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  • 'Will my baby will be born in India or Bangladesh': SC directs return of pregnant Sunali Khatun; uncertainty looms over childbirth

    KOLKATA: Nine months pregnant and recovering from three-and-a-half months in a Bangladeshi jail, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun said she is "delighted" by the apex court's direction for her repatriation but is unsure when she will finally return to her parents ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC suspends Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir over 'Babri Masjid shilanyas' remark

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s political temperature spiked on Thrusday after the Trinamool Congress suspended its Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir, hours after he reiterated that he would go ahead with a December 6 ‘shilanyas’ for a mosque modelled on the Babri ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Senior fires gun after row with auto driver

    Kolkata: A 78-year-old man reportedly fired a shot into the air following a heated argument with a local auto operator over parking on Hare Krishna Sett Lane near Sinthee around 10.30 pm on Tuesday. The gun was licensed and ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Purple Line milestone: RVNL casts roof slab on Victoria stn

    Kolkata: The Purple Line has reached a milestone, with RVNL completing the roof slab casting of Victoria metro station. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, implementing the 14km Joka-Esplanade or the Purple Line, on Monday completed casting the roof slab of ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    RWAs defer call on booth at home after CM call during mayor meet

    Kolkata: Most housing societies in the city seemed reluctant to host polling booths on their premises after a meeting with mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday. He had called RWA members of all premium housing complexes for a discussion on ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    We are educators, not thieves, say teachers

    Kolkata: It was a day of triumph for 32,000 primary school teachers who could finally shed the tag of a ‘fraud' and proved their merit as the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside a single-bench order of 2023, ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Hope & hard-won relief light up Sunali’s home in Birbhum

    Kolkata: As his mobile phone rang on Wednesday morning, 63-year-old Bhodu Sheikh smiled in relief probably for the first time in six months. His eyes glistened with hope as he spoke to his wife Jyotsna Bibi, who was in ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    SIR reunites Habra parents with missing son after 26 yrs

    Kolkata: A 26-year-old mystery was solved through the ongoing digitisation process of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. An elderly couple from Habra, who spent decades grieving their missing son, were reunited with him, now 46-year-old, over ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Biker goes to hospital with severed right leg after accident on DH Road

    Kolkata: A 53-year-old biker from Bishnupur, Sujit Khamaru, lost his right leg after being injured in an accident on Wednesday that involved a private bus, a car, and two bikes. He is in a critical but stable condition at ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Meet Sunali’s angels battling long for her return

    Kolkata: It was late Aug when Mofijul Sheikh, a Birbhum-based social worker in his 30s, received a call on his cellphone asking him to immediately leave for Bangladesh to help Sunali Khatun and five others, who had been arrested ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Airport mosque, 165 m from runway, raises safety & navigation concerns

    Kolkata: Safety concerns over the close proximity of a century-old mosque to the secondary runway at Kolkata airport have again surfaced after minister of state for civic aviation Murlidhar Mohol pointed out that its presence in the approach area ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘May I Help You’ camp in all blocks from Dec 12 to help voters with SIR papers: CM

    Malda/Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that ‘May I Help You' camps will function in all blocks across Bengal from Dec 12 to ensure that no voter's name is struck off the electoral rolls during the ongoing ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Prof’s Guinness Book record: Cycling across Himalayas in 495 hours

    Kolkata: Avisek Tunga, an ultra-marathon runner, made it to the Guinness World Records for being the fastest to cross the Himalayas, from west to east, by a standard bicycle in 20 days and 15 hours. Tunga received the Guinness ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Min may slide to 15°C this weekend, chill likely to persist

    Kolkata: A chilly weekend is in the offing for Kolkata, which could see the minimum temperature slide to 15°C. The mercury started sliding in Kolkata on Wednesday and a drop of 2°C-3°C in the minimum temperature is expected over ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    CM to address over 12k traders, MSMEs on Dec 17

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee will address over 12,000 traders and MSMEs at the Byabasayi Sammelan 2025 to be held at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Dec 17, a day ahead of the Bengal Business Conclave. The Sammelan is being organised ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    5 Bangladeshis get life sentence in 2016 terror conspiracy case

    Kolkata: A sessions court in Kolkata on Wednesday sentenced five men to life imprisonment after finding them guilty for conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in India, wage war against the govt and possessing fake Indian documents despite being ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Help desks open, KMC gets 400 online, 50 offline certificate requests on day 1

    Kolkata: In the wake of an ongoing SIR exercise, KMC on Wednesday set up special help desks at the civic headquarters to expedite the issuance of birth and death certificates. According to a KMC health department official, KMC on ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Don’t bring up religion in SIR talks: Modi to state BJP netas

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked Bengal BJP MPs not to bring in caste, creed or religion while speaking on the outcome of special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls.The PM spoke with Bengal BJP netas for nearly ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangladesh seeks ‘new canvas’ in ties with India, says envoy

    Kolkata: Days after Bangladesh said its bilateral ties with India will not be stuck on one issue, the country's high commissioner in India Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday said the country is trying to "articulate a new canvas" where ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams Abhijit after TET verdict, Suvendu bats for MP

    Kolkata: TMC on Wednesday took aim at BJP MP Abhijit Ganguly, who in 2023 had authored the Calcutta HC judgment scrapping the 2014 TET panel, taking away jobs of 32,000 primary teachers in Bengal. Calcutta HC on Wednesday reinstated ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    32k teachers keep jobs as HC bench overturns ex-judge Ganguly’s verdict

    Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court division bench on Wednesday decided against scrapping the recruitment of 32,000 teachers for state-run primary schools, setting aside an order of HC judge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Ganguly.Justice Ganguly had in 2023 cancelled the appointments, which ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Dad’s bike grazes truck, schoolboy falls, gets leg crushed under wheels

    Kolkata: An 11-year-old student of class 5 residing in the Bagmari area was severely injured after falling off his father's bike and having his leg crushed under a truck around 6.35 am on Wednesday. The incident was reported from ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    For BLOs, another round of para visits is in order

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the BLOs to make door-to-door visits of the applicants who opted for online form submission. If the applicant is not available at the given address, the BLO will call the person for ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Going green: Traffic guard gets solar panel

    Kolkata: The South Traffic Guard office, located adjacent to the Exide crossing, became the first traffic guard under Kolkata Police to harness solar power. Around 15 solar panels were installed on the traffic guard's terrace, generating 15 kilowatts of ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    3 new gyms at IIT for students’ well-being

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur on Wednesday unveiled three modern gymnasiums at its newest halls of residence — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence, Savitribai Phule Hall of Residence-Block 1 and Savitribai Phule Hall of Residence-Block 2—for students' well-being.The hall management ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    73-year-old run over by minibus

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old pedestrian, Shambhunath Das, who was crossing the road died at the JM Avenue-Shyambazar Street intersection around 7 pm on Tuesday when a minibus ran him over in a bid to overtake another bus. The driver fled ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    State to help mutawallis move tribunal over glitchy Umeed

    Kolkata: With Bengal waqf mutawallis facing challenges in accessing Centre's Umeed portal, where there are required to upload waqf data by Dec 5, Bengal Waqf Board has decided to help mutawallis move the waqf appellate tribunal."The server often malfunctions, ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies amidst severe air pollution concerns

    Kolkata is experiencing a sunny start to December 2025, offering pleasant temperatures, yet significant air quality concerns persist. Yesterday's air quality index (AQI-IN) reached 337, classified as 'Severe', prompting advisories for residents, particularly sensitive groups, to take precautions despite ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Structure displaces runway threshold': Centre reviews Bankra mosque issue on Kolkata airport; CISF cites security lapses

    KOLKATA: The century-old mosque situated in the Kolkata airport operational area does not affect day-to-day flight operations but could pose a problem if the primary runway is out of operation on a foggy winter day or if a flight ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘In 3 yrs, Power & Hush Puppes to breach Rs 1k-cr mark’

    Kolkata: Power — a household name in the Indian shoe market — could well be the second brand from Bata India family to reach the Rs 1,000-crore business mark after umbrella brand Bata. The other brand that will reach ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Tiger spotted near village, cages set up

    Kolkata: The village of Upendra Nagar in Sridharana Nagar village panchayat, Patharpratima, remained on the edge on Tuesday after a tiger was reportedly sighted in a nearby forest patch a couple of days ago.Forest dept officials set up a ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BJP rebuts CM’s report card, demands details on jobs & industries

    Malda: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday questioned CM Mamata Banerjee's assertion that 1.7 crore people in the state were brought out of the poverty line in the 2011-2023 period. He claimed the reality would be revealed ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BGBS to be held after state polls, says Mamata

    Kolkata: The Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) will be held only after the assembly election in the state, announced CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday. "We will hold BGBS after the election. However, we will meet MSME players on Dec ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Woman hops on to delivery boy’s bike, catches molester

    Kolkata: A young woman residing in south Kolkata showed exceptional courage after she teamed up with a delivery agent to nab her molester on an empty street while returning home at night.The incident took place around midnight on Sunday ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    From 5-minute waits to 40: Covid shrinks Kol bus fleet from 6k to 2k

    Kolkata: Experts call for ‘doubling' of buses as fleet shrinks from 6,000 to under 2,000. Kolkata's bus system is facing its worst-ever service collapse, and this drastic reduction has triggered an unnatural spike in waiting-time, pushed more people toward ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Darj tower clock set to return to life, museum, selfie point on the cards

    Darjeeling: Time has for the past three months stood still at the turret clock atop Darjeeling's Capitol Hall, once the town's most reliable timekeeper, raising concern among locals and visitors alike. The hill station authorities are now set to ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    6.9% electors now dead, Kol North tops deceased voter list

    Kolkata: With the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise entering its final lap, Kolkata North has emerged at the top with the highest percentage of dead voters, followed by Kolkata South.The Election Commission has identified 1,04,076 deceased voters, which ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Airport logs 100 GPS spoofings, signal intrusions in 2 months

    Kolkata: More than 100 instances of cyber attacks on flights in the Kolkata flight information region (FIR) had been reported in the past two months, affecting two to three flights a day, a senior official told TOI on Tuesday. ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    HC: Caste benefits stay despite status upgrade

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court held on Tuesday that even if a candidate under the reserved category scored higher than the cut-off and was upgraded to the general category, he/she would continue to enjoy the benefits of the category.The directive ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Work on Durga Angan to begin this month

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will this month lay the foundation of ‘Durga Angan' in New Town, a temple complex, dedicated to Durga. "According to India Tourism data for 2025, Bengal received 24 crore visitors in Oct alone. We ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Law college reactivates old CCTV cameras

    Kolkata: Due to delays in paperwork for installing new CCTV cameras, the law college where a student was raped, reactivated old CCTV cameras that stopped functioning.There were only 3 CCTV cameras installed in Jan 2023, covering only a limited ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Stray dogs protect abandoned newborn in Nabadwip

    Nabadwip: A pack of stray dogs formed a ring around an abandoned newborn outside the toilet of a house in Nabadwip, protecting the mewling baby through the early hours of Monday. The four-legged guardians left the spot only after ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    CM announces 2 lakh for kin of 39 ‘victims of SIR stress’

    Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of 39 people, including BLOs, whose deaths have been linked to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, giving ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    2cr-plus jobs, 4.4 times rise in state GDP: Mamata lists achievements

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt has provided jobs to more than 2 crore people and the state GDP has increased 4.4 times to Rs 20.3 lakh crore since Trinamool was first elected to office in 2011, CM Mamata Banerjee said ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    In a first, IIT-Kgp sets up ‘recharge zones’ to help students tackle placement stress

    Kolkata: The placement season at IIT Kharagpur started on Monday with the administration opening "recharge zones" for the first time to help job aspirants tackle mental stress resulting from the fiercely competitive recruitment process.The 24x7 zones, set up in ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Samik moves motion in RS, seeks debate on ‘compromised’ SIR

    Kolkata: Even as chaos continued in Parliament on Monday with treasury and opposition benches locking their horns over special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls, BJP Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya, who is also the president of the party's ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Extra KMC staff, counters from today as SIR rush grows

    Kolkata: Hundreds of citizens from across the city and the adjoining neighbourhoods queued up at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) birth-death certificate wing on Tuesday, long before the scheduled office hours, to apply for birth and death certificates ahead ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Try & recover at least 50% of money lost to cyber fraud: Lalbazar to cops

    Kolkata: The rising trend of losing money to cyber fraud has prompted top cops at Lalbazar to instruct all its cyber cells to "pull up their socks" and improve the recovery rate.Analysing each case, especially those where the loss ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Divided on name, experts & activists united on better access for disabled

    Kolkata: While there is a debate among activists and experts on whether persons with disabilities should be called ‘disabled' or ‘specially abled', they are united in the cause of better access for them ahead of International Day of Persons ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Night at thana’: Was very scared, couldn’t sleep one bit, says Sunali

    Kolkata: Taken to a Bangladesh police station late on Monday "for her safety and security" after her release from prison, 28-year-old Sunali Khatun's travails with police, both in India and Bangladesh, refuse to end.Speaking to TOI over a borrowed ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Birla Planetarium banks on a pleasant winter to go back to pre-Covid footfall

    Kolkata: MP Birla Planetarium (MPBP) authorities are banking on fair weather this winter to make up for the footfall deficit from April to Oct 2025 and continue the recovery momentum post-Covid. The lower turnout in the first half of ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs work overtime to wrap up backlog

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs), who were rushing to collect forms first and upload them together, have landed in a problem with the EC asking them to upload all SIR forms they collected, including ‘Uncollectable' ones, by Tuesday midnight.Issuing ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Not at home when booth level officers knocked? Don’t miss their calls now

    Kolkata: If you receive a call from an unknown number, do not ignore it. It may be from your BLO.The EC has mandated every BLO to verify the authenticity of an absentee applicant whose enumeration form contains the signature ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol North tops list with 6.9% of its total electors now dead

    Kolkata: With the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise entering its final lap, Kolkata North has emerged at the top with the highest percentage of dead voters, followed by Kolkata South.The Election Commission has identified 1,04,076 deceased voters, which ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Not 2,208, no. of booths with dead, duplicate voters is 480’

    Kolkata: A day after the EC sought a report from the district election officers (DEOs), who are also DMs, after identifying 2,208 polling stations with ‘Zero Uncollectable' form, the number of such booths dropped to 480 on Tuesday.According to ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Cop video on cybercrime awareness

    Kolkata: Cybercrimes are not always about monetary losses. They can be deeply personal and harmful, affecting social reputation. This is what the cyber cell is emphasising in its new interactions, not just in schools but also in housing complexes, ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    8 held in job racket bust

    Digha/Kolkata: The East Midnapore police has busted a racket involved in the state-wide police constable recruitment examination. Eight individuals, including a govt employee, were arrested in separate operations in Digha and Tamluk. Two of them — a constable identified ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Jeweller duped with fake gold biscuits

    Kolkata: A jeweller alleged that he was duped by another jeweller who provided him with fake gold biscuits in lieu of a gold bar. The complainant, Samar Ray, a resident of Mahendra Nagar, North 24 Parganas, alleged that on ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kaikhali bizman loses 1.5 crore in investment scam

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old resident from Kaikhali lost Rs 1.5 crore in the latest case of investment fraud. The scam highlights the continuous improvisations being made by fraudsters in online financial frauds targeting unsuspecting individuals.The accused, whose identities are yet ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Mum Crime Branch’ strikes again, cons sr citizen of 22.5L

    Kolkata: A 62-year-old resident of Kaikhali lost Rs 22.5 lakhs to digital arrest fraud, in which fraudsters, posing as officers of ‘Mumbai Police' and ‘Crime Branch', threatened him with a fake FIR and arrest warrant.According to the complaint, the ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Minimum temperatures likely to fall by 2-4 deg C in Bengal

    KOLKATA: Minimum temperatures across West Bengal could fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius over the next four days, the IMD said on Tuesday.All the districts are likely to experience dry weather for the next one week, it said in a ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol to have 20 booths, run by female cops, for women to lodge complaints

    Kolkata: The city police will open 20 special booths, run mostly by lady officers, for women to seek help or lodge complaints.The "Pink Security Booths" will remain open 24X7, and while at least two of them are likely to ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, pleasant temperatures; AQI remains poor

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata, December 2, 2025, is experiencing a warm and sunny day with a maximum temperature ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangladesh traders return to Bidhannagar Mela, hope for better business this year

    Kolkata: Traders from Bangladesh, who could not participate in last year's Bidhannagar Mela Utsav due to the volatile political situation in the neighbouring country, have returned to the fair with garments and saree stalls as the BMC-run fair kicked ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Chinese’ keelback species not so Chinese after all, find scientists of ZSI

    Kolkata: A non-venomous snake species, previously thought to be present only in southwestern China's Yunnan province, has been present in northeastern India for at least 43 years, but was wrongly identified earlier, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    24 New Town parks start getting pre-festive season facelift

    Kolkata: Public parks across New Town are set for a major makeover with potted plants in them being replaced by flower beds, fountains being installed in green spaces that have a water body, grasses being trimmed to improve the ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek: Seeking SIR talks rightful demand ‘for people’

    Kolkata: Seeking discussions on SIR isn't drama, but a rightful demand on behalf of people, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Friday, hours after PM Narendra Modi attacked the opposition over the issue. "If those elected ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Motorists get free passage at Chinar Park after 3 yrs

    Kolkata: After three years, RVNL has freed 180m of Biswa Bangla Sarani (New Town thoroughfare) as most of the slab for the concourse (first level) of the Orange Line's Chinar Park station was cast. Vehicles are now moving in ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    BJP alleges voter digitization anomalies as BLO protests rock CEO office in Kol

    Kolkata: A massive protest erupted outside the office of the Bengal CEO (chief electoral officer) on Monday as leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP MLAs came to meet Election Commission officials in the afternoon.While the delegation was ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Debate over panel’s film release date formula

    Kolkata: The govt-appointed screening committee for Tollywood, which convened on Saturday, is relying on investments in films and the track record of production houses while arriving at a formula for prioritising movie release dates on occasions when Bengali cinema ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal issues global tender for Tajpur deep sea port development

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Monday floated a fresh global tender (request for proposal) for Tajpur deep sea port. The state promises 1,000 acres of freehold land to the operator for the development of the port and industrial facilities, while ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    From 150, KMC raises daily chatbot quota for birth, death certs to 240

    Kolkata: Responding to the SIR panic among a section of citizens keen to get various documents, including birth and death certificates, in order in case they have to appear at a hearing to confirm their names on the electoral ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Extension concern for school heads amid exam season

    Kolkata: The seven-day extension for the SIR has led to renewed unease among school heads, as the return of schoolteachers assigned BLO duties is being delayed for another seven days, affecting the exam season. The third summative exams for ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    3-day event celebrates Kol school’s 80th anniv

    Kolkata: Abhinav Bharati High School marked 80 years of nurturing young minds with a three-day celebration from Nov 11 to 13. To commemorate this milestone, the school has unveiled its new logo. The blend of heritage and modernity — ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    9 jailed for 3 yrs in 4 wildlife crime cases in Alipurduar

    Alipurduar: As many as nine persons have been convicted in four separate wildlife crime cases in Alipurduar. Court has awarded a jail sentence of three years and fine of Rs 50,000 in each of the cases.In the first case, ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Himadri Chemical flags off liquid coal tar shipment from New Mangalore

    Kolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd has flagged off its first shipment of liquid coal tar pitch to the Middle East from New Mangalore Port, opening a second route for its export operations beyond Haldia. The 3,600-tonne cargo marks an ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    77-yr-old Salt Lake woman loses Rs1.2cr in digital arrest scam

    Kolkata: A 77-year-old resident of Salt Lake was trapped in a four-day "digital arrest" and cheated out of Rs 1.2 crore by men posing as narcotics department officials in Mumbai, who claimed that her phone number had been used ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal appoints Lokayukta, HRC chief gets tenure extended

    Kolkata: Justice (retd) Rabindranath Samanta was appointed to the post of Lokayukta of Bengal on Monday. He is expected to assume charge soon.Justice Samanta's name was cleared at a meeting attended by CM Mamata Banerjee and Speaker Biman Banerjee ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Pneumonia, influenza vaccines in demand as winter sets in, cases spike

    Kolkata: A surge in both pneumonia and influenza cases has led to a rush for vaccines, especially among the elderly population in Kolkata. Several private hospitals and clinics, particularly those with a significantly high number of respiratory patients, have ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs will have to go to BDOs, SDOs to access SIR correction window

    Kolkata: Booth level officers cannot make corrections themselves in the enumeration forms uploaded in the past weeks, an EC directive on Monday said.Now they need to take permission from the electoral registration officer (ERO) with supporting documents to access ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Protesting Matuas rally to CEO’s office over SIR and citizenship

    Kolkata: The All India Matua Mahasangha's (AIMM) Trinamool-backed faction, which recently organized a hunger strike demanding unconditional citizenship for the community at its Thakurbari headquarters in Thakurnagar, brought its protest against special intensive revision (SIR) to the Election Commission's ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Sunali out of Bangla jail on bail, eager to ‘return home’

    Kolkata: A heavily pregnant Sunali Khatun, who was pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian authorities in June on charges of being an illegal settler and has spent three-and-a-half-months in a prison there, walked out of the jail around 7.30 ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    No dead, duplicate voters at 2,208 booths, EC seeks report2,208 booths complete work with zero ‘uncollectable’ form

    Kolkata: Two-thousand-two-hundred-and-eight polling booths in Bengal where 100% SIR forms have been distributed, collected, and digitised by BLOs are now under EC scrutiny. The EC has asked reports from these booths by 10 am on Tuesday.With the digitisation of ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Mercury set to slide in Kol, min may drop to 15°C by Friday: Met

    Kolkata: The mercury is set to slide in Kolkata and south Bengal from Wednesday and could drop to 15°C by Friday. Maximum temperature, too, could drop to 26°C by the end of the week, said the Regional Meteorological Centre.The ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    SC junks plea to review SSC 2016 job scrap verdict

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking a review of the Supreme Court's verdict cancelling 25,753 jobs of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC), remarking that there will be no interference in ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    No JU spl event after BCCI’s no to Kaur

    Kolkata: World Cup-winning women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur, whom Jadavpur University planned to confer DLitt (Honoris Causa) during their convocation on Dec 24, will not be able to attend the event. The BCCI refused to grant her permission ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Maoist graffiti’ prompts RSF ban demand

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (JUTMCP) has demanded a ban of Revolutionary Students' Front (RSF) after the latter drew graffiti of Basavraju, the top leader of the CPI (Maoist), who was killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh.JUTMCP general ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    HC: Publish tainted list under 3 categories

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC) to publish the list of "tainted" candidates in light of the Supreme Court order on Nov 26, 2025, in which the apex court ordered ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Drive finds 21.5L dead voters in Bengal so far

    Kolkata: With 96.4% of forms digitized by Monday evening, the number of ‘uncollectable' forms, including those of deceased electors, further increased to 43.3 lakh. A significant portion of these are deceased electors, which is close to 21.5 lakh, a ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Minimum temperatures in Bengal to fall by 2 to 4 degree Celsius: IMD

    KOLKATA: Minimum temperatures across West Bengal will gradually fall over the next four days from Tuesday by two to four degree Celsius, the IMD said.Shallow to moderate fog will occur in the morning at one or two places over ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BLO protest: Protesters break barricades outside Kolkata CEO office as BJP delegation arrives

    KOLKATA: A BJP delegation led by opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari visited West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer in Kolkata on Monday, sparking protests from BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee members who have been demonstrating against excessive workload during the ongoing Special ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    RuMac to bring Scottish folk fusion to Hornbill festival and Tolly Club in debut India tour

    KOLKATA: Scottish musician Ruairidh Maclean, known by his stage name RuMac, is set to captivate audiences at the renowned Hornbill Festival in Nagaland, followed by a performance at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata. This marks RuMac's debut visit to ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Tech-tonic: Cops tap AI bot to speed up probes, cut legal slips

    Kolkata/Suri: When criminals can trick people with artificial intelligence, can cops lag behind in adopting hi-tech methods of dealing with the fraudsters? In Bengal, it's a a ‘tech-tonic shift' by cops to shake up the criminal's world.From assistant sub-inspectors ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    BLO collapses, AERO suffers stroke, families blame SIR ‘stress’

    Kolkata/Tamluk: Two Bengal govt officials, a booth level officer (BLO) and an assistant electoral registration officer (AERO), involved in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls collapsed and were hospitalized in Kolkata on Sunday.The incidents, reported from Basirhat ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool claims ‘partial victory’, Bengal BJP joins rivals in slamming poll panel

    Kolkata: The Election Commission came under fire from most political parties in Bengal, including BJP, after it announced its decision to defer the deadline for the submission of enumeration forms and publication of the draft voter lists by a ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Cyber fraudster in police net for EM Bypass-Maidan car assault

    Kolkata: The woman, who was allegedly abducted, drugged, and molested in a moving car before being abandoned at Maidan on Friday night, was actually a victim of financial fraud. She had met the man—her alleged tormentor—pleading to get her ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    On unforested Dhupguri stretch, goods train runs over 2 elephants

    Jalpaiguri: Two male elephants were killed after being hit by a goods train early on Sunday in Jalpaiguri's Dhupguri. The incident took place around 4am between Salbari and Kolaigram railway stations — an area which has had no history ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Resp ailment patients flood Kolkata hospitals

    Kolkata: Several private hospitals in Kolkata are close to running full and faced with bed crisis due to sharp spike in respiratory patients. Some have added beds and some are using additional space for procedures and emergency treatment. Several ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    E Midnapore fisherman dies in Pak jail, kin doubt ‘illness’

    Tamluk (East Midnapore): A 57-year-old fisherman from East Midnapore has died inside a prison in Pakistan, his family was informed on Saturday.Swapan Rana, from South Paikbari village, had gone to Gujarat two years ago to work on a fishing ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Under attack, BSF jawan guns down B’desh smuggler in Nadia

    Kaliganj (Nadia): A BSF jawan shot dead a Bangladeshi smuggler near the Matiyari border outpost in Nadia district early on Saturday after troops came under attack from a gang of smugglers while trying to thwart their smuggling attempt.BSF said ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
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