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  • Believe it or not: 109 years later, man demands his money back from Britain

    A dusty family document from 1917 has launched what might be the oddest debt-collection attempt in history. In Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, Vivek Ruthia found a certificate showing his grandfather Seth Jumma Lal Ruthia lent Rs 35,000 to the British ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    25 places we love: Hindustan Park is the OG para that’s on every hotlist

    Few neighbourhoods reflect Kolkata’s changing urban story as vividly as Hindustan Park. Once defined by shaded lanes and closely knit residential life, the area has gradually evolved into a lively cultural pocket – where cafés spill onto pavements, restored ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Bengal govt transfers 13 IPS officers

    Kolkata: Bengal govt transferred 13 IPS officers on Saturday, with officials describing this as a routine administrative move. Similar transfers were made on Feb 25.ADG CID Vishal Garg will now be ADG-IG, Western Zone. Ashok Kumar Prasad, ADG Western ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Won’t comment on SIR list now, more names can be deleted: BJP netas

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP, even while refraining from directly commenting on the deletion of names following the publication of SIR rolls on Saturday, hinted at the exclusion of more names after the verification of claims and objections."We had demanded that ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    RS candidate list progressive, says TMC, rebuts BJP’s ‘outsider’ charge

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday said its Rajya Sabha candidates' list was "progressive" and packed with successful professionals who will espouse Bengal's and the party's cause in Parliament."From Rajeev Kumar and Menaka Guruswamy to Koel Mullick and Babul Supriyo — ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    40% names under scrutiny from 3 dists: Murshidabad, Malda & N 24 Parganas

    Kolkata/Malda/Murshidabad: Nearly 40% of people placed under adjudication in the SIR list published by the Election Commission are from three districts — North 24 Parganas, Malda and Murshidabad. While Malda and Murshidabad are minority-dominated districts, North 24 Parganas makes ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Central forces conduct route marches across several districts, sensitive zones under watch

    Kolkata: Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) began route marches across several Bengal districts on Saturday hours before the Election Commission published the state's voter list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll rolls.Route marches were carried out in ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Conclave focuses on critical thinking, calls for narrowing of industry-academia gap

    Kolkata: Critical thinking over AI and the importance of narrowing the academia-industry gap were the focus at Times NIE Leadership Conclave at the Leadership Conclave 2026, organised by The Times of India-NIE, in association with Ganpat University, Gujarat and ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    CNCI doctor assaulted by 4 bikers in Ballygunge Phari road rage

    Kolkata: A 45-year-old doctor attached to the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) was allegedly assaulted by four motorcycle riders in a road rage incident on Hazra Road near Ballygunge Phari on Friday evening.The incident took place around 6.45 pm ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    KMC set to repair Behala road damaged by quake

    Kolkata: The road that cracked in Parnasree Palli, Behala, will undergo a special repair process, with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation planning to rebuild a guard wall along a pond before taking up reconstruction of the road. The guard wall ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    64 lakh voters out, 60 lakh on hold: EC's final West Bengal roll down 16% to 6.44 crore after SIR

    KOLKATA: About 63.7 lakh Bengal voters were struck off, more than 60 lakh placed under adjudication and 1.9 lakh new voters added, taking the state’s voter count to 6.44 crore, the Election Commission’s final voters’ list revealed on Saturday. ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Kol fans wait for ‘quarter final’ with prayers on their lips

    Kolkata: As fans prepared for an India-West Indies showdown at Eden Gardens on Sunday evening, the Maidan swarmed with people desperate for tickets, a scene reminiscent of pre-IPL days. Blue Indian jerseys are selling rapidly across Maidan market stalls, ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    War impact on flights: Kolkata-bound flyers from US, Europe stuck in Gulf

    Kolkata: Flyers from Kolkata returning to the city from the US and Europe were stranded in the Gulf and Europe after vast airspace in the Middle East was shut to traffic following strikes on Iran by the US and ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Hwh shooting: Murder weapon, fake passports recovered

    Howrah: Police recovered the gun used to kill promoter Shafiq Khan in Pilkhana under Howrah's Golabari police station. Investigators said the weapon was used early on Wednesday to shoot Shafiq dead at the busy Bhaggu crossing on Pilkhana Second ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Interfaith meet raises alarm over SIR, electoral integrity ahead of polls

    Kolkata: The United Interfaith Foundation on Saturday hosted "My Vote, My Right: Safeguarding Electoral Integrity in the Context of SIR", initiating a conversation on democracy and citizenship bringing together political representatives, faith leaders, and civil society members to examine ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Bailey bridge opens to two-way traffic

    Kolkata: Following trial runs, the newly set up Bailey bridge connecting Salt Lake AA Block and VIP Road at Dakshindari is open for both-way vehicular movement from 7 am till 10 pm. Further steps, such as installing height bars, ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    KP flags off pink booths & women night patrol teams

    Kolkata: In a bid to strengthen safety measures for women on the city roads, Kolkata Police on Saturday launched all-women booths and patrolling teams, following directives from the state govt. Equipped with various facilities, the ‘Pink Booths' will be ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Ex-bishop Raju passes away at 82

    Kolkata: Rev PSP Raju, former bishop of the Kolkata Diocese of the Church of North India, died on Saturday. He was 82.Raju is survived by his wife Leena Gonsalves, daughter Ruth, and son Rajiv."My father passed peacefully at his ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Maniktala, Entally, Bhowanipore lead depleted seat list in Kolkata

    Kolkata: More than 25,000 electors in Kolkata North and Kolkata South Parliamentary constituencies, whose names were included in the draft roll, were excluded from the final voter lists published on Saturday, and another 1.4 lakh Kolkata voters are still ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Mixed bag for BLOs: Some scared, stay indoors, others pitch in to help neighbourhood voters

    Kolkata: After four months of extensive exercise for SIR of electoral roll, the BLOs got to know their results, counting the electors whose names remained on the list and those deleted and marked ‘under adjudication'. Some BLOs, on the ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    After notices and hearings, most celebs secure place on final roll

    Kolkata/Santiniketan: The names of Amartya Sen, Joy Goswami (pic left), Chandra Bose, Dev (below left), Mimi Chakraborty — all of whom were summoned for SIR hearings — have appeared on the final voter list that was published on Saturday.On ...

    1 March 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata's liver diseases speciality institute opens its doors to children

    KOLKATA: As the Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences (IILDS) stepped into its 11th year, the institute opened its doors to paediatric patients by starting a full-fledged paediatric gastroenterology department. Inaugurated on Friday, the unit will start functioning ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal SIR final voter list to be released today: Here’s how to find your name, what to do if it is deleted

    KOLKATA: The final voters’ list in Bengal is set to be released online on Saturday, determining whether electors remain eligible to cast their ballots in the upcoming Assembly elections. The publication comes after nearly four months of a contentious ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    2026 West Bengal SIR final voter list: Around 66 lakh names likely to be deleted since start of exercise—Live Updates

    KOLKATA: The Election Commission (EC) has begun publishing the updated electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with early figures from Bankura district showing that around 1.18 lakh names have been deleted since the exercise ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    TMC’s RS picks: Ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar, minister Babul Supriyo, actor Koel Mullick, SC lawyer Menaka Guruswamy

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Friday pulled a surprise by nominating former DGP Rajeev Kumar, senior Supreme Court advocate Menaka Guruswamy, actor Koel Mullick, and Bengal IT minister Babul Supriyo for the Rajya Sabha elections on March 16 .Given Trinamool's ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    We’ll fight EC’s dirty game till end: Mahua

    Kolkata: "We will fight EC's dirty game till the end," Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra said on Friday, hours after the party told the Supreme Court that the Election Commission had asked judicial officers not to accept Aadhaar cards as ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    HC seeks state report on Suvendu ‘harassment’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday sought a report from the state over alleged harassment faced by leader of opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari outside the CEO's office on Tuesday, including action taken against the miscreants.Adhikari's counsel urged ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Make univs more industry-friendly: Sukanta, Sanjeev

    Kolkata: Universities must reinvent themselves with greater focus on industry, according to Sukanta Majumdar, Union minister of state for education and the northeast region, and Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the economic advisory council to the Prime Minister. They were ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    HC okays BJP’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ in state with riders

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday allowed BJP to hold its ‘Parivartan Yatra' in the state on March 1 and 2. While granting permission, the HC said organisers must ensure that no provocative speeches are made during the yatra and ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Coal India allays deficiency fears even as power demand picks up

    Kolkata: Coal India has allayed fears of deficiency in domestic coal reserves amid rising power demand that could lead to increase in coal demand.Coal India's producing subsidiaries are holding sizeable pithead coal stock to the tune of 115 million ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    HPL chairman reviews Rs 6k cr phenol project

    Haldia: Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL) chairman Purnendu Chatterjee on Friday visited the company's upcoming phenol and acetone plant, inching closer to its official commissioning, to review its final phase of construction in Haldia. Accompanied by company's whole-time director and CEO ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Santi Prasad gets bail in teaching jobs scam case

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to Santi Prasad Sinha., former adviser to the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC), in the ED case into the teachers' recruitment scam. Sinha got bail from the Supreme Court ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Voters’ list to be out with 7.08cr names but not all eligible to vote

    Kolkata: By noon today, electors in Bengal will know if they are still eligible to cast their votes in the upcoming assembly polls. At the end of nearly four months of a fraught special intensive revision, the state's final ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Jharkhand man takes Christian mom home

    Kolkata: Sushila Murmu, the woman from Jharkhand who left her village more than two decades ago after her husband's death, and converted to Christianity, was reunited with her son when he came to the south Kolkata shelter home on ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    CID takes over probe into Howrah shooting

    Howrah: Two days after the shooting in Howrah's Pilkhana, where promoter Shafiq Khan was killed, CID has taken over the probe. Cops on Friday circulated photos and digital renditions — including in various disguises — of accused Harun Khan ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Day after repair, Behala road cracks from end to end

    Kolkata: A 15ft-wide alley on Sagar Manna Road in Behala that was repaired only the previous day with freshly-laid asphalt split into halves during Friday's earthquake. A crack stretching up to nearly 12 metres had developed. The subsidence had ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Merchant navy man loses 1.7 cr in investment fraud

    Kolkata: Phoolbagan police have initiated an investigation into a financial fraud in which a senior merchant navy official was allegedly swindled of Rs 1.7 crore.The victim, a 59-year-old marine engineer currently stationed on a vessel at sea, allegedly fell ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Jadavpur Univ V-C booted out of HS Council, seeks JU exit from JEE system

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University is likely to withdraw from the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) system. The proposal is expected to be tabled before the Jadavpur University Executive Council soon, a senior official hinted on Friday.The developments coincided with ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Help deleted voters get names back via Form 6, BLOs told

    Kolkata: With the voters' list being updated on the BLO App 24 hours before the final electoral roll is published on Saturday, most BLOs are aware of the names in their neighbourhoods that will not figure on the list. ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Birds or humans’ vs ‘why not both’ row at Lake

    Kolkata: A Lions Club project to turn a section of the Lions Safari Park at Rabindra Sarobar into a play area for the disabled, and the contention of naturalists that paving the ground will destroy the biodiversity hot spot, ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Asian Games gold medallist Swapna Barman joins TMC

    Kolkata: A prominent Rajbanshi face from Jalpaiguri and Asian Games gold-winning heptathlete Swapna Barman joined Trinamool on Friday, ahead of the Bengal assembly elections, amid speculation that singer and reality show star Aneek Dhar may also join the party. ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Shah, Rajnath among 6 mantris lined up for ‘Parivartan Yatra’

    Kolkata: Six Union ministers, including home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh, along with BJP national president Nitin Nabin and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, will launch BJP's 5,000-km ‘Parivartan Yatra' beginning Sunday. The yatra will culminate in ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Lodging CAPF will hamper classes & tests, say institutes

    Kolkata: Education institutes in Bengal are worried after the local administration started requisitioning schools and colleges to lodge the 240 companies of central forces, which will be deployed here from March 1. Education minister Bratya Basu flagged the issue, ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Srabanti files plaint against body-shaming

    Kolkata: Actor Srabanti Chatterjee has lodged a complaint at the cybercrime unit of Kolkata Police, saying her photos and videos were being used on social media to post obscene, body-shaming remarks and defamatory content.The actor has accused a Facebook ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Med student death: Lens on exam stress

    Kalyani/Kolkata: With the reason behind the mysterious death of a final year student of the College of Medicine and JNM Hospital (CoMJNMH) still being probed, sources on the campus indicated that Pulak Haldar was under tremendous study pressure ahead ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Tremor rattles Kolkata: Offices, schools, houses empty out as city rushes to safety

    Kolkata: Junior union minister Sukanta Majumdar, speaking at a programme in Park Street on Friday afternoon, paused and asked, "Should I stop?" as some people in the audience got up, scurrying for an exit from the venue. Kolkata had ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Areas close to B’desh epicentre bear brunt

    Kolkata: While Kolkata and several parts of southern Bengal felt the tremors on Friday afternoon, the worst damage was reported from the villages along the India-Bangladesh border, particularly near Taki in Basirhat subdivision, which is 26km from the epicentre ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    From tea stalls to WA groups, SIR tension for voters ahead of big day

    Kolkata: A day before the publication of the final list under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, anxiety and tension ran riot among thousands of people in and around the city over the retention of their voting ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    5 N Kol seats show large number of Muslim names on ‘logical discrepancy’ list

    Kolkata: A study of the EC's SIR of electoral rolls found that Muslim voters formed a disproportionately large share of those flagged under the "logical discrepancy" (LD) category in some of the politically significant assembly constituencies in Kolkata North.Around ...

    28 February 2026 Times of India
    Earthquake jolts Kolkata, panic among residents

    KOLKATA: Strong tremors were felt in Kolkata on Friday afternoon, causing panic among residents across the city and surrounding areas.The earthquake, measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale, struck south-west of the BMD Seismic Centre in Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, officials ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Watch: Strong earthquake rattles Kolkata, residents flee homes, offices in panic

    KOLKATA: Strong tremors rattled Kolkata on Friday afternoon, sending residents fleeing from homes and offices as panic spread across the city and nearby areas.Tremors were reportedly strong enough to shake fans and water bottles in homes and offices. Visuals ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    'Should I stop?': Earthquake disrupts Union minister Sukanta Majumdar's speech at Kolkata event; watch

    KOLKATA: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar was speaking at a gathering in Kolkata on Friday afternoon when the city was shaken by an earthquake.Tremors were felt across Kolkata and neighbouring districts of West Bengal following a 5.5-magnitude earthquake in parts ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Bankim’s 7th-gen descendant joins BJP

    Kolkata: A seventh-generation descendant of iconic Bengali litterateur Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay joined the BJP on Thursday, sparking a fresh round of political speculation in poll-bound Bengal.Sumitra Chattopadhyay, a former official with the state labour department, took the party flag ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Ageas Fed Life Insurance to focus on term, annuity, rebalance product portfolio

    Kolkata: Ageas Federal Life Insurance (AFLI), a joint-venture company of Belgian insurance giant Ageas and Federal Bank, is rebalancing its product portfolio with a major focus on term insurance and annuities. The company does not have any presence in ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Protest over tribal woman’s assault turns violent in Siliguri

    Siliguri: Clashes took place between police and protesters in Siliguri on Thursday as members of Janajati Suraksha Manch marched towards Uttarkanya, the state govt's north Bengal secretariat, demanding justice for a tribal woman who was seven-month pregnant and was ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Jobs for kin of 56 who died amid ‘SIR stress’

    Kolkata: The state govt will provide home guard jobs to next of kin of 56 people who died and five who were incapacitated — in course of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, it was decided at ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Bengal to upgrade schools & ICDS centres, to tie up with ADB for Rs 4,648-cr projects

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt is partnering with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for projects worth Rs 4,648 crore to upgrade secondary schools and ICDS centres in the state. The plan, under which ADB will provide 70% of the funding, was ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Howrah gang war explodes: Rivalry ends in point-blank execution; victim tried to kill shooter the night before

    HOWRAH: Howrah City Police on Thursday arrested three aides of Harun Khan, the prime accused in Wednesday morning’s Pilkhana shooting, which investigators say was triggered by a gang war over territory and extortion in north Howrah. The trio were ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC refuses to stay NIA probe into Beldanga violence

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to stay the NIA probe into the violence that broke out in Murshidabad district's Beldanga in Jan and upheld a trial court order to hand over the case diary to the agency. ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    3 Namkhana fishermen in Pak jail for 2 yrs

    Kolkata: Three fishermen from Namkhana in Bengal's South 24 Parganas district have been languishing in a Pakistani jail for the past two years after their fishing boat allegedly strayed into the neighbouring nation's maritime waters off the Gujarat coast, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ESI Maniktala gets new 19-bed ITU facility

    Kolkata: The ESI Hospital Maniktala, one of the oldest and biggest in Bengal, opened a state-of-the-art ITU unit on Thursday, adding to its existing ITU bed count. The 19 new beds took the total ITU bed capacity to 52. ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Ambulances, schoolbuses crawl as DA protest blocks city’s heart

    Kolkata: Ambulances, school buses and other vehicles crawled as a section of state govt employees took to the streets and blocked the heart of the city on Thursday, demanding due dearness allowance (DA). The rally, organised under the banner ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    SMPA achieves 1st night-time pilotage at upper reaches

    Kolkata: Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Authority (SMPA) achieved its first night-time pilotage at the upper reaches on Wednesday night. Experienced pilots navigated container vessel Sinar Pangalam Susu on her inward voyage through the narrow channel of Kolkata Dock System ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    North-bound commute from Kol to get faster

    Kolkata: North-bound travel from Kolkata is set to become significantly faster as the upgraded 44.2-km Kalyani Expressway is likely to open on March 2, ahead of Holi. "The upgraded Kalyani Expressway, with 21 signal-free flyovers and a 1.3-km elevated ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Content gripe: On-off suspense plays at cinemas

    Kolkata: Priya cinema suspended all four shows on Thursday due to lack of business; Navina suspended all shows from Friday until March 17; Binodini Theatre (formerly Star) shut for two days before reopening on Friday. This has raised questions ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ’23 ragging accused back at JU Main Hostel, super complains

    Kolkata: The superintendent of the A1 and A2 blocks of JU Main Hostel wrote to the university authorities, stating that former students entered the Main Hostel on Tuesday night and, when asked to sign the register at the gate, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Another ragging plaint on JU campus

    Kolkata: A second-year student from Jadavpur University's comparative literature department lodged a complaint with the dean of students on Feb 18, alleging that his department seniors mentally harassed and bullied him, and threatened to thrash him. The complainant also ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    IIMC logs 100% MBA placement, pay package touches 1.5 cr a yr

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) has recorded 100% placement for its MBA programmes this year, with the highest domestic pay package bagged being Rs 1.5 crore per annum and the highest international pay package Rs ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    IIMC logs 100% MBA placement, pay package touches 1.5 cr a yr

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) has recorded 100% placement for its MBA programmes this year, with the highest domestic pay package bagged being Rs 1.5 crore per annum and the highest international pay package Rs ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Hsg complex seeks JU help after overnight water protest

    Kolkata: Shukhobrishti in New Town reached out to experts at Jadavpur University for a "holistic solution to the water problem", said the housing complex authorities on Thursday, hours after residents of E Block staged an overnight demonstration and called ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Cops shift auto stands away from key city crossings

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has asked all traffic guards to ensure that autos parked illegally on roads should not block normal flow of traffic at crossings. Over the past two days, the cops from three guards shifted the auto stands ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC’s ‘last chance’ to state for paralysed woman’s hosp update

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave the state a "last chance" to provide an update on the possibility of a paralysed woman, lying at a private hospital without bills being cleared, could be shifted to a govt ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Boy ‘expelled’ from school after father’s HIV news

    Kolkata: A five-year-old student was allegedly expelled from his school at Basirhat in North 24-Parganas after it became known that his father was HIV-positive. The incident sparked outrage with the family lodging a complaint at the sub-divisional officer's office ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    S Kol man tricked into clicking fake SIR link, duped of 5.3L

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police is probing a cyber fraud case, in which scammers allegedly used the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, as a lure to trick a south Kolkata resident into installing a malicious android application package (APK), ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Tracking device snags delayed CF for public transport vehicles’

    Kolkata: In a petition submitted before the state transport department, transport operators on Thursday sought govt intervention, claiming that glitches in the vehicle location tracking device system in the state has delayed the issuance of mandatory fitness certificates (CF) ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    HC rap for CWC for not handing child to parents

    Kolkata: How could the child welfare committee give a newborn to a pre-adoption foster home after police ruled out the parents as culprits and the DNA report confirmed their biological relationship? The Calcutta High Court posed this question while ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Part of a pattern, focus on inter-state probe’

    Kolkata: An interstate probe might be the way ahead for both Kolkata Police STF and the Bengal Police as they grapple with the 3rd successive day of fake bomb scares. The pattern is there for all to see — ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Citizens get last-min calls from BLOs for SIR docu resubmission

    Kolkata: In the past 24 hours, several electors across the city got fresh calls from booth-level officers (BLOs) for resubmission of documents needed for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. This baffled both electors and BLOs, ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Passport, post offices in disarray as bomb-hoax season grows longer

    Kolkata: Even before the panic triggered by a series of bomb threats to courts across Bengal could subside, central govt offices came under threat on Thursday, after a hoax e-mail warned of explosives planted at the Kolkata Regional Passport ...

    27 February 2026 Times of India
    Suvendu moves HC over breach of security

    Kolkata: BJP neta and leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari moved the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday over an alleged breach of security after he faced a protest outside the CEO office on Tuesday. It was alleged that shoes were ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Seagull Boy’ Cooper set to visit DHR in April

    Darjeeling: Cooper Wallace, the 10-year-old British sensation famously known as ‘Seagull Boy' for his award-winning European gull-screeching performances, will visit the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in April. A railway enthusiast, Cooper will be accompanied by his younger sister, Shelby, who ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Trained to handle guns’: Electoral observer fires back after Mahua Moitra's ‘quick gun’ jibe

    KOLKATA: In an unusual turn of events, special electoral roll observer (SERO) C Murugan has seemingly responded to Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra's ‘Quick Gun Murugun' dig at him, saying he does have training to handle different kinds of firearms ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    EC defers SIR meetings scheduled on March 1-2

    Kolkata: Meetings of district election officers and police superintendents with senior deputy election commissioners, scheduled in Kolkata on March 1 and 2, have been deferred, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The primary agenda of the meetings was to ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    My fight is for democratic right of every voter: Mamata

    Kolkata: Her fight was to protect the democratic right of every elector, irrespective of language, religion or political affiliation, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, criticising the SIR process in Bengal and alleging large-scale deletion of genuine voters' names ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    HC acts on BJP plea, pradhanto lose OBCcertificate

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamluk sub-divisional officer (SDO) to cancel the OBC certificate of Khukurani Mondal Ghorai, pradhan of Ishwarpur gram panchayat, within a week. Ghorai had contested and won the 2023 panchayat elections on ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘CPM may fight 200 seats, ISF 30’; seat-share talks run late into night

    Kolkata: Seat-sharing negotiations among Left Front partners, Indian Secular Front (ISF) and CPI (ML) Liberation continued late into the night on Wednesday, with sources indicating that CPM may contest 200 out of 294 seats in the upcoming assembly elections.The ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Apeejay in JV with Ambuja Neotia for Bypass property,will tie up with Luxmi for Siliguri 100-room hotel today

    Kolkata: After Oberoi and Taj hotels, The Park is set to expand footprint in north Bengal. On Thursday, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels and Luxmi Tea are set to ink an MoU for a hotel under The Park brand in ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Cut costs to make health covers affordable, Irdai tells insurers

    Kolkata: Irdai (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) has urged the insurance sector to focus on bringing down the high cost of customer acquisition and EoM (expenses of management) in order to achieve more profitability and provide insurance ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    ‘Shipping in Bengali blood’: Sanyal calls for leveraging city’s maritime assets

    Kolkata: The Centre has amended laws related to the shipping sector to help the shipbuilding industry flourish and has modified maritime rules to ensure India becomes a major marine power, said Sanjeev Sanyal, member, Economic Advisory Council to the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Acquaintance, his dad beat Malda 18-yr-oldto death

    Malda: An 18-year-old student was beaten to death by an acquaintance and his father after he confronted them over the sending of allegedly vulgar texts in his name.Mirdadpur resident Sk Sohel, who recently took his Madhyamik, had been admonished ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Sukanta leads campaign from RG Kar victim’s assembly segment

    Kolkata: Junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar led Bengal BJP's door-to-door poll campaign on Wednesday, starting with the Panihati assembly constituency, home to the victim of the 2024 RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case."People are welcoming BJP and change is ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Fresh ‘bomb mails’ to courts, STF probes

    Kolkata/Asansol/Suri: Hoax emails to courts continued even on Wednesday, with courts in Suri and Asansol receiving threats that disrupted judicial work, including SIR verification. On Tuesday, judicial activities were disrupted as at least six courts across Bengal received bomb ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Boy collapses, dies during school exam as twin takes test in another hall

    Kolkata: A Class 8 student of a private English-medium school in Kodalia under Sonarpur Police Station collapsed in his classroom while appearing for an examination on Wednesday morning, and was later declared dead at a hospital. The deceased was ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata-Agartala bus services via Dhaka resume after BNP victory

    Kolkata: The resumption of the international bus service connecting Kolkata, Dhaka and Agartala after more than a year and a half has rekindled hopes of a tourism revival in central Kolkata, where thousands depend on visitors from across the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata-Agartala bus services via Dhaka resume after BNP victory

    Kolkata: The resumption of the international bus service connecting Kolkata, Dhaka and Agartala after more than a year and a half has rekindled hopes of a tourism revival in central Kolkata, where thousands depend on visitors from across the ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Three arrested for fake Madhyamik paper video

    Kolkata: Three men were arrested from Murshidabad on Tuesday in connection with the circulation of a fake Madhyamik examination question paper video on social media last month. The accused — Masud Ali, Fayed Ali and Chiranjeet Das — were ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Kol lab creates ‘mini brains’ to study neuro ailment

    Kolkata: For the first time in India, a team of city neurologists and researchers created ‘mini brains' out of real human tissues and blood vessels to study the trigger for a neurological ailment that affects many, mostly in Kolkata's ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    No more getting stuck in tunnels, Kolkata Metro's Blue Line becomes India's 1st to get battery backup

    KOLKATA: If you commute regularly by Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line (North-South Metro), you no longer have to worry about getting stuck in the tunnel in case of a power failure. The Blue Line has become the country’s first metro ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Maintain confidentiality while checking papers: WBBSE

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education released a set of instructions for storing answer scripts and maintaining confidentiality while checking them. These measures are intended to avoid transit risks and to secure answer scripts and the marking ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
    Man, dad arrested for shooting at Tiljala youth after cold drink row

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police arrested the main accused, Mohammad Salman, and his father, Mohammad Anwar, in the Beniapukur attempt-to-murder case involving the shooting of a 23-year-old mechanic around 24 hours after the incident was reported. The cops also seized illegal ...

    26 February 2026 Times of India
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