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  • Suraksha diagnostics to invest Rs 70cr for 20 new centres

    Kolkata: Suraksha Diagnostics Ltd, an integrated diagnostics chain in eastern India, is planning to invest around Rs 70 crore to open 20 new centres in Bengal, Tripura, Shillong and Guwahati. Out of these, 10-12 centres would come up this ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Provokers don’t pay salary, go back to work, CM Mamata Banerjee urges sacked Bengal teachers to end SSC headquarters seige

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA/GOALTORE: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked protesting teachers to end their siege of the SSC headquarters and immediately return to school duty, asking them not to be swayed by provocateurs who ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Howrah Div turns 100, celebrates 171st anniv of eastern India’s first train run

    Kolkata: As the Howrah Division enters its centenary year in 2025, Eastern Railway is set to celebrate not just 100 years of the division's formation, but also 171 years of uninterrupted rail service from the iconic Howrah station — ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    7 examinees from Bengal shine on UPSC merit list

    123456 Kolkata/Siliguri: At least seven Bengal candidates have made it on the UPSC merit list, which was declared on Tuesday.CM Mamata Banerjee, in a post on X congratulating the state toppers, mentioned that Meghna Chakrabarty (AIR 79), Sahars Kumar ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    At 29.1°C, city records highest minimum temp this summer

    Kolkata: As the mercury continues with its upward run, the nights are becoming as uncomfortable as the days in Kolkata and its suburbs. In fact, on Tuesday, the Alipore Met office recorded the highest minimum temperature — 29.1°C, which ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Construction, decimation of green cover turning Kol into urban heat island: Study

    123 Kolkata: The soaring summer heat is linked to shrinking green cover and rising built-up areas, according to a report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Summers in Kolkata are becoming increasingly unbearable, not just because of ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Hawkers smother CBD, pose fire risk

    1234 Kolkata: The fire that claimed two lives in Pathuriaghata on Monday once again exposed the vulnerability of Kolkata's Central Business District to fire hazards due to rampant encroachment and poor enforcement of safety norms.Monday's incident follows closely on ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Tea growers urge action against fake Indian exports, seek fair pricing

    Kolkata: The Indian Tea Association and small tea growers have raised concerns over massive import of tea into the country.During a stakeholder meeting at the Tea Board head office in the city on Tuesday, the ITA and Confederation of ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Supporter collapses during Didi’s speech, taken to hosp in CM’s car

    Kolkata/Goaltore: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee cut short her speech at an administrative programme in Goaltore on Tuesday after one of her supporters collapsed in the extreme heat. After noticing that Matiur Mondal, a member of a martyr's family from ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Arrests reach 302 as cops probe key suspects, arson cases

    Kolkata: The arrest tally in the ongoing crackdown on the Murshidabad violence reached 302 on Tuesday as Bengal cops intensified the search for players who masterminded the violence in Shamsherganj and Suti.Among the four fresh arrests during the day, ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    In Dhuliyan, CCTVs were ‘selectively damaged’

    12 Dhuliyan: One of the biggest casualties during the recent Dhuliyan strife was local CCTV cameras that were selectively targeted, broken and their electrical wiring damaged.As the violence raged from April 11, killing three persons and leaving hundreds homeless, ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Provokers don’t pay salary, go back to work: CM to teachers

    Kolkata/Goaltore: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked protesting teachers to end their siege of the SSC headquarters and immediately return to school duty, asking them not to be swayed by provocateurs who didn't pay them their salaries. ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Kashmir hols turn fatal for US-based techie on annual summer visit to Kol

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old Kolkata techie, a resident of Florida, US, for about a decade, was among the 28 tourists massacred in Tuesday's terror attack in Pahalgam. Bitan Adhikary had come to his home town on April 8 with his ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Kol cop latest victim of digital arrest, loses Rs 17L

    Kolkata: A Kolkata Police sub-inspector, posted in one of the armed battalions of the force, was held under ‘digital arrest' for two-and-a-half-months and coerced into paying Rs 17.6 lakh to fraudsters who posed as officials from telecom regulator TRAI. ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    HC finds merit in custodial torture plaint by activists

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday found merit in a custodial torture complaint filed by female activists picked up by West Midnapore Police from in front of Vidyasagar University on March 3. "It was found in the report ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Mamata to visit violence-hit Murshidabad spots in May

    123 Kolkata/Goaltore: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she would visit troubled areas in Murshidabad in the first week of May to evaluate the situation, while holding "outsiders" responsible for the violence that erupted over amendments to the waqf ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    New town techie files cyber complaint over unauthorized companies linked to provident fund account

    Kolkata: A software professional residing in New Town filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police Station in Bidhannagar after discovering multiple unauthorized companies linked to his Employees' Provident Fund (EPFO) account. This raised serious concerns about potential misuse ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Petition in HC for April 30 Sanatani meet under cloud

    Kolkata: A petition by Ramesh Chandra Bera seeking Calcutta High Court's permission to hold a Maha Sanatani Dharma Sammelan at Contai on April 30 — the same day the CM is scheduled to inaugurate the Jagannath temple in Digha ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    HC finds merit in custodial torture plaint by student activists

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday found merit in a custodial torture complaint filed by female activists picked up by West Midnapore Police from in front of Vidyasagar University on March 3."It was found in the report submitted by ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    CPM ‘learning from people’ to stage Bengal comeback: Baby

    123 Kolkata: CPM was "learning from people" and "listening to their criticism" to rebuild itself in order to stage a "significant comeback" in Bengal, party general secretary MA Baby said on Tuesday.Baby, who was present at CPM's two-day state ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Police register case against middleman for government job scam in kolkata

    123 Kolkata: The Shakespeare Sarani PS has lodged an FIR against a middleman for allegedly orchestrating a govt job scam that defrauded an aspiring teacher, Zahir Sheikh (34) from Mothabari in Malda, of Rs 1,55,000 in 2019. The accused, ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    KP closes ASI for slapping biker over DigiLocker docus

    123 Kolkata: Assistant sub inspector Aminur Rehman, posted with Bansdroni police station, who allegedly slapped an app bike rider while trying to issue a challan to him during a routine check, has been suspended till the inquiry against him ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Salary lists’ reach schools, teachers’ siege continues at SSC HQ for 36 hrs

    123 Kolkata: The school education department on Tuesday afternoon sent an order to the district inspectors (DI) stating that teachers appointed from the 2016 recruitment panel can continue their services in school until the completion of the fresh recruitment ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Traffic takes a hit as heart of city goes through another workday rally blockage

    123 Kolkata: Traffic was hit in a major portion of central Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon following several rallies that were organised in the heart of the city — a couple of them linked to the SSC protest and two ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Mamata unveils twin gates to honour Vidyasagar’s legacy in Birsingha

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the Barnaparichay Gate at Chandrakona Road, alongside the Birsingha Gate and art wall at Birsingha village on Tuesday. These installations aim to establish Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's birthplace in Ghatal, West Midnapore, as ...

    23 April 2025 Times of India
    Special exhibition on B.R. Ambedkar opens at National Library of India to mark His 134th birth anniversary

    A special book exhibition celebrating the 134th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar was inaugurated at the National Library of India. The exhibition paid tribute to the life, legacy, and literary contributions of the chief architect ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    ZSI researchers discover 2 new spider species and 2 new national records in Northeast India

    In a significant discovery, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), headquartered in Kolkata, have documented four significant spider species from the biodiversity-rich northeastern region of India. The findings include the identification of two previously unknown species and ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Son & daughter-in-law ‘assault’ sr citizen mom

    Kolkata: An elderly woman, residing at the ESI quarters in Salt Lake, filed a complaint of attempted murder and assault against her son and daughter-in-law. She alleged that they attempted to strangle her. According to the complainant, she was ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Extortionists’ thrash govt project workers

    Kolkata: At least three workers, who have been engaged in the construction of a multipurpose cold storage and horticulture centre near Krishak Bazar at Chowbhaga in Anandapur, sustained injures after being allegedly assaulted by some extortionists over the last ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Burrabazar: A tinderbox with no heed to norms

    Kolkata: The blaze at 65/A Pathuriaghata Street has once again highlighted the blatant disregard for fire safety norms in Burrabazar, the city's business district. This incident is yet another warning sign ignored in Kolkata's oldest and most congested commercial-cum-residential ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    'Is janam mein Bengal nahi jeet sakti': Bihar MP Pappu Yadav says ‘only President’s rule can help BJP where it can’t win

    PATNA: Independent MP from Purnia, Pappu Yadav, asserted on Tuesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party lacks the capability to secure electoral victories independently in India. He further stated that the BJP would be unable to pose a significant challenge ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata horror: Woman's body found in suitcase in Baguiati

    KOLKATA: Police found a woman's body inside an abandoned suitcase near a drain near Kolkata's Baguiati police station on Tuesday morning. "The body has been sent for post-mortem examination. Her identity is yet to be ascertained," a police officer ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Return to work, govt will protect your salaries, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee tells protesting teachers

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday appealed to protesting teachers, who have been demonstrating against the cancellation of their appointments, to return to work. She assured them that the state government would safeguard their salaries.Addressing ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee slams anti-state propaganda, stresses harmony for development

    SALBONI (WEST MIDNAPORE): CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the barrage of negative propaganda against Bengal, showcasing the 1,600-MW JSW power plant in Salboni and stressing the importance of unity and harmony in development.“The synergy committee that we have ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Murshidabad violence: Atmosphere of fear persists even today, says NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar

    NEW DELHI: NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar has voiced serious concerns regarding the recent violent incidents in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, noting that residents continue to experience a pervasive sense of fear."The situation in Murshidabad is very bad. Large-scale communal ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Guv in hosp after chest pain, docs detect heart blockage

    Kolkata: Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose was admitted to Command Hospital in Kolkata on Monday after he complained of chest pain. After undergoing a few tests, including angiography, doctors detected a significant blockage in the heart, which sources ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Grandpa burns pregnant woman, brother to death

    123 Kolkata: A 19-year-old pregnant woman and her seven-year-old brother died after they were set ablaze at their residence at Sree Colony in Netaji Nagar, police said on Tuesday. The incident was reported on April 10 around 12.15 pm, ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur student found hanging in hostel room, 3rd campus death in 10 months

    KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: A fourth-year undergraduate student was found hanging in his room at IIT-Kharagpur’s JC Bose Hall of Residence on Sunday evening. Aniket Walkar, 22, who hailed from Gondia district in Maharashtra, was pursuing a dual degree programme from the ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Sacked West Bengal teachers lay siege as School Service Commission misses tainted-untainted list deadline

    Kolkata: The School Service Commission missed its Monday 6pm deadline of publishing the lists of “tainted” and “untainted” teachers, triggering chaos outside Acharya Sadan, its headquarters in Salt Lake.Protesters, saying they had run out of patience, clashed with police ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Kol swelters: Max temp 34°C, feels like 49°C

    Kolkata: While the maximum temperature hovered below the normal mark, the high moisture content pushed up the discomfort level in Kolkata on Monday. The high humidity led to a massive gap between the actual temperature and the real-feel, with ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    DigiLocker? ASI slaps biker, video goes viral

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has started investigation against an officer after a video — reportedly uploaded on Sunday by one Souparno Adhikary — went viral, showing the accused slapping a bike-taxi rider during an argument over digital documentation on Monday. ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Bus runs over app-bike rider on VIP Road

    Kolkata: An app-bike rider died in a freak accident on VIP Road early on Monday when the spare helmet hanging from his left hand got entangled with a cyclist's handlebar. The biker fell on to the road and was ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    8th IIT-Kgp student death in 5 years sparks stress concerns

    Kolkata: The third death in less than a year — the second in this semester — has triggered a fresh wave of alarm in the IIT-Kharagpur campus community. Fourth-year ocean engineering and naval architecture student Aniket Walkar's death is ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Warehouse fire: 2 trapped on top floor of Pathuriaghata bldg die of asphyxiation

    Kolkata: At least two persons, both priests from Rajasthan, died in a fire that broke out inside a warehouse of a textile firm on the top floor of a four-storey building at Pathuriaghata Street, Jorabagan on Sunday night. At ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Waqf act: TMC to file separate writ petition

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool is likely to file a separate writ petition against the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 as a party. Earlier, party MP Mahua Moitra had filed a plea against it, which is among the 70-odd petitions which is ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Father-son murders: Police fire in air to thwart escape, arrest 2 bros from Jharsuguda

    Bhubaneswar/Jharsuguda/Kolkata: In a joint raid by Odisha and Bengal Police in Jharsuguda's Bandhabahal late on Sunday, police fired four rounds to stop two persons, both sons of Murshidabad double-murder prime accused Ziaul Sheikh, as they attempted to flee from ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal Police contests India Justice Report after state gets lowly 18th rank

    123 Kolkata: The Bengal Police has contested the findings of the fourth India Justice Report (IJR) 2025, which ranked Bengal 18th among all states based on the performance of three key components of the criminal justice system: the judiciary, ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu in HC as cops refuse Contai event on April 30

    123 Kolkata: State leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari moved Calcutta High Court on Monday after police rejected his application for holding a Maha Sanatani Dharma Sammelan at Contai on April 30, the day CM Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Some wait for masons, others don’t know what to cook

    Dhuliyan: Displaced by violence two weeks back, many in Murshidabad are now returning to their villages. But with their houses destroyed, burnt to ground, many of them are staying at neighbours' house. Some, on the other hand, have started ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    CIL signs pact with DVC for Rs 16,500cr power project in Jharkhand

    123 Kolkata: Widening further its business diversification portfolio, Coal India Limited has joined hands with Damodar Valley Corporation to set up coal-fired 2×800 MW ultra supercritical power plants in Jharkhand. The total investment would be to the tune of ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    JSW looks to bring Japanese, Korean companies to Salboni

    123 Salboni: JSW Group will try to bring Japanese and Korean companies at its proposed Salboni industrial park, said company chairman Sajjan Jindal after laying of the park's foundation stone on Monday. JSW Energy is likely to set up ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Went already, didn’t blow our horns’: SCW counters NCW’s ‘visit Murshidabad’ jibe

    Kolkata: Objecting to National Women's Commission's statement that the state women's commission should go to meet violence-hit women in Murshidabad, the panel's chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay on Monday said SCW had already visited Murshidabad a week back. "Unlike NCW, we ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Will urge Centre to set up permanent BSF camp: Sukanta after Shamsherganj visit

    Dhuliyan: Bengal BJP president and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar visited trouble-torn Shamsherganj on Monday, and said that he would urge Centre to set up a BSF permanent camp in the area. Majumdar added that he would brief the Union ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    App biker in Kolkata hits car & flees, leaves behind injured rider

    The spot at Sukantanagar, where the accident occurred KOLKATA: A 26-year-old doctor, Aritra Karmakar of Amta rural hospital in Howrah, who suffered three fractures on his left leg following an accident on way back home to New Town on ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Will miss voice of sanity in troubled times: Kol Catholics mourn Pope Francis’s demise

    123 Kolkata: Nearly 1.7 lakh Catholics across 55 churches under the Archdiocese of Calcutta paid homage to Pope Francis on Monday. They remembered him for preaching global peace irrespective of any caste and creed across the world. Twenty of ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Neighbours clash in central kolkata over children playing cricket leading to hospitalization and police case.

    123 Kolkata: Neighbours came to blows in central Kolkata over children playing cricket on the first floor of the residence located at Madan Mohan Burman Street in Jorasanko. A child was allegedly assaulted, and two sets of neighbours came ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Nine days before Akshaya Tritiya, gold touches 1 lakh in Kol mkts

    123 Kolkata: Price of 10 gm gold of 24-carat purity in Kolkata touched the Rs 1-lakh mark with GST on Monday evening, nine days before Akshaya Tritiya — the day on which jewellers in the city witness the largest ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    City air improves but PM10 remains high

    Kolkata: A four-year analysis by Respirer Living Sciences revealed that while Kolkata has made steady progress in reducing PM10 pollution since 2021, air quality in the city remained hazardous throughout the year. This defies the common belief that summer ...

    22 April 2025 Times of India
    Youth held for sexual abuse of minor girl

    Kolkata: A 22-year-old youth from Garden Reach was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl multiple times after promising her marriage. Amir Hossain was taken into custody following a complaint lodged by the girl's parents at the Garden ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Max temperature in Kolkata may touch 37°C this week: Met

    Kolkata: Brace for another phase of hot and humid days. After an intense shower on Thursday and a few scattered spells at isolated pockets on Friday, the maximum temperature in the city could shoot up to 37°C in the ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake parks set for makeover with greener patches, play zones

    Kolkata: Parks and playgrounds in different localities across Salt Lake, maintained by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), are getting revamped with more green patches, children's play zones, repaired and painted boundary walls and other amenities.TOI visited some of the ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Calcutta University rushes to create academic bank of credit (ABC) IDs for UG students before June deadline

    Photo credit: AI KOLKATA: Calcutta University is working to meet a June deadline set by UGC to get academic bank of credit (ABC) IDs ready for more than 3 lakh undergraduate students who took admission in the 2022-'23 and ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata hospitals take AI route to improve clinical services, digitally boost administrative ops

    Photo credit: AI KOLKATA: Several hospitals in the city are shifting a significant part of their clinical services to AI platforms, while administrative operations will be entirely digitised across several facilities by the end of April. Hospital heads feel ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Violence-hit Murshidabad returns to normal, schools reopen after 10 days

    A glimpse of Murshidabad violence NEW DELHI: Regular activities in Murshidabad have begun to return to normal under strict security measures following the unrest that occurred in various regions regarding the Waqf Act.A resident confirmed that educational institutions ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    History-sheeter held after councillor’s plaint

    Kolkata: A history-sheeter in Netaji Nagar and Tollygunge, Puchki, was on Sunday arrested after Mitali Bandyopadhyay, councillor of Ward 99, lodged a complaint against him and his aide, Jayanta, for creating trouble in the Baghajatin Hospital Road area on ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    RPF ASI found dead in Darj

    Siliguri: The body of a 57-year-old RPF assistant sub-inspector, HN Sarkar of Cooch Behar, was found between Batasia and Darjeeling with his bike lying by the side recently. Prior to his death, he was on way to his barrack ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    IPL 2025: Kolkata police issued match-day traffic curbs ahead of KKR vs GT match at Eden Gardens

    NEW DELHI: The Kolkata traffic police have issued a comprehensive traffic advisory in view of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Gujarat Titans (GT) scheduled for Monday, April 21, at Eden Gardens, ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    1.4L electric vehicles fight over 763 public charging stations

    Kolkata: Rapid growth in electric vehicle (EV) use notwithstanding, a critical gap in accessible, functional and well-publicised charging stations in Bengal threatens to derail Bengal's transition to e-mobility, shows a recent study by the Centre for Science and Environment ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Hawkers’ display counters: Bikes, car bonnets, lamp posts, cables, railings

    123456 Kolkata: With pavements and parts of carriageways already encroached upon, hawkers in the city have come up with innovative yet disruptive ways to take over space for their business. Bonnets of parked vehicles, seats of stationary bikes, lamp ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Kashmir trip with FB girlfriend goes awry for 73-year-old man

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old man from Kestopur, who met a middle-aged woman on Facebook and went on a trip to Kashmir with her, alleged she swapped his debit card and withdrew around Rs 2.6 lakh from his account over multiple ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Woman dead, man hurt in bison attack in North Bengal; animal also dies

    123 Jalpaiguri: A 62-year-old woman, Deomani Baraik, was killed, and another man, Shahjahan, sustained injuries on Sunday after they were mowed down by a bison that had strayed out of Baikunthapur forest along with another Indian Gaur (bison). Later, ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    KMC garage loot bid: Four in police net

    Kolkata: Police arrested four men on Sunday in connection to the robbery attempt at a Kolkata Municipal Garage in Dhapa. The accused were identified as Bishu Ghosh, Bikky Ishwar, Deva alias Ravi Rai, and Krishna Adhikari, all residents of ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Japan school exchange prog inspires classroom clean-up

    Kolkata: After seeing Japanese students clean their school at the end of the day, students of Birla High School, who visited the country on an exchange programme, introduced the concept of cleaning up the classroom after school hours. "Students ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    City school celebrates silver jubilee with grandeur

    123 Kolkata: National English School celebrated its 25-year journey with a grand silver jubilee celebration at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre recently. West Bengal minister of higher education and school education Bratya Basu was the chief guest at the ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Kol man writes to Sikh committees after Bangkok kirpan ordeal

    Kolkata: A Kolkata-based entrepreneur and community leader, Satnam Singh Ahluwalia, alleged racial and religious discrimination at a Bangkok hotel on April 12, 2025, after being denied check-in due to his kirpan — a sacred article of faith for practising ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal won’t allow waqf act, says TMC, holds march

    123 Kolkata: A day after a Trinamool office at Bhangar's Chakmircha village was vandalised allegedly by ISF-backed anti-waqf protesters, Jadavpur MP Saayoni Ghosh and party MLA Saokat Molla on Sunday led a "march to Shonpur" to protest the attack ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Auspicious, says TMC after fishermen’s idol ‘discovery’

    Digha: Local fishermen in Digha found a wooden idol of Lord Jagannath that had washed ashore on Sunday, prompting many, including Trinamool, to say this was an auspicious event.CM Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate the Jagannath Temple complex ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Displaced come back home, TMC team visits kin of dead

    Dhuliyan: Two hundred and ninety-three families, who had crossed the Ganga to flee their homes in Murshidabad to take shelter in a school in Malda's Baishnabnagar, returned home on Sunday. The families, from violence-hit Bethbona and Dhuliyan, had been ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Boost booth-level strength ahead of ’26 poll battle: CPM

    123 Kolkata: Overcoming organisational shortcomings, CPM and Left mass organisations on Sunday called for strengthening booth-level units to counter the "binary scripted by Trinamool and BJP" in Bengal. CPM netas, speaking from a rally at Brigade Parade Ground, called ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    NCW chief: Don’t politicise tragedies, act to help women

    Kolkata: Calling upon Bengal govt to act immediately to address the grievances of violence-hit women in Murshidabad, National Commission for Women chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Sunday said: "The issue is above politics and must be treated with the urgency ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    6 held with 36kg ganja near Setu

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police caught six people with 36 kg ganja in the city on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, a team from the narcotics cell of the Kolkata Police's detective department caught the accused on the southern pavement of ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Howrah trader picked up by Hyderabad cops ‘under arrest’, Kolkata Police seeks answers

    (File photo) The Camac St hotel, from where Jasbinder Singh was picked up KOLKATA/HYDERABAD: Two days after Shakespeare Sarani police registered a kidnapping case following a trader being picked up from a Camac Street hotel by two men claiming ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Social media stalking case cannot rest on surmise and conjecture’

    123 Kolkata: Allegations against any person for stalking and sexually harassing minor girls on social media cannot be based on "surmise and conjecture," a city POCSO court held on April 16, acquitting a person who allegedly stalked a minor ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s power consumption to double in 10 years: Report

    Kolkata: Power consumption in Bengal would more than double to 134 billion units per year in the next 10 years, a study conducted by JSW Energy, the power arm of JSW group, revealed.The company is setting up a 1,600 ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    Fusion of faith & festivity marks Easter in Kolkata

    Kolkata: From late-night vigils to afternoon rally, from special prayer services to family get-togethers, Kolkata celebrated Easter with a vibrant fusion of faith, food, and festivity. The Easter Walk, which started at 3 pm on Sunday from various churches, ...

    21 April 2025 Times of India
    2 labourers buried alive at factory site

    Kharagpur: Two contract labourers were buried alive under a mound of earth that collapsed on them at a metallic factory in the Changual area under Kharagpur Local police station on Saturday. The victims have been identified as Rahul Midya ...

    20 April 2025 Times of India
    TMC office in Bhangar set on fire

    123 Kolkata: A Trinamool office in Chakmaricha village in Bhangar was reportedly vandalised and set on fire at night, leading to fresh rounds of tensions in the area. The torching of the party office occurred a day before the ...

    20 April 2025 Times of India
    DigiYatra launch set to speed up domestic to domestic transfers at kolkata airport

    123 Kolkata: Starting this weekend, passengers at Kolkata airport switching between domestic flights can expect a faster, smoother transit experience courtesy of the introduction of DigiYatra services in the domestic-to-domestic (D2D) transfer area. The move aims to ease congestion ...

    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Woman, 52, HC seeks Centre’s opinion on IVF plea

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Sign language makes debut at Science City

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Mamata to inaugurate EB docu

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Bose Institute scientists win breakthrough prize for CERN-ALICE

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    Boi Para college street: The heart of Kolkata’s literary and cultural heritage

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    KMDA seeks Bypass block for subway near Science City

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    Court proposes, HC disposes, strikes off married man’s second marriage

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    More Kolkata flyers opt for fast-track immigration

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    KMC staffer hurt in garage break-in

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Queen’s Mansion fire: No forensic exam yet

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Night out turns fatal for teen as car flips on flyover

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    20 April 2025 Times of India
    Park St fire prompts checks at 2 markets

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