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  • Ambuja Neotia Group exhibition at Swabhumi

    Kolkata: Ambuja Neotia Group is organising B V Doshi Memorial Exhibition at Kalavaani in Swabhumi on Aug 30. Work of Mandala Design Services will be on display.

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Junior docs march for justice but bandh keeps rally footfall low

    Kolkata: Junior doctors of Bengal marched in the city centre reiterating their demand for justice for their colleague who was raped and murdered in RG Kar Medical College. The cease work by the junior doctors has continued for almost ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: CBI reaches RG Kar morgue to probe 'corpse biz' charge

    CBI sleuths visited the morgue at RG Kar Hospital on Thursday KOLKATA: Investigation into the alleged financial irregularities at the RG Kar Hospital led the CBI sleuths to step up the probe and visit the morgue there on Thursday. ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    City suffered over 2k cr biz losses in 2 days’ unrest

    Kolkata: The city may have lost upwards of Rs 2,000 crore worth of business and earnings over Tuesday and Wednesday, when large-scale street violence and hooliganism forced many business zones to shut, partially or entirely.Bengal has an annual gross ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Bengal tolerant’: Cal HC refuses to interfere in movie ban plea

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to interfere in the release of the film, ‘The Diary of West Bengal', calling Bengal "a tolerant society" and reminding the litigant that we were "in a democratic set-up"."If you want to ...

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

    One of the fake forwards 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 ...

    30 August 2024 Times of India
    HC fines petitioner ₹50k, bars him from filing PILs

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on a petitioner and barred him “perpetually and eternally” from filing a PIL in the court.A division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    CBI continues questioning former R G Kar medical college principal Sandip Ghosh in doctor's rape-murder case

    CBI continues to question Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, about the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor. NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continues its interrogation ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Tue stir: Bangla parallels drew police focus to violence risk

    Kolkata: Parallels with the “Dabi Ek Dofa Ek” (one demand, one agenda) slogans with Bangladesh students’ unrest, a call for CM Mamata Banerjee’s resignation, and the little-known group Paschim Banga Chhatra Samaj’s call for Nabanna Abhijan modelled on the ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    2 Chhatra Samaj heads among 21 held on Wed

    Kolkata: Cops have arrested 21 people on Wednesday for allegedly attacking police personnel, setting property on fire and indulging in violence during the Nabanna abhijan programme on Tuesday. Among them are Subhankar Haldar and Sayan Lahiri, the two main ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    NET commute easier on shutdown day

    Kolkata: Commuting to UGC-NET exam centres on Wednesday was much smoother than Tuesday as most candidates did not face any major problem in availing public transport and reaching the exam centres. For some, fewer buses on roads posed a ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Etosha for Monsoon Sprint

    Kolkata: Neil Darashah- trained Etosha is all ready to sprint away with the HPSL Calcutta Monsoon Sprint at the RCTC here on Thursday. The five-year-old gelding was a good second to stablemate Clifford last time out and will be ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangle protester, caught on wrong foot, uses shackle shield

    Kolkata: Hours after a video of a bearded, saffron-clad Nabanna march participant apparently gesturing at police and suggesting they wear bangles went viral on social media, he was trolled and denounced for being misogynistic. In response, 56-year-old Prabir Basu ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Business district rues loss despite open doors

    Kolkata: The city’s business hub bore the bandh brunt with several businessmen opting to keep their shops and showrooms shut on Wednesday, fearing protests and clashes. Some traders did defy the bandh call and braved protests to open their ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    'If Bengal burns' controversy: CM Mamata Banerjee face backlash from BJP and CMs for threatening northeast, doctors

    NEW DELHI: BJP has criticized West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly issuing threats to protesting doctors and northeastern states during a public address at the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) foundation day event on Wednesday.Himanta Biswa Sarma: ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Train block derails city workflow influx

    Kolkata: Those who wanted to travel to their destinations in the city did so without any hassle on Wednesday, despite the bandh. App cabs were available at the usual fare, Metro ran its normal 288 weekday services, and 70% ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Attacks on Bengalis in Odisha: Didi seeks report

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee has instructed chief secretary BP Gopalika to address the issue of attacks on Bengali workers in Odisha. These assaults have reportedly been carried out under the pretext that the workers are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.Earlier this ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Load test soon on 98-year-old Bagmari bridge

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority plans to conduct a load test on the Bagmari bridge located over the Circular canal on Maniktala main road to assess its structural condition. The process to engage an agency to take up ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    KP helps CBI check victim’s hosp schedule

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police is now helping CBI uncover the entire schedule of the victim, once she joined duty on Aug 8 that was slated for 36 hours. The Kolkata Police SIT was asked by CBI if they found ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP councillor detained after Koley Mkt scuffle

    Kolkata: Seventy-six BJP supporters were arrested in the city through Wednesday as they tried to disrupt normal life. Among the BJP functionaries detained was councillor Sajal Ghosh. The day started with BJP workers blocking crossings between Kankurgachhi and Sealdah, ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    We want justice but can’t let bandhs disrupt our lives, say office-goers

    Kolkata: Several office-goers defied the bandh call and reached their workplace on time on Wednesday as it was a normal working day for them. But they pointed out that their decision to stay away from the strike was not ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    What purpose does this bandh serve, ask victim’s grieving parents after CBI visit

    Kolkata: The parents of the second-year PGT doctor of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, questioned the very purpose of calling a strike in response to the crime committed ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    CBI’s polygraph test on ASI close to arrested accused

    Kolkata: The CBI on Wednesday ran polygraph test on Anup Dutta, the ASI close to Sanjay Roy, the arrested accused in the rape-murder case at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9. Dutta was the eighth ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Potholes resurface on major stretches after heavy showers

    Kolkata: After spells of incessant rain, several stretches of the city’s major thoroughfares have developed potholes, which pose a threat to bikers, especially on streets that get waterlogged after a heavy shower. Stretches of some roads that have become ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Bandh makes commuting to city hosps difficult for those from far-off places

    Kolkata: The 12-hour bandh called by BJP in the state on Wednesday made commuting to hospitals difficult for common patients. Most of these patients, coming from far-off places, were stranded on Sealdah or Howrah-bound trains for long due to ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    IMA suspends Sandip Ghosh

    Kolkata: The Indian Medical Association HQ has suspended former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh’s membership. Ghosh is accused of mishandling the rape and murder of a PGT doctor in the hospital when he was the head of the institute. ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC plans to field 55% women candidates in student union polls

    Kolkata: Trinamool plans to field at least 55% women candidates in student union elections at educational institutions which may be held after Durga Puja.While speaking at TMCP’s Foundation Day event at Mayo Road on Wednesday, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Parents ignore strike call, take kids to schools that stayed open

    Kolkata: Schools that stayed open on Wednesday saw a low turnout with the institutes leaving it to parents to decide on whether to send their wards. But those who did so were clear about one thing: they wanted justice ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Pvt hosps get ambulances to pick up, drop off patients

    Kolkata: Several private hospitals had to ferry emergency patients who were either stranded or failed to find transport on Wednesday. Ambulances carried several critical patients and those whose surgeries were lined up. Despite the arrangement, hundreds had to defer ...

    29 August 2024 Times of India
    Adhir moves HC for Cong rally nod

    Kolkata: State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury moved Calcutta High Court on Tuesday praying for permission for a rally on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder.Chowdhury moved the court of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj after police denied the party ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Schools plan Sat classes, some shift online to make up for learning loss

    Kolkata: Back-to-back class disruptions have prompted school heads to find alternative routes to make up for learning losses in the exam season. Several schools that had suspended classes on Tuesday have been forced to do the same on Wednesday ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP's West Bengal bandh: If there is any dictator after Hitler in today's time, it's Mamata Banerjee, says Kailash Vijayvargiya

    Kailash Vijayvargiya NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister, Kailash Vijayvargiya, criticized West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, amid ongoing unrest and protests in Kolkata on August 28. He accused her of dictatorial governance and condemned the state's law enforcement, highlighting ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Despite having a woman chief minister, situation of women in West Bengal worsening: WCD Minister Annapurna Devi

    NEW DELHI: Union minister Annapurna Devi criticized the West Bengal government, led by Mamata Banerjee, for its deteriorating situation in women's safety. She pointed out that central schemes, such as fast track courts and emergency helplines, have not yet ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal Bandh Protests: Two persons with bullet injuries admitted to hospital following clashes at Bhatpara

    NEW DELHI: Two people with bullet injuries to the head were admitted to Manipal Hospitals Broadway in Kolkata following political clashes in Bhatpara, West Bengal, on Wednesday morning. The injuries are reportedly linked to an alleged attack on BJP ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    'I salute the police ...': CM Mamata Banerjee slams 12-hour 'BJP Bengal Bandh'

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the BJP's 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' protest held in response to the 'Nabanna Abhijan' violence, claiming it was an effort to malign the state. Banerjee reiterated her government's demand for justice ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal bandh: BJP state chief writes to governor, seeks release of students detained during 'Nabanna Abhijan' protests

    Sukanta Majumdar NEW DELHI: Union Minister and BJP West Bengal President Sukanta Majumdar urged West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to instruct the state police to release student activists detained during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march. Majumdar claimed that ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    'We were stopped, but ... ': Sanjay Raut accuses Centre of double standards over Bengal bandh

    Sanjay Raut NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday accused the Centre of practicing double standards, pointing out that a bandh in BJP-led Maharashtra was stopped, while a similar bandh was allowed to proceed in ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    McDonald’s to double footprint in Kolkata

    Kolkata: American multinational fast food chain McDonald’s plans to double the number of restaurants in Kolkata and Howrah from the current eight to at least 16 by the end of 2025. Connaught Plaza Restaurants Ltd (CPRL), the firm’s franchise ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    A Vishal win for Bagan

    Kolkata: It was that man again. It was those hands again. It’s Mohun Bagan SG again, in another Durand Cup final.Vishal Kaith came up with a couple of game-changing saves in the shootout for the second match running, helping ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP's West Bengal bandh: Normal life hit as protests, train blockades, and scuffles reported across the state

    NEW DELHI: Daily life in parts of West Bengal was affected on Wednesday due to a 12-hour bandh called by the BJP to protest against police action during a march to the state secretariat. In Kolkata, the usual weekday ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Kol Aug rain kitty adds up to 466.6mm, 31% surplus of average monthly count

    Kolkata: The multiple spells of rain across the city in the past five days have added around 160 mm of rainfall, pulling up the August rain kitty of Kolkata to 466.6 mm. While four days are left till the ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    All wheels on the road: Buses, metro and trains plan to run normal services today

    Kolkata: With the govt pressing into service its full fleet of buses and the cops warning of strict action if anyone tries to disrupt traffic movement, the transport sector is likely to remain unaffected in the city during BJP’s ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    On day of Nabanna march, India’s first under-river line links Howrah with Kolkata

    Kolkata: Metro proved to be a lifeline yet again on Tuesday with East-West Metro joining the North-South line to ferry passengers underground even as clashes between cops and protesters raged on the streets. The Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section of the ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Sanjay bike belongs to KP, assigned to an ASI

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has accepted that the bike used by Sanjay Roy, the arrested accused in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, belonged to Kolkata Police. But, police clarified, the bike was not assigned to Roy, a civic volunteer. Police ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Shopping hubs in Kolkata, Howrah count losses, stare at back-to-back bad days

    Kolkata: Business in the city’s central business district, traditional shopping hubs and Mangla Haat in Howrah took a hit on Tuesday as most traders kept their establishments shut fearing chaos and unrest during the ‘Chhatra Samaj’ march to Nabanna. ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Karthik pips Surya for national chess title

    Kolkata: Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly narrowly missed out on his seventh National chess title after he was pipped at the post by Andhra GM Karthik Venkataraman in Gurugram on Tuesday. Karthik, Surya and International Master Neelash Saha all ended ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Presi students start hunger strike

    Kolkata: Girls and queer students at Presidency University started an indefinite hunger strike on Tuesday, demanding a safe campus. A gender sensitisation committee with students members, an ICC with an elected student representative, strict and rapid action for sexual ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Imperia completes an encore

    Kolkata: Vatsalya-nursed Imperia completed an encore by winning the B. Marideshwara Rao Memorial Cup at Malakpet on Tuesday. The daughter of Azurite was ridden by P Ajeeth Kumar.Hyderabad results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1: (3-5-8) Gatiman 1; Verrazzano 2; N R I ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Search still on for three crew members

    Kolkata: Search for the three remaining crew members on board a Mumbai-registered cargo vessel MV ITT Puma which had sunk 90 nautical miles or 130 kms south of Sagar Island in West Bengal due to inclement weather on Sunday ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    HC allows football fans to use ‘tifo’ at stadium

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court allowed spectators to use tifo—large banners usually used by football fans across the world to cheer for their teams or highlight political statements—during the Durand Cup semi-final match at Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday.Football ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    CBI seeks court nod for ASI polygraph test

    Kolkata: The CBI has sought authorization from a Kolkata court to administer a polygraph test on city police assistant sub-inspector Anup Dutta, who was allegedly closely associated with Sanjay Roy, the apprehended suspect in the rape and murder of ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    CBI seeks court nod for polygraph test on ASI 'close' to suspect Roy

    KOLKATA: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has so far quizzed around a dozen Kolkata cops in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder probe, and is likely to summon a few more from the local Tala police station. CBI ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    East of AJC-APC Rd dividing line: Life goes on as usual on Bypass, in Salt Lake & New Town

    Kolkata: Even as barricades, rallies and clashes disrupted lives in parts of central Kolkata, the rest of the city — especially east of APC Road — was nearly normal. The Sector V, New Town and Rajarhat IT hubs functioned ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Suvendu calls for Prez rule, fresh elections in Bengal

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state and holding of elections to choose a “democratic government”. Protest movements would be stepped up in the days to come, he ...

    28 August 2024 Times of India
    Relaid road, LED lights & desilting of sewer lines to revamp Bypass

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken up a comprehensive development plan for the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (EMB). The entire 22 km-long road will be relaid and major sewer lines along it will be desilted.The complete stretch of ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata Nabanna march: BJP condemns lathicharge on students, demands polygraph test for CM Mamata Banerjee

    CM Mamata Banerjee and BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia NEW DELHI: Accusing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of shielding those involved in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata, the BJP on Tuesday called her a ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Implement existing legal framework: Centre to state

    Kolkata: Bengal should implement the existing legislative framework, which was “stringent enough”, WCD minister Annapurna Devi said in reply to an Aug 22 letter from CM Mamata Banerjee in the wake of the RG Kar case.In spite of 48,600 ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Don’t want any political party to hijack movement’

    Kolkata: The organisers’ insistence that they do not want “any political leader from any political party to lead from the front and hijack the movement” marks a major change of stance since they had earlier requested opposition netas to ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata junior doctor rape-murder: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari alleges 4 student activists 'missing'

    BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police on Tuesday refuted leader of opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari's claim that four student activists were "missing", saying that they were arrested for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata Police issue traffic advisory amid Nabanna march; several routes diverted

    In view of the Nabanna march on Tuesday, the Kolkata Police has issued a traffic advisory and implemented diversions on several routes connecting the city to various regions.Traffic advisoryAccording to the advisory, vehicles coming from the Kolaghat side along ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Citizens join MCH mass convention, stand by protesting junior doctors

    Kolkata: After 17 days of agitation the protesting junior doctors called a mass convention on Monday to take the opinion of the society on how they could sustain their protest. The junior doctors said they would take inputs and ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Nabanna march today: Kolkata-Howrah commute snap on the cards after barricades on key links

    Cop arrangements at two likely starting points at Santragachhi (left) and College Square KOLKATA: Kolkata Traffic Police has lined up plans to ensure that citizens — especially students appearing for UGC-NET exams — get to reach their destinations on ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Senior doctors struggle with patient care, urge juniors to balance agitation with work

    Kolkata: With the junior doctors staying away from duty for over two weeks now, their seniors in govt hospitals are struggling to provide services to the patients. Even as they attend to OPD, IPD and emergency patients, doctors said ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Chhatra Samaj’ march an attempt to create chaos, incite unrest: TMC

    Kolkata: The proposed ‘Chhatra Samaj’ march to Nabanna was illegal and an attempt to incite widespread unrest in Kolkata, Trinamool Congress said on Monday.“No student body would jeopardise the future of students by staging a protest on the very ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Cloud over MSC’s ISL campaign

    Kolkata: Just days after the Indian Super League confirmed that Mohammedan Sporting Club will be the newest side in the domestic top-tier competition, taking the total number of teams in the upcoming season to 13, question marks were raised ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP not joining rally to Nabanna, but ‘ready to support any protest’

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Monday officially said it would not join the “students’ rally” to Nabanna but added that it was ready to support any protest movement, cutting across party lines, demanding justice for the R G Kar rape-murder ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    FIR filed after wounded mare, malnourished foal rescued

    Kolkata: Animal rights action groups — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and CAPE Foundation — have rescued an abandoned foal and its mother with open wounds and covered in blood from the Maidan area, near ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Agitation is a BJP-TMC bid to divert attention, says Salim

    Kolkata: CPM on Monday said the ‘Chhatra Samaj’ march to Nabanna was nothing but a BJP-Trinamool ploy to divert attention from the spontaneous campaigns demanding justice in the RG Kar case.Taking on both BJP and TMC, CPM state secretary ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Style Baazar eyes ₹835cr from IPO

    Kolkata: City-based Baazar Style Retail, a value fashion retailer backed by Rekha Jhunjhunwala, has fixed a price band of Rs 370-389 per share for its IPO, which will open for public subscription on Aug 30. The IPO aims to ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Ex-MSVP, RG Kar principal quizzed

    Kolkata: The CBI, looking into the alleged financial irregularities at R G Kar Hospital, on Monday questioned former MSVP of the college, Sanjay Vashisth, and the present principal, Manas Kumar Bandyopadhyay.Officers at the Nizam Palace office of the agency ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Rly hosp beefs up security

    Kolkata: In the wake of the RG Kar incident, Eastern Railway has beefed up security for women at BR Singh Hospital. Deepak Nigam, DRM, Sealdah, recently convened a meeting and took a host of decisions like installing more CCTVs, ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Colleges push back 1st day of UG, some schools go online

    Kolkata: Some colleges have joined the several schools that have taken steps to address concerns about the Nabanna Abhijan rally on Tuesday. At many city schools, classes have either been suspended for the day or shifted online. Some colleges ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Shyambazar economy suffers protest blow

    1234 Kolkata: The 17-day-long cease-work by junior doctors at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital and the subsequent prohibitory orders on Shyambazar crossing and the area surrounding the hospital have paralyzed the local economy. Many small-time traders have ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Sushil Poddar to lead nat’l traders’ body

    Kolkata: The Federation of All India Vyapar Mandal, a national traders’ body, has announced that Bengal’s Sushil Poddar had been elected as its working president. During the annual general meeting of the federation, its national spokesperson Rajeshwar Painuly said ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    NET examinees fret over traffic dislocation fears

    Kolkata: The Nabanna Abhijan planned by Paschimbanga Chhatra Samaj and Sangrami Joutha Mancha on Tuesday has left UGC-NET aspirants worried, particularly those set to appear for the exams in the second shift starting 3 pm. Students will appear for ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    25-yr-old held for molestation in Bankura

    Kolkata: A 25-year old was arrested on charges of molesting a schoolgirl near Namchhara village under Joypur police station in Bankura on Sunday, reports Falguni Banerjee. A case has been registered under the Pocso Act and BNS, and police ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata's RG Kar seminar hall crowd video goes viral. Outside cordoned crime scene, say cops

    Footage from a 43-second video, showing some close confidants of ex-RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh as well as police at the seminar hall after the body of the PGT doctor, went viral on social media, was found KOLKATA: A ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: CBI conducts polygraph test on Sandip Ghosh

    Sandip Ghosh KOLKATA: The CBI on Monday conducted a polygraph test on Sandip Ghosh, a day after they ran him through Layered Voice Analysis (LVA), as the investigators found his responses to be "inconsistent" during the past nine days' ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar Hospital doctor rape-murder case: CBI officers question Kolkata Police seniors

    Investigators at the hospital KOLKATA: The CBI on Monday continued its interrogation of senior Kolkata Police officers to determine the sequence of events that unfolded at RG Kar Hospital on Aug 9.The CBI had earlier requested the head of ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    State pulls out all stops to foil today’s Nabanna march, cops fear violence

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Monday pulled out all stops to foil Tuesday's ‘Chhatra Samaj' march to Nabanna, calling it "illegal" and saying it had intelligence inputs that the march was backed by "vested interests using miscreants to foment trouble".Police ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Rape threat to Trinamool neta's daughter on video, rights panel takes note

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights has taken suo motu cognisance of a video on social media where in a demonstration against the R G Kar rape and murder case, a person is seen announcing ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman rape-murder: Stir already the longest-running doctors' protest since at least 1980s

    The junior doctors at RG Kar have been protesting since Aug 9 KOLKATA: The ongoing cease-work by junior doctors has already become the longing running stir on hospital campuses at least since the 1980s. While this is not the ...

    27 August 2024 Times of India
    Need day-night block at Metropolitan: RVNL to KP

    Kolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has written to Kolkata Police (KP), seeking day-and-night block at Metropolitan on EM Bypass so that it can complete the construction of viaduct from Beleghata Metro station (also known as Metropolitan) to Captain ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor death case: Tuesday's proposed Nabanna Abhijan Rally is illegal, attempt to incite unrest, says West Bengal ADGP

    West Bengal ADGP Manoj Kumar Verma (left) NEW DELHI: West Bengal ADG Police (Law & Order) Manoj Kumar Verma has declared the Nabanna Abhijan Rally scheduled for August 27 as illegal, stating it is an attempt to incite widespread ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Students depict tale of perseverance and determination at annual concert

    Kolkata: In the remembrance of Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman astronaut, Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School staged a spectacular musical theatre, titled ‘Reach For The Stars’, the finale of Rhapsody 2024, Bidya Bharati Group of Schools’ annual concert, ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: US-based doctor slams West Bengal govt for failing to ensure safety of frontline health workers

    Nurses take part in a protest march over the alleged sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) KOLKATA: A US-based doctor involved in India's polio eradication and measles surveillance efforts has criticised the ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Craters back in Salt Lake after heavy rain

    Kolkata: Heavy rain has battered several road stretches across Salt Lake. The Bidhannagar traffic police have been repeatedly urging the civic authorities to take up road repair work in the last six months but to no avail. With no ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Yr’s 12th organ donation in city saves two lives

    Kolkata: The two kidneys of a 34-year-old deceased donor were transplanted into two patients in two different Kolkata hospitals on Sunday. With this donation, the city has registered 12 deceased organ donations this year. Both the recipients will be ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: Former RG Kar college principal Sandip Ghosh likely to move court today against CBI action

    Sandip Ghosh KOLKATA: Sandeep Ghosh, who faced CBI interrogation for nine consecutive days and a polygraph test, did not immediately respond to knocks on his door and calls on his mobile, officials said. Some members of the CBI team ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Woman found dead in Bankura jungle

    Bankura: A 46-year-old woman was found dead in mysterious circumstances at Bankadaha jungle in Bankura on Sunday morning. CPM and BJP netas raised concerns about the possibility of her being raped and murdered. Cops have registered a case of ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Netas must battle BJP-CPM disinformation campaign: Kunal

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress’s former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh on Sunday urged the party’s netas to battle BJP and CPM’s “disinformation campaign” targeting Trinamool on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case. “You are what you are ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Pvt schools defer exams, cancel classes

    Kolkata: Several city private schools have rescheduled exams scheduled on Tuesday in anticipation of traffic disruptions due to the Nabanna march. Some have shifted classes to online mode while a number will let off students early. Birla High ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    4,500 cops, with drones & water cannons, gear up to guard Nabanna tomorrow

    Kolkata: Armed with drones, multiple water cannons, tear gas shells and hundreds of guard rails and aluminium alloy walls, 4,500-odd cops from Kolkata Police and West Bengal Police are set to form barricades at seven locations in Kolkata and ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Derek writes to FM for rollback of 18% GST on life, health cover

    Kolkata: Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien wrote to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, urging her to revoke 18% GST on health and life insurance premiums.“The taxation on health and life insurance premiums is a burden on ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Writer-teacher to return state honour

    Jalpaiguri: A writer-teacher from Alipurduar, Parimal Dey, who had been conferred the Banga Ratna honour in 2019, has decided to return it in protest against the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder incident. Dey said, “What happened at ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Organisers to use part of puja funds for women’s self-defence classes

    Kolkata: Several Durga Puja organisers in the city plan to spend a part of their puja funds to empower women by organising self-defence training camps, counselling sessions, and providing safety kits. This year, each Durga Puja committee in Bengal ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Hawkers reclaim space as ‘reclaim night’ protests keep cops on toes

    Kolkata: Exactly two months after the action by police and civic authorities against unauthorized encroachment by hawkers in the city’s prominent hawking zones, most have returned. With cops busy tackling protests across the city against the RG Kar rape-murder, ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Centre should administer N Bengal: Shantanu

    Jalpaiguri: North Bengal should be administered by Centre because of its proximity to China, junior Union minister for ports, shipping and waterways Shantanu Thakur said on Sunday.At a programme organised by All India Matua Mahasangha in Jalpaiguri, Thakur said: ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP calls 1-hr Bengal ‘chakka’ bandh on Sept 4

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP has called a statewide hour-long ‘chakka’ bandh from 11am on Sept 4 to protest the R G Kar rape-murder. On Sept 2, sit-in programmes would be held in front of govt offices across Bengal, the party ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
    Posters target 'north Bengal' lobby for West Bengal healthcare mess

    KOLKATA: Posters alleging the existence of a "health syndicate" were seen on the walls of several medical colleges in Kolkata this weekend, accusing a group that has come to be known as the "north Bengal lobby".The syndicate allegedly includes ...

    26 August 2024 Times of India
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