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  • Youth killed on Hwh-bound train in Bihar

    12 Howrah: A youth was shot to death in an unreserved compartment of Howrah-bound Down Gaya Express on Tuesday, reports Rupak Banerjee. The deceased, Dharmendra Sahu, was from Laxmi Sarai in Bihar. He was on his way to Howrah.Railway ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Trial court verdict debunks 6 RG Kar theories

    1234 Multiple allegations and theories related to the rape-murder of the PGT doctor came up during the RG Kar trial. Judge Anirban Das, in his 172-page judgment, cited those and tried to debunk them with reasons.Theory 1: The victim ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Bally bridge to be shut for 100 hrs for repairs

    Howrah: The Howrah Police have issued a notification announcing the closure of the Dakshineswar-Ballyghat flank of Bally Bridge for 100 hours between Jan 23 and 27. The Ballyghat-Bally Halt Road under the bridge will also be shut for 100 ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Yes,’ said Sanjay to his pic on CCTV clip, implicated himself

    Kolkata: Rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy said "I can't say" as many as 56 times in reply to the prosecution's 104 questions during trial. Ironically, he said "yes" to a critical question — whether he was the person in the ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    1st E-W rake runs under Bowbazar collapse zone

    123 Kolkata: The first East-West Metro train rolled through the disaster-hit westbound tunnel from Sealdah to Esplanade via the Bowbazar cave-in zone on Tuesday. With Metro Railway GM P Uday Kumar Reddy, who is also chairman of Kolkata Metro ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Will stand by family: Jr docs

    12 Junior doctors who spearheaded the movement for justice have vowed to continue rallying behind the parents of their colleague. They said they would support parents of the 31-year-old PGT in whatever step they take after the Sealdah court ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Parents to also appeal against life sentence

    123 Kolkata: The family of the RG Kar Medical College victim, dissatisfied with the verdict of the Sessions Court on Monday, will move the Calcutta High Court demanding death penalty for Sanjay Roy. The family, however, awaits an order ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Councillor’s widow joins CM on dais

    Malda: In a significant departure from protocol, the widow of murdered Trinamool functionary Dulal ‘Babla' Sarkar was given special prominence at a govt function in Malda where CM Mamata Banerjee inaugurated various projects and handed over cheques and certificates ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Burglary at retired scientist’s Salt Lake home

    123 Kolkata: Burglars broke into the locked house of a retired scientist from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in Salt Lake BD Block last week. They decamped with electronics and other items worth several lakhs from his ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    3rd Sundarbans bird fest to start today

    Kolkata: The third edition of Sundarbans Bird Festival will kick off on Wednesday.The five-day event, that will continue till Jan 26, will cover the entire Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve area, including the tiger reserve and South 24 Parganas forest division, ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    CBI to review verdict, probe larger conspiracy

    Kolkata: The CBI will decide on the next course of action after it reviews the Sessions Court judgment, agency sources said on Tuesday. While the CBI prayed for the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Yet another bus-bike accident kills woman on way to school with daughter, leaves husband injured

    12 Kolkata: A 29-year-old homemaker travelling with her husband and four-year-old daughter on a bike to drop the child at school died after a bus hit the two-wheeler from behind near Jadavpur 8B bus stand on Tuesday. Debashree Naskar ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC verdict debunks 6 RG Kar theories

    123 Multiple allegations and theories related to the rape-murder of the PGT doctor came up during the RG Kar trial. Judge Anirban Das, in his 172-page judgment, cited those and tried to debunk them with reasons.Theory 1: The victim ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Woman dies by suicide after goons strip her over plot sale

    Kolkata: A 27-year-old homemaker, a mother of two, hung herself on Tuesday after being publicly assaulted and stripped by a promoter's goons on Monday evening. The gang was allegedly pressurising the family to sell their 1.5 cottah plot in ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Where is my mom? Everyone else is here: 4-year-old asks family after returning home

    123 Kolkata: Four-year-old Ankita Mondal looked questioningly towards her aunt, Anjana Ganguly. "Everyone is here. All my friends are here. They are playing with me. I did not have to go to school. My grandmother and other relatives are ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Unfair: Kol LGBTQIA+ community’s take on Trump’s ‘two-gender’ announcement

    12 Kolkata: The LGBTQIA+ community in Kolkata has expressed anguish and sadness at president Donald Trump's announcement that only two genders — male and female — will be officially recognised by the United States govt. The announcement has stirred ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    10 of 16 fatal accidents in Jan involved 2-wheelers

    Kolkata: So far this month, the city has witnessed 16 accidental deaths, and around 10 of them involved two-wheelers. Since Tuesday night, two fatal accidents that were reported involved two-wheelers. The police said at least five accidents involved buses."While ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Clean chit to 6 docs who reached crime scene first

    Kolkata: For the six doctors, who had discovered the body of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, grappled with constant questioning from multiple investigating agencies and were subjected to polygraph tests, the judgment by Sealdah Sessions Court judge Anirban Das ...

    22 January 2025 Times of India
    Judge highlights hospital lapses, says it seems Sandip Ghosh wanted to suppress something

    Kolkata: "I condemn such attitude of the RG Kar hospital authorities," the Sealdah trial court Judge Anirban Das concluded in his 172-page order after highlighting the hospital authorities' lapses at multiple levels. Former principal Sandip Ghosh's name appeared 12 ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Victim’s neighboursvow to cancel all celebrations till ‘SC sentences Roy to death’

    12 Kolkata: Neighbours of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, a 31-year-old second-year PGT doctor from Sodepur, expressed profound disappointment on Monday following the sentencing of Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment. Outraged by the verdict and critical of the CBI's ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Case closed but no sense of closure for us: Reclaim Night protesters

    12 Kolkata: Thousands of protesters, who had taken to streets after the RG Kar crime, said they would not get a closure till the other perpetrators were brought to justice. "We expect the judiciary to keep this case under ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Elderly care, endowments in memory of alumni on 208th Presi Founder’s Day

    12 Kolkata: An initiative to provide care for elderly parents of alumni, who stay alone, was launched by the Presidency Alumni Association on Monday, marking the institute's 208th Founder's Day. This year, the association also introduced an award, a ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Plaint against nursing home after youth dies

    Kolkata: Alleging medical negligence, the family members of a 21-year-old patient — Akshay Mondal of Burul, who had died while undergoing treatment at a private nursing home in Behala on Saturday — created chaos outside the healthcare facility recently ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Fly ash on vessel not from BTPS

    Bandel Thermal Power Station (BTPS) has clarified that the the fly ash on the Bangladeshi barge was not from its plant. The operation of the jetty and vessel movement in the river are solely regulated by Inland Waterways Authority ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    No foul play detected in cricketer death so far: Cops

    Kolkata: A day after the mysterious death of a budding 17-year-old cricketer, Deb Ghosh, from Hasnabad at SSKM Hospital, cops said they had not spotted any foul play in the case so far. The probe is being done by ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    62-yr-old gets 20 yrs’ RI for sexually harassing 5-yr-old

    Kolkata: A Barasat Pocso court sentenced a 62-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing a five-year-old child while she came to his Salt Lake home to take tuition from his daughter. The man was also ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘May need five-six days to salvage barge from river’

    123 Kolkata: With rescue operations underway, the retrieval of the submerged Bangladeshi barge — A D Basiruddin Kaji — carrying fly ash is expected to take five to six more days, raising fresh concerns about the navigability of the ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Focus on use of recycled glass in atomic research, spacecraft

    123 Kolkata: The city-based Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) garnered global attention with its pioneering work in recycling glass waste into precision glass that can be used for high-end applications in aerospace, atomic research, spacecraft, among others. ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Rail completers FLS for laying of Rangpo-Gangtok tracks

    12 Jalpaiguri: In a major development, the Indian Railways have completed the Final Location Survey (FLS) for laying a new track from Rangpo to Gangtok in Sikkim. The survey report has been sent to the Railway Board for approval. ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Mamata meets slain Malda TMC neta’s widow, vows justice

    12 Malda: CM Mamata Banerjee met slain Trinamool neta Dulal (Babla) Sarkar's widow at their Malda residence on Monday and assured her that "the brain behind this murder, however a big shot he might be, will be caught and ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    HC allows petition on ‘encounter killing’ of Alam

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed a lawyer to file a petition on the "encounter killing" of undertrial prisoner Sajjak Alam, who had fled from a police van after shooting at two police officers, in Uttar Dinajpur's ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata woman’s organ donation saves three lives

    123 Kolkata: The three vital organs of a brain-dead homemaker from a village in Sabong were transplanted into three patients on Sunday night in two hospitals in Kolkata. This brings the deceased organ donation count to two this year.Sujata ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Chill returns to city before mercury rises

    Kolkata: With the mercury inching down to 14°C on Monday and the northwesterly returning partially, the city saw a return of chill after a few days of moderate weather. However, the mercury is unlikely to drop further over the ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Not aware of docus I signed in custody: Roy

    Kolkata: Sanjay Roy, convicted in the RG Kar rape-murder case, claimed innocence before the trial court on Monday and alleged that he was not aware of the documents he signed in police custody.Roy's lawyers, who pleaded with the judge ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    On D-Day, crime scene shut out to outside world

    12 Kolkata: On the day of RG Kar rape-murder judgment, the chest medicine department, where the 31-year-old PGT was found murdered on Aug 9, was virtually shut off from the world. Guarded by the hospital's own security and police, ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    When there is life, there’s hope of truth coming out: Convict’s family

    Kolkata: Moments after a city sessions court judge turned down CBI's appeal for capital punishment and sentenced RG Kar rape-murder accused Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment on Monday, his sister said there was still hope that the actual truth ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Fire at copper wire factory hits rail and road traffic near Park Circus, no casualties reported

    123 Kolkata: A fire broke out in a copper wire factory located on Tiljala Road under Beniapukur police station, right next to the Park Circus railway station, on Monday afternoon, halting rail movement on the loop line briefly and ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Massive fire engulfs abandoned warehouse at Burn Standard factory in Howrah

    123 Howrah: A massive fire broke out at the workshop of the closed Burn Standard factory in Howrah on Monday evening. The fire was first noticed in an abandoned warehouse of the factory around 7.30 pm. Workers present in ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case: Victim's father demands harshest punishment for Sanjay Roy, alleges involvement of others

    KOLKATA: Ahead of the sentencing in the RG Kar rape-murder case at the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court, the victim's father demanded the maximum punishment for the convicted Sanjay Roy. He also voiced his belief that other accomplices were ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Bangla patients trickle back to Kolkata hospitals

    123 Kolkata: Bangladeshi patients have started trickling back to some Kolkata hospitals after a lean period of five months despite tensions at the border, bringing a glimmer of hope for the medical tourism sector in the city that was ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    E-detection drive against over 15-yr-old comm vehicles

    123 Kolkata: Despite losing roadworthiness, a significant number of commercial vehicles over 15 years old continue to ply on the roads, posing environmental and safety risks. In a decisive move, the Bengal transport department, in collaboration with the ministry ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Parents look at next stage of court battle

    KOLKATA: The R G Kar trial based on the first charge sheet by CBI implicating rape and murder is set to conclude on Monday, but the proceedings will now shift to Supreme Court on Jan 22 when the apex ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    'Court should hear Sanjay Roy': Opposition leaders on RG Kar case verdict

    KOLKATA: BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya on Monday morning questioned the precipitous proceedings in the RG Kar rape and murder case, while emphasising that the investigation ought to continue and additional perpetrators involved in the heinous crime must likewise be ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    'CBI probe worthless, many involved left free': RG Kar doctor ahead of verdict in rape-murder case

    Sealdah Court is set to announce the punishment in the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case involving Sanjay Roy. Convicted, Roy faces either life imprisonment or death. NEW DELHI: Sealdah Court is set to pronounce the quantum of punishment ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Hope scope for more probe emerges today’

    Kolkata: When the court spells out the quantum of punishment for Sanjay Roy on Monday, friends and colleagues of the 31-year-old rape-murder victim will be keeping their fingers crossed, hoping for further investigation scope to emerge from the court. ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Post RG Kar hospital horror, death given in 5 cases of minors’ rape & murder in West Bengal

    Representative photo KOLKATA: A Pocso court in Bengal's Hooghly sentenced a convict to death on Sunday for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl last Nov, marking the fifth death penalty in cases of minors' rape-murder in the state since ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Blood-sucking flies found in Andaman & Nicobar: 13 of 23 species new to India

    Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India researchers have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Of these, 13 species were reported for the first time in India.Published in the international ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    High-end sports bike lands 3 in cop net

    Kolkata: Tracing a high-end blue sports bike with a tampered registration number plate, used in the Rs 11.9 lakh heist in front of a city mall, was key to tracking those involved in the robbery, cops said on Sunday. ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Art-science exhibit focuses on innovation at city school

    12 Kolkata: To encourage creativity among students, St Sebastian's School organised ‘Acrayon 2024', the annual art and science exhibition within their school premises recently. Stalls were put up exhibiting the finest of creations presented by the children, reflecting their ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Two held for looting 30L from bizman

    Kolkata: Probing into the daylight snatching of Rs 30 lakh from a businessman in Narkeldanga on Saturday, cops arrested two men on Sunday. The two were produced before a Sealdah court that sent them to police custody till Jan ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Man who gave Sajjak Alam bike to escape held

    Malda: A person has been arrested in relation to the Goalpokhor firing incident. Sk Hazrat had allegedly assisted primary suspect Sajjak Alam and his aide Abdul Hussain. Alam, who had fled from a prison van on Jan 15 after ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata kicks off week with fun Sunday as Happy Streets returns

    12 Kolkata: The city woke up to a fun-filled Sunday morning with Happy Streets, organised by The Times of India, presented by Shyam Steel Industries Ltd, and powered by PS Group and Manipal Hospitals, along with education partner Adamas ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Kumbh rush sends airfares soaring ahead of once-in-144-years event

    12 Kolkata: Ahead of Mauni Amavasya on Jan 29, considered the most auspicious among the royal baths during the ongoing Maha Kumbh, airfares have skyrocketed, with high demand pushing up ticket prices to four times the regular fare.During the ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Jr docs protest, seek relief for suspended 7

    Midnapore: Junior doctors of Midnapore Medical College began a sit-in outside the principal's office at 10.30 pm on Saturday, demanding immediate withdrawal of the suspension and legal cases against seven junior doctors. The stir continued on Sunday.Principal Mausumi Nandi ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Hasnabad budding cricketer drugged & robbed in Kol, dies

    Kolkata: A 17-year-old boy from Hasnabad who came to Kolkata on Saturday morning to play cricket at a club, was allegedly waylaid by a group of youths. His family finally found him at a hospital. He later died at ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Konnagar man, caught in LA fire, counts his luck

    12 Kolkata: Goutam Chattopadhyay, a Konnagar native, can finally breathe easy in Pasadena, California — a city that has been his home since 1994. The wildfire in his neighbourhood burnt down scores of homes. But his house in the ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    ER wraps up Kavach trials on Hwh-Burdwan section

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway has completed Kavach — the indigenous train collision avoidance system — passenger trials in the Howrah-Bardhaman section, general manager Milind Deouskar said on Tuesday. The technology aims to prevent accidents caused by human error or equipment ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    19-yr-old held for stealing bicycles in New Town

    Kolkata: A youth was arrested for allegedly stealing high-end bicycles parked outside premium residential complexes in New Town on Sunday. Eight bicycles were seized from him.With multiple bicycles being stolen from various residential complexes in New Town, cops increased ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Bangla barge with fly ash sinks in Hooghly, raises green concerns

    Chinsurah: A Bangladeshi barge, A D Basiruddin Kaji, capsized in Hooghly near Bansberia on its way back to the neighbouring country after loading fly ash from Bandel Thermal Power Station (BTPS). Efforts are now underway to retrieve the submerged ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Award for ‘Padatik’ at Dhaka fest despite no B’desh release

    12 Kolkata: Srijit Mukherji's ‘Padatik'— amongst the five Indian films showcased at the 23rd Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) — won the Best Audience Award under the world cinema segment on Sunday. This was confirmed by Bidhan Rebeiro, media ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    CBI has lost all credibility: Salim on RG Kar

    12 Kolkata: CPM state secretary Mohammed Salim held on Sunday that CBI had lost its credibility as an investigating agency. He said this at a press conference while responding to questions on the fate of the RG Kar rape-murder ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Kol’s oldest Art Deco cinema hall coming back to life

    123 Kolkata: A century-old cinema hall, considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in Kolkata, is undergoing repair and restoration. The makeover marks a remarkable turnaround in its fortune, as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    New Town set to get new govt healthcare facility

    123 Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has received approval from the state health department to set up a 30-bed govt healthcare facility in New Town Action Area ID, which will provide 24-hour round-the-clock basic healthcare services. ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Cameras click fresh tiger pics in Purulia; big cat moves closer to Jharkhand

    123456 Kolkata/Purulia: Fresh images of a tiger were captured in a Purulia forest early on Sunday morning, sending the forest teams back on the big cat's trail.Later in the afternoon, foresters found its trail towards Jharkhand, where it presumably ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    India, Bangladesh farmers clash over 'stolen crop', 'cutting of mango trees'

    KOLKATA/MALDA/DHAKA: Indian and Bangladeshi farmers clashed at the border in Malda’s Sukhdevpur on Saturday, with Indian nationals claiming that their Bangladeshi counterparts were stealing their standing crops and the Bangladeshis saying the Indians had crossed over and cut down ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    3 Rohingyas detained, Afghan youth held

    123 Kolkata: Three alleged Rohingya nationals – two of them minor girls aged 12 years and 10 years – were apprehended by the Sealdah GRP after they were found loitering suspiciously outside Sealdah Railway Station main gate early on ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Bike-borne goons attack bizman on APC Rd, loot 30L

    Kolkata: Two-bike borne miscreants snatched a backpack containing cash from a 42-year-old businessman, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, residing at Canal East Road, from near a public toilet on APC Roy Road around 9am on Saturday, said joint CP (crime & ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    4 held for theft at New Alipore bizman’s house

    12 Kolkata: Four days after police filed an FIR in a theft involving a businessman's three-storey house in New Alipore, four individuals were arrested on Saturday. The robbers had completely emptied the house. All four arrested persons reside in ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar woman fights off 2 on bike, foils loot bid

    12 Kolkata: A homemaker in her early 40s, Suparna Bhattacharya, put up a brave fight against two bike-borne miscreants and thwarted a robbery attempt on Saturday morning at Bonorini Housing Complex in the Bonhooghly area of Baranagar. The accused ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Police and legal team feel vindicated after verdict

    Kolkata: Senior Kolkata Police officers and its legal team said they felt "vindicated" that their arrest in the rape and murder of the RG Kar PGT doctor had been upheld in court. Once the Sealdah court declared arrested civic ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Systemic rigging’ by RG Kar ex-principal: CBI

    1234 Kolkata: The CBI, probing alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College, accused former principal Sandip Ghosh of "systemic rigging" of the process while awarding work orders at the hospital and allowing vendors close to him to prepare ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Movement started talks on gender justice, rights’

    12 Kolkata: Women, who had taken to the streets to protest against the rape and murder of the young RG Kar doctor, said the initial outpouring of support from the common man, before politicians and lobbies appropriated the movement, ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Runaway UP teen rescued in Bengal

    Burdwan: A 15-year-old boy from Prayagraj, who ran away from the Kumbh Mela and boarded a train to Howrah, was rescued by the RPF personnel in East Burdwan with the help of passengers. A lawyer's son, the boy had ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    S Kol normal water supply from today

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation water supply department on Saturday successfully completed the repair and maintenance of Garden Reach water treatment plant and necessary maintenance works at some water booster pumping stations across south Kolkata. Water supply to ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar: Differences in voices even as parties seek severest punishment

    Kolkata: Parties across the political spectrum have called for the "severest punishment" for civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, hours after he was declared guilty by the Sealdah trial court. However, there were some differences in voices, too. While Trinamool said ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Hungerford St residents yet to return home

    123 Kolkata: Multiple residents of Santosh Apartments on Hungerford Street in south Kolkata, where a fire broke out on Friday, couldn't return home even on Saturday. This was because the water connection couldn't be restored at the building in ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    DMs asked to check building mat prices

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt has asked district magistrates to see to it so that there was no sudden escalation in the price of building material, ensuring that beneficiaries of the Banglar Bari scheme did not face any problem. Complaints ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Med frat welcomes exam transparency but staff crunch a hurdle for long-term change

    123 Kolkata: The incident of a postgraduate trainee's rape and murder at RG Kar has prompted an overhaul of the medical education and examination system in the state. Doctors in state-run hospitals have hailed the reforms made by the ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    7 Bangla nationals arrested in Jalpaiguri

    Jalpaiguri: Jalpaiguri Kotwali Police arrested seven Bangladeshi Hindu nationals, who had trespassed into Indian territory to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh.Those arrested are Chandana Rani alias Rittika Sen, Bhairab Sen, Nikhil Chandra Sen, Dhanesh Roy, Bipul Roy, Deb Babu ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    7 Bangla nationals arrested in Jalpaiguri

    12 Jalpaiguri: Jalpaiguri Kotwali Police arrested seven Bangladeshi Hindu nationals, who had trespassed into Indian territory to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh.Those arrested are Chandana Rani alias Rittika Sen, Bhairab Sen, Nikhil Chandra Sen, Dhanesh Roy, Bipul Roy, Deb ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Accept judgment but not sure if he was the only one involved: Kin of accused

    12 Kolkata: As the news of Sanjay Roy's conviction was broadcast on television, his elder sister broke down in tears. "He should be punished if he committed the crime but I am not sure if he was the only ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    For RG Kar victim’s colleagues, one eye on court on normal hospital duty day

    12 Kolkata: Around 2:30 pm on Saturday, when the Sealdah Court pronounced the verdict, many senior and junior doctors, and colleagues of the raped and murdered 31-year-old PGT at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital kept tabs on the ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Uproar at Bagan’s AGM

    12 Kolkata: Internal bickering came to the fore during Mohun Bagan club's annual general meeting on Saturday, with rival factions engaged in pushing and shoving as well as throwing chairs at each other. The term of the club's current ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH on boil after suspension letter for 7 jr docs

    123 Midnapore/Kolkata: A series of protests, including the gherao of administrators of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), happened on the campus on Saturday after seven postgraduate trainees received official suspension orders. Two members of the State Level Grievance ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar verdict: 'If I committed crime, my Rudraksh chain would have been broken', says accused Sanjay Roy

    KOLKATA: The Sealdah Civil and Criminal court on Saturday convicted Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The verdict was delivered by Justice Anirban Das, who stated ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Cameras click wandering ‘Jharkhand’ tiger, first photo record from Purulia

    123456 Kolkata/Purulia: A photograph in the predawn hours of Saturday from one of the trap cameras beneath a hilly forest of Purulia provided the district its first photographic evidence of tiger.This also marks the second instance in less than ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case verdict: Prime accused Sanjay Roy found guilty of raping, murdering doctor

    NEW DELHI: A local court in Kolkata on Saturday convicted Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer in the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar hospital.The court stated that BNS Sections 64, 66, and ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar victim’s parents wait for ‘first step to justice’

    12 Kolkata: A day before the RG Kar verdict is pronounced on Saturday, parents of the deceased PGT doctor, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, felt their daughter was one step closer to getting justice. "We ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Islampur man finds lost S Kolkata woman at Kumbh, brings her home

    12 Kolkata: Krishna Sarkar, sitting beside her grandson Deep Haldar at Vivekananda Park in Mukundapur, could hardly control her tears. Hours after arriving at the Kumbh Mela in UP, the 77-year-old got lost among the lakhs of devotees. For ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Kol amputee wins India’s highest adventure award

    12 Darjeeling: A 35-year-old amputee from Kolkata, with 91% physical disability, was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award — the highest honour in Indian adventure sports for conquering mountain, sky, and ocean all at once in August 2024.Uday ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Colleagues, friends call for protest near Sealdah court today

    Kolkata: Friends and colleagues of the RG Kar PGT doctor said they would visit the Sealdah court on Friday, not to celebrate the verdict but to stage a protest as they believed the investigation was not complete and reiterated ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH jr docs call off total cease-work

    12 Midnapore/Kolkata: Services were normal at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) on Friday as the junior doctors decided to go for a partial cease-work and would attend to admitted patients. On Thursday night, they had announced a total ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Everything is finished for me: Sanjay mom

    12 Kolkata: A day before judgment was delivered, family members of Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder, expressed their faith in the judiciary to punish those involved in the crime.Ever since Roy's ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Coal India’s production set to dip this fiscal

    12 Kolkata: Maharatna PSU Coal India (CIL) is likely to witness a drop in production this year. It is expected to produce 806-810 million tonnes this fiscal, compared to 838 million tonnes last fiscal."Four companies — Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL), ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Texmaco to diversify portfolio, reduce govt dependence by 2025-26

    Kolkata: Texmaco Rail and Engineering on Friday announced steps to de-risk its business and improve margins by tapping into growing private sector wagon demand and export orders, which will reduce dependence on govt wagon orders.The engineering major aims to ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    162 days after RG Kar murder, 1st judgment likely today

    KOLKATA: Central Bureau of Investigation, which for more than two months argued the RG Kar rape-murder case following a high court-ordered investigation, is confident of securing the conviction of prime accused Sanjay Roy.Sessions court judge Anirban Das is scheduled ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    S Kol to go without water from 9 am today till 6 am tomorrow

    Kolkata: Major parts of south Kolkata will go dry on Saturday as the KMC water supply department will shut the Garden Reach treatment plant for repair and maintenance work. According to a civic official, water supply will be suspended ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    At 10L, visitor count to Malaysia crossed pre-Cov mark in ’24

    Kolkata: Buoyed by the Malaysia govt's decision to extend its official visa exception for Indian nationals till Dec 2026, tourism officials there said on Friday that more than 10 lakh tourists from India visited Malaysia in 2024, breaking even ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur students seek to enhance interaction to bridge junior-senior gap

    12 Kolkata: IIT-Kharagpur students proposed to the authorities to increase interaction among students in the Halls of Residence so that bonds can be strengthened beyond the scope of academics. The students felt there is a need to introduce more ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Rezwana remembers Jyoti Basu fondly, thanks Mamata

    Kolkata: Bengal is her "baaper bari", said Bangladeshi Rabindrasangeet exponent Rezwana Choudhury Bannya as she attended the inauguration of the Jyoti Basu Centre for Social Studies and Research in New Town on Friday to mark the former CM's 15th ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
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