Kolkata: The drop in temperature, triggered by consistent rain over the past week, has led to another cough-and-cold epidemic in the city, with hundreds suffering from upper respiratory tract infection and persistent cough. With the maximum temperature dipping to ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic at Chingrighata, particularly cars heading from Salt Lake Bypass to EM Bypass, crawled on Wednesday afternoon as craters on a 15-m stretch at the intersection forced motorists to brake and progress at a snail's pace. A similar ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee will celebrate its 30th year with a four-day festival from Saturday, including fashion shows by sex workers and transgender persons, cultural programmes and panel discussions at Rabindra Kanan."Since its inception on July 12, ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A TMC neta was shot and hacked to death around 500m from his Bhangar Chaltaberia home on Thursday night. Razzak Khan was returning home after a party meeting when the attackers shot him multiple times, and as ...
11 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: There are 72 days still left for Mahalaya but Durga has started her journey — not from the heavens, rather beneath the earth. It is not the deity but the tunnel boring machine S1410 — used for ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Padma Shri Sujoy Kumar Guha was an electrical engineer who developed RISUG, the world's only reversible male contraceptive drug. But Indian Council of Medical Research turned down his plea to conduct clinical trials for a drug, developed ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Recently, a dog that was found abandoned near Mahakal inside Gorumara National Park was rescued by the members of a local NGO. The dog, a Rottweiler, was first noticed by travellers, and later, SPOAR — the NGO ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police verification for govt jobs must be completed within 30 days, chief secretary Manoj Pant said in a formal order on Wednesday. The development came after numerous complaints that the delay in police verification was affecting the training ...
11 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: ‘Monojit Dada is in our hearts — team MM', reads a wall graffiti in a prominent spot at the law college where a first-year student was raped. It may not have seemed this incongruous prior to June ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal was ready to support Kashmir "in every way possible", CM Mamata Banerjee told Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah on Thursday, adding that she would visit the UT after Durga Puja. Urging tourists from Bengal to go ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday upheld a single bench order barring 2016 candidates deemed "tainted" from School Service Commission's fresh recruitment process to fill 35,726 vacancies.Both the state and SSC moved the division bench of justices Soumen Sen ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKalyani: Two teachers, including the headmaster of a school in Nadia's Ranaghat, were arrested on Wednesday following allegations that they incited students to beat a stray dog to death. Two more teachers implicated in the act remain on the ...
11 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Calcutta University has released a list of 11 centres where the first-semester examination for LLB will be held from July 16, excluding the college in south Kolkata where the rape incident occurred on June 25. The CU ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: A Jalpaiguri special Pocso court on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the 2020 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.The convicts — Rahman Ali, Jamirul Haque and Tamirul Haque — had dumped the victim's body in ...
11 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An acquittal in a molestation case does not mean that the complainant lodged a false case, a Kolkata sessions court said in a July 2 order. The court dismissed a plea by a man who alleged that ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to grant relief to candidates seeking age relaxation for the fresh recruitment process by West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBSSC).These candidates claimed to be of eligible age in 2022 for the ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP-governed states were treating Bengalis as infiltrators in their own country, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, adding: "Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi."Reacting sharply to fresh reports that Delhi Police had snapped water and electricity ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaStudents view the skeleton of a mammoth at the Indian Museum KOLKATA: The Indian Museum has made entry free for school groups to encourage more students to visit South Asia's oldest and largest museum.While entry used to be free ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: With three days of continuous showers adding to the July tally, Kolkata's rain count by Wednesday evening reached more than one-third of the monthly mean in the first nine days itself. While the rain intensity and frequency are ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A Tata Group chairman came down to Nabanna on Wednesday to meet Mamata Banerjee for the first time in her 14-year tenure as Bengal CM to discuss future investments in Bengal.Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran met Banerjee for ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal's annual unemployment rate in 2022-'23 was 2.2%, 30% below the national average of 3.2%, NITI Aayog's just-released summary report for Bengal says. Bengal has also scored better in several socio-economic indicators but its GSDP growth (4.3%) was ...
10 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A Gujarati couple and their two minor children were rescued by Rabindra Sarobar cops on Wednesday after the family was forcibly held in Kolkata hotels by a gang who had promised to arrange Canadian immigration for them. ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Taking a lesson from incessant rain and subsequent waterlogging in several parts of the city, the civic bosses have decided to cancel the leaves of all workers and officials of the KMC sewerage and drainage department until Oct. ...
10 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The Patipukur underpass that made headlines when a bus drowned after a downpour four years ago hogged the limelight again, when storm water receded in record time on Tuesday. The familiar scene of people wading through waist-deep ...
10 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The continuous downpour over the last few days has led to fresh wear and tear on some of the main thoroughfares in Salt Lake. It was only recently that the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) conducted a road-repair ...
10 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Multiple petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court urging its immediate intervention after more than 200 Bengali-speaking migrants from Bengal were allegedly tagged ‘Bangladeshis' and detained in Odisha. Bengal Police has already sent verification reports ...
10 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Law college rape accused Monojot Mishra believed criminal records added to his credentials as a fearsome union leader and if jailed, he would be able to remotely operate a network that continued to terrorise and blackmail students ...
10 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: With continuous and heavy rain in July — one of the wettest months in recent memory — causing extensive damage to standing crops and disruption of the supply chain from farms, the vegetable prices in Kolkata spiralled. ...
10 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A NITI Aayog summary report on Bengal, showing a map of Bihar instead of the state on the cover page, prompted CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday to write a strongly worded letter to its vice-chairman, Suman K ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, approached the Calcutta High Court seeking acquittal. Roy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case.The appeal was filed before the division bench of Justices Debangsu ...
10 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: State school service commission (SSC) and Bengal govt on Wednesday argued against Calcutta High Court's single bench order barring 1,801 "tainted" candidates from participating in the fresh recruitment process. SSC told a division bench that these candidates ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The brother of jailed Ariadaha strongman Jayanth Singh and his associates allegedly assaulted a youth over a cycle parking dispute on Tuesday night. The accused, Subham Singh, was arrested from a Belgharia nursing home late at night.The victim, ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A civic volunteer attached to Bhowanipore Traffic Guard was named in an FIR by his brother and sister-in-law for trespassing and barging into their residence, assaulting them, and molesting one of them. Cops registered a case and got ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The law college, after reopening on Monday, witnessed zero attendance for LLM Part-I for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Some said the horror of the rape on the campus and the consequential jitters kept students away. While ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 68-year-old woman, who had severed all ties with her only son 15 years ago, has moved Calcutta High Court praying that her son, a sailor, fund her medical costs and her old-age home stay. The son has expressed ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned the conduct of Uttarpara MLA and actor Kanchan Mullick after he misbehaved with a senior doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM). Mullick lost his temper while waiting for professor Mehebubar Rahman, head ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Export of tea from Kolkata to Iran — in a limbo during the Iran-Israel conflict — has resumed following the announcement of ceasefire. About 50 containers carrying 1 million kg of orthodox Assam tea reached Iran's Bandar Abbas ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sporadic clashes between protesters and police disrupted normalcy in parts of Bengal on Wednesday as 10 central trade unions and their allies observed Bharat Bandh. Police arrested 383 bandh supporters across Bengal, including 41 from Kolkata.A clash took ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 14-year-old boy, who was missing for 42 days after being tortured in a jeans manufacturing unit at Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas over an alleged theft of a mobile, returned home at Chogoria village in Islampur of ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The women's grievance cell of the detective department on Wednesday focused on reviewing the evidence it had collected since June 26 in the law college gang rape case. This review came a day after the Alipore court sent ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four sub-inspectors attached to New Alipore Police were suspended by Lalbazar on Wednesday evening after they were accused of vandalising nearly 30 trucks parked near the New Alipore railway siding in the N-block.The action followed within hours after ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint of harassment and attempted molestation was reported from the Patuli area on EM Bypass where 16-year-old girl from Bansdroni and two of her friends alleged three men threatened and verbally abused them on the Pauli overbridge ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi, were labelled ‘Bangladeshi' and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26, two habeas corpus petitions filed in Calcutta ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Flyers from Kolkata will be the first among 100 cities in over 40 countries on the Etihad Airways network to witness in-flight high-speed WiFi facility across all classes. "The international flying experience will change from Sept 26 when ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A violent clash erupted between two groups over a local cricket tournament in Siliguri's Bagracote on Wednesday. Local residents pelted stones at police and security personnel who were dispatched to the area. Security forces are working to ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Birbhum SP Amandeep on Tuesday moved Calcutta High Court, seeking quashing of NCW's direction to appear before it in Delhi on July 14 with the case diary on Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal's alleged verbal abuse of Bolpur police ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: From Tallah to Tollygunge, residents woke up on Tuesday morning and found it difficult to wade through waterlogged streets as overnight rain inundated several parts of Kolkata. Though the Met office in Alipore recorded 87.5 mm rain ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaAccording to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.July 9th ForecastKolkata residents face a rainy and humid day on July 9, 2025, with moderate rainfall expected throughout the day. The ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city witnessed 87.5mm rainfall between 8.30pm Monday and 8.30pm Tuesday, the highest 24-hour count of the season. Tuesday was also the wettest July day in four years. The rain dragged the maximum temperature down to 27.1°C, this ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Salt Lake FD block resident, Deepak Chowdhury, was arrested on Monday for allegedly duping a CA block resident of Rs 15.4 lakh under the pretext of investing in a fraudulent fixed deposit scheme of the Indian Post ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that the 2026 assembly elections will be a fight for Bengali Hindus and nationalist, educated sections of the Muslim community to retain their identity."This election is a fight to ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF), which spearheaded the RG Kar movement, has planned out programmes for Aug 8 and 9 to mark the one year of the rape and murder of their 31-year-old colleague. The organisation ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Heavy rain triggered by low pressure and a monsoon trough left different parts of south Kolkata, and some pockets adjacent to EM Bypass, inundated on Tuesday. Although traffic was otherwise smooth, due to few people venturing out, the ...
9 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Passengers headed to the airport faced difficulties in navigating waterlogged stretches on VIP Road near Kaikhali, Chinar Park and Haldirams on Tuesday. However, much to the relief of the passengers, there was no waterlogging on the airport ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Smartworks Coworking Spaces Limited, founded by city boy Neetish Sarda and co-founded by Harsh Binani, is likely to have a post-listing valuation of Rs 4,645 crore at the upper price band. The co-working space company, one of ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Though storm water started receding from most parts of south Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon, neighbourhoods in and around Jodhpur Park and areas along the Anwar Shah connector remained waterlogged until late evening. The KMC-run Jodhpur Park drainage ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: Calling the Assam govt's NRC notice to a Cooch Behar Rajbanshi resident a "systematic assault on democracy", CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged opposition parties "to stand up against BJP's divisive and oppressive machinery.""I am shocked and ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: To accelerate Bengal's industrialisation, state govt would host a business and industrial conclave after the Pujas, Amit Mitra, principal chief economic adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, said on Tuesday.Mitra said the CM decided to host the conclave ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police recovered the body of a 58-year-old man, Sanat Haldar, who had been missing since Monday, from the Anandapur canal on Tuesday. Haldar, a resident of Purba Rajapur, was last seen on Monday. A local alerted the police ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three persons were arrested for allegedly defrauding a job seeker by impersonating Eastern Railway (ER) officials and issuing fake appointment letters. The accused reportedly extorted Rs 35,000 from the victim on March 29, 2025, promising employment with the ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim have sought the permission from the Sealdah court for their lawyers to visit the place of occurrence. The court is likely to pass the order on Wednesday.The petitioners had earlier moved ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed all parties involved in the writ petition and contempt pleas filed by Tollywood members to participate in a meeting at Rabindra Sadan on July 16.Justice Amrita Sinha directed the information and ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will meet CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday at Nabanna. It will be the first meeting between the two CMs after the Pahalgam incident, where terrorists gunned down 26 people, including ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The advocate general, in his submission to Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday denied BJP's allegation of discrimination between central and state forces on the Bengal assembly precincts.AG Kishore Datta pleaded that neither central nor state forces were ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bengal govt has directed all its employees to report to work on Wednesday and ensure minimal disruption in every sector to counter a 24-hour nationwide strike, called by a coalition of 10 central trade unions.The strike ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union minister and former Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar moved the high court on Tuesday, complaining that his movements were being restricted by the state police.Counsel for Majumdar cited at least three instances, one being the incident at ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: School Service Commission and Bengal govt on Tuesday moved a Calcutta High Court division bench, challenging a single judge's order to not allow candidates deemed "tainted" to participate in the fresh recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies. Other ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The extension of the governing body of the law college in south Kolkata, where the rape incident occurred on June 25, has come under the scrutiny of Calcutta University's fact-finding committee. The committee found that the governing body, ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The vice principal of the law college where a second-year student was gang-raped by a temporary staff and two students said the incident was frightening and that had she been a parent of a girl, she would ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The forensic reports of the law college gang rape have started arriving, with Kolkata Police stating that they are matching with their probe and sequence of events shared by the survivor. Cops are now further building conclusive ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A Re-1 UPI payment led to a loss of Rs 5 lakh for a resident of Chandpurpally near Kolkata airport a few months back. Probing into the case, police arrested a 21-year-old fraudster from Kalyani in North ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An attempt to lodge a complaint and seek a refund for food worth Rs 152 over an online food delivery platform led to a loss of Rs 1.7 lakh for a Salt Lake resident after he ended up ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 40-year-old man died at Medical College Hospital hours after being involved in a heated altercation with the tenants of the same building in the Bowbazar areaon Tuesday.The deceased, Md Ezhar Ahmed, was a resident of Gopal ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 61-year-old French tourist fell victim to a well-orchestrated theft near the Indian Museum when a group of gypsies allegedly stole his passport and 2,500 Euros — worth Rs 2.5 lakh — on Monday afternoon. The victim, ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Tension erupted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday midnight after the death of a youth from Dakshindari. The family alleged that no medical care was given to Gopal Banik, who was rushed there after ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 26-year-old man from Picnic Garden, admitted to a hospital off EM Bypass, was diagnosed as suffering from cholera. While this diarrhoeal disease is common during the monsoon, sources said this is the first known case of cholera ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ninety-eight films, exploring diverse subjects, such as AI, the desire for hilsa in a patriarchal household and Kolkata's music shop, are vying for the top awards at the 8th South Asian Short Film Festival that started at Nandan ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As the Kolkata law college reopened under heavy police security on Monday, the survivor of the June 25 gang rape continued to live in fear — haunted not only by the trauma of the assault but also by ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12345 I have served this college for the past 30 years. And, this is the saddest phase in my career that has come just six months before my retirement. During my tenure, I have performed my duties sincerely, and ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside the West Bengal Medical Council's order, suspending former MP Santanu Sen's registration as a medical practitioner for two years from July 4, 2025, for his "infamous conduct". But the court ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The first aircraft with a four-class configuration in its cabin is scheduled to touch down in Kolkata at 7.15 pm on July 18. Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, which currently operates a three-class configuration in the Boeing B 777 ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Indian team's victory at Edgbaston on Sunday fuelled a rush among Kolkata travellers in England and city cricket fans to catch the Lord's Test from July 10. Travel agents say they have been receiving calls for ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bengal govt is pulling out all the stops to foil the general strike called by 10 central trade unions and their affiliates on July 9 against Centre's "anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-national pro-corporate policies".In a notification issued by ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: Trinamool Congress on Monday expelled Baby Kole for assaulting and publicly humiliating an elderly Left activist last week. Anil Das was thrashed on the street, had paint smeared on him and hit with shoes.After attending a rally in ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 2015 murders of a septuagenarian couple, both retired professors, in their Chitpur home by a 35-year-old whom they knew and trusted was "a complete betrayal of social values and trust", a Sealdah judge said while sending their ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 16-year-old student from south Kolkata was found dead in his home, with cops suspecting he might have died by suicide. The parents of the class 10 student of an English-medium school found him hanging at their Kalighat ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An incident of stalking and harassment was reported from a south Kolkata cafe that the complainant was visiting. The cafe administration was alerted after she called for help after coming face to face with her stalker, and they ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police, lifesavers and security guards will keep a watch on the public pool at Rabindra Sarobar during the swimming hours, said KMDA officials after finalising the SOP for using the water body. The public swimming pool at the ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The state task force on fire safety will increase the ambit of the audit that it had proposed for markets and rooftop restaurants to include all commercial buildings, shopping malls, hospitals and schools. The decision was taken ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The detective department probing the June 25 gang rape at the law college has uncovered discrepancies in the attendance register, leading to questions about the presence of certain college administrators, including the vice-principal, and students at the ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Rahul Banerjee missed out on winning an Olympic medal but now as the coach of the Indian women's recurve side he gets a second chance to fulfil a cherished dream. The former India archer will take the ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The survivor of the June 25 college gang rape remains traumatised and "extremely scared" of the main perpetrator of the crime even as the campus where it occurred tries to get back to a semblance of normalcy.The survivor's ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Cooch Behar resident Uttam Kumar Brajabashi, who received an NRC notice from the Assam govt asking him to prove his Indian citizenship by July 15 or face deportation, produced documents on Monday which showed that his parents, ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: On the first day of the week following the high court order, the union rooms in city colleges remained locked and those who spent time there were either subdued or absent. However, principals and teachers are sceptical ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mobile phone purchased as a gift from a central Kolkata store by a Salt Lake-based advocate, hailing from Sakharipara in Muchipara, for his wife has become a major headache for the couple. The mobile is now at ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKharagpur: A couple was found dead in a railway quarter in Kharagpur on Monday. Police discovered that their three-year-old daughter, who was unharmed, was sleeping beside her mother's body. The bodies of Deepa Mahat, 26, and her husband Vikram ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Senior counsel Jayanta Mitra, representing para teachers who received appointments under the primary teacher recruitment procedure in 2016, submitted before Calcutta high court on Monday that Justice Abhijit Ganguly was not informed of the amended recruitment rules ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: On Monday, the law college finally reopened after the campus rape came to light, with only teachers and staff reporting for duty. While students — barring the 26 who couldn't fill up their exam forms — were ...
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