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  • CBI investigation a ‘gallery show right now’, says Calcutta HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday called CBI probes "a gallery show right now" while turning down a plea for an investigation by the central agency into an East Midnapore murder in July. It, instead, said it would ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    1st day, 1st show: Flyers take metro for faster, cheaper commute to, from airport

    123456 Kolkata: When Italian travellers Giulia Ferruggia and Thomas Maggiore landed in Kolkata on Monday, they did not head for a taxi to reach their hotel in Park Street. Instead, they walked into the brand new Jai Hind metro ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Former ISKCON monk Chinmoy Das charged with murder in B’desh

    Kolkata: News reports from Bangladesh indicating that former ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das was charged with murder in a Chittagong court on Monday drew shock and condemnation in Kolkata.Radharamn Das, vice-president and spokesperson, ISKCON Kolkata, said: "It is now ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP uneasy over Matua rift, refuses to take sides

    Kolkata: The Bengal BJP leadership has been left uneasy by the feud between two prominent netas from the Matua Thakurbari family — Union minister Shantanu Thakur and his elder brother Subrata Thakur, party's Gaighata MLA — ahead of the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    After CBI, ED arrests TMC MLA in school jobs case

    12 Berhampore/Suri/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress's Burwan MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, out on bail from Supreme Court in CBI's cash-for-jobs case in May 2024 after spending 13 months in prison, was arrested by ED in the same case on Monday amid ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Orange Line helps beat Bypass snarls

    Kolkata: The first Metro service rolled on the 4.4km new stretch between Ruby and Beleghata on the Orange line along EM Bypass on Monday, easing the commute for many office-goers availing themselves of Sealdah South suburban train services from ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    HC seeks puja fund affidavit from state

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday sought an affidavit from the state within 48 hours, providing a detailed account of how many of the registered clubs that received Durga Puja grants from the state until last year furnished ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Light-moderate rain may continue in Kol

    Kolkata: The city received intermittent drizzles on Monday, including a spell of sharp evening shower, even as the maximum temperature rose to 31.4°C. Light to moderate rain may continue in Kolkata and south Bengal over the next two days, ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP indulging in pre-poll vendetta politics: Trinamool

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Monday accused BJP of indulging in vendetta politics and called central agencies "BJP's party wings" after the ED arrested its MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in the cash-for-jobs case.Speaking to reporters, Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "The ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    CM asks Pant to keep tab on ST certs

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked chief secretary Manoj Pant to keep a tab on the issuance of ST certificates as they are being misused.She asked Pant to alert the DMs as well because Nabanna has received ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Migrant worker dies month after ‘detention in Mumbai’

    Kolkata: A migrant worker who had returned from Mumbai a month ago after spending six days in detention on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant died on Monday, with his family alleging that he contracted pneumonia while in detention.Golam ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Signage confusion, long queues and delays plague metro on 1st day of full run

    Kolkata: Booking counters at the busiest stations on the East-West Metro corridor struggled to cope with the commuter rush, prompting the authority to rethink and change their crowd management plans during peak hours on Monday. Metro services on the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Can’t wait, rebuild 23 Bowbazar homes in 9 months: KMC

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday pressed for expediting the reconstruction of houses on Durga Pituri Lane and Shyakrapara Lane in the Bowbazar cave-in zone. Taking up a resolute stance, Hakim—who had called a Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Direct metro link helps Sector V employeesskirt break-journey pain

    Kolkata: For thousands working in the city's IT hub in Salt Lake Sector V, daily commute took a decisive turn on Monday with the start of East-West Metro's first full weekday run between Sector V and Howrah Maidan. The ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC to take part in ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar on Sept 1

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress will participate in the Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, alongside other INDIA bloc parties, on Sept 1. However, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee are unlikely to attend due ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    2 from Bengal set to receive National Teachers’ Awards

    1234 Kharagpur/Kolkata: Two Bengal schoolteachers are among the 45 nationwide who will receive the National Teachers' Awards on Sept 5 in Delhi from President Droupadi Murmu.Bengal govt's Shiksha Ratna awardee Tanusree Das, who began teaching at Kuchlachati Primary School ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Email your help’s details to local police station

    Kolkata: In a bid to simplify the process through which elderly citizens can inform the local police station about their servants, caregivers, or even utility service providers, Lalbazar has asked all local police stations to accept emails sent to ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    College student shot dead by boyfriend in Krishnanagar

    1234 Krishnanagar (Nadia): In a chilling incident, a teenage girl was allegedly shot by her boyfriend at point-blank range at her residence in Krishnanagar town between 2 and 2.30 pm on Monday. Sources said she wanted to end the ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Email your help’s details to local police station

    Kolkata: In a bid to simplify the process through which elderly citizens can inform the local police station about their servants, caregivers, or even utility service providers, Lalbazar has asked all local police stations to accept emails sent to ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    SIM-swap crooks dupe man of 2.9L

    Kolkata: In a recent case of cyber fraud, which cops suspect might be a SIM swap, Shyampukur PS received an unusual case recently where the accused used the defrauded money to book tickets and other travel-related bookings through a ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    City commute changes forever as Esplanade, Sealdah and Howrah stations bear load brunt

    Kolkata: Commute in Kolkata changed forever on Monday, the first weekday since Metro Green Line between Salt Lake Sector V and Howrah Maidan became fully operational on Friday evening. Several thousand people, who used buses and autos to travel ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Oldest metro adds ops but still beaten by crowd surge

    Kolkata: On Monday, Metro Railway added 22 additional services to the Blue Line, anticipating a surge in traffic following its integration with a fully operational Green Line. This meant increased frequency, with the gap between trains during peak hours ...

    26 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengali actor and BJP leader Joy Banerjee passes away after prolonged illness; matinee idol of ’80s dies at 63

    NEW DELHI: Bengali actor and BJP leader Joy Banerjee passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday at the age of 63, according to his family.Banerjee had been admitted to the hospital on August 15 with acute ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Low-pressure system loses steam in Bengal’

    Kolkata: The low-pressure area over Gangetic Bengal has weakened, the Met office said. Thus, city remained cloudy with intermittent drizzles on Sunday. The cloud cover kept the maximum temperature four degrees below normal at 28.2°C. The minimum temperature was ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    AAP echoes TMC, SP stand, won’t send member to JPC

    New Delhi/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party were joined by Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday in their decision to not send members to the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) constituted to examine the constitutional amendment that prescribes dismissal of the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: High humidity and patchy rain expected today

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is expected to experience typical monsoon weather on August 25, 2025, with scattered rain ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    After exports resume to Bangladesh, rice price rises in Kolkata markets; households shift to cheaper varieties

    KOLKATA: Rice prices in Bengal and other parts of India have witnessed a surge since India lifted a ban on rice export to Bangladesh on Aug 12 and Dhaka announced duty-free import of around 5 lakh tonnes of rice ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    For young Indian women, BMI not an accurate tool to indicate obesity, says SSKM study; 50% with ‘normal’ show PCOS risk

    KOLKATA: Body mass index (BMI) - popularly seen as a marker for obesity - might not be the ideal standard, especially for Indian women. A study by state-run IPGMER (SSKM) has said that five in every 10 young Indian ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Zip, CAP, zoom: 1.2L seats filled up in 48 hours of portal opening

    Kolkata: Over 1.2 lakh students took admission through the centralised admission portal (CAP) in the last 48 hours. The first phase of admissions, that started on Friday, will close on Monday. The portal opened after a long wait of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Focus on cybercrime, forensics as NUJS launches 2-yr PG course

    Kolkata: The newly launched two-year PG course in ‘criminology and criminal science justice' by West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) will help cops solve cases, particularly cybercrime cases, said judges of Calcutta High Court. Applicants to the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    After 1L Sun footfall, Green Line to get addl RPF men for first weekday run

    1234 Kolkata: Metro Railway will deploy additional RPF personnel for crowd management along the Green Line on Monday, the first weekday operation of the now-integrated corridor. On Saturday, hours after East-West Metro or the Green Line started its full ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Shantanu, brother spar over religious certs distribution

    Kolkata: Bongaon's Thakurbari turned into a political battleground on Sunday after two brothers — BJP neta and Union minister Shantanu Thakur and BJP MLA and All India Matua Mahasangh chief Subrata Thakur — publicly sparred over the issuance of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Not rarest of rare: HC commutes death penalty to life term in child murder

    Kolkata: The death penalty of two Andhra Pradesh residents — a mother and her boyfriend — for the killing of a one-and-a-half-year-old child were commuted to life imprisonment without remission until 40 years by Calcutta High Court. The body ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Blue Line adds muscle with 22 more services

    Kolkata: To cope with new passenger load, Metro Railway will be adding 22 services on the North-South (Blue Line) from Monday. TOI on Sunday briefly reported about this development. All three new metro lines will be operational together for ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    NEUFC’s Durand title, a glimmer of hope in troubled times

    Kolkata: Barely had Juan Pedro Benali, proudly wearing the Durand Cup champion's medal, begun to address the mediapersons, Northeast United FC players and support staff members stormed the Salt Lake Stadium room on Saturday, singing, dancing and drenching the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    4 BJP gen secys, MPs ‘absent’ at PM’s Dum Dum rally

    Kolkata: The "absentee" list at PM Narendra Modi's Dum Dum rally on Friday was not only limited to Dilip Ghosh, BJP's former national vice-president and former president of Bengal BJP. It also included four of five general secretaries of ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Complexes take tech guard, boost ID checks after Senior Citizen’s murder in Kolkata’s New Garia

    Kolkata: Housing complexes and resident welfare associations (RWAs) across the city are tightening security protocols after a 79-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by her ayah or caregiver at her New Garia home. Her 87-year-old husband was also allegedly assaulted. ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Budding entrepreneurs shine at commerce fest

    Kolkata: The 7th edition of Mega Bizz, the commerce fest of DPS Megacity, was held recently, with focus on simulating real-world business challenges. The event, which saw participation from nine premier schools in Kolkata, featured competitions, panel discussions, PowerPoint ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Molest plaint against councillor

    Kolkata: A widow from Sonarpur has lodged a police complaint against Rajpur-Sonarpur Municipality's ward 11 councillor Krishnapada Mondal, accusing him of demanding money and making sexual advances.The complainant said ever since she started a sari shop, there has been ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Cars back on Vidyasagar Setu after over 17-hour repair and rehabilitation work

    Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu, which was closed for over 17 hours from 5 am on Sunday, was reopened for normal traffic movement from 10.25 pm onwards following repair work that was conducted throughout the day. The bridge was shut for ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Residents of New Garia victim’s housing society to seek CP help, give senior citizens’ list to cops

    Kolkata: Residents of New Garia Cooperative Housing Society called an urgent meeting on Sunday and decided to write to Kolkata Police commissioner for seeking additional protection in the wake of the murder of a 79-year-old woman, Bijaya Das, on ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal primary teachers’ recruitment: TET 2022 ‘data leak’ on private portal

    Kolkata: A new controversy has been triggered as the detailed information of primary TET 2022 candidates was allegedly leaked on an unknown website. Personal information, including TET certificates of nearly 1.5 lakh qualifiers, was leaked on the unauthorized portal, ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 8 injured as bus rams SUV

    12 Malda: Three people were killed and eight seriously injured when a bus rammed an SUV coming from the opposite direction near Jambagan on NH-512 at Bangshihari of South Dinajpur on Sunday. During the incident, a pick-up van also ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Held in B’desh prison, Sunali & 5 others may seek bail today

    Kolkata: Efforts are on to move a bail petition on Monday by Sunali Khatun and five other Indians languishing in Bangladesh's Chapai Nawabganj prison.The six were branded as Bangladeshi nationals, picked up from Delhi and pushed to the neighbouring ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    48 Kolkata Police officers get Bengal govt honour

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt honoured 48 personnel from the Kolkata Police with special medals for their exemplary service in 2023. The awards, which include the Nistha Padak, Prashansa Padak, and Sewa Padak, were presented by the commissioner of police, ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    KMDA clears encroachments below bridges and flyovers

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has taken up a drive to demolish illegal makeshift structures and clear unauthorised encroachments from the stretches below several bridges and flyovers across the city. The civic body will also fence off ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    SSC portal opens for applications by ‘untainted’ teachers after SC order

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday opened a portal, inviting fresh applications from "untainted" teachers, who had lost their jobs following the SC order, and could not apply again for the fresh SSC test, as they ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    C Kol resto zone hopes to tap E-W commute push

    Kolkata: Footfalls soared across restaurants over the weekend as the city moved into a festive spirit, riding on new Metro routes. Most saw attendance rise by around 20%-25% since last weekend. Several restaurants received visitors from the northern and ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro connectivity boost for New Market, other shopping hubs ahead of festive season

    Kolkata: A wave of renewed optimism swept through the city's iconic New Market on Sunday, as the freshly extended East-West Metro drew shoppers from Howrah, Sealdah, Salt Lake, and beyond. This brought a fresh buzz of shoppers to the ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Trial runs on Yellow, Orange Lines as ops start today

    Kolkata: Trial runs were conducted on Yellow and Orange Lines on Sunday, and the systems were checked to ensure seamless operations from Monday. For now, services will run between Noapara and airport, and passengers will have to switch trains ...

    25 August 2025 Times of India
    Drizzle pulls down Kol max-min temp gap to 2°C

    Kolkata: The city remained cloudy with intermittent drizzles on a wet Saturday, even as the Met office predicted more rain over the next 48 hours under the impact of a low-pressure system and an active monsoon trough. A thick ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: 5 day-old Ayah, partner in police net for killing 79-yr-old New Garia woman

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police on Saturday claimed to have cracked the murder of a 79-year-old woman in her New Garia residence with the arrest of a newly appointed ayah and her male friend from South 24 Parganas. Bijaya Das was ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college gang-rape: Nearly 2 months after crime, cops file charge sheet against 4; DNA report confirms main accused Manojit Mishra’s role

    Kolkata police filed a charge sheet against four individuals, including Manojit Mishra, in connection with the law college gang-rape case. The survivor reported the crime occurred on June 25. Pramit Mukhopadhyay, Zaib Ahmed, and security guard Pinaki Banerjee are ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool refuses to join 130th amendment JPC, calls it ‘a farce’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday called the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) constituted to examine the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill "a farce" and said the party will not nominate any MP to be its member.The party had expressed its opposition to ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    4L UG seats allotted to 3L CAP candidates, colleges fear 5L seats may stay vacant

    Kolkata: As undergraduate admissions began, 4,02,557 college seats were allocated to the 3,09,667 eligible candidates, who had applied on the central admission portal. This means, every eligible applicant has already secured a seat. College officials pointed out there could ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Khelar Para Maidan

    123456 The chaos and cacophony of central Kolkata stumble upon an island of green quite abruptly where the cityscape seems to fade away and space becomes abundant. The Maidan springs up like a pleasant surprise in the middle of ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Engg firm boss explains tech behind East-West Kolkata Metro system

    Kolkata: The metro network in Kolkata is entering a new era of automation and safety, with the East-West Metro (Green Line) leading the way through superior technology, Manoj Kumar Krishnappa, director and head of Hitachi Rail STS India, said ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    4 investment fraud plaints in 24 hrs, victims lose 1.5 cr

    Kolkata: Four victims, who lost Rs 1.5 crore to online investment frauds, approached Kolkata Police and Bidhannagar Police in the last 24 hours. A resident of Akshoy Bose Lane, Partha Kumar Biswas, was scammed by fraudsters posing as representatives ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Woman found dead after assault by son

    Kolkata: A 65-year-old woman, Nandita Basu, was found dead at her Beleghata home on Saturday afternoon amid allegations that her son, after a major argument with her, had assaulted her brutally, leading to her death. The son, Mainak, has ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Today, take Hwh Bridge detour to reach Shalimar, Santragachhi stations

    Kolkata: Those headed to Shalimar and Santragachhi railway stations on Sunday to catch trains need to leave home early as Vidyasagar Setu will stay shut for 16 hours between 5 am and 9 pm. Such commuters will have to ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Defence R&D centre at IIT-Kgp

    Kolkata: The Manekshaw Centre of Excellence for National Security Studies and Research, inaugurated on Monday, is an innovative initiative that brings together IITs, IISc, IIITs, and NITs on a common platform to carry out academic and research activities dedicated ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    CBI knocks on MLA’s doors as part of RG Kar probe

    Kolkata: CBI officials were at the Sinthee residence of Trinamool's Serampore MLA Sudipto Roy on Saturday afternoon, as part of their probe into the alleged "larger conspiracy" in the RG Kar rape-murder and financial crime at the medical institution. ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    SUCI to take to streets in protest against SIR

    Kolkata: SUCI has planned a statewide agitation this week against the special intensive revision (SIR) of poll rolls in Bengal calling it an NRC exercise in disguise, state secretariat member Tarun Naskar said on Saturday, reports Debashis Konar.He pointed ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Shramashree to now be part of Duare Sarkar, APAS camps

    Kolkata: Migrant workers returning home from other states can enrol for Shramashree, Bengal's govt's welfare scheme for them, at Duare Sarkar camps. The decision was taken at a meeting of the labour department on Saturday.The Duare Sarkar camps are ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    JU’s IR research centre reopens

    Kolkata: The T N Das Research Centre at the International Relations department in Jadavpur University has resumed functioning. The research centre was closed for over a year due to a shortage of staff. TOI reported that studies and research ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Malda woman attacked. finger at BJP leader

    Malda: The wife of a Trinamool Congress worker was critically injured after being attacked with a sharp weapon allegedly by a BJP leader at her home in Malda's Rathbari on Friday.BJP, however, described the attack as a family feud.Bapi ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Engineers recall ‘HR job’ of over six years that put humans first

    1234 Kolkata: They were supposed to deal with machines — of the tunnel borer kind — and papers. However, the human resources and administrative departments of ITD ITD-Cementation, contracted to build the 2.6 km East-West Metro corridor, ended up ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Weekday feel on weekend for C Kol as East-West full run hits the right spots

    1234 Kolkata: Packed trains with several standing passengers marked East-West Metro's full run on Saturday as commuters thronged to the corridor, making full use of the connectivity stretching across Sector V and Howrah Maidan. In some of the bustling ...

    24 August 2025 Times of India
    Fusion CX expands, sets up centre in Siliguri

    Kolkata: Fusion CX, a city-based company providing global customer experience (CX) and business progress management solutions, has expanded its operations by setting up an operational centre in Siliguri.State information technology and electronics minister Babul Supriyo unveiled the facility, for ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Faster and cheaper alternative for travel to airport and office’

    Kolkata: For daily commuters and flyers, Friday's inauguration of the 6.7 km metro link between Noapara and Kolkata airport brought a sense of relief and anticipation. Many who witnessed or boarded the inaugural train said the new service would ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    UG admissions for CAP candidates take off, classes to begin on Aug 29

    Kolkata: The higher education department published the first merit list for undergraduate candidates on centralised admission portal (CAP) on Friday, within a couple of hours of the Supreme Court clearing the deck for the OBC issue. The first-semester UG ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Ayah centres in eye of storm after rise in caregiver crimes

    Kolkata: The arrest of Ashalata Sardar (36) for the murder of a 79-year-old woman at the New Garia Cooperative Society has once again exposed the increasing trend of caregivers and servants getting involved in crimes.According to Lalbazar, caregivers — ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Contempt plea in HC over freedom fighter pension dues

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday directed Bengal govt and Centre to file affidavits within a fortnight explaining why some freedom fighters were not receiving pension. "We are getting our salary. But why are freedom fighters not getting their pension? ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Science City crucial connect in metro extn from Ruby to Beleghata

    Kolkata: There was a sense of muted jubilation as the Orange Line train left Beleghata station and moved towards New Garia following its ceremonial flagging off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Dum Dum on Friday. While the Orange ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Trend continues, most among WBJEE toppers opt for IITs

    Kolkata: Most among the top 10 rank-holders in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) have already moved out of Bengal to pursue higher education at premier institutes of their choice in other states, IITs being the top pick ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Relief for 1.1L JEE aspirants as 117-day wait comes to end

    Kolkata: Students and their parents heaved a sigh of relief on Friday when the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board declared the WBJEE results following a wait of three-and-a-half months. Around 1.1 lakh students, who appeared for the entrance,waited ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Didi recalls how she laid ground for metro expansion in ‘nostalgic’ post

    Kolkata: A ‘nostalgic' CM Mamata Banerjee took to X on Friday to talk about how she had led the expansion of Kolkata's metro connectivity, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the city to flag-off new services on ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Underground shift on Hwh-Sealdah link set to alter surface commute

    1234 Kolkata: With the East-West Metro bridging the gap between Esplanade and Sealdah, connecting two of the most crowded railway stations in the country, a tectonic shift in surface transport is now expected, not just for passengers but all ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Above ground zero, Bowbazar turns protest zone over 6-yr displacement

    1234 Kolkata: At 4.45 pm on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first Esplanade-Sealdah metro train and it glided through the tunnel below Bowbazar, there were cheers, waving of the Tricolour, and a sense of a ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Orange Line: Work in progress for commute to city’s IT hub

    Kolkata: Metro Railway does not expect a very high passenger count on the 4.4 km extension of the Orange Line from Ruby to Metropolitan right now. Officials said once the 366 m viaduct is launched to bridge the gap ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC tears into Modi’s ‘own-goals’, says BJP acts as ‘washing machine’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday slammed PM Narendra Modi's address in Kolkata, terming his claims on infiltration and corruption as nothing but "self-goals". Checking the borders was not the state's job, TMC claimed in a 40-minute address to the media ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Finally, says woman who launched campaign against delayed opening

    Kolkata: Shruti Pathak, who started a campaign in July-Aug demanding that the East-West Metro's last stretch be opened for the sake of Kolkatans who were leading miserable lives negotiating bad roads and endless traffic snarls, was thrilled when the ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC to monitor health of new bldgs for 10 yrs

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation-appointed committee, responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of houses on Durga Pituri Lane and its adjacent areas, will closely monitor the health of the reconstructed buildings for the next 10 years. If these houses suffer ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Language doesn’t refer to a state, there ought not be any argument: Presidency Univ alumni

    Kolkata: All Bengali-speaking people should not be identified as Bangladeshis, said speakers at the annual debate—titled ‘Bengali is a language, not a country'—organised by the 75-year-old alumni association of Presidency University on Friday. The event comes at a time ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    16-hour Vidyasagar Setu closure in Bengal from 5am on Sunday for repairs

    Kolkata: The Vidyasagar Setu will remain shut for all vehicular movement for about 16 hours from 5am to 9pm on Sunday. The closure will facilitate the lifting and placement of steel portal beams at a single location near Santragachi ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Dilip flies out on PM rally day

    Kolkata: BJP's former national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, who skipped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's programme, left for Bengaluru to meet spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Friday.Ghosh said he would listen to the PM's speech live on his mobile ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Man kills wife, walks around with her heart

    Jalpaiguri: Residents of Bangkandi village in Jalpaiguri's Maynaguri were horror-struck seeing a neighbour roaming around with an object dripping blood on Friday morning.Ramesh Roy was holding a heart — his wife's.Police said Ramesh, 52, suspected his wife Dipali, 45, ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    SIR: EC asks Bengal poll officials to fill vacancies

    Kolkata: Election Commission on Friday asked poll officials in Bengal to gear up for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and fill all vacant posts.EC had earlier written to the state govt asking it to urgently fill ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal announces 20% bonus for tea garden workers

    12 Darjeeling: Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chief executive Anit Thapa on Friday announced that tea garden workers in Darjeeling, Terai, Dooars, Kalimpong and Kurseong will receive a 20% bonus for FY 2024–25. The announcement follows a directive issued by ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    UG admissions start as SC lifts quota roadblock

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Board and all colleges under the state's common admission portal started the admission process for the current academic year on Friday a couple of hours after the Supreme Court stayed a Calcutta High ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Elderly woman found murdered, hubby tied up in New Garia home

    Kolkata: A 79-year-old woman was found murdered, her hands and feet tied, in her bungalow inside New Garia Cooperative Society on Friday morning while her 83-year-old husband was found tied up in a bedroom on the ground floor. Electrical ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Modi invokes infiltration, corruption to attack TMC at Bengal rally

    Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday used infiltration and corruption as sticks to beat Trinamool Congress during his third Bengal visit in 12 weeks. In his 39-minute speech at the Dum Dum Central Jail ground, Modi harped on ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Illegal’ in India, jailed in B’desh: ‘Nowhere woman’ prays for miracle

    Kolkata: In another life, Sunali Khatun could have been a version of Manto's Toba Tek Singh, a man with no country to call his own. Pushed into Bangladesh by police in India who labelled her an illegal immigrant, police ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    With 3 new lines, Kol metro becomes a 74-km network

    Kolkata: From "hell rail", as Satyajit Ray once dubbed it unable to bear the prolonged construction pain of the country's first underground transportation system (3.4 km Esplanade-Bhowanipur), Kolkata Metro has now grown to a 74-km network. Prime Minister Narendra ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    After long wait, commuters happy to beat traffic delays with unbroken ride

    Kolkata: The city's long-awaited East-West Metro finally began its complete 16.6-km run between Sector V and Howrah Maidan on Friday evening, linking Salt Lake, Esplanade, and Howrah through one uninterrupted corridor. For thousands of commuters, the uninterrupted service is ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Faster and chepaer alternative for airport and office commute’

    Kolkata: For daily commuters and flyers, Friday's inauguration of the 6.7 km metro link between Noapara and Kolkata airport brought a sense of relief and anticipation. Many who witnessed or boarded the inaugural train said the new service would ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Yellow Line: Noapara link between home & the world

    Kolkata: From Monday, flyers arriving at the airport can travel to nearly anywhere in the city in less than an hour. The Yellow Line, which will connect seamlessly with the Blue Line, will allow commuters to travel from airport ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Kids join PM on 1st metro ride to airport

    Kolkata: For a dozen or so schoolchildren, Friday turned into a once-in-a-lifetime experience as they joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the maiden Metro ride between Jessore Road station and Kolkata airport shortly after the PM flagged off the ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Green Line: Shortest new stretch bridges east & west

    Kolkata: The East-West Metro, projected to exceed the age-old Blue Line in ridership within a year or two, completed its first full run between Salt Lake Sector V and Howrah Maidan across the Hooghly on Friday evening. The metro ...

    23 August 2025 Times of India
    Modi attacks Trinamool ahead of Bengal visit for metro corridors launch

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday, barely a few hours ahead of his scheduled visit to Bengal, took to X to flag the "increasing public anger against Trinamool Congress". Modi, who will be on his third visit to the ...

    22 August 2025 Times of India
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