123 Kolkata: The three surviving members of the Dey family, including the 14-year-old, do not show a will to live. During psychoanalysis, as part of treatment at Ruby General Hospital, doctors found that all want to die, remain clinically ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The city witnessed a cricket carnival on Sunday as fans came together to witness the India-Pakistan clash in the Champions Trophy. From performing yajnas to setting up small tents in neighbourhoods, the passion for the game was ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deaths of multiple jackals in road accidents in New Town over the past few weeks have raised serious concerns among environmentalists and wildlife activists. These incidents that were reported near Eco Park, Action Areas II and III, ...
24 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Not too many in Kolkata know that the young boy, Shrishti Nath Kapoor, who resided in Bhowanipore and pursued his education at Mitra Institution, went on to become the illustrious Raj Kapoor of Indian cinema. His classroom ...
24 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Being duped online, whether by threat or deceit, is unfortunate. However, the situation becomes more challenging if cyber criminals convert your money into cryptocurrency. Not only do you then lose your money but you also have to pay ...
24 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Fans erupted in joy as Mohun Bagan SG on Sunday became the first team to defend the shield in the history of the Indian Super League (ISL) after beating Odisha FC 1-nil. Thousands of die-hard Mohun Bagan ...
24 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 60-year-old woman was left shaken and traumatised after three bike-borne miscreants snatched her gold chain near her residence at Dhakuria in south Kolkata on Saturday evening. The incident left the woman so disturbed that she wished ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: It will be a miracle for East Bengal FC to make the playoffs of Indian Super League 2024-25. However, Oscar Bruzon's side is showing signs of improvement in the business end of the league with one eye ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: City cops shifted Pranay, the elder of the two Dey brothers from Tangra, to NRS Hospital on Saturday evening after his discharge from Ruby General Hospital where he, younger brother Prasun and son Pratip were admitted after surviving ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The construction of the Kalighat skywalk has come as a ‘blessing' for pilgrims, including locals, motorists, and pedestrians using the Kalighat Temple Road. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has cleared the road of hawkers' encroachment as part ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Roadside garbage dumps, often spilling over with waste—these are not only an assault on visual and olfactory senses but also the source of infections—will soon become a thing of the past in Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur. The ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Mohun Bagan SG are laying down a marker in this Indian Super League season. Their ability to play with intensity and consistency match after match and week after week is something of an envy for the rival ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, 2024, are yet to receive her death certificate.Though Panihati Municipality issued a cremation certificate, the parents ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian archers topped the medals table bagging eight medals in the Asia Cup stage-I that concluded in Bangkok on Saturday. The young archers returned with five gold, two silver and one bronze medal.Vishnu Choudhary claimed the gold ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: At least three persons, including a woman, were killed and 38 people travelling by a private bus were injured when the vehicle crashed into roadside shops on Basanti Highway at Minakhan in North 24 Parganas on Saturday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: CPM senior and politburo coordinator Prakash Karat on Saturday asked the party's Bengal unit to focus on increasing the number of youth members. He was speaking at CPM's four-day state conference that began in Hooghly on Saturday.While ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Prayagraj: After the absence of Bangladesh's participation at the International Kolkata Book Fair this year and various other events in Bengal, the country's interim govt led by Mohammad Yunus has sent a troupe of dancers to perform at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bengaluru consumer court's recent direction to PVR INOX to ensure cinema tickets explicitly indicated the actual film commencement time has raised concerns among Kolkata's exhibitors and cinema-goers. While exhibitors said advertising intervals were indispensable for commercial ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 22-year-old man from Ballygunge was arrested by Kasba police for allegedly marrying a 15-year-old minor girl, raping her, and then abetting her suicide. The accused, Bijoy Mondal, a resident of Naresh Mitra Sarani, was arrested on Friday ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The city buzzed in anticipation of a thrilling Sunday encounter between the ‘greatest rivals' as India and Pakistan were set to clash in a do-or-die battle in the Champions Trophy in Dubai. Fans in Kolkata set aside ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Police arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly impersonating an Indian Army captain and running an unauthorized training centre for aspiring military recruits in central Kolkata on Wednesday. A casewas initiated at the Park Street police station. Cops ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, in a post on X on Saturday, said while social media had become very important, it was essential to have one's feet on the ground. "Unless one is a good worker, one cannot ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Yet another round of raids was conducted by the Bengal Special Task Force (STF) at a Dalhousie gun shop this weekend, marking the second consecutive day of investigations into alleged ammunition stock manipulation. The sleuths were at ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Dey family was banking on selling their land in Bolpur — where they once ran a silk business but shut it down — to tide over their financial troubles and raise some immediate cash to help ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: An early warning system is being put in place to reduce human-elephant conflict in Bankura, which witnessed a resurgence in deaths caused by elephants in recent years. If the two-year project is successful, similar artificial intelligence-enabled elephant ...
23 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The KMC environment department is set to launch a major clean-up of Bikramgarh Jheel from March. A work order for the mammoth task has already been passed. According to a KMC source, an on-the-spot survey of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In yet another robbery in Dum Dum, a gang of burglars raided at least three houses in the Dum Dum Cantonment area early on Saturday.Around 2.30 am Saturday, the burglars sprayed some chemicals from the window of a ...
23 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Even as Ruby General Hospital was ready to discharge Pranay Dey and his son Pratip on Saturday, the release formalities were briefly halted to prepare and secure the bill, which remained unpaid. The amount ran up to ...
23 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 150-year-old rare Bible — its pages adorned with gold — that has been lying in neglect in a Baranagar library may soon get a new lease of life with the local MLA drawing the attention of the ...
23 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Two of the three members of the Tangra family are likely to be discharged from the hospital on Saturday. Wile Pranay Dey and his son Pratip are fit to be discharged, Prasun will continue to be under ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A day after the directorate of Drug Control busted a medicine racket in Howrah, medicine wholesalers and retailers across the state have sounded the alarm as a bulk of the medicines seized during the raid were copies ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The inspection and repair work at the Eden Hindu Hostel started on Friday after a concrete chunk fell from the ceiling. The chunk crashed on the bed of a first-year PG boarder, Oishnic Dutta. He had a ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education will charge Rs 1,000 as a fine per candidate to the respective school failing to submit marks for the practical and project works on time.The council reopened the portal on Thursday ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaPrayagraj: With an overwhelming number of pilgrims visiting the ongoing Maha Kumbh, the UP govt expects it to generate more than Rs 3 lakh crore in trade. The initial expectation of having 40 crore devotees has increased to 60 ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A statement by Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar that Congress should have introspected more before quitting the Mamata Banerjee-led govt in 2012 prompted the party senior to clarify on Friday that his statement was "taken out of context" ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Omacme, a brand of Acme Moulders and Furniture Pvt Ltd, is set to invest Rs 100 crore in Bengal over the next five years. The company is coming up with two new manufacturing units and experience centres for ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city cops on Friday indicated that they would arrest Tangra's Dey brothers — Pranay and Prasun, who survived a car crash early Wednesday — the moment they are released from hospital. They are likely to be charged ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an attempt to scare his wife during a heated argument that he would die by suicide, a 48-year-old physically challenged man lost his life after being hit by a local train in Habra on Friday afternoon.Trinath Saha ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 45-year-old Trinamool functionary, Abdul Kader Mollah, was attacked with sharp weapons by a group of masked men at his Basirhat house in North 24-Parganas on Friday evening. His family members were also injured in the incident. It ...
22 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, said, "Language Day belongs to everyone; language cannot be anyone's property." But, she chose to stay away from referring to the ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh.At the ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaSuri: A tribal woman and her two children were found with their throats slit in Managerpara locality of Birbhum's Mohammadbazar police station on Friday.Lakshmi Maddi (25) lived with her two children, Rupali (10) and Abhijit (8), while her husband, ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaMalda: English Bazar Municipality chairperson and former minister Krishnendu Choudhury got text messages and then a call, threatening him to pay Rs 5 crore or face dire consequences, prompting him to report the matter to the police on Friday.The ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An unease prevailed over two homes in Behala's Silpara and north Kolkata's Paikpara as its residents struggled to come to terms with what happened in Tangra on Tuesday. While Romi Dey's family lives in Silpara, Sudesna Dey's maternal ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Over 300 Calcutta University first-year students missed their first semester examinations since they could not register in time. Many of them had changed colleges by taking advantage of the admission portal being reopened multiple times this year, ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Dey family's tragic decision appears to have been driven by overwhelming debts, intensified by the decline in leather goods business. Financial documents from the Dey residence and factory reveal that the brothers had accumulated loans of ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following repeated conflicts over illegal parking between motorists and traffic sergeants near Park Street-AJC Bose Road, the DC Traffic office has requested for written communication from the complainants, most of them being parents of schoolkids. The disputes involved ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A section of Jadavpur University hostel boarders demanded the hostel gates remain open all night, leading to chaos at the JU administrative building that continued throughout Friday. However, interim VC Bhaskar Gupta made it clear the university would ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Unseasonal rain dealt a significant blow to one of the state's most crucial cash crops — potatoes. As the potato harvest season begins, 80% of the crop remains unharvested in the fields. The unexpected late-Feb rain, combined ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: After a dry Friday, the city is expected to get thundershowers over the weekend. The Alipore weather office has forecast rain in the city between Saturday and Sunday, along with many other coastal districts. The Met office ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The fluctuating weather has caused an unseasonal mosquito infestation at the Kolkata airport, causing severe discomfort to passengers and staff. The alternating warm and humid conditions create ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.Passengers have taken to social media ...
22 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: More than 100 cricket fans from the city will be flying to Dubai over the next two days to catch the ‘greatest rivalry' on the cricket pitch — India crossing swords with Pakistan — on Sunday. While ...
22 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A young professor driving back from the gym at New Town Business Club to her home in CE Block experienced quite a fright and stopped the car abruptly after she spotted a venomous snake coiled around the ...
22 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five glorious days for the cinephiles in the city ended on Wednesday as curtains were brought on the ‘King of the Road – the India Tour' Kolkata leg, presented by Film Heritage Foundation, Wim Wenders Stiftung and Goethe-Institut ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A chilling tragedy unfolded in Kolkata when a high-speed car crash on EM Bypass led police to a horrific discovery—a home in Tangra where three women were found dead under mysterious circumstances. What initially seemed like a freak ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaInvestigators are looking into the deaths of two women and a child at the Dey residence in Kolkata. The women were found with lacerations and the child died from poisoning. KOLKATA: At least two of the three people ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaSourav Ganguly KOLKATA: Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly had a close call on Thursday when his car was involved in an accident while traveling to Burdwan for an event.The incident occurred in a rural area of Hooghly, where ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even an India-Bangladesh match in the Champions Trophy in Dubai on Thursday could not get a cheer out of Kolkata's Mini Bangladesh. Marquis Street, Free School Street, Colin Street, and Sudder Street, which once teemed with Bangladeshi tourists, ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday presented a Rs 5,639-crore civic budget that focused primarily on the city's infrastructure development, including supply of filtered drinking water for residents who still depend on groundwater, improved drainage to reduce waterlogging, paving ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday placed its budget proposal for the 2025-26 financial year, showing increased fund allocation for road maintenance, street lights, solid waste management and augmentation of filtered water supply.The authorities proposed a ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: EM Bypass, one of the most-used roads in the city, received a separate allocation in this year's KMC Budget, which was tabled on Thursday. KMC has entrusted IIT-Kharagpur with the responsibility of conducting a safety audit of Bypass. ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Power outages were witnessed at many Madhyamik examination centres of south Bengal, including South 24-Parganas, North 24-Parganas and Kolkata amid rain and thunderstorms on Thursday. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education allotted extra time to the examinees.The ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The state assembly saw a privilege motion being tabled against BJP MLA Hiran Chatterjee by finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday for accusing her of making false statements. Speaker Biman Banerjee accepted the privilege motion.The issue pertained ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, during her reply to budget discussions on Thursday, took a dig at BJP MLAs for remaining absent and said "all the people of Bengal are watching it". Describing the state budget as ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Bharti Airtel has emerged as one of the best-performing networks in Kolkata, edging past others in voice call performance, according to a study by TRAI. However, in data, Jio had an edge over its competitors, revealed TRAI's ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: An intense spell of rain that lasted for an hour inundated several parts of the city. Sources in the Kolkata Muncipal Corporation(KMC) sewerage and drainage department conceded the department had no inkling of the intensity of the ...
21 February 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Heavy rain and gusty winds on Thursday played spoilsport for weddings scheduled for the day in Kolkata and its adjoining areas. With rain sweeping away the elaborately done open-air venues of the ceremonies, the day turned out ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Foreign adviser to the interim Bangladesh govt, Md Touhid Hossain, on Thursday told TOI that he had taken up the issue of visas with external affairs minister S Jaishankar in Muscat on Feb 16. Hossain added that he ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered a CID investigation into the theft of around 1.6 lakh primary textbooks from the school inspector's godown at North Dinajpur's Islampur. The theft was reported in Dec 2022.A division bench of ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A BJP MLA's demand for a separate North Bengal state in the assembly on Thursday sparked a war of words between TMC and the saffron party.Dabgram-Fulbari MLA Shikha Chatterjee said in the assembly, "People are saying that if ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of Joydeep Chowdhury, a young researcher from Nimta in North Dum Dum, whose body was found on Tuesday evening at his hostel in Saudi Arabia, where he was pursuing higher studies.His bereaved parents ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Bengal police STF arrested a suspected terrorist in Nadia district on Thursday. The accused, identified as Biplab Biswas alias Abdullah, was apprehended in Thanarpara.According to senior STF officials, Biswas came under the radar after investigators uncovered ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The residence of the Deys at Atal Sur Road, close to Tangra Towers, was barricaded by cops on Thursday. However, that did not stop people from as far as Topsia and Mathpukur from walking close to the ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Swapan Kumar Banerjee (76), a resident of Silpara in Purba Barisha, stood near the NRS Medical College mortuary amidst pouring rain on Thursday afternoon. Behind the closed door lay his daughter, Romi Dey (44), and his granddaughter, ...
21 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A day after the Calcutta High Court suggested that a public-private partnership be explored for the modernisation of at least one tram route, WBTC managing director Shiraz Daneshyar expressed support for the idea at the sixth Tram ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The condition of all three members of the Tangra family, admitted to Ruby General Hospital, is stable. Doctors said that while they are out of danger, they will continue to receive treatment in the hospital's intensive care ...
21 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The waterlogged entry gate to the 21 Seal Lane factory, which brought affluence to Tangra's Dey family for the past two and a half decades before a financial crisis hit them, was locked even as the machines ...
21 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 10-year-old boy who lives near a prominent housing complex off EM Bypass has been admitted to the hospital with a severe E coli infection. Admitted on Tuesday with severe dehydration and complaints of loose stool, the boy ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Passenger concierge service finally resumed at Kolkata airport on Wednesday after a gap of six years. The service, which includes meet and greet and porterage, will particularly help senior citizens, people with disabilities and unaccompanied women travelling ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A deep sense of social shame or a dire financial crisis tends to drive multiple members of a family to suicide, said psychiatrists and psychologists. Such suicide pacts are formed after the family starts believing that the situation ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Khazan Singh, a former school managing committee member of Khalsa Model Senior Secondary School (KMSSS) in Dunlop, sustained burn injuries as he allegedly attempted to set a lawyer's flat ablaze on Tuesday evening, along with two others, in ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mechanic was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly molesting a school girl in an upscale area of south Kolkata under the jurisdiction of Shakespeare Sarani police station. The accused, whose identity has been withheld by police, was charged ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Madhyamik student showed sheer determination by completing her life science exam from a hospital bed after sustaining injuries when a ceiling fan fell on her head during the test.Nandini Makal, a student of Batanagar Jatiya Siksha Mandir, ...
20 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Escalating climate-induced disasters in the Sundarbans have severely impacted the lives of children living there over the past decade, reveals a recent study. Child labour, trafficking, early marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and violence are increasing while social protection ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city sky remained partly cloudy on Wednesday while some parts of the neighbouring South and North 24 Parganas received light rain. The Met office, however, has predicted thunderstorms with light to moderate rain in Kolkata and some ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Moulinath Biswas, a 59-year-old central govt employee, stepped inside a university campus on Wednesday after leaving his studies in 1984. Sandip Banik graduated from City College in 1984 and returned to a campus after his retirement. Subrata Dasgupta, ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The unprecedented rush to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, has made train journey a nightmarish experience for passengers who had booked their tickets in premium 2AC or 3AC compartments months in advance.Aniruddha Dey, 58, ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A car crash on the EM Bypass early on Wednesday that left three members of a family gravely injured, followed by the discovery of three lifeless bodies of family members of the crash survivors at their home ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A record potato production in West Bengal has sparked concerns over distress sales and storage shortage. The state expects a bumper crop exceeding 1.4 crore tonnes in 2024-25, a sharp increase from 1.3 crore tonnes last year, following ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: East-West Metro's commercial services will be suspended, once again for four days from Thursday, for the second phase of the trial of the signalling system in the incomplete Esplanade-Sealdah section. In the first phase, both sections of East-West ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 30-year-old engineer was found loitering inside a homeopathy medicine shop in Dalhousie on Tuesday morning. Police said there was some drama following the discovery, given that locals thought he was a burglar. Things turned complicated when ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A team from the animal husbandry department on Tuesday visited the poultry farm at Chaltageria village in West Midnapore following reports of chicken deaths at the facility. The doctors who performed autopsies on the carcasses allayed bird flu ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after immigration officials at Kolkata airport apprehended a key member of an organised crime racket running a digital-arrest fraud from Cambodia, one of his associates was arrested at Kolkata airport on Monday.Md Tausif was apprehended when ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said: "There was a murder at RG Kar Medical College but the accused person was not hanged. Our police can solve a case in two months and secure orders for hanging from ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Lalgarh: In a remarkable display of intelligence and teamwork, three elephants, including a mother, rescued a calf that had fallen into a concrete drain in Lalgarh on Wednesday morning.A herd of 25 elephants was crossing the road to ...
20 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: BJP MLAs staged a walkout in the assembly on Wednesday. This came after speaker Biman Banerjee declined their demand to discuss an adjournment motion over the proposal of allowing 30% of tea-garden land to be made freehold ...
20 February 2025 Times of India123 Berhampore: A Lalgola hospital saw two police officers-in-charge fighting on Tuesday night, leading to arrest of one of the OCs.The arrested Ashraful Sheikh, OC of DCRB (District Crime Record Bureau) and five of his family members were arrested ...
20 February 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE), an organisation which works on sustainable environment development schemes, has come up with a project to develop energy-neutral riverine and land transport in the Sundarbans, where e-rickshaws and e-boats will ...
20 February 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Tuesday set a fortnightly monitoring schedule for the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital corruption case, in which former principal Sandip Ghosh and others are accused.A division bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Gaurang ...
19 February 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Tea sellers, muri and snack vendors, sweepers and barbers—those who live and make a living on the banks of the Hooghly—have been named ‘River Ambassadors', entrusted with the job to conserve the riverfront and make the ghats ...
19 February 2025 Times of India12 Supriyo Sinha director - business transformation and corporate strategy of Peerless received the Directors' Excellence award from MentorMyBoard at Mastering Boardroom Conclave and Awards event held at the BSE earlier this month.Stay updated with breaking news, bank holidays ...
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