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  • Maha Kumbh’s find Monalisa Bhonsle was first spotted 3 years back during Goutam Ghose’s shooting

    The first photoshoot Monalisa Bhonsle did in 2022 KOLKATA: Maha Kumbh’s find, Monalisa Bhonsle, was initially spotted three years back during Goutam Ghose’s shooting. The viral bead seller with a dusky complexion, amber eyes, a distinctive nose, and chiselled ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Targeted therapy, immunotherapy to dominate cancer treatment

    Kolkata: Cancer care is set to take a leap forward across multiple city hospitals that are enhancing oncology units even as World Cancer Day is observed on Tuesday. Besides significant increases in clinical and infrastructural facilities for cancer, several ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Ray classic catches re-release wave, will return to big screen on Feb 21

    Kolkata: The restored version of Satyajit Ray's ‘Nayak', starring Uttam Kumar, that will have its 59th anniversary in 2025, will be re-released in Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai on Feb 21. The film was restored to ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    ‘Short-span cloud cover unlikely to harm crops’

    Kolkata: The short-term cloud cover and low-sunlight span of less than five days were unlikely to affect agri-production in Bengal, said agriculture experts. Over the past few days, multiple districts of Bengal have been witness to fog—dense at some ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Bypass murder: KP to move juvenile justice board on Feb 15

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police will move the Juvenile Justice Board on Feb 15, seeking psychological tests to be done on a 16-year-old boy, who has been apprehended for the murder of a 24-year-old woman on the street at Metropolitan on ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Extend bus life: state plea to HC

    Kolkata: The state govt has moved the Calcutta High Court, proposing the extension of commercial vehicles' lifespan and increase the deadline from 15 years to 20 years. This aligns with the national policy that prioritises fitness and emission levels ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Honour for Tandon: Maestros in Kol bask in Grammy glory

    1234 Kolkata: Vidushi Subhra Guha experienced one of the most illustrious moments of her pedagogical career when her disciple, Chandrika Tandon, secured the Grammy this year. The Indian-American distinguished business magnate and accomplished virtuoso received ‘talim' from the Sangeet ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Legal experts bat for reforms to reduce tax disputes

    123 Kolkata: The city's leading legal minds want the proposed direct tax code to address tax litigations, which, in turn, will benefit the exchequer. The managing partner of Fox & Mandal, Debanjan Mandal, and senior partner of Khaitan & ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    CISCE colour codes to prevent paper goof-ups

    Kolkata: Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will introduce colour-coded question-paper bundles in this year's board exams to minimise chances of question paper goof-ups.The council conducts the ICSE and ISC exams, which are taken by Class 10 ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    No-cheat vow a must from Madhyamik 2025

    Kolkata: Madhyamik examinees will, from this year onwards, be required to take a seven-point pledge as part of measures to discourage cheating.This year's exams start on Feb 10 (next Monday).The pledge lists seven practices that examinees must vow to ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Ex-BF assaults woman, threatens with knives

    Kolkata: A delivery boy, Amit Chakraborty (27), armed with a knife, dagger and screw-driver, landed up at his former girlfriend's house, assaulted her and threatened her with dire consequences. Cops from the Cossipore police station arrested him on Sunday. ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Saraswati Puja at Visva-Bharati sparks a furore

    123 Kolkata: Controversy broke out on Monday after a video clip emerged showing several students performing Saraswati Puja in a Visva-Bharati boys' hostel, against the university tradition that discourages idol worship.The incident was reported from Shantishree Boys' Hostel guest ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Rape, murder bid on woman in Joynagar

    Kolkata: A woman was found in a severely injured state, after allegedly surviving a rape and a murder attempt, in a field in Joynagar on Sunday. The survivor, who is in critical condition, is undergoing treatment at Baruipur Super ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Budget proposal: 13,955 cr for railways in Bengal

    123 Kolkata: The Union Budget proposals that was placed in Parliament on Saturday, made an allocation of Rs 13,955 crore for Bengal railways sector. It is slightly higher than the previous fiscal's allocation of Rs 13,941 crore. In a ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    India beat UK in friendly T20 tourney

    123 Kolkata: An Indian team beat an English side in a two-day friendly T20 tournament at the Maidan on Sunday. In the second edition of the Bengal-Britain Travel Friendship Cup 2025 – an initiative to boost tourism, cultural exchange, ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Fake Netaji Nagar call centre busted, 10 held

    123 Kolkata: The detective department's bank fraud section has busted a fake call centre running from a rented house at Netaji Nagar and arrested 10 persons. The accused were cheating Australian and US nationals. The seizures include one laptop, ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    2 held for ATM card theft from senior citizen

    123 Kolkata: The detective department has solved a case of snatching in which an octogenarian citizen was tricked, and his debit and ATM cards were snatched from him by two men who then withdrew Rs 62,000 from his account.The ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Sun to come out, mercury to rise before dipping again on weekend

    123 Kolkata: The city has been experiencing abnormally high temperatures over the past few days but from Tuesday, the fog and the cloud cover is expected to clear up, leading to a slide in mercury. The Met officials have ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    4 held after Saraswati Puja revellers clash with bikers

    Kolkata: Two persons were injured and had to be hospitalised and four individuals were arrested following a late-night altercation that took place in front of a Saraswati Puja pandal on Suresh Sarkar Road, close to the Anand Palit Road ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Muslim clerk leads puja prep, keeps tradition alive at Bongaon court

    Kolkata: The Saraswati Puja organised by the Bongaon Lawyers' Clerks Forum turned out to be a symbol of communal harmony at Bongaon court. Mohibul Siddiqui, a member of the forum, took the lead in organizing and personally overseeing all ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    In Midnapore, school grants girl’s wish to be Saraswati Puja priest

    Kolkata: Breaking the stereotype, a Class IX schoolgirl in Kharagpur replaced a male priest and conducted Saraswati Puja on Monday. Tanwi Chakraborty (15) led the rituals, including bani archana, aarti, pushpanjali and hatey khori, as other students and teachers ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Stay alert, poor AQI-low sunlight combo may take a toll on your health: Experts

    Kolkata: The start to Feb saw dramatic fluctuations in the city's air quality, with cloud cover playing a significant role in reducing vertical wind speed, leading to AQI spikes, while moisture incursion helped mitigate the impact. High wind speed ...

    4 February 2025 Times of India
    Senior TMC neta ‘attacked’ on highway, claims ‘threat to life’

    Malda: Veteran Trinamool Congress MLA and former minister Sabitri Mitra on Sunday alleged she had been attacked while returning to English Bazaar from her constituency Manikchak on Saturday night. Mitra lodged a formal complaint with the party seniors and ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    India’s oldest zoo gets 150-year-old documents, hand-written records in digital format

    KOLKATA: Do you know that three giant tortoises, one of them the popular ‘Adwaita’, had arrived at Alipore zoo — India’s oldest formally stated zoological park — on May 25, 1895, alongside a cheetah, a long-eared fox and two ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Nagging cough-and-cold infection leaves many 'voiceless' in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A cough and cold outbreak has left thousands of Kolkatans with sore throat, including many who have suffered a temporary loss of voice. The latter suffered from a persistent cold that lasted three to four weeks despite medication, ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    3 Bengal climbers conquer Mt Aconcagua and Ojos del Salado

    123 Kolkata: Three climbers from West Bengal made it to the summit of Mount Aconcagua—the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, and Ojos Del Salado—the highest volcanic mountain in the world. While the three of them reached the peak ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    TMC, INDIA partners file motion in RS seeking debate on Kumbh deaths

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha deputy leader Sagarika Ghose, along with MPs from Samajwadi Party, Congress, AAP, NCP, and Shiv Sena (UBT), has filed a motion under Rule 267 in the Rajya Sabha, urging chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    One held, 4 detained for Naihati murder

    123 Kolkata: One person has been arrested on Sunday in connection with the brutal murder of businessman and Trinamool leader Santosh Yadav at Naihati in North24-Parganas.Yadav, a resident of Naihati's Gouripur and was associated with transport business was shot ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    College Street ‘book fair’, too, draws city’s bibliophile crowd

    1234 Kolkata: Nestled amid iconic educational institutions, the pavements in College Street on Saraswati Puja morning witnessed Charles Dickens jostling for space with Yuval Noah Harari at the traditional Saraswati Puja book fair. Bibliophiles and casual book lovers thronged ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Unani gang of Rajasthan dupes Kolkata senior citizen of 2.4L

    123 Kolkata: A gang of fraudsters from Rajasthan, who claimed to be Unani practitioners, allegedly duped a senior citizen, Kailash Kr Agarwal (66), of Middleton Row of Rs 2.4 lakh on the pretext of healing his wife of skin ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Less work left, Kolkata Metro projects may see budget cut: Officials

    Kolkata: Allocations for Metro projects for the upcoming fiscal may be less than last financial year's, officials felt as they waited for the Pink Book — an annual detailed programme published by Railway ministry for works — to be ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Mesh tears through Kolkata cancer survivor’s stomach, taken out

    Kolkata: A 72-year-old female pancreatic cancer survivor, whose stomach was ripped by an intestinal mesh implanted to prevent a relapse of her hernia, was saved following a complex surgery performed by a team of doctors at a private hospital ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    7 injured as car rams 2-wheelers, truck in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Seven people were injured in a pile-up road accident on Sunday afternoon when a private car rammed into two scooters, a motorbike, a pedestrian and a mini-truck at the BB Ganguly Street-Phears Lane crossing in Bowbazar around 2 ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    East Bengal officials take refereeing plaint to Mandaviya

    Kolkata: East Bengal officials on Sunday called on Mansukh L Mandaviya, apprising the Union sports minister of the sorry state of affairs in Indian football and how the red-and-gold team has been victimized because of poor refereeing.Senior East Bengal ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Two Saraswati pujas in one college in min-MP-cop presence

    123 Kolkata: Two separate Saraswati pujas were held on Sunday at Jogesh Chandra Choudhuri's Law College and Day College, with the former's on the campus and the latter's outside, under CCTV surveillance and armed police guards, based on a ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Decorative lighting, fresh paint: Kol decks up for BGBS

    123 Kolkata: The Salt Lake Bypass stretch connecting Sector V with EM Bypass, Ultadanga flyover, Chingrighata flyover, Ambedkar Bridge and Maa flyover and Lake Town's Big Ben replica are getting decked up ahead of the Bengal Global Business Summit ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Vintage vroom: Old beauties on wheels lord over city roads

    123456 Kolkata: As many as 70 cars and 24 motorcycles, including a 1913 Stoewer and a 1923 Panther Sloper motorcycle, participated at the vintage and classic car rally organised by the Automobile Association of Eastern India (AAEI) on Sunday ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Kol BTech graduate held for digital arrest

    123 Asansol: A 26-year-old woman from south Kolkata, a B Tech graduate, emerged as the kingpin in a nine-member gang of digital arrest scammers. They were arrested by Asansol Police from Kolkata, its northern fringes, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Murder near Bypass eatery: Hunt on for minor’s father

    Kolkata: Almost 72 hours after 24-year-old Rafiya Shakil, a resident of Rajarhat,, was murdered by a minor, his mother, and his cousin, witness accounts from near a Bypass dhaba suggest that the accused had an altercation with the victim ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Morning flight ops hit as dense fog reduces visibility

    Kolkata: Thick fog and poor visibility hampered flight movement at Kolkata airport on Sunday. Officers said that between 5.40 am and 8 am, 39 flights operated on time instead of the scheduled 50. Airport director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    4 lakh book lovers troop into Boimela on its first Sunday

    Kolkata: The first weekend of the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) saw a huge crowd. Guild officials said there were around 4 lakh visitors to the book fair on Saraswati Puja. With the puja coinciding with the book ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    From Constitution to recycling, it’s themes galore at school-college Saraswati pujas

    Kolkata: From historic events to burning issues and artwork with a social message, Saraswati Puja themes ruled the celebrations across educational institutions in the city. At BDM International School, the idol and props were made of recycled materials, like ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Ultrasonic booms to check bird hits at Kolkata airport

    123 Kolkata: The city airport will now deploy sonic and ultrasonic sound waves to scare off birds in a bid to prevent aircraft bird strikes. In the past, the airport employed bird chasers and also burst crackers to scare ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Max falls a notch on cloudy Sun, min may dip to 18°C this week

    Kolkata: The temperature started dipping in Kolkata on Sunday even as it remained cloudy and humid. With a high-pressure zone over Bay of Bengal, which was infusing moisture into the region, receding, the maximum temperature slid to 26.6°C from ...

    3 February 2025 Times of India
    Bengal end on winning note

    123 Kolkata: In a fitting farewell to Wriddhiman Saha, Bengal thrashed Punjab by an innings and 13 runs in their final Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘C' league match at the Eden Gardens here on Saturday.Saha, who always put team ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    MLA quizzed

    Kolkata: Cooch Behar South MLA Nikhil Ranjan Dey was questioned by cops on Saturday over a case, where Rs 5 lakh was demanded from Kalna civic chairman Anand Dutta, using a Trinamool MP's name. Three men from the MLA ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Leather Complex tragedy: 3 labourers die on manhole duty

    Kolkata: Three labourers who climbed down a 10-foot-deep manhole, supposedly to repair a connection joint of the sewer drain at Kolkata Leather Complex premises, without any protective and support gear, died, possibly after inhaling toxic gases and drowning on ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    ‘Overage’ candidates not to blame for long recruitment process: HC

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court allowed candidates, who over-aged during the recruitment process of 2022 conducted by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the post of junior assistant (fire service), to take part in the 2024 recruitment.The age ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Harassed by locals, jumbo chases earthmover, damages watchtower in Damdim

    Jalpaiguri: A solitary wild elephant that came out of Apalchand forest in north Bengal on Saturday morning, chased an earthmover machine and damaged a watchtower in Damdim after being harassed and chased by locals and the driver of the ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Veteran TMC MLA Nasiruddin Ahmed dies of cardiac arrest in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress party's senior legislator from the Kaliganj constituency in Nadia district, Nasiruddin Ahmed, died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday, according to party officials.Ahmed experienced health complications at his home around 11.50pm on Saturday and was immediately ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata airport adopts sonic warfare against bird strikes to enhance flight safety

    Kolkata airport is implementing sonic and ultrasonic sound waves to deter birds and reduce aircraft bird strikes, with confirmed incidents increasing post-pandemic. KOLKATA: Kolkata airport will now deploy sonic and ultrasonic sound waves to scare off birds and ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Police want 16-year-old to be tried as an adult

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police will get a psychological test done on a 16-year-old boy, who has been apprehended for murdering a 24-year-old woman, his father's girlfriend, on the street near EM Bypass on Thursday night with the help of his ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    4 crore people in West Bengal to benefit from Budget largesse for MSMEs

    KOLKATA: Samar Das, an employee of a chemical unit near Kashipore, was happy that his firm, previously classified as a medium-sized enterprise, would now be termed a small enterprise. This change would result in more work for the firm, ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Edu minister to participate in law college Saraswati Puja

    Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu on Saturday said he would visit the Saraswati Puja at Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College on Sunday to see how it was being organised. He added the education department had submitted a report ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    City’s healthscape to get neuro, multispeciality boost

    Kolkata: The city is set to witness a major expansion in neurological treatment across several private hospitals this year. The state's only private hospital that specialises in neurosciences is ready to launch a ‘neurosciences campus' that will include a ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Fires at Hogg St, Rashbehari Ave in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A fire, possibly caused due to short-circuit, broke out at a Hogg Street bar in Futani Chambers near New Market on Saturday morning, causing temporary traffic disruption on SN Banerjee Road. Five fire tenders brought the blaze under ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    At 22.6°C, Kolkata min temp continues to rise but Met eyes slight dip mid-wk

    123 Kolkata: Some parts of the city woke up to a morning drizzle on Saturday even as it remained cloudy and humid for the rest of the day. The Met office, however, ruled out chances of further showers. It ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    7 missing Kumbh pilgrims from Bengal return home

    123456 Malda/Howrah/Siliguri/West Midnapore/Kolkata: At least seven more pilgrims from Bengal, some of whom had gone missing following the stampede at Mahakumbh in Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), returned home. Many had a harrowing tale to narrate, on their return.The Ghoshes of ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar student found hanging

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old second-year MBBS student from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was found hanging in her room at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters, where her mother works as a doctor. Her father, a senior official at a ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    NKDA hosts property tax assistance camp in New Town

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority is conducting a property tax and mutation assistance camp to help residents clarify their property tax queries.The camp will continue till March 31 on the ground floor of the NKDA administrative building ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    TMC calls budget an ‘election stunt’, slams Bengal’s ‘economic betrayal’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday criticised the Union Budget, saying that relief to the middle class in taxes would be nothing but a misnomer if price rise and inflation were not arrested immediately. Calling the 100% FDI in insurance move ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Bkp gets new top cop

    Kolkata: Ajay Kumar Thakur was posted as the police commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate on Saturday. Thakur was DIG (jails) and also worked in Barrackpore Police Commissionerate earlier. Alok Rajoria, who was the police commissioner of Barrackpore, is now ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Bagjola canal: BMC to undertake clean-up work

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation plans to undertake pollution abatement work on the Bagjola Canal. "The plan is to set up new sewage treatment plants with connecting interception and diversion lines from the drains so that the sewer water ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Demolition begins, mayor eyes ‘Banglar Bari’ solution for homeless

    Kolkata: KMC on Friday could finally start the demolition of the illegal six-storey building on Christopher Road that had started tilting but not before having talks with the flat owners and convincing them that only the fifth floor would ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Budget tax relief: Middle class happy with extra cash in hand

    Kolkata: Initial doubts about tax benefits for middle-class earners transformed into joy as finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced tax concessions on Saturday afternoon. The announcement left citizens across Kolkata visibly pleased.Despite uncertainties about the forthcoming Income-Tax Bill, people celebrated ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Realty sector eyes boost for 2nd home sales

    Kolkata: A higher disposable income among the middle class, with income up to Rs 24 lakh per annum, is expected to increase housing affordability and trigger growth in sales of affordable housing, which saw a decline in the past ...

    2 February 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s Kumbh toll climbs to 4, no trace of 4 others

    123456 Malda/Siliguri/Suri: The Bengal death toll in the Kumbh stampede rose to four on Friday. Four more Bengal residents, including one from Kolkata, are still missing. The toll increased as the body of 33-year-old Malda school teacher, Amiya Saha, ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Union budget has nothing for West Bengal, says TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee

    Abhishek Banerjee NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the Union Budget 2025-26 has "nothing" for West Bengal, alleging that the state continues to remain "deprived" under the BJP-led NDA rule at the Centre. Banerjee, ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Bizman in centre of drama missing, flashy lifestyle talk of central Kol neighbourhood

    123 Kolkata: The "missing" businessman from central Kolkata, whose minor son and wife were apprehended on Friday for murdering his girlfriend near an eatery on EM Bypass on Thursday, was known to lead a "flashy" lifestyle, his neighbours told ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Kumbh returnees: Focus on VIPs, we were treated like cattle

    123 Kolkata/Midnapore/Berhampore: Hundreds of pilgrims, who returned home from Mahakumbh to Kolkata in special trains and cars on Friday, narrated the horror and mismanagement of the fair organisers in Uttar Pradesh. They spoke about how several lanes and channels ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal health dept recalls saline, critical drugs supplied by 2nd blacklisted company

    KOLKATA: Bengal health department on Friday recalled all types of saline and several drugs manufactured and supplied by Pharma Impex Laboratories and directed govt hospitals and CMOH of all districts to stop their use immediately. The hospitals have been ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Another body reaches West Bengal, toll touches 4, 4 pilgrims still missing

    KOLKATA: Bengal's death toll in the Kumbh stampede rose to four on Friday with the body of a 33-year-old primary school teacher reaching his home in Malda. Amiya Saha fell down during the stampede and experienced severe chest pain ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Fire breaks out at eatery near New Market in Kolkata

    Representative image NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at an eatery in central Kolkata's Esplanade area on Saturday morning, an official said. The fire, which started at 8.26 am, was extinguished by 9.55 am, according to the fire ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    'Hit with brick repeatedly': Businessman shot dead in West Bengal's Naihati

    KOLKATA: A businessman, Santosh Yadav, was shot at and battered with a stone by a group of goons in a crowded locality at Naihati's Jorabari-Banerjee Para on Friday afternoon.Locals said around 4.30 pm, when Yadav was returning his Gouripur ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Kin cremate Kumbh dead after 66-hour wait for death certs

    12 Kolkata/Midnapore/Burdwan: The kin of three deceased pilgrims in the Mahakumbh stampede, who alleged they did not receive valid death certificates from the Uttar Pradesh administration, were finally able to cremate the semi-decomposed bodies more than 66 hours later ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Day after snub, CBI gets time till Sat

    A day after the special CBI court issued a show-cause to the agency, the CBI on Friday placed just 70% of the "relied-upon" documents in the court. "We refused to accept that. The judge asked the agency to submit ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    HC: Systematic delay in Sandip corruption trial

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to modify the order directing the trial court to consider the materials to start the trial of Sandip Ghosh within seven days, stating that there was already a "systematic delay".The CBI ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    After HC order, WBMC registrar quits

    Kolkata: A day after the Calcutta High Court asked Manas Chakraborti to resign from the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) registrar's post, he tendered his resignation. Sources in the council said the written test for recruiting the registrar and ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Repair-deck plan for Maa breakdown snarls

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has agreed to the construction of extended decks at four points on the Maa Flyover, where vehicles, getting stalled on the elevated corridor, can be parked. The Kolkata Traffic Police has been ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Aspirin for would-be moms at state units

    Kolkata: The state health department will roll out prophylactic low dose aspirin for at-risk pregnant women from govt health facilities across the state. Sources said the decision was taken following an expert committee's recommendation, based on the positive results ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    From schools to clubs, ‘theme’ seeps into Saraswati Puja decorations

    1234 Kolkata: Inspired by the innovations at Durga Puja pandals, Saraswati Puja organisers have also started treading the "theme" path. Salil Chowdhury's birth centenary and College Street boi para are the themes at two schools this year. On the ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    E-W gets last rake

    Kolkata: The last BEML-made rake for East-West Metro arrived on Thursday, completing the fleet of 17 futuristic rakes. On Dec 5 last year, KMRC, which is implementing the Rs 10,000-crore E-W Metro corridor, received its 16th rake. The 15th ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    High court: Organise Saraswati Puja at college under cop watch

    123456 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday asked police to remove a makeshift pandal outside the main building of Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Day College and Law College by Saturday noon to allow the law college students to perform ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Orange Line steams ahead with last Budget’s record allocation

    Kolkata: Armed with the highest allocation ever for a single metro corridor in Kolkata (Rs 1,791 crore), railways revised Phase II plans for Orange Line, overcoming land hurdles at Metropolitan, Chingrighata and Nicco Park in the last two years. ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek questions official Kumbh stampede toll

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday questioned the official Maha Kumbh stampede death toll and described the arrangements and planning as "shoddy"."Till now, they haven't provided the official govt figures (total number of casualties). As far ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Woman, stabbed by boyfriend’s son & wife, dies at city hospital

    Kolkata: The 24-year-old IT firm employee who was attacked by a teenager near a popular eatery and tea joint at Metropolitan off EM Bypass died of her injuries at NRS Hospital in the early hours of Friday. The victim, ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    State to get Rs 740cr from rural development min

    123 Kolkata: The state govt is likely to receive Rs 740 crore in financial aid from the Centre's rural development ministry this fiscal year.CM Mamata Banerjee has written PM Narendra Modi several letters regarding the state's pending dues. TMC ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Temp rises, AQI improves; 5 of 7 stns in ‘satisfactory’ zone

    123 Kolkata: The city witnessed an extraordinary recovery in air quality on the last day of Jan, with five out of seven automatic air quality monitoring stations in the city registering ‘satisfactory' levels, marked by a light green AQI ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    FFI celebrates Raj Kapoor’s 100th anniv

    123 Kolkata: The Film Federation of India (FFI) celebrated Raj Kapoor's 100th birth anniversary with a two-day programme in Kolkata.While the programme featured felicitations, panel discussions and a performance by the Calcutta Youth Choir, the biggest attraction was Abhishek ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata witnesses warmest Jan in over a decade

    123 Kolkata: The lowest Jan temperature this year in Kolkata is the highest among the lowest temperatures of the month in at least the past one and a half decades. With the cold spells lasting barely two to three ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    24 hrs later, attack zone residents cower in shock

    123 Kolkata: Twenty-four hours after a 24-year-old woman was stabbed by a minor in full public view before a popular dhaba and a tea stall at Metropolitan off EM Bypass, the area that turns into a happening hangout zone ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Khatal plaint row: Mayor orders probe against staffer

    123 Kolkatya: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department will conduct a probe into the role of one of its staff in the borough who allegedly threatened a resident of Paschim Putiary (close to Kudghat) after he complained about ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    World Bank officials visit Sundarbans for embankment project

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt is embarking on a Rs 4,100-crore project to address the issue of erosion in the Sundarbans. While World Bank (WB) would bear 70% of the cost, state govt will fund the remaining Rs 1,230 crore.State ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    FICCI & CII’s exec council meets to converge at BGBS ’25

    Kolkata: For the third time in succession, the national executive council meetings of apex chambers FICCI and CII will converge at the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS). The 8th edition of the Feb 5-6 summit will also witness the ...

    1 February 2025 Times of India
    Kol Police busts crypto fraud, recovers 2 crore

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has made one of the biggest recoveries ever concerning defrauded money parked in multiple cryptocurrency accounts. On Friday, the detective department said it recovered Rs 2.1 crore of money cheated from digital arrest victims. ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
    Chased, stabbed repeatedly on neck: Kolkata woman killed in horrifying attack outside crowded eatery

    Representative Image NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old woman was chased and repeatedly stabbed outside a popular eatery in eastern Kolkata on Thursday evening, police said on Friday.Three people, including a minor, have been arrested for the attack, which took place ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
    Stop cultivation of tall crops near Indo-Bangla border to deny infiltrators cover: BSF to state

    KOLKATA: Border Security Force has written to the state chief secretary and all district magistrates to liaise with the agricultural department and farming communities to restrict cultivation of tall crops like sugarcane, jute, mustard and bananas near the India-Bangladesh ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
    Maha Kumbh stampede: West Bengal toll at 3 now, 2 bodies return but without valid death certificates

    Maha Kumbh 2025 KOLKATA/MIDNAPORE: The bodies of two elderly women - one from Kolkata's Bijoygarh and another from West Midnapore's Salboni - reached Bengal on Thursday evening after a 16-hour-plus road journey from Prayagraj but without official death certificates ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
    City’s min temp in 20s, max may touch 30s

    123 Kolkata: The mercury shot up sharply on Thursday, bringing a summer feel. At 21 degrees Celsius, the minimum temperature was a whopping 6.3 notches above the normal mark in Kolkata. The Met officials said that while it is ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
    3 held for changing number plates to evade traffic fines

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police arrested three people recently for allegedly using fake registration plates to avoid being recorded by CCTV cameras and evade traffic fines for violating speed norms.Abhijit Saha, a resident of Howrah, was apprehended by Hastings police station ...

    31 January 2025 Times of India
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