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  • HC nixes Arabul’s contempt plea over security cover

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a contempt application moved by former Trinamool MLA Arabul Islam against the state. Islam had claimed in his May, 2024 plea that the state had not given him proper security cover ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC seeks MHA report on Delhi cops pushing 6 Bengalis into B’desh

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the Union ministry of home affairs to submit a report on the recent deportation of six people, including children, to Bangladesh by the Delhi Police. The court set a deadline of Wednesday ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Couple uses S Kol man’s apartment ownership records to get Aadhaar

    Kolkata: A south Kolkata resident has found that a couple used his Aadhaar card, ownership records of his flat in an EM Bypass condo, without his knowledge and uploaded the documents on the govt portal as a fake address ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Global honour for drive led by Kolkata doctor against steroid misuse

    Kolkata: A group of Indian doctors with Kolkata-based dermatologist, Koushik Lahiri, as its founding chairman has been felicitated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London for their work against steroid abuse in fairness and other skincare products, including ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    BSF soldier critically injured in clash with B’deshi smugglers

    Kolkata: A BSF soldier was critically injured in a violent confrontation with suspected Bangladeshi smugglers at the Tarali-1 border outpost in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas between late Thursday and early on Friday. The confrontation happened after BSF personnel spotted ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    23 cos setting up campuses in new tech hub: Babul Supriyo

    Kolkata: Twenty-three companies, including Reliance and L&T, have started construction of their buildings at Bengal Silicon Valley (BSV), an upcoming tech hub in New Town, while NTT, ST Telemedia and CtrlS data centres are on the verge of launching ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Adani Group to restore, beautify Kumartuli Ghat

    123 Kolkata: The Kumartuli ghat in north Kolkata is set to be restored and a 300-metre stretch along the riverfront will be developed into a promenade. The ambitious project by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, (SMPK) will be funded ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    CU probe to go back eight years to find law college skeletons

    123456 Kolkata: Calcutta University's fact-finding team will examine eight-year-old anomalies at the law college in south Kolkata, where a first-year student was raped. They are also trying to find out how Zaib Ahmed, one of the accused, gained entry ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Tiger Day felicitation for green warriors

    123 Kolkata: Ahead of the Global Tiger Day on July 29, two tiger rescue teams were felicitated in the city on Friday.While one of the teams led the massive operation to rescue tigress Zeenat that kept foresters on their ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Adani Group to restore, beautify Kumartuli Ghat

    Kolkata: Adani Group is set to develop the historic Kumartuli Ghat. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) for the redevelopment, restoration and beautification of the ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    2024 KIFF film caught in censor crosshairs

    123 Kolkata: A Bengali film, screened at Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) last year and based on what happens when relics of an ancient temple get unearthed underneath a mosque before an election, has been caught in a censorship ...

    12 July 2025 Times of India
    Kol max at 29.6°C, Met spies rain return tomorrow

    Kolkata: After two days of incessant rain, the city received short spells of showers on Thursday. The showers could remain infrequent till the weekend since the low pressure that triggered 87.5 mm of rainfall between Monday and Tuesday evening ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Can't be a silent spectator: Calcutta HC on Odisha detaining Bengal migrants

    KOLKATA: Hearing two habeas corpus pleas on Bengali-speaking migrants illegally detained by Odisha police as suspected Bangladeshis, Calcutta High Court on Thursday said it could not remain a "silent spectator" and the constitution allowed it to "address violations of ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    'Beaten up for asking to see attendant’s ID': Senior citizen punched in face, son assaulted over parking dispute in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A 62-year-old central Kolkata trader, and his 31-year-old son were allegedly assaulted by a parking attendant outside a private bank branch located on Vivekananda Road following a dispute over parking fees on Wednesday morning.According to police reports, Anil ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Humid and rainy day with rain expected

    This weather report is based on data from AQI.in, providing comprehensive coverage of Kolkata's monsoon conditions.Kolkata is set to experience a rainy day on July 11, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.8°C and 33.5°C, accompanied by high humidity and ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    2 Vidyasagar Univ profs removed from exam duty over history question paper gaffe

    Midnapore: Two professors at Vidyasagar University were removed from their exam duties after a history question paper from the sixth semester referred to revolutionaries as ‘terrorists'. Among the two, one is the UG board of studies chairman and the ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Behind trucks with broken windscreens and flat tyres: Illegal parking industry at New Alipore worth 6 lakh a month

    Kolkata: A fledgling illegal parking mafia, involving a few influential locals and a section of cops, appears to be at the heart of the issue which led to truck vandalism by cops at New Alipore on Tuesday night.Thirty trucks ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Museum makes entry free for school groups to ignite kids’ love for history

    Kolkata: The Indian Museum has made entry free for school groups to encourage more students to visit the oldest and largest museum in South Asia.Entry did use to be free for student groups, but in 2019, the museum introduced ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to set up shopping malls in every district HQ, says Mamata

    Kolkata: Big shopping malls would come up in each district headquarter of Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee announced on Thursday while inaugurating leather and cottage industry centre Shilpanna in Alipore."We are setting up big shopping malls in every district headquarters. ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata to get back air link to Nepal after 11 months, direct flights from September 1

    Kolkata: After a gap of nearly eleven months, Kolkata is set to have direct flight connectivity with Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. Travellers between Kolkata and Kathmandu currently have to travel via Delhi. Buddha Air, Nepal's largest private airline, will touch ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    After Patipukur, civic body wants to lift city’s lowest-lying areas above floodwater level

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sewerage and drainage department has decided to expedite the construction of the Hrishikesh Park drainage pumping station. The civic body hopes to make it functional, at least partially, by Sept, keeping in mind ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Survivor and family ‘satisfied’ with probe

    123 Kolkata: The survivor's counsel on Thursday informed Calcutta High Court that the family was satisfied with Kolkata Police's probe in the law college gan-grape case. They, however, wanted to see the progress report in the ongoing probe.Multiple PILs ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    It’s raining virals as temp see-saw triggers diseases

    Kolkata: The drop in temperature, triggered by consistent rain over the past week, has led to another cough-and-cold epidemic in the city, with hundreds suffering from upper respiratory tract infection and persistent cough. With the maximum temperature dipping to ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Craters on 15m stretch hit Chingrighata traffic

    Kolkata: Traffic at Chingrighata, particularly cars heading from Salt Lake Bypass to EM Bypass, crawled on Wednesday afternoon as craters on a 15-m stretch at the intersection forced motorists to brake and progress at a snail's pace. A similar ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    30-year crusade for sex workers’ rights

    Kolkata: The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee will celebrate its 30th year with a four-day festival from Saturday, including fashion shows by sex workers and transgender persons, cultural programmes and panel discussions at Rabindra Kanan."Since its inception on July 12, ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Bhangar TMC neta shot, hacked to death

    Kolkata: A TMC neta was shot and hacked to death around 500m from his Bhangar Chaltaberia home on Thursday night. Razzak Khan was returning home after a party meeting when the attackers shot him multiple times, and as he ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Durga’ starts working under Purple Line of Kolkata Metro

    1234 Kolkata: There are 72 days still left for Mahalaya but Durga has started her journey — not from the heavens, rather beneath the earth. It is not the deity but the tunnel boring machine S1410 — used for ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Scientist Who Runs at Night: Film on dreamer-innovator at S Asia fest

    Kolkata: Padma Shri Sujoy Kumar Guha was an electrical engineer who developed RISUG, the world's only reversible male contraceptive drug. But Indian Council of Medical Research turned down his plea to conduct clinical trials for a drug, developed by ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Abandoned dog rescued at Gorumara

    12 Jalpaiguri: Recently, a dog that was found abandoned near Mahakal inside Gorumara National Park was rescued by the members of a local NGO. The dog, a Rottweiler, was first noticed by travellers, and later, SPOAR — the NGO ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Complete police verification within 30 days: Govt

    Kolkata: Police verification for govt jobs must be completed within 30 days, chief secretary Manoj Pant said in a formal order on Wednesday. The development came after numerous complaints that the delay in police verification was affecting the training ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    College waits for purchase order to wipe off Mango stain

    123 Kolkata: ‘Monojit Dada is in our hearts — team MM', reads a wall graffiti in a prominent spot at the law college where a first-year student was raped. It may not have seemed this incongruous prior to June ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to support J&K in ‘every way possible’, Didi tells Omar

    Kolkata: Bengal was ready to support Kashmir "in every way possible", CM Mamata Banerjee told Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah on Thursday, adding that she would visit the UT after Durga Puja. Urging tourists from Bengal to go ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    HC div bench upholds fresh recruitment bar on ‘tainted’ candidates

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday upheld a single bench order barring 2016 candidates deemed "tainted" from School Service Commission's fresh recruitment process to fill 35,726 vacancies.Both the state and SSC moved the division bench of justices Soumen Sen ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    2 teachers held after students beat stray dog to death

    Kalyani: Two teachers, including the headmaster of a school in Nadia's Ranaghat, were arrested on Wednesday following allegations that they incited students to beat a stray dog to death. Two more teachers implicated in the act remain on the ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    No LLB 1st-semester exam on rape campus, CU releases list of 11 centres

    1234 Kolkata: Calcutta University has released a list of 11 centres where the first-semester examination for LLB will be held from July 16, excluding the college in south Kolkata where the rape incident occurred on June 25. The CU ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    3 get death for teen’s rape-murder

    Jalpaiguri: A Jalpaiguri special Pocso court on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the 2020 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.The convicts — Rahman Ali, Jamirul Haque and Tamirul Haque — had dumped the victim's body in ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Acquittal doesn’t mean case is false: Court

    123 Kolkata: An acquittal in a molestation case does not mean that the complainant lodged a false case, a Kolkata sessions court said in a July 2 order. The court dismissed a plea by a man who alleged that ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    No age relaxation for candidates who missed 2022 SLST

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to grant relief to candidates seeking age relaxation for the fresh recruitment process by West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBSSC).These candidates claimed to be of eligible age in 2022 for the ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP states treat Bengalis like infiltrators in own country: Mamata

    Kolkata: BJP-governed states were treating Bengalis as infiltrators in their own country, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, adding: "Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi."Reacting sharply to fresh reports that Delhi Police had snapped water and electricity ...

    11 July 2025 Times of India
    Indian museum makes entry free for school groups to boost student visits

    Students view the skeleton of a mammoth at the Indian Museum KOLKATA: The Indian Museum has made entry free for school groups to encourage more students to visit South Asia's oldest and largest museum.While entry used to be free ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    July count on par, more wet spells ahead as Met spies normal rainfall

    Kolkata: With three days of continuous showers adding to the July tally, Kolkata's rain count by Wednesday evening reached more than one-third of the monthly mean in the first nine days itself. While the rain intensity and frequency are ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Tatas Return to Nabanna: 14 years after Singur exit, Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran meets Mamata Banerjee; CM welcomes dialogue

    KOLKATA: A Tata Group chairman came down to Nabanna on Wednesday to meet Mamata Banerjee for the first time in her 14-year tenure as Bengal CM to discuss future investments in Bengal.Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran met Banerjee for ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    NITI report: Bengal scores in jobs, socio-eco indicators; lags behind in GSDP growth & fiscal management

    KOLKATA: Bengal's annual unemployment rate in 2022-'23 was 2.2%, 30% below the national average of 3.2%, NITI Aayog's just-released summary report for Bengal says. Bengal has also scored better in several socio-economic indicators but its GSDP growth (4.3%) was ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops free Guj family from traffickers’ clutches

    Kolkata: A Gujarati couple and their two minor children were rescued by Rabindra Sarobar cops on Wednesday after the family was forcibly held in Kolkata hotels by a gang who had promised to arrange Canadian immigration for them. The ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Eye on next big spell, KMC cancels leaves

    Kolkata: Taking a lesson from incessant rain and subsequent waterlogging in several parts of the city, the civic bosses have decided to cancel the leaves of all workers and officials of the KMC sewerage and drainage department until Oct. ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    KMC-dunnit: Patipukur underpass stays above

    1234 Kolkata: The Patipukur underpass that made headlines when a bus drowned after a downpour four years ago hogged the limelight again, when storm water receded in record time on Tuesday. The familiar scene of people wading through waist-deep ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Storm water drains off, exposes Salt Lake craters

    1234 Kolkata: The continuous downpour over the last few days has led to fresh wear and tear on some of the main thoroughfares in Salt Lake. It was only recently that the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) conducted a road-repair ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams BJP govt as 200 Bengali migrants ‘tagged B’deshis’, ‘detained’ in Odisha

    Kolkata: Multiple petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court urging its immediate intervention after more than 200 Bengali-speaking migrants from Bengal were allegedly tagged ‘Bangladeshis' and detained in Odisha. Bengal Police has already sent verification reports of ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    For Mango, FIRs were badges of honour to add to bad-boy image

    123 Kolkata: Law college rape accused Monojot Mishra believed criminal records added to his credentials as a fearsome union leader and if jailed, he would be able to remotely operate a network that continued to terrorise and blackmail students ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Rain blow on crops disrupts veggie supply, prices stay above 50/kg in Kolkata

    Kolkata: With continuous and heavy rain in July — one of the wettest months in recent memory — causing extensive damage to standing crops and disruption of the supply chain from farms, the vegetable prices in Kolkata spiralled. This ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Affront to Bengal’s dignity: CM on NITI’s map goof-up

    Kolkata: A NITI Aayog summary report on Bengal, showing a map of Bihar instead of the state on the cover page, prompted CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday to write a strongly worded letter to its vice-chairman, Suman K Bery, ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder convict Roy moves HC seeking acquittal

    Kolkata: Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, approached the Calcutta High Court seeking acquittal. Roy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case.The appeal was filed before the division bench of Justices Debangsu ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Barring ‘tainted’ candidates amounts to double jeopardy: SSC to HC

    Kolkata: State school service commission (SSC) and Bengal govt on Wednesday argued against Calcutta High Court's single bench order barring 1,801 "tainted" candidates from participating in the fresh recruitment process. SSC told a division bench that these candidates could ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Jayanth Singh’s brother assaults youth over cycle parking, held

    Kolkata: The brother of jailed Ariadaha strongman Jayanth Singh and his associates allegedly assaulted a youth over a cycle parking dispute on Tuesday night. The accused, Subham Singh, was arrested from a Belgharia nursing home late at night.The victim, ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Civic volunteer breaks into brother’s home

    Kolkata: A civic volunteer attached to Bhowanipore Traffic Guard was named in an FIR by his brother and sister-in-law for trespassing and barging into their residence, assaulting them, and molesting one of them. Cops registered a case and got ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Law college records zero attendance for 2nd day in a row

    Kolkata: The law college, after reopening on Monday, witnessed zero attendance for LLM Part-I for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Some said the horror of the rape on the campus and the consequential jitters kept students away. While ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    No contact for 15 yrs, mom seeks son’s help

    Kolkata: A 68-year-old woman, who had severed all ties with her only son 15 years ago, has moved Calcutta High Court praying that her son, a sailor, fund her medical costs and her old-age home stay. The son has expressed ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams Kanchan for misbehaving with senior doctor

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned the conduct of Uttarpara MLA and actor Kanchan Mullick after he misbehaved with a senior doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM). Mullick lost his temper while waiting for professor Mehebubar Rahman, head ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Stuck in Mum port for a mth, tea from Kol finally lands in Iran

    Kolkata: Export of tea from Kolkata to Iran — in a limbo during the Iran-Israel conflict — has resumed following the announcement of ceasefire. About 50 containers carrying 1 million kg of orthodox Assam tea reached Iran's Bandar Abbas ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Sporadic clashes disrupt normalcy in Bengal during strike

    Kolkata: Sporadic clashes between protesters and police disrupted normalcy in parts of Bengal on Wednesday as 10 central trade unions and their allies observed Bharat Bandh. Police arrested 383 bandh supporters across Bengal, including 41 from Kolkata.A clash took ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Missing boy returns home on foot after escaping torture in jeans factory

    Kolkata: A 14-year-old boy, who was missing for 42 days after being tortured in a jeans manufacturing unit at Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas over an alleged theft of a mobile, returned home at Chogoria village in Islampur of ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Law college rape: DD women’s cell reviews evidence, statements

    Kolkata: The women's grievance cell of the detective department on Wednesday focused on reviewing the evidence it had collected since June 26 in the law college gang rape case. This review came a day after the Alipore court sent ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops vandalise 30 trucks after bribe demand refusal, 4 SIs suspended

    Kolkata: Four sub-inspectors attached to New Alipore Police were suspended by Lalbazar on Wednesday evening after they were accused of vandalising nearly 30 trucks parked near the New Alipore railway siding in the N-block.The action followed within hours after ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Goons harass, threaten 3 girls on Patuli FOB, flee after they call cops

    Kolkata: A complaint of harassment and attempted molestation was reported from the Patuli area on EM Bypass where 16-year-old girl from Bansdroni and two of her friends alleged three men threatened and verbally abused them on the Pauli overbridge ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    6 from Birbhum nabbed by Delhi cops, pushed into B’desh: Pleas in HC

    Kolkata: Six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi, were labelled ‘Bangladeshi' and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26, two habeas corpus petitions filed in Calcutta ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Aircraft with high-speed internet to debut in Kol-Abu Dhabi sector

    Kolkata: Flyers from Kolkata will be the first among 100 cities in over 40 countries on the Etihad Airways network to witness in-flight high-speed WiFi facility across all classes. "The international flying experience will change from Sept 26 when ...

    10 July 2025 Times of India
    Clash over cricket match: Locals hurl stones at police, security personnel in West Bengal

    NEW DELHI: A violent clash erupted between two groups over a local cricket tournament in Siliguri's Bagracote on Wednesday. Local residents pelted stones at police and security personnel who were dispatched to the area. Security forces are working to ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Birbhum SP moves HC against NCW summons

    Kolkata: Birbhum SP Amandeep on Tuesday moved Calcutta High Court, seeking quashing of NCW's direction to appear before it in Delhi on July 14 with the case diary on Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal's alleged verbal abuse of Bolpur police ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    100 mm rain in five hours but revamped drainage network keeps city afloat barring a few bad zones

    123456 Kolkata: From Tallah to Tollygunge, residents woke up on Tuesday morning and found it difficult to wade through waterlogged streets as overnight rain inundated several parts of Kolkata. Though the Met office in Alipore recorded 87.5 mm rain ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Rainy and humid conditions expected today, July 9, 2025

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.July 9th ForecastKolkata residents face a rainy and humid day on July 9, 2025, with moderate rainfall expected throughout the day. The ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata logs season’s highest rain: Wettest July day in 4 years; temperatures drop, more showers likely

    KOLKATA: The city witnessed 87.5mm rainfall between 8.30pm Monday and 8.30pm Tuesday, the highest 24-hour count of the season. Tuesday was also the wettest July day in four years. The rain dragged the maximum temperature down to 27.1°C, this ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 15.4 lakh to FD fraud

    Kolkata: A Salt Lake FD block resident, Deepak Chowdhury, was arrested on Monday for allegedly duping a CA block resident of Rs 15.4 lakh under the pretext of investing in a fraudulent fixed deposit scheme of the Indian Post ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    2026 polls fight for Bengali Hindus, nationalist Muslims to retain identity: Samik

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that the 2026 assembly elections will be a fight for Bengali Hindus and nationalist, educated sections of the Muslim community to retain their identity."This election is a fight to retain ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Jr docs to stay away from BJP’s Nabanna march

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF), which spearheaded the RG Kar movement, has planned out programmes for Aug 8 and 9 to mark the one year of the rape and murder of their 31-year-old colleague. The organisation ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Areas under water but fewer vehicles out on road save day

    Kolkata: Heavy rain triggered by low pressure and a monsoon trough left different parts of south Kolkata, and some pockets adjacent to EM Bypass, inundated on Tuesday. Although traffic was otherwise smooth, due to few people venturing out, the ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Waterlogging trauma for commuters on VIP Road

    1234 Kolkata: Passengers headed to the airport faced difficulties in navigating waterlogged stretches on VIP Road near Kaikhali, Chinar Park and Haldirams on Tuesday. However, much to the relief of the passengers, there was no waterlogging on the airport ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Smartworks expected to have post-IPO valuation of Rs 4,645 cr

    123 Kolkata: Smartworks Coworking Spaces Limited, founded by city boy Neetish Sarda and co-founded by Harsh Binani, is likely to have a post-listing valuation of Rs 4,645 crore at the upper price band. The co-working space company, one of ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Jodhpur Park emerges as wettest zone, experts try to figure out why

    Kolkata: Though storm water started receding from most parts of south Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon, neighbourhoods in and around Jodhpur Park and areas along the Anwar Shah connector remained waterlogged until late evening. The KMC-run Jodhpur Park drainage pumping ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Systematic assault on democracy: CM on Assam NRC notice to Bengal man

    12 Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: Calling the Assam govt's NRC notice to a Cooch Behar Rajbanshi resident a "systematic assault on democracy", CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged opposition parties "to stand up against BJP's divisive and oppressive machinery.""I am shocked and ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal plans post-Puja industrial conclave to boost investment & exports

    Kolkata: To accelerate Bengal's industrialisation, state govt would host a business and industrial conclave after the Pujas, Amit Mitra, principal chief economic adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, said on Tuesday.Mitra said the CM decided to host the conclave after ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Belghoria couple lose Rs 1.5 cr in 16-day digi-arrest fraud case

    Kolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Missing man’s body found in Anandapur canal

    Kolkata: Police recovered the body of a 58-year-old man, Sanat Haldar, who had been missing since Monday, from the Anandapur canal on Tuesday. Haldar, a resident of Purba Rajapur, was last seen on Monday. A local alerted the police ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    3 pose as rly officials, dupe job seeker

    Kolkata: Three persons were arrested for allegedly defrauding a job seeker by impersonating Eastern Railway (ER) officials and issuing fake appointment letters. The accused reportedly extorted Rs 35,000 from the victim on March 29, 2025, promising employment with the ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Victim’s kin seek court nod for hosp visit

    Kolkata: Parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim have sought the permission from the Sealdah court for their lawyers to visit the place of occurrence. The court is likely to pass the order on Wednesday.The petitioners had earlier moved ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Hear out all in Tolly dispute: HC to govt

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed all parties involved in the writ petition and contempt pleas filed by Tollywood members to participate in a meeting at Rabindra Sadan on July 16.Justice Amrita Sinha directed the information and ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Omar to meet Mamata on July 10, may talk security

    Kolkata: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will meet CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday at Nabanna. It will be the first meeting between the two CMs after the Pahalgam incident, where terrorists gunned down 26 people, including three ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Neither central nor state forces allowed in assembly’

    Kolkata: The advocate general, in his submission to Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday denied BJP's allegation of discrimination between central and state forces on the Bengal assembly precincts.AG Kishore Datta pleaded that neither central nor state forces were allowed ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Transport normal, bank may be a problem today

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt has directed all its employees to report to work on Wednesday and ensure minimal disruption in every sector to counter a 24-hour nationwide strike, called by a coalition of 10 central trade unions.The strike on ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta moves HC against ‘unlawful restrictions’

    Kolkata: Union minister and former Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar moved the high court on Tuesday, complaining that his movements were being restricted by the state police.Counsel for Majumdar cited at least three instances, one being the incident at ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    SSC, Bengal move HC div bench over bar on ‘tainted’ candidates

    Kolkata: School Service Commission and Bengal govt on Tuesday moved a Calcutta High Court division bench, challenging a single judge's order to not allow candidates deemed "tainted" to participate in the fresh recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies. Other candidates ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    CU lens on college GB extension

    Kolkata: The extension of the governing body of the law college in south Kolkata, where the rape incident occurred on June 25, has come under the scrutiny of Calcutta University's fact-finding committee. The committee found that the governing body, ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Even I’d have been scared if my daughter studied here’

    Kolkata: The vice principal of the law college where a second-year student was gang-raped by a temporary staff and two students said the incident was frightening and that had she been a parent of a girl, she would be ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Forensic evidence in college rape case matches police investigation

    123 Kolkata: The forensic reports of the law college gang rape have started arriving, with Kolkata Police stating that they are matching with their probe and sequence of events shared by the survivor. Cops are now further building conclusive ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Belghoria couple lose Rs 1.5 cr in 16-day digi-arrest fraud case

    Kolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    1 phone payment leads to 5 lakh loss

    123 Kolkata: A Re-1 UPI payment led to a loss of Rs 5 lakh for a resident of Chandpurpally near Kolkata airport a few months back. Probing into the case, police arrested a 21-year-old fraudster from Kalyani in North ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 1.7 lakh seeking 152 refund

    Kolkata: An attempt to lodge a complaint and seek a refund for food worth Rs 152 over an online food delivery platform led to a loss of Rs 1.7 lakh for a Salt Lake resident after he ended up ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Man dies after scuffle with neighbours

    123 Kolkata: A 40-year-old man died at Medical College Hospital hours after being involved in a heated altercation with the tenants of the same building in the Bowbazar areaon Tuesday.The deceased, Md Ezhar Ahmed, was a resident of Gopal ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    French tourist robbed of 2.5 lakh on JL Nehru Rd

    Kolkata: A 61-year-old French tourist fell victim to a well-orchestrated theft near the Indian Museum when a group of gypsies allegedly stole his passport and 2,500 Euros — worth Rs 2.5 lakh — on Monday afternoon. The victim, Thierry ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    Tension at RG Kar after accident victim dies

    123 Kolkata: Tension erupted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday midnight after the death of a youth from Dakshindari. The family alleged that no medical care was given to Gopal Banik, who was rushed there after ...

    9 July 2025 Times of India
    East Kol man season’s 1st cholera hosp admission

    Kolkata: A 26-year-old man from Picnic Garden, admitted to a hospital off EM Bypass, was diagnosed as suffering from cholera. While this diarrhoeal disease is common during the monsoon, sources said this is the first known case of cholera ...

    8 July 2025 Times of India
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