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  • Salt Lake bonds over games as Happy Streets rules hearts

    Kolkata: It was yet another fun-filled winter morning as ‘Happy Streets 2025', organised by The Times of India and presented by Shyam Steel Industries Ltd and powered by S Group and Manipal Hospitals along with education partner Adamas Kids ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    New flight to link Kolkata with Cambodia temple town Siem Reap

    123 Kolkata: IndiGo is set to announce a flight from Kolkata to the Cambodian temple town of Siem Reap. The proposed flight will link Kolkata with Cambodia's second-largest city, which is famous for Angkor Wat, the world's largest religious ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    State set to recruit 800 bus drivers and conductors

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Monday approved the recruitment of 800 drivers and conductors on a contractual basis to tackle persistent issues plaguing the state's public bus services. The decision, finalised during a cabinet meeting at Nabanna on Monday, ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH doc in court; HC asks for FIR copy

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the state to hand over a copy of the formal complaint and FIR and also submit the case diary of the alleged medical negligence at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Sundarbans fest: At 32k sightings & 154 species, bird count goes up

    Kolkata: Despite the missing chill, birders, conservationists and foresters managed to sight close to 32,000 birds — a jump of over 250% from 8,886 last year — during the four-day trail under the third bird festival in the Indian ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    State’s budget session to start on Feb 10

    Kolkata: The Bengal assembly's budget session will start on Feb 10, and the budget is likely to be tabled in the same week, though the date is yet to be scheduled. A source said the business advisory committee would ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Jr doc held, gets bail in hit-and-run case

    123 Kolkata: A junior doctor employed with the general surgery unit of RG Kar Hospital was arrested by Cossipore Police and later granted bail by a local court for being directly involved in a hit-and-run case on Saturday afternoon. ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Tiretta Bazar, Tangra gear up to usher in Year of the Snake

    Kolkata: As the members of the Chinese community in Kolkata gear up to celebrate Chinese New Year on Wednesday, streets of Tiretta Bazar, the oldest Chinatown in the country, and Tangra come alive with festive fervour. Amid the colourful ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Kol Book Fair set to open today with over 1,000 stalls in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The 48th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), which is to be inaugurated by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday at Central Park in Salt Lake, will have the highest number of stalls this year. "This year, there will ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Tour operators call for withdrawal of Tiger Hill coupon system

    123 Darjeeling: After the waiver of the Sandakphu forest fee — prompted by the Chief Minister — tour operators in Darjeeling have called for the removal of the coupon system for entry of vehicles at the famed sunrise point ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    How a Padma awardee’s dhaak has given strength to 150 women in this Bengal hamlet

    Kolkata: It was ‘okaal bodhon' of a different kind at Bidhanpally in North 24 Parganas' Maslandapur. On Sunday and Monday, dozens of women ‘dhaakis' sounded their drums in unison as their guru's efforts as a pioneer were recognised as ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Mum cops raid Nadia home, places near Siliguri in Shariful probe

    123 Kolkata/Krishnanagar: A Mumbai Police team probing the Saif Ali Khan stabbing case raided different places in Bengal as it traced the route arrested suspect Shariful Fakir, an illegal immigrant, took to reach Mumbai from his home in Bangladesh.Sources ...

    28 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata's retail market sees impressive growth with a 70% increase in gross leasing in 2024

    KOLKATA: The city's share in retail gross leasing increased by 70% in 2024 over the previous year, allowing Kolkata to increase its share in India's total retail gross leasing from 3% to 5%. Though the numbers are still low ...

    27 January 2025 Times of India
    Retd teacher takes to FB after digital arrest fraud

    Kolkata: Seventy-eight-year-old Najirah Gangjee, a resident of Alipore in south Kolkata and a retired teacher of La Martiniere for Girls, became the latest victim of digital arrest in Kolkata. Her loss was counted by Lalbazar as one of the ...

    27 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder: Calcutta HC reserves judgement on admission of death penalty appeals by West Bengal govt, CBI for accused Sanjay Roy

    NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Monday reserved its decision on whether to admit two separate appeals filed by the West Bengal government and the CBI, challenging a trial court's verdict that sentenced Sanjay Roy, the RG Kar ...

    27 January 2025 Times of India
    I am the first Padma Shri-winning dhaki player: Gokul Chandra Das

    KOLKATA: Gokul Chandra Das, the 57-year-old virtuoso from West Bengal who challenged gender stereotypes by instructing 150 women in the traditionally male-dominated sphere, became the inaugural Padma Shri-winning dhaki player. Das, presently in New Delhi to perform for the ...

    27 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata police arrest 3 in Rs 66 lakh digital arrest fraud case, seize assets

    KOLKATA: Cops have arrested three more persons - Pratap Roy (27), Utpal Sikdar (31), and Kumaresh Haldar (35) - from Baguiati and Krishnanagar in connection to the Rs 66 lakh digital arrest fraud. Last month, Kolkata Police had arrested ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    I am trying to better myself because of my detractors: Mamata Shankar

    Mamata Shankar with son, Ratul KOLKATA: Indian actress, dancer and choreographer Mamata Shankar, who has worked in films by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh, was one of the recipients of the Padma Shri ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Award-winning filmmaker Kankana Chakraborty teams up with Barun Chanda for psychological thriller 'Re-Routing'

    Los Angeles-based filmmaker and actor Kankana Chakraborty, renowned for her award-winning short films and collaborations with stalwarts like Amitabh Bachchan and Shyam Benegal, is set to begin shooting her latest project, "Re-Routing." The short psychological thriller features Barun Chanda, ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Sur Jahan 2025: A musical celebration of unity across cultures

    This February, prepare to be enchanted by Sur Jahan 2025, the annual flagship festival of Banglanatak dot com, dedicated to celebrating harmony and togetherness through music. Guided by the motto ‘Music for Peace, Music for All,’ this non-ticketed international ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    High pay, dine-outs, appraisals: Fake call centres busted in West Bengal, 15 arrested

    KOLKATA: In one of the biggest busts of organised fake call centres, the Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) of Bengal Police raided a "corporate-styled" firm that operated multiple offices from two separate buildings in New Town to dupe citizens of ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal hospitality boost: State to get 32 luxury hotels in 3 years

    KOLKATA: Thirty-two luxury hotels, a majority of them in the five-star segment, will come up in Bengal over the next two to three years. With a proposed investment of close to Rs 5,000 crore, this would be the biggest ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Apartment sizes up 15% in 6 years as Kolkata seeks larger homes post Covid

    KOLKATA: The average size of residential apartments in Kolkata has increased by 15% in the past six years, a growth fuelled by the need for larger flats during the pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020 when families were confined indoors for ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Bengal suffer humiliating defeat

    Kolkata: Bengal's hopes of making the Ranji Trophy knockouts are now virtually over as they suffered a humiliating 283-run defeat with a day to go to Haryana in their penultimate Elite Group ‘C' league match at the Bengal Cricket ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Fog disruption for 3rd day in a row delays 53 flights

    Kolkata: For the third day in a row, multiple flights were held up, both in the sky and on the ground, due to thick fog at Kolkata airport on Saturday morning. Met officials have forecast improved weather from Sunday, ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Med Council poser for Kinjal

    The West Bengal Medical Council has sought to know from the RG Kar principal if PGT Kinjal Nanda had taken an NOC to act in films and ads. It has also asked if Nanda maintains 80% attendance at the ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool likely to launch association for healthcare workers

    Kolkata: With an eye on health care professionals, Trinamool is likely to float a party unit, Progressive Health Association, to be helmed by minister Sashi Panja, who may address a news meet on Monday to spell out the specifics."I ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    New norms for BMC, New Town tilting buildings

    Kolkata: The state urban development and municipal affairs department on Saturday issued guidelines on corrective measures for tilting buildings in Salt Lake, New Town and other municipal areas in the state.The state guidelines followed a KMC SOP last week. ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    TMC to RG Kar victim’s parents: Don’t act as spokespersons of ‘conspirators’

    KOLKATA: Trinamool on Saturday urged the parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim not to become "spokespersons" of political "conspirators". The party also urged the parents not to become puppets of "restless political souls".TMC, which had till now refrained ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Govt wetland fill-up bid thwarted

    Kolkata: NHAI officers, central forces and cops from Dum Dum and Belgharia police stations thwarted an attempt to fill a state fisheries department wetland, spread over 4.46 acres (nearly seven bighas), adjacent to Belgharia Expressway. The administration on Saturday ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Fake passport: B’desh man held

    Kolkata: A Bangladeshi national who illegally entered India seven years ago, Meher Sheikh, was arrested from Murshidabad on Friday. Sheikh was residing in the Raninagar police station area using fake passport and forged documents.The case came to light following ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Everyone must enrol as voters, says chief secy

    Chief secretary Manoj Pant, speaking at the National Voters' Day programme organised by Election Commission on Saturday, said in a democracy, the participation of voters was most important and urged everyone to enrol as voters. He recalled the role ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    2 boys injured as grenades mistaken for toys explode

    Kolkata: Two boys, aged 10 and 12, were seriously injured when they mistook two hand grenades left behind by police during a training camp at Baduria in North 24 Parganas for toys on Saturday morning, reports Sanjib Chakraborty. The ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    22 Prez medals for Bengal Police, KP

    Kolkata: The Bengal Police and Kolkata Police have bagged 22 President's Medals for Distinguished Service (PSM) and Medals for Meritorious Service (MSM). Out of these, two officers received the President's Medal, and the rest received the meritorious medals. In ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Lakshmir Bhandar in Del R-Day tableau

    Kolkata: The state government will showcase its Lakshmir Bhandar programme at the R-Day parade in Delhi. In Bengal, all jobless women in the age group of 25 to 60 years are eligible for this scheme. Whiel general caste women ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Gunning for rugby glory, from streets to nat’l stage

    Kolkata: Sukumar Hembram, now 26, was spotted as an infant on a street in Howrah by an NGO that raised him. Eventually, he was mentored by Paul Walsh, a former British diplomat who has been instrumental in grooming rugby ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Mamata Shankar, Pt Tejendra Narayan among 9 Padma awardees from Bengal

    123456 Kolkata: Mamata Shankar, Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Arijit Singh, Gokul Chandra Das, Pawan Goenka, Sajjan Bhajanka, Nagendra Nath Roy, Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) and Vinayak Lohani were the nine recipients of Padma Shri award from the state that ...

    26 January 2025 Times of India
    Fog disruption continues at Kolkata airport for third consecutive day

    KOLKATA: For the third day in a row, multiple flights were held up, both in the sky and on the ground, due to thick fog at Kolkata airport on Saturday morning. Met office officials have forecast improved weather from ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    7 arrested with firearms in West Bengal's Asansol

    ASANSOL: Seven people were arrested with firearms late on Friday night by police near the Niyamatpur outpost under Kulti police station in West Bengal's Asansol.Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the suspects near Lachipur Disha and recovered a ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Reach airport 4 hours before departure

    123 Kolkata: Airlines have requested passengers to arrive earlier than usual due to enhanced security measures. Due to heightened security protocols during Republic Day, including thorough frisking and additional hand baggage checks at boarding points, domestic travellers should arrive ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    In turmoil season, cops double R-Day security

    Kolkata: The city will be wrapped in a security blanket during the Republic Day celebrations on Sunday, marking one of the highest deployments since Durga Puja — even higher than Christmas. With the situation at the border still volatile ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    7 held with arms

    12 Asansol: Seven people were arrested with firearms on Friday night near Niyamatpur outpost under Kulti PS in Asansol. One rifle, a 7mm firearm, cartridges and two four-wheeler vehicles were seized during the operation. The arrested seven are residents ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Bengal appoints new SC counsel

    Kolkata: Kunal Mimani, partner at Fox and Mandal, has been appointed standing counsel for Bengal in the Supreme Court. He replaces Astha Sharma. Bengal govt's office of the legal remembrancer issued a notification regarding this on Friday, saying the ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Jathedar hails Didi’s support for Sikhs

    Kolkata: Singh Sahib Giani Sultan Singh, Anandpur Sahib jathedar and Amritsar's Golden Temple granthi, met Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday and hailed CM Mamata Banerjee's unwavering support to the Sikh community."Our meeting with Hakim was rooted in the ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF unearths 4 bunkers full of cough syrup in mango orchard

    123 Nadia: BSF unearthed four bunkers containing 62,200 bottles of Phensedyl near Sudharanjan Lahiri College in Nadia. While three of them were found on Friday, one was discovered on Saturday. The cough syrup recovered in the operation was worth ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF IG spends a night at border outpost

    Kolkata: BSF IG (North Bengal Frontier) Surajkant Sharma spent a night at a border outpost in Mekhliganj, Cooch Behar, on Thursday. He followed it up with multiple stocking exercises in the next 48 hours.The inspection comes amid intelligence reports ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    'Leaning buildings in Kolkata, other Indian cities may collapse if major earthquake hits city'

    KOLKATA: A professor from Jadavpur University, who conducted extensive studies including soil-structure interaction analysis on tilted buildings and other structures in Kolkata and other Indian cities, warned that several leaning buildings might collapse if Kolkata experienced a major earthquake."Many ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata schools urge students to prioritise health amid rising virus infections

    Kolkata: As virus infections rise rapidly, several city schools have advised board batches to take good care of their health, as they have less than a month before appearing for board exams. ICSE and ISC exams are set to ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Saif case: Father of accused to make son's plight in India a poll issue in Bangladesh

    KOLKATA: The father of Shariful Fakir, the illegal Bangladeshi immigrant arrested by Mumbai Police for allegedly stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan, has vowed to make his son's "harassment" by Indian agencies an election issue when polls are held in ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Old tilted bldg to stay on Christopher Road, new structure to face hammer

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided not to proceed with the demolition of the old building on Christopher Road that has tilted after a new building was constructed next to it. Parts of the latter will, ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Security alert ahead of R-Day

    Kolkata: A security alert has been sounded in Kolkata ahead of the Republic Day. BSF on Thursday issued a notification, stating a 10-day ‘Ops Alert' drill had started on the India-Bangladesh border, considering the changing situation in Bangladesh. The ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Robot MULE set for Red Rd debut

    Kolkata: Army robots—Multi Utility Legged Equipment or MULE—will for the first time march along the three armed-force units at the 50-minute-long Republic Day parade on Red Road. The contingent of mechanical beasts, which were seen trotting down Red Road ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    3 extort 35L from Manipur bizman, held

    Kolkata: The Ballygunge Police arrested three Kolkata residents after raids across Jammu, Gorakhpur in UP, and the city's outskirts for allegedly trapping a 45-year-old Manipur-based businessman. The accused, Md Nafis Akhtar, Samir Sarkar and Pintu Mondal, extorted Rs 35 ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Police look for ‘husband’ of Joka murder victim

    Kolkata: The post-mortem of the woman, Chhaya Sardar, whose body was found with her throat slit in a rented house in Diamond Park near Joka revealed a deep wound on the back of her head. Police are looking for ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    HSBC House in Kol marks 100 yrs with heritage walk

    123456 Kolkata: HSBC House in Kolkata's Dalhousie Square celebrated its centenary year on Friday, with bank executives and customers joining in a ‘heritage walk' around the square, which played a key role in the bank's rise to prominence.The building, ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    HC seeks custody opinion from girl before ICSE exam

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday wanted to know from a teenaged girl whether she would be more comfortable living with her biological parents or adoptive parents so that she can best prepare for her ICSE exams, to ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Veggie vendors’ held for break-in spree

    Kolkata: Two South 24 Parganas residents, Yunus Khan and Milan Kirtaniya, were arrested late on Wednesday for breaking into at least dozen houses in Behala and Haridevpur in the past one month. They would masquerade as vegetable sellers or ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Bangla film to be screened in Kol on R-Day

    Kolkata: Against the backdrop of no Bangladeshi participation at the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) and the forthcoming Kolkata International Book Fair, news emerges of a Cannes-award-winning Bangladeshi film screening on Republic Day in Kolkata. The People's Film Collective ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    R-Day parade to showcase ‘Nari Shakti’

    123 Kolkata: ‘Nari Shakti' will be on display on Red Road during the 50-minute Republic Day parade with the highest number of Bengal and Kolkata Police women personnel marching. Bengal RAF women unit and all-women Kolkata Police "Winners" unit ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    BMC inspects tilted bldg for stability survey

    123 Kolkata: Following the shifting of the nursing staff from the tilted G+5 building in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport, officials from the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) building department carried out an inspection on Friday to assess its structural stability.BMC ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Mom kills 2-year-old, tries to die by suicide

    Burdwan: A 35-year-old woman killed her two-year-old daughter by slitting the child's wrists and then attempted to take her own life in the same manner in Burdwan on Thursday.According to locals and cops, the incident took place between 11pm ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Cops seize guns after celebratory firing at Malda volleyball event

    Malda: Celebratory firing in the air during a local volleyball tournament inauguration at Malda's Manikchak on Thursday prompted police on Friday to seize the licensed firearms and file charges against the four persons involved for violating the Arms Act.As ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    3 hurt as goods vehicle jumps signal, hits cab

    Kolkata: At least three people, including a driver and three passengers, were severly injured when a speeding goods vehicle that violated a red signal crashed into an app-based cab on the airport-bound flank of the Belgharia Expressway on Friday ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Long weekend: Short vacation spots see tourist surge

    1234 Kolkata: From short vacations and overnight picnics to destination weddings, weekend gateways — like Digha and Santiniketan — and resorts within driving distance of the city are witnessing a sudden surge of tourists as they are determined to ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    1 killed, 2 injured as bike with 3 hits New Town divider

    123 Kolkata: A young woman working at a Sector V firm was killed and two of her friends suffered multiple injures after the bike they were riding in New Town rammed into a roadside divider during the wee hours ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Partha lawyers in HC, seek health updates

    Kolkata: Former education minister Partha Chatterjee's lawyers moved the special PMLA court on Friday, seeking details on his health. Last week, Chatterjee complained of chest pain and was admitted to SSKM. He was transferred to the ICU on Thursday ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH death: Suvendu goes to guv with memorandum

    Kolkata: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday took a family member of one of those who was administered RL saline at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital — where a new mother had died on Jan 12 — ...

    25 January 2025 Times of India
    Jaiswal bags six to put Bengal on top

    Kolkata: Pacer Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal picked up six for 46 to put Bengal on top at the end of Day I of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘C' penultimate league match against Haryana at the Bengal Cricket Academy (BCA) ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Injury-hit EB look to bounce back vs Blasters

    Kolkata: By East Bengal FC coach Oscar Bruzon's own admission, his team still wears the look of a hospital ward, but the situation is "slowly getting better." But first-up, take for example the players struck off the roster for ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Purulia tiger may have walked 500 km from Chhattisgarh via Jharkhand’s Palamu

    KOLKATA: The Purulia tiger — the first photographic evidence from the district — may have traversed from Jharkhand’s Palamau Tiger Reserve, located around 400 km away.Officials from both states indicated that while official validation from National Tiger Conservation Authority ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Colour bar lifted, Kolkata’s yellow ‘kings of the road’ set to stay on

    KOLKATA: Yellow taxis are here to stay in Kolkata, but the future may not be Ambassador. State govt has allowed all light commercial vehicles with taxi permits to be painted yellow, in a move aimed at preserving the cultural ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Man in CCTV footage not my son: Father of Saif Ali Khan's ‘attacker’

    KOLKATA: The father of Shariful Fakir, the illegal Bangladeshi immigrant arrested by Mumbai police for allegedly stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan during a burglary attempt at his Bandra home, has claimed that the police have framed his son. "They ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Municipal Corporation's (KMC) top-down approach to spare most flat owners at tilted building

    KOLKATA:KMC may spare the building on Christopher Road that it had decided to demolish on Wednesday. Instead, it is now focusing on the under-construction building next door that may face the hammer.It has also registered an FIR against the ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Bally Bridge shut, cops break railing for alternative route

    12 Kolkata/Howrah: Commuters' inconvenience due to the closure of a lane of Bally Bridge forced police to create an alternative route by breaking a concrete railing next to the Bally Halt station on Thursday morning. Renovation of the Ballyghat-Bally ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Suicide attempt hits metro ops for 1 hour

    Kolkata: Office-goers returning home had a trying time on Thursday as a 59-year-old woman from Vidyasagar Colony jumped in front of a Dakshineswar-bound train entering Kavi Nazrul station of the North-South corridor around 4.30pm. Services were disrupted for nearly ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Weekend closure of Barasat flyover for 20 weeks

    Kolkata: The Barasat flyover between Jessore Road and NH-12 will be shut on Saturdays and Sundays from Jan 25 for the next 20 weeks. On weekdays, two- and four-wheelers—cars, SUVs, autos, cycles bikes—will be allowed though buses and heavy ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    2 Baguiati houses on ‘filled-up pond’ lean onto each other

    Kolkata: Among the multiple tilting structures being reported from different parts of the city were two four-storey houses in Baguiati that were found leaning onto each other. Neighbours alleged both the buildings were constructed by illegally filling up a ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Bought flats with all savings, no money for a new place, say residents, refuse to leave

    1234 Kolkata: Residents of the tilted Pushpanjali Apartment on Christopher Road dug in their heels and refused to vacate their homes despite the KMC's Wednesday evacuation order, given the risk the leaning structure posed. For the residents, it has ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    102 not out: Reader count shrinks but library started by Netaji plods on

    1234 Kolkata: Faced with the challenge of a dwindling member strength, the 102-year-old Motilal Ghose Library — with its roots linked to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and a collection of 15,000 books — is battling to survive the odds ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Alipore Museum to exhibit paintings of Gopal Ghose

    123456 Kolkata: It will be a homecoming of sorts for the ‘Wanderer' when a retrospective on the works of Bengal's renowned landscape artist, Gopal Ghose, is inaugurated at the Alipore Museum on Saturday (Jan 25). Born in Kolkata in ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Employee-benefits firm Pluxee eyes expansion in Bengal

    Kolkata: France-based employee benefits company Pluxee, formerly Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, is all set to expand its business in Bengal. With start-ups and MSMEs mushrooming in the state, the company looks to offer them tailored services.Laure Pourageaud, group ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Eateries dish out slice of freedom history with Netaji’s favourites on his birth anniv

    Kolkata: Eateries and pice hotels in the city, once frequented by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, continue to keep his legacy alive by serving his favourite dishes with a slice of freedom struggle history to people for decades. Not just ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Tapati Gupta, former Presi, CU professor of English, dies at 76

    Kolkata: Tapati Gupta, former professor of English language and literature and wife of renowned Rabindrasangeet singer Swapan Gupta, passed away on Thursday afternoon. She was 76. The couple was widely admired, with Tapati serving as Swapan's eyes while he ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF, BGB meet to resolve border issues

    12 Kolkata/Malda: Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) conducted a sector commander-level coordination meeting on Wednesday at Bangladesh's Sonamasjid border outpost, addressing growing security concerns along the international border. The meeting — held days after a ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Ashoknagar MLA to face party action

    Kolkata: Trinamool will take action against Ashoknagar MLA and North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad sabhadhipati Narayan Goswami, following allegations of inappropriate behaviour during a recent public event.A viral video showed Goswami making incoherent statements and allegedly directing inappropriate remarks ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Flight schedules go haywire as dense fog cuts visibility to 50 m at city airport

    Kolkata: Dense fog over Kolkata and low visibility at the airport disrupted flight schedules on Thursday. Twelve flights were diverted and 60 delayed."The arrival of 21 flights was delayed and departure of 39 flights was pushed back due to ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    AQI worsens to ‘poor’ across Kol, Met expects warm spell till Sat

    Kolkata: The city woke up to a smoggy Thursday with poor visibility while the overall air quality deteriorated to the ‘poor' category (AQI: 201-300) from the ‘moderate' level (AQI: 101-200). This decline was primarily influenced by unfavourable meteorological conditions. ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar trial: Pics by doc who did postmortem key evidence

    Kolkata: Thirteen photographs clicked by Rina Das, the associate professor of FMT at RG Kar Medical College, on her own while she was conducting postmortem in the RG Kar rape murder case, along with two other experts on Aug ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    We are being framed: Profs

    Kolkata: Two RG Kar doctors on Thursday demanded probe into an anonymous letter that alleged they had leaked question papers during the PGT final year test concluded more than a month ago.A letter to the CM, purportedly by "junior ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Govt suspends collecting forest tourism entry fee after CM prod

    123 Darjeeling/Jalpaiguri: A day after CM Mamata Banerjee criticised forest department for imposing fees on tourists at the entry of national parks, the forest department on Thursday suspended collection of entry fee at the gates of all protected areas, ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Belgharia structure keels over onto neighbouring bldg

    123 Kolkata: A five-storey building in Belgharia has tilted towards an adjacent multi-storey building, triggering panic among locals at ward 6 of Kamarhati Municipality on Thursday. This comes a couple of days after an illegal, under-construction four-storey building leaned ...

    24 January 2025 Times of India
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    24 January 2025 Times of India
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    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Roy meets lawyers in jail, may seek state legal aid

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    24 January 2025 Times of India
    Two more buildings tilt towards each other, KMC orders evacuation and partial demolition

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    23 January 2025 Times of India
    S Kol fire kills man in sleep, bedridden mom saved

    123456 Kolkata: A 35-year-old medical representative, Saumya Bhattacharya, died in his sleep, while his bedridden mother was rescued in time after a fire broke out at their Kalighat Road home. Cops said the incident was reported in the early ...

    23 January 2025 Times of India
    Why did National School of Drama screen a Bengali film's trailer?

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    23 January 2025 Times of India
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    23 January 2025 Times of India
    Unicef tracks Remal, health impact of natural disasters

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    23 January 2025 Times of India
    Santragachhi records lowest bird count in 5 yrs

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    23 January 2025 Times of India
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