bengal Municipal Corporation (Amendment) and West Bengal Municipal (Amendment) Bills 2024, introducing a new property tax assessment system based on Unit Area Assessment (UAA). If a property's tax assessment ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bangladeshi students pursuing education across India, especially in Kolkata, are facing uncertainty in continuing their studies due to unavailability of student visa. Those who had returned to Bangladesh with plans to pursue higher education now find themselves ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ahead of the foreign secretary-level talks in Dhaka, Trinamool on Sunday urged Centre to act decisively on the Bangladesh issue. The party criticised statements attributed to Bangladesh leaders and ex-military officers, saying such "deliberate attempts to provoke" only ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city continued to get chilly even as the minimum temperature dropped to 15.7°C, the lowest of the season so far. The slide, however, could be broken on Monday when the minimum is expected to jump a degree ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: At least three were killed and several others sustained injuries in an explosion whilst allegedly producing illegal crude bombs in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, according to police reports on Monday. The incident occurred late Sunday night in ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaWest Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar KOLKATA: A day ahead of Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Bangladesh, Bengal BJP netas on Sunday challenged Bangladesh’s military prowess, saying that even a small show of power by India would ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: RVNL has completed the basic work for the Orange line's underground tunnels along the median of VIP Road, covering 72m. With the construction ready to enter a crucial phase—curving toward the airport—the implementing agency has sought a rejig ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Railway Claims Tribunal, Kolkata Bench, recently directed DRM Kharagpur KR Choudhury to pay Rs 25,000 from his salary for filing "a false and fabricated report" in a compensation case, which tried to pass off a deceased ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Reacting to NCP (SP) senior Sharad Pawar's statement that Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had the potential to lead the INDI alliance, Trinamool on Sunday said that his statements only reinforced the belief that "CM Banerjee has the courage, ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two weeks after lodging a complaint of molestation and assault at the hands of a group of locals after protesting against public drinking, a couple at Sree Colony in Netaji Nagar was summoned to the police station after ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) will set up an underground cable conduit on the 2.5 km long Salt Lake Bypass stretch from Chingrighata flyover approach road to J.K. Saha bridge to ensure uninterrupted street lighting along ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Robotic surgery proved useful in the gallbladder surgery of a 74-year-old patient with severe spinal deformity. Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Anandapur, said that this is the first documented robot-assisted gall bladder surgery in the country. While laparoscopy is ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Five-time Everest climber, Kushang Dorjee Sherpa (59), died at his residence in Darjeeling on Saturday. Apart from Mt Everest, Sherpa also scaled Mt Makalu and Mt Nanda Devi (East). The govt of India also awarded him the Tenzing ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than a year after underground cable TV ducts were laid at five stretches of Alipore in south Kolkata to remove the clutter of wires across lamp posts, they remain unused as multi-system operators (MSOs) have refused to ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cultural research institute Surnandan Bharati celebrated the birth centenary of the legendary Rabindra Sangeet exponent Kanika Bandopadhyay at Indumati Sabha Griha at Jadavpur University on Dec 5. The Kanika Memorial Award was bestowed on Rabindra sangeet exponent Swagatalakshmi ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: An aerodrome with a grass runway set up in the early 20th century, which saw an airline make a scheduled stop in 1924 before it became a full-fledged airport and a key stopover for flights operating between ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: A woman cut off her boyfriend's genitals in Parbatipur under Domjur police station in Howrah on Saturday night after being allegedly blackmailed by him.The man, named Abdur Rahman, was admitted to SSKM Hospital. Police reported that his ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three weeks since the assassination attempt on Kasba councillor Sushanta Ghosh, police recovered the second firearm that his assailants were carrying on Nov 15 evening. Sources indicated the firearm was discovered after interrogating Lakshman Sharma, alias Chotu, who ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Preliminary post-mortem report of the 18-year-old tribal girl, whose body was found floating in a pond with her hands and legs tied, her mouth gagged with a cloth and a brick tied to her waist in Sandeshkhali on ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Online violence against women was cited as one of the "upcoming" threats against the dignity and safety of women by Amrita Dasgupta of NGO Swayam during a discussion organised by the Bengal Obstetric and Gynaecology Society (BOGS).In ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two documentary films, ‘Bhabatosher Karkhana' and ‘Hridaypur', based on Kolkata's Durga Puja and its theme artists, premiered at the ongoing 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).A new trend has emerged over the last few years where some top-level ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaDurgapur: Protests erupted at the Durgapur Utsav on Sunday when two traders put up stalls with Bangladesh flags to sell Bangladeshi sarees. After BJP protests, the stall owners removed the flags, but tension remained at the festival organised by ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bombs were allegedly hurled outside the house of BJP functionary Vaishali Dalmiya at Natunpara near Behala Chowrasta early on Sunday.According to Dalmiya, she and her son had a close shave. She told Thakurpukur police that around 12.30 am, ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court is likely to hear the VC appointment case on Monday. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already made her recommendations to governor CV Ananda Bose based on the shortlist prepared by the committee headed by former ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A jewellery craftsman who stole 522 grams of gold worth Rs 48 lakh from a Bowbazar jeweller was arrested from a cinema hall in Nadia's Krishnanagar. He went there to watch the gangster drama, Pushpa 2, on Saturday ...
9 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 3,800-metre link is left to connect Belghoria Expressway with Kalyani Expressway in one of the major highway redevelopment works in recent times. This can reduce travel time between Kolkata Airport and Kalyani AIIMS—a 43 km journey—to 45 ...
9 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has started repairing both carriageways of the old Ultadanga Bridge connecting Ultadanga with VIP Road, leading to diversion of traffic and long snarls on the city-bound flank from VIP Road. Motorists ...
8 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: With winter setting in, a few incidents of stubble burning have started in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has deployed block-wise supervisors to keep a check on the nuisance and has asked the ...
8 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Tanjila, a high-yield sesame seed named after a girl from Amta, is set to boost nationwide oil production levels. The discovery by the researchers of the agricultural science department of Calcutta University has been recognised by the ...
8 December 2024 Times of India12 Nandigram: Cooperative election in Nandigram's Kanchannagar village turned violent, with reports of bomb-throwing and clashes. The unrest erupted on Sunday afternoon and continued even after police arrived at the scene.Trinamool accused BJP of orchestrating the attacks, releasing an ...
8 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Two documentary films, ‘Bhabatosher Karkhana' and ‘Hridaypur', based on Kolkata's Durga Puja and its theme artists, premiered at the ongoing 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). A new trend has emerged over the last few years where ...
8 December 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An aerodrome with a grass runway set up in the early 20th century, which saw an airline make a scheduled stop in 1924 before it became a full-fledged airport and a key stopover for flights operating between North ...
8 December 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: The ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh has cast a shadow over business in Kolkata, which serves as a vital trade hub for exports to the neighbouring country, with orders drying up and unpaid debts mounting.For decades, Kolkata has ...
8 December 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The frustratingly long queues to deposit registered luggage at airline check-in counters is set to become history with Kolkata airport introducing self-baggage drop kiosks. These kiosks enable passengers to tag their bags, deposit them on the conveyor belt, ...
8 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O'Brien on Friday pitched for the removal of anti-conversion laws, which he said led to "harassment, communal tensions, and violation of individual autonomy".O'Brien wrote on his blog, "Anti-conversion laws date back ...
8 December 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Achieving the milestone of planting yet another 1,000 trees in different areas of New Town for the third year in a row, Ecologic—a New Town-based nature lovers' forum—now plans to conduct workshops, specially for school going children, in ...
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