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  • Cop video on cybercrime awareness

    Kolkata: Cybercrimes are not always about monetary losses. They can be deeply personal and harmful, affecting social reputation. This is what the cyber cell is emphasising in its new interactions, not just in schools but also in housing complexes, ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    8 held in job racket bust

    Digha/Kolkata: The East Midnapore police has busted a racket involved in the state-wide police constable recruitment examination. Eight individuals, including a govt employee, were arrested in separate operations in Digha and Tamluk. Two of them — a constable identified ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Jeweller duped with fake gold biscuits

    Kolkata: A jeweller alleged that he was duped by another jeweller who provided him with fake gold biscuits in lieu of a gold bar. The complainant, Samar Ray, a resident of Mahendra Nagar, North 24 Parganas, alleged that on ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Kaikhali bizman loses 1.5 crore in investment scam

    Kolkata: A 73-year-old resident from Kaikhali lost Rs 1.5 crore in the latest case of investment fraud. The scam highlights the continuous improvisations being made by fraudsters in online financial frauds targeting unsuspecting individuals.The accused, whose identities are yet ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Mum Crime Branch’ strikes again, cons sr citizen of 22.5L

    Kolkata: A 62-year-old resident of Kaikhali lost Rs 22.5 lakhs to digital arrest fraud, in which fraudsters, posing as officers of ‘Mumbai Police' and ‘Crime Branch', threatened him with a fake FIR and arrest warrant.According to the complaint, the ...

    3 December 2025 Times of India
    Minimum temperatures likely to fall by 2-4 deg C in Bengal

    KOLKATA: Minimum temperatures across West Bengal could fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius over the next four days, the IMD said on Tuesday.All the districts are likely to experience dry weather for the next one week, it said in a ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol to have 20 booths, run by female cops, for women to lodge complaints

    Kolkata: The city police will open 20 special booths, run mostly by lady officers, for women to seek help or lodge complaints.The "Pink Security Booths" will remain open 24X7, and while at least two of them are likely to ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, pleasant 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, December 2, 2025, is experiencing a warm and sunny day with a maximum temperature ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangladesh traders return to Bidhannagar Mela, hope for better business this year

    Kolkata: Traders from Bangladesh, who could not participate in last year's Bidhannagar Mela Utsav due to the volatile political situation in the neighbouring country, have returned to the fair with garments and saree stalls as the BMC-run fair kicked ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Chinese’ keelback species not so Chinese after all, find scientists of ZSI

    Kolkata: A non-venomous snake species, previously thought to be present only in southwestern China's Yunnan province, has been present in northeastern India for at least 43 years, but was wrongly identified earlier, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    24 New Town parks start getting pre-festive season facelift

    Kolkata: Public parks across New Town are set for a major makeover with potted plants in them being replaced by flower beds, fountains being installed in green spaces that have a water body, grasses being trimmed to improve the ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek: Seeking SIR talks rightful demand ‘for people’

    Kolkata: Seeking discussions on SIR isn't drama, but a rightful demand on behalf of people, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Friday, hours after PM Narendra Modi attacked the opposition over the issue. "If those elected ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Motorists get free passage at Chinar Park after 3 yrs

    Kolkata: After three years, RVNL has freed 180m of Biswa Bangla Sarani (New Town thoroughfare) as most of the slab for the concourse (first level) of the Orange Line's Chinar Park station was cast. Vehicles are now moving in ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    BJP alleges voter digitization anomalies as BLO protests rock CEO office in Kol

    Kolkata: A massive protest erupted outside the office of the Bengal CEO (chief electoral officer) on Monday as leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP MLAs came to meet Election Commission officials in the afternoon.While the delegation was ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Debate over panel’s film release date formula

    Kolkata: The govt-appointed screening committee for Tollywood, which convened on Saturday, is relying on investments in films and the track record of production houses while arriving at a formula for prioritising movie release dates on occasions when Bengali cinema ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal issues global tender for Tajpur deep sea port development

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Monday floated a fresh global tender (request for proposal) for Tajpur deep sea port. The state promises 1,000 acres of freehold land to the operator for the development of the port and industrial facilities, while ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    From 150, KMC raises daily chatbot quota for birth, death certs to 240

    Kolkata: Responding to the SIR panic among a section of citizens keen to get various documents, including birth and death certificates, in order in case they have to appear at a hearing to confirm their names on the electoral ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Extension concern for school heads amid exam season

    Kolkata: The seven-day extension for the SIR has led to renewed unease among school heads, as the return of schoolteachers assigned BLO duties is being delayed for another seven days, affecting the exam season. The third summative exams for ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    3-day event celebrates Kol school’s 80th anniv

    Kolkata: Abhinav Bharati High School marked 80 years of nurturing young minds with a three-day celebration from Nov 11 to 13. To commemorate this milestone, the school has unveiled its new logo. The blend of heritage and modernity — ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    9 jailed for 3 yrs in 4 wildlife crime cases in Alipurduar

    Alipurduar: As many as nine persons have been convicted in four separate wildlife crime cases in Alipurduar. Court has awarded a jail sentence of three years and fine of Rs 50,000 in each of the cases.In the first case, ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Himadri Chemical flags off liquid coal tar shipment from New Mangalore

    Kolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd has flagged off its first shipment of liquid coal tar pitch to the Middle East from New Mangalore Port, opening a second route for its export operations beyond Haldia. The 3,600-tonne cargo marks an ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    77-yr-old Salt Lake woman loses Rs1.2cr in digital arrest scam

    Kolkata: A 77-year-old resident of Salt Lake was trapped in a four-day "digital arrest" and cheated out of Rs 1.2 crore by men posing as narcotics department officials in Mumbai, who claimed that her phone number had been used ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal appoints Lokayukta, HRC chief gets tenure extended

    Kolkata: Justice (retd) Rabindranath Samanta was appointed to the post of Lokayukta of Bengal on Monday. He is expected to assume charge soon.Justice Samanta's name was cleared at a meeting attended by CM Mamata Banerjee and Speaker Biman Banerjee ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Pneumonia, influenza vaccines in demand as winter sets in, cases spike

    Kolkata: A surge in both pneumonia and influenza cases has led to a rush for vaccines, especially among the elderly population in Kolkata. Several private hospitals and clinics, particularly those with a significantly high number of respiratory patients, have ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs will have to go to BDOs, SDOs to access SIR correction window

    Kolkata: Booth level officers cannot make corrections themselves in the enumeration forms uploaded in the past weeks, an EC directive on Monday said.Now they need to take permission from the electoral registration officer (ERO) with supporting documents to access ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Protesting Matuas rally to CEO’s office over SIR and citizenship

    Kolkata: The All India Matua Mahasangha's (AIMM) Trinamool-backed faction, which recently organized a hunger strike demanding unconditional citizenship for the community at its Thakurbari headquarters in Thakurnagar, brought its protest against special intensive revision (SIR) to the Election Commission's ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Sunali out of Bangla jail on bail, eager to ‘return home’

    Kolkata: A heavily pregnant Sunali Khatun, who was pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian authorities in June on charges of being an illegal settler and has spent three-and-a-half-months in a prison there, walked out of the jail around 7.30 ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    No dead, duplicate voters at 2,208 booths, EC seeks report2,208 booths complete work with zero ‘uncollectable’ form

    Kolkata: Two-thousand-two-hundred-and-eight polling booths in Bengal where 100% SIR forms have been distributed, collected, and digitised by BLOs are now under EC scrutiny. The EC has asked reports from these booths by 10 am on Tuesday.With the digitisation of ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Mercury set to slide in Kol, min may drop to 15°C by Friday: Met

    Kolkata: The mercury is set to slide in Kolkata and south Bengal from Wednesday and could drop to 15°C by Friday. Maximum temperature, too, could drop to 26°C by the end of the week, said the Regional Meteorological Centre.The ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    SC junks plea to review SSC 2016 job scrap verdict

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking a review of the Supreme Court's verdict cancelling 25,753 jobs of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC), remarking that there will be no interference in ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    No JU spl event after BCCI’s no to Kaur

    Kolkata: World Cup-winning women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur, whom Jadavpur University planned to confer DLitt (Honoris Causa) during their convocation on Dec 24, will not be able to attend the event. The BCCI refused to grant her permission ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Maoist graffiti’ prompts RSF ban demand

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (JUTMCP) has demanded a ban of Revolutionary Students' Front (RSF) after the latter drew graffiti of Basavraju, the top leader of the CPI (Maoist), who was killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh.JUTMCP general ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    HC: Publish tainted list under 3 categories

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBCSSC) to publish the list of "tainted" candidates in light of the Supreme Court order on Nov 26, 2025, in which the apex court ordered ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Drive finds 21.5L dead voters in Bengal so far

    Kolkata: With 96.4% of forms digitized by Monday evening, the number of ‘uncollectable' forms, including those of deceased electors, further increased to 43.3 lakh. A significant portion of these are deceased electors, which is close to 21.5 lakh, a ...

    2 December 2025 Times of India
    Minimum temperatures in Bengal to fall by 2 to 4 degree Celsius: IMD

    KOLKATA: Minimum temperatures across West Bengal will gradually fall over the next four days from Tuesday by two to four degree Celsius, the IMD said.Shallow to moderate fog will occur in the morning at one or two places over ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BLO protest: Protesters break barricades outside Kolkata CEO office as BJP delegation arrives

    KOLKATA: A BJP delegation led by opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari visited West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer in Kolkata on Monday, sparking protests from BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee members who have been demonstrating against excessive workload during the ongoing Special ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    RuMac to bring Scottish folk fusion to Hornbill festival and Tolly Club in debut India tour

    KOLKATA: Scottish musician Ruairidh Maclean, known by his stage name RuMac, is set to captivate audiences at the renowned Hornbill Festival in Nagaland, followed by a performance at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata. This marks RuMac's debut visit to ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Tech-tonic: Cops tap AI bot to speed up probes, cut legal slips

    Kolkata/Suri: When criminals can trick people with artificial intelligence, can cops lag behind in adopting hi-tech methods of dealing with the fraudsters? In Bengal, it's a a ‘tech-tonic shift' by cops to shake up the criminal's world.From assistant sub-inspectors ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    BLO collapses, AERO suffers stroke, families blame SIR ‘stress’

    Kolkata/Tamluk: Two Bengal govt officials, a booth level officer (BLO) and an assistant electoral registration officer (AERO), involved in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls collapsed and were hospitalized in Kolkata on Sunday.The incidents, reported from Basirhat ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool claims ‘partial victory’, Bengal BJP joins rivals in slamming poll panel

    Kolkata: The Election Commission came under fire from most political parties in Bengal, including BJP, after it announced its decision to defer the deadline for the submission of enumeration forms and publication of the draft voter lists by a ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Cyber fraudster in police net for EM Bypass-Maidan car assault

    Kolkata: The woman, who was allegedly abducted, drugged, and molested in a moving car before being abandoned at Maidan on Friday night, was actually a victim of financial fraud. She had met the man—her alleged tormentor—pleading to get her ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    On unforested Dhupguri stretch, goods train runs over 2 elephants

    Jalpaiguri: Two male elephants were killed after being hit by a goods train early on Sunday in Jalpaiguri's Dhupguri. The incident took place around 4am between Salbari and Kolaigram railway stations — an area which has had no history ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Resp ailment patients flood Kolkata hospitals

    Kolkata: Several private hospitals in Kolkata are close to running full and faced with bed crisis due to sharp spike in respiratory patients. Some have added beds and some are using additional space for procedures and emergency treatment. Several ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    E Midnapore fisherman dies in Pak jail, kin doubt ‘illness’

    Tamluk (East Midnapore): A 57-year-old fisherman from East Midnapore has died inside a prison in Pakistan, his family was informed on Saturday.Swapan Rana, from South Paikbari village, had gone to Gujarat two years ago to work on a fishing ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Under attack, BSF jawan guns down B’desh smuggler in Nadia

    Kaliganj (Nadia): A BSF jawan shot dead a Bangladeshi smuggler near the Matiyari border outpost in Nadia district early on Saturday after troops came under attack from a gang of smugglers while trying to thwart their smuggling attempt.BSF said ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    2016 SSC teachers take sign-off classes

    Kolkata: Teachers from the 2016 panel across state schools conducted their final classes before the start of the third summative or annual tests from Monday, following the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education's (WBBSE) order. Teachers and staff from ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Dengue cases spike in Kol, dip in BMC areas

    Kolkata: With the temperature fluctuating, dengue cases in Kolkata are registering a spurt. According to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department, the city recorded 122 more dengue cases in a week (till Nov 23) compared to its previous ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    From first-timers to veterans, TOI Natun Para 10K Marathon brings New Town alive

    Kolkata: The Times of India, in association with Bidhannagar City Police, organised the TOI Natun Para 10k Marathon at New Town on Sunday, which saw an enthusiastic crowd of participants. The starting point of the marathon was the Biswa ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Beyond duty, cops don grease paint, take up pen to pursue their passions

    Kolkata: They are donning the police uniform to perfection. One of them handled anti-terror operations at the KP STF and the riots at Behala following a fatal accident with equal ease while another was attacked during the vandalism at ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangladeshi feature, short fiction screened at film festival in city

    Kolkata: Bangladesh's Oscar entry at the 98th Academy awards – Leesa Gazi's ‘Barir Naam Shahana' (‘A House Named Shahana') - was screened at a festival organized by Swayam in collaboration with the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Cross-check data for dead voters: Spl roll observer in Falta

    Kolkata: Bengal's special roll observer, Subrata Gupta, and election roll observer for South 24 Parganas and Kolkata South, C Murugan, made their first stop after taking charge at Falta, South 24 Parganas, where the BJP alleged that dead voters ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    Forms collected but not returned: BLOs at wit’s end

    Kolkata: Even as the Election Commission of India (ECI) extended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) schedule by a week, booth level officers (BLOs) across Bengal say a new crisis is compounding their workload — a growing number of voters ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    In 27 days, claims of 41 SIR-linked deaths as panic, confusion shift from voters to BLOs

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs) and voters reacted with relief, anger, and renewed anxiety on Sunday after the Election Commission of India (ECI) extended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by a week — a move the ...

    1 December 2025 Times of India
    A journey of care: Vintage cars, young smiles and Kolkata’s heart on the road

    KOLKATA: Kolkata-based NGO serving underprivileged and HIV-affected children for over four decades, is opening a 100-bedded hospital for marginalized children requiring long-term care. As part of the lead-up to this hospital’s opening and in pre-observation of World AIDS Day, ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, moderate humidity; 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 residents awoke on Saturday, November 30, to a sunny morning with clear skies. The ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Two minors’ parents held for child marriage

    Kolkata: The parents of two teenagers, who were married off two months ago, were arrested from the port area on Saturday. The new bride and groom have been sent to shelter homes. The incident came to light following an ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Changes cosmetic, say ISI alumni after revised draft bill

    Kolkata: The ministry of statistics and programme implementation released a ‘revised draft' of the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, on Friday night as part of its "pre-legislative consultative process". While the ministry attempted to further elaborate on the structure ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town locals plant 1k saplings for 4th yr in a row

    Kolkata: Members of a New Town-based nature lovers' forum, achieved the milestone of planting yet another 1,000 trees in New Town in a year on Saturday. This marks the fourth consecutive year of planting 1,000 trees by the forum ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Minister, too, gets ‘digital arrest’ call, cops urge citizens to be vigilant

    Kolkata: Even a minister was not spared a digital arrest threat.State minister of disaster management Javed Ahmed Khan received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Mumbai cybercrime wing. When Khan, also the Kasba MLA, told ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    City’s oldest agiary not lost to fire, believers call it a miracle

    Kolkata: Call it divine intervention or simply a miracle. A nearly two-century-old fire temple, the city's oldest, survived a devastating inferno that consumed over 100 shops surrounding the structure on Ezra Street in central Kolkata.The agiary, or fire temple ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC to EC: BLOs under pressure, don’t rush SIR

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday said the EC was putting pressure on booth-level officers (BLOs) and called on the poll panel to "allow BLOs to work".Speaking to reporters in Delhi, TMC RS leader Derek O' Brien said, "BLOs are ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    A320 software update leads to flight delays

    Kolkata: Multiple A320 aircraft operated by IndiGo Airlines and Air India underwent mandatory software checks and updates on Friday, leading to departure delays of 30-60 minutes at Kolkata airport but there were no cancellations or major disruptions. In all, ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    96.5% of 6.7cr Bengal voters mapped to 2002 SIR till now

    Kolkata: The number of Bengal voters who could not be mapped to the 2002 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) list has shrunk further to 3.5% from 4.3% three days ago. Till Saturday, 6.7 crore voter enumeration forms have been collected ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    From Rs 50cr in a year to Rs 100cr in 6 months: Jagannath temple boosts Digha’s biz revenues

    Kolkata/Digha: The economy of seaside town Digha has boomed since the inauguration of the Jagannath temple in April-end with businesses recording revenues of over Rs 100 crore in a little over six months, compared with Rs 50-60 crore in ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman alleges assault, molest inside moving car

    Kolkata: A 28-year-old woman has filed a police complaint alleging physical assault and molestation inside a moving car for close to an hour after being forced into the vehicle while she was waiting for a bus near Ambedkar Setu ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Drunk trucker tries to run over cop, arrested

    Kolkata: A traffic police sergeant had a narrow escape as a drunk truck driver reportedly tried to run him over on Diamond Harbour Road at Pathakpara in Behala on Thursday night, after being flagged down.The incident took place around ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Expedite Basanti Highway street light installation: Cops

    JCP (crime & traffic) Rupesh Kumar has urged the PWD (electrical) to expedite the installation of street lights along Basanti Highway, a move that will improve visibility on the stretch and reduce crimes and the risk of accidents. Kumar ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC to EC: BLOs under pressure, don’t rush SIR

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday said it was the EC that was putting pressure on booth-level officers (BLOs) 24 hours after the poll panel claimed it had asked the party to "allow BLOs to work".Speaking to reporters in Delhi, ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal guv renames Raj Bhavan as Lok Bhavan, implements central directive

    Kolkata: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday implemented a central govt directive and renamed the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata to Lok Bhavan.The neo-classical building — constructed between 1799 and 1803 that houses 60 rooms covering 84,000 sqft and ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    10 days this month had below-normal temperatures, stage set for further dip

    Kolkata: The city remained chillier than usual this Nov, with the minimum temperature staying below the normal mark on as many as 10 days. The city also recorded the third coldest Nov days since 2017, with the minimum temperature ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    School celebrates 170th anniv, plans college, new campus

    Kolkata: Calcutta Girls' High School, founded in 1856 under the patronage of Lord Canning, the then Governor General of India, marked the 170th year of its journey in empowering women with education at an event held at Prinsep Memorial ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Parties, imams & RWAs in final SIR weekend push before Dec 4 deadline

    Kolkata: With the Dec 4 deadline for submitting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration forms approaching, neighbourhoods across Kolkata saw a steep rise in activity over the final weekend. Booth level officers (BLOs), political workers, religious leaders, and residents' associations ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    World looking beyond US, China to hedge against contingencies: EAM

    Kolkata: External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said on Saturday that the world was looking beyond the US and China to other countries and blocs for trade and energy as they try to hedge against contingencies.Calling the US the ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    90-yr-old dad dies in hosp as HC hears daughter plea to meet him one last time

    Kolkata: A 90-plus-year-old Kolkata businessman passed away at a city hospital on Saturday afternoon even as the Calcutta High Court was in the middle of hearing a case filed by his daughter, alleging that she was not being allowed ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Actor couple claims assault for feeding strays in Kasba

    Kolkata: An actor couple was allegedly attacked while they were feeding stray dogs at Rajdanga in Kasba on Friday night. The residents of the area, however, denied any assault. Sayantani Mallick and her husband Indranil, along with their assistant ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Food trail rediscovers Awadhi, Bengali and German flavours that survived ‘taste’ of time

    Kolkata: Around 50 people traversed through Kidderpore, Ekbalpore, and Mominpore on Saturday evening to explore the culinary landscape of the area and promote the rich socio-cultural diversity to foster harmony between communities.The walk, ‘Biryani and Beyond', organised by Know ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    Survivors’ tales: Lost jaws, tongues fail to dampen spirit

    Kolkata: A special meet organised by a city hospital on Saturday brought together around 20 cancer survivors to share personal stories and raise awareness about oral cancer. They said timely medical intervention, emotional resilience and family support were critical ...

    30 November 2025 Times of India
    A solo act that confronts shame & celebrates body positivity

    Jyoti Dogra’s Maas delivered a hard-hitting evening of theatre, using stark minimalism to hold a mirror to the audience. The performance opened with a single pool of light and Dogra in red, completely still. Over the next ninety minutes, ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, pleasant 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 accordinglyKolkata residents are greeted today, November 29, 2025, with a sunny and pleasant start to ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata shocker: TMC leader Debabrata Mondal, once accused in Bally green crusader’s murder, shot at on same spot 14 years later

    HOWRAH: Fourteen years after green crusader Tapan Dutta was shot dead in Bally, his follower-turned-alleged co-conspirator was shot at from a close range - almost on the same spot - around 10.30 pm on Thursday.Debabrata Mondal, Sanpui-Basukati panchayat head ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    SSC aspirants’ teaching-experience marks: HC to hear petitioners, respondents on Mon

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday addressed petitions challenging the constitutionality of the West Bengal Central Service Commission, Rules, 2025, which have allotted 10 marks for prior teaching experience of candidates for recruitment to the posts of assistant ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol air better than some cities’ but not ‘good’: Study

    Kolkata: A decade-long analysis of air quality index (AQI) trends across India's major cities has delivered a stark message: no major Indian city, including Kolkata, met safe air-quality standards at any point between 2015 and Nov 2025. The comprehensive ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Brown butterflies take over city, experts cite prolonged rain as cause

    Kolkata: If you think you're spotting too many brown butterflies this Nov, you are not alone. Armies of tiny, leaf-like fliers — each weighing a few milligram and spanning barely 2.5 to 3 inch — have taken over balconies, ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    East India’s 1st bone bank set to debut in Kolkata today

    Kolkata: For the first time in eastern India, a hospital is set to flag off its own ‘bone bank' on Saturday. This facility at a private hospital in south Kolkata will allow harvesting of bones from cadavers and their ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Dona Ganguly goes to cops, calls out trolls over ‘personal attacks’

    Kolkata: Classical dancer Dona Ganguly, wife of former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, lodged aN FIR claiming that her performance at the recent film festival was criticised using derogatory comments that were "personal"."I am writing to formally lodge a ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    55-yr-old BLO dies in Murshidabad, family blames SIR ‘stress’

    Behrampore/Kolkata: Alleged strain over the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal flared on Friday after a 55-year-old booth-level officer (BLO) died in Murshidabad, while two more fell seriously ill in South 24 Parganas.Zakir Hossain ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    EC boxes in Bengal with 11 roll observers after Trinamool takes SIR plaint to Delhi

    Kolkata: Amid its escalating standoff with Trinamool Congress, the Election Commission on Friday appointed Subrata Gupta, a retired Bengal-cadre IAS officer, as a Special Roll Observer in Bengal during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The officer, who retired ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Racing bus claims life of 15-yr-old boy cycling to school on BT Road

    Kolkata: A 15-year-old boy lost his life in an accident at CIT crossing on BT Road while on his way to school on Friday. Aranya Chakraborty, son of a Cossipore Gun and Shell factory employee, was a class 9 ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Got WA advice from bank? Check before you invest

    Kolkata: Have you received any WhatsApp advice on investment from your bank? Check before you put your money.The Kolkata Police has warned potential investors of multiple fake WhatsApp channels run in the name of SBI seeking investments and providing ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    HC gives state 7 more days to file report on border fencing

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday gave the state seven more days to file a report on the steps taken for fencing work along the India-Bangladesh border. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    At street stir, teachers, students call for political support against ISI bill

    Kolkata: Faculty, staff, and students of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) on Friday created a human chain, followed by a rally around the campus, and a street corner at Dunlop crossing, to demand withdrawal of the draft ISI bill. While ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Newly-wed couple harassed, assaulted at biryani joint

    Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman and her husband were allegedly harassed and assaulted by a group of men, just a few days after getting married, at a popular biryani eatery in Picnic Garden on Wednesday. According to the cops, the ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    AICTE chairman to be chief guest at JU convocation

    Kolkata: Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education T G Sitharam will be the chief guest at Jadavpur University's annual convocation on Dec 24."Five names — Nobel Laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, former ISRO chairman S Somanath, DRDO chairman ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Iraqi poet advocates for peace and focuses on resilience against terrorism

    Kolkata: Iraqi poet and intellectual Ali Al-Shalah visited the Kolkata International Foundation for Arts, Literature and Culture on Thursday and said poetry, culture, art and theatres can help counter the growing hatred and fundamentalism across the world by building ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Samik: Bengal different, CEC should stop lecturing

    Kolkata: In an unprecedented attack, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Friday said chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar should stop lecturing from Delhi and instead come to Kolkata to monitor SIR. "Bengal is not like other states. If ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata keeps date with Bay of Bengal giants, peeps into life & arms inside Navy warships

    Kolkata: Excited school children, marine engineering students, and curious families flocked to Kidderpore Dock on Friday morning as the Indian Navy opened two frontline 90-metre-plus warships — INS Khanjar and INS Kora — for public visits as part of ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Not only CU students but also profs grapple with too-few-classes problem

    Kolkata: Merely 30-35 days of classes every undergraduate semester have turned out to be too little a time not only for Calcutta University-affiliated college students to prepare for their exams but also for professors, who have been struggling to ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal student credit card sanctions cross 1 lakh: CM

    Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday that the sanctioned number of cases under the state govt's student credit card scheme has crossed 1 lakh. "Happy to share that under our Student Credit Card Scheme, the number ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Matua body to march on Dec 1 to voice SIR concerns

    Kolkata: The All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM), which recently held a hunger strike demanding unconditional citizenship, will hold a protest march on Dec 1 to express its concerns over the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls, it ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
    Madhyamik cert demand spikes in SIR season

    Kolkata: Amid the special intensive revision (SIR) worries, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) is witnessing a sudden surge in applications for correction and duplicate certificates. TOI visited the WBBSE Park Street office and found that several ...

    29 November 2025 Times of India
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