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  • 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
    ‘Scripted drama with weak plot’: BJP slams presser

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Wednesday termed the press conference at Trinamool Bhavan, where a Malda woman alleged torture by Delhi Police, as "scripted drama" based on a "weak plot".Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said, "It is clearly a scripted ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Fire breaks out at Darjeeling forest staff quarters

    Darjeeling: A fire broke out at the Darjeeling Divisional Forest Office's staff quarters in Kagjhora on Wednesday night. No casualties have been reported.Two fire engines were deployed on the scene. Darjeeling Municipality also joined the rescue operation. According to ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Rusty Bagan wary of a youthful MSC

    Kolkata: Mohun Bagan SG will begin their Durand Cup campaign with an all-Indian side and against a "not so easy" Mohammedan SC here on Thursday.Not long ago Bagan's participation in Asia's oldest knockout football tournament was in doubt against ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    City gets its 1st plastic-free street food hub on Russel St

    Kolkata: The first civic street food hub in the city rolled up its shutters on Russel Street Wednesday, offering a hygienic and plastic-free experience to customers. On the offer were bhelpuri, chaat, phuchka, paratha, sweets, kachori, chow mein, momo, ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    For regulars, commute goes back to pre-2010 days

    Kolkata: No one was prepared to walk back in time like this. On Wednesday, the second day of the indefinite closure of the Blue Line's terminal station, commuters were still not able to digest the fact that they were ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Metro sets 9-month deadline to rebuild Kavi Subhash station

    Kolkata: Metro Railway on Wednesday evening said it will attempt to complete the construction of a new Kavi Subhash metro station in nine months. The dismantling of the distressed station started on Wednesday by removing the roof. The electrical ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    SRFTI signs MoU with Indian horror film festival to showcase genre’s popularity

    Kolkata: The horror genre in India made a huge turnaround from its early associations with films of B-grade status, made on low budgets and of poor quality, to the recent success of franchises and films like ‘Khauf', ‘Stree 2', ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    VIP Road residents suffer waterlogging woes, traffic nightmare for commuters

    Kolkata: Intermittent spells of heavy rain have brought back waterlogging woes for residents near Haldiram's crossing off VIP Road, inconveniencing thousands who had to wade through knee-deep water inside their complexes and on the service road on Wednesday. Locals ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops, vending body start hawker pushback drive

    123456 Kolkata: Police and Town Vending Committee members jointly conducted hawker pushback drives in the New Market area, Burrabazar, and Entally on Wednesday. Cops also initiated legal proceedings against two hawkers in Entally and Burrabazar following the anti-encroachment drive ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    CAP closes application window, merit list to be published on Aug 7

    Kolkata: The merit list for Centralised Admission Portal, which closed receiving applications for college entrance on Thursday midnight, will be published on Aug 7. "Today was the last day of receiving applications of first phase of admission through the ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri tea garden kids head state child rights body for a day

    Kolkata: Rishika Sabar (16) took on the role of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) chairperson for a day on World Anti-Trafficking Day on Wednesday. Two class IX students, Khushbu Munda and Sasikant Gowala, also ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Met: More rain today, better weather on Fri

    Kolkata: The city is under the influence of three weather systems which may trigger more rain on Thursday. The Met office has predicted intermittent spells of intense showers on Thursday but expects an improvement in the rain conditions from ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    New IIM director takes charge, focuses on 5 ‘i’s

    Kolkata: Alok Kumar Rai, who assumed the role of a full-time director at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, on Wednesday, emphasised on the five ‘I's—integration, inclusion, innovation, internationalisation and Indianness—for the premier B-school's journey ahead.IIM Calcutta had been without ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar victim’s parents perform ‘pind daan’

    12 Gaya: The parents of the woman doctor, who was raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9, 2024, performed ‘pind daan' rituals for their daughter here on Wednesday. The rituals were performed ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Birla’s Q1 net profit jumps 3.5 times

    Kolkata: Birla Corporation, the flagship of the MP Birla Group, reported an over 3.5-fold year-on-year jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 119.5 crore for the first quarter this fiscal, backed by improved sales and lower operating costs. ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Emami unveils new logo

    Kolkata: Kolkata-based group, Emami, has introduced a new logo after its completion of 50 years. The new logo introduces the company as Emami Group. The group was founded by RS Agarwal and RS Goenka. "Our rebranding marks a pivotal ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Singapore-based firm to foray into Andhra

    Kolkata: Singapore-based Universal Success Enterprises Ltd (USEL) plans to build multiple projects in Andhra Pradesh. Chairman of the company, Bengali NRI industrialist Prasoon Mukherjee, met Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu during the latter's visit to Singapore, and expressed USEL's ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Awareness camps saved 90 trafficked girls last month’

    Kolkata: Bengal reported approximately 67 cases of trafficking, according to the last NCRB report tabled in 2022. The report made it clear that migrants from vulnerable regions often become targets for traffickers, who lure them with false promises of ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Travel destination change after terror attack, 7% more Bengal tourists visited Goa in 2 months

    Kolkata: More and more people from Kolkata are choosing Goa as their holiday destination, apparently preferring the southwestern coast over popular mountain spots in the north, following the Pahalgam attack in April. According to travel tour operators, Goa registered ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Sajnur tortured, coerced’: Neighbours reject cop claim

    12 Malda: Neighbours and relatives of Moktar Khan and his wife, Sajnur Parveen, on Wednesday rejected the Delhi Police's claim that Sajnur fabricated the allegation of torture.Back home in Chanchal lives Moktar's only sister, Muktari. The stark poverty in ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Pahalgam victim’s daughter to start college, will study psychology, a dream she shared with dad

    Kolkata: Seventeen-year-old Subhangi Guha, who lost her father Samir Guha in the terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam on April 22, is about to start the next phase of her life as she starts college from next week. ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Can’t mandate night shift for women, employers must take nod: State draft policy

    Kolkata: Employment in night shifts will not be mandatory for women, a 22-point state draft policy released on Wednesday says. Employers will need to obtain written consent from all women staffers working night shifts, said the govt's draft guideline.During ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC MP delegation meets migrants in Gurgaon

    Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress parliamentary delegation on Tuesday met migrant workers from Bengal who were harassed in Gurgaon. The team, which included Rajya Sabha MPs Mamata Bala Thakur and Prakash Baraik, Bardhaman East MP Sharmila Sarkar and Joynagar MP ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Flu cases surge across Kolkata as entire families get infected

    Kolkata: The influenza virus currently circulating could have high transmissibility. Doctors in the city are seeing an increasing number of cases where entire families are getting infected, reminiscent of the Covid times when the virus would spread from one ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Fire breaks out in plastic warehouse

    Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Dhapa area of Mathpukur that lasted for more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon. The fire started in a warehouse used to store plastic waste near the Bypass around 3.15 pm and ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Man flees from NCB custody

    Kolkata: A detainee under the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) escaped from the agency's prison cell located inside their New Town office in the early hours of Tuesday. The accused was in custody in connection with a ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    E-bikes to grab 50% of electric 2-wheeler market by March '28: Ultraviolette

    KOLKATA: Bengaluru-based e-bike maker Ultraviolette believes the share of e-motorcycles that is currently less than 1% of electric two-wheelers will explode in the next couple of years and grab 50% of the market from e-scooters by March 2028. In ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    2 from Bihar held with brown sugar worth Rs 1 cr at West Bengal station

    Representational image NEW DELHI: Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel arrested two Bihar residents with brown sugar worth Rs 1.01 crore at the Malda Town railway station in West Bengal on Monday night.The suspects, Riham Reza, 18, and Md ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Chinese man crossing Nepal border held

    Roshan GuptaSiliguri: A 45-year-old Chinese national was arrested by Border Interaction Team of ‘C' Company, 41st Battalion of the SSB, after he allegedly attempted to cross the India–Nepal border using forged documents on Monday. He was produced before the ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Enrolment on voter list is your biggest shield, CM tells migrants

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday presented enrolment on the voters' list as a common shield against harassment of Bengali migrant workers in BJP-governed states and the special intensive revision of poll rolls, two potential problems facing ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Heavy rain and humidity today with monsoon forecast for the week ahead

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata Weather Forecast: July 30, 2025Kolkata is set to experience moderate rainfall on July 30, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.2°C and ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata beats other metros, reports more than 50% of good air days in 4 years: CSE study

    KOLKATA: The city has taken the top spot with the best air quality among six key Indian metros, a study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has revealed. Kolkata witnessed 791 days - over 50% of the total ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    CU probe panel submits law college rape report

    Kolkata: A report from Calcutta University's inspection committee was submitted to the interim vice-chancellor, Santa Datta Dey, on Monday after a month-long inspection following the alleged incident of rape on the law college campus in Kasba.Sources said major anomalies ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    S Kol man loses 8.8L to credit card fraud

    Kolkata: A Sarsuna resident, Pankaj Kumar, filed a complaint about unauthorised transactions amounting to Rs 8.8 lakh made using his two credit cards. Cops believe the credit card fraud was done by possibly using the SIM swap technique or ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP to start forming district panels next month

    Kolkata: Barely a month after electing a new state president, Bengal BJP will begin preparations to form district committees by early next month.Central brass, including those overseeing Bengal, are likely to be in Kolkata during that period.According to Bengal ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Let migrants come back, we’ll know who is lying: CM after ‘fake clip’ claim

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: A Bengali-speaking woman and her child, who were allegedly assaulted in Delhi, had been threatened, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.The CM had earlier shared a video on social media, alleging that the woman and her child ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Eye on phantom voters, Bengal CEO seeks reports on entries over past yr

    Kolkata: In a bid to pin down fictitious voters, Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Monday asked DMs to submit reports on inclusion of names in the state's voters' list over the past year. DMs, who also ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kanchenjunga inspires Bagdogra terminal design

    Kolkata: The architecture of the new terminal under construction at Bagdogra airport in north Bengal is inspired by the Himalayas and pays homage to the Kanchenjunga. A sneak preview of the climate-resilient design of the terminal by CP Kukreja ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kavi Subhash stn to be razed, truncated N-S Metro services for at least a year

    Kolkata: Commuters may have to wait an entire year to use Kavi Subhash metro station, the terminal station of the North-South Blue Line, which is also the city's lifeline. Metro Railway has decided to demolish the station and rebuild ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Goodricke plans foray into FMCG and hospitality biz

    Kolkata: Goodricke Group, one of India's leading tea groups and a subsidiary of UK-based Camellia Plc, is planning to restructure its operations and diversify into FMCG and hospitality businesses. It would sell off two more of its gardens, along ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops look for missing Kol collegian in Assam

    Kolkata: A Kolkata family's vacation in Jammu and Kashmir three years ago in 2022 has spiralled into a complex case of alleged kidnapping involving a 19-year-old second-year BCom student from north Kolkata and a bus driver from Jammu.During the ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    2 more held for selling SIM to cyber crooks

    Kolkata: Cops have arrested two cyber fraudsters involved in the illegal sale of pre-activated SIM cards to cybercriminals, taking the total number of arrests to 14. The arrests are part of a series of raids started on Feb 24, ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Harried commuters pay 50 for 1.9km auto ride

    Kolkata: While harried commuters ran helter-skelter from around 6.30am as they discovered that Kavi Subhash metro station was shut, a new auto route was conceived overnight "to help the helpless passengers", albeit for a cost.Passengers had to pay Rs ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    6 sessions of passport adalat

    Kolkata: The regional passport office will conduct a series of passport adalat sessions tp clear pending passport applications. The sessions will be held on Aug 5, 7, 12, 19, 21 and 26 with 500 applicants being given appointments per ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Prez to attend AIIMS Kalyani’s 1st convocation

    12 Kalyani: Forty-eight students will receive their degrees at the inaugural convocation of AIIMS Kalyani on Wednesday. Of them, three will be awarded medals and certificates directly by President Droupadi Murmu, executive director Ramji Singh said on Tuesday.This marks ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal wants to be heard, state tells SC on SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Tuesday told Supreme Court, which is hearing appeals against the special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar, that it "wants to be heard in the matter". The SC has allowed the state to file a formal ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal starts Krishakbandhu kharif payouts

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee posted on X that the state govt has begun providing financial assistance under the Krishakbandhu (New) scheme for the kharif season from Tuesday.According to the CM, a total of Rs 2,630 crore will be directly ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Rights activists flag torture of Bengali migrants in BJP-run states

    Kolkata: Rights activists expressed concern over incidents of harassment and torture of migrant workers from Bengal in BJP-governed states. At an event organised by Sangbidhan Bachao Desh Bachao Manch in Kolkata on Tuesday, activists Harsh Mander and Nadeem Khan ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    CAP applications close tonight but updates can continue till Fri

    Kolkata: Undergraduation applications on centralised admission portal (CAP) can last be submitted on Wednesday night but the candidates can continue to update their details, including their OBC categories, if applicable, till Friday night. The state higher education department opened ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP slams TMC over child attack video ‘plot’

    Kolkata: A day after Delhi Police refuted charges of a toddler and his mother being harassed in the capital, Bengal BJP on Tuesday hit out at Trinamool's "plot to further its political agenda"."It is unfortunate that Delhi Police is ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    At 593 mm, Kolkata records highest July rainfall in eight years, logs 62% of seasonal shower count

    123456 Kolkata: This July, the city recorded a bumper rainfall. Even though two more days are left for the month to end, this month has turned out to be the rainiest July in the past eight years with a ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Rain triggers multiple landslides, road closure on NH-10

    12 Darjeeling: Heavy rain over 24 hours triggered multiple landslides along NH-10 on Monday and Tuesday, causing the Teesta river to swell and prompting authorities to temporarily divert traffic towards Kalimpong and Sikkim. No casualties were reported and traffic ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    PM lost battle of narratives: TMC in Parl

    Kolkata: Trinamool MPs on Tuesday said the Centre mishandled the events that followed Operation Sindoor and surrendered India's strategic narrative to the United States.Speaking in the monsoon session of Parliament, Lok Sabha member from Jadavpur Saayoni Ghosh said, "Trump ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Man on ventilator after being hit by e-rickshaw

    Kolkata: A 58-year-old man, Dipak Kundu, out on an evening walk outside his Baguiati home was severely injured and is currently on ventilation after being hit by a speeding retrofitted electric rickshaw on Friday. Cops said that acting on ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Potholes hold up traffic on DH Rd & Strand Rd, KMC takes up patchwork

    Kolkata: The weather god played spoilsport for yet another day as efforts by KMC to repair roads — at least temporarily — for smoother traffic flow were severely hit as the showers washed away repaired portions of major thoroughfares ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Airport commute a pain as craters lead to Belghoria E-way, VIP Rd snarls

    Kolkata: Traffic movement was severely disrupted on key arterial roads leading to the airport, with Belghoria Expressway and Jessore Road in the north and VIP Road in the south experiencing prolonged snarls due to potholes and damaged stretches on ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    More options for SE Asia travel this Nov with three-class low cost airline ops to Bangkok

    Kolkata: Kolkata will get a taste of a three-class configuration in a low-cost airline for the first time this Nov when Thai Vietjet Air connects the city to Bangkok. The announcement on Tuesday came days after full-service carrier Etihad ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Did comets bring water to Earth? WHATSUP may know

    1234 Kolkata: Did comets bring water to Earth? WHATSUP may fetch the answer! Goutam Chattopadhyay, a senior scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, who grew up in Hooghly's Nabagram, has developed an instrument aboard a self-propelled ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata to get three-class low cost airline service to Bangkok in Nov

    Kolkata: Kolkata will get a taste of a three-class configuration in a low-cost airline for the first time this Nov when Thai Vietjet Air connects the city to Bangkok. The announcement on Tuesday came days after full-service carrier Etihad ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Move beyond matcha: Give these healthy sips a chance

    Image generated by Al; for representational purposes only While matcha’s vivid green hue still floods social feeds, its grassy taste and high caffeine content aren’t for everyone. It’s time to taste a new wave of teas and tisanes that ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    India-Pak engagement only on battlefield: Abhishek

    Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said India shouldn't engage with Pakistan in any form, including sports, hours before he was leaving for Delhi to attend the monsoon session of Parliament."India must not engage with Pakistan ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Heavy rain and humidity to continue this monsoon season

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata is experiencing heavy monsoon rainfall on July 29, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 25.6°C and 27.4°C and precipitation levels reaching 31.22 ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    It’s the beginning, want end of terror: Pahalgam victims’ kin

    Kolkata: Families of Pahalgam victims hailed the security forces after three terrorists involved in the April 22 terror attack were gunned down in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. ‘But this was just the beginning' as they ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    JU students ‘reclaim’ arts union room

    Kolkata: A section of Jadavpur University students reopened the common room inside the Arts Faculty Union Room, terming it ‘reclaiming the union room' on Monday. The university has three union rooms for three faculties — engineering, science, and arts ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Car row: Night lock-up stay for cancer patient

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old cancer patient has been left in severe distress after being detained overnight by cops on charges of car theft. The incident led to financial and emotional turmoil for youth, who has now lodged an FIR with ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal closer to Hep B elimination, says study

    Kolkata: A state-level study in 2024 showed the prevalence of Hepatitis B in children under 5 in Bengal was 0.07%, against the 0.1% target set by WHO, indicating that it is inching closer to Hepatitis B elimination. While this ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Families of migrant workers torn between hope, despair

    12 Malda: In some homes, there's despair. In others, relief. A sense of dread hangs over families in Malda whose relatives have gone to work in other states. Jiyem Sk has been waiting for his son Amir to return ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    AAI to shift residential colony to Nagerbazar

    Kolkata: The Airport Authority of India (AAI) is set to shift its residential colony from its current location near airport's gate 1 to a site close to the Ordnance Factory in Nagerbazar. The existing colony plot will be converted ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    On Global Tiger Day, Sundarbans fishing boats get GPS device for real-time distress SOS

    KOLKATA: On the occasion of Global Tiger Day on Tuesday, at least five fishermen's boats in the Sundarbans will get a GPS-based SOS alarm system that will transmit real-time distress signals to forest department in case of emergencies such ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    EC publishes 2002 SIR data of Bengal’s electoral rolls

    Kolkata: The Election Commission on Monday published the 2002 special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, tabling voter data of 11 districts covering 109 assembly segments. The 23-year-old data — Bengal saw its last SIR in 2002 ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    We’ll bring our workers back, ensure social security: Mamata

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: Bengal administration will ensure "the social security" of migrant workers willing to return to the state and help them resettle here."You have the police helpline number. Contact us, let us know when you wish to return and ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    HC allows BJP to hold Garia rally on Aug 4

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed the BJP to hold a rally — with 750 participants — from Sulekha More to Garia More between 4 pm and 7 pm on Aug 4.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also directed participants ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    HC allows BJP to hold Garia rally on Aug 4

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed the BJP to hold a rally — with 750 participants — from Sulekha More to Garia More between 4 pm and 7 pm on Aug 4.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also directed participants ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Hosp to pay 3L to knee-op patient

    Kolkata: A hospital on the northern fringes of the city agreed to pay Rs 3 lakh to a man who developed complications after a ligament reconstruction surgery at the facility, on humanitarian grounds. A complaint was lodged with West ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Woman held for robbing man she met on matrimonial site

    Kolkata: A woman from Habra was arrested on Sunday for allegedly drugging and robbing a man she met on a matrimonial website. She had allegedly called him to a hotel near the airport earlier this month. On July 1, ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Exide bets on innovation, expansion to boost exports

    Kolkata: Storage battery major Exide Industries is focusing on innovation and expansion across geographies in a bid to enhance exports in the medium term. In the last fiscal, exports contributed around 8% to the company's turnover."We have come out ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Ahead of Bengal polls, EC releases 2002 SIR data, signals rolls revision

    KOLKATA: The Election Commission on Monday published the 2002 special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, tabling voter data of 11 districts covering 109 assembly segments. The 23-year-old data — Bengal saw its last SIR in 2002 ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    EC has become a BJP agent to implement NRC: Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA/BOLPUR: Election Commission had become a "BJP agent to implement NRC", CM Mamata Banerjee alleged at the ‘Bhasha Andolan' rally in Bolpur on Monday, and dared the poll body to delete any genuine Bengal voter from the electoral roll. ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengali migrant workers identifying Rohingya, claims Samik

    Kolkata: With Trinamool upping the ante against BJP-governed states for harassing Bengali migrant workers, Bengal BJP claimed on Monday that migrant workers from the state were identifying Rohingya who had taken shelter there."No locals have informed police about Rohingya ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Encroachment on 62 acres of Visva-Bharati land: Sukanta

    Kolkata: Union minister of state for education Sukanta Majumdar said on Monday that more than 62 acres of land belonging to Visva-Bharati had been encroached upon, despite measures. He was answering a question posed by Lok Sabha member Saumitra ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Campus rape survivor wraps up 1st sem exams

    Kolkata: The first-year law student, who was raped on her college campus in south Kolkata, completed her first semester examinations on Monday. TOI had reported that the girl found the courage to sit for the first semester examinations, which ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    New Garia Metro station closed after cracks found in pillars

    Kolkata: The North-South Metro's terminal Kavi Subhas station at New Garia was closed temporarily after cracks were discovered in the last four pillars on which the Up platform stands. All trains are now being terminated at Shahid Khudiram, the ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Edit option for SSC aspirants to update OBC category details

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission will give an edit option to candidates for updating their OBC category details following the Supreme Court order.Along with this, other state recruitments, including those of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, which was paused ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    B-school rape accused resumes classes

    Kolkata: Paramanand Toppannawar, the 26-year-old MBA student at a premier B-school who was arrested on charges of rape, resumed his classes on Monday after spending more than a week in police custody. The youngster was arrested on July 12 ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    Work starts on Orange line, Yellow line link below airport

    Kolkata: Work to make the Orange and Yellow lines meet below the city airport has started. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), which is implementing the 29 km New Garia-Airport corridor (also called the city's Orange Metro line), has barricaded ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘No admission roadblock after SC’s OBC order’

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court order on Monday regarding the OBC reservation issue removes all roadblocks from publishing the CAP (centralised admission portal) merit list after July 30, senior Bengal officials said on Monday. The legal team advising the education ...

    29 July 2025 Times of India
    SRFTI alumnus only Indian among 24 emerging Asian filmmakers at Busan

    A file photo of Arnab Laha KOLKATA: Arnab Laha has been officially selected as one of the 24 emerging filmmakers from across Asia, out of 40 countries, and will attend the prestigious Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). The alumnus ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Coin-sale fake news lures Odisha, J’Khand, Raj residents to Kolkata

    Kolkata: Thousands of people from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, UP and even far off Haryana and Rajasthan queued up outside the Haldiram's outlet opposite CCFC, not to taste a vegetarian delicacy at thefood court on Sunday. But they were ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Moderate rain and humidity expected

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is experiencing moderate rainfall and humid conditions on July 28, 2025, with temperatures ranging ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    From surge to slump: Confusion over OBC quota causes dip in number of applications for UG courses in Bengal; students await court verdict

    KOLKATA: Uncertainty over the OBC quota, which prompted multiple deadline extensions for online undergraduate course applications, has led to fewer applications by students.On Monday, the Supreme Court is expected to hear the Bengal govt's challenge to the Calcutta HC's ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    No Padma Hilsa this year: Kolkata chooses Myanmar and Gujarat fish; taste, price, and supply drive shift

    KOLKATA: In a notable shift in consumer preference, hilsa enthusiasts in Kolkata have begun embracing fish arriving from Myanmar’s Irrawaddy and Gujarat’s Narmada, previously deemed inferior to the varieties sourced from Bangladesh’s Padma or Rupnarayan in Kolaghat.Over the past ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Chickenpox turns latest worry in cough-cold season, some in hosp

    Kolkata: An unseasonal spread of chickenpox, with cases reported from various parts of the city over the last three weeks, has left physicians and hospitals worried. The latter, faced with a sudden influx of patients that pushed up occupancy, ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Evening rain cools city after warm Sunday

    Kolkata: The city received a late-evening shower that lashed most parts of central and south Kolkata on Sunday. It started around 8.40 pm and was accompanied by thunder and lightning. Kolkata was cloudy in the day time, with a ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops launch traffic audit to find blink-&-you-miss-them signals in Kolkata

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has launched its audit of traffic signals, following multiple complaints from motorists and the police personnel on duty on the roads. Each of the 26 guards is identifying problems, including performance, visibility, CCTV footage ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek to head to Delhi as TMC intensifies SIR stir

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is expected to reach Delhi this week as the party intensifies its stir in Parliament, demanding an assurance from the Centre "on the floor of the House" that the special intensive ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Sarobar swimming pool set to reopen on Aug 1

    1234 Kolkata: The public swimming pool inside Rabindra Sarobar, which was closed since June 15 when a 16-year-old accidentally drowned while swimming, is likely to reopen on Aug 1. The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is implementing all the ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Atrocious’ linguistic terror unleashed by BJP: CM before ‘Bhasha Andolan’

    Kolkata: Sharing a 47-second video from July 26, of a migrant from Malda narrating the injuries Delhi Police inflicted on his one-year-old child and wife, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the linguistic terror unleashed by BJP against Bengali-speakers ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
    Take your pick: Pre-puja bus ride to Siliguri comes for 5,000, flight costs 10,500; train berths sold out

    Kolkata: A pre-Durga Puja bus ride from Kolkata to Siliguri may cost you between Rs 4,000 and Rs 5,000, a bus seat booking app shows. Till 10 days ago, airfares were not much higher, with a Kolkata-Bagdogra flight ticket ...

    28 July 2025 Times of India
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