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  • Women farmers felicitated

    Kolkata: Five women farmers were felicitated with the Best Farmer Award along with an entrepreneur from Sundarbans during a recent interaction between farmers and scientists held at the West Bengal Veterinary Council of India, West Bengal University of Animal ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Army officer dies after liposuction

    Kolkata: A retired army officer, Major (Retd) Kalyan Bose, has filed a police complaint on Tuesday alleging medical negligence by a private hospital and a private skin care clinic in Salt Lake, holding them responsible for the death of ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Conductor pushes man off moving bus, arrested

    Kolkata: A bus conductor, Vishnu Sahu, allegedly pushed a passenger, Md Aziz, off a moving bus following a fare dispute on Monday near Beckbagan. Aziz was injured and needed medical attention.Sahu was later arrested from his Howrah residence.According to ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Bhangar man dies by suicide, wife blames ‘SIR anxiety’

    Kolkata: The family of a Bhangar resident, whose body was found hanging at his home on Wednesday morning, has alleged that he died by suicide after being "extremely worried" about SIR. The deceased was identified as 35-year-old Shafiul Gazi. ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    CM’s Kalighat office accepts SIR forms for her, family members

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Kalighat office on Wednesday accepted enumeration forms for her and her family members from a booth level officer (BLO) who reached their 30B Harish Chatterjee Street home at 10.30 am as part of the ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Search called off for primate missing at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: Forest and airport officials have almost given up the search for a juvenile black-shanked douc after the lapse of 60 hours since it jumped out of a passenger's bag and disappeared in the international arrival lounge at Kolkata ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    SIR discomfort: BJP MLA to move court over CAA provision

    Kolkata: After Trinamool, a Bengal BJP neta is now set to move court on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls issue, albeit on different grounds.BJP's Haringhata MLA Asim Sarkar plans to move court sometime next week seeking ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC fields fewer BLAs than rivals, floods wards with party workers to shadow BLOs, help voters

    Kolkata: , the party with fewer registered block level agents (BLAs) than BJP and CPM, is heavily outnumbering them and Congress when it comes to on-ground presence of party workers helping voters negotiate the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) maze ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata sees worst Oct in 8 years as AQI deteriorates sharply this festive season

    Kolkata: Kolkata's Oct air quality has worsened over the years, with experts fearing a troubling winter ahead. The city's all-out fireworks revelry this festive season has left a toxic imprint on the atmosphere, making Oct 2025 one of the ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Not in our name: KP joins cops from Del, Mum & Lucknow, reaches out to citizens on digital arrest

    n In Oct, a 39-year-old resident of Nabin Sarkar Lane was targeted by individuals posing as officers from Mumbai's Colaba police station who falsely implicated her in a money laundering case linked to Naresh Goyal, the founder of Jet ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Row over bird death at vet clinic, one held

    Kolkata: A man lodged a police complaint against the owner of a veterinary clinic near Mudiali for "medical negligence" that allegedly led to the death of a blue macaw two days ago, and for molesting the complainant's associate when ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    2 posing as cops assault and rob duo, arrested

    Kolkata: Cops arrested two men for their alleged involvement in a fake gold deal that led to a violent robbery at a Bypass store, where the accused posed as police personnel to threaten the victim.The case was registered on ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata Bala-led Matua faction starts hunger strike

    Kolkata: With turf war getting intensified in the Matua heartland of Bengal amid SIR — especially after a split in the BJP-led faction of the All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM) — the Trinamool-backed faction, led by MP Mamata Bala ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    GCI, GCLI launch joint brand campaign

    Kolkata: Generali Central Insurance (GCI) and Generali Central Life Insurance (GCLI) on Monday launched their first brand campaign, "Here Now", to introduce their unified brand identity and vision. This joint campaign follows the rebranding of the businesses after the ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops, BSF jawans clash over seized drugs

    Chapra (Nadia): Cops clashed with BSF personnel in Nadia on Tuesday over the seizure of banned cough syrup Phensedyl. At least three policemen were injured in the incident, and one BSF jawan was briefly detained, sources said. The jawan ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    2003 list to be reference for ‘missing’ Kulpi, North 24 Pgns booths

    Kolkata: The Election Commission has recognised the 2003 voter list as the reference point for the ongoing SIR exercise for 187 booths under the Kulpi assembly segment and in a few booths in North 24 Parganas, as those booths ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Migrants’ absence is parents’ worry as SIR knocks on doors

    n Eighty-year-old Manju Mukherjee, who lives alone in her two-bedroom Salt Lake flat, is anxious as her daughter, who now lives in Singapore, cannot return to India for at least two months. She is unsure whether her daughter can ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Alipore Museum to unveil photo exhibition on climate & conflict

    Kolkata: The Alipore Museum is set to unveil a photographic exhibition, ‘A Winter Summer', featuring the evocative works of renowned photographer Sohrab Hura. This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Experimenter Gallery, marks the India debut of Hura's two seminal ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    DH Rd, Alipore roads to undergo ‘plastic surgery’

    Kolkata: Instead of patchworks, the KMC roads department has taken up a thorough repair of a major stretch of DH Road (from Majerhat Bridge to Kidderpore) with plastic hot mix. Apart from DH Road, the civic body will repair ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port wins Maritime Excellence Award

    Kolkata: Kolkata's Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port has won the Maritime Excellence Award in the "heritage" category on Oct 30 at India Maritime Week 2025. Chairperson of the port, Rathendra Raman, received the award from Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, and ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Surge in respiratory diseases as pollution takes a toll on Kol lungs

    Kolkata: Respiratory diseases are now arguably the most common form of illness in Kolkata, according to a section of doctors. Kolkata's polluted air is aggravating lung ailments and shortening life expectancy by a considerable period, say pulmonologists and general ...

    6 November 2025 Times of India
    Schools rewrite routines as teachers leave for BLO duty amid exams

    Kolkata: With many teachers at state schools being assigned electoral roll enumeration duties as BLOs, several city schools have had to make alternative arrangements to conduct Madhyamik selection tests. While some have declared alternate day-offs for junior sections, others ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol flat registrations soar 32% in 9 months, highest since 2019

    Kolkata: The real estate market in the city witnessed a remarkable surge in activity, with apartment registrations soaring by 32% year-on-year during the first nine months of 2025. A total of 46,742 apartments were registered in the Kolkata Metropolitan ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Two orders unite as one Congregation in historic merger

    Kolkata: The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM-Loreto) and the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) united in Spain on Tuesday, following a ceremony held in Loyola. The two branches of Mary Ward's legacy are now legally and religiously united, ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Why SIR in a hurry before polls only in oppn states, asks CM

    Kolkata: Chief minister on Tuesday questioned why Election Commission has rolled out special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in three of the four poll-bound states, leaving out the only one where BJP is at the helm."Can you ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake gold trader’s body found, BDO under cloud

    Kolkata/Jalpaiguri: Family members of a Salt Lake-based gold merchant, whose mutilated body was found in a canal near Rajarhat last week, have lodged a complaint of abduction and murder against a north Bengal Block Development Officer (BDO). Police said ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Third front’: Subrata launches new faction, names Suvendu chief adviser

    Kolkata: The BJP-backed faction of the All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM) split vertically on Tuesday after Subrata Thakur, the Gaighata MLA and a prominent face of the community, launched a new organization under the same banner and having the ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    VHP withdraws petition on Jagannath temple in HC

    Kolkata: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday withdrew the PIL petition it had filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the public funding of the new Jagannath temple in Digha and its ‘dham' tag.The VHP counsel withdrew the petition after ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Forest, airport officials search 2.5 mn sq ft, 1.6k acres for pint-size primate

    Kolkata: A rare baby langur, measuring barely 18 inches, leapt out of a handbag in the arrival lounge of Kolkata airport's international wing in the early hours of Monday. It continued to remain elusive even as staff from the ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Min temp dips below normal after more than a fortnight but winter is not yet here

    Kolkata: The minimum temperature in Kolkata slipped below the normal mark on Tuesday after more than a fortnight. While Tuesday's 21.4°C was only 0.8 notches below the normal mark, this is the lowest minimum in months. The Met office, ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will they delete names?’: Mamata Banerjee leads Kolkata rally against EC's ‘silent rigging’; citizens voice confusion, demand clarity over SIR

    KOLKATA: As chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee led a rally through the heart of Kolkata on Tuesday, accusing the Election Commission of conducting a "silent, invisible rigging" through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    80,000-odd BLOs hand out 18L forms on day 1 of Bengal SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal's first special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 23 years started on Tuesday with more than 80,000 booth level officers (BLOs) distributing 18 lakh enumeration forms on day 1.Bengal has over 7.6 crore voters, all of ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Families blame anxiety over SIR as Bengal sees two more suicides

    Howrah/Murshidabad: Two men died by suicide in Bengal on Tuesday, with their families alleging that anxiety over SIR was the cause of their distress. In Howrah's Uluberia, 28-year-old Jahir Maal was found hanging at his home, while in Murshidabad's ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Mathabhanga villagers block highway over missing names

    Jalpaiguri: Protesting the implementation of SIR in their village, some residents of Dangkopa village in Cooch Behar's Mathabhanga staged a road blockade on the Mathabhanga–Maynaguri state highway on Tuesday. They demanded every voter in the village be declared valid.The ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC MLAs get fake ED, CBI threat calls

    Kolkata: Three Trinamool Congress MLAs have alleged receiving calls from scammers posing as ED or CBI officers and threatening them with arrest. On Tuesday, Gosaba MLA Subrata Mondal, Baruipur East MLA Bibhas Sardar and Sonarpur North MLA Firdousi Begum ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Windfall for printing shops in SIR season as 12 owners at Hazra mkt bag orders worth 1.1 crore

    Kolkata: Around 60-70 workers at the 12 printing shops at Khirode Ghosh Market near Hazra crossing have been working non-stop through the night, printing SIR enumeration forms. They are up to their elbow with the work as the owners ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Hudco signs MoUs of Rs 1L cr to boost port infra devpt

    Kolkata: Hudco has signed MoUs worth over Rs 1 lakh crore to boost India's port infrastructure development. Under these, it will fund six port projects.Hudco signed the MoUs with Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam Port Authority, Paradip Port ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu harps on CAA as he tries to dispel SIR fear among Matuas

    Kolkata: Matuas are well-protected and don't have to worry about the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, leader of opposition in the Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday. Addressing a rally in Sodepur, Adhikari also said ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Seepage disrupts metro services

    Kolkata: On an afternoon when commuters badly needed their transportation lifeline to help them travel across the city, which was clogged with rallies, Metro services on the Blue (North-South) Line came to a halt on Tuesday due to water ...

    5 November 2025 Times of India
    Search ops at airport after 1 of 2 smuggled primates escapes

    Kolkata: One of the two rare, critically-endangered primates that were being smuggled into the city from Bangkok escaped from the custody of customs officials at NSCBI Airport early on Monday.Endemic to eastern Cambodia and southern Vietnam, black-shanked doucs fetch ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    'Trinamool flows like blood through my veins': Mamata Banerjee's ex-minister Sovan Chatterjee returns to TMC after 6-year stint with BJP

    KOLKATA: Former West Bengal minister Sovan Chatterjee formally returned to on Monday, seven years after he had quit the party and subsequently joined . The former Kolkata mayor, who was appointed as the chairperson of NKDA (New Town ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    India ‘most attractive investment destination’ due to its democracy: Om Birla

    Kolkata: Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Monday said that, barring a few periods, democracy in India had always been strong and ensured more citizens participate in the process. He said that democracy had made the country the most ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Kin and neighbours blame ‘SIR panic’ after twin deaths

    Egra/Dankuni: Two heart attack deaths have triggered a row with family of one and neighbours of another alleging that they were triggered by anxiety over SIR.Businessman Sheikh Sirajuddin died on Sunday in Kantabani village in East Midnapore allegedly after ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Sovan, Baishakhi return to TMC, will ‘strengthen Didi’s mission’

    Kolkata: Former Kolkata minister Sovan Chatterjee had a "ghar wapsi" moment on Monday as he made a formal return to Trinamool. The former Bengal minister, who was appointed as the chairperson of NKDA on Oct 30, said: "Trinamool flows ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Hindus from Bangladesh, now Indian citizens, in SIR fear grip

    Kolkata: Hindus who came from Bangladesh seem to be the group most worried about the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bengal. Several suicides and attempted suicides following the announcement of the SIR rollout have been ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Ex-BF shoots woman out on morning walk in Barisha

    Kolkata: A 42-year-old homemaker and mother of a teenage son, was shot around a kilometre from Behala Chowrasta around 6.20 am on Monday. She was on her usual morning walk close to her residence at Kalipada Mukherjee Road in ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Siliguri roars for local girl Richa, who helped India lift Cup

    Siliguri: The entire country has been celebrating India's victory since Sunday but the decibel level has certainly been higher in Siliguri, the north Bengal town that has seen the struggle of local girl Richa Ghosh, the only World Cup-winning ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Women, men reclaim night streets after Blue win in Navi Mumbai

    Kolkata: As the clock ticked past midnight on Sunday, the city streets came alive with honking cars, waving Tricolours, and joyous chants of ‘India, India!' as Kolkata reclaimed night when India's women lifted the cricket World Cup for the ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Assault on cops at Dum Dum Park

    Kolkata: A civic police volunteer and a constable of Lake Town police station were injured on Sunday night when they attempted to stop a group of about 25 bikers riding dangerously and using modified silencers on their motorcycles, police ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    22 yards calling: More girls dream to blaze the trail

    Kolkata: The roar of victory from India's women's cricket team has echoed far beyond the stadium, stirring a wave of excitement among young girls in Kolkata. Many of them are now dreaming of picking up bats and balls themselves. ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    SSC releases list of 3,512 ‘tainted’ staff

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday released a list of 3,512 ‘tainted' non-teaching staff members who will not be able to participate in the fresh recruitment for staff in state-aided schools across Bengal for classes ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    HC allows BJP to hold rallies at Sodepur and Burdwan

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed BJP to hold two rallies — one at Sodepur on Tuesday, and the other at Burdwan on Wednesday. Justice Kaushik Chanda, however, imposed some restrictions on both rallies.Advocate general Kishore Datta pleaded ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    CM forms panel to celebrate 150 years of Vande Mataram

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, during a cabinet meeting on Monday, formed a special committee to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram — the national song of India, composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1875 and a source ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    SPML Infra aims to surpass Rs 1k cr revenue by end of fiscal

    Kolkata: City-based SPML Infra hopes to cross the Rs 1,000-crore mark in revenue by the end of this fiscal. Last fiscal, the company posted a revenue of Rs 780 crore. SPML, which is now entering manufacturing through an energy ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    State allots land to Captain Industries and Ultratech Cement in Jhargram

    Kolkata: State govt has decided to allot 149.6 acres of land to Captain Industries and Ultratech Cement on a freehold basis in Jhargram. State finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said on Monday that the decision was taken at a meeting ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Visits to ‘BJP’s CAA camps’ may ‘end up at detention centres’, says Abhishek

    Kolkata: Sharpening its SIR attack on BJP a day before BLOs start the enumeration process, Trinamool national general secretary on Monday said going "to CAA camps" would mean "ending up at detention centres, just like in Assam".BJP has ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Brothers attacked in Chitpore

    Kolkata: Two brothers, who tried to protest against loud music being played right beside their residence by a garment factory owner, were allegedly physically assaulted and intimidated by six men at Cossipore Road-Lock Gate Road in north Kolkata around ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Assailant mental health patient, ex-minister withdraws complaint

    Kolkata: Hours after police detained a 33-year-old man, , for allegedly punching and shoving former state minister and Habra MLA Jyotipriya Mullick at his Salt Lake home on Sunday evening, all charges against him were dropped when his family ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Filling key JU posts a priority, says VC after taking charge

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University welcomed its permanent VC on Monday after two and a half years. After taking charge on Monday, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said one of his foremost priorities is to fill the significant vacancies in the university, which include ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC moves EC over SIR ‘discrepancies’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Monday moved the , raising objections over discrepancies in the electoral roll revision process in South 24 Parganas' Kulpi. The party alleged that electoral rolls from 2003 were being used as reference instead of the legally ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    In times of SIR, Kolkata celebrates Ritwik Ghatak’s centenary, revisits films by chronicler of Partition trauma

    Kolkata: What would , the chronicler of Partition trauma, have made of SIR? Ghatak's centenary is being celebrated at a time when Bengal is rocked by fears of mass disenfranchisement under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Many, who have ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    80k BLOs, 659 helpdesks & loads of anxiety: Bengal set for month-long SIR rollout today

    Kolkata: With 80,681 BLOs and an additional 14,000 BLOs in reserve, along with 659 helpdesks, the EC will roll out its all-critical month-long doorstep verification of voters on Tuesday. The EC is also dispatching a central team from Delhi, ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    PIL in HC on release of B’desh, Pak, Af minorities

    Kolkata: A prayer to file a PIL seeking the release of minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, languishing in jails across the country, was made on Monday before the bench presided over by the Acting Chief Justice of the ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    1.7L attend last day of Amader Para Amader Samadhan

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt's flagship initiative, Amader Para Amader Samadhan (APAS), concluded on Monday with around 1.7 lakh citizens visiting 305 camps. The initiative, launched on Aug 2, logged a total footfall of 2.4 crore at 31,757 camps. The ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    3 held for duping 21 women of 3 cr in matrimonial fraud

    Kolkata: The Hooghly Police (Rural) uncovered a matrimonial fraud worth Rs 3 crore that affected at least 21 women in a span of 10 months. Three men have been arrested in this connection. The probe began with a cyber ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    No payment for mobile expenses, BLOs fume

    Kolkata: The decision of the (ECI) over non-financing mobile expenses for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has made a large section of booth level officers (BLOs) unhappy.They are saying that many of them, who use ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    Man, 2 sons held in probe into fake passport racket

    Chakdaha (Nadia): The ED officials on Monday raided a carpenter's house in Nadia's Porari village in connection with a fake passport racket allegedly involving Bangladeshi nationals and detained three members of his family.According to sources, the family, headed by ...

    4 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘At KIFF, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and I will talk about Ghatak's transformational impact and influence on us’

    KOLKATA: The 31st Kolkata International Film Festival kicks off two days after Ritwik Ghatak turns 100. The festival is going to celebrate Ghatak’s centenary with the screening of his “Ajantrik”, “Bari Theke Paliye”, “Meghe Dhaka Tara”, “Komal Gandhar”, “Titas ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Old habits die hard: Yr after Vijay Durg rename, letters still come to Fort William

    Kolkata: The post office is now officially named Vijay Durg Post Office, but letters and parcels reaching the lone post office inside the Eastern Command headquarters are still addressed to Fort William. Postal workers say they continue to sort ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata shocker: TMC MLA Jyotipriyo Mallick attacked at home; attacker from his Habra constituency, held

    KOLKATA: Former West Bengal minister and Trinamool Congress MLA Jyotipriyo Mallick was assaulted at his Salt Lake residence on Sunday night by a 30-year-old man who had been following him. The attacker, Abhishek Das, was subsequently arrested and is ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    New Market, Park Street among 5 city police stations with changed maps

    Kolkata: Five police stations in Kolkata, including New Market, Park Street, and Alipore, now have changed maps with areas either added or subtracted compared to what was there until last month. Lalbazar sources said the boundaries of Alipore, Park ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol cheers for Blues, in clubs, malls & at Navi Mumbai stadium

    Kolkata: As the final South African wicket fell, Kolkata broke into celebrations, hailing the Women in Blue who finally conquered world cricket and exorcised the ghosts of 2005 and 2017 when they had come just as close, creating a ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Gold price flux before wedding season keeps buyers on edge

    Kolkata: While a dip in gold price has brought relief to buyers, city jewellers are receiving good orders ahead of the marriage season. To absorb the high cost of the metal, buyers are planning well ahead and making payments ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    NUJS at a crossroads, will restore intellectual infra, says new VC

    Kolkata: The newly appointed VC of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Nandimath Omprakash V, feels the institution is at a "crossroads" and there is a need to create a "new vision" for it and restore the ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Day after protests, EC officials reassure BLOs but fear remains

    Kolkata: In a bid to soothe frayed nerves, the Election Commission officials have started reaching out to booth level officers (BLOs), allowing them to choose their own time slots for their field verification visits from Nov 4 for a ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    At 23 crore, India’s largest CSR-funded restoration underway at Botanic Garden

    Kolkata: The largest-ever CSR-funded public restoration project in the country is underway across the Hooghly at AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah's Shibpur, reports Subhro Niyogi.The project entails restoration of a nearly century-and-a-half-old colonial building called Old Herbarium, ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    After 58 days, 50-yr-old Maidan giants find their roots again

    Kolkata: Two 50-year-old giant trees — a mahogany and a radhachura — that had been uprooted 58 days ago opposite the eastern gate of Fort William (Vijay Durg) at the Kolkata Maidan were replanted on Sunday."Around a month ago, ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Flyer gets his luggage back

    Kolkata: A passenger, Soumya Mukhopadhyay, who arrived from Ahmedabad on an IndiGo flight and left his bag behind at the Kolkata airport near the conveyor belt on Saturday evening, recovered it due to the prompt action of the on-duty ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Man punches Balu at his home

    Kolkata: A 33-year-old son of a Habra businessman punched and shoved former minister and Habra MLA Jyotipriya Mullick at the latter's Salt Lake home on Sunday evening. , alias Papan, was overpowered by Mullick's personal security and handed over ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    App cab driver returns bag

    Kolkata: A woman from Lake Town, Minu Khaitan, who left valuable household items in an app cab on Saturday got them back within hours. Khaitan was unable to reach the app cab customer service number despite repeated attempts. Acting ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Man punches Balu at his home

    Kolkata: A 33-year-old son of a Habra businessman punched and shoved former minister and Habra MLA Jyotipriya Mullick at the latter's Salt Lake home on Sunday evening. , alias Papan, was overpowered by Mullick's personal security and handed over ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Storm water pipe revamp to keep Chingrighata dry

    Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has prepared a Rs 1.9 crore plan to revamp the storm water pipeline from Chingrighata to Sukantanagar along the service road of Salt Lake Bypass to minimise waterlogging during heavy rain.Officials said ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Amid SIR, BJP Matua bloc sees first fissure with ‘third front’

    Kolkata: The BJP-backed faction of the All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM) at Thakurnagar in North 24 Parganas is headed for a split days after the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bengal, with ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool rolls out ‘Didir Doot 2.0’ for its BLAs for voter mapping, begins training

    Kolkata: While booth-level officers (BLOs) appointed by the Election Commission will be armed with apps to record SIR data, booth-level agents (BLAs) will have their own party apps to cross-verify the ECI data.Trinamool on Sunday started training BLAs, while ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Exp train mows down 3 children in Murshidabad

    Behrampore: Three children were run over by the Kamakhya-Puri Express train while crossing a railway line in Murshidabad on Saturday afternoon. Another child was injured in the incident.The incident took place at the railway underpass between Madhupur and Nabin ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams panel as NCW member attends Suvendu health camp

    Nandigram: A health camp in Nandigram's Sonachura, organized by Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and attended by National Commission for Women member Archana Majumdar, also a gynaecologist, on Sunday drew a sharp barb from Trinamool, which thanked Adhikari ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    245 EV stns to come up along highways, key spots

    Kolkata: The state will soon get 245 EV charging stations along with battery-swapping centres in and around Kolkata and the neighbouring municipal areas — a majority of them along state and national highways — across Bengal. The West Bengal ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Bohra community observes Rashtriya Ekta Diwas in city

    Kolkata: The Dawoodi Bohra community, under the aegis of the Project Rise Team, along with a city school observed at the Maidan on Sunday.Students and faculty of Saifee Golden Jubilee English Public High School organised a community unity ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Pocso cuffs on 3 for raping minor

    Kolkata: A man and his two aides abducted and gang-raped a Class 8 girl in Dum Dum while she was returning home from a private coaching class on Saturday evening. Police said the accused, all in their early 20s, ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Asiatic Society to be key centre for manuscript digitisation & decoding

    Kolkata: In a significant move to preserve India's ancient intellectual heritage, the Asiatic Society, Kolkata was officially designated the key cluster centre for Eastern India under the Union ministry of culture's flagship "Gyan Bharatam Mission on Manuscripts". The decision ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Guru Nanak’s 556th birth anniversary celebrations begin

    Kolkata: Marking the beginning of the celebrations for the 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, a grand Nagar Kirtan (Sikh religious procession) took place with around 20,000 devotees from Gurdwara Bara Sikh Sangat in Burrabazar to Gurdwara Guru Ka ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    More ‘box drains’ to check dengue menace in New Town

    Kolkata: Following the covering of about three km of drainage channels in New Town with box-shaped concrete slabs to prevent dumping of waste and maintain cleanliness, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is set to cover another 1.6 ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    HC: Compensatory employment claims cannot be in perpetuity

    Kolkata: After a ‘land loser' receives compensation, they cannot claim an enduring or transmissible right to employment for successive generations, the Calcutta High Court ruled on Oct 24 in a case where a woman whose land was taken for ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol cheers for Blues, in clubs, malls & at Navi Mumbai stadiumBlues lose but win hearts from Kol paras to Navi Mumbai stadium

    Kolkata: On the big night, the Women in Blue battled hard and cruised along to a big total seeking glory in the World Cup final on Sunday, even as Kolkata fans cheered every run, every boundary and six, egging ...

    3 November 2025 Times of India
    Burdwan villager dies in Kerala amid ‘concerns’ over SIR

    Burdwan: A section of villagers in East Burdwan's Jamalpur and local Trinamool workers alleged that a man from the village, who worked as a farmhand in Kerala and died in a hospital there on Thursday, was worried about the ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar Mela reserves stalls for Bangladesh traders

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Mela Utsav 2025, the annual fair organised by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), is scheduled to take place at Salt Lake Central Park fairground from Dec 1 to Dec 21. This is a few weeks earlier than ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Consensual act does not become rape just because of failure to marry’

    Kolkata: After 25 years, Calcutta High Court quashed the conviction of a man for the rape of a minor in 2000 after finding that the woman was an adult at the time and the relationship was consensual. "Non-fulfilment of ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
    Jemimah’s travails touch community chord as Kolkata prays for the Blues

    Kolkata: 's emotional outburst after India's sensational semi-final win touched a chord among the city's Christian community. They are now praying for Rodrigues and her team's victory in the final.On Thursday night, Rodrigues powered India to one of the ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
    Bizman’s organs to save 3, give vision to one

    Kolkata: The organs of a 57-year-old Kolkata businessman are set to save the lives of three people and promise vision to one. The family of Prithwish Ranjan Gayen donated his organs after the Girish Park resident was declared brain ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
    Students display debate skills at inter-school event

    Kolkata: A five-day event, organised by the Calcutta Boys' School Literary Society, the 9th Clifford Hicks International Debate Competition, concluded on Saturday as students from seven schools showcased their debating skills in the finals. The topic was ‘The house ...

    2 November 2025 Times of India
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