Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that the state govt will conduct a survey of gig workers in the state to provide them with better social security measures."Gig workers don't have any social security. They don't have ...
6 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The names of as many as 250 persons belonging to the 'other gender' category have been deleted from Bengal's draft SIR list, primarily because they were 'untraceable' or 'absent'. There were 1,811 names of 'other gender' individuals - ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaThe internet has crowned its newest thespian – a milky-white lamb from China. This 10-day-old lamb in northwestern China has gone viral for dramatically playing dead every time a potential buyer approaches it, only to jump up healthy the ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaSome people hit their daily 10,000 steps fitness goal by walking around the neighbourhood — this man hit them standing on a tiny wooden stool. A viral video shows Chirag Walunj pacing back and forth on the minuscule platform ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Clearly pushed to the backfoot by CM Mamata Banerjee's fight in Supreme Court, BJP seniors, who kept their eyes on television sets since Wednesday morning, called the appearance in the courtroom "a performance".Addressing a press conference in New ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Coal India's board on Wednesday approved the proposal for the incorporation of an intermediate holding company (IHC) in Chile to explore and develop opportunities in the South American country in the field of critical minerals, especially lithium and ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission on Wednesday turned down Bengal govt's plea to exempt state home secretary Jagdeesh Prasad Meena from attending a briefing meet, making it mandatory for him to head to Delhi to attend the "mandatory" two-day central ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal may well end up being the biggest pre-election gift for Trinamool Congress, which is otherwise facing a poll this time that is not going to be a cakewalk, ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaNew Delhi: Opposition will take a collective call on moving an impeachment motion against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Congress's KC Venugopal said on Wednesday, a day after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called for such a move. Never has ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: FMCG major Emami saw net profit of Rs 319 crore, a 15% growth, in the third quarter of the fiscal. EBITDA for the quarter stood at Rs 384 crore, registering growth of 13%, while EBITDA margins improved to ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A senior citizen, Arunjyoti Bar, residing off Tollygunge Circular Road, died after falling ill during a quarrel at his home on Monday night, after a money lender, identified as a ‘Kabuliwala', allegedly sent his brother to demand repayment ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: "This city has given me a lot—due respect, a decent living and a bright future for my family. A one-off incident cannot change everything. I will continue to work here and love this city as I always have," ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jorasanko resident Sharique Aman (38) queued up at Mutty Lall Seal's Free College on Wednesday for his SIR hearing after an EC notice was slapped on him, asking why his father was named ‘Aman Ali' in the 2002 ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man, Amit Sardar, was arrested from Haridevpur on Monday for attempting to murder his wife, Mousumi Das, by slashing her neck with a razor on Jan 28. Police said Sardar tried to slash his neck as well ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 33-year-old woman lodged a complaint at Posta police station alleging sexual assault, criminal force and intimidation against a jeweller, who was also her employer. According to the complaint, the alleged incidents took place from Nov 20 to ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Turkish Airlines flight that took off from Kathmandu for Istanbul with 236 passengers and 11 crew made a single-engine emergency landing in Kolkata at 2.48 pm on Wednesday. All passengers and crew on board are safe.According to ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After chief minister Mamata Banerjee told her legal team that she "wished to speak from my heart, like an ordinary citizen" nearly a week ago, the team members—Serampore MP and senior lawyer Kalyan Banerjee, Fox & Mandal managing ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city took a brief pause on Wednesday — not for a rally but for a courtroom proceeding. As chief minister Mamata Banerjee presented her case on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) before the Supreme Court, thousands across ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attended a Supreme Court hearing on alleged SIR harassment in Bengal, people at different hearing centres across the city queued up to prove their validity as genuine voters.At Mutty Lal Seal's Free College, ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As CM Mamata Banerjee argued as a petitioner before the Supreme Court, challenging the ongoing SIR process, kin of those booth-level officers (BLOs) and people who lost their lives during the exercise on Wednesday expressed gratitude for raising ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Contempt notices were served on the state home secretary and joint commissioner of police (traffic) on Wednesday regarding the Orange Line's Chingrighata impasse.On Dec 23, 2025, Calcutta High Court had directed the state to ensure that the metro ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar police have submitted the chargesheet in Salt Lake goldsmith, Swapan Kamilya, murder case, naming five arrested persons. The chargesheet has mentioned Rajganj BDO Prasanta Barman, the prime suspect in the case,as ‘absconding,' sources said. Arrest warrant has ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Apeejay School, Park Street organised a five-day Golden Jubilee programme recently. ‘Luminara,' a vibrant carnival, was inaugurated by chairman Karan Paul, along with Sumit Dasgupta, trustee, Apeejay Schools, and Darryl Bloud, CEO, Apeejay Group of Schools on ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The violence that occurred at Kankulia on Sunday owed its immediate genesis to another clash at Kasba, claimed cops, but stated that tension between both groups simmered for a long time since Kasba-Tiljala strongman Sona Pappu, aka Biswajit ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday flagged off a drainage revamp project that will ensure laying of underground sewer lines across ward 127 in the next couple of years. The project, under Kolkata Environment and Infrastructure Improvement Project (KEIIP), ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The work for modernisation of the air-conditioning and installation of tunnel ventilation system across the Blue Line's 15 underground stations was launched on Wednesday. This was the first major overhaul of India's oldest metro, which is in its ...
5 February 2026 Times of IndiaDurgapur: The ED on Tuesday conducted searches across Bengal, including the residence of a police officer in Durgapur, in connection with the ongoing probe into illegal coal and sand mining.On Tuesday morning, an ED team reached the house of ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Child In Need Institute (CINI) marked its 52nd Foundation Day in Kolkata with the launch of Shubhayu, a preventive healthcare and wellness initiative aimed at addressing India’s growing burden of non-communicable diseases and long-term health challenges.On the occasion, ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt has challenged in Supreme Court the Centre's NIA probe order into the Jan 16-17 Beldanga violence. An 8-member NIA team is in the Murshidabad town since Saturday after taking over the probe from Bengal Police.A ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: A 26-year-old man allegedly hacked a rural medical practitioner (RMP) to death inside his chamber in Burdwan on Tuesday afternoon and later surrendered at the local police station, reports Mohammad Asif.The victim Raja Bhowmick (42) practised in Badamtala. ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With former education minister Partha Chatterjee now included in various assembly committees, speculation is rife about whether the Behala West MLA is gaining importance after his release from jail.He was in jail for over two years in the ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Within a week of his two-day Bengal tour, BJP national president Nitin Nabin met the party's Bengal MPs on Tuesday night.The meeting, which lasted for nearly two hours at the New Delhi residence of Union minister Sukanta Majumdar, ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/NEW DELHI: CM Mamata Banerjee has filed an affidavit in Supreme Court rubbishing theft charges levelled against her by ED in connection with its searches at the I-PAC office in Salt Lake and the Loudon Street home of the ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaAlbania’s newest “expecting” mother isn’t human – she’s AI. Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced that Diella, the country’s AI Minister for Artificial Intelligence, is “pregnant” with 83 digital children. No nappies involved: the “babies” are AI assistants being ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaMonk turned chef, Jigmet Mingur has been a favourite of travel and food glossies with his distinctive take on Ladakhi cuisine. From his 10-seater Ladakh table, Mingur has been showing the world that there is more to the lunar ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaChinsurah: A court on Tuesday sentenced two men to life imprisonment in a 2021 murder case. They were also fined Rs 20,000 each, reports Falguni Banerjee.The convicts, Anupam Das and Arun Paswan, murdered Tapan Mallick in July, 2021, for ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Storage battery major Exide Industries is expecting Rs 500 crore jump in exports following the back-to-back US trade and EU deals, said managing director Avik Roy while speaking to reporters here.The company's exports declined in the current fiscal, ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A 60-year-old voter appeared in SIR hearing after travelling in an ambulance from Bibigram under English Bazar PS to Malda Zilla School on Tuesday. Mahmud Sk, a mason by profession, had an accident two years ago when he ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman doctor from Karaya was allegedly cheated of about Rs 11 lakh in a SIM-swap fraud while she was in Ahmedabad to attend a conference in Dec, police said. The case is being investigated as part of ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The woman, on the basis of whose complaint an FIR was registered against influencer Sayak Chakraborty, said she was happy that the waiter had been released but said she would continue to pursue the case against Chakraborty and ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A four-member team of the National Human Rights Commission visited the site of the Anandapur warehouse in Nazirabad on Tuesday. The fire, that broke out on Jan 26, claimed at least 27 lives. The team inspected the accident ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Pakistan Cricket Board's decision to pull out of the high-octane T20 World Cup clash with arch-rivals India at Colombo on Feb 15 left scores of Kolkata fans disappointed. Many planned to travel as part of a trip, ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Close on the heels of Nipah and multiple other viruses, an unidentified virus with severe symptoms, similar to an intense form of influenza, struck scores in Kolkata. It struck with high fever, cough and muscle pain, leading to ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after the Lalbazar top brass hit the road on Monday night, led by CP Supratim Sarkar, followed by inspections by additional CP Santosh Pandey on Monday morning, some consensus finally emerged at Ultadanga crossing on how autos ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was not just control of the syndicate business that triggered the clash at Panchanantala Road in Kankulia on Sunday night. In a new twist in the incident that saw bullets being fired, bombs hurled, brick-batting and widespread ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A Madhyamik candidate, who tried to end her life by consuming poison, appeared for her Class X board exam on Tuesday from Midnapore Medical College and Hospital in West Midnapore. The girl reportedly consumed poison on Saturday evening ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the US slashing tariffs on Indian goods to 18% under the new India-US trade deal, Bengal's leather industry is gearing up for a possible hiring push as fresh export orders are expected to start coming in. The ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mobile phone was stolen from a bus passenger near Ajay Nagar crossing on E M Bypass around 6.30 pm on Sunday after some people reportedly pushed the man off the bus and then fled with the expensive ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ‘Tova', a Croatian sports movie on Yugoslavian table tennis champion Antun Tova Stipancic that captures his rise to prominence from the 30th World Table Tennis Championship held at Netaji Indoor Stadium in 1975, where he finished as runner-up, ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Spine consultants and surgeons have urged school teachers to play a frontline role in spotting scoliosis early by watching for any abnormal curvature in a student's spine and alerting parents to seek medical evaluation so that the condition ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 49th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) concluded on Tuesday, breaking all previous footfall and book sale records. The fair which started on Jan 22, saw close to 32 lakh visitors in total, an all time high, and ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police decided to approach the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to request smoothening of the EM Bypass after a widely circulated video grab showed a woman being thrown off a bike after the biker tried to speed ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A waiter arrested for allegedly serving "wrong meat" to a social media influencer at Olypub last week was granted bail on Tuesday after the state told the court that the investigation had found no evidence of any deliberate ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sona Pappu, also known as Biswajit Poddar, remains elusive even two days after the incident at Golpark. On Tuesday, though, Pappu went live on Facebook, claiming he was at home on the day of the incident. He dared ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, on Monday said the upcoming elections in Bangladesh will be "one-sided" and that a govt run by a weak BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) with Jamaat-e-Islami's influence will give Pakistan a ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The electors who could not turn up for the SIR hearing earlier due to various engagements are queueing up at their designated centres this week to protect their names from being struck off the final list. Many electors ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was yesterday once again as the Lake Club in the city dazzled with displays of rare, exotic and immaculately restored heritage vehicles on a mild winter Sunday afternoon.The Eastern India Motoring Group (EIMG) Concours D' Elegance 2026 ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two tremors, a strong one at 9.05 pm and the second at 10.10 pm, triggered by an earthquake and its aftershock in Myanmar jolted the city on Tuesday evening, prompting residents in some high-rises and offices to step ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bird that breeds in the alpine or sub-alpine meadows and scrub in the mountains of Mongolia and adjacent parts of Russia has been spotted for the first time in south Bengal.Birders Esanur Hoque and Dibyendu Saha spotted ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The EC has so far verified documents of approximately 55 lakh electors who submitted them during the SIR hearings, a senior commission official said on Tuesday. With only 4 days left, as per the EC's schedule, to verify ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Upholding the lower court's directions in May 2023, Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the PWD to vacate rented premises at 67, Bentinck Street within 90 days, where it operated for a rent of Rs 44,422 per month.D ...
4 February 2026 Times of IndiaAt the height of her career, the presenter and performer find a balance between ambition, faith, and inner life Aarti has spent years mastering what being in the spotlight is about. From commanding India’s biggest live stages to slipping ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaMost sports stories today begin after success has already arrived. Brands step in once medals are won, rankings are secured and names start trending. MuscleBlaze seems to be doing the opposite. The fitness nutrition brand has released a short ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaThe next historic voyage of the stitched-hull vessel INS Kaundinya will retrace an ancient maritime trade route from Odisha to Bali on Kartik Purnima, reviving India’s deep-rooted seafaring legacy, said economist and maritime history enthusiast Sanjeev Sanyal on Monday.“The ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaShubhashish Homes announced the launch of the final phase of two of its most iconic and celebrated projects — Shubhashish Marina and Shubhashish Forest. Sharing the milestone, the company said that both projects were originally planned to be launched ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/NEW DELHI: "Brother, what are you doing here? I am not here for an agitation. If I did, you wouldn't be able to handle it," CM Mamata Banerjee told Delhi cops as she reached Banga Bhawan at Chanakyapuri on ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/New Delhi: "Brother, what are you doing here? I am not here for an agitation. If I did, you wouldn't be able to handle it," CM Mamata Banerjee told Delhi cops as she reached Banga Bhawan at Chanakyapuri on ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Dawn came early on Monday at Budhuram forest village, a hamlet by the Gorumara national park in the Maynaguri block of Jalpaiguri, as 16-year-old Sumila Oraon appeared for the Madhyamik examination. Sumila is the first child of the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaNew Delhi: CM Mamata Banerjee, draped in black, stormed out of a meeting with chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bengal's electoral roll on Monday, alleging that Election Commission "humiliated and insulted" ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: EC should be held accountable and poll officials jailed for mistakes in SIR forms and subsequent harassment, said BJP Rajya Sabha member and Cooch Behar neta Ananta Maharaj on Sunday.Addressing a gathering at Baneswar on the birth anniversary ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Measures announced in the Union Budget for MSMEs would help the 90-lakh strong segment in the state, but much more needs to be done in this regard, according to experts.FM Nirmala Sitharaman proposed introducing a dedicated Rs 10,000 ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The vote-on-account session of the Bengal assembly will start on Tuesday and the vote on account will be tabled on Thursday, it was decided at an all-party meeting on Monday. No representative of BJP was present at the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 32-year-old woman collapsed in the queue of an SIR hearing on Monday at the Deganga block office in North 24 Parganas. Serina Bibi was rushed to Deganga Biswanathpur Hospital, where she was declared brought dead. Doctors said ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The National Fibre Scheme announced in the Union Budget for self-reliance in natural fibres, such as jute, will help the struggling jute industry, according to leading jute mill owners. There are at present 88 jute mills in the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday, hearing a PIL by state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, directed Bengal govt to ensure adequate safety for convoys of political netas, ministers and members of the legislative assembly, as per their entitlement.Adhikari ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Do you need a digital birth certificate as a document for passport renewal? Or are you in a hurry to get a digital certificate as proof to prove your citizenship and avoid harassment during an SIR hearing? Can't ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week after a fire ripped through two godowns at Nazirabad near Anandapur, families continue to wait for the mortal remains and death certificates of victims whose charred body parts were found at the site. Body parts of ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal was allocated Rs 14,205 crore in the 2026-27 budget, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a virtual press conference on Monday."Against the average allocation of Rs 4,380 crore during the period from 2009 to 2014, a whopping ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After staying shut for two days following the controversy over meat mix-up, when Olypub reopened on Monday, old loyalists poured in to show their support for the restaurant and enjoy the good old Kolkata vibe.Following police request, the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite his apparent climbdown in the meat mix-up case, an FIR was on Monday registered against influencer Sayak Chakraborty, who on Friday claimed he was served a steak of a meat he had not ordered for at Olypub ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The social media post by an influencer on an Olypub service issue ignited a debate—both online and offline—on the boundaries of influencers.The debate is also about the growing sense of entitlement—the belief that a good number of subscribers ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: People who have submitted documents during the SIR hearing process other than the 13 notified by the EC are unlikely to be included in the final electoral rolls. EROs and AEROs, who uploaded those "wrong" documents, violating the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengali- and Assamese-style chicken curry became available on the Kamakhya-Howrah Vande Bharat sleeper from Sunday, days after a "veg-only" menu whipped up a political row.The "non-veg" menu, however, was limited to chicken only. In the vegetarian menu, paneer ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first of the three restroom blocks for flyers on the upper arrival level of Kolkata airport, where passengers enter the domestic terminal via aerobridges, became operational on Monday, bringing relief to travellers. Two other sets of toilet ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Comission (EC) has received around 7.4 lakh Form 6/6A from people, who wanted to be enrolled as new electors in Bengal after the publication of the draft SIR roll, a senior official from the commission said ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Chingrighata impasse has pushed the Orange Line's deadline from 2027 to 2028, Metro Railway GM Subhransu Sekhar Mishra said at the post-budget media conference on Monday. "Hopefully, the Orange Line (New Garia-Airport) will be completed in mid-2028. ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: No bursting of crackers from 10 pm to 6 am during Shab-e-Barat, the Calcutta High Court on Monday directed in a PIL filed by a Ripon Square resident. She complained that, in the absence of any regulations, irregular ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While the Union govt proposed doing away with the customs duty on 17 medicines in the 2026-27 budget, medicines with reduced prices are likely to be available with drug retailers in the city in two months' time. However, ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A citizen-centric digital wetland knowledge and community platform was launched in Kolkata on Monday to strengthen grassroots conservation efforts across West Bengal, marking World Wetlands Day. The initiative, titled ‘Voices for Wetlands', is a community-led conservation programme organised ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With alternative arrangements in place, the Madhyamik examination began on Monday, while teachers serving as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) to perform SIR duties spent the whole day at their respective hearing centres carrying out their responsibilities.The West Bengal ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 19-year-old BCA student of a private college in Odisha, who resides in a Behala condo, was arrested for robbing his neighbours of Rs 1.5 crore, said police. The anti-burglary unit of DD said the accused, Harsvardhan Shaw, ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The alleged mastermind for the Kankulia violence on Sunday, Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, has successfully evaded the police. For cops, Pappu is a familiar name. He was in and out of jail ever since he joined the ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fifteen-year-old Snigdha Haldar, a Class 10 student of Kamala Girls' School, was in the middle of last-minute preparations for her Madhyamik exams, which began on Monday. It was around 8.30 pm on Sunday. Her mother Purnima was in ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after bombs were hurled, bullets fired, cars – including police vehicles – vandalised, and brickbatting was carried out at Panchanantala Road at Kankulia on Sunday evening, police arrested 10 persons in connection with the violence."The arrested individuals ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 66-year-old woman from Rajarhat was reportedly cheated of Rs 5 lakh in a digital arrest scam after fraudsters, posing as senior officials from multiple central agencies, threatened to arrest her and freeze her accounts over alleged illegal ...
3 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee, acting in her capacity as Trinamool Congress chairperson, has moved Supreme Court against the Election Commission and the Bengal chief electoral officer on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. The apex court ...
2 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bombs were hurled, bullets fired and stones pelted as two rival groups clashed on Kankulia Road in the Golpark area around 8.30 pm on Sunday, leaving at least two injured. Several cars and bikes were vandalised, and the ...
2 February 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: In a major step towards reshaping long-distance rail travel and strengthening regional integration, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2026 in Parliament, announced plans to develop seven high-speed rail corridors connecting key economic and ...
2 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP on Sunday picked up some cues from the Union Budget and expanded these to stress creation of critical infrastructure in Bengal. Durgapur and Dankuni, netas said, will now have immense growth potential.State BJP netas said that ...
2 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Union Budget has reinforced India's push towards Atmanirbhar defence and next-generation military technologies, with continued support for deep-tech research, semiconductor self-reliance and indigenous weapons systems, DRDO director general Binoy Kumar Das said on Sunday.Speaking to reporters after ...
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