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  • Minimum temperatures in Bengal fall by 2-3 deg C: IMD

    Minimum temperatures at several places in West Bengal fell by two to three degrees Celsius on Tuesday, while dry weather would prevail over the state for the next one week, the IMD said.There will not be any large change ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Babri posters flood Murshidabad: Humayun Kabir’s Dec 6 claim sparks row; TMC distances itself, BJP cries 'appeasement'

    KOLKATA: Posters announcing the construction of a ‘Babri Masjid’ have surfaced across West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, days after Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir claimed that a foundation stone would be laid on December 6 in Beldanga. The development has ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Transforming lives in Mahammad Bazar through safe drinking water, community leadership

    KOLKATA: In Mahammad Bazar, Birbhum, West Bengal, every household now has access to safe drinking water through functional household tap connections, thanks to the leadership of Smt. Uma Banerjee, chairperson of the Village Water and Sanitation Committee (VWSC). Contaminated ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    CINI celebrates 25 years of adolescent empowerment and advocacy

    KOLKATA: At the joint celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) and the 50th anniversary of the Child in Need Institute (CINI), Indrani Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer of CINI, emphasised the urgent need for parents ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Moving bus catches fire on NH-16

    Howrah: A fire broke out on a fast-moving bus on the National Highway 16 at Bally in Howrah on Tuesday morning. The blaze was brought under control after efforts by the fire department, and no casualty was reported.Around 9 ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    1 lakh gold chain snatched in S Kol

    Kolkata: A 33-year-old woman, Hinal Bhowmick, reportedly lost her gold chain on Sunday evening when a man snatched it near Munna Tea Shop in Santoshpur before fleeing. The Santoshpur Avenue resident was reportedly chatting with a few neighbours close ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    New bus route from Sealdah to Santragachhi

    Kolkata: Commuters will now benefit from a new bus route, HB9, which will connect Santragachhi to Howrah station, en route Sealdah via MG Road. This will facilitate access to the East-West Metro and Sealdah from Santragachhi. Initially, 12 buses ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Copter glitch forces CM to travel by road, operator served show-cause notice

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee was forced to abandon her scheduled helicopter travel on Tuesday after the aircraft failed to arrive at Howrah's Dumurjala Stadium at the last moment, compelling her to undertake the journey to Bongaon by road. The ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Firm to revise beautification plan to restore greenery at Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: The landscape consultancy firm appointed by a private organisation to ‘beautify' McPherson Square has decided to tweak the original plan to make way for more greenery.The decision comes after widespread criticism for cutting down trees and replacing large ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After Tolly screens, SRFTI alumni leave their mark on Goa film fest

    KOLKATA: On Tuesday, the Centre felicitated the third and fourth batches of SRFTI alumni at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. Back in Tollywood, three SRFTI students are making waves with their commercial successes. Abhijit Sen, ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    BLOs submit list of 13 demands to CEO after midnight drama

    Kolkata: The midnight drama-cum-protest at the office of the West Bengal chief electoral officer on the third floor of the NS Road building continued on Tuesday with members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee protesting against the stress on ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Trolls to deepfake: Navigating gender-based online violence

    Kolkata: Organisations dedicated to combating violence and discrimination against women are now battling an even more insidious form of violence that has found a new space: online. Swayam, along with NGOs such as Aman Network and Talash, launched its ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Denied chopper, CM drives to Matua heartland, slams SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's foray into the Matua heartland of Thakurnagar on Tuesday had an unexpected deviation from the written script but packed enough ammo and drama to indicate that the battle for the Matua votes in Bengal's ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After initial ‘yes’, N Kol condo withdraws poll booth approval

    Kolkata: Residents of only one out of nine condos, who agreed to be a polling booth in north Kolkata, withdrew their approval after learning that no other complex has yet reverted to the EC proposal for setting up a ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Howrah pool car had no fitness cert, driver had health issues

    Howrah: The death of three schoolchildren in Uluberia on Monday has triggered widespread outrage after investigators confirmed that the pool car involved in the crash was running without a fitness certificate, had defective brakes, re-soled worn-out tyres, and an ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    CM stops convoy seeing protest, assures inquiry

    Kolkata: While returning from the Matua heartland on Tuesday, CM Mamata Banerjee stopped her convoy briefly seeing a protest in Barasat. The protesters were demonstrating over the alleged theft of an eye from the body of a deceased man ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Monitor BLAs’ work, Hakim tells councillors

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Tuesday held a meeting with the KMC councillors regarding the ongoing SIR exercise across 144 wards. Hakim instructed the councillors to maintain communication with the BLAs of their respective wards and to observe whether ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Missing TMC worker shot dead in Malda

    Malda: A 31-year-old Trinamool worker and coal trader, Wabaidullah Khan, who had been missing since Monday evening, was found dead in Malda's Kaliachak on Tuesday. His body had a bullet injury and police suspect he was fired upon from ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman attacks three with scissors

    Kolkata: Three persons were injured — one of whom was stabbed — after a woman, who was staying as a paying guest at a facility near Lake Avenue off Rashbehari Avenue, attacked the property owners with scissors over rent ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After Bengal’s coal belt, wolves clicked in rice bowl

    Kolkata: After Bengal's coal-industrial belt of West Burdwan's Durgapur, wolves have been spotted in Bengal's rice bowl — East Burdwan.An ongoing camera trap-study on the presence and distribution of wolves in East Burdwan has unearthed the presence of a ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Body of fisherman who died in B’desh jail handed to kin

    Kolkata: The body of the Kakdwip fisherman who died in a Bangladeshi jail was handed over to his family on Tuesday night, 10 days after his death. Babul Das (Boba), the fisherman, was mute and hearing-impaired. His brother and ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses arm in New Town accident

    Kolkata: A 25-year-old woman riding pillion on her way to the office lost her right arm on Tuesday morning after the strap of her backpack got entangled with an electric bus. She was pulled off the bike and under ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Acting like TMC militia’: In letter to CEC, Suvendu questions Bengal police officers’ neutrality

    Kolkata: Three police officers in Bengal were acting as Trinamool's ‘private militia', alleged leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari in an email to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday. Adhikari also raised questions about the ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    HC orders state audit of Rose Valley assets panel

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday instructed the state finance department to conduct a forensic audit of the accounts of the Rose Valley Assets Disposal Committee. The HC had earlier asked the Sebi to carry out an audit ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Flights from western India undergo ‘volcano checks’

    Kolkata: Air India on Tuesday cancelled a morning flight from Mumbai to Kolkata and back after the aircraft was grounded along with several others for urgent inspections. This occurred as multiple Indian carriers began precautionary checks on jets that ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops warn of fake traffic challan links

    Kolkata: Stay cautious the next time you receive an SMS asking you to pay your traffic challan. Check if the link provided to you for payment is genuine, the Kolkata Police warned on Tuesday on all its social media ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Senior citizens lose lakhs in life cert scams

    Kolkata: In a rise of cybercrime involving fake life certificate updates, senior citizens are being targeted by fraudsters. After Bidhannagar Police, Kolkata Police has reported multiple cases where pensioners have fallen victim to such scams.Dulal Halder, a 62-year-old resident ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Rajarhat man loses 1cr in digital arrest

    Kolkata: Two fraudsters from Mysuru, who posed as Bangalore Police and Karnataka Police Crime Branch officers, looted more than Rs 1 crore from a 74-year-old Rajarhat resident while keeping him under ‘digital arrest' in a New Town hotel for ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Tiff over 2k led to Kasba hotel murder, suspect cops

    Kolkata: The murder of a CA inside a Kasba hotel by a couple, Dhruba Mitra (20) and Komal Saha, could have been for as little as Rs 2,000. The accused on Tuesday claimed that an additional Rs 2,000 was ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Old age, ill health cannot reduce punishment for inhuman act: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to shorten the life imprisonment sentence of two octogenarians despite health complications. The duo was convicted for killing a man and hurting his family in 1998. While turning down the appeal ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Doc posting: Group marches to Swasthya Bhawan

    Kolkata: Despite the Calcutta High Court verdict, the health department is yet to comply with the order placing anaesthesiologist Aniket Mahata at RG Kar Medical College as a senior resident. The Voice of Abhaya, Voice of Women, an organisation ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    In times of stress, some BLOs beat deadline, return to school duty

    Kolkata: Despite the stress, several BLOs have completed 100% digitisation of SIR enumeration forms. In Kolkata, Soma Roy Mandal, a 40-year-old booth level officer in Maniktala, was the first BLO to complete her work in 16 days since the ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    At 16.4°C, Kol sees third coldest Nov day in 10 yrs

    Kolkata: The minimum temperature dipped to the season's lowest in Kolkata on Tuesday. At 16.4 degrees, this was also the third coldest Nov day for the city in 10 years. The maximum temperature too plunged to the season's lowest ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    National Library of India, Dravidian University forge new academic partnership

    The National Library of India and Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, formalised a new cooperation framework today to expand academic collaboration in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The agreement aims to strengthen internship opportunities, research exchange, ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    IIT Kharagpur unveils postage stamp, initiates discussion on Houston outreach centre to mark 75 years of journey

    SHANTINIKETAN: IIT Kharagpur unveiled a special postage stamp by India Post to mark the glorious journey of the institute that began at the historic Hijli Detention Centre in 1951. During the event, the institute also initiated discussions on the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Labourers return woman’s 10L jewellery lost at stn

    Kolkata: Four migrant day labourers from Bihar set an example of honesty by returning gold jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh belonging to a bank officer. The officer, Rupashree Sikdar from Konnagar, had mistakenly left a small bag containing the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Another gem lost, Dharmendra bids adieu to 59-yr bond with Kol

    KOLKATA: Dharmendra's 59-year bond with Kolkata drew to a close with his passing, days before the release of his final film, co-written by a Bengali. His journey began in 1966 with his Bengali debut in Jagannath Chatterjee's ‘Paari', adapted ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    In 2nd letter to CEC in 4 days, CM flags hiring, booths at housing complexes

    Kolkata: In her second letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in less than a week, CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday sought the CEC's intervention on two recent EC decisions — employing an agency to bring in 1,000 data ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Withdraw case or...’: Law college rape survivor’s dad gets threat

    Kolkata: The father of the girl who was gang-raped inside her law college on June 25 was threatened last week by bike-borne men who told him to "Drop the case, or else…". The student's father lodged a case with ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    BLOs march to CEO office, protest ‘inhuman’ SIR stress

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs) on Monday took to the streets and held a demonstration outside the office of the chief electoral officer to protest the "inhumane stress" they are working under while carrying out the special intensive revision ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Mahakal Mandir & convention centre in N Bengal get cabinet nod

    Kolkata: From the Mahakal Mandir in Siliguri to a convention centre in Dabgram, the Bengal cabinet on Monday approved multiple projects for north Bengal.The cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, approved the establishment of a Mahakal temple and a ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Kasba hotel murder premeditated, blackmail, robbery motives: Cops

    Kolkata: The murder of a chartered accountant at a Kasba hotel, which was discovered early on Saturday, could be premeditated, possibly a result of an attempted robbery, investigators said. According to Rupesh Kumar, joint CP (crime & traffic), the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘We didn’t even know we owned it’: How a 1982-era Boeing survived as ‘ghost plane’ at Kolkata airport; 13 years of parking costs Air India nearly Rs 1 crore

    KOLKATA: A Boeing 737 that had been lying idle at Kolkata airport for more than a decade has revealed an unusual oversight: Air India did not know the aircraft was still on its books.The 43-year-old Boeing 737-200, parked since ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Mahindra’s renaissance post on Kol goes viral

    Kolkata: Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra hailed the development in New Town on X, saying that with the recent changes, Kolkata deserved more attention from travellers."I was also very pleasantly surprised to hear about New Town. Perhaps because I ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Next 150 days decisive for TMC: Abhishek to 24k workers at meet

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee told party workers on Monday that the next 150 days would be decisive for the party. Speaking at a virtual meeting attended by around 24,000 party members, including senior netas, Banerjee ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    At 3,112 m altitude, endangered musk deer clicked in Bengal for first time

    Kolkata: In a first, Bengal has recorded the photographic evidence of the endangered musk deer. It has been clicked in Neora Valley National Park during a pan-India assessment of red pandas. It was believed that the species had gone ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Man dies of heart attack, kin blame ‘stress’ over SIR

    Midnapore: Forty-year-old Bablu Hembram, a resident of West Midnapore's Pingla, died on Sunday morning following a cardiac arrest. His family alleged he had been under severe stress after learning that his parents were not in the 2002 SIR list ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Never said BJP doesn’t want Muslim votes: Suvendu

    Kolkata: BJP senior and Bengal assembly's leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday that he had never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes, but Muslims don't vote for BJP in Bengal."I never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    950 wheeled waste bins for New Town

    The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will introduce 950 wheeled waste bins of 240-litre capacity each at different locations in New Town. It will engage an agency to lift all kinds of waste and transport it to Dhapa. ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    HC sets aside Pocso verdict over ‘contradictions’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside a Bankura trial court order sentencing an accused to three years of imprisonment under the Pocso Act. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, in his order, acquitted the accused of all charges."I am of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Boeing, going, gone: 100ft B737-200 aircraft, lying forgotten at Kolkata airport for 13 years, sets out on 1,900km journey

    Kolkata: On Nov 14, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft that was lying idle at Kolkata airport for over 13 years finally rolled out and headed to Bengaluru on a tractor trailer, where it will be used for the training of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    N Bengal in focus at cabinet meet, Mahakal temple gets nod

    Kolkata: From the Mahakal Mandir in Siliguri to a convention centre in Dabgram, the Bengal cabinet on Monday approved multiple projects for north Bengal.The cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, approved the establishment of a Mahakal temple and a ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI faculty, students raise protest pitch on draft bill

    Kolkata: Faculty members, staff and students of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Monday raised the pitch against the draft ISI bill, claiming that the proposal was a meticulously designed move to snatch the institute's autonomy.Disquiet has been brewing over ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC asks agency to plant 25 big trees to re-green Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: Officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation parks department have asked the agency that hacked trees at McPherson Square to plant 20-25 big trees, and many more smaller ones, to restore the green cover at the park at the Theatre ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC targets dust, to get 40 e-sweepers by 2026

    Kolkata: In a bid to fight air pollution in the city's lanes and bylanes, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to buy small-sized electric mechanical sweepers. According to a KMC solid waste management department official, initially, 20 such ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Teachers on SIR job: Some schools bring forward, some delay exams

    Kolkata: Battling an acute teacher shortage with most teachers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) job, schools are either advancing their examination schedule or deferring it to manage crisis of examination invigilators. Several schools started final exams on Monday ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    At 3,112 m altitude, cameras click Bengal’s 1st endangered musk deer

    Kolkata: In a first, Bengal has recorded the photographic evidence of the endangered musk deer. It has been clicked in Neora Valley National Park during a pan-India assessment of red pandas. It was believed that the species had gone ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    59.4% forms uploaded, only 2.4% mismatch so far with 2002 list: EC

    Kolkata: Around 59.4% of enumeration forms have been digitised in the state by late Monday afternoon. Of them, only 2.4% of data could not be mapped with the SIR 2002 roll in Bengal, Manoj Agarwal, chief electoral officer, West ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    3 schoolkids die as pool car falls into Howrah pond

    Howrah: Three schoolchildren died when a car ferrying them lost control and fell into a pond at Bahira in Howrah's Uluberia on Monday afternoon. Two other children travelling in the same car were injured and are admitted in hospital. ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal weather: IMD predicts fall in minimum temperatures; dry weather to continue

    KOLKATA: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday forecast that minimum temperatures will fall by around two degrees Celsius across West Bengal over the next two days.After this brief cold spell, temperatures are expected to rise gradually by about ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Hotels must upload guest list daily: KP

    Kolkata: In the wake of the Kasba hotel murder involving a chartered accountant, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Varma held a high-level meeting with the detective department and senior officers on Sunday. They finalised a series of guidelines aimed at ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar shooting: Wife hires killers, held

    Kolkata: Rekha Majumdar, wife of a WBTC employee, Bikash Majumdar (52), who was was shot at by bike-borne assailants early on Friday, was arrested on Sunday. Three others were also picked up.Investigators revealed that Rekha had hired contract killers ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 65L in dating app scam

    Kolkata: A 56-year-old man from Baguiati alleged he was duped of nearly Rs 65 lakh by a woman he met on a dating app, who persuaded him to invest in a fraudulent online trading scheme. Police said the two ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    No court nod needed for sanction of ‘debuttar’ property bldg plan: HC

    Kolkata: Shebaits (manager and custodian of a temple) did not require permission from a civil court to develop or alter a private debuttar property, dedicated to a deity, the Calcutta High Court held while directing the KMC to reconsider ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    After Nadia BLO’s suicide, colleagues to take to streets

    Kolkata: A section of booth level officers (BLOs) will take to the streets on Monday to raise their voice against what they described as crushing workload because of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    WBTC buries tram heritage loop tracks under concrete

    Kolkata: The hope of a tram ride on a heritage route in the city may be slipping into oblivion with the transport department starting to build concrete bus shelters directly on the tracks at Curzon Park, an alignment the ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Nadia BLO pleaded to be relieved several times before suicide: Kin

    Krishnanagar: Fifty-two-year-old Chaprapara teacher Rinku Tarafdar, who died by suicide on Friday, pleaded multiple times, twice formally, to be relieved from the work of a booth level officer (BLO) because she "did not understand anything online". According to her ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    At 105%, N Dinajpur records highest voter surge, followed by Malda & Murshidabad

    Kolkata: North Dinajpur, spread across 3,180 sqkm and flanked by Bangladesh and Bihar, has witnessed a staggering 105.4% growth in voters in the last 23 years, the highest in Bengal.Malda and Murshidabad, among the other Bengal districts bordering Bangladesh, ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Not just 186-yr-old Ezra St agiary, other places of worship also in encroachers’ chokehold

    Kolkata: The Nov 15 inferno on Ezra Street did more than destroy property and a 186-year-old agiary — it laid bare a chronic civic problem — encroachments around the city's places of worship and heritage structures that create serious ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops arrest woman, male friend for CA’s murder in Kasba hotel

    Kolkata: A woman and a man, who had checked into a Kasba hotel with chartered accountant Adarsh Losalka (33), who was later found dead in the hotel room on Saturday, were arrested in less than 24 hours, on Sunday. ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman injured as she fights off snatchers on Dhauli Exp

    Kolaghat: A Kolkata resident, Surama Hazra (45), who was travelling on Dhauli Express with her husband on Sunday morning, was severely injured as she fought off two men attempting to snatch her gold chain and bag. The snatchers tried ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Session focuses on religion, gender issues

    Kolkata: A masterclass was conducted by Nandini Bhowmik, Indologist, priestess and Sanskrit scholar, at Modern High School for social science students. The session covered issues like religion, gender issues and career-building for young women. Bhowmik explained the true meaning ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Cinematographer kills self over debt

    Kolkata: A 42-year-old cinematographer, Soumyadeepta Guin, was found hanging in his Kasba flat on Saturday night, with a handwritten note pointing to prolonged financial distress and lack of steady work, police said. Officers broke down the door of his ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Doc helps woman give birth on toto in Malda

    Malda: The usually bustling K J Sanyal Road in English Bazar went unusually quiet for some time on Sunday after an e-rickshaw (toto) covered in clothes stopped in the middle of the road. A doctor was seen rushing to ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Subhas Sarobar set to turn a new leaf with promenade, Miyawaki forest, seating upgrade

    Kolkata: Subhas Sarobar, considered to be the lungs of north and east Kolkata, is set to get a new look. A promenade has been planned in the southern and western parts on its premises. Work will be done to ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Airport to get air curtains to fend off mosquitoes

    Kolkata: Airport authorities are upgrading air curtains at Kolkata airport as part of an intensified vector-control drive after repeated passenger complaints about mosquito infestation in the terminal. The airport initiated a large-scale overhaul of its insect-prevention infrastructure, including installation ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Stray parents try their hand at raising funds to feed, treat dogs

    Kolkata: Pet parents across the city are raising funds in different ways, be it through artwork, running pet grooming centres, or selling pet food, to support the welfare of community strays, mostly dogs and cats. In addition to spending ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Theatre Rd park fiasco reveals all that’s wrong with urban planning

    Kolkata: The McPherson Square park fiasco is emblematic of everything that is wrong with "public projects" in the country, say residents of Loudon Street and Theatre Road who have always taken the park and its greenery for granted till ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    4 years after B’desh ban, Bengal prohibits Chinese fishing net that’s been destroying state’s wetland fauna

    Kolkata: A China-made fishing net, which has been prohibited in Bangladesh for at least four years now, but still employed extensively across Bengal, has recently been banned by the state.TOI had last year reported how China Duari nets have ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Weekend camps help BLOs race against time

    Kolkata: From community halls and local playgrounds to even bus shelters, SIR ‘camps' sprouted all over Kolkata on Sunday as BLOs sprinted for the last mile to complete digitisation of the SIR enumeration forms by the Nov 25 deadline. ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Phone hacked, Salt Lake resident loses 1.7 crore

    Kolkata: A resident of HA Block in Salt Lake lost Rs 1.7 crore to a financial fraud. The incident came to light when the victim noticed unauthorised transactions from her credit cards, and she promptly lodged a complaint with ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Tiger kills another fisherman in Sundarbans

    Kolkata: Fisherman Tapas Haldar (45) was dragged from his boat by a tiger while catching crabs near Sindurkathi forest in the Sundarbans on Friday. His mutilated body was recovered half a kilometre inside the mangroves on Saturday. This is ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Suicide hits metro ops, second time in 3 days

    Kolkata: Another suicide disrupted Blue Line metro services for the second time in three days. Services in the Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram corridor were disrupted for around 40 minutes on Saturday because of a suicide at MG Road station. Truncated operations ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Error fear grips BLOs as edit tab vanishes from app

    Kolkata: The edit option that was introduced in the BLO app on Nov 19 — and had been malfunctioning from the next day itself — was reportedly removed altogether on Saturday morning. Booth level officers (BLOs) across the city ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Nadia BLO dies by suicide, note blames EC for death

    Krishnanagar: A 51-year-old from Nadia became the second booth level officer (BLO) to die by suicide in Bengal in three days swinging the glare on the immense pressure on these govt employees engaged by the Election Commission for the ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Mangroves in danger: Plastic dust drifting in air deep inside Sundarbans, find IISER scientists

    Kolkata: The Sundarbans, long seen as one of the planet's last wild fortresses, is now revealing a quieter, more unsettling intrusion — plastic dust drifting through its air. A new study by the Indian Institute of Science Education and ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Fans mark first city bus run’s 195th anniv with cake, balloons & nostalgia

    Kolkata: Around 80 people arrived at the Garia Route 6 govt bus stand around noon on Saturday and immediately got busy. For the next few hours, they set up balloons and streamers around a 2.5kg cake that was placed ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Safer EMB: IIT audit finds 18 hazardous stretches

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur submitted its first report to the state govt and Kolkata Police this month. A copy will be sent to Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority on how to turn the all-important but accident-prone ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    IT firm staffer found dead in Kasba hotel, hunt on for mystery couple

    Kolkata/Suri: The naked body of a 33-year-old Sector V IT firm employee, Adarsh Losalka, was found in a fourth-floor hotel room in Kasba, near a popular mall and a reputable English-medium school on Saturday afternoon.Losalka, who used to reside ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    EC should stop working as B-team of BJP: TMC

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday called upon the Election Commission (EC) to stop working as "BJP's B team" and not turn the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls into a mass disenfranchisement exercise. The comments came after a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area dengue tally breaches last year’s count

    Kolkata: The dengue case count in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area has crossed last year's figures. With 30 fresh cases reported last week, a total of 392 dengue cases have now been reported across BMC area this year. ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    CS asks DMs to reduce stress on BLOs, ensure smooth SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, during a meeting with district magistrates on Saturday, asked them to try and remove the phobia related to the special intensive revision (SIR) in the wake of several BLO suicides over the last ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Exotic bird undergoes emergency op after swallowing plastic tube

    Kolkata: A month-old exotic bird, Sun Conure, got a new lease of life following an emergency surgery to remove a plastic tube that it swallowed while being fed. The surgery was conducted on Friday night. "This was a rare, ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    33-yr-old CA’s body found in Kasba hotel, hunt on for mystery couple

    Kolkata/Suri: The naked body of a 33-year-old chartered accountant—employed at an Sector V IT firm—Adarsh Losalka, was found in a fourth-floor hotel room in Kasba, behind a popular mall, on Saturday afternoon. Losalka, who used to reside at a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal SIR may lead to ‘mass exclusion’: Activists

    Kolkata: The Educationists' Forum, West Bengal, and Desh Bachao Gano Mancha on Saturday hosted a discussion titled "SIR: A Challenge for Universal Adult Franchise", featuring social scientist and political activist Yogendra Yadav, political economist Parakala Prabhakar and academic Om ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Blue heritage plaque for hotel with a room for the Kapoors

    Kolkata: The Elgin Fairlawn Hotel on Sudder Street has received the blue heritage plaque from the Kolkata chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) as part of World Heritage Week 2025.The hotel was once ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Green curtain comes up after green murder at Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: Even as the KMC parks department officials claimed that they asked the agency responsible for cutting down trees and pouring concrete in the park to cease work, construction activity gathered pace at McPherson Square on Saturday. A payloader ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol Metro seeks DMRC advice on operational issues

    Kolkata: Metro Railway is exchanging notes with DMRC for seamless operations of the Green Line (East-West) Metro, the carrier has said, clarifying that there is no possibility of handing over Green Line operations to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).Metro ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Vancouver-Delhi flight lands in Kolkata after man falls ill mid-air

    Kolkata: A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Vancouver, Canada made an emergency landing at Kolkata airport on Friday after a passenger experienced chest pain and restlessness mid-air. The flyer, 70-year-old Dalbir Singh, subsequently died while being rushed to a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: Tout racket at Med College Hosp & SSKM busted, 2 held

    Kolkata: The detective department of Kolkata Police busted an organised gang of touts operating within two of the city's major govt medical institutions. Cops on Friday night arrested two individuals—Sachin Raut and Golam Rasul—for allegedly extorting money from patients' ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
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