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  • 1.5k cops, 3 drones, 2 rounds of frisking at Eden for India-SA Test

    Kolkata: The much-anticipated Test match between India and South Africa is set to commence at Eden Gardens on Friday — under a thick security blanket following the explosion in Delhi. No less than 1,500 cops will be on duty, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    If you can’t submit SIR form now, EC will offer second chance after Dec 9

    Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has announced that those who will fail to submit their filled enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Dec 4 deadline will get a second ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Trainee doc held for molesting minor on med college campus

    Kolkata: A 32-year-old third-year postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor at Barasat Medical College and Hospital in North 24-Parganas was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl under the pretext of examining her before a surgery.The accused, identified as ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang hospitalised: Nosebleed, high BP during event; under close medical observation

    GANGTOK: Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang was admitted to hospital on Thursday, after he experienced nose bleeding and high blood pressure while attending a programme at Rangpo Ground, his son said.The incident took place during the ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    EC’s ‘Aadhaar data plot’ to delete voters won’t work in Bengal, says TMC

    Kolkata: Any attempt to make living voters dead using UIDAI's Aadhaar data, evident during the Bihar special intensive revision (SIR), will be resisted in Bengal both in the courts and on the streets, Trinamool said on Thursday.The party's sharp ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    You inhale microplastics equal to a plastic bottle

    Kolkata: An average Kolkatan inhales about 2.9 grams of microplastics over a lifetime, equivalent to breathing in a small plastic bottle, a study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, AIIMS Kalyani, and ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Children’s Day celebrations in Kolkata schools turn less sweet, more healthy

    Kolkata: On the eve of Children's Day, some CBSE-affiliated schools in Kolkata chose not to give high-calorie chocolates and sweets during the school celebrations. Instead, they opted to provide food items containing less sugar and salt. The step comes ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    HC seeks state affidavit on horse health check failure

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday directed the state to file an affidavit stating why it was yet to conduct a health check on horses engaged in hauling hackney carriages in the Maidan area despite the HC's Nov 2023 order. ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu claims threat calls from Pak, B’desh

    Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly, on Thursday alleged that he was getting threat calls from Pakistan. Adhikari claimed he was also receiving threat calls from Bangladesh on a regular basis."I got a threat call ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA conducts searches in Bengal over Guj terror conspiracy case

    Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency () was among the multiple central and state security agencies that conducted searches at several locations in Bengal over the past 48 hours.While the NIA raids at Dinhata in Cooch Behar, just like Nabagram ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    HC disqualifies Mukul as MLA for defection

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified 71-year-old Mukul Roy from the Bengal assembly under an anti-defection law, four years after petitions were filed against him by the leader of opposition in the assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and BJP MLA ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Sudden dip in temp lays city low with viral and bacterial infections

    Kolkata: Even as the minimum temperature dipped below 18°C, the city was gripped by yet another viral outbreak, laying hundreds, including children, low. The symptoms were similar to several preceding outbreaks: a persistent cough, high fever, body ache and ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    ICSE exams from Feb 17, ISC from Feb 12

    Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations released the timetables for the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) examinations for 2026 on Thursday. The ICSE and ISC exams will start on Feb 17 and Feb 12, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Country’s oldest cantonment board begins 250th anniv celebrations

    Kolkata: India's oldest cantonment, the Barrackpore Cantonment — established in 1772 by the British East India Company — celebrated its 250th anniversary on Thursday with a grand inauguration ceremony at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (Sainik) Auditorium, Barrackpore.Established on ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Awards for compassion towards animals in films to debut in Kolkata on Dec 20

    Kolkata: The inaugural edition of CineKind, a new award dedicated to celebrating kindness, particularly towards animals and the natural world, will be held in Kolkata on Dec 20. The event marks a significant milestone in the Indian film industry ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    ED summons Sujit Bose’s wife, son

    Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday sent summons to Bengal fire minister Sujit Bose's wife and son as part of the agency's probe into the municipal jobs case. They have been asked to appear before the agency next ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    31st KIFF ends with a surprise CM visit and creative-economy message

    Kolkata: Chief minister paid a surprise visit to the closing ceremony of the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on Thursday to give away the Royal Bengal Tiger award. The international jury, setting a new benchmark at KIFF, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Eves head for Eden after women’s WC win

    Kolkata: On the eve of Test cricket's grand return to Kolkata, a wave of women — from college students to homemakers and office-goers — are preparing to fill the stands of Eden Gardens as India play the first match ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Doubts over transparency in state health dept hiring

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Recruitment Board (WBHRB) notification of appointing assistant professors to fill up 621 vacant posts in different disciplines in medical colleges in the state has sparked controversy with several members of the interview panel being ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    In most paras, elderly voters crowd help desks

    Kolkata: Confused, anxious, and scared of being left out of the voters' list, hundreds of elderly residents thronged the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) help desks across the city — from Hind Cinema near Wellington Square to Harokali Colony in ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Will complete distribution of SIR forms by tonight, assure EC officials

    Kolkata: By Friday night, all electors in the city who are yet to receive an SIR knock may get their enumeration forms delivered at their doorstep. (ECI) officials assured on Thursday that booth level officers (BLO) are racing ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Split verdict: Goopy in EC-produced video not sure about SIR final outcome

    Kolkata: As an actor, Sujan Mukhopadhyay, essaying Satyajit Ray film's immortal character Goopy in an Election Commission-produced video, has been urging everyone to fill their Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms. In person, Mukhopadhyay is, however, unsure about SIR's final ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata International Film Festival promotes celluloid projection with 'Nayantara' screening at Radha Studio

    KOLKATA: The small projection room of Radha Studio had a busy look on Wednesday afternoon. Projectionist Gopal Chandra Dutta was back in action to showcase a 1997 film shot by Dhrubojyoti Bose and Kamal Nayak on celluloid for the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Ray's Apu trilogy accompanied Cuban director during the filming of his documentary that’s competing for KIFF’s top award

    KOLKATA: A black-and-white Cuban documentary has created quite a sensation as one of the contenders of the top award of the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). David Bim’s “To the West, in Zapatta” captures the intimacy of a ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI erupts over Islamophobic graffiti on campus

    Kolkata: One of the premier institutions in the country, the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, was rocked by Islamophobic graffiti a day after a devastating car explosion killed at least 12 people and left several injured in Delhi. The "hateful ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: CISF conducts raids on illegal coal mining sites in Mugma

    KOLKATA: The CISF sector headquarters in Kolkata has launched a large-scale raid at coal mining sites under Eastern Coalfields Ltd at Mugma, Jharkhand. Sources said the raids halted the movement of any vehicles potentially carrying illegally mined coal.According to ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    BJP hands EC list of over 13L voters with ‘double entries’

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Wednesday submitted a list of over 13 lakh voters against whom it had spotted "double or triple entry" to the Election Commission."We have submitted a pen drive with the EC containing the names of 13, ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Autopsy done after prof lodges plaint over dog death on IIT-Kgp campus

    Kharagpur: A dog-loving professor at IIT Kharagpur lodged a complaint with police, seeking an autopsy to determine the cause death of a dog on Tuesday. Following the complaint, the autopsy was conducted at the State Animal Health Center in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    EC eases norm on BLA appointment; tweak to favour BJP, says TMC

    Kolkata: The poll panel on Tuesday announced that political parties can deploy a booth level agent (BLA) for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voters list anywhere in an assembly constituency, instead of assigning a particular booth to ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Santragachhi Jheel overrun by water hyacinth, clean-up delay threatens migratory bird arrival

    Kolkata: A year after the delayed cleanup of the 33-acre Santragachhi Jheel led to fewer arrivals of migratory birds, there are fears of a repeat this year, with work to remove the water hyacinth cover yet to start.Nature conservation ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    SSC aspirants: HC wants to hear from SC before deciding on marks for experience

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday preferred to wait for the 's "interpretation" on the award of up to 10 marks for teaching experience to the candidates who appeared in the 2nd State Level Selection Test 2025 and scheduled ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    17 & counting: Year’s deceased organ donation breaks record

    Kolkata: Bengal achieved a new height in deceased organ donation on Wednesday. The family of a 67-year-old woman consented to donate her organs after she was declared brain dead in a Kolkata hospital, making it the 17th deceased organ ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    In Burrabazar, absent, duplicate voters prompt BLOs to paste notices on doors

    Kolkata: Booth-level officers, distributing SIR enumeration forms in the Burrabazar-Posta area, were confronted with an array of problems—absent voters, addresses that could not be traced and residents with more than one voter ID cards. EC officials suspect at least ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    In complexes and paras, citizens help citizens in SIR hour of need

    Kolkata: Residents' Welfare Associations (RWAs) across gated complexes in Kolkata have turned WhatsApp groups and society notice boards into SIR classrooms, circulating step-by-step notes, FAQs, numbers of BLOs, and short videos on filling up new enumeration forms. In other ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police renews searches at Mini-Bangla hotels after terror attack in Delhi

    Kolkata: After the terror attack in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, Kolkata Police has increased its vigilance, especially at hotels and guest houses,particularly in central Kolkata, ‘Mini Bangladesh' area, and Sealdah station zone. Teams of Kolkata Police carried out checks in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    RDB Primarch Techpark sees Concentrix, Linde leasing deals

    Kolkata: RDB Primarc Techpark, has seen major leasing deals recently. These include those of Concentrix (127,000 sq ft), Linde (50,000 sq ft) and Greenwave Technologies (7,300 sq ft), highlighting brisk demand and robust occupier confidence. Primarc and RDB took ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kilburn Engineering Q2 profit jumps 30%

    Kolkata: Kilburn Engineering has reported a 30% rise in net profit to Rs 18 crore for the second quarter of the current fiscal, up from Rs 13.8 crore a year earlier. Total revenue grew 47% to Rs 116.8 crore ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Nklusive secures record real estate assets under mgmt in Kol, Hyd & B’luru

    Kolkata: A real estate consultancy firm dealing with premium projects across India secured assets worth nearly Rs 3,000 crore under management in Kolkata, just over a third of the new assets it signed for management across the country this ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    40L jewellery theft from Salt Lake home

    Kolkata: A 64-year-old resident of AJ Block in Salt Lake, Rajesh Kumar Dalmia, filed a cop complaint after he noticed several valuable items missing from his home. Among the items stolen are a solitaire ring, one pair of gold ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA raid at Murshidabad over ‘terror link’

    Kolkata: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Wednesday carried out a search operation at Murshidabad's Nabagram in connection with a two-year-old case involving an al-Qaeda terror network in Ahmedabad. The NIA team, with the help of local police ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata receives honorary D Litt from Japan’s Okayama University

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee received an honorary D Litt degree from Okayama University of Japan at a programme here on Wednesday.Nasu Yasutomo, president of the university, praised Banerjee for her role in the development of the state in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Student welfare in mind, IIT-Kgp meets parents

    Kolkata: The IIT Kharagpur administration on Tuesday launched a three-day virtual interaction with first-year students' parents and boarders of Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Hall of Residence, aiming to strengthen trust and transparency and foster a shared responsibility among the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC, Cong question EC’s use of 2002 SIR data despite 2009 delimitation

    Kolkata: Opposition parties in Bengal, led by the Trinamool on Wednesday questioned the EC's rationale for making SIR 2002 the reference year, even though the state underwent delimitation in 2009, which altered it's electoral demography. Both Trinamool and Congress ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Temp slides in Kolkata, min touches 17.2°C

    Kolkata: The mercury dipped further in Kolkata on Wednesday when the minimum temperature slipped to 17.2°C from Tuesday's 18.2°C. Wednesday's minimum was 3.1 notches below the normal mark. This was also equal to the lowest Nov minimum in 2024, ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Gaza girl’s last call haunts KIFF audience

    Kolkata: The pindrop silence followed by sniffles post the screening of Kaouther Ben Hania's ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab' at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) was starkly opposed to the 25 minutes of its standing ovation the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    EC to use Aadhaar data to weed out dead voters from poll roll

    Kolkata: For the first time since the Nov 4 rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, the Election Commission on Wednesday said it will use Aadhaar data to weed out dead electors from the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Sec V ranks 3rd in country in water conservation

    Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has secured the third position (joint winner) in the Best Urban Local Body category in the field of water resources conservation and management in the 6th National Water Awards, 2024, by the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Airport fastens seat belt before winter with low-visibility tech

    Kolkata: The primary runway at Kolkata airport, usually in use for flights to take off and land, will have the modern Instrument Landing System (ILS) at both ends. The Category (CAT) III-B system will enable flights to touch down ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC plans new dog shelter at Dhapa with space for 3k strays

    Kolkata: The civic body has planned to relocate the Dhapa dog pound to a spacious area close to the Dhapa dumping ground. The exercise aims at relocating stray dogs from public places following a Supreme Court order.The land in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    28% of city’s population diabetic, only half of them diagnosed: Study

    Kolkata: Around one in five of Kolkata's diabetics are aged below 18, according to a survey conducted by a diabetes screening organisation. It also claimed while 28% of the city's population is diabetic, not more than half was diagnosed. ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Idol’s gold chain stolen during Rash Purnima Puja

    Kolkata: A theft case was registered at Jorabagan Police Station following a complaint by Pompa Biswas (64) of Mondal Street, who claimed a gold neck chain was stolen from an idol during Rash Purnima Puja at her residence between ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Bypass snatchers strike, 5th time in 3 months

    Kolkata: In the fifth such incident since Sept, a mobile phone was snatched at the bustling Panchannagram crossing on Monday. At 10.50 am on Monday, Selim Malik, a resident of Martinpara off EM Bypass, was targeted by two unidentified ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Gold, silver, smartwatch stolen, Ballygunge woman files plaint against caregiver

    Kolkata: A Ballygunge resident, Madhuja Biswas (30), lodged a complaint against a caregiver she had recently hired for her mother after gold bangles, cash and other valuables, were stolen from her Garcha Road home.Kumkum Halder Das joined work on ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Airport on full red alert, like on I-Day

    Kolkata: Security at Kolkata airport was on Tuesday escalated to its highest level, with authorities enforcing a full red alert and multiple layers of screening. The heightened protocol, officials said, mirrored the Republic Day and Independence Day measures.Domestic flyers ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    3 cops assaulted in Collin Street area

    Kolkata: An officer and two constables from the Park Street Police Station were reportedly assaulted when they went to Collin Street to ask a witness-cum-suspect in a case to appear before the local police station. The incident took place ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Name mismatch’: S Dinajpur man kills self

    Malda: The family of a 65-year-old man from South Dinajpur's Kumargunj, who hanged himself on Monday, claimed that he had died by suicide after extreme anxiety over a mismatch in his name as listed in the 2002 SIR and ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Fraud in only 360 primary teacher recruitments, AG says in HC, cites CBI chargesheet

    Kolkata: Bengal advocate general Kishore Datta on Tuesday cited the CBI chargesheet in the case related to alleged fraud in the recruitment of 32,000 primary teachers and submitted before a Calcutta High Court division bench that irregularities were only ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Hold Shah accountable, blast occurred under his watch: TMC

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah should be held accountable for the blast in the national capital which claimed 12 lives, Trinamool said on Monday. TMC also criticised BJP, saying that while the party in office at the Centre ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Transformer work curtails Green Line ops by an hour

    Kolkata: Services along the Green Line were curtailed for an hour on Tuesday evening because a damaged auxiliary transformer needed replacement. The last trains from Sector V and Howrah Maidan terminals left the stations at 8.45 pm and 8.46 ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC to raise daily quota as birth cert demand spikes

    Kolkata: The KMC is planning to increase the daily quota of issuing duplicate birth and death certificates, which are now being applied for through a Chatbot.Panic over SIR enrolment is the primary reason for the rise in demand for ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Double delight: Woman becomes mom twice after double kidney transplant

    Kolkata: A 37-year-old Mizo woman has embraced motherhood for a second time after two kidney transplants. Defying all odds and challenging immunosuppressive therapies, the woman delivered her second bundle of joy recently in a Kolkata hospital.Lallianpuii, who underwent both ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    As temp dips to 18°C, Kolkata sees coldest day in the first half of Nov in 10 years

    Kolkata: The mercury dipped further in Kolkata on Tuesday. With the minimum temperature sliding to the 18-degree mark, it was the lowest for Nov 11 in the past decade, along with the maximum temperature of 28.6°C, the lowest for ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    NKDA notice to 13 owners for commercial use of homes

    Kolkata: NKDA has served notices on the owners of 13 residential buildings in New Town for running commercial facilities there without permission. The authorities had already issued notice to a couple of owners earlier.The errant owners have been using ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    BirlaNu signs agreement to acquire Clean Coats at Rs 120cr

    Kolkata: BirlaNu, part of the multi-billion-dollar CKA Birla Group, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Clean Coats, one of India's leading manufacturers of high-performance coatings and specialised construction chemicals. The acquisition cost is Rs 120 crore.Established in ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Partha returns home after bail, vows commitment to voters

    Kolkata: Former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, who was granted bail on Monday, finally reached home on Tuesday afternoon, three years and three months after he was arrested for his alleged role in recruitment irregularities.Trinamool workers and his followers ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Migrant deportation: HC allows contempt plea against Centre

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday accepted the contempt plea against the Centre for not bringing back six deported migrant workers — including Sunali Khatun and her family — despite the HC's order. The Union govt has been ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    SIR exercise reaches democracy’s last outpost in Bay of Bengal

    Mousuni Islands (Sundarbans): For this 51 year-old booth level officer, tracking down families to hand over their SIR enumeration forms is a tough task. Ashima Mondal, a schoolteacher, has been tasked to hand over the forms to 943 voters ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata lags behind state average as form distribution enters last lap

    Kolkata: The distributed more than 85.7% of enumeration forms across Bengal by Tuesday afternoon, but two key electoral districts that make up Kolkata — Kolkata North and Kolkata South — lag way behind the state average. In Kolkata ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    3-tier security, 80 checkpoints, drones over Eden after Delhi blast

    Kolkata: Security was bolstered across Kolkata, especially ahead of the India-South Africa match at Eden Gardens from Friday, hours after a high alert was sounded across the country following a blast near Red Fort in Delhi on Monday. Allaying ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Online-offline mismatch leaves voters in a fix

    Kolkata: Several electors in Rajarhat-Gopalpur, Basirhat South and Barasat Assembly constituencies are in a helpless situation as their names do not appear in the online SIR roll of 2002, but are mentioned in the hard copy of that list ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    GST appellate tribunal to open in state in Dec

    Kolkata: Come Dec, Bengal will have its own GST appellate tribunal, paving the way for faster resolution of tax-related disputes. According to official sources, the tribunal will hear appeals against GST orders passed by adjudicating authorities and commissioners. The ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Court finds 45 guilty in 32-year-old Belpahari murder case

    Jhargram: A Jhargram court on Tuesday found 45 guilty in the 1993 murder of six CPM workers in Belpahari's Diyashi village. Sentencing is scheduled for Wednesday.On May 8, 1993, six CPM workers — Bhakti Mahato, Kartik Mahato, Bidyut Mahato ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Snatchers attack lawyer, flee with chain

    Kolkata: A new modus operandi of snatching has been reported in the city where the accused pick up an argument with the victim on a flimsy ground, assault him and then snatch without the victim actually realizing the loss ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    KIFF hosts 1st city screening of film on Mother Teresa

    Kolkata: On Sunday, Radha Studio was packed to capacity with people standing on the aisle for the first city screening of ‘Mother' — a feature film on Mother Teresa which follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    CM cracks Swasthya Sathi whip on pvt hosps

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee reminded on Tuesday that every private hospital in the state is bound to accept Swasthya Sathi. Those failing to do so will face a show-cause, and at times even suspension of licences, she warned."Someone ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol joins pan-India event to celebrate Young Birders’ Month

    Kolkata: In a first, cities across India, including Kolkata, will dedicate Nov to young birders. The Young Birders' Month (YBM) — a first-of-its-kind month-long campaign created to spark curiosity and ecological awareness among young minds — is being held ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Man accused of ‘CEO fraud’ arrested outside Kol airport

    Kolkata: A man was arrested on Monday morning outside the airport on charges of orchestrating a "CEO fraud" that led to the embezzlement of Rs 98 lakh. Accused Mohammad Salman Khan was sent to police custody for 10 days. ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    SL civic body chairperson’s name missing on 2002 list

    Kolkata: The name of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation chairperson Sabyasachi Dutta and eight families from his DL Block row in Salt Lake are missing from the 2002 electoral roll. Dutta has been a councillor since 1995 and also served as ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Released 62k so far to JU for security, state submits to HC

    Kolkata: The state submitted a report to Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, stating that the govt has released some funds to enhance security at JU campus as ordered by HC. The state submitted that it allocated Rs 62,000 in ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    Caregiver makes adoption plea for run-over stray’s litter

    Kolkata: The black female dog, Poko, might be no more after being run over by a milk delivery truck on Sunday, but her litter has kept 23-year-old delivery agent Pranay Marick worried. The resident of Madan Mitra Lane, who ...

    12 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Mowing roadside greens worsening dust pollution’

    Kolkata: Don't mow down roadside vegetation cover, experts have urged KMC. Botanists and foresters requested KMC to reconsider its routine of indiscriminate scraping of roadside vegetation—grasses and undergrowth—an exercise that released large volumes of fine dust particles, the ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Households, offices struggle as service sector goes home

    Kolkata: A large section of cooks, drivers, domestic help, caregivers, housekeeping staff and medical attendants, that powers households and offices in the city, has left for their homes in the districts to get papers needed for SIR exercise, if ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, pleasant temperatures; AQI remains in ‘very poor’

    Kolkata residents on , are experiencing a sunny morning with clear skies and comfortable temperatures, though air quality remains a significant concern following . The city recorded an yesterday, prompting advisories for residents to limit prolonged outdoor exposure ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    After 3 years & 3 months, former edu min Partha out of jail on bail

    Kolkata: Disgraced former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who has been in custody since July 23, 2022, in the cash-for-school job scam, got bail on Monday in the last of the four cases lodged against him for his alleged role ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    HC nixes plea seeking shield for CAA applicants

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a PIL petition seeking protection under Section 6B of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act for those applying for enrolment during the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.The petitioners were members of ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    3 PS, 4 traffic guards use 52 CCTV cams to track trucker who ran over stray dog

    Kolkata: Footage from 52 CCTV cameras and joint action by cops from three police stations — Amherst Street, Jorasanko and Girish Park — and four traffic guards helped track down a milk-delivery truck that had run over a stray ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    After ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’, 2 more Ray classics on 4K restoration path

    Kolkata: The overwhelming response to the 4K restoration of Satyajit Ray's ‘Aranyer Din Ratri', screened at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival on Saturday, has now sparked interest among the new generation of cinephiles. Work has begun on the ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC, Cong move SC against Bengal SIR; hearing likely today

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress has moved the Supreme Court, questioning the manner in which the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is being done in Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. Banerjee told reporters in Siliguri, "Like DMK ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    1 in 4 in Kol yet to get SIR knock on door

    Kolkata: Even after a week since the SIR exercise started in the state, a large section of electors is still anxious as they are yet to receive their enumeration forms. However, the Election Commission of India on Monday ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    India saw notebandi, now it is seeing votebandi: CM on SIR

    Kolkata/Siliguri: India saw "notebandi" nine years ago, now it was seeing "votebandi" courtesy SIR, CM Mamata Banerjee said in Siliguri on Monday, demanding an immediate halt to the process.Banerjee, who linked the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of voters' list ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Parents, kin field queries from family members staying abroad

    Kolkata: For hundreds of Kolkata residents studying or working abroad, the online Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process has turned unexpectedly complicated. The online enumeration portal of the Election Commission, meant to simplify voter verification, is proving inaccessible to many ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC to boost vax drives, set up shelter for strays

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department will scale up its stray dog vaccination drive following the Supreme Court verdict asking the states to ensure public safety from strays. The KMC top brass has also started a search ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Social media noise reflects SIR storm on the ground

    Kolkata: From enumeration form fill-up tutorials to reels on ‘how not to mess up your Form 6', the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls has turned into an unlikely source of "content" for social media creators.Across Instagram, YouTube, and X, ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Man arrested for 200 cr cyber fraud

    Kolkata: In a joint operation with Kolkata Police, the Uttar Pradesh police apprehended Sukanta Bandyopadhyay, the prime suspect in a Rs 200 crore fraud case on Sunday night. Bandyopadhyay was staying in a residential condo located near Anandapur PS. ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    11 cr siphoned with cloned credit cards

    Kolkata: A trader residing in the Taltala area of central Kolkata has been accused of orchestrating a financial fraud to siphon off around Rs 11 crore from the victim. The incident, reportedly began on or after May 8.The Park ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Auto driver molests woman, follows her home, caught by locals

    Kolkata: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly molested by an auto driver when she was travelling from Taratala to Porra-Aswathatala on Sunday. She was sitting in the front seat when the incident occurred. The driver, Nirmal Chettri, even allegedly followed ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Insurance workers threaten to agitate over proposed FDI increase in sector

    Kolkata: The All India Insurance Employees' Association (AIIEA) has threatened to launch a nationwide agitation against the Centre's proposed bill to increase the FDI in the country's insurance industry to 100% from the present 74%.At a press conference here ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
    Flight makes emergency landing, ‘sound over S Kol’ trends online

    KOLKATA: A SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Kolkata made an emergency landing on one engine on Sunday night after a snag occurred in the Boeing B 737-800 aircraft during descent. After a safe touchdown, all 188 passengers on board ...

    11 November 2025 Times of India
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