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  • City women get vocal about the great gender debunk: The Kolkata adda edition

    (Clockwise) Prateeti Mandal, Roshni Agarwal, Arundhati Maitra, Rukmini Paul, Srabonti Ganguli, Shivangi Sen, Sarodiya Mondal and Susruta KarPics: Sourav Mukherjee Women have heard it all — they gossip too much, they can’t drive, their biological clock is ticking. But ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    15,000 cars per hour on Kolkata's busiest flyover 'Maa' at morning peak, 19,000 in evening

    KOLKATA: The evening peak hour at Maa - the city's busiest flyover - is busier than the morning's, with 4,000 more vehicles using the elevated corridor every hour when office gets over for most people. A Kolkata Traffic Police ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    How can a minister be assaulted, asks HC

    12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday criticised state education minister Bratya Basu's security arrangement on the day his convoy was attacked at Jadavpur University. The court asked, "How many PSOs (personal securities) of the minister were injured?" ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Till 13/3, no political rally around JU

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the state not to grant permission for any rally in the vicinity of Jadavpur University till the court takes up a petition on March 13 on the recent fracas on the ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    PPP push for public space boost in city

    Kolkata: An architects' collective has called for design interventions in Kolkata's public spaces through a public-private partnership so that they become aesthetic, inclusive, and accessible.Speaking on the sidelines of a two-day conclave titled ‘Cities in Transition: Inclusion through Urban ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    CP expresses concern over vagrants at bus shelters

    12 Kolkata: The Commissioner of Police, Manoj Verma, at a recent meeting of the district road safety committee expressed his concern about the rising number of homeless people — and even small businesses — taking over bus shelters across ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    BS-MS dual degree prog debuts at IISER

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata launched a BS-MS dual degree programme in Computational and Data Sciences.The interdisciplinary curriculum of the five-year dual degree programme blends computational techniques with applications in physics, chemistry, biology, ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    New laser tech for targeted therapies

    Kolkata: The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute unveiled an indigenous thulium laser innovation on Friday to DRDO chairman and defence secretary (R&D) Samir V Kamal. The technology, developed under the Centre of Innovation & Manufacturing Eco-System for Sensors ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    HP to focus more on SMEs, Kol to have 1st ‘Connect’ centre in April

    12 Kolkata: Global PC and printing solutions leader HP is set to focus more on the SME sector in India. The company expects its India-specific brand for SMEs — HP Connect — to witness a surge in numbers during ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    NGO support for 50 girls

    Kolkata: Ahead of International Women's Day, NGO Ekkanaborti took pledge to support 50 girl students for the hospitality management course conducted by St Xavier's College, in collaboration with Chowman chain of restaurants. This was announced by minister of state ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    KMC sops for owners of small plots

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department has relaxed the existing building rules for owners of small plots in a colony or on thika land, besides reducing the regularisation fee for those who built homes without building plans ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    More recycled plastic for road construction in Kol

    12 Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim wants the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) roads department to take up the restoration of roads using recycled plastics as one of the ingredients to ensure a smooth ride. Hakim on Friday conceded that he ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    BJP’s oldest Kolkata office to get facelift, house social media wing

    12 Kolkata: BJP's oldest party office in Kolkata which has been losing its sheen — and importance — to its swankier cousins in Hastings and now Salt Lake, is now getting a facelift. Number 6, Murlidhar Sen Lane, home ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP to move EC over ‘irregularities’

    123 Kolkata: Bengal BJP will move the Election Commission in New Delhi on March 11 over alleged discrepancies in the electoral roll."We will submit a memorandum to the EC regarding the activation of measures like fingerprinting and biometrics," BJP ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Prasun confession likely on March 10

    123 Kolkata: The younger of the Dey brothers of Tangra, Prasun Dey, may give his confessional statement before a lower court judge on March 10. On Thursday, the chief public prosecutor of Sealdah court, Suvendu Ghosh, informed the court ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 38k in Behala ATM fraud

    123 Kolkata: A fresh case of ATM fraud has surfaced in Behala Sakherbazar. This follows three such incidents at Survey Park and Mukundapur last month. The cyber cell of Kolkata Police has been tasked with nabbing the accused.Subrata Roy ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Min dips below 20°C after 2 wks, may start rising today

    Kolkata: The minimum temperature dropped two degrees to touch 18.2°C — three and a half notches below normal — in Kolkata on Friday. It was exactly after two weeks that the minimum plunged to a sub-20°C mark. On Feb ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Med price change: Hypertension, diabetes treatment cost to go up

    Kolkata: The prices of 53 medicines, including a large number of formulations used to treat diabetes, have been revised following an order from the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA). According to city pharmaceutical retailers, prices of nearly 20 medicines ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    State’s only female dom powers crematorium

    12 Baruipur: In the heart of Purandarpur in South 24 Parganas, next to the road that passes by Jora Mandir, stands a crematorium unlike any other. What sets it apart from other such facilities is the presence of a ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Giant Ferris wheel to give bird’s-eye view of Kolkata from Howrah shore

    Kolkata: After Howrah bridge and Vidyasagar Setu, Kolkata can now look forward to a new landmark on the Hooghly riverside: a colossal Ferris wheel, much like the London Eye overlooking the Thames.Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), now rechristened Syama Prasad ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    4 of 7 college principals may quit CU Syndicate

    Kolkata: Four college principals out of seven in the Calcutta University Syndicate — the highest decision-making body — will submit their resignations to the university authority in protest against recent exam-related decisions made without any consultation with the principals. ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    47% rise in fake meds in mkt post Covid

    Kolkata: While non-standard quality (NSQ) drugs are being detected on a regular basis, the quantity published by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for Jan is among the highest in recent times. The Bengal Chemists and Druggists Association ...

    8 March 2025 Times of India
    Only 31% newly launched flats sold in Kolkata last yr: Study

    12 Kolkata: Less than one out of three flats sold in Kolkata last year were newly launched ones. In other words, more than two-thirds of the flats sold were old inventory.When it comes to the absorption of new launches, ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    JU interim VC stable in hospital

    Kolkata: The condition of Jadavpur University's interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, who has been admitted to a private hospital with a spiked BP count, is stated to be stable. Gupta underwent an MRI on Thursday and no internal injury was ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Spooked by 300 cash-on-delivery orders in 4 months, Kolkata bank staffer files plaint against unknown stalker

    Representative image KOLKATA: A young bank executive lodged a police complaint for facing harassment from a stalker who had been calling and texting her for the past four months. The stalker also ordered expensive gadgets, clothing and other ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata resident alleges Rs 68,300 stolen from luggage during flight from Delhi to Vijayawada

    Representative Image KOLKATA: A Kolkata resident who flew from Delhi to Vijaywada on work on Wednesday alleged that Rs 68,300 in cash was stolen in transit from his luggage. The airline ground staff with whom he lodged a complaint ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Clash erupts between TMC, CPM workers

    Kolkata: A clash broke out between Trinamool and CPM workers in Baghajatin on Wednesday evening, when some Left supporters were staging a protest against the JU incident.Left workers alleged Trinamool councillor Mitali Banerjee's supporters attacked their office and that ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Mammoth 650-tonne tunnel boring machine completes epic 1,600-km journey from Tamil Nadu to Kolkata; here's why

    KOLKATA: A giant tunnel boring machine (TBM), 90m long and weighing around 650 tonnes, almost entirely made in India, has reached Kolkata after a 1,653 km journey from Tamil Nadu's Alinjivakkam. Despite the ongoing impasse over land for construction ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    2-month night closure for Maa

    Kolkata Traffic Police will shut the east-bound Maa Flyover stretch—Park Circus to Science City—from Friday between midnight and 5 am for two months. tnn

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    CP proposes extra median cuts on Maa

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has mooted a proposal to create extra cuts on the median divider of Maa Flyover so that vehicles breaking down can be towed away faster, minimising traffic disruption on the elevated corridor. In the ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Guv to meet VCs online

    Kolkata: Governor C V Ananda Bose, also the chancellor of state universities, received a report that he had sought from Jadavpur University about the violence on the campus on Saturday. He has formed a fact-finding committee to examine the ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Assign unique EPIC number to every voter, TMC tells poll panel

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool on Thursday asked the Election Commission to introduce unique Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) for all voters, questioning the rationale behind its absence when the same thing was in place for Aadhaar cards and passports.In a ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    SSC charge sheet: Transcript mentions ‘Abhishek’ 69 times, MP’s lawyer slams CBI

    Kolkata: One ‘Abhishek' was referred to as many as 69 times in the transcript of a recorded audio clip submitted by CBI as part of its third supplementary charge sheet implicating Sujay Krishna Bhadra in the recruitment scam. On ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Not good to see guv & CM fight in court, sort issues over tea: Cal HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday said it was "not a good example" to see Bengal's governor and chief minister lock horns in a court of law and said it would like the two parties to resolve their problems ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Once a minority institute, always a minority institute: Calcutta HC

    Kolkata: A school once listed as a minority institution would continue to enjoy minority status, whether or not it obtained a minority certificate from West Bengal Minorities Commission, Calcutta High Court said on Thursday."Once a minority, always a minority," ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Blackstone set to acquire South City Mall for 3.5k cr, city’s largest in real estate deal

    Kolkata: US investment giant Blackstone is in talks to purchase South City, eastern India's largest mall, for around Rs 3,500 crore, in what could be Kolkata's largest real estate deal.The consortium of developers that promoted South City and the ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    1 lakh voters deleted from Bengal poll rolls from Jan to March

    Kolkata: The Election Commission deleted names of one lakh voters in Bengal from the rolls between Jan 6 and March 6, state's acting CEO Dibyendu Das said on Thursday. The deletion was mostly of names who had died.Das said ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Attempt-to-murder FIR against Bratya, his driver

    12 Kolkata: Police on Thursday registered an FIR against state education minister Bratya Basu, his driver Rehan Molla and Jadavpur University professor Om Prakash Mishra, a day after Calcutta High Court asked the Bengal administration to "act like a ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Siraj-ud-Daulah palace: HC seeks inspection by 3-member panel

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the constitution of a three-member committee, with the Murshidabad DM as its convener, to inspect the present condition of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah's Hirajheel Palace.The HC directive came during the hearing of a PIL ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    1.5 cr jewellery store theft: Ex-worker held

    123 Kolkata: Police have arrested a former employee of a well-known jewellery shop on Pretoria Street for allegedly stealing approximately 1.5 kg of jewellery valued at Rs 1.5 crore. The accused, Sashibhushan Shah, was apprehended along with an accomplice ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Ivory haul: 4 detained in S Kol

    123 Kolkata: Four persons were detained near Hazra crossing with four elephant tusks — each around 1 foot — by Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the state forest dept's wildlife crime control unit on Thursday. Sources said that while ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Winter air better but Kol 14th among 22 state caps

    123 Kolkata: This winter (2024-25), from Oct 1 to Feb 28, Kolkata emerged as the 9th most polluted among 22 capital cities in India as far as PM2.5 count in the ambient air is concerned, finds an analysis by ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Nandan, Radha Studio open screens to commercial films after four months

    123456 Kolkata: After a hiatus of four months, Tollywood and cinephiles are heaving a sigh of relief with commercial film screenings resuming at Nandan and Radha Studio from Friday. The two state-operated film exhibition venues suspended commercial screenings on ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    C Kol hawkers overstep smudged yellow lines

    123456 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation last year had drawn a yellow line on several stretches like Bertram Street, Humayun Place, Lindsay Street, SN Banerjee Road, and Grand Arcade in the New Market area demarcating space to rein in ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Swasthya Bhawan takes steps to withdraw test-fail drugs

    12 Kolkata: The state health department on Thursday directed the state directorate of drugs control (DDC) to find out if any of the batches from the non-standard quality (NSQ) drugs, recently published by Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Private interest subservient to public interest: HC on rly project

    123 Kolkata: Private interest was subservient to public interest, stated Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam on Thursday as he directed state senior officials to meet Eastern Railway officials to expedite the Tarakeswar-Bishnupur railway line project. This ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Two more held for SIM card fraud

    Kolkata: The detective department arrested Tanmoy Sarkar (34) of Satyen Roy Road and Dinesh Jana (41) of Jadu Bhattacharya Lane during a raid in Parnasree for allegedly operating an illegal SIM card business. Nearly 100 SIM cards, Rs 42,200 ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Ebb tide in Bangla patient flow, hosps look at other countries

    12345 Kolkata: Travel restrictions triggered by tension at the India-Bangladesh border and a consequent drop in patients from the country travelling to Kolkata for treatment have forced several facilities to look at other countries to fill the void. While ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    Mercury set to rise from tomorrow

    1234 Kolkata: With the cold-bearing northwesterly wind sweeping in uninterrupted into the city, both maximum and minimum temperatures were below normal on Thursday. The Met office expects a further dip by a slight margin on Friday before the mercury ...

    7 March 2025 Times of India
    STF notice to gun shop employee

    Kolkata: The Bengal STF has expanded its investigation into illegal cartridge sales, issuing a notice to an employee of a central Kolkata gun shop in the Bowbazar area. He was asked to face some questions on the cartridge stocks ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Calcutta HC gives paedophile 7 months in jail for crime committed 27 years ago

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court recently directed a man to serve out a prison term of seven months - for sexually abusing a minor 27 years ago, and for which he was convicted nine years back.Suresh Rajbanshi, a resident of ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    10L debt led to Kasba suicide pact: Police

    1234 Kolkata: A day after a couple killed themselves after murdering their kid in Kasba, cops claimed that a family property issue revolving around six cottah, along with a Rs 10 lakh loan taken by auto owner Somnath Roy ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Digital arrest conman held in Rajasthan

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old man from Rajasthan, Mahesh Kumar, was apprehended from Alwar on Tuesday by Bidhannagar cops for allegedly defrauding a 76-year-old woman from Lake Town of Rs 11 lakh on Dec 24, 2024. The victim, Manju Ganguly, received ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    EDII Champions Green Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Growth at Kolkata Roundtable Meet

    KOLKATA: The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), a globally unique institution fostering entrepreneurial skills, reaffirmed its commitment to green entrepreneurship at a recent roundtable meet in Kolkata. Aligning with the Government of India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death: Mom goes to HC, seeks fresh probe

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted leave to the mother of the event management professional victim who died in a road accident at Panagarh on Feb 24 to file her petition praying for a thorough investigation into the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Gang assaults Burrabazar trader at office, loots lakhs

    Kolkata: A trader was assaulted and robbed of lakhs inside his office in Burrabazar.The attack took place on Monday evening at Synagogue Street in central Kolkata, where three men allegedly robbed the trader at his fourth-floor share trading and ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Our job is done: CISF wants to hand over RG Kar security charge

    Kolkata: Six months after the Supreme Court ordered the deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the central force wants to be relieved of the charge and hand over the hospital's ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops take Prasun to Tangra crime scene

    12 Kolkata: Cops on Wednesday took Prasun Dey, the younger brother of the Tangra Dey family, to his Atal Sur Road residence to reconstruct the sequence of events that took place on Feb 17-18, when three people were found ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Education minister visits Jadavpur Univ VC in hosp. Students seek union election, stretch stir

    123456 Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu visited Jadavpur University's interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta at a private hospital on Wednesday, where he got admitted in the morning with complaints of fluctuating blood pressure. Even as Gupta lay in hospital, ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    HC on security PIL: Let state work as per statute

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday refused an urgent hearing of a PIL, seeking the deployment of state police at the Jadavpur University entrance gates for the time being, instead of private agency personnel currently on the job. ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    AIDSO members to move court, write to Prez against Midnapore cop ‘excess’

    12 Kolkata: Several AIDSO girls were allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad members and policemen on Monday during a protest on the Vidyasagar University campus in West Midnapore. The students alleged on Wednesday that they were tortured inside Kotwali ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Infighting suspected in marsh crocodile death

    123 Burdwan: A male marsh crocodile was found dead in a water body at Burdwan Zoological Park, Ramnabagan Mini Zoo of Burdwan town in East Burdwan on Monday night.The preliminary autopsy report indicated infighting between two male crocodiles as ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Kalighat patachitra now on board skywalk ahead of opening

    123456 Kolkata: The Kalighat skywalk is set to open on April 14 on the eve of Poila Baisakh, the Bengali new year. A KMC official on Friday said work on the skywalk, including that of ‘Kalighat patachitra' on the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Schools take guard against dengue ahead of peak season

    12 Kolkata: Schools across the state have started taking preventive measures against dengue well ahead of its peak season. The state education department has already issued a circular, asking govt schools to take up all preventive measures on the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Disha opens 19th branch, set to invest Rs 100 crore

    12 Kolkata: Disha Eye Hospitals on Wednesday opened its 19th branch, at Kolkata's Girish Park. The four-storey branch is spread across 10,000 sq ft. It is a 30-bedded eyecare unit which is well-equipped with trending and progressive technologies. The ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Birbhum, Bankura mushroom can fight cancer: Nature publishes Rahara RKM scientist study

    12 Kolkata: For years, a quiet mystery surrounded some regions in Birbhum and Bankura — cancer seemed to spare them. Swapan Kumar Ghosh, a scientist who grew up in Birbhum, was intrigued. His search for answers led him to ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Cybercrime in lowest strata prompts training for NGOs

    Kolkata: Frequent cases of cyber fraud among the underprivileged sections of the society has prompted NGOs in the city to organise online training programmes for their members so that they can help the victims of such crimes in a ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Roadside waste-burning haunts Ballygunge again

    Kolkata: Early on Wednesday morning, thick black smoke engulfed a stretch of Paddapukur Road in upscale Ballygunge Circular Road neighbourhood after waste that had been dumped there was set ablaze. Last autumn, similar incidents of waste and leaf burning ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    6 teachers injured as HS examinees turn violent over checks

    Malda: At least six teachers were injured at Chamagram High School, under Baishnabnagar police station, on Wednesday as Higher Secondary Examination candidates turned violent over checks for mobile phones.The school was hosting students from Kanditola High Madrasah, Char Sujapur ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC brass to hold meet on voter list complaints today

    Kolkata: TMC brass will meet at Kolkata's Trinamool Bhawan on Thursday to take stock of complaints of voter list discrepancies that have been emerging statewide. In addition to EPIC numbers of Bengal voters being linked to those outside the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Shah to visit Bengal by end of March, discuss ‘fake voter’ issue

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah, who met state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and state minder Amit Malviya on Wednesday, is likely to visit Bengal by the end of this month. Shah is likely to discuss the issue of ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Jaldapara, Gorumara forest divisions start rhino census

    12 Jalpaiguri: Jaldapara and Gorumara forest divisions kicked off a census on Wednesday, for a count of the one-horned rhinoceros in the two national parks. The exercise will take place over two days (March 5 and 6), with a ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    GSI celebrates 175th Foundation Day with digital initiatives and strategic collaborations

    KOLKATA: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) marked its 175th Foundation Day with a grand ceremony at its Central Headquarters in Kolkata. The event was graced by Union minister of Coal & Mines, G. Kishan Reddy, who launched two ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata woman dies in auto accident while taking daughter to ICSE Class 10 maths exam; girl completes paper in shock

    A Class X student in Sodepur, Kolkata, lost her mother in an auto accident just minutes before her ICSE math exam. Despite the shock, police ensured she reached the exam hall on time. KOLKATA: A Class X student ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Counting down to women’s day: Breaking stereotypes, one tattoo at a time

    These tattoo artists are overcoming prejudices, proving talent has no genderIf you are passionate about art, hone your craft & take the leap: Susweta BhattacharyaSusweta Bhattacharya’s style is a mix of intricacy and realistic detailsThe beginning: I was born ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Tangra, Behala, Kasba: Experts focus on breaking the chain

    Kolkata: The difference in psychological resilience differentiated every individual from the other, with most striving to overcome their crises and only a few choosing to take extreme steps, like suicide, said mental health experts. The discussion followed three incidents ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Choose to die a legal death, Prasun tells court

    12 Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers from Tangra, told the advocate appointed on his behalf by the state that he neither wanted a legal representation nor did he wish to argue his case as he ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death case: Dancer’s driver held

    Panagarh/Chandernagore: Cops from the Kanksa PS on Monday arrested Rajdeo Sharma, who was driving dancer Sutandra Chatterjee's car, which during a high-speed chase with an SUV on NH-19, crashed into a concrete chunk and a toilet on Rice Mill ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    AFC Challenge League: East Bengal look to start afresh as Arkadag test awaits

    Kolkata: It was with the AFC Challenge League that East Bengal FC's long and laborious climb back to respectability under Oscar Bruzon after a wretched start to the season began four months ago in Thimphu. The Super Cup champions ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    CIL aims for net-zero emissions with solar power push

    12 Kolkata: Coal India wanted to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by stepping up solar power generation, chairman P M Prasad said at the AGM of Bharat Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. The coal behemoth was also giving major stress ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Kestopur homemaker, 24, is state’s largest seller of phone SIMs used in cybercrimes

    12 Kolkata: A 24-year-old homemaker living in a Kestopur bylane has emerged as the state's largest — and one of India's highest — seller of SIMs generated through fraudulent means. A search by a Kolkata Police detective department team ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Husband, wife kill selves, son; kin held for abetment

    Kolkata: The bodies of a 40-year-old man, his infant son's body tied to him, and his 35-year-old wife were found hanging at their home in Kasba, south Kolkata, early on Tuesday. Autorickshaw owner Somnath Roy and his homemaker wife ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Reclaim night, cops encourage women on social media

    Kolkata: The Bengal Police have some definite messages for everyone this Women's Day. Reclaiming the Night should not just be confined to outdoors but equally indoors, they have stated. International Women's Day is on March 8 and to mark ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Body in bag: Cops recover ‘bnoti’, hammer

    Kolkata: Police on Tuesday recovered a ‘bnoti', a machete and a hammer used by Madhyamgram residents Falguni Ghosh and her mother, Arati, to kill Falguni's aunt-in-law Sumita on Feb 23. The weapons were recovered from a pond in Bireshpalli, ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops probe ‘organized vandalism’

    Kolkata: Mohammed Sahil Khan (25), a former JU student who hails from Birbhum, was one of the many foot soldiers who were part of a larger conspiracy to create anarchy, the police claimed on Monday.The cops stated that Khan ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    HS exams off to smooth start amid stir

    12 Kolkata: The presence of a large team of policemen around the trouble-prone zones of Jadavpur and College Street, which have multiple exam venues, ensured a smooth start to the HS exams on Monday. In close vicinity of Jadavpur ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Road repair work starts across all Salt Lake wards

    123 Kolkata: Road repairs across Salt Lake and adjoining areas formally started on Monday, beginning with a stretch in Nayapatti in Ward 28 adjoining Salt Lake.State fire and emergency services dept minister and Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose was present ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Submit Kakdwip murders progress report on May 2: HC to SIT

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the new investigating team under IGP Murlidhar Sharma to submit a progress report on the 2018 Kakdwip twin murder case on May 2.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh's order came while declining a prayer by ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    HC orders stay on probe against Mithun

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered a stay on the police investigation against actor-turned BJP neta Mithun Chakraborty based on an FIR accusing him of delivering a provocative speech at an event on Oct 27 last year. Justice ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    4-day festival of creative docus kicks off in Kolkata

    1234 Kolkata: A festival of creative documentary featuring Shaunak Sen's ‘All That Breathes', Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh's ‘Writing with Fire', Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's ‘Nocturnes', Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbo's ‘Agent of Happiness', Nistha Jain's ‘Golden Thread', ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    CISF cyclothon to raise awareness on coastal security

    12 Kolkata: Central Industrial Security Force is embarking on a major outreach with citizens across the country with a 25-day cyclothon that will cover the entire Indian coast.Two sets of cyclists will start the ride on March 7 from ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal home to 111 endangered Irrawaddy dolphins, Sundarbans has 108: Nat’l survey

    12345 Kolkata: In the first comprehensive study on Irrawaddy dolphins — estuarine dolphins that are more salt-tolerant — in the Indian Sundarbans, researchers found that the delta harbours 108 of these endangered dolphins. The findings emerged during the release ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Batches of 63 common drugs fail quality test

    Kolkata: Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the national regulatory body for drugs, cosmetics and medical devices, has listed numerous batches of 63 common drugs manufactured by various pharmaceutical firms across the country that have failed quality tests. According ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Police evict hawkers, reclaim parking lots in New Market zone

    123 Kolkata: Car parking lots were reclaimed by cops in and around New Market on Tuesday morning as they evicted hawkers from the carriageway to vacate space for shoppers to park their cars. The police drive came a day ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    From April, pay BMC property tax on app

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to introduce the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) as an additional payment mode option for taxpayers to pay property tax bills, apart from the existing online and offline modes, from the ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    2 kidnapped Murshidabad youths rescued from Tiljala, 4 arrested

    12 Kolkata: In an overnight operation by a joint team of Murshidabad police and Kolkata Police, two kidnapped youths were rescued and four persons arrested from a hideout in Tiljala on Saturday night. The primary victim, who was missing ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Match-day offer: ‘Rohit garlic prawn’, ‘Kohli kebab’ to go with free drinks

    12 Kolkata: With the Men in Blue looking to avenge the '23 World Cup final defeat and recent reverses in the Test series, the India-Australia Champions Trophy semi-final duel on Tuesday is set to be a prime-time blockbuster with ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Daughter of Kol couple to represent US in under-12 Chess World Cup

    123 Kolkata: The 10-year-old daughter of parents from Kolkata, who now reside in Tampa, Florida, will represent the US in the under-12 years Chess World Cup in Butami, Georgia, this June-July. Kolkata-based grand master Diptayan Ghosh is coaching her ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Santu’s death unites fans across Indo-Bangla border

    123 Kolkata: Santu, the dog from Khulna in Bangladesh who often crossed over to Barasat for treatment with her owner and had turned a social media star, died at her home on Sunday, leading to a pall of gloom ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Now, Bengal BJP starts voter survey in Bhowanipore

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Monday started a survey of voters in Kolkata, beginning with the Bhowanipore assembly area through a door-to-door campaign. The party has asked workers in each assembly constituency to reach every booth and identify fake and ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
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