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  • Man found dead in Golpark house

    Kolkata: The decomposed body of a 55-year-old man was found in the bathroom of a vacant house on Gariahat Road near Golpark on Thursday night. The deceased, Monotosh Kundu, who ran a shop on the building's ground floor, lived ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Engg student alleges rape by classmate

    Kolkata: A 21-year-old engineering student from Jharkhand was allegedly raped by her classmate — who is also the boyfriend of her roommate — at her paying guest (PG) accommodation in Anandapur, off EM Bypass, during Durga Puja. The accused, ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    State engages TCS for ‘clean’ med exam system

    Kolkata: The state has roped in IT major Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) to introduce digital or computerised examinations for the recruitment of staffers in the health department, including general duty medical officers (GDMO), nurses, pharmacists and technologists. The decision ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Recruitment scam: ED raids Sujit Bose’s Salt Lake office, 5 other spots

    Kolkata: The office of state fire services minister Sujit Bose was among six locations raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata on Friday in connection with municipal recruitment irregularities. Residences of persons linked to Bose were also searched. ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Last of popular tourist circuits reopens in north Bengal after flood disruption

    Kolkata: Tourism activities at Jaldapara National Park resumed on Friday, making it the last of North Bengal's tourist circuits to partially reopen nearly a week after severe floods forced a shutdown and damaged critical infrastructure.Safaris restarted from Chilapata, Kodal ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    In 36 shelters, 9,000 lives hang between loss & hope

    Jalpaiguri/Mirik: Madhab Rai (57) from Bargaon near Mirik's Soureni has not stepped out of Soureni Community Hall, a shelter for those who lost their homes in Mirik, since Saturday. "My house is gone. My shop, too, was buried under ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Mirik family performs last rites of pet dog swept away by disaster

    Mirik: As continues to reel under the impact of relentless rain that triggered devastating landslides, locals are now mourning not only human loss but also the death of their beloved pets. Many residents have been seen performing the ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Big B keeps promise: Bengal man gets 2L washroom after plea from KBC hot seat

    Goghat (Hooghly): In the quaint village of Agai in Goghat in Bengal's Hooghly district, dignity has found its way home for 22-year-old Shikha, sister of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) 16 contestant Jayanta Duley. For years, she had been enduring ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    70 mm rainfall in three hours sinks Kolkata

    Kolkata: An afternoon deluge drenched and sank Kolkata on Friday when a heavy downpour pounded the city for close to three hours from 2.45 pm, leaving roads waterlogged, neighbourhoods flooded, and traffic in a mess. The heavy spell, triggered ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Travel agent arrested for 14.3L Europe trip fraud

    Kolkata: A travel agent was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly duping a Rajarhat family of Rs 14.3 lakh, the money they paid for a Europe trip two years ago that never materialised. Rakesh Nandan Das was picked up ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Ex-boyfriend held for blackmailing woman with private photos

    Kolkata: A Lake Town woman's ex-boyfriend, Uday Agarwal (28), was arrested on Thursday for allegedly blackmailing and threatening her to upload their private photographs on social media. The accused, who had met the woman on social media, was arrested ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    TMC, BJP spar over poll rolls revision

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday sharply reacted to Bengal 's charge that it was trying to intimidate and provoke minorities, saying that had "always been the saffron party's forte".Lashing out at BJP's "sheer desperation" amid 's SIR preps, spokesperson ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    WBPDCL, WBSETCL pay Rs207cr dividend to state

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL) and the West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (WBSETCL) have paid a total dividend of Rs 207.01 crore to the state govt. State power minister Aroop Biswas on Thursday ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Tech glitch, fake tags force cops to junk green cracker QR system

    Kolkata: Cops have decided to abandon the QR code system for monitoring green firecrackers after encountering persistent issues with fake and non-functional codes, as well as unreliable verification apps, over the past four years.The QR code system, developed by ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Why NRC notice for Assam trip 15 yrs ago, ask Nadia craftsmen

    Krishnanagar (Nadia): Two marble craftsmen from Nadia, the latest to receive NRC notices from the Assam Foreigners' Tribunal, on Friday expressed fear that cops from the northeastern state would come knocking at their doors and questioned why they were ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Eye on safety, state to start toto registration from Mon

    Kolkata: In a last-ditch attempt to rein in battery-operated totos, the unregulated growth of which has been choking almost all Bengal towns, the state has announced a framework to streamline the most-used mode for last-mile connectivity there and bring ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    ‘They’re Indians’: Repatriate Sunali, 5 others with her, orders B’desh court

    Kolkata: A judicial magistrate in Bangladesh has asked the Indian high commission in Dhaka to take steps to repatriate 26-year-old Sunali Khatun and five others, who were pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian authorities on the grounds that they ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Waterlogging throws traffic out of gear, cars travel 2 km in 50 mins

    Kolkata: Heavy rain on Friday afternoon led to the inundation of large parts of the city, throwing traffic out of gear. The presence of a high tide in the Hooghly aggravated the waterlogging scenario. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) drainage ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    ‘Cough syrup brands under lens not in circulation in govt hosps’

    Kolkata: The two cough syrup brands—Coldrif and Nextro-DS—that are under scrutiny for causing deaths in children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were not being supplied to govt hospitals in Bengal, said health officials, adding that state drugs control teams ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Embankment repairs: ITA seeks govt help

    Kolkata: In the wake of devastation triggered by floods in north Bengal, the Indian Tea Association (ITA) has sought financial assistance from the state for restoration of the embankment over the Hatinala river, which puts the Binnaguri tea garden ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    8 injured in attacks by wild boar

    Jalpaiguri: There is no let up in attacks by wild boars in flood-hit north Bengal zones.After two men were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday in wild boar attacks in Cooch Behar's Mathabhanga, eight more people were injured in wild ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Jaldapara rhino rescued in Cooch Behar

    Jalpaiguri: The forest department, on Friday, rescued a stranded rhino from Pundibari in Cooch Behar.On Oct 5, during the Torsa flooding, it was swept away and carried nearly 25 km inside Cooch Behar — a video of which went ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    After 4 puja releases, Tollywood calls for course correction ahead of Christmas

    Kolkata: During the pujas, four Bengali films — ‘Raghu Dakat', ‘Raktabeej 2', ‘Joto Kando Kolkatatei' and ‘Devi Chowdhurani' — were released, imparting significant lessons on best practices to the film industry. Despite adverse weather conditions and strained relationships between ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Students take crowd-fund route to help victims

    Dhupguri: Eight-year-old Nandini Roy, a student of class III at Gadheyarkurti State Planned Primary School and a resident of Bagribari village in Dhupguri, saw a portion of her house getting washed away last Sunday.She teamed up with classmates, all ...

    11 October 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Cloudy skies, rain expected; AQI remains poor

    Kolkata experienced a mostly cloudy day with patchy rain showers on , with morning temperatures at expected to reach . The city faced poor air quality with an , while humidity levels remained at with moderate winds ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    AI debuts in evaluation for HS, CISCE papers

    Kolkata: Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its debut in the evaluation system of computer-based tests or OMR-based exams. The West Bengal Higher Secondary Council introduced an OMR-based part-I exam for the first time this year while the Council for ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Rain may subside from Sun, says Met

    Kolkata: The city received some sharp showers on Thursday and remained partly cloudy due to the impact of a cyclonic circulation over southern Bangladesh. The system is set to weaken, though rain will continue in Kolkata and other south ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake doc loses 21L to dual trading scams

    Kolkata: A 48-year-old doctor from Salt Lake was reportedly duped of over Rs 21 lakh in dual online trading scams. The fraudsters posed as investment representatives of stock trading platforms. According to the complaint lodged by the Salt Lake ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    PCB’s Diwali rules: Certified green crackers, 2-hr window

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) and Kolkata Police have issued stringent directives ahead of Diwali, mandating strict compliance with norms governing the use, storage, and sale of certified green fireworks. Authorities have reiterated that only those ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Tribunal directs Williamson Magor, McLeod Russel to pay Rs509cr over unpaid dues

    Kolkata: The Williamson Magor & Co. Limited and McLeod Russel India Limited on Thursday informed the stock exchanges that the arbitral tribunal has passed a final order in favour of the Real Touch Finance Limited and IDBI Trusteeship Services ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Stress, social influence fuel tobacco use among young Kol women: Study

    Kolkata: The city is witnessing a worrying rise in tobacco use among young girls and women, according to a recent study. It shows that 12% of urban young women aged 15 to 24 either smoke or use smokeless tobacco, ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Airway disease affects kids, many suffer severe breathing distress in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A significant number of children in Kolkata have been affected by ‘hyper-active airway disease' or an inflammation of the bronchial tubes, leading to asthma, severe breathing distress, bronchitis, and over the past three weeks. The reason behind ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Rooftop restos: KMC plans surprise checks to catch reopen-rule flouting

    Kolkata: Over a month after the deadline to apply for reopening rooftop restaurants before Durga Puja expired, the KMC buildings department has decided to conduct surprise inspections at these outlets.A civic official said the purpose of the visits is ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Pet parents urge govt to set up 24x7 emergency vet services

    Kolkata: Pet parents and animal activists are voicing the need for round-the-clock emergency veterinary services for animals that sustain severe injuries in accidents or develop health complications at odd hours. Having faced harrowing times trying to find clinics with ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    BJP MP talks of ‘1cr deletions’ in Bengal, sparks row

    Kolkata: A fresh controversy erupted on Thursday over BJP Bongaon MP and junior Union minister Shantanu Thakur's comment that a proper implementation of SIR would expose "1 to 1.2 crore illegally registered voters" in Bengal.Trinamool MP Mamata Bala Thakur ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Fleet control: State set to register totos

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt has set in motion the process for formal registration of battery-operated totos across the state, marking a significant step toward regulating the growing fleet of eco-friendly three-wheelers. In an official order issued on Wednesday, the ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    VB Bangladesh Bhavana museum set to reopen

    Kolkata: The museum inside Bangladesh Bhavana at Visva-Bharati was set to open to tourists within a month, announced vice-chancellor Prabir Kumar Ghosh on Thursday. The museum has been shut since the pandemic."Under the VC's initiative, the first phase of ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Campus caste assault: Univ submits probe report, cops quiz students

    Kolkata: Amity University officials have submitted the internal investigation report on five first-year law students' complaint of assault and caste slurs against second-year BBA students. Police, too, visited the New Town campus and launched a parallel investigation. Bidhannagar ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Attack orchestrated by outsiders: Murmu

    Kolkata: The attack on him was designed to "kill" and was "orchestrated by outsiders", Malda North MP Khagen Murmu said on Thursday. Murmu was attacked on Monday while overseeing relief work at Nagrakata.In an interview with a TV ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Attack on BJP netas: PIL in HC seeks NIA probe; 3 more arrested

    Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency into the attack on party MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Shankar Ghosh, an advocate moved the vacation bench of Calcutta High Court on Thursday with ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    BLOs flag threats from pol parties at EC meet in Kolaghat

    Kolkata/Kolaghat: Deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti and state CEO Manoj Agarwal conducted a meeting with district officials from Midnapore (East), Jhargram and Bankura, along with 500 booth level officers (BLOs), at Kolaghat on Thursday.The BLOs expressed concerns about threats ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    CM slams EC for SIR ‘rush’ amid calamity

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday questioned how the Election Commission could rush through the special intensive revision (SIR) of poll rolls in calamity-hit Bengal during the festival season. She also accused the commission of threatening Bengal govt officials."Right ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata third cleanest IGP city on PM2.5 scale

    Kolkata: Kolkata has emerged as the third cleanest among 17 cities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in terms of the presence of PM2.5, a fine particulate matter that is among the most harmful air pollutants.The PM2.5 data for Sept ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Structures on riverbank triggered Dudhiya’s devastation: Experts

    Kolkata/Dudhiya: Too many homestays, eateries and hotels along the banks of the Balason river and even on the river bed are to a large extent responsible for the widespread devastation in Dudhiya, once a picturesque hamlet near Mirik in ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Film shoots in flood-hit north Bengal take a pause

    Kolkata: Multiple film shoots scheduled in north Bengal have been postponed following the devastation. The affected projects include Sharman Joshi's Bengali film debut, a 17-day Yashraj Films shoot scheduled for the first week of Oct and a documentary project ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Skoda Auto India likely to launch electric SUV in 2 years

    KOLKATA: Skoda Auto India is likely to launch an electric SUV in the next couple of years with the new Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) norms in mind which will be introduced in April 2027.Though the parent company has ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Rain damages Jaldhaka embankment, renders hundreds homeless in Dhupguri

    Dhupguri: At Hoglapatapara in Bagribari village, located about 21 km from Dhupguri and bordering Mynaguri in Jalpaiguri, the area now resembles an earthquake-affected zone, an affirmation of the fury of rivers like Jaldhaka in the region.Around 110 of the ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Rescued woman gives birth, names girl ‘Banya’

    Nagrakata: Shila Kharia (24) was rescued through the dense forest on Monday night by block healthcare workers of Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri. The team was led by Md Irfan Molla, the BMOH of Nagrakata, who himself used a zipline to ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    CM may reach N Bengal on Mon to oversee relief, rehab ops

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to reach north Bengal again on Monday with relief materials for the Hills. She had earlier rushed to the Hills last Monday. Now, she will be visiting Mirik, one of the worst affected ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Flood toll up: Rhino carcass in B’desh, 5 more bison dead

    Kolkata: The flood toll on wildlife in north Bengal has gone up with carcasses of one more rhino and 5 more bison being found in the region, majority of them are from Gorumara National Park.CCF (wildlife), north Bengal, Bhaskar ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Darjeeling hotels start getting fresh bookings, queries for winter trips

    Darjeeling: Queries for winter bookings and rescheduling of bookings have given Darjeeling's battered tourism industry a glimmer of hope.Members of the Darjeeling Hotel Association (DHA) reported that the recent spate of cancellations following the landslides initially dealt a severe ...

    10 October 2025 Times of India
    Rajarhat senior citizen loses over 1 crore in a fortnight to digital-arrest fraud

    Kolkata: A 74-year-old retired central govt employee from Rajarhat fell victim to digital-arrest fraud, losing more than Rs 1 crore to scammers posing as Bangalore Police and Karnataka Police officers who accused him of online sexual harassment and human ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    VIBEWA report calls for urgent reforms in banking for visually impaired

    KOLKATA: To ensure equitable working conditions for visually impaired bank employees, the Visually Impaired Bank Employees Welfare Association (VIBEWA) has concluded a series of pivotal meetings with key government ministries. The discussions, held on October 6-7, 2025, involved top ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Flood-hit wild boar kills villager in Cooch Behar, second time in 12 hours

    Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: In the second such incident in past 12 hours, a man was killed by a wild boar, swept in by flood waters, at Ghoksadanga in Cooch Behar's Mathabhanga in the early hours of Wednesday. Experts said stress-induced hormonal ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Kol woman first to get dual-chamber leadless pacemaker in eastern India

    Kolkata: A 69-year-old woman from Kolkata was implanted with the AVEIR DR Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker System on Tuesday at BM Birla Heart Hospital. The hospital claims that this is the first implantation of the world's first dual-chamber leadless ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update for October 9, 2025: Rain, warmth, and moderate pollution

    Kolkata residents face a mix of weather conditions on , with patchy rain and moderate pollution levels. The city anticipates a maximum temperature of and minimum of , along with a , while maintaining an from the ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    North Bengal floods: Toll rises to 40 as more bodies found; many still in relief camps

    SILIGURI/DARJEELING/JALPAIGURI: Two more decomposed bodies were recovered in the flood-ravaged Magurmari gram panchayat area in Jalpaiguri on Wednesday, taking the toll in the north Bengal calamity to 40.Police said five residents of Magurmari were still missing, a claim disputed ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Dengue sample tests show predominance of 2 strains

    Kolkata: The current spate in dengue cases is being caused predominantly by the DEN 2 or DEN 3 strain of the virus. Serotyping done at ICMR-NIRBI (National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections) Kolkata, formerly NICED, has found slightly ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    DMRC team visits Green Line amid handover talks

    Kolkata: Officials from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation () inspected the East-West Metro on Wednesday amid talks on the possibility of handing over the Green Line's operations to DMRC.On Mar 14, 2024, ahead of PM Modi flagging off East-West Metro's ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Vehicles denied, TMC delegation march to vandalised party office

    Kolkata/Agartala: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit back at the BJP, asking it not to "lecture on democracy" after TMC delegation was allegedly denied vehicles to visit the party's vandalised office in Agartala."We only sent a five-member team comprising ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Retail transition: Single-screens turn into department stores

    Kolkata: The retail landscape in Kolkata is witnessing a transformative phase with several erstwhile single-screen theatres being repurposed into modern retail spaces. Several developers are also exploring mid-sized mall formats of 2 lakh-3 lakh sq ft. According to the ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Attack on BJP netas: Sukanta warns of ‘retaliation’, TMC hits back

    Kolkata: Sparking a political storm, junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday warned police that if no action was taken against those who attacked BJP MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Shankar Ghosh, then "there will be retaliation". "If the ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Airport pvt cab kiosk running ops despite marching orders

    Kolkata: The private car rental operator running under the misleading name ‘Prepaid Cab – City & Outstation' outside Kolkata airport has been ordered to shut down and vacate the premises, a day after TOI highlighted the issue.The outlet, accused ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    2k applications for 150 vacant JU engg seats

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University has received 2,218 engineering applications for the 150-odd vacant seats, which will be filled during the decentralised counselling scheduled on Oct 13, 14 and 15.After two rounds of centralised counselling, JU had these seats vacant out ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Students booked after caste assault on varsity campus

    Kolkata: Several second-year BBA students of Amity University in New Town have been booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and relevant sections of BNS for allegedly assaulting and hurling caste slurs on the ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Mamata slams Shah over SIR, says behaving like ‘acting PM’

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said Union home minister Amit Shah was working like an "acting Prime Minister" and asked PM Narendra Modi to be cautious about him.Speaking to reporters on the rollout of special intensive revision (SIR) of ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    MG Select targets top spot in luxury EV sales

    Kolkata: MG Select is eyeing number one spot in luxury electric vehicle (EV) sales, overtaking German carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz.Speaking to TOI, MG Select interim head Milind Shah said the company already climbed to the number two spot in ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    ‘Virus’ made Birla group put off paints unit launch: CM

    Kolkata: A "high-loaded virus" made Aditya Birla Group postpone the inauguration of its Birla Opus paints factory in Kharagpur, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. While her comments were seen as insinuating that there was more to the postponement ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    ‘Monsoon may recede later than usual, more rain likely’

    Kolkata: The city is likely to miss the normal monsoon withdrawal date, with the Met office seeing no sign of the rains retreating in the next five days at least. The monsoon is still active in this region, and ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Bengal SIR willbe better than Bihar’s, says CEO

    Kolkata: Bengal's special intensive revision (SIR) will be "better than Bihar's", state chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal said on Wednesday, announcing several measures including online enrolment, WhatsApp video verifications and allowing agents from eight recognised political parties to accompany ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Elephant fight blocks road in West Midnapore for 2 hrs

    Kharagpur: A fight between two elephants blocked the Pirakata-Goaltore state road in the Ranja area of Salboni block, west Midnapore, for nearly two hours on Wednesday morning. The incident in the Ranja beat of the Pirakata range has already ...

    9 October 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata luxury EV race: MG Select eyes no.1 spot in sales

    KOLKATA: MG Select, the channel that sells premium luxury segment vehicles under the MG brand, is eyeing the no.1 spot in luxury electric vehicle (EV) sales, overtaking German carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz.Speaking to TOI, MG Select interim head Milind ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Skoda Auto India plans to launch electric SUV within 18 months

    KOLKATA: Skoda Auto India is working on an electric SUV that it plans to introduce in the next 18-24 months, just in time for the introduction of the new Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency norms in April 2027.Though the parent ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Foreign tourist arrivals in Kol see 20% jump this Durga Puja

    Kolkata: The number of foreign tourists in Kolkata this Durga Puja is up by nearly 20% over last year, reflecting the festival's ever-growing appeal among foreigners since it won the Unesco heritage tag four years ago. A significant number ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Carlsberg to invest Rs 400 cr to expand Dhanekhali brewery

    Kolkata: Carlsberg India will invest over Rs 400 crore in Bengal for the brownfield expansion of its brewery at Dhanekhali in Hooghly. This is part of the expansion strategy of the global beer giant in India. This comes after ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Pvt prepaid cab kiosk at city airport faces eviction for ‘misleading’ flyers

    Kolkata: A private car-rental operator using the misleading name ‘Prepaid Cab – City & Outstation' outside Kolkata airport, which charges a two-way fare from passengers and is often accused of sheltering touts for years, has been issued a notice ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Moderate rain, comfortable temperatures, and improved air quality

    Kolkata is experiencing moderate rainfall on , with temperatures ranging from and an throughout the day.The city recorded a moderate Air Quality Index () of yesterday, with the rain expected to help improve air quality conditions ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Child entitled to call parents at least once a day during custody case: Calcutta HC guidelines

    KOLKATA: A child is entitled to speak with both parents over phone at least once a day while custody battle is being fought, according to Calcutta High Court guidelines on child access and custody. Besides, parents involved in custody ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    North Bengal floods: Lost IDs add new agony for calamity-hit residents; SIR worry deepens

    SILIGURI/MIRIK: Calamity-hit residents of north Bengal, at a loss over how to rebuild their battered lives, have one more big worry to tackle — damaged or lost identity documents.With a special intensive revision of the electoral rolls set to ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Anticancer drug saves boy with brain damage

    Kolkata: An anticancer drug, now repurposed for neurological and autoimmune conditions, came to the rescue of a seven-year-old boy, diagnosed with seronegative autoimmune encephalitis, a rare and life-threatening inflammatory condition of the brain. Peerless Hospital doctors prescribed Rituximab to ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    LS Speaker seeks report on Nagrakata attack, Bengal BJP for NIA probe

    Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla sent a notice to the West Bengal govt seeking a report within three days on the attack on BJP MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Sankar Ghosh in Jalpaiguri's Nagrakata, even as state BJP ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Sporadic rain prolongs dengue season in Kol

    Kolkata: The post-puja dengue surge is a result of the Sept 23 deluge and the subsequent spells of , which created fresh mosquito breeding grounds across the city, said doctors and microbiologists. Several private hospitals now have over 20 ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    At IIT-Kgp, task force to monitor canteen food quality, hygiene

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur has formed an eight-member hygiene and food monitoring task force to ensure safe and hygienic food at all the eateries on the campus, including messes, technology food court and other food joints. "Some students raised concerns ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    DVC water pushes up river turbidity, Palta plant on alert

    Kolkata: The turbidity level in the Hooghly has risen to a danger mark due to the release of stormwater in high volumes from DVC barrages, putting the Palta water treatment plant on high alert. This century-old plant supplies potable ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    SIR in 51 Cooch Behar enclaves to have 2015 as reference year

    Kolkata: Bengal will have two criteria for the upcoming special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls — the 2002 SIR as the reference point and 2015 as the reference year, a Election Commission official said.The SIR in 51 enclaves ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Two more bodies in Darj take toll to 38; power back in Mirik after 40 hours

    Mirik (Soureni Bazar): The Darjeeling district administration intensified relief and rescue operations, recovering two more bodies from the Chhota Rangit river under Bijanbari block on Tuesday, two days after the tragedy struck the region. An unidentified body was found ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    ISI Bill may delink 3 centres, rob autonomy, fear profs

    Kolkata: The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, aimed at granting more autonomy to the institute, might end up trifurcating the administrative control over the Kolkata, New Delhi, and Bengaluru centres, fear faculty and council members of the 94-year-old centre ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    New wasp species discovered in Salt Lake, named after Banabitan

    Kolkata: The discovery of a new species of wasp has captured the attention of entomologists worldwide. Found in the lush environs of Central Park, Salt Lake, the new species was named ‘Nesolynx banabitanae' in honour of Banabitan, the local ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Foreign victims:CS to speak to Del, Nepal, Bhutan

    Siliguri: With bodies of Bhutanese and Nepalese nationals also being traced, CM Mamata Banerjee said chief secretary Manoj Pant will speak to the Centre and Nepal and Bhutan embassies in India.According to reports, five bodies of Nepalese nationals, including ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Jeweller duped of 94k with fake bank SMS

    Kolkata: A jeweller in Santoshpur was duped of Rs 94,000 by a man, who posed as a customer and walked away with a wristlet after showing him a fake bank credit message.Subir Pal (49) of NCP Jewellers in south ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    IISER develops cancer-fighting bacteria

    Kalyani: A team from IISER Kolkata has developed ‘friendly bacteria' that can safely and effectively fight cancer. The institute is developing a detection system, capable of monitoring the progress of therapy, marking a new frontier in the combined therapeutic ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    CM to open Birla paint factory tomorrow

    Kharagpur: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to inaugurate Birla Opus paint factory at Vidyasagar Industrial Park in Kharagpur on Thursday, said sources. The factory is built on approximately 86 acres of land next to the national highway in ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    New wasp species discovered in Salt Lake, named after Banabitan

    Kolkata: The discovery of a new species of wasp has captured the attention of entomologists worldwide. Found in the lush environs of Central Park, Salt Lake, the new species was named ‘Nesolynx banabitanae' in honour of Banabitan, the local ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    46% YoY rise in number of home buyers spending on 1-2cr flats

    Kolkata: This July to Sept, almost one in four home buyers in Kolkata spent over Rs 1 crore to purchase apartments. Of the 4,374 flats sold in the three months, 1,065 apartments were priced in excess of Rs 1 ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Didi visits injured Murmu in hosp, assures kin of support

    Siliguri: In a show of political courtesy, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met injured BJP MP Khagen Murmu in the ICU of a Siliguri hospital. Murmu was attacked while on a visit to flood-affected areas in Nagrakata. After ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek slams BJP after Tripura party office attack, TMC to send team

    Kolkata/Agartala: on Tuesday said it was sending a team to Tripura after the HQ of its Tripura unit in Agartala was allegedly attacked by members of the 's youth wing. The incident took place a day after the ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    After 5-month delay, 4k to take CU law entrance test

    Kolkata: Around 5,000 applications were submitted for 2,000-odd undergraduate law seats at Calcutta University-affiliated colleges. The university for the first time revamped the LLB entrance test format but given the delay in the admission process, fewer applications were received ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Landslides, flood rip through 102 Mirik houses, locals shift to camps

    : Eighty people in Mirik were moved to three shelter camps after 102 houses were completely damaged, and another 300-400 houses were partially damaged. Thirteen people lost their lives in Mirik, including three minors and three members of a ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Call for insurance cover for domestic trip cancellations

    Kolkata: Tour and travel bodies are negotiating with insurance firms to develop policies that cover domestic travel against natural disasters such as floods, cyclones and earthquakes, which can lead to trip cancellations. This follows losses incurred by both travellers ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
    Floods choke supply lines, Hills mkts feel price pinch

    Siliguri/Mirik: Prices of vegetables and essentials are already witnessing a northward movement across the Hills following the severe rain-triggered landslides. With reports of major agricultural tracts being submerged by water coming in from across north Bengal, local traders fear ...

    8 October 2025 Times of India
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