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  • Mamata: We embrace workers from other states, but why are Bengalis assaulted there?

    12 Kolkata/Burdwan: Why were Bengalis assaulted in Odisha, Mumbai, UP or Gujarat, even though migrant workers from other states were "loved and embraced" here, asked CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday. Saying that the "world salutes our talent", the CM ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Riders look at bigger picture beyond teething problems

    Kolkata: Even as passengers continue to face overcrowding, delayed services, and confusion over signage and announcements across the metro network, a majority of riders said the benefits of connectivity and reduced travel time outweigh the initial jitters.Commuters who earlier ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Cybercrime losses dip from 22cr a month last yr to 16.5cr a month now

    Kolkata: The amount of money lost to cybercrime in the city has decreased, from an average of Rs 22 crore a month in 2024 to around Rs 16.5 crore a month now. Recovery of siphoned money had also increased ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Bus revenue dips by 1k per day on metro corridors, operators hope to realign routes

    Kolkata: Buses, both govt and private, have begun losing passengers to the new Metro links, though the situation is not as ‘doomed' as predicted by some transport experts. As expected, almost four days after the East-West Metro began operations, ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC hands over Khejuritwin deaths probe to CID

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court handed over the probe into the July 12 twin deaths in Khejuri to Bengal CID on Tuesday, a day after it said CBI probes are "a gallery show" in response to a plea for ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP plans weekly outreach sessions to ‘reactivate’ veterans

    Kolkata: The Bengal BJP will hold outreach sessions at its Muralidhar Sen Lane office every Monday to try and bring back the veterans into active campaigns before the assembly polls and energise the party rank and file.The decision follows ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    State govt starts process to set up ‘Durga Angan’ in city

    Kolkata: Following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement and its subsequent cabinet approval earlier this month, the state govt has formally started the process to set up ‘Durga Angan'—a temple-like complex dedicated to Goddess Durga. A plot has been identified ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Announcements still stuck in time

    Kolkata: A message being broadcast across the public address system at metro stations over the past few days has left young commuters confused and the elderly perplexed."Don't touch any unattended object like a briefcase, bag, thermos, transistor, etc., which ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    HC: Preventive detention for past offences unconstitutional

    Kolkata: Preventive detention becomes unconstitutional if used to prolong the custody of an accused for past offences despite court granting them bail, the Calcutta High Court observed on Monday, while quashing the detention order passed against Jahanara Bibi on ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Refused 100 for alcohol, man kills mom in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: A 28-year-old youth was arrested on Monday for allegedly strangling his mother to death after she refused to give him Rs 100 for alcohol. The incident took place at CJ Block in Salt Lake, where the woman, Saraswati ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Ludhiana bar dancer dies in Kol guest house

    Kolkata: A 27-year-old woman from Ludhiana, identified as Shreya Verma, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a guest house in Anandapur off the EM Bypass on Monday. Acquaintances here claimed the woman was a bar dancer in the ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    GST exemption will boost health insurance: NIC boss

    Kolkata: The retail health insurance segment will see a boom if premiums are exempt from GST, National Insurance CMD Rajeswari Singh Muni said on Tuesday. A price drop, she said, would attract more retail customers and may also encourage ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Sushil Poddar elected CWBTA prez for 5th term

    Kolkata: Sushil Poddar has been elected as the president of the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations (CWBTA) for the 5th term. The newly elected Executive Committee will also have Dinesh Kumar Jain, C K Varadarajan, Mustafa Khasamwala, Jatan ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    ED lens on MLA’s properties in names of kin & driver, ill-gotten money

    12 Kolkata/Berhampore: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials probing the school jobs-for-cash scam have traced properties of Trinamool MLA Jiban Krishna Saha registered in the name of his relatives and driver. On the first day of his interrogation, investigators tried to ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Don’t be BJP’s lollipop, CM tells EC over ‘NRC in guise of SIR’

    12 Kolkata/Burdwan: "I respect you, but do not be BJP's lollipop," CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said, addressing the EC, reiterating her claim that the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was only an "NRC in guise" to ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    5 cops beaten up in bid to rescue youth from kangaroo court

    123 Malda: Cops were beaten up by villagers while trying to rescue a youth from a kangaroo court in Malda's Dantian village on Monday night. Five police personnel, including the inspector in charge, were injured after a mob attacked ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Bronze for renal patient at World Transplant Games

    Kolkata: Renal failure almost robbed Raj Sarki of his pleasure in indulging in sporting activities. But the gutsy 33-year-old from Dooars' Jaigaon turned the tide around, post-kidney transplant, to win a bronze medal at the recently concluded World Transplant ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Bar Council renewal shadow over law college admission

    Kolkata: There is uncertainty over the law entrance test for first-year admission across CU law colleges as affiliation-related issues have not been resolved yet. Thousands of students who want to appear for the Calcutta University Law Entrance Test (CULET) ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Advised VCs about holding student polls

    Kolkata: The state on Tuesday informed Calcutta High Court that it had advised holding elections in colleges and universities, but the institutions' authorities did not take the initiative. The division bench directed the petitioners to scrutinise whether the state ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    HC allows mom’s name in Bar Council enrolment form

    Kolkata: The Bar Council of West Bengal shall not reject any enrolment form that mentions the name of the mother instead of the father's or husband's, Calcutta High Court held on Aug 20 while hearing a PIL filed by ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Make puja pandals mosquito-free: KMC tells organisers during dengue drive

    Kolkata: In the wake of a rise in dengue cases, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department on Tuesday started a dengue drive at the puja pandals. With less than a month left for the state's biggest festival, the ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops to clubs: Don’t block CCTVs, disrupt traffic flow

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has issued strict directives to all 26 traffic guards to ensure that the construction of Durga Puja pandals does not obstruct CCTV cameras or disrupt traffic flow.This decision was made during a traffic review meeting ...

    27 August 2025 Times of India
    Regaal plans expansion with herbal gulal

    Kolkata: Regaal Resources, a city-based manufacturer of maize-based specialty products, will start making herbal gulal alongside existing products such as gluten, germ, maize flour, icing sugar, custard powder and baking powder.More new natural starch-based products are on the cards, ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college rape: Manojit Mishra filmed act through exhaust fan hole; ‘used video to blackmail survivor’

    KOLKATA: The incident of June 25 gang rape on a city law college campus was meticulously documented by the accused, the cops claimed in their charge sheet. According to police, the act of rape was captured on mobile phones ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    AI is redefining academic libraries, says RTMNU professor at global conference

    KOLKATA: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming academic libraries from traditional repositories into dynamic learning hubs, said Dr Shalini Lihitkar, Professor of Library and Information Science at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU). She was speaking at the 9th International ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Over 2L students take admission through CAP as first phase ends

    Kolkata: Over 2 lakh students have taken admission through the centralized admission portal (CAP) across 460 state-aided colleges. Of them, 60,000 have completed physical verification. Monday was the last day of the first phase of admission. A total of ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Rain expected today

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata residents can expect patchy rain and humid conditions on August 26, 2025, with temperatures ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    At ‘nowhere woman’ Sunali’s Birbhum home; 6-year-old keeps crying for her mom

    KOLKATA: What was supposed to be a short vacation to her grandparents' home in Birbhum's Paikar has turned into a three-month-long stay for little Afrina. She fails to understand why her parents and elder brother haven't met her, or ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Presidency UG entrance: Other boards fare better than HS

    Kolkata: Students from other boards performed better than HS examinees in the UG entrance test of Presidency University. The WBJEE Board on Monday published the Presidency University Bachelor Degree Entrance Test (PUBDET) results, a month after the exam.A total ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro Yellow Line: Cantt & Jessore Rd stations pull switch-over crowd

    Kolkata: On the airport-Noapara Metro route, larger crowds boarded at Dum Dum Cantonment and Jessore Road even as the footfall at the terminal station, Jai Hind (Airport), was moderate on the first day of the onset of commercial operations ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Ex-cop nabbed by BSF faced murder charges in B’desh

    Kolkata: The former Bangladesh police officer caught by BSF while entering India on Saturday was facing murder charges in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh, said investigators questioning him on Monday. Mohammed Arifuzzaman had planned to take shelter ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Housing complexes, clubs gear up to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi

    1234 Kolkata: As the city gears up to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi, housing complexes and clubs in Kolkata are preparing to welcome the god of prosperity with a blend of tradition, creativity, and community spirit on Aug 27. At Executive ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    CBI investigation a ‘gallery show right now’, says Calcutta HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday called CBI probes "a gallery show right now" while turning down a plea for an investigation by the central agency into an East Midnapore murder in July. It, instead, said it would ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    1st day, 1st show: Flyers take metro for faster, cheaper commute to, from airport

    123456 Kolkata: When Italian travellers Giulia Ferruggia and Thomas Maggiore landed in Kolkata on Monday, they did not head for a taxi to reach their hotel in Park Street. Instead, they walked into the brand new Jai Hind metro ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Former ISKCON monk Chinmoy Das charged with murder in B’desh

    Kolkata: News reports from Bangladesh indicating that former ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das was charged with murder in a Chittagong court on Monday drew shock and condemnation in Kolkata.Radharamn Das, vice-president and spokesperson, ISKCON Kolkata, said: "It is now ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP uneasy over Matua rift, refuses to take sides

    Kolkata: The Bengal BJP leadership has been left uneasy by the feud between two prominent netas from the Matua Thakurbari family — Union minister Shantanu Thakur and his elder brother Subrata Thakur, party's Gaighata MLA — ahead of the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    After CBI, ED arrests TMC MLA in school jobs case

    12 Berhampore/Suri/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress's Burwan MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, out on bail from Supreme Court in CBI's cash-for-jobs case in May 2024 after spending 13 months in prison, was arrested by ED in the same case on Monday amid ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Orange Line helps beat Bypass snarls

    Kolkata: The first Metro service rolled on the 4.4km new stretch between Ruby and Beleghata on the Orange line along EM Bypass on Monday, easing the commute for many office-goers availing themselves of Sealdah South suburban train services from ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    HC seeks puja fund affidavit from state

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday sought an affidavit from the state within 48 hours, providing a detailed account of how many of the registered clubs that received Durga Puja grants from the state until last year furnished ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Light-moderate rain may continue in Kol

    Kolkata: The city received intermittent drizzles on Monday, including a spell of sharp evening shower, even as the maximum temperature rose to 31.4°C. Light to moderate rain may continue in Kolkata and south Bengal over the next two days, ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP indulging in pre-poll vendetta politics: Trinamool

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Monday accused BJP of indulging in vendetta politics and called central agencies "BJP's party wings" after the ED arrested its MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in the cash-for-jobs case.Speaking to reporters, Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "The ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    CM asks Pant to keep tab on ST certs

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked chief secretary Manoj Pant to keep a tab on the issuance of ST certificates as they are being misused.She asked Pant to alert the DMs as well because Nabanna has received ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Migrant worker dies month after ‘detention in Mumbai’

    Kolkata: A migrant worker who had returned from Mumbai a month ago after spending six days in detention on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant died on Monday, with his family alleging that he contracted pneumonia while in detention.Golam ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Signage confusion, long queues and delays plague metro on 1st day of full run

    Kolkata: Booking counters at the busiest stations on the East-West Metro corridor struggled to cope with the commuter rush, prompting the authority to rethink and change their crowd management plans during peak hours on Monday. Metro services on the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Can’t wait, rebuild 23 Bowbazar homes in 9 months: KMC

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday pressed for expediting the reconstruction of houses on Durga Pituri Lane and Shyakrapara Lane in the Bowbazar cave-in zone. Taking up a resolute stance, Hakim—who had called a Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Direct metro link helps Sector V employeesskirt break-journey pain

    Kolkata: For thousands working in the city's IT hub in Salt Lake Sector V, daily commute took a decisive turn on Monday with the start of East-West Metro's first full weekday run between Sector V and Howrah Maidan. The ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC to take part in ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar on Sept 1

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress will participate in the Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, alongside other INDIA bloc parties, on Sept 1. However, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee are unlikely to attend due ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    2 from Bengal set to receive National Teachers’ Awards

    1234 Kharagpur/Kolkata: Two Bengal schoolteachers are among the 45 nationwide who will receive the National Teachers' Awards on Sept 5 in Delhi from President Droupadi Murmu.Bengal govt's Shiksha Ratna awardee Tanusree Das, who began teaching at Kuchlachati Primary School ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Email your help’s details to local police station

    Kolkata: In a bid to simplify the process through which elderly citizens can inform the local police station about their servants, caregivers, or even utility service providers, Lalbazar has asked all local police stations to accept emails sent to ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    College student shot dead by boyfriend in Krishnanagar

    1234 Krishnanagar (Nadia): In a chilling incident, a teenage girl was allegedly shot by her boyfriend at point-blank range at her residence in Krishnanagar town between 2 and 2.30 pm on Monday. Sources said she wanted to end the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Email your help’s details to local police station

    Kolkata: In a bid to simplify the process through which elderly citizens can inform the local police station about their servants, caregivers, or even utility service providers, Lalbazar has asked all local police stations to accept emails sent to ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    SIM-swap crooks dupe man of 2.9L

    Kolkata: In a recent case of cyber fraud, which cops suspect might be a SIM swap, Shyampukur PS received an unusual case recently where the accused used the defrauded money to book tickets and other travel-related bookings through a ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    City commute changes forever as Esplanade, Sealdah and Howrah stations bear load brunt

    Kolkata: Commute in Kolkata changed forever on Monday, the first weekday since Metro Green Line between Salt Lake Sector V and Howrah Maidan became fully operational on Friday evening. Several thousand people, who used buses and autos to travel ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Oldest metro adds ops but still beaten by crowd surge

    Kolkata: On Monday, Metro Railway added 22 additional services to the Blue Line, anticipating a surge in traffic following its integration with a fully operational Green Line. This meant increased frequency, with the gap between trains during peak hours ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengali actor and BJP leader Joy Banerjee passes away after prolonged illness; matinee idol of ’80s dies at 63

    NEW DELHI: Bengali actor and BJP leader Joy Banerjee passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday at the age of 63, according to his family.Banerjee had been admitted to the hospital on August 15 with acute ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Low-pressure system loses steam in Bengal’

    Kolkata: The low-pressure area over Gangetic Bengal has weakened, the Met office said. Thus, city remained cloudy with intermittent drizzles on Sunday. The cloud cover kept the maximum temperature four degrees below normal at 28.2°C. The minimum temperature was ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    AAP echoes TMC, SP stand, won’t send member to JPC

    New Delhi/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party were joined by Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday in their decision to not send members to the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) constituted to examine the constitutional amendment that prescribes dismissal of the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: High humidity and patchy rain expected today

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is expected to experience typical monsoon weather on August 25, 2025, with scattered rain ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    After exports resume to Bangladesh, rice price rises in Kolkata markets; households shift to cheaper varieties

    KOLKATA: Rice prices in Bengal and other parts of India have witnessed a surge since India lifted a ban on rice export to Bangladesh on Aug 12 and Dhaka announced duty-free import of around 5 lakh tonnes of rice ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    For young Indian women, BMI not an accurate tool to indicate obesity, says SSKM study; 50% with ‘normal’ show PCOS risk

    KOLKATA: Body mass index (BMI) - popularly seen as a marker for obesity - might not be the ideal standard, especially for Indian women. A study by state-run IPGMER (SSKM) has said that five in every 10 young Indian ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Zip, CAP, zoom: 1.2L seats filled up in 48 hours of portal opening

    Kolkata: Over 1.2 lakh students took admission through the centralised admission portal (CAP) in the last 48 hours. The first phase of admissions, that started on Friday, will close on Monday. The portal opened after a long wait of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Focus on cybercrime, forensics as NUJS launches 2-yr PG course

    Kolkata: The newly launched two-year PG course in ‘criminology and criminal science justice' by West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) will help cops solve cases, particularly cybercrime cases, said judges of Calcutta High Court. Applicants to the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    After 1L Sun footfall, Green Line to get addl RPF men for first weekday run

    1234 Kolkata: Metro Railway will deploy additional RPF personnel for crowd management along the Green Line on Monday, the first weekday operation of the now-integrated corridor. On Saturday, hours after East-West Metro or the Green Line started its full ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Shantanu, brother spar over religious certs distribution

    Kolkata: Bongaon's Thakurbari turned into a political battleground on Sunday after two brothers — BJP neta and Union minister Shantanu Thakur and BJP MLA and All India Matua Mahasangh chief Subrata Thakur — publicly sparred over the issuance of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Not rarest of rare: HC commutes death penalty to life term in child murder

    Kolkata: The death penalty of two Andhra Pradesh residents — a mother and her boyfriend — for the killing of a one-and-a-half-year-old child were commuted to life imprisonment without remission until 40 years by Calcutta High Court. The body ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Blue Line adds muscle with 22 more services

    Kolkata: To cope with new passenger load, Metro Railway will be adding 22 services on the North-South (Blue Line) from Monday. TOI on Sunday briefly reported about this development. All three new metro lines will be operational together for ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    NEUFC’s Durand title, a glimmer of hope in troubled times

    Kolkata: Barely had Juan Pedro Benali, proudly wearing the Durand Cup champion's medal, begun to address the mediapersons, Northeast United FC players and support staff members stormed the Salt Lake Stadium room on Saturday, singing, dancing and drenching the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    4 BJP gen secys, MPs ‘absent’ at PM’s Dum Dum rally

    Kolkata: The "absentee" list at PM Narendra Modi's Dum Dum rally on Friday was not only limited to Dilip Ghosh, BJP's former national vice-president and former president of Bengal BJP. It also included four of five general secretaries of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Complexes take tech guard, boost ID checks after Senior Citizen’s murder in Kolkata’s New Garia

    Kolkata: Housing complexes and resident welfare associations (RWAs) across the city are tightening security protocols after a 79-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by her ayah or caregiver at her New Garia home. Her 87-year-old husband was also allegedly assaulted. ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Budding entrepreneurs shine at commerce fest

    Kolkata: The 7th edition of Mega Bizz, the commerce fest of DPS Megacity, was held recently, with focus on simulating real-world business challenges. The event, which saw participation from nine premier schools in Kolkata, featured competitions, panel discussions, PowerPoint ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Molest plaint against councillor

    Kolkata: A widow from Sonarpur has lodged a police complaint against Rajpur-Sonarpur Municipality's ward 11 councillor Krishnapada Mondal, accusing him of demanding money and making sexual advances.The complainant said ever since she started a sari shop, there has been ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Cars back on Vidyasagar Setu after over 17-hour repair and rehabilitation work

    Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu, which was closed for over 17 hours from 5 am on Sunday, was reopened for normal traffic movement from 10.25 pm onwards following repair work that was conducted throughout the day. The bridge was shut for ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Residents of New Garia victim’s housing society to seek CP help, give senior citizens’ list to cops

    Kolkata: Residents of New Garia Cooperative Housing Society called an urgent meeting on Sunday and decided to write to Kolkata Police commissioner for seeking additional protection in the wake of the murder of a 79-year-old woman, Bijaya Das, on ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal primary teachers’ recruitment: TET 2022 ‘data leak’ on private portal

    Kolkata: A new controversy has been triggered as the detailed information of primary TET 2022 candidates was allegedly leaked on an unknown website. Personal information, including TET certificates of nearly 1.5 lakh qualifiers, was leaked on the unauthorized portal, ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 8 injured as bus rams SUV

    12 Malda: Three people were killed and eight seriously injured when a bus rammed an SUV coming from the opposite direction near Jambagan on NH-512 at Bangshihari of South Dinajpur on Sunday. During the incident, a pick-up van also ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Held in B’desh prison, Sunali & 5 others may seek bail today

    Kolkata: Efforts are on to move a bail petition on Monday by Sunali Khatun and five other Indians languishing in Bangladesh's Chapai Nawabganj prison.The six were branded as Bangladeshi nationals, picked up from Delhi and pushed to the neighbouring ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    48 Kolkata Police officers get Bengal govt honour

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt honoured 48 personnel from the Kolkata Police with special medals for their exemplary service in 2023. The awards, which include the Nistha Padak, Prashansa Padak, and Sewa Padak, were presented by the commissioner of police, ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    KMDA clears encroachments below bridges and flyovers

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has taken up a drive to demolish illegal makeshift structures and clear unauthorised encroachments from the stretches below several bridges and flyovers across the city. The civic body will also fence off ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    SSC portal opens for applications by ‘untainted’ teachers after SC order

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday opened a portal, inviting fresh applications from "untainted" teachers, who had lost their jobs following the SC order, and could not apply again for the fresh SSC test, as they ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    C Kol resto zone hopes to tap E-W commute push

    Kolkata: Footfalls soared across restaurants over the weekend as the city moved into a festive spirit, riding on new Metro routes. Most saw attendance rise by around 20%-25% since last weekend. Several restaurants received visitors from the northern and ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro connectivity boost for New Market, other shopping hubs ahead of festive season

    Kolkata: A wave of renewed optimism swept through the city's iconic New Market on Sunday, as the freshly extended East-West Metro drew shoppers from Howrah, Sealdah, Salt Lake, and beyond. This brought a fresh buzz of shoppers to the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Trial runs on Yellow, Orange Lines as ops start today

    Kolkata: Trial runs were conducted on Yellow and Orange Lines on Sunday, and the systems were checked to ensure seamless operations from Monday. For now, services will run between Noapara and airport, and passengers will have to switch trains ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Drizzle pulls down Kol max-min temp gap to 2°C

    Kolkata: The city remained cloudy with intermittent drizzles on a wet Saturday, even as the Met office predicted more rain over the next 48 hours under the impact of a low-pressure system and an active monsoon trough. A thick ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: 5 day-old Ayah, partner in police net for killing 79-yr-old New Garia woman

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police on Saturday claimed to have cracked the murder of a 79-year-old woman in her New Garia residence with the arrest of a newly appointed ayah and her male friend from South 24 Parganas. Bijaya Das was ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college gang-rape: Nearly 2 months after crime, cops file charge sheet against 4; DNA report confirms main accused Manojit Mishra’s role

    Kolkata police filed a charge sheet against four individuals, including Manojit Mishra, in connection with the law college gang-rape case. The survivor reported the crime occurred on June 25. Pramit Mukhopadhyay, Zaib Ahmed, and security guard Pinaki Banerjee are ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool refuses to join 130th amendment JPC, calls it ‘a farce’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday called the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) constituted to examine the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill "a farce" and said the party will not nominate any MP to be its member.The party had expressed its opposition to ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    4L UG seats allotted to 3L CAP candidates, colleges fear 5L seats may stay vacant

    Kolkata: As undergraduate admissions began, 4,02,557 college seats were allocated to the 3,09,667 eligible candidates, who had applied on the central admission portal. This means, every eligible applicant has already secured a seat. College officials pointed out there could ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Khelar Para Maidan

    123456 The chaos and cacophony of central Kolkata stumble upon an island of green quite abruptly where the cityscape seems to fade away and space becomes abundant. The Maidan springs up like a pleasant surprise in the middle of ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Engg firm boss explains tech behind East-West Kolkata Metro system

    Kolkata: The metro network in Kolkata is entering a new era of automation and safety, with the East-West Metro (Green Line) leading the way through superior technology, Manoj Kumar Krishnappa, director and head of Hitachi Rail STS India, said ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    4 investment fraud plaints in 24 hrs, victims lose 1.5 cr

    Kolkata: Four victims, who lost Rs 1.5 crore to online investment frauds, approached Kolkata Police and Bidhannagar Police in the last 24 hours. A resident of Akshoy Bose Lane, Partha Kumar Biswas, was scammed by fraudsters posing as representatives ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Woman found dead after assault by son

    Kolkata: A 65-year-old woman, Nandita Basu, was found dead at her Beleghata home on Saturday afternoon amid allegations that her son, after a major argument with her, had assaulted her brutally, leading to her death. The son, Mainak, has ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Today, take Hwh Bridge detour to reach Shalimar, Santragachhi stations

    Kolkata: Those headed to Shalimar and Santragachhi railway stations on Sunday to catch trains need to leave home early as Vidyasagar Setu will stay shut for 16 hours between 5 am and 9 pm. Such commuters will have to ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Defence R&D centre at IIT-Kgp

    Kolkata: The Manekshaw Centre of Excellence for National Security Studies and Research, inaugurated on Monday, is an innovative initiative that brings together IITs, IISc, IIITs, and NITs on a common platform to carry out academic and research activities dedicated ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    CBI knocks on MLA’s doors as part of RG Kar probe

    Kolkata: CBI officials were at the Sinthee residence of Trinamool's Serampore MLA Sudipto Roy on Saturday afternoon, as part of their probe into the alleged "larger conspiracy" in the RG Kar rape-murder and financial crime at the medical institution. ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    SUCI to take to streets in protest against SIR

    Kolkata: SUCI has planned a statewide agitation this week against the special intensive revision (SIR) of poll rolls in Bengal calling it an NRC exercise in disguise, state secretariat member Tarun Naskar said on Saturday, reports Debashis Konar.He pointed ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Shramashree to now be part of Duare Sarkar, APAS camps

    Kolkata: Migrant workers returning home from other states can enrol for Shramashree, Bengal's govt's welfare scheme for them, at Duare Sarkar camps. The decision was taken at a meeting of the labour department on Saturday.The Duare Sarkar camps are ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    JU’s IR research centre reopens

    Kolkata: The T N Das Research Centre at the International Relations department in Jadavpur University has resumed functioning. The research centre was closed for over a year due to a shortage of staff. TOI reported that studies and research ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Malda woman attacked. finger at BJP leader

    Malda: The wife of a Trinamool Congress worker was critically injured after being attacked with a sharp weapon allegedly by a BJP leader at her home in Malda's Rathbari on Friday.BJP, however, described the attack as a family feud.Bapi ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Engineers recall ‘HR job’ of over six years that put humans first

    1234 Kolkata: They were supposed to deal with machines — of the tunnel borer kind — and papers. However, the human resources and administrative departments of ITD ITD-Cementation, contracted to build the 2.6 km East-West Metro corridor, ended up ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Weekday feel on weekend for C Kol as East-West full run hits the right spots

    1234 Kolkata: Packed trains with several standing passengers marked East-West Metro's full run on Saturday as commuters thronged to the corridor, making full use of the connectivity stretching across Sector V and Howrah Maidan. In some of the bustling ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
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