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  • Jol Swapno: Didi’s tough stance against contractors

    Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday instructed top state govt officials and ministers to take stringent action against anyone impeding the Jol Swapno project. She said 23 officials and 373 contractors have already been issued show-cause notices. ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Men receive 3x more spam calls than women, reveals Airtel study

    Kolkata: On an average, men receive three times more spam calls than women. This was revealed by a study conducted by Bharti Airtel. The study was based on findings from Airtel's spam detection network over the last two-and-a-half months. ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    TMC MLAs meet CM on Moitra, ‘told no decision now’

    123 Kolkata: Five Trinamool Congress MLAs from Krishnanagar, who had written to the CM against MP Mahua Moitra and demanded her removal from the post of party district president, met Mamata Banerjee at the assembly on Monday but were ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Nos. low, BJP membership drive extended till Dec 31

    Kolkata: The membership drive of Bengal BJP has been extended to Dec 31 as the number of members registered is much lower than the target set by Union home minister Amit Shah. Bengal BJP minder Sunil Bansal on Monday ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Panchayat member stabbed to death in Kulpi

    123 Kolkata: Nuruddin Halder, a panchayat member of Gazipur in Kulpi, was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants on Sunday night. The incident occurred around 11pm when the 57-year-old was returning home.Police are conducting a probe, though there were ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Restaurant bodies warn against heavy in-dining discounts offered by payment aggregators

    Kolkata: National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), the apex body representing the restaurant industry, has warned its members of the potential long-term adverse effects of large-scale in-dining discount programmes offered by aggregator payment platforms. The Hotel and Restaurant Association ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Cops grill ‘molested’ woman, yet to call ‘molesters’ to PS

    Kolkata: A Sree Colony couple, who had allegedly been molested and assaulted by a group of neighbours on Nov 23, and were summoned to Netaji Nagar police station after 9 pm on Sunday in connection with a counter-complaint, were ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    28-yr-old woman dies on Behala bus

    Kolkata: A 28-year-old woman, an accountant employed with a private firm, died soon after she started feeling unwell on a moving govt bus on Monday morning. The incident was reported from Behala Janakalyan, close to Behala Chowrasta, around 10.45 ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    NABL accreditation for SSKM oncopathology lab

    123 Kolkata: The ongoing project of the state's ambitious Cancer Care Hub (CCH) at IPGMER takes another step forward with the oncopathology lab attached to the hub receiving NABL accreditation. According to sources, the accreditation for histopathology and immunohistochemistry ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    3 killed in bomb blast at Murshidabad house

    12 Berhampore: Three persons were killed in a bomb blast on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday at a house in Murshidabad district's Khayertala village under Sagarpara police station, which is close to the India-Bangladesh border. Locals said ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    CU holds anti-ragging committee meeting

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta University will seek a detailed list of unauthorised boarders from all the hostel boarders. The list will be requested to be submitted before Dec 16, the date of the next anti-ragging committee meeting.Two residents of Carmichael ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Custody death: HC orders arrest

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Monday directed the state to arrest the person responsible for inflicting injuries on the body of a prisoner who died in hospital on Sept 2, 2023.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh gave two weeks to the state ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman rents bldg to shelter strays, cats but neighbours force her to scrap plans

    1234 Kolkata: An animal lover, Arundhati Roy, faced resistance from her neighbours while she was relocating around 65 Indian breed dogs and 18 cats — majority of which were ailing — from her Dashadrone shelter in Rajarhat to a ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Moral policing: Locals shut model’s tea stall

    Howrah: Moral policing by some residents, including members of a local club, forced a young woman entrepreneur to keep her tea stall shut at Ankurhati on National Highway 16. The woman, Papia Ghosal, who was into modelling and also ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Scanning 900 hrs of CCTV footage, CBI tells court

    Kolkata: The CBI, probing the rape and murder of the 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Hospital, is scanning 900 hours of CCTV footage it collected from the hospital. The agency intends to use this footage as a tool to ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    Custody assault: Court pulls up cop

    123 Kolkata: A magistrate of a Barasat court on Monday reprimanded an investigating officer (IO) of Rajarhat PS following an allegation that an accused had been assaulted in police custody. The IO himself has been accused of the alleged ...

    10 December 2024 Times of India
    JU to celebrate 1st alumni day on Jan 4

    123 Kolkata: For the first time, Jadavpur University is going to celebrate the first alumni day on January 4 to strengthen the bond between the university and its alumni.Pro-VC Amitava Datta said, "The important information regarding the celebration, like ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    State introduces unit area assessment for property tax reform

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed the West Bengal Municipal Corporation (Amendment) and West Bengal Municipal (Amendment) Bills 2024, introducing a new property tax assessment system based on Unit Area Assessment (UAA). If a property's tax assessment ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Visa worry hits higher edu dreams of Bangla students

    123 Kolkata: Bangladeshi students pursuing education across India, especially in Kolkata, are facing uncertainty in continuing their studies due to unavailability of student visa. Those who had returned to Bangladesh with plans to pursue higher education now find themselves ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Don’t market B’desh atrocities, act on them: TMC to BJP-led Centre

    Kolkata: Ahead of the foreign secretary-level talks in Dhaka, Trinamool on Sunday urged Centre to act decisively on the Bangladesh issue. The party criticised statements attributed to Bangladesh leaders and ex-military officers, saying such "deliberate attempts to provoke" only ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata's minimum temperature at 15.7°C, season's lowest

    KOLKATA: The city continued to get chilly even as the minimum temperature dropped to 15.7°C, the lowest of the season so far. The slide, however, could be broken on Monday when the minimum is expected to jump a degree ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    3 dead in bomb blasts in West Bengal's Murshidabad

    NEW DELHI: At least three were killed and several others sustained injuries in an explosion whilst allegedly producing illegal crude bombs in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, according to police reports on Monday. The incident occurred late Sunday night in ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Civic volunteers of Bengal enough to stop Bangladesh army: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar

    West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar KOLKATA: A day ahead of Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Bangladesh, Bengal BJP netas on Sunday challenged Bangladesh’s military prowess, saying that even a small show of power by India would ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Airport’s first metro link moves closer to completion

    Kolkata: RVNL has completed the basic work for the Orange line's underground tunnels along the median of VIP Road, covering 72m. With the construction ready to enter a crucial phase—curving toward the airport—the implementing agency has sought a rejig ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Tribunal rap for Kharagpur DRM

    123 Kolkata: The Railway Claims Tribunal, Kolkata Bench, recently directed DRM Kharagpur KR Choudhury to pay Rs 25,000 from his salary for filing "a false and fabricated report" in a compensation case, which tried to pass off a deceased ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Mamata ‘natural choice’ to lead INDIA bloc, says TMC, lauds Pawar’s support for Didi captaincy

    Kolkata: Reacting to NCP (SP) senior Sharad Pawar's statement that Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had the potential to lead the INDI alliance, Trinamool on Sunday said that his statements only reinforced the belief that "CM Banerjee has the courage, ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    ‘Molested’ S Kol woman gets post-9pm summons from PS

    Kolkata: Two weeks after lodging a complaint of molestation and assault at the hands of a group of locals after protesting against public drinking, a couple at Sree Colony in Netaji Nagar was summoned to the police station after ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    NDITA takes underground route to keep Salt Lake Bypass stretch lit

    123 Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) will set up an underground cable conduit on the 2.5 km long Salt Lake Bypass stretch from Chingrighata flyover approach road to J.K. Saha bridge to ensure uninterrupted street lighting along ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Kol records country’s first robot-aided gall bladder op

    Kolkata: Robotic surgery proved useful in the gallbladder surgery of a 74-year-old patient with severe spinal deformity. Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Anandapur, said that this is the first documented robot-assisted gall bladder surgery in the country. While laparoscopy is ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Five-time Everester passes away at 59 in Darjeeling

    Darjeeling: Five-time Everest climber, Kushang Dorjee Sherpa (59), died at his residence in Darjeeling on Saturday. Apart from Mt Everest, Sherpa also scaled Mt Makalu and Mt Nanda Devi (East). The govt of India also awarded him the Tenzing ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Cable ducts lie unused in Alipore, MSOs cite ‘high fees’

    Kolkata: More than a year after underground cable TV ducts were laid at five stretches of Alipore in south Kolkata to remove the clutter of wires across lamp posts, they remain unused as multi-system operators (MSOs) have refused to ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Tribute to Kanika Bandyopadhyay on her 100th birth anniversary

    Kolkata: Cultural research institute Surnandan Bharati celebrated the birth centenary of the legendary Rabindra Sangeet exponent Kanika Bandopadhyay at Indumati Sabha Griha at Jadavpur University on Dec 5. The Kanika Memorial Award was bestowed on Rabindra sangeet exponent Swagatalakshmi ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Airport@100: From grass runway to gateway for 2.8 cr annual flyers

    123 Kolkata: An aerodrome with a grass runway set up in the early 20th century, which saw an airline make a scheduled stop in 1924 before it became a full-fledged airport and a key stopover for flights operating between ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Hwh Man loses private parts after blackmail bid

    123 Kolkata: A woman cut off her boyfriend's genitals in Parbatipur under Domjur police station in Howrah on Saturday night after being allegedly blackmailed by him.The man, named Abdur Rahman, was admitted to SSKM Hospital. Police reported that his ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Bid on Kasba councillor: Cops recover 2nd firearm

    Kolkata: Three weeks since the assassination attempt on Kasba councillor Sushanta Ghosh, police recovered the second firearm that his assailants were carrying on Nov 15 evening. Sources indicated the firearm was discovered after interrogating Lakshman Sharma, alias Chotu, who ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    S’khali victim strangled to death, rape not confirmed in autopsy

    Kolkata: Preliminary post-mortem report of the 18-year-old tribal girl, whose body was found floating in a pond with her hands and legs tied, her mouth gagged with a cloth and a brick tied to her waist in Sandeshkhali on ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    NGO alert against digital threat to women

    123 Kolkata: Online violence against women was cited as one of the "upcoming" threats against the dignity and safety of women by Amrita Dasgupta of NGO Swayam during a discussion organised by the Bengal Obstetric and Gynaecology Society (BOGS).In ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    KIFF docus honour Durga Puja & artists

    Kolkata: Two documentary films, ‘Bhabatosher Karkhana' and ‘Hridaypur', based on Kolkata's Durga Puja and its theme artists, premiered at the ongoing 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).A new trend has emerged over the last few years where some top-level ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Protest over B’desh flags at Durgapur fair

    Durgapur: Protests erupted at the Durgapur Utsav on Sunday when two traders put up stalls with Bangladesh flags to sell Bangladeshi sarees. After BJP protests, the stall owners removed the flags, but tension remained at the festival organised by ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Bombs hurled near Vaishali Dalmiya home

    Kolkata: Bombs were allegedly hurled outside the house of BJP functionary Vaishali Dalmiya at Natunpara near Behala Chowrasta early on Sunday.According to Dalmiya, she and her son had a close shave. She told Thakurpukur police that around 12.30 am, ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Apex court may hear VC appointment case today

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court is likely to hear the VC appointment case on Monday. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already made her recommendations to governor CV Ananda Bose based on the shortlist prepared by the committee headed by former ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Gold thief goes to watch Pushpa 2, arrested

    Kolkata: A jewellery craftsman who stole 522 grams of gold worth Rs 48 lakh from a Bowbazar jeweller was arrested from a cinema hall in Nadia's Krishnanagar. He went there to watch the gangster drama, Pushpa 2, on Saturday ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    City waits for 3,800 metre link to connect KEW & BEW

    Kolkata: A 3,800-metre link is left to connect Belghoria Expressway with Kalyani Expressway in one of the major highway redevelopment works in recent times. This can reduce travel time between Kolkata Airport and Kalyani AIIMS—a 43 km journey—to 45 ...

    9 December 2024 Times of India
    Ultadanga bridge work clogs traffic on VIP Road

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has started repairing both carriageways of the old Ultadanga Bridge connecting Ultadanga with VIP Road, leading to diversion of traffic and long snarls on the city-bound flank from VIP Road. Motorists ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Stubble burning incidents back in New Town

    123 Kolkata: With winter setting in, a few incidents of stubble burning have started in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has deployed block-wise supervisors to keep a check on the nuisance and has asked the ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    High-yield seed named after Amta girl to boost oil output

    123 Kolkata: Tanjila, a high-yield sesame seed named after a girl from Amta, is set to boost nationwide oil production levels. The discovery by the researchers of the agricultural science department of Calcutta University has been recognised by the ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Bomb attacks, clashes disrupt Nandigram cooperative polls

    12 Nandigram: Cooperative election in Nandigram's Kanchannagar village turned violent, with reports of bomb-throwing and clashes. The unrest erupted on Sunday afternoon and continued even after police arrived at the scene.Trinamool accused BJP of orchestrating the attacks, releasing an ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    KIFF documentaries honour Bengal’s Durga Puja

    123 Kolkata: Two documentary films, ‘Bhabatosher Karkhana' and ‘Hridaypur', based on Kolkata's Durga Puja and its theme artists, premiered at the ongoing 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). A new trend has emerged over the last few years where ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata airport turns 100: Journey from grass runway to global gateway

    KOLKATA: An aerodrome with a grass runway set up in the early 20th century, which saw an airline make a scheduled stop in 1924 before it became a full-fledged airport and a key stopover for flights operating between North ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh exports dry up, traders worried

    123 Kolkata: The ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh has cast a shadow over business in Kolkata, which serves as a vital trade hub for exports to the neighbouring country, with orders drying up and unpaid debts mounting.For decades, Kolkata has ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata airport starts self-baggage drop kiosks to cut check-in queues

    KOLKATA: The frustratingly long queues to deposit registered luggage at airline check-in counters is set to become history with Kolkata airport introducing self-baggage drop kiosks. These kiosks enable passengers to tag their bags, deposit them on the conveyor belt, ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Anti-conversion laws undermine fundamental rights: Derek

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O'Brien on Friday pitched for the removal of anti-conversion laws, which he said led to "harassment, communal tensions, and violation of individual autonomy".O'Brien wrote on his blog, "Anti-conversion laws date back ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    After planting 1,000 trees, New Town residents focus on workshops

    Kolkata: Achieving the milestone of planting yet another 1,000 trees in different areas of New Town for the third year in a row, Ecologic—a New Town-based nature lovers' forum—now plans to conduct workshops, specially for school going children, in ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Winter vegetables remain pricey at city markets, potato now at 35

    123 Kolkata: While the price of potatoes has slightly lowered and settled at Rs 35/kg, winter vegetables are maintaining a steady high price even at the end of the first week of Dec, which is unusual. Members of Bengal's ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Trinamool picks Ritabrata for RS bypolls on Dec 20

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday made a surprise pick for the Dec 20 Rajya Sabha bypoll by nominating Ritabrata Bandyopadhyay, its 46-year-old low-profile trade wing leader, to replace former bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar.Bandyopadhyay returns to the Upper House for the second ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Pocso workshop focuses on awareness to help kids

    Kolkata: A workshop on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act was organised by Shri Shikshayatan School, in collaboration with the Platform for Legal Awareness and Networking on Nov 14.The aim of this session was to enhance ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Mom’s ‘accidental bite’ kills 3 tiger cubs at Siliguri’s Bengal Safari, zoo launches probe

    123 Siliguri/Kolkata: Three royal Bengal tiger cubs have died at the Bengal Safari Park in Siliguri, following "accidental bites" by their mother, zoo officials have said.Rika, the tigress, gave birth to three cubs last week, which were kept in ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Happy if Didi takes bigger role: NCP's Sule

    Reacting to Banerjee's willingness to "head the INDIA alliance," Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) MP Supriya Sule said they will be happy if the TMC chief took on more responsibility within the opposition bloc. Sule said the Bengal CM is ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Greek Orthodox Church celebrates 100 yrs of prayers, service

    Kolkata: The Greek Orthodox Church located adjacent to the Kalighat tram depot is set to turn 100. A special mass will be held at the church on Sunday to mark the commencement of its centenary celebrations. India's only Greek ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    BSF holds meeting with border villagers

    123456 Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has begun holding village meetings along the Indo-Bangla border and sought better cooperation from villagers. The BSF officials say they are seeking information on any questionable movement, especially at night, after explaining ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Girl found with hands & feet tied in Sandeshkhali pond

    Sandeshkhali (North 24 Parganas): An 18-year-old tribal girl was found floating in a pond with her hands and legs tied, her mouth gagged with a cloth and a brick hanging from her waist at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Tab funds fraud: 2 more in cop net from Chopra, total arrests 49

    Kolkata: Two more persons were arrested from Chopra by Asansol-Durgapur City Police on Thursday for their direct role in the tab funds misappropriation cases. This brings the total number of arrests by Bengal Police to 40. Kolkata Police arrested ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Hawkers’ self regulation to keep plastic at bay

    123 Kolkata: Struggling to keep plastics at bay from the Gariahat hawking hub, the union controlling the trade in the region has warned hawkers not to use plastic covers any more. It has even threatened its members with punitive ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    38-year-old bank staffer found dead at Alipore guest house

    123 Kolkata: A 38-year-old woman, a bank staffer, was found dead in an Alipore guest house located on Raja Santosh Road under Chetla police station on Saturday afternoon.The victim, identified as Sumana Parui Mondal, was a resident of Prantik ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Writer drowns in Hooghly after celebrating birthday

    123 Kolkata: A 29-year-old content writer residing in Baranagar reportedly died under mysterious circumstances, hours after he celebrated his birthday with his friends. He reportedly drowned in the Hooghly river early on Saturday after his friends requested him to ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Kol sets stage for country’s first celluloid film fest

    Kolkata: The city is poised to host the first-ever Indian celluloid film festival. The extraordinary response to the screening of a documentary by Satyajit Ray's art director, Bansi Chandragupta, and Utpalendu Chakraborty's feature film on celluloid, using a 35 ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    In midnight mail to profs, IIT holds disciplinary action in abeyance

    Kolkata: Around 80 among the 86 members of IIT Teachers' Association, who were served show-cause notices, received a midnight email, where the registrar, Amit Jain, said though their act stood "vitiated" as per the Conduct Rules of the Institute, ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Trolley run for Orange Line’s Ruby-Sec V ops

    Kolkata: Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy on Saturday took the first trolley ride between Gour Kishore Ghosh and Sector V stations of the Orange line.Metro Railway and RVNL, implementing agency of the 29km New Garia-Airport (Orange) ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    1st trolley run for Metro ops between Sec V & Chingrighata

    Kolkata: Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy on Saturday took the first trolley ride between Gour Kishore Ghosh and Sector V stations of the Orange line.Metro Railway and RVNL, implementing agency of the 29km New Garia-Airport (Orange) ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    KMC widens key Thakurpukur link

    Kolkata: Commute from Thakurpukur to Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institute — known as Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital — is set to get easier. This will bring relief not just to hundreds of cancer patients and their kin but ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Understanding dyslexia: Experts call for empathy

    123456 Kolkata: The death by suicide of a 17-year-old student with dyslexia on Friday has brought into focus the need to identify the condition early and assist youngsters in dealing with it. They need to be taught and allowed ...

    8 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital conducts mega CPR training in association with Indian Museum

    KOLKATA: On Friday a Kolkata hospital joined hands with the Indian Museum to conduct a mega CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) training programme. Health experts said creating a CPR-ready community could help reduce mortality during sudden cardiac arrest.The number of sudden ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    In a first, Muktijoddhas set to miss Vijay Diwas event in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: For the first time in recent memory, there will possibly be no Muktijoddha (freedom fighter) at this year's Vijay Diwas celebrations that commemorates India's victory over Pakistan in the war that led to the creation of Bangladesh in ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    TMC slams Telangana CM Revanth Reddy's 'Garbage City' remark about Kolkata, invites him for visit

    Telangana CM Revanth Reddy (left); TMC's Riju Dutta (right) NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy faced criticism from West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) after calling Kolkata a “garbage city”, which termed the remark as "insensitive." The party also ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Will run INDIA bloc from West Bengal if asked: CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: Speaking of the INDIA bloc in an interview on Friday, CM Mamata Banerjee indicated that while she would never leave Bengal, she was ready to lead the opposition bloc from Bengal if asked to do so. The CM ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh is leaderless as mafia has risen & govt is weak: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: Bangladesh was now "leaderless" because "the mafia" had risen and its govt was "weak", Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. She, however, added that Indo-Bangla negotiations should not stop and that the Centre should ensure "everyone is ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Stuck in West Bengal jail since 2018 over ID errors, Jharkhand woman finally meets kin

    Nalini (2nd from left) with her family on Friday MIDNAPORE: Nalini Chowdhury received bail in 2018, but till Thursday, she had to stay as an inmate in Midnapore Central Correctional Home. This was due to mistakes in her bail ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Min temp in Kolkata drops to 16.7°C, lowest this season so far

    Kolkata: The city shivered in an early morning chill as the mercury dropped to 16.7°C on Friday, the lowest of the season so far. It could drop further by a degree on Saturday, predicted the Met office. According to ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    1 dead, 1 injured in blast at Kolkata scrap vehicle unit

    Kolkata: A labourer, Sagar Soren (35) of Purulia, died on the spot and his fellow worker, Shankar Halder (55) of Baranagar, sustained injuries after an oiltanker exploded at a vehicle scrapping unit near Rabindra Bharati University on BT Road ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Passport officers in Bengal to visit applicants’ homes for address verification

    Kolkata: Lalbazar has called for stricter physical verification of passport applicants at their residential address after a Bangladeshi national was arrested recently by Park Street police for allegedly entering India using a passport issued based on fake documents.Passport officers ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Presi, 5 other univs get permanent VCs after govt sends list to guv

    123 Kolkata: The one-year-five-month-long standoff over the appointment of vice-chancellors at state-run universities partially ended on Friday evening with chief minister Mamata Banerjee proposing her nominees from a shortlist to governor C V Ananda Bose and Raj Bhavan giving ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Govt hints at end to bus comm system

    Kolkata: A public department guideline released on Friday asked bus operators to explore alternative incentive mechanisms for drivers and conductors instead of the commission-based system.Transport minister Snehasis Chakraborty, too, had earlier called for the abolition of the commission system ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Retailers urge govt to avoid GST hike on luxury items

    Kolkata: Retailers Association of India (RAI) has requested Centre and different state govts to refrain from hiking GST on luxury items, which it feels would be a significant dampener for the economy when retail growth was witnessing one of ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    ‘Not one-person party’: TMC to decide on successor collectively, says Mamata

    Kolkata: Asked about succession in the party and the senior-junior debate, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that Trinamool seniors would collectively decide on her successor and it was not about what she believed, but "what the party ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    No MGNREGA compliance pending from Bengal, says state official

    Kolkata: There was no compliance pending from Bengal regarding MGNREGA as recommended by central teams that visited the state in 2019 and 2021, a senior official said on Friday. The teams asked for the recovery of funds and disciplinary ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Kultali rapist gets death sentence

    Kolkata: A Baruipur court on Friday sentenced 19-year-old Mustakin Sardar to death for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Kultali. The sentencing came exactly 62 days after the commission of the crime. The victim's family was ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    IIT profs plan to move HC over show-cause notice

    123 Kolkata: IIT Teachers' Association (IITTA) has decided to file a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court against the IIT-Kharagpur authorities for issuing show-cause notices against 86 professors and initiating disciplinary proceedings against the office-bearers of the association. ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Bengal govt fines 34 jr docs Rs 20 lakh each for not serving bond period

    Kolkata: The state health department has directed 34 senior resident doctors to pay a penal amount of Rs 20 lakh each for failing to serve their bond period after completing their MD/MS or DM (superspecialty) courses. Health officials said ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Hospitality, F&B take hit as tourist number plummets

    Kolkata: The sharp dip in Bangladeshi tourists visiting Kolkata has dealt a severe blow to the city's hospitality and retail sectors, particularly in the New Market area, often referred to as ‘Mini Bangladesh'. Hotel owners have been forced to ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Hawkers to return to space beneath Kalighat skywalk

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Friday has asked hawkers, who were relocated to Jatin Das Park from Kali Temple Road to facilitate the construction of Kalighat skywalk, to return to their original place within a month. The ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    CBSE board assessment for V, VIII from next yr

    123 Kolkata: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to mandate competency-based assessments in all affiliated schools, expanding a program that was introduced earlier this year in 9,000 schools for students in classes V and VIII.This announcement ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Bhadra gets HC bail, may not walk out of jail

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, who is in custody as an accused in an ED case in connection with the teacher recruitment scam. Whether Bhadra will be able to walk out of ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Scottish molest: ICC seeks 3 student representatives

    Kolkata: The Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) convened its first meeting on Friday to investigate the molestation case registered with the Scottish Church College. Following UGC norms, the committee decided to restructure itself by including three student representatives.A second-year student ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Bengal emerging as India’s new IT capital, says TMC

    Kolkata: Bengal was emerging as India's new IT capital, Trinamool's Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said on Friday. Highlighting the state's growing business prominence in Upper House, she said, "in Bengal, we mean business". Ghose's statement came after junior ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Call to reassess Yunus’s Nobel Prize

    Kolkata: Criticism against Bangladesh's interim chief Muhammad Yunus intensified on Friday, with lawmakers from Bengal demanding a reassessment of his Nobel Peace Prize. Such criticisms arose even earlier as violence against minority communities intensified in Bangladesh.BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    B’deshi ‘cattle smuggler’ shot by BSF in Jalpaiguri

    Jalpaiguri: A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by BSF on Friday at Chanakya BOP, 14km from Jalpaiguri town. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Anwar (35) of Bhajanpura village in Panchagarh district and was alleged to be a cattle ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    KIFF screens docu tracing Aparna Sen’s cinematic journey

    123 Kolkata: The special screening of Suman Ghosh's Aparna Sen documentary titled ‘Parama' at the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on Thursday garnered an extraordinary response in the city. The enthusiastic reception prompted deliberation regarding Kolkata's audience receptiveness ...

    7 December 2024 Times of India
    Turbulence delays airline’s Dhaka plans

    Kolkata: The Kolkata-Dhaka service that low-cost carrier Air India Express (AIX) planned to start from Sept 3 went into the hangar following the volatile situation in Bangladesh and escalating tension between the two countries. The resultant slide in air ...

    6 December 2024 Times of India
    Cops pick up 17 in 245-crore international investment fraud

    Kolkata: Bengal Police's cyber units have busted an international investment fraud gang — run by chartered accountants from India but operating from Dubai — that has swindled Rs 245 crore in the past two months. Seventeen people were arrested ...

    6 December 2024 Times of India
    Air India Express on expansion mode; defers Kolkata-Dhaka direct flight plans

    NEW DELHI: Air India Express is growing its fleet and adding new flight routes amid rising passenger numbers. The airline aims to have over 100 planes by March 2025, up from the current 90, and eventually reach about 175 ...

    6 December 2024 Times of India
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