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  • News from West Bengal | 10 Jul, 2025 | ২৫ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • After night of dilemma, political instinct wins over family plea

    Kolkata: The Friday night attack on councillor Sushanta Ghosh shook him and his family for a while. He thought of leaving politics, but words of encouragement and support from party seniors made him reconsider his decision as he decided ...

    17 November 2024 Times of India
    N Barrackpore vice-chairman found hanging

    12 Kolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of Satyajit Banerjee, the 67-year-old vice-chairman of North Barrackpore Municipality and one of the longest-serving councillors in West Bengal. His body was found hanging in an attic of his rented accommodation at Barrackpore ...

    17 November 2024 Times of India
    N Barrackpore vice-chairman found hanging

    12 Kolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of Satyajit Banerjee, the 67-year-old vice-chairman of North Barrackpore Municipality and one of the longest-serving councillors in West Bengal. His body was found hanging in an attic of his rented accommodation at Barrackpore ...

    17 November 2024 Times of India
    In mere 10 days, Gaganyaan astronaut completes 56-day spl mountaineering course in Darj

    12 Siliguri: Group Captain Angad Prathap, one of the four astronauts selected for the Gaganyaan mission, completed a special mountaineering course from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling on Friday. Completing the 56-day course in mere 10 days, the ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    In mere 10 days, Gaganyaan astronaut completes 56-day spl mountaineering course in Darj

    12 Siliguri: Group Captain Angad Prathap, one of the four astronauts selected for the Gaganyaan mission, completed a special mountaineering course from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling on Friday. Completing the 56-day course in mere 10 days, the ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    After 28 years, Bangladesh missing from Kolkata Book Fair list of participating nations

    KOLKATA: For the first time in 28 years, Bangladesh has not found mention as a participating country in the Kolkata International Book Fair schedule that was released on Friday.The neighbouring country has featured in every edition of the city ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Plated stories and micro cuisines: Kolkata finds love in food pop-ups

    Clockwise: The guests interact with Chef Prateek; Neembu Saan served as a palate cleanser; Sunderkala (a native noodle dish from Uttarakhand); Smoked pineapple and ragi cake; Makki Tujj (chef's take on a grilled protein dish)Pics: Sourav Mukherjee Kolkata ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Govt mulls road safety clubs in schools

    123 Kolkata: In a significant move to integrate road safety awareness into the school curriculum, the West Bengal govt wants formation of ‘Road Safety Clubs' in schools under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE). The initiative, aimed ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Work starts on Purple Line’s Esplanade station

    Kolkata: RVNL has started construction of the Purple Line's Esplanade Metro station on the land available with it. It will be the third underground metro station in Esplanade. Two other corridors — North-South (Blue) and East-West (Green) — also ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Rly cops among 7 hurt in train blockade

    12 Kolkata: Protests over shortening of local train route turned violent in Ashoknagar on the Sealdah-Bongaon section, leaving at least seven people, including railway police personnel, injured in clashes between police and passengers who had blocked the tracks on ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Failed plot delivery, developer refunds full amount

    12 Kolkata: A Jodhpur Park-based real estate developer that had failed to deliver plots at a mini-township being developed at Shyamnagar beside Kalyani Expressway to a Paikpara couple refunded the entire amount paid by them along with interest on ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    As winter approaches, rise in pollution turns air quality ‘poor’ in city pockets

    12 Kolkata: With the nip in the air and inversion of the atmospheric layers, the air quality in some pockets of the city plunged to ‘poor' (AQI: 201-300) from ‘moderate' (AQI: 101-200). With the progress of winter, the city's ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Smoothening of Bypass resumes for safer rides

    12 Kolkata: Motorists and bikers may hope for seamless travel and fewer accidents on some of the severely battered stretches of EM Bypass with the KMC resuming its road smoothening project. The civic body will also carry out similar ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Gunman targets councillor near busy Kasba mall, held

    1234 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh survived a murder attempt in front of his Rajdanga Main Road home adjacent to Acropolis Mall at 8.30pm on Friday after a 17-year-old shooter from Bihar's Vaishali got off a bike, aimed ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Gunman targets councillor near busy Kasba mall, held

    1234 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh survived a murder attempt in front of his Rajdanga Main Road home adjacent to Acropolis Mall at 8.30pm on Friday after a 17-year-old shooter from Bihar's Vaishali got off a bike, aimed ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    As winter approaches, rise in pollution turns air quality ‘poor’ in city pockets

    12 Kolkata: With the nip in the air and inversion of the atmospheric layers, the air quality in some pockets of the city plunged to ‘poor' (AQI: 201-300) from ‘moderate' (AQI: 101-200). With the progress of winter, the city's ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Howrah bridge to be shut tonight for health audit

    123 Kolkata: Howrah bridge will be closed for five hours on Saturday night for the first comprehensive health audit after two decades. The 81-year-old iconic structure will be out of bounds to all vehicles from 11.30 pm on Saturday ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Need to sensitize kids from a tender age: Experts

    12 Kolkata: The glut of sexual assault cases, including the rape and murder of a young R G Kar doctor, has made it imperative to sensitise and educate kids, especially boys, about private parts, good and bad touch, and ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Need to sensitize kids from a tender age: Experts

    12 Kolkata: The glut of sexual assault cases, including the rape and murder of a young R G Kar doctor, has made it imperative to sensitise and educate kids, especially boys, about private parts, good and bad touch, and ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    15% of 15-20-yr-olds in Kol, S 24 Pgns in pre-diabetic stage: Survey

    Kolkata: A survey of 15-20-year-old students in Kolkata and South 24 Parganas, conducted by an NGO that works to prevent diabetes and released on the eve of World Diabetes Day on Thursday, revealed that 15% are obese and in ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Repairs for safety of students: LMB

    Kolkata: La Martiniere Boys School is likely to cite "student safety" when it responds by next week to the KMC's heritage committee stopwork notice which stated that the Grade I heritage building cannot undergo any modification, structural changes or ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Manipur natives in Kolkata hold candlelight vigil

    123 Kolkata: The renewed violence in Manipur prompted people from the northeastern state living in Kolkata to hold a candlelight vigil on Friday evening. Manipuris in Kolkata (MIK), an umbrella body of Manipur natives in Kolkata, organized a peace ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    TMC wiped out bloodshed in Jangalmahal, ensured social security: Mamata

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool govt had not only wiped out bloodshed in Jangalmahal, but also ensured social security for all, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, emphasising Bengal's inclusive development model.Speaking on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    TMC wiped out bloodshed in Jangalmahal, ensured social security: Mamata

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool govt had not only wiped out bloodshed in Jangalmahal, but also ensured social security for all, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, emphasising Bengal's inclusive development model.Speaking on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    As winter approaches, rise in pollution turns air quality in city pockets ‘poor’

    12 Kolkata: With the nip in the air and inversion of the atmospheric layers, the air quality in some pockets of the city plunged to ‘poor' (AQI: 201-300) from ‘moderate' (AQI: 101-200). With the progress of winter, the city's ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    As winter approaches, rise in pollution turns air quality in city pockets ‘poor’

    12 Kolkata: With the nip in the air and inversion of the atmospheric layers, the air quality in some pockets of the city plunged to ‘poor' (AQI: 201-300) from ‘moderate' (AQI: 101-200). With the progress of winter, the city's ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    1.9k plaints in tab scheme among 16L beneficiaries

    12 Kolkata: Just 1,911 of the total 16,00,000 (or 0.1%) students who are eligible for a Rs 10,000 grant credited to their bank accounts for buying tablet computers under Bengal govt's ‘Taruner Swapno' scheme have complained of not receiving ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    ECMO saves 71-year-old doctor from unusual presentation of ARDS in a malaria case

    KOLKATA: In an uncommon case a 71-year-old had developed severe respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after he tested positive for malaria. The patient Dr Anjan Chatterjee had to be on ECMO support to come out of the complications at Manipal ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    No-tourist day in Sundarbans to shift from Tue to Fri, upset stakeholders question move

    12 Kolkata: Instead of Tuesdays, Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR) will now stay shut every Friday. The decision, as per the notice issued on Tuesday, will come into effect from Dec 1. This has taken the tourism fraternity and stakeholders ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    Govt moves to reduce post-accident trauma, launches portal for data mgmt

    123 Kolkata: From now on, all information related to victims of road traffic accidents will have to be uploaded to the centralised Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) portal. In an order, the health department also said no hospital should ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    1.9k plaints in tab scheme among 16L beneficiaries

    12 Kolkata: Just 1,911 of the total 16,00,000 (or 0.1%) students who are eligible for a Rs 10,000 grant credited to their bank accounts for buying tablet computers under Bengal govt's ‘Taruner Swapno' scheme have complained of not receiving ...

    16 November 2024 Times of India
    At 20°C, Kolkata records lowest min temp this season

    Kolkata: A nip in the air greeted Kolkatans on Friday morning when the city recorded its lowest minimum temperature this season, 20°C, although the maximum climbed marginally to touch 30°C from Thursday's 29.4°C. With the northwesterly wind getting stronger, ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Bengal govt to do away with bus commission system

    123 Kolkata: The state govt on Thursday proposed to do away with the commissioning system in private buses to rein in racing vehicles. The move came two days after an 11-year-old boy returning from school on a scooterette fell ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Tie beams to make 150-year-old heritage New Market quake-proof

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will install tie beams or horizontal beams that connect columns to secure the 150-year-old New Market from earthquakes. A structural safety assessment by a team from Jadavpur University had flagged concerns about the ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Bengal records 72.1% polling in byelections

    12 Kolkata: Bengal recorded a polling percentage of 72.1% in Wednesday's bypolls in six assembly seats. There was a dip of 7.1% compared to the Lok Sabha elections, when the state recorded an average polling of 79.2%.Bypolls were held ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    7 injured in protest over local train route in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Protests over the shortening of the local train route turned violent at Ashoknagar on the Sealdah-Bongaon section, leaving at least seven people, including railway police personnel, injured in clashes between police and passengers who had blocked the railway ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata: ED seizes Rs 3 crore from businessman in 'lottery scam'

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized approximately Rs 3 crore in cash from a businessman's house in Kolkata today as part of their investigation into a lottery scam.The ED began searches at multiple locations in West Bengal yesterday. ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    UK to bring first-ever tech delegation on AI and semiconductors to Kolkata

    Representative Image KOLKATA: The United Kingdom will bring its first-ever trade delegation to Kolkata dedicated to the expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Semiconductor sectors on November 18-19, 2024. This tech delegation comprises 17 leading UK organisations, all of which ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    HC acquits man 27 yrs after implication in wife’s suicide

    123 Kolkata: Twenty-seven years after he was implicated under 498A IPC and abetting his wife's suicide, Calcutta High Court on Wednesday acquitted a Tamluk resident due to inconsistencies in the deposition of witnesses during the trial.Ashok Jana moved the ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Shanty dwellers, vendors rummage through burnt debris at Lord’s crossing

    12 Kolkata: Homeless shanty dwellers and vendors were found rummaging through the rubble of burnt debris on Thursday morning to count losses after an evening market went up in flames near Lord's Bakery More beside Prince Anwar Shah Road ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata's Gariahat market comes of e-age: Hawkers now plan doorstep delivery

    KOLKATA: Gariahat hawkers have decided to take the online route in an effort to boost sales after ceding a large share of business to e-commerce, especially after Covid. While a dedicated e-commerce app is financially out of reach as ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Easily seen 'Swasthya Sathi' health scheme display boards to be a must at private hospitals in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt is set to make it mandatory for all Swasthya Sathi-empanelled private hospitals to put up display boards at strategic locations listing medical services available in the facility under the state's universal health scheme as well as ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    LMB stops step revamp work after KMC steps in

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Thursday morning issued a stop-work notice to the management of La Martinere for Boys, halting all renovation work being carried out on the premises that have multiple heritage structures. A civic team ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Veteran singer held in POCSO case in Mumbai after plaint lodged in Kolkata

    12345 Kolkata: Kolkata Police apprehended singer-cum-composer Sanjay Chakraborty — brother of a famed classical singer — from Mumbai recentlyfor allegedly molesting his 16-year-old student. The minor had reportedly enrolled for music classes at Chakraborty's south Kolkata music school, Pran ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Veteran singer held in POCSO case in Mumbai after plaint lodged in Kolkata

    12345 Kolkata: Kolkata Police apprehended singer-cum-composer Sanjay Chakraborty — brother of a famed classical singer — from Mumbai recentlyfor allegedly molesting his 16-year-old student. The minor had reportedly enrolled for music classes at Chakraborty's south Kolkata music school, Pran ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    14-yr-old drugged, raped by neighbour in Gaighata, 1 held

    Kolkata: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and raped by a neighbour on Wednesday evening after the minor turned down his proposal for a relationship.The incident came to light only after the survivor tried to kill herself. The youth, ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Bengal records 72.1% polling in byelections

    12 Kolkata: Bengal recorded a polling percentage of 72.1% in Wednesday's bypolls in six assembly seats. There was a dip of 7.1% compared to the Lok Sabha elections, when the state recorded an average polling of 79.2%.Bypolls were held ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Abhishek to meet doctors at Amtala summit

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee is set to interact with doctors at a meeting this Saturday, for the first time since the RG Kar incident in Aug. The Doctors' Summit will be held ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Mamata meets slain ABGL neta’s family in Darjeeling

    Darjeeling: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met Bharati Tamang, the widow of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) neta Madan Tamang, and her son in Darjeeling. Tamang was killed on May 21, 2010 at Darjeeling's Upper Clubside while overseeing ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Fresh ad for permanent VC selection at RBU, WBUHS likely today

    123 Kolkata: The Justice U U Lalit Committee is expected to release the advertisement for West Bengal University of Health Sciences and Rabindra Bharati University afresh on Friday as it was unable to find any eligible candidates for the ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    ‘Russian spray’ enters Bengal political parlance, courtesy Arjun Singh

    12 Kolkata: A Russian chemical spray, which can incapacitate people in two months, made a debut in Bengal's politics on Thursday when BJP functionary and former Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh alleged a conspiracy was being hatched to kill opposition ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Sporadic protests mark 3 months of ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement, demand speedy trial

    Kolkata: The city witnessed scattered protests in areas like Behala, Thakurpukur and Salt Lake City Centre on Thursday, marking three months of the massive Reclaim the Night movement, which was called after the rape-murder at R G Kar Hospital. ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Purple Line green signal after defence nod for market shift

    Kolkata: The Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor received a major boost with the ministry of defence finally approving the relocation of BC Roy Market to make way for the terminal Esplanade station.The Army is the custodian of the Maidan, through which ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Calcutta HC seeks report against New Town IC for defying state counsel

    123 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the deputy commissioner of police to submit a report by Dec 12 on what steps were taken against the inspector in-charge of the New Town police station for defying the ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    ‘Russian spray’ enters Bengal political parlance, courtesy Arjun Singh

    12 Kolkata: A Russian chemical spray, which can incapacitate people in two months, made a debut in Bengal's politics on Thursday when BJP functionary and former Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh alleged a conspiracy was being hatched to kill opposition ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Mystery of lone missing paper: CU grills principal, examiner, invigilator

    Kolkata: The probe committee, which has been formed by Calcutta University (CU) to investigate the mystery of the lone missing answer script, on Thursday interrogated the examiner, invigilator of the exam centre and the principal of the college. Sources ...

    15 November 2024 Times of India
    Can’t forgive myself: Woman on helmet decision after son’s death

    Kolkata: Sitting on a chair outside her Netaji Nagar home opposite EM Bypass, Noorjahan was continuously lamenting as she cried: "I can never forgive myself." She kept blaming herself for a basic safety protocol she disregarded on Tuesday that ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    ED conducts raids in Kolkata in 'lottery scam'

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted multiple raids across Kolkata on Thursday morning in connection with an alleged lottery scam involving financial fraud and money laundering cases. The investigation focuses on the suspected diversion of lottery funds to ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Medical professionals save passenger on Delhi-Kolkata flight

    1234 Kolkata: The presence of a nurse and two doctors on board an aircraft set to take off from Delhi for Kolkata helped save a passenger who suffered a heart attack early on Monday.As IndiGo flight 6E 2788, which ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    La Martiniere for Boys alumni involves KMC in row over historic stairs revamp

    Kolkata: A team from Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), led by officials from its heritage committee, visited La Martiniere School for Boys on Wednesday evening to inspect changes made to the historic steps on the southern side of the school. ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Congested roads are not racing tracks, says court

    KOLKATA: "Congested roads are not racing tracks," a Salt Lake magistrate said on Wednesday, denying bail to two bus drivers of route 215A who have been accused of racing and causing the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy near the ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Computer teacher among 6 arrested for tab funds scam

    Kolkata: Six people were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly misappropriating money released by state govt to buy tablets. While Kolkata Police arrested two in North Dinajpur's Chopra — Krishnapada Barman, 38, and Sariful Islam — East Burdwan police and ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    In Darj, CM says ‘Joy Gorkha, Joy Bangla’ in push for unity

    12 Darjeeling/Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, inaugurating the first Saras Mela in Darjeeling on Wednesday, exhorted her audience to raise the slogan "Joy Gorkha, Joy Bangla" and repeatedly emphasised the importance of unity, referring to her "blood ties" with Darjeeling.She ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Route 215A: 67 buses compete for 21km turf

    12 Kolkata: It's not just an adrenaline rush but a constant pressure to complete four 21km trips — Salt Lake Sector V to Howrah station — in a day and earn a minimum of Rs 8,000 in ticket sales ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    JU library dept turns 60

    In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of its department of library and information science (DLIS), Jadavpur University (JU) is hosting a two-day seminar — "Libraries on Metamorphosis: From Clay Tablets to Tabs" — starting Wednesday, highlighting the transition of ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Undertakings do not save life: High court

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday said, "undertakings do not save lives", after the leader of the opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, promised to give an undertaking that his public rally in Howrah's Shyampur would not cause any disturbance despite ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Man fakes kidnapping, extorts 14L from father

    12 Kolkata: A 20-year-old youth, who was ‘kidnapped' was rescued from Jharkhali near Basanti by cops from Garfa PS on Tuesday. Later, cops found out that he set up the entire trap only to extort Rs 14 lakh from ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Missing papers: CU sends report to edu dept

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta University on Wednesday sent an action taken report to the state higher education department, detailing the set of options the university is offering to the students who wrote the 120 Bengali MA first-semester answer scripts which ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Missing papers: CU sends report to edu dept

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta University on Wednesday sent an action taken report to the state higher education department, detailing the set of options the university is offering to the students who wrote the 120 Bengali MA first-semester answer scripts which ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Will check if parents have 2 helmets at dispersal: Kolkata School’s new norm after student’s death

    123 Kolkata: Day after 11-year-old Ayush Paik died in a road accident while travelling back home on his mother's scooter, the school where he studied — Vaishno Devi Academy — on Wednesday made it mandatory for parents coming to ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Mayor seeks review of tax waiver structure impact

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim sought an assessment of if the implementation of a graded property tax waiver structure has resulted in diminished property tax collection. Hakim convened a review meeting on Wednesday with senior officials from various revenue-generating departments.A ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    IFFI Unesco nomination for Kol film on elderly daycare

    Kolkata: Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay's ‘Aamar Boss' stands among 10 nominees for the esteemed ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi medal to be bestowed at the 55th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). This recognition is conferred in collaboration ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    After 4 years, Poush Mela to make a comeback in old avatar in Santiniketan

    12 Bolpur/Kolkata: After a gap of four years, Visva-Bharati (VB) and Santiniketan Trust will jointly organize the Poush Mela in its traditional format at the Purba Palli Ground — the same venue where the fair was last held in ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    One more app cab service at airport

    123 Kolkata: To address the shortage of transport options outside Kolkata airport, another app cab aggregator, Rapido, is set to offer services from the airport on Thursday afternoon. The service will be inaugurated by state transport minister Snehashish Chakraborty ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    Mayor seeks review of tax waiver structure impact

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim sought an assessment of if the implementation of a graded property tax waiver structure has resulted in diminished property tax collection. Hakim convened a review meeting on Wednesday with senior officials from various revenue-generating departments.A ...

    14 November 2024 Times of India
    16 Hills community boards to be reconstituted for better work: CM

    Darjeeling: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a reconstitution of various ethnic Hills community boards in one to one-and-a-half months, to be overseen by a monitoring cell headed by Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chief executive Anit Thapa.The cell, among ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Presidency-GSI sign MoU for joint academic and research activities

    Kolkata: Presidency University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) on Tuesday for collaborative research and academic activities. The relationship between these two esteemed institutions has been there since the very inception. GSI ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata police intensifies fight against cyberstalking and cyberbullying amid rising complaints

    KOLKATA: Cybercrimes are not always about monetary losses. They can be deeply personal and harmful, affecting social reputation. This is what the cyber cell is emphasising in its new interactions, not just in schools but also in housing complexes, ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata's EM Bypass to undergo major road smoothening project for safer journeys

    KOLKATA: Motorists and bikers may anticipate a seamless journey on some of the severely deteriorated, undulating stretches of the EM Bypass with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation implementing a road smoothening project for portions of the arterial road. Additionally, the ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    School suspends teacher over ‘anti-mgmt’ emoji

    Kolkata: La Martiniere for Boys School has suspended assistant teacher Susmita Chakraborty, and started disciplinary enquiry against her, for allegedly posting an emoji on social media that was considered ‘anti-management' by the school. The decision stirred former students on ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    After merger, AI group to control 25% of Kol sky

    12 Kolkata: One out of every four flights that operates from Kolkata airport will carry the Air India brand. This includes its budget airline, Air India Express. This follows the integration of operations and merger of AI and Vistara ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    11-year-old boy dies in fall off mom's scooter, hitting speeding bus in Kolkata's Salt Lake

    KOLKATA: An 11-year-old boy, who was returning home from school on a scooter with his mother and cousin, died after sustaining fatal injuries when his head bumped against one of two racing buses passing by in Salt Lake on ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    CU tries to solve mystery of the lone missing answer script

    Kolkata: The mystery of the lone missing paper from the MA Bengali first-semester, which disappeared from a bundle of answer scripts, has foxed the Calcutta University authority that is probing the missing answer scripts. The university has also put ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    71-yr-old Naihati climber embarks on South Pole expedition after North Pole adventure

    123 Kolkata: A 71-year-old from Naihati has embarked on an expedition to the South Pole deep inside Antartica a year after he managed to reach the North Pole. If he succeeds, Karuna Prasad Mitra, an avid climber, will be ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Bengal funds to buy tabs for students lands in Bihar

    123 Kolkata: Seven individuals were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly misappropriating money released to buy tablets by the state govt. It also came to light that the money meant for 15 students from a school in Salar, Murshidabad, was ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Racing buses, road hazard, no helmets claim 11-year-old in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The private bus on route 215A, which hit 11-year-old Ayush Paik on Tuesday, killing him on his way back from school while racing with another bus on the same route, has 58 cases of traffic violations pending against ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Slap murder charges on bus drivers who race, kill people: Mamata

    123 Kolkata: Bus drivers racing against each other, which lead to the death of people on the road, will be charged with murder, CM Mamata Banerjee indicated on Tuesday.Expressing "serious concern, anxiety and deep sadness" over the death of ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Rape-murder hearing: Two RG Kar doctors testify in court on day 2

    12 Kolkata: Two R G Kar doctors, colleagues of the victim who were with her on the intervening night of Aug 8 and 9, hours before the 31-year-old PGT was raped and murdered, deposed before a Sealdah trial judge ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Salt Lake accident spot plagued by potholes, bumps

    Kolkata: Potholes, bumps, protrusions and an ever-increasing gap between the road surface and pavement make the stretch of First Avenue near the entrance to Salt Lake, where Tuesday's accident took place, hazardous for pedestrians and bikers."The road here is ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    EC publishes draft electoral roll

    Kolkata: The EC on Tuesday published the integrated draft electoral roll, showing there are 7.4 crore voters in Bengal, of which 3.7 crore are males and 3.6 crore are females. This excludes the six assemblies where bypolls will be ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Filtered water supply for fringe civic areas soon

    12 Kolkata: Areas adjoining the city, like Maheshtala and Rajarhat Gopalpur, will soon get house-to-house connection to receive filtered water supply.The state govt on Monday sanctioned Rs 6.3 crore to Maheshtala Municipality for setting up house-to-house filtered water supply ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Al-Qaeda search takes NIA team to Beniapukur

    1234 Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided multiple spots across Bengal in search of Al-Qaeda operatives on Monday, including a 300-meter odd stretch in Beniapukur's Cantopher Lane.This lane is only a few hundred metres from Indian Mujahideen founder ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Al-Qaeda search takes NIA team to Beniapukur

    1234 Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided multiple spots across Bengal in search of Al-Qaeda operatives on Monday, including a 300-meter odd stretch in Beniapukur's Cantopher Lane.This lane is only a few hundred metres from Indian Mujahideen founder ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    HC nod for rally with ‘people should not suffer’ rider

    Kolkata: The public at large suffer due to traffic congestions caused by processions, the Calcutta High Court said on Tuesday, as it restricted a protest rally to the route suggested by the state, set the timings from 12.15 pm ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Cops unearth child trafficker’s Congo, Maldives links

    12 Kolkata: The prime accused in the two-day-old girl child trafficking case, Manik Haldar (38), had travelled to Congo and the Maldives and received multiple calls from Egypt in the past two years, raising suspicion that the child trafficking ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Cops unearth child trafficker’s Congo, Maldives links

    12 Kolkata: The prime accused in the two-day-old girl child trafficking case, Manik Haldar (38), had travelled to Congo and the Maldives and received multiple calls from Egypt in the past two years, raising suspicion that the child trafficking ...

    13 November 2024 Times of India
    Vistara’s final flight from Kolkata marks end of an era before merger with Air India

    12 Kolkata: The city bid adieu to Vistara as it operated its final flights into and out of Kolkata on Monday before it commences unified operations under the Air India banner from Tuesday.On Monday, the airline made its last ...

    12 November 2024 Times of India
    Mamata challenges Maha govt to run Ladki Bahin for 5 years

    12 Siliguri/Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that the promises made by Maharashtra govt under the Ladki Bahin scheme for women were false and asserted that no state had a family protection scheme like Bengal.Claiming that Lakshmir ...

    12 November 2024 Times of India
    HC nixes PIL against TMC’s Sitai bypoll pick

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a PIL against TMC's Sitai bypoll candidate Sangita Roy, which alleged that she had suppressed information in her election affidavit. The PIL claimed Roy did not belong to the Scheduled Caste.A ...

    12 November 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder victim’s dad deposes on day 1 of trial

    Sanjay Roy being led away from the court after the first day's hearing (Image credit: Sukhomoy Sen) KOLKATA: The elderly father of the RG Kar rape-murder victim deposed as the in camera trial began in a Sealdah court on ...

    12 November 2024 Times of India
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