Kolkata: As many in the city are planning trips once the school exams end on the first week of March and on the occasion of Dol and Holi, cops started a drive to warn people of the scams that ...
17 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Two lawyers riding towards Bidhannagar ACJM court from Barasat court, chased down a snatcher and molester, at 11.15 am on Friday near Kaikhali on VIP Road. Cops from Baguiati PS arrested the accused, Korak Chowdhury, a resident ...
17 February 2025 Times of India12 Talit (Burdwan): RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said India had always embraced and respected divergent views and pluralism. Calling for ‘sanhati' (unity) of all Hindus, Bhagwat said that Hindus had always understood that the society's pluralist character ...
17 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata/New Delhi: Calling the New Delhi railway station tragedy "deeply heartbreaking", CM Mamata Banerjee said Maha Kumbh pilgrims should be given care and not distress. Trinamool also accused Centre of trying to cover up the incident and demanded ...
17 February 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Bankura, Jhargram, West Midnapore and Purulia have emerged as the foremost districts in Bengal with highest incidents of forest fires in 2023-24 with 456, 371, 295 and 282 cases, respectively.The aggregate forest fires in the state have ...
17 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an era of digital arrests and Jamtara cyber-frauds, the possible return of the old "Gaya gang" who disabled ATMs have left investigators flummoxed. The Gaya gangs, which were a scourge in Kolkata a decade ago, used adhesive ...
17 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Samaresh Chakraborty, the councillor of ward 9 of Bidhannagar Municipality who was wanted in a case of extortion and assault of a promoter in Baguiati since Dec, surrendered before a Barasat court on Saturday and was granted bail. ...
17 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of a 28-year-old Sector V professional, who died in a bike accident in New Town three weeks ago while riding pillion with two friends, have lodged a complaint against the friends, asking cops to determine if it ...
17 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The hawker vs hawker fight at New Market reached a new height as two hawkers returning home on a scooter were allegedly assaulted and slashed with a knife by a group of men near SSKM Hospital in ...
17 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bengal STF on Sunday arrested another person and seized a double-barrelled gun and four rounds of live factory-made ammunition of 12 bore calibre, which they suspect has been smuggled out of the century-old gun shop NC ...
17 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A couple with their teenage daughter were killed around 7.30 pm on Sunday when a truck struck their scooter from behind on Belgharia Expressway near Kolkata airport, leading to the trio coming under the sand-laden vehicle's wheels. The ...
17 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 11 vehicles, a majority of them cars and two-wheelers, were registered every hour in Kolkata in 2024, giving the city more than 1 lakh new automobiles. The four regional transport offices (RTOs) - PVD, Kasba, Salt ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Bhaktivedanta Research Center (BRC), is set to host an exhibition and a series of lectures on the life, teachings, and impact of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Scheduled from February 17 to February ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 11 vehicles, a majority of them cars and two-wheelers, were registered every hour in Kolkata in 2024, giving the city more than 1 lakh new automobiles. The four regional transport offices (RTOs) — PVD, Kasba, Salt ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Fresh trouble erupted in the New Market area on Saturday morning as groups of hawkers clashed on Bertram Street over the right to occupy the carriageway. The volatile situation left shoppers scared and traders incensed.Though cops from ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: BMC has said it is capable of providing filtered tap water to Salt Lake homes round the clock if they can revamp and upgrade the distribution network as well as pumping station and install a detection system to ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pratul Mukhopadhyay, the singer, songwriter and composer, who masterfully mixed artistic expression and political dissent in one palette to become one of the most distinguished pioneers of Bangla protest songs, passed away on Saturday at SSKM Hospital following ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday congratulated the state-run SSKM Hospital and doctors there for creating "a record" by performing 175 gallbladder surgeries in five days. "Glad to inform you that our very own apex level govt facility ...
16 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: A retired bureaucrat, who has been on a mission for the last few years to bring reading habits back among youngsters, dons the hat of a cartoonist to inculcate social and family values among teenagers. Former IAS ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The last time when they faced each other, a 9-man resolute East Bengal held Mohammedan SC to a goalless draw for their maiden point after starting the ISL 2024-25 with six straight defeats. Having entered that Nov 9 ...
16 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bangladeshi barge, whose hull had nearly split in two halves after it ran aground when it struck a sand bar or char off Ghoramara Island, has remained stranded in the waters for 60 hours since Thursday ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A special NIA court has sentenced a Birbhum man to 10 years in prison for a blast on Feb 20, 2019, at his residence in Birbhum's Gangpur village. Judge Shubhendu Saha also fined Bablu Mondal Rs 10,000 after ...
16 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: NKDA on Saturday started cutting down the bushes and the unbridled undergrowth along the New Town walkway that provided a perfect cover for the e-rickshaw (toto) driver, who murdered and raped a Class 8 girl at the ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Commissioner of Kolkata Police Manoj Verma on Saturday stated that any road user—a pedestrian, a bicyclist or a bus passenger—has as much claim on the road as anyone travelling by a four-wheeler.But rights always come with duties, ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaDurgapur: A 19-year-old second-year student of Asansol Girls' College has accused two friends of raping her during a trip to Biharinath in Bankura. They were part of a group of eight people — four women and four men — ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shloka was a five-month-old Dobermann and Mantra was a four-month-old Cocker Spaniel when they were inducted into the Kolkata Police Dog Squad in Nov 2023. They proceeded to Cuttack to train for something that no KP dog had ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ajit Ranjan Bardhan, an IAS officer of the 1989 batch, was administered the oath of office as state vigilance commissioner by governor C V Ananda Bose at Raj Bhavan on Saturday. Earlier, Bandhan has served as the chairperson ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The extension of the Metro Orange Line services till Sector V where it will interface with the Green Line or East-West Metro is set to be stalled till construction on the three-way pedestrian underpass at the site ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched comprehensive counselling services to address mental health concerns during the ongoing board examinations. The initiative came as approximately 42 lakh students appeared in their class X and XII ...
16 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: In a significant breakthrough, the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) has arrested four individuals, including an employee of a prominent Kolkata arms dealer, in connection with illegal arms trafficking across the state. The operation also led ...
16 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A man identified as Balai Sardar, who went to withdraw money from a public sector bank ATM opposite Kishore Bharati Stadium, was surprised when his card got stuck. He called a helpline number scribbled on the SBI ...
16 February 2025 Times of India12 Howrah: A masked gang on Saturday broke open an ATM machine with gas-cutter and stole around Rs 16 lakh at Alampur in the Sankrail police station area under Howrah City Police.Police sources revealed that the State Bank of ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Belda: A Madhyamik examinee who was bitten by a snake in the Sushinda area of Belda, West Midnapore on Saturday, the day of the maths exam, had to take the exam from his hospital bed.Jyotirmoy Jana, a student ...
16 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The country is lagging behind in education, particularly in higher education, because the gross enrolment ratio (GER) is only 28%, way below the ratio in developed countries, the founder and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology, Govindasamy ...
16 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands of couples across the city took the gastronomical route to celebrate love on Valentine's Day on Friday. Restaurants saw a sharp surge in footfall, with tables booked in advance for lunch and dinner. The crowd count was ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 32-year-old Bangladeshi con-woman who used to cross the border on a medical visa and allegedly marry young men, later lodging cases of domestic violence against them to blackmail them, was arrested by Bidhannagar Police on Thursday.Police said ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The second edition of French Film Festival in Kolkata will kick off on Feb 22 with the world premier of a French movie that was shot extensively in Kolkata. Officials said the world premiere of ‘Delocalises', by Ali ...
15 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A CBSE class X student who was left paralysed from the waist down by a tumour in his spinal cord last month will walk into the exam hall for his first board exam paper on Saturday, following ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Contemporary Bengali cinema revolving around the themes of relationships depict a shift from the typical ‘girl-meets-boy' narrative, defying a set format to experiment both in form and content. At least five feature and short films that were in ...
15 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The hull of a Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash that had got stranded after hitting a sandbar near Ghoramara island on Thursday afternoon cracked and nearly split the vessel in two halves on Friday, forcing the crew ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The recent political developments in Bangladesh, including the students' movement and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, that made their way into an undergraduate political science paper of Calcutta University sparked a controversy due to errors in the question.The ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Evidence in a cybercrime should be properly collected and preserved and only trained cops should handle them. Electronic items seized during a probe must undergo forensic test at authorised cyber forensic facilities following court directives: These are some ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rail solutions provider Texmaco Rail & Engineering Ltd has entered into a global supply and services agreement with Trinity Rail Group LLC, a leader in advanced rolling stock leasing and manufacturing solutions for the North American market. Texmaco ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Imagine Tresor, an Apple Premium Partner, plans to open five new stores across Bengal in the near future. Recently, Imagine came up with its biggest Apple Premium Partner store at a south Kolkata mall.Tresor Systems MD Shaurya Seth ...
15 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CBI's investigation into the SSC jobs-for-cash scam has led the central agency to stumble upon the names of a host of netas, including BJP's Dibyendu Adhikari and Bharati Ghosh, Trinamool MP Mamata Bala Thakur and senior MLAs ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Doctors at the state-run IPGMER created a record by conducting 186 gallstone surgeries in five days during a special drive from Monday. On the last day of the drive, 47 patients underwent micro-surgery. Patients usually have to wait ...
15 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Police from the South Suburban (Jadavpur) division have identified 18 dark spots in Golf Green and Regent Park where new CCTVs will be set up. The identification of these spots that include stretches on Uday Shankar Sarani, ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted permission to RSS to hold a gathering at SAI Complex in East Burdwan's Talit on Feb 16. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is scheduled to address the gathering.Justice Amrita Sinha allowed the organisation ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaShantipur (Nadia): The father of a five-year-old girl was allegedly forced to clean the floor in a govt hospital where the unwell girl vomited. The health dept has ordered a probe. The incident happened at Shantipur State General Hospital ...
15 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The four-day Great Backyard Bird Count, the biggest birding event in the world, kicked off in Bengal on Friday with more than 100 participants. "Till 8 pm on Friday, 389 checklists — a list of birds that ...
15 February 2025 Times of India12 Santiniketan: Visva-Bharati has decided not to make Basanta Utsav a public event this year. The event, which celebrates the advent of spring, was last open to the public in 2019. This year, after the V-B authorities had decided ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar Police on Friday started providing police clearance certificates to auto, e-rickshaw and toto operators in Salt Lake, New Town and other areas under the commissionerate. The move follows the verification of background and their identification details.A week ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Those living near Jadavpur's Bikramgarh Jheel have urgently requested the state and KMC to protect the water body, south Kolkata's second-largest after Rabindra Sarobar, before its condition deteriorates.The jheel is almost entirely obscured by water hyacinth, with only ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Covid experience is helping city doctors treat critical patients with respiratory distress. A woman in the 26th week of pregnancy, who suffered from typhoid, fever, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and sepsis, was successfully treated at a ...
15 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The work to bridge the final 360m viaduct gap for the 8km Ruby-Sector V section of the Orange Line has halted next to Chingrighata crossing. Consequently, RVNL is likely to miss the April deadline (revised from Mar ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least six engineering firms have applied for enlistment with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department for correction of tilts in buildings. The firms made the application after the civic body advertised seeking expression of interest from ...
15 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An Alipore court on Wednesday found three persons accused in the Budge Budge robbery and gang-rape case guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The judgment came eight years after the crime. The fourth accused has passed away.Judge ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and then gang-raped by two men in the Beniapukur area near Park Circus on Tuesday, just three days before Valentine's Day. The accused also recorded the assault and attempted to blackmail ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Friday granted permission for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) rally in Burdwan on February 16.Justice Amrita Sinha gave conditional approval to the rally's organisers, as reported by PTI.The ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police has arrested 46 cyber fraudsters from multiple locations on the Bengal-Jharkhand border. These individuals had close ties to cybercrime lords based in Jamtara, Jharkhand, and Mandla in Madhya Pradesh.The Wing claimed ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKumbh Mela has overwhelmed Bihar's railway system with millions of pilgrims causing widespread chaos and vandalism. Packed trains, long delays, and damaged coaches have led to violent clashes. PATNA/KOLKATA: Kumbh Mela, one of the world's largest religious gatherings, has ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Lalbazar brass, led by commissioner Manoj Verma, has asked the Anti-Rowdy Section (ARS) of Kolkata Police — the unit that collects information on the movement of criminals — to develop its "sources" in such a manner ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Despite several attempts by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to free Medical College of encroachers, hawkers lay siege to the hospital, much to the harassment of patients and their families. A visit by a TOI team revealed that ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sachin Singh, Narkeldanga's Trinamool councillor (ward 36), has reportedly been showcaused by his party. He was asked to explain himself within five days.Bappaditya Dasgupta, the chief whip of Trinamool and Ward 101 councillor, said: "He must respond to ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: After months of seamless commuting, passengers encountered life without metro on Thursday morning. Several of them were caught unawares, having overlooked announcements in newspaper and television. Those who hadn't installed the Metro Railway app also missed the ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The SS Hogg Market Traders' Association at New Market on Thursday put up posters highlighting the "neglect of the heritage market by civic authorities" in its 150th year. The market itself is in a shambles and though ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Judicial officer Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) will be sworn in as an additional judge of Calcutta High Court on Friday. Her appointment to the post for two years was announced by a gazette notification on Wednesday. "In exercise ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The price of rice, a staple across Bengal, has risen between Rs 10 and Rs 25 per kilo over the past week, leaving families struggling to balance household budgets.Experts gave several reasons for the rise, including decreased production ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: With India emerging as Russia's fourth-largest business partner, with bilateral trade between the two countries reaching USD 65.7 billion in FY 2023-24, biz entrepreneurs from Bengal are eyeing new opportunities for trade and investment in various sectors.On Thursday, ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: When the current batch of Class X ICSE examinees take their ISC two years later, they will have to score at least 35 in five subjects each or 175 in total to clear the class XII boards. The ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday summoned the state home secretary to the court next Thursday to explain why the govt was showing reluctance in providing infrastructure support and fill vacant posts sanctioned for running the judicial ...
14 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: With India and Pakistan set to clash at the Champions Trophy in Dubai on Feb 23, demand for flight and match tickets has soared. Many from Kolkata are planning to fly to the Gulf city next weekend ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: An abandoned baby in Jalpaiguri has found a new home in Kansas.The child was left at the hospital by her mother after her birth 16 months ago. The NRI couple had applied for a baby girl from ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has asked the organisation's Bengal unit to double the number of active swayamsevaks in the state as the Sangh celebrates its centenary year. He also asked them to take up more social service programmes. ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bidhannagar cops have installed new CCTVs at six locations in and around the scene of the crime in New Town, where the body of the 14-year-old girl was found last week. Following the death, police identified at ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The police began looking for an SUV allegedly involved in a number of road rage incidents on Maa flyover in the past week. The vehicle marked ‘Police' repeatedly brushed past other vehicles, scratching them on the way, ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Lovebirds in Kolkata will have to dig deeper into their pockets this Valentine's Day while gifting flowers or sweet treats to their loved ones, as these romantic gestures are set to cost more. The prices of chocolates ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Howrah: A road accident on GT Road in the Dewangazi area under Bally police station at 1 am on Thursday left a cab passenger and the driver dead. A concrete mixer truck crashed into the cab head on, ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta Football League trophy is returning to the East Bengal FC tent after seven years.Bino George's red-and-gold brigade is set to be declared champions in the CFL 2024-2025 season after Diamond Harbour FC (DHFC) — their nearest ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was a good day at the office for Bengal as they clinched three gold medals on the penultimate day of the National Games in Dehradun. Bengal showed their dominance in the women's floor exercise event on Thursday, ...
14 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI, probing an alleged recruitment scam in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in Bengal, has identified 30 candidates whose documents seemed to be fake. The central agency has sent letters to ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police), ...
14 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 100-ft Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash from Budge Budge sent distress signals after it struck a sandbank off Ghoramara island on Thursday afternoon.Until reports last came in, the barge with a dozen men and a pilot ...
14 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Quashing FIRs against two sisters-in-law under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stated that the courts need to be ‘cautious' and consider pragmatic realities when dealing with criminal cases based ...
13 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: With India and Pakistan set to clash at the Champions Trophy in Dubai on Feb 23, demand for flight and match tickets has soared. Many from Kolkata are planning to fly to the Gulf city next weekend ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A total of 1,25,531 electric vehicles, including battery-operated ones, were registered in Bengal till Dec 2024, signalling a growing shift towards greener transportation. Additionally, 3,411 CNG vehicles were registered, reflecting a broader effort to reduce carbon footprint, state ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city is likely to get piped compressed natural gas (CNG) on a larger scale in 18 months from now. New Town residents will be the first to receive it, followed by the residential areas off EM Bypass, ...
13 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: In a safety and operations efficiency boost, Kolkata airport now has an Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) that provides real-time accurate weather information to pilots.It enables them to make informed decisions about landing, take-off, and flight planning. ...
13 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The state govt has entrusted the Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) with the task of beautification and maintenance of the median stretch of Maa flyover from near Chingrighata to Park Circus 4 No Bridge via Science City ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Dense fog hit operations of at least 10 departing flights in the early morning hours at Kolkata airport on Wednesday. While visibility was around 800 m at 3 am, it dipped sharply to below 50 m around ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday set up for fresh trial 10 criminal cases, including murder cases, lodged during the Left Front tenure, overturning East Midnapore lower court orders allowing a state plea to withdraw them. The cases ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A push for rural infrastructure and a DA hike for state govt employees, along with adequate outlays for signature social welfare schemes, were the cornerstones of the Mamata Banerjee govt's last full budget before the 2026 state ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: From 2027, students taking the ISC examination — class XII boards — will have to secure pass marks in five subjects including English to get a pass certificate. Currently, they are required to pass in English and ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A jewellery store owner in Burrabazar fell victim to a sophisticated cyber fraud scheme, involving fake payment screenshots, marking the latest in a series of similar incidents across the city. OnJan 27, a middle-aged man selected a gold ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: E-commerce marketplace Meesho is banking on MSMEs and will allow more unbranded retailers to sell their products on the platform. The move is to strike a balance between branded and unbranded retailers for achieving 50% rise in sales ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Suri: Nine people were arrested in connection with a clash between two groups at Jamalpur village under Kankartala police station on Tuesday, and officer-in-charge Purnendubikash Das was ‘closed' to the police line. Dubrajpur circle inspector Subhasish Haldar was ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: a Barasat Pocso court on Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl at New Town in 2019.The accused, Pappu Banik (46), the victim's neighbour, had lured the girl into his house after sending ...
13 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An eight-year-old minor was allegedly sexually harassed in East Behala by a 59-year-old KMC worker employed with the solid waste management department. Locals caught the accused red-handed, reportedly tied him to a lamppost and assaulted him. He was ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Failure on the part of an inept police officer cannot come to the aid of an accused, Calcutta High Court observed while upholding the sentence awarded to a man convicted for the rape of a 10-year-old girl ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 71-year-old woman, residing at an apartment in Netaji Nagar, was found dead on Tuesday late evening, leading cops to register an unnatural death case. The cops are awaiting the final postmortem report, which was conducted on ...
13 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police has started maintaining a database of toto drivers in and around the commissionerate jurisdiction and is running their past profile check following the arrest of one of their drivers in connection with the rape-murder of ...
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