123 Kolkata: In an encouraging shift, youngsters — who are often found hooked to smartphones — were surprisingly drawn to the International Kolkata Book Fair this year, showing interest in detective, suspense and thriller literature.Their choice of genre seems ...
10 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former state food and forest affairs minister and Habra MLA Jyoti Priya Mallick made his first visit to his constituency on Sunday after being released on bail in the ration case on Jan 15.Mallick, who was imprisoned for ...
10 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has set out timelines for case records to be transferred from the trial courts to the HC to cut down on delays. To reduce the growing case pendency due to delays in case record ...
10 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The 48th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) scripted many highs, both in terms of book sales and footfalls, after it concluded on Sunday. The IKBF, which has been a 12-day affair this year compared to the 14-day ...
10 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Prices in the Kolkata market touched Rs 87,000 per 10 gm for 24K gold. The development has left city jewellers worried as gold jewellery orders have halted for a while during the marriage season.On Saturday, 24K gold ...
10 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The mercury dipped further on Sunday in Kolkata when the city recorded a minimum temperature of 15.1 °Celsius and a maximum of 27.2 °Celsius . The temperature is likely to hover around the same mark or slightly ...
10 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Schools are focusing on reducing stress for board students during the exam season to help them perform better. With multiple instances of board examinees experiencing panic attacks before the tests, students are coming to professional counsellors for assistance. ...
10 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: "All I want is the rapist and murderer of my child to be hanged. The punishment should be nothing short of the death penalty," appealed the class 8 girl's father on Sunday, shortly after toto driver Soumitra ...
10 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: There are people around us, apparently helpful and friendly with no criminal intent or record, who have developed a frightening indifference to pain, suffering, and the consequences of transgressing the law, say psychiatrists and psychologists. These are ...
10 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The charred body of a 62-year-old Sandeshkhali resident, Habibullah Mollah, was dragged out of the fire-ravaged Narkeldanga shanties early on Sunday morning by the fire brigade and police, prompting sporadic protests by a section of locals. Mollah ...
10 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Wife beater, Peeping Tom, habitual drunkard, known gambler, and an extremely violent and abusive man — Soumitra Roy alias Raj, the toto driver arrested for the murder and rape of a class VIII girl in New Town, ...
10 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A new private member's bill introduced by Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien in Rajya Sabha on Friday seeks to criminalise marital rape as it "undermines the autonomy and equality of women". O'Brien, while moving the bill, said: ...
9 February 2025 Times of India123 Kalimpong: The Dalai Lama's elder brother, Gyalo Thondup, who was a towering figure in Tibetan politics, died at 97 at his Kalimpong residence on Saturday. "He passed away peacefully due to old age," said a family member. Thondup ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaPresidency University researchers Snigdha Bhaumik and Soumya Subhra Baishnab will join the 12th Indian Scientific Expedition to the Southern Ocean to study benthic communities amid climate change KOLKATA: Presidency University senior research fellows Snigdha Bhaumik and Soumya Subhra Baishnab ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: If a US deportation flight lands in Kolkata with illegal Indian immigrants from east and northeast India, the deportees will be treated with dignity. After a medical check-up, hot meals will be provided to them on arrival. ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: If East Bengal FC are to reflect on their miserable campaign in the ISL Season-XI a month from now, they can zero in on a simple ‘home' truth — they have been too fragile, too feeble and too ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a unique gesture to appreciate and honour the contribution of sports in the society, the city of Kolkata will stage the International Sports Film Festival of India (ISFFI) from Feb 11 to 15. The five-day event will ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 48th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), which will draw to an end on Sunday, almost caught up with last year's footfall as 23 lakh people visited the fair till Saturday and last year's count was nearly 29 ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: For those who missed the planetary parade in January, here's an opportunity to catch up with the celestial lineup. Nearly every night this Feb, it will be possible to witness the planetary parade of six planets in ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim called on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a New Town guest house for a 30-minute meeting on Saturday, prompting Trinamool to immediately question their "real motive".The parents expressed satisfaction ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKalyani: Raids were conducted on Friday night at the homes of operators of an illegal firecracker unit and at various locations in Rathtala, confiscating substantial quantities of firecracker material, said a Ranaghat police district officer. This came after an ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Reacting to the Delhi assembly poll results, Trinamool on Saturday reminded BJP seniors not to gloat and said that Delhi and Bengal were completely different when it came to an electoral battle. "Delhi or no Delhi, after the ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police announced it would now prosecute vehicles trying to take a U-turn near the PTS crossing towards Rabindra Sadan and Exide crossing after coming down from AJC Bose Road flyover. The move, said an officer, ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt has set up a state-level investment synergy committee headed by chief secretary Manoj Pant to provide a single interface for approving investments. The committee, formulated during the recently concluded BGBS, will have 19 departmental heads as ...
9 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Two men, posing as team members of a celebrated fashion photographer of Kolkata after opening a fake social media ID, allegedly blackmailed and raped two young women — aged 22 and 25 — on the outskirts of ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: "Where is Didi?" wailed an eight-year-old girl when she returned to her Gouranganagar in New Town from her ancestral home in Swaroop Nagar after attending last rites of her elder sister, a suspected rape and murder victim. ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 13-year-old girl, whose body was recovered on Friday morning from the bushes beside the NBCC Vibgyor Towers at CE Block in New Town's Action Area-I, was raped before being murdered, the preliminary post-mortem report indicated. Bidhannagar Police ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: After five years, the additional sessions judge (1st court) of Sealdah court convicted Bidhan Bose alias Raju of raping his elderly landlady, who had died a year after the crime took place. The court sentenced him to seven ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the third time over the last three months, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police nabbed three gun-runners — all Uttar Pradesh natives — from central Kolkata on Friday night. Police claimed that the accused were ...
9 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two residents of Prince Gholam Md Shah Road, Abhishek Tewari (42) and Tista Sen (40), have been arrested for allegedly controlling 245 mule accounts, in which proceeds from cyber frauds, like digital arrest and online investment frauds, were ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Access to stalls at the book fair continued to pose a hurdle for people with disabilities, particularly those in wheelchairs, said members of Wheelchair Users' Association (WUA) who visited the book fair on Saturday afternoon.Though the fair ...
9 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: A kick-boxing champion, Aman Chowdhury, was arrested by Kolkata Police for allegedly assaulting four Kasba traders near the SBI intersection in Alipore around 11 pm on Wednesday. He later got bail.Police said, Chowdhury was returning home to ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Following last month's high court order, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has allotted space to 260 hawkers at the hawkers' market near TCS-Gitanjali in New Town as part of a continuous rehabilitation initiative. So far, ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) students blocked a road in front of the Salt Lake campus on Friday and constructed a speed breaker there after a man was run over at the spot the night before. The students claimed ...
9 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Murcury nosedived in Kolkata on Friday, when both the minimum and maximum temperature slipped significantly. From 22.2°C on Thursday, the minimum temperature dropped five notches to 17.3°C on Friday. The maximum temperature also slipped to 26.8°C, 1.5 ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: While board exams begin on Monday, scores of examinees are down with viral fever and chest infections. Doctors are being flooded with requests for certificates seeking permission to take exams in sick rooms. With temperatures fluctuating and board ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: There's little to pick between East Bengal FC and Chennaiyin FC, who face each other in their ISL match at the Salt Lake stadium here on Saturday.In the nine matches against each other so far, East Bengal and ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Those with close ties in Dhaka have strongly reacted to the news of questioning of Bangladeshi actors Meher Afroz Shaon and Sohana Saba for allegedly "conspiring against the state".According to the 'Daily Star', the detective branch (DB) of ...
8 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The sharp spike in the number of passengers transiting Kolkata airport in the last three festive months of 2024 broke several footfall records. However, it resulted in an eight-step slide in the airport's ranking in the customer ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC buildings department on Friday decided to sanction a building plan for construction on a 410 sq ft plot. Usually, the minimum plot size on which a building can be approved is 1 cottah or 720 sq ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaValentine’s Day is a good time to cook a special meal for your partner. Try setting up a candlelit dinner to make it more romanticPics: Kaustav Saikia; Models: Sushmita Roy and Rangeet Raheel What if we said you can ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaVictims of digital arrest fraud face a lengthy process to recover their money. Immediate reporting to the cybercrime portal is crucial for freezing accounts. KOLKATA: If you lose money in digital arrest fraud, brace yourself for a long-drawn process ...
8 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Developers in Kolkata are eyeing a major boost in affordable home sales following the repo rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India, which will see a reduction in equated monthly instalments on housing loans or a ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A graphic artist from south Kolkata, Supratim Duta, was arrested from Rajdanga in Kasba on Thursday by the Andhra Pradesh Police for designing counterfeit currency notes. Dutta allegedly sold the design to a counterfeiter from Guntur district in ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the appeals filed by both the state and CBI, seeking the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, convicted in the RG Kar rape and murder case, the Calcutta High Court on Friday admitted CBI's appeal and rejected that ...
8 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 25-year-old woman lawyer was attacked with a sharp weapon by some drivers after she protested against illegal parking near her home. She sustained injuries on her arm and shoulder and five stitches had to be administered, ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two more persons were arrested on Friday from UP for the murder of Naihati businessman and Trinamool functionary Santosh Yadav. The two, Upen Das, aka Upen Tanti, and Akash Shaw, son of prime accused Rajesh Shaw, were produced ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro incurred Rs 224.7 crore losses till Jan, compared to a loss of Rs 207.9 crore during the same period in the previous fiscal, Metro Railway said in a statement on Friday. But Metro registered a passenger growth ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Friendship between a man and a woman in today's society could not be construed as an illicit relationship, Calcutta High Court said while granting divorce to a man whose wife filed seven police complaints against him over the ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKalyani: Four women died and one was critically injured in a massive explosion that tore through an illegal firecracker-manufacturing unit in a densely populated area in Kalyani's Rathtala, less than 60km from Kolkata, early Friday afternoon.The building's and the ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 14-year-old girl, who had left home Gouranganagar, under New Town PS, in a huff after an argument with her mother and sister late on Thursday, was found murdered 6km away early on Friday in a bush next ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman, Sophia Khatun, was arrested on Friday for the murder of Hazrat Laskar (29), a criminal-turned-informer, taking the total count of arrests to three. His half-burned body was found in a Duttapukur field. The prime accused, cousin ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Anandapur Police arrested a fifth accused involved in the murder of a 28-year-old shoe trader from the VIP Bazar area on Jan 31. "Ranjan Chakraborty (49), a resident of Sakrail in Howrah, was arrested on Friday from ...
8 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Around 5am on Thursday, a patrolling party of the 146th Battalion at Jalangi outpost spotted 6-7 infiltrators attempting to cross into Bangladesh. "Acting swiftly, the BSF troops managed to apprehend two of them — both Bangladeshi nationals ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Union Budget was an example of "half-federalism" and a "reverse form of Robin Hood", Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said in Parliament on Friday, adding that the economy had already been handed over to the "Ravanas of ...
8 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Two senior state cabinet ministers — power minister Aroop Biswas and information and cultural affairs minister Indranil Sen — stepped in on Friday evening to break the ongoing Tollywood stand-off, bringing the directors' and the technicians' bodies ...
8 February 2025 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A woman's half-naked body was found inside a bush in the New Town area near Kolkata on Friday, police reported. Residents of the Lohar Pul locality noticed the body in the morning and alerted the authorities. The ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On Thursday, a packed academic building at Burdwan Medical College (BMC) said ‘yes’ to free and fair examinations during a meeting with representatives of State Level Grievance Redress Committee (SLGRC). The committee members rushed to the medical college ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: At least four people were injured after a government employee attacked his colleagues with a knife following a dispute at a West Bengal government office in Newtown on Thursday, police said. The accused, Asit Sarkar, an employee ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Lieutenant General Batoo Tshering, chief operations officer of the Royal Bhutan Army, concluded his two-day visit to the Indian Army’s Eastern Command Headquarters in Kolkata, at Vijay Durg (previously called Fort William). He discussed steps to enhance defence ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The former students of Burdwan Medical College (BMC) said they were keeping a close watch on the fairness of examinations on the college campus. Many said they were pained by reports of some students being allowed to cheat ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Seeking more tech investments in Bengal, state IT minister Babul Supriyo said on Thursday: "Don't judge us by our speed. Judge us by our acceleration." He was speaking at a gathering at the sectoral session at the ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will collaborate with Bengal's non-conventional and renewable energy resources (NRES) department to accelerate energy transition by embracing green energy and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.In an MoU signed between the state's NRES ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Hindustani classical singer Subhra Guha was cheated out of Rs 66 lakh by cyber fraudsters in the name of digital arrest. The bank fraud section of the detective department has tracked and recovered the money, and returned ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Hawkers illegally occupying the pavements in Kolkata have demanded the immediate removal of their counterparts encroaching on the carriageway, claiming they are eating into their business. The irony is that the former have for long blocked the ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A combination of factors, ranging from a degree of unfamiliarity with the new digital world to the age-related emotional vulnerability of a parent, as well as the pressure and monotony of staying alone, without youngsters at home, may ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The demolition of the G+3 tilted building near Baghajatin in south Kolkata that began three weeks ago will take at least another month, a supervisor of the private agency entrusted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Diversified conglomerate ITC has signed definitive agreements for acquisition of Prasuma — one of the leading players in the frozen, chilled and ready to cook food space in India. This would be the fifth major acquisition in ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The eighth edition of Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) concluded on Thursday with investment proposals adding up to Rs 4.4 lakh crore and an assurance from CM Mamata Banerjee to business captains that Bengal was "the safest ...
7 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: When former President of India Pranab Mukherjee visited Dhaka in 2018, he paid a visit to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi. The museum, housed inside the same building where a group of rogue ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Police sub-inspector, Arun Kumar Maiti (56), and civic volunteer, Sangita Porey, were allegedly assaulted near Bandha Bathtala crossing by a group of revellers — in an inebriated state — from a local club in Rabindranagar area ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed an appeal petition made by RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh, accused in the corruption case along with others, against the order of the single bench the day before on Wednesday, dismissing ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Given the number of cases under the Pocso Act in the state, there is a requirement for 25 exclusive Pocso courts. Out of these, 15 such courts were sanctioned, Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court T S ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A BSF personnel and a Bangladeshi smuggler were injured in a clash at the international border in South Dinajpur early on Wednesday. "In the intervening night of Feb 4-5, some Bangladeshi smugglers crossed the international border. They ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: State health department has started cracking down on govt doctors who engage in private practice despite drawing a non-practicing allowance every month. The dept ordered 19 doctors to appear before an inquiry committee at Swasthya Bhawan.According to ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front has planned a health camp and mass gathering on Feb 9, the birthday of the RG Kar victim. Feb 9 also marks the sixth month since the heinous crime. The chest ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A shoe trader, Sanu Ram, (28), residing at VIP Bazar off EM Bypass was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by five persons, at least two of them his close friends, on Jan 31. His body was then dumped ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Madhyamik board to arrange for the issuance of admit cards to all enrolled students who are yet to receive them for the Madhyamik examination beginning on Feb ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Infuriated at being denied leave, an employee in New Town's Karigari Bhawan, Amit Sarkar (50), slashed at his boss and three colleagues with a knife in his office on Thursday morning.After the attack, he walked away brandishing ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: From Friday, members of Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI) are going off the shooting floor. This was decided at a meeting on Thursday evening. Sources said a letter has been sent to the producers of director ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: As predicted by the Met office, the minimum temperature rose to 22.2 degrees on Thursday, 5.3 notches above the normal mark. With the moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal, the maximum temperature also climbed to 30.2 degrees ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A tattoo on the victim's hand helped identify the headless, half-burned body of a young man with mutilated genitals, found in a Duttapukur paddy field in North 24-Parganas on Monday. The victim, Hazrat Lashkar (29), was a ...
7 February 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Two critically-endangered primates — juveniles of red-shanked douc — found only in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were seized by the Customs at Kolkata airport in the early hours of Thursday and a youth has been detained upon ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: To keep Kolkata's iconic yellow taxis on roads, but with a modern twist and an eco-friendly turn, the state govt allowed all luxury cabs to adopt the classic yellow colour. The first 150 clean-fuel, yellow taxis will hit ...
7 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The first fleet of pink e-bike taxis—for the women and by the women— are set to ride into Kolkata. Taking a step towards safe and reliable commute, app-bike Rapido co-founder Pavan Guntupalli signed an MoU with transport ...
7 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after a 76-year-old woman, a former employee of a health and technology MNC residing at Lake Gardens, fell victim to digital arrest and lost Rs 97 lakh in the process, the Lake Police has drawn up ...
6 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Two critically-endangered primates — juveniles of red-shanked douc — found only in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were seized by the Customs at Kolkata airport in the early hours of Thursday and a youth has been detained upon ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: On a day East Bengal FC bolstered their frontline by roping in Cameroonian forward Raphael Messi Bouli, they lost Jordanian defender Hijazi Maher through a season-ending injury. Messi Bouli — who played for Kerala Blasters in the 2019-20 ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: There's no stopping Mohun Bagan SG at home. Jose Molina's team defeated Punjab FC 3-0 at the Salt Lake Stadium on Wednesday to become the first team to clinch a playoff spot in the Indian Super League's 2024-25 ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Showstoppers on the first day of the 8th edition of Bengal Global Business Summit, industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Sajjan Jindal announced investment of over Rs 80,000 crore in the state in the next 4-5 years. Calling Bengal chief ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: To bury the hatchet once and for all, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called Tata Sons chairperson Natarajan Chandrasekharan on Tuesday, urging him to attend the 8th edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit that commenced on Wednesday at ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaWe were threatened with arrest by the ED and rebuked by fake RBI officials. We were served a fake ED notice and threatened with having our bank accounts blocked and property seized if payment through RTGS did not arrive ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The renaming of the nearly 250-year-old Fort William — the only fort in the world where not a single shot was ever fired — to Vijay Durg by the Narendra Modi govt found little favour among Army veterans ...
6 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: In response to a petition filed by green activist Subhas Datta regarding the deterioration of the Victoria Memorial Hall due to the state's failure to comply with a Supreme Court order, the Calcutta High Court directed the ...
6 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A scooterist's accident on Darga Road on Tuesday prompted the Kolkata Traffic Police to crack down on rule violators—especially those speeding and overtaking—to ensure safety for the students at two popular schools in the area. Cops also ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a first, Jadavpur University is set to hold elections to elect student representatives for the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that handles sexual harassment complaints and other forms of discrimination at workplaces.A source said the meeting would probably ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed police to hand over the body of a deceased uncle to his nephew for performing his last rites. The body was lying at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital morgue since ...
6 February 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: With days to go for the Madhyamik examination, the admit card, registration card, books, notebooks, and notes of an examinee were gutted when her two-storey house caught fire early on Wednesday at Bagnan in Howrah. The candidate, Renuia ...
6 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The annual function of Calcutta Public School Baguiati was organised on Dec 19 at Science City Auditorium. The students celebrated the theme of women empowerment with immense zeal by synchronising tradional vibes with modern ethos.The programme began ...
6 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A portion of the Lake Town foot overbridge (FOB) staircase was damaged, and the area has been fenced off by PWD to prevent any mishap. "Necessary steps will be taken to repair the damaged portion soon," said ...
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