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  • News from West Bengal | 26 Jun, 2025 | ১২ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • Howrah subsidence: Residents demand rehabilitation help, minister Firhad Hakim promises action in 4 days, outlines plan for dumping ground

    123456 Howrah: Urban development minister Firhad Hakim ran into protests on Monday as he visited Belgachhia in Howrah, where successive landslides occurred last week due to overload of municipal waste at the dumping ground there. Residents, who have been ...

    25 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengali teacher dies of cardiac arrest while evaluating ICSE answer scripts in Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: Munmun Laha (59), a senior Bengali teacher at Anglo Arabic Secondary School, passed away while checking ICSE Bengali answer scripts at the Bhawanipur Gujarati School on Monday, apparently after suffering a sudden heart attack. A cardiac patient, ...

    25 March 2025 Times of India
    E-tail delivery personnel lay siege to New Town complex after parking row

    123 Kolkata: A group of delivery personnel from a quick-commerce company allegedly barged into a housing complex in New Town and assaulted security guards and office staff after a dispute over parking, residents said. The RWA has filed a ...

    25 March 2025 Times of India
    Hawkers make merry in run-up to festive season

    12 Kolkata: Last week, hawkers set up semi-permanent stalls on a two-wheeler parking lot near the entrance to the bakery range at New Market, leading to protests from traders. In the run-up to Eid ul-Fitr, new hawkers have set ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    KMDA to assess Chiria More ramp proposal for new Chitpore ROB

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is set to conduct a feasibility study to determine whether the carriageway space on the proposed new Chitpore rail over bridge (ROB) can be widened to facilitate the construction of a ramp ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case: Calcutta HC asks CBI whether it's considering possibility of gangrape or destruction of evidence

    <p>The Calcutta high court directed the CBI to present the case diary of the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital<br></p> NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Monday directed the CBI to present the case ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    130+ birders get recorders out on Dawn Chorus Day

    Kolkata: Bengal took part in India's third Dawn Chorus Day, recording early morning vocalization of birds across various birding hot spots and backyards on Sunday. An initiative of Birdwatchers' Society (BWS) in association with the Bird Count India, the ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘37.6% car owners in city keep their vehicles parked on roads’

    Kolkata: A recent survey conducted in Kolkata highlighted a growing crisis in urban mobility, with on-street parking occupying a significant portion of road space and contributing to traffic congestion. The study revealed that 37.6% of vehicles remain perpetually parked ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Sealdah station gets new access gates for better crowd mgmt

    12 Kolkata: To reduce congestion at the existing entry/exit gate, Sealdah station is now equipped with another entry/exit gate at Sealdah South station. The new gate is strategically positioned to minimise walking distance for passengers accessing Sealdah station, one ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    New ATC tower at airport to start live trial today, function for 2 hours every weekday

    Kolkata: The new air traffic control (ATC) tower at Kolkata airport will become operational on Monday. It will function parallelly with the existing ATC for two hours every weekday afternoon over the next three months."Live trials will commence at ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Rhea’s Purulia village hails clean chit to actor in Sushant Singh Rajput death case

    12 Baghmundi (Purulia): More than 1,700 kilometres from the bustling Mumbai, villagers in Tunturi — a nondescript hamlet in Purulia's Baghmundi — on Sunday were "happy and relieved" that actor Rhea Chakraborty was finally given a clean chit by ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    HMC restores water supply to north Howrah, parts of Liluah

    12 Howrah: After going dry for three days, entire north Howrah and parts of Liluah started receiving usual water supply from Sunday evening. Since early morning, 52 water tankers were dispatched to affected areas to tackle the situation. Earlier, ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Not scared of dying for country, jawan killed in blast told family

    Midnapore: Whenever asked about the risks his job involved, Sunil Mondal (53), a sub-inspector of CRPF 193 Battalion, always told his family that the thought of sacrificing his life while serving his country did not scare him. But with ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    3 die in Malda road accident

    123 Malda: Three people were killed in as their bike collided head-on with a truck on NH 12 at Baishnabnagar early on Sunday.Sabir Alam (22), a migrant labourer, was returning home to his village in Meherpur under Mothabari police ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to get its longest riverbank wall to battle Ghatal flood scourge

    123 Ghatal: Bengal is set to get its longest riverbank wall as a revetment. A 3.5-km long, 27-ft tall and 2.5-ft deep flood retention wall — the longest in Bengal's riverine belts — will come up on the banks ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Red out, blue-white in: CPM social media DP changes hue

    Kolkata: Social media has erupted in laughter and, largely, sniggers over CPM's decision to change its Facebook and Instagram display picture. The new photo — where blue skies and white clouds form the backdrop of a yellow hammer-and-sickle — ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    North Dum Dum Municipality’s sole CPM councillor joins TMC

    123 Kolkata: Sandhya Rani Mondal, the only CPM councillor of North Dum Dum Municipality, has joined Trinamool on Sunday. This shift has now rendered North Dum Dum Municipality completely opposition-free — a significant political development ahead of the 2026 ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    CM lands in London, holds prep meetings

    12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee reached London on Sunday morning and held preparatory meetings with state chief secretary Manoj Pant, industry secretary Vandana Yadav and her principal secretary Gautam Sanyal ahead of her packed UK schedule.The CM, who is ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    10-yr RI for animal lover’s murder

    123 Howrah: The Howrah court has sentenced a man to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for fatally assaulting a neighbour who was feeding stray dogs. The verdict came after an extended trial, spanning nearly 11 years. The Second Additional District Judge ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    MNC man crushed under dumper in 5th fatal crash on Jessore Rd in a month

    123456 Kolkata: An employee at an MNC in Salt Lake, Soumen Paul (30), was crushed to death on Jessore Road as a dumper rammed into the scooter he was riding, with his wife and three-year-old son sitting pillion, on ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Op saves IVF woman, foetus from rare brain haemorrhage

    123 Kolkata: A 38-year-old Kolkata woman, 16 weeks into her pregnancy through IVF, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage from a bleeding tumour in brain and was on the verge of collapse. She was saved through a high-risk surgery at a ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Before Ram Navami, police check eye health of CCTV cams across Kol

    Kolkata: With less than two weeks left to Ram Navami, Lalbazar — the Kolkata Police headquarters — has instructed police stations, under whose jurisdiction major Ram Navami rallies are taken out every year, to run a health audit of ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Missing Mum engineer found in Kol after 6 yrs

    123 Kolkata: A 73-year-old ex-chemical engineer in Mumbai with Alzheimer's, who went missing on his way to factory in Bandra (West) nearly six years ago, was found in Nagerbazar, Dum Dum. Thanks to the efforts of Nagerbazar police and ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Man poses as SC judge, held

    12 Kolkata: A city-based businessman, Pawan Pan, was arrested for allegedly impersonating a Supreme Court judge and attempting to influence a senior official of a nationalised mining company to secure a work tender over phone. According to police, Pan ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Drug seizure: Trial courts can rely on charge sheet in absence of chem reports

    123 Kolkata: To reduce delays in trials, the Calcutta High Court has stated that trial courts can accept a charge sheet even if chemical reports on the drugs seized are submitted late. The high court made this statement while ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    Hwh dumpyard cannot take any more waste: Experts

    1234 Kolkata: A team of experts who visited the Belgachia Trenching Ground on Sunday issued a warning about an impending disaster at the landfill site if urgent measures are not implemented. The mountain of garbage, towering over 150 feet, ...

    24 March 2025 Times of India
    2 on scooter snatch 5 mobiles in 6 hrs, held

    Kolkata: Two youths, Amit Mondal (23) and Rajbir Mali (22), were finally arrested, a day after they went on a snatching spree, making away with five mobiles in six hours as they rode down BT Road on a scooter ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    KMC finishes Baghajatin, Tangra tilted bldgs work

    12 Kolkata: The demolition of the G+3 building in Baghajatin that had tilted dangerously and come to rest precariously on the boundary wall with the top floors hanging over the one-storied building in the adjoining plot two months ago ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Doctors' study red-flags antibiotic use in footballers

    Image used for representative purpose only KOLKATA: A study published in Bengal Medical Journal has raised concerns about 'widespread and potentially dangerous' use of antibiotics among professional footballers in eastern India. The research, led by clinical researchers from Bengal, ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Water restored in Shibpur & central Hwh, north still suffers

    12 Howrah: Even as water supply resumed in Belgachhia, Dasnagar, Baltikuri and parts of central Howrah on Friday night, work started on installing an alternative pipeline to tackle the water crisis in north Howrah and Liluah that have been ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Season-opener: KKR loss tinges rain relief, King Kohli victory

    123456 Kolkata: The City of Joy lived up to its name as the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked off in style at the iconic Eden Gardens. A star-studded opening ceremony, an electric crowd and a ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Fire in Narkeldanga warehouse

    123 Kolkata: A fire broke out in a warehouse on the ground floor of a five-storey building on Narkeldanga Main Road on Saturday. Firefighters brought the blaze under control after nearly an hour and a half. No casualty or ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Cop trying to pacify fight over property attacked, 2 arrested

    Kolkata: A constable, Sushanta Mondal, of Polerhat police station in Bhangar, sustained severe injuries after being allegedly assaulted on duty while trying to mediate a property dispute on Friday. Cops had to intervene when the dispute between two families ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    34L spurious meds seized in Titagarh

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Directorate of Drug Control conducted searches at two medicine warehouses on Saturday and seized spurious medicines. The searches, sources said, are part of the ongoing probe against the spurious drug supplier in Howrah.According to sources, ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    2 hours of clean-up net 162 kg waste from Ganga

    1234 Kolkata: On the occasion of World Water Day, the Sea Explorers' Institute (SEI), in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the National Cadet Corps (NCC), conducted a pilot river clean-up at Sundari Ghat. Using a 100-square-foot fishing ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Efforts on to clear 100-day work dues in 3 days: Mayor

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Saturday said efforts were underway to clear pending wages of the workers engaged under the 100-day wage scheme in the city within the next three days. Speaking at the KMC House, CPM councillor Nandita ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Shah Kol visit deferred due to Parl session

    12 Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah's visit to Kolkata, scheduled for the end of March, has been deferred. Sources in Bengal BJP said that Shah be busy with Parliament session and some organisational work during this period and ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Times have changed, but cinema will never die’

    12 Kolkata: At a time when the film industry faces immense competition from endless visual content on the web, not limited to reels and shorts, actor-producer Prosenjit Chatterjee said, "Times have changed, but cinema will never die." He spoke ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    WBBSE told to issue notices against 3 teachers

    12 Kolkata: The state school education department has initiated disciplinary action against three teachers involved in the Taruner Swapna tab scam. The department has directed the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education to issue show-cause notices against them. Among ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Mamata leaves for London, speaks of ‘hectic journey ahead’

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee left for London on Saturday evening to meet industrialists in the UK and seek investments for the state.Before taking her flight, the CM told reporters outside Kolkata airport that she had a hectic journey ahead. ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Don’t need a party, says Dilip, promises to thrash anyone rude to him

    Kharagpur: An unapologetic Dilip Ghosh on Saturday said he didn't need a party for being himself. The former MP, who sparked a controversy on Friday by verbally attacking protesting women, said on Saturday that he would not change his ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    1 dead, 10 critical as vehicle falls into gorge

    123 Siliguri: A 53-year-old man died, and 10 others were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in fell into a gorge at Ghayabari, about 15 km from Mirik, on Friday. The deceased was Lakpa Tamang Sherpa of Simana ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    3 held for raping woman inside car in Debra

    DEBRA (W MIDNAPORE): Three men were arrested for the gangrape of a young woman in Debra. The survivor, a resident of Kolkata, was allegedly lured with the promise of a job.According to sources, the survivor had met one of ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case: CBI summons security guards

    Kolkata: The CBI officials have summoned security personnel who were on duty on Aug 8 and Aug 9, when the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered at RG Kar. Eight security personnel have been asked to attend ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Woman jumps off rail bridge, dies

    12 Kolkata: A 40-year-old woman, crossing the tracks on the rail bridge at Dakshindari in Lake Town on Friday morning, died as she jumped off, fearing she would be crushed between two trains approaching from opposite sides. But, witnesses ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Ticket black marketing: 3 held ahead of opening match

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police arrested multiple individuals involved in black marketing IPL tickets hours before the opening match between defending champions KKR and Virat Kohli-starrer RCB at Eden Gardens on Saturday. The arrests come amid rising concerns over rampant ticket ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    RVNL gets hospital land

    Kolkata: RVNL has finally got the possession of a land belonging to CMRI Hospital. However, the agency cannot make use of it since KMC has informed the former that it needs the entire stretch till Alipore Bodyguard Line to ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata gets drizzles, Met spies clouds, rain till today

    123 Kolkata: The city woke up to a grey sky and persistent drizzles, even as the maximum temperature dropped nine notches below normal to 25.5°C on Saturday. A sharp, chilly wind accompanied the rain that started late on Friday ...

    23 March 2025 Times of India
    4 die in Nivedita Setu truck accident, 1 run over in S Kol

    12 Howrah/Kolkata: Five persons were killed and at least seven were injured as the city recorded multiple accidents — from Nivedita Setu in the north to Rashbehari Avenue in the south—between Thursday evening and Friday.Around 3.30 am on Friday, ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Weekly friction test to make Kolkata airport tarmac safer

    Kolkata: Flight safety at city airport received a boost on Friday with the introduction of a runway friction test vehicle.Runway friction testing is a critical aspect of airport runway maintenance that ensures safe landings for aircraft. It involves measuring ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    City boy wins equestrian event, Olympian shares tips with riders

    12345 Kolkata: A Class X student, Siddharth Debgupta, won the Eastern India Equestrian Championship, which brought over 120 riders from across eastern India. The championship, held in the confined riding category, was hosted at Tollygunge Club. The thrilling event ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    'No one's father gave money': 'Absent' Dilip Ghosh faces Kharagpur ire at road inauguration

    KHARAGPUR: Former BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh lost his cool in the face of a local agitation during a road inauguration event in Kharagpur on Friday morning. Ghosh, known for his controversial statements, suddenly snapped at the protesters, saying ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal govt punishing RG Kar protest leaders to suppress demand for justice, says BJP leader Dilip Ghosh

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Saturday alleged that the state government is attempting to suppress protests demanding justice in the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case by punishing protest leaders, following the transfer of a key ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata’s 360 Parsis celebrate spring festival with special prayers and food

    12 Kolkata: The Parsi community in Kolkata celebrated their spring festival — Jamshedi Navroz — with prayers, greetings, and food on Friday. The city is currently home to 360 members of the community that, next year, will celebrate the ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops question labourers after school molestation plaint

    Kolkata: Cops probing the molestation complaint at a Hatibagan girls' school questioned eight labourers employed at the site. They are also searching for three others who have been missing since the complaint was lodged on Thursday. None was arrested ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Residents of 23 Howrah wards go without water for nearly 40 hours

    12 Howrah: Nearly 40 hours on, around 4 lakh Howrah residents across 23 wards continued to experience severe water shortage with Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) water department staff struggling to repair the breaches in the 1,200-mm diameter main supply ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Apartment prices rise 25% in Topsia-Tangra-Beleghata belt

    Kolkata: Fuelled by the development of upscale projects in the Topsia-Tangra-Beleghata belt, prices of apartments in the area have spiralled by 25% in the past year, with the weighted average saleable price increasing from Rs 10,573 per sq ft ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Woman living alone found dead in flat

    12 Kolkata: The decomposed body of a 41-year-old woman, Sreyoshi Ghosh, was found at her home in Bijoygarh on Friday morning. Police said the woman was a mental health patient and lived alone in a ground-floor apartment on Bijoygarh ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Act or face music: Mayor tells KMC blgds dept DG

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday issued an ultimatum to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department officials, asking the department director general to take complaints of illegal constructions seriously or be prepared to face the consequences.Hakim instructed the ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Mayor seeks action against OC for failing to save Behala pond

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday asked the municipal commissioner, Dhaval Jain, to lodge a complaint against the officer-in-charge (OC) of a police station in Behala, reportedly for failing to prevent the filling up of a pond under his ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Tangra deaths: Teen records statement before Sealdah court

    Kolkata: Fourteen-year-old Pratip Dey, a minor member of the Dey family who survived a car crash on the EM Bypass on Feb 19, recorded his confidential statement before a Sealdah court on Friday.The boy previously told a state child ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Jr docs’ stipend hike effective from Apr 1

    Kolkata: Within a month of chief minister Mamata Banerjee announcing the hike in the stipend for junior doctors, the health department issued the official order for the hike. The Friday order stated that the increment would be effective from ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Sebaashray camps wrap up after treating 12.3L

    Kolkata: From helping elderly residents regain their vision to providing life-saving surgeries for minors, Sebaashray medical camps assisted 12.3 lakh people in Diamond Harbour. Launched by MP and Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Jan 2, the final ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Courts should think of child’s future in property disputes: HC

    Kolkata: Courts should not be "pedantic" and must think about a child's future while deciding on property disputes, in cases where the minor's guardian wants to sell off the child's share for the child's welfare, Calcutta High Court recently ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Mortuary workers in state hosps face social stigma, professional discrimination: Study

    123 Kolkata: A study conducted at four govt teaching hospitals in Bengal has revealed underlying discrimination faced by hospital mortuary workers or doms, highlighting an often-overlooked issue in the healthcare sector. The research, published in the prestigious medical journal ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Drought, flood warning for Gangetic delta

    123 Kolkata: The accelerating glacier melt in the Himalayas is intensifying both flood and drought risks across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with Kolkata, being at the tail-end of IGP, at the receiving end of these climate-induced threats. The alarming trends ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Chakdah MLA calls Suvendu on frequent walkouts

    Kolkata: Chakdah MLA Bankim Ghosh on Friday called up state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari to explain his stance on frequent calls to stage walkouts from the assembly. Ghosh had on Thursday asked the party to restrategise and refrain ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    HC advises bus ops between 2 shut Hwh ghats

    Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Thursday advised West Bengal Transport Corporation to run shuttle bus services between Sibpur and Ramkrishnapur ghats till the two jetties were operational after repair.A division bench of CJ T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    On Holi road trip to Sikkim, Bengal biker dies in accident

    123 Kolkata: A 28-year-old passionate biker, Rohan Ghosh who had set out on a road trip to Sikkim from Barasat with 11 friends on March 14 to celebrate Holi died in a road accident near Pakyong, Gangtok, on Wednesday. ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengali now must on Siliguri signboards & hoardings

    Siliguri: Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has issued a new directive making Bengali language mandatory on all signboards and hoardings. SMC officials said the move was aimed at promoting and preserving the linguistic heritage of Bengal. They also warned that ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Thanks to Bengal’s youngest MLA, Thakurbari may finally see factions join hands

    Thakurnagar (North 24 Parganas): In an unprecedented turn of events, the two rival factions of the Matua Thakurbari — one led by Union minister Shantanu Thakur and the other by Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Bala Thakur — are likely ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    JU ragging cases: ‘Weak admin, other factors’ behind impunity

    123 Kolkata: Three days after a fresh ragging complaint at Jadavpur University's Main Hostel, interim VC Bhaskar Gupta said that a probe is underway in the case. However, a cross-section of JU students and professors, both present and retired, ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Wedding registration suspended till March 24

    123 Kolkata: Marriage registrations have been suspended in Bengal from March 14 to March 24 to enable officials to shift marriage-related data from the National Data Center (NDC) to State Data Center (SDC). Earlier, the data uploaded on the ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    VB set to let in visitors at core heritage zone

    123 Santiniketan: From now on, visitors can again enter the core heritage area — the Ashrama area — on the Visva Bharati University campus. After his first administrative decision on Thursday, the newly appointed vice-chancellor, Probir Kumar Ghosh, told ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops shift autos, mark bus boarding points to check Jessore Rd accidents

    123 Kolkata: Following back-to-back accidents on Jessore Road, Bidhannagar cops have implemented a series of changes in traffic management. These include shifting autos and totos from the main flank to service road, extending bus stands from their current locations, ...

    22 March 2025 Times of India
    Encroachments a feature of city pavements: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL, seeking the court's directive to remove a construction encroaching on the pavement near B P Poddar Hospital, New Alipore.This was a feature all over the city, observed Chief Justice ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Don’t obstruct director’s work, HC tells technicians

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers Eastern India not to obstruct film director Bidula Bhattacharjee's usual course of business. The matter will be next heard on April 3.Bhattacharjee's counsel submitted ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    HC orders demolition of illegal bldg floors

    12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the demolition of three floors illegally constructed along a six-foot-wide lane at Watgunge. It directed the KMC to inspect other buildings that have been constructed in the neighbourhood.A division bench ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Last of 3 new moms shifted out of CCU

    Kolkata: Nasrin Khatun, the last of the three women, whose condition turned critical after giving birth at Midnapore Medical College and was sent to SSKM on Jan 12, was shifted out of the critical care unit to general ward ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC nod to PIL challenging fresh OBC survey

    12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the filing of a PIL challenging the state's decision to start a fresh survey for identification of Other Backward Classes (OBC). Advocate Bikram Banerjee informed a division bench of Chief ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Tea garden asst manager killed by worker

    Siliguri: An assistant manager at Jayantika Tea Garden, Nilanjan Bhadra, was allegedly hacked to death by a garden worker, Elthrus Ekka, at the Bas Line Division of the tea garden in Phansidewa on Thursday. Ekka has been arrested.Bhadra was ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Civic body faces HC ire over forcing PMAY applicants to pay 40k

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Dinhata Municipality in Cooch Behar to show reasons why action should not be taken against it for collecting Rs 40,000 as "development fund" from individuals applying for urban dwelling units under ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    7 jailed for life for ’18 TMC candidate murder

    Kolkata: A Barasat district court on Thursday gave life imprisonment to seven persons for the murder of TMC panchayat samiti candidate Biplab Sarkar inside a party office in Habra during the 2018 panchayat elections.Public prosecutor Shyamal Kanti Dutta stated ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal emerges 2nd in total, share of women representatives in assembly

    Kolkata: Bengal has emerged second nationally in terms of the share of women MLAs in the state assembly and the total number of women MLAs, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). With 15% of ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Baruipur protest: BJP MLAs walk out of assembly, burn Speaker’s effigy

    Kolkata: BJP MLAs on Thursday staged a walkout waving black flags and even burnt speaker Biman Banerjee's effigy outside the Bengal assembly after he rejected their demand for a discussion on the alleged attack on state leader of opposition ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Before UK visit, CM forms GoM, task force

    Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday formed a group of five senior cabinet ministers and a task force comprising five senior bureaucrats and cops and tasked them with monitoring the situation in the state and coordinating with ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Spivak support for Mamata’s secularism ‘in current context’

    Kolkata: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, winner of the 2025 Holberg Prize — the closest equivalent to a ‘humanities Nobel' — wrote to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, expressing support for Banerjee's secularism "in the current context" and thanking ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal seeks Slovak investment to boost economic ties

    12 Kolkata: The state is seeking investment from Slovakia across various business sectors. State industry and commerce minister Shashi Panja met a delegation led by Slovak foreign and European affairs minister Juraj Blanar in the city on Thursday.The minister ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    AI-driven ops: Bandhan ties up with Salesforce

    Kolkata: Salesforce has partnered with Bandhan Bank to drive digital transformation in its loan origination systems (LOS). The collaboration was announced on Thursday in the city. With Salesforce's support, the bank has consolidated multiple LOS into AI-driven platforms.Ratan Kumar ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Sunita Williams should get Bharat Ratna: Mamata Banerjee

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday, while giving her reactions on the successful return of Sunita Williams from space, claimed to have studied space science. KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said astronaut Sunita Williams should be ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Pay staffer’s arrears since 2005: HC to KMC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday directed KMC to pay arrears to an employee from the date they were informed of the mistake made in his joining date, stating that the "no work no pay" principle cannot be universally ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    CP balm for traffic cops on duty in scorching heat

    Kolkata: To ease the burden on traffic constables amid rising temperatures, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Wednesday slashed duty hours from eight to six, effective immediately. Verma also distributed summer kits to traffic cops at key intersections."The day-time ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    JUTA opposes police outpost on campus, writes to VC

    123 Kolkata: The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association has opposed the setting up of a police outpost on the campus. This follows a communication from Kolkata Police last week, where they sought space from university authorities to set up a ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    State issues alert in Birbhum, Mursh villages after bird flu cases reported in J’khand’s Pakur

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    21 March 2025 Times of India
    Met: Thunderstorm likely to give relief from sorching heat

    12 Kolkata: The city remained under partial cloud cover on Thursday morning, which provided slight relief from the scorching heat of the last few days. While the maximum temperature slid to 32°C, the minimum was 26.6°C. With conditions turning ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    JU students ‘punish’ PG2 anti-ragging boy for 5 hours

    123456 Kolkata: More than 15 boarders of Jadavpur University's Main Hostel allegedly confined, mentally harassed, and ‘punished' a second-year postgraduate film studies student for five hours on Tuesday for speaking up against ragging last year. The incident took place ...

    21 March 2025 Times of India
    333-cr BMC water project to benefit 3.2 lakh residents

    12 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to implement the Rs 333-crore project to set up a water distribution network, underground reservoirs and overhead tanks in Rajarhat-Gopalpur, covering BMC wards 1 to 21, to supply surface-treated water. ...

    20 March 2025 Times of India
    Compensation raised for man crippled in accident

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    20 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal assembly passes bill to allow women to work in bars

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    20 March 2025 Times of India
    'Football runs through my veins': Mamata Banerjee receives jersey signed by Lionel Messi, calls him 'artist with the ball'

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    20 March 2025 Times of India
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