Two women, a mother and daughter, were caught red-handed at Kumartuli ghat in north Kolkata while trying to dispose of a body inside a trolley bag. KOLKATA: Two women - a mother and daughter - were caught at ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: ITC Royal Bengal and ITC Sonar have been honoured with the Special Jury Award in the “Industrial Water Efficiency” category at the FICCI Water Awards 2024, held on February 24, 2025.This accolade recognizes ITC Royal Bengal and ITC ...
26 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Cyber Crime Branch of Kolkata Police at Lalbazar has registered a case against SIM card sellers of various companies who were providing a large number of SIM cards for use by cyber fraudsters in India and ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Sanskrit College & University has sought funds from the state govt to restore its museum and digitise the collection of rare books. The university on Tuesday celebrated the closing ceremony of the year-long celebration for the 200-year ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A youth, Avik Das (27), was found dead on his wedding night on Tuesday in Sodepur. His bride, Beauty Roy, who was found seated beside his body, was detained for questioning. The cause of death was yet ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: KMC has decided to repair the city's major roads and relay the surface with recycled plastic hot mix, which is expected to be better-resistant to wear and tear, especially to the impact of rain, and ensure durability. ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The demise of Bangladesh's award-winning film-maker Zahidur Rahim Anjan in Bengaluru on Monday united the film communities of India and Bangladesh, with personal recollections from his batchmates and colleagues pouring in from across the border. The 61-year-old ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Govt has urged corporates to establish in-house skilling centres to boost youth employability under a new internship scheme. These centres, govt feels, would improve the employability of graduating youth, boosting the overall employment scene.Deepti Gaur Mukherjee, secretary in ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Panagarh/Kolkata: Acting on a complaint filed by a colleague of Sutandra Chatterjee, the 27-year-old dancer-event manager who lost her life following a car chase near Panagarh on Monday, police have charged the driver of the other vehicle involved ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two women — a mother and daughter — were caught at Kumartuli ghat, north Kolkata, early Tuesday while trying to throw a body into the Hooghly, stuffed inside a trolley bag.Cops said Falguni Ghosh (34) and her mother ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state power department had started preparations for a seamless supply of electricity during the Higher Secondary exams, scheduled to start on March 3, said state power minister Aroop Biswas at a meeting on Tuesday. There will be ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state cabinet decided to set up a trustee board for the Jagannath Temple at Digha, headed by chief secretary Manoj Pant, on Monday. There will be 27 trustees including representatives from ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission, and other religious ...
26 February 2025 Times of India123 Howrah: A former professor's body was found in a pool of blood in the driveway of a premium residential building at Mandirtala, in Howrah Shibpur, on Monday night. The victim was identified as 92-year-old Baidyanath Pal. The death ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Enforcement Directorate, in a supplementary charge sheet filed in the municipality recruitment case, alleged that prime suspect Ayan Sil had collected Rs 40 crore from ineligible candidates and distributed Rs 30 crore to chairpersons of several municipalities, municipal ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata/Siliguri: Bengal govt will allow another 15% of unused tea garden land for commercial activities but only to operational gardens that have already successfully utilised 15% of such unused land in non-tea business, CM Mamata Banerjee said on ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 80-member CPM Bengal committee, led by its re-elected secretary Md Salim, will lead the party in the 2026 Bengal assembly polls."We will start working for the 2026 assembly polls from tomorrow, Feb 26," Salim said at the ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that she never questioned people's personal choices but she could always question "administrative lapses" that led to the death of Maha Kumbh devotees. Reacting to Yogi Adityanath's criticism of her "Mrityu ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a Rs321 crore compensation package for farmers who have lost potatoes and rice due to unseasonal rain and damages suffered due to water release from DVC dams. Most of the ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Some miscreants allegedly created a fake email ID of the NRS Medical College principal, Pitbaran Chakraborty, and appealed for money from several doctors of the medical college. Sources said the cybercrime cell of the Kolkata Police have initiated ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three days after a 57-year-old woman, Piyali De Roy, was left shaken and traumatised when three bike-borne miscreants snatched her gold chain near her Dhakuria residence in south Kolkata on Saturday evening, the Kolkata Police detective department claimed ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The statements of the Dey brothers from Tangra converged on multiple aspects — from planning the suicide pact on Feb 10 to the final plan to kill themselves by orchestrating an accident in the early hours of Feb ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The city woke up to tremors that measured 5.1 on the Richter scale on Tuesday morning. Even though the earthquake did not cause any destruction or injury, it led to momentary panic.The National Centre for Seismology confirmed ...
26 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Jadavpur University's interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta and pro-VC Amitava Datta were on Tuesday freed from their 24-hour confinement with the help of a section of university professors and officers. The protesting engineering students who were caught fudging ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cyber crooks kept a Dum Dum couple under constant video surveillance for two months and siphoned Rs 52 lakhs from them in the latest case of digital arrest.Rathindra Nath Biswas, a retired central government officer, and his wife ...
26 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two sisters headed to a wedding ceremony in a scooter were hit by a speeding SUV on Kalyani Expressway near Khardah on Sunday night. The elder sister, Sampriti Ghosh (21), a BA third-year student, died on the spot. ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A written complaint was submitted to the Presidency University authorities regarding the harassment complaints reported on Saturday. A UG second-year female student from the maths department, along with some other female students, wrote on social media about harassment ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaA mother and daughter were apprehended while trying to dump a body in a trolley bag at Kumartuli Ghat, Kolkata. The women, who initially claimed it was a pet dog's remains, had traveled from Barasat Kajipara and were caught ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the run-up to the doctors' convention on Monday, members of SLGRC interacted with doctors working in private hospitals to understand their grievances, and where the state could intervene. The most prominent grievance was that doctors were often ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A study on impact of pollution on fishing cats — Bengal's state animal — in the Indian Sundarbans has pointed to heavy metal presence in the mangroves.As per initial findings, there's presence of heavy metals such as ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: State home secretary Nandini Chakravorty on Monday convened a meeting with senior officials of Kolkata Police, state, and RVNL to sort out the Chingrighata impasse in the New Garia-Airport corridor. But dates for granting traffic blocks for girder-launching ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The body of a hawker-turned-moneylender was found in an attic on the terrace of the alleged murderer's house on Monday morning in Sukchar, Sodepur. Cops suspect the accused, Chirag Guha alias Sayan, a man in his early 30s, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Terror accused Biplab Biswas alias Abdullah, arrested by STF in Thanapara area on Feb 20, provided shelter to Bangladeshi militants and was trying to create fake documents for them, said a police officer on Monday. Sources said ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaSiliguri: A person died and 12 others were injured when the pick-up van they were travelling in collided with a truck at Naxalbari on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Niranjan Sarkar (35), a resident of Assam's Mayang. ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Electric vehicle manufacturer Kinetic Green will launch a premium commuter scooter, FLX, this calendar year to take on other premium two-wheeler brands like Bajaj Chetak, TVS iQube, Ola S1, Ather 450S, Hero Vida V1 and Ampere Nexus.The ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Interio, the furniture brand of Godrej Enterprises group, is set to focus more on healthcare, educational and institutional furniture segments to expand its business in Kolkata. In the past 10 months, the company earned Rs 100 crore ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A special PMLA court is likely to start framing of charges relating to the alleged assault on ED officials outside the residence of Trinamool's Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan on Jan 5, 2024.On Monday, the agency sought the ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court judge Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Monday flagged incidents of custody deaths in north Bengal and expressed the need to have a list of "efficient" officers who could be entrusted with such probes.The issue cropped up ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Chandernagore: Her family's sole breadwinner ever since her father — a singer — passed away eight months ago, Sutandra Chatterjee (27), looked after her mother, Tanushree, and two ailing grandmoms, at their three-storey home in Chandernagore Narua Raypara. ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers who is suspected to have executed the murder of his wife, daughter and sister-in-law, was shifted from a private hospital to a govt facility on Monday morning. The elder ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A section of students from the Jadavpur University engineering faculty gheraoed interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta on Monday, demanding to be declared successful for the paper they had failed so that they could avail of government scholarships.These students, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Turkish tourism officials are confident that the growth in tourist traffic from Kolkata and eastern India to Turkiye will make it a strong contender for a direct flight between the city and Istanbul.Speaking to TOI, the Turkish ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An avid morning walker (78), lost her life after a school bus hit her barely a few metres from the Wellington crossing around 7.10 am on Monday. The police said the victim, identified as Shanti Devi Singh, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The traffic cops have revised the maximum permissible speed limit on various city roads, including AJC Bose Road, Rashbehari Avenue and Judges Court Road, to reduce accidents. However, the traffic speed on EM Bypass and Diamond Harbour ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Demand for tickets for India's last group match against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy on March 2 has soared, and many are planning a Dubai trip between March 1 and 9 to catch the Men in Blue ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged policemen not to cause inconvenience to people in the pretext of regulating VIP movements. "I do not like this, and I am fed up with telling the policemen. In order to ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC), one of world's oldest and most prestigious institutions, received the heritage plaque by the Kolkata chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Culture (Intach) for its significant contribution to ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 44-year-old woman from Netaji Colony in Baranagar was run over by a private bus near the Exide crossing that took a sharp right turn, allegedly racing with another bus, while the victim coming in between the ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaNupurchhanda Ghosh KOLKATA: In a remarkable celebration of Bengali musical heritage, Nupurchhanda Ghosh, a distinguished writer-singer and music researcher, has brought back to life some of the forgotten patriotic anthems of the Indian independence struggle. Through her performance titled ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: As the city marks the 152nd anniversary of its iconic tramways, experts are urging the govt to restore the full tram network, highlighting its role in reducing emissions and complementing the expanding metro system. The unique combination ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A stockbroker, posing as a senior nationalised bank official, duped his domestic help of Rs 8 lakh. The accused, Saurabh Kumar, had taken the money promising a job for the help's physically disabled husband. Kumar was arrested ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The life of a four-year-old boy suffering from ‘early-onset hydrocephalus' was saved at a city private hospital after he developed a serious brain infection that was rare and potentially fatal. Hydrocephalus is a condition in which excess ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters may have to brace for another East-West Metro pause for at least four days mid-March for speed tests, with two trains simultaneously zipping up and down at 80 kmph to expedite the Esplanade-Sealdah section's revenue operations.During the ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: RPF on Sunday detained a resident of Uttar Pradesh in Howrah station for carrying Rs 2.6 crore worth of unaccounted for foreign currencies. Hemant Kumar Pandey (50), who was later handed over to the Customs for detailed questioning, ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee has convened a mega Trinamool Congress meet in Kolkata on Feb 27, from where she is likely to outline the party's roadmap for the 2026 assembly polls in Bengal. Ahead of the meeting, she ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: There is no prevailing system that can bring rain to the city for at least a week starting Monday, according to the Met department. However, Kolkatans may wake up to partly cloudy skies with shallow to moderate fog ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) issued a notice on Sunday stating that examiners and head examiners will receive compensatory leave for their personal presence on Sundays (March 2, March 9, and March 16) during the ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed more than double the budgetary allocations for the environment compared to last year, increasing from Rs 7 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. They have also proposed increased allocations for better ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Grappling with its eroding mass base in Bengal, CPM has asked party workers to pursue the "mass line" and intensify connect with people ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. On the second day of CPM's 27th state ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Cops have started a search for a home for Pratip Dey (14), the youngest in the Dey family, who may be released from hospital on Monday, along with his uncle. Police said they were in talks with ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers, is likely to be discharged on Monday, and like his elder brother Pranay, he will be taken to NRS Medical College Hospital. Both brothers will be taken in custody ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The three surviving members of the Dey family, including the 14-year-old, do not show a will to live. During psychoanalysis, as part of treatment at Ruby General Hospital, doctors found that all want to die, remain clinically ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The city witnessed a cricket carnival on Sunday as fans came together to witness the India-Pakistan clash in the Champions Trophy. From performing yajnas to setting up small tents in neighbourhoods, the passion for the game was ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deaths of multiple jackals in road accidents in New Town over the past few weeks have raised serious concerns among environmentalists and wildlife activists. These incidents that were reported near Eco Park, Action Areas II and III, ...
24 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Not too many in Kolkata know that the young boy, Shrishti Nath Kapoor, who resided in Bhowanipore and pursued his education at Mitra Institution, went on to become the illustrious Raj Kapoor of Indian cinema. His classroom ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Being duped online, whether by threat or deceit, is unfortunate. However, the situation becomes more challenging if cyber criminals convert your money into cryptocurrency. Not only do you then lose your money but you also have to pay ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Fans erupted in joy as Mohun Bagan SG on Sunday became the first team to defend the shield in the history of the Indian Super League (ISL) after beating Odisha FC 1-nil. Thousands of die-hard Mohun Bagan ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 60-year-old woman was left shaken and traumatised after three bike-borne miscreants snatched her gold chain near her residence at Dhakuria in south Kolkata on Saturday evening. The incident left the woman so disturbed that she wished ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: It will be a miracle for East Bengal FC to make the playoffs of Indian Super League 2024-25. However, Oscar Bruzon's side is showing signs of improvement in the business end of the league with one eye ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: City cops shifted Pranay, the elder of the two Dey brothers from Tangra, to NRS Hospital on Saturday evening after his discharge from Ruby General Hospital where he, younger brother Prasun and son Pratip were admitted after surviving ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The construction of the Kalighat skywalk has come as a ‘blessing' for pilgrims, including locals, motorists, and pedestrians using the Kalighat Temple Road. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has cleared the road of hawkers' encroachment as part ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Roadside garbage dumps, often spilling over with waste—these are not only an assault on visual and olfactory senses but also the source of infections—will soon become a thing of the past in Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur. The ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Mohun Bagan SG are laying down a marker in this Indian Super League season. Their ability to play with intensity and consistency match after match and week after week is something of an envy for the rival ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, 2024, are yet to receive her death certificate.Though Panihati Municipality issued a cremation certificate, the parents ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian archers topped the medals table bagging eight medals in the Asia Cup stage-I that concluded in Bangkok on Saturday. The young archers returned with five gold, two silver and one bronze medal.Vishnu Choudhary claimed the gold ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: At least three persons, including a woman, were killed and 38 people travelling by a private bus were injured when the vehicle crashed into roadside shops on Basanti Highway at Minakhan in North 24 Parganas on Saturday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CPM senior and politburo coordinator Prakash Karat on Saturday asked the party's Bengal unit to focus on increasing the number of youth members. He was speaking at CPM's four-day state conference that began in Hooghly on Saturday.While ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Prayagraj: After the absence of Bangladesh's participation at the International Kolkata Book Fair this year and various other events in Bengal, the country's interim govt led by Mohammad Yunus has sent a troupe of dancers to perform at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bengaluru consumer court's recent direction to PVR INOX to ensure cinema tickets explicitly indicated the actual film commencement time has raised concerns among Kolkata's exhibitors and cinema-goers. While exhibitors said advertising intervals were indispensable for commercial ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 22-year-old man from Ballygunge was arrested by Kasba police for allegedly marrying a 15-year-old minor girl, raping her, and then abetting her suicide. The accused, Bijoy Mondal, a resident of Naresh Mitra Sarani, was arrested on Friday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The city buzzed in anticipation of a thrilling Sunday encounter between the ‘greatest rivals' as India and Pakistan were set to clash in a do-or-die battle in the Champions Trophy in Dubai. Fans in Kolkata set aside ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Police arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly impersonating an Indian Army captain and running an unauthorized training centre for aspiring military recruits in central Kolkata on Wednesday. A casewas initiated at the Park Street police station. Cops ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, in a post on X on Saturday, said while social media had become very important, it was essential to have one's feet on the ground. "Unless one is a good worker, one cannot ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Yet another round of raids was conducted by the Bengal Special Task Force (STF) at a Dalhousie gun shop this weekend, marking the second consecutive day of investigations into alleged ammunition stock manipulation. The sleuths were at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Dey family was banking on selling their land in Bolpur — where they once ran a silk business but shut it down — to tide over their financial troubles and raise some immediate cash to help ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An early warning system is being put in place to reduce human-elephant conflict in Bankura, which witnessed a resurgence in deaths caused by elephants in recent years. If the two-year project is successful, similar artificial intelligence-enabled elephant ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The KMC environment department is set to launch a major clean-up of Bikramgarh Jheel from March. A work order for the mammoth task has already been passed. According to a KMC source, an on-the-spot survey of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In yet another robbery in Dum Dum, a gang of burglars raided at least three houses in the Dum Dum Cantonment area early on Saturday.Around 2.30 am Saturday, the burglars sprayed some chemicals from the window of a ...
23 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Even as Ruby General Hospital was ready to discharge Pranay Dey and his son Pratip on Saturday, the release formalities were briefly halted to prepare and secure the bill, which remained unpaid. The amount ran up to ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 150-year-old rare Bible — its pages adorned with gold — that has been lying in neglect in a Baranagar library may soon get a new lease of life with the local MLA drawing the attention of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Two of the three members of the Tangra family are likely to be discharged from the hospital on Saturday. Wile Pranay Dey and his son Pratip are fit to be discharged, Prasun will continue to be under ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A day after the directorate of Drug Control busted a medicine racket in Howrah, medicine wholesalers and retailers across the state have sounded the alarm as a bulk of the medicines seized during the raid were copies ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The inspection and repair work at the Eden Hindu Hostel started on Friday after a concrete chunk fell from the ceiling. The chunk crashed on the bed of a first-year PG boarder, Oishnic Dutta. He had a ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education will charge Rs 1,000 as a fine per candidate to the respective school failing to submit marks for the practical and project works on time.The council reopened the portal on Thursday ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaPrayagraj: With an overwhelming number of pilgrims visiting the ongoing Maha Kumbh, the UP govt expects it to generate more than Rs 3 lakh crore in trade. The initial expectation of having 40 crore devotees has increased to 60 ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A statement by Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar that Congress should have introspected more before quitting the Mamata Banerjee-led govt in 2012 prompted the party senior to clarify on Friday that his statement was "taken out of context" ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Omacme, a brand of Acme Moulders and Furniture Pvt Ltd, is set to invest Rs 100 crore in Bengal over the next five years. The company is coming up with two new manufacturing units and experience centres for ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city cops on Friday indicated that they would arrest Tangra's Dey brothers — Pranay and Prasun, who survived a car crash early Wednesday — the moment they are released from hospital. They are likely to be charged ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an attempt to scare his wife during a heated argument that he would die by suicide, a 48-year-old physically challenged man lost his life after being hit by a local train in Habra on Friday afternoon.Trinath Saha ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 45-year-old Trinamool functionary, Abdul Kader Mollah, was attacked with sharp weapons by a group of masked men at his Basirhat house in North 24-Parganas on Friday evening. His family members were also injured in the incident. It ...
22 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, said, "Language Day belongs to everyone; language cannot be anyone's property." But, she chose to stay away from referring to the ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh.At the ...
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