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  • 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
    Port Blair to host inaugural Andaman book fest

    123 Kolkata: The inaugural ‘Andaman Book Festival' will be held in Port Blair from March 19-23. The organisers — Atul Smrity Samity, Andaman — have invited the Publishers & Booksellers Guild and EZCC for support. The fair will be ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    I killed my daughter, younger Dey bro tells cops hours after his arrest

    Kolkata: Prasun Dey told cops on Monday that it was he who had murdered his daughter, 14-year-old Priyamvada Dey, on Feb 18. The revelation came hours after the younger of the two Dey brothers at the heart of a ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    End bureaucratic red tape for devpt of state: Mamata

    Kolkata: Stressing that she wanted to end bureaucratic red tape, CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked officials to accelerate the approval of projects for development of the state. The CM also issued a warning to the fire, environment and ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Coal India expects lower production amid rake shortage

    123 Kolkata: Coal India expects a production of 788 MT for the current financial year against the initial production target of 838 MT. Although international coal prices have softened, CIL has ruled out any price rationalisation by it.Speaking at ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    CIL waives fin coverage for NPS consumers

    Kolkata: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has done away with the financial coverage of ten days of coal value that its non-power sector (NPS) consumers had to pay for coal received through rail. "The latest decision is one more step ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Celebration of Bhajanka’s Padma award

    123 Kolkata: A felicitation ceremony was held recently to honour Century Ply chairman Sajjan Bhajanka for receiving the Padma Shri from the President of India. The event, organized by FACES and supported by Kolkata We Care, was a celebration ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Jaldapara poacher gets 6-yr RI, fined Rs 40k for illegal wildlife trade

    Jalpaiguri: The Alipurduar chief judicial magistrate's court on Monday sentenced notorious poacher Lukash Basumatary to six years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 40,000 for illegal wildlife trade. This is the highest quantum of jail term awarded under ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 of family found dead in Madarihat forest quarters

    Jalpaiguri: Three of a family were found dead in forest quarters in Madarihat range of Jaldapara wildlife division on Monday.While Ravi Oraon (32) was found hanging, the bodies of his mother Bibi Lohar Oraon (52) and nephew Vivek Oraon ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Couple gets life term for parents’ supari killing

    Kolkata: A district court on Monday sentenced Nivedita Sandhu (26) and her husband Bunty Sandhu to life imprisonment for the murder of Nivedita's parents, Ramkrishna Mandal and Lila Mandal in Habra five years ago. The elderly couple was shot ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Night car theft after day test-drive

    Kolkata: A man, who repeatedly took a second-hand sedan car on test drives, allegedly stole the vehicle from a used-car garage at Duttabad on EM Bypass recently. The suspect, who had showed interest in purchasing the used car — ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Girl molested inside toilet at railway stn

    Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly molested inside a public toilet for women by a worker of the facility near Sodepur railway station on the Sealdah-Ranaghat main section of Eastern Railway on Monday afternoon. The accused, identified as Bikram ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    GF attacks wife with hammer at hospital

    Kolkata: A middle-aged woman, Priyanka Mazumdar Baidya (28) of Sukchar near Khardah, was allegedly attacked inside Calcutta Medical College Hospital on Monday morning with a hammer by a female medical representative, Payal Chakraborty (31) who was allegedly having an ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Constable dies on wedding day

    Hooghly: A Hooghly cop, who had sustained a gunshot wound on Friday, died at a Chinsurah hospital on Monday, the day he was supposed to get married.Constable Himanshu Maji (26) received the injury on his head while on duty ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Stir during placement not a good ad: Bengal Inc

    Kolkata: The strike call and the violence that Jadavpur University has witnessed over the last three days in the middle of a placement season for its engineering students are definitely not good publicity for either the university or Bengal ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Residents protest night tree-hacking in Kasba

    123 Kolkata: An overnight (Sunday) drive to hack full-grown trees in a Kasba neighbourhood met with vehement protests from the residents, who chased the tree hackers and caught a couple of them. They were later brought to Kasba police ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Hawkers’ forum to gherao New Market PS against illegal hawkers

    123 Kolkata: In a reversal of roles, the Hawker Sangram Committee, one of the largest platforms for the protection of hawkers that used to gherao police stations to protest against the eviction of hawkers from Kolkata streets, has decided ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol campuses give strike a miss, JU and Presidency only outliers

    12 Kolkata: Jadavpur University, the campus where the latest bout of violent student politics originated on Saturday, along with Presidency College, which has seen several episodes of student politics since the 1960s, were the only two outliers on Monday ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 of Belghariafamily killed in UP accident

    Kolkata: A trip to attend a marriage ceremony in Uttar Pradesh ended in tragedy for three persons of a Belgharia family after their SUV collided with a truck in UP's Chandauli on Saturday morning. Three of them, including a ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 family members found dead in West Bengal's Jaldapara wildlife division

    Representative image JALPAIGURI: Three people from the same family were found dead in a forest quarter in the Madarihat range of Jaldapara wildlife division on Monday morning.While Ravi Oraon (32) was found hanging from the ceiling of a room, ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase death: 4-day jail custody for trader

    12 Panagarh: A Durgapur court on Sunday rejected the bail plea of Bablu Yadav (37), the motor parts scrap trader arrested in connection with the death of Sutandra Chatterjee after a high-speed chase on NH 19 in Panagarh. He ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Jadavpur University violence: Clash erupts between TMCP and AIDSO in Siliguri during SFI's strike

    NEW DELHI: A clash broke out between members of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) and All India Democratic Students' Organisation (AIDSO) workers during a students' strike called by the Students' Federation of India (SFI) across universities in West Bengal ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Harassment video: Woman kills self

    Howrah: Humiliated by a video showing her being harassed by neighbours, that went viral on social media, a woman killed herself on Saturday night in Howrah. According to cops and locals, the woman's husband works in another state. Some ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    YouTuber files plaint against HC lawyers

    Kolkata: A journalist associated with a YouTube channel filed a complaint at Hare Street PS alleging harassment by a group of lawyers at Calcutta High Court on Feb 28. Cops have started a probe.The journalist said she and her ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Early summer onset: Doctors issue afternoon heat alert for elderly, kids

    12 Kolkata: With day temperatures set to cross 33°C in Kolkata, doctors have sounded an "afternoon heat alert" for the elderly and children. While Kolkata recorded a maximum temperature of 32.8°C on Sunday, the minimum was 23.1°C. The maximum ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    In green move, Gangasagar plastic waste goes into building stronger road in Canning

    12 Kolkata: As debates rage across the nation over the massive waste accumulation at the Maha Kumbh Mela and its environmental impact, with social media flooded with public outrage and criticism from environmentalists, Bengal's South 24 Parganas administration took ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Metro starts inspection of E-W’s Esp-Sealdah stretch

    12 Kolkata: Metro Railway has started inspecting the East-West Metro's upcoming Esplanade-Sealdah section to compile a status report of the stretch. Submitting the documents on the readiness of the new section is a prerequisite for a Commission of Railway ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    7 FIRs, 1 arrest, arson probe as Left JU unions dig in heels

    Kolkata: The Jadavpur University (JU) campus seems to be facing an extended period of unrest after SFI on Sunday called for a students' strike at all state universities on Monday, even as the cops arrested a former student and ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    3 days after TMC’s voter-list fraud charge, EC gives an EPIC reply

    Kolkata: Election Commission of India (EC) on Sunday conceded that two voters from two different states or UTs may have been issued the same number on their electoral photo identify card (EPIC), but denied that that implied duplicate or ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    120m-tall observation tower, India’s loftiest, coming up in Howrah

    123 Howrah: India's tallest observatory, standing a staggering 120m, is nearing completion in Howrah city, and will open up to visitors in three-four months.Situated in Howrah's Belilious Park, adjacent to the East-West Bypass in Howrah that connects Dumurjala and ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Campaign to save birds from ‘ghost’ nets

    Kolkata: In a bid to check hunting of migratory birds that visit various sites in the state in winter, a major initiative was recently launched to save them in different parts of North 24 Parganas. Between Dec and Feb, ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Ind, B’desh river experts at Farakka today to take water pact talks forward

    12 Kolkata: Indian and Bangladeshi river experts will visit Farakka on Monday to make a review of the water level at Farakka to take forward the dialogue on the renewal of the Ganga Water Treaty, set to end in ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Names removed, ‘daughter’ older than dad: TMC finds voter list discrepancies

    12 Kolkata: From names being removed from electoral rolls to a daughter listed as older than her father, Trinamool Congress netas on Sunday heard out multiple discrepancies when they hit the streets to check the voters' list.The revised electoral ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    RSS-BJP meet discusses creation of ‘counter-narrative’ in Bengal

    12 Kolkata: RSS, its 57 sister organisations and Bengal BJP netas concluded a two-day ‘samanvay baithak' in Howrah on Sunday with proposals to create a "counter-narrative" in the state. Sources said Sangh had asked its sister organisations to activate ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Worry for city cops as HS begins today

    123 Kolkata: With 30,000-odd students in Kolkata set to appear for their HS examination on Monday, Kolkata Police has issued a stern warning against any obstruction or blockade that could delay their commute or disrupt law and order. The ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    LED-there-be-light mission in Salt Lake

    123 Kolkata: Streets across Salt Lake are set to be better illuminated with LED lighting. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) wants to procure and install LED street lights across all its 41 wards under the Green Cities Mission scheme. ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Pol docus on B’desh, Myanmar & Pak find place in city film fest

    12 Kolkata: The names of three compelling documentaries addressing issues in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar were announced last week in the programming list of a film festival scheduled in the city in March. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, who was amon- gst ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    BMC plans new pumping stn to check Salt Lake waterlogging

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to set up a drop pumping station off Kestopur Canal to strengthen the drainage outfall system and quickly drain excess storm water to prevent waterlogging in the Salt Lake area.Civic officials ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    JU violence exposes campus fault lines

    123 Kolkata: Hours before the scheduled start of first semester B Tech examinations across seven engineering streams, multiple post-graduate courses and some supplementary examinations at Jadavpur University on Monday, the ongoing campus unrest and the strike call have thrown ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Airport pushes to ramp up self check-in tag use

    123 Kolkata: Kolkata airport authorities are exploring ways to improve visibility and awareness through repositioning and fresh advertising of the self-baggage drop kiosk facility. Despite the convenience and efficiency of the service, passenger adoption remains surprisingly low at the ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    At hosp to meet injured students, JU VC ‘heckled’

    123 Kolkata: After state education minister Bratya Basu, Jadavpur University's interim VC Bhaskar Gupta was also heckled, and his shirt was torn when he went to meet the injured student at the hospital late on Saturday. Gupta, referring to ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Madhyamik examinee gang-raped, 1 arrested

    123 Kolkata: A 15-year-old Madhyamik examinee was allegedly abducted, dragged to an abandoned house, and gang-raped by two youths at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas on Friday evening.The duo allegedly filmed the rape scene on their cellphone and threatened ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Pigeon-racing, remnant of 19th-century Babu culture in Bengal, on its last wings

    1234 Kolkata: The city that once ruled the pigeon racing circuit with several clubs vying for coveted trophies now has only a couple of them and a handful of pigeon fanciers who are continuing with the passion of nurturing ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Jadavpur University clash: 5 FIRs registered, 1 arrested after minister heckled, car vandalised

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, centre, speaks with Students' Federation of India (SFI) members at Jadavpur University campus, in Kolkata. (PTI photo) KOLKATA: Five FIRs have been registered, and one person has been arrested so far in connection ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Mayor hits the streets to weed out bogus voters

    123 Kolkata: After being prodded by CM Mamata Banerjee, mayor Firhad Hakim hit the road on Saturday to identify bogus voters. Hakim chose a neighbourhood located close to his residence in Chetla, which falls under ward 82. The mayor ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Students, guide go Maidan ‘plogging’

    123 Kolkata: Students from a private university in Kolkata joined hands with a walking tour guide to remove litter from a section of the Maidan on Saturday morning.Soham Chakraborty, who takes pride in showing Kolkata's natural and architectural heritage ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Did business loss drive them to murder? Dey brothers took Rs 15 crore loan, left with just Rs 25,000- 40,000

    KOLKATA: Barely a few thousand rupees-something between Rs 25,000 and Rs 40,000-remain in the bank accounts of the Dey brothers. Faced by huge losses in their family business, Pranay and Prasun Dey planned a suicide pact for the entire ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu heckled; student, professors injured in clashes on Jadavpur University campus

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, centre, speaks with Students' Federation of India (SFI) members at Jadavpur University campus, in Kolkata. (PTI photo) KOLKATA: Jadavpur University students primarily belonging to ultra-Left organisations heckled education minister Bratya Basu, ransacked his ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    CM to hold meet on Rs 4.5 L cr BGBS investment proposals on Mon

    12 Kolkata: The Bengal administration is going to convene a meeting on Monday to execute investment proposals amounting to around Rs 4.5 lakh crore, which were proposed during the Bengal Global Business Summit held in Feb. Bengal CM Mamata ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 1 injured as car crashes against tanker

    12 Tamluk: Three people died, and one was injured when a car hit a stationary tanker from behind on Digha-Mecheda NH116B on Saturday morning. The driver — Sudip Maity of South Khodambari in Nandigram — and two passengers — ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri tea auction centre set to reopen after a decade

    123 Jalpaiguri: The North Bengal Tea Auction Centre (NBTAC) in Jalpaiguri is set to resume operations after a decade. In a letter to NBTAC, the Union commerce and industries ministry has informed that operations will restart from March 31.Opened ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Copycat cases? Experts weigh in, stress mental well-being

    123 Kolkata: The suicide of a father and his autistic daughter at Behala's Shakuntala Park could be a case of ‘copycat suicide'. This incident occurred almost two weeks after the Tangra incident, where three members of a family died ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Hull welded, Bangla barge towed away

    123 Kolkata: The Bangladeshi barge, Sea Wald, that has been stranded in the channel off Ghoramara Island after its hull cracked when it ran aground on a sandhead on Feb 13, was finally towed to Lot 8 in Namkhana ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Mom sets 5-yr-old on fire, kills self in Madhyamgram

    1234 Kolkata: The half-burnt bodies of a 28-year-old homemaker, Madhumita Roy, and her five-year-old daughter were recovered from their home in the Doharia Shailesh Nagar Durga Mandap area in Madhyamgram on Saturday morning, minutes after the woman's husband received ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Locals snatch ex-neta away during arrest

    Malda: In a rerun of the Goalpokhar incident, North Dinajpur witnessed another attack on police and the accused escaping. On Saturday, a police van was surrounded by hundreds in Chopra while the accused was being arrested. Some cops were ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Labour union leader found dead in Titagarh, locals stage protest

    123 Kolkata: There was tension in Palta after the bloodied body of INTTUC (Trinamool Congress-affiliated labour union) leader Hannan Gazi was recovered late on Friday night.Police said, Gazi had deep wounds on his head and multiple injuries on his ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Buses on route 46 resume ops after 3 days

    123 Kolkata:The popular 46 route started operating again on Saturday. All the 63 buses are back on the 46, 46A, and 46B routes from airport, Akansa and Derozio College to Esplanade, respectively, said bus owners.After being shut for three ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    NGT orders construction of sewage treatment plant to save Santragachhi

    123 Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal has directed state agencies Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) and the urban development department, along with Howrah Municipal Corporation and South-Eastern Railway, to complete the construction of a sewage treatment plant (STP) at ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Arrest unveils wider digi fraud network

    Kolkata: The recent arrest of Yogesh Dua from Delhi's Vivek Vihar area led investigators to uncover a sophisticated digital fraud network allegedly managed by his brother, operating between Delhi and Bengaluru. The arrest, reported by TOI in its Friday ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death case: Cops take trader to reconstruct events

    1234 Panagarh: Police on Saturday took Bablu Yadav (37), the motor parts scrap trader, who was arrested for the death of dancer-event manager Sutandra Chatterjee after a high-speed chase on NH-19 at Panagarh, to the spot to reconstruct the ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Viewpoints make debut on Kalimpong Loop Bridge

    Darjeeling: Tourists can now enjoy a breathtaking view from the Loop Bridge at Bagrakote along NH 717A, which connects Bengal with Sikkim. The Kalimpong district administration has identified two designated viewpoints where tourist vehicles can stop for photographs. Due ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Dad hangs self with autistic daughter at Behala office

    123 Kolkata: A 53-year-old trader and his daughter, who suffered from autism, were found hanging together, facing each other, from the same nylon rope tied to the iron hook of the ceiling fan of a flat in Behala's Shakuntala ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    March’s first day signals return of heat, max may touch 34°C soon

    123 Kolkata: Pre-summer heat started setting in on Kolkata and its surroundings on Saturday, even as the maximum temperature crawled up to 32.7°C, a degree above normal, while the minimum jumped a degree to clock 23.4°C, three degrees above ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata gets one more train to north Bengal

    Jalpaiguri: The Railway Board has sanctioned a new weekly train to Jalpaiguri, the gateway to the hill stations in north Bengal and also Sikkim, from Sealdah. This train will directly connect towns like Krishnagore and Berhampore with north Bengal ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    4-fold increase in DigiYatra app usage at city airport in a year

    Kolkata: The number of passengers using the DigiYatra app to travel through Kolkata airport increased by four times since Jan 2024, with nearly all frequent flyers, including industrialists, businessmen, executives and professionals, using the facility to breeze through the ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Retd prof lost 1.5L as one more ATM fraud surfaces

    Kolkata: A retired professor fell prey to a card-swapping scam at an ATM in Mukundapur, losing Rs 1.5 lakh from her pension and life savings. The case, reported shortly after the twin ATM frauds in the Survey Park area, ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal horror: Woman, 5-year-old daughter found half-burned at home; suicide suspected

    A 28-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Madhyamgram. Authorities suspect it might be a murder-suicide, initiated by the mother. KOLKATA: The half-burned bodies of a 28-year-old homemaker and her five-year-old daughter ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC starts drive to weed out ‘bogus voters’ in Kol today

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim will start visiting Bhowanipore households from Saturday to reach out to individual voters and cross-check whether their EPIC cards are linked with people outside Bengal. Along with Hakim, Trinamool Congress KMC councillors will also get ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Kunal holds protest march with teaching job aspirants

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Friday staged a demonstration along with job aspirants to protest the legal quagmire due to which employment of hundreds of teachers had been stalled. The candidates shouted slogans against Calcutta High ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Man on scooter dies in Setu truck accident

    Kolkata: A man, riding pillion on his brother's two-wheeler, died, while the brother was critically injured as a truck hit the scooter on the Howrah-bound flank of Vidyasagar Setu around 7am on Friday. The deceased was a resident of ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Madam asked me to chase the other car’

    Chandernagore: Breaking his silence on why he was driving so fast, Rajdeo Singh, who was at the wheel of Sutandra Chatterjee's hatchback, said on Friday that "Madam" had asked him to "chase down" the other vehicle. He was driving ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Agri credit disbursement to cross Rs 1L crore in current fiscal, expects state

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt is expecting agriculture credit disbursement in the current fiscal to exceed Rs 1 lakh crore. It already exceeded Rs 75,000 crore in the Dec quarter. Last fiscal, the figure was Rs 70,000 crore. This was ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    I slashed wife’s & sis-in-law’s wrists, younger Dey brother says

    12 Kolkata: Prasun Dey — the younger of the two brothers at the heart of the "suicide pact" that came to the fore with a car crash on Feb 19 — has told cops that it was he who ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    AI, data science set for HS debut, 1st batch to take exam this year

    Kolkata: Two cutting-edge subjects, artificial intelligence and data science, will make a quiet debut in Higher Secondary this year, with the first batch of students — 30 for AI and 9 for data science — taking the examination this ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Work on 2 proposed poly parks hangs in the balance

    123 Kolkata: Work on two proposed poly parks, which were earlier announced to come up at Uluberia and at a site near Durgapur Expressway, has hit a roadblock. The Indian Plastics Federation (IPF) has said that uncertainty loomed over ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Tangra boy’s stoicism his defence against extreme shock: Rights body rep, doctor

    123 Kolkata: Pratip Dey, the 14-year-old who, in a matter-of-fact manner, recounted on Thursday how his father and uncle killed his mother, aunt, and cousin and attempted to take his life, is displaying symptoms of complicated grief and is ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    3 held for cyber ID fraud of mkt analyst

    Kolkata: Three fraudsters, including a student of BITS Pilani in Rajasthan, were arrested on charges of cyber identity fraud of a reputable stock market analyst and advisor in Salt Lake. Police said the trio had access to confidential stock ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Cop shoots self with service gun

    123 Chinsurah: A police officer shot himself in the head with his service revolver at a hospital restroom in Chandernagore on Friday. He has been admitted to the ICU and is under ventilation. The police have started a probe.Police ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Ensure safety of 5, HC tells Jibantala cops

    1234 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed South 24 Parganas' Jibantala PS to ensure that five petitioners who had moved the court seeking protection were not threatened or physically harmed as long as they stayed at any place ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Temp flip-flop brings back viruses, Kolkata reels from cough & cold

    Kolkata: With the mercury in a spike-and-slide mode at the turn of the season, viruses have made a comeback, leaving thousands across the city down with cough and cold. The outbreak has coincided with the board exams. In consistency ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    4 more small plotsget bldg sanctions

    Kolkata: The KMC buildings department on Friday sanctioned four building plans on small plots measuring — 450 square feet to 1,500 square feet — in Garia and its neighbourhoods off EM Bypass. Earlier this month, the department had sanctioned ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Ramping up AC temp, switching off air curtains may have helped mosquitoes thrive at city airport

    12 Kolkata: For weeks, passengers and staff at Kolkata airport were dealing with a mosquito nuisance in the terminal. Despite deploying exterminators, the pesky insects continued to thrive, leading to growing frustration and concern among airport officials. The problem ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    All yellow but no Ambassador: City keeps iconic transport mode alive with new fleet

    123 Kolkata: A fleet of brand-new yellow cabs — but not Ambassadors — hit the roads on Friday, preserving the cultural identity of an iconic mode of Kolkata's transport. This comes at a time when the last set of ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Runner on recovery road after marathon collapse

    123 Kolkata: During a recent marathon in the city, a 26-year-old runner collapsed at the finish line. His heart stopped, his body turned pale, and there were no signs of life. A medical team revived him, administering CPR, ventilation ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    IISER telescope gets 1st images of solar flare

    Kolkata: Kolkata: Scientists at the Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) at IISER Kolkata are excited about the first scientific results from the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board India's solar space mission Aditya-L1. The telescope ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Drivers to get training on tracking of buses

    Kolkata: Drivers of private and mini-buses on around 15 routes, along with the conductors, will be trained on how to use the application for vehicle tracking. The training is likely to start within the next two weeks as the ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Bus owners want solution, services on route 46 may resume today

    Kolkata: Bus services on 46 route may resume as early as Saturday, indicated the bus owners on Friday after holding a meeting.The services on this route had remained suspended for three consecutive days due to a clash between an ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Science Day event delves deep into Earth’s mysteries

    Kolkata: Professor Dirk Scherler of GFZ German Research Centre, Berlin, chaired the 5th National Science Day, which is being hosted by IISER-Kolkata, as a special guest on Friday. He delivered an illuminating lecture titled ‘Four Good Reasons to Study ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    KMDA, BMC joint op to heal Salt Lake’s roads

    12 Kolkata: After a long delay, about 30 km of road stretches across Salt Lake will get fresh layers of bitumen coating. State fire and emergency services minister and Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose on Friday announced that the Bidhannagar ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Khela hobe’ battle cry in 2026 but with more force, says CM Mamata to TMC

    KOLKATA: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sought to revive the "khela hobe" spirit for the 2026 assembly polls as she unveiled her party's plans to take on BJP with a focus on "voter-list malpractices, the Election Commission's lack ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata house of horror: Dey family tale more twisted than you think

    NEW DELHI: Fourteen-year-old Pratip Dey, who survived a fatal car crash on Kolkata’s EM Bypass on February 19, has alleged that his mother, Sudeshna, and aunt, Romi, were murdered after backing out of a planned family suicide. His father, ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata remembers Father Détienne, Belgian Jesuit priest and Bengali literary figure

    123 Kolkata: The birth centenary of Belgian Jesuit priest and Bengali literature scholar, Father Détienne, was commemorated on Thursday at Visva-Bharati University's Bengali Department.The celebration, organised by St Xavier's College Alumni Association, drew notable academics and institutional leaders, including ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    2 held for attack on RPF constable

    Kolkata: Two persons were arrested for creating ruckus at a ticket counter of Bandel railway station and assaulting an on-duty RPF constable on Thursday.Eastern Railway officials said some anti-socials broke the glass barrier of the ticket booking counter over ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Labourer dies

    Kolkata: A labourer was burried 30 ft under the ground while digging a well at a construction site near Rajarhat Chowmatha on Thursday. Police said two labourers, Shyam and Abhijit Mondal (40), were at work when the ground sank. ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Cops bust call centre selling fake antique materials

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police busted a fake call centre, operating under the name, "NEXT-era Energy Solution", at Ecosuit Building, in the Eco Park police station area. The fraudsters duped people by selling them fake radioactive materials, claiming them to be ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
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