Kolkata: Madhavi Modak from Shibabari village in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, undergoing treatment at Rampurhat Hospital, did not know that the Tarapith hotel fire took away her entire pilgrimage group of five, including her husband and 10-year-old son. They ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday inaugurated Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-backed West Bengal Piped Water Supply Project at Manbazar in Purulia, marking a major step towards expanding safe drinking water access in the region.The project, developed at ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday moved Calcutta High Court challenging the freezing of his bank account. The matter will be heard on Aug 19.Banerjee’s counsel mentioned the case before a single bench of Justice Krishna Rao, stating ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday extended the interim protection against coercive action to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in the signature forgery case till Nov. Earlier conditions laid down by Justice Kausik Chanda of cooperating with the probe will continue.
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a unique army-civilian interaction programme, the Territorial Army will host the two-day “TA-2.0 Symposium 2026” at Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Alipore on Aug 27 and 28. The seminar will bring together students, startups, industry leaders, academics and ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A new direct private AC bus service from Naihati to Joka started operations on Monday with 10 buses. The new route was inaugurated on Sunday at Naihati bus terminus by transport minister Arjun Singh, with Naihati MLA Sumitra ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after police denied it, the FIR on the Entally protest in the wee hours of I-Day, involving a BJP faction outside Entally PS, has confirmed what TOI reported on Monday: the main entrance to the police ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MLA Dilip Mondal on Monday moved Calcutta High Court, seeking an early hearing, saying as many as 39 FIRs had been filed against him while the hearing of his prayer against four FIRs filed against him remains ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaRampurhat/Kolkata: A four-member state forensic team on Monday visited the residence of former Bengal minister and deputy speaker Asish Banerjee and collected physical samples as part of the investigation into his death.Police recovered the 74-year-old’s body early Sunday from ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt has announced has announced early closure of govt offices and educational institutions in Bankura and Purulia districts on Tuesday, Aug 18, on account of Maa Manasa Puja.According to a finance department notification issued on Monday, ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar (Nadia): Two more were arrested on Monday in connection with the murders of Nadia Congress neta Anisur Rahman and his son, taking the total number of arrests to five. The suspects were arrested in Digha and Labhpur, Krishnanagar ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court against Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, Lok Sabha secretary general and 20 Nationalist Citizens’ Party (NCPI) MPs, questioning the delay in deciding disqualification petitions filed against the ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP on Monday appointed senior lawmaker and Alipurduar MP Manoj Tigga as national secretary, while oncologist and Mahila Morcha functionary Madhuchhanda Kar was named national vice-president in the new team announced under national president Nitin Nabin. The selection ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Bankura: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) on Monday gave Bengal govt a 10-day ultimatum to arrest everyone connected with the murder of Sk Mohammad Mafik (50) father of CJP member Sk Abdul Hafiz. Mafik was assaulted while trying to save ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP will reach out to at least four crore voters across the state over the next seven to ten days, presenting its 41-page “report card” of the first 100 days in govt. Party functionaries described the period ...
18 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A long-standing conflict over feeding stray dogs in north Kolkata’s Shyampukur neighborhood escalated into alleged violent altercations, death threats, and cross-complaints, prompting local authorities to register cross FIRs.The dispute began in late July near Abhoy Ghosh Lane during ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deadline for completing e-KYC for domestic LPG connections may have been extended by a week, from Aug 16 to Aug 23, but there has been little respite for consumers struggling to complete the mandatory process.Persistent server glitches, ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Pedestrian Safety Day has brought renewed attention to Kolkata’s most vulnerable road user, with an IIT Kharagpur analysis warning that West Bengal’s road deaths are increasingly concentrated among people on foot.The data note by Bhargab Maitra, professor of ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw reviewed the impact of heavy rainfall on railway operations in Odisha’s East Coast region and directed officials to step up monitoring of vulnerable stretches to ensure safe and uninterrupted train movement.Vaishnaw instructed the General ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul on Sunday signalled a hard reset for Park Street, Kolkata’s best-known food, nightlife and entertainment corridor, announcing a zero-tolerance drive against hawkers occupying its pavements. The plan aims at ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Brace for more rain as a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is set to trigger heavy in Kolkata and many other southern districts between Sunday and Monday. The city had already started getting few spells ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaTARAPITH: At least seven guests were killed and several others critically injured after a massive fire broke out at a private hotel in Tarapith in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday morning.The fire broke out around 4.30am on the ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka on Monday alleged that the BJP was planning violence during his visit to West Bengal.According to news agency ANI, Ranka posted a message on X, saying, “Lahoo ka ek ek katra ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaEastern Railway will be extending the Sealdah–Barasat AC EMU local service to Bangaon junction from Thursday. The upgraded AC service will run six days a week, from Monday to Saturday.The Sealdah-Bangaon AC EMU local will leave Sealdah at 10.33 ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city’s metro network will cover around 130 km in the coming years, Metro Railway general manager Prem Sagar Gupta said on Saturday, outlining the rapid transit system’s expansion plans on Independence Day.Kolkata Metro now covers 73 km, ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After more than six years, the city’s Orange Line has finally cleared the Chingrighata bottleneck — the last 31-m concrete deck slab was placed on Sunday to bridge the 366-m gap, paving the way for passenger services from ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After Calcutta Club made history by electing a woman president for the second consecutive time, Dalhousie Institute, another heritage city club, on Sunday elected four woman members to the executive committee, constituting 45% of the governing body.A former ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Raja Sen, the cinematic custodian who treated the lens not merely as a tool of capture but as a bridge to the soul of Bengal, succumbed to a cardiac arrest at a city hospital on Sunday. Across a ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Responding to multiple complaints from motorists, Kolkata Police has initiated a major overhaul of the worn out and poorly-painted guard rails in the city. Lalbazar has identified 4,000 guard rails that need standardisation. Such guard rails have to ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: With disbursement of Rs 3,000 monthly benefit post verifications under Annapurna Yojana slated to start from Monday, many beneficiaries are keeping their fingers crossed to get the money after the long wait. The women left out in the ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As many as 1.23 crore people received their Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards as the scheme rolled out in Bengal on Sunday. The state has also started handing out Mukhya Mantri Swasthya Bima Yojana cards ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Former Howrah councillor Shyamal Mitra, a close aide of former minister Arup Roy, was arrested on Saturday on charges of extortion and fraud.Officers of Shibpur police station under Howrah City Police arrested Mitra from a housing complex in ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaRampurhat: Former Bengal minister, assembly deputy speaker and five-time Rampurhat Trinamool MLA Asish Banerjee was found dead in a party office adjacent to his home on Sunday morning. The 74-year-old neta’s body was hanging from the ceiling fan and ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaRampurhat/Kolkata: The purported suicide note found beside former minister Asish Banerjee’s body, which said it was a “mistake to enter politics” has prompted senior netas across political lines to demand an impartial probe.Former TMC neta Asit Kumar Mal, in ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP supporters allegedly beat to death the father of a CJP member in Bankura’s Indas. According to the deceased’s son Abdul Hafiz, his house was attacked on Thursday and his father was beaten up while trying to save ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nadia-based Congress neta Anisur Rahman, 50, and his 24-year-old son Abu Sufian, were shot and hacked to death in Nadia’s Nakashipara on Saturday night. Three people have been arrested, including local Haranagar gram panchayat pradhan Fatima Biwi, whose ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday denied allegations that BJP workers were involved in the 'assault' that led to the death of the father of a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) volunteer in Bankura and assured strict ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on the occasion of Independence Day on Saturday promised to restore the old glory of the state, saying that a Viksit Bengal will fulfill the vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047.Addressing his maiden ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly one in four households in Bengal has already completed the first digital step of Census 2027, giving the state the country’s highest self-enumeration tally as around 1.8 lakh enumerators fanned out across urban and rural areas from ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaMidnapore: Two elephant-related incidents in Jhargram and West Midnapore on Sunday morning left a 75-year-old woman dead in one area and a young elephant dead in another.In Jhargram, Forest department sources said Parbati Deb Singha, 75, was killed in ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday invoked the memory of the Great Calcutta Killings to caution against what he called “appeasement politics,” at an event remembering the violence that broke out in the city on Direct Action Day on ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 26-year-old bar manager, Champa Senapati, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her rented flat in Picnic Garden early on Saturday. Police detained her live-in partner and their driver after her family alleged murder, robbery and a ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bike-borne goons allegedly opened fire at the home of Bhatpara businessman Rashid Khan on Saturday night over an alleged property dispute. Police are examining CCTV footage to identify the suspects.According to police, two youths arrived at Rashid’s residence ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 32-year-old man was injured after being allegedly assaulted by around 20 people following an argument over a motorcycle parking space in Nonadanga Rail Colony around 8 pm on Friday.Dibyendu Sardar, returning from work, found a motorcycle parked ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Entally Police Station witnessed a two-hour-long spat between rival BJP factions on Friday night and early Saturday, with one group allegedly blocking the station’s main entrance. A viral video shows BJP supporters locking the police station’s main gate.Locals ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: Kharagpur Town police has drawn an FIR into the death of Ankit Sharma, a second-year mechanical engineering student who died after falling from the third floor of the Nalanda classroom complex, following a complaint lodged by his uncle ...
17 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: India's small and medium steel units can lower their electricity tariffs by as much as 34% by pooling demand and jointly investing in a renewable power plant, according to a report released on Wednesday. For a single unit, ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hours after former Assembly Deputy Speaker Ashis Banerjee was found hanging at a Trinamool Congress (TMC) office, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said corrupt elements within the opposition party might have threatened him, according to ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple police stations in Kolkata are continuing to get dozens of Zero FIRs from across Malda, Murshidabad and North 24 Parganas against Sreelekha Mitra, even two weeks after the actor participated in the anti-paper leak protest using an ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Trinamool Congress MLA and ex-deputy speaker of the West Bengal assembly Asish Banerjee was found dead at his party office in Birbhum district on Sunday, police said.A purported suicide note was also found. In the note, Banerjee ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has extended support to Abdul, a student in West Bengal who visited the government school where he once studied, and called for the immediate arrest of those responsible for his father's ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 3.4 crore individuals across the state are already enrolled as beneficiaries of the Ayushman Bharat card ahead of its Sunday launch. Another lot — around 80 lakh — have also enrolled themselves under the Mukhya Mantri Swasthya ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: City police commissioner Ajay Nand and senior IPS officer ADG (Armed Police) Damayanti Sen will lead a distinguished cohort of personnel to be recognised with national and state police honors ahead of the 80th Independence Day for their ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Asish Banerjee, the former deputy speaker of the West Bengal assembly, was found dead on Sunday morning at a Trinamool Congress office in Rampurhat, Birbhum district.His body was found hanging and was sent for a post-mortem examination, police ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Asish Banerjee, the former deputy speaker of the West Bengal Assembly and five-time MLA from Rampurhat, was found hanging at a Trinamool Congress (TMC) office in Birbhum district on Sunday morning.Police said Banerjee's body was found at the ...
16 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The number of beneficiaries under the Annapurna Yojana is expected to reach 2 crore or more, prompting the finance department to anticipate an additional expenditure of at least Rs 12,000 crore over and above the Rs 36,000 crore ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Padma Bhushan recipient and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday expressed his displeasure after he was not invited to the film festival in Kolkata despite attending a meeting on celebrations marking the birth centenary of Bengali cinema icon ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta high court acquitted former CPI(M) MLA Manoranjan Patra and two other party leaders in a 2010 murder case, saying there was no evidence on record to show that the appellants were present at the alleged place ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh on Saturday attended an Independence Day programme held by a rebel faction of the party, triggering fresh speculation about his political position.The event was organised by the faction led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee. ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt has decided to double the annual financial grant for girl students from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 under the girl child education scheme ‘Kanya Ratna’, which was earlier called ‘Kanyasree’ in the state. The grant ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKharagpur: The family of IIT Kharagpur second-year mechanical engineering student Ankit Sharma (18) has alleged that he was murdered, and has filed a complaint with cops on Friday. Ankit died on campus after falling from the third floor of ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lalbazar has decided to set up a police outpost near Kalighat temple to boost security, manage large crowds, and ensure public safety following a directive from Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand. Under the new order, the outpost will ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State finance minister and Rasbehari MLA Swapan Dasgupta has urged organisers of the Deshapriya Park Durga Puja to resolve internal disputes among themselves and keep politics out of puja. A dispute over the management has stalled preparations for ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The iconic Howrah Bridge is all set to have a new dynamic lighting system from Saturday. There will also be synchronised music and sound show along with the lighting on selected days, starting from Saturday.This was revealed by ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday appealed to industrialists here to join hands with the govt to rebuild Bengal, stressing the need for the state’s industrial revival.“I look forward to your participation in rebuilding West Bengal, a state ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has registered a fresh case against Behala promoter Jay Kamdar, whom ED arrested on embezzlement charges earlier, and an associate for allegedly cheating a business partner, Dibendu Majumdar, out of his contractual profit share in a ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A case of attempt to murder and rioting has been registered at the Kalighat PS against former Trinamool councillor Prabir Mukherjee and 11 of his political associates following a violent clash over the removal of an allegedly illegal ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro authorities on Friday cordoned off a part of the road leading to Kolkata airport entrance that had caved in on Thursday. Metro authorities have temporarily suspended the tunnelling for the Orange Line until the road is repaired.An ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday questioned the assigning of census duties to govt school teachers after school hours or on weekends, calling it “arbitrary”.More than 31 teachers were directed to give details of residence, school, area assigned ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BMC has taken up the repair of over 180 stretches at a cost of nearly Rs 62.6 crore. About 63 roads are in Salt Lake and the rest in Rajarhat Gopalpur.Officials said while concrete blocks would be ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Supreme Court on Friday extended the interim protection against coercive action to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy in the Salboni land case till Wednesday.The matter will next be heard on Aug 19. Roy’s counsel Gopal ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKalyani: Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra appeared before Nadia Police on Friday afternoon in connection with a hate speech case.Moitra reached Hogalberia police station around 2 pm and left about an hour later. She met the investigating officer as directed ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 21-year-old man hacked three children to death with a knife and critically injured another in Murshidabad’s Raghunathpur village on Thursday afternoon. Police have arrested the accused. He was produced before court on Friday.Five-year-old Manifa Khatun, Anifa Khatun, ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri/Kolkata: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj apologised on Friday for remarks on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, prompting CM Suvendu Adhikari to say that while the MP’s actions were beyond forgiveness, considering his age, it will be “looked at ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has arrested a 42-year-old alleged middleman for "extorting money” from a patient’s family under the pretext of facilitating treatment at SSKM Hospital.The suspect, identified as Amit Pramanik, a resident of Hingalganj, was taken into custody following ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Seeking to counter criticism after its Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj’s remarks on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bengal BJP on Friday held “Bibhajan Bibhishika” seminars across the city, highlighting the perils of Partition while continuing its “Tiranga Yatra” ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A total of 1,008 yajnas will be performed by Hindu groups across Bengal in Jan next year to pray for the reconversion of converted Hindus into Sanatani faith. The announcement came two days after Acharya Ramchandra Das, one ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police on Friday morning cancelled the third edition of the Reclaim the Night programme by Reclaim the Night (Women-Trans-Queer) United, citing possible “disturbances in law and order.”After the order, the group’s convener, Satabdi Das, said on social ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after former Panihati Trinamool MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Odisha on Thursday morning over alleged irregularities in the cremation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, police arrested another FIR-named accused, the victim’s neighbour Sanjib Mukherjee, late ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As probe intensifies into the mysterious death of the 30-year-old nurse Rupali Burman inside a locked washroom at NRS Medical College and Hospital, cops have expanded its ambit to scrutinise hospital inventory logs, camera footage, and then match ...
15 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 32nd Kolkata International Film Festival will be held from Dec 16 to 23, 2026. Prosenjit Chatterjee, executive chairman of a special high-level advisory committee to oversee year-long celebrations marking the birth centenary of Uttam Kumar, announced it ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An FIR has been lodged over an alleged 2021 post-poll attack on a woman and her family, as well as vandalism at their residence in Duttabad, following the declaration of the 2021 assembly election results. The complaint was ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata is preparing for Independence Day under heightened security, while a major Calcutta High Court ruling and a dispute involving a prominent Durga Puja committee are also drawing attention.Kolkata Police has deployed around 6,000 personnel and installed hundreds ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata Police constable has been accused of chasing, molesting, and attempting to drag a domestic help into his flat at Sukhobrishti in New Town on Wednesday when the woman had come to work at the complex. Cops ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Hastings Police has arrested a 32-year-old motorcyclist, identified as Rajesh Mondal of Matiya area in North 24 Parganas, late Wednesday night for allegedly stalking, verbally abusing, and making sexually suggestive remarks toward a 40-year-old woman bike rider ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP has suspended a Jadavpur Mahila Morcha functionary, pending an internal investigation, after a video went viral of the woman allegedly receiving a stack of cash from a real estate promoter in Mukundapur.The video, which remains unverified, depicts ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee has sought a report from joint registrar Ujjwal Kumar Mandal on the yajna performed on the portico of Aurobindo Bhavan by members of Paschimbanga Visvavidyalaya Karmachari Sangh (PVKS), JU unit, on Friday.PVKS, affiliated ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Beleghata Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh’s residence, local club, and party office in the city’s Garpar area in ward 28 of north Kolkata was attacked by a group of unidentified miscreants attacked and vandalised on Wednesday evening.Ghosh, who was ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The pace of Bengal’s deceased organ donation has slowed down as indicated by the count so far this year. While organs from 13 deceased donors had given a fresh lease of life to at least 40 recipients with ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A homemaker in her early 30s was found brutally murdered at her rented accommodation in Dum Dum on Thursday morning, with several deep stab injuries on her body. Police said the body had been wrapped in a blanket ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata:In a first, Kolkata Police had floated a Rs 5.5 lakh worth tender to procure 50,000 rakhis and one lakh toffees for Rakshabandhan celebrations. The hands used to nabbing criminals will tie the Tricolour rakhis, complete with a KP ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Security has been tightened across Kolkata for Independence Day, with police stepping up surveillance amid cracking of JeM-Shahzad Bhatti and ISI-backed terror and spying modules in the city in the past month.According to sources at Lalbazar, 6,000 police ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Balasore: Veteran Trinamool Congress functionary Nirmal Ghosh, a five-time former MLA from Panihati, was arrested from Odisha’s Balasore on Thursday, barely 72 hours after CM Suvendu Adhikari publicly asked Barrackpore police commissioner Amit Kumar Singh to probe his role ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Suvendu Adhikari administration on Thursday stripped BJP MP and Rajbangshi leader Ananta Maharaj of Banga Bibhushan, Bengal’s highest civilian honour, for his comments denigrating national icon Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army.The Mamata Banerjee ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Pakistani national Rana Rouf Khalid (36), who was arrested by Bengal STF on Wednesday for his alleged links with Pakistan’s ISI, had visited Kolkata at least six times since 2014-15, having spent between one and two months each ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Kharagpur: A second-year IIT Kharagpur engineering student died after reportedly falling from the third floor of the Nalanda classroom complex. Ankit Sharma (18), who hailed from Rajasthan, was pursuing mechanical engineering. He joined the institution in July 2025 and ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKeshpur: Police in West Midnapore’s Keshpur registered cases against 10 Trinamool workers under nonbailable sections on Thursday after CM Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday, said he wanted to see them in jail for allegedly obstructing a rally of his in ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court’s single bench of Justice Kausik Chanda on Thursday released the case filed by Birbhum stone trader Tulu Mondal seeking protection from arrest, as another matter concerning Mondal is already pending before a coordinate bench.Mondal had ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: Amid controversy over BJP Rajya Sabha MP Nagendra Roy, known as Ananta Maharaj, questioning the roles of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Azad Hind Fauj in India’s freedom struggle, Bengal assembly speaker Rathindranath Bose on Thursday visited ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Thursday started a probe into complaints of vandalism of a Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose statue at the Battala three-point crossing in New Alipore.Some local residents claimed they discovered the damaged statue in the morning. Its right ...
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