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  • F5IFF’25 puts spotlight on women, nature & independent storytelling

    KOLKATA: As the curtain fell on the second edition of the Fest5 International Film Festival (F5IFF’25), accolades poured in for its role as a premier platform for independent filmmakers — free from syndicates, free from commercial clusters, and devoted ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro: Blue Line plans to run all night for Durga Puja; Green Line extended beyond midnight

    KOLKATA: Despite ongoing challenges, Kolkata Metro plans to run night-long Blue (North-South) Line services on key Durga Puja days, officials said. Plans are also underway to extend Green (East-West) Line services beyond midnight, until at least 2 am.Except for ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    KMC prohibits Ferris wheels during puja

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to say a strict no to the installation of Ferris wheels at the city's parks during Durga Puja. An accident at Ramlila Maidan in Entally in July 2022 prompted the civic decision, ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Kin, friends in India on edge after Nepal mayhem

    Darjeeling: As political turmoil intensified in Nepal on Monday, residents of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, and Siliguri grappled with mounting anxiety over the safety of their loved ones across the border.Protests against govt corruption in Kathmandu have already claimed ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Humid, partly cloudy; no rain expected today, AQI remains moderate

    Kolkata's weather forecast for September 9, 2025, indicates a partly cloudy day with temperatures reaching 34.4°C amid moderate air quality concerns. The city recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 67 yesterday, with temperatures expected to range between 26.7°C ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal health panel: Release bodies in 5 hrs; hospitals seek surety on dues payment

    KOLKATA: Hospitals cannot hold back bodies of deceased patients for more than five hours for non-payment of dues or while waiting for insurance claim approval, the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission ruled on Monday.If any hospital keeps a ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Rethink full-day cease-work, times have changed, says Calcutta HC to lawyers

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court Bar should rethink the practice of adopting resolutions to abstain from court hearings for an entire day as this led to cases piling up and put "pressure on the court", Justice Tirthankar Ghosh told ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Illegal sand mining: ED raids 27 locations across the state

    Kolkata: ED on Monday conducted searches across 27 locations in Bengal in connection with illegal sand mining.Most of the searches were focused on a sand-mining company that operates in Bengal, UP, Rajasthan and Odisha. In Bengal, it operates at ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Jaiswal-Sen reigns supreme

    Shankarpur: The seaside tourist village of Shankarpur welcomed some unusual visitors as more than 30 rally cars taking part in Monsoon Drive-14 went zooming past curious onlookers on a lazy afternoon last Saturday. The event, organised by Just Sportz, ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Hilsa diplomacy back on plate: B’desh clears 1,200 tonnes ahead of Durga Puja

    Kolkata: The Mohammad Yunus-led interim govt in Bangladesh gave its nod on Monday to the export of hilsa to India ahead of Durga Puja. This continues the practice that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina had initiated with the culturally ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Ensure parks can open within two weeks of Durga Puja: KMC

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has asked organisers of in parks to restore the grounds within a fortnight of Dashami. According to a KMC parks department official, the permission to use parks was given to puja organisers along ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    NIT Durgapur to host Puri Shankaracharya for motivational speech

    Durgapur: NIT Durgapur has invited Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati Maharaj to deliver a motivational speech on Thursday, Sept 11. The Shankaracharya will also preside over a "darshan and diksha" event. The programme schedule was released by NIT director ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Docs remove 2-yr-old’s rare laryngeal cyst

    Kolkata: A two-year-old girl was rushed to hospital with a life-threatening airway obstruction caused by a large congenital laryngeal cyst a few days ago. A team of doctors at Apollo Multispecialty Hospital removed the cyst during a complex surgery. ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    HC junks plea against CBFC nod to ‘The Bengal Files’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside a petition challenging the role of the (CBFC) that allowed the screening of ‘The Bengal Files', observing that the petition was not maintainable.Petitioner Santanu Mukherjee, a lawyer and grandson of ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    50 for 2km: Autos make most of Kolkata metro crisis

    Kolkata: After metro operations between Garia and Tollygunge got disrupted for an hour on Monday morning, commuters alleged that a large section of operators on Tollygunge-Garia auto route fleeced commuters by charging double or triple the original fare. The ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Abducted Midnapore minor rescued from Surat, 1 arrested

    West Midnapore: A student of class 8 who had been kidnapped in July was rescued from Surat last Thursday and her abductor arrested. Ranjit Das (25), from Chakgopinathpur area in Sabang, has been booked for abduction, marrying a minor ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Farmer abducted by Bangla miscreants freed after BSF-BGB meet

    Jalpaiguri: An Indian national, abducted by Bangladeshi miscreants on Monday morning after he went to his farmland on the other side of the fencing on the India-Bangladesh border, was freed after a flag meeting between BSF and Border Guard ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Will fix all roads by next week, KMC assures after mayor prod

    Kolkata: With less than two weeks left for Mahalaya, mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday held a special Durga Puja meeting and asked the civic officials and other state and central agencies to wrap up road repairs well before Mahalaya.Responding ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Alipore zoo giraffe that died a month after shift to Ranchi was 4-5 months pregnant: Autopsy

    Kolkata/Ranchi: The six-year-old female giraffe from Alipore zoo that recently died at Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park in Ranchi following an exchange programme, was pregnant, the post-mortem report revealed. If so, then experts said the transportation will be a violation ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    BJP platform plans Nov film festival to showcase ‘those left out’

    Kolkata: With ‘Bengal Files' receiving a feeble response nationally, a BJP platform has planned to showcase movies that were either restricted in the state or failed to find a place at film festivals. The saffron brigade has been pointing ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    PCBL targets Rs16,000cr revenue

    Kolkata: PCBL Chemicals Ltd, a RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, has set a target of Rs 16,000 crore in revenues and aims for a five-fold growth in post-tax profit by 2030. The company also plans to increase its capacity by ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    CIL to check viability of data centres at decommissioned mines

    Kolkata: Coal India Limited (CIL) will conduct a study to evaluate the potential of establishing data centres in its decommissioned mines. Sources said four sites — Umrer (WCL), Saraipali in Korba (SECL), Himgir Rampur near Jharsuguda (MCL), and Nigahi ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal goes out of top 10 accident-prone states

    Kolkata: Bengal witnessed 13,795 accidents in 2023, resulting in 12,615 injuries. A total of 5,664 fatal accidents claimed 6,027 lives. These numbers were enough to ensure Bengal moved out of the first 10 most accident-prone states in the country, ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    HS examinees make OMR sheets debut

    Kolkata: For the inaugural OMR-based first part of the Higher Secondary examination that started on Monday, each centre was equipped with an additional 50% of OMR sheets beyond the total number of candidates. Hard copies of the OMR sheets ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Ballygunge engg alleges online stalking by former classmate

    Kolkata: A young Ballygunge-based chemical engineer, who works with a US-based MNC and whose husband is a senior geologist, has alleged that she was being harassed, stalked, and threatened online by her former classmate. The accused was earlier suspended ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    50 for 2km: Autos make most of crisis

    Kolkata: After metro operations between Garia and Tollygunge got disrupted for an hour on Monday morning, commuters alleged that a large section of operators on Tollygunge-Garia auto route fleeced commuters by charging double or triple the original fare. The ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Help held for stealing 1cr jewellery

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police arrested a domestic help for allegedly stealing gold jewellery and expensive watches worth over Rs 1 crore from a businessman's house on Rowland Row in Ballygunge where he was employed for the past 10 years. The ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    ‘Awareness key to prevent suicides’

    Kolkata: The rising number of suicide cases, especially among the age group between 15 and 30 years, can be prevented if the silence and stigma around mental health are broken through conversations, feel experts from a leading NGO dealing ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Peak-hour metro snag hits Blue Line services on first HS morning

    Kolkata: A snag in a metro rake, on a day the HS started, left students and office-goers scrambling for alternative road transport, as services along the North-South (Blue) Line were hit for over an hour on the first day ...

    9 September 2025 Times of India
    Ex-cashier held for 62L gold theft from PSU bank locker

    Kolkata: A former cashier-cum-vault manager of a nationalised bank in Bhowanipore, Arnab Biswas, was arrested in connection with the theft of 571 grams of gold jewellery from the bank locker. The arrest came after an investigation revealed a forged ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    'The Bengal Files': Calcutta HC rejects plea of Gopal Patha's grandson; CBFC clearance stands

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside a petition challenging the role of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) that had allowed screening of The Bengal Files film observing that the petition was not maintainable.Petitioner Santanu Mukherjee, ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal: BJP accuses TMCP leader of attempting to burn photos of Rabindranath Tagore, Narendra Modi, Amit Shah

    KOLKATA: The BJP on Sunday alleged that a Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) leader at Chanchol College in Malda tried to set fire to photographs of , Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah. According to ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    'Ghosh insulted Bengalis and Bengal': TMC MLA Rahim Bakshi defends ‘pour acid’ remark; BJP calls it ‘Taliban regime’

    NEW DELHI: (TMC) leader Abdur Rahim Bakshi has issued a clarification after a controversy erupted over his remarks threatening to "pour acid" into BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh's mouth.Bakshi defended himself, saying his comments were triggered by Ghosh’s alleged ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Partly cloudy with AQI remains moderate

    Kolkata residents experienced a pleasant start to the week on , with partly cloudy skies and temperatures ranging between and . The city recorded a moderate yesterday, with wind speeds reaching and humidity at , .The ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Purulia-born filmmaker Anuparna Roy wins best director award at Venice film fest; bats for Palestinian kids

    KOLKATA: Purulia-born debut filmmaker Anuparna Roy’s ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’, inspired by her childhood friend from Monpura village in Bengal, earned her the best director award while competing against 18 other feature films at the 82nd Venice Film Festival’s ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Foolproof security, seamless exam as 91% candidates take SSC

    Kolkata: After nine years since the 2016 state-level selection test (SLST) for assistant teacher recruitment, the West Bengal School Service Commission conducted the first part of the second SLST for classes IX-X seamlessly on Sunday. The test for classes ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Student drugged, gang-raped and held captive at b’day party, 2 accused on run

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old college student from Haridevpur was allegedly drugged, gang-raped, assaulted, and held captive overnight by two friends during a birthday party in Tollygunge on Friday.The accused, Chandan Malik and Debangsu Biswas (mentioned as Dweep in the complaint), ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    City malls anticipate surge in puja shopping as footfall remains steady

    Kolkata: With a steady stream of footfall on the second last Sunday before Mahalaya across major malls in Kolkata, retailers and shop owners said they are anticipating more rush over the next two weekends. They say they are yet ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bulldozing of dreams’ in 2-engine states: TMC fires jobs salvo at BJP

    Kolkata: With over 31,000 candidates from other states, including BJP-governed Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, coming to Bengal to take the SSC exams on Sunday, Trinamool lashed out at "double-engine govts, where one engine bulldozes homes, the other bulldozes ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Bottlenose dolphin found dead 50 km from Bay near Sundarbans

    Kolkata: An Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), considered near- threatened and known for its active and acrobatic style, washed ashore a beach off Kaikhali Road in South 24 Parganas on Friday, approximately 50 kilometres inland from the Bay of ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 20L to online trading fraud

    Kolkata: A 38-year-old man, Arghya Kusum Majumder of Kestopour, lost approximate Rs 20 lakh in an online financial fraud, after he joined two fraudulent WhatsApp groups posing as stock trading platforms. Majumder lodged a complaint at the Bidhannagar Cyber ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Creche support for kids as young moms write exam

    Kolkata: While mothers were attending exams for the state-level selection test conducted by the West Bengal School Service Commission, their children were being looked after at a creche. Priyanka Ghosh, a candidate, along with her two-and-a-half-month-old baby, went to ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Cyber crooks dupe Salt Lake man of 3.6 lakh

    Kolkata: A 44-year-old resident of Salt Lake, Anindya Bhattacharyya, lodged a complaint at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station, alleging he lost Rs 3.6 lakh in an online job fraud. The incident took place on Dec 2, 2024, when fraudsters ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Floating LNG terminal to come up at Haldia dock

    Kolkata: Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) has awarded a 30-year land and waterfront licence for a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Haldia Dock Complex to a consortium of Invenire Petrodyne Limited and Excelerate Global Operations LLC. ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Clip triggers cop alert on ‘Banglar Bari’

    Kolkata: Basirhat cops on Sunday cautioned people against paying money to avail benefits of ‘Banglar Bari' — the govt's housing-for-all scheme.The alert came after a clip emerged on social media in which a panchayat chief was allegedly heard telling ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    23-year-old techie dies by suicide after sending video msg to friend

    Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman IT professional ended her life on Saturday at her Vivekananda Park rented homein Bansdroni after sending a video message to a friend, who had apparently attempted to save her. The friend, a software engineer himself, ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Cops arrest 4 for 9-yr-old’s murder in Tehatta, 2 held for lynching neighbours

    Kolkata: Police on Sunday arrested four people at Nishchintapur in Nadia's Tehatta for the alleged murder of the nine-year-old boy whose body was found in a pond wrapped in plastic sheets on Saturday, and two others for their alleged ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Krishnanagar murder: BSF man held for helping son flee

    Krishnanagar: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Aug 26 murder of college student Ishita Mallick in Krishnanagar has arrested prime accused Deshraj Singh's father Raghavendra Pratap Singh — a BSF man for aiding his son's escape to UP.Police ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Metro stabling yard shift from Kavi Subhash to Tollygunge offers normalcy hopes

    Kolkata: Metro Railway has started preparations to shift its stabling yard from the Blue Line's dysfunctional Kavi Subhash terminal to Tollygunge metro station. Once this is done, North-South (Blue) Line operations will be smoother as at least eight rakes ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Metro stabling yard shift offers normalcy hopes

    Kolkata: Metro Railway has started preparations to shift its stabling yard from Blue Line's Kavi Subhash terminal to Tollygunge metro station. Once this is done, N-S Line operations will be smoother as at least eight rakes will be fed ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Protest faces wear black clothes to exam centres

    Kolkata: Prominent faces of the teachers' protest attended the state level selection test on Sunday, wearing black clothes as a symbol of their protest.Mehebub Mandal, a prominent face of the protest movement, reached Sonarpur Vidyapith wearing a black kurta. ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    SSC test centres to host HS from today

    Kolkata: Most of the exam centres where the second SLST examination was held on Sunday will host the first part of the higher secondary examination starting on Monday. A total of 6.6 lakh candidates will appear for the OMR-based ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    50 lakh riders took metro in Sept first week

    Kolkata: The city's metro rail network is estimated to have carried around 50 lakh passengers in the first week of Sept, officials said on Sunday.On Monday (Sept 1), 8 lakh passengers travelled on the metro network that spans 74km ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    10% examinees appear from other states, express worries over jobs & slow recruitment back home

    Kolkata: Over 31,000 candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Rajasthan appeared for the state-level selection test for classes IX-X, expressing concerns about unemployment in their respective states.Valmiki Singh, 29, who came from Prayagraj, appeared for the first part ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Work on airport approach set to end your crawl before your flight

    Kolkata: From shortened median dividers and footpaths to make way for more carriageway, removal of encroachments, and shifting of a traffic kiosk, a comprehensive set of infrastructure changes is underway at the Airport Gate No.1 crossing on VIP Road. ...

    8 September 2025 Times of India
    Parents in Kulti bask in daughter’s Venice success

    Kolkata: As recently as 2024, Brahmananda Roy and Manisha Roy harboured doubts about their daughter Anuparna Roy's decision to pursue filmmaking. They challenged her when she decided to quit her job to direct her first feature film, questioning whether ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengali must on signboards by Sept 30: KMC to traders

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has sent directives to the city's business and commercial establishments, again, to include Bengali on the signboards, hoardings, and signage to promote linguistic authority and ensure inclusivity. In a circular issued by municipal commissioner ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata horror: 20-year-old 'abducted', 'gang-raped' by 2 friends; cops launch manhunt

    NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped by two of her friends after being abducted from her home in the Haridevpur area of south Kolkata, police said on Sunday.The incident is said to have taken place on Saturday ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Harassed by ex-lover, girl kills self

    Kolkata: A 16-year-old girl, a Class X student, was found hanging inside her residence in Sodepur on Saturday evening after facing repeated humiliation and physical assault from her 22-year-old jilted lover, Bidyut Das, and his family.The incident occurred barely ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Patchy rain with moderate AQI

    Kolkata experienced sunny weather conditions on September 7, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26°C and 34.2°C, while the previous day recorded a moderate Air Quality Index (AQI) of 55. The comfortable weather conditions make it ideal for outdoor activities, ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: Over 300 tonnes of local hilsa set to hit markets ahead of Durga Puja

    KOLKATA: Over 300 tonnes of hilsa caught by local fishermen from the Bay of Bengal between mid-June and early Aug are set to reach city markets after Vishwa Karma Puja (Sept 17), just in time to meet peak Durga ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Rejuvenate Sovabazar-Kumartuli built heritage while embracing modernisation, urge experts

    Kolkata: Conservation architects, developers, property owners, and citizens from the voluntary initiative Calcutta Heritage Collective (CHC) met on Saturday to reimagine future developments in north Kolkata neighbourhoods while preserving their historical character. The group appealed to the govt to ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Kumor Para Kumartuli

    On a humid Sept afternoon, the lanes of Kumartuli, the idol-makers' enclave in north Kolkata, are busy with preparations for . In its narrow passageways, artisans shape clay into idols, while helpers carry straw and frames through the crowded ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    9-year-old boy found dead, mob lynches couple in Nadia

    Tehatta (Nadia): The death of a nine-year-old boy and the subsequent mob lynching of his neighbours have left Tehatta in Bengal's Nadia district on edge.Swarnabha Mondal, a Class 3 student, had gone out to play with his friends at ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal CEO reviews SIR readiness ahead of Delhi meet

    Kolkata: Bengal's chief election officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal held a meeting with officials in Kolkata on Saturday to discuss special intensive revision (SIR) preparedness ahead of the assembly polls scheduled for May 2026. Agarwal is set to attend a ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Bangladeshi slur comes into play in row over feeding strays

    Kolkata: A confrontation erupted in Anandapur on Friday night, spotlighting two contentious issues — feeding stray dogs and the use of racial slurs against Bengalis.Arup Dasgupta, a local resident, filed a police complaint after a youth allegedly insulted him ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Be vigilant about misuse of ST certs, warns CM

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has alerted the chief secretary and other officers to be vigilant about the misuse of ST certificates by non-STs for jobs, at a recent meeting of the state tribes advisory council. The PSC cancelled ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Dolphin found dead 50 km from Bay

    Kolkata: An Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), considered near- threatened and known for its active and acrobatic style, washed ashore a beach off Kaikhali Road in South 24 Parganas on Friday, approximately 50 kilometres inland from the Bay of ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Babysitter faces theft charge, help ‘tips off’ associate for 3-lakh loot in flat

    Kolkata: A babysitter hired through an ayah centre in West Rajapur near Baghajatin has been accused of stealing and cleaning up a New Town flat of lakhs. In another incident, a thief — who allegedly struck at New Alipore ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    3 on bike snatch chain from morning walker

    Kolkata:Three bike-borne miscreants allegedly snatched a gold necklace from 56-year-old Bibin Kumar Mohata while he was out for his routine morning walk on Friday near VIP Market on CIT Road, Kankurgachhi. This was the fourth snatching in less than ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal min surrenders before PMLA court

    Kolkata: Bengal correctional services minister Chandranath Sinha surrendered before the Special PMLA court on Saturday as part of the probe into the recruitment case.While the ED sought custody of Sinha for seven days, the court granted him interim bail ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Fan-maker Sinosur to make EVs at Hooghly plant

    Chinsurah: Sinosur, Bengal's largest energy-efficient BLDC (brushless direct current motor) fans maker and seller, is expanding into three-wheelers and establishing a plant at Sugandha in Polba Dadpur block within the Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district, reports Falguni Banerjee. Sinosur ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Don’t write dept ranks in CVs for placement: IIT to students

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur has instructed its students not to mention their departmental ranks on their CV for the placement season and to stick to presenting their CGPA only. The aim, said an official, was to stop unnecessary pressure on ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    CBI team visits Shahjahan home in Sandeshkhali

    Kolkata: The CBI on Saturday morning visited the Sandeshkhali residence of Sheikh Shahjahan. The investigators also visited the residence of Akhter Mir, a close associate of Shahjahan. When they reached Shahjahan's Akanji Para residence, his house was found locked.The ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri engg college students detain 3 youths over ‘molestation’

    Jalpaiguri: Students of Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College forcibly picked up two youths from Denguajhar tea estate on Saturday afternoon and confined them in the hostel after they allegedly molested the fiancée of a student, video-graphed the incident and circulated ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Cop focus on C Kol puja crowd management

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police began on-ground preparations for even as the much-anticipated police coordination meeting was scheduled for Sept 10, with inspections set to begin on Sept 13.Cops said the focus this year at major pandals—especially in central and ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    3 weeks before Sasthi sluggish trends despite footfall surge worry traders

    Kolkata: With three weeks left for Sasthi, major shopping hubs in the city—Gariahat, Hatibagan, and New Market—witnessed a crowd build-up on Saturday evening. However, sales did not match the footfall surge, with traders and hawkers reporting a 30% to ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Data theft: Telecom firm’s plaint against ex-manager

    Kolkata: A telecom major lodged an FIR against one of its former area sales managers, accusing him of data theft of its customers. It is even suspected that he sold them for a profit, claimed cops. On Sept 4, ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    ‘Gun shop owners, staff sold arms deposited for safe keeping, excess bullets’

    Kolkata: The partner-owners and their employees at Nursing Chunder Daw & Co, Asia's oldest licensed gun shop located at BBD Bag, were involved in exploiting gaps in the gun and cartridge selling business to sell weapons and ammunition illegally, ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    KP prescribes steps for parents to protect kids from cyber fraud

    Kolkata: Ahead of the beginning of festive season, Kolkata Police's cyber cell issued an advisory for parents to safeguard their children from the growing threats of cyber scams and cyber bullying.Kolkata Police released a 50-second video on Facebook, outlining ...

    7 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal STF arrests 3 owners of 190-yr-old gun shop in central Kol

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) conducted a raid at Asia's oldest licensed gun shop Nursing Chunder Daw & Co in BBD Bag on Thursday evening and arrested its three proprietors for their alleged involvement in a ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Morning walker targeted in gold necklace snatching in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: In yet another instance of snatchers targeting morning walkers, a 56-year-old man residing in the eastern suburbs of the city was targeted by a group of three individuals on a motorcycle who snatched his gold necklace while he ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Confrontation erupts in Anandapur over stray dog feeding and racial slur against Bengalis

    KOLKATA: A confrontation erupted in Anandapur on Friday night, spotlighting two contentious issues: feeding stray dogs and the use of racial slurs against Bengalis.Arup Dasgupta, a local resident, filed a police complaint after a youth allegedly insulted him with ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Wall collapse kills mom, 2 daughters

    Kolkata: A woman, Brihaspati Karmakar, and her two daughters, Sheela Karmakar (15), Priya Karmakar (10), were killed when the wall of a mud house they were residing in, collapsed on them at Mandirbazar on Friday. Locals said the family ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    HMC, KMDA to launch 40cr road repairs in Hwh

    Howrah: The Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) and KMDA will spend approximately Rs 40 crore to repair the city's deteriorating roads ahead of the Durga Puja. HMC said repairs will be carried out on nine major roads and 170 small ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Durga Puja 22 days away, clubs brace for hide-&-seek weather with ‘waterproof’ pandals and pumps

    Kolkata: With Mahalaya barely little over a fortnight away and Kolkata's skies continuing to be unpredictable, puja organisers are on the tenterhooks.Showers drench the city one hour, and sunshine peeks through the next. This hide-and-seek weather is turning preparations ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Garia-Jadavpur commuters caught in police-auto row

    Kolkata: Traffic movement between Garia and Jadavpur was disrupted for nearly three hours on Friday after auto drivers on the Garia-Golpark route blocked Bagha Jatin crossing to protest against alleged indiscriminate prosecution and fines imposed by police. Hundreds of ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    From 35 to 60 tonnes, city CNG supply to spike by year end

    Kolkata: In what seems to be a sort of relief for the CNG vehicle owners in Greater Kolkata, Bengal Gas Company Ltd (BGCL) has increased the supply of natural gas to 20 retail fuel stations in the city and ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    State set to launch 4T campaign in fight against diabetes in children

    Kolkata: The state health department is set to expand its project to fight type 1 diabetes, aiming to identify more children with the autoimmune condition and bring them under treatment.Apart from the awareness programmes at schools and the diabetes ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Arms dealers stop accepting used guns as owners fail to turn up to reclaim them

    Kolkata: In the past few years, most of the arms and ammunition dealers in the city have stopped taking used guns in custody following the reluctance of owners to take them back. Some of them are still grappling with ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Realtors take cue from Purple, Blue Line extension, bullish on new links

    Kolkata: The expansion of metro networks in urban areas is a transformative force that will reshape the real estate landscape and influence home buying preferences, feel developers in Kolkata.The new metro routes have dramatically reduced travel time, benefiting lakhs ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Cannot deny bldg nod based on 100-yr-old street plans: HC

    Kolkata: The civic body could not deny a building permission on basis of a nearly 100-year-old street plan, the Calcutta High Court ruled, cancelling the alignments of two streets, prepared in 1930 but never implemented. KMC had cited this ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    KMC’s spl puja repair drive for 107 roads from Monday

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will take up a special road repair drive from Monday to address the battered stretches of roads leading to pandals. Kolkata Police has flagged the need to urgently repair 238 spots, including ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Hilsa-mutton fight lands man in hosp

    Kolkata: A construction company owner, Mobirul Sheikh (45), is in a critical condition and admitted to SSKM Hospital after he was allegedly beaten up by three workers on Thursday night, when he offered to buy them goat meat instead ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Kunal, Mithun file defamation suits against each other

    Kolkata: After actor-turned-politician filed a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, the former Rajya Sabha MP moved court to file a counter-defamation suit against Chakraborty.Ghosh had commented on Chakraborty's alleged involvement in a Ponzi ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Textiles mkt poised to reach $350 billion by 2030, says minister

    Kolkata: Union textiles minister Giriraj Singh said on Friday the country's textiles market was projected to reach $350 billion by 2030, with jute playing a pivotal role in the growth story.Speaking at a jute industry stakeholders' meet at the ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s urban birth rate lowest among big states

    Kolkata: Bengal's urban birth rate at 11 live births per 1,000 people is the lowest among bigger states in the country while its rural birth rate at 15.3 is the fifth lowest.The state's overall birth rate of 14 is ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Bengal: Teachers’ Day honour for lessons beyond classroom

    Kolkata: From fostering inclusive education to reducing school dropout rates, 39 teachers from Bengal who have stepped beyond their brief and call of duty and many a times beyond the classroom to spread the light of education have been ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    Kol to be on neuro-modulation map, offers hopes for brain treatment

    Kolkata: The city will soon have a specialised ‘neuro-modulation' unit that will treat brain ailments using external and internal stimulation, covering a range of debilitating neurological ailments that often turn out to be incurable. A neuro-modulation centre will be ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
    TMC’s 4 among India’s 10 poorest mins: ADR

    Kolkata: Four of the 10 poorest ministers in India are from Trinamool, including Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, according to a list published by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on Thursday.Among the others on the list are three from BJP ...

    6 September 2025 Times of India
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