Kolkata: Ahead of Saraswati Puja, protests by students over puja funds and control of arrangements were reported at several prominent colleges in the city, while a late-night clash between 2 student groups at a south-west Kolkata college left multiple ...
21 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: China is returning to the International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) after a gap of 15 years.Officials of Publishers and Booksellers Guild visited the Salt Lake Central Park book fairground on Tuesday. Last-minute preparations were on to set up ...
21 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 64-year-old woman, an accomplished singer on Akashvani and Doordarshan, was fatally stabbed in her Behala flat on Monday morning allegedly by a woman who had worked as a caregiver for the victim's husband four years ago. Police ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Do you have four or more siblings? If you haven't already received an SIR hearing notice, you may get one soon, because Election Commission is placing such voters in the "logical discrepancy" category.Not that those with less than ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: UCO Bank saw a 15.7% increase in year-on-year net profit to Rs 739.5 crore for the third quarter of the current fiscal. The PSU lender's operating profit grew around 6% y-o-y and provisions fell 11% y-o-y. The bank ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: A 33-year-old man from Cooch Behar district was allegedly killed in Assam with Trinamool claiming he was targeted for being a Bengali-speaking migrant.The deceased, identified as Himankar Paul, was a resident of Kursamari village under the Sitalkuchi block. ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six deaths were reported from five districts of Bengal in the past 24 hours — North 24 Parganas, Nadia, Birbhum, Purulia and West Burdwan—allegedly linked to panic over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Of the ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaSingur/Kolkata: Seemingly blindsided by PM Narendra Modi's Sunday speech in Singur, which made no mention of Tata or an industry, Bengal BJP netas on Monday spoke in many voices, trying to justify a "considered omission".A state BJP senior said ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two public interest litigations (PILs) have been filed at Calcutta High Court, seeking deployment of central forces at Beldanga in Murshidabad, on Monday. While one PIL was filed by BJP, the other was filed by a Beldanga resident. ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaEast Midnapore: Assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) and electoral registration officers (EROs), the officials sending summons for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings across Bengal, have started receiving hearing summons themselves. AEROs, typically, are block development officers (BDOs) who take ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir to seek security cover from the Union home ministry if he wished to do so, after the former Trinamool neta moved the HC recently, saying his life was ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the Supreme Court's Monday order on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Bengal BJP said it was now the Election Commission's onus to ensure a peaceful process if the court order, especially the parts pertaining to ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: South-Eastern and Eastern Railway are expecting a huge rush for the new long-distance Amrit Bharat trains that PM Narendra Modi virtually flagged off from Singur on Sunday."The trains will run between Santragachhi and Tambaram (near Chennai), between Howrah ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool and BJP workers clashed across parts of Bengal on Monday morning over submission of form-7s, the forms required to be submitted to seek exclusion of absentee and dead voters from rolls. By Monday evening, the last date ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While the larger medical community expressed concerns over irregularities in medical teacher recruitment, a doctors' association went further, demanding the removal of the chairperson of the West Bengal Health Recruitment Board. On Monday, the Association of Health Service ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Spreading the message of communal harmony, thousands of members from the Bengal Christian Council are set to walk in a peace rally from St Paul's Cathedral to the Mayo Road crossing near the Gandhi statue on Tuesday. Ahead ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court order that had granted age-relaxation benefits to a waitlisted candidate during the 2016 school service commission recruitment process for assistant teachers for classes 9 to 12.In a Dec ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pankaj Rishi Kumar's ‘To Die A Frenchman', the only Indian documentary to have a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), was privately screened at SRFTI on Monday. The film, which has some crew members from ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the first time, the State Mission for Clean Ganga (SMCG), West Bengal, with the technical assistance of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), will conduct a drone-based survey to identify and map all outfalls and drains, covering ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Protests against centralised pension disbursement via DPPG spread across state-aided universities, with about 200 Presidency University staffers holding a rally on Monday. They said the state move "threatens retirement benefits and undermines institutional autonomy."Although the higher education department ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday directed Rajganj BDO Prashant Burman to surrender before a Salt Lake court by Jan 23 in connection with the murder of Salt Lake gold trader Swapan Kamilya.Kamilya had allegedly been kidnapped from Salt ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Tiljala Police received a complaint alleging a hit-and-assault incident involving a car and a woman riding a scooty near Roy Dhaba on Chowbaga Road off EM Bypass on the night of Jan 15.According to the written complaint ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Satadru Dutta, the main organiser and promoter of Lionel Messi's India tour, was granted bail by a Bidhannagar court on Monday, 37 days after he was arrested due to alleged mismanagement of the high-profile event at the Salt ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) moves to raise its first all-women battalion, Kolkata airport has emerged as the force's biggest hub for women personnel. Senior CISF officials on Monday said the airport currently has around 350 ...
20 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew and a former BJP neta, said he, his wife and their three children were called for an SIR hearing but the notices sent to them did not cite any reason.Bose and ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata begins Monday, January 19, 2026, with a clear and bright outlook, anticipating a sunny day with temperatures ranging from a minimum of 15.9°C to a maximum of 30.4°C. However, air quality remains a significant concern, as yesterday’s pollution ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaSingur: Thousands of people gathered at the abandoned Tata Nano factory site in Singur on Sunday, in the hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would provide a roadmap for the revival of industry in the region. But their hope ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaSINGUR: "Tata", "Nano" or "land for industry" - the key words that BJP was using in the run-up to Narendra Modi's weekend visit to Singur - failed to find even a single mention in the Prime Minister's 37-minute speech ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal industries minister Shashi Panja took a dig at the Prime Minister, saying he did not announce any project for Singur in his speech at a rally there on Sunday, leaving Bengal BJP’s netas and workers “disappointed” and ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: Trinamool swept all 12 seats in the election to the Amdabad Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity Ltd under Ambadab 1 gram panchayat on Sunday, dealing a clean defeat to BJP and the Left front. The result is politically significant ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed setting up the ground floor structure and is now constructing the first floor of the six-storey Rabindra Bhavan project in Salt Lake, utilising about Rs 10.9 crore in funds which the ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six days into the Nipah virus outbreak, the number of infected people in the city stands still at two. ICMR-NICED Kolkata, where samples of close contacts were tested, did not detect the virus in any of the 190 ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A senior citizen was allegedly cheated of nearly Rs 16 lakh by fraudsters posing as representatives of reputed share trading platforms after luring him through social media advertisements, police said on Saturday.The victim, a resident of the Belghoria ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 69-year-old retired senior executive of a public sector steel major from New Town lost Rs 49 lakh after fraudsters impersonating CBI officers kept him under "digital arrest" over video calls, and threatened him with arrest in a ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Dec and Jan have long been favoured months for Kolkata's music community; this year, however, the drop in temperature has introduced a new measure of discernment. For the first time, the winter chill is being treated as an ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Although the state govt scrapped the proposed Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) at Nayachar Island over a decade ago, Bengal still has significant potential to revive chemical and allied industries through targeted policy support and the ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off three new Amrit Bharat Express trains through video conferencing, significantly strengthening long-distance and regional rail connectivity under the South Eastern Railway (SER) zone. The Prime Minister also inaugurated a new ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Two migrant workers from Malda district died and three others were injured when a pick-up van collided with a lorry at Vijaynagar in Karnataka on Thursday night. The deceased were Aslam Sk, 18, and Rekabat Sk, 60, both ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bailey bridge connecting Salt Lake and VIP Road near Dakshindari, the second such bridge over the Kestopur canal off VIP Road, is set to open to traffic by Jan 31.Officials of KMDA said that work to set ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaBeldanga: Police arrested 30 people, including a 45-year-old cleric Matiur Rehman, on Sunday for the violence in Murshidabad's Beldanga.A local court remanded Rehman and nine others to 10 days in police custody. The court also sent 20 others to ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ashish Avikunthak's ‘Meghnad Badh Kavya' (The Killing of Meghnad) has been selected to have its world premiere in the Harbour section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His earlier film ‘Devastated' premiered at IFFR 2024 and offered ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three adventure sports enthusiasts from Kolkata, including Mount Everest summiteer Malay Mukherjee, will start a 1,500 km cycle journey from Alexandria to Lake Nasser across the Sahara Desert on Monday.The expedition will start from Alexandria, and the three ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The scars of Dec's fury are still visible at Salt Lake stadium, but the race to reclaim Indian football's most storied arena has begun. With the Indian Super League less than a month away, groundsmen have moved in, ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Constitution guarantees equal opportunity, but 50-year-old Prabhat Kumar Gupta has found that this right is often out of reach for those with locomotor disabilities. He hopes the opening of ‘Mitti Cafe'—run by disabled staff—inside the Calcutta High ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant advised five graduating batches of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) to take "unapologetic pauses" to sustain themselves in a profession where long hours and compressed timelines are the ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Not just dust and fine particles, toxic gases such as nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and ground-level ozone (O₃) also affected Kolkata's Air Quality Index (AQI) for nearly three months last year, revealed an analysis conducted by a climate-tech organisation. ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three Nigerian children, who were suffering from congenital heart ailments, were cured of their cardiac anomalies after undergoing treatment at a hospital in Howrah. As their country lacks paediatric heart care facilities, the hospital in Howrah responded to ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 32-year-old tourist from south Kolkata's Garia, Suman Pal, went missing after falling from a boat into Matla River in the Sundarbans late Saturday night. Police said he had not been found after a search was conducted. A ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian Museum in Kolkata, the country's oldest museum and the largest in the Asia-Pacific region, appointed its youngest-ever director. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of archaeologist Sayan Bhattacharya as the new director, ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A married couple was found dead inside their rented flat in Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas on Saturday night after family members and neighbours failed to contact them, police said.Police identified the deceased as Tanmoy Dey, 52, and ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Nipah symptoms overlapping with those of common respiratory diseases, screening and identifying patients have turned out to be a challenge for most hospitals.Doctors advise isolation if one has a high fever, cough and a sore throat, prompting ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 29 persons suffering from memory loss from different districts in West Bengal, including a man from Sodepur who had been missing for several years and were lodged in various homes in Nepal, were identified, traced, and brought ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The absence of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to deal with 94.5 lakh ‘logical discrepancies' left not just voters harassed, but also left several officers and observers appointed by the Election Commission, who are now conducting SIR hearings, ...
19 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mehboob Rehman Mollah (55), a primary schoolteacher who was working as a BLO, suffered cerebral attack and was hospitalised on Friday, prompting his kin to blame the "excessive SIR workload".A resident of Chandpasha Paschim Muslim Para under booth ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police produced an undertrial prisoner at a Bagdah hearing centre in North 24 Parganas on Sunday. The 36-year-old, booked under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and lodged in Krishnanagar jail in Nadia for over ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hidco will e-auction two commercial plots in the CBD area of New Town, one of 10 acres and the other of 3.9 acres, on a freehold basis. The auction will be held next month.While the starting bid price ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man and a woman, travelling on a bike on Maa Flyover, were seriously injured as a car, headed towards Park Circus hit the two-wheeler and collided with the median divider on Saturday evening. The car driver sustained ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaDurgapur/Kolkata: The Durgapur gang-rape survivor, a medical student of a private college in Durgapur, has testified before a local court about her ordeal on Friday and Saturday. The 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a forest area outside the ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Election Commission's (EC) recent clarification that there was no cap on the number of Form-7s a voter can submit attracted Trinamool's ire on Friday which alleged that the poll panel was "bending rules" to help BJP. Form-7 is ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after the Election Commission issued hearing notices to 11 members of his family, 62-year-old Namkhana resident Sheikh Abdul Aziz died of a heart attack.His family said he was anxious over the hearing after his three sons, daughters-in-law ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MALDA: PM Narendra Modi brought up the issue of the recurring violence in Murshidabad during his Saturday's rally in the neighbouring district of Malda, specifying demographic imbalance and infiltration as the underlying causes.Murshidabad's Beldanga continued to see widespread vandalism ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar (Nadia): A 56-year-old weaver's body was found hanging in his Shantipur home on Saturday, with his family claiming that fear caused by a notice related to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had driven him to suicide. ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Election Commission (EC) on Saturday sent a third reminder to the DEOs (district election officers) of South 24-Parganas and East Midnapore for of lodging FIRs against the EROs (electoral registration officers) and AEROs (assistant electoral registration officers) of ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal will deploy 80 micro-observers to assist the four observers who joined the CEO's office recently for analysing the voters' list of the state. Senior IAS officers Ratan Biswas, Vikas Singh, Sandeep ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The samples of all the suspected Nipah patients have tested negative for the virus, restricting the number of cases in Bengal to two. The condition of the Nipah-affected male nurse at the hospital in Barasat has also improved ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaSingur (Hooghly): Around 21,000 voters in Singur, where PM Narendra Modi is likely to address a public rally on Sunday, have received SIR hearing notices over "logical discrepancies". The notices were served last week, and hearings began on Saturday ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops on Friday widened their search for Sanjit Kumar, the brother of 22-year-old Pushpa Kumari, after investigators learned she was in a year-long relationship with one of his friends and that the brother strongly opposed it.Cops claimed the ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Uproar from the larger medical community against alleged irregularities in the recruitment of assistant professors for medical colleges forced the West Bengal Health Recruitment Board (WBHRB) to withhold the panel list pertaining to the scheduled caste candidates for ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaJhargram: A college in Jhargram has received a donation demand of Rs 40,000 from a local outfit for a "Gita recital event", causing state minister Birbaha Hansda — the president of the college's governing committee — to react sharply.Sources ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaBeldanga (Murshidabad): A fresh spate of violence rocked Murshidabad's Beldanga on Saturday accompanied by vandalism, arson and a four-and-a-half hours long blockade over the assault of 22-year-old migrant worker Anisur Rahman in Bihar.This comes only a day after protests ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaSingur/Kolkata: Once at the centre of Bengal's political narrative over because of the land movement, Singur is back in focus with both BJP and Trinamool — the state's two main political players — planning Saturday's activities around PM Narendra ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaWe are at a moment when “what’s cookin’, good lookin’” feels especially apt for Dutch ovens – enamelled cast-iron pots that have evolved from practical cookware into a lifestyle flex. Once rooted in heirloom kitchens, they’re now embraced by ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after the West Bengal govt requested EC to reconsider its decision to get FIRs lodged against five officials for allegedly manipulating electoral rolls, the poll panel Saturday sent a third reminder to the district election officers ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the first such effort ever, the Kolkata Police cyber cell conducted a cyber-awareness programme at the Archbishop's residence last week. The campaign, which was held primarily to raise awareness among priests and nuns, had a much larger ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After Bangladesh, USA will also not participate in the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), starting from Jan 22 at Salt Lake Central Park fairground. For the first time since 2006 — the year when USA had started ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The number of migratory birds recorded during the annual census at Santragachhi Jheel in Howrah on Saturday showed an increase over the last season. However, the count of trans-Himalayan migrants, something that birders vie for, declined. Altogether, 5,607 ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has planned to rejuvenate and save three large islands, facing erosion over the years, on Rabindra Sarobar, with earth filling and tree plantation. "According to the data available, the land area has ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Girish Park PS received a complaint alleging that a group operating from an office in the area posed as legal professionals, collected large amount of money from a woman involved in a matrimonial dispute citing court expenses ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The neighbourhood family physician, who would be accessible round the clock and knew patients well enough for a quick diagnosis, needs to return to save lives and eliminate unnecessary hospitalisation, felt a section of doctors who called for ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Municipal Corporation project for laying water pipes in the New Alipore area was suspended temporarily to save several full-grown trees. Residents of New Alipore stepped out of their homes on Wednesday and stopped workers engaged by ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Plan carefully if you are stepping out of your residence for central Kolkata or Howrah, especially if you are coming from the south.The Vidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 5 am to 1 pm on Sunday ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two men hired recently to paint a house in the Park Street area were arrested in connection with the theft of gold ornaments and cash worth about Rs 6 lakh from a flat inside Ambassador Apartments, police said.The ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy commemorated a landmark occasion as it celebrated its 30th Founder's Day recently at a citys auditorium. Ajoy Kumar Ray, faculty of the Centre for Data Science, JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, and former ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The detective dept arrested 4 on Friday in connection with an alleged insurance fraud in which a city doctor was induced to pay more than Rs 55 lakh in an organised insurance fraud scam, police said. The arrests ...
18 January 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: Prime minister Narendra Modi will visit Malda on Saturday morning and flag off the first Vande Bharat Sleeper train of the country, which will connect Howrah in Bengal and Kamakhya in Assam. A number of Amrit Bharat Express ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A young cook-cum-caregiver appointed through a local ayah centre alleged that she was serially molested by a Kolkata Police sub-inspector inside his Kasba residence after she joined there a few days ago.The survivor claimed that the cop, presently ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Singur: The debate over "land" and "consent" returned to Singur on Friday, two decades after the issue firmly placed this belt on Bengal's political map during the anti-land acquisition protests. PM Narendra Modi is likely to address a public ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Indian scientists have discovered a rare subterranean amphibian species in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra and named it Gegeneophis valmiki.The discovery, made by a multi-institutional research team led by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), has been ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As India and the US negotiate a proposed bilateral trade agreement, the US consul general Kathy Giles-Diaz in Kolkata on Friday reiterated its commitment to a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific adding that eastern and northeastern India are ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaSingur: Saidullah Sheikh, 38, a resident of Payraura village under the Gopal Nagar gram panchayat in the Singur assembly constituency, was allegedly attacked and killed in UP on Jan 13, his family members alleged on Friday.Sheikh worked as a ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A woman from the Rajbanshi community in Malda, north Bengal, allegedly died by suicide on Friday, two days after she consumed poison, fearing her name would be excluded from the voter rolls under the SIR process after she ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaBeldanga (Murshidabad): An irate mob blocked NH-12 in Beldanga for around 6 hours on Friday morning, protesting with the body of a 34-year-old migrant who died in Jharkhand. This also halted multiple long-distance trains in the Sealdah–Lalgola section. Alauddin ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore/Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday claimed that two BJP MLAs from West Midnapore were in touch with him wanting to switch sides, but said TMC deliberately shut its doors on them citing political principles and ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaChief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Friday spoke to chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty and DGP Rajeev Kumar regarding the ransacking of the Chakulia SIR hearing centre. So far, 21 people have been arrested in this connection.The EC has ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: No certificates issued by the Bengal govt were being accepted by the Election Commission in the state, CM Mamata Banerjee alleged on Friday, a day after it said that Madhyamik admit cards cannot be a valid age proof ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of spreading violence in Bengal and claimed that migrant labourers were being "tortured" each day."They are deliberately trying to incite riots in Bengal. This is the BJP's plan, as ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 10-year-old girl, who lost her mother in the fire at Mahakumbh in Prayagraj last year, would have lost her father at the Gangasagar Mela on Thursday, had it not been for cops and amateur radio operators. The ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaSantiniketan: Amartya Sen's septuagenarian cousin appeared for him at an SIR hearing on Friday and submitted copies of the Nobel laureate's passport and his mother's death certificate, among other documents, and asked the poll panel officials whether the economist's ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the death by suicide of BLO Ashok Das in Purba Jadavpur on Thursday morning, the deceased's widow, Sudipta Das, on Friday filed a complaint for abetment to suicide.She claimed that her husband took his own life due ...
17 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Taking oath as the 44th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on Friday, CJ Sujoy Paul remembered Kolkata's pivotal role in India's freedom movement. "The contribution of this city to India's spiritual awakening and freedom movement is immeasurable," ...
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