Kolkata: A day after a fire at a Free School Street lodge killed nine boarders, including seven Bangladeshi nationals, Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Thursday raided several hotels and guest houses in the area and closed down 16 of them ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nehru Children’s Museum will resume its dance, painting and recitation classes at the ground floor, starting from Saturday after the state govt pledged support to upgrade fire safety. The museum had decided to shut its classes, keeping in ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The two grew up together in the narrow lanes of Dhaka’s Amin Bazaar Begun Bari, chasing cricket balls and talking about the future. Years later, Mohammad Sohail and Babu Ahmed (37) happened to be in Kolkata at the ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaPurbasthali (East Burdwan): A six-month-old infant who mysteriously vanished from a locked AC coach of the Kamrup Express while the train was on the move was found alive hours later lying between active railway tracks in East Burdwan.Rahul Kumar, ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday refused to quash proceedings against stone trader Tulu Mondal alias Md Nazibuddin in a case involving the seizure of gold bars and large amounts of cash from his brother-in-law’s house on July 29 and ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two people, including a woman, were injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Champahati on Thursday morning. Both suffered burns and were admitted to a local hospital. The blast destroyed the makeshift unit and ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed while another was severely injured in an attack near the Bengal-Bihar border on Wednesday afternoon.The two women, residents of Doulatnagar village under Harishchandrapur Police Station in Malda, had gone to collect ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of Hindu Jagran Manch on Thursday announced that North 24-Parganas zilla parishad’s “Titumir Sabhagriha” in Barasat will henceforth be known as “Syama Prasad Bhavan”, sparking a controversy. While conducting a meeting at the hall as part of ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata’Jalpaiguri: Bengal Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has arrested another man from the Dinhata module for his alleged link with ISI-sponsored FICN network. Pradipta Basu (35) was picked up from Delhi and brought to Cooch Behar on transit remand. ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: Kajal Sheikh on Thursday resigned as Birbhum zilla parishad sabhadhipati after failing to secure a majority in the 52-seat body, which currently comprises 50 active TMC members and one Congress member. All Birbhum Trinamool factions are aligned with ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The battle on the Jadavpur University (JU) campus on Thursday was fought on several fronts — including over a political emblem and the university’s own emblem, designed by one of the pioneers of modern Indian art — Nandalal ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have registered a case under stringent, non-bailable sections, including attempt to murder and the SC/ST Act, against 11 Jadavpur University students for allegedly assaulting fellow students. Cops confirmed that all accused are students and said those named ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaSabang/Arambag: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday made an aerial survey of flood-hit zones in Sabang and adjoining areas in West Midnapore and announced Rs 18 lakh compensation for two deaths and Rs 30,000 each for families of 3,200 damaged ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The fire that claimed the lives of nine people, including Bangladeshi nationals, at Shikha Inn on Free School Street (Mirza Ghalib Street) in the early hours of Wednesday has brought renewed scrutiny on fire-safety violations in the dense ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 60 restaurants from Bengal are attending the food delivery summit of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) in Ahmedabad that started on Aug 20, according to NRAI national president and founder of Wow! Momo, Sagar Daryani.The ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday extended the interim stay granted on demolition of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s Amtala office till Sept 18.The matter was taken up for hearing by Justice Suvra Ghosh. Senior advocate Kishore Datta submitted that while ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaChandernagore: Hooghly Rural District Police arrested Uttam Kundu, former chairperson of Tarakeswar municipality and current Arambagh organisational district president of the Ritabrata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress (TMC), from a hideout in Kolkata late Wednesday night.He was produced before ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police, civic agencies, and the state health department held discussions to streamline the implementation of three major central govt schemes aimed at improving emergency medical care for road accident victims and reducing traffic fatalities across the city.The ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: When smoke began filling their second-floor room at Shikha Inn on Mirza Ghalib Street, tourists Rizaul Islam and Sumaiya Akhtar knew that stepping out into the corridor could be a fatal mistake. With the passage outside their room ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kausar Hossain and his family were supposed to be on a bus to Bangladesh by 11 am on Wednesday. Instead, a few hours before that, he was carrying his eight-year-old son through a corridor filled with smoke so ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A clash broke out between members of the ABVP and Left-leaning student groups at Jadavpur University early on Thursday, with both sides accusing each other of bringing outsiders onto the campus, varsity sources said.According to news agency PTI, ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When Md Ujjal, a 49-year-old trader from Khulna, found himself trapped in smoke during the Free School Street hotel fire, he had nowhere to escape. He spent nearly 40 minutes beside a grill, shouting for help and struggling ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least five people were injured in a blast at a firecracker factory in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Thursday, according to news agency PTI.The injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.Police and emergency ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two cousins from Uttar Pradesh — Prithvi and Pankaj Agrahari — jumped 15ft from a second-floor window of Hotel Taiba to escape from the fire that broke out in Shikha Inn, located on the same floor of the ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt on Wednesday informed the Calcutta High Court that it has withdrawn a notification mandating teachers to engage in census work after school hours and on weekends.This came a day after the HC flagged a lack ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The leaseholder of Hotel Shikha Inn, where a fire broke out on Thursday, has been arrested, Kolkata Police said. Abu Zafar was arrested from Entally Main Market on Wednesday.Police also detained two hotel staff members for questioning as ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hospitals across Kolkata said they will extend all possible help to Bangladesh patients in the wake of the Free School Street fire. Out of the nine lives claimed by the fire, so far eight have been identified as ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several Bangladeshi nationals boarding at hotels and guest houses on Free School Street woke up to calls from their kin, about 335km away in Dhaka, about the tragedy that happened adjacent to their location in the wee hours ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Free School Street fire snubbed the life out of Sandip Paswan, who was only 19. Moreover, it was his first job in the hotel. Paswan, the only hotel employee to have perished in the fire, was the ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The building that was up in flames and the headquarters of fire and emergency services were about 40m apart on Free School Street (Mirza Ghalib Street). There wasn’t any delay in response either. The fire brigade had arrived ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Among those trapped in the blaze that broke out a little before 2 am in the five-story building housing multiple hotels was a lawyer from Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur. Naushad Ali had travelled to Kolkata with his colleagues ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The fire that killed at least nine people, including eight Bangladeshis, in a hotel building on Mirza Ghalib Street has cast a fresh shadow over Kolkata’s ‘Mini Bangladesh’ just as the neighbourhood’s tourism-dependent economy was beginning to recover ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State finance minister Swapan Dasgupta met Jadavpur University (JU) vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee on Wednesday during a visit to the institute for a blood donation camp. The 20-minutes discussion centred around the institute of eminence (IoE) tag and the ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Evacuating a building is standard protocol in the event of a fire. But when a suspected short circuit triggered a blaze on the second-floor terrace of the Air Traffic Management complex at Kolkata airport in the early hours ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: All the deaths in the blaze that broke out in a commercial building at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street occurred on the ill-fated second floor, which investigators said had been altered extensively and housed multiple establishments in cramped conditions.Police ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tuesday evening was marked with joy for Kushtia resident Debasish Dutta as he and his family picked out new clothes for Durga Puja along the alleys of New Market.Barely seven hours after the shopping outing, the bodies of ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata’s Municipal Building Committee — the final sanctioning authority for a wide range of construction proposals — has not met for six months, resulting in more than 300 projects getting stuck in a bureaucratic freeze.The deadlock has halted ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nine people, at least five of them Bangladeshi nationals, choked to death in their sleep after a fire broke out at a lodge inside a five-storey building on Free School Street in central Kolkata around 1.40 am Wednesday, ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bireswar Mitra, owner of Shikha Inn, located on the second floor of the five-storey building at 15, Mirza Ghalib Street, also owns Hotel Jaapon, situated right opposite. Apart from these two, Mitra owns two hotels in Digha.Mitra, the ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The private school near Ruby Hospital remained closed on Wednesday to conduct a thorough inspection of the premises to ensure it was clear of snakes. The student is undergoing treatment at a private hospital and is in stable ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal Police’s Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday made another arrest as part of its investigation into the alleged ISI-linked spy module operating from Topsia in Kolkata, taking the total number of arrests as part of the probe ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: “Bengaluru bye bye” — a farewell message posted by Bangladeshi journalist Debashis Dutta just a day before a hotel fire in Kolkata claimed his life and those of his wife, four-year-old son and father-in-law has emerged as a ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari distributed financial assistance, provided by Indian Oil Petronas Private Limited (IPPL), to victims and families affected by the June 30 fire in Haldia.An official statement said, “CM Suvendu Adhikari’s distribution of the financial assistance ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an unusual development, Calcutta High Court judge Suvra Ghosh on Wednesday recused herself from delivering the verdict on the bail plea of jailed former Bengal minister Sujit Bose after alleging that Bose’s lawyer and her private secretary ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered the West Bengal Police Recruitment Board to keep the final results of its constable recruitment examination on hold until September 30, following petitions challenging the selection process over the reservation provided ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A prod from chief minister Suvendu Adhikari prompted the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to form a five-member committee to assess fire safety in residential and commercial buildings in the city. Two members will come from KMC’s buildings and ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Wednesday filed a miscellaneous application in Supreme Court, seeking an extension of deadline for teacher recruitment.Sources said WBSSC has requested an extension until ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt on Wednesday informed the Calcutta High Court that it has withdrawn a notification mandating teachers to engage in census work after school hours and on weekends.This came a day after the HC flagged a lack ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar: A Krishnanagar court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for failing to appear before it despite repeated summonses. The court directed that an execution report of the warrant be submitted on Aug ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A 30-year-old Group D worker at Malda Medical College and Hospital has alleged that her supervisor repeatedly raped her while threatening to terminate her job.She lodged a complaint against her supervisor Subhankar Laskar at English Bazar police station ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday stressed the need for aftercare of saplings, being planted across Bengal as part of the Sabuj Swadhinata drive, even as he inaugurated the campaign to promote greenery and ecological balance.The event was ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Horrified guests of a Kolkata hotel, who were rescued from a devastating blaze that claimed nine lives in the early hours of Wednesday, recounted a night of terror.Dark smoke engulfed the second and third floors of the dilapidated ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The number of beneficiaries for Annapurna Yojana is more in north Kolkata than that in south Kolkata as of now.“I enquired with the finance department and learnt that till afternoon, the money under Annapurna Yojana scheme has been ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least nine people, including a four-year-old child, were killed and six others injured after a fire broke out early Wednesday at a cramped five-storey building on Mirza Ghalib Street in central Kolkata, which housed several hotels, police ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging a verbal directive from West Bengal Police regarding the removal of loudspeakers and microphones from mosques in the state.Dismissing the petition, the division bench of ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A fire broke out on the extended open terrace area of the second floor of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata around 4 am on Tuesday. Flight operations remained ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least nine people were killed and six others injured after a massive fire broke out at a hotel in Kolkata's Mirza Ghalib Street early on Wednesday, officials said.According to news agency ANI, the deceased were Bangladeshi citizens ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday questioned the lack of coordination between the Centre and the state on census duty for govt school teachers.“Why is the Centre and state not consulting (with each other)? How will the state ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Heavy seasonal rain has left major roads across Kolkata riddled with potholes, cracked asphalt and hazardous craters, sparking widespread outrage among commuters who face severe traffic snarls and risks of accidents.Key arterial roads including E M Bypass, Park ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) on Tuesday alleged that the BJP govt in Bengal was following the “same playbook” it uses in other states to stop the organisation from holding any meeting after multiple venue managers withdrew their permission ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 53-year-old woman lost her life even as 19 others residing in the same three-storey dilapidated building in north Kolkata had a miraculous escape on Tuesday morning after it collapsed in the wake of continuous rain. Six hours ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaThe state would introduce the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana scheme for mothers from Oct, said CM Suvendu Adhikari. He also announced that in the police force, two new woman police battalions, named after Matangini Hazra and Rani Rashmani, ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pushback drive to clear the roads around Lansdowne Market triggered frantic activity on Tuesday, with hawkers pulling down bamboo frames, removing plastic sheets and trimming stall extensions two days after urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Nalhati police station in Birbhum was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a young woman at a guest house in Salt Lake CL block for two days two months ago.The 37-year-old ASI was ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A local grassroots worker claiming to be a booth president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been arrested in east Kolkata for allegedly abducting, assaulting, and extorting a prawn processing factory worker through an illegal “kangaroo court” ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 67-year-old man from Beleghata was cheated of Rs 95,990 by scammers using AI voice-cloning technology.The victim got a call from an unknown number. The caller sounded exactly like his acquaintance, “Ajoy,” and claimed that a relative had ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt will lodge a formal complaint before a judicial inquiry commission headed by former High Court judge Justice Biswajit Basu over alleged large-scale irregularities in the conversion and sale of tea-garden land, tourism minister Shankar Ghosh ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday imposed an interim stay on a May 14 order by the Bengal govt seeking reverification of 1.69 crore caste certificates issued to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even while refusing an interim stay on assembly speaker Rathindra Bose’s June 3 decision to appoint Trinamool rebel camp neta Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of opposition, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday said the appointment will be ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Maidan skyline is set to get a colourful makeover this Vishwakarma Puja, with the Bengal govt planning a kite and balloon festival featuring large-scale kite flying, hot-air balloons and aerial displays in the heart of the city.Bengal’s ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaRampurhat/Kolkata: Police probing the death of former Bengal deputy speaker and Trinamool minister Asish Banerjee are examining whether he faced threats from “unknown quarters” over alleged financial irregularities in the Tarapith Rampurhat Development Authority (TRDA).The probe follows demands for ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Chakma netas in the northeast have urged the Indian govt to halt fuel and power supplies to Bangladesh after PM Tarique Rahman said he would not visit India until Sheikh Hasina and others allegedly linked to the murder ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt has ordered a CID investigation into the death of Birju Keot, 10 days after the death of the Halisahar Trinamool worker in police custody. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had earlier acknowledged police negligence in the incident. ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaTarapith: Prabir Pal, co-owner of the hotel in Tarapith where a pre-dawn fire on Monday claimed nine lives, was arrested on Tuesday. His son, Kalyan Pal, who is also a co-owner of the hotel, was arrested on Monday in ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: L&T Finance Ltd has set a target for its gold loan segment to contribute more than 10% to its total loan book over the next five years, compared with about 3% at present. To scale up the gold ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaTarapith: Fifteen hotels in Tarapith were shut down on Tuesday for allegedly failing to meet mandatory safety and statutory requirements, a day after a fire at Hotel Bideshini claimed nine lives.The establishments, all located in Chandipur, where Monday’s blaze ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee has hinted at an aggressive campaign against underage marriage and the adoption of a two-child policy across the state to bring down maternal mortality.“It is a matter of shame that Bengal is No. ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ayushman Bharat (AB) patients continued to trickle in for the second day on Tuesday. The AB-PMJAY scheme for Bengal was rolled out Sunday. Hospitals started admitting patients under this scheme from Monday.In addition, the empaneled private hospitals are ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three emergency patients, who were rushed to state-run IPGMER-SSKM Hospital were admitted to KPC Medical College on Monday. These three cases are the first lot of patients who are getting medical care at private hospitals free of cost ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: TMC MP Saugata Roy faced a BJP protest at Kolkata airport on Tuesday when he arrived to attend a meeting of the Passenger Safety Committee. Roy, chairman of the committee as the Dum Dum Lok Sabha MP, was ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy was questioned by CID for the tenth straight day on Tuesday. By rough estimates, he has already faced nearly 70 hours of questioning in two cases. Sources said he has ...
19 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In the Census exercise, a single house is not always a single household — and an address is certainly not a household number. What matters in Census is not simply who lives under the same roof but who ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Orange Line has finally cleared the long-standing Chingrighata bottleneck, more than six years after construction at the key intersection first ran into hurdles. The last 31-metre concrete deck slab was placed on Sunday, bridging the 366-metre gap ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City private hospitals saw a minor surge as patients started trickling in to seek treatment under Ayushman Bharat a day after the scheme was rolled out in the state on Sunday, even as technical glitches and online verification ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid protests by a section of schoolteachers demanding that Census work be treated as official “on-duty” assignment, the Census authorities on Monday clarified that the exercise is an honorarium-based engagement and would largely have to be carried out ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A fire broke out on the extended open terrace area of the second floor of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata around 4am on Tuesday, triggering a swift response ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: One person was killed and 19 others were injured after a building collapsed in Kolkata’s Jorabagan area, officials said on Tuesday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Disaster Management Group (DMG) teams launched rescue operations following the collapse ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state has verified 1.62 crore Annapurna Yojana applications out of 1.8 crore submitted, and the process of disbursing the third instalment of the benefit under the scheme started for 1.45 crore applicants on Monday. However, the payment ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly 89% of the under-construction highrise projects that had submitted their details to the safety audit committee and thereafter underwent stringent scrutiny with 63-point checks have been cleared by the high-level committee. Developers’ body Credai said work had ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Customs officials at Kolkata airport seized around 160 kg of live plants and seeds worth several crores allegedly brought illegally from Bangkok by two Indian passengers. The seized material was examined by a plant quarantine officer, who found ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A predawn rampage by a local gang left residents of a south Kolkata neighbourhood in a state of terror after miscreants forced their way into a community facility, vandalized property, stole valuables, and directed verbal threats and abuse ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaTarapith: The early-morning fire at Hotel Bideshini in Tarapith, which claimed the lives of nine people, including five members of a family from Meghalaya, exposed safety violations across establishments in the temple town.The hotel turned into a smoke trap ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two persons were injured as fight broke out at a popular sweet shop in the Karaya area on Friday morning with a BJP Yuva Morcha member and his aide allegedly refusing to pay for some sweets. Police said ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Torrential rain triggered by a depression left several pockets in the city go under water on Monday.Even as this system has already grazed past the city, Met officials expect its impact in the city to linger till Tuesday. ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 57-year-old man, Samir Sen of Russa Road, died after a portion of a balcony of a two-storeyed dilapidated residential structure in Golf Green collapsed on Sunday night. Cops said the victim was staying alone in the building. ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From climbing down a tree to water pipes on the wall, to jumping in a pond and breaking window glasses to prevent suffocation, the survivors of Tarapith hotel fire escaped the blazing inferno in the wee hours of ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deletion of parents’ names from the voter list during SIR cannot be taken into consideration while deciding a candidate’s eligibility for an Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate, Calcutta High Court said on Monday and directed North 24 ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari made it clear on Monday that his administration would never forcibly acquire land from farmers but would, instead, purchase land and then hand it over to industries, following the model adopted by states like ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaTarapith: A predawn blaze turned a hotel in the temple town of Tarapith into a death trap on Monday, killing nine guests, including five members of a family from Meghalaya, on the final Monday of the holy month of ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Incessant rain and protest rallies affected traffic in several parts of the city. Major roads like Amherst Street, Sukeas Street, Keshab Chandra Sen Street, portions of Diamond Harbour (DH) Road and the service roads along Bypass were inundated ...
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