Kolkata: Nandini Chakravorty, a 1994-batch IAS officer, became Bengal's first woman chief secretary on Wednesday. She succeeds Manoj Pant, who retired on Dec 31. Jagdeesh Prasad Meena, a 2004-batch officer will succeed Chakravorty as home secretary. Pant will now ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Kamtapur State Demand Council (KSDC) said in a press release on Wednesday that Centre had assured the banned Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) that its chairperson Jiban Singha Koch and other KLO members would be "free from confinement" and ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the light of the hijab controversy, Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee appealed to all university stakeholders to reaffirm JU's shared commitment to inter-faith harmony and the dignity of diversity, ensuring the conduct within and beyond the campus ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaThe EC stated that any OBC certificate, cancelled by the Calcutta High Court, could not be furnished for identification during the SIR exercise. The HC invalidated all OBC certificates issued from 2010 until May 2024. The commission informed DMs ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Single malt, Scotch and other high-end liquors have turned into the new flavour of the Christmas-New Year's Eve festive season in Kolkata. A distributor of liquor pointed out that from April to Nov, there was 12% rise in ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Office of the Bengal chief electoral officer until Wednesday evening received a list of high-rises, where polling stations could be set up, from five out of eight districts marked in the state. The EC had set Dec ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University will hold its convocation after a five-year pause, and the Senate will be reconstituted by filling vacant posts. The matter was discussed at a Syndicate meeting to initiate the process so that CU can hold convocation ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is introducing fixed and slab-wise monthly user fees for door-to-door solid waste collection under its final solid waste management (SWM) by-law, which comes into effect on Thursday.Notified in line with the Centre's SWM ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ahead of Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's scheduled visit to Thakurbari on Jan 9 to pray at the Harichand–Guruchand Thakur temple, junior Union minister Shantanu Thakur claimed Banerjee would not be allowed to enter if he arrived ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP can daydream before polls, but will find the ground slipping under its feet after, said Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, on Wednesday, in response to Union home minister Amit Shah's repeated assertions that BJP will win in ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Anjali Hazra underwent a knee replacement surgery just a few days ago. But despite her current mobility restrictions, the elderly woman had to turn up at Sanskrit College for her SIR hearing on Wednesday. Her son, Gopal, hired ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: When the cops warned of midnight raids against traffic violators on Dec 31 and Jan 1, and possible time in police custody, through a tongue-in-cheek ad on Wednesday, there was some homework behind it. The city recorded around ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Kolkata bid adieu to 2025, the cold weather prompted many residents in housing complexes and standalone buildings to move their year-end parties indoors, particularly those with young children and elderly relatives. Most of them had initially planned ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city's rooftop restaurants and al fresco eateries rang in 2026 with a bang with crowds packing open-air venues across Park Street, New Town, Salt Lake and beyond. After a year that tested many outdoor businesses — several ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After the tsunami of visitors on Park Street on Christmas Day, the crowd barometer dipped in the morning on New Year's Eve, with many deciding to give the party street a skip. But as midnight inched closer, despite ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Wednesday, the mercury in Kolkata dipped to the lowest for Dec 31 in more than a decade. At 11°C, the minimum temperature was also the lowest this season, the lowest for Dec in seven years, and the ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday hit back at Union home minister Amit Shah, saying he was the "first honest Modi minister who repeatedly admits his own incompetence in public."Speaking to reporters, party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said, "If ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A family dispute over the responsibility of caring for an elderly father and an ailing brother turned fatal in the city's Park Street area with a man allegedly killing his elder brother, police said on Wednesday.The accused has ...
1 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday Bengal would get a BJP govt "after April 2026" and sought to allay the Matua community's fears over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Citizenship Amendment ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaPURULIA/TAMLUK: The son of the 82-year-old Purulia voter who jumped before a moving train hours before his scheduled SIR hearing lodged a police complaint Tuesday blaming chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal and other ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ahead of the launch of the Sevaashray free medical camp in Nandigram by Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Jan 15, Nandigram MLA and BJP neta Suvendu Adhikari has warned that medicines to be distributed from the ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jio added 1.8 lakh new customers in the first 10 months of the year, reaching the 1-crore customer milestone, in Kolkata. Nationally, Jio surpassed 500 million (50 crore) users in Sept. This solidified its status as the world's ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple FIRs were lodged against BJP's Haringhata MLA Asim Sarkar for disrespecting the Quran, prompting Bengal BJP to distance itself from the MLA's comments.Sarkar made the comment last week and it went viral on social media.Bengal minister of ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: As former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia breathed her last on Tuesday, grief travelled well beyond Dhaka — reaching Jalpaiguri, a north Bengal town nearly 434 km away, where memories of her early life still lingered. For the people ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint has been filed at Ekbalpore police station alleging that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had "committed a deliberate and malicious act during a govt function in Patna by pulling down the hijab of Nusrat Parveen". The complainant, ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata/Bankura: Who caused terror attacks in Pahalgam and Delhi if infiltration existed only in Bengal, asked Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee barely 30 minutes after Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that state govt was allowing infiltration in Bengal for ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata/Bankura: Who caused terror attacks in Pahalgam and Delhi if infiltration existed only in Bengal, asked Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee barely 30 minutes after Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that state govt was allowing infiltration in Bengal for ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hotel Sonar Bangla Group has taken over Peerless Hotels' Mukutmanipur property. The group is drawing up plans to acquire more hotels in the state.Chairman of Hotel Sonar Bangla, Avishek Paul Chowdhury, told TOI that it took over the ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Twice the number of cops will be deployed across the city on New Year's Eve compared to Christmas Day. Around 6,500 cops will be posted in two batches — around 9 am and then around 4 pm, when ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: Chaos erupted at the SIR hearing centre at Uluberia Block No. 1 in Howrah on Monday afternoon when a man and his estranged wife who had eloped with a youth from the village came to blows. Others, including ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police used Tuesday to fine-tune its plans for the next 48 hours. They chased away vehicles that tried to park near hotspots, such as Alipore zoo and Victoria Memorial, and tried out traffic diversions that ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sahitya Akademi awardee and poet Joy Goswami is one of the 32 lakh unmapped voters in Bengal. Two days ago, the 72-year-old poet's wife got a call from the EC, asking him to be present at a hearing. ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University's head of the English department Saswati Halder should not visit the campus during the probe in the hijab controversy as she might influence the investigation, suggested a seven-member state minority commission team. Halder said she was ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Looking ahead to a better and improved Salt Lake in the new year, the Association of Bidhannagar Citizens (ABC), a newly formed people's forum in Salt Lake, placed a 10-point charter of demands to the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Civil disputes could not stall renovation of a building, declared ‘dilapidated' or ‘unsafe' by KMC, the Calcutta High Court held on Dec 23."...The people residing on the premises, including tenants, and the neighbouring persons and passers-by, who would ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A melanistic leopard cat — a rare genetic variant of the elusive lesser cat — has been spotted in the Indian Sundarbans during the camera-trap exercise to enumerate tigers in 2024-25. Foresters scanning images stopped in their tracks ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state public works department (PWD) has received the green signal from Nabanna to take up repair and restoration work of Salt Lake Stadium, which was vandalised on Dec 13 during Messi's tour in the city. Work is ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Board of Primary Education on Tuesday began the interview for teachers to be recruited to 13,421 posts in state-run primary schools. The last recruitment drive was held in 2022.The interview started with the English-medium category, ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, who is in charge of Bengal, spoke over phone to C Murugan, the EC's roll observer for South 24 Parganas and Kolkata South, after the latter was attacked at Mograhat on Monday. Murugan ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The process to register new voters and rectify mistakes in the old voters' rolls is set to start offline in Bengal.All BLOs will be available in the polling booths immediately to facilitate the submission of forms for the ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pailan resident Kaustuv Chandra and his family, including his wife Tapati and sons Kushal and Pranojjal, had a harrowing experience on Tuesday at Meen Bhavan. Chandra and his wife's names were there on SIR list 2002, but those ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 150 electors from Ballygunge constituency turned up at Lady Brabourne College for a hearing on Tuesday and cried "harassment" as they were made to wait 4-5 hours for their turn to submit documents to prove that "they ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti on Tuesday chaired a meeting with all DEOs to review SIR progress in Bengal. According to sources, in the meeting, Bharti asked the DEOs to strictly follow EC instructions in the hearing process ...
31 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police on Tuesday recovered 12 firearms and ammunition from two locations in the city and arrested three persons, an officer said.These were recovered during raids on Strand Road and in Alipore ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The revelry was merrier on the last weekend of the year across Kolkata's restaurants and bars, with visitors splurging on specially curated festive delicacies and expensive liquor. A large number of restaurants saw a 10%-20% jump in average ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 38-year-old woman was allegedly attacked with a knife in an attempt to murder her after she tried to stop her boyfriend from dying by suicide inside a hotel room in Sealdah on Sunday. Her boyfriend who she ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: SIR hearings had to be paused in Chinsurah and Midnapore after Election Commission said booth-level agents will not be allowed during the proceedings and special roll observer C Murugan’s vehicle came under attack in Mograhat, South 24-Parganas, as ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An EC team, led by deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, will hold a meeting with DEOs of Kolkata and nearby districts here on Tuesday. DEOs of Kolkata North, Kolkata South, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah and ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An overwhelming number of migrant workers registered with the West Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board were able to take part in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process with the board's support, its chairman Samirul Islam said on Monday. ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An overwhelming number of migrant workers registered with the West Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board were able to take part in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process with the board's support, its chairman Samirul Islam said on Monday. ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA : An 82-year-old jumped on railway tracks hours before his scheduled appearance in a hearing for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Purulia’s Para on Monday.A septuagenarian from Howrah and another from Kalyani died on ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone for the construction of Durga Angan in New Town on Monday, invoking Bengal’s most popular religious icon, Ma Durga, for help in the fight against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah, upon arriving in Kolkata on Monday evening for a three-day trip, said Bengal was ready for change. He called upon state BJP netas to remain vigilant against the narrative being built around Special ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 5-member Trinamool delegation on Monday met Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal and urged him to see that voters do not face harassment for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The delegation told the CEO ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 56-year-old woman from south Kolkata, who sustained a near-fatal injury called a hangman's fracture after her dupatta got entangled in the rear wheel of a toto, underwent a complex neurosurgery at a city hospital a week ago. ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: Howrah City Police's Domjur police arrested a chartered accountant, Souvik Pakui, on Sunday night for allegedly defrauding people of over Rs 80 lakh by promising jobs through his connections with high-ranking officials in various Central govt departments. Police ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city's Blue Line services were once again disrupted on Monday, as a commuter jumped on the tracks at Maidan metro station during evening peak hours. This was the second suicide bid in four days, one that brought ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An elderly couple from Dum Dum's Nagerbazar fell victim to a "digital arrest" scam, losing nearly Rs 65 lakh after cyber fraudsters posing as central investigating agencies held them under virtual surveillance.The victims — a 75-year-old retired court ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal Police warned citizens not to spread false information regarding arrests of Bangladeshi nationals involved in causing unrest in the neighbouring country. Some social media forwards, believed to be generated across the border, claimed "Bengal STF was ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 35-year-old man was injured by an airgun pellet on Sunday night at the crossing of Banamali Ghosal Lane and James Long Sarani in Behala, police said. Cops have detained a minor and his father too is being ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Bengali scientist, professor Shoubhik Das, is now leading cutting-edge research at the University of Bayreuth for generating green hydrogen directly from seawater using sunlight. This research is redefining how the world may produce fuel in a water-stressed ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have decided to tweak certain traffic plans for New Year's Eve and this weekend, keeping Park Street and "any important arterial road", like Belvedere Road or Alipore Road near Alipore zoo, open on New Year's Eve ‘unless ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 22-year-old clay idol artisan, a trans woman from Behala, alleged mental and physical abuse by her elder brother and his girlfriend over the complainant's gender identity, and sought police protection as she planned to leave the family ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation parks department asked the agency entrusted to beautify McPherson Square to speed up the process of planting trees at the park to compensate for the loss of greenery, following a directive from ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shivering in the chilly winds outside and in the damp corridors of Jessop Building and other hearing centres, citizens stood in slow-moving lines for hours — clutching files, refreshing phones, and rehearsing answers — only to be told ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chandraboti Mandal (83) witnessed a hearing for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on Sunday evening at her Hatibagan residence after she, among other elderly citizens, received hearing notices for "data mismatch".Mandal, who was five when India gained Independence ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A 95-year-old Midnapore resident, Kshitish Majumdar, died by suicide at his daughter's Birbhum home on Oct 30, the first death blamed on the SIR. His name figures on draft SIR list as a dead voter. His grandson, who ...
30 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A man was arrested for assaulting his partner with a knife at a guest house in Kolkata, West Bengal, police said.According to Kolkata Police, the incident took place on Sunday when the accused, a resident of Chennai in ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaDIGHA: When eight-year-old Kakoli Jana, from Kudghat in Tollygunge, stepped into the Jagannath temple in Digha on Sunday with her parents and younger brother, she was surprised by the grand welcome she received from the temple authorities.With her arrival, ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal Police on Sunday issued a warning that loan frauds are using CM Mamata Banerjee’s name and picture to deceive people.Fraudsters are circulating “misleading” advertisements on social media containing the CM’s name and picture “to lure people by ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaBANKURA: A 53-year-old booth-level officer (BLO) in Bankura, who was also the headmaster of a primary school, was found hanging on Sunday morning. A note found in the school room where he was hanging read, “I cannot take this ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Eighty-year-old Kamal Chowdhury and wife Chaitali, 75, clutched on to sheaves of papers as they waited for their turn to appear in a hearing for ‘unmapped’ voters at a north Kolkata school on Sunday, anger and frustration writ ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Sunday said losses linked to the Messi event at Salt Lake stadium crossed Rs 23 crore, including nearly Rs 4 crore in damage to infrastructure and vendors. Police estimates show 34,576 tickets were sold, fetching over ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro passengers experienced a harrowing time on Sunday due to a major disruption on the Blue (North-South) Line when the emergency brake was inadvertently applied near Tollygunge station. Services were disrupted for around 1.5 hours, and passengers, including ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hearings for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls began in Bengal's Matua heartland, with scores of people from the community — most of whom do not possess even one of the 11 documents listed by the ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day before Union home minister Amit Shah's scheduled visit to the state, Bengal BJP on Sunday sought to reassure Hindu voters amid concerns over large-scale deletions during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Shah, ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ambuja Housing & Urban Infrastructure Company Ltd (AHUICL) of Ambuja Neotia Group has received National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approval to take over the Usshar project in Batanagar, as part of the parcel-wise resolution of corporate debtor Riverbank ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaBankura: Chaos broke out at a fair in Bankura's Bishnupur on Saturday night during actor Jeet's performance, as an unruly crowd spiralled out of control. The violence led to widespread vandalism, with hundreds of chairs smashed and nearby shops ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaBehrampore: Police on Sunday surrounded Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir's Shantipur residence in Murshidabad's Manikyahar and took his son Golam Nabi Azad, alias Robin, in for questioning, after a constable, Jumma Khan, one of Kabir's three personal security officer (PSOs), ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: A 35-year-old man, Arshad Mallik, from Gopinathbati in West Midnapore's Keshpur was assaulted by a mob who accused him of being an illegal Bangladeshi migrant near Charampa station in Odisha's Bhadrak. The incident happened on Dec 26. Police ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Roy (Maharaj) has landed the party in trouble amid SIR after he said that detention camps were being ordered by Union home minister Amit Shah and questioned why people living in Bengal should ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: "This is war, and we won't cede an inch," said Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday while addressing over one lakh party workers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. He called upon them to ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six days after a 41-year-old fruit vendor, Mehboob Alam, was brutally murdered in broad daylight in the bustling area of Rajabazar crossing on Dec 22, the cops have cracked the case.Investigators from Amherst Street Police, with help from ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: After two days of sub-13°C chill, the minimum rose to 14°C on the year's last Sunday. It still felt cold due to a wind and a shallow fog. While the minimum temperature may drop to 13°C again on ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A dip in temperature triggered a deterioration in Kolkata's ambient air quality on Sunday, with four out of seven active Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations slipping into the ‘poor' category (AQI: 201–300). The city on Sunday woke ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: As tourists prepare to bid farewell to 2025, Darjeeling is poised to offer a magical finale — a white New Year. The mercury in Darjeeling, which was 4.5°C on Saturday, dipped to 4.2°C on Sunday, and weather officials ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deployment of over 4,500 cops is likely to start from Dec 30 around the city's hotspots, including party zones. Cops are stepping up vigil against drink-driving and speeding to curb accidents on Tuesday (Dec 31) and Wednesday ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tipplers suffering from ‘holiday heart syndrome' — a condition triggered by binge alcohol consumption, often observed during long weekends, holidays, and vacations — have seen a significant rise across Kolkata's private hospitals. The latter fear a further spurt ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: A portion of the boundary wall collapsed at Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Howrah residence, after a vehicle from a picnic party crashed into it on Sunday evening. Joy Chattopadhyay, the author's great-grandson, is in discussions with local authorities to ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaMahisadal: Two teens, who had run away from a private school in Mahisadal on Wednesday, were rescued from the Airport police station area by cops on Sunday. Police said that the duo, both residents of Chandipur, slipped out of ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old woman, Sangeeta Patra, was found hanging at her Patuli home on Sunday. Prima facie, cops suspect that Patra ended her life owing to depression and tension in her relationship. Her family accused her live-in partner of ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The year's last weekend saw a huge surge in footfall at restaurants and bars across Kolkata. While footfall usually dips after Christmas and peaks again on New Year's Eve, the surge was consistent this time, said restaurant owners.Most ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The site opposite New Town bus terminus crossing in Action Area I is all decked up for the launch of ‘Durgangan', a temple complex dedicated to Goddess Durga. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to lay the foundation ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Voters across Kolkata appeared for SIR hearings on a Sunday but left confused, unsure, and anxious about whether their issues were resolved. The confusion also stemmed from the fact that several among them were even asked to reappear ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Confusion struck more than 100 voters, who came to Mitra Institution booth number 260 for the SIR hearing on Sunday. They scrambled to find their way to the room where the hearing was being held by electoral registration ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The law college, where a first-year student was raped, will issue a formal notice stating that no graffiti will be allowed on the college walls. The decision comes at a time when the college plans to paint the ...
29 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Torn between the secular, nationalist legacy of the 1971 Liberation War and historical, ideological leanings toward Pakistan and political Islam, Bangladesh suffered from upheavals that pulled the country back, felt intellectuals, politicians, and researchers. The tension remained a ...
28 December 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In response to a sustained surge in passenger traffic, Eastern Railway has drawn up an ambitious plan to double the train-originating capacity of key cities over the next five years, with a target to substantially scale up infrastructure ...
28 December 2025 Times of IndiaNandigram: Leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari barged into Nandigram Police Station on Friday night and protested the alleged assault of a BJP worker's wife and the assault of her minor child during a midnight police raid.Adhikari confronted a policeman ...
28 December 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old man, Biswajit Mondal, was allegedly beaten to death inside a de-addiction centre in Halisahar, North 24-Parganas, on Saturday, triggering widespread outrage among local residents.According to locals, many were unaware that such a de-addiction centre was operating ...
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