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  • IISER suicide: Dean resigns for ‘impartial probe’

    KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata's dean of student affairs, Ayan Banerjee, resigned from his post on Sunday after students pointed out a ‘conflict of interest'.A source said the dean of administration is also ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops, locals reunite lost Salt Lake kid with kin

    Kolkata: A five-year-old boy, who was found wandering on the streets of Salt Lake, was rescued by locals and reunited with parents with the help of the local councillor and police on Sunday. He was reunited with his family ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal arranges to bring bodies of Del wall collapse victims

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Sunday arranged for the state's deceased victims of the Delhi wall collapse to be flown back home to their families.Seven lives were lost in the collapse in Delhi's Jaitpur on Saturday, and police arrested a ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC gives Vivekananda reply to BJP’s SP Mookerjee demand

    Kolkata: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday sought the renaming of Sealdah station as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Terminal. Trinamool, on the other hand, demanded that it be named after Swami Vivekananda, who arrived at the Sealdah station after his ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bus catches fire near airport, 2 hurt in scramble to exit

    1234 Kolkata: Two passengers suffered minor injuries when a Garia-bound South Bengal State Transport Corporation bus from Barasat caught fire near the hotel crossing close to Kolkata airport on Sunday.Police said a short-circuit triggered the blaze while about 25–30 ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal pilgrim found dead near Gauri Kund

    Shimla: A pilgrim from North 24-Parganas has been found dead near Gauri Kund in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district. Police identified the deceased as Dukhi Ram Sarkar (38), a resident of south Dum Dum. He was last seen near the ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Bridge gap between environment and business, innovator Sonam Wangchuk urges Bengal youth

    Kolkata: Embrace entrepreneurship as a tool to solve real-world problems rather than focusing solely on profit-making: This plea for commitment to sustainable impact came from innovator, educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk.The Ladakh-based change-maker was recently in the city ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Smaller cats give big cousins a run for their money in Bengal’s tiger turf

    1234 Kolkata: A recent study by the Wildlife Institute of India and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on lesser cats in tiger landscapes has found that of the nine lesser cat species in India, six are found in ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Vandalism and cop injuries to be police evidence in high court

    123456 Kolkata: Cops in Kolkata and Howrah have registered nine FIRs across three police stations against those who attended the ‘Nabanna Abhijan' on Saturday. They are accused of attacking cops, damaging public and private property, and indulging in violence ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Blame game over plight of victim’s parents

    Kolkata: A day after the RG Kar victim's father alleged "politics by Abhaya Mancha", the victim's colleagues blamed the state and BJP in the same voice for the injury to Abhaya's mother during the rally. The victim's father had ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town

    Kolkata: Fish have join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) released guppy fish into different water bodies and linked drainage canals in New Town last week as part of its ongoing ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town

    Kolkata: Fish join the battle against mosquitoes in New Town. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) released guppy fish into different water bodies and linked drainage canals in New Town last week as part of its ongoing dengue ...

    11 August 2025 Times of India
    1.5 L stolen from construction co staff

    Kolkata: A north Kolkata businessman has lodged a police complaint that Rs 1.5 lakh in cash was stolen from one of his employees, who was carrying it to a project site in Kamarhati. The complainant, Rana Roy (54), said ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Why are they stopping us? RG Kar victim's mom sustains 'head injury' during Nabanna march; senior cops say they're studying CCTV footage

    KOLKATA: The RG Kar victim's parents, who participated in the Nabanna march organised on Saturday to mark the brutal campus crime's first anniversary, were taken to hospital after getting hurt in the standoff between cops and protesters.The incident occurred ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Coast Guard officer’s ID card stolen

    Kolkata: A case of theft of the identity card of an Indian Coast Guard officer was registered at the Parnashree Police Station by the deputy commandant and administrative officer of an Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS). The theft reportedly ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Abetment case filed for IISER boy’s death, institute forms probe panel

    Kolkata: A cousin of Anamitra Roy (26), the deceased PhD student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, lodged a complaint at the Haringhata police station on Saturday, alleging he had been ragged and that the ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    After cafe blaze, Park Street restos hire 24x7 firefighters, plan more drills

    Kolkata: A day after fire broke out at a coffee shop on Park Street on Friday night, owners of some restaurants — worried and concerned — were spurred to take measures to reinforce fire prevention. These steps were also ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Tribunal orders developer to buy back CC-less flat after 2 decades

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) directed a developer to buy back a flat he sold two decades ago. The buyer, Sibsankar Koley, lived in the flat for 19 years but could not manage to get ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Cops return 5L to 2 victims of cybercrimes

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police recovered and returned Rs 5.1 lakh in total to victims of two cybercrime cases, in which three accused were arrested.In Lake Town, Rs 3,04,752 was returned to Nilanjan Banerjee, who lodged a complaint on Jan 4 ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    4 held for 2.1-cr cyber fraud cases

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police arrested two persons from south Kolkata for selling SIM cards to cyber criminals, while the Eco Park cops also arrested two men involved in renting accounts to cyber criminals in exchange for a fee. The ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Plaints against packers and movers

    Kolkata: Two cases of frauds in the name of packers and movers were reported in the city. The Survey Park PS registered a case following a complaint by Danish Khan, who lived in south Kolkata. The complaint, lodged on ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Prep on for pre-SIR work, CEO writes to CS

    Kolkata: In a letter to Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, state chief election commissioner (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Saturday officially communicated that in compliance with EC's orders, "preparatory works are underway to complete all pre-revision activities and the progress ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Didi recalls Nazrul poem on Tagore’s passing

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee chose Rakhi Purnima on Saturday — a day after Tagore's death anniversary — to post a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam mourning Gurudev's passing in 1941.Political experts said the timing of the post was important, ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC panchayat pradhan’s son shot dead in Cooch Behar

    Jalpaiguri: The son of a Trinamool panchayat pradhan was shot dead in Cooch Behar on Saturday, reports Pinak Priya Bhattacharya.Sanjit Roy, alias Amar (35), had gone to a weekly market in Pundibari when bike-borne miscreants shot him from point-blank ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Max temp up by 3°C, Met predicts dry spell till Thurs

    Kolkata: The city remained dry and humid on Saturday even as the maximum temperature spiralled up over three degrees from Friday's 29.2 °C to touch 32.7°C. The mercury could rise further by a degree on Sunday, which too, was ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Two green anacondas find new home at Alipore zoo

    Kolkata: Two green anacondas — the largest, heaviest and second longest snake in the world — have finally arrived at Alipore Zoological Gardens from Chennai after travelling for over 35 hours. If all goes well, officials said, they are ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Info on vacant lands in Kolkata port to be available from Aug 15

    Kolkata: Rathendra Raman, chairman of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, said information regarding vacant port lands would be available on its website from Aug 15. Addressing the Merchants' Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) on Friday, Raman said, "The vacant ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Missed parents’ presence, say ‘Abhaya Mancha’ protesters united by rakhi bond

    Kolkata: Thousands banded together under the banner of ‘Abhaya Mancha' at Hazra crossing and several neighbourhoods across the city on Saturday, using the rakhi as an emblem to tie up the protests against the brutal rape-murder of the young ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Commuters walk to stations, bear brunt of Nabanna march

    12 Kolkata/Howrah: Daily commuters and those wishing to visit family members in Howrah for Rakhi faced severe trouble throughout Saturday. A large section of central and south Kolkata was virtually shut to citizens for the Nabanna Abhijan.Among the worst ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    On secure RG Kar campus, doctors and nurses rue what they lacked a year ago

    Kolkata: The deployment of CISF personnel and police force was conspicuously beefed up on the campus of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital when the clock struck 3 am on Saturday — around the time when a horrific crime ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    BMC to install high mast & LED lights for better illumination in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to install high mast lights in 12 prominent places across Salt Lake for better illumination. The authorities will also install new LED light fittings in Sukantanagar, situated off EM Bypass.The 12 ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro railway introduces air cool chillers to save ground water in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Metro Railway plans to introduce a modern alternative cooling system on the Blue Line to preserve groundwater in Kolkata.Of the metro line's 15 underground stations, the cooling system of 11 will be changed from traditional water-cooled chillers to ...

    10 August 2025 Times of India
    Husband arrested for Beleghata woman’s death

    Kolkata: A day after the death of a 29-year-old woman in Beleghata amidst allegations that she had been harassed for not bearing a boy, Narkeldanga Police on Friday arrested Rohit Kumar Shaw, the husband of deceased Sweta Prasad Shaw, ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Tribunal orders developer to buy back flat after two decades due to lack of completion certificate

    Representative Image KOLKATA: In a landmark judgment, the West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) directed a developer to buy back a flat he sold two decades ago. The buyer lived in the flat for 19 years but was ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata railways offer 20% discount on round-trip festival tickets; scheme aims to ease station crowds

    KOLKATA: Railways has decided to offer a 20% discount on round-trip journeys in mail/express trains. The scheme, called "Round Trip Package for Festival Rush," aims to reduce congestion at railway stations and extend financial benefits to bona fide passengers."There ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    IPS officer, driver attacked near VMH

    Kolkata: Raju Das, driver of an IPS officer in Bengal Police, lodged a complaint at the Hastings PS that two men attacked them near Victoria Memorial Hall's North Gate on Tuesday night while they were on their way from ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Court allows voice sample test of law college accused

    Kolkata: The Alipore court on Friday allowed the voice sample test of the three main accused in the law college gang rape case. Sourin Ghosal, the public prosecutor in this case, informed the court that the voice samples of ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    In a first among IITs, Kgp campus gets dean of well-being to take care of students’ wellness

    Kolkata: Arun Chakraborty, professor of the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at IIT-Kharagpur, on Monday became the first dean of student well-being at the engineering college, stressing the initiatives launched for students' welfare. TOI had reported ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bengali films to get 50% prime time slots across state theatres’

    Kolkata: Fifty percent prime time shows at theatres in Bengal would be dedicated to Bengali films, announced the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) on social media on Friday. The post, FCTWEI mentioned, was in ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Shop shift, dynamic signalling for smooth Chingrighata traffic

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police commissioner, Manoj Verma, said several long-term, as well as short-term, measures have been taken to ensure smooth traffic around Chingrighata. Lalbazar sources said this includes dynamic signal timings based on traffic volume, daily monitoring ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    State-EC scrap over SIR of electoral roll intensifies

    Kolkata: The Bengal administration and Election Commission scaled up their confrontation over the special intensive revision (SIR) by several notches on Friday.The state asked the Bengal chief electoral officer why he did not consult and intimate the administration before ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Three rallies to hit the streets today, cops keep options open

    Kolkata: Three marches — the Nabanna Abhijan on Saturday afternoon, followed by a march to the CM's Kalighat residence in the evening, and a third march on RG Kar campus — are keeping both Kolkata and Bengal Police on ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Will back any party standing against SIR: Abhishek

    Kolkata: With protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Bihar bringing INDIA bloc parties closer together, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Friday that TMC will stand by any party that will ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Kona E-way curbs on goods vehicles

    Kolkata: Howrah City Police and Kolkata Police have announced plans for restriction and diversion of goods vehicles in connection with ongoing construction work for the six-lane elevated corridor on Kona Expressway, which may lead to a spike in number ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Metro to add ops, extend hours for Green & Purple Lines from Monday

    Kolkata: From Monday, metro will increase services on both sections of the East-West Metro (Green Line I and II) and the Purple (Joka-Majerhat) corridor. Operation hours will also be extended.East-West Metro's Sector V-Sealdah section will add two services to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    State to move SC to find way out of OBC logjam in admission season

    Kolkata: The state will move the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Monday, seeking permission to implement its 2025 OBC list with 17% seat reservations in the "ongoing admissions and hirings". A Calcutta ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Man survives, wife, her mom die in ‘suicide pact’

    Kolkata: A woman, Mahua De (45), and her mother, Shipra Rakshit (70), died, while the woman's husband remains in critical condition, after an alleged family suicide pact at Devi Park in Narayanpur, Rajarhat on Friday. Mounting debts is reportedly ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    JU engineering alumni donate 30L equipment for revamp of lab, library

    Kolkata: A US-based alumnus from the 1987 batch of Jadavpur University's chemical engineering department, Deepak Ghosh, has donated instruments worth more than Rs 30 lakh to revamp the department's laboratories and library for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    VMH displays earliest photos of Himalayas for the 1st time in India

    Kolkata: The beauty of the Himalayas, captured in lens at the turn of the 20th century before rampant "development" scarred the foothills and triggered tragedies like the flash flood at Uttarkashi on Tuesday, is on display at the Victoria ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    40-yr-old dies after ‘dowry abuse’, husband arrested

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old woman from Entally died of her injuries after allegedly being subjected to mental and physical abuse by her husband and her in-laws. A case pertaining to dowry torture, cruelty by husband, and causing death by negligence ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Tariffs imposed by Trump may have short-term impact’

    Kolkata: Europe's leading diamond certification authority HRD Antwerp — which has opened a new office in Kolkata — opined on Friday that tariffs imposed on India by the President Donald Trump-led US govt might not continue for long. While ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Evening fire at Park St cafe sparks panic

    1234 Kolkata: Eight persons, three of them customers, had a lucky escape after a fire broke out in the kitchen of coffee chain Barista on Park Street on Friday evening. Panic spread among those at the cafe. As the ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC ups ‘Bengali persecution’ ante on Baishe Srabon

    Kolkata: TMC on Friday chose Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 84th death anniversary to fire a fresh salvo at Centre over its treatment of the Bengali language and its people.CM Mamata Banerjee, paying glowing tributes to the bard, prayed that ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC mocks as ‘Bangla bhasha’ features thrice in Malviya post

    Kolkata: BJP went on apparent damage control on Friday, with party's Bengal minder Amit Malviya referring to Bengali as a "language" at least thrice in a 726-word eulogy written on Rabindranath Tagore's death anniversary. Malviya had earlier tried to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ED gets Guv assent to prosecute Bengal min

    Kolkata: Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday gave assent to the Enforcement Directorate to begin prosecution against Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha. "The ED gave certain documents in which they implicated his role as a minister in a case of ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ED gets Guv assent to prosecute Bengal min

    Kolkata: Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday gave assent to the Enforcement Directorate to begin prosecution against Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha. "The ED gave certain documents in which they implicated his role as a minister in a case of ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC fixes bad roads with patchwork

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has carried out patchwork repairs on several battered roads across the city, including Narkeldanga Main Road and Chingrighata Road, in the past two days. The civic body is also filling up craters ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Contaminated’ sample: For parents, probe raises more questions a yr later

    Kolkata: A year into the investigation, the probe into the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder raises more questions than it answers. While the lawyers of the victim's parents alleged gaps in the investigation, the CBI found Sanjay Roy to ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    At ground zero of crime, RG Kar campus still bears scars of assault

    123456 Kolkata: A year after the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College, the campus continues to bear the scars of the heinous crime that shook the entire nation. Amidst some tangible ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Night vigil returns as protests start with victim’s parents at vanguard

    Kolkata: On Friday night, the city saw a re-run of the RG Kar protest, with junior doctors from various medical colleges taking out a torch procession from College Square to Shyambazar. Organised by the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front ...

    9 August 2025 Times of India
    Toyota doubles market share to 5.5% in 3 years

    KOLKATA: Toyota Kirloskar Motor has doubled its volumes in the passenger car market in the east from 14,724 units or 2.9% market share in 2022 to 29,233 units or 5.5% market share in 2025.Last year, TKM sold around 5,556 ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Earliest photographs of Himalayas on display for the first time in India at Victoria Memorial Hall

    KOLKATA: The beauty of the Himalayas, captured in lens at the turn of the 20th century before rampant "development" scarred the foothills and triggered tragedies like the flash flood at Uttarkashi on Tuesday, is on display at the Victoria ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Justice is still due’: A year on, RG Kar victim’s family and friends rue ‘lack of closure’; say CBI ignored key forensic evidence

    A year after the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College, the pursuit of justice continues. Despite a conviction, the victim's parents believe multiple assailants were involved, citing ignored forensic evidence. Kolkata: Aniket Mahata, ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP workers attacked in Dinahata, pregnant woman among injured

    Jalpaiguri: Several BJP workers, including a pregnant woman, were injured after their homes were attacked by a group of about 30 miscreants in Dinhata's Salmara area on Thursday morning.While BJP squarely blamed Trinamool for the attack, TMC said it ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    NEET rank 810: Cops help farmer’s son dream big

    Kolkata: Ankan Mondal, son of a marginal farmer in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas, conquered multiple hurdles to achieve a rank of 810 in NEET, but his dream of becoming a doctor could have been dashed had it not been ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Pause in Bengal admissions, hirings after Calcutta high court OBC order

    KOLKATA: A question mark hangs over all recruitments and admissions in the state after a Calcutta High Court directive to West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board to recast the merit list for medical and allied sciences postgraduate admissions.The court ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    'Let girls shine': CM Mamata Banerjee steps in after 1st Santhal football referee's marriage pressure plaint; urges parents not to force daughters

    JHARGRAM: When 25-year-old Rajshree Hansda - the first Santhali woman to become a national football referee - walked up to CM Mamata Banerjee on the podium at Jhargram stadium to receive her sports kit on Thursday, she leaned forward ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Temp below normal, Met predicts rain spells today

    Kolkata: Despite no significant rain until late evening on Thursday, a cloudy sky ensured the mercury stayed below the normal mark. The Met officials have not ruled out a few spells of rain until Friday. While there is no ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    State to recruit 7k docs, nurses to fill posts at hosps

    Kolkata: After a gap of three years, the Bengal govt will recruit 621 assistant professors, 1,227 doctors (general duty medical officers) and more than 5,080 nursing staff to fill vacant posts at state medical facilities. Even as West Bengal ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Woman found dead, dad says in-laws tortured her for not bearing a son

    Kolkata: The death of a 29-year-old married woman Sweta Prasad Shaw, a mother of two daughters, at Narkeldanga has been shrouded in mystery. The deceased's father and neighbours alleged that she had been tortured by her in-laws for more ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Son ‘pushed’ to B’desh, Malda migrant’s dad moves habeas corpus petition

    Kolkata: Malda resident Sk Amir's father Jiyem Sheikh moved a habeas corpus petition in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday. Amir, 22, was allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by Rajasthan police on the night of July 22 on suspicion he ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    NRC encore: As language pot stirs, politics re-enters football field

    Kolkata: Blurring the lines between sport, fandom, and socio-political consciousness, football fans in Kolkata have increasingly turned stadiums into spaces of protest, using giant tifos as powerful visual statements voicing political and social anguish. Over the years, these choreographed, ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    CM warns of conspiracy to remove names from rolls, hand NRC notices

    12 Jhargram/Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday warned people of Bengal "not to fill up forms without knowing its contents thoroughly" and claimed it was a plan by central govt "to remove names from the voter list and hand ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Admission pause: Brain drain risk for state, anxiety for those who stay back

    Kolkata: The anxious wait for students aspiring to study engineering or general degree courses in Bengal continued as WBJEE results and college merit lists remained mired in legal tangle. Frustrated by the inordinate delay, those who have the means ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Pet medical tourism hit hard, Bangladesh paw-fall plunges to zero across city clinics

    1234 Kolkata: The footfall of Bangladeshi pet parents at veterinary clinics across the city has dipped to nil in the past year, since the upheaval in the neighbouring country. The clinics that receive furry patients from Bangladesh mostly conduct ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal ready for SIR, state CEO writes to poll panel

    Kolkata: Bengal's chief electoral officer (CEO) has informed Election Commission that Bengal is ready for special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls.The CEO's Wednesday letter to EC coincided with the commission uploading Bengal's SIR 2002 data on its website ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    No sense of closure for RG Kar victim’s family and colleagues

    Kolkata: Aniket Mahata, then a final-year PGT, was on night shift at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital trauma care centre on the intervening night of Aug 8 and 9 last year when a 31-year-old junior doctor was raped ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengali films to get priority, better shows

    Kolkata: Bengali films, mainstream and independent, have to be given priority with better show and run time at theatres: This was the unanimous decision taken at a meeting between minister Aroop Biswas and 40 Tollywood exhibitors, distributors, producers, directors ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Terror threat: I-Day security at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: Security at Kolkata airport was stepped up in the run-up to Independence Day following an intelligence input indicating a terror threat at all Indian airports. The intelligence input came four months after the Pahalgam terror attack. Passengers are ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    BJP says TMC pushing state towards constitutional crisis

    Kolkata: With CM Mamata Banerjee alleging that govt officers were being intimidated and none of them would be suspended, Bengal BJP said on Thursday Trinamool was pushing the state towards a constitutional crisis.Bengal BJP minder Amit Malviya posted on ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Indian economy not dead but in ICU, says Abhishek

    Kolkata: Wading into the "dead economy" debate, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said that the country's "economy wasn't dead but in the ICU" due to flawed policies in the last decade. Banerjee launched a scathing attack ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    CIL allows surplus power sale in open market

    Kolkata: In a major policy shift, Coal India Limited (CIL) cleared the decks for un-requisitioned surplus (URS) power generated by thermal power plants that use CIL's linkage coal under long and medium-term fuel supply agreements (FSAs) to be sold ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    ED files charge sheet against min in SSC case

    Kolkata: ED has filed a charge sheet against Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha as part of its probe into the SSC jobs-for-cash case. Sinha is the 55th accused in the case. The charge sheet was filed on Wednesday at the ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Murshidabad man detained in MP, local cop secures release

    Behrampore: Family members of migrant labourer Raimul Hasan from Faridpur village in Jalangi, Murshidabad spent a sleepless night on Tuesday after learning that he had been detained by Madhya Pradesh police, who suspected him of being an illegal Bangladeshi ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Labelled ‘Bangladeshi’ in Gurgaon, 150 return to Tufanganj

    Jalpaiguri: Around 150 people from Cooch Behar's Tufanganj, who worked in Gurgaon as daily wagers for over 10 years, have returned to their hometown after allegedly facing harassment from authorities for speaking in Bengali. They reached Tufanganj on Tuesday ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘AC EMU ops before I-Day’

    Kolkata: The city's first AC local train will take less than two hours to travel between Sealdah and Ranaghat, Eastern Railway's Sealdah division announced on Thursday.The much-awaited services would start "before Independence Day", ER said, even as sources indicated ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Forensic team visits IIT hostels

    Kolkata: A team of forensic experts visited Rajendra Prasad and Nehru Halls at IIT Kharagpur as part of the probe into the deaths of students Ritam Mandal and Chandradeep Pawar. Both students had died at the institute recently. While ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    CBI compromised, say parents after meeting officials in Delhi

    Kolkata: The parents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor from R G Kar Medical College, who was raped and murdered while on duty at the hospital a year ago, expressed deep frustration and disappointment after meeting top officials of ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Waterlogging woes continue to plague city’s fringe areas

    Kolkata: A 28-year-old youth, Sayak Chakraborty, died on Thursday morning in Ward 4 of Barasat Municipality in North 24 Parganas, after reportedly falling into stagnant water that accumulated inside his rented home. Locals said he was intoxicated, fell off ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Hold peaceful protests during Nabanna march: HC

    1234 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday underscored that protests have to be peaceful during the Nabanna march on Saturday in view of the violence and damage to public property during the march last year.A division bench of Justice ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    No Sundarbans tourism on Tues

    Kolkata: Sundarbans Tiger Reserve will stay shut for tourism on Tuesdays instead of Fridays now. The order, which will come into effect from Sept 15, was issued on Thursday. On Dec 1, 2024, the no-tourist day was shifted to ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Engineers inspect Shahid Khudiram stn for setting up crossover

    Kolkata: Metro Railway has started planning and designing a crossover at Shahid Khudiram station. Engineers inspected the new terminal station's railway yard on Wednesday. The main dismantling work of Kavi Subhash, the former terminal station of the Blue Line, ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    The real Mrs Chatterjee thrilled over nat’l award win

    Kolkata: Rani Mukherjee's winning the National Award for Best Actress for her powerful role in Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway is no less a win for Sagarika Chakraborty. The movie is based on the custody battle of the feisty young ...

    8 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: High humidity with moderate rain expected

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is set to experience moderate rainfall and high humidity on August 7, 2025, with ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    Language row: SFI sends ‘Barnaparichay’, ‘Sahaj Path’ to Malviya

    Kolkata: SFI, the students' wing of CPM, on Wednesday sent copies of ‘Barnaparichay' and ‘Sahaj Path' to Bengal BJP's co-in-charge in the state, Amit Malviya, following his comments on Bangla."There is an attempt to incite hatred against the Bengali ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    Aug gets 40 mm more rain than usual in first 6 days; Met spies heavier spells today

    Kolkata: While July ended on a high rain note, Aug is off to a bumper beginning. In the first six days of the month, the city has logged 113.9 mm of rainfall against the normal of 73.9 mm for ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    Rising cost of cancer treatment driving families to financial ruin, forcing dropouts; experts at Kolkata meet call for affordable cancer care, early detection & insurance

    Cancer treatment costs in India are pushing families into financial distress, with out-of-pocket expenses averaging Rs 3.3 lakh annually, leading to treatment dropouts KOLKATA: The rising cost of cancer treatment is increasingly driving families towards financial ruin, particularly in ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    'Bogus' voters: Mamata Banerjee defies EC action on Bengal poll officials; calls commission BJP’s ‘bonded labourer’

    JHARGRAM/KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday escalated Bengal's direct face-off with the Election Commission, saying she would not act against the four state officers the EC wanted suspended."Two of my officers were suspended with a notice on Tuesday. Under ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Contempt rule can’t take away CJ’s powers’

    Kolkata: Senior counsel Parthasarathi Sengupta, while making his arguments in response to senior counsel Kalyan Banerjee's plea in a recent contempt case before the Calcutta High Court Thursday, submitted that the chief justice of a high court enjoys certain ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
    Fear drives a 1,400-km ride, Malda bros back home from Ggn in autos

    12 Malda: Israil and Ashraful had driven their autorickshaws in Gurgaon for years. They never could have imagined that those 3-wheelers would ever have even a 100-km-long run. However, times are such that things so outlandish are turning into ...

    7 August 2025 Times of India
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