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  • TMC sweeps cooperative poll in Nandigram

    Nandigram: Trinamool swept all 12 seats in the election to the Amdabad Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity Ltd under Ambadab 1 gram panchayat on Sunday, dealing a clean defeat to BJP and the Left front. The result is politically significant ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Work on to construct first floor of SL Rabindra Bhavan

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed setting up the ground floor structure and is now constructing the first floor of the six-storey Rabindra Bhavan project in Salt Lake, utilising about Rs 10.9 crore in funds which the ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Close contacts: All 190 samples Nipah -ve

    Kolkata: Six days into the Nipah virus outbreak, the number of infected people in the city stands still at two. ICMR-NICED Kolkata, where samples of close contacts were tested, did not detect the virus in any of the 190 ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Share-trading fraud: Crooks dupe sr citizen of 16 lakh

    Kolkata: A senior citizen was allegedly cheated of nearly Rs 16 lakh by fraudsters posing as representatives of reputed share trading platforms after luring him through social media advertisements, police said on Saturday.The victim, a resident of the Belghoria ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    NT ex-PSU official loses 49L in 2-day digi arrest

    Kolkata: A 69-year-old retired senior executive of a public sector steel major from New Town lost Rs 49 lakh after fraudsters impersonating CBI officers kept him under "digital arrest" over video calls, and threatened him with arrest in a ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Biting cold makes audience choosier this concert season

    Kolkata: Dec and Jan have long been favoured months for Kolkata's music community; this year, however, the drop in temperature has introduced a new measure of discernment. For the first time, the winter chill is being treated as an ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Experts eye MSME route to revive Bengal chemical sector

    Kolkata: Although the state govt scrapped the proposed Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) at Nayachar Island over a decade ago, Bengal still has significant potential to revive chemical and allied industries through targeted policy support and the ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi flags off 3 Amrit Bharat Express trains; south eastern railway gets major connectivity boost

    KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off three new Amrit Bharat Express trains through video conferencing, significantly strengthening long-distance and regional rail connectivity under the South Eastern Railway (SER) zone. The Prime Minister also inaugurated a new ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Two migrant workers from Malda killed in Karnataka road accident

    Malda: Two migrant workers from Malda district died and three others were injured when a pick-up van collided with a lorry at Vijaynagar in Karnataka on Thursday night. The deceased were Aslam Sk, 18, and Rekabat Sk, 60, both ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    2nd VIP Rd-Salt Lake Bailey bridge set to open by Jan 31

    Kolkata: The Bailey bridge connecting Salt Lake and VIP Road near Dakshindari, the second such bridge over the Kestopur canal off VIP Road, is set to open to traffic by Jan 31.Officials of KMDA said that work to set ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Cleric among 30 arrested for ‘provoking’ Beldanga violence

    Beldanga: Police arrested 30 people, including a 45-year-old cleric Matiur Rehman, on Sunday for the violence in Murshidabad's Beldanga.A local court remanded Rehman and nine others to 10 days in police custody. The court also sent 20 others to ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Meghnad Badh’ set for IFFR premiere

    Kolkata: Ashish Avikunthak's ‘Meghnad Badh Kavya' (The Killing of Meghnad) has been selected to have its world premiere in the Harbour section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His earlier film ‘Devastated' premiered at IFFR 2024 and offered ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Everester among three to cycle 1,500 km across Sahara Desert

    Kolkata: Three adventure sports enthusiasts from Kolkata, including Mount Everest summiteer Malay Mukherjee, will start a 1,500 km cycle journey from Alexandria to Lake Nasser across the Sahara Desert on Monday.The expedition will start from Alexandria, and the three ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    4 weeks to go, Salt Lake stadium gears up for Indian Super League

    Kolkata: The scars of Dec's fury are still visible at Salt Lake stadium, but the race to reclaim Indian football's most storied arena has begun. With the Indian Super League less than a month away, groundsmen have moved in, ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    HC gets canteen run by physically disabled

    Kolkata: The Constitution guarantees equal opportunity, but 50-year-old Prabhat Kumar Gupta has found that this right is often out of reach for those with locomotor disabilities. He hopes the opening of ‘Mitti Cafe'—run by disabled staff—inside the Calcutta High ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    After 5 yrs, NUJS holds convocation

    Kolkata: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant advised five graduating batches of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) to take "unapologetic pauses" to sustain themselves in a profession where long hours and compressed timelines are the ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    NO₂ & O₃ breached safe limits in 2025

    Kolkata: Not just dust and fine particles, toxic gases such as nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and ground-level ozone (O₃) also affected Kolkata's Air Quality Index (AQI) for nearly three months last year, revealed an analysis conducted by a climate-tech organisation. ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Three Nigerian kids cured of heart ailments at Hwh hosp

    Kolkata: Three Nigerian children, who were suffering from congenital heart ailments, were cured of their cardiac anomalies after undergoing treatment at a hospital in Howrah. As their country lacks paediatric heart care facilities, the hospital in Howrah responded to ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Garia tourist falls off boat, goes missing in Sundarbans

    Kolkata: A 32-year-old tourist from south Kolkata's Garia, Suman Pal, went missing after falling from a boat into Matla River in the Sundarbans late Saturday night. Police said he had not been found after a search was conducted. A ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    India’s oldest & largest museum gets its youngest-ever director

    Kolkata: The Indian Museum in Kolkata, the country's oldest museum and the largest in the Asia-Pacific region, appointed its youngest-ever director. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of archaeologist Sayan Bhattacharya as the new director, ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    Couple found dead at Maheshtala flat

    Kolkata: A married couple was found dead inside their rented flat in Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas on Saturday night after family members and neighbours failed to contact them, police said.Police identified the deceased as Tanmoy Dey, 52, and ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Overlapping signs make Nipah detection tough’

    Kolkata: With Nipah symptoms overlapping with those of common respiratory diseases, screening and identifying patients have turned out to be a challenge for most hospitals.Doctors advise isolation if one has a high fever, cough and a sore throat, prompting ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    HAM brings back 29 ‘lost & found’ voters from Nepal for SIR hearings

    Kolkata: Around 29 persons suffering from memory loss from different districts in West Bengal, including a man from Sodepur who had been missing for several years and were lodged in various homes in Nepal, were identified, traced, and brought ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    After voters, ‘logical discrepancy’ foxes Election Commission officers

    Kolkata: The absence of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to deal with 94.5 lakh ‘logical discrepancies' left not just voters harassed, but also left several officers and observers appointed by the Election Commission, who are now conducting SIR hearings, ...

    19 January 2026 Times of India
    BLO suffers cerebral attack, kin blame SIR

    Kolkata: Mehboob Rehman Mollah (55), a primary schoolteacher who was working as a BLO, suffered cerebral attack and was hospitalised on Friday, prompting his kin to blame the "excessive SIR workload".A resident of Chandpasha Paschim Muslim Para under booth ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Pocso accused appears in hearing

    Kolkata: Police produced an undertrial prisoner at a Bagdah hearing centre in North 24 Parganas on Sunday. The 36-year-old, booked under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and lodged in Krishnanagar jail in Nadia for over ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    E-auction for two New Town commercial plots

    Kolkata: Hidco will e-auction two commercial plots in the CBD area of New Town, one of 10 acres and the other of 3.9 acres, on a freehold basis. The auction will be held next month.While the starting bid price ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    3 injured as car collides with bike on Maa Flyover

    Kolkata: A man and a woman, travelling on a bike on Maa Flyover, were seriously injured as a car, headed towards Park Circus hit the two-wheeler and collided with the median divider on Saturday evening. The car driver sustained ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Med college rape survivor testifies

    Durgapur/Kolkata: The Durgapur gang-rape survivor, a medical student of a private college in Durgapur, has testified before a local court about her ordeal on Friday and Saturday. The 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a forest area outside the ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    When asked to bend, they crawled: TMC on EC’s Form-7 clarification

    Kolkata: Election Commission's (EC) recent clarification that there was no cap on the number of Form-7s a voter can submit attracted Trinamool's ire on Friday which alleged that the poll panel was "bending rules" to help BJP. Form-7 is ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Man dies of heart attack hrs after 11 kin get SIR notices

    Kolkata: Hours after the Election Commission issued hearing notices to 11 members of his family, 62-year-old Namkhana resident Sheikh Abdul Aziz died of a heart attack.His family said he was anxious over the hearing after his three sons, daughters-in-law ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Demographic change, infiltration behind Beldanga violence: PM Narendra Modi

    KOLKATA/MALDA: PM Narendra Modi brought up the issue of the recurring violence in Murshidabad during his Saturday's rally in the neighbouring district of Malda, specifying demographic imbalance and infiltration as the underlying causes.Murshidabad's Beldanga continued to see widespread vandalism ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Weaver kills self in Shantipur, kin blame SIR hearing stress

    Krishnanagar (Nadia): A 56-year-old weaver's body was found hanging in his Shantipur home on Saturday, with his family claiming that fear caused by a notice related to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had driven him to suicide. ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    EC sends 3rd reminder for FIRs against poll officials

    Kolkata: Election Commission (EC) on Saturday sent a third reminder to the DEOs (district election officers) of South 24-Parganas and East Midnapore for of lodging FIRs against the EROs (electoral registration officers) and AEROs (assistant electoral registration officers) of ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    80 micro-observers to join CEO’s office, aid in analysis of voter lists

    Kolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal will deploy 80 micro-observers to assist the four observers who joined the CEO's office recently for analysing the voters' list of the state. Senior IAS officers Ratan Biswas, Vikas Singh, Sandeep ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    181 of 190 samples of nurses’ contacts test Nipah-negative

    Kolkata: The samples of all the suspected Nipah patients have tested negative for the virus, restricting the number of cases in Bengal to two. The condition of the Nipah-affected male nurse at the hospital in Barasat has also improved ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    21,000 Singur voters start SIR hearings day before PM rally

    Singur (Hooghly): Around 21,000 voters in Singur, where PM Narendra Modi is likely to address a public rally on Sunday, have received SIR hearing notices over "logical discrepancies". The notices were served last week, and hearings began on Saturday ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Cops probe relationship dispute, widen search for victim’s brother

    Kolkata: Cops on Friday widened their search for Sanjit Kumar, the brother of 22-year-old Pushpa Kumari, after investigators learned she was in a year-long relationship with one of his friends and that the brother strongly opposed it.Cops claimed the ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Doctors see red over hiring list ‘injustice’

    Kolkata: Uproar from the larger medical community against alleged irregularities in the recruitment of assistant professors for medical colleges forced the West Bengal Health Recruitment Board (WBHRB) to withhold the panel list pertaining to the scheduled caste candidates for ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Min hits back as Jhargram college gets donation demand for ‘Gita recital’

    Jhargram: A college in Jhargram has received a donation demand of Rs 40,000 from a local outfit for a "Gita recital event", causing state minister Birbaha Hansda — the president of the college's governing committee — to react sharply.Sources ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Beldanga on the boil again, now over migrant assault in Bihar

    Beldanga (Murshidabad): A fresh spate of violence rocked Murshidabad's Beldanga on Saturday accompanied by vandalism, arson and a four-and-a-half hours long blockade over the assault of 22-year-old migrant worker Anisur Rahman in Bihar.This comes only a day after protests ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Battleground Singur: BJP, TMC hold rallies ahead of PM’s rally in pol hotspot

    Singur/Kolkata: Once at the centre of Bengal's political narrative over because of the land movement, Singur is back in focus with both BJP and Trinamool — the state's two main political players — planning Saturday's activities around PM Narendra ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Heirloom chic, served hot: Dutch ovens are making a couture comeback

    We are at a moment when “what’s cookin’, good lookin’” feels especially apt for Dutch ovens – enamelled cast-iron pots that have evolved from practical cookware into a lifestyle flex. Once rooted in heirloom kitchens, they’re now embraced by ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    EC issues reminder for FIRs against poll staff

    KOLKATA: A day after the West Bengal govt requested EC to reconsider its decision to get FIRs lodged against five officials for allegedly manipulating electoral rolls, the poll panel Saturday sent a third reminder to the district election officers ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Kol cops’ anti-fraud campaign reaches Archbishop’s home

    Kolkata: In the first such effort ever, the Kolkata Police cyber cell conducted a cyber-awareness programme at the Archbishop's residence last week. The campaign, which was held primarily to raise awareness among priests and nuns, had a much larger ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    US out but Ukraine in for the first time at 49th Kol book fair

    Kolkata: After Bangladesh, USA will also not participate in the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), starting from Jan 22 at Salt Lake Central Park fairground. For the first time since 2006 — the year when USA had started ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Santragachhi bird count up but no. of trans-Himalayan visitors dips

    Kolkata: The number of migratory birds recorded during the annual census at Santragachhi Jheel in Howrah on Saturday showed an increase over the last season. However, the count of trans-Himalayan migrants, something that birders vie for, declined. Altogether, 5,607 ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Earth-filling, planting trees: KMDA plans to save Lake’s eroding islands

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has planned to rejuvenate and save three large islands, facing erosion over the years, on Rabindra Sarobar, with earth filling and tree plantation. "According to the data available, the land area has ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Fake’ lawyers dupe estranged couple of 8L

    Kolkata: The Girish Park PS received a complaint alleging that a group operating from an office in the area posed as legal professionals, collected large amount of money from a woman involved in a matrimonial dispute citing court expenses ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Doctors worry over dip in number of family physicians

    Kolkata: The neighbourhood family physician, who would be accessible round the clock and knew patients well enough for a quick diagnosis, needs to return to save lives and eliminate unnecessary hospitalisation, felt a section of doctors who called for ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Tree relief: After TOI report, KMC suspends pipe project

    Kolkata: A Kolkata Municipal Corporation project for laying water pipes in the New Alipore area was suspended temporarily to save several full-grown trees. Residents of New Alipore stepped out of their homes on Wednesday and stopped workers engaged by ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Road curbs for half marathon today

    Kolkata: Plan carefully if you are stepping out of your residence for central Kolkata or Howrah, especially if you are coming from the south.The Vidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 5 am to 1 pm on Sunday ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    6 lakh gold, cash stolen from Park Street flat

    Kolkata: Two men hired recently to paint a house in the Park Street area were arrested in connection with the theft of gold ornaments and cash worth about Rs 6 lakh from a flat inside Ambassador Apartments, police said.The ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    City school celebrates education & culture

    Kolkata: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy commemorated a landmark occasion as it celebrated its 30th Founder's Day recently at a citys auditorium. Ajoy Kumar Ray, faculty of the Centre for Data Science, JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, and former ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    Doc loses 55L in insurance frau, 4 held

    Kolkata: The detective dept arrested 4 on Friday in connection with an alleged insurance fraud in which a city doctor was induced to pay more than Rs 55 lakh in an organised insurance fraud scam, police said. The arrests ...

    18 January 2026 Times of India
    PM to flag off Vande Bharat sleeper train in Malda

    Malda: Prime minister Narendra Modi will visit Malda on Saturday morning and flag off the first Vande Bharat Sleeper train of the country, which will connect Howrah in Bengal and Kamakhya in Assam. A number of Amrit Bharat Express ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Probe against SI, hush-up lens on IO after help’s molest plaint

    Kolkata: A young cook-cum-caregiver appointed through a local ayah centre alleged that she was serially molested by a Kolkata Police sub-inspector inside his Kasba residence after she joined there a few days ago.The survivor claimed that the cop, presently ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Land debate returns to Singur ahead of PM rally

    Kolkata/Singur: The debate over "land" and "consent" returned to Singur on Friday, two decades after the issue firmly placed this belt on Bengal's political map during the anti-land acquisition protests. PM Narendra Modi is likely to address a public ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Scientists discover rare caecilian species Gegeneophis valmiki

    Kolkata: Indian scientists have discovered a rare subterranean amphibian species in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra and named it Gegeneophis valmiki.The discovery, made by a multi-institutional research team led by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), has been ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    East, NE India key trade nodes, says US consul general in Kolkata

    Kolkata: As India and the US negotiate a proposed bilateral trade agreement, the US consul general Kathy Giles-Diaz in Kolkata on Friday reiterated its commitment to a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific adding that eastern and northeastern India are ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Singur migrant labourer killed for ‘speaking Bangla’ in UP

    Singur: Saidullah Sheikh, 38, a resident of Payraura village under the Gopal Nagar gram panchayat in the Singur assembly constituency, was allegedly attacked and killed in UP on Jan 13, his family members alleged on Friday.Sheikh worked as a ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Scared of exclusion from rolls, woman kills self in Malda

    Malda: A woman from the Rajbanshi community in Malda, north Bengal, allegedly died by suicide on Friday, two days after she consumed poison, fearing her name would be excluded from the voter rolls under the SIR process after she ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Beldanga turns battleground over worker’s death in J’khand

    Beldanga (Murshidabad): An irate mob blocked NH-12 in Beldanga for around 6 hours on Friday morning, protesting with the body of a 34-year-old migrant who died in Jharkhand. This also halted multiple long-distance trains in the Sealdah–Lalgola section. Alauddin ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    2 BJP MLAs wanted to join TMC but we refused, says Abhishek

    Midnapore/Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday claimed that two BJP MLAs from West Midnapore were in touch with him wanting to switch sides, but said TMC deliberately shut its doors on them citing political principles and ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Commission may extend SIR hearing deadline for Chakulia

    Chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Friday spoke to chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty and DGP Rajeev Kumar regarding the ransacking of the Chakulia SIR hearing centre. So far, 21 people have been arrested in this connection.The EC has ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Didi slams EC for refusing Bengal govt certs for SIR

    Kolkata/Siliguri: No certificates issued by the Bengal govt were being accepted by the Election Commission in the state, CM Mamata Banerjee alleged on Friday, a day after it said that Madhyamik admit cards cannot be a valid age proof ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    BJP deliberately trying to incite riots in Bengal: Didi

    Kolkata/Siliguri: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of spreading violence in Bengal and claimed that migrant labourers were being "tortured" each day."They are deliberately trying to incite riots in Bengal. This is the BJP's plan, as ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Mom dead in Kumbh fire, Bihar girl loses dad in Sagar Mela but radio operators reunite duo

    Kolkata: A 10-year-old girl, who lost her mother in the fire at Mahakumbh in Prayagraj last year, would have lost her father at the Gangasagar Mela on Thursday, had it not been for cops and amateur radio operators. The ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Amartya cousin stands in for him at SIR hearing

    Santiniketan: Amartya Sen's septuagenarian cousin appeared for him at an SIR hearing on Friday and submitted copies of the Nobel laureate's passport and his mother's death certificate, among other documents, and asked the poll panel officials whether the economist's ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Jadavpur BLO’s widow files abetment to suicide complaint, alleges SIR pressure

    Kolkata: Following the death by suicide of BLO Ashok Das in Purba Jadavpur on Thursday morning, the deceased's widow, Sudipta Das, on Friday filed a complaint for abetment to suicide.She claimed that her husband took his own life due ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    CJ takes oath, focuses on Kol’s role in Independence

    Kolkata: Taking oath as the 44th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on Friday, CJ Sujoy Paul remembered Kolkata's pivotal role in India's freedom movement. "The contribution of this city to India's spiritual awakening and freedom movement is immeasurable," ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    EC extends deadline for new voter regn, deletion till Jan 19

    Kolkata: The Election Commission has extended the deadline for claims and objections by four days from Jan 15. Issuing a notification, the Commission said that applications for new voters and deletion of names (Form 6/6A and 7) can be ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Blowers, heat lamps help animals beat winter chill at Alipore zoo

    Kolkata: After the city recorded Jan's lowest minimum temperature in the past 13 years at 10.2°C earlier last week, Alipore Zoo introduced a host of measures to keep animals warm and their enclosures germ-free. The zoo used blowers to ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Topsia sofa factory blaze in Kolkata spreads panic, buildings evacuated

    Kolkata: A major fire broke out at a furniture manufacturing factory in south-east Kolkata's Topsia area on Friday afternoon. Eleven fire tenders were deployed to douse the blaze, which broke out in the sofa factory. The flames spread to ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Extortion, assault FIR for construction site ruckus in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Chitpore police registered a case alleging criminal trespass, extortion and intimidation at a construction site on BT Road in north Kolkata after a developer complained that a group of men repeatedly entered the premises in intoxicated state, threatened ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Thieves loot 23k from Baguiati school in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Thieves decamped with Rs 23,000 from Samar Smriti Uchcha Vidyalaya (High School), a govt school in Siddharthanagar Colony in Baguiati, police said on Thursday. They also vandalised several rooms of the school as they broke in between 5.30 ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Youth named in Chetla murder charge sheet

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has chargesheeted Surajit Haldar alias Bapi and Tapas Pal under relevant sections for the murder of Ashok Paswan in the Chetla case. Detectives from Lalbazar submitted an 85-page charge sheet in Alipore court on Friday, 83 ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Close shave for 4 on late-night joyride as car crashes into Salt Lake median

    Kolkata: A late-night joyride turned into a near-fatal crash when a speeding sedan carrying four youths, who were returning from an eatery in Sector V, rammed into a median divider en-route to Ultadanga, flew over a road and slammed ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Teachers set to be barred from serving as polling, counting agents’

    Kolkata: Schoolteachers are likely to be barred from serving as polling and counting agents for political parties during elections, a senior Election Commission official said on Friday.The ban is expected to cover not only govt teachers but also teachers ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    IIT plans global gathering on lines of Parliament of Religions in Chicago

    Kolkata: Drawing inspiration from the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, a milestone in interfaith unity, IIT Kharagpur will host a global gathering — the Parliament of Enlightened Thoughts Toward Collaborative Prosperity — in the backdrop of the institute's ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    26cr repair boost for 26 potholed Howrah roads

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has taken up repair and upgradation of 26 road stretches under the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) at a cost of Rs 26 crore.The stretches, with a combined length of around 14 km, ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    1.2 cr lost in two investment scams

    Kolkata: A Kolkata resident reported losing Rs 52.5 lakh in an alleged cyber fraud in which scammers, posing as representatives of a well-known securities and investment group, persuaded him to transfer money over multiple transactions through WhatsApp. In another ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Customs fraud: Online romance with ‘marine engineer’ costs woman 68k

    Kolkata: What began as a promising online romance ended in a calculated cyber fraud for a 34-year-old Lake Town woman, who was duped of Rs 68,500 by a man she met on a dating app after he spun an ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Hotel booking fraud hits Mayapur in pilgrim season

    Kolkata: With the festival season nearing and pilgrim arrivals increasing, devotees of Iskcon are being targeted by online fraudsters running a coordinated accommodation scam in Mayapur. The racket has already duped visitors from India and overseas, exploiting the urgency ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Nipah testing facility comes to Kolkata

    Kolkata: Within 48 hours of the Nipah-positive confirmatory report of the two nurses, ICMR-NIRBI , formerly NICED, received a state-of-the-art mobile testing lab for Nipah samples. Sent from NIV Pune, the lab at the Beleghata institute already tested 100+ ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Bengal frames new guidelines for Nipah

    Kolkata: The state health department has prepared an extensive guideline on the identification of contacts, isolation, and treatment of positive Nipah cases, as well as those suspected to have the infection. As of now, Bengal has two confirmed Nipah ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    Pipeline repairs to disrupt water supply in New Town till Sun

    Kolkata: New Town Action Area I will get reduced water pressure till Sunday due to an ongoing repair work on a 600mm diameter water supply pipeline."The leak has been plugged and the repair work on the pipeline is complete. ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Brochure a contract’: HC okays college fee hike

    Kolkata: A prospectus or brochure amounts to a contractual agreement between a student and an educational institution, the Calcutta High Court held on Thursday while upholding a 37.5% mid-course fee hike by Dr BC Roy Engineering College, Durgapur.The court ...

    17 January 2026 Times of India
    West bengal protest: Locals block Beldanga NH-12 over migrant worker’s death in Jharkhand; traffic disrupted

    KOLKATA: Locals in Murshidabad, West Bengal, blocked National Highway 12 and set tyres on fire on Friday to protest alleged attacks on migrant workers from the district in other states, police said, causing major disruption to traffic.The highway was ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    HC denies bail to Prayag directors for Rs 2,862-cr fraud

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused bail to the principal directors of Prayag Group, Basudeb Bagchi and Avik Bagchi, in custody for allegedly defrauding thousands of investors of nearly Rs 2,862 crore."The liberty of an individual cannot be ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    Renewable energy to make up 20% of PFC loan book in 3 yrs

    Kolkata: Renewable energy will make up 20% of Power Finance Corporation's (PFC) loan book over the next three years, up from 15% now. PFC chairperson Parminder Chopra said renewables and distribution will be focus areas for the company. Chopra ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    Sibal: Didi went to I-PAC office as TMC chairperson, not CM

    Kolkata: At the I-PAC hearing in Supreme Court on Thursday, senior counsel Kapil Sibal, arguing for CM Mamata Banerjee, said she did not go to the place (I-PAC properties in Kolkata) as the chief minister but as chairperson of ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    ER to achieve 100% Kavach coverage in Bengal with Rs224cr nod

    Kolkata: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday approved the installation of Kavach at key Eastern Railway stations. A railway spokesperson said, "Eastern Railway took a significant step towards strengthening rail safety with the approval of the indigenously developed Automatic ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    3 held for running fake note print unit in Kolkata

    Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested three men for running a manufacturing unit of counterfeit Indian currency notes in connection to two operations conducted at Patuli and Sonarpur on Wednesday and Thursday. The fake notes ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    Won’t quash FIR against Suvendu: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to quash an FIR lodged against leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari in Malda on Jan 2, over alleged derogatory remarks against a former IPS officer, but directed the police not to ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Did nothing for Nandigram’: Abhishek hits out at Suvendu on his home turf

    Nandigram/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised Bengal leader of opposition and Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari on his home turf, accusing him of having "had done nothing" for the constituency over the past five years.Speaking ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘PM’s Singur rally planned sans consent’: 20 ‘landowners’ lodge police complaint

    Singur (Hooghly): A group of 20 landowners in Singur lodged a police complaint on Thursday, alleging that the Jan 18 public meeting likely to be addressed by PM Narendra Modi, had been planned on their land without their consent.Bharat ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    Mahishadal goldsmith found dead in Mumbai, mom reaches out to Didi

    Mahishadal (East Midnapore): After 33-year-old Sudharam Senapati, a goldsmith from Sarberia village in Mahishadal, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Mumbai last week, his mother, Alpana Senapati, has appealed to CM Mamata Banerjee to help bring her son's ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    2 die in Murshidabad post hearing, kin blame ‘SIR fear’

    Behrampore: Two people died in Murshidabad, with families blaming SIR hearing anxiety in both cases.According to the family of Uttar Latiberpara's Sabera Bibi, the 45-year-old woman fell ill on Wednesday, hours after getting back after a hearing at Lalgola ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
    As BJP steps up heat after SC hearing, TMC says it’ll submit ‘evidence’ in court

    Nandigram/New Delhi: As BJP upped the ante after the Supreme Court's decision to stay Kolkata Police's FIR against ED officials and its observations on the central agency's allegations against CM Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool on Thursday said they too had ...

    16 January 2026 Times of India
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