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  • JMB men plead guilty to terror charges, seek to rejoin society

    Kolkata: Three suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members pleaded guilty to terrorism charges on Wednesday at a local court, and expressed their desire to return to mainstream society. Nur Alam Momin, Paigambar Sheikh and Ahmed Ali — all from Shamsherganj ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Centre: Oil, gas reserves found in Nadia, N 24 Parganas

    Kolkata: The Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas announced on Wednesday that recoverable hydrocarbon reserves equivalent to 0.9 million tonnes of oil had been identified at two sites in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts.Union minister of state, ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP holds CAA camp in Bagda; Trinamool calls it ‘gimmick’

    Kolkata: Amid a growing political storm over members of the Matua community being harassed, along with Bengali-speaking migrants, in other states, BJP on Thursday organised a Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) registration camp at Bagda's Sagarpara area in North 24 ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Congress protests against ‘harassment’ in Odisha

    Kolkata: Congress workers and netas on Thursday staged a protest in front of Utkal Bhawan in Kolkata to protest against the harassment of the Bengali-speaking population in Odisha. They organised a rally from the party's state headquarters."The identity of ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Offer officers Rs 2k incentive for ‘spl drives’: EC to Bengal

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Election Commission on Thursday directed Bengal govt to increase wages of booth level officers (BLOs) and their supervisors and mentioned an incentive of Rs 2,000 for them for "special drives". The reference to the "special drive" was ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Now, BJP deploys Mithun to deny Bengali-bashing charge

    Kolkata: A day after BJP's Malda North MP Khagen Murmu expressed "concern" over migrant workers from Bengal "facing questions in other states", its party functionary and actor Mithun Chakraborty said on Thursday that the claim that Bengali-speaking migrants were ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Father of IVF’ gets gallery in Salt Lake; letters, equipment on display

    1234 Kolkata: The father of IVF now has a gallery in Kolkata where physician Subhas Mukherjee's memorabilia are being displayed. The gallery, set up to honour the pioneer of reproductive medicine who gave India its first IVF baby, was ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Murshidabad TMC worker hacked to death

    12 Behrampore: A TMC worker was hacked to death in Sialai village in Murshidabad's Bharatpur on Wednesday night. Two persons, including a TMC gram panchayat member, were detained for questioning.Preliminary probe suggests that Shasthi Ghosh's murder might have been ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Councillor seeks drainage network to check Jodhpur Park waterlogging

    Kolkata: Severe waterlogging in the Jodhpur Park area following the recent sharp spells of shower and the flurry of complaints have forced KMC to sit up and examine the situation. Local councillor Mousumi Das pointed out that a 250m ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Film on Mother Teresa goes to Venice international film festival

    Kolkata: A feature film on Mother Teresa, which follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in her life when she decides to leave the Loreto Convent Entally in Kolkata and launch the Missionaries of Charity, has been selected ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Film on Mother Teresa goes to Venice film festival

    Kolkata: A feature film on Mother Teresa, which follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in her life when she decides to leave the Loreto Convent Entally in Kolkata and launch the Missionaries of Charity, has been selected ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    One more conflict puts city tourists’ Durga Puja vacation plans on hold

    123 Kolkata: The reverberations of the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia were felt in Kolkata on Thursday, with tourists booked to travel to these countries during Durga Puja feeling the jitters.The two neighbouring Southeast Asian countries are among the ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Fresh scramble for pavement grab after vending cert decision

    123 Kolkata: Hawkers in and around New Market were seen on Thursday vying for prime hawking space a day after the town vending committee passed a resolution to distribute vending certificates to 8,500 hawkers across three major hawking hubs, ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Epoxy flooring facelift for airport

    1234 Kolkata: Kolkata airport on Thursday unveiled a glitzy epoxy flooring near gate 25 at the northern-end of the departure terminal's security hold area (SHA), replacing the dull, worn-out dark grey and blue carpets with a white, yellow, and ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Digi arrest: Delhi cops arrest Kol loan manager

    Kolkata: Buddhadeb Hazra, a loan department manager, was arrested in the city by Delhi Police, with help of Kolkata Police and Barrackpore Police, for allegedly orchestrating more than 10 digital arrest fraud cases across six states. The arrest was ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    Army veterans to take over campus security

    123 Kolkata: The governing body of the law college will appoint two ex-servicemen to ensure security on campus. Two casual staffers who were appointed along with Monojit Mishra, the key accused, have also been dismissed.Sibranjan Chatterjee, the CU nominee ...

    25 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP MP ‘hurt’ over Bengali workers’ plight in other states

    Malda: Breaking from party line, BJP MP from Malda North, Khagen Murmu, told reporters in Delhi on Wednesday that Bengal workers were "facing questions in other states"."It is a big problem. I'm concerned about it," Murmu said. "It hurts ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    'Repeatedly attacked with sharp tool': TMC worker hacked to death in West Bengal; family alleges political angle behind murder

    KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) activist was allegedly hacked to death by unidentified assailants in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Bharatpur, a senior police official said on Thursday.Sasthi Ghosh was on his way home Wednesday night when the attackers confronted ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Mashaal girls honored in Kolkata for winning Indian Women's League

    KOLKATA: UK’s diaspora organization Heritage Bengal Global (HBG) and the British deputy high commission in Kolkata, together with the UK-based Kolkata London Club, on Wednesday felicitated Mashaal Girls, the East Bengal women’s team for winning the national-level Indian Women’s ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    'No Bangladeshis, only Bengali workers in my Bengaluru hotel': Mithun Chakraborty counters Mamata Banerjee's claims on migrants; calls out fear narrative

    NEW DELHI: BJP leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday dismissed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent claims that Bengali migrant workers were being targeted in other states. Chakraborty termed the remarks as an attempt to stir unnecessary ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Fans seek heritage status for Uttam Kumar’s Shilpi Sansad address

    1234 KOLKATA: On Lenin Sarani stands ‘Shilpi Sansad', an organisation founded by Uttam Kumar in 1968 to support needy workers of Tollywood. At its gate, hangs a KMC board, cautioning people that it's a ‘dangerous building'. Uttam fans have ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Cooler temperatures with rain expected

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is set to experience typical monsoon weather on July 24, 2025, with moderate rainfall ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Over 1,200 farmers grow coffee in hills’: After brewing tea for over 100 years, Kalimpong turns a new leaf and chases coffee dreams

    KALIMPONG: Renowned for its famed tea gardens for more than a century, Kalimpong is now turning a new leaf and acquiring a name for its coffee plantations. With the Arabica coffee grown in the hill district being exported to ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law student rape case: Blood samples, CCTV footage match; Monojit Mishra targeted girl from first day in collage

    KOLKATA: Crucial forensic evidence - biological, chemical, and technical - started arriving in the law college gang rape case of last month, making cops confident of securing a rape conviction. According to sources, the two blood samples collected from ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    7 held for illegal ATM, Aadhaar card delivery

    Kolkata: The Port division police arrested seven people for supplying ATM and Aadhaar cards, which were allegedly used in cybercrimes by their gang members. The first four — Sahinur Rahaman Fakir (25), Sk Rahul (20), Sk Asfak (18) and ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Nurses suspect in jewellery theft case

    Kolkata: A family in Hastings filed a police complaint against nurses from a prominent hospital, alleging gold jewellery and precious ornaments theft worth over Rs 5 lakh. The incident took place between July 7 and July 22, when the ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Humiliated by district netas’: Kabir to form new party

    Kolkata: Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir has announced plans to float a new political party after Aug 15. The proposed party aims to contest 50–52 seats across Murshidabad, Malda, North Dinajpur and Nadia districts.The 62-year-old MLA cited repeated humiliation within ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Lansdowne ‘stoneman’ under police lens for past murder, attacks

    Kolkata: The 28-year-old man, Raju Naskar alias Napit, who was arrested on Tuesday for killing Somnath Chakraborty (42) on Sarat Bose Road with a stone, is being interrogated by cops for his ‘possible involvement' in several other cases in ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    8,500 hawkers set to get vending certs before puja

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to distribute 8,500 vending certificates to hawkers who have already enrolled with the civic body as bonafide traders in the city's major hawking zones before the Pujas. In the first phase, ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Room for reform: HC commutes death sentences of 2 convicts to life terms

    Kolkata: There was a possibility of reform, the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday while commuting the death sentences of two men. The men, who were convicted of rape and murder of a five-year-old child in 2021, was sentenced ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    From ‘dum’ to diet: Your biryani is less unhealthy now

    Kolkata: With biryani sales zooming across Kolkata's restaurants, the latter are now scurrying to make it 'healthy' to get more people to bypass diet restrictions and savour it. While a leading biryani chain launched a ‘diabetic-friendly' biryani rustled up ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Heritage makeover of 117-yr-old Roxy to restore art deco glory by March 2026

    Kolkata: The art deco-style opera house turned cinema hall at Esplanade, constructed by Maurice Bandmann and Arathoon Stephen 117 years ago, is set to undergo a heritage makeover. This transformation will be similar to Mumbai's Eros Cinema, with real ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Assembly may hold spl session on ‘targeting’ of Bengalis

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Bengal assembly is likely to convene a special session on the alleged discrimination against Bengali-speaking migrants in different states.A source said Trinamool Congress MPs on Wednesday submitted notices in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, demanding discussion on ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Metro rider defacing rake caught on CCTV

    Kolkata: Metro Railway obtained CCTV footage showing an individual vandalising the closed doors of a moving Blue Line Metro train using spray paint on June 27."We came across it during retrospective CCTV footage analysis. The man was travelling on ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    V-B team holds rehearsal heritage walk before ashram tour launch by month end

    12 Santiniketan: A Visva-Bharati team, led by vice-chancellor Probir Kumar Ghosh, held a trial heritage walk on the campus on Wednesday, in the run-up to the guided tours of the ashram, scheduled to be flagged off by the end ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    43% more homes registered in Jan-June than 1st half of ’24

    Kolkata: Home registrations in Kolkata between Jan and June this year grew by 43% over the first six months of the previous year. While 21,434 homes were registered in the first half of 2024, the figure shot up to ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Doc’s plea rejected

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday turned down the plea by a senior resident doctor of the Midnapore Matri Maa Hospital to discontinue the investigation into the death of a newborn and a woman who had come for a ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    62L fraud with fake salary slips

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police have arrested 28-year-old Akash Dhibar from Sonamukhi in Bankura on Tuesday night for allegedly orchestrating a bank fraud to siphon off Rs 62 lakh by obtaining personal loans using fake salary slips. Dhibar forged salary slips ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    15 yrs on, Madan Tamang murder trial starts

    12 Darjeeling: The Madan Tamang murder trial started on Wednesday at Kolkata's City Sessions Court, 15 years after the case was transferred to CBI in 2010. The accused appeared via video conference from Darjeeling court.There are 53 accused in ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Amit Mitra slams Centre over ‘misleading’ unemployment data

    Kolkata: Amit Mitra, the principal chief adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, said on Wednesday the Centre's survey on unemployment in the country was misleading. Mitra posted on X that the survey misled citizens into believing that unemployment in India ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to fast-track appointments to CEO’s office

    Kolkata: Bengal govt is likely to fast-track appointments pending in the office of the Bengal chief electoral officer and work on reducing the time taken for financial sanctions. The state, however, is still examining Election Commission's demand for an ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Shoemakers must get ISI mark by Oct: BIS

    Kolkata: All local shoe manufacturers will have to register with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) by Oct. BIS officials informed shoe manufacturers from Tiljala, Topsia, Bantala and Bolarighat at a meeting in the city on Wednesday.Centre had on ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    No arrests made, Odisha AG tells HC on ‘illegal detention’

    Kolkata: Odisha govt on Wednesday told Calcutta HC, which was hearing two habeas corpus pleas on two Bengali-speaking migrants detained on suspicion of being Bangladeshi, that it was "not arrest, but background checks being done". Odisha sought four weeks ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops team up with Sec V workers to make tech zone a safer place

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police, overseeing the women's safety task force in Sector V comprising cops and female professionals from IT and BPO sectors in the tech township, launched a 24x7 helpline (9147889454) on Tuesday. This initiative aims at addressing workplace ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    ABD plans margin growth through backward integration and premiumisation

    Kolkata: Allied Blenders and Distillers Ltd (ABD), one of India's leading Indian spirits companies, is hoping for a 3% improvement in EBITDA in 2-3 years following its investment in backward integration and premiumisation. ABD MD Alok Gupta said that ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal IT cos seek policy to incentivise green credit

    Kolkata: Firms working in the fields of AI, data analytics, blockchain and cybersecurity have urged state govt to bring in a green credit policy, aligned with global ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) standards. The rollout of an incentive scheme ...

    24 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Warm and humid with high chance of rain today

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata is experiencing a warm and humid day on July 23, 2025, with temperatures ranging from 28.3°C to 35.5°C and an 86% ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Set up separate election dept, budget: EC to Bengal

    Kolkata: Election Commission has asked Bengal govt to provide more "administrative and financial autonomy" to the state's chief electoral officer, requesting it to carve out a separate "election department" and give it a separate budget.The commission also asked the ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT Kgp plans induction programme for parents

    Kolkata: An external experts' committee that IIT Kharagpur had set up earlier this year to look into suicides at the institute has suggested that parents be included in the induction programme after 85% students said they faced parental pressure ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    'Kuch garbar hai’: Mamata Banerjee stirs speculation as VP Jagdeep Dhankhar quits; TMC stays mum

    Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suspects hidden reasons behind Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation. She noted his good health and hinted at more to the story. KOLKATA: "Aur kuch garbar hai (there is more to it)," Bengal CM Mamata ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    HC to hear PIL seeking NRC in Bengal

    A PIL has been filed in Calcutta High Court, seeking the implementation of NRC in Bengal and the issuance of national identity cards to distinguish Indian citizens from alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, particularly in 10 border districts. The petition, ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    56 women rescued from trafficking bid at NJP station

    Siliguri: Govt Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) officers on Monday rescued 56 women from the Patna-bound Capital Express at New Jalpaiguri (NJP) station and arrested two persons on suspicion of trafficking. The accused, identified as Jitendra ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Campus rape: What have you been doing since 2023? Court asks state

    Kolkata: The Alipore ACJM court on Tuesday demanded to know the state's measures over the past two years to ensure punishment for law college rape prime accused Monojit Mishra ever since the first complaints were lodged against him in ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    After Michael Madhusudan lesson, KMC goes slow on ‘first widow-remarriage’ house

    123 Kolkata: Following a legal dispute over the heritage status of Michael Madhusudan Dutt's residence in Kidderpore, KMC is going slow on conferring the same tag on the "first widow-remarriage building" in north Kolkata.The civic body has paused its ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bengali asmita’, identities in focus as political landscape heats up

    Kolkata: With the political landscape heating up in the state, cultural identities and ‘Bengali asmita' have become major talking points for political parties.CM Mamata Banerjee has directed Trinamool workers to launch a month-long campaign, starting next week, to bring ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Civic body scurries to get roads in shape before next rain burst

    1234 Kolkata: The KMC on Monday started a drive to repair roads damaged due to last week's rain. According to a KMC official, the focus of the drive will be on stretches dug up for repairing underground utility services, ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    CM unveils ‘Amader Para, Amader Samadhan’ for local, quick-fix solutions

    Kolkata: The Bengal government on Tuesday unveiled a two-month "Amader Para, Amader Samadhan (Our Neighbourhood, Our Solution)" scheme to solve neighbourhood problems across 80,000 booths in the state.The scheme, with a fund allotment of Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 10 ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT Kgp plans induction programme for parents

    Kolkata: An external experts' committee that IIT Kharagpur had set up earlier this year to look into suicides at the institute has suggested that parents be included in the induction programme after 85% students said they faced parental pressure ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Auto drags woman for 20m over torn 10 note

    123456 Kolkata: A 58-year-old woman sustained a forehead injury and dislocated jaw in Salt Lake on Monday after a dispute over a Rs 10 currency note with an auto driver turned violent. The driver allegedly dragged her with the ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC starts mediation drive to settle more than 2L pending cases

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has embarked on an initiative to settle pending cases through mediation following Supreme Court guidelines. Currently, there are 17,046 pending cases on the high court's original side. The number of cases filed with the ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Vacate DH Rd bldg in 8 wks for Purple Line work: SC

    Kolkata: Dismissing a special leave petition, the Supreme Court asked tenants of City Properties to vacate the premises on DH Road-Ekbalpore Road crossing within eight weeks to facilitate the Purple Line's ramp construction.TOI had reported on July 3 on ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Murder with stone on S Kol pavement, 1 held

    Kolkata: The body of a 42-year-old man bearing severe head trauma, a fractured right hand, and blood oozing from the left ear was found on a footpath on Sarat Bose Road on Thursday morning. Cops have arrested the accused, ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops, NGOs join forces to rescue Bengal teen trafficked to Andamans

    Kolkata: A 15-year-old girl who had been allegedly kidnapped in North 24 Parganas' Hingalganj, then trafficked to the Andaman and Nicobar islands and forced into sex work was rescued on Monday following a joint operation of Bengal and Andaman ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    There’s more to it, says Mamata on VP resignation

    Kolkata: "Aur kuch garbar hai (there is more to it)," CM Mamata Banerjee told reporters on Tuesday when asked about Jagdeep Dhankhar resigning as vice-president."He is a healthy man. I think his health is okay. I have nothing more ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Idol makers go back to plastic to protect Durga from water damage

    1234 Kolkata: With only two months to go for Mahalaya, and more rain predicted in the coming days, artisans in Kumartuli are racing against time to complete Durga idols. July and Aug are usually the busiest for idol makers, ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    2 fake NREGA job card holders found in Bengal in 2024-25

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday questioned the Centre's stance towards Bengal after junior rural development minister Kamlesh Paswan informed party MP Mala Roy that only two fake NREGA job card holders had been found in the state in 2024–25, ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC starts mediation drive to settle more than 2L pending cases

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has embarked on an initiative to settle pending cases through mediation following Supreme Court guidelines. Currently, there are 17,046 pending cases on the high court's original side. The number of cases filed with the ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Fake currency seizure reveals investment fraud racket

    Kolkata: Following Saturday's seizure of counterfeit currency with a face value of Rs 9 crore from a hotel near the Dhamakhali ferry ghat in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas, police have unearthed an online investment fraud racket. Police said the ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool, BJP spar over ‘flight of capital’ claim

    Kolkata: A political back-and-forth ensued between BJP and Trinamool after Harsh Malhotra, minister of state for corporate affairs, said in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that 6,688 companies had relocated their registered offices from Bengal to other states between 2011 ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Commuters throng underground as surface transport goes haywire

    1234 Kolkata: Commuters on Monday preferred the underground route as transport above the ground went missing since morning, forcing many office-goers to take unsanctioned leave. The Metro was a saviour when buses, mostly hired for rallyists, were unavailable and ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Bihar gangsters moved between hotels, got haircut to hoodwink cops

    123 Kolkata: Bihar gangster Tausif Raza booked a barber through an app and trimmed his hair and beard to avoid arrest. He and his three aides, along with a local woman, checked into the Golden Inn Hotel near Park ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Jury out on AI role in brain health: Can be helpful but overuse may be a worry

    123 Kolkata: Can use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools help improve brain health and prevent depression and early onset of dementia? Or will over-reliance on AI be counterproductive and encourage lazy thinking? On World Brain Day, many neurologists said ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    EC holds special drive to enrol blind voters

    Kolkata: The EC on Tuesday held a special drive to include the visually challenged students of the Lighthouse for the Blind at Rashbehari as voters and for which they held an enrolment drive for the new voters.Minhaz Mallick and ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    New Town boy showcases kamikaze drones for Army

    Kolkata: Sourya Chowdhury, a 20-year-old New Town resident and BITS Pilani student in Hyderabad, who co-developed a radar-proof kamikaze drone now acquired by multiple regiments of the Indian Army, is in Kolkata to present the indigenous combat drone to ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kgp student death: Cough and cold tablet caused choking, says dad

    123 Kharagpur: Chandradeep Pawar, a 19-year-old IIT Kharagpur electrical engineering student, had choked on a normal cough and cold tablet he tried to gulp after dinner in the Nehru Hall mess, where he was a boarder, his father said ...

    23 July 2025 Times of India
    Samik, Suvendu seek Bihar-like SIR, say Bengali culture under attack in state

    12 Kolkata/Siliguri: Bengal BJP, which held rallies in north Bengal and Kharagpur on the same day Trinamool organised its marquee Martyrs' Day event, alleged that Bengal's culture was under attack in the state. It also said that the electoral ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengaluru job lure: 56 women rescued from train in West Bengal; 2 arrested

    Representative Image NEW DELHI: Fifty-six young women were rescued from a train at New Jalpaiguri station in Siliguri late on Monday in a suspected case of human trafficking, news agency PTI reported. According to officials, the women, aged between ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Tortured migrants on dais, share spotlight with kin of 1993 martyrs, Pahalgam victims

    1234 Kolkata: Though migrants and martyrs were the underlying theme of the July 21 rally, the event also featured the elderly parents of Pahalgam terror attack victim Bitan Adhikari, and the father of slain jawan Jhantu Ali Sheikh. Chief ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Radical Left leader Azizul Haque passes away at 85

    123 Kolkata: Veteran Naxalite leader Azizul Haque, also a writer, columnist, and a prominent Leftist thinker, died at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday afternoon. He was 85. Haque, who was jailed for 18 years during the Seventies ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Rainy and warm conditions expected with high humidity

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata is expected to experience patchy rain with a high of 34.5°C on July 22, 2025, with humidity at 70% and an ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Maruti Suzuki to add 500 service touchpoints in 2025-26, take number to 6,000

    KOLKATA: Maruti Suzuki plans to set up around 500 service touchpoints in 2025-26, taking the total number to around 6,000. At present, the automaker has 40,000 service bays across 2,764 cities and towns. They have a capacity to service ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Take instructions from speaker on central forces in assembly: HC to AG

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the advocate general to take instructions from the assembly speaker and inform the court whether or not the notification prohibiting central security forces from entering assembly precincts after May 6, 2021, was ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Crater-riddled roads off Bypass cry for repairs

    1234 Kolkata: Several roads off EM Bypass are in a deplorable condition, with potholes and craters that urgently require the attention of the civic body. While a repair drive by Kolkata Municipal Corporation's roads department is underway on Bypass, ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    800 KMC workers clean up rally leftovers in an hour

    1234 Kolkata: Esplanade and other parts of central Kolkata, where lakhs of party supporters congregated to attend the Shahid Diwas programme on Monday, were up and running within an hour of the programme ending. CM Mamata Banerjee concluded her ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Change girl’s surname in birth certificate in four weeks: HC

    Kolkata: A child's identity, including her surname, is an integral part of her personal development and autonomy, said the Calcutta High Court, directing the Chandernagore Municipality to accede to a teenaged girl's plea to change her surname in her ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Rusty network issues, attention lapses hit online fix for classes on Trinamool rally day

    Kolkata: While most city schools called off classes anticipating traffic disruption on Monday, only a few institutions switched to online learning. Though online classes saw a good number of attendees, technical glitches and network problems underscored the challenges of ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Can’t determine man’s income from I-T return in maintenance case: HC

    Kolkata: Income tax return cannot be conclusive proof of earning, and an individual's actual income would indeed be very different from the figures shown in the I-T return, the Calcutta High Court stated, reprimanding a man, seeking to lower ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    IT hubs combine WFH & WFO options to keep attendance high on TMC rally day

    Kolkata: Attendance at work in the IT offices across Sector V and New Town remained high despite transport challenges on Monday, when the ruling Trinamool organized its Martyrs' Day rally. The operations remained unaffected as many of these companies ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP will say ‘Joy Bangla’ after 2026 assembly polls: Abhishek

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said he would ensure that after ‘Joy Ma Kali' and ‘Joy Ma Durga', BJP would also say ‘Joy Bangla' after the 2026 assembly polls.Speaking at the Martyrs' Day rally ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    In last 21/7 before 2026 state poll, Mamata taps Bengali anger, pride

    Kolkata: Trinamool's 2026 assembly poll strategy is likely to focus on tapping the Bengal-first sentiments of the state's 7.6 crore voters.The party's last Martyrs' Day rally before the 2026 election showcased Bengali migrant labourers "harassed in BJP-governed states and ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    IT hubs combine WFH & WFO options to keep attendance high on TMC rally day

    Kolkata: Attendance at work in the IT offices across Sector V and New Town remained high despite transport challenges on Monday, when the ruling Trinamool organized its Martyrs' Day rally. The operations remained unaffected as many of these companies ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Citizens’ initiative restores Tollygunge Ghari Ghar heritage gateway

    1234 Kolkata: Kolkata Restorers, a collective of citizens who love the city and its heritage, have restored the Tollygunge Ghari Ghar, a Grade I heritage structure off Deshpran Sasmal Road near the Tipu Sultan mosque.Constructed around 1877 by Prince ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    13k eligible teachers apply for fresh test

    Kolkata: More than 13,000 eligible teachers, who were among the 26,000 teachers and staffers who had lost their state school jobs in the SC ruling, applied for a fresh state-level selection test, to be held by the state School ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Increase teacher-student ratio for more interaction time: IIT-Kgp students

    Kolkata: At IIT Kharagpur, the number of students per faculty adviser should be reduced by half, paving the way for doubling the interaction time between the two sides and establishing a personal connection between students and teachers: This idea ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    UCO Bank net rises 10% in first quarter

    123 Kolkata: UCO Bank registered a 10.1% jump in net profit to Rs 607 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal compared to Rs 551 crore during the same period last year. This was driven by higher interest ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    IHCL partners with Ambuja Grp for 15 new hotels

    123 Kolkata: Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) has announced the agreement signing for 15 new hotels across its brandscape with the Ambuja Neotia Group. This capital light arrangement will grow the partnership to over 40 hotels, including a Taj Resort ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Three from Cameroon held in Bengal for visa overstay

    Darjeeling: Three Cameroon nationals have been apprehended by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) unit of Lohagarh (G Company) under the 8th Battalion for visa overstay. They were caught at Panighatta, 32 km from Siliguri, on Sunday and were handed ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    SC refuses to intervene in SSC recruitment drive

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in the fresh SSC recruitment drive. On July 16, a Calcutta High Court division bench dismissed four appeals against the 2025 drive. The SC dismissed a challenge against it, saying ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops keep 9 am-11 am traffic moving in heart of Kolkata

    Kolkata: Despite the swell of party supporters reaching the city to attend the Trinamool Congress' annual Martyrs' Day rally, cops managed to stick to the Calcutta High Court directive and keep traffic moving smoothly between 9 am and 11 ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
    Khejuri deaths: HC seeks doc’s statement

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed investigators to record the statement of the doctor who had performed the postmortems after the deaths of two BJP workers on July 11 in Khejuri, East Midnapore, even as it turned down ...

    22 July 2025 Times of India
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