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  • HC rejects Shahjahan’s plea against CBI probe into 2019 murders

    Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected an appeal by former TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan against a single bench order on June 30, ordering a CBI investigation into the murder of three BJP workers ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata office market sees growth in Grade A assets, PBDs

    Kolkata: More than half of Kolkata's burgeoning office stock has been classified as Grade A, according to a report by property consultancy Knight Frank India (KFI) in its report "A Billion Sq Ft and Counting – India Office Supply ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar anniv, I-Day set to keep cops on toes

    12 Kolkata/Howrah: Kolkata Police is implementing extensive security measures ahead of Independence Day celebrations. One of the biggest concerns is a planned protest march to Nabanna by the West Bengal Students' Union on Aug 9, marking the anniversary of ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Durand Cup: Colaco at the double again as Bagan brush aside BSF

    12 Kolkata: Liston Colaco produced another game-changing performance as Mohun Bagan SG welcomed their Spanish coach Jose Molina back to the dugout with a 4-0 demolition of BSF in their Durand Cup clash at the Kishore Bharati Stadium on ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Bangladeshis on wrong side of change find a home in Epar Bangla

    Kolkata: A year back, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, former education minister of the Bangladesh, was attending hundreds of distress calls from Awami League (AL) leaders and workers in Dhaka.They were yearning for help as Dhaka was reeling from violence. As ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    DMK, Cong back TMC, slam Del cops for calling Bengali ‘B’deshi’

    Kolkata: DMK, Congress, CPIML Liberation and even BJP's Tripura ally Tipra Motha joined TMC on Monday to protest against the Delhi Police notice that called Bengali a "Bangladeshi language", and criticised BJP's Amit Malviya for saying "Bengali is not ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Fearing torture and arrest, migrants from NCR hire buses to return home

    12 Malda: Two buses with about 100 migrant workers from the National Capital Region returned to South Dinajpur's Buniadpur on Monday after traversing a distance of more than 1,500 km over two days. The passengers, who had arranged the ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Potholed E M Bypass stretches take toll on tech hub commute

    1234 Kolkata: The ride to the IT hubs in Salt Lake Sector V and New Town on Monday was less agonizing than it had been in the past week. But the traffic still crawled through stretches of cratered road ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Night showers wash away KMC’s daytime repair works

    123456 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has been making the most of the dry period during the day to repair broken stretches on key thoroughfares but the rain at night is washing away the patchworks in several areas.Though ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Anti-Bengal DVC’s ‘flood mgmt’ drowning state: Mamata

    Kolkata: Criticising DVC for allegedly discharging 11 times the volume of water it had released last year, CM Mamata Banerjee called Bengal's floods "man-made catastrophe". She claimed that the volume of water released was 30 times more than that ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Rush for repairs after Ballygunge Circular Rd cave-in

    12 Kolkata: A portion of Ballygunge Circular Road near the Ballygunge Military Camp caved in during the late-night rain on Sunday. The gaping hole was cordoned off on Monday morning, and repairs began around noon.According to a KMC roads ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Mohammedan SC at bottom with fifth straight loss

    Kolkata: Merely a couple of seasons ago, Mohammedan SC were looking a whole different beast, having emerged as the team to beat in local league in the post-Covid times with a hat-trick of Calcutta Football League titles.That period of ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Shuttle buses make travel to Shahid Khudiram easier

    12 Kolkata: The West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) started shuttle bus services between Kavi Subhash station and Shahid Khudiram from Monday, providing passengers a much-needed alternative to autos during peak office hours. The tickets of the shuttle service on ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    1.2 cr investment frauds in 48 hrs

    Kolkata: Six Kolkata residents lost more than Rs 1 crore to online frauds this weekend, said cops. Rahul Kumar Poddar from Narayanpur, was defrauded of Rs 10 lakh after being added to a WhatsApp investment group. Suraj Yadav, a ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Nandakumar well repair plea before 250th hanging anniv

    Kolkata: The site at Hastings, where Maharaja Nandakumar was hanged on Aug 5, 1775, lies in complete neglect, with a crumbling well lost to time, a disappearing boundary wall, homeless people usurping the place and civic apathy.Ahead of the ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Del cops are right, there’s no language called Bengali: Malviya

    Kolkata: There is no language called ‘Bengali', said BJP's Bengal minder Amit Malviya on Monday. Leading Bengal BJP's efforts to defend Delhi Police's choice of words in its notice seeking translators for "Bangladeshi national language", Malviya posted on X, ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP netas talk poll roll revision with Shah, Nadda

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah and the party's national president J P Nadda on Monday met key party workers from Bengal and those in-charge of the state. Bengal BJP netas indicated that revision of the voters' list was ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    4.5 lakh register for ‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan’

    Kolkata: Chief secretary Manoj Pant on Monday said over 4.5 lakh people have registered at various camps under the ‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan' programme so far. The initiative, launched by the state govt on Aug 2, is aimed at ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Electrosteel expects growth with Bengal’s new incentive policy

    Kolkata: Electrosteel Castings, a water infrastructure and pipeline solutions provider, is optimistic that state govt's new incentive policy will be industry-friendly. The CM Mamata Banerjee-led govt earlier scrapped the previous policy, prompting some companies to move court.The Kolkata-based company ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Nation needs your service: HC tells teachers on poll duty plea

    12 Kolkata: "The nation requires your service," the Calcutta High Court told primary school teachers on Monday, refusing to interfere with an Election Commission order assigning teachers as booth level officers (BLOs) for poll-related work.The HC said teachers may ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Court bars Suvendu from defaming Abhishek

    12 Kolkata: An Alipore court on Monday ordered BJP's Suvendu Adhikari to not make defamatory statements against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee till Aug 19. The court also asked Adhikari to appear in court on Aug 19 and ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Adani meets CM at Nabanna, discusses ‘future projects’

    12 Kolkata: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani called on Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna on Monday, and the two had a meeting that went on for over 40 minutes. Sources indicated that they discussed future projects in the ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Pahalgam victim’s daughter’s first day in college an emotional one: Mother

    12 Kolkata: Subhangi Guha, who lost her father, Samir Guha, in the terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam on April 22, lit a lamp to formally start the induction event at the Loreto College where she has taken ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    City stays cloudy, rain may intensify from tomorrow

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata remained cloudy on Monday following multiple spells of overnight showers. While more light to moderate rain was predicted in the city and south Bengal over the next 24 hours, the showers may intensify from Wednesday due ...

    5 August 2025 Times of India
    Two injured in Park Street parking fracas

    Kolkata: A security guard and the supervisor of a commercial building located on Park Street were injured in a parking brawl on Friday afternoon. Cops have registered an FIR against six persons. The incident happened at Poddar Point, 113 ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata-bound Air India Express flight returns to Bengaluru following tech snag

    NEW DELHI: A Kolkata-bound Air India Express flight made a precautionary return to Bengaluru on Sunday evening after a technical snag, according to news agency PTI. Flight IX2718, operated with an Airbus A320, remained airborne for over two hours ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Yohan Poonawalla ushers in a new era of business excellence in India

    In a remarkable display of entrepreneurial prowess, Yohan Poonawalla, Chairman of the prestigious Poonawalla Group, is setting new benchmarks for business leadership in India. His vision transcends traditional corporate boundaries, merging the realms of innovation, sustainability, and wellness to ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Bogus voters: EC gives nod to FIRs against 2 electoral officers

    12 Kolkata: The Election Commission has given the nod to FIRs against two electoral registration officers (EROs) in Bengal for anomalies in the voters' list, a senior poll panel official said on Sunday. The two officers shared their passwords ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘They’ll take us to Bangladesh’: Kolkata man hangs self over 'NRC-SIR' anxiety; cops say he panicked during Operation Sindoor too

    KOLKATA: A 63-year-old Bansdroni resident, who had crossed over to Bengal from Bangladesh in 1972 with his parents, was found hanging at his home on Sunday morning, prompting his family to allege that "extreme anxiety" over NRC and SIR ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    New Town to get green boost with 25k flower & fruit trees

    12 Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is set to undertake a mass drive to plant and maintain around 25,000 trees across New Town. Different flower and fruit-bearing with an average height of 15 feet will be ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    EC: No Bengal party appealed against rolls before ’24 LS polls

    12 Kolkata: The Election Commission on Sunday said no political party in Bengal had formally appealed against the final voter list published ahead of the 2024 LS election.In a move with little precedence and coinciding with the buzz on ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Too harsh to jail man for 6 months 23 years after his crime, rules Cal HC

    12 Kolkata: It would be harsh to jail a man for six months 23 years after the crime, and 19 years after his conviction, the Calcutta High Court held on Thursday. The court was hearing the revisional appeal of ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    CM to address MPs as TMC raises protest pitch

    12 Kolkata: With Trinamool stepping up its attack on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants back home, CM Mamata Banerjee will speak to her MPs virtually on Monday to outline TMC's strategy ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP MPs to meet Shah today, to discuss migrant issue, RG Kar case

    Kolkata: With Bengali migrants, RG Kar case and SIR on their discussion agenda, Bengal BJP MPs are set to meet Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday.While Trinamool, the Left Front and Congress have been stepping up pressure over ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    With Rs 1k crore biz dip in 1 year; Kolkata's 'mini Bangladesh' counts its losses on 1st upheaval anniversary

    Closed businesses mark a deserted Marquis Street on Sunday KOLKATA: Even a year ago, Kolkata's 'mini Bangladesh' was a tiny but vibrant pocket of the city's food, hospitality and forex ecosystem. However, when Bangladesh was hit by political upheaval ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Teen’s documentary on 2020 Delhi riots tells stories of compassion at Kolkata event

    12 Kolkata: A US-based documentarian of Indian origin, Zara Bharadwaj—who was barely 12 years old during the 2020 Delhi riots—had witnessed both scenes of humanity as well as brutality during the conflict. She was living in Delhi back then.She ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Durgapur director wins Swarna Kamal at nat’l awards for short film on gender identity

    1234 Kolkata: A Durgapur director's Hindi short film—‘Flowering Man'— which explores a daughter's gradual acceptance of her father's queerness, won the top honour (Swarna Kamal) in the non-feature film category at the 71st National Film Awards. The award includes ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Forest dept acts on woman’s tip, saves tree from axe in school in Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: Environmental activists have praised the prompt response of the state forest department in protecting a kadam tree that was being illegally felled on a school compound in Dum Dum's Bediapara. This action was taken after the department ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Tank clean-up to hit water supply to 5 Salt Lake blocks

    Kolkata: Five blocks across Salt Lake Sector I will receive reduced water supply for four days from Monday until Thursday night. This is to allow the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to further carry out the ongoing revamp work on ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Breach in cyber security disrupts NCLT hearing

    Kolkata: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Kolkata bench experienced a cyber security breach during an online court proceeding when an unknown perpetrator displayed inappropriate content around 2.52 pm on July 30. The unauthorized screen sharing, which lasted for ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    Family cries foul as Bengali migrant ‘falls to death’ in Ggn

    Malda: A Malda resident who worked in a Gurgaon high-rise as a sweeper, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Friday. Md Shahensha was supposed to return home on Sunday, his family said, due to the harassment Bengali migrants ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC team in Mumbai to find missing migrant

    Kolkata: A four-member Trinamool delegation on Sunday reached Mumbai and spoke to police about the missing migrant worker, Babai Sardar. One of the leaders, Sachin Naskar, said, "We are now in Mumbai. We have received a location and will ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    ‘Uninteded errors’: TMC MP withdraws letter demanding ED, CBI probes in ECL ‘corruption’

    123 Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Sunday criticised Trinamool MP Kirti Azad's decision to withdraw the letter written to the Union coal and mines minister Kishan Reddy. The letter by Azad had demanded probes by the ED and CBI into ...

    4 August 2025 Times of India
    SLBC sets Rs 2L cr MSME credit target for Bengal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    KP appoints legal coordination officers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    3 August 2025 Times of India
    MBA Para Joka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    2 August 2025 Times of India
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