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  • News from West Bengal | 24 Aug, 2025 | ৯ ভাদ্র, ১৪৩২
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  • 'Ek ke baad ek BrahMos, then a pee dam’: Mithun Chakraborty’s jibe at Bilawal Bhutto; says 'message for ex-Pakistan foreign minister only'

    NEW DELHI: BJP leader and Bollywood veteran Mithun Chakraborty has ridiculed former Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s warning to India on the Indus Waters Treaty, responding with a string of sarcastic jibes.On Bilawal Bhutto's reported statement, Chakraborty said, ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Cooch Behar migrant worker ‘murdered’ in Kerala

    Jalpaiguri: A migrant worker from Falakata in Alipurduar was allegedly murdered in Malappuram district of Kerala last week. A resident of Ward 7 in Falakata town, 37-year-old Abul Hussain worked as a painter in Kottakkal.Abul's body was recovered from ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Mitali hurt, Mahua faints as Del cops detain oppn MPs

    Kolkata: Trinamool MP Mitali Bag was injured on Monday and hospitalised, while party MP Mahua Moitra fainted in the prison van as TMC MPs, along with INDIA bloc MPs, were detained by Delhi police during their protests against the ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘No more, enough, no more,’ Calcutta HC responds to weekday rally plea in city

    KOLKATA: “No more, enough, no more, I will not allow it....” This was the gist of the response on Monday from the Calcutta High Court to a plea for yet another political rally on a working day on the ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Cabinet clears plan for permanent Durga temple complex in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Goddess Durga, among the most revered deities in Bengal, will get a permanent temple complex — Durga Angan — where she can be worshipped round the year. The Bengal cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, has given its ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    CM asks mins to supervise ‘Amader Para’ camps to solve local issues

    Kolkata: With the footfall of Amader Para Amader Samadhan (APAS) crossing 25 lakh on Monday, at 4,654 camps held so far, chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked ministers to supervise the event in their respective districts and address local grievances. ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Cool comfort worth the extra 100, say passengers on board state’s first AC local

    Kolkata: Suburban commuters on board the maiden AC EMU Ranaghat-Sealdah train were ecstatic to experience the much-awaited service on the first day of the week. The feelings were mixed when it came to coughing up Rs 120 for the ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Voter list anomalies: 2 removed from poll duties & 3 being probed, chief secy writes to EC

    12 Kolkata: Bengal govt on Monday told the Election Commission (EC) that it was inquiring against four state officers and a data entry operator whom the poll body wanted to be suspended, and FIRs drawn up.EC secretary Sujeet Kumar ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    KP lodges attempt-to-murder charge, set to move court against BJP netas

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Monday said it will move court to lodge more FIRs against "important political leaders" whom they claim "incited violence, threatened, and actively encouraged vandalism" in the Esplanade-Park Street crossing zone last Saturday during ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Rain divides Kolkata: Flooded north, dry south

    123456 Kolkata: Triggered by a ‘local thunderstorm,' a heavy afternoon downpour lashed the northern fringes of Kolkata even as southern and central parts of the city remained largely dry. Parts of Salt Lake, Dum Dum, VIP Road and Baguihati ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Cop bureau’: Former neta held in Noida, planned unit in Kol

    Kolkata: Bibhas Adhikari, a former Trinamool Nalhati block neta, under the scanner of CBI and ED for his role in the cash-for-job scam, had applied to Beleghata police on July 30 to run an "International Police & Crime Investigation ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Airport lane tweaks fail to solve rush-hour problems on first day

    12 Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police on Monday introduced a slew of measures to reduce congestion and improve vehicle movement outside the terminal building at the Kolkata airport. While it seemed effective in the morning and the afternoon, officers were sent ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops begin pandal recce early, check preparedness

    1234 Kolkata: With less than 40 days till Mahalaya, police in Bidhannagar and Kolkata have started early inspections of Durga Puja pandals across the city. The visits, which began this week, are aimed at assessing preparedness and ensuring compliance ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Before 50th b’day of ‘The Greatest Film Ever Made’, Kolkata recalls its favourite ‘Sholay’ moments that unite generations

    123456 Kolkata: It has been 50 years since Jai and Veeru took on Gabbar Singh in an epic battle that may have ended on-screen with the latter being vanquished, but it continues to enthral generations of cine-lovers. They remain ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC to redevelop Purba Puitiary mkt

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to pull down the existing structure of Purba Puitiary market near Payara Bagan in the Kudghat area and build a modern shopping complex there. The KMC market under ward 114 of ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC booth prez shot dead

    A Trinamool booth president in Bankura's Sonamukhi was gunned down by unidentified miscreants late on Monday. Police said Ayub Khan, in his 40s, was shot thrice from close range in the back while he was returning home. The body ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Bodies of 3 women found beside rail tracks in Purulia, police suspect murder

    Purulia: The bodies of three women were found beside the tracks on the Chandil-Muri section of South Eastern Railway's Ranchi division on Sunday night. Purulia GRP has lodged a murder case into the incident that occurred between Suisa and ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    20 sacked teaching staffers return to old positions

    12 Kolkata: Around 20 persons who quit their earlier jobs with Bengal govt to join as schoolteachers, only to be among the 25,752 school staffers who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court order, have rejoined their old posts, ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    On Khudiram death anniv, CM slams bid to ‘distort legacy’

    12 Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed her anger at a recent Hindi film's portrayal of freedom fighter Khudiram Bose as ‘Khudiram Singh'. Paying tribute to Khudiram on his death anniversary, the CM slammed the attempt by ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    State nod to two more supercritical power plants

    12 Kolkata: State cabinet on Monday approved the setting up of two supercritical power plants in Salboni, which would attract an investment of over Rs 10,000 crore. "There would be two new 800 MW plants at Salboni in Jhargram," ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Final decision on Presi ’26 entrance tests after puja

    12 Kolkata: The final decision on whether Presidency University (PU) entrance tests in 2026 will be conducted by West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board or the university itself is likely after the Durga Puja vacation, when a meeting will ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Drainage overhaul in Behala, Joka & EM Bypass areas

    12 Kolkata: The KMC will spend Rs 2,100 crore to build drainage infrastructure in large parts of the city over the next seven years. The primary focus will be on the non-sewer areas where residents face severe waterlogging and ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    ITC Hotels hopes to go beyond own target, have 220 hotels by ’30

    12 Kolkata: ITC Hotels chairman Sanjiv Puri said on Monday that the company aimed to have a portfolio of 220 operational hotels with over 20,000 keys by 2030. He was speaking to shareholders at the first AGM after the ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    On Khudiram death anniv, CM slams bid to ‘distort legacy’

    12 Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed her anger at a recent Hindi film's portrayal of freedom fighter Khudiram Bose as ‘Khudiram Singh'. Paying tribute to Khudiram on his death anniversary, the CM slammed the attempt by ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar: Cops summon senior docs over cycle rally

    Kolkata: Two senior doctors associated with ‘Abhaya Mancha' have received police summonses over a cycle rally organised recently. Doctors Punyabrata Gun and Tamanash Chowdhury have been directed to appear at Thakurpukur police station within two days, with a warning ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Sr rly board official checks new metro stretches ahead of likely launch by PM, chairman may visit city today

    Kolkata: Railway Board chairman Satish Kumar is scheduled to be in the city on Tuesday to review preparations for the upcoming Prime Ministerial event on Aug 22. A senior Railway Board official was in town on Monday to take ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Injury to parent: Probe still inconclusive, no cop visible so far in any footage, say police

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Monday claimed that its internal probe to ascertain if the RG Kar victim's mother was assaulted by cops during the Nabanna Abhijan last Saturday is still inconclusive.Highly placed sources in Lalbazar said that ...

    12 August 2025 Times of India
    Curzon line softened, song replaced: Story behind Ray’s Tagore docu

    12 Kolkata: A politically loaded sentence about Lord Curzon softened, a Tagore song swapped out for another, a newspaper leak triggering an official letter seeking an explanation, and a denied request for bereavement break—these were just a few of ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Eastward ho! Clamour for Sector 5, New Town bus routes reflects shift in Kolkata's centre of gravity

    KOLKATA: The city's business nerve centre has had a shift. With bus operators making a beeline to ply to Salt Lake Sector 5 and New Town, instead of the once-favourite Esplanade-BBD Bag central business district, it seems that the ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Peer-teaching bridges learning gaps in school

    12 Kolkata: Class XII students of Modern High School for Girls, stepped into a new role recently— that of teachers. Assigned to guide the curious minds of Class VIII, each senior was paired with two to three juniors, introducing ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Was in touch with RG Kar victim’s dad after mom got hurt: Kunal

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Sunday said he had been in touch with the parents of the RG Kar victim while they were marching to Nabanna on Saturday, after an X post by him triggered a wave ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    As migrants face persecution, city Durga Puja themes set to focus on Bengali pride

    12 Kolkata: Atrocities being faced by Bengalis in several states is set to be one of the major Durga Puja themes across the city this year. Pointing out that the persecution of Bengali-speaking Indians and attempts to brand them ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Budge Budge woman speaking in Bengali grilled by Mum cops

    12 Kolkata: A 39-year-old Budge Budge woman speaking with her elder son in Bengali while returning from work in Navi Mumbai was taken to a local police station for questioning on being suspected to be Bangladeshi. The Budge Budge ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Durand Cup: East Bengal hit IAF side for a six

    123 Kolkata: East Bengal FC turned on the style against a hapless Indian Air Force FT, blowing them away 6-1 at the Kishore Bharati Stadium on Sunday and storming into the Durand Cup quarterfinals with a perfect run. Six ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu abuses CP, party seniors silent

    123 Kolkata: A day after the Nabanna march, most Bengal BJP netas on Sunday stayed away from commenting on Suvendu Adhikari's use of expletives against Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma. Only a few, including Dilip Ghosh, urged Adhikari to ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Injury to RG Kar victim’s mom: Kol CP orders suo motu probe

    12 Kolkata: Following the alleged attack on parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, city police commissioner Manoj Verma on Sunday said that a suo motu investigation had been started. According to the CP, police are reviewing footage from ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    52-year-old high court lawyer dies after fall from fourth-floor window in S Kol

    1234 Kolkata: A 52-year-old Calcutta High Court lawyer, Kaustuv Chandra Das, died after falling from the window of his fourth-floor home in Block A of Saptaparni Complex at Ballygunge on Saturday evening.The complex is under renovation, and that is ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Covid-era teleconferences back as hosps struggle with viral load

    Kolkata: Several hospitals have gone back to the Covid-time practice of teleconferencing for patient consultations while others have revived their home-care services and reactivated fever clinics to handle the spike in patient load that has continued since early July. ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    No rain now, temp likely to rise: Met

    Kolkata: The city woke up to a warm and humid morning with the sun shining brightly after a long while on Sunday. With no rain-triggering system in Gangetic Bengal, the mercury rose, making Kolkatans sweat again. Since the monsoon ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    IISER suicide: Dean resigns for ‘impartial probe’

    KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata's dean of student affairs, Ayan Banerjee, resigned from his post on Sunday after students pointed out a ‘conflict of interest'.A source said the dean of administration is also ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops, locals reunite lost Salt Lake kid with kin

    Kolkata: A five-year-old boy, who was found wandering on the streets of Salt Lake, was rescued by locals and reunited with parents with the help of the local councillor and police on Sunday. He was reunited with his family ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal arranges to bring bodies of Del wall collapse victims

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Sunday arranged for the state's deceased victims of the Delhi wall collapse to be flown back home to their families.Seven lives were lost in the collapse in Delhi's Jaitpur on Saturday, and police arrested a ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC gives Vivekananda reply to BJP’s SP Mookerjee demand

    12 Kolkata: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday sought the renaming of Sealdah station as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Terminal. Trinamool, on the other hand, demanded that it be named after Swami Vivekananda, who arrived at the Sealdah station after ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bus catches fire near airport, 2 hurt in scramble to exit

    1234 Kolkata: Two passengers suffered minor injuries when a Garia-bound South Bengal State Transport Corporation bus from Barasat caught fire near the hotel crossing close to Kolkata airport on Sunday.Police said a short-circuit triggered the blaze while about 25–30 ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal pilgrim found dead near Gauri Kund

    Shimla: A pilgrim from North 24-Parganas has been found dead near Gauri Kund in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district. Police identified the deceased as Dukhi Ram Sarkar (38), a resident of south Dum Dum. He was last seen near the ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bridge gap between environment and business, innovator Sonam Wangchuk urges Bengal youth

    Kolkata: Embrace entrepreneurship as a tool to solve real-world problems rather than focusing solely on profit-making: This plea for commitment to sustainable impact came from innovator, educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk.The Ladakh-based change-maker was recently in the city ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Smaller cats give big cousins a run for their money in Bengal’s tiger turf

    1234 Kolkata: A recent study by the Wildlife Institute of India and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on lesser cats in tiger landscapes has found that of the nine lesser cat species in India, six are found in ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Vandalism and cop injuries to be police evidence in high court

    123456 Kolkata: Cops in Kolkata and Howrah have registered nine FIRs across three police stations against those who attended the ‘Nabanna Abhijan' on Saturday. They are accused of attacking cops, damaging public and private property, and indulging in violence ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Blame game over plight of victim’s parents

    12 Kolkata: A day after the RG Kar victim's father alleged "politics by Abhaya Mancha", the victim's colleagues blamed the state and BJP in the same voice for the injury to Abhaya's mother during the rally. The victim's father ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town

    Kolkata: Fish have join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) released guppy fish into different water bodies and linked drainage canals in New Town last week as part of its ongoing ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town

    12 Kolkata: Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) released guppy fish into different water bodies and linked drainage canals in New Town last week as part of its ongoing ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    1.5 L stolen from construction co staff

    12 Kolkata: A north Kolkata businessman has lodged a police complaint that Rs 1.5 lakh in cash was stolen from one of his employees, who was carrying it to a project site in Kamarhati. The complainant, Rana Roy (54), ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Why are they stopping us? RG Kar victim's mom sustains 'head injury' during Nabanna march; senior cops say they're studying CCTV footage

    KOLKATA: The RG Kar victim's parents, who participated in the Nabanna march organised on Saturday to mark the brutal campus crime's first anniversary, were taken to hospital after getting hurt in the standoff between cops and protesters.The incident occurred ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Coast Guard officer’s ID card stolen

    Kolkata: A case of theft of the identity card of an Indian Coast Guard officer was registered at the Parnashree Police Station by the deputy commandant and administrative officer of an Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS). The theft reportedly ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Abetment case filed for IISER boy’s death, institute forms probe panel

    12 Kolkata: A cousin of Anamitra Roy (26), the deceased PhD student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, lodged a complaint at the Haringhata police station on Saturday, alleging he had been ragged and that ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    After cafe blaze, Park Street restos hire 24x7 firefighters, plan more drills

    Kolkata: A day after fire broke out at a coffee shop on Park Street on Friday night, owners of some restaurants — worried and concerned — were spurred to take measures to reinforce fire prevention. These steps were also ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Tribunal orders developer to buy back CC-less flat after 2 decades

    12 Kolkata: The West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) directed a developer to buy back a flat he sold two decades ago. The buyer, Sibsankar Koley, lived in the flat for 19 years but could not manage to ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops return 5L to 2 victims of cybercrimes

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police recovered and returned Rs 5.1 lakh in total to victims of two cybercrime cases, in which three accused were arrested.In Lake Town, Rs 3,04,752 was returned to Nilanjan Banerjee, who lodged a complaint on Jan 4 ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    4 held for 2.1-cr cyber fraud cases

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police arrested two persons from south Kolkata for selling SIM cards to cyber criminals, while the Eco Park cops also arrested two men involved in renting accounts to cyber criminals in exchange for a fee. ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Plaints against packers and movers

    Kolkata: Two cases of frauds in the name of packers and movers were reported in the city. The Survey Park PS registered a case following a complaint by Danish Khan, who lived in south Kolkata. The complaint, lodged on ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Prep on for pre-SIR work, CEO writes to CS

    Kolkata: In a letter to Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, state chief election commissioner (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Saturday officially communicated that in compliance with EC's orders, "preparatory works are underway to complete all pre-revision activities and the progress ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Didi recalls Nazrul poem on Tagore’s passing

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee chose Rakhi Purnima on Saturday — a day after Tagore's death anniversary — to post a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam mourning Gurudev's passing in 1941.Political experts said the timing of the post was important, ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC panchayat pradhan’s son shot dead in Cooch Behar

    Jalpaiguri: The son of a Trinamool panchayat pradhan was shot dead in Cooch Behar on Saturday, reports Pinak Priya Bhattacharya.Sanjit Roy, alias Amar (35), had gone to a weekly market in Pundibari when bike-borne miscreants shot him from point-blank ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Max temp up by 3°C, Met predicts dry spell till Thurs

    Kolkata: The city remained dry and humid on Saturday even as the maximum temperature spiralled up over three degrees from Friday's 29.2 °C to touch 32.7°C. The mercury could rise further by a degree on Sunday, which too, was ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Two green anacondas find new home at Alipore zoo

    Kolkata: Two green anacondas — the largest, heaviest and second longest snake in the world — have finally arrived at Alipore Zoological Gardens from Chennai after travelling for over 35 hours. If all goes well, officials said, they are ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Info on vacant lands in Kolkata port to be available from Aug 15

    Kolkata: Rathendra Raman, chairman of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, said information regarding vacant port lands would be available on its website from Aug 15. Addressing the Merchants' Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) on Friday, Raman said, "The vacant ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Missed parents’ presence, say ‘Abhaya Mancha’ protesters united by rakhi bond

    Kolkata: Thousands banded together under the banner of ‘Abhaya Mancha' at Hazra crossing and several neighbourhoods across the city on Saturday, using the rakhi as an emblem to tie up the protests against the brutal rape-murder of the young ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Commuters walk to stations, bear brunt of Nabanna march

    12 Kolkata/Howrah: Daily commuters and those wishing to visit family members in Howrah for Rakhi faced severe trouble throughout Saturday. A large section of central and south Kolkata was virtually shut to citizens for the Nabanna Abhijan.Among the worst ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    On secure RG Kar campus, doctors and nurses rue what they lacked a year ago

    12 Kolkata: The deployment of CISF personnel and police force was conspicuously beefed up on the campus of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital when the clock struck 3 am on Saturday — around the time when a horrific ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    BMC to install high mast & LED lights for better illumination in Salt Lake

    12 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to install high mast lights in 12 prominent places across Salt Lake for better illumination. The authorities will also install new LED light fittings in Sukantanagar, situated off EM Bypass.The ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro railway introduces air cool chillers to save ground water in Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: Metro Railway plans to introduce a modern alternative cooling system on the Blue Line to preserve groundwater in Kolkata.Of the metro line's 15 underground stations, the cooling system of 11 will be changed from traditional water-cooled chillers ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Husband arrested for Beleghata woman’s death

    Kolkata: A day after the death of a 29-year-old woman in Beleghata amidst allegations that she had been harassed for not bearing a boy, Narkeldanga Police on Friday arrested Rohit Kumar Shaw, the husband of deceased Sweta Prasad Shaw, ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Tribunal orders developer to buy back flat after two decades due to lack of completion certificate

    Representative Image KOLKATA: In a landmark judgment, the West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) directed a developer to buy back a flat he sold two decades ago. The buyer lived in the flat for 19 years but was ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata railways offer 20% discount on round-trip festival tickets; scheme aims to ease station crowds

    KOLKATA: Railways has decided to offer a 20% discount on round-trip journeys in mail/express trains. The scheme, called "Round Trip Package for Festival Rush," aims to reduce congestion at railway stations and extend financial benefits to bona fide passengers."There ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    IPS officer, driver attacked near VMH

    Kolkata: Raju Das, driver of an IPS officer in Bengal Police, lodged a complaint at the Hastings PS that two men attacked them near Victoria Memorial Hall's North Gate on Tuesday night while they were on their way from ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Court allows voice sample test of law college accused

    Kolkata: The Alipore court on Friday allowed the voice sample test of the three main accused in the law college gang rape case. Sourin Ghosal, the public prosecutor in this case, informed the court that the voice samples of ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    In a first among IITs, Kgp campus gets dean of well-being to take care of students’ wellness

    Kolkata: Arun Chakraborty, professor of the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at IIT-Kharagpur, on Monday became the first dean of student well-being at the engineering college, stressing the initiatives launched for students' welfare. TOI had reported ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bengali films to get 50% prime time slots across state theatres’

    Kolkata: Fifty percent prime time shows at theatres in Bengal would be dedicated to Bengali films, announced the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) on social media on Friday. The post, FCTWEI mentioned, was in ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Shop shift, dynamic signalling for smooth Chingrighata traffic

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police commissioner, Manoj Verma, said several long-term, as well as short-term, measures have been taken to ensure smooth traffic around Chingrighata. Lalbazar sources said this includes dynamic signal timings based on traffic volume, daily monitoring ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    State-EC scrap over SIR of electoral roll intensifies

    12 Kolkata: The Bengal administration and Election Commission scaled up their confrontation over the special intensive revision (SIR) by several notches on Friday.The state asked the Bengal chief electoral officer why he did not consult and intimate the administration ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Three rallies to hit the streets today, cops keep options open

    12 Kolkata: Three marches — the Nabanna Abhijan on Saturday afternoon, followed by a march to the CM's Kalighat residence in the evening, and a third march on RG Kar campus — are keeping both Kolkata and Bengal Police ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Will back any party standing against SIR: Abhishek

    12 Kolkata: With protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Bihar bringing INDIA bloc parties closer together, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Friday that TMC will stand by any party that ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Kona E-way curbs on goods vehicles

    Kolkata: Howrah City Police and Kolkata Police have announced plans for restriction and diversion of goods vehicles in connection with ongoing construction work for the six-lane elevated corridor on Kona Expressway, which may lead to a spike in number ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro to add ops, extend hours for Green & Purple Lines from Monday

    Kolkata: From Monday, metro will increase services on both sections of the East-West Metro (Green Line I and II) and the Purple (Joka-Majerhat) corridor. Operation hours will also be extended.East-West Metro's Sector V-Sealdah section will add two services to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    State to move SC to find way out of OBC logjam in admission season

    Kolkata: The state will move the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Monday, seeking permission to implement its 2025 OBC list with 17% seat reservations in the "ongoing admissions and hirings". A Calcutta ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Man survives, wife, her mom die in ‘suicide pact’

    Kolkata: A woman, Mahua De (45), and her mother, Shipra Rakshit (70), died, while the woman's husband remains in critical condition, after an alleged family suicide pact at Devi Park in Narayanpur, Rajarhat on Friday. Mounting debts is reportedly ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    JU engineering alumni donate 30L equipment for revamp of lab, library

    Kolkata: A US-based alumnus from the 1987 batch of Jadavpur University's chemical engineering department, Deepak Ghosh, has donated instruments worth more than Rs 30 lakh to revamp the department's laboratories and library for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    VMH displays earliest photos of Himalayas for the 1st time in India

    12 Kolkata: The beauty of the Himalayas, captured in lens at the turn of the 20th century before rampant "development" scarred the foothills and triggered tragedies like the flash flood at Uttarkashi on Tuesday, is on display at the ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    40-yr-old dies after ‘dowry abuse’, husband arrested

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old woman from Entally died of her injuries after allegedly being subjected to mental and physical abuse by her husband and her in-laws. A case pertaining to dowry torture, cruelty by husband, and causing death by negligence ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Tariffs imposed by Trump may have short-term impact’

    Kolkata: Europe's leading diamond certification authority HRD Antwerp — which has opened a new office in Kolkata — opined on Friday that tariffs imposed on India by the President Donald Trump-led US govt might not continue for long. While ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Evening fire at Park St cafe sparks panic

    1234 Kolkata: Eight persons, three of them customers, had a lucky escape after a fire broke out in the kitchen of coffee chain Barista on Park Street on Friday evening. Panic spread among those at the cafe. As the ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC ups ‘Bengali persecution’ ante on Baishe Srabon

    12 Kolkata: TMC on Friday chose Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 84th death anniversary to fire a fresh salvo at Centre over its treatment of the Bengali language and its people.CM Mamata Banerjee, paying glowing tributes to the bard, prayed ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC mocks as ‘Bangla bhasha’ features thrice in Malviya post

    Kolkata: BJP went on apparent damage control on Friday, with party's Bengal minder Amit Malviya referring to Bengali as a "language" at least thrice in a 726-word eulogy written on Rabindranath Tagore's death anniversary. Malviya had earlier tried to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ED gets Guv assent to prosecute Bengal min

    12 Kolkata: Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday gave assent to the Enforcement Directorate to begin prosecution against Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha. "The ED gave certain documents in which they implicated his role as a minister in a case ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ED gets Guv assent to prosecute Bengal min

    12 Kolkata: Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday gave assent to the Enforcement Directorate to begin prosecution against Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha. "The ED gave certain documents in which they implicated his role as a minister in a case ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC fixes bad roads with patchwork

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has carried out patchwork repairs on several battered roads across the city, including Narkeldanga Main Road and Chingrighata Road, in the past two days. The civic body is also filling up craters ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Contaminated’ sample: For parents, probe raises more questions a yr later

    Kolkata: A year into the investigation, the probe into the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder raises more questions than it answers. While the lawyers of the victim's parents alleged gaps in the investigation, the CBI found Sanjay Roy to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    At ground zero of crime, RG Kar campus still bears scars of assault

    123456 Kolkata: A year after the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College, the campus continues to bear the scars of the heinous crime that shook the entire nation. Amidst some tangible ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Night vigil returns as protests start with victim’s parents at vanguard

    Kolkata: On Friday night, the city saw a re-run of the RG Kar protest, with junior doctors from various medical colleges taking out a torch procession from College Square to Shyambazar. Organised by the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Toyota doubles market share to 5.5% in 3 years

    KOLKATA: Toyota Kirloskar Motor has doubled its volumes in the passenger car market in the east from 14,724 units or 2.9% market share in 2022 to 29,233 units or 5.5% market share in 2025.Last year, TKM sold around 5,556 ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
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