Kolkata: State home secretary Nandini Chakravorty on Monday convened a meeting with senior officials of Kolkata Police, state, and RVNL to sort out the Chingrighata impasse in the New Garia-Airport corridor. But dates for granting traffic blocks for girder-launching ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The body of a hawker-turned-moneylender was found in an attic on the terrace of the alleged murderer's house on Monday morning in Sukchar, Sodepur. Cops suspect the accused, Chirag Guha alias Sayan, a man in his early 30s, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Terror accused Biplab Biswas alias Abdullah, arrested by STF in Thanapara area on Feb 20, provided shelter to Bangladeshi militants and was trying to create fake documents for them, said a police officer on Monday. Sources said ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaSiliguri: A person died and 12 others were injured when the pick-up van they were travelling in collided with a truck at Naxalbari on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Niranjan Sarkar (35), a resident of Assam's Mayang. ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Electric vehicle manufacturer Kinetic Green will launch a premium commuter scooter, FLX, this calendar year to take on other premium two-wheeler brands like Bajaj Chetak, TVS iQube, Ola S1, Ather 450S, Hero Vida V1 and Ampere Nexus.The ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Interio, the furniture brand of Godrej Enterprises group, is set to focus more on healthcare, educational and institutional furniture segments to expand its business in Kolkata. In the past 10 months, the company earned Rs 100 crore ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A special PMLA court is likely to start framing of charges relating to the alleged assault on ED officials outside the residence of Trinamool's Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan on Jan 5, 2024.On Monday, the agency sought the ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court judge Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Monday flagged incidents of custody deaths in north Bengal and expressed the need to have a list of "efficient" officers who could be entrusted with such probes.The issue cropped up ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Chandernagore: Her family's sole breadwinner ever since her father — a singer — passed away eight months ago, Sutandra Chatterjee (27), looked after her mother, Tanushree, and two ailing grandmoms, at their three-storey home in Chandernagore Narua Raypara. ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers who is suspected to have executed the murder of his wife, daughter and sister-in-law, was shifted from a private hospital to a govt facility on Monday morning. The elder ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A section of students from the Jadavpur University engineering faculty gheraoed interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta on Monday, demanding to be declared successful for the paper they had failed so that they could avail of government scholarships.These students, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Turkish tourism officials are confident that the growth in tourist traffic from Kolkata and eastern India to Turkiye will make it a strong contender for a direct flight between the city and Istanbul.Speaking to TOI, the Turkish ...
25 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An avid morning walker (78), lost her life after a school bus hit her barely a few metres from the Wellington crossing around 7.10 am on Monday. The police said the victim, identified as Shanti Devi Singh, ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The traffic cops have revised the maximum permissible speed limit on various city roads, including AJC Bose Road, Rashbehari Avenue and Judges Court Road, to reduce accidents. However, the traffic speed on EM Bypass and Diamond Harbour ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Demand for tickets for India's last group match against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy on March 2 has soared, and many are planning a Dubai trip between March 1 and 9 to catch the Men in Blue ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged policemen not to cause inconvenience to people in the pretext of regulating VIP movements. "I do not like this, and I am fed up with telling the policemen. In order to ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC), one of world's oldest and most prestigious institutions, received the heritage plaque by the Kolkata chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Culture (Intach) for its significant contribution to ...
25 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 44-year-old woman from Netaji Colony in Baranagar was run over by a private bus near the Exide crossing that took a sharp right turn, allegedly racing with another bus, while the victim coming in between the ...
25 February 2025 Times of IndiaNupurchhanda Ghosh KOLKATA: In a remarkable celebration of Bengali musical heritage, Nupurchhanda Ghosh, a distinguished writer-singer and music researcher, has brought back to life some of the forgotten patriotic anthems of the Indian independence struggle. Through her performance titled ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: As the city marks the 152nd anniversary of its iconic tramways, experts are urging the govt to restore the full tram network, highlighting its role in reducing emissions and complementing the expanding metro system. The unique combination ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A stockbroker, posing as a senior nationalised bank official, duped his domestic help of Rs 8 lakh. The accused, Saurabh Kumar, had taken the money promising a job for the help's physically disabled husband. Kumar was arrested ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The life of a four-year-old boy suffering from ‘early-onset hydrocephalus' was saved at a city private hospital after he developed a serious brain infection that was rare and potentially fatal. Hydrocephalus is a condition in which excess ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Commuters may have to brace for another East-West Metro pause for at least four days mid-March for speed tests, with two trains simultaneously zipping up and down at 80 kmph to expedite the Esplanade-Sealdah section's revenue operations.During the ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: RPF on Sunday detained a resident of Uttar Pradesh in Howrah station for carrying Rs 2.6 crore worth of unaccounted for foreign currencies. Hemant Kumar Pandey (50), who was later handed over to the Customs for detailed questioning, ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee has convened a mega Trinamool Congress meet in Kolkata on Feb 27, from where she is likely to outline the party's roadmap for the 2026 assembly polls in Bengal. Ahead of the meeting, she ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: There is no prevailing system that can bring rain to the city for at least a week starting Monday, according to the Met department. However, Kolkatans may wake up to partly cloudy skies with shallow to moderate fog ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) issued a notice on Sunday stating that examiners and head examiners will receive compensatory leave for their personal presence on Sundays (March 2, March 9, and March 16) during the ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed more than double the budgetary allocations for the environment compared to last year, increasing from Rs 7 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. They have also proposed increased allocations for better ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Grappling with its eroding mass base in Bengal, CPM has asked party workers to pursue the "mass line" and intensify connect with people ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. On the second day of CPM's 27th state ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Cops have started a search for a home for Pratip Dey (14), the youngest in the Dey family, who may be released from hospital on Monday, along with his uncle. Police said they were in talks with ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers, is likely to be discharged on Monday, and like his elder brother Pranay, he will be taken to NRS Medical College Hospital. Both brothers will be taken in custody ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The three surviving members of the Dey family, including the 14-year-old, do not show a will to live. During psychoanalysis, as part of treatment at Ruby General Hospital, doctors found that all want to die, remain clinically ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The city witnessed a cricket carnival on Sunday as fans came together to witness the India-Pakistan clash in the Champions Trophy. From performing yajnas to setting up small tents in neighbourhoods, the passion for the game was ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deaths of multiple jackals in road accidents in New Town over the past few weeks have raised serious concerns among environmentalists and wildlife activists. These incidents that were reported near Eco Park, Action Areas II and III, ...
24 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Not too many in Kolkata know that the young boy, Shrishti Nath Kapoor, who resided in Bhowanipore and pursued his education at Mitra Institution, went on to become the illustrious Raj Kapoor of Indian cinema. His classroom ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Being duped online, whether by threat or deceit, is unfortunate. However, the situation becomes more challenging if cyber criminals convert your money into cryptocurrency. Not only do you then lose your money but you also have to pay ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Fans erupted in joy as Mohun Bagan SG on Sunday became the first team to defend the shield in the history of the Indian Super League (ISL) after beating Odisha FC 1-nil. Thousands of die-hard Mohun Bagan ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 60-year-old woman was left shaken and traumatised after three bike-borne miscreants snatched her gold chain near her residence at Dhakuria in south Kolkata on Saturday evening. The incident left the woman so disturbed that she wished ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: It will be a miracle for East Bengal FC to make the playoffs of Indian Super League 2024-25. However, Oscar Bruzon's side is showing signs of improvement in the business end of the league with one eye ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: City cops shifted Pranay, the elder of the two Dey brothers from Tangra, to NRS Hospital on Saturday evening after his discharge from Ruby General Hospital where he, younger brother Prasun and son Pratip were admitted after surviving ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The construction of the Kalighat skywalk has come as a ‘blessing' for pilgrims, including locals, motorists, and pedestrians using the Kalighat Temple Road. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has cleared the road of hawkers' encroachment as part ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Roadside garbage dumps, often spilling over with waste—these are not only an assault on visual and olfactory senses but also the source of infections—will soon become a thing of the past in Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur. The ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Mohun Bagan SG are laying down a marker in this Indian Super League season. Their ability to play with intensity and consistency match after match and week after week is something of an envy for the rival ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, 2024, are yet to receive her death certificate.Though Panihati Municipality issued a cremation certificate, the parents ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian archers topped the medals table bagging eight medals in the Asia Cup stage-I that concluded in Bangkok on Saturday. The young archers returned with five gold, two silver and one bronze medal.Vishnu Choudhary claimed the gold ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: At least three persons, including a woman, were killed and 38 people travelling by a private bus were injured when the vehicle crashed into roadside shops on Basanti Highway at Minakhan in North 24 Parganas on Saturday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CPM senior and politburo coordinator Prakash Karat on Saturday asked the party's Bengal unit to focus on increasing the number of youth members. He was speaking at CPM's four-day state conference that began in Hooghly on Saturday.While ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Prayagraj: After the absence of Bangladesh's participation at the International Kolkata Book Fair this year and various other events in Bengal, the country's interim govt led by Mohammad Yunus has sent a troupe of dancers to perform at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bengaluru consumer court's recent direction to PVR INOX to ensure cinema tickets explicitly indicated the actual film commencement time has raised concerns among Kolkata's exhibitors and cinema-goers. While exhibitors said advertising intervals were indispensable for commercial ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 22-year-old man from Ballygunge was arrested by Kasba police for allegedly marrying a 15-year-old minor girl, raping her, and then abetting her suicide. The accused, Bijoy Mondal, a resident of Naresh Mitra Sarani, was arrested on Friday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The city buzzed in anticipation of a thrilling Sunday encounter between the ‘greatest rivals' as India and Pakistan were set to clash in a do-or-die battle in the Champions Trophy in Dubai. Fans in Kolkata set aside ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Police arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly impersonating an Indian Army captain and running an unauthorized training centre for aspiring military recruits in central Kolkata on Wednesday. A casewas initiated at the Park Street police station. Cops ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, in a post on X on Saturday, said while social media had become very important, it was essential to have one's feet on the ground. "Unless one is a good worker, one cannot ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Yet another round of raids was conducted by the Bengal Special Task Force (STF) at a Dalhousie gun shop this weekend, marking the second consecutive day of investigations into alleged ammunition stock manipulation. The sleuths were at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Dey family was banking on selling their land in Bolpur — where they once ran a silk business but shut it down — to tide over their financial troubles and raise some immediate cash to help ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An early warning system is being put in place to reduce human-elephant conflict in Bankura, which witnessed a resurgence in deaths caused by elephants in recent years. If the two-year project is successful, similar artificial intelligence-enabled elephant ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The KMC environment department is set to launch a major clean-up of Bikramgarh Jheel from March. A work order for the mammoth task has already been passed. According to a KMC source, an on-the-spot survey of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In yet another robbery in Dum Dum, a gang of burglars raided at least three houses in the Dum Dum Cantonment area early on Saturday.Around 2.30 am Saturday, the burglars sprayed some chemicals from the window of a ...
23 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Even as Ruby General Hospital was ready to discharge Pranay Dey and his son Pratip on Saturday, the release formalities were briefly halted to prepare and secure the bill, which remained unpaid. The amount ran up to ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 150-year-old rare Bible — its pages adorned with gold — that has been lying in neglect in a Baranagar library may soon get a new lease of life with the local MLA drawing the attention of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Two of the three members of the Tangra family are likely to be discharged from the hospital on Saturday. Wile Pranay Dey and his son Pratip are fit to be discharged, Prasun will continue to be under ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A day after the directorate of Drug Control busted a medicine racket in Howrah, medicine wholesalers and retailers across the state have sounded the alarm as a bulk of the medicines seized during the raid were copies ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The inspection and repair work at the Eden Hindu Hostel started on Friday after a concrete chunk fell from the ceiling. The chunk crashed on the bed of a first-year PG boarder, Oishnic Dutta. He had a ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education will charge Rs 1,000 as a fine per candidate to the respective school failing to submit marks for the practical and project works on time.The council reopened the portal on Thursday ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaPrayagraj: With an overwhelming number of pilgrims visiting the ongoing Maha Kumbh, the UP govt expects it to generate more than Rs 3 lakh crore in trade. The initial expectation of having 40 crore devotees has increased to 60 ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A statement by Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar that Congress should have introspected more before quitting the Mamata Banerjee-led govt in 2012 prompted the party senior to clarify on Friday that his statement was "taken out of context" ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Omacme, a brand of Acme Moulders and Furniture Pvt Ltd, is set to invest Rs 100 crore in Bengal over the next five years. The company is coming up with two new manufacturing units and experience centres for ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city cops on Friday indicated that they would arrest Tangra's Dey brothers — Pranay and Prasun, who survived a car crash early Wednesday — the moment they are released from hospital. They are likely to be charged ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an attempt to scare his wife during a heated argument that he would die by suicide, a 48-year-old physically challenged man lost his life after being hit by a local train in Habra on Friday afternoon.Trinath Saha ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 45-year-old Trinamool functionary, Abdul Kader Mollah, was attacked with sharp weapons by a group of masked men at his Basirhat house in North 24-Parganas on Friday evening. His family members were also injured in the incident. It ...
22 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, said, "Language Day belongs to everyone; language cannot be anyone's property." But, she chose to stay away from referring to the ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh.At the ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaSuri: A tribal woman and her two children were found with their throats slit in Managerpara locality of Birbhum's Mohammadbazar police station on Friday.Lakshmi Maddi (25) lived with her two children, Rupali (10) and Abhijit (8), while her husband, ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaMalda: English Bazar Municipality chairperson and former minister Krishnendu Choudhury got text messages and then a call, threatening him to pay Rs 5 crore or face dire consequences, prompting him to report the matter to the police on Friday.The ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An unease prevailed over two homes in Behala's Silpara and north Kolkata's Paikpara as its residents struggled to come to terms with what happened in Tangra on Tuesday. While Romi Dey's family lives in Silpara, Sudesna Dey's maternal ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Over 300 Calcutta University first-year students missed their first semester examinations since they could not register in time. Many of them had changed colleges by taking advantage of the admission portal being reopened multiple times this year, ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Dey family's tragic decision appears to have been driven by overwhelming debts, intensified by the decline in leather goods business. Financial documents from the Dey residence and factory reveal that the brothers had accumulated loans of ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following repeated conflicts over illegal parking between motorists and traffic sergeants near Park Street-AJC Bose Road, the DC Traffic office has requested for written communication from the complainants, most of them being parents of schoolkids. The disputes involved ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A section of Jadavpur University hostel boarders demanded the hostel gates remain open all night, leading to chaos at the JU administrative building that continued throughout Friday. However, interim VC Bhaskar Gupta made it clear the university would ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Unseasonal rain dealt a significant blow to one of the state's most crucial cash crops — potatoes. As the potato harvest season begins, 80% of the crop remains unharvested in the fields. The unexpected late-Feb rain, combined ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: After a dry Friday, the city is expected to get thundershowers over the weekend. The Alipore weather office has forecast rain in the city between Saturday and Sunday, along with many other coastal districts. The Met office ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The fluctuating weather has caused an unseasonal mosquito infestation at the Kolkata airport, causing severe discomfort to passengers and staff. The alternating warm and humid conditions create ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.Passengers have taken to social media ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: More than 100 cricket fans from the city will be flying to Dubai over the next two days to catch the ‘greatest rivalry' on the cricket pitch — India crossing swords with Pakistan — on Sunday. While ...
22 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A young professor driving back from the gym at New Town Business Club to her home in CE Block experienced quite a fright and stopped the car abruptly after she spotted a venomous snake coiled around the ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five glorious days for the cinephiles in the city ended on Wednesday as curtains were brought on the ‘King of the Road – the India Tour' Kolkata leg, presented by Film Heritage Foundation, Wim Wenders Stiftung and Goethe-Institut ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A chilling tragedy unfolded in Kolkata when a high-speed car crash on EM Bypass led police to a horrific discovery—a home in Tangra where three women were found dead under mysterious circumstances. What initially seemed like a freak ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaInvestigators are looking into the deaths of two women and a child at the Dey residence in Kolkata. The women were found with lacerations and the child died from poisoning. KOLKATA: At least two of the three people ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaSourav Ganguly KOLKATA: Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly had a close call on Thursday when his car was involved in an accident while traveling to Burdwan for an event.The incident occurred in a rural area of Hooghly, where ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even an India-Bangladesh match in the Champions Trophy in Dubai on Thursday could not get a cheer out of Kolkata's Mini Bangladesh. Marquis Street, Free School Street, Colin Street, and Sudder Street, which once teemed with Bangladeshi tourists, ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday presented a Rs 5,639-crore civic budget that focused primarily on the city's infrastructure development, including supply of filtered drinking water for residents who still depend on groundwater, improved drainage to reduce waterlogging, paving ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday placed its budget proposal for the 2025-26 financial year, showing increased fund allocation for road maintenance, street lights, solid waste management and augmentation of filtered water supply.The authorities proposed a ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: EM Bypass, one of the most-used roads in the city, received a separate allocation in this year's KMC Budget, which was tabled on Thursday. KMC has entrusted IIT-Kharagpur with the responsibility of conducting a safety audit of Bypass. ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Power outages were witnessed at many Madhyamik examination centres of south Bengal, including South 24-Parganas, North 24-Parganas and Kolkata amid rain and thunderstorms on Thursday. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education allotted extra time to the examinees.The ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The state assembly saw a privilege motion being tabled against BJP MLA Hiran Chatterjee by finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday for accusing her of making false statements. Speaker Biman Banerjee accepted the privilege motion.The issue pertained ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, during her reply to budget discussions on Thursday, took a dig at BJP MLAs for remaining absent and said "all the people of Bengal are watching it". Describing the state budget as ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Bharti Airtel has emerged as one of the best-performing networks in Kolkata, edging past others in voice call performance, according to a study by TRAI. However, in data, Jio had an edge over its competitors, revealed TRAI's ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: An intense spell of rain that lasted for an hour inundated several parts of the city. Sources in the Kolkata Muncipal Corporation(KMC) sewerage and drainage department conceded the department had no inkling of the intensity of the ...
21 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Heavy rain and gusty winds on Thursday played spoilsport for weddings scheduled for the day in Kolkata and its adjoining areas. With rain sweeping away the elaborately done open-air venues of the ceremonies, the day turned out ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Foreign adviser to the interim Bangladesh govt, Md Touhid Hossain, on Thursday told TOI that he had taken up the issue of visas with external affairs minister S Jaishankar in Muscat on Feb 16. Hossain added that he ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered a CID investigation into the theft of around 1.6 lakh primary textbooks from the school inspector's godown at North Dinajpur's Islampur. The theft was reported in Dec 2022.A division bench of ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A BJP MLA's demand for a separate North Bengal state in the assembly on Thursday sparked a war of words between TMC and the saffron party.Dabgram-Fulbari MLA Shikha Chatterjee said in the assembly, "People are saying that if ...
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