Kolkata: Shantanu Bagchi, who played the role of the boy mistakenly kidnapped in place of Mukul in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Sonar Kella’, will join several members of the ‘Sonar Kella’ cast at a commemorative programme for the legend’s birth anniversary ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey feels India could have been a continental powerhouses in the game, had the focus in the past been on the World Cup rather than Asian Games and Olympics. “From 1947 to 1960, India were ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman from California, who is now on a trip to Kolkata, suffered a heatstroke and was admitted to a private hospital last Friday. She had fallen unconscious soon after having a meal and had severe symptoms like ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Sabuj Mancha, a platform of organisations and individuals supporting environment has sent a letter to urban development department minister and KMDA chairman Firhad Hakim, asking to withdraw the decision of handing over a ground near gate no 8 ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has constituted a resource mobilisation committee, a work committee and a tender committee for exploring scopes and opportunities of rationalising revenues and mobilising resources and to scrutinise work proposals for administrative ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaDHAKA: It is jubilation time for Bangladesh, as a silent feature film made in Dhaka about a gay man won the Special Jury award at the recently concluded Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF). In an industry where films on ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At 41.7°C, Monday touched the highest April maximum temperature in 44 years — equalling the temperature recorded on April 25, 1980.Monday’s maximum was effectively the second highest April temperature recorded in 70 years. In 1954, the maximum temperature ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In the wake of a growing demand for filtered water and a dip in water level in the Hooghly, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday flagged concern of an imminent water scarcity in some pockets of the ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Irked by power cuts across the city amidst an unprecedented heatwave, and wary of its impact on the electorate during the ongoing elections, power minister Arup Biswas convened an emergency meeting with high-level officials of both private utility ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the city reeling under intense heat, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) installed 24 additional water ATMs at different bus stops across New Town for providing free access to drinking water to residents and commuters. Earlier, ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Over 100 residents of two residential buildings located off Rabindra Sarani in Burrabazar area, close to Nakhoda Masjid, had a narrow escape when a fire was reported from a godown adjoining their flats early on Monday morning. The ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University has appealed for funds from the alumni, faculty and students for the treatment of a former student of comparative literature, who is currently undergoing damage care surgeries and treatment at a private hospital, to control further ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court didn’t entertain an affidavit filed by lawyer Koustav Bagchi urging the court to take suo motu cognizance of remarks made by a Trinamool MP against the judiciary. A division bench of Chief Justice TS ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Apollo Multispecialty Hospital Kolkata on Monday told the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) that the hospital was not bound to abide by a health panel directive asking it to refund Rs 5,800 for overcharging on ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Out of the 1.4 lakh candidates who had enrolled for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Board (WBJEEB) exam 80% appeared for the test, the highest ever, despite the heatwave spell in Bengal. The number of candidates who had ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday launched an-all out attack on BJP over videos of JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda’s grandson allegedly sexually assaulting women, with party brass questioning how PM Narendra Modi could speak of ‘Nari Samman’ in Sandeshkhali ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: All members in the Kolkata Police Dog Squad — especially those who slog long hours of VIP duty in the bomb detection unit, including sanitizing the Eden Gardens on the IPL match days — are now wearing ice ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ashwa Tokyo from the stable of S Nawab posted an upset victory in the Ravinder Garh Million in New Delhi on Monday. The winner was ridden by Ranjeet Singh.Delhi short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1: (6-3-1) Polly 1; Palash 2; ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaBHADRESWAR: A group of Bhadreswar residents has taken an initiative to organise a weekly fair on the banks of the Hooghly to revive a 525-year-old history of the area. The place was popular as Bhadreswarganj during the early 17th ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: After polls concluded in the Queen of the Hills, tourism is back in top gear. Darjeeling woke up to a foggy Sunday morning, offering a perfect escape to the parched tourists from the sweltering south Bengal. Though the ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A blaze erupted in a warehouse located in Kolkata during the early hours of Monday, an official said.In response to the incident, a total of seven fire engines were dispatched to the scene. Firefighters are currently engaged in ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The heatwave that has gripped south Bengal - set to be the longest this century - has caused widespread crop damage and a serious decline in vegetable production, raising the possibility of a sharp price rise.Farmers in the ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaDURGAPUR: A large group of students from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur protested on the college campus, calling for the resignation of the NIT Durgapur director following the tragic death of a second year mechanical engineering student.Arpan Ghosh, ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/SUJAPUR: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee res-erved her sharpest criticism for Congress so far this campaign season at her back-to-back meetings in Malda, the backyard of late Congress stalwart ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury."Remember, Congress can never win in Bengal. They ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city is unlikely to get any respite from the heat for about a week. Kolkata's maximum temperature could stay above 40°C for the next two days, making 2024 get this century's highest number of April heatwave days. ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Behrampore: BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday lauded the PM Narendra Modi-led “mazboot sarkar” and called Bengal govt a “majboor sarkar”. Speaking at two rallies, Nadda claimed CM Mamata Banerjee had “stalled development” in the state, was “soft ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More students from across Bengal universities have made it to the toppers’ list of GATE 2024. Among these toppers, Samparna Mittra from St Xavier’s College and Soumya Biswas from Jadavpur University have bagged all-India second rank in economics ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 23-year-old helmetless biker died after his two-wheeler skidded on Lake Gardens flyover and his head rammed against the concrete sidewall of the flyover on the eastern slope around 5 am on Sunday. The pillion rider suffered multiple ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohun Bagan SG stayed on course for a rare ‘double’ in Indian Super League, beating Odisha FC 2-0 in the second leg of semifinals and 3-2 on aggregate to reach the final on Sunday.Trailing 1-2 in the first ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: To offer respite to traffic constables from the scorching heat without compromising on road safety, Bidhannagar City Police have introduced new ‘recruits’ to its force — cardboard “cut-out” traffic cops.The 2D constables begin their shifts this week, in ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 22-year-old “devotee” was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing a 450-year-old Krishna idol made of black stone from a Khardah temple on Saturday.Accused Shom Das, “a Krishna devotee”, confessed to have committed the crime. Das claimed that ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters using Howrah railway station and the metro station embedded in it can expect some relief soon. Come June, an L-shaped subway connecting the East-West Metro station with Asia’s busiest railway station will be thrown open to the ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A BJP Mandal president was allegedly attacked with sharp weapons by some goons when she was putting up posters for party candidate at Anandapur on Saturday night. Blaming TMC for the attack, hundreds of BJP workers staged a ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Night-time power cuts because of overload in summer — primarily confined to areas like Baranagar, Dum Dum, Behala and localities on the city’s edges — came to haunt a neighbourhood in Bhowanipore in the early hours of Sunday, ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after Kolkata recorded the highest temperature in four decades, the city and the rest of the state on Friday registered the highest ever power consumption of 12,663 MW, over 850 MW more than the previous high ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaBASIRHAT: An explosion blew off the thatched roof of the home of a BJP booth president's brother in Hasnabad's Shimulia on Saturday, injuring the latter's wife. BJP functionary Nimai Das claimed "something had been planted" in the kitchen of ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Asansol: CM Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee took the poll battle to the opposition BJP camp while campaigning for two celebrity candidates, Shatrughan Sinha in Asansol and Satabdi Roy in Birbhum, respectively, on Saturday.S S Ahluwalia ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, which has started the process of property tax collection for the 2024-25 fiscal, has decided to levy a 1% conservancy charge and a 0.7% sewerage charge on the residents of all its 41 wards, ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A traffic sergeant and a constable were beaten up when they tried to file a case against a person for driving under the influence of alcohol. The incident took place at Bowbazar on Friday night.Cops have arrested the ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Once security check is over, don’t leave the trays for hand luggage on the floor, tables and seats but put them back on the stack or the designated spot: the authorities at the city airport has appealed to ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) facilitated a woman living in Bangladesh to have the last glimpse of her deceased Indian father at Zero Line of India-Bangladesh border on Friday.The BSF troops of 08 Battalion under South Bengal Frontier ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A decade after Kolkata Municipal Corporation introduced the first solid waste compactor station and modern portable compactors to clean up the city, garbage piles have made a comeback in some localities, leaving the spots filthy and stinking.An official ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 44-year-old pedestrian was killed when he was hit by an unidentified vehicle on Hemanta Basu Sarani in central Kolkata on Saturday, cops said. Ratan Barik, a resident of Jaleswar in Odisha, was found lying on the road. ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Holidayers travelling to the Andamans this monsoon will encounter fewer weather-related flight disruptions, either cancellations or flights having to return to the city after being unable to touch down at Port Blair. An instrument landing system (ILS), which ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Officials at both WBSEDCL and CESC are in no doubt that Friday evening’s record will be broken again this summer, if not in the next few days, definitely in June when humidity levels of over 90% combines with ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: Six-year-old Prerna Gurung was in for a surprise as she stepped into the polling booth at Singhamari, barely 50 metres from the St Joseph's College gate, on Friday afternoon. Too young to be left behind at home, Prerna ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Border Security Force (BSF) facilitated a woman living in Bangladesh to have the last glimpse of her deceased Indian father at zero line of India-Bangladesh border on Friday.The BSF troops of 08 Battalion under South Bengal Frontier ...
28 April 2024 Times of IndiaBALURGHAT/CHOPRA: From running into Trinamool Congress's "go back slogans" and losing his temper to shouting at an on-duty cop, Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was on his toes throughout the polling day on Friday. At Patirampur booth of Tapan, ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee slipped and fell while taking a seat after boarding her helicopter in Durgapur, Paschim Bardhaman on Saturday.She reportedly suffered a minor injury and was assisted by her security personnel. Despite the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: : A two-degree dip in the maximum temperature on Friday from Thursday's high of 41.6°C did little to bring relief as soaring humidity pushed the real-feel temperature up to 49°C, the highest the city has seen so far ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: The three Lok Sabha constituencies, Darjeeling, Balurghat and Raiganj, which went to polls on Friday recorded a dip in turnout compared to both 2019 polls and April 19 phase I polling. This, however, could not dampen the confidence ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaMOYNA (EAST MIDNAPORE)/KOLKATA: The body of an 18-year-old was found hanging at a paan shop in Bakcha's Goramahal on Thursday night, near his home. Dinbandhu Midya's mother said her son was a BJP worker and TMC was responsible for ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda: PM Narendra Modi on Friday attacked TMC for putting the “livelihood of 26,000 families” at stake after Calcutta HC’s school-job-scrap order.“TMC has played with the future of Bengal’s youths. Nearly 26,000 families’ income has stopped because of the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Times of India has won big at International News Media Association (INMA) 2024, bagging six awards for its campaigns, including one for ‘I Am Kolkata’ for best use of generative AI in customer facing products. The campaigns ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Scottish Church Collegiate School in its 194th year opened its doors to girls in the Plus-II section on Friday, the birth anniversary of school founder Alexander Duff. The announcement came ahead of Higher Secondary admissions, which will start ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Feeling drowsy at work or while being out in the sun may indicate severe dehydration that may even lead to a heatstroke, warned doctors. The prevailing dry heat has led to several cases of heatstroke. Several hospitals have ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Less than 24 hours after a drive on Thursday led to plastic sheets being pulled down from hawker stalls along Chowringhee Road, hawkers strung up bedsheets and bed covers on Friday morning to shield themselves from the harsh ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: What is a safe total for Kolkata Knight Riders? The team management must be asking themselves after they went down to Punjab Kings by eight wickets even after putting up 261 for six, their best at Eden Gardens ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An uncommon Indo-Pacific finless porpoise washed ashore on a beach in Digha last week, surprising tourists, foresters and conservationists.The dolphin-like animal, which had injuries on its head, likely caused by fishing trawler propellers, was identified by experts as ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Malda District Primary Education Council to give appointments to 250 empanelled candidates from the 2009 DPSC list, a day after the court directed similar recruitment of empanelled candidates from the 2009 DPSC ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The reclaiming of the pond in Netaji Nagar’s Jorabagan by a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team suffered a temporary setback on Friday owing to resistance by a section of local residents who claimed to be owners of the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose cast his vote in the morning on Friday at Polling booth no.75,Saraswati Vidyalaya in Thiruvananthapuram. Bose reached the polling booth alongwith wife Lakshmi Ananda Bose.Though Bengal Governor had the option to vote from ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Security was beefed up at Kolkata airport on Friday following a bomb threat alert received by the airport manager on his email that said there was a bomb planted at the airport and that it would blow off ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On the occasion of autism awareness month an organisation that works on rehabilitation of individuals with neuro-developmental disabilities, has come up with an exhibition titled "A Journey Through Special Senses." Opened on Friday the two day exhibition attendees ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MAHISHADAL: CM Mamata Banerjee, in her first campaign rally in Tamluk where former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Ganguly is the BJP candidate, linked him directly to the current crisis involving the loss of nearly 26,000 jobs and called ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaHOOGHLY: Trinamool Serampore Lok Sabha candidate and outgoing MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday asked actor and Uttarpara TMC MLA Kanchan Mallick to step down from his campaign vehicle. Later, Banerjee said whenever women villagers saw Mallick, they reacted strongly ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to submit a report on the clashes that occurred during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. The court's decision came in response to two Public ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKANTHI: An 18-year-old BJP activist was discovered deceased in a betel-leaf plantation located in Goramahal village, Mayna area of Purba Medinipur district West Bengal, according to police reports on Friday. The deceased, identified as Dinabondhu Middya, had been reported ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta high court a "mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)" for BJP while stressing that HC could have "given some other advice" in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Several schoolteachers, who are set to lose their jobs following a Calcutta High Court order in the cash-for-jobs scam, are poll officials in the state's second phase of voting. While none of them relishes poll duty when their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Supreme Court, striking down a Calcutta High Court order, has said a govt officer should be summoned to appear in court only in exceptional cases, that too after first arranging a hearing through video-conference, and after the court ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At 41.6°C, the city on Thursday witnessed the hottest April day in 44 years and the second hottest in the last 50 years. The only April day in the last 50 years when the maximum temperature was higher ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If most prominent Kolkata schools have rediscovered the virtues of offline education even amid the heatwave, hospitals are moving in the opposite direction. Many of them have started online consultation, which made its debut during the pandemic, so ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and cops on Thursday conducted a surprise check at Esplanade and carried out a drive on the pavements along Jawaharlal Nehru Road, removing plastic sheets that hawkers there had been using to cover their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly the whole of Salt Lake, New Town, large parts of Sonarpur and some pockets in north and south Kolkata had a blackout on Thursday evening following a snag in a transmission line that tripped power supply. Initial ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There has been a severe shortage of packaged curd in shops and outlets across the city with its demand going up amid the scorching heat. Not just that, interrupted supply of raw milk due to cattle falling sick ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Syed H Abbas- trained Ode To Nature runs with a good chance of winning the D.R.C. Managing Committee Juvenile Sprinters Cup in New Delhi on Friday. The son of Pretty Lights has been a consistent performer and will ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: She is “102 not out” with a zeal to cast her vote.Sarala Bala Dey was born when the British ruled India, but most of her memories are blurred now. TOI accompanied the EC members to her room in ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several parts of Kolkata, particularly in the south, are now heavily dependent on tankers and packaged water to tide over the crisis triggered by the prolonged heat spell. In areas like Tollygunge, Jadavpur, Baghajatin and pockets of Prince ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly 4,000 homes were registered in March 2024, 17% more than the number of homes registered in March 2023. The month also saw affordable homes of up to 500 sq ft make a strong comeback with a growth ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It’s getting too close for comfort for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Their last two matches went all the way down to the wire with the hosts losing one and winning the other. Although the purple brigade is sitting ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Suri: In a first in Bengal, two BJP leaders have filed nominations for the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat.BJP had formally nominated former IPS officer Debashis Dhar from the seat. The second candidate to file his nomination — also on ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed first case in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, concerning allegations of land grabbing and sexual assault against five influential individuals, as stated by officials on Thursday. The case revolves around a ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her strong disapproval of the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs, labeling it as 'gross injustice.' She alleged that it was a deliberate tactic by the BJP to prevent these job ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If Covid made online education indispensable, the ongoing heatwave in Bengal four years later has shown how offline education has once again become fundamental. Several prominent schools have chosen to ignore govt's move to bring forward summer vacation ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After a two-day break, the maximum temperature in Kolkata breached the 40°C mark on Wednesday again, leaving the city sizzling. The Met office has warned that the situation could get worse with the temperature predicted to inch towards ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Breaking his silence on the arrest of 26/11 suspect-turned-approver Rajaram Rege for carrying out a recce of his house and office, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday attacked BJP, claiming: “They raided my helicopter using the I-T ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A school bus carrying students from The BSS School was stopped by traffic cops and the students were made to wait in the scorching afternoon heat for over 30 minutes near Dhalai Bridge on EM Bypass on Tuesday. ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Soujanya” and “subhechchha” (‘courtesy’ and ‘good wishes’) entered the fray ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Balurghat with Trinamool’s actor-MP Dev taking a dig at BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya for misinterpreting the two words. Dev ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There was a scare inside the Kolkata airport terminal's domestic wing when glass shards from a wall panel fell within inches of where flyers were seated. Airport officials said that though no one was injured, they were checking ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing heatwave has led many to defer their planned surgeries. While peak summer usually sees a drop in the number of procedures, since patients and their families prefer to wait until the weather improves, the continuing scorching ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After around eight months, the Council For The Indian School Certificate (CISCE) will have a new chief executive and secretary starting in May. Joseph Emmanuel, the former academic director of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old youth from Deoghar, Jharkhand, was arrested from Durgapur on charges of duping a person of around Rs 2.2 lakh by obtaining confidential details about the victim’s credit card. The victim had received a call from the ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengaluru-based scientist Anindya Sinha, who is in town for the forthcoming centenary celebration of his actress-director mother Arundhati Devi at Nandan, is frantically trying to locate a print of ‘Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (PPBB)’. This 1972 film directed ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday started reclaiming and restoring a large pond at Jorabagan Lotus Park in the Netaji Nagar area. This water body was being gradually filled up. During an ongoing survey of the city’s existing ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaRAIGANJ: In Raiganj, it may well be a battle of defectors. Of the three primary contenders, Krishna Kalyani left BJP to receive a nomination from Trinamool, Kartik Paul left Congress to become a BJP candidate and Ali Imran Ramz ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaBALURGHAT: Amid the cheers of BJP supporters, the Delhi-bound Farakka Express has been rescheduled. From April 15, it will start from Balurghat. If MP and state BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar sees it as his achievement, for landless Mojidur Sarkar, ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaSILIGURI: General secretary of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) and the "in-charge of the hills", Binay Tamang, was expelled by Congress on Tuesday after he extended support to BJP's Darjeeling candidate Raju Bista. Tamang had been a close ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/BHATAR: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wondered who would teach the thousands of children - "BJP or RSS?" - now that close to 26,000 school staff had lost their jobs, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Mohammad Asif."Where will the ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A massive blaze engulfed a pharmaceutical warehouse located in Hooghly district of West Bengal on Wednesday morning, as reported by an official. Fortunately, no lives were lost due to the incident.To combat the fire, which was initially noticed ...
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