Kolkata: Following a complaint lodged by the state HS council about illegal sale of free textbooks in the open market, Bidhannagar East police arrested Aftabuddin Malik, a bookseller from College Street, on Thursday. The council president had lodged the ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The NIA on Thursday filed a chargesheet in the Bhupatinagar blast case and claimed that the blast was a bid to terrorise locals. Six persons — Raj Kumar Manna, Biswajit Gayen, Buddhadeb Manna, and Trinamool Congress workers Balaicharan ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt on Thursday announced an increase in terminal benefits for various categories of workers, including higher secondary contractual teachers, para teachers, SSK and MSK teachers, academic supervisors, ASHA workers, honorary health workers, Anganwari workers and helpers, civic ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city airport has started work on the Rs 5,000-crore Kolkata airport expansion project in earnest.A new 1.1-crore passengers per annum capacity integrated terminal for domestic and international passengers will be constructed within the next six years. The ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: GKB Opticals has collaborated with Widex, a Denmark-based hearing aid manufacturer, to provide ophthalmic and audiology services under one roof. The eyewear retailer is also planning to invest Rs 17-20 crore in refurbishing its stores across Kolkata.Priyanka Gupta, ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The police custody of all the 14 hostel boarders, arrested for the lynching of a 37-year-old TV and mobile mechanic inside a Bowbazar state-run hostel, Udayan, on suspicion of mobile theft, has been extended till July 10. But ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The primary report in the infection cases post cataract surgery at state-run Metiabruz Supespecilaty Hospital points to the use of contaminated saline solution for cleaning eyes . The report was submitted to the health officials at Swasthya Bhawan ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CID has taken into custody Roshan Singh alias Tantia, who is considered close to gangster Subodh Singh. They will now seek his police custody so that they can question Roshan along with Subodh. CID sources said it ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday permitted senior Counsel Dhiraj Trivedi, representing Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, to proceed with a defamation suit against CM Mamata Banerjee on July 10, reports Subrata Chattoraj.This comes after Justice Krishna Rao ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata’s primary residential market continued to witness strong homebuying demand in the first half of 2024, with sales as well as launches clocking an eight-year high.During Jan-June this year, 9,130 residential units were sold in the market, recording ...
5 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A safe, non-surgical and cost-efficient treatment utilizing the healing properties of platelets from one’s own blood is making a silent entry into the field of regenerative medicine. Called platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, it is currently used in ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Utkala, the cultural wing of Sri Jagannath Seva Samiti, will celebrate Rath Yatra and Odisha Festival from July 7 to 15. The festival, which was first held in 2003, will commence with Netrotsav this year, followed by the ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaDurgapur: Framing of charges in the multi-crore illegal coal mining case was deferred on Wednesday after the special CBI court asked the central investigating agency to serve the second supplementary chargesheet to each accused. CBI lawyer Somnath Chattopadhyay said ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the back-to-back cases of lynching, ADG (law and order) Manoj Verma on Wednesday issued a circular instructing the use of civic volunteers and rural police to gather inputs for prompt police action. The circular emphasized the need ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city’s first fully automated abattoir, which was closed in 2017, is set to reopen. A proposal for its reopening was passed in the mayor-in-council meeting on Wednesday. The supply of buffaloes had reduced to a trickle ever ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hawkers evicted from multiple illegal hawking zones in Salt Lake Sector V following the chief minister’s prod have settled on empty walkways and footpaths outside other offices in the tech township where there were no hawkers even a ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI, probing the alleged malpractices in the NEET-UG examination, on Wednesday reached Kolkata tracing the links of the Sanjay Mukhia gang — the prime suspect and mastermind in the paper leak scam. The agency officials reached an ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered Bengal chief secretary BP Gopalika to respond within three weeks to the CBI report and sanction the prosecution of govt employees in custody regarding the money-for-job scam. A division bench comprising ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A young man, Rakesh Kumar (27), allegedly shot his girlfriend, Nikku Kumari Dubey (23), inside a guest house in Lake Gardens and turned the gun on himself on Wednesday evening, less than three hours after they had checked ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The attempt to discipline hawkers who had encroached nearly half of Bertram Street and Humayun Place has yielded mixed results with a section toeing the line on one flank and others encroaching the other. While hawkers who sold ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Work on the airport-bound flank at New Town’s Technopolis crossing started on Wednesday for the Orange line’s Nabadiganta Metro station, after RVNL performed the customary puja on Tuesday. Cars and buses are flowing normally, as an extra road ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday allowed Bengal BJP to hold a peaceful sit-in demonstration in front of Raj Bhavan in protest against alleged cases of post-poll violence in Bengal. BJP can hold the demonstration for four hours ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: One more person has been arrested in the case of the public flogging of a woman in North Dinajpur’s Chopra, police said on Wednesday. According to sources, the arrested Amirul alias Budha Mohammad, is an aide of Tajemul ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two more persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the attack on a 20-year-old college student Sayandip Panja, and his 45-year-old mother, Bubun, in front of their home at Ariadaha late on Sunday after Panja protested against ...
4 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has decided to collaborate with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to establish new parking lots across the city in a bid to meet the growing demand for additional parking spaces. Each traffic guard has also been ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kumar Mangalam Birla is further consolidating investments in group companies under Birla Group holdings.As per stock exchange filings, Birla Family Investments, Birla TMT Holdings, Umang Commercial Company, Aditya Birla Online Fashion, Sunbeam Trading and Infocyber India will be ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaSILIGURI/CHOPRA: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday flew to Siliguri from Delhi but was back in three hours, cancelling his planned trip to Chopra where a woman was publicly flogged after a kangaroo court deemed her "guilty" of ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A civic official in each borough will be tasked to keep a hawk eye on hawker encroachment in the wards in his jurisdiction. A senior KMC official said that an official would be identified in each borough and ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court fined a petitioner willing to withdraw his petition for wasting the court’s time and directed the state to use the Rs 10,000 fine for improving the green cover in the precincts of the court.The ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Four persons were arrested in Jalpaiguri’s Fulbari after a woman died by suicide on Saturday, after being assaulted and humiliated for an alleged extramarital relationship.Sabita Barman had eloped with her neighbour, Sagar Roy, a week ago, following which ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: CBI’s first chargesheet in the municipal recruitment scam has revealed how interviews were taken in the morning, candidates were shortlisted during the day, and appointments were made within 24 hours. The central investigating agency, which earlier named Ayan ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police carried out its first arrest under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 2023 (BNS) which replaced the 164-year-old Indian Penal Code from Monday. It involved a case of hurt, in which two groups clashed in the Watgunge area ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will be used to construct the 5 km underground section of the Joka-Esplanade Metro or the Purple line are expected to arrive from Germany next Jan. They will be assembled and deployed ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old history-sheeter, Milan Singh, was shot dead while having dinner at a friend’s shack outside Kalna railway station in East Burdwan on Monday night. Police said two bike-borne assailants fired two rounds at Singh, who was a ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The closure of a popular vegetarian eatery in Alipore that was established in 1968, and began serving 108 varieties of dosa eight years later, has evoked widespread reactions on social media with residents of this tony neighbourhood, staff ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Police will strengthen their drive against illegal parking and review the punitive action that needs to be taken on the ground to book parking touts. At a meeting held in the KMC headquarters ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohun Bagan failed to make a winning start to their CFL Premier Division campaign as they were held 1-1 by Bhawanipore Club in Barrackpore on Tuesday. While their arch-rivals East Bengal began with a 7-0 thrashing of Tollygunge ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More ‘battery electric vehicles’ (BEVs) have been sold in Kolkata than diesel-run ones in the first six months of 2024, the first time the former category has outsold the latter in a city that was, not too long ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 45-year-old man riding a bike was killed after being hit by a car on the approach road of the one-way airport flyover on VIP Road on Sunday. Dhiman Das, a resident of New Town, was riding towards ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A team from Jorasanko and Bowbazar police stations on Monday cracked down on encroachers on Zakaria Street, Maulana Shaukat Ali Street, Kanai Seal Street and the adjoining areas, removing hawkers occupying the road and large parts of the ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team assigned to conduct a hawker survey in and around New Market has given a three-day deadline to hawkers to furnishing Aadhaar cards linked to c ellphones so that they can be registered ...
3 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt was considering the possibility of setting up a garment park, state finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said at the inaugural ceremony of a garment sellers and buyers meet at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan on Monday.Addressing the 56th ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Governor C V Ananda Bose ‘missed’ Trinamool Congress’s former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh’s Monday 3pm ‘deadline’ to administer oath to TMC MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar. Ghosh, however, didn’t bring up the ‘deadline’ on Monday, ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two women – hailing from Kalupur, Ahmedabad and currently residing in Rishra, Hooghly – were arrested from the Hooghly PS area for allegedly robbing at least two persons, one of them being an employee of a jewellery firm ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The state health department has introduced two checklists to ensure judicious use of Swasthya Sathi, Bengal govt's universal health scheme. The latest advisory from Swasthya Sathi Samiti discourages hospitals from prolonged hospital treatment for common medical issues and ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose changed his plans to meet victims of a flogging incident, initially scheduled to be in Chopra, by meeting them instead in Cooch Behar on Tuesday morning. Bose arrived in Bagdogra from ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at a engine oil manufacturing factory in Kolkata on Tuesday, a fire brigade official said.At least nine fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze which was reported from Shairabad ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Loreto College has taken an initiative on Monday to form an apolitical students council conducting an oath taking ceremony at college for the students representatives. The state education minister Bratya Basu was present as the chief guest. Education ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The state transport department has announced an extension of tax holiday for two-wheeler and four-wheeler electric vehicles (EVs) and all categories of CNG vehicles until March 31, 2025. The announcement, made by transport secretary Saumitra Mohan, includes a ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first case recorded under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) in Bidhannagar was a death case, where a 24-year-old youth riding pillion on a bike died after falling from the two-wheeler near Kestopur crossing around 3 am on Monday.Sourav ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team assigned to conduct a hawker survey was baffled on Monday morning when they found three hawkers claiming a common space on Bertram Street. Asked to show documents in support of their claim, ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has started an internal probe to find out why women in the audience were asked to move back five rows at a recent event in the city just before chief guest ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops allegedly beat up a patient’s family with sticks at a govt-run city hospital on Sunday after an altercation with a nurse when the patient’s hand swelled after an injection. The patient’s relatives lodged a complaint with the ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A forensic team reached the Udayan hostel on Monday, three days after a 37-year-old TV and mobile mechanic was allegedly lynched by several hostel inmates, all of whom are now in police custody. The development came on the ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has requested the KMC to carry out certain uniform changes at all authorized parking lots so that motorists can have a seamless experience, the first step being to set up prominent boards across the length and ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal has emerged as the leading region for the discovery of new plant species in India, according to the Plant Discoveries 2023 report, compiled by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI). Unveiled by minister of environment, forest and ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A forgery complaint from Bansdroni in south Kolkata, recorded at 12.05am, became Bengal’s first registered case under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, the new criminal code that replaced the 164-year-old Indian Penal Code on Monday. An FIR was drawn up ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting were held to a 0-0 draw by Kidderpore SC in a CFL Premier Division match on Monday. Five days ago, Mohammedan Sporting began their title defence in style blowing away Wari 6-0. However, despite ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has started pulling down Calcutta Police Club, one of the century-old Maidan tent clubs, to make way for the underground Park Street and Esplanade Metro stations of the Joka-Esplanade corridor or the Purple ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Vistadome coach has been attached to the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shatabdi Express. The journey with the Vistadome coach started on Monday from Howrah station. The coach comes with a host of impressive features designed to better the travel ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited has signed a deal with Carsten Rehder Schiffsmakler and Reederei GmbH & Co, KG Germany for construction and delivery of four multi- purpose vessels of 7,500 DWT each, with an option of ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Coal India Limited raised its coal production to 189.3 million tonnes (MTs) in the first quarter ending June in FY 2025. This was 13.8 MTs more in volume terms compared to the corresponding quarter of FY-24, registering a ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have handed over half of the airport-bound flank at New Town’s Technopolis crossing for construction of another part of Nabadiganta Metro station of the New Garia-Airport or Orange Line.Bidhannagar Police’s traffic department issued the no-objection certificate (NOC) ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Business in the Calcutta High Court took a hit on Monday as state counsels and many lawyers didn’t attend court as a mark of protest against the implementation of the new criminal laws.Even as judges were present in ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Greens are seeing red over the ‘official’ axing of four century-old banyan trees on Panditya Road to widen a section of it that will enable construction of a luxury residential tower in the adjacent plot.A decade ago, several ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Central Kolkata traffic guards on Monday resumed their drive against illegal parking by clamping and towing of vehicles. However, the cops ensured that the process was followed under three specific conditions.“We clamped only those vehicles that were parked ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Shoppers' crowds at Hatibagan and Gariahat seemed to be thinner than usual on Sunday, the first weekend since the hawker pushback drive was launched by the KMC and police. TOI visited both the shopping hubs to find most ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Strengthening its brand presence pan India, Storii by ITC Hotels has now forayed into Bengal with Storii Devasom Resort & Spa, Kolkata. Spread across three acres, this resort is the perfect getaway for a staycation or a spa ...
2 July 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Coming down heavily on the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government in West Bengal, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday compared it to the Taliban's harsh regime in Afghanistan over a viral video showing a man thrashing a couple ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As skipper Rohit Sharma lay prostate on the turf, his face buried in the grass and his bulky frame shaking as he sobbed in relief and joy, cricket fans raised a toast to captain courageous and his Men ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Teams from Lalbazar and New Market police station kept a watchful eye on a cluster of hawkers, who had huddled in groups at Humayun Place on Sunday. The day before, hawkers clashed with traders, with hawkers first threatening ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as Kolkata has been getting light to moderate rain with some one or two heavy spells in between in the last few days, it still ended June with a rain deficit of 49%. The June rain shortage ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda criticized the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal on Monday over a video showing a man brutally assaulting a couple in public. "A horrific video has come to light from West Bengal, reminding ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaMIDNAPORE: A 23-year-old, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday at Jhargram Medical College Hospital, nine days after being beaten by a mob in Jamboni on suspicion of theft. His friend, Akshay Mahato, remains hospitalised.The deceased, Sourav Sau, was from ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaPANDUA (HOOGHLY): Police on Sunday lodged a murder case and arrested two locals after a 25-year-old youth, who was assaulted in Pandua on June 27, succumbed to his injuries, .Ashish Baul Das, also a Pandua resident, reportedly got into ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaHOWRAH: Bankra is on the boil with shots being fired and bombs thrown. A large police force, the RAF and central forces are patrolling the area led by Howrah City Police Joint CP Sabari Rajkumar K. Cops have recovered ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 23 lakh vehicles are now registered in Kolkata, a city which has only 450-odd legal parking spots for around 35,000 vehicles, mostly bikes. This huge demand-supply gap makes it difficult for the ongoing cop crackdown on ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose has written to DoPT, seeking removal of Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal and DCP (central) Indira Mukherjee. The latter is heading the Special Enquiry Team probing the molestation charge against Bose by ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress on Sunday urged the governor to stop reading “WhatsApp university dispatches and start reading Bengal’s budget documents” after CV Ananda Bose flagged the “financial breakdown faced” and demanded an “emergency state cabinet and a white paper” ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: New Town Development Authority has floated a Rs 13.7 lakh tender to clear outgrowths in Action Area II, including parthenium. It wants to scrub out these weeds within the next six months.Empty land stretches of Action Area II ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaCHOPRA (NORTH DINAJPUR): Police on Sunday registered a suo motu case and launched an investigation after a video of a man brutally thrashing a woman and her male friend over an extra-marital relationship in Bengal's North Dinajpur went viral ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: High-rise complexes and gated communities in Kolkata, Salt Lake and New Town, which had been troubled for years by illegal encroachers blocking approach roads and entrance gates, are relieved. The anti-encroachment drive taken up by the state, following ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A charitable health unit run by one of the city’s oldest gurdwaras has tied up with a non-profit health organisation to restart the health unit that remained non-functional for more than a decade. The Guru Tegh Bahadur Medical ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Probing into the murder of a 37-year-old TV and mobile mechanic who was allegedly lynched inside Udayan Hostel on Nirmal Chandra Dey Street on Friday by its boarders, police have summoned the hostel superintendent for a background check ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has drawn a blue-and-white line on the road in Hatibagan, demarcating parking areas. The parking zone has been marked out on one side of Bidhan Sarani from Fariapukur to the Hatibagan crossing. Similar ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Asansol: A dreaded gangster, Subodh Singh, was brought from Beur Jail in Bihar to Asansol in West Bengal on transit remand on Sunday by the CID. Singh, a prime accused in the murder of coal mafia Raju Jha, had ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal emerged as India’s second largest home of new faunal species, after Kerala. Home to 49 new species and 23 new records, of 641 faunal species found in 2023 as recorded in Animal Discoveries 2023, which was officially ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A businessman, Hafizur Sheikh (52) was shot at by his neighbour at Nimta in North Dum Dum late on Saturday night during the celebration of India’s T20 World Cup victory in the area. Police arrested the accused, identified ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Niti Aayog on Sunday completed the drone survey for the six historical sites in Nadia, including the royal palace at Krishnanagar, Ganga ghat at Nabadwip and the birthplace of the poet Krittibas Ojha. The sites will be ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ananya and Priya, two cartoon characters have been introduced by the state higher education department on Sunday to assist students to fill the forms for undergraduate courses on the centralized admission portal.The move is aimed at encouraging more ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 11-year-old boy whose bladder had been invaded by a rare parasite - endemic in India – has now recovered in Peerless Hospital Kolkata. Known as Schistosoma, the parasite also known as blood fluke can cause urological or ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sharp rise in typhoid patients has kept hospitals worried. Several have been receiving a steady stream of patients since last week, including some with a very severe disease who required ICU admission. It is a little too ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have started traffic trials to facilitate construction of the other half of Nabadiganta Metro station of the New Garia-Airport corridor. The diversion of the airport-bound traffic through an 11m wide barricaded lane at New Town’s Technopolis crossing ...
1 July 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The NKDA has started building around 800 stalls, in addition to the existing 900 ones, to rehabilitate hawkers evicted from unauthorised spots in the township. NKDA has launched a survey to count hawkers. An official said the state ...
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