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  • Vandalism at agitation-hit SSKM as hospital struggles to cope with emergency situations

    Kolkata: Delayed admission of two persons injured during a firing at Babughat led to vandalism by their kin at the SSKM trauma care unit in the early hours of Monday. Subsequently, disruptions continued in the emergency unit due to ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Protest zone malls continue to suffer, others see signs of revival

    Kolkata: Malls in Salt Lake and New Town clocked a surge in footfall on Sunday when people turned up in large numbers to start shopping for Durga Puja. But turnout at malls in Kolkata continued to suffer with protests ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Trinamool MP apologises for RG Kar remark

    Kolkata: Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar issued a public apology on Sunday following a statement she had made about how “in the previous regime, female students were made to sit on the lap of examiners to clear exam” during ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Civic volunteer held for slapping, kicking 12-yr-old

    Kolkata: A civic volunteer was arrested on Saturday for allegedly slapping and kicking a 12-year-old boy near Burrabazar after he was caught jaywalking. Around 3 pm on Saturday, a 12-year-old boy who works at a local tea shop was ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata PGT doctor death: TMCP axe on 'red-shirt' doc after RG Kar presence audio goes viral

    Avik De (left), police had claimed the man in red was a fingerprint expert but IMA Bengal said he was Avik De (right) KOLKATA: The Trinamool students' union on Monday suspended Avik De, the first-year PGT doctor at SSKM ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Don't make 'insensitive' comments on RG Kar, Trinamool tells members

    <p>TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee (File photo)<br></p> KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress said on Monday that it had instructed party workers not to make any statements regarding the RG Kar issue that can be construed as insensitive.Party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Junior docs stay the night at Bowbazar after cops block Lalbazar march

    KOLKATA: The junior doctors on Monday marched to Lalbazar carrying roses and a replica of the human spine, demanding the resignation of Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal. The protest continued till late into the night as the doctors demanded ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata RG Kar doctor death: Parents were in dark about drunk molester's rally plans

    Tapas Paul during the scuffle on Sunday night (left) and after his arrest (right) KOLKATA: The 40-year-old Tapas Paul, a pest controller from Sahanagar off Sadananda Road, had told his parents that he was "upset" over the rape and ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Alumni body of another hospital expels ‘N Bengal lobby’ faces

    Kolkata: The act of ostracising doctors, who are allegedly members of the ‘North Bengal lobby’, has reached another medical college campus. The axe fell on three faculty members of Medical College Kolkata on Sunday when the Medical College Ex-students’ ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute gets LoI on deemed varsity status

    SRFTI, Kolkata KOLKATA: The ministry of education, on the advice of UGC, has issued the letter of intent to SRFTI Society, Kolkata, for fulfilment of certain conditions within a period of three years before conferment of deemed university status. ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Airport’s second terminal to have 21 aerobridges for swift boarding

    Kolkata: The proposed second passenger terminal (T2) — to be built at a cost of Rs 4,200 crore — at the Kolkata airport will have three more aerobridges than the existing terminal (T1). T2 will have 21 aerobridges against ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Entry denied: 12 held for violence at Vedic Village

    Kolkata: A group of men, who had booked two bungalows, were arrested after they allegedly assaulted the security guards and residents of Vedic Village in Rajarhat when the guards denied entry to their friends — about whom the guards ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Over 13,000 take under-river E-W Metro’s first Sunday ride

    Kolkata: East-West Metro on Sunday started its all-seven-day run in the under-river stretch and passengers lapped it up like a much-craved for pre-Puja gift. “Till 8pm, around 13,940 commuters availed the Sunday services,” said Kausik Mitra, CPRO, Metro Railway.The ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Bengal swimmer Sayani Das first Indian woman to cross North Channel

    KALNA: Bengal's open water swimmer, Sayani Das (26), became the first Indian woman to cross the North Channel in a 13 hour 22 minute feat of endurance. She dived into the North Channel from Donaghadee town in Northern Ireland ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    60% of the recent sexual harassment allegations are against directors and directors-cum-producers: Swarup Biswas

    KOLKATA: Swarup Biswas, the president of The Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), has claimed that an alarming 60% of the recent deluge of sexual harassment allegations that have surfaced online are levelled against directors ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    9 injured in head-on collision as car enters no-entry zone on Kolkata's AJC Bose flyover

    Nine individuals were hurt in a morning collision on the AJC Bose flyover. The accident transpired when a private vehicle entered the flyover from a restricted zone, colliding head-on with a vehicle carrying IT professionals. NEW DELHI: Nine people ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    MSC in Super Six

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting (MSC)’s final group-stage match against Measurers Club was abandoned due to inclement weather at the Naihati stadium on Sunday but the three-time defending champions advanced to the CFL Premier Division’s championship round as one of the ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    CM calls cow vigilante victim’s parents, promises job to kin

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called the grieving parents of Sabir Malik (24), a migrant worker from Basanti in South 24 Parganas who was allegedly lynched in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district on Aug 28 on the suspicion that ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    PhonePe starts Credit Line on UPI

    Kolkata: PhonePe has announced the launch of Credit Line on UPI on its platform. Consumers who avail credit lines from their banks can now link these credit lines to UPI on PhonePe and seamlessly make merchant payments.

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘Star’ ready to shine

    Kolkata: Prasad Raju-nursed Star Forever looks good to lift the Rani Rudrama Devi Cup at Malakpet on Monday. The daughter of Forever Glory is all set to make amends for her last failure in the hands of P Sai ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Language honour for SAIL CMO

    Kolkata: SAIL, CMO Kolkata has received award for implementation of official language among Kolkata-based PSUs at the half-yearly meeting of Town Official Language Implementation Committee (PSUs) Kolkata. The award was presented to CGM (HR) Bijaya Mishra, GM (HR) SK ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Hat-trick of 1,000 tree plantation in New Town

    Kolkata: For the third year in a row, ‘Ecologic’ — a nature lovers forum formed by a group of residents in New Town — on Sunday achieved the milestone of planting another 1,000 trees this year in different areas ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Cop msg to netizens on Police Day

    Kolkata: Cops put out a message on the occasion of West Bengal Police Day on Sunday appealing to netizens to stop putting up misogynistic and hate posts while reminding protesters that thousands of women work in the force. “Police ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    This Teachers’ Day, IMA & med profs to discuss ‘syndicate’ ills on campuses

    Kolkata: It will be a different Teachers’ Day this Thursday when IMA West Bengal ropes in teachers from medical colleges across the state to hear from them in person of the rot that is being injected by the ‘health ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    SC order may have ₹35k cr impact on CIL

    Kolkata: The financial impact on Coal India may run up to Rs 35,000 crore in the “worst-case scenario” if the Supreme Court’s review on mining taxes doesn’t yield favourable outcome or if the company fails to recover the taxes ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Celebs march for 3 hrs from College Square, on sit-in protest at Esplanade

    Kolkata: An apolitical march demanding justice for the R G Kar victim from College Square to Esplanade on Sunday afternoon drew artists, celebrities, doctors, members of the civil society and common people and coalesced into a spontaneous sit-in demonstration ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Jr docs: Uproot threat culture from med colleges

    Kolkata: Twenty-four days and counting, the agitating junior doctors are showing no signs of retreat to resume work. They will be stepping up their agitation as the week begins, with the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) deciding to ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    'We want justice': RG Kar protest reaches Ladakh peak

    KOLKATA: The 'Justice for RG Kar' campaign reached new heights, quite literally, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers' association scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee doctor who ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Edu dept defers Teachers’ Day event

    Kolkata: State school education department has deferred the Teachers’ Day programme which was scheduled to be held at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan. A section of the teaching community is considering the matter due to the present situation in Kolkata.Sources ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Biz partner held for New Town shooting

    Kolkata: Probing into the murder of a Bhangar businessman, Nasiruddin Khan (27), who was shot dead at point-blank range by two bike-borne assailants in New Town on Saturday night, police have arrested his business partner from his Haroa residence ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘We want justice’: RG Kar protest reaches new heights in Ladakh

    Biswajit Biswas, a climber from Kolkata, with a poster demanding justice for the RG Kar victim at Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh (left); Shampa Oraon, another member from the team (right) KOLKATA: The 'Justice for RG Kar' campaign reached ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Prime accused Sanjay Roy tells lawyer he wants to plead 'not guilty' in court

    A file photograph of Sanjay Roy KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape-and-murder of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital doctor, in his first interaction with his lawyer in Presidency Jail, has told her that he ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    CBI probing biomedical waste scam flagged in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College earlier

    CBI team leaves RG Kar hospital after investigating the rape-murder case in Kolkata on Sunday KOLKATA: CBI officers probing the financial corruption in RG Kar Medical College are looking into the alleged scams that had already been flagged within ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal horror: Howrah hospital lab technician held for molesting minor

    People voice their protest against the incident in the hospital superintendent’s office in Howrah District Hospital (left); the arrested lab technician, Aman Raj (right) HOWRAH: A laboratory technician at Howrah District Hospital has been arrested for allegedly molesting and ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: CBI lens on biomedical waste scam flagged earlier at RG Kar Hospital

    KOLKATA: CBI officers probing financial corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are looking into alleged scams that were earlier flagged at the institute.The agency came across documents related to an inquiry committee report related to disposal of ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Another hospital body for doctors expels lobby faces

    KOLKATA: Three faculty members of Medical College and Hospital (MCH), Kolkata, were expelled from the Medical College Ex-students' Association (MCESA) on Sunday, as the trend of "ostracising" doctors, who are allegedly part of the 'North Bengal lobby' in the ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Hospital staff held for sex assault on teen headed for CT scan

    People voice their protest against the incident in the hospital superintendent’s office in Howrah District Hospital (left); the arrested lab technician, Aman Raj (right) HOWRAH: A laboratory technician at Howrah District Hospital was arrested for allegedly molesting and physically ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal hospital horror: Patient held for outraging nurse's modesty in Birbhum

    Representative Image SURI: A patient admitted with fever allegedly outraged the modesty of an on-duty nurse while she was treating him at Illambazar block hospital in Birbhum on Saturday night. The hospital authority was informed and the accused was ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Business partner arrested in New Town shootout case

    KOLKATA: Probing into the murder of a businessman from Bhangar who was shot from point blank range in New Town on Saturday night, police have arrested his business partner on Sunday. Cops claimed the business partner had hired contract ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Evaldo does an encore

    Kolkata: Prasanna Kumar-trained Evaldo claimed the Idar Gold Trophy at Pune on Saturday. The six-year-old gelding was ridden by A. Sandesh.Pune short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1. (1.12-6) Mazal 1: Lion King 2: Arbitrage 3. 2. (4-3-1) Madam Rich 1: Golden ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Mob vandalises house of panchayat committee member in Bengal for molesting girl

    Representative Image KOLKATA: A mob vandalised the house of a panchayat member in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl, police said on Sunday. A senior police officer said the accused was arrested on ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    11 Bangladesh nationals arrested

    Kolkata: Sundarbans Coastal Police arrested 11 Bangladesh nationals, allegedly Awami League activists, who had been hiding in Jhila forest.The arrested were produced in Alipore court on Saturday. While four men were sent to police custody, four women were sent ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Customs seal Super 6 spot, Bagan out of CFL

    Kolkata: Calcutta Customs defeated Kalighat Sports Lovers Association 2-0 in Kalyani on Saturday to seal their place in the championship round of the ongoing CFL Premier Division. After a goalless first half, Johny Lalremruata (62nd minute) and Ashsish Chhetri’s ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 shakes Bay of Bengal

    Representative image NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale struck the Bay of Bengal on Sunday morning, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported. The quake occurred at around 09.12am IST at a depth of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Man shot dead in Kolkata’s New Town, one held

    A man was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in New Town, Kolkata. The incident took place near Ram Mandir while the victim was at a tea stall. He was declared dead at the hospital. Police have arrested one ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Man in red shirt in leaked video sparks IMA-police war of words

    KOLKATA: A man dressed in a red T-shirt in a leaked video of the crime scene on Aug 9 that went public on Friday and led to clarification from police sparked a fierce row with the state chapter of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Drunk civic cop drives Kolkata Police bike into protest site, held after 5-hour blockade

    KOLKATA: A drunk civic volunteer riding a Kolkata Police motorcycle crashed into a barricaded section of BT Road near Sinthee More where Rabindra Bharati University students were protesting the RG Kar Hopsital rape-murder in the early hours of Saturday. ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Ensure prison stay doesn’t affect mental health of undertrials, Calcutta HC tells Bengal

    KOLKATA: Bengal's prison system should have measures in place to ensure that an undertrial prisoner's jail stay does not, in itself, contribute to mental illness, Calcutta High Court has said.The bench of justices Joymalya Bagchi and Gaurang Kanth made ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    DGCA to probe IndiGo flight engine blow-up at Kolkata airport

    A video clip by a flyer that shows sparks flying out of the engine KOLKATA: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will investigate the engine failure incident of an IndiGo flight during take-off on Friday night that led ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata cops go for netting of police cars, reissue arms ban notice

    Representative image KOLKATA: Lalbazar has made it mandatory for police vehicles out on difficult law-and-order duty to have a strong protective wire mesh on their windscreens and the windows. Also, the cops imposed restrictions on carrying of weapons ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: A patient needed oxygen, was looking for a doctor, says accused Sanjay Roy

    KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of the R G Kar Hospital PGT doctor, has told CBI investigators that he had gone to the upper floor of the hospital in the wee hours of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Bengal labourer lynched in Haryana on suspicion of eating beef

    Sabir Malik (right) was beaten to death on Aug 28. Cops later arrested five persons for the lynching and detained two minors HISAR/KOLKATA: Five men associated with a cow vigilante group have been arrested and two boys below 18 ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Live-in partner files plaint, doctor held

    Kolkata: A doctor was arrested from Gariahat on Saturday for allegedly living with a woman for four years, having sexual relations with her on promise of marriage and then, throwing her out of the house. The woman, a receptionist, ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    After schools, neighbourhood clubs now seek to sensitise boys

    Kolkata: Counselling sessions for youths, especially teenage boys, are going to be held in some city localities to help them understand how to behave properly with women around them. A number of local clubs are taking this initiative to ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Cert of merit for top 0.1% CISCE students

    Kolkata: CISCE, which stopped declaring the names of rank-holders in Class X and XII boards exams this year, introduced the ‘Certificate of Merit’ to recognise and felicitate candidates with outstanding academic performance. ICSE and ISC candidates, who were among ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Not-so-civil civic cops a problem for police image

    Kolkata: In the past two years, at least eight civic volunteers in Kolkata have been arrested on charges including murder, rape, robbery, theft and extortion. The most recent arrest happened on Saturday when a civic volunteer attached to Sinthee ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    9 cops hurt in attack by rape accused, aides

    Kolkata: At least nine police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were attacked and injured by a group of miscreants during a raid to arrest a rape accused at Hasnabad in North 24 Parganas on Friday night.At least three policemen sustained ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Doctors on cease-work ‘see’ patients via telecon, attend to 600 on first day

    Kolkata: On Saturday, a group of junior resident doctors at R G Kar were seen taking calls, including video calls, and writing down notes. No, they were not discussing how to take the agitation forward and jotting down the ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘People want to stay together’: Spiritual leader at docu screening

    Kolkata: In 2015-16, spiritual leader and educator Sri M decided to walk 7,500 km — from Kanyakumari to Kashmir — to promote communal harmony and peace in a polarised world. On Saturday, at the premiere of award-winning documentary ‘Walking ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    In troubled season, discretion better part of publicity for puja organisers

    Kolkata: For Durga Puja organisers, discretion is better than all-out activity.Durga Puja is a little over five weeks away, but a majority of organisers are holding back publicising their plans and keeping preparations “low key” as the “mood is ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Less-dangerous viral infections take over hosps in dengue-malaria season

    Kolkata: In this season of dengue and malaria, mostly cases of lesser evils, like lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), influenza and less-severe pneumonia, are being reported, leaving doctors and hospitals relieved. This month, just one dengue death was reported ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Health dept appoints CNMC chest med head as principal

    Kolkata: State health department has appointed a professor of chest medicine as the principal at Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC). The move comes as present principal Ajay Ray superannuates on Saturday. Professor Subhra Mitra will now take charge as ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Govt well within rights to amend penal laws’

    Kolkata: Sanjay Basu, senior standing counsel for Bengal govt in SC, said, “We have researched multiple SC and HC judgments. We propose to have both death and rigorous imprisonment for remainder of a person’s life and fine/compensation for trauma, ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP's Suvendhu Adhikari alleges illegal mining activities in West Bengal's Saltora; 2 dead after 'dynamite blast'

    Suvendhu Adhikari NEW DELHI: In a shocking incident, two people lost their lives in a dynamite explosion in Saltora, Bankura, on Friday night. The opposition leader, Suvendu Adhikari, took to social media to reveal that the deceased, Joydeb Mandal ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Jr doctors to start 10am-2pm telecon service from today

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front, an umbrella body of junior doctors across all medical colleges, has decided to start teleconsultation for patients from Saturday. The services, which they will call 'Abhaya Clinic', will be available from 10 ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar OPD footfall up three times in less than a fortnight

    Kolkata: The OPD footfall across city hospitals is rising gradually, including at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. At RG Kar, the epicentre of the agitation, the OPD count had plunged to 300 and 400 around Aug 20. Now, ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Brabourne MoU for Partition project

    Kolkata: Lady Brabourne College on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU ) with Centre for Language, Translation, and Cultural Studies of Netaji Subhas Open University for a joint public research project on the Partition of Bengal and Liberation ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal bill proposes death or life in jail till death for all rape cases

    Kolkata: The stringent anti-rape bill that will be tabled by Bengal govt in the assembly on Monday proposes to treat all incidents of rape — even if the victim survives — as murder to be punished with death or ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Cargo ship capsize: Father of missing crew member urges state, Centre to look for son

    Kolkata: Father of 31-year-old Rahul Roy, a cabin crew member of the ill-fated cargo ship ITT Puma that sank near Sagar Island four days back, has urged both the state and the Centre to take immediate steps to locate ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Bowbazar cave-in: 5 years later, 400 displaced residents still out of home

    Kolkata: Five years have passed since the tunnelling disaster in Bowbazar but around 400 displaced Bowbazar residents are still living in houses rented by the agencies implementing India’s first under-river Metro project. However, the troubled 2.5km part of the ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Bagan to start favourites against NEUFC

    Kolkata: One can approach the Durand Cup final from different perspectives and with varied objectives — collectively and individually.Mohun Bagan SG — the defending champions and most successful team of Asia’s oldest football club tournament — are back on ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Fake posts, never stopped RG Kar theme for puja pandals: Police

    Kolkata: Bengal and Kolkata police have jointly rubbished social media posts that falsely claim cops are asking Durga Puja organizers to refrain from using the RG Kar crime as a theme for their pandals. The fake forwards also claim ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Kol pvt hosps start clearing OPD and surgery backlog

    Kolkata: Several private hospitals are grappling with a sudden spurt in OPD footfall after two days of cease work observed by doctors last week, followed by several other agitation-triggered disruptions this week that made commute difficult for patients and ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC councillor seeks KMC answer on ‘pavement sale’

    Kolkata: On several occasions, a section of the traders has complained about outright sale of the city’s pavements by hawkers or hawker union leaders. Now, a question in this regard was raised by a Trinamool Congress councillor at the ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    CU student complains of hostel torture

    Kolkata: A disabled law student and a boarder of CU’s Carmichael hostel has alleged that his roommate, who is a former student and has been staying at the hostel illegally, abused him verbally and threatened to kill him on ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Two arrested for extortion

    Kolkata: Two persons were arrested in two cases of extortion. Kaushik Sarkar, a known Trinamool supporter in New Town, was held for cheating a businessman of Rs 25 lakh against a promise of sending trucks to Bangladesh while Vicky ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Rain after dry spell

    Kolkata: The city received rain on Friday after a short dry spell. Even though a low-pressure has formed over Bay of Bengal, it is unlikely to have an impact on Kolkata.

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Accosted after asking for slip, prof fights off Gariahat parking mafia

    Kolkata: An assistant professor has alleged that she was threatened by six to seven parking goons on Thursday evening when she asked for a slip after paying Rs 40 for parking her car under the Gariahat flyover for 30 ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Jamari looks a cinch

    Kolkata: There is no looking beyond Pesi Shroff-nursed Jamari in the Idar Gold Trophy at Pune on Saturday. This daughter of Glyndebourne has a lot of class to win this prime event in the hands of Vivek G. PUNE ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Waterlogged tracks hit train services

    Kolkata: Overflowing canals after a heavy spell of rain and choked drains are submerging railway tracks, affecting services of both Circular Railway as well as other trains to and from Kolkata Station near Chitpore. Eastern Railway has sought the ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Illegal bldgs: KMC set to alter law to double jail term

    Kolkata: The KMC Act (1980) is set to be amended with a more stringent provision of law to deal with illegal constructions. The new law, once passed, can double the quantum of maximum punishment for unscrupulous builders and also ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Social media alerts help KP arrest Chhatra Samaj vandals who hurled stones at cops

    Kolkata: Social media, particularly Facebook, came to the aid of cops when they arrested three persons on Thursday — all claiming to be members of the Paschimbanga Chhatra Samaj and reportedly backed by BJP-ABVP — for allegedly attacking cops ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    HC dismisses PIL on illegal sand mining

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a PIL alleging rampant illegal sand mining from Damodar river in East Burdwan, stating that its petitioner was an ‘extortionist.’ The court also slapped Rs 50,000 penalty on petitioner Subrata Mallick, ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: New seminar hall videos show people near body. Inquest was just over, say police

    One of the pictures released by Kolkata Police on Friday KOLKATA: Hours after two more videos surfaced purportedly showing "several non-hospital administrative faces" standing at the rape-and-murder spot inside the seminar hall of R G Kar Hospital, leading to ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal bill proposes death or life in jail till death for all rape cases

    West Bengal assembly KOLKATA: The stringent anti-rape bill that will be tabled by Bengal govt in the assembly on Monday proposes to treat all incidents of rape - even if the victim survives - as murder to be punished ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Online post urges RG Kar-like 'rip' on Kolkata Police woman cop; FIR filed against 3

    DC (central) Indira Mukherjee, who was threatened online, on Thursday addressed the media about KP’s RG Kar probe KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police has registered an FIR against three YouTube users, who threatened DC (central) Indira Mukherjee with derogatory ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: Learnt of doctor death after cop complaint was lodged, says RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh

    File pic of Sandip Ghosh at CGO Complex KOLKATA: Former R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh has claimed that he came to know of the death of the PGT doctor around 10.20 am on Aug 9, almost 50 minutes ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    Agnostic back to winning ways

    Kolkata: Bharath Singh-trained Agnostic sprinted away the HPSL Calcutta Monsoon Sprint here at the RCTC on Thursday. The six-year-old gelding was ridden by Yash Narredu. On the professional front it was trainers Aashay Doctor and Dr Anil Kumar along ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Met spies showers in coastal zones

    Kolkata: A cyclonic circulation over east central Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood is likely to trigger heavy rain along the coasts of Bengal, Odisha and Andhra over the next two days. The circulation is likely to move west-north-westwards ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Tourists scrap Bengal vacations fearing trouble, industry prays for puja turnaround

    Kolkata: Many foreigners, including expat Indians, are cancelling or putting on hold their Durga Puja special trips to West Bengal, fearing trouble and lack of safety in the state, thanks to the heinous crime on RG Kar Medical College ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Fatigue, politics, clashes take toll on citizens’ stir

    Kolkata: Citizens who had taken time out from their work, daily chores and studies to walk the streets and join the unprecedented movement to demand justice in the R G Kar rape-murder case are trying to reclaim the protest ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Don’t charge patient for wrong op: Panel to hosp

    Kolkata: A hospital, where a patient underwent an operation apparently to remove a cancerous growth in her stomach though it was later found non-existent, has been asked to forego the surgery charge. The directive came from West Bengal Clinical ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    MSC hold Suruchi to stay in CFL fray

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting kept their hopes of defending the CFL Premier Division title alive, holding Suruchi Sangha 2-2 in a rescheduled match at the Naihati stadium on Thursday. The match between the sides was initially held at the same ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    IIM-C warns of fake CAT registration website

    Kolkata: IIM-Calcutta has cautioned CAT aspirants against a fraudulent website for CAT registration, which is being used for phishing and to solicit personal information about applicants.“We urge all applicants and stakeholders to be cautious and visit only our official ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Police to issue fresh notices over fake news

    Kolkata: The police have decided to send notices to a number of social influencers and a section of social media users over a set of fake news that began to be circulated from Thursday.According to police, one such fake ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    BTech student falls off hostel balcony, hurt

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old student from New Delhi’s Dwarka area reportedly fell from the second-floor balcony of the Indian Maritime University’s hostel at CPT Colony on Taratala Road while washing clothes around 12.45 am on Thursday, cops said. The BTech ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    BCC&I and IIEST Shibpur sign MoU

    Kolkata: IIEST Shibpur and Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry signed an MoU on Monday to foster industry and academia collaboration and promote innovation and research, with particular focus on MSMEs in Bengal.

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    We too are humans: Hurt sergeant’s wife

    Kolkata: Debarati Chakraborty, a Bengal Police constable, stood up for the force on Thursday, saying the cops have families and children too and that they shouldn’t be targeted for everything happening around.Debarati has another identity. She is the wife ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Where there is a will, there is a way: HC on Salt Lake parking

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the commissioner of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to designate parking areas, and also the no-parking zones, in Salt Lake and deploy authorized persons in uniform to collect the approved parking fees.A ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Kilburn Engg looks to raise ₹300 crore

    Kolkata: Kilburn Engineering Ltd has proposed to raise up to Rs 300 crore through a preferential allotment of shares and/or convertible warrants at Rs 425 per share. The company has said that this proposal is subject to approval by ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
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