Kolkata: An oil lamp lit on the occasion of Shivratri sparked a fire inside an empty fifth-floor apartment at Diamond City South in Tollygunge on Sunday morning, triggering panic across multiple floors of the high-rise before firefighters brought the ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Cancer Care Hub (CCH) at IPGMER & SSKM Hospital is set to take off at the new building by the end of March or the beginning of April, with radiation oncology services. Officials hope to get all ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The annual animal slaughter and fish import ban in Sikkim during key Buddhist holy observances in 2026–27 will now extend to 55 days, officials said on Sunday.This year, the primary phase of the ban will be observed from ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday extended greetings to Bengal on Maha Shivaratri, highlighting her govt's 15-year record of renovating and developing religious sites across communities to maintain religious harmony.Paying tribute to Lord Shiva in an X post, the ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: A 24-year-old Beldanga resident was handed over to his family after his sensational claims that two men had pushed him off a moving train near West Midnapore's Bakhrabad station were found to be inconsistent. The youth, his family ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP on Sunday called the state govt's Yuva Sathi scheme "dole in exchange for votes" even as the party's Bengal unit started preparations for PM Narendra Modi's March rally at Brigade Parade Grounds. The unit has been tasked ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaDurgapur: A second-year student was found dead in his hostel at a Durgapur medical college on Saturday night. The deceased, 22-year-old Lavanya Pratap from Patna, was found hanging from the ceiling by his neck in his hostel room at ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, who had earlier congratulated Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Tarique Rahman on his poll victory, sent sweets and flowers to him on Saturday. The package also contained a note for Rahman.The Dhaka Tribune reported that ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaEast Burdwan: A massive fire gutted an empty compartment of the Katwa-Azimganj passenger train at platform number two of Katwa railway station around 4.45am on Sunday.Railways formed a five-member inquiry committee headed by additional divisional railway manager (ADRM) Uday ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four men from Gujarat's Anand district were arrested for allegedly posing as bohurupis resembling Hindu gods and stealing wallets and mobile phones from unsuspecting pedestrians across the city, police said on Saturday.The accused — Anil Ramju Salat, Dhiru ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: EC officials are now scrutinising more than 42,000 Form 7 applications submitted across Bengal seeking the exclusion of names from electoral rolls, as the hearings for the same concluded. These 42,000-plus forms were submitted after the draft roll ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 53-year-old Rajarhat resident has alleged nearly Rs 2 lakh was fraudulently debited using his SBI credit card through two unauthorised transactions in favour of an online shopping retailer. A case has been registered at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city's air quality improved modestly between 2022 and 2025, with the city-wide average PM2.5 level falling from 50 µg/m³ to 45 µg/m³ and PM10 declining from 102 µg/m³ to 89 µg/m³, according to CAAQMS data analysed by ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, an East Midnapore man was acquitted by the Calcutta High Court on Feb 5, after the prosecution failed to establish that ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata's premium residential market (Rs 1.9 crore to Rs 5 crore), as cited in the 2025 NKlusive report, is moving into a higher-velocity phase—more projects, more units, faster absorption—while prices remain steady and rational, signalling a demand-led expansion ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mercury in Kolkata continued to hover slightly below the normal mark even as it was the second fortnight of Feb. The Met office predicts no change in the weather in the next three to four days, but ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has doubled its allocation in its budget proposal for repair and maintenance of the community block markets across Salt Lake. The authorities, in its budget proposal, has allocated Rs 2 crore for repair and ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two Bengal academics, Sipra Mukherjee and Mrinmoy Pramanick, won the A K Ramanujan Prize for translating the works of Dalit woman poet Kalyani Thakur Charal into English. They also became the first Bengalis to win the honour awarded ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BDM International Alumni Association, in collaboration with Rotary Club of Calcutta Endeavour, organised Walkathon 2026, to spread awareness on thalassaemia and cervical cancer recently. The walkathon had commenced from Ruby General Hospital at 7 am on Feb ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From engineering students to gig workers and job seekers and from poor to well-to-do households, youths from sharply different economic backgrounds stood shoulder to shoulder to claim the promised Rs 1,500 monthly unemployment allowance, registrations for which opened ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Hardik Pandya castled Usman Tariq, Kolkata burst into a wild celebration with crackers, Tricolours and victory processions to mark yet another victory against the arch-rivals in a T20 WC match that was nearly called off and had ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After completing the hearing for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, micro-observers are now scrutinising the electors' enumeration forms and documents uploaded by BLOs and AEROs, and marking their observations in cases that do ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Across the city on Sunday, Yuva Sathi camps doubled up as a test run for what Trinamool's much-vaunted poll machinery would deliver during elections. What began as enrolment drives for the state's Yuva Sathi scheme, party seniors said, ...
16 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An international multidisciplinary exhibition titled ‘Empowerment: Art and Feminisms in Kolkata' explores feminist artistic practices and their role in addressing contemporary global challenges through photographs, video installation, lithograph, neon, multimedia installation, animation, virtual reality, drawings, and performance art ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaContai: A political storm erupted in East Midnapore's Contai after an audio clip — allegedly featuring a woman panchayat pradhan recounting an ordeal of molestation — went viral. The scandal has forced Bikas Bez, the president of the Kanthi-III ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal's voter count is likely to shrink by at least 68 lakh, or about 9%, from what it was in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The final list after special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls is ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty on Saturday held a meeting with the DMs and other senior officials to implement the Swanirbhar Bangla scheme, which was announced by CM Mamata Banerjee last week. The Swanirbhar Bangla comprises schemes like ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaBinnaguri (Jalpaiguri): Tea garden owners want the state govt to let them use unused land for townships, IT parks, and logistics hubs to offset recurring losses.At the 54th AGM of the Tea Association of India's (TAI) north Bengal chapter ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Normalcy returned to the Globsyn Crystals building at Sector V on Saturday, a day after a restopub fire that had triggered panic and led to mass evacuation of hundreds who worked in offices located in the building. Offices ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 75-year-old man, Mohammad Mustafa from Bihar, found wandering in Bongaon in North 24 Parganas and rescued by police, was reunited with his family with the help of Bengal HAM radio enthusiasts on Saturday afternoon. The elderly man, ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The proprietor of an ornament shop, Shyamal Kumar Paul, lodged a complaint at Baguiati police station on Friday, stating that two men allegedly stole a gold bracelet from his shop while posing as customers.Paul, a resident of Bipin ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaNandanghat: A 38-year-old woman from Bengal's East Burdwan district, working as a waitress at a restaurant in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Friday night. Sonamoni Bairagya, from Nasratpur in Siddepara village under Nandanghat PS limits, ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the continuing pre-poll reshuffle of senior IPS officers, the Bengal govt on Saturday transferred 6 IPS officers in the rank of ADG, IG and SP.Rajeev Mishra, presently posted as ADG and IGP (modernisation and coordination), was named ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: Multiple voter ID cards were found in a drain at ward 5 of Gosai Bazar under Chandrakona Municipality in West Medinipur district on Saturday. The police have recovered about 20-22 voter IDs and started an investigation.While the BJP ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said Bengal had missed at least Rs 10,000 crore worth of central grants for not implementing the National Education Policy (NEP). He said that almost half of the zero-teacher schools in ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: A man was killed by an elephant in the Salpatra forest area of the Ramnara Beat in the Manikpara Range on Saturday morning. The incident happened when Sheikh Harun (57) was cycling on a forest road at around ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A male passenger, Abdur Rahim, was arrested at the Kolkata airport after a co-passenger alleged that he molested her during a flight from Hanoi, Vietnam.In the complaint, the woman, who was travelling in seat 26A, complained that the ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police revised the jurisdictional boundaries of three police stations for the second time in three months, expanding the areas under Ekbalpore and Watgunge police stations and reducing that of Alipore PS. CP Supratim Sarkar approved the move.A ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Bidhannagar Police detective department team busted an illegal SIM box operation, which routed international calls into Indian networks by masking them as domestic traffic, in an upscale housing complex in Hatiara. Cops arrested one person, Abir Sk ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BLO, arrested on Friday for abducting a Baduria resident, on Saturday confessed to murdering him. Nasir Ali's dismembered body parts, stuffed in three plastic bags, were recovered from three water bodies.Police said an alleged extramarital relationship between ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An interior designer, Sudipto Ghosh, on Saturday lodged a complaint at the Baranagar PS, claiming he was dragged out of his Baranagar home and taken to a club, where he was thrashed by an INTTUC member and his ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The budget proposal for the 2026-27 financial year which the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) placed on Friday has special focus on augmentation of drinking water supply and modernisation of the drainage and sewerage system with the assistance of ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaNandigram: A unified front of opposition members and rebel BJP representatives moved a no-confidence motion against the pradhan of the BJP-led Nandigram gram panchayat on Saturday. Citing allegations of financial irregularities, they submitted a formal petition to the block ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will take up a comprehensive drainage upgrade project for the worst waterlogging pockets of north and central Kolkata to give residents relief from inundation every monsoon.According to a KMC official, a Rs 200-plus crore ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR was registered at Parnasree PS following a court-directed complaint, claiming a forced digital loan disbursal of over Rs 21 lakh, using forged e-signatures, and threats from loan recovery agents. The victim was forced to pay Rs ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday invoked Rabindranath Tagore's ‘Ananta Prem' (Unending Love) to pen a love-for-the-people Happy Valentine's Day message on X, her first since her debut on the social platform in May 2014.Banerjee's "May love live long" ...
15 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal has gone bird-spotting from Friday as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) that is being held across the globe between Feb 13 and 16. From hills to grasslands and swamp, teams will fan out in ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Bengal Police STF team conducted raids at Jalangi, Domkal and Shamsherganj in Murshidabad district on Wednesday night, arresting two men for allegedly running an illegal weapons racket.The arrested were Md Samsad Ali (alias Kalu) of Jalangi, and ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaA river is not merely a lifeline for a civilisation — it is also a cradle of culture. In India, rivers have shaped not only settlements and economies but also inspired generations of artists, giving birth to diverse art ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Trinamool sharpening its ‘Vande Mataram' pitch, alleging that "those whose political ancestors submitted mercy petitions to colonial rulers now seek to adjudicate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's patriotism", BJP on Friday argued that the national song had a much ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal's Swasthya Sathi covers 74.5% residents — among the highest in India for publicly-funded health insurance, according to a research report released in Kolkata on Friday.The report also flags that a Swasthya Sathi beneficiary incurs four times higher ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee congratulated BNP chief Tarique Rehman on Friday after the party's victory in the Bangladesh election. "Wish that our relations with Bangladesh be always cordial," Banerjee posted on X. The CM's post followed that of PM ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty met Election Commission officials in Delhi on Friday to discuss preparations for the assembly elections likely to be held in April. She was asked to ensure immediate transfer of officers who have been ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jewellery retailer Senco Gold reported close to an eight-fold jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 264 crore for the third quarter this fiscal, backed by around a 50% YoY increase in its revenue. The company posted ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaMoyna (East Midnapore): A key BJP neta in Moyna, Chandan Mondal, defected to Trinamool on Friday and immediately took aim at MLA Ashok Dinda, calling him an outsider. Mondal's wife is a panchayat pradhan.With Mondal criticising the MLA saying, ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Building on the lore of the princess of Cooch Behar, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) is set to introduce special rides on full-moon nights, ‘Maharani's Great Escapade'. The first ride will be flagged off on the first full ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CPM general secretary M A Baby on Friday said that the party has a "critically friendly" relationship with Congress and alleged that the latter is refusing to recognise the cooperation.Addressing a media briefing, Baby said, "In some places, ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City-based Wormwood Hotels announced an investment of Rs 100 crore aimed at expanding its footprint across Bengal and beyond. The company claimed that the expansion was set to boost the local economy and generate 500 direct and 800 ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaPurulia: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday met the grieving kin of 30-year-old migrant worker Sukhen Mahato, who was found brutally murdered in Pune on Feb 10.Banerjee said Maharashtra Police should ensure the culprits are punished or ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Months before the assembly polls, mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday placed a Rs 111 crore deficit budget, in which KMC stressed the development of the city's infrastructure, prioritising road improvement and cleanliness, water supply and drainage. For the ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday placed its budget proposal for 2026-27, increasing allocation for various civic amenities, with a focus on roads, drainage and sewerage system, street lights, solid waste management and filtered water supply.BMC was ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To fight air pollution in winter, KMC on Friday announced the allocation of around Rs 100 crore to the solid waste management department to buy self-propelled road-sweeping machines, battery-operated mechanical sweepers, litter-sucking machines and water sprinklers in its ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As live action returns to Vivekananda Yuvabharati Krirangan in Salt Lake on Saturday with the opening ceremony of the Indian Super League and the inaugural clash between defending champions Mohun Bagan Super Giant and Kerala Blasters FC, the ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An outbreak of viral gastroenteritis triggered by rotavirus and norovirus has laid hundreds low across Kolkata over the last one week, with symptoms mimicking severe diarrhoea or food poisoning. For most, it is starting with loose motions, followed ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 28-year-old female influencer and her male friend were allegedly subjected to road rage, verbal abuse, and threats by four bikers for more than 40 minutes on Vidyasagar Setu after a minor collision, prompting the woman to seek ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old woman from Shibpur, a doctor, alleged that an app-bike rider abused and intimidated her, and later sent vulgar messages after she refused to pay Rs 20 more than the fare shown on the app. The complainant ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 10,500 employees and visitors from more than 100 offices and 40 restaurants operating in a commercial complex in Sector V were evacuated on Friday evening after a fire broke out at a gothic-themed pub, triggering panic and ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: Ahead of the Pahalgam incident anniversary, the Army has named a red rose variety as ‘Operation Sindoor' during the Valentine's week as a symbol of bravery and indomitable spirit.The hybrid variety of the flower was cultivated at Pushpanjali ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The high demand for roses in the run-up to Valentine's Day has doubled the prices of the flower. While the price of Bangalore roses shot up from Rs 40 to Rs 80-100 per piece, the price of local ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Although BNP has secured a decisive victory over the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh's elections, the latter has won multiple seats in constituencies along the Indian border — mirroring BJP's gains in border districts during the 2021 Bengal assembly ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A youth in Bagdah died after drinking poison with his girlfriend, a minor, on Friday. The girl is in hospital. The girl's family had opposed the match. "They met in a field ahead of Valentine's Day, the boy ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The body of a Sri Lankan crew member of a Singapore-bound container vessel was pulled out of the Hooghly on Friday evening after he reportedly jumped into the water near Netaji Subhas Dock. Cops said the victim was ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The eve of the last hearing day for the SIR of electoral rolls saw crowds of anxious electors queueing up at hearing centres to protect their voting rights. Even as the SIR hearing concluded in most of the ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hope and relief swept through central Kolkata's "mini Bangladesh" on Friday as news came in that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured a two-thirds majority in the Feb 12 general elections.In the narrow lanes of Marquis Street, Free ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 48-year-old BLO has been arrested on Friday for allegedly abducting a voter at Baduria in North 24 Parganas. Another person, identified as Sagar Gayen, has also been taken into custody in connection with the incident.The arrested BLO ...
14 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Police have registered an FIR following complaints against two people who cruelly injured a puppy, stuffed it into a sack, and moved it from the Senpara area of Jalpaiguri. The complaint was filed by local activist Krishnayan Dasgupta, ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: IIT Kharagpur is set to introduce a four-year BTech programme in biomedical engineering in the upcoming academic season to create “a new class of professionals fluent in engineering rigour, clinical insight and translational impact”.Students will be screened through ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Visva-Bharati is setting up a cowshed at Sriniketan, a neighbourhood adjacent to Santiniketan that houses several departments of the university, to shelter stray cows roaming the streets of the township.“The plan to have a shed for cows has ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The decomposed body of a 65-year-old man living alone in Salt Lake was recovered from his residence on Thursday morning after neighbours alerted police about his absence since Tuesday and a foul smell emanating from the house.Police identified ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal education minister Bratya Basu on Thursday said the Centre's ‘Vande Mataram' circular was not aimed at glorifying it or its creator Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, but was more aimed at demeaning and belittling Rabindranath Tagore."We (Trinamool) were very ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Purulia: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the death of a 24-year-old migrant worker from Purulia in Pune was a hate crime, with the victim "hunted, tortured and murdered for his language, identity and roots". The Bengal govt ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shriram Properties Limited (SPL), a leading mid-market and mid-premium residential developer, through its subsidiary Bengal Shriram Hitech City, amicably resolved its long-pending commercial dispute with the state govt by returning 42 acres of land in Uttarpara.Shriram bought the ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the 2003 murder of two traders by Amjad, popularly known as the ‘butcher of Ghaziabad', and his accomplice outside a central Kolkata hotel, the Calcutta HC held that the "final" decision on his premature release lies with ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Thursday afternoon, the television sets inside guesthouses and hotels along Marquis Street were tuned not to Bengali soaps or cricket matches, but to live election coverage from Bangladesh.Tourists stood outside tea shops and stores, scrolling through news ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A green activist has filed an application before the Eastern Bench of NGT, alleging illegal filling, conversion, and commercial exploitation of wetlands in Karimpur Mouza in South 24 Parganas. The wetlands, part of the sprawling EKW, is a ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Air India will pay an additional Rs 10 lakh to families of victims whose final compensation works out to Rs 25 lakh or less. But the payout will happen only after the families sign a final settlement document, ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Energy Transition Hub for the Eastern and Northeastern States (Ethens), a joint initiative of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), was launched in Kolkata on Thursday to support coal-dependent regions as ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city saw a 239% year-on-year growth in global capability centre (GCC) gross leasing volume (GLV) to 0.5 million sqft (5 lakh sqft) in 2025 up from 0.1 million MSF (1.5 lakh sqft) in 2024, according to Cushman ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir on Thursday took out a curtailed ‘Babri Yatra' from Palashi to Rejinagar. Kabir, who founded the Janata Unnayan Party after his suspension from Trinamool, has already started the construction of a ‘Babri Masjid' in ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKanksa: A 24-year-old nurse was found dead on the ground floor of a multi-storeyed residential building in the Gopalpur area of Kanksa, West Burdwan district, on Wednesday night.Preliminary findings suggest the victim, Mandira Pal, fell from the eighth floor ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar: In a significant turn in the controversy surrounding Amir Chand Sheikh's donation of his mother's eyes following her death, a local court in Nadia granted bail to Sheikh and four others of his family on Thursday.The judicial magistrate ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a swift, life-saving intervention, doctors from the department of pulmonary medicine at NRS Hospital removed a large seed — about 2 cm in size — lodged in the airway of a 13-year-old girl, restoring her breathing.The teenager ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Thursday, the maximum temperature dipped slightly, while the minimum temperature climbed in Kolkata. Met officials said that, apart from minor fluctuations, the mercury will continue to hover around the normal mark for at least the next one ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Riding on a 10% rise in tourist inflow from Bengal last year, the tourism board of Kerala is intensifying its outreach in Kolkata and Bengal, positioning the state as a destination for mindful, experience-led travel under a new ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Awami League leaders in exile in Kolkata, who spent sleepless nights over the past couple of days, heaved a sigh of relief after the election trends started coming in by Thursday evening. While they claimed that "real voter ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A group of outsiders broke into a computer training centre in Chitpore and stole items from the institute, prompting police to register a case and launch a probe. The owner, a resident of Northern Avenue, also alleged that ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The fourth-semester Higher Secondary (HS) examinations began on Monday amid protests from students and parents over what they described as inadequate preparation time and fewer classroom sessions under the new semester system.The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar traffic police has started conducting trial-run on the newly-constructed Bailey bridge connecting Salt Lake with VIP Road near Dakshindari before its formal opening. The trial-run will continue for a couple of days. On Thursday, traffic cops ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The court cannot quash criminal cases on "whims and caprice", it can only be done in "rarest of rare cases", the Calcutta High Court held on Wednesday while refusing to quash a criminal case against a man accused ...
13 February 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Less than a year after the inauguration of Jagannath Dham in Digha, which led to an unprecedented economic surge, the state govt is now on fast-track plans for further commercial expansion—more hotels and commercial establishments—at the seaside town.According ...
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