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  • Electrocution victim’s kin to get 3L compensation

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), headed by retired Calcutta HC Judge Jyotirmay Bhattacharya, asked West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (WBSETCL) to pay compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the family of Najibar Rahaman Sk, ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Kabir issues unconditional apology after TMC show-cause notice

    Kolkata: Trinamool's Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir issued an unconditional apology on Friday in response to a show-cause notice, days after a revolt on TV channels. Kabir submitted a three-page letter containing his response to parliamentary affairs minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Punjab potato likely to cool down Kol prices in 2 weeks

    123 Kolkata: The arrival of Punjab potatoes in Bengal markets by the second week of December is expected to ease soaring potato prices, currently at Rs 34 per kg. With supplies from Uttar Pradesh following closely, prices may dip ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Darj zoo gets a pair of white tigers from Hyderabad

    12 Darjeeling: The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in Darjeeling, one of the largest high-altitude zoos in India, received a pair of leucistic Royal Bengal tigers from Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad, as part of an animal exchange programme. ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Darj zoo gets a pair of white tigers from Hyderabad

    12 Darjeeling: The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in Darjeeling, one of the largest high-altitude zoos in India, received a pair of leucistic Royal Bengal tigers from Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad, as part of an animal exchange programme. ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Hubby, friends set woman afire on road

    Kolkata: Residents of a Belgharia locality were in shock after they saw a homemaker in her early 30s engulfed in flames, screaming for help and running for cover on Friday evening. She was allegedly set afire by her husband ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    5th arrest in Kasba attack

    123 Kolkata: One more person has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the failed murder attempt on councillor Sushanta Ghosh on Nov 15. He has been identified as Mohd Ali. Total arrests in this case have now gone ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Eye on Sagar connectivity, tourism boost, PWD floats tenders for bridge across the Muriganga

    Kolkata: Following detailed planning over the last few years, the state public works department (PWD) has now floated tenders to set up the 3.3-km long proposed Gangasagar Setu over the Muriganga river in South 24 Parganas. Estimated at Rs ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Motorist assaults cabbie, snatches keys in C Kol road rage

    Kolkata: In an alleged case of road rage on Vivekananda Road in central Kolkata on Wednesday night, a motorist — a trader — allegedly assaulted a cab driver, snatched his vehicle keys and left the vehicle in the middle ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    ASI found dead in Regent Park, locals cry foul

    123 Kolkata: The mysterious death of a 59-year-old ASI of Kolkata Police, who was on medical leave, at his home near Kudghat under Regent Park PS has led to widespread protests by neighbours. They alleged that he was assaulted, ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Darj cops write to DEA on seized ‘radioactive material’

    12 Siliguri: Darjeeling district police have written to the department of atomic energy (DAE) to eliminate any possibility that the radioactive material seized from a Naxalbari forest guard on Wednesday could be real. NDRF had earlier found it to ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Dhaka worried after protest, more cops, CCTVs near B’desh mission

    Kolkata: Additional security personnel were posted, CCTV surveillance was increased and patrol vans, including those of the strike unit and PCR, were deployed near the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Beckbagan on Friday, a day after a Bangiya Hindu ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Dhaka worried after protest, more cops, CCTVs near B’desh mission

    Kolkata: Additional security personnel were posted, CCTV surveillance was increased and patrol vans, including those of the strike unit and PCR, were deployed near the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Beckbagan on Friday, a day after a Bangiya Hindu ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    NDITA to decongest road-side space, reorganize vendors

    123 Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has identified several streets in Sector V where hawkers currently do business on both sides of the street and plan to free up at least one side by accommodating the hawkers ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    A day after protest, cops beef up security around B’desh mission

    123 Kolkata: Additional security personnel were posted, CCTV surveillance was increased and patrol vans, including those of the strike unit and PCR, were deployed near the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Beckbagan on Friday, a day after a Bangiya ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    ‘Climate change slowing cyclone pace over land’

    Kolkata: Climate change is not only leading to extreme weather conditions more frequently but has also affected the speed at which cyclones move over land, IMD officials said on Friday. "We are observing that climate change is affecting the ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Hosps guide B’desh patients through turmoil

    Kolkata: Several private hospitals, which have multiple admissions and surgeries of Bangladeshi patients lined up over the next week, are yet to hear from them or their families. The latter are being contacted and asked if they would like ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    ‘Climate change slowing cyclone pace over land’

    Kolkata: Climate change is not only leading to extreme weather conditions more frequently but has also affected the speed at which cyclones move over land, IMD officials said on Friday. "We are observing that climate change is affecting the ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata airport conducts clean-up drive for safe ops during fog

    123 Kolkata: Bracing up for the low visibility and foggy days ahead, the Kolkata airport authorities on Friday have started a clean-up drive to remove unnecessary objects, including unused vehicles and machineries, to keep the airside free of obstacles. ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata joggers tweak schedule, cut walk time to beat toxic air

    Kolkata: As the season of air pollution sets in, majority of morning walkers and fitness enthusiasts in Kolkata have changed their ways — be it by curtailing the jogging hours or altering their routes — to protect themselves from ...

    30 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata film fest to open with ‘Galpo Holeo Sotti’

    Kolkata: As a fitting centenary tribute to director Tapan Sinha, his film ‘Galpo Holeo Sotti', starring Rabi Ghosh and Bhanu Bandopadhyay, was selected as the inaugural film of the 30th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). The ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Two protest rallies, 4 km apart, choke heart of Kolkata for over six hours

    123 Kolkata: The city centre was choked for almost six hours — between 11.30 am and 5.30 pm — yet again mid-week, adversely affecting north-south traffic due to twin rallies that got executed barely 3.5 km from each other.While ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Can't install CCTV cameras in house without resident's consent: Calcutta high court

    KOLKATA: Installing CCTV cameras in a residential property, without the resident's permission, violated her privacy, Calcutta High Court has recently said. The court said a woman, who had alleged that her estranged husband had installed such cameras in a ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    KMC gives 3-day deadline to Kolkata cops to remove New Mkt encroachers

    123 Kolkata: The Town Vending Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Thursday served a 72-hour ultimatum to New Market Police to remove hawkers, who had encroached upon the carriageways and substantial portion of pavements in and around ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Waqf bill ‘anti-secular’, will ‘snatch rights of Muslims’, says Mamata

    Kolkata: The Waqf (Amendment) Bill "targets one particular religion", chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday. The bill was also "anti-federal and anti-secular, which will snatch the rights of Muslims", she said in the state assembly.Saying that the bill ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Waqf bill ‘anti-secular’, will ‘snatch rights of Muslims’, says Mamata

    Kolkata: The Waqf (Amendment) Bill "targets one particular religion", chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday. The bill was also "anti-federal and anti-secular, which will snatch the rights of Muslims", she said in the state assembly.Saying that the bill ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    They robbed me of a year after 31-yr service: Teacher

    Kolkata: La Martiniere for Boys English teacher Susmita Chakraborty, who resigned on Wednesday, said she was robbed of one year of service after being with the institute for 31 years. She was scheduled to retire in Dec 2025."They (LMB ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    USIS attack accused seeks parole to meet ailing sister

    Kolkata: Twenty-two years after the American Center attack, which put Kolkata on the global terror map, the state prison department received a parole application from Jamiluddin Nasir, lodged in Presidency correctional home for 21 years, to meet his ailing ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    USIS attack accused seeks parole to meet ailing sister

    Kolkata: Twenty-two years after the American Center attack, which put Kolkata on the global terror map, the state prison department received a parole application from Jamiluddin Nasir, lodged in Presidency correctional home for 21 years, to meet his ailing ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Amiya Bagchi, the man who made economics a tool for devpt, dies

    Kolkata: Emeritus professor, an economic historian and founder director of Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) Amiya Kumar Bagchi passed away at 88 in a city nursing home on Thursd-ay. He is survived by two daughters. Bagchi studied in ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    They robbed me of a year after 31-yr service: Teacher

    Kolkata: La Martiniere for Boys English teacher Susmita Chakraborty, who resigned on Wednesday, said she was robbed of one year of service after being with the institute for 31 years. She was scheduled to retire in Dec 2025."They (LMB ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    LMB signals end to row, to restore heritage steps

    Kolkata: La Martiniere has decided to restore the historic south steps at the boys' school where past students had engraved their names. The covering up of the steps with marble by the school authorities stirred up a controversy.Restoration architect ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    KP reports 49 cases of digital arrest in 27 days

    123 Kolkata: Last month, Kolkata Police admitted that the digital arrest fraud was becoming their biggest challenge. In the past 27 days, cops have received 49 complaints related to digital arrests, 18 of which involved the victims paying the ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Potato prices in Kolkata remain high despite govt efforts & police crackdown on exports

    Kolkata: Despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee's directive to bring down potato prices to below Rs 30 per kg to ease the burden on household budgets, retail prices across Kolkata markets continue to hover around Rs 34 per kg. The ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Death for 7 in love-triangle murder case

    123456 Kolkata: Calling it a rarest of rare case, a Chinsurah fast track court sentenced seven persons to death on Thursday in a 2020 murder case. On Oct 11 that year, the criminals killed 23-year-old Bishnu Mal, and dismembered ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Job fair for ex-servicemen in Kolkata: A gateway to diverse career opportunities

    Kolkata: From project managers to plant supervisors and security engagements to administrative functions, a plethora of job opportunities will be available for retired army personnel at a job fair aimed at second career opportunities for ex-servicemen in West Bengal. ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Egg prices touch Rs 8 amid winter demand surge

    123 Kolkata: Egg prices in Kolkata surged to Rs 8 per piece on Thursday, driven by changing dietary habits and heightened demand for cakes during the festive season. Traditionally avoided in summer, eggs become a staple in winter diets, ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    No religion should be harmed: Mamata on Bangladesh violence

    Kolkata: No religion should be harmed and any incident ending in violence "because of religion" was condemnable, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday while reacting to the persecution of Hindus and other religious minorities in neighbouring Bangladesh.Banerjee, speaking ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    No religion should be harmed: Mamata on Bangladesh violence

    Kolkata: No religion should be harmed and any incident ending in violence "because of religion" was condemnable, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday while reacting to the persecution of Hindus and other religious minorities in neighbouring Bangladesh.Banerjee, speaking ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Metro language ruckus reaches state assembly

    Kolkata: Balagarh MLA Manoranjan Byapari on Thursday brought up the issue of linguistic intolerance faced by Bengali-speakers in the state on the floor of the assembly. He voiced concerns over incidents where outsiders allegedly threatened locals, asking them to ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Presidency students go to YouTube for practical classes as labs run out of reagents, frogs

    123 Kolkata: Presidency University's chemistry department ran out of a chemical used for laboratory experiments during practical classes of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, but there was apparently no money left for its purchase. Subsequently, a professor was compelled to ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata air improves as mercury rises

    Kolkata: The ambient air quality of Kolkata showed significant improvement on Thursday, with Air Quality Index (AQI) levels dipping to ‘moderate' and even ‘satisfactory' in some areas, coinciding with a rise in mercury as the minimum temperature stood at ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    HC seeks report on cyber crime training, infra

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the Bengal DGP to report on the kind of training given to police officers in cyber crime police stations across the state and the status of infrastructure in those police stations. ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    HC: Mkt owner can’t shirk responsibility of fire safety

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday refused to discharge the Bagri Market owner from a criminal case, stating that owners cannot "shirk" responsibility entirely for the fire safety of a building. The market was gutted on Sept 16, ...

    29 November 2024 Times of India
    Teen model slapped by photographer

    Kolkata: A minor girl, who wants to start a career as a model, alleged that she was slapped by a professional for refusing to pose indecently at a photoshoot, despite being charged Rs 50,000. The incident was reported in ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Teen model slapped by photographer

    Kolkata: A minor girl, who wants to start a career as a model, alleged that she was slapped by a professional for refusing to pose indecently at a photoshoot, despite being charged Rs 50,000. The incident was reported in ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    B’desh response on monk’s arrest ‘highly frustrating, worrying’: Iskcon Kol

    Kolkata: Terming Bangladesh govt's response to India on the arrest of monk Chinmoy Krishna Das "highly frustrating", Iskcon's Kolkata vice-president and spokesperson Radharamn Das said he felt extremely helpless for other monks and minorities in the neighbouring country."The Union ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Tropical Agro’s Kharagpur plant to start next year

    Kolkata: Chennai-based fertiliser company Tropical Agro will invest Rs 50 crore in Bengal as it sets up its factory in Kharagpur to manufacture biological and chemical crop protection products. The plant will become operational next year.The annual turnover of ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Tropical Agro’s Kharagpur plant to start next year

    Kolkata: Chennai-based fertiliser company Tropical Agro will invest Rs 50 crore in Bengal as it sets up its factory in Kharagpur to manufacture biological and chemical crop protection products. The plant will become operational next year.The annual turnover of ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    IIT KGP partners with z21 Ventures for startup accelerator programme

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur has collaborated with z21 Ventures, a venture capital firm to develop a startup accelerator programme for budding entrepreneurs among UG and PG final year students of the institute.As part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU), the ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    30% UG seats vacant in West Bengal, colleges to reopen admission portals

    KOLKATA: The state higher education department on Monday announced an extension of the undergraduate admission process till Nov 30 and allowed colleges to reopen their individual portals to fill vacant seats. After the last round of admissions, which ended ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Earthworm study reveals robust sanctuary biodiversity

    123 Kolkata: A finding by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has shed light on the robust health of Bengal's wildlife sanctuaries. Researchers identified 22 species of earthworms across five sanctuaries, highlighting the critical role these organisms play in ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata's first metro link to airport set to be ready by March 2025

    KOLKATA: Trial runs for Kolkata's first metro connectivity to the airport will start in Dec, and the 7km link between Noapara and Jai Hind (airport) stations will be commissioned in March 2025, Metro Railway announced on Wednesday. The Noapara-Airport ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    La Martiniere Lucknow alumni rally behind Kolkata counterparts, say move to cover historic steps an attempt to obliterate heritage, history

    La Martiniere College (LMC), Lucknow LUCKNOW: The covering up of the engraved southern stone steps with marble at La Martiniere for Boys (LMB), Kolkata, is an attempt to erase the school's heritage and history and can never happen in ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Several colleges in Kolkata unsure of admission portal reopening

    Lady Brabourne College has published an advertisement, inviting fresh applications from UG aspirants. KOLKATA: Several colleges in the city said on Tuesday that they were not too sure about reopening their admission portals though the state higher education department ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Man held for selling fake DRDO docus in Darj district

    Darjeeling: A man was arrested in Panighatta on Tuesday in a joint operation by Army intelligence and police on espionage charges for selling sensitive fake Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) documents and fake radioactive materials.The accused, identified as ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata: Zoo visitors can now buy tickets online, skip queues

    Forest minister Birbaha Hansda inaugurated the bird tunnel on Monday. Visitors can walk through a 60m-long tunnel that has glass on all three sides, with birds outside in an open arena KOLKATA: The Alipore Zoological Gardens inaugurated several measures ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Human efforts, increased wind speed drag Kolkata air to ‘moderate’ level in two zones

    Kolkata: The city's air saw a modest improvement on Wednesday as it recovered from a sharp dip in Air Quality Index (AQI) levels on Tuesday. A combination of favourable meteorological factors and proactive measures by KMC and the West ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh response on monk Chinmoy Krishna Das’s arrest ‘highly frustrating, worrying’: Iskcon Kolkata

    Kolkata: Terming Bangladesh govt's response to India on the arrest of monk Chinmoy Krishna Das "highly frustrating", Iskcon's Kolkata vice-president and spokesperson Radharamn Das said he felt extremely helpless for other monks and minorities in the neighbouring country."The Union ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Democracy in danger in India’s neighbourhood: Sobhandeb

    Kolkata: The strength of our country was its strong democratic foundation, from which the neighbouring countries often remain deprived, state parliamentary affairs minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said in Bengal assembly on Wednesday, referring to unrest in nations including Bangladesh and ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Two more held in tab funds case

    Kolkata: Two more arrests were made in the tab funds case, revealing a complex operation involving the hacking of govt's portal and manipulation of bank account details.Mohammad Mobarak Hossain from Harishchandrapur in Malda and Anowari Khatun from North Dinajpur ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Kin of man who died in cop custody moves HC for compensation

    Kolkata: The family of a Nagerbazar resident, who died after being in custody for nearly nine months following his arrest by Bandel GRP in Sept 2022, has moved Calcutta High Court alleging they were not informed of his arrest ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    LMB teacher quits 3 weeks after suspension over protest post emoji

    123 Kolkata: Almost three weeks after La Martiniere for Boys teacher Susmita Chakraborty was handed a suspension letter on Nov 8, reportedly over the posting of an emoji on an online post critical of the school, she resigned on ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Hawkers’ New Market turf war in Kolkata eats into space for pedestrians, motorists

    Kolkata: Unbridled and unregulated hawking continues to plague the area around New Market with vendors returning to their old ways of encroaching on pavements. Despite the directives from the state govt, they had returned in greater numbers to occupy ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Haryana man ‘killed’ Bengal tabla player on train after dispute over smoking

    123 Kolkata: The 30-year-old man from Haryana's Rohtak, Bholu Karmvir Ishwar Jat, had allegedly killed Bally tabla player, Soumitra Chatterjee, on Katihar Express on Nov 19 to extract his "revenge" for "being shouted at" inside the train. Jat, also ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    IFFI screens restored Ray, Sinha classics, cast members attend talks at Goa fest

    Kolkata: Restored versions of Tapan Sinha's ‘Harmomium' and Satyajit Ray's ‘Seembaddha' were screened at International Film Festival of India in Goa on Wednesday, when some of the cast members flew down to Goa to attend a panel discussion on ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    High court iterates default bail after 180 days in drugs case

    Kolkata: A charge sheet in a drugs case, filed without the forensic report, was no charge sheet, and all accused were entitled to default bail after 180 days, Calcutta High Court stated on Wednesday.Taking note of the fact that ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Rats chew away power line, crematorium in Kolkata shut

    123 Kolkata: Rats wreaked havoc on Cossipore Ramakrishna Mahasamadhi crematorium in north Kolkata, compelling the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to suspend cremation operations for over 12 hours on Wednesday. The persistent rodent nuisance, which has periodically plagued various parts ...

    28 November 2024 Times of India
    Elderly German tourist dies of suspected heart attack near Indian Botanic Garden

    Howrah: A 91-year-old German tourist on the way to visit the Indian Botanical Garden fell ill on Tuesday evening and died shortly afterwards. The deceased, John Richard Karl Maxx, was part of a large group comprising 23 German and ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Retired judge on Jadavpur University probe panel submits resignation over student 'misbehaviour'

    The room, where the probe committee holds meetings, was shut on Tuesday (right) KOLKATA: Retired Judge Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay, who chaired a panel investigating alleged irregularities in PhD admissions at Jadavpur University's international relations department, submitted his resignation to ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Lost answer scripts: CU receives all option forms

    Kolkata: Calcutta University has received all the option forms from the MA Bengali students whose answer scripts got lost during evaluation. Mark sheets will be distributed to the students by the end of this week.CU gave option forms to ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    KP traffic lessons for biker parents

    Kolkata: When Md Sanwar, the father of a class 6 student of St Augustine School, walked into the Children's Traffic Park — managed by Kolkata Traffic Police — on Wednesday morning, he wanted to know why he, having ridden ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Don’t bring civil disputes in the guise of criminal cases, HC tells petitioners

    Kolkata: Filing criminal cases and counter-cases in land dispute matters has left the Calcutta High Court frustrated, with three judges frowning on this trend on three separate occasions, including one on Tuesday.On Tuesday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh imposed a Rs ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Police stations asked to update ‘Rough Registers’

    123 Kolkata: All police stations in Kolkata have been asked to complete updating their list of criminals in a register by this month. Referred to as the ‘Rough Register' in police parlance, each police station records names and other ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Water crisis hits parts of Gangulibagan

    Kolkata: Some parts of Gangulibagan went dry on Tuesday afternoon following the breakdown of a pump that extracts groundwater for the neighbourhood. According to a Kolkata Municipal Corporation water supply department source, water scarcity was reported from residents who ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    BMC gets 18.4 crore for Salt Lake road repairs

    Kolkata: The state govt on Tuesday approved a funding of Rs 18.4 crore to Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for repairing the damaged road stretches across several blocks of Salt Lake.Some of the roads which are in a battered condition ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Flurys looks to set up shop in all metro cities

    Kolkata: Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels looks to take its bakery and confectionery brand, Flurys, to cities like Indore, Darjeeling, Gangtok, and Vizag by this financial year and to all metro cities soon after.Currently, the iconic tearoom-cum-café, synonymous with Park ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    BJP Bengal secy, wife arrested for taking Rs 1.6cr bribe from bizman

    Tamluk: Bengal BJP secretary Nabarun Nayak and his wife, Tanushree Nayak Roy, were arrested by Tamluk Police on Tuesday for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1.6 crore from a south Kolkata businessman, promising him a contract for supplying ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Guj rape-murder accused killed Bally tabla teacher, 3 more in a mth: Cops

    Kolkata/Howrah: A 30-year-old man from Haryana's Rohtak, arrested from Vapi railway station in Gujarat's Valsad district last Sunday in connection with a rape and murder, has emerged as the prime suspect in the murder of a 60-year-old tabla player ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Guj rape-murder accused killed Bally tabla teacher, 3 more in a mth: Cops

    Kolkata/Howrah: A 30-year-old man from Haryana's Rohtak, arrested from Vapi railway station in Gujarat's Valsad district last Sunday in connection with a rape and murder, has emerged as the prime suspect in the murder of a 60-year-old tabla player ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Act on water supply project plaints, CM tells officials

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday directed officials to take stringent action against contractors who installed pipes without proper surveys, soil testing and water availability verification during the household water supply project.She instructed DGP Rajeev Kumar and Bengal Police's ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    CM congratulates citizens for upholding constitutional values

    Kolkata: To commemorate the 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said, "The fundamentals of our Constitution ensure liberty, equality, justice, fraternity, democracy, and secularism. We abide by these values, and I ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Roadside ovens, fires add to pollution woes

    123 Kolkata: Environmentalists have raised concerns about the return of street-side cooking using coal, charcoal and wood, especially at a time when the city's air quality index (AQI) is consistently poor. This June, the administration cracked down on hawkers, ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Chinmoy Prabhu arrest: Iskcon Kolkata monks contact MHA, seek UN intervention

    Kolkata: Senior monks of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) in Kolkata have reached out to the Union home ministry and are demanding UN's intervention in order to ensure the safety of Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu, an Iskcon monk ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Kol may get rain over weekend, predicts Met

    123 Kolkata: The minimum temperature plunged slightly further on Tuesday when Kolkata recorded 17.2 degrees Celsius, making it the lowest this winter. Even as Kolkatans started enjoying the winter feel, a cyclonic circulation over the coastline is set to ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Banglar Bari funds to require ‘digital undertakings’

    12 Jalpaiguri: In an effort to bring complete transparency to the Banglar Bari project, state govt is set to take undertakings from beneficiaries on a digital platform.The process will kick off as a pilot project in Jalpaiguri by the ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Delhi-based firm to build temporary BC Roy Mkt

    Kolkata: A Delhi-based firm was awarded the Rs 19 crore contract for building the temporary BC Roy Market. The single-storey steel structure will come up in the next eight months, after which the traders will be shifted. RVNL, implementing ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Delhi firm to build temporary BC Roy Mkt in eight months

    123 Kolkata: A Delhi-based firm was awarded the Rs 19 crore contract for building the temporary BC Roy Market. The single-storey steel structure will come up in the next eight months, after which the traders will be shifted. RVNL, ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Green posters to cleanliness drives, schools teach students how to check spike in pollution

    Kolkata: City schools have started teaching students on ways to combat pollution by implementing programmes to raise awareness, particularly addressing the concerning levels of air pollution during weather changes between seasons.Assembly of God Church School organised a Greenathon on ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata to stay the most affordable city for home buyers in India

    Kolkata: Kolkata will continue to be the most affordable city for home buyers in 2025, a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company has stated in its latest report."India's residential real estate market is poised for an ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata to stay the most affordable city for home buyers in India

    Kolkata: Kolkata will continue to be the most affordable city for home buyers in 2025, a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company has stated in its latest report."India's residential real estate market is poised for an ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Hwh hospital vandalized after patient’s death

    Howrah: The family members of a patient on Tuesday vandalized a private hospital in Howrah after the death of the 36-year-old man who was undergoing treatment for multiple injuries sustained in an accident.Suraj Sharma, the deceased, had sustained serious ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Int’l rowers arrive in city for Lake Friendship Regatta

    Kolkata: Several international and national rowers are in the city to participate in the International Friendship Regatta to commemorate 100 years of rowing at Rabindra Sarobar. On Tuesday evening, the regatta organised by Calcutta Rowing Club was inaugurated in ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Int’l rowers arrive in city for Lake Friendship Regatta

    Kolkata: Several international and national rowers are in the city to participate in the International Friendship Regatta to commemorate 100 years of rowing at Rabindra Sarobar. On Tuesday evening, the regatta organised by Calcutta Rowing Club was inaugurated in ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    For 1st time this season, AQI turns ‘poor’ in all 7 Kol stns

    123 Kolkata: City residents woke up on Tuesday to a thick layer of smog that lingered until late morning, reducing visibility and disrupting transportation across the city. While the Air Quality Index (AQI) slightly improved as the day progressed ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Hwh hospital vandalized after patient’s death

    Howrah: The family members of a patient on Tuesday vandalized a private hospital in Howrah after the death of the 36-year-old man who was undergoing treatment for multiple injuries sustained in an accident.Suraj Sharma, the deceased, had sustained serious ...

    27 November 2024 Times of India
    Calls for ‘strong leadership’ grow louder in Bengal BJP

    Kolkata: A day after BJP veteran Tathagata Roy sought a "full-time state president", the party's state general secretary, Agnimitra Paul, said Bengal BJP needed an "uncompromising president"."We have to fight it out on the field every day. Whoever is ...

    26 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata East-West Metro lines to stay shut for 2 days to allow passage of rakes

    KOLKATA: For the first time since the East-West Metro was launched in Mar 2020, services on both the sections will be suspended along the corridor for two consecutive days — on Dec 14 and 15 — to allow the ...

    26 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata to stay the most affordable city for home buyers in India

    KOLKATA: Kolkata will continue to be the most affordable city for home buyers, a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company has stated in its latest report."India's residential real estate market is poised for an affordability shift ...

    26 November 2024 Times of India
    CBI arrests former minister Partha Chatterjee's close aide Santu Ganguly in Bengal school jobs scam case

    The CBI questioned Ganguly at their Kolkata office. They found evidence linking him to financial transactions in the scam. The Enforcement Directorate also questioned Ganguly earlier. NEW DELHI: The CBI arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Santu Ganguly, a close ...

    26 November 2024 Times of India
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