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  • HS topper, farmer’s son lead Bengal charge in NEET

    12 Kolkata: Higher Secondary topper Rupayan Pal bagged the 20th position on the NEET-UG merit list, which was published on Saturday. Kolkata boy, Rachit Sinha Choudhuri, ranked 16th in the all-India entrance test to medical schools, becoming the NEET ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Pilots, experts grapple with Guj crash videos

    123 Kolkata: Veteran pilots, who told TOI about the possibility of inadvertently switching off the second live engine in the Air India Dreamliner in the event of the stalling of the first engine during take-off, have identified another error ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Tiger enters Kultali’s Deulbari, 3rd time in 20 days

    Kultali: For the third time in 20 days, a tiger has entered Kultali's Deulbari area, causing panic among residents after pugmarks were spotted in the area on Saturday morning.The forest department was informed after which two ADFOs and 40 ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    2 held for assaulting civic volunteer in Howrah

    Kolkata: Two people were arrested after they allegedly assaulted a civic volunteer in Howrah. Howrah District Rural Police made the arrests after a video of the incident went viral.Moidul Islam Layek and Moshiar Rahman Mallik have been accused of ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will break all records’: Trinamool starts prep for last July 21 rally before ’26 polls

    Kolkata: Turnout at Trinamool's July 21 Martyrs' Day rally, the last before the 2026 Bengal assembly elections, will break all previous records, the party said on Saturday while releasing posters for the event. This came after a preparatory meet ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC contempt rule against judicial secy

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has issued a contempt rule against the state judicial secretary for not releasing a prisoner for over a year, violating a court order on April 18, 2024.Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya held that a "prima facie contempt ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Indo-Pak tension impact: 2 flights from North America make re-fuelling pitstops at Kol airport

    12 Kolkata: Two Air India flights—one from San Francisco to Mumbai and the other from Vancouver to Delhi—are making a refuelling pit stop at the Kolkata airport as the aircraft have to take a rerout amid the ban on ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Stick to your brief’: Trinamool gets tough with Anubrata

    12 Kolkata: "Do not increase the party's unease, stick to your responsibilities and speak less" was the Trinamool leadership's message to Birbhum's warring netas Anubrata Mondal and Kajal Sheikh on Saturday, making it clear that the party's patience was ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Hostel wrecked, hosp duty saves doc from Bengal

    1234 Kolkata: Call of duty on Thursday afternoon saved the life of Akash Karan, a third-year senior resident plastic surgeon at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. The young doctor from Bengal was at the OT at the time of the ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC ignores Sudip ‘requirement’ remark

    Kolkata: Trinamool Kolkata North MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Saturday said that he would convene the party's north Kolkata core committee meeting "whenever (he felt) it was required". Reacting to this, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "I cannot speak on ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol prof stuck in war-torn Tehran hotel after calling off Mt Damavand expedition

    1234 Kolkata: A Kolkata-based Geography professor, who went to climb Mount Damavand in Iran, got stranded in Tehran a day before his scheduled departure after Israel launched attacks on Iran. The Indian Embassy in Tehran has meanwhile issued an ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Auckland jute mill shuts down

    123 Kolkata: Over 3,500 workers of the Auckland jute mill in Bhatpara-Jagaddal, North 24-Parganas, were rendered jobless following suspension of work at the factory. The indefinite shutdown was declared on Saturday after the production manager of the mill was ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    All 10 Kolkata Police divisions to have cybercrime police stations

    123 Kolkata: As cybercrimes and cyber threats surge across the city, Kolkata Police has begun planning "out-of-the-box" strategies to counter the menace. Besides rapidly modernizing itself and creating avenues to train more policemen with sophisticated modes of investigation, Lalbazar ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Couple assaulted at city nightclub

    123 Kolkata: A couple from Baguiati was allegedly attacked at a nightclub inside a five-star hotel in south Kolkata early on Friday morning, leading to a police investigation and increased surveillance at nightclubs across the city.The incident occurred around ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Pvt bus debut for track-your-bus app

    123 Kolkata: While only a few buses on route 223 are presently being tracked on the "Where Is My Bus App", an entire fleet of 106 buses plying on three routes – 45, 45A, and 45B – can be ...

    15 June 2025 Times of India
    Peerless forays into real estate with green building project

    Kolkata: Peerless General Finance and Investment Co Ltd (PGFI) has finally ventured into the real estate segment through a green building in New Town Action Area I.The construction of the mixed-use realty project, Trayam, which will include residential and ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    RBI rate relief to luxury car buyers but exchange rate concerns remain, says Mercedes-Benz India

    KOLKATA: The recent RBI interest rate reduction provided much-needed relief to luxury car buyers. Some of the price hikes that carmakers were forced to implement in recent years were offset by the rate cut, which helped maintain relatively stable ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Tollygunge doc recounts his tryst with tragedy

    1234 Kolkata: When surgery PGT doctor Biplab Pal and his colleagues at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad stepped out of their hostel — barely 500m from the hostel on which the Air India 787-8 Dreamliner crashed — to join duty ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Warm day with chance of rain and humidity

    These weather predictions are based on data from AQI.in, indicating a week characterized by fluctuating temperatures and increased rainfall patterns across Kolkata.Kolkata residents can expect a warm and moderately humid day on June 14, 2025, with temperatures ranging between ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    'Viswash effect': Demand for emergency exit seats soars after Ahmedabad plan crash survivor's escape; passengers want to book 'only 11A’

    KOLKATA: Call it the 'Viswash effect'. Demand and inquiries for seats near emergency exits on flights have increased across carriers. These seats, with extra legroom, cost more, and are in demand following the miraculous escape of Viswashkumar Ramesh. The ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Dreamliner crash shadow over IATA meet in Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: Air transport, airline and travel agent officials in Kolkata attending a workshop on Friday wore black armbands and observed a minute's silence to pay respect to the crash victims.The workshop was held jointly by the International Air ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Rooftop restos: Task force to form SOP for fire safety

    Kolkata: The state task force constituted to frame rules to ensure fire safety at restaurants, including rooftop establishments, is set to prepare an SOP and send it to the state for approval. Task force members will meet at the ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    OBC block cleared, revised lists out

    Kolkata: The state govt has published the revised OBC lists in a gazette notification, clearing the legal bottlenecks for the school and college admission process.Jadavpur University arts faculty admission committee held a meeting on Friday, where it was decided ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Counsellors allay concerns as crash reignites fear of flying

    123 Kolkata: The horrific images of the Ahmedabad crash have left a section of city flyers shaky and unsure about taking a flight. Many scheduled to fly over the next month sought help from psychiatrists and psychologists to overcome ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Former CM’s kin fly to Guj for last rites, community prays for lost lives

    1234 Kolkata: Umed Rupani, elder brother of former Guajarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, who died in the plane crash on Thursday, left Kolkata with his wife, Daksha, on Friday a 2pm flight to Ahmedabad to attend his youngest brother's ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Dual-engine failure or human error? Pilots on edge over cause

    Kolkata: Experienced pilots, awaiting investigation results of the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad, suggest two possible causes: an extremely rare simultaneous engine failure or incorrect cockpit response during an emergency, after eliminating other scenarios."What is clear from the ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Jitters under flight path: Residents near airport ill at ease after crash

    12 For the past 36 hours, Ruma Pal has followed every bit of news on the Ahmedabad plane crash. Each time, she shivered with fear, imagining the fate of the passengers and the hostel inmates. Her house at ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    RIP: Places of worship remember the dead

    1234 Kolkata: People from different faiths came together in Kolkata to express grief and solidarity following the tragic crash of an Air India 171 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad, which occurred shortly after take-off on Thursday and claimed 274 ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Viswash effect: Demand up for emergency exit seats

    12 Kolkata: Call it the ‘Viswash effect'. Demand and inquiries for seats near emergency exits on flights have increased across carriers. These seats, with extra legroom, cost more, and are in demand following the miraculous escape of Viswashkumar Ramesh. ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Admission goal: First-year UG classes to start on Aug 1

    Kolkata: The centralised admission portal for undergraduate admission, set to be launched by education minister Bratya Basu on Tuesday, will start functioning from Wednesday, June 18, said a higher education department notification on Friday. First-year UG classes, at institutes ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Lord Jagannath windfall for buses on Digha route

    Kolkata: There is a rush to visit the Lord Jagannath Temple in Digha, and the North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) is enjoying every bit of it. The NBSTC claimed to have sold tickets worth around Rs 20 lakh ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Govt introduces new auto, bus routes in city

    Kolkata: The state govt has notified six additional auto-rickshaw routes under the jurisdiction of the Kolkata Regional Transport Authority (RTA), with immediate effect.Permits were sanctioned for the following routes: Durganagar station to Majerhat (34 permits), Gorurhat to Gorabazar via ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC issues final warning to Kabir

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress legislative party's disciplinary committee issued a final warning on Friday to Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir, directing him to cease making statements that bring disrepute to the party.The MLA was called to meet parliamentary affairs minister ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    15 tea gardens reopen in Darjeeling, Alipurduar

    Kolkata: Fifteen tea gardens that had become non-operational in Darjeeling and Alipurduar have reopened since Jan this year following implementation of the state govt's SOP for short-term settlement of closed or abandoned gardens. This benefited a total of 14,484 ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    6.8L women under Lakshmir Bhandar getting pension

    123 Kolkata: More than 6.8 lakh women who had crossed the age of 60 were now receiving old age pensions under Bengal govt's Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, state minister for women, child development and social welfare Shashi Panja informed the ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Afternoon murder shocker in Bhowanipore

    12 Kolkata: A 35-year-old jewellery store manager was fatally stabbed in broad daylight following a road rage incident on Beninandan Street in Bhowanipore, which falls under Kalighat police station, on Friday afternoon. The victim, Soumen Ghara, was originally from ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Teachers’ delegation meets speaker, submits demands

    Kolkata: A five-member delegation of protesting teachers met speaker Biman Banerjee for around 10 minutes in the state assembly on Friday and submitted their demands.They sought a discussion in the assembly on their recruitment, to which the speaker said ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Minorities commission amendment bill passed in assembly

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Minorities Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed in the assembly on Friday, allowing the panel to have two vice-chairpersons for better and more effective functioning. State finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, who placed the bill in ...

    14 June 2025 Times of India
    Are you helping illegal constructions, HC asks civic body

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday questioned KMC's intent to act against an illegal construction on Sarat Bose Road. The municipal commissioner was directed to file a report disclosing the reason for "supporting" such unauthorised construction.Justice Amrita Sinha on ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Course correction at JU to clear engg ‘backlog’ mess

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University is set to introduce a restructured curriculum for its undergraduate engineering courses from this academic session, offering major and minor degrees and a mandatory six-month internship in the last semester. The reforms are aimed at enhancing ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Poila Baisakh ’26 date for Hwh Bridge dynamic light, audio

    Kolkata: Dynamic lighting will illuminate Howrah Bridge by Poila Baisakh next year, a KoPT official said on Thursday, two days after the port authorities signed an MoU with Coal India Ltd for the project. Along with the lights will ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Weather Update: Warm, humid day with high chance of rain on June 13, 2025

    Representational Image These weather conditions are verified by data from AQI.in.Kolkata residents can expect a warm and humid day on June 13, 2025, with temperatures ranging from 28.4°C to 36.9°C and an 88% chance of scattered rainfall. The partly ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    CM, Abhishek express shock, anguish after accident

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed shock on Thursday as news started trickling in about the Ahmedabad plane crash. In a post on X, chief minister Banerjee wrote, "Stunned and profoundly shocked to know of the most tragic Air ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops arrest 41, seize bomb raw materials

    1234 Kolkata: Forty-one people were arrested and a large amount of explosives were seized on Thursday, a day after the Maheshtala violence, in which 15 cops were injured, 10 from Kolkata Police and the rest from Bengal Police.While police ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    At ground zero, public glare on 16-sq-ft stall that sparked clash

    12 Kolkata: A one-ft-tall tulsi sapling, planted at the site of a 16-sq-ft fruit stall, barely metres from the Rabindranagar Police Station, was at the root of the violence at Santoshpur-Akra in Maheshtala that continued for over six hours ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Gujaratis hold prayer meet for crash victims

    123 Kolkata: The death and devastation played in loop on TV and social media left several Kolkata homes shocked and anxious on Thursday.Rishabh Kothari, Hindustan Club president and ex-MCCI president, was shattered. Among the victims were his close family ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    45-minute evacuation drive took 1,100 students from clash zone to safety

    12 Kolkata: As frenzied crowds went on the rampage outside the Rabindra Nagar Police Station and later, near the Akra Fatak market on Wednesday, Bengal as well as Kolkata Police had to keep in mind that more than 1,100 ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Safety most important during Digha rath: CM

    12 Kolkata: The safety and security of people arriving in Digha for the Rath Yatra should be of paramount importance, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a meeting on the marquee event scheduled for June 27. To prevent a ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Booked your hotspot yet? Cocktails & conversations get a makeover

    Be it a weekday or a weekend, Kolkata doesn’t just go out—it charts a course. Think: a 7 PM cocktail booking, 10 PM dinner elsewhere. The slow adda has evolved into a sharp shuffle through speakeasies and specialty bars. ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Sex racket kingpin claims being framed

    123456 Howrah: Shweta Khan, the Bankra adult film racket kingpin, was remanded to eight days in police custody by a Howrah court. Khan alleged that she was being framed by the Sodepur girl and claimed it was the girl ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Tagore house attack: Urge B’desh to deliver justice, Didi writes to Modi

    12 Kolkata: Reacting sharply to the vandalism of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral home in Bangladesh's Sirajganj, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to PM Narendra Modi, urging him to take up the matter with Bangladesh and urge the ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops: Killer was known to victim

    12 Kolkata: A day after Namita Paul (76) was found murdered inside her Sealdah residence on Wednesday evening, cops said that the murder was most likely committed by someone known to the victim."Paul was found lying in the first ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Traffic diversion for 3-hour daily Vidyasagar Setu closure till Sunday

    Kolkata: The Vidyasagar Setu will undergo temporary closures for three hours between 4.30 am and 7.30 am from Friday till Sunday to undergo essential repairs. Officials have advised commuters to use the alternative Howrah Bridge-Foreshore Road route. The Hooghly ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC’s trans person passport poser

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the passport authority to apprise on the status of a passport application of a transwoman on June 18. The transwoman applied for the passport in 2023.Anuprabha Das Majumder applied for a ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Two-week breather for Jayanth house

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on the proposed demolition of an illegal four-storey building owned by Kamarhati Trinamool leader Jayanth Singh on Pratap Rudra Lane of Ariadaha. Justice Kausik Chanda stayed the proposed ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Doc files stalk plaint against ex-schoolmate

    Kolkata: A 36-year-old Salt Lake doctor filed a formal complaint against her former schoolmate for alleged cyberstalking, harassment and issuing rape-and-death threats. She highlighted at length how the digital harassment affected her peace of mind for so many years.The ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Guj ex-CM’s kin in Kol mourn tragedy

    Kolkata: Umed Rupani (76), elder brother of former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani (68), was left shattered by a phone call from a relative in Gujarat that informed him of Air India's Ahmedabad-London flight crash, an hour after the ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Drama, says TMC after Suvendu’s tulsi march in city

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday alleged that "BJP's mask was slipping off" after BJP legislators tried to disrupt the assembly on the Maheshtala clashes, staging a walkout and then marching to the Raj Bhavan in protest. Pointing to ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s tea to be covered by Centre’s weather-based insurance

    Kolkata: Centre has introduced weather-based insurance for some plantation crops, including tea. Tea in Bengal, Assam and Kerala is under the scheme.In a circular issued on June 10, Union ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare said: "DA&FW, in collaboration ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    2 women lose 11L to phone banking cyber crooks

    Kolkata: Two incidents of cyber fraud were reported in the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate area, where fraudsters duped two women of over Rs 11 lakh through phone banking scams.In the first incident, Ganga Agarwal, a resident of a complex in ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Embezzlement plaint against ex-hubby

    Kolkata: A woman from Kolaghat, East Midnapore, filed a police complaint against her former husband for allegedly stealing and forging a cheque to embezzle Rs 20 lakh from her bank account, police said on Wednesday.The complaint, filed at Shakespeare ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Snow will melt, spring will come again: Omar

    123 Srinagar: "What happened on April 22 will not be quickly forgotten. But the winter will go, snow will melt, and spring will come again," J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday.Abdullah's words, at a convention hosted by ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    HC orders action against 2 judges for letting accused go undefended in court

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri circuit bench on Wednesday directed action against two judges — the chief judicial magistrate and the district and sessions judge (NDPS), Alipurduar — for not providing an advocate from legal aid to an ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Rare op saves man with cardiac issue

    123 Kolkata: A rare cardiac surgery at a private hospital saved the life of a 72-year-old man who had an ‘aortic bulge'—a swelling or enlargement—in the major blood vessel (aorta) inside the chest. This bulge was dangerously close to ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    From ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ to ‘Raghu Dakat’, Tollywood faces heat challenge

    Kolkata: During the presentation of ‘Aranyer Din Ratri' at Cannes, Sharmila Tagore remembered how difficult it was to shoot for the film in May, 1969. It was so hot that the unit could shoot only between 5:30 am till ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Alfred Ford and wife keen to visit Jagannath temple in Digha

    KOLKATA: Alfred Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Co, will visit the Jagannath temple in Digha with his wife, Sharmila, sometime late this year or early next year, the couple confirmed."We eagerly look forward ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Jangalmahal's pride: Jana Mandi’s short film ‘Papaya’ earns global praise in Germany

    KHARAGPUR: A film from Jangalmahal has achieved international recognition, following its creator's 'Iron Man' success in Germany. Jana Mandi, who originates from Jangalmahal, continues to make waves internationally. His Bengali short film 'Papaya' was featured at the prestigious Eberhard ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    City cools down with healthy, seasonal drinks

    Mango madness, a signature summer drink with mango pulp and sesame seeds. Pic: Anindya Saha From refreshing, low-sugar concoctions to the undisputed reign of the magnificent mango, Kolkata’s cafes and restaurants are stirring up delightful beverages to beat the ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal makes minor tweaks to OBC list struck down by HC

    KOLKATA: Bengal's new OBC list, tabled by state govt in the assembly on Tuesday, has minor changes compared to the previous list. While the earlier list, struck down by the Calcutta High Court, had 113 OBC subgroups with 77 ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Warm and humid with chance of rain

    Kolkata's weather forecast for June 12, 2025, predicts a warm and humid day with temperatures ranging between 28.6°C and 36.5°C, accompanied by a 87% chance of rain and humidity levels around 61%.The city can expect patchy rainfall with 0.66 ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Doctors dread Covid-monsoon viral overlap, advise caution

    Kolkata: With the current Covid-19 situation showing no sign of slowing down, and with monsoon around the corner, health experts fear the surfacing of co-infections of Covid-19 with other viral, bacterial, and vector infections. From one active case until ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Rooftop restos submit docus, 2nd hearing likely

    Kolkata: The KMC received the requisite documents from three rooftop restaurants that participated in a hearing on May 28. The court-directed hearing on that day remained inconclusive as the owners of these restaurants failed to produce "some documents" needed ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Early Khuti Puja at clubs for more puja prep time

    Kolkata: Many Durga Puja organisers in the city held their Khuti Puja on Wednesday, making an early start to the months-long planning for Bengal's biggest festival. The puja coincided with Snan Yatra; it is usually held around Rath Yatra, ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake woman loses 8.8L in digi-arrest fraud

    12 Kolkata: A 63-year-old woman from Salt Lake fell victim to digital-arrest fraud in which she received WhatsApp video extortion calls in the name of Mumbai Police and the ED, losing Rs 8.8 lakh. She then continued to suffer ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Police arrest Howrah sex racket kingpin, son

    12 Howrah: After five days of evading arrest by changing her hideouts, Shweta Khan, alias Fultusi (43), finally landed in police net on Wednesday evening. The arrest came hours after the police picked up her 21-year-old son Aryan Khan ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Glimmer of hope: Kol prof discovers 2 firefly species

    12 Kolkata: Two new species of fireflies have been discovered by a city researcher who has been studying these fascinating insects for nearly a decade.Bethune College assistant professor Srinjana Ghosh found one firefly at the Sunderbans world heritage site ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    A day after KMC’s anti-vagrant drive, homeless people return to Park Circus and Gariahat

    1234 Kolkata: A day after KMC's drive on Tuesday to shift homeless people from pavements to its shelter homes, the vagrant families returned to their "spots" at Park Circus and Gariahat, complete with their belongings, on Wednesday. They refused ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Resume direct flights, reduce hotel tariffs to revive tourism in Kashmir’

    Srinagar: The travel trade industry has appealed to airlines to resume flights to Srinagar that were discontinued after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 so that tourism in Kashmir can revive. While all flights to Srinagar, Jammu and ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal makes minor tweaks to OBC list struck down by HC

    12 Kolkata: Bengal's new OBC list, tabled by state govt in the assembly on Tuesday, has minor changes compared to the previous list. While the earlier list, struck down by the Calcutta High Court, had 113 OBC subgroups with ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    JU engg faculty council discusses backlog report

    Kolkata: A Jadavpur University internal survey report on the issue of an increased number of engineering students failing in different subjects, especially in theory papers, was presented at the engineering faculty council meeting on Wednesday. TOI reported on Monday ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man held in Guj for Kalna boy’s torture

    Kalna: An imitation jewellery manufacturer, Hapal Mollah, was arrested from Rajkot, Gujarat, for allegedly thrashing a 10-year-old boy from Kalna. The boy, who worked at the unit, was reportedly strung upside down and beaten with iron rods by Mollah. ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur team wins national ideathon under ‘save water’ category

    Kharagpur: Out of 21 innovative solutions chosen from 1,384 entries received from across India, a sustainable waste management solution proposed by a IIT-Kharagpur team has bagged the first prize at a national ideathon, ‘Ideas4LiFE', under the ‘save water' category. ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Thief takes Covid cover to loot cafe in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A thief cited Covid protocols to conceal his identity by wearing a cap ‘pulled down upto the eyes' and masks, posed as a cleaning staffer and looted Rs 67,000 in cash from a popular café on Woodburn Road ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Jawan dials 112, gets lost bike back in 1 hr

    Kolkata: A CISF head constable posted at Kolkata International Airport, Suman Nag, dialled 112, the national helpline number, instead of 100 after his bike went missing from the Mahajati Nagar market near Birati on Tuesday, and within one hour ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Maheshtala clash: Cops hurt, govt vehicles set afire in West Bengal violence

    KOLKATA: Five policemen, including DC (Port) Harikrishna Pai , were injured and two govt vehicles were damaged and a bike was set ablaze when cops tried to stop clashes in the Rabindranagar-Akra near Maheshtala on Wednesday. Police resorted to ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops start arresting bus drivers for rash driving to make city roads safer

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police will now arrest bus drivers if they drive dangerously, in addition to imposing steep fines and recommending the temporary suspension of licences. According to the police, dangerous driving will include zigzag overtakes, jumping red ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man kills wife, child, survives suicide attempt

    12 Uttarpara: A woman and her four-year-old daughter were found dead— smeared in blood from knife injuries— at their rented accommodation at Bhadrakali area in Hind Motor on Wednesday morning. Beside Payel Chatterjee (24) and daughter Adrita (4) was ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    76-yr-old found dead with ligature marks

    Kolkata: A 76-year-old woman, Namita Paul, was found dead with ligature marks on her neck inside her locked house on Serpentine Lane on Wednesday evening. Cops from Muchipara PS have initiated a murder case and are investigating the angle ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Partha files bail plea in HC

    Kolkata: Former education minister Partha Chatterjee, prime accused in the cash-for-jobs case, filed a bail application before Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.Chatterjee, who has been in custody since July 2022, moved a "statutory bail" application under Section 436 of ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    HC commutes death sentence of ex who stabbed girl 45 times

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty awarded to a 24-year-old, for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 45 times, to life imprisonment with a 40-year bar on any remission plea. The HC said the murder was not the ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    HC to Suvendu: What do you have to fear inside assembly?

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari what he had to fear inside the assembly. The court posed the question to Adhikari's counsel while hearing a petition filed by the BJP neta seeking ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC moves privilege motion on Adhikari over CM comments

    Kolkata: A privilege motion submitted by TMC legislators against leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari was tabled in the state assembly on Wednesday and forwarded to the privilege committee. This was after Adhikari allegedly made "defamatory and untrue" comments against ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    STF seizes 1.5kg heroin, arrests 2 in Murshidabad raid

    12 Kolkata: Bengal Police's STF on Tuesday seized 1.5kg of heroin and cash worth over Rs 1 crore and arrested two persons during a raid in Murshidabad district's Shamsherganj.One of the suspects was identified as Jalal Uddin Barbhuiya (53) ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 11-yr-old girl

    Jalpaiguri: A special Pocso court in Jalpaiguri sentenced 31-year-old Haripada Roy to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, categorising it as a "rarest of rare" case. The incident occurred on Sept 29, 2023 in Tuklimari, ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Rs 2cr in cash and jewellery stolen from north Kolkata flat as family sleeps; thieves ate almonds during heist, went for almirah with jewellery’

    KOLKATA: Burglars broke into a five-bedroom apartment in a building on Ultadanga Main Road close to Hudco crossing early on Monday and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore. The family members, who were asleep during the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Howrah sex racket kingpin Shweta Khan’s son Ariyan, aide held; Fultusi still on the run

    Ariyan Khan and his aide were arrested in Kolkata for allegedly running a sex and pornography racket disguised as an event management firm, Ishara Productions. The arrest followed the escape of a victim who reported confinement and torture. NEW ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Probe RG Kar case more carefully: Court

    Kolkata: The Sealdah court, which is hearing the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, asked the CBI to give more "importance" to the investigation of a case that is "very sensitive".The agency, which submitted the fourth status report of the case ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘National security failure’: Mamata Banerjee slams Centre, lauds armed forces; skips ‘ Operation Sindoor’ mention

    KOLKATA: The Bengal assembly on Tuesday tabled a resolution lauding the armed forces’ response to the Pahalgam carnage without mentioning “Operation Sindoor” by name as CM Mamata Banerjee demanded the Centre’s resignation for it's failure to hunt down the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Our life’s savings stolen’: North Kolkata family robbed of Rs 2 crore in night heist; while family asleep

    KOLKATA: Burglars broke into a five-bedroom apartment in a building on Ultadanga Main Road close to Hudco crossing early on Monday and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore. The family members, who were asleep during the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Green corridor for airlifted Tripura patient

    Kolkata: ESI Hospital Joka, along with Kolkata Police, on Tuesday created a green corridor for a brain haemorrhage patient, who was brought to the city airport by an air ambulance from Tripura. The patient, Gourab Pal (23) is a ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
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