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  • TMC, BJP spar over Bengal foundation day

    Kolkata: Trinamool and BJP clashed on Friday over Bengal foundation day.Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar alleged that police tried to stop a two-wheeler rally led by him from reaching Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's residence on Elgin Road. TMC criticised ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC, BJP spar over Bengal foundation day

    Kolkata: Trinamool and BJP clashed on Friday over Bengal foundation day.Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar alleged that police tried to stop a two-wheeler rally led by him from reaching Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's residence on Elgin Road. TMC criticised ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Warm, humid day with chance of rain

    Representational Image The weather data referenced in this report has been sourced from AQI.in, providing detailed insights into Kolkata's upcoming weather conditions and rainfall patterns.Kolkata residents face warm and humid conditions on June 21, 2025, with temperatures reaching 34°C ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    5-year-old’s parents in Kolkata lose 12.5L in school admission scam

    Kolkata: The parents of a five-year-old child from the Port area in Kolkata lost Rs 12.5 lakh as they fell victim to a primary school admission scam. The fraudsters had promised them of facilitating their child's admission to a ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    5 from Kolkata family on pilgrimage to Iraq & Iran stuck in Najaf

    Kolkata: At a modest home tucked in a Ripon Street lane, Nuzhat Zehra spends her days in prayer and anxiety. Her elder brother, Tanvir Hussain, elder sister, Noor Zehra, and Tanvir's family have been stranded in Najaf, Iraq, for ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    No reply from Azerbaijan, Kol prof heads to Armenia

    Kolkata: After waiting for four days for the migration code from the Azerbaijan authorities, Falguni Dey, the geography professor from Kolkata who travelled 1,000 km from Tehran to reach Astara, will now have to head towards Armenia, where Indian ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    HC stays state relief for Group-C & D jobless school staff

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed till Sept 26 the state's interim relief for Group C and Group D employees of state-run schools who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order on April 3.The state had announced ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Log on to portal: Embassy to students stuck in Israel

    Kolkata: A day after India announced Operation Sindhu to evacuate Indian nationals from Israel, a number of students from Bengal have started registering themselves with the Indian embassy for evacuation.Nilabja Roychowdhury, a research scholar with the Azrieli Faculty of ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Sanctions on hold for bldgs taller than G+8 within 20 km of airport: Hakim

    123 Kolkata: Buildings taller than G+8 will not be sanctioned by KMC and all municipalities that sanction building plans within a 20 km radius of the airport till the Airports Authority of India (AAI) clears the air about a ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar cops make body cams, CCTV must for passport verification

    Kolkata: Aimed at enhancing transparency and security in the passport verification process, Bidhannagar City Police has made it mandatory for all passport verifications to be conducted under camera surveillance — either through body cams during home visits or CCTV ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC to slice off 5ft-plus pavements to keep hawkers away, says mayor

    1234 Kolkata: The KMC has decided to slice off the width of city's pavements to stop illegal hawkers from setting up stalls on the footpath. Reacting to a complaint of encroachment of pavements around Northern Park, mayor Firhad Hakim ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    SRFTI set to start Master’s course this session, UG from next year

    Kolkata: With SRFTI becoming a ‘deemed university', queries about its graduation and post-graduation admissions have been pouring in. The institute announced that the post-graduation courses would begin from this academic session and those taking admission this year would get ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    1,358 fire audits in state since April

    Kolkata: The fire department has conducted 778 audits in the state in April and May, and served notices on 212 establishments for anomalies in safety and compliance measures."A total of 580 fire audits have been conducted so far this ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Santosh Mitra Sq puja query for visitors’ safety’

    Kolkata: Police on Friday said the queries on Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja —its organisers include BJP's Sajal Ghosh—were aimed at ensuring safety for all visitors. DCP (central) Indira Mukherjee said, "The Muchipara OC sent a letter on May ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Gang thrashes man on theft suspicion

    Kolkata: A 36-year-old man, Sikander Azam, was severely thrashed by a neighbourhood tough, Rocky, and his aides, who suspected him of stealing a mobile. The incident took place on Kustia Road in Karaya on Wednesday. Azam was assaulted so ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    JU admission portal opens with 7% OBC reservation

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University opened its admission portal for arts and science undergraduate courses on Friday with 7% seats reserved for OBC candidates. Students can submit their applications till July 3. While the entrance tests for science subjects, except geology, ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Hold meet to discuss CCTVs: HC tells JU

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Jadavpur University's pro-VC to convene an executive council meeting to discuss the installation of CCTVs and other related matters within four weeks.In an affidavit, the university disclosed to the division bench of ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    CM Mamata Banerjee takes stock of Bengal’s flood situation

    Kolkata: Amid increasing water level in several districts, CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday took stock of the situation from chief secretary Manoj Pant and DMs of south Bengal districts. She advised the DMs to evacuate people, if needed. She ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Phone theft leads to 5L scam

    Kolkata: A Rajarhat resident, Sumit Jaiswal, fell victim to a cellphone theft that resulted in unauthorised online purchases totalling Rs 4.9 lakh from his accounts. Jaiswal's phone was stolen on May 7 and the thief unlocked the device to ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Digital boards to display fair prices in New Town mkts

    Kolkata: To inform consumers and buyers of the govt regulated fair price of essential items, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has started installing digital display boards at the markets in New Town to highlight fair prices of ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    State plans 4 new IT parks, 3 of them in north Bengal

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt has planned to set up four new IT parks, of which three are in north Bengal and the other in Hooghly's Chinsurah. The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has started work for the IT park in ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Man hides past divorces, loses current plea in HC

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has set aside the divorce decree granted to a man 5 years ago on the basis of cruelty and desertion, as he hid his prior two divorces from the wife.The couple married in in ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Monsoon brings viral, skin, gastro diseases

    Kolkata: While monsoon has provided relief from the heat, it has brought with it a host of diseases, ranging from skin and viral infections to gastrointestinal issues, as well as vector-borne and water-borne ailments. According to doctors, the number ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Employees steal gold worth 1.6cr

    Kolkata: The co-owner of a jewellery firm, Nimesh Kumar Sugandh, filed a complaint at the Girish Park Police Station against two of his employees for stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 1.6 crore through systematic manipulation of computer records. The ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Man visits cop stn in khaki to impress GF

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old man, Diptendu Bag, impersonating a Bengal Police inspector was arrested on Friday at Entally Police Station. Bag, a resident of Malirdhar in the Canning area, entered the Entally police station around 10.15 am wearing a police ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    9 returning from wedding die as SUV, truck collide in Purulia

    Purulia: Nine people returning from a wedding were killed on the Dhanbad-Jamshedpur stretch of NH18 on Friday morning when their vehicle collided with a truck. All the victims, including two brothers, were from Jharkhand.The nine had taken an SUV ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta writes to LS Speaker claiming ‘threat to life’

    Kolkata: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Friday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla claiming "grave breach of privilege" and a "threat to life" after his convoy was allegedly attacked in the Budge Budge area in Bengal's South 24 ...

    21 June 2025 Times of India
    Dhunseri to invest Rs 1k cr in Panagarh for 2 production lines

    Kolkata: Dhunseri Group will invest Rs 1,000 crore in Panagarh, through Dhunseri Polyfilms. Group chairman CK Dhanuka said the company was planning to set up at least two more lines in Panagarh: its first BOPET (Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate) ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal accident: 9 dead in car-truck collision in Purulia; victims were returning from wedding

    NEW DELHI: Nine people lost their lives in a road accident on Friday morning after a head-on collision between a car and a truck on National Highway 18 in West Bengal’s Purulia district, police confirmed.The incident occurred around 6:30am ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    'What a Shame!': Video shows Bengal Schoolchildren using umbrellas in class under leaking roof; BJP shares clip, slams TMC govt

    Amit Malviya, the BJP IT cell chief, has criticized the West Bengal government, led by Mamata Banerjee, for alleged "criminal neglect" in the education sector. This criticism follows reports of schoolchildren in Hooghly district being forced to attend classes ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    25 loco pilots from ER and SER set to steer city Metro from July

    123 Kolkata: Metro Railway, which was reeling under an acute staff shortage, especially drivers, will be getting around 25 new motormen July onwards. Even as new lines are being added, motormen were borrowed from North-South Metro, which was already ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Humid conditions with rain expected

    The data for this weather report comes from AQI.in.Kolkata's weather forecast for June 20, 2025, indicates a typical monsoon day with temperatures ranging between 26.5°C and 33.2°C, accompanied by patchy rainfall and 72% humidity. The city will experience steady ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Tea trade disrupted: Iran-Israel war halts exports; Kolkata shipments pile up

    KOLKATA: The Iran-Israel conflict has brought to a standstill all tea exports to Iran, the second-largest recipient of Indian tea after Russia. Consignments that have already left the city for Iran are now piled up at Mumbai’s Nhava-Sheva port. ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kgp, JU better global ranks, CU sees slight dip

    Kolkata: IIT-Kharagpur, Jadavpur University and Calcutta University are the only three institutes from Bengal that have made it to QS World Ranking 2026. While IIT-Kharagpur and JU improved their rank, CU's position saw a dip. The list this year ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    BJP MP airlifted to Delhi AIIMS

    Kolkata: BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay, diagnosed with acute pancreatitis with gastrointestinal sepsis, was on Thursday transferred to AIIMS Delhi as his condition remained critical. The 63-year-old former Calcutta High Court judge had been under treatment at a private hospital ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Tech snags delay 2 flights to Northeast from Kolkata

    Kolkata: Two IndiGo flights from Kolkata to Northeast were delayed following technical snags on Thursday. IndiGo flight 6E 487, carrying 155 passengers, from Kolkata to Silchar returned to the ramp on Thursday morning following a technical snag in the ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal ranks third among foreign tourists’ fave Indian destinations

    Kolkata: Bengal has emerged as one of India's top tourism hotspots for foreign travellers, clocking a record 32 lakh international tourist arrivals in 2023–24 — the third highest in the country after Maharashtra and Gujarat, Bengal's tourism minister Indranil ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Protesters throw slippers at Sukanta over NREGA dues

    Kolkata: Protesters demanding unpaid wages for MGNREGA work confronted Bengal BJP president and junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar while he was in Budge Budge's Haldarpara on Thursday to meet an injured party worker. The protesters jostled with Majumdar's security ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Families from north 24 parganas remain stranded in conflict hit iran and seek urgent government intervention

    1234 Kolkata: What began as a spiritual pilgrimage and an academic pursuit have turned into a nightmare for a number of families in North 24-Parganas. As many as 11 tourists from Deganga and three students from Swarupnagar and Basirhat ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol prof hopes for Azerbaijan border miracle, gets ready for Armenia route

    1234 Kolkata: Facing uncertainty over the permission to enter Azerbaijan, Falguni Dey, the geography professor from Kolkata now stuck in Iran, might head towards the Nurduz-Agarak border in Iran and try to cross the border from the Armenian side. ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Speaker expunges oppn remarks, says ‘hear replies before walkouts’

    Kolkata: "When you ask questions, hear out the replies," speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday told BJP legislators staging a walkout before allowing state finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya to respond to discussions on the West Bengal Sales Tax (Settlement of ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol, Bidhannagar cops crack down on bikes without silencers

    123456 Kolkata: Police in Kolkata and Bidhannagar have launched a special crackdown on motorcycles fitted with illegally modified silencers that generate excessive noise, following a surge in complaints from residents over sound pollution.The joint drive, underway since early June, ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Navy officer in Israel for training stuck in Tel Aviv hotel

    Bolpur: An officer of the Indian Navy, who is in Israel for training, is now stranded in the war-torn country. While Aritra Sinha is at a hotel in Tel Aviv, his family members are worried about his return.A resident ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Author Prafulla Roy passes away at 91

    Kolkata: Author Prafulla Roy, aged 91, passed away on Thursday at a south Kolkata nursing home. Roy, who shot to fame with his celebrated novel, ‘Purba Parbati', in the 1950s and authored more than 150 books, was a winner ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    EC refutes TMC charge over webcasting contract to Guj firm

    Kolkata: The Election Commission on Thursday dismissed Trinamool's allegations of partisanship in offering a contract for webcasting to a Gujarat-based firm. Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal said all norms were followed and there was no irregularity in the process.Agarwal ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    BJP challenges Bengal speaker’s notification on central forces

    Kolkata: BJP's leader of opposition in the Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and its chief whip, Shankar Ghosh, have challenged the notification issued by assembly speaker Biman Banerjee preventing BJP MLAs from entering assembly premises accompanied by central forces in ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Fly back via Jordan: Embassy to students stranded in Israel

    123456 Kolkata: The news that the Indian govt is likely to start operating rescue flights for the evacuees from Israel soon has come as a breather for Bengal students stranded in the war-torn country. The Indian embassy in Israel ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Given 25 options, candidates take 5 on an avg on UG admission portal

    Kolkata: Every undergraduate candidate is opting for four to five options, including subjects and colleges, from 25 available choices at 460-odd institutes in Bengal, shows data from Centralised Admission Portal in the first two days. The portal, which ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Koneenica flags stroller concern at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: Bengali TV and film actor Koneenica Banerjee sparked a crucial conversation about airport accessibility after experiencing a frustrating delay in receiving her six-year-old daughter's stroller at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday. The actor, who recently underwent spinal surgery, ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Kaliganj sees peaceful bypoll, booths record above 72% turnout

    Kaliganj (Nadia): Kaliganj bypoll recorded a high turnout on Wednesday. By the end of the polling at 6pm, turnout was 72.2% despite slow voting due to rain. In the 2021 assembly polls, however, there was 84.3% polling, with TMC's ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Speaker expunges oppn remarks, says ‘hear replies before walkouts’

    Kolkata: "When you ask questions, hear out the replies," speaker Biman Banerjee on Thursday told BJP legislators staging a walkout before allowing state finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya to respond to discussions on the West Bengal Sales Tax (Settlement of ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    FIR in Kidderpore market fire

    Kolkata: Two days after a massive fire broke out at the Orphanganj Market in Kidderpore during the early hours of June 16, affecting 700 shops and causing extensive damage to numerous shops and materials, Watgunge PS has registered an ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    2 pose as ED men, extort 1.5 crore from mine owner

    Kolkata: Two men posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials allegedly extorted Rs 1.5 crore from a prominent sand mine owner in Bankura over the past year, prompting a police investigation.The victim, a businessman from Rabindrasarani in Bankura, lodged a ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘115 dengue cases in state in past 13 weeks’

    123 Kolkata: In response to questions from MLAs, urban development and municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim stated in the assembly that while number of dengue cases has dipped in urban areas due to increased awareness, cases are still being ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    HC convicts 7 lawyers for heckling Bongaon judge

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday convicted seven lawyers for their involvement in the heckling of a Bongaon judge on the court premises on April 5, 2024.A division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi, ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    First splash of monsoon, home-bound journey from school zones becomes a headache

    Kolkata: Lalbazar has asked all traffic guards to ensure that they prioritise school traffic and take adequate steps on the ground to normalise traffic "at the earliest" during school hours, especially the dispersal time, this monsoon.For the third consecutive ...

    20 June 2025 Times of India
    Singing in the rain? How about trying something new: It’s time to dance to the tunes of the monsoon

    Odissi Dancer Tithi Das as she lets out her inner child in the rain When the rain comes pouring down, we don’t just watch — we join in. There’s a certain mischief in the monsoon, as if the skies ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Basirhat researcher stuck in Qom conflict zone

    1234 Kolkata: What began as a promising academic journey turned into a nightmare for Sayed Baqir Majlisi Rizvi, a young researcher from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas, now stranded in the conflict-ridden Iranian city of Qom amid the escalating ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol prof camps on Iran-Azerbaijan border, hopes for ‘migration code’

    Kolkata: Falguni Dey, the geography professor from Kolkata, who was on an expedition mission but got stuck in Tehran, has managed to escape the city unharmed but is now stranded at Astara — the border area of Iran and ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Rainy and refreshing day expected

    This weather data has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information about the upcoming weather conditions in Kolkata.Kolkata is set to experience moderate rain showers on June 19, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 25°C and 25.7°C and ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Titagarh Rail Systems expects rapid growth in passenger rail business

    Kolkata: City-based Titagarh Rail Systems (TRS) is expected to experience significant growth in its passenger rail business over the next few years. TRS deputy MD Prithish Chowdhary said that although TRS was known for being a wagon maker, the ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Elderly couple loses Rs 2.4cr in Kol’s biggest digi arrest scam

    Kolkata: A 72-year-old woman and her husband, both former professors, residing in Baisnabghata Patuli Township, have become victims of the biggest ‘digital arrest' fraud reported this year, losing Rs 2.4 crore to scammers. Posing as CBI officials, the fraudsters ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    In a league of her own: Sujata storms century-old CFL’s male bastion

    1234 Kolkata: It was a late January afternoon and Sujata Kar was busy doing her household chores when her cellphone buzzed with an urgent summons to meet Southern Samity's general secretary Sourav Pal.Being head coach of the south Kolkata ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Students from Bengal wait it out in Israel

    Kolkata: With the Iran-Israel conflict intensifying further, a section of students from Bengal in Israel is considering the possibility of leaving the country. The Indian Embassy, in an advisory, has already stated that those willing to exit Israel should ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol youth prone to suicide, substance abuse, finds study

    Kolkata: A series of field observation studies by the Institute of Psychiatry, IPGMER, concluded that a significant number of youngsters in the city are distressed, resulting in mental health issues. This distress is turning them to substances and even ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    8-hr silence after morning quarrel alerted neighbours

    Kolkata: Neighbours at Rajdanga Gold Park, a locality off RB Connector close to Kasba Nabapally, recall hearing arguments between the Bhattacharyas, with Tuesday morning being no exception. Yet, unlike other days, neither the doors nor, more importantly, the windows ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Law will take its own course, says Mamata on HC’s OBC order

    Kolkata: Reacting to Calcutta High Court's stay on the state govt's OBC list that was notified on June 3, CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the law would take its own course. Pointing out that the stay was till ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Pollution-degradation worry for Purulia’s Sahebbandh

    Purulia: Once a popular wintering ground for migratory waterbirds, Purulia's Sahebbandh now appears severely degraded. The number of waterbirds has dropped drastically, with only a handful of individuals visible during peak winter hours. Species that were once common at ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Resume 100 days’ work scheme in state from Aug 1, HC tells centre

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Centre to resume the 100 days' work programme in Bengal from Aug 1, saying the scheme could not be "put in cold storage for eternity". The scheme (the Mahatma Gandhi National ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Weather, crew change lead to 4.5-hour wait at airport

    Kolkata: Passengers booked on a late-night IndiGo flight to Delhi on Tuesday were left waiting at the airport for four and a half hours, before they could fly out a little after 3 am. While the airline didn't issue ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    CM welcomes HC order, but says 4 years of dues still unpaid

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday welcomed the Calcutta High Court judgment directing the Centre to pay 100 days' work scheme wages to Bengal, but said dues were unpaid for four years. Banerjee also questioned the Aug 1 timeframe ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    KP’s safety notice to central Kol puja

    Kolkata: The Santosh Mitra Square Puja Committee has received a stringent directive from Kolkata Police, days after announcing their Durga Puja theme for this year. The cop directive cited last year's near-stampede incident as the primary reason for the ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Man takes loan from girlfriend, gets brother to loot her flat to repay

    Kolkata: An IT-sector employee, and his brother, were arrested by Baguiati cops for theft of items worth Rs 5 lakh from the former's girlfriend's residence at Deshabandhu Nagar in Baguiati. Accused Shyamcharan Das reportedly took advantage of his girlfriend's ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Odisha cop found dead in S Kolkata flat

    Kolkata: An Odisha Police constable — Subrata Kumar Sahu (32) — was found hanging in a rented apartment in Hindustan Park near Gariahat crossing on Tuesday night. Sahu, a resident of Keonjhar, was serving with the Indian Reserve Battalion ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    June 30 date for framing RG Kar corruption case charges

    Kolkata: Charges will be framed against five defendants in the RG Kar Medical College corruption case on June 30. The Special Court in Alipore has called all accused to appear, including former principal Sandeep Ghosh.The case emerged after a ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    12.2mm rain brings max-min difference to 2°C, more showers on Met radar

    Kolkata: More than 35 mm rain between Tuesday and Wednesday evening narrowed the gap between the maximum and minimum temperatures to just two degrees. Even as the city received 12.2 mm of rainfall until late Wednesday evening, the Met ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    In 1st 8 hrs, UG entry portal gets 72k appls from 28k students

    123 Kolkata: The centralised admission portal for undergraduate admissions received 71,949 applications from 28,443 students by 6 pm on Wednesday. However, some parents and students complained about not being able to access the portal and other technical glitches, such ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    CM: Bengal will not observe ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt will not observe ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' on June 25, CM Mamata Banerjee has said, calling a central directive in this regard a mockery of the Constitution and democracy.The Union ministry of culture has in a ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Jewellery exports hand carriage debut from Kol airport

    Kolkata: This week, Kolkata airport conducted two hand-carriage exports of gems and jewellery from the city to Italy and Dubai.While the second consignment was dispatched to Dubai on Wednesday night through the hand luggage of a representative from M ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC hires 286 portable pumps to flush out storm water from added areas

    123 Kolkata: The KMC sewerage and drainage department has hired 286 portable pumps and kept them ready to save residents of added areas such as Behala, Garden Reach, the Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt, Garia and neighbourhoods off EM Bypass from waterlogging ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    JU UG entry process yet to begin, students gherao pro-VC

    123 Kolkata: Jadavpur University could not open its undergraduate admission portal on Wednesday as the authorities are taking legal opinion on the OBC reservation-related issue. This follows the high court's stay on the gazette notification, which included 140 subgroups ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    16cr gene therapy starts on 16-month-old girl

    123 Kolkata: A 16-month-old girl received a second chance at life on Wednesday when doctors at Peerless Hospital administered doses of the world's most expensive gene therapy medicine, which travelled approximately 13,000 km from California. Ashmika Das from Ranaghat ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Man lynched over ‘rape and murder’ of 9-yr-old in Bankura

    Bankura: A 21-year-old man accused of raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl in Bankura district was lynched by local villagers on Wednesday morning.The Patrasayar police station have opened two separate investigations — one into the rape and murder of ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Top EC official to monitor Kaliganj bypoll

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has deputed its secretary, Sanjib Kumar Prasad to oversee the bypoll at Kaliganj in Nadia on Thursday. He will remain in Nadia until polling concludes. The bypoll is being held following the death of ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    JU students gherao pro-VC, hit key meet for UG admission

    123 Kolkata: Jadavpur University could not open its undergraduate admission portal on Wednesday as the authorities are taking legal opinion on the OBC reservation-related issue. This follows the high court's stay on the gazette notification, which included 140 subgroups ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Reel battle heats up as 13 Bengali films vie for silver screen space

    123456 Kolkata: With as many as 13 Bengali movies running now, the June fight for getting theatres has reached pre-pandemic frenzy. Just like pre-pandemic times, makers are taking their screen battles to social media and asking why their films ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    No fin officer at JU since Mon, ‘daily ops hit’

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University has been operating without a finance officer since Monday, a crucial post in the daily functioning of the institute. Teachers said numerous files and payments are pending.Sources said the term of the acting finance officer ended ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC accuses EC of rigging norms to allot webcasting contract to Guj firm

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Wednesday wrote to the Election Commission accusing the poll body of rigging norms to allot a poll-day webcasting contract to a Gujarat-based firm. In a two-page letter, senior state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, also the party ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Enforce Prez rule before polls: Suvendu in Maheshtala

    12 Maheshtala: State leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who went to Maheshtala on Wednesday following a Calcutta High Court order, demanded President's rule in the state before the assembly polls to ensure a free and fair election."There is a ...

    19 June 2025 Times of India
    Sex assault on sister: Girl gets dad arrested

    Kolkata: A teenaged girl on Monday got her father arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his stepdaughter over a year.Police said the accused, a resident of Jessore Road at Michaelnagar, had married a second time a few years ago, and ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Empowering tomorrow’s engineers: NAMTECH launches 100 fully funded fellowships for post-graduate program

    iPMP students exploring Industry 4.0 labs at the NAMTECH campus Engineering graduates from India’s top institutions will now receive world-class training and global exposure, equipping them for the demands of Industry 4.0. This transformative opportunity eliminates the need to ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Accident videos to promote road safety

    Kolkata: Kolkata traffic police has started uploading accident footage on their Facebook page to make people aware of the consequences of flouting norms. The accidents were recorded on CCTV cameras installed at major crossings across the city. The move ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Bomb hoax at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: A bomb threat sent airport officials and security forces into a tizzy on Tuesday morning. After the public grievance officer received an email, warning of a pipe bomb blast at the airport, multiple agencies immediately started screening the ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Blackstone buys South City Mall, Colombo project for 3,250 crore

    Kolkata: South City Mall changed hands in what was one of the largest real estate deals in the city and the first mall deal. Blackstone, one of the world's largest alternative asset management funds, has acquired South City Projects, ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Elderly couple, son found hanging in Kolkata home; suicide pact suspected amid financial distress

    KOLKATA: An elderly couple and their 38-year-old son were found hanging in their Kasba home on Tuesday evening. Police suspect that the three died by suicide. A note left behind did not specify any reason for the family taking ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    2013 rape-murder case: Calcutta HC commutes convict’s death penalty to life term with no remission for 50 years, cites mild mental disability

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday commuted the death penalty of a 45-year-old man convicted of raping and murdering a two-and-a-half-year-old child in Kidderpore in 2013 — stating that the crime did not “fall under the rarest-of-rare” category — ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    One drowns in Mandarmani

    Mandarmani: Three tourists from Barasat were swept away by strong currents at Mandarmani on Tuesday afternoon. One person died, another is in a critical condition, and the third remains missing despite an ongoing search operation by the coastal police.The ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Delhi trader kidnapped in Bengal, rescued with cabby help

    1234 Kolkata: A Delhi-based fish trader, Nazim Chauhan, was allegedly kidnapped from Sashan in North 24 Parganas on Tuesday for a ransom of Rs 1 crore. He was rescued within hours and three persons accused of the kidnapping were ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta apologises for hurling ‘slipper’ at Sikh CISF officer

    Kolkata: Junior Union minister and Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, in a statement on Tuesday, apologised for the June 12 incident when he threw a placard, symbolically representing a slipper, that hit a Sikh CISF officer in his own ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
    UG admission portal opens at 10 am today to fill 9 lakh seats

    123 Kolkata: The centralised undergraduate admission portal, inaugurated by education minister Bratya Basu on Tuesday, will start receiving applications from 10 am on Wednesday for nine lakh seats across 460 colleges and 17 universities in Bengal. Minority and autonomous ...

    18 June 2025 Times of India
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