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  • News from West Bengal | 25 Aug, 2025 | ১০ ভাদ্র, ১৪৩২
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  • War of words over Park Circus rly stn encroachment

    Kolkata: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said in parliament that Bengal govt is not helping railways clear encroachment in Park Circus. Trinamool protested the statement. The statement read, "Indian Railways has conducted drives at Park Circus railway station ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Over 70% health complaints resolved via ‘Sorasori Mukhyomantri’ helpline: Report

    Kolkata: According to data released by Nabanna on Friday, nearly 72% of health-related issues were resolved following calls made to ‘Sorasori Mukhyomantri', a helpline launched in June 2023 and monitored by the CMO. Approximately 20% of resolved calls were ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Nobody will dare touch a Hindu or a nationalist Muslim Bengali: Samik

    Kolkata: Nobody would even dare to touch a Hindu or a nationalist Muslim Bengali, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Friday amid allegations of harassment faced by Bengali-speaking migrants in multiple BJP-governed states. Bhattacharya, who had earlier said ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    100 day’s work: TMC, CPM & Cong mull contempt plea after Centre fails HC deadline

    Kolkata: With the Calcutta High Court-mandated Aug 1 deadline to Centre to resume the 100 days' work programme in Bengal getting over on Friday, Trinamool, CPM and Congress spoke in one voice to target BJP for ignoring the state's ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    End credits roll as 1 more C Kol hall bites the dust

    Kolkata: Crown, one of the last symbols of Esplanade area's 16 single screen theatre that was once the talk of the country, will soon be razed to the ground. The theatre, fondly referred to as the Cinema Hall of ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Corridor of pain: 11km Sec V-Bypass snarls during peak hours break motorists’ patience

    12 Kolkata: An eight-hour-long traffic jam on Thursday evening, stretching for 11 kms from Technopolis near Sector V to Park Circus, and a repeat of the same on Friday morning on the stretch between Panchannagram and Chingrighata, was enough ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    10% of Kol’s 3k insecure bldgs at high risk

    12 Kolkata: In the wake of the collapse of several insecure buildings following spells of rain, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to launch a city-wide drive to demolish highly insecure buildings to prevent serious accidents. According to ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    SIR prep: Send list of booth level agents, CEO tells parties

    12 Kolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal wrote to all political parties on Friday to send him their list of booth level agents (BLAs) so that procedure for the revision of electoral rolls could be started. Without the ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    PG classes to start from Sept 1: State

    Kolkata: The state higher education department has issued guidelines for PG admissions, setting Sept 1 as the start date for first-semester classes across state universities.The notice specifies admission quotas, with state-aided universities required to maintain an 80:20 ratio between ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Need 10-day dry spell to complete road repairs: Mayor

    Kolkata: The KMC roads department will complete repair works on all battered stretches across the city if it gets a 10-day dry spell, mayor Firhad Hakim reassured on Friday."This monsoon, the rain frequency is more than in previous years. ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Upload OBC details for Presi seats: JEE

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Board (WBJEEB) has asked the students, who appeared for the entrance tests for undergraduate courses at Presidency University, to edit and update their social category details through a link, which will go live ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Pay 1L for littering Salt Lake vacant plots

    12 Kolkata: Next time you dump waste on vacant plots and on waterbodies in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area, be prepared to pay a hefty fine. The civic authorities will install display boards on vacant plots and waterbodies ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    KMC picks IIEST to review list of city heritage buildings, assign grades

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to start scientific valuation of heritage buildings and evaluate the grades of these structures with help of experts from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. The scientific valuation ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata gets sunny Friday after July’s relentless rain

    Kolkata: On Friday, the sun emerged from the cloud cover that the city had been witnessing for the past few days. Though Kolkata remained dry for a large part of the day, it encountered light rain along with lightning ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    138 students from 34 schools across India debate at moot court in Kolkata

    Kolkata: As many as 138 students from 34 schools across the country participated in the fourth edition of inter-school moot court in Kolkata on Friday. The students got a platform to hone their legal skills at a simulated court ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    WB CEO asks parties for BL agents for SIR

    Kolkata: West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal asked all political parties on Friday to send their list of booth-level agents (BLAs) so that the procedure for a revision of electoral rolls in the state could be started. Deletion ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    State sends ASI to probe worker’s death in Pune

    Jalpaiguri: The death of a 27-year-old man from Ambari in Jalpaiguri's Raiganj in Pune last week under mysterious circumstances has prompted a probe by the Bengal govt.The deceased, Dipu Das, used to work as a daily wage labourer. On ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    ITC sees marginal decline in net profit, revenue up 20%

    Kolkata: ITC saw a marginal decline in net profit in the first quarter of FY26 to Rs 4,912 crore from Rs 4,917 crore in Q1FY25. Its revenue, however, saw a 20% jump from Rs 17,457 crore to Rs 20,911 ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Community service, security boost, crowd control top clubs’ Durga Puja grant spend wish list in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement of an increased grant of Rs 1.1 lakh to each registered Durga Puja committee in the state has added to the festive fervour. This move has been welcomed by organisers and the larger ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Bimal Gurung meets Suvendu in Kol

    Darjeeling: In a significant move ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, GJM president Bimal Gurung on Thursday met Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata. Gurung was accompanied by party general secretary Roshan Giri and son Avinash Gurung. Sources ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Another Cooch Behar man gets Assam NRC notice

    Jalpaiguri: Yet another Cooch Behar resident has received an NRC notice from Assam's Foreigners Tribunal.Baxirhat resident Dipankar Sarkar, who works as a carpenter in Guwahati's Paltan Bazar, has been residing in Assam for over a decade. In 2014, he ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Shahid Khudiram grunts under terminal Kavi Subhash’s load

    1234 Kolkata: The Shahid Khudiram Metro station has unexpectedly become prominent as the new southern terminus of the North-South corridor (Blue Line), following recent developments.Despite its new status and the transfer of additional Metro staff, it is still ill-equipped ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    State police cyber crime wing faces data breach, cops suspect sabotage

    12 Kolkata: The Bengal Police has started an investigation after noticing that the state cyber crime wing (CCW) data centre, which is used for confidential cyber crime investigations, has been compromised.The police, who have already spoken to the private ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Zoo officials among 34 getting new postings in IFS reshuffle

    Kolkata: The state has transferred as many as 34 IFS officials in a recent reshuffle.Among the key transfers are that of member secretary, West Bengal Zoo Authority, Saurabh Chaudhuri's who has been made the CEO Green project Wing and ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    New Town ‘road rage’: Parents thrashed in front of daughter

    Kolkata: A young couple was injured, and their daughter was left traumatised in a suspected road rage incident in New Town when they were driving to pick up their elder daughter from school earlier this week.On Tuesday, four men ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Ripple effect: Auto-bus tussle over new passengers in Garia

    12 Kolkata: A war of words has broken out between Garia auto and bus unions after over 180 autos, within a span of three days, began operating their fleet from Shahid Khudiram Metro station, connecting both Garia Station Road ...

    2 August 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata honeytrap racket: Bangladeshi mastermind of cross-border crime ring held; victims drugged, robbed via dating sites

    Representational Image KOLKATA: A Bangladeshi national, the mastermind behind a cross-border honeytrap and robbery racket, was arrested by Bidhannagar police in connection with a series of crimes. Men were lured through matrimonial websites and dating apps and were robbed ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    HC: Mom-daughter row shouldn’t affect students

    12 Kolkata: The court cannot allow students to be displaced during an academic session because of a dispute between a mother and a daughter, the Calcutta HC observed. It noted that the conflict between the two—president and secretary of ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Shuttle bus balm to ease commuters’ auto pain

    12 Kolkata: The WBTC on Thursday started a trial bus shuttle service between Garia crossing and New Garia station. However, it faced resistance from local auto operators as the administration scrambled to address the transportation crisis following the indefinite ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    CM Mamata Banerjee hikes Durga Puja grant, urges support for migrant workers returning to Bengal

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday combined an enhanced handout for Durga Puja organisers this year with an appeal to them to stand by migrant labourers returning home because of harassment in BJP-governed states.Banerjee, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    IFB Agro to acquire Cargill India's shrimp and fish feed biz

    Kolkata: City-based IFB Agro Industries has signed a business transfer agreement with Cargill India Private Limited for the acquisition of its entire commercial compound shrimp feed and freshwater fish feed business undertaking in India. IFB Agro has informed stock ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    10-man Bagan ride on Colaco show against youthful Mohammedan SC

    Kolkata: In the end, Liston Colaco's individual brilliance turned out to be too much and too good for Mohammedan SC's team game and youthful exuberance.The India winger scored two goals and created a beautiful assist for teammate Suhail Bhatt ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    22-month-old girl dies after fall while playing at Girish Park home

    1234 Kolkata: A 22-month-old girl died while playing at home, a ninth-floor apartment on Madan Chatterjee Lane, located opposite Jorasanko Thakurbari, on Wednesday evening.While police said the child, Pranshi Saraf, fell down from a dining table, her family members ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Not a single genuine voter should get left out, Mamata tells DMs

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told district magistrates that not a single genuine voter should be struck off electoral rolls, stressing that "absence from home" could not be a presumption for "making a decision".Senior govt officials who attended ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Major city roads become one-lane as cars avoid potholed stretches

    1234 Kolkata: The rain has not spared the city's main arterial roads. At multiple places on Thursday, vehicles were forced to move in a single file, using just one of the two-lane flank to avoid battered pockets. The biggest ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Teacher faces show-cause as AI tigers visit madrasa campus

    123456 Kolkata: An AI-generated video showing three tigers on a madrasa campus at Barasat went viral on Wednesday, causing panic among students and guardians and leading to a sharp drop in attendance on Wednesday and Thursday.The video was later ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Bone marrow transplant comes under Swasthya Sathi, more patients to benefit

    Kolkata: The state has included bone marrow transplant in its universal health scheme, Swasthya Sathi, eliciting hope for more patients getting the opportunity to undergo the procedure. Nine institutes in Bengal conduct the procedure, two of them govt facilities.NRS ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    It’s 58-yr-old Cooch Behar woman’s turn to get NRC notice from Assam

    12 Jalpaiguri: Yet another Cooch Behar resident has received an NRC notice from the Assam Foreigners' Tribunal. Mamina Bibi, a resident of Salbari in Tufanganj-II, along the Bengal-Assam border, has been asked to appear before the tribunal with her ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    With 669 mm, month ends with highest July rain count in a decade

    12 Kolkata: July ended on a record-breaking note on the rain front, with 669 mm of rainfall, making it the rainiest July in the past decade, and the second wettest July in the past two decades in Kolkata. ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Didi hikes grants for Durga Puja organisers, says stand by migrants

    Mamta Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday combined an enhanced handout for Durga Puja organisers this year with an appeal to them to stand by migrant labourers returning home because of harassment in ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Traffic snarl chokes Bypass

    Waterlogging on Ambedkar Setu, along with the top surface peeling off near PC Chandra Gardens, led to a traffic mess on EM Bypass on Thursday. The traffic tail extended till Lohapool in Salt Lake and the Salt Lake stadium, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Rain washes away ‘presidential repairs’

    12 Kolkata: Rain washed away "presidential repairs" on VIP Road and the stretch between Haldiram's and the airport — hastily patched up with paver blocks and bricks — returned to its cratered state on Thursday morning. This led to ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Rain washes away ‘presidential repairs’

    12 Kolkata: Rain washed away "presidential repairs" on VIP Road and the stretch between Haldiram's and the airport — hastily patched up with paver blocks and bricks — returned to its cratered state on Thursday morning. This led to ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    In season of viruses, conjunctivitis adds to Kolkata’s health concerns

    Kolkata: An outbreak of conjunctivitis, triggered by an inflammation of the conjunctiva gland of the eye and leads to swelling of the eye that turns red or pink, has struck scores across Kolkata. The attack comes in the wake ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Postal worker held for using fake docus to make Aadhaars

    Kolkata: A temporary employee of India Post was arrested for allegedly being part of a group accused of using forged documents to make Aadhaars, Bengal STF said on Thursday. The accused was identified as Bidhan Murmu, a Dak Sevak ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Roll out SIR in all states: EC missive to CEOs

    Kolkata: EC on Wednesday asked chief electoral officers of all states, including Bengal CEO Manoj Aggarwal, to complete the preparations for a nationwide rollout of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The election panel also asked the CEOs ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Emami Q1 profit up 9% despite flat revenue

    Kolkata: FMCG major Emami on Thursday reported a 9% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 164.2 crore for the first quarter this fiscal even as revenue remained flat. This was mainly due to benign input costs and ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Samik seeks RS debate on ‘threats’ to poll panel officials

    12 Kolkata: BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Thursday moved a motion in the Rajya Sabha seeking a discussion on the alleged "threat" to officials of the Election Commission in Bengal. He claimed that the ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Properties worth Rs3L damaged during Murshidabad violence, HC told

    Kolkata: A valuer, engaged by the Calcutta High Court to assess the destruction to properties during the alleged communal violence in Murshidabad a few months back, estimated the damage at Rs 2 lakh for movable properties and Rs 1 ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    TMC’s ‘vote chori’ label turns INDIA bloc’s war cry in fight against SIR

    12 Kolkata: TMC on Thursday decided to step up its opposition to the proposed special intensive revision of voter rolls that the party believes will lead to large-scale deletion of voters. Along with its INDIA bloc partners, TMC will ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    9.4cr tender to raze and rebuild Kavi Subhash, Rly Board team visits station

    12 Kolkata: Metro Railway floated an e-tender of Rs 9.4 crore for razing and rebuilding the Dakshineswar-bound (Up) platform of Kavi Subhash Metro station. The meagre-amount tender, sources said, is only one of the many that will be floated ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Illegal constructions at 28 ASI sites in Bengal: Govt

    Kolkata: Despite eviction drives, national monuments in Bengal continue to face rampant encroachment, said Centre in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, Union minister for culture and tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that of 52 ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Int’l scam exploits Pahalgam attack to dupe Jalpaiguri trader of Rs 15 lakh

    Kolkata: Less than 72 hours after the Pahalgam terror attack in Kashmir, scamsters extorted Rs 15 lakh from a Jalpaiguri businessman by impersonating officers of the Maharashtra crime branch and accusing him of allowing terrorists to use a SIM ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s leather, textile and tea sectors in US tariff crosshairs

    Kolkata: The fate of several thousand workers in the leather industry in Kolkata hangs in balance after US President Donald Trump brandished the tariff sabre over Indian goods. While Bengal's textile and tea sectors will also take a hit, ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    E-W driver-less trial from Tues

    12 Kolkata: Driverless Metro trial for the East-West Metro's under-river section to Sealdah, via the subsidence-hit Bowbazar, are due to start on Tuesday. To prepare the system for the trials, there will be no operations along the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    Students, teachers awarded for excellence

    12 Kolkata: The annual awards ceremony of Julien Education Trust, honouring the remarkable contributions of students from Julien Day Schools — Kolkata, Ganganagar, Kalyani and Howrah — for the academic year 2024-2025, took place at EZCC, Salt Lake recently. ...

    1 August 2025 Times of India
    'Kicked me on chest, slapped me, told to chant Jai Shri Ram': Malda woman recounts Delhi ‘torture’; police dismiss allegations

    KOLKATA: Delhi cops kicked her on her chest and in the stomach, ordered her to chant "Jai Shri Ram", took away her family's citizenship documents and extorted Rs 25,000 from her family, the Malda woman — whose family is ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar police launch drive against illegal and speeding e-rickshaws after recent accidents

    File photo used for representational purpose. KOLKATA: Bidhannagar police have launched a fresh drive against illegal and speeding mechanised electric rickshaws after a series of recent accidents, including one that left a 58-year-old man critically injured in Baguiati last ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    RSC launches month-long teacher training in Kolkata to honour Prafulla Ray

    KOLKATA: A month-long initiative to promote equitable access to practical science education was launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)in honour of the 164th birth anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, a pioneer of modern chemistry in India,The ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Foundation design flaws likely cause for column cracks, platform ‘settlement’

    12 Kolkata: A flaw in the design of the foundation, possibly due to poor assessment of soil behaviour, appears to have caused a section of the Kavi Subhash station to settle, leading to cracks developing in four columns, structural ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Moderate rain with humidity expected today

    The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata is experiencing moderate rainfall on July 31, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26°C and ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Scripted drama with weak plot’: BJP slams presser

    12 Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Wednesday termed the press conference at Trinamool Bhavan, where a Malda woman alleged torture by Delhi Police, as "scripted drama" based on a "weak plot".Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said, "It is clearly a ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Fire breaks out at Darjeeling forest staff quarters

    Darjeeling: A fire broke out at the Darjeeling Divisional Forest Office's staff quarters in Kagjhora on Wednesday night. No casualties have been reported.Two fire engines were deployed on the scene. Darjeeling Municipality also joined the rescue operation. According to ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Rusty Bagan wary of a youthful MSC

    12 Kolkata: Mohun Bagan SG will begin their Durand Cup campaign with an all-Indian side and against a "not so easy" Mohammedan SC here on Thursday.Not long ago Bagan's participation in Asia's oldest knockout football tournament was in doubt ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    City gets its 1st plastic-free street food hub on Russel St

    Kolkata: The first civic street food hub in the city rolled up its shutters on Russel Street Wednesday, offering a hygienic and plastic-free experience to customers. On the offer were bhelpuri, chaat, phuchka, paratha, sweets, kachori, chow mein, momo, ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    For regulars, commute goes back to pre-2010 days

    12 Kolkata: No one was prepared to walk back in time like this. On Wednesday, the second day of the indefinite closure of the Blue Line's terminal station, commuters were still not able to digest the fact that they ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Metro sets 9-month deadline to rebuild Kavi Subhash station

    12 Kolkata: Metro Railway on Wednesday evening said it will attempt to complete the construction of a new Kavi Subhash metro station in nine months. The dismantling of the distressed station started on Wednesday by removing the roof. The ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    SRFTI signs MoU with Indian horror film festival to showcase genre’s popularity

    Kolkata: The horror genre in India made a huge turnaround from its early associations with films of B-grade status, made on low budgets and of poor quality, to the recent success of franchises and films like ‘Khauf', ‘Stree 2', ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    VIP Road residents suffer waterlogging woes, traffic nightmare for commuters

    Kolkata: Intermittent spells of heavy rain have brought back waterlogging woes for residents near Haldiram's crossing off VIP Road, inconveniencing thousands who had to wade through knee-deep water inside their complexes and on the service road on Wednesday. Locals ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Cops, vending body start hawker pushback drive

    123456 Kolkata: Police and Town Vending Committee members jointly conducted hawker pushback drives in the New Market area, Burrabazar, and Entally on Wednesday. Cops also initiated legal proceedings against two hawkers in Entally and Burrabazar following the anti-encroachment drive ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    CAP closes application window, merit list to be published on Aug 7

    Kolkata: The merit list for Centralised Admission Portal, which closed receiving applications for college entrance on Thursday midnight, will be published on Aug 7. "Today was the last day of receiving applications of first phase of admission through the ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri tea garden kids head state child rights body for a day

    12 Kolkata: Rishika Sabar (16) took on the role of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) chairperson for a day on World Anti-Trafficking Day on Wednesday. Two class IX students, Khushbu Munda and Sasikant Gowala, ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Met: More rain today, better weather on Fri

    Kolkata: The city is under the influence of three weather systems which may trigger more rain on Thursday. The Met office has predicted intermittent spells of intense showers on Thursday but expects an improvement in the rain conditions from ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    New IIM director takes charge, focuses on 5 ‘i’s

    12 Kolkata: Alok Kumar Rai, who assumed the role of a full-time director at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, on Wednesday, emphasised on the five ‘I's—integration, inclusion, innovation, internationalisation and Indianness—for the premier B-school's journey ahead.IIM Calcutta had been ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar victim’s parents perform ‘pind daan’

    12 Gaya: The parents of the woman doctor, who was raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9, 2024, performed ‘pind daan' rituals for their daughter here on Wednesday. The rituals were performed ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Birla’s Q1 net profit jumps 3.5 times

    Kolkata: Birla Corporation, the flagship of the MP Birla Group, reported an over 3.5-fold year-on-year jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 119.5 crore for the first quarter this fiscal, backed by improved sales and lower operating costs. ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Emami unveils new logo

    Kolkata: Kolkata-based group, Emami, has introduced a new logo after its completion of 50 years. The new logo introduces the company as Emami Group. The group was founded by RS Agarwal and RS Goenka. "Our rebranding marks a pivotal ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Singapore-based firm to foray into Andhra

    Kolkata: Singapore-based Universal Success Enterprises Ltd (USEL) plans to build multiple projects in Andhra Pradesh. Chairman of the company, Bengali NRI industrialist Prasoon Mukherjee, met Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu during the latter's visit to Singapore, and expressed USEL's ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Awareness camps saved 90 trafficked girls last month’

    Kolkata: Bengal reported approximately 67 cases of trafficking, according to the last NCRB report tabled in 2022. The report made it clear that migrants from vulnerable regions often become targets for traffickers, who lure them with false promises of ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Travel destination change after terror attack, 7% more Bengal tourists visited Goa in 2 months

    Kolkata: More and more people from Kolkata are choosing Goa as their holiday destination, apparently preferring the southwestern coast over popular mountain spots in the north, following the Pahalgam attack in April. According to travel tour operators, Goa registered ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Sajnur tortured, coerced’: Neighbours reject cop claim

    12 Malda: Neighbours and relatives of Moktar Khan and his wife, Sajnur Parveen, on Wednesday rejected the Delhi Police's claim that Sajnur fabricated the allegation of torture.Back home in Chanchal lives Moktar's only sister, Muktari. The stark poverty in ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Pahalgam victim’s daughter to start college, will study psychology, a dream she shared with dad

    12 Kolkata: Seventeen-year-old Subhangi Guha, who lost her father Samir Guha in the terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam on April 22, is about to start the next phase of her life as she starts college from next ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Can’t mandate night shift for women, employers must take nod: State draft policy

    12 Kolkata: Employment in night shifts will not be mandatory for women, a 22-point state draft policy released on Wednesday says. Employers will need to obtain written consent from all women staffers working night shifts, said the govt's draft ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC MP delegation meets migrants in Gurgaon

    Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress parliamentary delegation on Tuesday met migrant workers from Bengal who were harassed in Gurgaon. The team, which included Rajya Sabha MPs Mamata Bala Thakur and Prakash Baraik, Bardhaman East MP Sharmila Sarkar and Joynagar MP ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Flu cases surge across Kolkata as entire families get infected

    12 Kolkata: The influenza virus currently circulating could have high transmissibility. Doctors in the city are seeing an increasing number of cases where entire families are getting infected, reminiscent of the Covid times when the virus would spread from ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Fire breaks out in plastic warehouse

    12 Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Dhapa area of Mathpukur that lasted for more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon. The fire started in a warehouse used to store plastic waste near the Bypass around 3.15 pm ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    Man flees from NCB custody

    Kolkata: A detainee under the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) escaped from the agency's prison cell located inside their New Town office in the early hours of Tuesday. The accused was in custody in connection with a ...

    31 July 2025 Times of India
    E-bikes to grab 50% of electric 2-wheeler market by March '28: Ultraviolette

    KOLKATA: Bengaluru-based e-bike maker Ultraviolette believes the share of e-motorcycles that is currently less than 1% of electric two-wheelers will explode in the next couple of years and grab 50% of the market from e-scooters by March 2028. In ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    2 from Bihar held with brown sugar worth Rs 1 cr at West Bengal station

    Representational image NEW DELHI: Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel arrested two Bihar residents with brown sugar worth Rs 1.01 crore at the Malda Town railway station in West Bengal on Monday night.The suspects, Riham Reza, 18, and Md ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Chinese man crossing Nepal border held

    Roshan GuptaSiliguri: A 45-year-old Chinese national was arrested by Border Interaction Team of ‘C' Company, 41st Battalion of the SSB, after he allegedly attempted to cross the India–Nepal border using forged documents on Monday. He was produced before the ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Enrolment on voter list is your biggest shield, CM tells migrants

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday presented enrolment on the voters' list as a common shield against harassment of Bengali migrant workers in BJP-governed states and the special intensive revision of poll rolls, two potential problems facing ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Heavy rain and humidity today with monsoon forecast for the week ahead

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata Weather Forecast: July 30, 2025Kolkata is set to experience moderate rainfall on July 30, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.2°C and ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata beats other metros, reports more than 50% of good air days in 4 years: CSE study

    KOLKATA: The city has taken the top spot with the best air quality among six key Indian metros, a study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has revealed. Kolkata witnessed 791 days - over 50% of the total ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    CU probe panel submits law college rape report

    Kolkata: A report from Calcutta University's inspection committee was submitted to the interim vice-chancellor, Santa Datta Dey, on Monday after a month-long inspection following the alleged incident of rape on the law college campus in Kasba.Sources said major anomalies ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    S Kol man loses 8.8L to credit card fraud

    Kolkata: A Sarsuna resident, Pankaj Kumar, filed a complaint about unauthorised transactions amounting to Rs 8.8 lakh made using his two credit cards. Cops believe the credit card fraud was done by possibly using the SIM swap technique or ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP to start forming district panels next month

    12 Kolkata: Barely a month after electing a new state president, Bengal BJP will begin preparations to form district committees by early next month.Central brass, including those overseeing Bengal, are likely to be in Kolkata during that period.According to ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Let migrants come back, we’ll know who is lying: CM after ‘fake clip’ claim

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: A Bengali-speaking woman and her child, who were allegedly assaulted in Delhi, had been threatened, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.The CM had earlier shared a video on social media, alleging that the woman and her child ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Eye on phantom voters, Bengal CEO seeks reports on entries over past yr

    Kolkata: In a bid to pin down fictitious voters, Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal on Monday asked DMs to submit reports on inclusion of names in the state's voters' list over the past year. DMs, who also ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kanchenjunga inspires Bagdogra terminal design

    12 Kolkata: The architecture of the new terminal under construction at Bagdogra airport in north Bengal is inspired by the Himalayas and pays homage to the Kanchenjunga. A sneak preview of the climate-resilient design of the terminal by CP ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
    Kavi Subhash stn to be razed, truncated N-S Metro services for at least a year

    Kolkata: Commuters may have to wait an entire year to use Kavi Subhash metro station, the terminal station of the North-South Blue Line, which is also the city's lifeline. Metro Railway has decided to demolish the station and rebuild ...

    30 July 2025 Times of India
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