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  • News from West Bengal | 10 Jul, 2025 | ২৬ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • 63k UPI fraud after phone theft

    Kolkata: The Entally Police has initiated an investigation into a case of mobile phone theft and subsequent unauthorised bank transactions via UPI leading to a loss of over Rs 63,000 after a complaint was filed by a Bihar resident ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Chef classes at Kolkata airport lounge to sweeten travel memories

    Kolkata: Passengers travelling through Kolkata airport on Thursdays can now learn a recipe of some culinary delight from a master chef at the Kolkata airport lounge. This comes as an initiative undertaken by the Kolkata airport to elevate the ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Principal scolding student is not suicide abetment: Calcutta HC

    123 Kolkata: Mere scolding of a student cannot fall within the definition of abetment of suicide as it is a teacher's duty to do so, Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri circuit bench recently held while quashing criminal proceedings against the ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    CM writes to Shah, seeks laws on ‘provocative’ posts

    12 Kolkata: Expressing concern over the increase in "provocative social media content", CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday, urging a deterrent legislation to address the issue as it posed a "serious challenges to ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Protesters hurl stones at minister’s car in Monteswar

    12 Monteswar: Minister Siddiqullah Choudhury faced protests during his visit to Monteswar in East Burdwan district on Thursday. Choudhury, whose hand was hurt, described the attack as an "attempt on his life" and demanded strict action against the protesters. ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Court cannot punish B for A’s mistake: Counsel on HC order nixing 32k primary teachers’ appts

    Kolkata: Senior counsel Anindya Mitra challenged the 2023 Calcutta High Court order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay annulling services of 32,000 primary school teachers and argued that a court of law cannot cancel appointments of people not made parties in ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Kartik Maharaj gets HC breather

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state to not take any step against Padma Shri awardee Kartik Maharaj, who is facing rape allegations, until it hears the case.Justice Jay Sengupta's directive came as the accused moved court ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Stop harassment of Bengal workers in your state, CS Pant writes to Odisha

    Kolkata: Indicating a growing frustration with Bengali-speaking migrant workers being illegally detained in Odisha as Bangladeshis, Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, Manoj Ahuja, to put an end to this "continuing harassment faced ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Traffic cops take up man’s wrong car fine complaint

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police received an unusual complaint from a motorist after discovering a concerning discrepancy in a traffic violation notice. The vehicle registration number of his car appeared to have been used on a different car. This ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Push for pvt bus app rollout by Durga Puja

    Kolkata: In a move to improve public transport transparency, safety, and commuter convenience, the state transport department met private bus operators on Thursday to discuss expanding the ‘Where-is-my-Bus' app across the city's fleet. The department aims to bring at ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Tamanna’s family to go to HC for CBI probe

    Krishnanagar: The family of 10-year-old Tamanna Khatun, who was killed in a bomb blast on June 23 following Trinamool Congress's bypoll victory in Kaliganj, plans to approach Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI probe into her death. Police had ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Kol airport records pre-Cov high in revenue, passenger footfall

    123 Kolkata: Kolkata airport clocked the highest ever revenue and profit in 2023-24, surpassing the previous highest recorded in 2019-20 prior to the pandemic. Kolkata retained the numero uno position in the list of airports operated by the Airports ...

    4 July 2025 Times of India
    Police seize 132 original passports from fraud gang

    Kolkata: Baguiati cops busted a passport racket, arrested a key suspect and recovered 132 original passports from a rented house in East Burdwan.Khalid Ahmed, also known as Ahmed Khan (46), was arrested following investigations into a Zero FIR filed ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    HC sends Tolly case back to single bench

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declined to interfere with the single bench order directing the principal secretary, information and cultural affairs department, to consider the representation by Tollywood film directors and submit the decision of the govt to ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    6 months after life in RG Kar case, same court gives death for twin murders

    Kolkata: Sealdah trial judge Anirban Das, who sent the RG Kar rape-murder accused to life behind bars, sentenced a 45-year-old to death on Wednesday for murdering and robbing an elderly Chitpore couple 10 years ago. The judge ordered that ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Majumdar: A passionate promoter of chess passes away

    123 Kolkata: Indian chess lost one of its greatest supporters with the passing of Soumen Majumdar in the early hours on Wednesday in the city. Majumdar was 69 and is survived by wife and a son.Very few organisers had ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    From row over ‘escort tips’ to littering, life’s tough for Bhowanipore dhaba zone locals

    123 Kolkata: From litter, including alcohol bottles, strewn at doorsteps to the encroachment of pavements and fights among escorts over tips, the residents of Harish Mukherjee Road near a popular dhaba bear the brunt of nuisances committed by visitors ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Cannot recall anything, says rape campus ‘GS’

    12 Kolkata: A second-year law student, known as the "general secretary" on the law college campus, claimed she could not recollect the time of meeting the rape survivor last Wednesday evening or the conversation she had with her. Students ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    CBI names TMC MLA, councillors in 2021 Kankurgachhi murder case

    Kolkata: The CBI on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet in the 2021 murder case of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, who was killed during post-election violence in Kankurgachhi. The charge sheet names Beleghata MLA Paresh Pal, Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Team MM was powerful enough to influence college routine change

    Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, accused of raping a first-year student at a law college last Wednesday, was so powerful that he allegedly influenced the rescheduling of class hours from 7.30 am to 9 am. Questions are now being raised how ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Rehab drive for Sector V hawkers

    123 Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has started shifting hawkers from one side of certain road stretches in Sector V and rehabilitating them to the other side of the road to make one side free from encroachment.Officials ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Bar Council debars accused from practising in Bengal

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Bar Council on Wednesday debarred the law college rape prime accused, Monojit Mishra, from state enrolment. Monojit can no longer practise anywhere in Bengal, neither at Calcutta High Court nor subordinate courts.A meeting led by ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Monojit set sights on the survivor from day 1’

    Kolkata: Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee, the two cronies of Monojit Mishra who are in police custody, have told interrogators that Monojit had set his eyes on the survivor the very day she had enrolled in the college. The ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Rape survivor’s parents do not want CBI probe yet

    Kolkata: Parents of the first-year law student, who was allegedly raped at her college last week, don't want a CBI probe as of now. They want to keep their faith in the trial court proceedings, one of the lawyers ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    State women’s panel: Girl still in trauma

    Kolkata: West Bengal Commission for Women chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay on Wednesday said the survivor is still "traumatised". "We have spoken to her; she is visibly traumatised. Her hands were shaking, and we could see the pain on her face. ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Youth beaten up near Beadon St

    Kolkata: A youth, reportedly a member of the Trinamool youth wing, was brutally attacked in what locals claimed was an internal party conflict near Beadon Street on Tuesday. Santu Haldar, was assaulted with bricks, iron rods, and glass bottles. ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops seek licence suspension for 6 months for serious traffic violations

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has requested the state transport department to extend the minimum driving licence suspension period from three to six months, for cases involving fatal accidents and serious traffic violations. In the latest road safety committee meeting, ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Darj taxi strike threat over traffic issues

    Kolkata: Tourists planning their vacation to Darjeeling this festive season may encounter major travel disruptions. The Himalayan Transport Coordination Committee, the apex body representing local taxi syndicates, has announced a possible suspension of services to protest against the authorities' ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    For improved patient care, city docs form lab med group

    Kolkata: Doctors specialising in different streams of laboratory diagnosis and treatment came together in Kolkata to launch the Association of Laboratory Medicine (ALM) on Wednesday to enhance patient care in the city. While biochemistry, pathology, microbiology and transfusion medicine ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    HC clears stretch under litigation for Kidderpore metro station

    12 Kolkata: The Purple line overcame a major hurdle on Wednesday as a Calcutta High Court division bench dismissed the appeal of tenants of a DH Road property where the Nepal Consulate is supposed to be shifted, to make ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Monojit told aides to keep watch on Kasba PS, made calls for help

    123 Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the June 25 law student gang-rape case, before leaving the college after committing the crime had asked a few of his trusted aides to stay back on the campus and keep ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Rashbehari-to-college campus rally takes up entire road flank

    Kolkata: Hundreds of BJP supporters on Wednesday afternoon marched down a 3-km route from Rashbehari crossing to the law college where a first-year student was gang-raped a week ago. The rally took place after the organisers — Bharatiya Janata ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    ICMAI wants med insurance, essential commodities under cost audit ambit

    Kolkata: The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI) has written to Centre to bring medical insurance under the ambit of cost audit through Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013. It has also sought the inclusion of essential ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    CM reviews arrangements ahead of festivities

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee held a meeting on Wednesday with top officials and senior ministers to review security arrangements during the upcoming Ulta Rath, Muharram and Srabani Mela. The CM made it clear that she would not tolerate any ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Alifa takes oath as new Kaliganj MLA

    Kolkata: Trinamool's Alifa Ahmed was sworn in as Kaliganj MLA on Wednesday. She was administered the oath by assembly speaker Biman Banerjee. However, she will remain an MLA for only 10 months, as Bengal polls are due in May ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta moves HC over ‘unlawful detentions’

    Kolkata: Junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday moved Calcutta High Court challenging his "unlawful detentions by state police" at recent political protests. The petition was admitted by Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, and the matter is expected to be taken up ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Panskura chips suicide: Getting pressured to withdraw case, says mom

    Panskura: The mother of a Panskura minor, who died by suicide over being accused of stealing chips, filed a police complaint on Tuesday alleging that a civic volunteer was pressuring her to withdraw the case against the accused shopkeeper. ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Chargesheet against film director in Thakurpukur market accident

    Kolkata: The homicide section of the detective department filed the chargesheet on Tuesday at the Alipore Court against film director Siddhanta Das in connection with the April 6 crash that killed one pedestrian and injured six others at Thakurpukur ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    State nod for 2nd Kestopur bailey bridge

    Kolkata: The state govt has approved the proposed second bailey bridge project on Kestopur Canal to connect Salt Lake and VIP Road, as the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to take up work to set up the foundation ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops give lane-cutting lessons to school kids

    Kolkata: School students who visited Kolkata Traffic Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Wednesday posed a few questions that stumped even senior officers. During their visit to the traffic control room on Road Safety Week, students from Sri Chaitanya Techno ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bangladeshi smuggler’ shot dead by BSF personnel

    Krishnaganj: A suspected Bangladeshi smuggler was shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along the India-Bangladesh border in Nadia district on Tuesday. The incident occurred near the Gede Halderpara Border Outpost (BOP) under the jurisdiction of the 32nd ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Retd teacher convicted of 9-yr-old’s rape

    Kolkata: A retired govt school teacher was convicted of raping a nine-year-old girl by a Malda court on Wednesday. Rafikul Islam, also known as Bhelu, was convicted under section 6 of the Pocso Act and Section 376AB of the ...

    3 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: Two municipal workers killed and one injured after tree falls in howrah corporation office premises

    HOWRAH: On Wednesday, within the Howrah Municipal Corporation, two municipal workers died after being crushed by a large eucalyptus tree, and another was injured. The incident occurred around 5.45 am when three municipal workers were having tea in front ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Speeding truck hits police patrol car in West Bengal's Midnapore; 2 cops dead, 1 injured

    Representative Image TAMLUK: A police patrol car from Mahishadal police station in East Midnapore was involved in a severe accident in the early hours of Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of two police personnel, including sub-inspector Jayanta Ghoshal.Around 1 ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Law college gang rape: Detective department to take over case, say Kolkata Police

    Kolkata Police's Detective Department is now investigating the gangrape of a law student within a south Kolkata college. The survivor, a Trinamool student activist, alleges she was lured with promises of a key position before being assaulted.NEW DELHI: The ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Wife earning not enough to deny relief’: Calcutta HC raises Mohammed Shami’s monthly maintenance to estranged wife, daughter; cricketer to pay Rs 4L instead of Rs 1.3L

    The court raised the amounts to Rs 1,50,000 and Rs 2,50,000 per month, respectively, acknowledging that a wife's income doesn't negate her right to monetary relief.KOLKATA: The Calcutta HC on Tuesday increased the interim maintenance amount to be provided ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Road safety drive beefed up as accident deaths dip

    Kolkata: The city witnessed 84 fatal accident deaths in the first six months of this year compared to 92 in the same period last year. However, with the city having around 4% of road space – which ideally should ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law student gang-rape: Accused revived girl with inhaler to prolong torture, say cops; were desperate to keep her conscious

    KOLKATA: The rapists of the law student showed intense inhumanity by buying an inhaler, not to alleviate her suffering but to prolong the torture, showing both "intent and desperation", Kolkata Police told Alipore court on Tuesday."They were very desperate. ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    'Wrong operation done to claim govt funds: Bengal man goes for hernia surgery, doctors remove appendix instead; kin cry foul

    The patient alleges the doctor performed the appendectomy to fraudulently claim funds from the Swasthya Sathi health scheme, as hernia surgeries are not covered. KOLKATA: A Sodepur resident has alleged that the doctor had removed his appendix while he ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    International flyer footfall at Kolkata airport back to normal after conflict blip

    KOLKATA: International passenger footfall at Kolkata airport has bounced back after a sudden four-day slump in June caused by the closure of airspace over Middle East after Iran launched a missile strike on US air bases in Qatar and ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    More showers for five more days: Met

    12 Kolkata: Higher than the mean monthly, rainy days kept the city's June mercury in check. Even though the city did not experience any heavy rain spell on Tuesday, 11.7 mm of rain till late evening and a partly ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Girls’ attendance dipped as soon as Monojit re-entered campus as staffer

    Kolkata: The notoriety of Monojit Mishra, the key accused in the rape of a first-year student on a law college campus, is such that after he had joined back the college in mid-2024 as an ad-hoc staff members, the ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Sickness beyond campus: Rape video search trends on Google

    Kolkata: The alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old law student on the campus has led to a surge in online searches for the video, reportedly recorded during the incident. Google Trends data indicates that searches related to the ‘Kolkata ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Senior citizens learn how to keep e-fraud at bay

    Kolkata: Senior citizens attended a cyber awareness session organised by Kolkata Police. Close to 500 senior citizens from across the city gathered at a cyber awareness and sensitisation session organised by Kolkata Police on Tuesday afternoon under their Pronam ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Stayed at home for six wks after picnic trauma

    In 2023, the year I had joined college, we had gone on a picnic to Budge Budge. The seniors had organised the outing for juniors. I was new to the city and I was all excited about the picnic. ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Rape accused should be hanged, says law college vice-principal after GB meeting

    Kolkata: The vice-principal of the law college where a first-year student was gang raped said the perpetrators should be hanged even as the governing body expelled Monojit Mishra and decided to appeal to the bar council for the cancellation ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Leave two-thirds of road flank for traffic movement, HC tells rallyists

    Kolkata: Keeping in mind the commuters' woes during a rally, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the police authorities to ensure that the breadth of political rallies be restricted to a third of the road to ensure there ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops catch gold thieves within 20 minutes of theft

    Kharagpur: Police in Jhargram arrested two people and recovered Rs 2 crore worth of gold from them within 20 minutes of the theft being reported in Jharkhand's Chakulia on Monday. At 8.30pm, Jhargram's Jamboni cops received information about three ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Behind mask: Who heals the healer?’

    Kolkata: Doctors need to feel safe both on campus and at hospitals and chambers since they suffer as much physical exhaustion and stress as the rest of society, dealing with the weight of expectations from patients on a daily ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake girl falls to death, parents cry foul

    Kolkata: The parents of a class VII student from a popular central Kolkata school cried foul play after she was found in a bloodied state outside her four-storey flat at Bichitra Abasan in Salt Lake on Sunday night and ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops quiz vice-principal, may question union head

    Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the gang rape questioned the vice-principal of the college after the call record details of prime accused Monojit Mishra revealed a call went to her a day after the crime. "However, the content ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    241-yr-old Asiatic Society unveils list of 78 oil paintings since 15th century

    Kolkata: Marking a milestone in its nearly two-and-a-half-century-long legacy, the Asiatic Society on Tuesday unveiled its first-ever illustrated catalogue of oil paintings from its collection. The catalogue, compiled by Isha Mahammad and Somnath Mukherjee, was released by Bengal's governor ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    30% pay hike for Tollywood technicians

    Kolkata: After three years, producers of Bengali serials have agreed to give Tollywood technicians a substantial pay hike. The agreement between producers and the Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) has provided considerable relief to ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    State edu dpt extends form submission date to July 15

    Kolkata: The state higher education department has extended the form submission for centralized admissions until July 15. A notice was posted on the centralized admission portal on Tuesday evening. The portal was supposed to close on Tuesday night. Higher education ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    In hosp for hernia op, doc removes appendix

    Kolkata: A Sodepur resident has alleged that the doctor had removed his appendix while he was admitted to the hospital for a hernia surgery. Incidentally, the patient and the accused doctor share the same name — Biswajit Das. The patient ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    3 of a family found dead in Howrah flat

    Howrah: The bodies of three individuals were discovered inside a locked flat in a high-rise building in Ramrajatala on Tuesday afternoon. Howrah City Police identified the deceased as Sambit Khan (30), an IT engineer; his father, Balram Khan (65), ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    When examining body can’t be changed, can teachers be sacked, HC asked

    Kolkata: If a court of law can't change the examining body accused of corruption, can it scrap appointments of teachers serving in state primary schools for the last five years, senior counsel Anindya Mitra pleaded in Calcutta High Court ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Kartik Maharaj moves HC, seeks cover from coercive action

    Kolkata: Padma Shri awardee Swami Pradiptananda, known as Kartik Maharaj, on Tuesday moved Calcutta High Court seeking protection from coercive action in a rape complaint filed against him.The matter was mentioned before Justice Jay Sengupta and is likely to ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    New EC rules may pave way for exclusion, manipulation: TMC

    Kolkata: Days after CM Mamata Banerjee raised objections to the Election Commission's (EC's) new voter roll guidelines, a five-member Trinamool delegation on Tuesday met EC officials at the poll body's headquarters in Delhi and submitted a memorandum outlining multiple ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    HC orders transfer of Burdwan University case to Lalbazar DD

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered CID to transfer its investigation into alleged corruption at Burdwan University to the assistant commissioner of police, detective department (DD), Lalbazar within a week. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, after reviewing the investigation report ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    More beds for patients with rare diseases

    Kolkata: Prodded by the Calcutta HC, the state on Tuesday submitted that a 50-bed critical care unit at the Kolkata Police Hospital was on the verge of completion. In this unit, three ICU beds on the ground floor would ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal logs hat-trick of organ donations as brain dead youth gives new life to 4

    Kolkata: A 21-year-old man, Shantu Maji, died after sustaining head injuries in an accident on June 26. Despite the grief of losing a young life, Maji's family decided that his organs would give a fresh lease of life to ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP to get new state prez tomorrow

    Kolkata: With dates for the election of the state president announced on Tuesday, Bengal BJP faces the challenging task of finding its new Bengal chief before going into the 2026 assembly polls. The results will be declared on Thursday.After ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Sealdah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express celebrates 25th anniv

    Kolkata: The Sealdah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express reached a milestone on Tuesday, celebrating its 25th anniversary. Until 2000, the train only left from Howrah station, Eastern Railway officials said. "On July 1, 2000, Railways connected the vibrant city of Kolkata ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Birbhum police chief skips NCW summons

    123 Kolkata: Birbhum police superintendent Amandeep did not appear before the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday, which had sought his appearance in connection with alleged "reluctance and negligence" in investigating a criminal case against Trinamool strongman Anubrata ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Why are ‘tainted’ candidates allowed in fresh process? Cal HC asks SSC

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday questioned the School Service Commission's decision to allow "tainted" candidates to participate in the fresh recruitment process. "Why are tainted candidates being permitted in spite of directions by the Supreme Court?" Justice ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
    Gateway to a legacy: Kolkata restorers begin restoration of Tollygunge Ghari Ghar heritage gateway

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Restorers, a collective of citizens who love the city and its heritage, have started restoring the Tollygunge Ghari Ghar, a Grade I heritage structure off Deshpran Sasmal Road near the Tipu Sultan Mosque.Constructed around 1865 by Prince ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Not just a Pride Month talk: City hosts a literary event on identity and visibility

    Karuna Ezara Parikh the exhaustion of being boxed in, and the urgency of still being heard.Malcolm SeahWhen visibility becomes a performanceYou Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college gang rape: Monojit Mishra claims act ‘consensual’; SIT to quiz 17 witnesses, scan 42 CCTV videos

    A special investigation team is meticulously examining the south Kolkata campus rape case, focusing on 17 students present during the crime. Investigators are analyzing CCTV footage and medical reports, which corroborate the survivor's statement, alongside call data records and ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Controlled 10–15 admissions a year’: How gang rape accused Monojit Mishra built muscle power at Kolkata law college with cash and clout

    Students revealed that Monojit, known as 'Mango,' exploited desperate candidates with poor entrance exam ranks, promising backdoor admissions. KOLKATA: Monojit Mishra, the key accused in the campus rape case, reportedly controlled 10 to 15 admissions each year, with the ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Gang steals gold, cash from ‘Police House’, sets it on fire

    Howrah: Three thieves broke into a police officers' house at Munshirhat in Jagatballavpur, Howrah, around Sunday midnight and made away with gold and cash, collectively worth around Rs 3 lakh. No one was at home at the time of ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses 10L in matrimonial site fraud

    Kolkata: A woman (38) from Baisanabghata lost Rs 10 lakh to a matrimonial fraud. The woman lodged a complaint at the Patuli PS on Monday, saying the accused, posing as a 27-year-old businessman from Bijoygarh, contacted her on a ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    New Town to get 24x7 ICU ambulance

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) plans to introduce an advanced life support (ALS) ambulance, complete with an ICU facility, paramedical staff and a helper, which will be available to residents of New Town and surroundings round ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    1st weekday washout for central Kolkata traders as processions add to rain pain

    123456 Kolkata: A heavy spell of rain early on Monday morning brought the Central Business District to a near standstill, dealing a blow to business in trading hubs like Burrabazar, Canning Street, Ezra Street, College Street, BB Ganguly Street ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    ZSI records 683 faunal discoveries in its 110th year

    123 Kolkata: Southern India continues to lead in biodiversity richness of the country as was evident from Zoological Survey of India's flagship publication, Animal Discoveries-2024, which documents 683 new faunal discoveries from across the country, 459 of the species ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    11 old cases against ‘Mango’, 4 of molestation

    12 Kolkata: Permanent presence of Monojit Mishra aka Mango on the campus and his stares were undoubtedly unsettling, claimed girls at the law college, where Mishra allegedly raped a girl, while two of his aides filmed the act. Police ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    From bringing tea to calling plumber, it’s all in a day’s work for ‘security guards’

    1234 Kolkata: A 43-year-old resident of the Park Circus area, who works as a security guard at one of the colleges in central Kolkata, has to bring tea for professors and non-teaching staff from a roadside stall, about 150 ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    College closed indefinitelyamid cry for campus reforms

    1234 Kolkata: The law college, where a first-year student was raped last Wednesday, has been closed indefinitely. The college authorities announced this through a notice issued around Sunday midnight. After the incident came to light, police sealed the college. ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Sharp North-South divide on last day of wet June

    123 Kolkata: The city witnessed a sharp north-south divide in downpour on a rainy Monday. While north and central Kolkata were drenched by frequent, sharp spells of rain that left roads waterlogged for several hours in the morning, most ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Pant gets six-month extension as chief secy

    Kolkata: Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, whose was scheduled to retire on Monday, received an extension of six months. Pant is a 1991 batch IAS officer.The department of personnel and training, in charge of appointments of IAS officers, on ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Landing gear snag delays Kol-Doha flight by 5 hrs

    Kolkata: A suspected snag in the landing gear, probably due to hydraulics or electrical issue, delayed the departure of a Qatar Airways flight from Kolkata airport on Monday. The aircraft in use was a Boeing B 787-8 twinjet. The ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Woman molested, threatened with rape at Kidderpore mela in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly molested and threatened of rape by an Ekbalpore man at a Ratha Yatra mela on Friday evening near the Fancy Market entrance in Khidderpore, police said. The accused, who has an old rivalry ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Flyer held after bullets found in bag at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: A 21-year-old flyer from Thane (Maharashtra), Mohammad Usman Sheikh, was arrested at Kolkata airport on Sunday for allegedly trying to board a flight to Mumbai with two live bullets and two empty cases without carrying any legal documents, ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    City airport conducts full-scale emergency drill to assess disaster preparedness

    123 Kolkata: A full-scale emergency drill simulating an aircraft crash was conducted at Kolkata airport on Monday afternoon to assess the preparedness and coordination of multiple agencies in managing aviation disasters.In the simulated scenario, an incoming Air India aircraft ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Campus gang rape: Arrested guard of law college may turn approver

    Kolkata: Three days after Kolkata Police arrested Pinaki Banerjee, the 55-year-old security guard of the law college where a first-year student was gang-raped, police indicated that they were considering moving the court to get his confidential statement recorded before ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Focus on anti-ageing hype after ‘Kaanta Laga’ girl’s death

    Kolkata: Shefali Jariwala's sudden demise at 42 has raised concerns over the potential dangers of taking anti-ageing medications on an empty stomach, especially during fasting. The incident has also drawn scrutiny to Bengal's film and modelling industry, where demand ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Physical document check must for vehicle ownership transfer in Bengal

    Kolkata: The state Transport Department issued fresh directives mandating vehicle owners to physically confirm ownership transfer before a designated official. The move is aimed at tightening regulations around the resale of used vehicles and curb unauthorised transactions.Dedicated counters at ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Water in tunnel, suicide stall metro, add to commute pain

    1234 Kolkata: Kolkata experienced severe commute challenges on Monday as heavy rainfall since morning led to waterlogging of key arterial roads in central and north Kolkata. This was compounded by two disruptions in the city's lifeline — the metro ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP fact-finding team visits law college, runs into TMC questions on Malviya’s Kartik praise

    12 Kolkata: A BJP fact-finding team arrived in Kolkata on Monday and visited the law college where a first-year student was allegedly gang-raped last week. However, they ran into a volley of questions from Trinamool over BJP IT cell ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal won’t remain silent over torture of migrant workers: TMC

    Kolkata: Bengali-speaking migrant workers were facing "persecution" in BJP-governed states and being branded Bangladeshis, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam said on Monday."These migrant workers are being detained without any police records. Authorities are not even contacting the ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
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