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  • Appoint VCs to 17 Bengal varsities in two weeks, else we’ll do it: SC to guv

    Kolkata: Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose two weeks to appoint full-time vice-chancellors in 17 state-run universities, saying it would do the job if he did not.Bose — the chancellor of all 36 state-run ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    SC dismisses PIL seeking probe into 2019 incident involving Abhishek’s wife

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL filed by a customs officer seeking a probe into the 2019 incident at Kolkata airport when Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, and her sister ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    BirlaNu plans expansion and investment in east

    Kolkata: C K Birla Group's home and building products and services company, BirlaNu Ltd, formerly HIL Ltd, wants to expand its manufacturing capacities and tap into inorganic growth opportunities through acquisitions in eastern India. In Bengal, the company plans ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    HPL marks 25 yrs of ops, set to have more downstream projects

    Kolkata: In a message to employees on the occasion of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) completing 25 years of operation, HPL chairman Purnendu Chatterjee indicated more investment in downstream projects. "Encouraged by strong performance over the past decade, we undertook ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    TMC will hit streets against ‘unacceptable’ med price hike on April 4-5: CM

    123 Kolkata: Days before Bengal BJP netas hold Ram Navami rallies, CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lambasted central govt, dubbing the medicine price hike from April 1 as "unacceptable". She announced that Trinamool would hit the streets in protest ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    Ghatal civic body chair to give up home for Master Plan

    12 Ghatal: Ghatal Municipality chairman Tuhin Kanti Bera announced on Wednesday that he would give up his double-storey house for the ambitious Ghatal Master Plan, designed to protect the area from flooding. The project requires 60 feet of land ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Follow Constitution’: Mamata criticises BJP’s ‘divide and rule policy’

    Kolkata: In the backdrop of the waqf bill debate in Lok Sabha, CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday attacked BJP, terming it a "jumla party with a one-point programme: to divide the country". As her party opposed the bill in ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    Bhatpara shooting: HC grants Arjun interim relief

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday verbally directed police not to take coercive steps against former Barrackpore MP and BJP neta Arjun Singh until the court considered his petition for hearing on Thursday. Justice Jay Sengupta issued the order ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    2 teens held for sex assault and murder of 14-year-old in Siliguri

    12 Siliguri: An 18-year-old was arrested and a 15-year-old detained on Tuesday in connection with the alleged sexual assault and murder of a 14-year-old girl. The arrested teenager was produced in court on Wednesday and remanded in police custody ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    Mth after she went missing, girl found dead on riverbank

    Kolkata: A month after she went missing, the decomposed body of a class IX girl was found on the banks of the Ichamati in North 24 Parganas' Baduria on Wednesday. The girl's family, who identified her body, has lodged ...

    3 April 2025 Times of India
    Zoo reduces meat intake for summer, adds fruits to menu; sprinklers, coolers to keep animals comfortable

    123456 Kolkata: With the real-feel temperature being 8°C higher than the actual maximum in the season's biggest gap so far, Alipore zoo authorities have started stepping up cooling measures and have modified the diet of the animals to help ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Calcutta HC verbally grants protection to BJP leader Arjun Singh from coercive action

    NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court, while hearing a petition from BJP leader Arjun Singh seeking to nullify an FIR against him in a bombing case, issued a verbal directive on Wednesday instructing police to refrain from taking coercive ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    NKDA to rehabilitate 290 hawkers by month-end

    Kolkata: Around 290 hawkers will be relocated to new complexes near Sapoorji housing and Tarulia by the month end as part of a rehabilitation exercise undertaken by New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA). Once the shift is over, NKDA ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Weather Update: Warm Sunshine and Clear Skies Predicted for April 2, 2025

    Date & Key Weather Information: Start your April on a bright note as the day in Kolkata, April 1, 2025, kicks off with a sunrise at 5:30 AM and wraps up with a sunset at 5:52 PM. The moon, ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Whey protein abuse trail leads from gym to clinic

    12 Kolkata: Doctors have warned against indiscriminate consumption of whey proteins from an early age by gym-going teens and youths keen on building six packs and biceps who then develop ailments that range from acne and gastrointestinal issues to ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro FY 25 rider count up 13.3% over FY 24

    Kolkata: Metro carried 21.8 crore passengers in 2024-25, 13.3% more than the previous fiscal, said the carrier in a statement on Tuesday. In 2023-24, 19.3 crore people travelled by Metro, an official said.The Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Kavi Subhash) rakes carried ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    'Can’t be a dumping ground’: Now, Calcutta HC lawyers protest Delhi judge transfer

    KOLKATA: The three lawyers' bodies of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday wrote to Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam informing him of their decision to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma. The move came within hours of the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    No rain respite for Kol now: Met

    Kolkata: Despite the maximum temperature being on the normal mark, the city continued to reel under high discomfort due to high humidity. The Met office has also revised its thunderstorm alert for the city — which was expected by ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Int’l drug cartel: Calcutta HC denies bail to Mizoram nurse

    Kolkata: A nurse from Mizoram was denied bail by Calcutta High Court in an alleged international drug trafficking case. The nurse allegedly sent a parcel, containing a commercial quantity of narcotics from the Netherlands, which was seized at the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    HC rejects PIL against Entally bus shelter

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court dismissed a PIL, seeking the court's instruction to the KMDA to stop building a bus passenger shelter on Middle Road at Entally.A division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Chingrighata 60-day hold-up: RVNL loses 5.4cr & counting

    Kolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has been incurring a daily loss of around Rs 9 lakh in idling charges due to the stalling of the girder launching work for the New Garia-Airport Metro at Chingrighata, the implementing agency ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    A fest for bibliophiles at College Square

    12 Kolkata: The Boiparay Boi Utsab, the annual festival of books at College Square, was thrown open on Tuesday evening. Author Sanjib Chattopadhyay inaugurated the fair, which has 55 stalls and 70 participating publishers. Among those present at the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Tram joins Sundarbans’ climate-change fight

    123 Kolkata: An increase of 1% in carbon emissions in Kolkata will reduce the photosynthesis of mangroves by 15%, Abhijit Chatterjee, an air pollution expert from Bose Institute, said on Tuesday to underline why trams remain central to the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    CLW sets nat’l record with 700 locomotives produced in 2024-25

    123 Burdwan: Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) has set a national record by manufacturing 700 locomotives in the 2024-25 financial year, marking a significant increase from its previous year's production of 580 units.The milestone was commemorated on Sunday with the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC lawyers skip court, to boycott Justice Sharma oath

    Kolkata: The three lawyers' bodies of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday wrote to Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam informing him of their decision to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma. The move came within hours of the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    From 6 mths to 80 years old, home cracker unit blast claims 8 of family

    12 Kolkata: Eight people from a single family have died of injuries sustained during a blast at an illegal fireworks factory in Dholahat, Patharpratima, late on Monday. Almost the whole of the Banik family of Patharpratima, South 24 Parganas, ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Maruti banks on 17.5% export growth to record highest ever sales

    Kolkata: With over two out of five automobiles to be exported from India shipped by Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), India's leading automaker registered the highest exports ever, dispatching 3,32,585 cars to overseas markets, up 17.5% over the previous ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    CIL to raise coal prices by Rs 10/tonne

    Kolkata: Coal India's board has decided to enhance notified price of coal by Rs 10 per tonne — from the existing Rs 10/tonne to Rs 20/tonne — for non-coking and Rs 10/tonne for coking coal. This would be for ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Indian Museum evacuated after email bomb threat

    123 Kolkata: The historic Indian Museum was evacuated on Tuesday for three hours following a bomb threat received via email, confirmed police sources. In total, 536 visitors, nine of them foreigners, were asked to step out as a large ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Security preparations intensify for Ram Navami rallies in Kolkata and Howrah.

    123 Kolkata: With five days to go for Ram Navami, Kolkata Police and Howrah Police have receiving 66 applications for rallies including six major ones. Senior officers have begun taking stock of security and traffic concerns to ensure that ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    SUCI to stage agitation on Thursday

    Kolkata: SUCI (Communist) will stage a civil disobedience movement across Bengal on Thursday in protest against price rise, with special focus on the recent hike in 748 essential medicines prices by Centre. Representatives of the organisation said they would ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Setback for BJP in Alipurduar as veteran neta resigns from party posts

    123 Jalpaiguri: BJP's trouble in Alipurduar, a seat they had won in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is only increasing with a year left for the 2026 assembly polls. Kumargram MLA Manoj Oraon, in a Facebook post on Tuesday, ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Bhatpara shooting: Arrest warrant against Arjun

    123 Kolkata: Former Barrackpore MP and BJP neta Arjun Singh faced mounting legal trouble over last week's shooting near Bhatpara's Meghna Jute Mill as the Barrackpore ACJM court issued an arrest warrant against him on Tuesday.On Friday, Calcutta High ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Bar dancer found dead, boyfriend detained

    123 Kolkata: A man in his 20s was held for questioning by cops after he was found sitting next to his girlfriend's body in her flat at Deshbandhu Nagar in Baguiati on Tuesday. He claimed the woman, Manisha Roy, ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    In Malda village, Muslim neighbours help family of Hindu labourer perform his last rites

    Malda: In a heartwarming display of communal harmony, the Muslim community in Malda's Ramdhantola village came together to support a bereaved Hindu family, setting aside recent tensions in the region.Following Eid prayers, local Muslims collected funds to assist the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Lawyer files complaint against former classmate for stalking and threats in Kolkata

    123 Kolkata: A 24-year-old lawyer lodged a complaint against a former batchmate from her law school, accusing him of stalking, forcibly entering her home and office, and threatening her with dire consequences after she rejected his marriage proposal.The woman ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    CM likely to chair Bangla Divas event on Poila Baisakh

    12 Kolkata: Bengal govt is gearing up to celebrate Bangla Divas on Poila Baisakh, April 14, at Rabindra Sadan complex, the city's cultural hub. The event is likely to be chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee. This will be the ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake business complex evacuated after office-hr blaze

    123 Kolkata: More than 300 employees working at a commercial complex in Salt Lake were evacuated on the first working day of the week after a fire broke out in the building's basement on Tuesday morning. Firemen on three ...

    2 April 2025 Times of India
    5 injured in car-bus pile-up on VIP Rd

    Kolkata: Five people were injured in a three-vehicle pile-up on VIP Road between Lake Town and Sreebhumi around 5.45 pm on Monday. A car driver lost control and rammed into a bus, followed by a car crashing into it ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    1k trees to shift as Bengal’s largest translocation project takes shape in Deocha Pachami

    KOLKATA: The state will witness the largest translocation of trees for a single project at Birbhum's Deocha Pachami, the largest coal block in Asia, where about 1,000 full-grown trees will be shifted to a new location before mining work ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Workplace harassment plaint against teacher

    Kolkata: A woman para-teacher at a higher secondary school in Kestopur has lodged a complaint of workplace harassment, ill-treatment and mental torture against the teacher-in-charge.The complainant , who has been teaching history at the school since 2004, has alleged ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal: 1 more dies in Pathar Pratima blast, toll rises to 8

    KOLKATA: Eight persons so far died in an explosion at a house in Patharpratima in South 24 Parganas. The house in Dholahat, where 11 people lived, was also used for stocking ingredients used to manufacture firecrackers, local sources said.Police ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Can Bengal artists ride Ghibli AI trend to reach global audience? Jury is out

    1234 Kolkata: The latest image generator released on OpenAI's ChatGPT featuring artwork inspired by Studio Ghibli has prompted many in the art and film fraternity to envision the possibility of a trend, where avatars in Jamini Roy and Narayan ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Partially blind man kills wife, begs for 9 wks to dodge cops

    12 Kolkata: A partially blind man was arrested on Sunday for the murder of his estranged wife on Jan 23. The victim, Chhaya Sardar (34), was found murdered in her rented residence in Joka's Diamond Park. Cops had been ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Not cut-&-cover, Kolkata metro decides to use TBMs to bore Maidan tunnel

    Kolkata Metro Railway revised its plan for the Purple Line's Esplanade-Eden Gardens extension by deciding to use tunnel boring machines (TBMs) instead of the cut-and-cover method KOLKATA: Metro Railway decided to deploy tunnel borers to build Purple Line's 1.6-km ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Dona goes to cops against online slander

    Kolkata: Danseuse Dona Ganguly has filed a complaint with the Kolkata Police cyber cell against a female YouTuber for allegedly spreading defamatory content about her family on social media.The complaint, lodged late last week, challenges the credibility of claims ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Real feel 8°C higher than actual max, season’s biggest gap so far

    Kolkata: The maximum temperature has dipped in the past couple of days to hover around the normal mark but the city continued to experience uncomfortable weather. According to the Met office, the moisture content in the air is leading ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    41 clubs from across state to play 77 matches in battle for Progoti Cup

    12 Kolkata: Teen cricketers of 41 teams from different districts are locking horns at ‘The Progoti Cup 2025', which will be played across six districts over the next two months. Twenty U-17 outstanding players participating in the tournament, which ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    App-bike horror: Rajarhat woman files assault plaint

    12 Kolkata: A woman returning home on an app bike lodged a complaint of harassment and assault against the biker, alleging he misbehaved with her throughout the ride for making a prepaid online payment. He refused to drop her ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Solidarity move: Kolkata ATC to remember Myanmar colleagues

    Kolkata: Air traffic controllers (ATCOs) in Kolkata will observe silence for 2 minutes on Tuesday in solidarity with the four ATCOs, who died while on duty in Myanmar's capital, Nay Pyi Taw, when the ATC tower there collapsed after ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Eid sermons across Kol preach message of peace, love and unity

    Kolkata: From registering their protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 to standing up against hatemongers, Eid prayers across Kolkata on Monday touched upon all contemporary issues. Clerics repeatedly stressed "brotherhood, unity, and peace" among all religious believers.Qari Fazlur ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Boys smash head of toto driver with brick

    Kolkata: Two boys, aged 16 and 17, were arrested for allegedly killing a 45-year-old toto driver in New Town by smashing his skull with a brick, slitting his throat, and slashing his genitals on Monday.Cops suspect victim Sushanta Ghosh ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police warns against WhatsApp ‘call merge’ fraud

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police have issued a warning about a new WhatsApp scam targeting Kolkatans—and those across the state—through call merging tactics, which has become the most frequently used cyber fraud modus operandi. Hundreds of people across the country faced ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Cyclist comes under wheels of truck, dies

    Kolkata: A 59-year-old cyclist lost his life on the Central Garden Reach Road after coming under the wheels of a truck. The incident was reported around 7 pm on Sunday. The victim, Jugal Shaw, a resident of Kholisahi in ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal-DHR accident

    Siliguri: Two female students, including a teenager, were injured after being hit by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), near Kurseong market on Monday. The 15-year-old injured girl, Roshni Rai, is in critical condition. The other injured student is Pratiksha ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Halder Venture looks to acquire KS Oil brands

    Kolkata: City-based Halder Venture Ltd (HVL), a leading player in parboiled rice and edible oil manufacturing sector, may look to acquire brands of KS Oil, which went into liquidation. KS Oil owns brands like Kalash and Double Sher, among ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu plans Ram Mandir in Nandigram

    Nandigram (East Midnapore): A Ram temple, modelled on Ayodhya's Ram Mandir, would be constructed in Nandigram, state leader of opposition and Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari announced on Monday.The temple is expected to be built on 4 bighas (1.5 acres) ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Don’t dump waste on vacant plots, warns BMC

    12 Kolkata: In order to prevent dumping of waste on vacant plots and other roadside corners in Salt Lake and Rajarhat Gopalpur, the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will install display boards pointing out that the plots are not garbage ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    2 workers choke to death while working in tank

    Hirapur: Two labourers suffocated to death while working inside a water reservoir at a house in West Burdwan's Hirapur on Monday morning. The deceased were Anil Singh (50) of Linepar and Munna Yadav (48) of Shyambandh. Locals said one ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Cops make sketch of Charu Mkt accused

    123 Kolkata: Cops, probing the murder of Abinash Bauri (22), whose naked body with multiple stab wounds was found at his employer's flat near Bhawani Bhawan in Charu Market on Saturday, are looking for a young man of thin ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Water supply rise hope for Behala, Tolly with KMC planning water pipeline

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to lay a dedicated water main pipe that will connect the Garden Reach water treatment plant to Parnasree in Behala to solve the water crisis that affects the Behala-Tollygunge belt ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Aadhaar enrolment for over 16 lakh students

    Kolkata: The state school education department is working on completing Aadhaar enrolment for students between 5 years and 15 years. Over 16 lakh students who are yet to be covered under this system are the target group so that ...

    1 April 2025 Times of India
    Just 40 days after her marriage, Kolkata woman kills self after video call with hubby

    123 Kolkata: A 28-year-old newly-wed woman, Pooja Singh, who got married just around 40 days ago, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her bedroom at her in-laws' home in Behala Pathakpara early on Sunday, shortly after she ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Police reunites disabled Tamil man with family

    123 Kolkata: A man from Tamil Nadu, Murugesh Subramani, with hearing and speech disabilities was reunited with his family by Bidhannagar Police after a week's effort on Sunday.Police said Subramani went missing in Kolkata after leaving his home in ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    'Aaj Lal, Gerua ek ho gaya': West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee criticises opposition amid tensions over Mothabari violence

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited an Eidgah in Kolkata during Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations on Monday, addressing recent tensions following violence in Mothabari. She criticised opposition parties and emphasized her government's commitment to preventing riots while highlighting ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Indo-Bangla film industry rebounds with 2 big-ticket Eid releases

    KOLKATA: The mainstream entertainment industry of India and Bangladesh, which received a jolt after the August uprising, is now returning to normalcy. Two big-ticket productions, ‘Daagi’ and ‘Borbaad’, involving big stars from both nations, will be released in Bangladesh ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Not 800, green panel nod to shift 691 trees for Kolkata's Joka Metro project

    KOLKATA: The city’s Purple line metro project has crossed a major hurdle with the environment ministry’s Central Empowered Committee (CEC) clearing the transplantation of 691 trees on the Maidan.Based on a survey with the Army, custodian of the Maidan, ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee calls for unity, slams BJP's 'divisive politics' at Eid prayers

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee emphasized the importance of not yielding to provocations intended to incite communal riots, reaffirming her commitment to peace. NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people not to fall ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Now, report cyber crimes on KP portal

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police have introduced a "Report Your Cyber Crime" hyperlink button on their website that takes a cyber crime victim directly to the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal to lodge their complaints at ease.The feature has been recently ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Spurious meds being sent to Bengal from other states’

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt, probing the recent cases of spurious medicines, wrote to state govts, including Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, seeking details about alleged fake medicine manufacturing rackets there.The state health department, during searches in the last few weeks, ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Anti-diabetic drugs cheaper, heart medicine to cost more

    Kolkata: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), in an order dated March 27, changed the prices of 80 medicines or drug formulations. While prices of some medicines, including those used for diabetes, were reduced drastically, some became more expensive. ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Low-cost tide turns as temp soars, veggies turn dearer

    12 Kolkata: With temperatures soaring since mid-March, Bengal's farmlands struggled, vegetables lost their colour and freshness, and shrivelled. The excessive heat forced farmers to over-irrigate, leading to waterlogging and crop damage. Production nearly halved, creating a supply crunch that ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Mini-India communities ring in new year with family, friends, food and prayers

    123456 Kolkata: The city on Sunday celebrated a number of festivals, including Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand or Sindhi New Year, Chaitra Navratri and Navreh Poshte, on Sunday, marking the beginning of a new year for various communities.The festivities ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Docs sound caution as rising temp leads to spurt in indigestion, cough and cold

    12 Kolkata: As predicted by the Met office, the maximum temperature came down further on Sunday. However, the rising humidity level pushed up the real feel to over 40 when the city recorded a maximum temperature of 35°C. The ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Deadline extended: One more week to clear BMC property tax

    123 Kolkata: The last date for taxpayers residing in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area of Salt Lake and Rajarhat Gopalpur to clear all the quarters of their property tax for the 2024-25 financial year via online methods is ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Pandemic & politics derail tourism, first shops start downing shutters in Kolkata’s Mini B’desh

    12 Kolkata: The once thriving business hub of Marquis Street, known as ‘Mini Bangladesh' for its popularity with Bangladeshi tourists, is witnessing a sharp decline in trade, forcing many eateries, guest houses and other commercial establishments in the area, ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    After Myanmar-Thailand quake, travel industry reassures vacationers

    Kolkata: Travel and tourism fraternity has reassured tourists that Bangkok remains a safe and welcoming destination despite last week's devastating earthquake. At a time when the peak travel season is in full swing — April and May marking some ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Over 1.2k tonne Howrah waste shifted to Dhapa’

    Howrah: The Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) has received a significant boost in its waste management capabilities with the State Urban Development Authority (SUDA) providing 20 new six-wheeled dumpers to address the city's garbage crisis.Civic body chairman Sujay Chakraborty said ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Sustainable water management to solar panels, Kol housing complexes embrace green urban living

    123456 Kolkata: With climate change an imminent reality, residential complexes in Kolkata are stepping up their sustainability efforts. Three distinct residential complexes — Merlin Iris in Mukundapur, Diamond City South in Paschim Putiyari and Merlin Waterfront in Shibpore, Howrah ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal Cong defends Mamata’s Oxford remarks on economy

    12 Kolkata: The Bengal Congress on Sunday stated that chief minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks in Oxford regarding India's economy are accurate and regardless of whether they are made in India or the UK, the truth remains unchanged.The BJP criticised ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    BJP, CPM had tacit understanding to disrupt Mamata’s speech at Kellogg College: TMC

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Sunday alleged a "tacit understanding" between BJP and CPM to disrupt CM Mamata Banerjee's opening remarks at Oxford's Kellogg College in front of the Indian diaspora as well as UK-based academics and students, claiming ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Minister, academics bat for ex-Jadavpur University interim VC in convocation fight

    123 Kolkata: Academicians, former vice-chancellors, the state education minister on Sunday spoke strongly against the "David versus Goliath" battle panning out at Jadavpur University after Governor CV Ananda Bose used his constitutional authority to first remove Bhaskar Gupta, as ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Alipurduar resident dies in Odisha train derailment

    Jalpaiguri: Last week, 22-year-old Subhankar Roy, a labourer at a steel factory in Alipurduar, took a 10-day leave to take his mother, Chitra, to Bengaluru for a heart check-up. He planned to resume his duties in the first week ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Four days after ex-teacher’s death, son surrenders to cops

    123 Kolkata: Evading arrest for three days, Abhishek Maitra, the son of a 72-year-old former Nava Nalanda school teacher — whose charred body was found at their rented home in Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony on Wednesday — surrendered in Patuli ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Auto driver held for stabbing man

    123 Kolkata: A man in his early 40s was allegedly stabbed by an auto driver after he protested against the latter's reckless driving along BT Road at Titagarh on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred when the auto driver, driving ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta stopped near Mothabari; TMC, Cong slam ‘bid to instigate’

    123 Malda: Police on Sunday said 61 people had been arrested, 19 FIRs lodged and the tension in Mothabari due to violence "was under control". The internet, which had been curbed in three blocks, has also been restored. The ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Cylinder raid by SI: HC quashes Behala hotel case

    123 Kolkata: Criminal proceedings against a hotel in Behala found violating rules by using domestic cylinders for commercial purpose was quashed by Calcutta High Court as the raid and seizure was conducted by an officer below the rank of ...

    31 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata likely to get its first airport metro link by July

    KOLKATA: Those from northern suburbs headed to catch a flight at the airport can hope to avoid road congestion and take a metro by July. The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) is due to inspect the 7km Noapara-Airport (formally ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Calcutta HC not dumping ground for judges with questionable image: Lawyers to CJI

    Calcutta HC KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court cannot be a "dumping ground" for judges with "questionable image or short stints", the three HC lawyers' bodies have said in a letter to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, urging him to ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri man sentenced to death for killing cousin in 2021

    Jalpaiguri: A Jalpaiguri court on Saturday awarded the death sentence to a man for killing his cousin four years ago.Sankar Das was hacked to death by his cousin, Suresh Roy, on March 4, 2021 for objecting to the latter's ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    1°C max drop fails to bring down degree of discomfort

    12 Kolkata: The maximum temperature on Saturday dipped by a notch in Kolkata from Friday's high of 37.6°C. Despite the marginal dip, there is no immediate respite from the unrelenting heat. Even as the Met office has forecast a ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Trader’s man Friday found stabbed to death in Tolly flat

    123 Kolkata: A youth, Abinash Bauri (22), who worked for a Chandni Chowk trader, Kushal Chhabra, was found murdered in the latter's fourth-floor flat near Bhawani Cinema in Tollygunge on Saturday. This was the third murder reported in the ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Inspection in April, city likely to get its first airport metro link by July

    Kolkata: Those from northern suburbs headed to catch a flight at the airport can hope to avoid road congestion and take a metro by July. The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) is due to inspect the 7km Noapara-Airport (formally ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    KP helpline to support those in mental distress

    Kolkata: The police, rattled by the series of suicide pacts in the city, have decided to tie up with NGOs and offer a helping hand to those in mental distress. At least five major incidents have claimed 12 lives ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Window of hope: Farming, fishing aid for tiger widows in Sundarbans

    1234 Kolkata: About two years ago, Rina Sarkar went to catch crabs with her husband when the duo encountered a tiger in the Sundarbans. Rina fainted at its sight. But as she regained consciousness, her husband was no more. ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    2 teens arrested for snatching woman’s phone in Kolkata’s Ballygunge

    Kolkata: The Ballygunge Police arrested two scooter-borne teenagers, both aged 18, for allegedly snatching a smartphone from a 50-year-old woman opposite Birla Mandir near Ballygunge Post Office. The duo — Karaya residents Md Nazir Raza and Faizan Hussain— was ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Mumbai cops nab ‘digital arrest’ kingpin in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A Mumbai cyber cell team, with the help of local police, raided an office on Shakespeare Sarani on Friday and nabbed a ‘digital arrest' kingpin, who operated from there.The accused, Sourish Nag (41), was picked up for receiving ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    KMDA plans to raze bldg on EM Bypass, shift stalls

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is working on modalities to demolish a building on EM Bypass and temporarily rehabilitate nine stalls to a nearby night shelter to facilitate widening of a culvert at Chingrighata that will ease ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Earthquake effect: Bangkok fares yet to return to earth

    12 Kolkata: As Kolkatans in Bangkok scrambled to return home from the quake-hit city, soaring flight fares proved challenging. Many tourists, who were rattled by the high-intensity earthquake and the chaos that ensued in the Thai capital, wanted to ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
    Man held for alleged molestation and firearm threat in Beleghata

    123 Kolkata: A young woman in Beleghata was allegedly followed without consent, accosted, verbally abused, and finally molested by a 44-year-old man who used a firearm to threaten her when she tried to protest.Even as the shocked neighbourhood united ...

    30 March 2025 Times of India
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