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  • News from West Bengal | 06 Jul, 2025 | ২২ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • 42hr/wk duty, night shift for faculty on med college code

    12 Kolkata: Faculty members at state medical colleges have to work seven hours a day and for 42 hours a week, spread over Monday to Saturday. In addition, they have to perform additional duties as and when assigned by ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan backs Kunal on boycott of artists who abused Mamata

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday stressed that party workers and functionaries would continue to shun actors and celebrities who had made personal attacks and abused CM Mamata Banerjee, TMC netas and workers in the name of RG Kar protests, in ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    BIS starts monitoring of Bengal’s unorganised sector

    Kolkata: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has started monitoring manufacturing units across the state's unorganised sector, said senior director and head of the BIS Kolkata branch office (II) Anindya Chakrabarti. On Friday, BIS organised an industry meet with ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    CEO fraud: Cops issue warning after three arrests in 1.8cr scam

    Kolkata: The next time you receive ‘instructions" from your ‘boss", or an unidentified online instructor, through new email IDs (or almost replicas of the original) seeking the release of company funds, cross-check with the competent authority. There is a ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Kalighat skywalk gets finishing touches ahead of Feb opening

    123 Kolkata: The KMC is adding finishing touches to the Kalighat skywalk ahead of its inauguration, scheduled in the first week of Feb. The civic body is also busy wrapping up the Kalighat temple restoration project so that the ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Baby-rape probe: Charge sheet in 26 days, trial to begin on Jan 7

    Kolkata: The trial in the case of the rape of a seven-month-old girl living on the pavement in the Burtolla police station area is set to begin on Jan 7. The incident took place in Nov. Kolkata Police has ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Met predicts rise in mercury from today

    123 Kolkata: While the mercury remained below the normal mark on Friday, the Met office indicated a slight rise from Saturday. The minimum temperature at 13.2 degrees Celsius did not deviate from the previous day. While this was a ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    3 held for Malda TMC neta’s murder on Rs 10 lakh contract

    12 Malda: Three persons, including two from Bihar, were arrested late on Thursday for murdering Trinamool Congress English Bazar municipality councillor Dulal Sarkar on a Rs 10 lakh contract. The two killers, captured on CCTV, were arrested on a ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    HC glare on police failure to submit blast report

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday expressed dismay at police failure to submit a report the court had sought on a blast that took place during Tamluk-Ghatal Central Cooperative Society elections on Dec 8 last year.Justice Jay Sengupta ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Temp dip causes AQI spike at three out of seven stations in Kol

    123 Kolkata: With the dip in temperature, the air quality at three — Ballygunge, Salt Lake, Fort William — out of seven automatic air quality monitoring stations in Kolkata plunged to ‘poor' (AQI: 201-300). The thermal inversion (cooler air ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Deucha-Pachami surface mining to begin by Feb 1st wk

    12 Suri: Bengal govt has set a Feb first-week timeline to start surface mining of hard basalt rock at the Deucha-Pachami coal block in Birbhum.Chief secretary Manoj Pant said: "This is our dream project. We had a meeting on ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    NKDA plans crackdown on residential buildings flouting commercial-use rule

    Kolkata: The New Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), which has found over 1,000 residential buildings across New Town that are suspected to be using more space than allowed or fully utilising the building's total floor area for commercial purposes without ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Job ‘whale’ done: 16-foot giant released in Bay of Bengal after 9-hr night rescue

    1234 Kolkata: The 16-foot Bryde's whale, only the fourth sighting from Bengal and 60th from India, that got trapped inside a creek at Kakdwip was rescued after a nine-hour operation by 20-22 forest staff and locals and released in ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    Fog: N, NE India, Bangla flights diverted to Kol

    123 Kolkata: Dense fog in north India, NE India and Bangladesh caused multiple flights scheduled to land at Guwahati and Dhaka to be diverted to Kolkata airport on Friday morning. Many flights departing Kolkata for Assam and Bangladesh also ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    KP calls cops in passport scam probe

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has decided to record the statements of their own personnel in the ongoing fake-passport probe. The police maintained that two personnel from a Kolkata PS, who were working as verification officers, were found to have ...

    4 January 2025 Times of India
    16-foot whale released in Bay after 9-hr night rescue

    123 Kolkata: The 16-foot Bryde's whale, only the fourth sighting from Bengal and 60th from India, that got trapped inside a creek at Kakdwip was rescued after a nine-hour operation by 20-22 forest staff and locals and released in ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Old criminal cases: 1 Kolkata magistrate hearing over 9,000, another just 1

    KOLKATA: With as many as 9,331 criminal cases at his desk, all over three months old, Bankshall metropolitan magistrate court's Sk Jafar Ali has the highest workload among all judicial magistrates in Kolkata. Two of his colleagues in the ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    2 held for trying to sell child porn content online

    Kolkata: A coordinated investigation by the ministry of home affairs' Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) and the West Bengal Cyber Crime Wing led to the arrest of two persons for trying to sell content related to child pornography ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    India's 2nd cable-stayed, steel-deck bridge coming up near Howrah Station

    It will replace a nearly century-old bowstring bridge over the congested GT Road HOWRAH: A single-pylon cable-stay road over bridge (ROB) is being constructed to replace a nearly century-old bowstring bridge over the congested GT Road and across the ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Delivery exec ‘beaten to death’ on birthday

    Kolkata: A 26-year-old food delivery executive, Subrata Maji, was allegedly beaten to death during a suspected drunken brawl in the early hours of New Year's Day at Mahisbathan. Jan 1 also happened to be his birthday.One of his friends, ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    More packed flights took off from city airport in ’24 than ever before

    12 Kolkata: Planes that took off from Kolkata airport last year carried more passengers than ever before. While the previous highest passenger count per flight was 143, which was recorded in 2019, it was 146 in 2024. This is ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Evidence proves Sanjay raped and murdered doc: CBI

    12 Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday argued at the Sealdah district court that biological sample results, CCTV grabs and witness' accounts pointed at arrested civic volunteer Sanjay Roy committing the rape and murder of the PGT doctor at RG ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘EKW encroachment must go in 3 months’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority (EKWMA) to take steps against encroachment of vested land under the Ramsar site within 12 weeks from the date of the order.A division bench of Chief ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    NGT seeks clarification on biomed waste mgmt

    Kolkata: The NGT eastern zonal bench, comprising Justice B Amit Sthalekar and Arun Kumar Verma, directed state pollution control board, central PCB and the state health department to file counter affidavits to activist Subhas Datta's allegation that 49% biomedical ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Miscreants fire at TMC neta’s house in S’khali

    12 Sandeshkhali: A group of unidentified miscreants allegedly fired at least three rounds at the residence of Trinamool functionary Yadav Kumar Mondal, the panchayat pradhan of Sarberia-Agarhati, on Thursday evening.This gram panchayat, under Sandeshkhali-I, was among the areas rocked ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Seize money not accounted for in banks’

    12 Kolkata: Bengal chief Mamata Banerjee during the administrative meeting at Nabanna asked the cooperative department officials to check if unaccounted for money was parked in the state cooperative bank branches and for which she wanted a quick report ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Why is ration ‘theft’ a ‘scam’, court asks ED

    12 Kolkata: A special PMLA court on Thursday asked Enforcement Directorate why it had termed the alleged "theft" in the public distribution scheme as a "scam".The judge asked the central agency to substantiate its claim in support of allegations ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    TagoreTech to set up 1st pvt radio frequency lab in Kol

    12 Kolkata: In another positive for the state's hardware industry, Chicago-based TagoreTech is set to establish Kolkata's first private radio frequency (RF) laboratory. This comes in the wake of chip manufacturing giant GlobalFoundries's announcement to set up a centre ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘No tolerance for encroachment,’ says CM, warns officers of action

    12 Kolkata: Cracking the whip on illegal land encroachment, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she would not tolerate the loss of revenue due to lapses by govt officials or party functionaries. During an administrative meeting at Nabanna, Banerjee ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF colluding with Centre, allowing infiltration: CM

    12 Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday squarely blamed BSF for the state's illegal infiltration problem, accusing the force of following a "central govt blueprint". This, she added, was being done with a political motive: to discredit and ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek: India must use ‘language B’desh understands’

    12 Kolkata/Diamond Harbour: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday urged India to speak to Bangladesh in a "language they understand", while criticising the bail plea rejection of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das."It is sad. Govt of India should immediately ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Reiterate municipal recruitment norms: HC to state

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed state govt to issue appropriate orders reiterating directions on recruitment of all personnel in municipalities through West Bengal Municipal Service Commission. A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Forest guard trampled to death by elephant in Buxa Tiger Reserve

    123 Jalpaiguri: A 50-year-old forest guard, who was part of a team driving away a herd of elephants, was trampled to death on Thursday at Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR).In the morning, BTR got information about a herd of four ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Drink-spike rape: Student gives in-cam statement

    Kolkata: The engineering student whose rape complaint led to the arrest of a 20-year-old college student gave an in-camera statement before an Alipore judicial magistrate on Thursday. The student, in her FIR, had alleged that the accused — a ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Garden Reach collapse: Suspended KMC officials told to resume duty

    Kolkata: Three KMC engineers who were placed under suspension following the collapse of a five-storey under-construction illegal building in Garden Reach's Azhar Molla Lane, in which 12 people were killed and several critically injured in March, were transferred and ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Locals help cops nab drunk trouble-makers

    Kolkata: Locals in Jessore Road joined hands with cops to apprehend drunken youths causing chaos in an open-top SUV on Wednesday after the group of 22 youths left at least four people, including a traffic cops, injured. The youths ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Resp infection cases in Kolkata keep most pvt hosps full, remain a worry for docs

    123 Kolkata: The city continues to reel under a spate of respiratory viral and bacterial infections with the mercury on a yo-yo ride over the last two weeks, striking the elderly population with potentially fatal illnesses, including severe pneumonia. ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    At 13.2°C, Kolkata gets second coldest day this winter

    12 Kolkata: With the mercury dropping to 13.2˚C, the city experienced its second coldest day of this winter on Thursday. At a notch below the normal, this was the first time in 17 days that the minimum temperature slipped ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    CM signals pause to semester system in primary education

    123 Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday paused the semester system rollout in state primary schools from this academic session. The West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) had last week declared that the system would be implemented ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    15-feet Bryde’s whale stuck in Kakdwip creek

    1234 Kolkata: A 15-feet long whale was spotted along a beach in Kakdwip under South 24 Parganas forest division on Thursday morning.Locals and forest officials observed it was alive. Several residents attempted to guide it towards the waters.But, owing ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Motorists face music for parking on Maidan

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has cracked down on motorists for parking their vehicles illegally in the Maidan area. During the festive period, the South Traffic Guard prosecuted around 25-30 — most of them two-wheeler owners — each day for ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Late entrants play catch-up, face 1st semester exams in 4-6 weeks

    123 Kolkata: A first-year political science student, Avhir Kumar Dhanuk had shifted to New Alipore College in the final round of UG admissions this academic session after his registration with Asutosh College got cancelled. Reason, he was absent during ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    FB call bands together volunteers, rids Maidan of 150kg New Yr waste

    Kolkata: The Maidan area, which had turned into a litter zone in the wake of the festive season, got a new lease of life after a group of amateur photographers came together to clean up the area on Wednesday.Siddhartha ...

    3 January 2025 Times of India
    Zeenat’s 10-day Bengal stay, rescue cost forest dept 35L

    Kolkata/Jhargram: Odisha tigress Zeenat's 10-day outing in Bengal and the operation to capture the big cat cost the Bengal forest department around Rs 35 lakh.After her captured and recovery, Zeenat reached Similipal Tiger Reserve around 6 am on Wednesday ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    'Speak to them in language they understand': TMC's Abhishek Banerjee urges Centre to address human rights violations in Bangladesh

    TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee KOLKATA/DIAMOND HARBOUR: Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday asked the Centre to take the matter of human rights violations with the interim government of Bangladesh.The leader urged the Narendra Modi ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Spurious life-saving drugs sourced from abroad for last 1.5 yrs

    Kolkata: A Lake Place property taken on rent barely one and a half years back was being used to source spurious life-saving drugs from the US, Ireland, Turkey and Bangladesh for sale locally has come as a shocker for ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Arun Roy, director of ‘Egaro’, ‘Bagha Jatin’ passes away

    Kolkata: Director Arun Roy, known for five feature films including ‘Egaro', ‘Hiralal', ‘8/12 (Binay Badal Dinesh)' and ‘Bagha Jatin', died of a severe lung infection on Thursday morning at the RG Kar Medical College after battling cancer. Roy, who ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Body cams must: Lalbazar to cops after reports of high-handedness

    12 Kolkata: Lalbazar has instructed all officers attending to calls on the road to switch on their body cameras and ensure that footage is preserved for at least six months. They must ensure there is enough storage left in ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Passport racket probe: 1 more held, 2 cops under lens

    Kolkata: A 48-year-old resident of Chakdaha was arrested by the Special Investigation Team probing the fake passport case. So far, eight people have been arrested in the case."Acting on the statement of gang mastermind Manoj Gupta, who is in ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Engineers start work on 568m curve for EMB-Salt Lake Bypass viaduct

    Kolkata: The New Garia-Airport Metro will negotiate a 568m curve at Chingrighata to zip between Salt Lake Bypass and Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. This will be one of India's sharpest viaducts and will pass over both EM Bypass and the ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    'Shot in head multiple times': West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's 'close associate' murdered in Malda

    Representative image NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress councillor Dulal Sarkar was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in West Bengal's Malda district on Thursday morning, police said.Sarkar, the TMC councillor from Malda, was shot in the head multiple times from close ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Film on AI and Adivasi culture screened at IIM-Calcutta and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

    KOLKATA: A film on the relationship between artificial intelligence and an Adivasi mother who works in a data labelling centre in a remote village in Jharkhand was screened at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and Satyajit Ray ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Revellers across city burst crackers

    Kolkata: From south to north, from east to west, revellers burst firecrackers as soon as clock struck 12. It was not known if the noise level was within limit. No major complaint was received till last reports came in. ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    City to pay homage to Zakir through music & memories

    Kolkata: Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away in Dec, shared a profound bond with the city. To commemorate this bond, Dover Lane Music Conference and Behala Classical Festival will pay homage to the maestro at their annual events. On ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    2025 starts with 3°C drop but chill may not last long

    12 Kolkata: The mercury dropped by three degrees on Wednesday, recording a minimum temperature of 14.2 degrees Celsius, down from 17.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. The chilly start to the new year is, however, unlikely to last long as ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Medicos vow to intensify movement

    Kolkata: On New Year's Day, the Service Doctors Forum, Medical Service Centre, and the Nurses Unity called for the ‘Abhaya Pledge', promising not to back out from the movement for justice for the 31-year-old PGT who was found raped ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Mangla Haat to turn into 12-storey supermarket

    12 Kolkata: Mangla Haat in Howrah, one of the largest wholesale garment markets in the eastern region that was ravaged by a fire back in July 2023, will no longer remain a weekly traders' market. It will soon be ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Dec ’24 busiest for Kol airport since Cov

    Kolkata: Kolkata airport registered its highest post-pandemic monthly passenger traffic this Dec, clocking a footfall of 20.2 lakh passengers. This was significantly more than last Dec's 18.5 lakh footfall and marginally short of the Dec 2019 figure, which was ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Focus on woman power at school event

    123 Kolkata: Women empowerment and fighting patriarchy emerged as the predominant theme at The BSS School's 75th anniversary celebrations on Wednesday. The BSS School started its journey in 1950 as a Hindi-medium girls' school, named Balika Shiksha Niketan. Years ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Protest over 2 Singur train extensions

    Singur: The extension of two Howrah-Singur local trains, one to Tarakeshwar and another to Haripal, prompted protests by Trinamool Congress workers and Singur locals on Wednesday. They argued that the local trains started by CM Mamata Banerjee 15 years ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    ISRO GPS, mega drones for Gangasagar security

    Kolkata: ISRO technology for a GPS-based monitoring system and giant-size drones are high-tech security measures that will be implemented at Gangasagar Mela to ensure pilgrims' safe commute and rituals. The district administration is working overtime to coordinate with all ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Hope, prayers in Kol before B’desh monk’s bail hearing

    12 Kolkata: From legal discussions to prayers and hope on the streets, Kolkata on Wednesday waited for the bail hearing of jailed Iskcon monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, slated for Thursday, nearly 530 km away in a Chittagong court.Bangladeshi human ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Devotees throng places of worship for blessings on year’s first day

    12 Kolkata: Citizens welcomed the new year with prayers, hope, and celebration as thousands thronged places of worship. From the early hours of the morning, temples, churches, and shrines of various faiths welcomed devotees seeking blessings for peace and ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    31st early-evening lull helps boost biz at Park St restos

    12 Kolkata: A sparsely populated Park Street was the biggest surprise of New Year's Eve, much to the delight of restaurants on the city's party street and central Kolkata, which drew crowds until the early hours of Jan 1. ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Cops unearth Rs 65cr investment fraud

    Kolkata: Investigations into the digital transactions of a suspected cyber fraudster from Barasat who was arrested in mid-Dec led to the unravelling of his involvement in around 300 investment frauds — worth Rs 65 crore — through fake apps. ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    On last year’s last night, helmetless bikers bigger issue than drunk drivers

    12 Kolkata: On last year's final night, cops clocked more helmetless riders than drunk drivers or rash motorists. On Dec 31, Kolkata Police prosecuted 600 people for helmetless riding, and booked another 282 for triple riding. E-challans were issued ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Cops arrest collegian after engg student alleges drink-spike rape

    12 Kolkata: A 20-year-old college student was arrested outside a south Kolkata mall on Tuesday after a female friend accused him of raping her at a house party in Garfa two weeks ago. The boy's parents, however, claimed that ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    HC refuses to interfere with armed forces’ height criterion

    12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court stated that individuals with a height below 169.5 cm are ineligible for height-rule-related benefits in the recruitment process for CAPF and Assam Rifles, while refusing to interfere with physical standard test result of ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Revellers flout cracker rules, lead to 2 fires

    12 Kolkata: Year-end celebrations in Kolkata turned chaotic as soon as the clock struck 12 on Wednesday night, with large-scale bursting of crackers. There were two incidents of fire and initial reports suggested that fireworks were the primary cause ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    CM likely to release admin calendar today

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to release the 2024-2025 administrative calendar in a review meeting at Nabanna on Thursday afternoon, said sources. The meeting aims to review the progress and shortcomings of various schemes and projects. All ministers, ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Politics is about service, not power: CM on TMC foundation day

    Kolkata: Politics was about service, not power, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday in her message to Trinamool workers on the party's 28th foundation day.In a statement on social media, Banerjee wrote: "On Trinamool Congress Foundation Day, I wholeheartedly ...

    2 January 2025 Times of India
    Alumnus pledges Rs 8.6 crore to set up water research centre at IIEST

    Arun Deb KOLKATA: A former student and teacher at BE College, Shibpur (now IIEST), now settled in the US, has pledged to donate a million dollars (about Rs 8.6 crore) to his alma mater to set up a centre ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata homes hide pets from livestock census

    12345 Kolkata: The state animal resources development department is conducting a survey on domesticated animals in Bengal for the Centre's 21st livestock census across the country. Several pet owners in Kolkata and suburbs are reportedly hiding their furry babies ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Zeenat heads back home, state creates green corridor

    123456 Kolkata: West Bengal forest department on Tuesday night handed over tigress Zeenat to Odisha. It left for Similipal Tiger Reserve around 8 pm on Tuesday.Bengal's chief wildlife warden Debal Roy said: "We have completed all formalities. Zeenat's health ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Player arrested, gun seized

    Kolkata: More than 72 hours after a local cricket tournament turned violent at Jagarani Math near Kudghat, with two cricketers being threatened at gunpoint and assaulted with a revolver butt, police arrested the main accused and recovered a country-made ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Raids unearth spurious cancer, diabetes drugs worth 6.6 crore

    Kolkata: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) seized spurious medicines worth Rs 6.6 crore — the largest seizure from the city in 2024 — from a wholesaler's warehouse in south Kolkata. The medicines, marked as imported from countries ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    11 held for 1.2cr theft at south Kol bizman’s home

    Kolkata: The Chetla Police arrested 11 persons — four of them employed as domestic helps — for conspiring to steal jewellery and other precious items from an apartment in Raja Santosh Roy Road in Alipore. Police said the total ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    #cityofjoy, #parkstreetchristmas: Netizens celebrate Kol at festive best

    Kolkata: ‘Christmas and New Year in Kolkata' has been trending this week on social media, which has been flooded with Instagram reels, YouTube videos, vlogs and Facebook stories and shorts shot against the backdrop of streets lit up with ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Festive treat: Demand for cakes, wine outstrips supply at Bow Barracks

    1234 Kolkata: Bow Barracks emerged as more than just a Christmas destination this year-end festive season as the historic Anglo-Indian enclave in central Kolkata turned into a hotspot for festive treats, like cakes, food and wine, all made by ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Woman files FIR against husband of 30 yrs as he sets house on fire

    12 Kolkata: For 30 years, Lalmoni Gazi, a homemaker from Canning, lived with her husband Saukat, a habitual drunkard and gambler. Not any more. On Monday night, Saukat set their home in Taldi Purba Shibnagar on fire. Lalmoni lodged ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    10 night surcharge on 10.40pm metro tickets from today

    123 Kolkata: From New Year, Metro Railway will be levying a Rs 10 surcharge on every ticket for commuters using the Dum Dum-New Garia night service, irrespective of the distance traversed.The carrier announced on Tuesday that "From Jan 1, ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    After evening lull, revellers descend on Park St to ring in new year, throng other party zones

    1234 Kolkata: After the tsunami of visitors on Park Street on Christmas Day, the crowd barometer dipped in the evening on New Year's Eve, with many deciding to give the party street a skip. But as midnight inched closer, ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Min temp may fall today but chill could be missing’

    Kolkata: While the northwesterly wind pushed down the maximum temperature close to three notches below the normal mark on Tuesday, the minimum temperature at 17.3 degrees Celsius was 3.5 degrees above normal. The Met office sees a dip in ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Repair of RG Kar emergency starts

    12 Kolkata: The repair of the damaged RG Kar Hospital emergency building began on Tuesday. The building was damaged in the Aug 14 vandalism. The repairs started after nod from CBI and Kolkata Police. CBI said the seminar room—where ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Govt waives bond fines for 26 sr resident docs

    Kolkata: It was a relief for 26 senior resident (SR) doctors on New Year's Eve when the health department waived the bond penalty amount imposed on them for violating the terms and conditions of the bond posting. TOI reported ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Durgapur Bridge to undergo minor repairs

    Kolkata: The preliminary structural health study report of the Durgapur Bridge, which connects New Alipore to Alipore and Chetla, and which was scalded by a fire 10 days back, mentions that the bridge needs to undergo grouting and minor ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    LPG tanker overturns on NH-16, traffic hit

    Howrah: A 22,000-litre LPG tanker overturned after hitting a divider on National Highway 16 near Chandrapur in Bagnan on Tuesday afternoon, causing gas leak and severe traffic congestion on the highway.According to police, the tanker heading from Haldia to ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Terror for money: Mursh youths held, had links with ABT & JMB

    Kolkata/Behrampore: The Bengal STF finally arrested the 24-year-old cousin of the India module head of the terror organisation Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). The arrest came after the man from Nowda in Murshidabad was subjected to hours of questioning. His ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Mob damages buses, block traffic after N Kol accident

    12345 Kolkata: Telegabagan in north Kolkata turned into a battleground for half an hour after a mob ransacked three buses and blocked the Ultadanga Main Road-Muraripukur Road crossing. This occurred after a bus plying on Route L-238 hit a ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Ranaghat cops nab 12 cyber crooks

    Kalyani: The Ranaghat Police, with help from the cyber wing of Bengal Police, nabbed 13 inter-state cyber fraudsters from across three northern and western Indian states for duping 104 victims across India in the past year through the digital ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Hosp listens to PETA, removes fish display

    Kolkata: A hospital off EM Bypass that had strung up small jars with live fish from patients' beds to liven up the mood removed them after the sight of the fish confined in small, unfiltered containers distressing a patient.It ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    Thefts at KMC HQ: Mayor calls up CP

    123 Kolkata: In the wake of repeated incidents of theft at the KMC headquarters, mayor Firhad Hakim wrote to the police commissioner to strengthen security in and around the civic HQ.According to a KMC official, the civic body's electrical ...

    1 January 2025 Times of India
    No coercive action on Arjun till Jan 8: HC

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed police to not take coercive steps against former Barrackpore MP and BJP neta Arjun Singh till Jan 8 in connection with an FIR filed against him over a controversial statement.Bhatpara Municipality ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    Monday traffic experiment ahead of year-end rush

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police used Monday to fine-tune its plans for the next 48 hours. They chased away vehicles that tried to park near hotspots, like Alipore zoo and Victoria Memorial, and tried out traffic diversions that ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    Old year ends with start of work on new airport terminal

    123 Kolkata: Work began on the construction of a wall to segregate the old domestic airport terminal from the apron area to facilitate the demolition of the building. A new passenger terminal will be constructed in place of the ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    20 lawyers from Dhaka and Chittagong to argue for monk’s bail tomorrow

    Kolkata: A group of 20 lawyers from Dhaka and Chittagong will be at Chittagong court on Jan 2 to argue for bail for arrested monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, who has been in prison since his arrest on sedition charges ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    2024 may end on a warmer note: Met

    123 Kolkata: Despite a prediction for a slight dip in the mercury on New Year's Eve, 2024 is expected to end on a warmer note. Both the maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to hover above the normal mark ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata Dawoodi Bohras ban mobile use by community kids below 15

    Kolkata: Over the past 10 days, the 5,000-strong Dawoodi Bohra community in Kolkata has ushered in a dramatic lifestyle change to wean children away from cell phones. While some parents have enrolled their kids in winter boot camps, others ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    As city celebrates, hawkers come back to New Mkt, Hatibagan

    12 Kolkata: The clean-up of encroachment around the heritage New Market on its 150th anniversary has come to naught with hawkers returning in larger numbers to occupy fresh spots on the carriageway and pavements in the run-up to the ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
    Fight over cricket brings out gun, leads to snatching

    123 Kolkata: A local cricket tournament at Jagarani Math, located next to Taramoni Ghat Road in Kudghat, turned violent late Saturday night, resulting in a player whipping out a gun and brandishing it, and others resorting to intimidation, causing ...

    31 December 2024 Times of India
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