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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri/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 IndiaMirik: 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 IndiaGoghat (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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKrishnanagar (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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaDhupguri: 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 IndiaKolkata 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri/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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaDhupguri: 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 IndiaNagrakata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaDarjeeling: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata 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 IndiaSILIGURI/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKharagpur: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata 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 IndiaKOLKATA: 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 IndiaSILIGURI/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaJalpaiguri/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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaMirik (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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaSiliguri: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKalyani: 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 IndiaKharagpur: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaSiliguri: 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 IndiaKolkata/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 IndiaKolkata: 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: 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 IndiaKolkata: 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 IndiaSiliguri/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 ...
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