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  • Taxi driver held for hit-&-run death

    Kolkata: A taxi driver, Suresh Shaw, has been arrested for hitting a homeless man while making a high-speed turn from Lenin Sarani towards College Street and then dumping his body near Raja Subodh Mullick Square at Wellington on Saturday ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    STF seizes 5 crore from SUV, two arrested

    Kolkata: During a naka check near Baguiati, Bengal Special Task Force and cops from Narayanpur Police Station, recovered Rs 5 crore from an SUV and arrested two individuals on Sunday. Primary investigations reveal that the money was being transported ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Blackstone-backed REIT eyes Diamond Plaza mall buyout

    Kolkata: Nexus Select Trust, backed by New York-based global asset management company Blackstone, is in an advanced stage of negotiating with the Diamond Group to buy the Diamond Plaza mall in Dum Dum. This comes after the real estate ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    No nod to fell park trees, say forest dept and KMC

    Kolkata: No formal permission appears to have been granted by the forest department to fell trees at McPherson Square, also called Maharana Pratap Udyan, a public park at the intersection of Theatre Road and Loudon Street.Three days after TOI ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol-born industrialist to lead S’pore biz body

    Kolkata: The Singapore govt has chosen Kolkata-born NRI industrialist Prasoon Mukherjee to lead Singapore Enterprise Centre (SEC) India, which has been set up by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) to boost trade, investment and industrial relations between India and ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Will we be able to return? Anxiety peaks among Bangla tourists in city

    Kolkata: There was palpable tension along the Petrapole-Benapole border following the execution order of former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh nationals attempting to reach their homes amid reports of violence raging across Bangladesh looked afraid and unsure about the ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    In letter to PM, Didi ‘rejects’ Centre’s Gorkha envoy move

    Darjeeling: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to PM Narendra Modi, "rejecting" the Centre's "shocking, unilateral, arbitrary and wholly unconstitutional" decision to appoint former deputy national security adviser Pankaj Kumar Singh as an interlocutor for Gorkha issues in the ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Taxis go missing, prompt cabbies to sleep inside cars

    Kolkata: Taxi drivers in Bhowanipur are spending the nights inside the parked cabs to prevent them from getting stolen. The move was prompted by theft of two yellow taxis from Chakraberia Road (South) on Sunday while their owners were ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Six-month-old boy abducted from BC Roy Hosp, reunited with mom after 8-hour hunt

    Kolkata: After an eight hour hunt, which involved the analysis of 26 CCTV cameras, police on Monday recovered a six-month-old child who was abducted from BC Roy Hospital at Beleghata where his mother had brought him for treatment.The woman ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Sandakphu to Prinsep: Pentathlon wraps up after 13-day, 512-km journey

    Kolkata: The gruelling biennial endurance event, Pentathlon, organised by Sea Explorers' Institute (SEI), involving trekking, rafting, kayaking, rowing, and sailing, got underway at Sandakphu on Nov 5 and concluded at Prinsep Ghat in Kolkata on Monday.Unlike the last edition ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    No forensic nod, Ezra St traders wait to return

    Kolkata: On Monday afternoon, a forensic team visited Ezra Street and collected samples from the markets that were gutted on Saturday. They examined electrical cables, charred wooden panels, and debris of gutted commercial materials to identify the cause of ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    HC stays arrest warrant against TMC’s Abhishek

    Bhopal/Jabalpur: The MP high court on Monday stayed the execution of an arrest warrant issued against Abhishek Banerjee, Party (TMC) leader for his appearance before a special court in Bhopal.The warrant arose from a libel suit filed by ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Late pregnancy, IVF, stress behind spike in preterm births, say docs

    Kolkata: Premature births in Kolkata have risen to around 11%-12% of all live births from close to 9% in 2018-19, according to a study by researchers affiliated to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with WHO ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    100-day work yet to restart: Workers’ body may move HC

    Kolkata: Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoor Samity is likely to move a contempt petition before Calcutta High Court seeking implementation of the court's order directing the Centre to implement MGNREGS in Bengal from Aug 1.The organisation, represented by senior advocate ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    28 years on, runaway man returns home to get name back on SIR list

    Kolkata: On a winter morning 28 years ago Jagabandhu Mondal, then 27, had left his house in Bagdah, North 24 Parganas, and simply vanished. He had left behind his wife and two young children aged just two and three. ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata Bala collapses mins before ending SIR protest fast

    Kolkata: Thirteen days into her hunger strike demanding unconditional citizenship for all Matua people amid the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls, Trinamool MP and All Matua Mahasangha (AIMM) Sanghadhipati Mamata Bala Thakur collapsed on the dais on ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Guv leads ‘arms & ammo’ search at Raj Bhavan, Kalyan slams ‘child’s play’

    Kolkata: Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday led a team of security personnel and sniffer dogs in a "search operation" at Raj Bhavan following allegations by Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee that "arms and ammunition were stacked within ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    2 from Bengal pedal 4,249 km from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 17 days

    Kolkata: Braving harsh terrains, unpredictable weather conditions, and mechanical challenges, two cyclists from Bengal—an engineering student and a chartered accountant—pedalled 4,249 km to travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 17 days. On Sunday, they completed the cycle expedition—titled as ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    In letter to PM, Didi ‘rejects’ Centre’s Gorkha envoy move

    Darjeeling: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to PM Narendra Modi, "rejecting" the Centre's "shocking, unilateral, arbitrary and wholly unconstitutional" decision to appoint former deputy national security adviser Pankaj Kumar Singh as an interlocutor for Gorkha issues in the ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Awami netas in exile plan stir in Bangla

    Kolkata: As the verdict against former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was announced by the International Crimes Tribunal, sentencing her to death for "being found guilty of crimes against humanity", Awami League's central committee leaders met at a location in ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    EC lens on duplicate voters, BLOs may come knocking again to click photos

    Kolkata: Whether one has provided their photographs or not, the BLOs can come knocking at home again, this time to take your photographs on mobile camera. These photographs will be scanned by the EC, which will use AI-based software ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘SIR anxiety’ claims two more lives

    Kolkata: Another death linked to "SIR-related panic" was reported from South Dum Dum on Monday.According to police, the deceased has been identified as Baidyanath Hazra. His body was found hanging from a tree in his neighbourhood on Monday afternoon. ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Chingrighata girder launching likely over next two weekends

    Kolkata: The long-awaited girder-launching for the Orange Line at Chingrighata is likely to be done over the coming weekend and the next, cops have told RVNL. The work was due to start last Friday, but cops pleaded helplessness because ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Nepal Consulate shift: MoU boost for Purple Line metro

    Kolkata: Metro Railway inked an MoU with the Nepal govt on Monday for shifting the Nepal Consulate's current Kolkata address to a building next door, thus paving the way for the Purple Line's ramp construction on DH Road.The MoU ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Plaint, counter-plaint after brawl at eatery

    Kolkata: An altercation at an eatery in the early hours of Sunday, involving an engaged couple and a restaurant staffer, allegedly escalated into a physical confrontation, with both parties filing cop complaints against each other.According to the couple, they ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops reject app-shuttle minibuses’ plea to use Maa

    Kolkata: Despite requests from various app-cab firms and transporters operating 16- to 24-seater buses in the city, Kolkata Traffic Police on Monday clarified they will not allow minibuses — usually the app-based shuttles ferrying IT employees to the IT ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Gas cylinder subsidy’ calls back on prowl, dupe 11 victims of lakhs

    Kolkata: Around 11 Kolkatans last week came to Kolkata Police reporting losses — from a few thousand to a few lakhs — through the "gas cylinder scam", wherein the victims reportedly received calls purportedly from their local gas dealer, ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Telemedicine services cross 7 crore milestone

    Kolkata: On Oct 31, the son of an elderly woman rushed her to the Ramgopalpur Health & Wellness Centre with severe abdominal pain. Evaluation by the health officer at this health unit in Burdwan's Galsi block suggested signs of ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Will never ask for OTP for physical verification: EC

    Kolkata: The EC on Monday clarified that they did not ask for any OTP related to the ongoing SIR in the state. Issuing a press note, the office of the chief electoral officer, West Bengal, said, " of India ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Pentathlon endurance event concludes in Kolkata after covering 512 km across Bengal

    KOLKATA: The gruelling biennial endurance event, Pentathlon, organised by Sea Explorers' Institute (SEI), involving trekking, rafting, kayaking, rowing, and sailing, got underway at Sandakphu on November 5 and concluded at Outram Ghat in Kolkata on Monday.Unlike the last edition ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Over 24 hours later, pocket fires keep firemen on toes at electrical goods hub

    Kolkata: More than 24 hours after a devastating blaze swept through Ezra Street — eastern India's largest marketplace for electrical goods — firefighters battled persistent pockets of fire on Sunday, with thick smoke continuing to emerge from several damaged ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bus no-scrap policy bad for city’s air quality, say green experts

    Kolkata: Kolkata's air-quality experts and green activists are raising the alarm after the recent court order lifting the long-standing ban on 15-year-old buses in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA). They warn that the move could reverse hard-won gains in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Shatrughan’s praise for Nitish raises eyebrows in TMC

    Kolkata: Trinamool MP and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha's effusive praise for Nitish Kumar after NDA's victory in the Bihar Assembly Election has raised eyebrows within his own party with some members saying that his comments could affect Trinamool's image ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata researcher in Finland gets patent for plastic bag substitute

    Kolkata: A Kolkata youngster has devised a biodegradable material that can act as a substitute for plastic bags and received a patent for it. Aviroop Mukherjee (30) created the material after two years of research at his laboratory and ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan hits back at Guv for SIR remark

    Kolkata: Amid the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, MP Kalyan Banerjee and Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose engaged in a verbal spat, with both threatening each other with legal action.The row ignited after Bose backed ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake set to get new-look overhead tanks by year end

    Kolkata: From reconstructing the overhead top dome slab to jacketing the structure, enhancing the pumping capacity, and revamping the existing infrastructure, all 15 overhead water reservoirs across Salt Lake are undergoing major upgrade and revamp work for the first ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    MP minister under fire for calling Rammohun ‘angrezon ke dalal’

    Kolkata: Madhya Pradesh education minister Inder Singh Parmar's statement that Raja Rammohun Roy was an "angrezon ke dalal" (a British agent) has sparked protests in Bengal by his own party as well as , educationists and experts engaged in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    3 arrested for live betting inside Eden during India-SA match

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police busted a live betting racket being operated from inside the Eden Gardens during the India-South Africa test match on Saturday afternoon. Three men from Maharashtra, Bihar, and Gujarat were arrested from the F1 block of the ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Sprinklers get back to work as AQI worsens

    Kolkata: In a major push to curb Kolkata's recurring winter air pollution crisis, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) deployed a fleet of electric vehicles equipped with integrated dust-suppression and water-sprinkling systems. These specialised EV-based sprinklers not only ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted Ezra Street agiary was our personal hotline to Ahura Mazda

    My growing-up years were inextricably linked to the Banaji agiary — physically, too, because our rambling 120-year-old house shared a wall with it. My mornings were infused with the fragrance of sandalwood mingling with the mundane aromas from our ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Only 4.6% growth in Kol electorate in 23 years, Bengal records 69% rise

    Kolkata: Bengal has witnessed an impressive 69% surge in voter count over the past 23 years, but Kolkata's growth has been a paltry 4.6%.A comparative analysis of the electoral rolls prepared after the previous special intensive revision (SIR) in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Central agencies question 3 UAPA-accused in Bengal jails

    Kolkata: Three accused persons, arrested under three different cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and lodged in Bengal prisons, were questioned by central investigating agencies in connection with the Delhi blast.Tania Parvin, a Lashkar-e-Taiba handler arrested in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Illicit mkt in 5 key sectors valued at 7.9L cr: Study

    Kolkata: The size of the illicit market in five key sectors — packaged FMCG, including personal and household care, alcohol, tobacco, textiles and apparel — was valued at Rs 7.9 lakh crore, according to a Ficci-Cascade study.The study highlighted ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Matri Bhavan celebrates 75 years of service in city

    Kolkata: Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan in Kolkata commemorated its 75 years of glorious journey on Sunday at Nazrul Manch during a daylong grand public celebration. Matri Bhavan hospital, situated at Sree Mohan Lane near Mudiali, with a capacity ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Pet parents hit the streets, link vote to animal rights

    Kolkata: Animal activists, including feeders of strays, walked in an approximately 4 km march from Jadavpur to Golpark on Sunday, protesting against the Supreme Court's Nov 7 order on removal of stray dogs from schools, hospitals, and public institutions. ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Fire 5 days before GST deadline, traders weep over lost docus

    Kolkata: Just five days before the deadline to file GST, hundreds of traders on Ezra Street, who lost goods worth several lakhs in the fire that ravaged approximately 350 shops on Saturday, are facing more losses. They fear that ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Will take battle of ‘existence’ to Delhi: Abhishek to Matuas

    Kolkata: A three-member Trinamool Congress delegation led by ministers Shashi Panja and Snehashis Chakraborty met protesters from the Matua community on Sunday, handing them a written message from the party's national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.The protesters have launched a ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal fisherman with hearing, speech disabilities dies in Bangladesh jail

    Kolkata: A fisherman with hearing and speech disabilities from Bengal's Kakdwip has died in a prison in Bangladesh, his family was informed on Saturday. Bablu Das, 32, had been intercepted by Bangladesh navy along with 33 other Indian fishermen ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal had 3rd highest cases pending trial in 2023: NCRB

    Kolkata: Bengal had as many as 17,80,452 cases pending trial at the end of 2023, the third highest in the country, according to the ‘Crime in India 2023' report prepared by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).The huge backlog in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses gold chain to Bypass snatchers, 2 held

    Kolkata: A woman, Reena Das, allegedly lost her gold chain to bike-borne snatchers on Sunday morning while returning from a morning walk near the Metropolitan housing complex off E M Bypass. Within 10 hours of the incident, two of ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Cashless cover at SSKM’s Woodburn, Ananya wards

    Kolkata: The century-old Woodburn Ward and the recently launched Ananya Unit (Woodburn 2) at SSKM Hospital will soon offer a cashless facility to patients admitted under health insurance schemes. The hospital entered into a contract with General Insurance, a ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Sunday blues for BLOs: Tech glitches, online-offline voter data mismatch

    Kolkata: Working for two successive weekends without a break, booth level officers were asked by the EC to upload all SIR enumeration form data on BLO app by month-end. The fortnight's target comes in the backdrop of some BLOs ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA detains Al-Falah doc in N Dinajpur

    Malda/Kolkata: The NIA is questioning a doctor, Janisar Alam alias Nisar, a recent graduate from the now-infamous Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad, after detaining him from Dalkhola in North Dinajpur, where he had come to attend a wedding.Sources said ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Old para studios, photo copiers ride on SIR high, come back to life

    Kolkata: The photo studio business has suddenly come back to life after the launch of Special Intensive Review (SIR) of electoral rolls in the city. A few existing photo studios in the city have been experiencing a heavy rush ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    SIR for 25k prisoners across 60 Bengal jails soon

    Kolkata: Though late off the blocks, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) will also start in Bengal jails.In a Nov 14 order, the Bengal govt has allowed over 25,774 prisoners housed in 60 prisons statewide to "sign their SIR enumeration ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Guardian rule for city orphanages and hijras

    Kolkata: The Election Commission will apply the "Guardian Rule" to ensure that adult orphans, institutionalised children, and members of the hijra community are not excluded during the ongoing SIR drive. The clarification comes amid widespread concerns that the absence ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    'Apologise to people or legal action could be taken': TMC MP alleges weapons distribution at Raj Bhavan; governor opens gates for public inspection

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday strongly refuted Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee's allegations that arms were being distributed from Raj Bhavan, opening the premises to public scrutiny and demanding an apology from the MP or ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Fit cert enough, govt removes 15-yr age cap on comm vehicles

    Kolkata: In a key relief for private bus operators in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), the Calcutta High Court on Thursday disposed of a long-pending writ petition after the state govt presented a draft notification allowing stage carriage buses ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, AQI remains poor

    On , Kolkata is experiencing a sunny morning with temperatures expected to range between and , providing conditions suitable for outdoor activities. This follows yesterday's air quality, which was in the category with an , a condition ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman sells property to pay 30L to cabby after blackmail

    Kolkata: An app-based cab driver, Prem Singh—a native of Madhubani in Bihar—was arrested for allegedly extorting and blackmailing one of his woman passengers, who had developed a relationship with him, with her intimate photos. The accused, who has been ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Commuters come to blows at metro stn

    Kolkata: Two commuters were involved in a physical altercation at Esplanade metro station on Nov 12. Around 2.30 pm on Wednesday a female commuter, a resident of Golf Green, alleged that a male commuter attempted to force his way ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Fire engulfs E India’s biggest electrical appliance hub on Ezra Street, traders peg total loss at 100cr

    Kolkata: An early morning blaze in Ezra Street — eastern India's largest hub for electrical goods — gutted several shops, warehouses, offices, and the city's first Parsi fire temple, causing losses estimated at over Rs 100 crore (including goods, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blocked lanes, dumped wares: Govt to meet traders next wk

    Kolkata: Taking note of the fire brigade's difficulty in fighting the blaze on Saturday, KMC mayor Firhad Hakim and fire & emergency services department minister Sujit Bose stated that the govt will soon convene a meeting with traders to ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blaze ravages a slice of city’s Parsi link as flames destroy 186-yr-old fire temple

    Kolkata: The fire that ravaged Ezra Street also destroyed a slice of Parsi history with the gutting of the city's first fire temple constructed nearly two centuries ago.The agiari or the fire temple was established in 1839 by Parsi ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Construction continues, KMC to visit park on Mon

    Kolkata: Even as construction work at the park opposite the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station continued unabated on Saturday, green activists questioned the KMC's right to forfeit the maintenance of a public property to private organisations and allow the felling ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bihar no yardstick’: Trinamool shrugs off Owaisi’s success along border areas

    Kolkata: With Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) winning five seats in Bihar's Seemanchal that shares a border with Bengal, a repeat of the political posturing that was seen ahead of the 2021 Bengal assembly elections appears inevitable ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Federation, indie film-makers clash over censorship, technicians’ dues

    Kolkata: The recent controversy involving the censorship of an SRFTI student's feature film, which was barred from release due to objections from the Eastern India Motion Pictures' Association (EIMPA) and the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    NGT raps state agencies for canal clean-up delay

    Kolkata: The on Wednesday criticised state agencies for failing to clean Kestopur and Bagjola canals, even nine years after the issue first came under its scanner. Calling the delay "unacceptable", the eastern zone bench directed the state authorities ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Brawl at New Market pub over tips

    Kolkata: A violent altercation inside a New Market pub, where a female employee accused her colleagues of physical and mental abuse along with molestation, led to a police complaint being filed.The incident reportedly began when a 25-year-old resident of ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KKR on course correction mode

    Kolkata: All good things come to an end as Kolkata Knight Riders' 11-year association with Andre Russell was broken on Saturday after the franchise released one of their most popular and utility cricketers ahead of the IPL mini auction. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Durgapur man, 62, dies after stung 890 times by bees

    Durgapur: A 62-year-old man, who was hospitalised after being stung by a swarm of bees near Major Park at Durgapur on Monday, died at the hospital on Friday. Nirmal Dutta, former headmaster of RE Model School in the city, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Winter demand in bakeries & production cost spike push up egg prices in Kol mkts

    Kolkata: With the onset of winter chill from early Nov, the humble egg once again turned into a pricier breakfast essential. Prices jumped from Rs 7 per piece during Durga Puja to Rs 8 now — a significant rise ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake bizman falls prey to investment fraud, loses 1.8cr

    Kolkata: A 57-year-old businessman, residing at AC Block in Salt Lake, was allegedly duped of about Rs 1.8 crore in an investment fraud on an online platform. The victim was introduced to the fraudulent scheme through a WhatsApp group ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Displaced Bowbazar residents return to roots, collect forms at SIR camp

    Kolkata: Displaced residents from Durga Pituri Lane and Syakra Para Lane cave-in zone at Bowbazar returned to their old neighbourhood to collect enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Saturday at a special camp. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Presi girls’ hostel to get more CCTV cams

    Kolkata: Presidency University has decided to install more CCTV cameras around the periphery of the girls' hostel in Salt Lake following allegations of a miscreant hovering around the campus and making obscene gestures at the hostel inmates.Bidhannagar Police said ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    11 lakh yet to get forms; no deadline extension, says EC

    Kolkata: Officials of Election Commission's office in Delhi asked the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to complete distribution of forms by Sunday and emphasised that there will be no extension of Dec 4 deadline for submission and uploading ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    WBSSC releases preliminary interview list

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday released the preliminary interview list for classes 11-12. A total of 20,500 candidates were listed for 38 subjects where the vacancy is 12,445. For every 100 vacancies in each subject, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Mercury crawls up, warmer days ahead

    Kolkata: The mercury crawled up marginally on Saturday in Kolkata, even as the Met office predicted slightly warmer days ahead. The minimum temperature was 17.6°C, while the maximum climbed a degree to touch 28.2°C. Both may climb a degree ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Undue load’, incomplete forms, no pic: BLO anger boils over collection hurdles

    Kolkata: SIR forms that had not been filled, non availability of elector's photographs and difficulties in uploading the data on BLO app were among multiple hurdles that BLOs faced as they went about collecting forms on Saturday. Pouring out ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KMRC razes two more buildings for reconstruction of cave-in zone houses

    Kolkata: Two more houses were razed in the Bowbazar metro collapse zone to clear the remains of the elaborate construction activity that happened here in the past five years and make way for the reconstruction of houses that had ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    India's real estate sector: A beacon of optimism amid global challenges

    KOLKATA: NAREDCO Real Estate Sentiment Index for Q3 2025 has revealed a buoyant outlook for India's real estate sector, showcasing its resilience and adaptability in the face of global economic uncertainties. The Current Sentiment Score has climbed to 59, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Partial closure of Ultadanga flyover

    Kolkata: The airport-bound flank of the Ultadanga Flyover, which connects EM Bypass to VIP Road, will remain closed for patch repairing, mastic asphalt laying, road marking and traffic appurtenance work from Saturday midnight to Monday morning — in five-hour ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Science City show features Raj-era stamps, postcards issued for World War fundraising

    Kolkata: When the world speaks of propaganda during World War II, it almost always invokes Nazi Germany and Joseph Goebbels' fiery broadcasts that manipulated the masses. Yet, halfway across the world, the British Empire ran its own quieter but ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Beautification’ kills over a dozen giants in Theatre Road park

    Kolkata: Call it a massacre of greenery. A prime public garden in central Kolkata has been ravaged by the indiscriminate felling of trees and concrete being poured into the ground in an apparent attempt to ‘beautify' the park. Trunks ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    AQI slips to ‘very poor’ zone 1st time this season in Kolkata

    Kolkata: With the winter chill slowly setting in and wind velocity slowing down, Kolkata's air quality started deteriorating sharply on Friday. For the first time this season, one of the Kolkata AQI stations recorded ‘very poor' reading on Friday.The ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Jhargram’s ‘Agnikanya’: 8-day-old poisoned by grandma survives infanticide bid

    Jhargram: A girl child who was poisoned by her grandmother eight days after she was born pulled out from the jaws of death after spending 11 days at a hospital at Jhargram district's Beliabera village. She has now become ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Dengue count in Kol hits more than a ton in a week

    Kolkata: Dengue cases in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area have seen a significant rise, with numbers escalating from 1,106 to 1,245 in just a week. This late surge, attributed to sporadic rain in late Oct, has raised concerns ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Bihar results will have zero impact on Bengal polls: TMC

    Kolkata: The Bihar poll results "will have zero impact in Bengal", Trinamool said on Friday, questioning Congress's "lack of performance" to lead the INDIA bloc and taking a dig at Prashant Kishor, saying the poll strategist was a "kishore ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    High court quashes molest FIR against Customs inspector

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the molestation FIR filed against Custom inspector , who was assaulted by a group of local miscreants at his flat in a Sonarpur housing complex last month. Kumar had moved HC ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    2-year-old slips through 7th floor window grille, dies

    Kolkata: A two-year-old girl died after falling from the seventh floor of a premium housing complex in New Town on Wednesday afternoon after slipping through a gap in a custom-made window grille, police said. The child was playing alone ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    EC to start checking EVMs in Bengal on Nov 21

    Kolkata: Ahead of next year's Bengal assembly elections, the Election Commission (EC) plans to start Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) checks on Nov 21. The process will continue in phases till mid-Jan. An EC team, led by deputy election commissioner ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Wave of support in Bihar will reach Bengal: BJP

    Kolkata: A jubilant Bengal BJP on Friday expressed confidence that Bengal will see a repeat of Bihar, where NDA swept the polls, in the upcoming assembly elections. BJP's victory in Bihar has come at a time the party has ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Terror funds: NIA lens on B’desh nat’l in Dinhata

    Kolkata/Jalpaiguri: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has focused its attention on an alleged "Bangladeshi national", identified as Arif Hossain, who has been residing in India for the past decade. Evidence suggests he played a crucial role in arranging funds ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Docu confusion, tech glitches and upload delay mark first day of SIR form submission

    Kolkata: Technical glitches, delays in uploading data on the BLO app, mismatched information and confusing instructions by the BLOs plagued the SIR form submission process in Kolkata on Friday. By Friday early afternoon, about 13 lakh filled form details ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Fans reunite with red-ball cricket as Test returns to Eden after 6 yrs

    Kolkata: Six years since Kolkata last hosted a Test match, the city woke up on Friday to the unmistakable hum of anticipation as India took on South Africa on the opening day of the longest format's return to one ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘No bigots’ posters at ISI as campus erupts in fury against hateful graffiti

    Kolkata: A new set of posters was pasted on the walls of C V Raman Hall at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Friday, vehemently denouncing the Islamophobic graffiti, scrawled on those very walls a day after the Delhi blast. ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Awami League netas, away from home, guide lockdown protests in Bangladesh

    Kolkata: Over the past 15 days, through a calculated and strategic campaign, Awami League's exiled leadership reached out to the party's rank and file through encrypted channels, including social media, to connect with its workers. This effort resulted in ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Blind poet’s new poetic style redefines verse rules

    Kolkata: Blind poet Satyajit Mandal's new poetic style, ‘alliteration rhythm', an innovative approach, promising to redefine the traditional flow of verses. Mandal's latest books of poems, created with the new style, officially recognized in Bengali, English, and Hindi ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
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