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Protest at CU after guv reaches campus to hand over degrees
Kolkata: Supporters of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, some of whom are students of Calcutta University, held up posters, showed black flags and raised slogans as the Governor C V Anand Bose entered the varsity’s College Street campus around 12 pm ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaOne win will help EB get back the rhythm: Bino
Kolkata: Interim coach Bino George believes East Bengal FC are one win away from getting their ‘rhythm’ back as he begins the post Carles Cuadrat era with an away match against Jamshedpur FC on Saturday. “I respect coach Carles ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaProtest but go back to work: Sr docs to juniors at RG Kar meet
Kolkata: The message to junior doctors from their seniors was clear during a meeting of senior and junior medicos at R G Kar Medical College on Thursday — ‘resume work but carry on the agitation in some other form’. ...
4 October 2024 Times of India‘Why was the machine on a lane and not in garage?’
Kolkata: KMC has said that there was no reason for the three earth movers to be stationed at Dinesh Nagar in Bansdroni, where an accident involving one of them killed 14-year-old Soumya Sil on Wednesday.The civic body has issued ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaRider alleges abuse by app biker
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has received a complaint on social media, claiming that a pillion rider was allegedly threatened and abused by an app biker near the Patipukur underpass recently. This comes at a time when the Kolkata Police ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaPuja revellers are already thronging pandals: CM
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, referring to the fact that people have already started thronging Durga Puja pandals, stressed the reason Unesco has declared Durga Puja an intangible cultural heritage of humanity was because of the huge participation of ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaSporadic showers & persistent cloud cover during puja: Met
Kolkata: The city plunged into darkness as a thick cloud cover hovered over Kolkata on Thursday afternoon. The Met office has predicted light-to-moderate showers during puja across south Bengal. The rain and thundershowers, however, could be sporadic and restricted ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaRain-triggered landslides claim life, wreck Hills roads
12 Siliguri: An elderly person died in Pulundung village in Darjeeling’s Jorebungalow-Sukhiapokhri block on Thursday morning when the ceiling of his house came crashing down in a rockfall caused by landslides triggered by incessant rain since Wednesday night.Raghubir Rai ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaWho will compensate for our loss: Bansdroni teen’s dad
Kolkata: “Who do I blame for his death? Can his loss be ever compensated?” Shankar Sil, the father of the 14-year-old who was mowed down by an earthmover on Wednesday, asked on Thursday. The child’s mother Madhu Sil is ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaKMC starts road repair after 14-year-old’s death
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation roads department on Thursday started repair of battered roads in different parts of Dinesh Nagar, a neighbourhood located off Bansdroni, where a teenager was crushed to death on Wednesday morning. The cratered road on ...
4 October 2024 Times of IndiaProtesters, locals clash in Tollygunge
Kolkata: There was tension at Tollygunge’s Karunamoyee Bridge area, at the entrance to Haridevpur, on Tuesday night after protesters alleged they were attacked by local goons. The protesters claimed the attack was planned at the insistence of ward 115 ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaNetas’ debut in ‘apolitical’ protest rally causes unease among doctors in city
Kolkata: The presence of some political leaders in Tuesday's rally called by the Joint Platform of Doctors have caused unease in the medical fraternity. Even as political parties have been holding their own respective protests in the wake of ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaEsplanade pockets off protest map
Kolkata: Commissioner of Kolkata Police Manoj Kumar Verma on Tuesday issued a prohibitory order against rallies — BNSS 163 — around Bidhan Market under Maidan police station, thereby extending the restriction in place between Esplanade and Victoria House. Though ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaDHFC promoted to I-League 2
Kolkata: Diamond Harbour FC (DHFC) have sealed their promotion to the second division of I-League, defeating Keinou Library and Sports Association 2-0 at the Naihati stadium on Wednesday. DHFC took the lead through Narohari Shrestha in 22 minutes and ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaShoppers brave traffic challenges, make most of mid-week holiday on Mahalaya
Kolkata: Shoppers made the most of the mid-week holiday on Wednesday as major shopping hubs like Hatibagan, New Market and Hatibagan saw a huge turnout since Mahalaya morning. After a month-long decline in business in the wake of the ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaRain on radar, organisers prepare for a wet run-up to Durga Puja
Kolkata: From changing the materials used to construct the pandal and stocking up on emergency drainage pumps to covering the open pandals and paving portions of the open ground with wooden platforms, Durga Puja organisers are taking multiple precautionary ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaArkadian posts an upset victory
Kolkata: Rank outsider Arkadian from the stable of Pesi Shroff surprised all by claiming the Deccan Derby at Malakpet on Wednesday. The son of Aspen Sun, ridden by S Saqlain, was lowest rated maiden runner in the field. Half-money ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaTrial on for 3am water supply during puja
Kolkata: In view of the early morning puja schedule this year, the KMC water supply department has started trial runs for supplying water to households and pandals from 3 am instead of 6 am. According to a KMC official, ...
3 October 2024 Times of India14-year-old YouTuber wanted to be class topper
Kolkata: Soumya Sil, 14, a resident of Gitanagar in Boral and a class IX student at Gangapuri Siksha Sadan School, has been among the top three students in his school. Ever since he had enrolled in a private tuition ...
3 October 2024 Times of India‘Politicians’ presence in protest march taints citizens’ movement’
Kolkata: Organisers of apolitical protests against the RG Kar crime, who could inspire thousands of citizens to come out on the streets and reclaim the nights on the eve of Independence Day and that of the Supreme Court hearing, ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaCM opens pujas, focuses on unity and inclusivity
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday insisted on unity and inclusivity on the day Bengal celebrated Mahalaya and Gandhi Jayanti simultaneously. The CM reminded that Durga Puja was the most inclusive of all festivals in which all communities, ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaPatient’s friend arrested for death threat to RG Kar docs
Kolkata: On-duty doctors at RG Kar Medical College, including a woman PGT doctor, were abused and threatened by two friends of a patient at RG Kar early on Wednesday. Satya Ranjan Mahapatra, who threatened the doctors with dire consequences ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaSpirits high but footfall low in reclaim-Mahalaya rallies in Kol
123 Kolkata: Slogans, art, street plays and high spirits drove Kolkata’s night-long protest up to Mahalaya dawn, though footfall was relatively low in comparison to earlier occasions when streets had been completely swarmed by protesters. Citizens who came out ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaRail min seeks state help for 61 projects
Kolkata: Three days after India’s busiest station turned 162, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the newly extended platforms for accommodating 12-car EMU locals at the Sealdah station.“After extension of platforms 1 to 5, all 21 platforms at Sealdah station ...
3 October 2024 Times of IndiaBengal tops list of MSMEs owned by women
Kolkata: Bengal has topped the list of MSMEs owned by women, a report published by Centre’s MSME ministry shows. The report for 2023-24 said Bengal had 23.4% women-owned enterprises.Bengal has been leading the nation for the past couple of ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaQuiz ex-principal, ex-OC in jail: Court no to CBI custodial interrogation plea
Kolkata: Be more cautious, the Sealdah court told CBI on Monday, turning down the central agency’s plea for custodial interrogation of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station OC Abhijit Mandal. The magistrate, Arijit Mandal, ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaIMA Cal suspends Birupaksha Biswas
Kolkata: The IMA Calcutta branch on Tuesday suspended Birupaksha Biswas from its primary membership. Biswas, a senior resident of pathology, is an assistant secretary and state council member of IMA Calcutta. The suspension letter cited him being under CBI ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata rape-murder: Junior doctors' strike disrupts healthcare services in West Bengal
KOLKATA: Healthcare services in West Bengal were disrupted as junior doctors continued their cease work on Wednesday, demanding improved security at state-run hospitals following the rape and murder of their colleague. The junior doctors resumed their strike on Tuesday, ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaSchoolboy dies after being hit by excavator in Kolkata's Bansdroni
Image used for representational purpose only NEW DELHI: A class 9 student tragically lost his life after being struck by an excavator in the Bansdroni area of south Kolkata on Wednesday morning, according to police reports. The accident occurred ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaGovernor C V Ananda Bose slams TMC govt for 'starvation' death of Bengal migrant labourer in Chennai
KOLKATA: Governor C V Ananda Bose expressed his distress regarding the death of a migrant worker hailing from West Bengal in Chennai, allegedly due to starvation. Bose admonished chief minister Mamata Banerjee On Wednesday, declaring that his "constitutional colleague ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaSC mention reopens old wounds for many docs
Kolkata: The murder of two doctors—the first in 2001 at RG Kar Medical College and the second in 2003 at Ranaghat hospital—for allegedly voicing wrongdoings at the hospitals has again become a talking point in the backdrop of the ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaNGT notes delays in Santragachhi sewerage project
Kolkata: In a hearing on Sept 26, regarding the construction of a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and Waste Stabilization Pond (WSP) at Santragachhi Jheel, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) East Zone Bench, led by Justice B Amit Sthalekar and ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaLet us pledge to build just, inclusive society: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee honored Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary by emphasizing the importance of building a society that is just and inclusive, in line with his vision for India. In a post on ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaJustice Mukerji bids Cal HC farewell, hopes exit is a ‘catalyst for change’
Kolkata: Justice IP Mukerji bade farewell to Calcutta High Court on Monday, saying he hoped his departure for the po-st of Meghalaya HC Chief Justice would act as a “catalyst” for “long-expected change”. “After an innings of around 16 ...
2 October 2024 Times of India‘Choose right helmet for safety’
Kolkata: Random checking of safety headgear by the motor vehicle inspectors found a gross violation of safety standards in the helmets used by motor-cyclists, forcing the transport department to reiterate the mandate by the Centre in prescribing standards for ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaCBI questions ex-RG Kar princi, ex-OC
Kolkata: The CBI on Tuesday went to Presidency Correctional Home to question former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh and ex-Tala police station OC Abhijit Mandal. A day before, the additional chief judicial magistrate court, Sealdah, permitted the agency to ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaSenior IPS officers transferred
Kolkata: Just before puja, the state has implemented several transfers at the senior level in both Kolkata Police and Bengal Police. Devendra Prakash Singh has been appointed as additional commissioner of Kolkata Police taking the total number of additional ...
2 October 2024 Times of India52 Bowbazar residents return to cave-in zone homes on Mahalaya eve
Kolkata: The 52 Bowbazar residents evacuated from around the East-West Metro site returned home on Tuesday after more than a month as KMRC has completed the job of removing underground piles that had caused water seepage. The temporary relocation ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaMore than 2k Kol pujas receive grant
Kolkata: The city police on Tuesday claimed they had disbursed Durga Puja grant to over 80% of the pujas that had applied for it. “Around 2,900 puja organisers in Kolkata have applied for the grant of Rs 85,000 each. ...
2 October 2024 Times of India‘Cease-work will go on unless there’s clear action from govt’
Kolkata: The junior doctors have set a 10-point charter of demands revolving around the security at hospitals, threat culture and patient care services. They have also demanded removal of the health secretary, investigation into corruption in West Bengal Medical ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaNIC staffers take part in ‘walkathon’
Kolkata: M Rajeshwari Singh, CMD of National Insurance Company, T Babu Paul, ED, and other senior officials and employees have participated in a ‘walkathon’ to promote fitness and cleanliness.
2 October 2024 Times of India2 women pillion riders killed in accidents
Kolkata: Two women riders died and two others were seriously injured in two two-wheeler accidents in the city. A pillion rider, Majeda Gayen (24), a resident of Banerjeehat near Greenfield City, lost her life even as the rider, Ayesha ...
2 October 2024 Times of India‘Maoist links’: NIA raids 12 locations in Bengal
Kolkata: NIA conducted raids at 12 locations in the state on Tuesday over funding of Maoist groups in Chhattisgarh. Sources said raids were conducted at Sodepur and Jagaddal in North 24 Parganas, Asansol in West Burdwan, and Netaji Nagar ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaPoddar re-elected hotel assn prez
Kolkata: Sudesh Poddar has been re-elected president of Hotel & Restaurant Association of Eastern India for 2024-2025 at the organisation’s 63rd AGM. Earlier, he was president of Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India.
2 October 2024 Times of India‘Puja, stir can co-exist’: Organisers keep an eye on renewed protest
Kolkata: On the eve of Mahalaya, Durga Puja organisers, immersed in last-minute preparations, seemed anxious about completing pandals ahead of the Tritiya deadline as well as the possibility of street protests coming in the way of pandal-hopping.Organisers of some ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaBMC cashes in on rain break for road patchwork
Kolkata: With the rain receding in the last few days, the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has started pre-puja patchwork of damaged roads in Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur. Patchwork was done on the stretch from J K Saha Bridge to Karunamoyee ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaMCH sets up panels to probe funds misuse, selling of beds
Kolkata: The Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCHK) has constituted two separate committees to enquire into allegations of corruption on campus. While one committee will be probing the misuse of govt funds in its central laboratory, the other will investigate ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaStudent’s family files suicide abetment plaint
Kolkata: Parents of the 20-year-old second-year law student, Gourab Dutta, who had died on Friday night after falling from their state housing complex building in Salt Lake’s FF Block, lodged a complaint of abetment to suicide on Sunday. A ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaGoddess won’t smile if devotees don’t: Mamata
Kolkata: The goddess would not smile if there was no smile on devotees' lips, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday without directly mentioning the RG Kar Medical College rape-and-murder street protests in the run-up to the state's biggest ...
2 October 2024 Times of IndiaIn curtailed shopping season, micro-temp hawkers put to use
Kolkata: Pre-puja shopping rush in a season truncated by rallies and protests has prompted several traders and hawkers in Gariahat, New Market, Hatibagan and Burrabazar to take special measures to maximise their business in the run-up to the festival.While ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaBagan request AFC to ‘reschedule’ ACL-2 match in Iran
Kolkata: Deciding to stay back in Kolkata instead of taking the flight to Iran, Mohun Bagan SG management has sent a fresh e-mail to the Asian Football Confederation, reiterating the team’s concerns of playing in the west Asian country ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata hospital rape-murder: West Bengal junior doctors resume 'total cease work'
Junior doctors take out a torch rally in Kolkata on Sunday. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have resumed their indefinite strike demanding better safety and security at medical facilities. The strike, which began on October ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaCuadrat steps down as East Bengal coach
Kolkata: Carles Cuadrat on Monday resigned as East Bengal FC coach, becoming the first big casualty of India’s 2024-2025 domestic season. Nine months after guiding the team to the Super Cup and ending the red-and-gold brigade’s decade-old drought for ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaCardiac surgery saves 26-day-old boy’s life
Kolkata: A team of doctors in a Howrah hospital saved the life of a prematurely born boy weighing only 1.2 kg and battling a complex cardiac condition by conducting an intricate surgery when he was only 26 days old. ...
1 October 2024 Times of India2,500 cops to be on road for 48 hours
Kolkata: With multiple protests lined up in the city in the next 48 hours, Kolkata Police will deploy 2,500 cops in the city to ensure smooth movement of citizens — those going to work and those out on the ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaHC asks pvt firms to stop filling up water body
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed two private companies to abide by the order of the additional district magistrate and district land and land reforms officer, Howrah, directing them to stop filling up a water body near ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaRights activists fret over Bangla violence
Kolkata: Human rights activists in Bengal have raised concern over the safety of the north-eastern states in the wake of alleged attacks on the ethnic minorities at Chittagong in Bangladesh. They have also protested against the Bangladesh govt’s delay ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaSurgeon Sandip Chatterjee passes away
Kolkata: Neurosurgeon Sandip Chatterjee, also an ace debater, passed away on Monday. He was 63. He had myeloma (cancer) but it was under control, his friends said. Towards the end, it took a toll on his heart muscles that ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaBonita wins feature event
Kolkata: The first division of the Sadler Plate was won by Ajay Sharma-nursed Bonita with Vivek G astride in New Delhi on Monday. Well-backed Flower Power with Vivek G atop lifted the second Division of the Sadler Plate.Delhi short ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaSnake worry at New Town pandals amid rain forecast
Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will provide a detailed list of important contact numbers, including that of snake catchers, to all puja organisers across New Town following multiple incidents of snake bites and sightings. Recent showers ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaKMC team visits Sandip home in Beleghata, ‘finds no deviation’
Kolkata: A KMC buildings department team on Monday went to former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh’s house in Beleghata to check for any irregularities in the construction of the four-storey house. According to a KMC buildings department official, the ...
1 October 2024 Times of India‘Finish hosp infra jobs within deadline’
Kolkata: The Supreme Court directed the state to ensure that all infrastructure work at medical facilites was completed within the deadline provided, prompting the latter to assure that it would be done by Oct 31; Dwivedi also submitted that ...
1 October 2024 Times of India2 more held for attack on jr docs
Kolkata: Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the assault on junior doctors and nurses by the relatives of the deceased patient at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital (CMSDH) at Kamarhati, taking the total ...
1 October 2024 Times of India300 childhood cancer survivors meet at NRS
Kolkata: Samadrita Sarkar, now 16 and a resident of Golf Green, was diagnosed with blood cancer when she was two years old. She underwent treatment for about three years and gradually swung back to normal life in the next ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaWon’t release RG Kar crime backdrop film now: Makers
Kolkata: The makers of ‘Agomoni Tilottamar Golpo’, the short film shot “in the backdrop of the RG Kar crime” that was slated for a Mahalaya release, has postponed the date. The decision came following widespread criticism and director Prantik ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaOvernight repair drive to patch up cratered roads ahead of puja
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation roads department has decided to carry out a special overnight road repair drive to fill craters and potholes on all major thoroughfares by Oct 4, before Durga Puja commences. Though the civic body had ...
1 October 2024 Times of IndiaWoman’s plight in mind, HC goes soft on false claims
Kolkata: Considering that the petitioner, a woman who sought appointment as ASHA Karmee in Kharagpur Block-II, comes from a weaker section of the society, the Calcutta High Court decided not to impose a cost for making false averments in ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaGirl stabbed after protest against lewd comments
Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman, Piyali Mondal, was allegedly stabbed twice by two youths in Belgharia on Saturday night after she protested against lewd comments directed at her sister.Piyali sustained deep neck injuries and was admitted to the College of ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaBagan not willing to play in Iran
Kolkata: Mohun Bagan Super Giant have expressed their unwillingness to travel to Iran, citing players’ safety following the prevailing volatile situation in the region and plunging into uncertainty the green-and-maroon brigade’s next AFC Champions League Two match away at ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaHC grants murder accused bail as trial inconclusive after 12 years
Representative image KOLKATA: Deeming the inordinate delay in completing a trial unacceptable, Calcutta HC has granted bail until Nov-end to a man incarcerated in jail for 11 years and seven months for allegedly killing his two daughters and dumping ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaFresh BMC audit finds 60 more leaning trees
123 Kolkata: A fresh survey by Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) shows around 50 to 60 tall trees across Salt Lake to be in poor shape. The authorities have already cut down around several dead trees and plan to take ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaShoppers make most of sunny spell on last weekend before Mahalaya
Kolkata: Shoppers came out in streams on Sunday, capping a week of frenzied buying with markets and malls clocking record footfall. The favourable weather did its bit to help the cause. With rain forecast in the week ahead, many ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaMCH body’s plaint on central lab corruption
Kolkata: The Medical College Students Union (MCSU) has lodged a complaint of corruption in the hospital’s central lab, demanding an inquiry and stringent action against those involved in it. Students have also raised an alarm over the presence of ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaDrunk patient, his kin assault junior doctors at CNMC; two arrested
Kolkata: Junior doctors at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital were allegedly assaulted by a drunk patient and his relatives early on Sunday. Cops on duty were quick to arrest two persons from the spot.According to the complaint lodged ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaIn bid to help Kol friend, sr citizens lose ₹2.6L to frauds
Kolkata: In a recent case of email phishing, senior citizens in London and Mumbai lost a total of Rs 2.6 lakh to cyber criminals who created a fake e-mail id in the name of their elderly friend from Kolkata ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaBetween rain spells, puja organisers rush to finish work before opening
Kolkata: Durga Puja organisers across the city have deployed additional manpower and are working extra hours to make the most of the dry spell to finish the pending pandal decorations by the middle of next week, after which there ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaNow, Sagore Dutta joins RG Kar on junior doctors’ protest list
Kolkata: Junior doctors across Bengal came out on streets on Sunday evening with torches, demanding justice for the R G Kar victim. This is their first such street rally after they lifted their Swasthya Bhavan sit-in on Sept 19.The ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaOrder on RG Kar ‘threat culture’ likely this week
Kolkata: The inquiry against 59 — junior doctors and students — at R G Kar Medical College, against whom the students had complained of promoting threat culture is over. The special inquiry committee is expected to pass its orders ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaFire dept to use high-tech comm devices for puja
Kolkata: For the first time in the state, the state fire and emergency services department will introduce SIM-based walkie-talkies to be used on an experimental basis during Durga Puja to enhance emergency communication, including transferring data and live photos ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaClub removes 40ft spine after ‘too many queries’
Kolkata: A city Durga Puja committee which had incorporated a spine as part of their theme six months earlier withdrew the 40-ft installation and removed it to the backyard of the pandal following uncomfortable questions from different quarters. Beleghata ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaState to revive energy edu park lying defunct for over a decade
Kolkata: The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) has planned to revive the energy education park opposite Science City on EM Bypass. The park, which was set up in 2004 on an acre to raise awareness about sustainable ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaNorth Kolkata theatre para puja relives glory days a year after weaving ‘Abol Tabol’ magic
123 Kolkata: A puja pandal that had metamorphosed a north Kolkata neighbourhood into the nonsensical and absurd world of ‘Abol Tabol’ to celebrate the centenary of Sukumar Ray's literary classic is this year transforming the locality into a neighbouring ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaMkts on fire: Tomato, okra & bitter gourd hit a century, green chilli shoots past 300 per kg
Kolkata: The floods in Bengal have set vegetable markets on fire across Kolkata, with prices of several vegetables crossing the century-mark. Consistent rain and floods during the critical seasonal transition period has disrupted supply, driving vegetable prices to record ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaCease-work move: Jr docs keep an eye on SC hearing, CM meet
Kolkata: The Supreme Court hearing at 2pm on Monday on the RG Kar issue and steps taken by the state will have a bearing on whether the junior doctors renew their statewide cease-work. While junior doctors in many medical ...
30 September 2024 Times of IndiaCambodia SIM fraud mastermind arrested
Kolkata: The detective department on Saturday arrested Nang Kain Kham (27) from Myanmar, the mastermind who ran a racket of smuggling pre-activated SIM cards from Kolkata to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, through courier services. “With the help of local police, ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaWater from Koshi river in Nepal has reached West Bengal from Bihar: CM Mamata Banerjee
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, upon her arrival at Kolkata airport, stated that water from the Koshi River in Nepal has reached the state."I am going to North Bengal. I've already visited the places in South ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaCondo fracas over parking
Kolkata: A resident of an upscale condominium off EM Bypass alleged his driver was assaulted by another resident over a parking dispute. The driver lodged a complaint at the Anandapur PS. The driver told police he had just driven ...
29 September 2024 Times of India20-yr RI for neighbour who raped 11-yr-old girl
Kolkata: A court has sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl 16 months ago. Vickey Verma has also been slapped with a fine of Rs 1 lakh, which will be given to ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaTMC MLA Humayun Kabir threatens to gherao junior doctors of Murshidabad Medical College
Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has caused controversy by threatening to gherao junior doctors at Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital. He criticized them for protesting in air-conditioned rooms while patients suffer. NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaDocs’ WA hacked after trips to Riyadh, Munich
Kolkata: Two doctors, both residents of a posh south Kolkata neighbourhood, fell prey to a WhatsApp hacking scam late on Friday. Investigators said they were victims of an organized racket that targeted one person and then the other using ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaCM to visit Lake Town puja on Tues
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee will visit the Sreebhumi puja pandal at Lake Town on Tuesday evening to inaugurate the ‘festival’ that is being held along with the puja. Titled ‘Utsabe usarita suchana’, the CM will kick off the festival ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaSagore Dutta hosp assault reignites junior doctors’ security concerns
Kolkata: The assault on junior doctors and nurses at College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital (CMSDH) in Kamarhati on Friday has reignited apprehensions of junior doctors over insecurity at govt medical colleges and hospitals.The cease-work that had followed ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaNo doc attended to my daughter: Hwh victim’s mother
Kolkata: The family of 30-year-old Ranjana Shaw, a resident of Liluah in Howrah, whose death and the subsequent attack on doctors and nurses at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital (CMSDH) triggered the indefinite cease-work by junior ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaMP steps in after pregnant woman refused hosp admission
Kolkata: A govt hospital at Behala allegedly refused admission to a pregnant woman with learning disbility from Budge Budge as she did not have identification documents. Later, after TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee intervened, the woman was admitted to another ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaGD entry, monitoring of CCTV advice from CP
Kolkata: General diary entries should be made correctly and on time, CCTV footage —inside a police station or at a crime spot—needs to be conserved properly and the entry and exit of cops at their workplace should correspond to ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaActor gets rape threat for RG Kar protests
Kolkata: An actor, who has been vociferous in her protest against the RG Kar crime, has allegedly received rape threats on social media for daring to “denounce several influential individuals”. She said she had lodged a complaint at the ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaLa Dolce Vita for Million
Kolkata: Bezan Chenoy- nursed La Dolce Vita is all set to graduate from maiden company in the Panchshil Million at Pune on Sunday. This well bred daughter of Xisca has been well tuned to win in the hands of ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaRani behind Dakshineswar Kali temple to find place in Museum
Kolkata: To mark the 232nd birth anniversary of Rani Rashmoni, the 210-year-old Indian Museum will receive a half-bust portrait of the philanthropist and the founder of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple. Indian Museum will display the portrait at its celebrated ...
29 September 2024 Times of India46 new stalls, removal of trident poles for Sector V hawker rehab
Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) plans to relocate a section of hawkers in Sector V by setting up 46 rehabilitation stalls on the ground floor of the multi-level car parking complex. The authorities are also planning to ...
29 September 2024 Times of IndiaFrom Calcutta to Sealdah, India’s busiest station traces 162-yr journey
Kolkata: A train service from the heart of Kolkata to Ranaghat on Sept 29, 1862 in Nadia flagged off the journey of Calcutta Railway Station, which has evolved into the busiest station in the country—Sealdah station. Eastern Railway will ...
29 September 2024 Times of India