Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman, suffering from cerebral palsy, alleged sexual assault by her father’s friend — a business partner — when she visited their office at a market complex in the Port area on July 26. The woman also ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An enquiry committee at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital started a probe against 34 junior doctors and 17 students against whom the Resident Doctors’ Association of the college had complained of intimidating other students and junior doctors. ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Frequent flyer Michu, a two-year-old feline resident of Jadavpur, missed her latest air travel and vacation to Pune on Monday, because the airline, which especially caters to pet parents, failed to approve her travel. This is the first ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaFormer RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's principal Sandip Ghosh (ANI) KOLKATA: Corruption complaints by whistleblowers against RG Kar former principal Sandip Ghosh were probed by West Bengal's health department back in 2020 but the inquiry reports remained "inconclusive".Complaints ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The news of the Bengal govt’s plan to set up a committee, on the lines of Kerala’s Hema Committee, to probe sexual abuse complaints in the Bengali film industry has created a ripple in Tollywood. While many feel ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two college students were arrested on Wednesday in two cases of vandalism that left the Netaji Nagar OC and a Kolkata Police Special Branch constable injured, and the OC’s vehicle vandalized. This is the first set of arrests ...
12 September 2024 Times of IndiaA torchlight march on the RG Kar campus KOLKATA: In a major shake-up, RG Kar Medical College & Hospital authority has summoned 34 junior doctors and 17 students for an inquiry and barred them from campus. Sources said all ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaWest Bengal government invites junior doctors for talks over the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital. The meeting is set for 6pm at 'Nabanna', with doctors insisting on live streaming and demanding removal ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaJunior doctors march to Swasthya Bhavan on Tuesday KOLKATA: The absence of junior doctors is putting pressure on senior doctors who are struggling to put healthcare services on tracks. Even as the number of patients in the OPD had ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The father of a deceased trainee doctor from RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata has expressed dissatisfaction with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's handling of the case. He claimed it was the reason behind his demand ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tuckers in the state have announced a 72-hour strike from Wednesday over several issues, including a demand to ban overloading.The Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association (FWBTOA) declared that the strike will start at 6am on Wednesday ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaSupreme Court KOLKATA: The ‘missing document’ in the RG Kar rape-murder case, which came under probing questions in the Supreme Court on Monday, has been traced to a one-page application written by a Tala police SI on Aug ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: St Xavier’s Collegiate School is set to introduce Lower Kindergarten for the 2025-26 academic session. An admission notice on the school’s website said that those born in 2021 are eligible to take admission. The applications are being accepted ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaFormer RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's principal Sandip Ghosh (ANI) KOLKATA: Former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, who has been arrested by CBI in connection with financial irregularities, was on Tuesday sent to ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaPosters against the North Bengal lobby appeared on the RG Kar campus as protests intensified last month (left); Sandip Ghosh (right) KOLKATA: With the agitating junior doctors and students putting up the heat on those allegedly part of the ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaArindam SilArindam Sil KOLKATA: The actor, who alleged that director Arindam Sil kissed her in public during a film shoot without her consent, has lodged an FIR on Monday night. Sil said he has faith in the judicial system ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trakila from the stable of Aashay Kumar claimed the Calcutta Fillies Trial Stakes at the RCTC here on Tuesday. The daughter of Nickle Chrome came with a smooth run in the hands of Yash Narredu to win comfortably. ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The old Sadar Court building, Sudder Diwany Adawlut, one of the oldest surviving brick-and-mortar structures in Kolkata that now houses the office of the Indian Museum’s director, is set to be restored. After being constructed in 1772, the ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The last time India faced off with Malaysia, was the final of Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai last year where the hosts earned a nail-biting 4-3 victory to grab the title. Since then, they have improved by leaps ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In all, 670 out of 2,757 Durga Pujas across the city that had received grants from the state govt last year have applied for the funds this year again. The first tranche of funds was disbursed on Tuesday. ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to intensify its vector control drive in the city areas that share their border with neighbouring municipalities, particularly those in the north. According to a civic health department official, the civic ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman, a fashion designer who is presently battling cancer, has accused a doctor associated with a city hospital of raping her on the pretext of marriage. Based on her written complaint, the Khardah PS initially registered a ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 32-year-old woman, who is employed with an NGO, was molested inside a moving bus at Ruby crossing. However, alert bus workers and passengers helped the woman nab the accused, who has been identified as Sourav Shil, a ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A petition was heard in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday on elephant deaths in south Bengal and the jumbos being hounded by hulla parties who use spears and fireballs.Counsel for the petitioner also submitted before the division ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have registered a case pertaining to endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India after they came across graffiti on a road calling for ‘armed revolution’ in the state. This is the first time that this section – ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major shake-up, the RG Kar hospital authority has summoned 35 junior doctors and 17 students to appear before an inquiry committee. These 51 individuals — all of them close to Sandip Ghosh — have also been ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court has asked the state govt to submit an affidavit on the enforcement of existing acts and rules to prevent cruelty to animals following a PIL on indiscriminate breeding and sale of pets leading to ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The absence of junior doctors in hospitals continued to affect healthcare services across Bengal on Tuesday even as reports poured in about an accident victim dying at a private hospital 11 days after he was turned away by ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Agro companies are shifting the production of paddy seeds to Bengal from Telangana as almost 50%-60% of the seeds are being made here.Earlier, agro companies used to bank on Telangana to a great extent for procurement of paddy ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a letter to chief secretary, green activist Subhas Datta urged the state to take immediate steps to combat night-time air pollution by deploying additional remote sensing devices (RSDs) at places like Vidyasagar Setu, Nivedita Setu, Dankuni toll ...
11 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Reacting to CM Mamata Banerjee’s claim that “the family was never offered money and such allegations are baseless”, the family of the raped and murdered PGT doctor on Monday stuck to their claim that a police officer as ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Truckers in West Bengal have announced a 72-hour strike from Wednesday over several issues, including a demand to ban overloading. The Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association (WBTOA) declared that the strike will start at 6am ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two interns— residing in the RG Kar Hostel— have alleged that their room was vandalized on Friday night. Based on the complaint, Kolkata Police has registered a case at Tala PS and is investigating the case. An individual, ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaIn Kolkata, state power, sports and youth affairs minister Aroop Biswas is the RKS chairperson at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital while former Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen heads the Rogi Kalyan Samiti at NRS. KOLKATA: The principals of medical colleges will ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Family members of an 11-year-old buy, who died of dengue on Saturday, alleged that the boy was not provided proper treatment at Beliaghata ID hospital where he was admitted. Srijan Saha, the class V student, was a resident ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Aug 9, she never did see the sunrise. She had been barbarically silenced and put to sleep forever before daybreak. As the dawn emerged on Monday exactly a month later, renewed vows for justice for the 31-year-old ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Recalling the previous order of Supreme Court on protests, which are taking place across the state demanding justice for the victim of the R G Kar brutal rape-murder, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With India’s first suspected case of mpox having been identified in Delhi this week, hospitals across Kolkata have taken guard and are planning to issue an advisory and keep arrangements ready to isolate suspected patients. A highly contagious ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The market is counting one month of business losses before the state’s biggest festival in the second week of Sept. Public anger and resultant protests over the Aug 9 rape and murder of the PGT doctor at RG ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the state to nominate a senior officer from the home department to liaise with a senior officer from CISF to ensure that all three companies at RG Kar are provided with accommodation ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP will continue with its protests and take to the streets till the RG Kar rape-murder victim gets justice. The party on Monday also decided to show solidarity with doctors who planned to go on with their ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A general body (GB) meeting at the JU Main Hostel on Sunday night called for raising funds to pay the lawyer fees of the 14 ragging accused students, who were given show cause notices for being involved in ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after a petitioner alleged in the Supreme Court that the restroom near the seminar hall at RG Kar might have been demolished to destroy evidence, the CBI reached the hospital to go through the crime scene and ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The services on the East-West Metro’s Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section has reduced from 130 to 92 due to rescheduling of rake maintenance. This has also led to longer interval between services on this section during the ‘non-peak hours’ from ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: During a hearing of the West Bengal Commission for Women (WBCW) on the sexual harassment case against Arindam Sil on Monday, at least one of the two witnesses corroborated seeing the actor in a state of discomfort after ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: CPM on Monday said the decision of lifting cease-work was for the protesting junior doctors to take.“Supreme Court has made a lot of observations... It is up to the agitators to decide,” CPM senior Sujan Chakraborty said on ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A survey released on Monday to mark World Electric Vehicles Day stated that 75% respondents in Kolkata and Asansol view the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in last-mile delivery services as a key strategy for combating air pollution. ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rishabh Pant can be an all-time great Test cricketer, feels former India captain Sourav Ganguly. At a promotional event here on Monday, Ganguly lavished praise on the wicketkeeper-batter, who returned to the India Test side just a day ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 10-year-old boy, who had left his home at Jyangra near Chinar Park to play, allegedly lost his way back home and went missing since Thursday evening. Cops rescued the child from Baguiati area, where he was roaming ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaThe parents and family members of the victim pleaded all to stand by them till they get justice. KOLKATA: “We won’t get justice easily; we have to snatch justice. This will not be possible without everybody’s help,” said the ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal was not the same as Bangladesh, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, accusing "political opportunists" of trying to take advantage of the situation developing out of the RG Kar rape-murder and seeking to replicate the Bangladeshi unrest ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaNew Delhi/Kolkata: Junior doctors have postponed till Tuesday a decision on withdrawing their cease-work after Supreme Court on Monday set a Tuesday 5pm deadline for them to resume duty or face possible disciplinary action from the state.Various doctors' organisations ...
10 September 2024 Times of IndiaThis is a representational image (Pic credit: ANI) KOLKATA: A cautious Trinamool Congress on Sunday tried to rein in discordant voices within the party and said resignation was Jawhar Sircar's personal prerogative, to which it had nothing to add.But ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A cautious Trinamool Congress on Sunday tried to rein in discordant voices within the party and said resignation was Jawhar Sircar's personal prerogative, to which it had nothing to add.But the party also agreed with Sircar's "anxieties" and ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaTMC MP Jawhar quits: ‘People angry at RG Kar rape-murder, govt inaction’ KOLKATA: Trinamool MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday quit politics and from the Rajya Sabha in protest against Bengal govt's handling of the RG Kar rape-murder. In a ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a preparatory move before more agitations take place, Bidhannagar City Police is set to buy 30 barricades, which will likely be 7.5-ft high and 6-ft wide. They will weigh around 100 kg each, so that protesters find ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A TMC worker was arrested for allegedly attempting to extort money from a south Kolkata doctor while the latter was adding floors to his house in Patuli. The doctor, Pranab Kr Dastidar, lodged a complaint on Saturday alleging ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Agitating junior doctors are waiting anxiously for the Supreme Court verdict on Monday when the apex court takes up the R G Kar Medical College rape-murder, which happened a month ago. Monday also marks the completion of a ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: All the 15 overhead water tanks across Salt Lake are undergoing major upgradation work for the first time since the inception of the township. The work has been taken up by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The tanks, ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parvati Byramji- tutored African Gold was a facile winner of the Deccan Colts Championship Stakes on Sunday at Malakpet. The son of Botswana gave Akshay Kumar an armchair ride to victory.Hyderabad short results1: (4-6-11) One N Only 1; ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohun Bagan SG — having already failed to make the Super Six stage — ended their 2024 CFL Premier Division campaign with back-to-back losses, with Police Athletic Cup being the latest team to embarrass them with a 2-3 ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A widely shared WhatsApp message, seeking to link CJI D Y Chandrachud’s wife with Shyamapada Das, said to be the head of the so-called “North Bengal lobby” in the state health set-up, has prompted cops to issue a ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city remained partly cloudy and received drizzles on Sunday after a week-long dry spell. The Met office said Kolkata and its surrounding districts were likely to get more showers, triggered by a depression, till Sept 12. The ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: From a “quiet nondescript para” in the Sodepur neighbourhood to a vocal and agitated one seeking justice “for their daughter”, the places around where the RG Kar rape and murder victim stayed have undergone a complete change in ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A class VIII boy of a south Kolkata school died after falling from the terrace of his eight-storey apartment in New Alipore on Saturday. Co-ps registered an unnatural death case and are probing all angles — from accidental ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR has been lodged against three doctors – Birupaksha Biswas, Avik De and Ranjit Saha – all linked to ‘North Bengal lobby’ and close aides of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh – at Bowbazar police station ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On Saturday, the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) served a show-cause notice to R G Kar Medical College ex-principal Sandip Ghosh asking his clarification on the charges of several irregularities against him. The council has asked Ghosh to ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to replace the damaged expansion joints of Samprity flyover. The 6.8 km long flyover, the second longest on the fringes of the city after Maa flyover, connects Jinjira Bazar with Batanagar. ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around 500 former students of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital participated at a convention on Saturday to discuss how to reclaim the glory of their 138-year-old alma mater, whose image had been marred by the rape ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaA file pic of the protest on RG Kar campus KOLKATA: It's been exactly a month since the PGT doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was brutally raped and murdered at her workplace. However, although one person ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaSanjay Roy KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy remains the only accused person on paper in the past 30 days of probe into the rape and murder of the RG Kar Hospital doctor - initially by the Kolkata Police and then ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaA file pic of Sandip Ghosh’s house KOLKATA: The probe into the alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar Medical College & Hospital has now opened up a Pandora's Box of scams by a "criminal nexus" across levels at the ...
9 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The CBI probe into the financial irregularities of the R G Kar Hospital details how Ghosh and his cronies minted money from diverse sources, including manipulating students’ results and preparing a “suspicious” list of house staff and appointing ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Junior doctors, who had called for the resignation of the Kolkata Police commissioner and marched to Lalbazar last week, have demanded an investigation into the conduct of the deputy commissioner of North division after the RG Kar victim’s ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A major fire broke out at the Ghutiari Sharif railway station on the Sealdah South line in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal on Sunday.The fire broke out at Platform Number 1, and several shops were also burnt ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaThe newly developed garden will add a splash of colour and freshness, creating a more inviting atmosphere for passengers. HOWRAH: In a bid to enhance the experience of passengers arriving at one of India’s busiest railway hubs, the ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thursday’s water seepage into the passenger evacuation shaft of East-West Metro’s tunnel below Bowbazar’s Durga Pituri Lane would not affect the timeline set for the corridor’s full run, KMRC officials said. While implementing agency KMRC is chasing a ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After eight years of meticulous research by ornithologists, field biologists, conservationists and NGO members, Bengal has finally got its first comprehensive checklist of avian species. According to the checklist, the total number of bird species found in the ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to open e-waste collection camps at its borough offices. These camps to be manned by Webel officials will give citizens an opportunity to sell off their e-waste. Similar e-waste collection centres are ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Protests against the RG Kar crime had been infiltrated by “a small section with malicious intent”, said police after scanning social media messages. “We have found channels of funding, major online transactions and dissemination of information through social ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A low pressure that is set to develop into a depression over Bay of Bengal will trigger showers across south Bengal, including Kolkata, over the next three-four days. While the rain could be light to moderate in most ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A poet residing in the Barrackpore Commissionerate area was saved in the nick of time even after she had consumed poison, thanks to the swift action by Kolkata Police who traced her last Facebook post to Barrackpore and ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After a month-long slump in business due to protests and rallies over the R G Kar incident, buyers crowding the traditional shopping hubs have rekindled hopes of traders barely a month before Durga Puja. The hustle-bustle of shoppers ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Junior doctors have lined up multiple events on Sunday and Monday to observe the passage of a month since the terrible night when the 31-year-old post-graduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered, while on duty, at the R ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The family of the Class-XI girl, who was critically injured after being stabbed by a youth multiple times on a Belgharia road on Wednesday, has appealed for financial assistance on social media to cover her medical expenses. The ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state home department plans a 45-day training programme for 1.2 lakh civic volunteers attached with Bengal and Kolkata police. The aim, said an officer, was to sensitise them, discipline them and teach them the various rules so ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The food and beverages sector in Kolkata has been hit hard by the RG Kar agitations with footfall sliding by 40% across restaurants over the last month. With the protests gaining momentum, the lean period may affect business ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With repeated instances of molestation and harassment of protesters, Lalbazar has issued an elaborate list of dos and don’ts for cops, who will be on duty for various citizens’ protests lined up in the next two days that ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal’s rivers and water bodies are under siege. The water hyacinth, a plant native to Colombia, has become one of the most invasive species in the region, clogging nearly every waterway and accelerating the decline of rivers. While ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro on Saturday started replacing the existing steel-made third rail on the North-South line with the superior, energy-efficient aluminium one. This will ensure 84% reduction in energy loss, which runs up to Rs 1 crore a year per ...
8 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 53 days after promoter Shamsher Ali (38) was found murdered behind a shopping mall in Karaya, Kolkata Police has arrested accused Rahul Karmakar alias Karan from Tinsukia, Assam. He was brought to Kolkata on Thursday on ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Principals of Anglo-Indian schools enacted a skit on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, with a call for hope and against adversity.Teachers’ Day was celebrated at St James’ School on Friday, where heads of Anglo-Indian Schools of India (AHISI)-WB ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The apparent lack of enthusiasm among the masses about Durga Puja, which is just over a month away, has left organisers of major crowd-puller pandals worried about the impact of the current sombre mood in the city on ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaGhosh’s farmouse in Canning’s Narayanpur village that was raided by ED on Friday KOLKATA: Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches at 11 places, including the Beliaghata residence and Canning farmhouse of former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Street protests across the city are set to reach the third peak - after Aug 14 and Sept 4 nights - this weekend and on Monday, with protesters also keeping an eye on the SC hearing. Since Monday ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaJunior doctors continue their stir at RG Kar Hospital on Friday KOLKATA: The death of a 28-year-old youth from Konnagar, Bikram Bhattachajee, who succumbed to his injuries at R G Kar Medical College on Friday afternoon after being run ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Davaindia Generic Pharmacy, a Zota Healthcare brand, is set to go for major expansion in the Bengal market by the end of this fiscal, reports Sarthak Ganguly. The expansion is part of the company’s strategy to strengthen its ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A local youth, who had attacked a Class XI girl participating in a ‘Reclaim the Night’ rally at Kanchrapara on Wednesday night, was arrested early on Thursday. Police confirmed the accused, Vijay Anand Shaw (28), was drunk.The girl ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: North Bengal Medical College has debarred four junior doctors — Saheen Sarkar; a house staff; Soham Mondal; an intern; and Nilabjo Ghosh; an RMO; from the medical college and Avik De from entering the college premises and participating ...
7 September 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Patients from Bangladesh, who had started trickling back to Kolkata hospitals for treatment after a break forced by the suspension of visas, train and bus services between Kolkata and Dhaka last month, have turned wary of visiting the ...
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