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  • Kolkata doctor murder case: Rogue civic volunteer a trouble for family, force

    Sanjay’s mother Malati Roy KOLKATA: Civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, appointed in 2019, has been a rogue figure and a troublemaker for his family, his force and even neighbours."I have been in trouble ever since I gave birth to my ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: R G Kar Hospital emerges as headache for health department

    Protests continued on Saturday at RG Kar Hospital, where the body of the post-graduate trainee doctor was found on Friday KOLKATA: R G Kar is probably the state-run medical college and hospital that has been in the news most ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar doctor death: Will always be with doctors, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee, who supported the agitating doctors and felt their anger was justified, said: "Losing a colleague affects everyone. Even I have two junior doctors in my family. I will always be with them (doctors). ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata murder: Medicos' stir adds to patients' trauma at govt hospitals

    Family members of patients anxiously wait at Medical College Hospital on Saturday KOLKATA: Many patients and their kin were left in the lurch as doctors stayed off their wards, staging stir on the campuses of different govt hospitals across ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata murder case: 'Can't let civic volunteers become a rogues' gallery'

    Civic volunteers assist cops but their contracts are renewed every 6 months KOLKATA: On a day when a civic volunteer was arrested for raping and murdering a medical students, former police officers and a section of those still in ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor murder: R G Kar anger rocks hospital campuses across West Bengal

    Protesting doctors from several hospitals converge at Moulali crossing KOLKATA: While RG Kar Medical College continued to be in the eye of storm on Saturday, the anger spilled over to other medical institutes across Bengal and beyond. Messages of ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor death: Have full faith in West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and cop probe, says victim's family

    Medical College students take out a protest rally KOLKATA: Father of the second-year post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor - whose brutalised body was found in a seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital - on Saturday said ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Two from Bangla interim govt started career in Kol

    Kolkata/Dhaka: Former Bangladeshi foreign secretary Mohammad Touhid Hossain, who was on Friday entrusted with the charge of the foreign ministry in the Muhammad Yunus-headed interim govt, had started his diplomatic career in Kolkata. A F Hassan Ariff, who will ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Will hang accused if needed, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will seek the death penalty for those accused in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor, whose body was discovered ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh crisis: BNP workers recall night of terror in Dhaka

    BNP’s Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain helped out protesting students KOLKATA: BNP workers Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka were arrested on July 22 for helping out students during the movement—they distributed water and food among them. The ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Pocso cuffs on 40-year-old

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old man was arrested from his residence by Nadial police on Friday for allegedly raping a minor, twice, within a span of four days this month. The accused, Mohammad Ali Thandar, will be in police custody till ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Hospitals stand beside stranded B’deshi patients

    Kolkata: Several hospitals in Kolkata are extending support in the form of discounts and accommodation to Bangladeshi patients who need to stay here for several weeks for treatment but are running out of cash. Since many had banked on ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Royal Mysore in fine fettle

    Kolkata: Royal Mysore from the stable of Prasanna Kumar gets the first call to win the Y.Z. Poonawalla Turf Club Gr-III at Pune on Saturday. The progeny of Daffodils has struck a purple patch and will be ridden by ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Autopsy confirms sexual assault before murder, one held

    NEW DELHI: Police have arrested one person in connection with the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, a senior officer said on Saturday. The man was an outsider who ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Coexist with all communities, fight for what's right: WB CM Mamata Banerjee

    During an event in Jhargram, CM Mamata Banerjee urged for peaceful coexistence and justice. She announced various development projects and expressed hopes for Olympic success from local athletes JHARGRAM: Pledge to coexist peacefully with people from all the communities ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: 'Will shutdown service across institition', FORDA letter to health minister JP Nadda, demands action in 24 hours

    The Federation of Resident Doctors Association demanded urgent action from Union Health Minister JP Nadda following the murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College. NEW DELHI: The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) has sent ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata PG trainee's death: Neighbours mourn loss of well-behaved girl next-door, their own 'junior doctor'

    SODEPUR/KOLKATA: Loved and admired by all neighbours and cousins alike, the tragic death of the 31-year-old second year post-graduate trainee of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital has sent shockwaves across the Sodepur neighbourhood near Kolkata on Friday."We ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    After sleepless nights, some Hindus return to Bangladesh with trepidation

    AP photo PETRAPOLE: Tapan Kumar Das and his mother, who had arrived in Kolkata on Aug 4 for his medical treatment, had been spending sleepless nights, fearing their house back in Bangladesh might have been vandalised or looted since ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    3-day ‘food & fruit festival’ at Netaji Indoor from Aug 9

    Kolkata: Bengal is all set to host a three-day ‘Food and Fruit Festival’ at Netaji Indoor Stadium from Aug 9 reports Sritama China. The festival promises to be a culinary extravaganza, showcasing a plethora of exotic fruits alongside local ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kol cops bolster security at Mujib museum in Baker Hostel

    Kolkata: Visuals of the statues of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman being vandalized in many places in Bangladesh went viral a few days ago but two tiny rooms in Kolkata where he had spent a few years as a student and ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Congratulatory Message From Mamata To Yunus

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, in a congratulatory message to Bangladesh interim govt head Muhammad Yunus on Friday, reminded him of how neighbours’ well-being was mutually dependent.“If our neighbours stay well, we also stay well,” Banerjee wrote to Yunus ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar on boil, students hold back PG trainee’s body for 10 hrs

    Kolkata: R G Kar Medical College is on the boil again after a second year post-graduate trainee (PGT) was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hospital during her duty hours around 7.30 am on Friday. While her fellow ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    The last journey: Buddha’s parting gift of light to two

    123 Kolkata: On a somber Friday, thousands of people filled the streets of Kolkata to honor former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. His final journey began from Peace World, where his body, pledged to Ganadarpan, was prepared for its last ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Colleagues: She was fine, busy with patients till 2am

    Kolkata: All was fine with the trainee doctor till 2 am on Friday when she interacted for the last time with colleagues in the respiratory medicine department till one of them found her dead inside the seminar room around ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Organ donation: Experts rope in schools to catch them young

    Kolkata: In an aim to boost deceased organ donation, ROTTO, East (Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation) will now foray into schools. Officials said that making the children aware at a young age will help in spreading the message ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    A year after ragging death, JU students hold mass convention

    Kolkata: A year after a Bengali first-year student died after a fall from the second-floor balcony of Jadavpur University’s Main Hostel, a section of JU students organised a mass convention near the Fetsu union room, demanding justice for the ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Parents cry rape-murder after PGT doc body found at RG Kar

    Kolkata: The brutalised body of a second-year post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor of respiratory medicine at RG Kar Medical College was found inside a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital’s emergency building around 7.30am on Friday, ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Desperate to escape to India, Bangladeshis wait in rivulet

    Photo: Agencies JALPAIGURI PETRAPOLE: At least 1,000 Bangladeshis, mostly Hindus, attempted to cross over and seek refuge in India on Friday in Sitalkuchi of Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. BSF officials struggled to hold them back, with officers describing this ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    KMC proposes bldg sanction fee waiver

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed to offer about Rs 1 lakh waiver in the building sanction fee to the owners of small plots, measuring upto 3 cottah. The decision was taken by the civic body’s buildings ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    East Bengal ease past Eastern Railway

    Kolkata: East Bengal maintained their unbeaten run in the CFL Premier Division as they eased past Eastern Railway SC 3-0 in a Group ‘B’ fixture at home on Friday to remain on top of the table with 19 points ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Police medal for guv probe cop

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police DCP Indira Mukherjee, who is heading the special enquiry team (SET) probing the sexual abuse charges against governor CV Ananda Bose, will be awarded a West Bengal Police Medal.CM Mamata Banerjee usually hands over the police ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Poet and playwright who found his corner at Nandan among books

    The room in Nandan where Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee used to spend his evenings KOLKATA: Once office work concluded in the evening, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would spend a couple of hours at Nandan. That was the time when he would devote to ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh crisis: Violence-hit Bangla citizens use medical visa to cross over to India

    Bhakti Dhali with her family PETRAPOLE: Bhakti Dhali, a resident of Bharatkathi village in Bangladesh's Pirojpur located about 180 km from the Petrapole border, had not slept at night since Aug 3. She and her husband Parimal were awake ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Cancer patient falls to death

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old man, who lived in a condo located at Diamond Park in Joka, died following a fall from an open window located on the fifth floor of one of the 11-storey towers. The deceased, who has been ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    We’ll miss our next-door neighbour: Palm Ave locals

    Neighbours gather at Palm Avenue to bid final farewell to the ex-CM KOLKATA: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was a formidable politician but for the residents of Palm Avenue, where the former CM stayed for decades, he was just a neighbour next-door.Niranjan ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Robberies in upscale Bangladesh areas worry friends in Kolkata

    Representative image KOLKATA: Citizens of Kolkata are worried that in the absence of cops, many of their friends and relatives in Dhaka, especially those living in upscale Uttara, have spent a sleepless night on Wednesday amid fears of ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Several coaches of goods train derail in West Bengal's Malda

    NEW DELHI: Several coaches of a goods train derailed in Kumedpur Yard in Katihar Division, Malda, West Bengal on Friday.According to officials, two trains have been cancelled, six diverted and four trains short terminated in the wake of the ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    With Jamaat men out of jail, hotels, ‘sensitive’ areas on Bengal cop radar

    Representative image KOLKATA: Security agencies throughout Bengal have stepped up vigil after reports of several terror suspects being among the 709 prisoners who escaped from two back-to-back jailbreaks in Bangladesh in the last few days. Both state and ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal intellectuals’ letter appeals for Bangla peace

    Kolkata: More than 50 Bengali intellectuals, including film personality Aparna Sen and former Supreme Court judge Ashok Ganguly, have written to the President of Bangladesh, Mohammed Shahabuddin, and Md Yunus, who is expected to play a key role in ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Earthquake of magnitude 4.4 strikes Sikkim's Soreng

    Representative Image NEW DELHI: A 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit Soreng district in Sikkim early on Friday morning, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.The epicentre of the earthquake was located at Latitude 27.22 N and Longitude 88.33 E, at a ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Perestroika man who didn’t get a third chance

    Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at a rally on Brigade Parade Ground KOLKATA: He didn’t own a house or a car and had a frugal Rs 5,000 in his bank account when he fought his last assembly election from Jadavpur in ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    New guidelines to scrap buses

    Kolkata: In a move to curb the continued operation of over-aged commercial vehicles, the state transport department has announced new guidelines to ensure that buses and other transport vehicles are properly phased out and scrapped at authorized units once ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    It was an irreparable damage: Buddha on Singur in his book

    Kolkata: Bhattacharjee tried to move his state away from the falling returns of subsistence agriculture and use surplus skilled manpower to build a robust growth path through industries. He also okayed contract farming and invited private investments in agricultural ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    From a rebel poet’s nephew to dad of a child who came out

    Kolkata: Exceptionalism ran in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s family right from his distant uncle to the “coming out” of his biological daughter Suchetana to Suchetan.Bhattacharjee was a distant nephew of poet Sukanta Bhattacharya, who was known as “Young Nazrul” and “Kishore ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Nandigram and Singur: Buddha’s two Waterloos

    Kolkata: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s efforts to spark an industrial renaissance in Bengal were thwarted by the violent anti-land acquisition protests in Singur and Nandigram, eventually heralding the end of the Left era in Bengal and the rise of Mamata Banerjee.Singur ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Stuck in Kol, Bangla visitors fret over expiring visa, fund shortage

    Kolkata: Rukhsana Bano is in a dilemma. The Bangladeshi national can’t decide whether to apply for an extension of her visa, which will expire on Aug 10, or try to return home, though the direct bus services are yet ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Usman, ‘Sir’s’ driver, recalls a journey through life

    Kolkata: Md Usman, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s driver who worked for him for nearly 30 years, on Thursday promised his son Suchetan and wife Meera Bhattacharjee to be with them forever. “Sir is no more, but I am there for you,” ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangla trade: Exports body wants RBI relief on payment deadline

    Kolkata: The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) will write to RBI for extension of payment realization deadline for exporters to Bangladesh.Yogesh Gupta, the regional chairman (east) of FIEO, told TOI that exporters had resumed sending goods to Bangladesh ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Presi friends recall ‘shy boy’ who combined student politics & NCC

    Kolkata: Contemporaries and batchmates of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee remembered the former chief minister as a “shy boy” during his college days at Presidency College. Bhattacharjee studied Bengali honours from 1961 to 1964 at Presidency. He joined Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya in ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Bagan hit Air Force for a sixer

    Kolkata: In a major boost before the Kolkata Derby, Mohun Bagan Super Giant thrashed Indian Air Force FT 6-0 to go on top of Group ‘A’ in Durand Cup at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Thursday. While both ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    B’deshi teens go missing from shelter

    Kolkata: Two Bangladeshi teenagers from a shelter home have mysteriously gone missing while on their way to school in Kolkata. One of them is a minor (16) while the other is 18, said a police officer. The incident, which ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Hosps keep wary eye on Bangla patients’ movement to SE Asia

    Kolkata: The first signs of an exodus of Bangladeshi patients to hospitals in Southeast Asia — following travel disruptions between Dhaka and Kolkata — have become apparent. All Indian visa application centres in Bangladesh were shut down on Thursday ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Mirrors, speed guns to curb bike accidents

    Kolkata: A bike accident last month at the Mukundapur-Bypass crossing in the Survey Park police station area, that claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy riding a sports bike at a high speed, has led Kolkata traffic police to ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Grand set for facelift, guest rooms to be shut for 1.5 yrs

    Kolkata: The city’s grand old dame is getting a facelift. Come Independence Day, and The Oberoi Grand, which sits in the heart of Kolkata, will be shut down for 18 months for a thorough overhaul of its interiors. This ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Brand Buddha lost in ’11, not our MLA: Jadavpur voters

    Kolkata: In 2016, dressed in his trademark dhoti-kurta, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee took a ride in an open jeep from Tollygunge to Garia. He was canvassing for Left Front candidates from three south Kolkata constituencies. Since 1987 — and for five ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladeshi youth tries to sneak in at West Bengal's Hili, caught

    The Rangpur resident was caught at Hili border as he tried to sneak into India by hiding inside a truck KOLKATA: A Bangladeshi youth was caught as he tried to sneak into the Indian territory in an Indian ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    The upright, honest man who breathed life into CPM after USSR's collapse

    Bhattacharjee with Jyoti Basu in KolkataBhattacharjee with Jyoti Basu in Kolkata12 KOLKATA: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee breathed life into the CPM when the Left ideology was on retreat after the Soviet debacle. Bhattacharjee detected the fault lines in the hegemonic party ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    CM Mamata Banerjee on CM Buddha Bhattacharjee: I pray he takes birth in Bengal again

    Bhattacharjee greets Banerjee at Raj Bhawan after the latter became the CM in 2011 CM Mamata Banerjee outside Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Palm Avenue house on ThursdayBhattacharjee greets Banerjee at Raj Bhawan after the latter became the CM in 2011 CM ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh crisis: BSF bans night fishing along Indo-Bangla border

    Restriction was imposed on Thursday to check infiltration bids along the riverine borders KOLKATA: Night fishing has been banned along the riverine border between India and Bangladesh for the time being as Border Security Force (BSF) issued prohibitory ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    Jodhpur Park cafe blast injures one, cops suspect LPG leakage

    Kolkata: A 30-year-old man was seriously injured in an explosion inside a Jodhpur Park cafe on Wednesday morning. The explosion occurred when Chadrakumar Gurung, the cook at the cafe, reportedly tried to light the gas. The blast started off ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal cabinet rejig: Manas Bhunia, Babul Supriyo, Chandrima Bhattacharya get additional charges

    Babul Supriyo, who heads information technology and electronics, will also be holding charge of public enterprises and industrial reconst ruction department. KOLKATA: The Bengal cabinet saw a reshuffle on Wednesday with Manas Bhunia being given charge of the irrigation ...

    9 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Family-run biz should look for angel funding’

    Kolkata: Family-run businesses should look for angel funding, said Ullas Kamath, UK& CO founder, while moderating a session of the Family Business Summit organised by FICCI recently. Kamath said 5%-10% of profit from business could be used for angel funding.

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    The Marxist journey of 'Brand Buddha' Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

    NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a Marxist leader, passed away at his Kolkata home on Thursday at the age of 80. Renowned for his pragmatic approach, Bhattacharjee set aside ideological convictions to promote industrialisation in ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's mortal remains to be handed over to medical college for scientific research

    NEW DELHI: Former Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's mortal remains will be handed over to the anatomy department of IPGMER SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, as the leader had pledged to donate his body to Ganadarpan, an NGO in the ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    B’desh visa office goes empty

    Kolkata: The turmoil in Bangladesh has left the visa application office here empty. The office at Sector V, which usually witnesses more than 1,000 applicants a day, on Wednesday wore a deserted look, the big hall and the chairs ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC seeks Bharat Ratna or RS seat for ‘true fighter’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Wednesday demanded the Bharat Ratna or a President-nominated Rajya Sabha seat for wrestler Vinesh Phogat.Party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee posted on X: “The GOVERNMENT and OPPOSITION should find a way to form a consensus and either ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Imperial Blue for Cup event

    Kolkata: Irfan Ghatala-trained Imperial Blue appeals most to lift the D.M. Kumaraswamy Memorial Trophy in Bengaluru on Thursday. Bengaluru selections2pm: 1. Estefania 2. Alice Blue 3. Sea Diamond. 2.30pm: 1. Free To Play 2. Measure Of Time 3. Castaneda. ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    EB register 2nd win a row

    Kolkata: East Bengal FC accounted for Downtown Heroes 3-1 at the Kishore Bharati Stadium on Wednesday to stay on course for advancing to the Durand Cup quarterfinals from Group A. Madih Talal put Carles Cuadrat’s team in front with ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    After Bangladesh jailbreaks, BSF & cops sensitise villagers on sneak-in bids

    BSF officers at a meeting with panchayat members, villagers and govt officials in Nadia PETRAPOLE: Three jailbreaks in three days not far from the Indian border and zero policing on the streets of Bangladesh have put Indian security agencies ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    'Violence causing irreparable damage to image of Bangladesh'

    Singer Rahul Ananda’s house in Dhaka was ransacked and set on fire KOLKATA: Bangladeshi folk singer Rahul Ananda and his family fled their 140-year-old rented home in Dhaka's Dhanmondi 32 on Monday as a group of armed men broke ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    BSF struggles to block terror-struck Bangladeshis fleeing homeland

    A group of Bangladeshis face off with BSF (not in pic) on the border in Berubari village, Jalpaiguri, on Wednesday PETRAPOLE/KOLKATA/JALPAIGURI: The continuing unrest in Bangladesh since Sheikh Hasina's resignation and flight to India on Monday is spilling over ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh unrest: BSF fires warning shots as hundreds try to cross border

    BSF fires warning shots PETRAPOLE/KOLKATA/JALPAIGURI: BSF personnel were forced to fire warning shots and form a human barrier at an unfenced section of the border Wednesday as hundreds of Bangladeshis, mostly politicians and workers of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Here’s why VIP Road is flooding so often this yr

    Kolkata: What makes VIP Road, which links the city to the airport, most vulnerable to waterlogging this monsoon? In fact, after last weekend, motorists have started dreading to drive through the Haldiram-Kaikhali stretch.Tuesday was another nightmarish day for those ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Indian med students in Bangladesh in dilemma over return

    Kolkata: Around 300-500 Indian medical students in Dhaka are in a dilemma whether to flee or stay back and cater to the wounded at the hospitals. “The college authorities have shut the gates and we are safe inside. The ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Schoolkids caught in road rage as cabby drives off with bus key

    Kolkata: A DPS Megacity school bus with 35 students on board was stopped by a rogue app-cab driver on Tuesday afternoon following a minor collision on the crater-filled VIP Road. The cabby then snatched the bus keys and drove ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Mini Bangladesh counts losses as tourists stay away

    Kolkata: The area around New Market, which is often referred to as Mini Bangladesh, is reeling under the impact of the turmoil in the neighbouring country with a sharp dip in the arrival of tourists. On Wednesday, only 18 ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    JU ragging victim’s father to record statement soon

    Kolkata: The father of the first-year JU student who died after a fall on the hostel premises is likely to record his statement to the prosecution soon. On Wednesday, a local Pocso court examined the doctor who carried out ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata 2nd most affordable big city in housing mkt

    Kolkata: Of top eight cities, Pune and Kolkata are the second most affordable residential market in the country, according to the Knight Frank India affordability index. The index places Ahmedabad as the most affordable city.While a person would have ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Ensure Bangla visitors are not harassed’

    Kolkata: Police have stepped up security across the city. All police stations have been instructed to visit guest houses and hotels in their jurisdictions, prepare reports on guests and share them daily with Lalbazar and the Special Branch. Cops ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Money in pocket dwindles as Taka value dips

    Kolkata: Al Ameen arrived in Kolkata from Kairanigunge in Dhaka on Aug 1 for his sister’s treatment at a hospital in Dhakuria. The same day, he had exchanged Bangladeshi Taka for Indian Rupees and received Rs 70.25 in exchange ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    It’s official: E-W to start full 16.6km Sec V-Hwh Maidan run in Mar 2025

    Kolkata: East-West Metro is likely to start its full 16.6km run in March next year, Anuj Mittal, the new Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) — the implementing agency of the India’s first under-river metro — managing director, said on ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Safe, but in hiding’: Msg from across border

    Kolkata: "We are safe, but in an undisclosed location". Most calls or messages to Awami League functionaries and supporters as well as minority community members in Bangladesh are now being met with this standard response, underscoring the spread and ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Bata plans to turn Floatz into ₹500cr brand in less than 5 yrs

    Kolkata: Footwear major Bata is hoping to turn its India-made label Floatz into a Rs 500-crore brand in less than 5 years. Bata is also planning to bring exclusive brand outlets (EBOs) for Floatz. The footwear major, which has ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Travel curbs cut off funds supply, Bangla patients fear treatment may stop midway

    Kolkata: Bangladeshi patients now admitted in Kolkata hospitals or seeking treatment at OPDs are worried over returning home due to the travel uncertainties and shortage of funds. A significant number who had arrived in Kolkata before the fresh round ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    Green channels to divert midnight Maa traffic

    Kolkata: The police have decided to create green channels on the Park Circus Connector between midnight and 5am — the time when Maa Flyover will be shut for Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) work. Police sources said this was ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    ITC to premiumise biscuit and cake biz

    Kolkata: ITC is planning to premiumise its biscuit and cake business. As part of this strategy, the company has added a new category in its range of biscuits — ‘egg and milk’. Ali Harris Shere, COO of the biscuits ...

    8 August 2024 Times of India
    New Town set to get three waste processing and recycling plants

    Kolkata: Following the inclusion of New Town in the Centre’s ‘Cities 2.0’ programme along with 18 other cities across the country to develop integrated solid waste management system in which the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is expected ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Baker hostel in Kolkata: The place where 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman envisioned Bangladesh

    NEW DELHI: In the midst of chaos in Bangladesh, which saw the downfall of Sheikh Hasina's government, statues of the country's founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were destroyed and a museum dedicated to him was set ablaze. However, just ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Let’s rebuild nation, protect rights of all: Plea from Kolkata's 'mini Bangladesh'

    KOLKATA: Let’s rebuild the nation and protect the rights of all citizens: this was the predominant sentiment among the hundreds of Bangladeshis stuck in Kolkata, who made a fervent plea for peace and harmony among all sects back home. ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    No theft at Bansdroni house but vandalism took place: Cops

    Kolkata: A month after a 64-year-old woman from Pragati Park in Brahmapur under Bansdroni police station reported thefts at her residence twice, cops claimed that the first reported incident did not happen as the widow wanted respite from the ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Fed lifts ban, shoot starts for Prosenjit-starrer

    Kolkata: The shooting for SVF’s as-yet untitled puja release began at Technicians’ Studio on Tuesday. This development was facilitated after members of Federation of Cine Technicians Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) convened on Monday and reached a consensus to ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    'Looking forward to new future': 314 Bangladeshis staying in West Bengal take 1st batch of flights, buses back home

    KOLKATA: With the 15-year-old govt now ousted, there was a rush among Bangladeshis on Tuesday - several of them cooped up in Marquis Street for weeks - to return home and be a part of the unfolding history in ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    'Feeling more unsafe now': Bangladesh police officer's wife expresses fear over raging violence

    I came to India on July 28 on a normal holiday. In India, I had hoped I would be able to visit Kashmir. But that was not to be.My husband - a police officer in Dhaka - was called ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Escaping death: How an Indian exporter jumped from burning hotel in Bangladesh

    PETRAPOLE/KOLKATA: At the Petrapole border, Shahid Ali's groans of pain can be heard several feet away from the ambulance he's in. The 36-year-old has two fractured legs, but he's thanking his lucky stars at being able to cross over ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    In Bangladesh, students form protective rings around temples

    Kolkata: As mayhem engulfed Bangladesh with a section of protesters vandalizing monuments and official buildings, a number of students’ organisations and youth wings of political parties stood guard outside temples and churches to keep them safe. Several such photos ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    North-South divide in rain pattern as city gets sharp shower spells

    Kolkata: A cyclonic circulation over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh triggered some sharp spells of rain on Tuesday. While Alipore recorded only 6.5 mm of rain, Dum Dum recorded over 10 times the amount. A heavy shower of ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladeshi diaspora set to swell as most afraid of returning home

    Kolkata: The ongoing violence in Bangladesh is adding to the ranks of Bangladeshis stuck outside homeland or living in exile, who fear they will never be able to return to their country.TOI on Tuesday spoke to several Bangladeshi nationals, ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Midnight-5 am block on Maa till KMDA work is complete

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has decided to shut traffic movement on Maa flyover from 12 midnight to 5 am for the proposed KMDA work to complete the protective painting and allied works at the flyover’s ROB part (on top ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    Cops get training from social media giants to solve cases faster

    Kolkata: Facing the massive challenge of rising cyber crimes through social media, Kolkata Police met officials from Whatsapp and Facebook on Monday in an effort to learn basic technicalities that can help them solve cases faster. The cops claimed ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
    ...while others grab the first opportunity to go back to a ‘new & democratic Bangladesh’

    Bangladeshi nationals KOLKATA: A batch of 311 Bangladeshis, stranded in Kolkata due to ongoing turmoil in their country, began their journey back home Tuesday via flights and buses. The first group of 67 flyers faced anxious hours at Kolkata ...

    7 August 2024 Times of India
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