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  • SLBC sets Rs 2L cr MSME credit target for Bengal

    Kolkata: State Level Bankers' Committee (SLBC) has set a target of Rs 2 lakh crore credit line for Bengal's MSME sector in 2025-26. It also envisaged a 15% credit growth in the state's agriculture sector. This was disclosed by ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Scandalous: Didi slams Delhi Police for ‘help translate Bangladeshi’ note

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee hit out at Delhi Police on Sunday over a notice issued to Banga Bhawan in the national capital seeking help to translate "Bangladeshi language" for an ongoing trial. The trial relates to eight suspected illegal ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Wettest July is also Kolkata’s cleanest July

    Kolkata: Torrential rain may have turned Kolkata's roads into a bumpy, congested mess, but it did one thing remarkably well—gave the city some of its cleanest air in years. According to air quality data analysed by TOI from the ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Presi UG entrance results on Aug 9, profs worried over student quality

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Board will publish the entrance test results for undergraduate admissions to Presidency University on Aug 9. Professors and alumni are concerned about getting good students this year due to this delay.WBJEE conducted the ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC eyes dry window as motorists flood social media with bad road photos

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation went all out on Sunday, trying to carry out repair jobs across the city – near Milon Mela on PC Connector, near Ambedkar Bridge on EM Bypass, and Highland Park on EM Bypass ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Humid city gets sharp evening shower, rain may remain scanty

    Kolkata: The city experienced another humid day with scattered morning rain and a sharp spell of evening shower, even as the maximum temperature reached 31.6°C, a degree less than Saturday's maximum. With the monsoon trough having slipped up north, ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    New Town man begins 1,500 km journey across Himalayas on moped

    Kolkata: A 55-year-old Kolkata resident and former Guinness record holder, Subrata Boral, is all set to start a 1,500-km journey in the Himalayas, covering nearly a dozen motorable passes across Kashmir, Ladakh, and Himachal on a moped. Boral, who ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Med co blaze: Locals return as fire dept declares zone safe

    Kolkata: A day after the fire at the Dey's Medical factory on Bondel Road, both the fire dept and police indicated that the unit had every fire-fighting equipment in place, which led to timely control of the flames. "The ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Caste update: State extends CAP deadline

    Kolkata: The feeble response from students in uploading caste details prompted the higher education dept to extend the deadline for providing the edit option to students till Sunday night. The edit option was extended thrice since Friday.The centralised admission ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    KP appoints legal coordination officers

    Kolkata: Police commissioner Manoj Verma instructed all divisional deputy commissioners to ensure appointment of an SI with sound legal knowledge as the legal coordination officer at every police station within its jurisdiction. This decision followed a couple of inept ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Activists and experts hail Supreme Court focus on mental health

    123 Kolkata: Mental health activists and experts have welcomed the Supreme Court's explicit recognition of mental health as an integral part of the constitutional Right to Life under Article 21. They say this broadens the interpretation of the right ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Airport report: First half flyer count nearly matches 2019 high

    Kolkata: Half-yearly passenger traffic at Kolkata airport nearly matched its best-ever figure from 2019, signalling a strong rebound in air travel despite multiple global disruptions that affected aviation in the first half of 2025.Between Jan and June this year, ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Goons pose as cops, rob 35L from bizman’s staffers on BT Road in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Miscreants posing as police officers robbed two employees of a Maheshtala potato and textile businessman of about Rs 35 lakh on BT Road. They were targetted near Sinthi More Crossing while on their way to office after collecting ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata forest department responds swiftly to save kadam tree from illegal felling

    AI Image KOLKATA: Environmental activists have hailed the prompt response of the state forest department in protecting a kadam tree that was being illegally felled in a school compound in Dum Dum's Bediapara after learning of the incident from ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Crossover at Khudiram to skirt Kavi Subhash stn

    Kolkata: Metro Railway will be initiating the prerequisite construction activity at Shahid Khudiram first, to create the facility for empty trains to reverse at this station itself, instead of being driven another 2km to the former terminal, Kavi Subhash, ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    1.6 lakh at Bengal govt’s ‘Amader Para’ camps with local problems on launch day

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt’s people-centric initiative ‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan’ (APAS) recorded 1.6 lakh footfall across 632 camps on the day of its launch on Saturday.The scheme, announced by CM Mamata Banerjee last month, is aimed at solving neighbourhood problems ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    After SC judgment, mental well being no longer charity but constitutional right: Experts

    KOLKATA: Mental health activists and experts have welcomed the Supreme Court's explicit recognition of mental health as an integral part of the constitutional Right to Life under Article 21. They say this broadens the interpretation of the right to ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    10 fire engines take 3 hours to douse blaze that hits 67-year-old unit of Bengal’s legacy med co

    Kolkata: A fire broke out at a Dey's Medical factory on Bondel Road around 4 pm on Saturday, sending thick black smoke billowing across the neighbourhood and forcing residents of nearby buildings to evacuate. While nobody was injured in ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    7 Nepali women rescued from human traffickers

    Kolkata: A team of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officers rescued seven Nepali women, including a minor, from alleged human traffickers at Panitanki Market near Border Pillar 90 on Friday evening. Initial investigation revealed that the traffickers had created fake ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    MBA Para Joka

    123456 When a former director of Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, who is a reputable management guru and associated with multiple institutions like banks and ISM-Dhanbad, opted to stay at the first-ever condo in Joka almost a decade and half ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Smoke forces locals to shift elderly, kids to other places

    123456 Kolkata: The blaze at the Dey's Medical factory on Bondel Road on Saturday afternoon spread panic in the Ballygunge neighbourhood as thick plumes of black smoke shrouded the locality. Residents rushed out of their homes or ran up ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    5 SRFTI alumni win National Film Awards across direction, cinematography, sound design

    Kolkata: Five alumni of Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute deemed-to-be University (SRFTI DTBU) bagged the National Award this year. The winners include directors Dominic Megam Sangma and Christo Tomy, cinematographers Saravanamuthu Soundarapandi and Meenakshi Soman, and sound designer ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek sends team to Maha to rescue detained Bengali workers

    Kolkata: With chief minister Mamata Banerjee launching a tirade against the "linguistic terror" unleashed on Bengali-speakers in BJP-governed states, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday sent a four-member team to Maharashtra to assist and ensure the return ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘India no longer just a market, it’s a mindset’

    Kolkata: The 33rd Annual Conference of Views Exchange, held on Saturday at Taj Bengal, Kolkata, brought together thought leaders, policy shapers, and finance professionals for a day-long seminar titled "Breakthrough to Excellence". Under the leadership of president Rishi Khator, ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Auto driver booked for verbal abuse, rash driving

    Kolkata: An auto-rickshaw driver was booked for rash driving and verbal abuse following a complaint filed at Lake Town police station on Friday by a couple, both theatre artistes by profession. The incident was reported a couple of days ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek sends team to aid Bengali workers detained in Maha

    Kolkata: With chief minister Mamata Banerjee launching a tirade against the "linguistic terror" unleashed on Bengali-speakers in BJP-governed states, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday sent a four-member team to Maharashtra to assist and ensure the return ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    HC stays govt notice on creation of STF police stns

    Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri circuit bench has stayed a Bengal govt gazette notification announcing the creation of two Special Task Force (STF) police stations and tying them up with two existing courts in two ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    IIEST restores, displays country’s oldest seismograph, unearthed from godown

    Kolkata: India's oldest seismograph, which had been lying at the wood godown of Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur, till a few months ago, has finally been restored and displayed at the eight-storey building that houses the ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Arrested Bangladesh model’s visa expired in 2021: Kolkata Cops

    Kolkata: The Bangladeshi model, Shanta Pal, who was recently arrested from a rented accommodation in Bikramgarh, had established an elaborate network of businesses and acquired multiple Indian documents after her visa expired in 2021, cops said.She operated these businesses ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    2 kids among 5 hurt in North Kolkata building collapse

    Kolkata: Five persons were injured after the rear portion of a dilapidated two-storey building — Ghoshbagan Rajbari — on Maniktala Main Road in Kankurgachhi collapsed on Saturday. While a 55-year-old has been hospitalised, the rest of the injured — ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC works on bad stretches with eye on sky, KP plans diversions

    1234 Kolkata: Hours after mayor Firhad Hakim's assurance of relief from the jarring commute in the next 10 days, depending on a dry spell, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) roads department swung into action and started repairing the battered stretches ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Pink Corridor’ drive to boost breast cancer rural awareness

    Kolkata: The ‘Pink Corridor' in Bengal, a state govt initiative aimed at breast cancer awareness and reaching out with treatment by decentralising the system and empowering local hospitals through telemedicine, will be extended to include more rural areas and ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    IIEST restores, displays country’s oldest seismograph, unearthed from godown

    Kolkata: India's oldest seismograph, which had been lying at the wood godown of Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur, till a few months ago, has finally been restored and displayed at the eight-storey building that houses the ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Patha Bhavan old boy part of ISRO’s Earth observation satellite project

    Kolkata: Subhradip Ghosh, a scientist from Kolkata who is currently with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has played a crucial role in the launch of the GSLV-F16 rocket that was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    4-year BSc biotechnology research course at Presidency university

    Kolkata: The Institute of Health Science (IHS) at Presidency University is set to begin a cutting-edge four-year bachelor programme (honours with research) in biotechnology at the New Town campus from this academic session. The university has invited online applications ...

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    Jury member expresses disappointment at quality of Tollywood feature films submitted for National Film awards

    123456 KOLKATA: A jury member of the 71st National Film Awards from Kolkata has expressed disappointment at the quality of films from Tollywood that were submitted in the feature film category. Aneesh Basu, who won Best Audiography for ‘Jhilli' ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    City doctors blame ‘long Covid’ for severe viral infections that have laid Kolkata low

    Kolkata: The pandemic may have ended three years ago but it continues to cast its shadow on the city's healthscape.A past history of ‘long or severe' Covid may have led to long-term weakening of respiratory and immune functions, making ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Medicos organize 101 virtual concerts since covid and continue

    KOLKATA: The UK-based diaspora organisation, Essex Indians, which started its “global bonding virtual concerts” during the pandemic to keep the medical fraternity’s spirits high, celebrated its 101st virtual event on Friday. The 101st e-concert, attended by doctors all over ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Greenery, goat bank help in man-animal conflict zones

    Kolkata: From a tree bank in Sundarbans to a goat bank in Purulia, conservationists are devising unique ways to address man-animal conflict in south Bengal. While saplings are being distributed among a group of village women in Sundarbans to ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    War of words over Park Circus rly stn encroachment

    Kolkata: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said in parliament that Bengal govt is not helping railways clear encroachment in Park Circus. Trinamool protested the statement. The statement read, "Indian Railways has conducted drives at Park Circus railway station ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Over 70% health complaints resolved via ‘Sorasori Mukhyomantri’ helpline: Report

    Kolkata: According to data released by Nabanna on Friday, nearly 72% of health-related issues were resolved following calls made to ‘Sorasori Mukhyomantri', a helpline launched in June 2023 and monitored by the CMO. Approximately 20% of resolved calls were ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Nobody will dare touch a Hindu or a nationalist Muslim Bengali: Samik

    Kolkata: Nobody would even dare to touch a Hindu or a nationalist Muslim Bengali, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Friday amid allegations of harassment faced by Bengali-speaking migrants in multiple BJP-governed states. Bhattacharya, who had earlier said ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    100 day’s work: TMC, CPM & Cong mull contempt plea after Centre fails HC deadline

    Kolkata: With the Calcutta High Court-mandated Aug 1 deadline to Centre to resume the 100 days' work programme in Bengal getting over on Friday, Trinamool, CPM and Congress spoke in one voice to target BJP for ignoring the state's ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    End credits roll as 1 more C Kol hall bites the dust

    Kolkata: Crown, one of the last symbols of Esplanade area's 16 single screen theatre that was once the talk of the country, will soon be razed to the ground. The theatre, fondly referred to as the Cinema Hall of ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Corridor of pain: 11km Sec V-Bypass snarls during peak hours break motorists’ patience

    Kolkata: An eight-hour-long traffic jam on Thursday evening, stretching for 11 kms from Technopolis near Sector V to Park Circus, and a repeat of the same on Friday morning on the stretch between Panchannagram and Chingrighata, was enough to ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    10% of Kol’s 3k insecure bldgs at high risk

    Kolkata: In the wake of the collapse of several insecure buildings following spells of rain, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to launch a city-wide drive to demolish highly insecure buildings to prevent serious accidents. According to a ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    SIR prep: Send list of booth level agents, CEO tells parties

    Kolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal wrote to all political parties on Friday to send him their list of booth level agents (BLAs) so that procedure for the revision of electoral rolls could be started. Without the consent ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    PG classes to start from Sept 1: State

    Kolkata: The state higher education department has issued guidelines for PG admissions, setting Sept 1 as the start date for first-semester classes across state universities.The notice specifies admission quotas, with state-aided universities required to maintain an 80:20 ratio between ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Need 10-day dry spell to complete road repairs: Mayor

    Kolkata: The KMC roads department will complete repair works on all battered stretches across the city if it gets a 10-day dry spell, mayor Firhad Hakim reassured on Friday."This monsoon, the rain frequency is more than in previous years. ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Upload OBC details for Presi seats: JEE

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Board (WBJEEB) has asked the students, who appeared for the entrance tests for undergraduate courses at Presidency University, to edit and update their social category details through a link, which will go live ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Pay 1L for littering Salt Lake vacant plots

    Kolkata: Next time you dump waste on vacant plots and on waterbodies in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area, be prepared to pay a hefty fine. The civic authorities will install display boards on vacant plots and waterbodies across ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC picks IIEST to review list of city heritage buildings, assign grades

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to start scientific valuation of heritage buildings and evaluate the grades of these structures with help of experts from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. The scientific valuation ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata gets sunny Friday after July’s relentless rain

    Kolkata: On Friday, the sun emerged from the cloud cover that the city had been witnessing for the past few days. Though Kolkata remained dry for a large part of the day, it encountered light rain along with lightning ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    138 students from 34 schools across India debate at moot court in Kolkata

    Kolkata: As many as 138 students from 34 schools across the country participated in the fourth edition of inter-school moot court in Kolkata on Friday. The students got a platform to hone their legal skills at a simulated court ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    WB CEO asks parties for BL agents for SIR

    Kolkata: West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal asked all political parties on Friday to send their list of booth-level agents (BLAs) so that the procedure for a revision of electoral rolls in the state could be started. Deletion ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    State sends ASI to probe worker’s death in Pune

    Jalpaiguri: The death of a 27-year-old man from Ambari in Jalpaiguri's Raiganj in Pune last week under mysterious circumstances has prompted a probe by the Bengal govt.The deceased, Dipu Das, used to work as a daily wage labourer. On ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    ITC sees marginal decline in net profit, revenue up 20%

    Kolkata: ITC saw a marginal decline in net profit in the first quarter of FY26 to Rs 4,912 crore from Rs 4,917 crore in Q1FY25. Its revenue, however, saw a 20% jump from Rs 17,457 crore to Rs 20,911 ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Community service, security boost, crowd control top clubs’ Durga Puja grant spend wish list in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement of an increased grant of Rs 1.1 lakh to each registered Durga Puja committee in the state has added to the festive fervour. This move has been welcomed by organisers and the larger ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Bimal Gurung meets Suvendu in Kol

    Darjeeling: In a significant move ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, GJM president Bimal Gurung on Thursday met Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata. Gurung was accompanied by party general secretary Roshan Giri and son Avinash Gurung. Sources ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Another Cooch Behar man gets Assam NRC notice

    Jalpaiguri: Yet another Cooch Behar resident has received an NRC notice from Assam's Foreigners Tribunal.Baxirhat resident Dipankar Sarkar, who works as a carpenter in Guwahati's Paltan Bazar, has been residing in Assam for over a decade. In 2014, he ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Shahid Khudiram grunts under terminal Kavi Subhash’s load

    1234 Kolkata: The Shahid Khudiram Metro station has unexpectedly become prominent as the new southern terminus of the North-South corridor (Blue Line), following recent developments.Despite its new status and the transfer of additional Metro staff, it is still ill-equipped ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    State police cyber crime wing faces data breach, cops suspect sabotage

    Kolkata: The Bengal Police has started an investigation after noticing that the state cyber crime wing (CCW) data centre, which is used for confidential cyber crime investigations, has been compromised.The police, who have already spoken to the private company ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Zoo officials among 34 getting new postings in IFS reshuffle

    Kolkata: The state has transferred as many as 34 IFS officials in a recent reshuffle.Among the key transfers are that of member secretary, West Bengal Zoo Authority, Saurabh Chaudhuri's who has been made the CEO Green project Wing and ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    New Town ‘road rage’: Parents thrashed in front of daughter

    Kolkata: A young couple was injured, and their daughter was left traumatised in a suspected road rage incident in New Town when they were driving to pick up their elder daughter from school earlier this week.On Tuesday, four men ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Ripple effect: Auto-bus tussle over new passengers in Garia

    Kolkata: A war of words has broken out between Garia auto and bus unions after over 180 autos, within a span of three days, began operating their fleet from Shahid Khudiram Metro station, connecting both Garia Station Road and ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata honeytrap racket: Bangladeshi mastermind of cross-border crime ring held; victims drugged, robbed via dating sites

    Representational Image KOLKATA: A Bangladeshi national, the mastermind behind a cross-border honeytrap and robbery racket, was arrested by Bidhannagar police in connection with a series of crimes. Men were lured through matrimonial websites and dating apps and were robbed ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    HC: Mom-daughter row shouldn’t affect students

    Kolkata: The court cannot allow students to be displaced during an academic session because of a dispute between a mother and a daughter, the Calcutta HC observed. It noted that the conflict between the two—president and secretary of a ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Shuttle bus balm to ease commuters’ auto pain

    Kolkata: The WBTC on Thursday started a trial bus shuttle service between Garia crossing and New Garia station. However, it faced resistance from local auto operators as the administration scrambled to address the transportation crisis following the indefinite closure ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    CM Mamata Banerjee hikes Durga Puja grant, urges support for migrant workers returning to Bengal

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday combined an enhanced handout for Durga Puja organisers this year with an appeal to them to stand by migrant labourers returning home because of harassment in BJP-governed states.Banerjee, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    IFB Agro to acquire Cargill India's shrimp and fish feed biz

    Kolkata: City-based IFB Agro Industries has signed a business transfer agreement with Cargill India Private Limited for the acquisition of its entire commercial compound shrimp feed and freshwater fish feed business undertaking in India. IFB Agro has informed stock ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    10-man Bagan ride on Colaco show against youthful Mohammedan SC

    Kolkata: In the end, Liston Colaco's individual brilliance turned out to be too much and too good for Mohammedan SC's team game and youthful exuberance.The India winger scored two goals and created a beautiful assist for teammate Suhail Bhatt ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    22-month-old girl dies after fall while playing at Girish Park home

    1234 Kolkata: A 22-month-old girl died while playing at home, a ninth-floor apartment on Madan Chatterjee Lane, located opposite Jorasanko Thakurbari, on Wednesday evening.While police said the child, Pranshi Saraf, fell down from a dining table, her family members ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Not a single genuine voter should get left out, Mamata tells DMs

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told district magistrates that not a single genuine voter should be struck off electoral rolls, stressing that "absence from home" could not be a presumption for "making a decision".Senior govt officials who attended ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Major city roads become one-lane as cars avoid potholed stretches

    1234 Kolkata: The rain has not spared the city's main arterial roads. At multiple places on Thursday, vehicles were forced to move in a single file, using just one of the two-lane flank to avoid battered pockets. The biggest ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Teacher faces show-cause as AI tigers visit madrasa campus

    123456 Kolkata: An AI-generated video showing three tigers on a madrasa campus at Barasat went viral on Wednesday, causing panic among students and guardians and leading to a sharp drop in attendance on Wednesday and Thursday.The video was later ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Bone marrow transplant comes under Swasthya Sathi, more patients to benefit

    Kolkata: The state has included bone marrow transplant in its universal health scheme, Swasthya Sathi, eliciting hope for more patients getting the opportunity to undergo the procedure. Nine institutes in Bengal conduct the procedure, two of them govt facilities.NRS ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    It’s 58-yr-old Cooch Behar woman’s turn to get NRC notice from Assam

    12 Jalpaiguri: Yet another Cooch Behar resident has received an NRC notice from the Assam Foreigners' Tribunal. Mamina Bibi, a resident of Salbari in Tufanganj-II, along the Bengal-Assam border, has been asked to appear before the tribunal with her ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    With 669 mm, month ends with highest July rain count in a decade

    Kolkata: July ended on a record-breaking note on the rain front, with 669 mm of rainfall, making it the rainiest July in the past decade, and the second wettest July in the past two decades in Kolkata. The ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Didi hikes grants for Durga Puja organisers, says stand by migrants

    Mamta Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday combined an enhanced handout for Durga Puja organisers this year with an appeal to them to stand by migrant labourers returning home because of harassment in ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Traffic snarl chokes Bypass

    Waterlogging on Ambedkar Setu, along with the top surface peeling off near PC Chandra Gardens, led to a traffic mess on EM Bypass on Thursday. The traffic tail extended till Lohapool in Salt Lake and the Salt Lake stadium, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Rain washes away ‘presidential repairs’

    Kolkata: Rain washed away "presidential repairs" on VIP Road and the stretch between Haldiram's and the airport — hastily patched up with paver blocks and bricks — returned to its cratered state on Thursday morning. This led to waterlogging ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Rain washes away ‘presidential repairs’

    Kolkata: Rain washed away "presidential repairs" on VIP Road and the stretch between Haldiram's and the airport — hastily patched up with paver blocks and bricks — returned to its cratered state on Thursday morning. This led to waterlogging ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    In season of viruses, conjunctivitis adds to Kolkata’s health concerns

    Kolkata: An outbreak of conjunctivitis, triggered by an inflammation of the conjunctiva gland of the eye and leads to swelling of the eye that turns red or pink, has struck scores across Kolkata. The attack comes in the wake ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Postal worker held for using fake docus to make Aadhaars

    Kolkata: A temporary employee of India Post was arrested for allegedly being part of a group accused of using forged documents to make Aadhaars, Bengal STF said on Thursday. The accused was identified as Bidhan Murmu, a Dak Sevak ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Roll out SIR in all states: EC missive to CEOs

    Kolkata: EC on Wednesday asked chief electoral officers of all states, including Bengal CEO Manoj Aggarwal, to complete the preparations for a nationwide rollout of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The election panel also asked the CEOs ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Emami Q1 profit up 9% despite flat revenue

    Kolkata: FMCG major Emami on Thursday reported a 9% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 164.2 crore for the first quarter this fiscal even as revenue remained flat. This was mainly due to benign input costs and ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Samik seeks RS debate on ‘threats’ to poll panel officials

    Kolkata: BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Thursday moved a motion in the Rajya Sabha seeking a discussion on the alleged "threat" to officials of the Election Commission in Bengal. He claimed that the "electoral ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Properties worth Rs3L damaged during Murshidabad violence, HC told

    Kolkata: A valuer, engaged by the Calcutta High Court to assess the destruction to properties during the alleged communal violence in Murshidabad a few months back, estimated the damage at Rs 2 lakh for movable properties and Rs 1 ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC’s ‘vote chori’ label turns INDIA bloc’s war cry in fight against SIR

    Kolkata: TMC on Thursday decided to step up its opposition to the proposed special intensive revision of voter rolls that the party believes will lead to large-scale deletion of voters. Along with its INDIA bloc partners, TMC will agitate ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    9.4cr tender to raze and rebuild Kavi Subhash, Rly Board team visits station

    Kolkata: Metro Railway floated an e-tender of Rs 9.4 crore for razing and rebuilding the Dakshineswar-bound (Up) platform of Kavi Subhash Metro station. The meagre-amount tender, sources said, is only one of the many that will be floated to ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Illegal constructions at 28 ASI sites in Bengal: Govt

    Kolkata: Despite eviction drives, national monuments in Bengal continue to face rampant encroachment, said Centre in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, Union minister for culture and tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that of 52 ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Int’l scam exploits Pahalgam attack to dupe Jalpaiguri trader of Rs 15 lakh

    Kolkata: Less than 72 hours after the Pahalgam terror attack in Kashmir, scamsters extorted Rs 15 lakh from a Jalpaiguri businessman by impersonating officers of the Maharashtra crime branch and accusing him of allowing terrorists to use a SIM ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s leather, textile and tea sectors in US tariff crosshairs

    Kolkata: The fate of several thousand workers in the leather industry in Kolkata hangs in balance after US President Donald Trump brandished the tariff sabre over Indian goods. While Bengal's textile and tea sectors will also take a hit, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    E-W driver-less trial from Tues

    Kolkata: Driverless Metro trial for the East-West Metro's under-river section to Sealdah, via the subsidence-hit Bowbazar, are due to start on Tuesday. To prepare the system for the trials, there will be no operations along the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Students, teachers awarded for excellence

    Kolkata: The annual awards ceremony of Julien Education Trust, honouring the remarkable contributions of students from Julien Day Schools — Kolkata, Ganganagar, Kalyani and Howrah — for the academic year 2024-2025, took place at EZCC, Salt Lake recently. The ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    'Kicked me on chest, slapped me, told to chant Jai Shri Ram': Malda woman recounts Delhi ‘torture’; police dismiss allegations

    KOLKATA: Delhi cops kicked her on her chest and in the stomach, ordered her to chant "Jai Shri Ram", took away her family's citizenship documents and extorted Rs 25,000 from her family, the Malda woman — whose family is ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar police launch drive against illegal and speeding e-rickshaws after recent accidents

    File photo used for representational purpose. KOLKATA: Bidhannagar police have launched a fresh drive against illegal and speeding mechanised electric rickshaws after a series of recent accidents, including one that left a 58-year-old man critically injured in Baguiati last ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    RSC launches month-long teacher training in Kolkata to honour Prafulla Ray

    KOLKATA: A month-long initiative to promote equitable access to practical science education was launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)in honour of the 164th birth anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, a pioneer of modern chemistry in India,The ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Foundation design flaws likely cause for column cracks, platform ‘settlement’

    Kolkata: A flaw in the design of the foundation, possibly due to poor assessment of soil behaviour, appears to have caused a section of the Kavi Subhash station to settle, leading to cracks developing in four columns, structural engineering ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Moderate rain with humidity expected today

    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 experiencing moderate rainfall on July 31, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26°C and ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
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