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  • HC grants bail to Bhadra in cash-for-jobs case

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also known as ‘Kalighater Kaku', an accused in the cash-for-jobs case related to the recruitment of primary teachers in state-run schools of Bengal. Bhadra was released from ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal govt gives nod to rebuild famed Hollong bungalow

    Jalpaiguri: The Bengal govt has approved the reconstruction of the iconic Hollong Forest Bungalow, which was gutted in an accidental fire on June 18, 2024.The Jaldapara National Park authority had submitted a proposal to the govt for the bungalow's ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Protect citizens, maintain peace: HC gives state free hand in Beldanga

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the state to handle law-and-order in Murshidabad with a firm hand to pre-empt any communal disturbance."The state must act as per its stand and the law-and-order situation shall be maintained in Murshidabad ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool raises deportation of Bengali-speakers in Parliament

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Trinamool MP Satabdi Roy on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that Bengali-speaking people were being deported to Bangladesh and asserted that language could not be a consideration for authorities for taking such steps.Addressing the House in ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    BJP hits campaign trail with 1,500 street corners across state

    Kolkata: On the first day of its month-long "Pahar Theke Sagar" campaign, Bengal BJP held nearly 1,500 street-corner rallies in each mandal (a cluster of 70-75 booths) across the state on Friday.PM Narendra Modi, who met BJP MPs from ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Frontier Warehousing set to acquire 106-yr-old Kesoram

    Kolkata: The 106-year-old Kesoram Industries, once the flagship of the BK Birla Group, and the company with which the legendary BK Birla started his industrial journey before independence, is set to change hands. It is being acquired by Frontier ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    AQI slips to ‘very poor’ category after season’s 1st notable temp dip in Kolkata

    Kolkata: The air quality in Kolkata deteriorated on Monday as the season's first notable dip in temperature coincided with a surge in pollution levels across the city. Real-time monitoring data from multiple stations showed the Air Quality Index (AQI) ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Worry ahead: Will our vacation plan go awry?

    Kolkata: Will winter holiday plans go off the rails: That seems to be the question on top of the mind of flyers booked on IndiGo as the airline's unprecedented operational meltdown continues to ripple through the country's busiest routes. ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    2.2L for Mum ticket: Fare stays north, flyer anger boils over

    Kolkata: Frustrated by soaring airfares, passengers on Friday urged the aviation watchdog DGCA to step in to halt what they called rampant profiteering after one-way ticket prices between major cities surged to five-figure marks. The spike followed a wave ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Why make us a pawn in your pol battle, ask housing societies

    Kolkata: Residents living in housing complexes across the city are asking why they should be made "pawns" in an escalating political tussle between the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the state government, after being urged by the poll ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Cancelled: Award event returning to Kol after Cov

    Kolkata: The MP Birla Planetarium (MPBP) had to cancel the MP Birla Memorial Award function on Friday after the award recipient, Yashwant Gupta, director of National Centre for Radio Astrophysics at TIFR Pune, was unable to reach the city ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Dedicated track, green channel plans for better local train ops

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway is planning ways to improve efficiency and punctuality of local trains, especially in the Howrah division, Milind Deouskar, GM, ER, said on Friday.On the sidelines of an event by ICC's 3rd Rail India Forum in Kolkata, ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Pay my bill, ailing BLO’s wife tells CEO

    Kolkata: The wife of BLO Anirban Banerjee from Domjur in Howrah, who is undergoing treatment for his leg infection at a private hospital off EM Bypass, has sought financial help from the Election Commission (EC) to pay her husband's ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Dead voters on draft roll: DMs to be answerable

    Kolkata: The DMs will be held responsible if any dead voter's name is included in the draft SIR roll, the EC stated on Friday. During a video conference with the chief electoral officers in 12 states and UTs, the ...

    6 December 2025 Times of India
    Green channel, dedicated tracks, more AC rakes to improve local train ops

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway is planning ways to improve efficiency and punctuality of local trains, especially in the Howrah division, Milind Deouskar, GM, ER, said on Friday.On the sidelines of an event by ICC's 3rd Rail India Forum in Kolkata, ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Humayun Kabir defies TMC suspension: MLA says Babri-style mosque will be built as planned on December 6

    KOLKATA: Suspended by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for his plan to lay the foundation stone of a Babri-style mosque in Murshidabad on December 6, MLA Humayun Kabir remained defiant on Friday, insisting the event would proceed as scheduled.Kabir said ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, comfortable temperatures; AQI remains poor

    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 experienced a crisp and sunny morning on December 5, 2025, with temperatures anticipated to ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Wave of flight cancellations, delays ruins flyers’ travel plans

    Kolkata: The city's peak travel season has turned into mayhem as thousands of passengers — from holidaymakers to those flying home for medical emergencies — were stranded amid a fresh wave of flight cancellations and inordinate delays.At Kolkata airport, ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Sunali needs urgent blood transfusion, say docs in B’desh

    Kolkata: Doctors in Bangladesh treating 28-year-old Sunali Khatun through her advanced pregnancy have recommended immediate blood transfusion for her because of her low haemoglobin count, her family was informed on Thursday. Sunali underwent a battery of diagnostic tests on ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Cops pick up wife for stabbing man to death during flat-sale row

    Kolkata: A 38-year-old woman, identified as Sarbani Das, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering her 48-year-old husband at their Sashi Bhushan Dey Street home. The victim, Ashok Kumar Das, was found dead with multiple stab wounds on Tuesday ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool suspends Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir for ‘communal politics’

    Berhampore/Kolkata: Trinamool on Thursday suspended its belligerent Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir for his "communal politics", prompting the rebel legislator to declare that he would float his own party by Dec 22.Kabir, who earned the party's ire by publicly declaring ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    1 lakh for a flight to Bengaluru: IndiGo mayhem blurs national-int’l price barrier

    Kolkata: On Thursday, a one-way ticket from Kolkata to Bengaluru cost as much as a return fare to Boston in the US. Travellers could undertake a return journey to Sydney in Australia or Christchurch in New Zealand at the ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs look for voters yet to give forms, to mark them ‘absentee’ from today

    Kolkata: BLOs in Kolkata on Thursday looked for voters who are yet to return their SIR enumeration forms. From Friday, the voters will be marked as "absentee voters" as per instructions they received from their seniors.By Wednesday evening, the ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Surmises, conjectures: Reasons for scrapping Ganguly order

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court division bench, which on Wednesday reinstated 32,000 primary school teachers' jobs, striking down seven findings by former judge Abhijit Ganguly, called Ganguly's statement of him smelling "stinking rats" in his May 2023 order "mere ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    CPM distances itself from Bikash stance on TET verdict

    Kolkata: CPM on Thursday distanced itself from senior advocate and party neta Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya's comments on Thursday, after the latter said that the Calcutta High Court division bench TET order that saved 32,000 teachers' jobs should be challenged ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Govt names 23-member IAS team to steer devpt projects

    Kolkata: After Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee requested proper monitoring of development projects across districts through a team of 23 observers, chief secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday notified the list of officers responsible for overseeing development and welfare projects.A senior ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Sagardighi supercritical thermal power unit to start ops from Dec 10

    Kolkata: Sagardighi's new supercritical thermal power unit will start operations from Dec 10, CM Mamata Banerjee announced on Thursday.Addressing a rally at Berhampore in Murshidabad, the CM said, "In Sagardighi's thermal power plant in Murshidabad, we are again constructing ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP to hold 1,300 rallies state-wide today, 13,000 over a month

    Kolkata: A day after PM Narendra Modi exhorted Bengal BJP netas to remain focused and confident about the 2026 assembly polls, the latter drew the battle lines and announced holding 13,000 rallies over a month starting Friday. The saffron ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Hotels at home: Notice to 37 New Town buildings

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has issued stop operation notices to owners of 37 residential buildings identified across New Town for illegally running hotels and guest houses in the building premises without permission.As per the list ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Wipro signs 1.7L sq ft Smartworks lease to expand Kol ops

    Kolkata: Wipro has taken on lease 1.7 lakh sq ft of workspace for around 3,000 people from Smartworks Coworking Spaces Ltd to expand its footprint in Kolkata. Sources in Sector V told TOI that this would be the Indian ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    2.5 cr/year top offer at IIT-Kgp placements, 5 bag 2cr+ jobs so far

    Kolkata: Five students from IIT Kharagpur bagged jobs with pay packages exceeding Rs 2 crore per annum during the first phase of the ongoing 2025-26 placement process. The recruitment drive had started on Dec 1. The highest pay package ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Extra CISF personnel deployed as tempers fly at packed terminal

    Kolkata: Flights were disrupted for the second successive day at Kolkata airport after IndiGo Airlines cancelled 22 flights and delayed departures of 146 others. The airline attributed the disruption to "crew shortage". The cancellations and delays triggered chaos at ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    College Service Commission gets new chairperson

    Kolkata: The new chairperson of the College Service Commission, Souren Bandyopadhyay, was appointed by the higher education department on Thursday, replacing Dipak Kumar Kar. The controller, Selim Box Mandal, who joined a few months ago, was replaced by Subhranil ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    CCTV cams will be set up in 45 days, JU informs HC

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Thursday submitted a security report before the Calcutta High Court, stating that the authorities received Rs 68 lakh from the higher education department and will complete CCTV installation within 45 days.A progress report was directed ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    State moves SC against doc’s RG Kar posting

    Kolkata: The state approached the Supreme Court against the Calcutta HC order of posting Aniket Mahata at RG Kar instead of Raiganj Medical College.Mahata, a prominent face of the RG Kar agitation, had moved the single bench of Justice ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Primary teachers make a fresh start after HC order

    Kolkata: A day after the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday reinstated the jobs of 32,000 primary school teachers, the atmosphere at schools changed: Colleagues, who would earlier question the affected teachers about the future of their jobs and even ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    New VC move: In a first, NUJS gets 5 deans

    Kolkata: The new VC of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Nandimath Omprakash V, appointed five deans for UG studies, PG studies, research, student affairs, and alumni affairs, outreach & communications on Wednesday — for the first ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    FIR after ex loads intimate pics on dark web for sale

    Kolkata: A call centre employee, residing in Sarsuna, is currently on the run after allegedly blackmailing a woman and posting their intimate photographs on the dark web for sale. The accused also used a fake Instagram account to upload ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Trainee pilot found hanging in N Kol house

    Kolkata: A trainee pilot was found hanging in Girish Park on Wednesday night. Soumyaditya Kundu (21) the only child of his parents and a resident of central Kolkata, had returned from South Africa in October, where he was pursuing ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Drunk driver assaults cops at Behala traffic naka

    Kolkata: Hours after a major accident on DH Road on Wednesday morning, cops at the James Long Sarani-SN Roy Road crossing came under attack from a motorist. A test on the accused driver revealed that he was heavily drunk. ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Biker dies after being hit by ‘police truck’

    Kolkata: A 54-year-old man from Baranagar died in an accident while riding his bike at the Kingsway-Strand Road crossing around 9.55 am on Thursday. He was on his way to work towards Dalhousie when a small truck hit him. ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake tank work to hit water supply

    Kolkata: A large area of Salt Lake will experience reduced water supply for the next few days due to ongoing maintenance work and reconstruction of the overhead reservoirs' dome slab. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been conducting this work ...

    5 December 2025 Times of India
    SIR theme at Ritwik Ghatak centenary installations

    Kolkata: A compilation of maps, newspaper clippings, and a video recording, documenting the harrowing experiences of individuals living under the threat of deportation to Bangladesh during the SIR crisis, is a highlight of the exhibition titled ‘Ritwik Japon'. This ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    'Will build Babri' remark: TMC suspends MLA Humayun Kabir

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s political temperature spiked on Thrusday after the Trinamool Congress suspended its Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir, after he reiterated that he would go ahead with a December 6 ‘shilanyas’ for a mosque modelled on the Babri Masjid ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro: 1,678 high-tech cameras to be installed across Blue Line; system will alert RPF in real time

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Metro, the country’s oldest rapid transit system, is set to roll out a cutting-edge intelligent surveillance grid designed to detect distressed passengers and stop suicide attempts on its tracks. Metro Rail has become a suicide hotspot. This ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    'Will my baby will be born in India or Bangladesh': SC directs return of pregnant Sunali Khatun; uncertainty looms over childbirth

    KOLKATA: Nine months pregnant and recovering from three-and-a-half months in a Bangladeshi jail, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun said she is "delighted" by the apex court's direction for her repatriation but is unsure when she will finally return to her parents ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC suspends Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir over 'Babri Masjid shilanyas' remark

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s political temperature spiked on Thrusday after the Trinamool Congress suspended its Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir, hours after he reiterated that he would go ahead with a December 6 ‘shilanyas’ for a mosque modelled on the Babri ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Senior fires gun after row with auto driver

    Kolkata: A 78-year-old man reportedly fired a shot into the air following a heated argument with a local auto operator over parking on Hare Krishna Sett Lane near Sinthee around 10.30 pm on Tuesday. The gun was licensed and ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Purple Line milestone: RVNL casts roof slab on Victoria stn

    Kolkata: The Purple Line has reached a milestone, with RVNL completing the roof slab casting of Victoria metro station. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, implementing the 14km Joka-Esplanade or the Purple Line, on Monday completed casting the roof slab of ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    RWAs defer call on booth at home after CM call during mayor meet

    Kolkata: Most housing societies in the city seemed reluctant to host polling booths on their premises after a meeting with mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday. He had called RWA members of all premium housing complexes for a discussion on ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    We are educators, not thieves, say teachers

    Kolkata: It was a day of triumph for 32,000 primary school teachers who could finally shed the tag of a ‘fraud' and proved their merit as the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside a single-bench order of 2023, ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Hope & hard-won relief light up Sunali’s home in Birbhum

    Kolkata: As his mobile phone rang on Wednesday morning, 63-year-old Bhodu Sheikh smiled in relief probably for the first time in six months. His eyes glistened with hope as he spoke to his wife Jyotsna Bibi, who was in ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    SIR reunites Habra parents with missing son after 26 yrs

    Kolkata: A 26-year-old mystery was solved through the ongoing digitisation process of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. An elderly couple from Habra, who spent decades grieving their missing son, were reunited with him, now 46-year-old, over ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Biker goes to hospital with severed right leg after accident on DH Road

    Kolkata: A 53-year-old biker from Bishnupur, Sujit Khamaru, lost his right leg after being injured in an accident on Wednesday that involved a private bus, a car, and two bikes. He is in a critical but stable condition at ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Meet Sunali’s angels battling long for her return

    Kolkata: It was late Aug when Mofijul Sheikh, a Birbhum-based social worker in his 30s, received a call on his cellphone asking him to immediately leave for Bangladesh to help Sunali Khatun and five others, who had been arrested ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Airport mosque, 165 m from runway, raises safety & navigation concerns

    Kolkata: Safety concerns over the close proximity of a century-old mosque to the secondary runway at Kolkata airport have again surfaced after minister of state for civic aviation Murlidhar Mohol pointed out that its presence in the approach area ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘May I Help You’ camp in all blocks from Dec 12 to help voters with SIR papers: CM

    Malda/Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that ‘May I Help You' camps will function in all blocks across Bengal from Dec 12 to ensure that no voter's name is struck off the electoral rolls during the ongoing ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Prof’s Guinness Book record: Cycling across Himalayas in 495 hours

    Kolkata: Avisek Tunga, an ultra-marathon runner, made it to the Guinness World Records for being the fastest to cross the Himalayas, from west to east, by a standard bicycle in 20 days and 15 hours. Tunga received the Guinness ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Min may slide to 15°C this weekend, chill likely to persist

    Kolkata: A chilly weekend is in the offing for Kolkata, which could see the minimum temperature slide to 15°C. The mercury started sliding in Kolkata on Wednesday and a drop of 2°C-3°C in the minimum temperature is expected over ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    CM to address over 12k traders, MSMEs on Dec 17

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee will address over 12,000 traders and MSMEs at the Byabasayi Sammelan 2025 to be held at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Dec 17, a day ahead of the Bengal Business Conclave. The Sammelan is being organised ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    5 Bangladeshis get life sentence in 2016 terror conspiracy case

    Kolkata: A sessions court in Kolkata on Wednesday sentenced five men to life imprisonment after finding them guilty for conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in India, wage war against the govt and possessing fake Indian documents despite being ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Help desks open, KMC gets 400 online, 50 offline certificate requests on day 1

    Kolkata: In the wake of an ongoing SIR exercise, KMC on Wednesday set up special help desks at the civic headquarters to expedite the issuance of birth and death certificates. According to a KMC health department official, KMC on ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Don’t bring up religion in SIR talks: Modi to state BJP netas

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked Bengal BJP MPs not to bring in caste, creed or religion while speaking on the outcome of special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls.The PM spoke with Bengal BJP netas for nearly ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangladesh seeks ‘new canvas’ in ties with India, says envoy

    Kolkata: Days after Bangladesh said its bilateral ties with India will not be stuck on one issue, the country's high commissioner in India Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday said the country is trying to "articulate a new canvas" where ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams Abhijit after TET verdict, Suvendu bats for MP

    Kolkata: TMC on Wednesday took aim at BJP MP Abhijit Ganguly, who in 2023 had authored the Calcutta HC judgment scrapping the 2014 TET panel, taking away jobs of 32,000 primary teachers in Bengal. Calcutta HC on Wednesday reinstated ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    32k teachers keep jobs as HC bench overturns ex-judge Ganguly’s verdict

    Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court division bench on Wednesday decided against scrapping the recruitment of 32,000 teachers for state-run primary schools, setting aside an order of HC judge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Ganguly.Justice Ganguly had in 2023 cancelled the appointments, which ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Dad’s bike grazes truck, schoolboy falls, gets leg crushed under wheels

    Kolkata: An 11-year-old student of class 5 residing in the Bagmari area was severely injured after falling off his father's bike and having his leg crushed under a truck around 6.35 am on Wednesday. The incident was reported from ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    For BLOs, another round of para visits is in order

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the BLOs to make door-to-door visits of the applicants who opted for online form submission. If the applicant is not available at the given address, the BLO will call the person for ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    Going green: Traffic guard gets solar panel

    Kolkata: The South Traffic Guard office, located adjacent to the Exide crossing, became the first traffic guard under Kolkata Police to harness solar power. Around 15 solar panels were installed on the traffic guard's terrace, generating 15 kilowatts of ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    3 new gyms at IIT for students’ well-being

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur on Wednesday unveiled three modern gymnasiums at its newest halls of residence — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence, Savitribai Phule Hall of Residence-Block 1 and Savitribai Phule Hall of Residence-Block 2—for students' well-being.The hall management ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    73-year-old run over by minibus

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old pedestrian, Shambhunath Das, who was crossing the road died at the JM Avenue-Shyambazar Street intersection around 7 pm on Tuesday when a minibus ran him over in a bid to overtake another bus. The driver fled ...

    4 December 2025 Times of India
    State to help mutawallis move tribunal over glitchy Umeed

    Kolkata: With Bengal waqf mutawallis facing challenges in accessing Centre's Umeed portal, where there are required to upload waqf data by Dec 5, Bengal Waqf Board has decided to help mutawallis move the waqf appellate tribunal."The server often malfunctions, ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies amidst severe air pollution concerns

    Kolkata is experiencing a sunny start to December 2025, offering pleasant temperatures, yet significant air quality concerns persist. Yesterday's air quality index (AQI-IN) reached 337, classified as 'Severe', prompting advisories for residents, particularly sensitive groups, to take precautions despite ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Structure displaces runway threshold': Centre reviews Bankra mosque issue on Kolkata airport; CISF cites security lapses

    KOLKATA: The century-old mosque situated in the Kolkata airport operational area does not affect day-to-day flight operations but could pose a problem if the primary runway is out of operation on a foggy winter day or if a flight ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘In 3 yrs, Power & Hush Puppes to breach Rs 1k-cr mark’

    Kolkata: Power — a household name in the Indian shoe market — could well be the second brand from Bata India family to reach the Rs 1,000-crore business mark after umbrella brand Bata. The other brand that will reach ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Tiger spotted near village, cages set up

    Kolkata: The village of Upendra Nagar in Sridharana Nagar village panchayat, Patharpratima, remained on the edge on Tuesday after a tiger was reportedly sighted in a nearby forest patch a couple of days ago.Forest dept officials set up a ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BJP rebuts CM’s report card, demands details on jobs & industries

    Malda: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday questioned CM Mamata Banerjee's assertion that 1.7 crore people in the state were brought out of the poverty line in the 2011-2023 period. He claimed the reality would be revealed ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BGBS to be held after state polls, says Mamata

    Kolkata: The Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) will be held only after the assembly election in the state, announced CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday. "We will hold BGBS after the election. However, we will meet MSME players on Dec ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Woman hops on to delivery boy’s bike, catches molester

    Kolkata: A young woman residing in south Kolkata showed exceptional courage after she teamed up with a delivery agent to nab her molester on an empty street while returning home at night.The incident took place around midnight on Sunday ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    From 5-minute waits to 40: Covid shrinks Kol bus fleet from 6k to 2k

    Kolkata: Experts call for ‘doubling' of buses as fleet shrinks from 6,000 to under 2,000. Kolkata's bus system is facing its worst-ever service collapse, and this drastic reduction has triggered an unnatural spike in waiting-time, pushed more people toward ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Darj tower clock set to return to life, museum, selfie point on the cards

    Darjeeling: Time has for the past three months stood still at the turret clock atop Darjeeling's Capitol Hall, once the town's most reliable timekeeper, raising concern among locals and visitors alike. The hill station authorities are now set to ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    6.9% electors now dead, Kol North tops deceased voter list

    Kolkata: With the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise entering its final lap, Kolkata North has emerged at the top with the highest percentage of dead voters, followed by Kolkata South.The Election Commission has identified 1,04,076 deceased voters, which ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Airport logs 100 GPS spoofings, signal intrusions in 2 months

    Kolkata: More than 100 instances of cyber attacks on flights in the Kolkata flight information region (FIR) had been reported in the past two months, affecting two to three flights a day, a senior official told TOI on Tuesday. ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    HC: Caste benefits stay despite status upgrade

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court held on Tuesday that even if a candidate under the reserved category scored higher than the cut-off and was upgraded to the general category, he/she would continue to enjoy the benefits of the category.The directive ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Work on Durga Angan to begin this month

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will this month lay the foundation of ‘Durga Angan' in New Town, a temple complex, dedicated to Durga. "According to India Tourism data for 2025, Bengal received 24 crore visitors in Oct alone. We ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Law college reactivates old CCTV cameras

    Kolkata: Due to delays in paperwork for installing new CCTV cameras, the law college where a student was raped, reactivated old CCTV cameras that stopped functioning.There were only 3 CCTV cameras installed in Jan 2023, covering only a limited ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Stray dogs protect abandoned newborn in Nabadwip

    Nabadwip: A pack of stray dogs formed a ring around an abandoned newborn outside the toilet of a house in Nabadwip, protecting the mewling baby through the early hours of Monday. The four-legged guardians left the spot only after ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    CM announces 2 lakh for kin of 39 ‘victims of SIR stress’

    Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of 39 people, including BLOs, whose deaths have been linked to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, giving ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    2cr-plus jobs, 4.4 times rise in state GDP: Mamata lists achievements

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt has provided jobs to more than 2 crore people and the state GDP has increased 4.4 times to Rs 20.3 lakh crore since Trinamool was first elected to office in 2011, CM Mamata Banerjee said ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    In a first, IIT-Kgp sets up ‘recharge zones’ to help students tackle placement stress

    Kolkata: The placement season at IIT Kharagpur started on Monday with the administration opening "recharge zones" for the first time to help job aspirants tackle mental stress resulting from the fiercely competitive recruitment process.The 24x7 zones, set up in ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Samik moves motion in RS, seeks debate on ‘compromised’ SIR

    Kolkata: Even as chaos continued in Parliament on Monday with treasury and opposition benches locking their horns over special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls, BJP Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya, who is also the president of the party's ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Extra KMC staff, counters from today as SIR rush grows

    Kolkata: Hundreds of citizens from across the city and the adjoining neighbourhoods queued up at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) birth-death certificate wing on Tuesday, long before the scheduled office hours, to apply for birth and death certificates ahead ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Try & recover at least 50% of money lost to cyber fraud: Lalbazar to cops

    Kolkata: The rising trend of losing money to cyber fraud has prompted top cops at Lalbazar to instruct all its cyber cells to "pull up their socks" and improve the recovery rate.Analysing each case, especially those where the loss ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Divided on name, experts & activists united on better access for disabled

    Kolkata: While there is a debate among activists and experts on whether persons with disabilities should be called ‘disabled' or ‘specially abled', they are united in the cause of better access for them ahead of International Day of Persons ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Night at thana’: Was very scared, couldn’t sleep one bit, says Sunali

    Kolkata: Taken to a Bangladesh police station late on Monday "for her safety and security" after her release from prison, 28-year-old Sunali Khatun's travails with police, both in India and Bangladesh, refuse to end.Speaking to TOI over a borrowed ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Birla Planetarium banks on a pleasant winter to go back to pre-Covid footfall

    Kolkata: MP Birla Planetarium (MPBP) authorities are banking on fair weather this winter to make up for the footfall deficit from April to Oct 2025 and continue the recovery momentum post-Covid. The lower turnout in the first half of ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs work overtime to wrap up backlog

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs), who were rushing to collect forms first and upload them together, have landed in a problem with the EC asking them to upload all SIR forms they collected, including ‘Uncollectable' ones, by Tuesday midnight.Issuing ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Not at home when booth level officers knocked? Don’t miss their calls now

    Kolkata: If you receive a call from an unknown number, do not ignore it. It may be from your BLO.The EC has mandated every BLO to verify the authenticity of an absentee applicant whose enumeration form contains the signature ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol North tops list with 6.9% of its total electors now dead

    Kolkata: With the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise entering its final lap, Kolkata North has emerged at the top with the highest percentage of dead voters, followed by Kolkata South.The Election Commission has identified 1,04,076 deceased voters, which ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Not 2,208, no. of booths with dead, duplicate voters is 480’

    Kolkata: A day after the EC sought a report from the district election officers (DEOs), who are also DMs, after identifying 2,208 polling stations with ‘Zero Uncollectable' form, the number of such booths dropped to 480 on Tuesday.According to ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
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