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  • 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
    Planet parade in evening sky on Jan 25

    Kolkata: Gear up for a spectacular celestial show with six planets lining up for a planetary parade in the sky. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will align in evening sky. Two planets — Venus and Saturn — ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Jumbo duo tranquillized after they cross 3 dists in 24 hrs

    West Burdwan: Two tuskers that covered over 80 km in the past 24 hours to cover three districts — Bankura, West Burdwan and Birbhum — were tranquillized on Friday morning near Jaydev Kenduli village. During their journey, the jumbo ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Baghajatin collapse: 3-day cop remand for promoter

    123 Kolkata: The Netaji Nagar cops have claimed that promoter Subhas Roy, arrested after a tilting building collapsed in Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony, might have tried to rope in "experts" for hydraulic jacking without verifying the soil condition or stability ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Drone helps trace & reunite kids with kin

    Kolkata: In a demonstration of technology aiding public safety, the state administration used drones at Gangasagar Mela to find two lost children and reunited them with family. The effort, possibly a first in India, showcased the collaborative work of ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    CM may meet Dulal widow during Malda visit next week

    123 Kolkata/Malda: CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Chaitali Sarkar, whose husband Dulal, Trinamool's Malda vice-president, was gunned down on Jan 2. Banerjee's visit to Malda is scheduled for next week.On Friday, DGP Rajeev Kumar, who went to ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Friday blaze rekindles pre-Covid building fire trauma for octogenarian resident

    12 Kolkata: Staring at the thick black fumes gushing out of the top-floor windows of her apartment and firemen rushing in and out of the six-storey building to douse the flames, 83-year-old Reva Puri sat motionless, with the nightmare ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Short-circuit fire spreads panic at Hungerford Street high-rise

    12 Kolkata: A fire broke out on a rooftop storeroom connected to a fifth-floor flat at a posh G+5 apartment building on Hungerford Street on Friday afternoon. This fire forced residents, several of them senior citizens, to rush downstairs ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Happy Streets to be back from this Sunday

    12 Kolkata: Happy Streets, a Times of India initiative, is back. Starting this Sunday, Happy Streets will take place across different parts of the city and beyond over the next few weeks.The first edition of this year's Happy Streets, ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Film studies questions in JU comp lit paper

    Kolkata: Questions from film studies minor paper appeared in the postgraduate comparative literature semester examination paper at Jadavpur University on Thursday, leaving the invigilator as well as the examinees confused.Around 50 second-year postgraduate comparative literature students took the two-hour ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Attack on councillor: 6 named in charge sheet

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Friday issued a charge sheet naming six persons, including those with Bihar links, for the murder bid on Trinamool councillor Sushanta Ghosh on Nov 15. Cops have arrested seven persons — the last on ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Mom Sharmila misses Kol event after attack on son

    12 Kolkata: To commemorate Soumitra Chatterjee's 90th birth anniversary on Jan 19, his ‘Apur Sansar' co-star Sharmila Tagore was scheduled to deliver the Soumitra Chatterjee Memorial Lecture in Kolkata. However, due to an assault on her son Saif Ali ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    JNU grad, aides arrested for posing as MHA officials

    12 Suri: A JNU MPhil graduate was arrested by Birbhum Police on Jan 15 for impersonating a senior MHA official and travelling in an SUV with the official Govt of India insignia and a blue beacon light.Aniket Dey, held ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    'Several others still free': RG Kar rape-murder victim parents ahead of court verdict tomorrow

    KOLKATA: Ahead of the Kolkata court's decision in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, the victim's parents have raised concerns that the investigation remains incomplete, with other perpetrators still at large. The body of the victim, a doctor, was ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Five dead as car falls into gorge in Sikkim's Gyalshing

    GANGTOK: At least five people died after a car skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Gyalshing district of Sikkim, police said on Friday.The car carrying five passengers plunged into a ravine, falling 500 feet below ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal to introduce world’s first ‘carbon credit cards’

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt plans to introduce the world's first 'carbon credit card' for individuals, with the aim of reducing personal carbon footprint, environment department secretary Abhinav Chandra announced at a climate change workshop in Kolkata on Thursday.The green credit ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    'Unprofessional behaviour': Passenger calls out IndiGo's handling of long delay, airline reacts after viral video

    NEW DELHI: A Kolkata-based passenger has raised concerns about IndiGo Airlines’ handling of a significant flight delay. In a LinkedIn post, Ritham Bhattacharjee shared a video of an onboard argument with the crew and described the airline's service as ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    1 mom improves but loses child, 3 others still critical

    Midnapore/Kolkata: Rekha Sau, one of the five new mothers, who developed complications post-C-section delivery at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), started showing signs of improvement but her newborn died on Thursday morning. Sau (24) was among the five ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Can fire back 4 times if shot at, says DGP

    12 Malda/Siliguri: Following the escape of a prisoner from a police van in North Dinajpur on Wednesday, DGP Rajeev Kumar met the two cops shot during the incident at a hospital in Siliguri on Thursday. "If someone fires at ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    UK-based Redoq to invest 50cr in Kol this yr

    Kolkata: UK-based IT company Redoq Group has spent Rs 20 crore over the past year in its Kolkata business. It will raise the investment in Kolkata to Rs 50 crore this year and Rs 100 crore by 2026, the ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    CM: RSS chief’s views on I-Day anti-national

    12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed as "anti-national" RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment that India's true freedom came on Jan 22, 2024 — the day of consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya — and the date should ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    UGC chief bats for self-reliance, competitive funding in varsities, says ‘no platter service’

    12 Kolkata: Universities must learn to stand on their own feet and secure funding, UGC chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said after attending the 18th convocation and valedictory ceremony at St Xavier's College (Autonomous) on Thursday.There is a battle between ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Spencer’s launches quick commerce service ‘Jiffy’ in Kolkata

    Kolkata: RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group's retail arm Spencer's has entered the lucrative quick commerce market in Kolkata under the brand name ‘Jiffy'. The company looks to deliver 20,000 products in under 30 minutes, said the chairman of Spencer's, Shashwat Goenka. ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Bengal suspends 12 doctors over new mom's death, orders CID investigation

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt on Thursday effected the largest number of single-episode suspensions in the health department and ordered a CID probe against all the 12 suspended Midnapore Medical College and Hospital doctors to establish "criminal negligence" in the death ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    HC: Why didn’t govt immediately pull saline stock?

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday asked the Bengal health department why it had not taken immediate steps to withdraw stocks of Ringer's lactate solution made by Paschim Banga Pharmaceutical after a govt arm had ordered the company to ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF hands over B’deshi nat’l to BGB

    12 Kolkata: BSF on Thursday handed over Alimur Rahman (40) to Bangladeshi authorities during a flag meeting in North Dinajpur. It was found that he had inadvertently crossed into Indian territory without any ulterior motive. Rahman was apprehended on ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF lady constable foils smuggling bid

    12 Kolkata/Malda: A BSF lady constable fired bullets in the air before shooting at cow smugglers trying to get past Indian territory at Malda's Itaghati early on Thursday. The smuggling attempt was foiled and 2 cows were rescued.BSF said ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Swasthya Sathi has upped early detection of cancer

    Kolkata: About 90% of patients undergoing treatment after early-stage cancer detection are beneficiaries of the Swasthya Sathi scheme, a health insurance programme of the state govt for secondary and tertiary care up to Rs 5 lakh per annum per ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BJP-Trinamool row over ‘illegal’ Hatibari 5th floor

    12 Kolkata: BJP councillor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Sajal Ghosh on Thursday alleged that the KMC buildings department had regularised a five-storey building in Santoshpur, in ward 103, under pressure from Trinamool councillor Ananya Banerjee, the owner ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    After Baghajatin collapse, civic body sets SOP to fix tilting bldgs

    Kolkata: Taking cue from the collapse of the tilted building in Baghajatin during a lifting process, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) for undertaking similar corrective exercises.According to a KMC buildings department official, ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Digi arrest victim warns others on cop FB page

    Kolkata: A Tangra resident became the first victim of digital arrest in Kolkata to share his experience on the Kolkata Police Facebook page. The victim, Shyamal Bakshi, urged everyone to check multiple times with local police before blindly believing ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Now, register with biometrics to cut immigration queue at airport

    12 Kolkata: A fast-track immigration service designed to reduce wait time at immigration and customs to a quarter and offer a hassle-free experience for frequent travellers was launched at Kolkata and six other international airports in the country.Home minister ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Form board for custody death victim autopsy’

    Kolkata: The High Court directed the superintendent of NRS Medical College and Hospital on Thursday to form a medical board to conduct an autopsy of the undertrial, Mousam Chatterjee, who died in judicial custody at Dum Dum Correctional Home.The ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    In a first, Kolkata hospital gifts itself a helipad to bypass city traffic choke-hold

    12 Kolkata: A Kolkata hospital has found an innovative way to beat the traffic and rush critically ill patients to intensive care. Desun Hospital will inaugurate a rooftop helipad on Friday where emergency patients will be flown in. Desun ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Absconding promoter held from Bakkhali guest house

    123 Kolkata: Subhash Roy, the promoter of the building that collapsed at Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony, was arrested on Thursday. Roy was nabbed with the help of the Sundarban District Police from a guest house at Fraserganj near Bakkhali. He ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Golf Green murder: Nephew killed aunt for 10,000, arrested

    12 Kolkata: In less than 14 hours after a 42-year-old Nafisa Khatun — a mall staffer — was found murdered inside her RP Colony home near Golf Green police station, cops arrested her nephew, Shabir Ali (38) of Dhalipara ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    50L diamond recovered from Bandra month after 1.2cr theft at Alipore bizman’s house

    Kolkata: Last month, the Chetla Police had arrested 11 people — four of them working as maids, caregivers and cooks — for stealing jewellery and other costly items worth crores from a businessman's residence on Raja Santosh Roy Road ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Blue Ocean partners with IILM

    Kolkata: In a bid to bridge the skill gap in India's logistics and supply chain sector, Blue Ocean Corporation has partnered with IILM University to launch an NEP-aligned logistics and supply chain skill development programme.Saif Ali Khan Health Update'Request ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    ISI plans to aid more Bengal startups by 2025

    123 Kolkata: The Indian Statistical Institute's Institute of Data Engineering, Analytics and Science Foundation (IDEAS-ISI) is keen on providing financial support and seed capital to Bengal's startups. The institute has already provided financial assistance to five technology startups.Debashis Ghosh, ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    HC issues rule against 21 lawyers

    12 Kolkata: A rule was issued by Calcutta High Court on Wednesday against 21 lawyers, including presidents and secretaries of Basirhat Bar Associations, for protests on court premises.The additional district judge of Basirhat reported the matter to the district ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal: Two policemen injured as undertrial prisoners escape after firing

    NEW DELHI: Two policemen were injured in a shooting by miscreants while escorting an accused to a prison van in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, officials said. The incident occurred in the Panjipara Kalibari area under Goalpokhar police station ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    15-year-old Kolkata building ‘amnesty’ returns to haunt ‘colony’ belt

    A 15-year-old leeway by KMC allowing unsanctioned three-storey buildings has led to widespread illegal constructions in south Kolkata. Thousands of buildings, especially in the Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt, lack approved plans. Unsafe construction practices, such as building on filled-up ponds, have ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Emotions run high during tribute to Ustad Zakir Hussain

    123 Kolkata: Most eyes were misty when the 100-minute-long ‘Dha Forever' tribute to Ustad Zakir Hussain — curated by Indrayudh Majumdar from the maestro's 300 hours of footage of his own recitals from 2013 to 2023 at Kolkata's Swara ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    1 held for Kaliachak murder

    12 Malda: One person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the attack on a Trinamool functionary, his brother and his aide in Kaliachak a day earlier that left one dead. However, the main accused, Jakir Sk, is still ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Search history of mom’s phone helps RPF find 3 Bihar kids

    123 Burdwan: Thanks to quick thinking of tech-savvy relatives, three Munger minors were found on a train close to Burdwan. The three children fled their homes on Tuesday after which their relatives scanned the Google search history on the ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Protests in central Kolkata causing jams, look for space in New Town, says HC

    12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday again broached the issue of designated protest zones in the city, referring to the fact that protests in central Kolkata are causing massive congestion. Hearing a plea by civil society organisation ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    KMC calls Garden Reach teams to help in Baghajatin demolition

    Kolkata: Around 100 demolition workers from three private agencies, including those who had been involved in pulling down an illegal five-storey building that had collapsed in Garden Reach, were sent to Baghajatin on Wednesday morning to raze the tilted ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Families in other tilted bldgs keep fingers crossed

    Kolkata: The images of the "uprooted" three-storey apartment in Baghajatin have rekindled fears among residents of other tilted buildings in the city, who have been spending sleepless nights, anxious about a similar fate. Many of these other tilted buildings ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Scientists use glass tech to take on global warming

    Kolkata: A glass that can block infrared rays without obstructing light and, in turn, reduce heat by 40%: This innovation by Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, India's only glass science institute, will go a long way in fighting ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Promoter pushed for corrective surgery to sell two flats: Cops

    12 Kolkata: The police investigation into the Baghajatin incident has led officers to believe that the accused promoter, Subhas Ray, actively pitched and then pushed the residents to agree to the corrective surgery, named hydraulic jacking. His aim was ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Baghajatin families paying home loans for homes lost forever

    12 Kolkata: Anirban Maity, a resident of a second-floor flat of the four-storey Subho Apartment that collapsed at Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony on Tuesday, had registered his flat on July 25, 2023. He paid Rs 1,859 as corporation tax on ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Mall robbery: Accused spotted in area for a week

    Kolkata: The probe into the snatching outside a mall at Beckbagan Row on Monday, in which Rs 12 lakh was looted from a cash collection agent and his gunman, has revealed that the accused planned the incident for several ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    TMC isn’t anyone’s fiefdom, all bound by discipline: Abhishek

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool was not anyone's fiefdom and everyone was bound by party discipline, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Wednesday. Like office conflicts between colleagues, Banerjee added, there could be differences of opinion in a "big party" ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool tries to find common ground on artists

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday defended his stance on the issue of artists' boycotts, saying, "As far as I know, Mamata Banerjee, she does not believe in boycotts or violence."Speaking to reporters, Banerjee ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will back BJP’s strongest opponent’: MP on AAP support

    12 Kolkata: Explaining Trinamool's rationale for backing AAP for the Delhi assembly polls, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Wednesday: "If defeating BJP is our collective aim, why weaken the party which is the strongest to take them ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Goat and dog deaths in Purulia not caused by tiger: Officials

    12 Purulia: Four goat carcasses were discovered in a forest in Gangamanna, Purulia, near the Jharkhand border on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, two dogs were found killed near Birudih, in the same district and approximately seven kilometres away.However, ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Cops shot, undertrial escapes from prison van

    123 Malda: Two police personnel were shot as the prisoner they were escorting fled from the van in North Dinajpur on Wednesday. The prisoner, a murder accused, was being taken to jail from an Islampur court when the attack ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Over 1cr pilgrims take holy dip in Gangasagar, many still waiting

    123 Gangasagar: Over a crore pilgrims took the holy dip in Gangasagar by 3 pm on Wednesday, the state govt said. Many people are still waiting at Chemaguri, Benuban, Kachuberia, and Lot-Eight to head towards the Sagar, and it ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Asiatic Society turns 242, displays manuscript paintings

    123 Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, established on Jan 15, 1784, by William Jones in Calcutta and home to over 50,000 ancient manuscripts, unveiled an exhibition featuring vibrant paintings embedded in these priceless documents. The showcase aims to ignite interest ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    CID questions principal, senior docs for med college death

    Midnapore: CID on Wednesday questioned Midnapore Medical College and Hospital principal Mausumi Nandy regarding the death of the new mom. CID officers also questioned several senior doctors who were scheduled to be on duty when the surgery and death ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Lifted down: Ovens to toys, TVs to idols

    12345 Kolkata: When the KMC team began the demolition work early on Wednesday, the brief to them was clear: pull down the building as safely as possible and make every possible attempt to try and retrieve whatever they could ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Anatomy of a correction surgery to straighten building gone wrong

    12 Kolkata: A day after the tilting of a four-storey building near Baghajatin, structural engineers blamed the unscientific and crude methods employed by the Haryana-based firm. They called for immediate curbs on such non-engineering rectification attempts to prevent a ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    We are suffering for no fault of ours, say neighbours

    12 Kolkata: Tuesday night was unlike any other for the displaced neighbours of Vidyasagar Colony in Baghajatin. The tilting of Subho Apartment on Tuesday afternoon threw the entire neighbourhood into chaos, forcing several families to leave their homes in ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Locker theft: Cops recover items worth 11 cr

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police detective department made recoveries worth around Rs 11 crore in connection with the ongoing bank locker probe. A bank employee, in charge of lockers at the Park Street branch of a bank, had cleaned out ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    55 feet of carriageway now open for use on Bertram Street

    12 Kolkata: In a major anti-encroachment drive, cops from New Market police station on Wednesday reclaimed Bertram Street, which was gradually being taken over by a growing number of hawkers. On an action-packed day, a large group of cops ...

    16 January 2025 Times of India
    Stunt biker turns poster boy for KP drive

    12 Kolkata: A student, who transitioned from being a stunt biker influencer on social media to becoming the poster boy of Kolkata Traffic Police, has realised that being on the right side of the law always pays. The Kolkata ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Advancing AI frontier: The 9th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation in Kolkata

    (L-R) Prof Kanad Basu and Prof Saptarshi Goswami two chairs of the conference at the pre-event conference Kolkata is abuzz with excitement over Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, and Data Science as the city gears up for the ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Foundation failure of bldg on water body led to tilting’

    123 Kolkata: Construction of the building without a strong foundation on a plot that was reclaimed after filling up a pond was responsible for its tilt. "The building collapsed due to foundation and soil failure," civic engineers and structural ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake bike thieves caught

    Kolkata: Police busted a bike theft gang in Salt Lake with the arrest of three accused on Monday. The three had stolen a bike from CE Block in Salt Lake on Jan 11, but while they were fleeing, the ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Judge suspends online appearance of lawyers

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court Judge Tirthankar Ghosh on Tuesday suspended the appearance of advocates over video conferencing in his court due to lack of decorum and "ill behaviour" of advocates.During a proceeding, the advocate representing the respondent appeared ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    New Town police station IC ‘closed’, govt tells HC

    Kolkata: The New Town police station inspector-in-charge was "closed" till further orders by the Bidhannagar police commissionerate, the state told Calcutta High Court on Tuesday.This development followed Justice Tirthankar Ghosh's directive to the state on Dec 12, 2024, to ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    A day after mishap, school installs safety net around assembly zone

    Kolkata: After two class IX students of Nava Nalanda School were injured by a glass panel crashing onto them from a fifth floor classroom, the school started revamping its safety measures by installing a net around the place where ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Finolex eyes Rs 1,000 cr revenue from Bengal market

    Kolkata: Finolex Cables, the Pune-based manufacturer of electrical and telecommunication cables, is eyeing Rs 1,000 crore revenue from Bengal market in the next three years.The company, which diversified its product basket by entering new electrical segments like fans, switches, ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    At Rs 1,900cr, 780-cottah BSNL plot sale set to be Kol’s biggest real-estate deal

    12 Kolkata: A 780-cottah property of the state-owned BSNL, with a developable area of around 630 cottahs, is set to go on sale for Rs 1,900 crore, potentially becoming the largest real-estate deal in Kolkata.The plot at a prime ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Illegal four-storey bldg keels over during ‘corrective work’

    Kolkata: An illegal four-storey residential apartment in Baghajatin Vidyasagar Colony, south Kolkata, which was built 11 years ago and which started tilting gradually four years ago, keeled over onto a neighbouring one-storey building at 3.05pm on Tuesday while efforts ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    All Kolkata AQI stations except one slips into ‘poor’ category

    12 Kolkata: The city witnessed persistently poor air quality on Tuesday, as pollution levels remained in the "poor" AQI category (201-300) across most monitoring stations, underscoring the city's ongoing environmental challenges. The situation was exacerbated by meteorological conditions, with ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Women account for half of Bengal BJP’s 50L membership

    Kolkata: With BJP's membership figure crossing 50 lakh in Bengal, the party's women member base has reached an all-time high. Riding on the surge in women's participation, with almost half of its members women, BJP on Tuesday claimed it ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    City celebrates Pongal, Magh Bihu with gusto

    12 Kolkata: The city witnessed a wide array of festivities on Tuesday to welcome the harvest season. People from the city's Tamil community celebrated the harvest festival Pongal in a grand way. The celebration will continue for four days, ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    ED questions witnesses in SSC case

    Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday started questioning key witnesses in the SSC job-for-cash case in an "in camera proceeding". The court had earlier allowed the anonymity of the three "vulnerable wi-tnesses" to be maintained. ED will question the witnesses ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Mamata meets Sikkim ex-CM Chamling

    123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with former Sikkim chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling at Nabanna on Tuesday. Banerjee later posted on social media that the meeting was political in nature.Banerjee wrote: "Today at Nabanna, I had ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Bldg few metres away ‘goes missing’ in no time, neighbours vacate their houses to move to safety

    12345 Kolkata: Bimala Saha was washing utensils in the courtyard outside her house after finishing her lunch when she felt something move behind her, accompanied by a deafening thud. She turned back to find that the tall building only ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Student held for faking ACP’s FB profile

    Kolkata: A college student from Habra has been arrested from Howrah for defrauding people by creating a fake Facebook account of Bidhannagar detective department ACP Samabriti Chakraborty and asking for money from people on the ACP's friend list. The ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘High oxytocin doses one of the reasons for mom death’

    Kolkata/Midnapore: A five-and-a-half-page report submitted to the health department by the 13-member probe committee, formed to investigate the death of a woman at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital following a C-section delivery, indicated that high doses of oxytocin were ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Daylight robbery: Bikers snatch 12L in front of Park Circus mall

    Kolkata: Two men on a motorcycle snatched away Rs 12 lakh from a cash collection employee outside a premium shopping mall in Park Circus on Monday afternoon and rode away in a flash. The cash collector was accompanied by ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    CID questions 7 doctors, 4 nurses

    123 Kolkata/Midnapore: A CID team on Tuesday questioned seven doctors and four nurses posted at Midnapore Medical College in connection with the death of a woman — three others are in a critical condition — following the delivery of ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    SOP flouted: Walking on crowded road with cash, no gun with ‘gunman’

    123 Kolkata: A preliminary investigation of the Rs 12-lakh snatching outside Quest Mall revealed violation of multiple norms of cash collection SOP by a private agency's employees, who were targeted and robbed on Monday afternoon. Both police and private ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Burglars empty out New Alipore bizman’s house

    Kolkata: A businessman's three-storied house in New Alipore was emptied out by thieves who gained access by prying open a grille protecting a window AC.Everything, from jewellery to LED TV, sound system, microwave oven, LPG cylinders, utensils, geysers, refrigerator ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    Police drive at Sealdah stn after app cab fracas

    123 Kolkata: Lalbazar and Sealdah Traffic Guard have started a probe into the fracas outside the Sealdah station, involving three passengers and an app caby on Jan 11. A drive has also been launched to ensure cabs enter the ...

    15 January 2025 Times of India
    DIY decorations to fragrances: Home decor tips for Lohri

    Lohri is a festival that symbolises warmth, gratitude, and the joy of togetherness, marking the transition to longer days and the celebration of nature's bounty. Anjaleka Kripalani, founder of Angie Homes says, “One can bring the ambiance of the ...

    14 January 2025 Times of India
    2 TMC workers injured in shootout in West Bengal's Malda

    NEW DELHI: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and a party worker were shot at in West Bengal's Malda district on Tuesday, according to police. The shooting occurred less than two weeks after the murder of a TMC councillor in ...

    14 January 2025 Times of India
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