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  • BJP MP to Centre: Facilitate Taslima’s return to Kolkata

    Kolkata: BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Monday urged central govt to facilitate the safe return of novelist Taslima Nasrin, who now stays in Sweden.Bhattacharya, who raised the issue during zero hour, said: "Taslima Nasrin wants to return ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Hours before CM’s visit, Cong netas go to Furfura Sharif

    Kolkata: Hours before CM Mamata Banerjee's visit, Pradesh Congress netas on Monday went to Furfura Sharif to offer prayers on the death anniversary of Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddiqui. Bengal Congress minder Ghulam Ahmad Mir was also present."Bengal Congress has ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    Holberg bestowed on Spivak for groundbreaking work in literary theory, philosophy

    Kolkata: Kolkata-born literary critic and postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been awarded the 2025 Holberg Prize—the closest equivalent to the Nobel in the field of humanities, social sciences, law or theology research—for her groundbreaking work in literary theory ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    HC raps ‘police failure’ to ensure SC entry in temple

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday criticised police for not being able to ensure entry of Scheduled Caste community members to Nadia's Bairampur Shiv temple to celebrate the Gajan festival on April 8, saying: "This problem was not there ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    EPIC discussion not allowed, oppn walks out of RS

    123 New Delhi: Opposition parties, including Trinamool and Congress, walked out of Rajya Sabha on Monday after their demands for discussion on the Election Commission's alleged lapses leading to issue of duplicate voter ID cards, and the poll panel's ...

    18 March 2025 Times of India
    PK house murder: Locals seek regular checks, CCTV cover

    Kolkata: In the wake of a murder at football legend PK Banerjee's residence in Salt Lake's GD Block — where a caretaker was stabbed to death during a drunken clash with the late footballer's former driver on Holi evening ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Weather Today March 17: Sunny Days Ahead with Rising Temperatures

    Representational March 17, 2025: A Bright and Sunlit Kolkata Awaits YouWeather at a GlanceIt's a sunny day in Kolkata with no signs of rain or snow. So, why not plan some outdoor activities to soak in the good weather? ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    2 held for HS exam paper leak fake news

    Kolkata: Acting on an FIR lodged by Priyadarshini Mallick, secretary of WB Council of HS Education, against a video sharing fake news regarding the leak of Bengali and English question papers of HS Examination 2025, the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Building wall collapses on Muktaram Babu St, 1 injured

    Kolkata: A 36-year-old construction worker, Kayum Mollah, was injured when the outside wall of a half-a-century-old building collapsed with a deafening sound, along with the scaffolding, in Muktaram Babu street on Sunday afternoon. The building, which is undergoing repairs, ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    JU interim VC to be back on campus today

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University's interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta will join duty on Monday. He was discharged from hospital and returned home last week. He had a check-up on Sunday and the doctor gave him permission to join his office. However, ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    DigiYatra hits speed bump at boarding gates

    Kolkata: DigiYatra at Kolkata airport, which enables passengers to travel without paper documents and breeze through choke points by leveraging facial recognition technology, has become extremely popular with frequent flyers. However, authorities at the airport are struggling to convince ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol gets summer preview with max at 35.7°C, season’s highest

    Kolkata: The city on Sunday got a preview of the scorching summer ahead with the mercury rising to the season's highest so far — 35.7°C. The minimum temperature also crossed the 26°C mark for the second consecutive day this ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Moral policing in Bengal’s Khardah: Locals attack footballer, gf

    Kolkata: A footballer, Asgar Ali, in his early 30s, popularly known as Mohammad Azhar Uddin, and his girlfriend were allegedly roughed up by a group of local club members in Khardah on Saturday evening. The couple was accused of ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    HPL likely to invest Rs 8.5k cr for polycarbonate production in Bengal

    Kolkata: Haldia Petrochemicals is likely to invest over Rs 8,500 crore for polycarbonate production in Bengal. This petrochemical compound, not in production in India, would be an import substitute. Polycarbonate is mainly used in the automotive industry which continues ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Lost in 1977, Minnesota woman makes 13k km journey to retrace Kolkata roots

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old India-born US citizen is now in Kolkata, scouring B T Road and neighbourhoods along the Kolkata-Barrackpore route, trying to retrace her roots from the labyrinth of govt and adoption-home records and the cobwebs of a six-year-old ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    As mercury soars, New Town group starts experiment to keep plants in good health

    Kolkata: A New Town-based nature lovers' forum, which planted close to 3,500 trees in different areas of New Town in the last three years, is conducting an experiment to ensure the trees receive regular water to survive the summer ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Robbers break into Kolkata school, steal 10,000

    Kolkata: Miscreants broke into Behala Banitirtha Girls High School, ransacked the office rooms of the headmistress and the accounts section, and allegedly looted at least Rs 10,000 from the cash deposit. The caretaker found the school's collapsible gate broken ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Residents, greens join hands to save 52-cottah Uttarpara water body from encroachment

    123 Kolkata: Santhal Pukur, a sprawling wetland in Uttarpara Kotrang Municipality (UKM), once a thriving biodiversity hot spot and a sanctuary for migratory birds, is now almost entirely filled up — allegedly by real estate developers with the tacit ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    3 from Hwh complete 900km cycle trail in Vietnam in 6 days

    123 Kolkata: Three adventure enthusiasts from Howrah, including Everest summiteer Malay Mukherjee, completed nearly 900 km on cycle in Vietnam in six days. The trail, popularly known as the Ho Chi Minh trail, cuts across diverse landscapes, including mountains, ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    QS Ranking: JU improves in engg-tech and chem, slips in arts-humanities

    1234 Kolkata: After a gap of four years, Jadavpur University's engineering and technology dept has secured a place in the QS World University Ranking by Subject this year. The department of chemistry improved its position compared to last year's, ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Mamata to visit Furfura Sharif today, attend meet & Iftar party

    Furfura Sharif (Hooghly): CM Mamata Banerjee will go to Furfura Sharif on Monday to attend administrative meetings followed by an Iftar party in the presence of over 70 Pir Sahibs and Pirzadas.Banerjee, who will be visiting after nearly nine ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    BJP holds meet to pick generals for 2026 assembly polls

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP seniors held on Sunday a core committee meeting to elect organisational district presidents and chart the way ahead before the next state president is elected — probably by the end of March. The new organisation will ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    CU improves performance, ranks 22nd

    12345 Kolkata: Calcutta University has ranked 22nd, scoring between 751 and 760, in QS World Rankings in 2025. While JU has ranked 21st, Vellore Institute of Technology stood at 23rd position. CU's ranking improved from last year's when it ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    After meet with New Town residents, NKDA set to appoint agencies for upkeep of parks

    123456 Kolkata: Following feedback from residents that some of the playgrounds and activity parks in New Town are not receiving proper maintenance, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has initiated the process to appoint agencies to look after ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    2 held for threat to Siliguri deputy mayor

    123 Siliguri: Two persons were arrested on Sunday for threatening the deputy mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation a day earlier. The accused were identified as Dibendu Das and Vijay Sharma.Deputy mayor Ranjan Sarkar said his car had been stopped ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Man killed over land row, youth dies in clash in Malda

    123 Malda: A Bhutni panchayat secretary in Malda was stabbed to death by relatives over a bitter land dispute on Saturday, in clashes that left five people injured. Three persons were arrested.In another instance of violence on the same ...

    17 March 2025 Times of India
    Bangla film releases now have competition from past masters

    Kolkata: Sharmila Tagore-starrer ‘Puratawn' releases on April 11. It remains ambiguous whether the Suman Ghosh film will secure a theatrical release while Tagore's ‘Nayak' continues its second run in cinemas. Should this occur, it will exemplify the substantial hurdles ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    One killed, constable injured in accidents

    Kolkata: A 50-year-old man lost his life and a police constable was seriously injured in two accidents in the city on the day of Holi. The accidents occurred at Panchannagram on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and the Haldiram old cut ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Chock-a-block Kolkata gets 17k more vehicles in first 2 months of year

    Kolkata has experienced a record surge in new vehicle registrations, with 16,975 vehicles added in the first two months of 2025 KOLKATA: The first two months of the year have seen a record number of vehicles getting added to ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Presi entrance exam dates announced

    123 Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) has made a formal announcement regarding the schedule for the upcoming entrance examinations for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Presidency University. The entrance examinations for undergraduate programmes are set ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Bizman gets back 1.6 cr lost to WhatsApp fraud

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police Central Division cyber cell returned a record Rs 1.6 crore to a victim in a WhatsApp fraud case, with the money being returned in less than 10 days. The operation was conducted amid a ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    State’s oldest tiger dies at rescue centre

    123 Kolkata: Bengal's oldest tiger has died at the Jharkhali rescue centre in the Sundarbans on Saturday. Aged 21, the male tiger, according to a senior forest official, was rescued in the Sundarbans and initially sent to Alipore zoo ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    92% Swasthya Sathi breast cancer patients completed treatment: Study

    Kolkata: The Swasthya Sathi scheme has significantly improved access to curative treatments and enhanced treatment completion rates for breast cancer patients in Bengal, according to research by a group of doctors from multiple hospitals in the state. However, the ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Girl kidnapped from Hwh stn rescued in Rajasthan

    Kolkata: The 3-year-old girl, who was abducted from Howrah station on March 5 by traffickers, was rescued from an area near Rajasthan's Ranthambore National Park and reunited with her mother. The Howrah GRP made the recovery with the help ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Ex-gf’s photos leaked, man held

    Kolkata: The Pragati Maidan police arrested a man from Bihar for allegedly posting private photographs of his former girlfriend on social media and threatening her after she ended their relationship. The accused, Rahul Kumar Shah, was produced before Alipore ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Prisoner found hanging

    12 Burdwan: A 33-year-old prisoner was found hanging at East Burdwan Correctional Home on Saturday. The deceased was Biswajit Santra (33) of Kumsul, Dhaniakhali, in Hooghly district. He was serving a life sentence for his involvement in a murder ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Stop ‘bickerings’, says Abhishek; TMC lays out plan to battle ‘fake voter plot’

    1234 Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee used Saturday's virtual meeting with the party leadership regarding voter list revision to send out a stern message to bickering factions and set "goals" that needed to be achieved in the ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    2 kids among 7 dead as SUV crashes into e-rickshaws

    Chapra (Nadia): Seven people, including two children, were killed when an SUV crashed into three e-rickshaws on the Krishnanagar-Karimpur State Highway at Lakshmigachha village in Nadia on Friday morning. Ten others have been admitted to Chapra Rural Hospital with ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    5 held as tutor tries to kidnap student’s bro

    Nandigram: A nine-year-old's presence of mind foiled the kidnap of her 4-year-old brother on Friday and led to the arrest of five accused. The girl's tutor is the main suspect. The boy was being taken away in a trolley ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Will continue supporting farmers: CM on Martyrs’ Day

    Kolkata: On the occasion of Nandigram Martyrs' Day on Friday, CM Mamata Banerjee reminded the people of Bengal of her govt's efforts towards the welfare of farmers.The day is now celebrated in the state as Farmers' Day. Remembering those ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Net suspended in Sainthia after Holi clashes

    Saithia: Following clashes on Friday during Holi celebrations, internet service has been suspended in parts of Sainthia police station area of Birbhum from Friday 8pm. The suspension will continue till Monday for public safety. There have been injuries on ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Man kills 4-yr-old daughter over domestic dispute, arrested

    Kalyani: A man was arrested for assaulting his four-year-old daughter by slamming her on to the ground before throwing her into a river following a domestic dispute in Nadia on Friday. Police later recovered the child's body from the ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Drugs worth Rs 5cr seized in Malda

    Malda: Drugs worth about Rs 5 crore were seized on Friday by Kaliachak police.Cops raided a litchi garden at Balugram Thoktuli on Friday night and more than 5kg of brown sugar was seized. Cops said sodium carbonate and some ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    TMCP neta stabbed to death in Titagarh

    123 Kolkata: A 24-year-old Trinamool Congress Chatra Parishad (TMCP) functionary, Akash Choudhury, alias Amar, was stabbed to death by a group of drunken youths in Titagarh during Holi celebrations on Friday afternoon. The attack occurred after Amar protested against ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Former driver kills help at PK’s Salt Lake home after drunken brawl

    123456 Kolkata: The caretaker of football legend PK Banerjee's house in Salt Lake's GD Block died after being assaulted by the late footballer's former driver when a heated argument over drinks on Friday night got out of hand. The ...

    16 March 2025 Times of India
    Kid turns toto key on, dies in freak accident

    123 Kolkata: A five-year-old girl, Riya Kumari, died when she accidentally rolled the accelerator of a toto parked outside her home that crashed into an electric pole in Baguiati on Thursday evening.Riya, a resident of Narayantala in Baguiati, often ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Rising mercury starts taking a toll on health of Kolkatans

    Kolkata: The spiralling mercury has started taking a toll on the health of Kolkatans, with several hospitals reporting a spike in patients with heat-induced illnesses. The maximum temperature rose 7°C in the last six days, jumping from 28.8°C on ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Ride carefully, work in progress: Road advisory

    123 Kolkata: A day after a road rage incident on an uneven and scraped Salt Lake thoroughfare led to a death, Bidhannagar Police said they would be putting up advisories asking motorists in the township to be more cautious ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Eye on crime: CCTV watch to go up in Kol

    123 Kolkata: With police worried about multiple robberies, snatchings, and kepmaris reported in central and south Kolkata in which officers struggled to find CCTV footage, cops have initiated the tender process to install 300 CCTV cameras to plug the ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal horror: Father kills daughter, throws body in river

    KALYANI: A father assaulted his four-year-old daughter by striking her on the ground before throwing her into a river following a domestic dispute in Nadia on Friday evening. Police have arrested the man and retrieved the child's body from ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Couple arrested for forged birth certificate of 7-month-old child in West Bengal's Andal

    Photo credit: AI DURGAPUR: A couple who visited the Block Development Officer (BDO) in Andal to obtain a birth certificate for their child was arrested after failing to explain a seven-month delay and submitting forged documents. Following an investigation, ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Two brothers stabbed by cousin over unpaid debt in West Bengal's Patashpur

    Image used for representative purpose only PATASHPUR: Two brothers were injured after being attacked with a sharp knife by their cousin over a financial dispute on Friday night in Khurai Shyamshubad village under Patashpur police station.Both victims were critically ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    7 killed in collision between three e-rickshaws and SUV in West Bengal's Nadia

    Image used for representative purpose only CHAPRA (NADIA): At least seven people, including two children and three women, died in a collision between three e-rickshaws (totos) and an SUV on the Krishnanagar-Karimpur State Highway in Lakshmigachha village, under the ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Veggies get dearer with soaring temperature

    Kolkata: With the summer heat slowly intensifying, vegetable prices in the city are witnessing a steady upswing. While winter vegetables are becoming costlier due to dwindling supplies, summer vegetables are yet to arrive in sufficient quantities to stabilise the ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Pocso slapped on man who ‘pushed’ off daughter

    Kolkata: Five days after a man allegedly pushed his 15-year-old daughter off the balcony of their second-floor apartment in Jadavpur, the minor alleged her father had made sexual advances and that she was trying to resist him. Based on ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    Security forces deployed after violence in West Bengal's Birbhum; internet services suspended

    NEW DELHI: Internet and VoIP services have been suspended in five Gram Panchayat areas near Sainthia town in West Bengal’s Birbhum district following reports of violence, according to news agency ANI.Officials announced on Friday that this measure aims to ...

    15 March 2025 Times of India
    No E-W closure for tests likely this month

    Kolkata: East-West Metro closures are unlikely this month. The Paris-based Independent Safety Assessor (ISA), Certifier, which serves as the third-party safety appraiser worldwide, is currently examining the outcomes of the recently executed signalling tests in the Esplanade-Sealdah section. Services ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Hsg complexes gear up to soak in colours of harmony

    Kolkata: Some are organising DJ parties and rain dances while others are celebrating in more traditional ways with prabhat pheri and Basanta Utsav, using herbal abir and offering complimentary food. Housing societies across Kolkata are ready to soak in ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Tollygunge adds colours to cine palette at fraction of Bollywood, South cost

    Kolkata: Satyajit Ray's ‘Kanchenjunga' (1962) was the first Bengali film in colour with Subrata Mitra behind the lens. With the turn of the century, the palette of Bengali cinema has evolved significantly. Today's audiences no longer complain about washed-out ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Release cyber fraud funds based on NCRP plaint: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta HC recently directed all its magistrates to dispose of cyber fraud matters by releasing seized funds to the victims based on the complaint copy lodged with the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) rather than insisting on ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Forgery FIR against director

    A leading private channel has filed an FIR against director Raajhorshee De at Bidhannagar Electronics Complex PS. Cops said they have started a case of forgery under BNS sections 336 (3) and 340 (2). De said that he had ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Biz partner took murder ‘tips’ from crime serials

    1234 Kolkata: Bhaguram Dewasi's murder by his business partners was premeditated, inspired by crime serials on television and executed with precision, investigators said on Thursday. Police suspect financial dispute was the motive for the crime. Dewasi had reportedly borrowed ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Sleep divorce’ catches up with young city couples for a happy, well-rested life

    Kolkata: ‘Sleep divorce' or sleeping separately is turning into a trending practice among otherwise happily married young couples. On the eve of World Sleep Day on Friday, doctors said the trend, which was also growing in the city, did ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Dad’s friend rapes girl since ’18, uses threats to silence her

    Kolkata: A 46-year-old trader has been arrested for allegedly raping a 22-year-old woman since 2018, when she was barely 15 years old, and filming the acts to threaten and blackmail her. Recently, when the survivor's parents got to know ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Bizman set to be first from Kolkata to attempt Antarctica marathon

    Kolkata: Kolkata-based green entrepreneur and sustainability champion, Piyush Jaju, is set to take on an extraordinary challenge on March 15 by participating in the Antarctica Marathon — a gruelling 42-km race through one of the harshest environments on earth. ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Hoichoi launches new content format to ‘redefine storytelling’

    123 Kolkata: Viewers of Bengali content are used to watching feature films on the big screen, serials and both on OTT platform. Now comes the chance to watch a hybrid content format, TV-style episodic storytelling, enhanced by the accessibility ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol warehousing biz picks up pace: 1.1cr sqft leased in 2 yrs

    123 Kolkata: Kolkata has seen heightened interest in warehousing business lately, with 1.1 crore sqft leased in the past couple of years. It saw a 28% jump from 51 lakh sqft in 2023 to 65 lakh sqft in 2024. ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Rose Valley: 332cr cleared for repayment

    123 Kolkata: A special court in Khurda, Bhubaneswar on Thursday released Rs 332.7 crore proceeds of crime (principal amount) held as fixed deposits in various bank accounts in connection with the Rose Valley Ponzi probe.The amount will be used ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Security worry after ATM guard’s b’day celebration at kiosk

    Kolkata: A video of a birthday celebration inside the ATM kiosk of a nationalised bank in Sodepur that went viral sparked security concerns. This has even led to police launching an investigation into the incident. The footage shows a ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Palash plantation to mark 1990 attack anniv

    Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will plant nearly 150 Palash (Flame tree) saplings between Jatin Das Park and Hazra Road to commemorate Aug16, the day on which chief minister Mamata Banerjee was attacked by CPM workers in 1990. They ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Maintain peace during Holi & Ramzan, CM tells mantris

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee has asked ministers to stay in their areas during Holi and ensure that no communal disturbance occurs since the Ramzan month is also being observed.At a cabinet meet on Thursday, Banerjee warned ministers about sinister ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC issues show-cause notice to Kabir

    Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress parliamentary disciplinary committee, headed by Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to Humayun Kabir over his comment on Suvendu Adhikari and asked the Bharatpur MLA to reply within 24 hours.Reacting to Adhikari's statement ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    HC cancels licence to Matua mela due to repealed act

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday cancelled the licence granted by North 24 Parganas zilla parishad to the "sanghadhipati" of All India Matua Mahasangha, Mamata Bala Thakur, for holding the Matua Dharma Mela from March 27.Justice Amrita Sinha held ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Exercise caution in statements, speaker tells Hiraan

    Kolkata: Speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday asked BJP MLA Hiranmoy Chatterjee to exercise caution while making statements in the Bengal assembly.During the budget discussion on Thursday, Banerjee cautioned him for an earlier comment that an award was "purchased" by ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek calls virtual meet on Sat over voter list anomalies

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has called a virtual meeting on Saturday, mandating attendance of all state committee leaders, MPs, MLAs and local representatives. The meeting aims to discuss ways and means, and the status report ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Tapasi made chairperson of women’s devpt board

    Kolkata: Three days after shifting to Trinamool Congress from BJP, Haldia MLA Tapasi Mondal has been appointed chairperson of Women's Development Board in the state.The move invited criticism with the opposition saying her new role is a "reward for ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Girl’s parents allege rape by minor on BSF campus

    Jalpaiguri: The parents of a minor girl lodged a police complaint on Thursday alleging that their daughter had been raped by a minor boy at a BSF camp in Jalpaiguri.The parents claimed their daughter had left home on Tuesday ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    Cong functionary lodges FIR on Suvendu statement

    Kolkata: Pradesh Congress functionary Suman Roychaudhuri lodged an FIR at Amherst Street police station, alleging that Suvendu Adhikari's statement — that he would "physically throw" Muslim MLAs out of the assembly "when BJP formed govt" — would create unrest ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams BJP for ‘false propaganda on Holi ban’

    12 Kolkata/New Delhi: Trinamool Congress on Thursday sharply hit back at BJP for "spreading misleading propaganda" and "falsely claiming that Bengal govt banned Holi celebrations". Minister of state for forests Birbaha Hansda said reasonable restrictions had been put in ...

    14 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘IT team developing cloud storage & AI bot to boost HC functioning’

    Kolkata: The IT team of Calcutta High Court is developing a cloud storage technology and an AI chatbot, among others, upgrading the functioning of India's oldest court, Justice Joymalya Bagchi said at his farewell on Wednesday. Justice Bagchi was ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Britannia’s eco-blueprint: Innovating for a cleaner, greener planet

    KOLKATA: Britannia Industries is making sustainability an integral part of its growth strategy, embedding its commitment across all business activities under the four key pillars of Resources, People, Growth, and Governance. In an exclusive interview, Rajneet Kohli, Executive Director ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Calcutta HC directs all magistrates to dispose of cyber fraud cases by releasing seized funds to victims

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court recently directed all its magistrates to dispose of cyber fraud matters by releasing seized funds to the victims based on the complaint copy lodged with the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) rather than ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Fake SIM case: Beniapukur man 13th to be arrested

    Kolkata: The detective department carried out the 13th arrest, one of the most important so far, in the fake SIM case on Wednesday. Rahil Ahmed (27) was apprehended from his Gorachand Road residence at 12.25 am following an electronic ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Weather Today 2025-03-13: Sunny Days Ahead with Rising Temperatures

    Kolkata Weather Overview for March 12, 2025Today's Forecast in Detail Wake up and seize the day, Kolkata! Here’s the weather scoop to help you plan your activities.Date: March 12, 2025 Sunrise: 05:48 AM Sunset: 05:45 PM Moonrise: 04:10 PM ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Purple Line gets green signal for IIM-Joka stn

    Kolkata: The Purple Line, when completed, will have another station. RVNL is set to start construction to extend the corridor beyond Joka to IIM-Calcutta. Metro Railway had proposed the 1.7 km extension about a year ago. The bidding process ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    50k bill for 49-min ICU stay: Hospital faces music

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has asked a private hospital to refund a part of the amount it charged for treating a patient in its ICU for 49 minutes before he passed away. The commission ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Their strange behaviour set off alarms in my head’

    12 Around 9.15 pm on Tuesday, two young men booked my cab from Dum Dum Nagerbazar to Nimta-Majherhati More. They were carrying a blue strolley bag and a sack, which they placed in the trunk. Midway through the journey, ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol youth dies in Jodhpur as bus ferrying law students hits truck

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old student from Kolkata, pursuing law at an institute in Jodhpur, was among three students from the law school who died on Tuesday morning when a bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck and ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata horror: Late-night road rage, 500m chase end in biker’s death, motorist held

    KOLKATA: A scrap between a motorist and a biker followed by a chase on an uneven stretch of road in Salt Lake ended with the death of the 21-year-old biker late on Tuesday night.The chain of events was sparked ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Throat slit, body taped: 14 days on, another duo caught with businessman's body stuffed in trolley bag in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A fortnight after a mother and daughter were caught at Kumartuli trying to dispose of a relative’s body stuffed in a trolley bag, police on Tuesday nabbed two men who were on their way to dump the body ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    'Damage to trees': West Bengal govt imposes ban on Holi celebrations in Santiniketan Sonajhuri Haat; fuming BJP warns of 'arrests'

    NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government has banned Holi celebrations at Sonajhuri Haat in Santiniketan's Birbhum district this year, citing concerns over potential damage to the area's greenery, an official said on Wednesday. The popular marketplace is located near ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    CM Mamata Banerjee slams Suvendu's 'fake, divisive Hindutva import'

    CM Mamata Banerjee with people of different communities at a Doljatra-Holi event in Kolkata on Wednesday KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday used Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda's "inclusive and progressive Hinduism" to attack BJP's "fake Hindutva import" and ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    With shrinking fleet, one in two Kolkata commuters cannot get buses on time: Study

    Kolkata: One in two commuters is struggling to go to office or return home due to inadequate bus service in the city. With a shrinking fleet and increasing demand, Kolkata's public bus transport is woefully short of meeting commuter ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Traffic cop SOS to KMC for uneven Cathedral Road

    123 Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has sent an SOS to civic agencies, asking them to immediately address the uneven road surfaces on two key roads in the city - Cathedral Road and Taratala flyover. Police sources said there were ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Chief secy prod on regular Santragachhi traffic jam

    12 Kolkata/Howrah: Traffic congestion has become a significant concern for travellers near the Santragachhi bridge or while entering Kolkata from Kona Expressway. The ongoing flyover construction linking Santragachhi and Kona has severely impacted commuters, causing lengthy delays and necessitating ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Temp nears 35°C, may rise further on Holi, heat-wave alert for dists

    Kolkata: Brace for sweltering days ahead as the Met office has predicted hot and humid conditions over the next few days. A heat-wave warning has been issued for some south Bengal districts from Sunday. While the heat wave is ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    10-man East Bengal crash out of Challenge League with a familiar script

    East Bengal FC lost another match — and in doing so, crashed out of the AFC Challenge League — following a script which has now become all too familiar to their despicable season. Imagine the chain of events that ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    Now, get ready to pay 1k-5k fine for spitting in public place

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Wednesday launched a campaign against spitting chewing tobacco and pan masala in public places, warning offenders of fines that might be as high as Rs 5,000. The crackdown followed displeasure expressed by chief minister Mamata ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    ER builds sports facility in Howrah

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway's Howrah division has come up with a world-class sports facility, covering 6,360 sq m with an 800sqm indoor area, behind Rail Museum adjacent to Howrah station. "The entire project, including design and construction, was completed in ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
    State invites application for DHS post

    Kolkata: The state health department on Wednesday invited applications for the post of director health services (DHS). The move came within two weeks of the state starting the recruitment process for director medical education (DME). Neither of the posts ...

    13 March 2025 Times of India
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