Kolkata: Shantipur Police lodged an FIR against two persons for allegedly vandalising an idol workshop in Matal Garh area on Tuesday. Police said the incident stemmed from a personal rivalry between two families.The incident came to light after BJP ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Three senior citizens were allegedly assaulted near Girish Park metro station a day after Christmas, after they protested against public drinking and indecent behaviour in front of metro passengers, particularly women. Two of the injured were taken to ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rashmi Kamal, a 2006-batch IAS officer, has been posted as the director of census in Bengal. She was previously serving as secretary of Paschimanchal department. The appontment comes as the Union home ministry gears up for the upcoming ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim met leading industrialists of the state and celebrities over the last two days as part of an outreach programme of the state govt. The minister met RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group chairman Sanjiv Goenka, Ambuja Neotia ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From towels, pillow covers, handkerchiefs and even curtains, police used every fabric they could lay their hands on to cover the faces of suspects of crimes while presenting them in court, especially for grievous crimes or cases that ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The South 24 Parganas district administration will use Isro-developed NaviC Technology to track and monitor crowds during Gangasagar Mela, which will start on Thursday evening. The Isro navigation tech, with Indian constellation consisting of seven satellites and a ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A biker died on Tuesday around 9.20 am on the EM Bypass at Beleghata, close to Techno India Dama Hospital. The victim, Saptarshi Bakshi (45) was a resident of Mall Road in Dum Dum. Cops said the bike ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A hippopotamus at the Alipore zoo, unable to move probably because of a neurological disease or a leg injury, has stayed put in a pool of water in its enclosure for the past fortnight and refused to leave ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata's office market recorded its strongest performance in over a decade in 2025. Annual leasing volumes surged 69% year-on-year (YoY) to 2.3 million sq ft, crossing the 2 million mark for the first time. Momentum persisted in the ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: What was meant to be a routine announcement on the return of the Indian Super League (ISL) took an unexpected turn on Tuesday after Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya stumbled over the names of two of Indian football's ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Vietnam Airlines flight from Frankfurt to Hanoi made a priority landing at Kolkata airport on Tuesday night after a foreign passenger on board suffered a brain haemorrhage, prompting the crew to declare a medical emergency and divert ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ahead of the assembly elections in Bengal, state BJP carried out a major reshuffle on Wednesday, forging a mix between veterans and newcomers and striking a balance between organisational responsibilities and electoral leadership.The party brass also tried to ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On a day leader of opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari tried to allay fears in the Matua heartland of Bongaon, his party colleague and junior Union minister Shantanu Thakur, with representatives of the BJP-led faction of All ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Calcutta High Court, in a Jan 2 ruling, upheld a Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) order rejecting a candidate for sporting a tattoo in his right forearm.While innocuous tattoos on left inner forearm are permitted in the CAPF, ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 50% of UG commerce students at St Xavier's College (Autonomous) will opt for the exit option after the sixth semester in 2026, a recent survey has found. The institution will allow UG students in its four-year programme ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaSantiniketan: The age gap between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his late mother, Amita Sen, is around 19-and-a-half years. But on Wednesday, an SIR hearing notice reached his Santiniketan house, Pratichi, because the EC found that the age difference ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A prolonged cold spell over the past few weeks has forced Kolkatans to alter their daily routines, reshaping lifestyles in a city more accustomed to humidity than chill.From delayed morning walks and longer stops at cafes, from layered-clothes ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 94.5 lakh electors with ‘logical discrepancies' will start getting hearing notices from the Election Commission from Thursday. While the hearing of unmapped voters is underway, the EC on Wednesday released on the BLO App the list of ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 63-year-old former railway employee from Naihati passed away after suffering a heart attack while attending her SIR hearing at the Barrackpore Block Office-II on Wednesday. Her family alleged that she was under extreme mental stress after receiving ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (Juta) has urged the university authorities to formulate a policy on invigilation during exams amid the hijab row, which started with two UG 3 English department girls being asked to remove their hijab on ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Most of the departments at Presidency University on Wednesday decided to conduct undergraduate admissions on their own. "Fourteen out of 19 departments opted to conduct their own UG admission procedures," said an official at the university after the ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mental health issues should be addressed right from school and that modules on mental well-being should be included in curriculum that could help children focus on communications, work together, share and think out of the box, leading to ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A 48-year-old booth-level officer (BLO) in Malda's Englishbazar died on Wednesday, with her family members alleging that she was under stress due to excessive workload in the ongoing SIR exercise.Shamprita Choudhury Sanyal, a resident of the Phulbari Pakurtala ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A retired Armyman, who could not get his name enrolled on the 2002 SIR list because of his duty in Kargil, turned up for a hearing with all documents in Midnapore on Wednesday. Anupam Singh, now 48, received ...
8 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The tenth edition of the International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI 2026) will be held from January 9 to 11 at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, with the aim of strengthening engagement between academia and ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Strict adherence to vehicle maintenance protocol, timely fitness certification and focused scrutiny of buses fitted with electronic control units that are vulnerable to fire hazards are some of the norms that feature in the nine-point fire and operational ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A delay in getting regulatory clearances allegedly held back Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's helicopter at Behala Flying Club on Tuesday while he was on his way to Birbhum for a public meeting.Banerjee reached the programme nearly ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission received an action taken report from DGP Rajeev Kumar on an incident of heckling and attack on a special roll observer in South 24 Parganas. The commission had set a Tuesday deadline for the report.The ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaGangasagar (South 24 Parganas): Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission was using mobile applications developed by BJP's IT cell to conduct the SIR exercise in Bengal.Banerjee was speaking to reporters following her 2-day visit ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To address the simmering discontent of the Matua community over disenfranchisement fears, Bengal BJP on Tuesday deputed veteran neta Dilip Ghosh and state president Samik Bhattacharya to campaign at Ranaghat, where Matuas constitute a significant portion of the ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Five people, including two women and a minor, were injured after a security guard's duty firearm allegedly went off accidentally inside a public sector bank at Bidhan Nagar in the Phansidewa block on the outskirts of Siliguri on ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The UPSC has advised Bengal chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty to approach the Supreme Court and obtain clarification on the appointment of the successor to state's acting DGP Rajeev Kumar, who is set to retire on Jan 31. Citing ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaPurulia: Four out of eight migrant workers from Purulia, who were allegedly assaulted by members of the Bajrang Dal in Chhattisgarh on Sunday, returned to Purulia on Tuesday. Four others, who are minors, will return soon, Purulia police said ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed the Bengal govt's appeal against an NIA probe in the Darivit High School case, where two ex-students were killed in an incident of firing and bombing in North Dinajpur's Islampur in Sept ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fog and speeding led to eight accidents, five of them fatal, between midnight and 7 am over the past 10 days.The accidents were reported from Thakurpukur, Haridevpur, Alipore, West Port, Beleghata and Bowbazar. "The weather, which remained foggy, ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC market department approached the civic body's building department to draw a design for the ground and first floors of the Park Circus market, waiting to be reconstructed.The market was declared unsafe after a concrete chunk from ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaBolpur/Kolkata: An SIR hearing notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen prompted Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday to call the move an affront to Bengal and icons who brought global recognition to India. The EC clarified ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 11-year-old girl died after the battery-operated scooter that she was travelling on lost balance and plunged into a pond at Sonarpur on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred around 10.30 am near the Didimoni bus stop under Sonarpur ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Central Kolkata, the stretch between Howrah Station and Tea Board and later RR Avenue, witnessed slow traffic following 3 political rallies by Adivasis who marched to the centre of the city to place their demands.The United Forum of ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: A 57-year-old man has allegedly committed suicide at Fulbari in Jalpaiguri district over ‘SIR-related stress'. With this incident, the number of alleged SIR-related deaths in Jalpaiguri district rose to five.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Khatim of Chunabhati ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police arrested one more person on Tuesday in connection with Bhatpara shooting, where bike-borne miscreants opened fire on Sunday afternoon. Police said Babu Sona, a gang leader and the prime accused in the shooting, was arrested from a ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a bid to expand its product portfolio, Kolkata-based Annapurna Swadisht Limited (ASL) is set to acquire a majority stake in Andri Agro Foods Private Limited (AAFPL) for an estimated Rs 4.5 crore. The total enterprise value of ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: A 57-year-old man has allegedly committed suicide at Fulbari in Jalpaiguri district over ‘SIR-related stress'. With this incident, the number of alleged SIR-related deaths in Jalpaiguri district rose to five.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Khatim of Chunabhati ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien filed an application in the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking extension of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) deadline for submitting claims and objections as well as postponement of the publication of final rolls ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The newborn son of Sunali Khatun was named "Apon" (one's own) by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday, a day after his birth at Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital.Banerjee said he named the baby at Sunali's ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: UCO Bank celebrated its 84th Foundation Day on Jan 6, 2026. The theme of the celebration was "UCO Go Digital", underscoring the bank's commitment to technology-driven banking, operational efficiency and enhanced customer experience. The programme was graced by ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bakul Deb Chowdhury (83), a resident of Niva Park in Bansdroni, had informed her son and daughter-in-law, who are settled in London, in Dec that she was on an errand. She said she wanted to make her maid ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple cases have been reported where fraudsters used the names — and logos — of market regulator Sebi and RBI to dupe Kolkatans into investing online. Kolkata Police has now warned citizens not to blindly believe anything forwarded ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Left university teachers' wings, including JUTA, CUTA, and RBUTA, on Tuesday opposed a state pension proposal that would provide 75% of the total pension as "provisional" while the remaining 25% would be paid by the respective university ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city got chillier, with the mercury plummeting to 10.2°C — Jan's coldest in 13 years in the city — on Tuesday. The maximum temperature, at 18°C, was also the season's lowest. You can expect more such days ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A steady north-westerly breeze improved Kolkata's ambient air quality on Tuesday, countering the adverse effects of falling temperatures and thermal inversion that typically trap pollutants close to the ground during winter.While the mercury continued its downward slide, the ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Two people died and two others were injured, one critically, after a pickup van loaded with chickens crashed into the back of a stationary truck on NH-16 on Tuesday morning, police said. The accident, which police suspected was ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A special session on the second day of the 103rd annual conference of the Association of Heads of Anglo-Indian Schools on Tuesday focused on an AI-enabled curriculum to make classroom teaching more interactive and learning more enjoyable, while ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta Boys' School and St Augustine's Day School, Shyamnagar, have decided to reschedule school hours to spare students the bitter early morning cold. Several other schools are also considering measures that is likely to be announced in the ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tunnelling for the city's Purple Line has crossed a milestone at the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC), part of the sprawling Kolkata Race Course founded in 1847.The Race Course has been a part of the city's history for ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than a month passed since IndiGo's operational fiasco led to mass flight cancellations, but several frustrated passengers are yet to get refunds. While the airline insists the payments were released, travellers who booked through third-party platforms say ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The rising air pollution has led to an increase in the number of patients suffering from allergic rhinitis. Also known as hay fever, it is a condition of nasal inflammation triggered by allergens like pollen and dust mites, ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission asked all state govt employees to submit a declaration that their names are not in the electoral roll of more than 1 assembly constituency. On Tuesday, govt officials from different depts started receiving the declaration ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC has granted a waiver to more than 41.5 lakh voters with minor discrepancies in electoral records.Around 1.3 crore voters in Bengal had SIR enumeration forms with "logical discrepancies" due to a small age difference with their ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Among those who are being summoned for hearings during the ongoing SIR process in Bengal is a former parliamentarian. Ex-Lok Sabha MP Tarun Mandal, who also served the central govt as a medical officer, appeared for the hearing ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaGangasagar (South 24 Parganas): The South 24 Parganas district administration will deploy a remote-controlled lifebuoy, also known as a water drone, at Gangasagar 2026 as part of rescue operations. The Sagar Mela starts on Thursday.A water drone is a ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: At a time when block development officers (BDOs) are entrusted with supervising the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, a rare development was witnessed as the serving BDO of Lava block in Kalimpong district, Bharati Chik Baraik, was seen ...
7 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suspended Trinamool MLA Humayun Kabir was forced to beat a retreat from the Brigade Parade Ground on Monday afternoon after facing protests while inspecting the venue for a Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) rally.The protesters, who identified themselves as ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaDaspur: A day after asking men to lock their wives up to prevent them from voting for Trinamool, BJP Midnapore neta Kalipada Sengupta apologised for his statements on Monday. Sengupta said that he worshipped Maa Durga and would never ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaAt Lashkardighi — a small town in Bengal that’s home to Md Yunus’s in-laws — residents anxiously follow developments in Dhaka and Delhi amid strain in India-Bangladesh ties. Proud memories of his post-Nobel visit linger, but any mention of ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The biting cold has pushed up demand for heaters, geysers and warm clothing, sending retailers scrambling for more stock to cope with the unexpected rush.Unlike typical winters in the city, when mornings and nights are cold but daytime ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an effort to reach out to healthcare professionals in Kolkata, BJP's national president and Union health minister J P Nadda will meet doctors in the city on Thursday. Nearly 800 doctors are likely to attend the interactive ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters woke up to a metro disruption on the first Monday of the New Year, as a snag hit operations for an hour from 7.38 am.Students and office workers required to travel the length of the city (from ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaGangasagar: CM Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone of the Rs 1,670-crore worth, 4.8 km-long Gangasagar Setu project at Sagar Islands on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, the CM took a swipe at the BJP-led Union govt, claiming they ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 83-year-old woman, Bakul Deb Chowdhury, from Niva Park in Bansdroni, filed a complaint alleging theft of cash and valuable items from her residence, naming her long-time domestic help as the suspected person responsible for the theft. Bakul's ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaGangasagar/Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday threatened to take the issue of people's harassment during SIR exercise to the Supreme Court and, if needed, personally plead on voters' behalf."We must fight it out. We are also seeking legal help. ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a report to the EC, electoral registration officers (EROs) have admitted that of the three ‘dead' voters presented by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday, two had been marked "dead" by BLOs "unintentionally", but one ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Rampurhat: Sunali Khatun, the Birbhum woman now in the middle of a Supreme Court battle after being dumped in Bangladesh for being "an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant", gave birth to a son on Monday at Rampurhat Medical College.The 26-year-old and ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a letter to the Election Commission (EC), BJP neta and leader of opposition in the Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday refuted the charges CM Mamata Banerjee had levelled against the poll body and alleged that the ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal has broken the celeb-versus-janata barrier.Celebrities who have got a hearing notice as part of the SIR will now have to stand in queues alongside ordinary citizens. Among ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite the EC-state govt standoff over the validity of domicile certificates for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing, hundreds of voters who received the SIR hearing notice continued to queue at the KMC headquarters to get one.CM Mamata ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five persons, including an elderly woman and a couple, were assaulted in two separate road rage incidents in north Kolkata's Sinthee and Nimtala areas over the past two days, prompting police to appeal on Facebook for calm and ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four brothers, including two state health department doctors and one who served the Indian Army as a doctor, have received SIR hearing notices. While all said they will appear for the hearing on Tuesday, they alleged that this ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 500 students from 12 city schools participated at the 23rd edition of South Point School's annual inter-school festival, Ullas 2025–2026, on its premises recently. The festival was inaugurated by Rajeeb Chakraborty, the internationally-acclaimed sarod player, educationist, ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In last year's Rs 3 crore gold heist at Sinthee in north Kolkata, the anti-robbery unit of the Lalbazar detective department arrested Abbas Raja, described by police as a ‘hired robber' from Uttar Pradesh (UP), after he returned ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A PIL has been filed at the Calcutta High Court, seeking authority to recognise the recurrent ‘very poor' air quality index (AQI) as a "public health emergency". The PIL will be heard on Jan 19.Filed by practising advocate ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city woke up to yet another chilly day as both the day and night temperatures slipped further down the Celsius scale on Monday. At 18.4 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature in Kolkata was 6.7 notches below the ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The GTA is preparing to revive Jamuni, a scenic but long-neglected tourist destination about 15 km from Darjeeling, by inviting private investors to breathe new life into the area and position it as a sustainable tourism hub. Once ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five persons were arrested on Monday in connection with a shooting at the Rail Quarters complex in Bhatpara, where bike-borne miscreants opened fire on Sunday afternoon, triggering panic among residents. Police suspect that a turf war stemming from ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 28-year-old youth from Banipur in Habra, out on a drive with his fiancée in his private car on Sunday night, was allegedly assaulted by a group of drunk youths on Jessore Road. When their vehicle was caught ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Sandip Nowlakha, vice-president of Murshidabad Heritage Development Society (MHDS) and founder-president Atulniya Virasat Manyata Sansthan (AVMS), who spearheaded the movement to revive 3 centuries old heritage havelis in Jiaganj-Azimganj in Murshidabad, pointed out that a key ingredient for ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pneumonia and COPD cases have risen sharply across the city's private hospitals, many of which have remained fully occupied for the past 7 days. Some hospitals reported a 5-10% mortality rate among pneumonia patients, most with pre-existing lung ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On a cold winter afternoon, reminiscences of one man spread warmth around the seminar hall at the electrical engineering department of Jadavpur University. The occasion was the Prof Shyamapada Patra Memorial Lecture, organised by the Jadavpur Electrical Engineers’ ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Persistent fog and a steady cold wind kept the city shivering through the day, with the maximum temperature dipping to 19.2°C on Sunday. Dense fog narrowed the gap between the day's maximum and minimum temperatures to 4.3°C. This ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops are probing two online investment fraud complaints from Anandapur and Hastings, in which victims reportedly lost around Rs 50 lakh through WhatsApp groups, social media advertisements and trading applications.In Anandapur, a resident of Urbana told police he ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A businessman operating from Hari Ram Goenka Street filed a case at Posta Police Station on Sunday, alleging a scam involving impersonation of senior govt officers and cheating in connection with an investment for a purported timber business, ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even 72 hours after the New Year's fireworks revelry, the city's air quality continues to remain a cause for concern, with pollution levels showing a slow and uneven recovery. Monitoring data on Sunday revealed that several air quality ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A group of six miscreants, who were on two motorbikes, opened fire several rounds inside the Bhatpara Rail Quarters complex on Sunday afternoon. Police are looking for the accused but no one has been arrested yet.Several police from ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has chosen to maintain silence following his press conference on Thursday, with party sources saying the top brass in Delhi has asked him to avoid making candid remarks for the time being.Ghosh ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaDaspur/Kolkata: Men in Bengal should put their wives — beneficiaries of Lakshmir Bhandar scheme — under lock and key to stop them from voting for Trinamool. This was Bengal BJP state committee member Kalipada Sengupta's call from a public ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A video showing bundles of cash laid out on a table with a Trinamool neta and a businessman sitting around it has triggered a political storm at Barasat in North 24 Parganas. The video, whose authenticity could not ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was a fun-filled day out for 4-legged ‘athletes' that raced, jumped, hunted food and walked on a beauty ramp at a Garden Reach playground on Sunday. A group of 40 students came together to organise the Garden ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee shot off a four-page letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday calling upon him to either "rectify glitches" or halt the "unplanned, arbitrary and ad-hoc" Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bengal's electoral ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 75-year-old woman, who had voted from Rashbehari constituency in the last state Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, was upset that she had to appear for a SIR hearing on Sunday at a school due to a discrepancy ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A three-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted on Saturday evening near the rail bridge at Chaul Patty in Beleghata, police said. The child, who lives with her family in a settlement close to the railway tracks, was admitted ...
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