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  • Drought, flood warning for Gangetic delta

    123 Kolkata: The accelerating glacier melt in the Himalayas is intensifying both flood and drought risks across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with Kolkata, being at the tail-end of IGP, at the receiving end of these climate-induced threats. The alarming trends ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Chakdah MLA calls Suvendu on frequent walkouts

    Kolkata: Chakdah MLA Bankim Ghosh on Friday called up state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari to explain his stance on frequent calls to stage walkouts from the assembly. Ghosh had on Thursday asked the party to restrategise and refrain ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    HC advises bus ops between 2 shut Hwh ghats

    Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Thursday advised West Bengal Transport Corporation to run shuttle bus services between Sibpur and Ramkrishnapur ghats till the two jetties were operational after repair.A division bench of CJ T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    On Holi road trip to Sikkim, Bengal biker dies in accident

    123 Kolkata: A 28-year-old passionate biker, Rohan Ghosh who had set out on a road trip to Sikkim from Barasat with 11 friends on March 14 to celebrate Holi died in a road accident near Pakyong, Gangtok, on Wednesday. ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengali now must on Siliguri signboards & hoardings

    Siliguri: Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has issued a new directive making Bengali language mandatory on all signboards and hoardings. SMC officials said the move was aimed at promoting and preserving the linguistic heritage of Bengal. They also warned that ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Thanks to Bengal’s youngest MLA, Thakurbari may finally see factions join hands

    Thakurnagar (North 24 Parganas): In an unprecedented turn of events, the two rival factions of the Matua Thakurbari — one led by Union minister Shantanu Thakur and the other by Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Bala Thakur — are likely ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    JU ragging cases: ‘Weak admin, other factors’ behind impunity

    123 Kolkata: Three days after a fresh ragging complaint at Jadavpur University's Main Hostel, interim VC Bhaskar Gupta said that a probe is underway in the case. However, a cross-section of JU students and professors, both present and retired, ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Wedding registration suspended till March 24

    123 Kolkata: Marriage registrations have been suspended in Bengal from March 14 to March 24 to enable officials to shift marriage-related data from the National Data Center (NDC) to State Data Center (SDC). Earlier, the data uploaded on the ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    VB set to let in visitors at core heritage zone

    123 Santiniketan: From now on, visitors can again enter the core heritage area — the Ashrama area — on the Visva Bharati University campus. After his first administrative decision on Thursday, the newly appointed vice-chancellor, Probir Kumar Ghosh, told ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops shift autos, mark bus boarding points to check Jessore Rd accidents

    123 Kolkata: Following back-to-back accidents on Jessore Road, Bidhannagar cops have implemented a series of changes in traffic management. These include shifting autos and totos from the main flank to service road, extending bus stands from their current locations, ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Encroachments a feature of city pavements: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL, seeking the court's directive to remove a construction encroaching on the pavement near B P Poddar Hospital, New Alipore.This was a feature all over the city, observed Chief Justice ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Don’t obstruct director’s work, HC tells technicians

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers Eastern India not to obstruct film director Bidula Bhattacharjee's usual course of business. The matter will be next heard on April 3.Bhattacharjee's counsel submitted ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    HC orders demolition of illegal bldg floors

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the demolition of three floors illegally constructed along a six-foot-wide lane at Watgunge. It directed the KMC to inspect other buildings that have been constructed in the neighbourhood.A division bench of ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Last of 3 new moms shifted out of CCU

    Kolkata: Nasrin Khatun, the last of the three women, whose condition turned critical after giving birth at Midnapore Medical College and was sent to SSKM on Jan 12, was shifted out of the critical care unit to general ward ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC nod to PIL challenging fresh OBC survey

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the filing of a PIL challenging the state's decision to start a fresh survey for identification of Other Backward Classes (OBC). Advocate Bikram Banerjee informed a division bench of Chief Justice ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Tea garden asst manager killed by worker

    Siliguri: An assistant manager at Jayantika Tea Garden, Nilanjan Bhadra, was allegedly hacked to death by a garden worker, Elthrus Ekka, at the Bas Line Division of the tea garden in Phansidewa on Thursday. Ekka has been arrested.Bhadra was ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Civic body faces HC ire over forcing PMAY applicants to pay 40k

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Dinhata Municipality in Cooch Behar to show reasons why action should not be taken against it for collecting Rs 40,000 as "development fund" from individuals applying for urban dwelling units under ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    7 jailed for life for ’18 TMC candidate murder

    Kolkata: A Barasat district court on Thursday gave life imprisonment to seven persons for the murder of TMC panchayat samiti candidate Biplab Sarkar inside a party office in Habra during the 2018 panchayat elections.Public prosecutor Shyamal Kanti Dutta stated ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal emerges 2nd in total, share of women representatives in assembly

    Kolkata: Bengal has emerged second nationally in terms of the share of women MLAs in the state assembly and the total number of women MLAs, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). With 15% of ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Baruipur protest: BJP MLAs walk out of assembly, burn Speaker’s effigy

    Kolkata: BJP MLAs on Thursday staged a walkout waving black flags and even burnt speaker Biman Banerjee's effigy outside the Bengal assembly after he rejected their demand for a discussion on the alleged attack on state leader of opposition ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Before UK visit, CM forms GoM, task force

    Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday formed a group of five senior cabinet ministers and a task force comprising five senior bureaucrats and cops and tasked them with monitoring the situation in the state and coordinating with ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Spivak support for Mamata’s secularism ‘in current context’

    Kolkata: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, winner of the 2025 Holberg Prize — the closest equivalent to a ‘humanities Nobel' — wrote to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, expressing support for Banerjee's secularism "in the current context" and thanking ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal seeks Slovak investment to boost economic ties

    Kolkata: The state is seeking investment from Slovakia across various business sectors. State industry and commerce minister Shashi Panja met a delegation led by Slovak foreign and European affairs minister Juraj Blanar in the city on Thursday.The minister said ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    AI-driven ops: Bandhan ties up with Salesforce

    Kolkata: Salesforce has partnered with Bandhan Bank to drive digital transformation in its loan origination systems (LOS). The collaboration was announced on Thursday in the city. With Salesforce's support, the bank has consolidated multiple LOS into AI-driven platforms.Ratan Kumar ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Sunita Williams should get Bharat Ratna: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday, while giving her reactions on the successful return of Sunita Williams from space, claimed to have studied space science. KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said astronaut Sunita Williams should be ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Pay staffer’s arrears since 2005: HC to KMC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday directed KMC to pay arrears to an employee from the date they were informed of the mistake made in his joining date, stating that the "no work no pay" principle cannot be universally ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    CP balm for traffic cops on duty in scorching heat

    Kolkata: To ease the burden on traffic constables amid rising temperatures, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Wednesday slashed duty hours from eight to six, effective immediately. Verma also distributed summer kits to traffic cops at key intersections."The day-time ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    JUTA opposes police outpost on campus, writes to VC

    123 Kolkata: The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association has opposed the setting up of a police outpost on the campus. This follows a communication from Kolkata Police last week, where they sought space from university authorities to set up a ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    State issues alert in Birbhum, Mursh villages after bird flu cases reported in J’khand’s Pakur

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt had given an alert to villages within 10 km radius in the districts in Birbhum and Murshidabad adjoining Pakur in Jharkhand following report of bird flu in Pakur. People are advised to avoid sick or ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Met: Thunderstorm likely to give relief from sorching heat

    Kolkata: The city remained under partial cloud cover on Thursday morning, which provided slight relief from the scorching heat of the last few days. While the maximum temperature slid to 32°C, the minimum was 26.6°C. With conditions turning favourable ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    JU students ‘punish’ PG2 anti-ragging boy for 5 hours

    123456 Kolkata: More than 15 boarders of Jadavpur University's Main Hostel allegedly confined, mentally harassed, and ‘punished' a second-year postgraduate film studies student for five hours on Tuesday for speaking up against ragging last year. The incident took place ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    333-cr BMC water project to benefit 3.2 lakh residents

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to implement the Rs 333-crore project to set up a water distribution network, underground reservoirs and overhead tanks in Rajarhat-Gopalpur, covering BMC wards 1 to 21, to supply surface-treated water. Officials ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Compensation raised for man crippled in accident

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Wednesday set aside the compensation amount fixed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal and factored in multipliers in the light of a Supreme Court order to increase the compensation amount of an 80% disabled accident ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal assembly passes bill to allow women to work in bars

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal assembly on Wednesday sanctioned legislation permitting women to undertake employment in bars. The West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025, was presented by minister of state Chandrima Bhattacharya in the assembly.It seeks to amend the Bengal Excise ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    'Football runs through my veins': Mamata Banerjee receives jersey signed by Lionel Messi, calls him 'artist with the ball'

    She noted that football is a deeply ingrained passion in Bengal and praised Messi as a symbol of the sport’s brilliance. NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her admiration for Argentine football legend ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Scuffle, human chain as hawkers block New Market entrance

    1234 Kolkata: Trouble erupted near the entrance to the bakery range at New Market on Wednesday with traders protesting against semi-permanent stalls, with tarpaulin canopies, which had been erected on the two-wheeler parking area. Several stalls have also come ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    No bail, arrested student in cop custody till Mar 25

    Kolkata: Sauptik Chandra, a second-year civil engineering student arrested in connection with the arson at the Trinamool-supported ‘Shiksha Bandhu' office on campus on March 1, was sent to police custody until March 25 as the magistrate turned down his ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Met issues yellow alert for today, orange for tomorrow

    123 Kolkata: The Met office issued an orange alert for Kolkata on Friday, indicating the possibility of an intense thunderstorm between Thursday and Saturday. Met officials said on Friday, Kolkata may experience gusty winds at 40 kmph-50 kmph, along ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Swimming coach stabs girl, arrested

    Kolkata: A swimming coach in Chitpore was arrested for allegedly robbing jewellery and stabbing an 11-year-old girl. The accused, Sandeep Sau, was charged under multiple sections for robbery and attempted murder, police said.The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC reinstates CISF constable after 11 years

    Kolkata: Eleven years after an on-duty CISF constable lost his job following a scuffle with another constable with a CISF offier at the New Delhi metro station, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed his reinstatement and stated that ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    City boy, a nat’l-level athlete, tops GATE

    Kolkata: Arnab Paul, a final-year biotechnology student at Heritage Institute of Technology, bagged the top spot, nationally, in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination. He wants to pursue bioprocess engineering at IIT Madras.Paul had aimed for a ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Court reprieve for luxury car firm officials

    Kolkata: Calcutta high court on Wednesday quashed criminal proceedings against the head of Audi India, which is a division of Volkswagen Group Sales India Pvt Ltd, and the company's customer service head in a case where a buyer filed ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Fake passports: KP issues lookout notices against 69

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has issued lookout notices against 69 individuals suspected of having used forged documents to obtain Indian passports and flee the country. Charge sheets have been filed against 130 people involved in the fraud, but many have ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Shashwat Goenka elected chairman of CII Eastern Region

    Kolkata: RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group vice-chairman Shashwat Goenka has been elected as CII Eastern Region chairman. Goenka said that he would work across different states in the next 12 months and has plans to take CII to new heights. The ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    After 81 years, Kurseong turntable for toy train revived

    Siliguri: After 81 years, a turntable that enabled a toy train locomotive to do a 180° turn within minutes has been revived at Kurseong. The restoration took about four months, and trials are still being conducted at Kurseong. A ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu faces ‘go back’ slogans at Baruipur rally

    Kolkata: There was tension in Baruipur on Wednesday when state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari held a rally to protest against vandalism at temples and "mistreatment" of BJP MLAs in the assembly. As Trinamool Congress supporters shouted "go back" ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to revoke 2001 incentive schemes, plans new industry-focused policy

    Kolkata: State govt looks to discontinue the West Bengal Incentive Schemes, and in due course, a new scheme — relevant in the current context — will be introduced. State industries minister Shashi Panja on Wednesday tabled the Revocation of ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    India expected to sign several FTAs soon: Sanjiv Puri

    Kolkata: India is expected to sign several FTAs despite rising global geopolitical uncertainties, said CII president Sanjiv Puri. He also advocated for 6% of the national GDP to be allocated to the education sector.Addressing a CII conference on catalysing ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Cong brass doesn’t ‘rule out’ tie-up in Bengal, state unit to fortify base first

    Kolkata: Congress brass, which met Bengal unit netas at a hybrid meeting in Delhi on Wednesday, has not ruled out the possibility of an alliance for the assembly polls in Bengal, said sources. Pradesh Congress netas, however, will analyse ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Traffic curbs around Eden on match days

    Kolkata: Traffic restrictions will be implemented around Eden Gardens and the Maidan area in Kolkata during upcoming IPL cricket matches starting this Saturday, Lalbazar stated on Monday. The Kolkata Police Traffic Department announced that vehicles will be restricted around ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Kunal gets HC nod for London trip

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted permission to Trinamool spokesperson and journalist Kunal Ghosh to accompany CM Mamata Banerjee to London from March 21 to March 30. An application was made seeking permission for his London trip ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    2L-3L recruitments can take place after OBC survey: Mamata

    123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said recruitment to fill at least 2 lakh to 3 lakh vacancies in various state govt departments could proceed once the survey to assess community backwardness — and thereby include more groups ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal gets two new state information commissioners

    Kolkata: Bengal govt appointed Sanchita Kumar and Mriganko Mahato on Wednesday as the two new state information commissioners. CM Mamata Banerjee, along with parliamentary affairs minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, selected the two from a list of nine applicants. Kumar is ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Best of Tollywood takes home the Black Lady

    123456 Kolkata: Joy Filmfare Awards Bangla 2025, which was held at JW Marriott on Tuesday, brought together the finest talents, outstanding performances and artistic brilliance under one roof to celebrate the excellence in Bengali cinema. While Nandita Roy-Shiboprasad Mukherjee's ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Municipalities job scam: HC refuses to grant Sil bail

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday refused to grant bail to Ayan Sil in the multi-crore municipalities recruitment case, stating that given the gravity of the offence, "it will send a wrong signal to society."The HC also noted that ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    HC gives permission for Tamluk rally

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday allowed a Hindu protest rally at East Midnapore's Tamluk town on Thursday. State leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari will participate.Petitioners had moved the HC after cops denied permission to the procession, proposed ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    HC lifts stay, gives nod to appointment of 29 judges

    Kolkata: Lifting the stay order on the recruitment of civil judges, who qualified for West Bengal Judicial Services Exam 2022, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday approved the appointment of 29 judges to the state's lower court.Justice Arindam Mukherjee ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    'Lesbian bonding': Row in West Bengal over Tagore song in series Dabba Cartel

    KOLKATA: Controversy has flared in Bengal over use of a Tagore song in a scene suggesting lesbian bonding in web series Dabba Cartel.The cultural clan is divided. While some musicians criticised the way Mama Chittey has been adapted as ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    KMDA gets 5.9 cr more to fix batteredroads in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The state govt on Tuesday sanctioned another Rs 5.9 crore to the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority for the repair and upgradation of roads in different locations of the Salt Lake Sector II area. The state govt earlier sanctioned ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu reaches out to Dilip, meets MLAs at assembly

    Kolkata: A day after Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari held a meeting at state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar's New Delhi residence, he reached out to the party's former national vice president, Dilip Ghosh, on Tuesday and hosted a ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Weather Forecast Today March 18, 2025: Sunny days ahead with patchy rain expected

    March 18, 2025: Sunny Skies AheadToday's Weather Highlights Step outside with confidence today as Kolkata welcomes another sunny day. With no signs of rain or clouds to obstruct the sky, it’s a perfect day to plan outdoor activities.Maximum Temperature: ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Fire razes 120 hectares of 144-year-old tea estate

    Siliguri: Fire ravaged approximately 120 hectares of tea bushes at the 144-year-old Longview Tea Estate in Kurseong, renowned for its Darjeeling brew, on Tuesday. Though no casualty was reported, the fire that ravaged the garden on either side of ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Tagore song use in web series divides audience

    Kolkata: The use of Tagore's ‘Mamo chittey' in a scene, suggesting lesbian bonding in a web series, has divided Bengal's cultural elite. While many musicians criticised its use as background music in ‘Dabba Cartel', others support its inclusion in ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Thunderstorms likely in Kol between Thurs and Sat: Met

    Kolkata: Brace for a few spells of thunderstorm activities between Thursday and Saturday in Kolkata. The Met office has issued a yellow warning for Kolkata, where the showers are expected to be accompanied by gusty wind. The thunderstorm in ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    City night vigil for Sunita’s touchdown

    Kolkata: As the Space X Dragon capsule, carrying stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore along with compatriot Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, started its 19.5-crore-km journey, spanning 17 hours, from the ISS to Earth, officials ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Stop shifting of SBI unit from Kol: Civil society forum to Prez

    Kolkata: Bank Bachao Desh Bachao Manch, a civil society forum of former bankers and eminent citizens, has written to President Droupadi Murmu to stop SBI shifting a significant portion of its Global Market Unit (GMU) operations from Kolkata to ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    State govt employees to get Rs6,800 bonus

    Kolkata: The state government will extend an ad-hoc bonus of Rs 6,800 to its employees not covered by any productivity-linked bonus and whose revised emoluments were below Rs 44,000 per month in March. An order by finance secretary P ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    VB alumnus Probir Kumar Ghosh is new vice-chancellor

    Santiniketan: Centre on Tuesday appointed agriculture scientist Dr Probir Kumar Ghosh as Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor for five years. Ghosh is the first VB alumnus outside the Tagore family to return to his alma mater as its VC.Visva-Bharati was functioning with ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC’s sharp posers on fuel prices & inflation to counter BJP’s Hindutva pitch

    Kolkata: As Bengal BJP tried hard to pitch its Hindutva narrative both inside and outside the state assembly on Tuesday, Trinamool Congress responded with posters questioning, "Hindu Jodi Bhai Bhai, Gas-e Kyano Chhar Nai" (If Hindus are brothers, why ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to rename health & wellness NHM centres

    Kolkata: Bengal has agreed to rename health and wellness centres under National Health Mission as Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, Union MoS for health and family welfare Prataprao Jadhav said in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.Answering a question from BJP MP Samik ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal seeks HC nod to collect CPM youth neta’s voice samples

    Kolkata: Bengal govt moved Calcutta High Court on Tuesday seeking the court's permission to collect voice samples of CPM youth neta Kalatan Dasgupta, accused in hatching a conspiracy to attack junior doctors protesting the RG Kar Hospital rape and ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Fusion CX acquires US firm for Rs 105 crore

    Kolkata: Fusion CX, an ITeS company based in Kolkata, has acquired US firm Sequential Technology International (STI) at an investment of nearly Rs 105 crore through organic and inorganic routes.This was Fusion CX's third acquisition in the past nine ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    3rd arrest for March 1 arson on JU campus

    Kolkata: A Jadavpur University (JU) student was arrested on Tuesday in connection with arson at the Trinamool-supported ‘Shiksha Bandhu' office on campus on March 1, the third arrest in this case, sparking protests outside Jadavpur police station.The arrest of ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol winter PM2.5 count better than Del’s, best since 2020-’21

    Kolkata: Kolkata's air quality improved this winter with the average PM2.5 concentration dropping to 65 micrograms per cubic metre between Oct 2024 and Jan 2025 against 77 micrograms per cubic metre and 85 micrograms per cubic metre in the ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Cash-for-job scam: Partha’s kin appears before court

    Kolkata: Krishnachandra Adhikari, uncle of former education minister Partha Chatterjee's son-in-law Kalyanmay Bhattacharya, appeared before the Bankshall court on Tuesday over the multi-crore school recruitment scam. Earlier, Bhattacharya recorded his statement before a judicial magistrate.Adhikari, formerly a fish vendor, ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Leaf-burning at park pollutes Kolkata’s Bhowanipore

    Kolkata: A conservancy worker was spotted burning dry leaves at Bhowanipore's Ladies Park (Southern Park) around 10 am on Monday, leading to air pollution in the surrounding locality. During this season, numerous deciduous trees shed leaves from late Feb ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal home to 392 rhinos, numbers up 71% in 12 years

    123 Siliguri/Jalpaiguri: Bengal has registered an over 70% growth in its rhino numbers in the past 12 years. As per the results of the 2025 rhino census at Jaldapara and Gorumara national parks, the state is now home to ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    OBC man ‘barred’ from Durga Puja moves HC

    123 Kolkata: A petitioner from the OBC community in Purulia's Raghunathpur moved Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, alleging that he and his family were prevented from participating in Durga Puja in 2024.The petitioner submitted that he made several complaints ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Institute of Eminence: JUTA writes to Centre

    123 Kolkata: The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA) has written a letter to Sukanta Majumdar, minister of state in the ministry of education, regarding the ongoing Institute of Eminence (IoE) status controversy. The letter, signed by JUTA president Partha ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    BSF, BGB step in as Mekhliganj tensions rise over watchtower, fencing

    Kolkata: Border Security Force officials stepped in, along with Border Guard Bangladesh personnel, on Tuesday after tensions flared at Nakargari international border in Cooch Behar's Mekhliganj a day earlier as BGB proceeded with unauthorised construction of a watchtower, despite ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    ZSI scientists discover new species in Bihar

    Kolkata: Scientists from Kolkata-headquartered Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) made a significant discovery with the identification of a new species of Collembola, a soil-dwelling micro-arthropod, in Bihar. This finding highlights the rich biodiversity of Collembola in the region and ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Security revamp at JU: Registration of visitors’ vehicles must, no short-cut through campus

    1234 Kolkata: Security measures were tightened at Jadavpur University gates a day after the varsity administration announced its decision to beef up security on the campus. On Tuesday, JU interim vice chancellor Bhaskar Gupta sent a correspondence to the ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    HS: Daily check of attendance from next year

    Kolkata: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) will track students' attendance daily from next year by implementing Google Forms to get instant updates on absentees.At this year's HS, which ended on Tuesday, this system was used in ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Kasba water row: KMC cracks whip

    123 Kolkata: A day after allegations reached KMC headquarters that some slum residents in Kasba were suffering from water crisis due to the snapping of connections, municipal commissioner Dhaval Jain on Tuesday issued a circular, making it clear that ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Cheque-bounce case: Barasat judge gives bail after hearing till 3 am

    123 Kolkata: The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Court in Barasat delivered a bail order in a cheque-bounce case at 3 am on Tuesday — an unusual occurrence in the court's history.According to the law, an arrested person must ...

    19 March 2025 Times of India
    Vidyasagar University gets permanent VC

    Kolkata: Vidyasagar University now has a permanent vice-chancellor after Dipak Kar, the chairperson of the College Service Commission, was appointed for the post. The state higher education department on Monday issued a notification after final approval was received from ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    CU notice: Only univ profs can check papers

    Kolkata: Calcutta University revised its postgraduate exam-related notice, stating that the answer scripts will only be corrected by the university professors, a system in place since 2018. The recent circular, which barred guest teachers, had sparked controversy and prompted ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    No respite after dark, min above normal for 9 days

    Kolkata: In addition to the sweltering days, the nights, too, have turned hot and humid with the minimum temperature consistently staying above the normal mark over the past nine days. Though Kolkata got a few spells of light rain ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Fortress JU: Entry of outsiders & cars restricted, gate 5 closed

    Kolkata: On the day vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta returned to his office at Jadavpur University after 16 days, the university authorities on Monday decided on a series of measures to beef up security on the campus. While some measures, like ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Bikramgarh Jheel restoration & clean-up in Kolkata resume after 5 years

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has resumed work to clean and restore the Bikramgarh Jheel after a gap of more than five years. It is the second-largest water body in south Kolkata after Rabindra Sarobar.An excavator rolled into ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    BMC to start illumination work with Salt Lake, Baguiati

    Kolkata: Following on its plan for better illumination in its area, the BMC is set to install high-mast street lights at four places in Salt Lake and LED lights in Duttabad and Baguiati. The civic body, at this fiscal's ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    At airport this yr: Washrooms close to arrival points for flyers

    Kolkata: Flyers landing in Kolkata will almost immediately be able to access washrooms instead of having to walk the entire length of the mezzanine level, take either the escalator or the stairs to the ground level, and then walk ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Spivak wins Holberg, savours feat in hometown Kolkata

    123 Kolkata: Literary critic and postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is now in Kolkata, her hometown, as she savours the news of her being bestowed with the 2025 Holberg Prize—the closest equivalent to the Nobel in the field of ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    HC: Hand over live-in partner’s body in 48 hrs

    Kolkata: After pleading with the morgue and the police station since early-Feb to hand over his live-in partner's body, a 47-year-old man from Jheel Road in Jadavpur finally approached the Calcutta High Court. The HC on Monday directed that ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    EC to CEOs: Remove duplicate EPIC numbers

    Kolkata: The Election Commission on Monday issued a new directive to CEOs of all states regarding the protocol for removal of duplicate EPIC numbers. The CEOs have been asked to make amends by March 21 and send a compliance ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Mega land deal: 17-acre New Town plot worth Rs 800 cr to go for auction

    Kolkata: Come Poila Baisakh, the city may witness one of its biggest land deals ever. A 17-acre plot in New Town, valued at over Rs 800 crore, will be tabled for auction in a month. The plot is in ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    With 18.5 cr visitors last yr, Bengal among top tourist destinations

    Kolkata: As many as 18.5 crore tourists — both domestic and foreign — visited Bengal last year, its highest ever, placing the state "among the top destinations of India", tourism minister Indranil Sen told the state assembly on Monday.The ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Muslim youth on Ramzan fast donates blood for Hindu patient

    Kalyani: A young Muslim man, Nasim Malita (27), donated blood to a Hindu woman while observing his ‘roza' (fast). The recipient, Sangeeta Ghosh, who suffers from kidney ailments since 2017-18, requires periodic blood transfusions. Nasim donated blood at a ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Won’t let even an inch be encroached: Hakim in assembly

    Kolkata: State govt would not allow "even an inch" of illegal encroachment of land, said urban development and municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim in assembly on Monday. Responding to a question from BJP's Sankar Ghosh, Hakim said illegal encroachers ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Holi celebrations in city less violent this year: Kol Police stats

    Kolkata: Despite multiple high-profile incidents of crime, Holi 2025 was less violent than what the city witnessed in the past few years. Cops arrested 161 persons for disorderly conduct on Holi day, a figure 63% less than what the ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
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