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  • 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
    Student files assault complaint with JU

    Kolkata: The second-year English department student, Indranuj Ray, who was physically assaulted by four fourth-year engineering students on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with the Jadavpur University authorities on Friday. He stated that one of the chemical engineering students "bit ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Contractual staffers can’t work as data entry operators: EC

    Kolkata: The EC has instructed all DMs, who are also the district election officers, not to use contractual workers to upload data in the ongoing SIR exercise in Bengal. If done, the BDOs/EROs/AEROs would face appropriate action, the EC ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    EC plans booths at north Kol condos with 300+ voters

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has written to several housing societies in north Kolkata to set up booths on their premises. These will be exclusively for residents of the housing societies, an EC official said. The letter stated that ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    'Under immense pressure': Another BLO found dead in West Bengal; suicide note recovered

    KOLKATA: A woman working as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal's Nadia district was found dead at her residence on Saturday morning.The family members alleged that she had been under considerable SIR work-related stress and died by ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will take 3 years to complete’: TMC MLA Humayun Kabir says Babri Masjid foundation stone to be laid on December 6 in West Bengal's Murshidabad; triggers row

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator has sparked controversy in West Bengal after announcing that a foundation stone for a “Babri Masjid” would be laid in Murshidabad district on 6 December. TMC MLA Humayun Kabir said the event would take ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Justice Vikramjit Sen confers Derozio Awards 2025 at ASISC Conference in Chandigarh

    Chandigarh: Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced Derozio Award for honouring four educators for their leadership, service, and innovation in education.Justice Vikramjit Sen former Supreme Court Judge and Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court conferred the award at ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Quake risk: Kolkata-Mymensingh belt part of Eocene Hinge Zone

    Kolkata: The 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Dhaka on Friday morning that jolted Kolkata and sent people rushing out of homes and offices may just be a dress rehearsal. Geologists and seismologists have warned of a build-up of tectonic stress in ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC’s ‘wake-up song’ for waste collection from Dec

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday introduced a special awareness drive with song to appeal citizens to start segregating waste at home and hand over the segregated waste to the waste collectors. Set to the tune of Usha Uthup's ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Quake in B’desh brings Kolkata out on streets

    Kolkata: Tremors from a 5.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning sent people across Kolkata rushing out of buildings, interrupting their usual weekday rhythmFrom employees logging into their systems to students settling into morning classes, from traders lifting shutters to ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Trans activist pedals 1,500 km to Kol with appeal for peace in Manipur

    Kolkata: The gunshots have fallen silent in the strife-torn Manipur for now, giving a deceptive perception of normalcy in the border state. Even as the limelight has shifted from ethnic conflict, residents continue to suffer in silence for over ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    From food to fashion, Kol named India’s best vegan-friendly city by animal rights group

    Kolkata: An animal rights group has named Kolkata as India's most vegan-friendly city of 2025. Mayor Firhad Hakim, who is also the minister-in-charge of urban development and municipal affairs, was presented with the award by People for the Ethical ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Too many doctors? Rs 15/patient ad for tele-health unit goes viral, sparks debate in medical circles

    Kolkata: An advertisement seeking doctors for tele-consultation for a fee of Rs 15 has sparked a debate within the medical community about the number of doctors being churned out and their distribution across cities and villages.The advertisement, issued recently ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata to lead SIR protest march at Matua hub on Tue

    Kolkata: Wading into the deepening political crisis at the Matua headquarters of Thakurbari over the special intensive revision (SIR) amid rising fears of losing citizenship, CM Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march at Thakurnagar in North 24 Parganas ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Law college counsels freshers on first day

    Kolkata: The vice-principal of the law college in south Kolkata, where a student was allegedly raped in June, welcomed the freshers following the induction held on Friday. She wrote a letter to the governing body immediately after the programme, ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Assess fitness of each kid at least once a yr: CISCE

    Kolkata: CISCE-affiliated schools would have to conduct a fitness assessment of every student at least once a year, stated an SOP issued by the council on health and physical fitness programmes. At a principals' meeting in Chandigarh, CISCE asked ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    SC order on ‘no timeline for guv assent’ to bills puts focus on 24 pending at Bengal Raj Bhavan

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court constitutional bench judgment on governors delaying assent to bills has brought focus on the Bengal assembly-Raj Bhavan standoff on 24 pending bills, the highest in any state.Late on Thursday, Raj Bhavan issued a detailed status ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Coal scam: ED searches at 50 locations in Bengal, J’khand

    Kolkata/Dhanbad/Dumka: In a major crackdown on illegal coal trade, several ED teams carried out searches in at least 50 locations across four districts of Bengal, and Dhanbad and Dumka in Jharkhand on Friday.In Bengal, ED searched the house of ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    War of words as BLO dies in road crash

    A 55-year-old booth level officer (BLO), Lalit Adhikary, was killed in an accident on Thursday at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar while returning from his SIR duty. Adhikary, who was on his bike, was fatally hit by a bus on ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘DVC will meet coal demand from captive mines in 3 years’

    Kolkata: The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) will be able to meet its coal demand from captive mines over the next three years, increasing production to 50 million tonnes per annum, said chairman S Suresh Kumar while addressing the Merchants' ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    See-saw temp lays Kolkata low with conjunctivitis

    Kolkata: An outbreak of conjunctivitis has left thousands with red and swollen eyes. Triggered by a swelling of the conjunctiva gland of the eye, it is highly contagious and has made hundreds rush to doctors and hospital OPDs for ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Who let them in?’: TMC returns Suvendu’s ‘infiltration’ salvo

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday demanded a high-level probe led either by a Supreme Court or a high court judge on how Bangladeshi nationals were allowed to enter India illegally with BSF manning the borders. "Who let them in," the ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Tea Board to empanel agencies for testing imported, exported tea

    Kolkata: The Tea Board has decided to empanel agencies to test tea being imported or exported. The decision was made earlier this week after a stakeholders' meeting attended by the Indian Tea Association (ITA) and other bodies. ITA and ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek to conduct SIR workshop for BLAs on Mon

    Kolkata: Amid SIR in the state, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a virtual review meeting-cum-workshop for booth level agents (BLAs) on Monday.Scheduled at 4pm, the meeting aims to carry out a performance audit, make a ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    HC quashes son’s case against army man

    Kolkata: Frowning on a son's involvement in a domestic dispute between his father and maternal grandfather, the Calcutta HC on Friday quashed a criminal case the son had filed against his army-man father over an alleged nasal bone injury ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    MCH students protest against anatomy head’s harassment

    Kolkata: Students of Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, staged a protest on Friday, alleging inappropriate behaviour by the head of the anatomy department towards a first-year MBBS student. The students further alleged that a female assistant professor of the same ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Survey Park boy goes missing

    Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy went missing from Sammilani Park in the Survey Park area after he went out for cycling in the locality. He was last seen near Sammilani Yuva Club on Tuesday evening. Despite extensive search efforts, he ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Agency promises medical seat for nephew, dupes Kashmir doc of 23L

    Kolkata: A doctor from Rawalpora in Srinagar was allegedly duped of Rs 23 lakhs by a fraudulent educational consultancy agency in New Town that had reportedly taken the amount from him promising MBBS admission for his nephew at a ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    HC sets aside Nigerian’s drug conviction

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday set aside the conviction of a Nigerian national, allegedly found with cocaine outside City Centre-2 in 2018, due to procedural lapses and directed the external affairs ministry to repatriate him to his country of ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Ultadanga flyover to be partially shut over weekend

    Kolkata: The EM Bypass-bound flank of the Ultadanga flyover will remain closed for two consecutive nights — from 11 pm on Saturday to 6 am on Sunday, and again from 11 pm on Sunday to 6 am on Monday ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    At over 12L, Bengal has highest no. of SHGs in India with 1.2 cr members

    Kolkata: At over 12 lakh self-help groups (SHG)s for women, Bengal now held the national record of the highest number of such organisations, comprising 1.2 crore members, said Sudip Sarkar, additional CEO of the West Bengal State Rural Livelihoods ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    JU EC nod to Harmanpreet DLitt, spl convocation likely

    Kolkata: The Jadavpur University executive council (EC) has approved the name of Harmanpreet Kaur, captain of the women's cricket team that won the World Cup, for DLitt (Honoris Causa) on Friday. If Kaur is available on Dec 24, JU ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Transport employee shot at by bike-borne goons

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old state transport employee sustained injuries after being shot at by bike-borne miscreants in an upscale neighbourhood in Baranagar on Friday. Victim Bikash Majumdar was hospitalised and discharged after treatment."I was returning after disposing of garbage around ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Over 33% SIR forms uploaded in state so far

    Kolkata: The Election Commission urged officials in Bengal to expedite the digitisation process of SIR enumeration forms and complete the exercise by the Dec-4 deadline, if not earlier. Over 33% forms were uploaded till 6 pm on Friday.Seven BLOs ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata pays tribute to Zubeen on his birth anniversary

    The 53rd birth anniversary of the late singer Zubeen Garg was celebrated at the Assam Bhawan in Salt Lake on Tuesday. The event, organised by the Kolkata Assamese Cultural Association (KACA), saw admirers gather to pay homage to the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Andaman & Nicobar Islands on alert: IMD issues cyclone warning with heavy rain; fishermen advised to avoid sea till Nov 23

    PORT BLAIR: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a weather alert for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a cyclonic circulation develops over the Bay of Bengal, expected to intensify from November 21, an official said on Thursday.Heavy ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Crackdown on coal mafia: ED raids over 40 locations in Jharkhand, West Bengal in money-laundering probe

    RANCHI/KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate launched extensive searches across more than 40 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal on Friday as part of a coordinated investigation into money laundering involving coal mafia operations in both states.The agency conducted searches at ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    5.7-magnitude earthquake in Bangladesh triggers tremors across Kolkata, northeast

    KOLKATA: An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near Dhaka capital of Bangladesh on Friday. The tremors were reported in Kolkata and several parts of Northeast India, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).The quake struck 13 km south-southwest of ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies, pleasant temperatures, lingering air quality concerns

    Kolkata, November 22, 2025, greets the day with a sunny and comfortable morning, featuring temperatures between 18.6°C and 29.6°C. Despite the clear skies, lingering pollutants from yesterday's 'poor' air quality, which registered an AQI of 198, suggest caution for ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Jeweller pushed off bus, robbed of 63L gold

    Kolkata: A 56-year-old jeweller, Itan Samanta, was robbed of gold ornaments worth Rs 63.5 lakh after being pushed off a bus in a daylight theft. The incident occurred when the victim was travelling from Sinthee to Girish Park last ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    KP to dispose 9.5kg crackers in Haldia

    Kolkata: Lalbazar has asked for 9,500 kg of banned firecrackers to be brought from the police station malkhanas to the Kolkata Police (KP) Club tent at Maidan on Saturday (Nov 22). The stock would be disposed of at Haldia. ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    34 years after conviction, HC acquits man in 41-year-old stone-pelting case

    Kolkata: As many as 34 years after being convicted by a trial court, a man accused of stone-pelting at a north Bengal tea garden, leading to the death of two men, has been acquitted by the Calcutta High Court. ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Civic body suspends Theatre Road park ‘beautification’ work

    Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the agency carrying out the beautification of McPherson Square to keep the work on hold until civic officials decide on how the project can be carried forward without causing further harm to ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    First fortnight of 3-month process over, SIR problems haunt both voters and BLOs

    Kolkata: The first fortnight of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process is over but problems related to filling out enumeration forms still haunt both voters and booth level officers (BLOs).For voters who stumble over filling out enumeration forms, their ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    At Hakimpur, touts emerge to fleece fleeing Bangladeshis

    Kolkata: With hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals — living illegally in India — returning home through the Hakimpur border over the past two weeks amid SIR fear, a familiar network of touts has re-emerged, this time to extort the very ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Bypass, DH Road see dip in fatal accidents in 1st 10 months of ’25

    Kolkata: There was a 15% drop in fatal accidents in the city by the end of Oct this year compared to the same period last year, with the total number of fatalities decreasing from 165 to 140 in the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Halt SIR, CM urges EC, flags human cost of rushed exercise

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to the chief election commissioner on Thursday, urging him to halt the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bengal.The CM's plea came a day after the suicide of a booth level officer ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Miscreants set BDO’s vehicle, shops on fire in Patharpratima

    Kolkata: Violence rocked Patharpratima in South 24 Parganas late on Wednesday after miscreants allegedly set fire to multiple shops, and even the local BDO's vehicle. While the motive behind the coordinated arson remained unclear, it triggered a political faceoff.Though ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    HC lawyers’ cease-work stir against ‘criminal intimidation’

    Kolkata: After lawyers resorted to cease work alleging police highhandedness, Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) Sujoy Paul on Thursday requested the Bar of Calcutta High Court to resume legal work from Friday. He assured that he would look into the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Cabbies, cops clash over illegal parking

    Kolkata: An altercation broke out between app-based cab drivers and cops outside St. Xavier's College on Park Street on Wednesday when a traffic sergeant tried to prevent illegal parking. Around 11.30am, the traffic sergeant from the East Traffic Guard ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police issues 15-point e-investment advisory

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has issued a comprehensive 15-point guideline for online investments. This advisory comes in the wake of a major financial scandal involving the Regent Estate Post Office, where crores of rupees vanished.The guidelines stress on verifying ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC says BJP workers stormed office, beat up 2 BLAs in East Midnapore

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday accused BJP workers of barging into its party office in East Midnapore's Bhaganpur and "assaulting" two booth-level agents (BLAs) involved in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise. BJP denied the allegation. Police said ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    HC lets petitioner move SC over SLST marks

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a petitioner to approach the Supreme Court, which has fixed the hearing on granting prior teaching-experience marks to SLST 2025 candidates for Nov 24 and 26.The petitioner challenged the stage at which ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    BSNL eyes record deal for prime plot at Madhyamgram

    Kolkata: An 11.1-acre land parcel of BSNL on Jessore Road at Madhyamgram is likely to be auctioned in two to three months, officials said. The CPSU (Central Public Sector Undertaking) behemoth has valued the land at Rs 179 crore, ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Bongaon TMC councillors’ houses attacked after no-confidence motion against removed chief

    Kolkata: Houses of six Trinamool Congress councillors of Bongaon Municipality have been targeted in a string of attacks since Wednesday night, with miscreants firing gunshots, hurling crude bombs, and vandalising property across multiple wards.The attacks come close on the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    EgyptAir eyes Kol, woos Tolly with discounts, offers

    Kolkata: Egypt's national carrier, EgyptAir, is wooing Tollywood with discounted fares and promises to facilitate permission to shoot at scenic and historic locations. EgyptAir country manager Amr Aly and sales manager Rajat Chadha are also promoting the Grand Museum ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Dues cleared, indie film to release today

    Kolkata: The controversy resolved, ‘The Academy of Fine Arts', made without the members of Federation of Cine Technicians of Eastern India (FCTWEI) is set to be released in theatres on Friday. The film's release demonstrates that a watchdog can ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC faction feud during Satabdi visit

    Suri: A scuffle broke out on Thursday in Gangte village near Suri, Birbhum, during a visit by Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy.The incident occurred at a camp organized by TMC members to discuss the SIR exercise. The altercation allegedly ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Coast Guard intercepts B’deshi vessel, 28 fishers held

    Kolkata: The Coast Guard on Thursday intercepted a Bangladeshi fishing boat inside India's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Bay of Bengal, and apprehended 28 of its crew members. Coast Guard officers boarded the vessel to find that the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Purple Line Saturday services from this wk

    Kolkata: Metro services will now be available on the Purple Line on Saturdays as well. Also there will be 16 additional services on the Green Line on Saturdays, taking the count to 202 trains in each direction with the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Suicide hits Blue Line ops for an hour

    Kolkata: Blue Line services were disrupted for nearly an hour on Thursday when a man, aged about 62, died by suicide at Netaji (Kudhghat) station around 3.10 pm. Metro operations between Shahid Khudiram and Maidan were halted till 4.05 ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    S Korean tourist loses $850 at Mirza Ghalib St hotel

    Kolkata: An unidentified individual reportedly stole $850, Rs 75,400, from a South Korean national, Sungho Jang, while he was asleep in his hotel room in central Kolkata.The incident took place between 4 am and 8 am on Nov 18 ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Ex attacks woman with chopper, flees

    Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman from Karaya was allegedly attacked by her former boyfriend, a 35-year-old resident of Park Street, with a chopper at Kalighat on Nov 18 when she refused to rekindle their relationship. They had broken up when ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Fresh probe into cruelty to horse

    Kolkata: The Chief Judicial Magistrate Calcutta has ordered a fresh investigation into the charges of negligence and cruelty against the owner of an emaciated horse in the Maidan. Vets had said the horse was starving. An animal rights group ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    School promotes mindful eating on Children’s Day

    Kolkata: On Nov 14, Children's Day, South Point celebrates its pupils, wishing them a bright future. Traditionally, chocolates are distributed, but this year, the school made a health-conscious change.In response to warnings from medical experts and the CBSE about ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC plans eco-friendly stray dog shelter home near Dhapa

    Kolkata: A Kolkata Municipal Corporation delegation on Thursday visited Dhapa Square Miles, an area located close to the Dhapa dumping ground, with the intention of setting up a shelter home for the city's stray dogs. At a preliminary stage, ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Life term for man who killed nephew in 2024

    Kolkata: A Barasat court on Thursday sentenced a 48-year-old man, Enjar Nabi, to imprisonment until death for murdering his 11-year-old nephew, Fardeen Nabi, in 2024 — a crime that later fuelled widespread mob attacks across Bengal after the accused ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    69 more CISF personnel to handle winter rush at airport

    Kolkata: With the peak winter travel rush underway, security at Kolkata airport was bolstered with the induction of 69 additional CISF personnel this week, raising the total deployment to 2,102 officers. Sources said another 100 CISF personnel are expected ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    BLO found hanging, husband blames SIR stress, files FIR

    JALPAIGURI: A 48-year-old ICDS worker, appointed as a booth level officer (BLO) in New Glencoe tea estate in Jalpaiguri's Malbazar, was found hanging near her home in the tea estate on Wednesday, prompting her family to allege that Shanti ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, comfortable temperatures; AQI remains poor

    Kolkata, November 20, 2025, begins with a bright and sunny morning, featuring clear skies and a comfortable temperature range of 18.6°C to 29.3°C. This pleasant weather is expected to continue throughout the day and into the coming week, offering ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI Society rejects Centre’s draft bill at gen body meet

    Kolkata: Withdrawal of the draft ISI Bill 2025 was the unequivocal demand at the annual general meeting of Indian Statistical Institute Society on Tuesday, the first meeting conducted since the bill was proposed for the institute. The society, the ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    4 JU boys debarred after ‘slut-shaming’

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University debarred four engineering fourth-year students from the campus following a complaint of verbal abuse and slut-shaming lodged by at least 10 students on Wednesday. JU security guards escorted the four out of the campus in the ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    From Jan ’26, vax must for pet dogs entering Darj

    Darjeeling: Tourists visiting Darjeeling with their pets are required to carry, and present, a valid vaccination card for their pet dogs to ensure smooth entry into the Hills. The Darjeeling civic body is also preparing to implement strict penalties ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘1,500 B’deshis home through Hakimpur since rollout of SIR’

    Kolkata: At least 1,500 Bangladeshi nationals illegally residing in India have crossed over to Bangladesh from a single border outpost in North 24 Parganas in the last 15 days, BSF sources said on Wednesday, report The revelation comes amid ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    In major move against poaching, ZSI develops hair-based ID for all Indian mongoose species

    Kolkata: In a major breakthrough, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has developed the country's first comprehensive hair-based identification system for all six Indian mongoose species. The tool is expected to significantly strengthen law enforcement efforts against the illegal ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘1,500 B’deshis home through Hakimpur since rollout of SIR’

    Kolkata: At least 1,500 Bangladeshi nationals illegally residing in India have crossed over to Bangladesh from a single border outpost in North 24 Parganas in the last 15 days, BSF sources said on Wednesday, report Tamaghna Banerjee & Sanjib ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Bangladesh patient count in Kol on rise, but hosps wary of chaos post-Hasina verdict

    Kolkata: Hospitals in Kolkata have seen a significant rise in the footfall of Bangladeshis since Oct, around 15 months after violent anti-Hasina protests almost led to a halt in the arrival of patients from across the border.Officials at private ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Excise tweak may fetch Bengal over Rs 600cr more revenue: BAI

    Kolkata: Bengal may get Rs 600 crore to Rs 700 crore additional revenue following the recent excise tax restructuring that comes into effect from Dec 1, according to Brewers Association of India (BAI), the representative body of all leading ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Mercury dips, mosquito menace grows at airport

    Kolkata: The security hold areas (SHA) in both the domestic and international wings of Kolkata airport—zones that are supposed to be foolproof and tightly controlled—are grappling with an unexpected breach. A surge in mosquito infestation inside the terminal amid ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    After coughing up 1.3cr, couple go to ED, learn they were duped

    Kolkata: A 76-year-old Dum Dum resident and his wife were allegedly terrorised for months with threats of arrest, lookout notices, and a fabricated money-laundering probe before being coerced into transferring Rs 1.3 crore to fraudsters posing as Enforcement Directorate ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Man held for Lake Avenue robbery bid found dead in jail

    Kolkata: A prison inmate, Sandeep Das (29), was found hanging from a tree at the Presidency correctional home on Wednesday morning, raising questions about the circumstances leading to his death. Cops and prison authorities are investigating whether it was ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    No SC relief for RG Kar protest doctors

    New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it could not pass "blanket orders", protecting doctors involved in the RG Kar protests.A bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said any order passed would amount ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    4 arrested from Hyd, Guj for e-arrest fraud

    Kolkata: The city cops have arrested four persons from Hyderabad, and Upleta and Rajkot in Gujarat for being involved in multiple digital arrest frauds pegged at above Rs 4 crore.In the first arrest, Kolkata Police arrested three individuals — ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Wife shot at in Howrah condo, man arrested

    Howrah: A 35-year-old woman sustained a bullet injury inside her 16th-floor flat in a housing complex at Shibpur in Howrah on Wednesday morning. A bullet pierced through the neck of Poonam Yadav, who was admitted to a private hospital ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Shops reopen four days after Ezra Street fire

    Kolkata: Several shops and markets on Ezra Street were allowed to reopen on Wednesday, four days after a fire gutted multiple premises in the commercial area. While traders at 27 Ezra Street and 32 Ezra Street received clearance from ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    UP gangster used fake docus to work as app-biker

    Kolkata: UP gangster, Md Sohrab, who is wanted in 20 cases of murder, attempt to murder and robbery, allegedly carried forged documents claiming to be a resident of Topsia to become an app-biker for the past five months. "Sohrab ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Marked dead in voter list, woman files plaint

    Midnapore: An elderly woman in West Midnapore's Keshiari has lodged a complaint saying she was marked dead in the 2025 voter list and thus did not get to fill her special intensive revision (SIR) enumeration form. Sabitri Singh discovered ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    RPSG Ventures buys 40% stake in FSP Design

    Kolkata: RPSG Ventures, part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, said it will acquire a 40% stake in FSP Design Private Ltd, the company behind the luxury fashion label Falguni Shane Peacock.According to the company, the stake will be purchased ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal student dies in Odisha college, family seeks probe

    Midnapore: The family of a second-year nursing student from Kharagpur, who died under mysterious circumstances at a private nursing college in Bhubaneswar, has demanded an enquiry.Family members of Mohammad Azimuddin from Sajoal in Kharagpur said the 21-year-old had come ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Stray-feeding zones to debut in Kol next month

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to demarcate 487 feeding zones for stray dogs across the city's 16 boroughs following a Calcutta High Court order. Deputy mayor Atin Ghosh said on Wednesday that the demarcation work will ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Man kills self over second wife-sons’ age gap in docus

    Kolkata: A 57-year-old man died by suicide by consuming pesticide on Wednesday at Baduria's Jadurtati in North 24 Parganas after it surfaced that the age difference between his second wife and the sons he had with his first wife ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan invokes sections used by Bose to file plaint against guv

    Kolkata: A day after Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose lodged a complaint against Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee, the latter lodged a counter-complaint at the same police station, accusing Bose of "endangering the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India"."This is ...

    20 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata shocker: Woman receives bullet injury in Howrah housing complex; husband detained

    KOLKATA: A woman received a bullet injury on Wednesday at an upscale residential complex in Howrah's Shibpur area, police said.A woman identified as Poonam Yadav was injured after a bullet grazed her neck inside a residential complex near Shibpur ...

    19 November 2025 Times of India
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