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  • India’s CAFE norms penalise small cars: Study

    Kolkata: A study by the Indian arm of Nomura Research Institute, the largest economic research and consulting firm in Japan, has said that India's policy on fuel efficiency norms for new cars penalises small ones with disproportionately stringent CO2 ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Eye on sky, KMC kicks off road repairs

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) started repairing the battered stretches of EM Bypass and other roads, including D L Khan Road, Belvedere Road, and Beadon Street, on Thursday night. However, heavy showers in the city on Friday ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Dilip meets Nadda in Delhi while Modi holds rally in Bengal

    Kolkata: Former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh skipped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Durgapur rally on Friday and instead took a flight to meet BJP national president JP Nadda in Delhi.Ghosh had, on Thursday night, made clear that he would ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP MLA’s car attacked in Mathabhanga

    Jalpaiguri: BJP Mathabhanga MLA Sushil Barman's car was attacked near Ghoksadanga railway station on Friday, allegedly by Trinamool supporters. Barman had arrived to board a train to Kolkata when a group confronted him over his performance in the constituency. ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Rain and humidity expected

    Kolkata's weather forecast for July 18, 2025, indicates a warm and humid day with temperatures ranging from 27.8°C to 34.3°C, accompanied by an 80% chance of patchy rain. The city will experience humidity levels of 72% and wind speeds ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Keep central Kolkata free from 9 am to 11 am on July 21 for office commute: Cal HC tells Kol Police

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Kolkata Police to ensure that no procession for the July 21 rally takes place between 9 am and 11 am and that there is no traffic congestion on routes leading to the ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    On first anniv, GSI’s landslide-forecast unit promises nation-wide cover by ’30

    Kolkata: From sudden flash floods to fast-moving boulders cascading down mountain slopes, the Geological Survey of India's (GSI) National Landslide Forecasting Centre (NLFC) has been quietly making a life-saving difference. Marking its first anniversary, the centre on Friday celebrated ...

    19 July 2025 Times of India
    Toddler dies as poor road delays access to hospital

    Midnapore: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl who choked while being fed milk at her home in Kakra Mohanpur village in Debra block died on Thursday, allegedly after a delay in reaching the hospital due to poor road conditions. In protest, locals ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Calls from Cambodia, SIM from India’: In a first in West Bengal, 9 convicted of ‘digital-arrest’; fraud worth Rs 1 crore

    KOLKATA: In a first in Bengal, nine persons nabbed from Maharashtra, Haryana and Gujarat were convicted in a 'digital-arrest' case worth over Rs 1 crore by a Kalyani trial court on Thursday. The court will sentence them on Friday. ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Campaign to save Pancham’s house takes off

    A file photo of Pancham at the South End Park residence KOLKATA: Close on the heels of the uproar over the demolition of the house in Mymensingh with a Satyajit Ray connection, Pancham’s uncle - filmmaker Abhijit Dasgupta – ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    After 11 years in jail: 3 on death row for brutal murder freed by Calcutta HC

    KOLKATA: Three prisoners given death penalty and jailed for the past 11 years were acquitted by Calcutta High Court on Thursday in a 2014 murder case in which the mutilated body of a 28-year-old woman was found at Sealdah ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Need money for parents' treatment’: Businessman duped by woman he met at Kolkata bar; loses Rs 6L gold to sob story

    KOLKATA: A businessman has been conned into handing over his gold jewellery-two rings and a chain, worth Rs 6 lakh-to a woman who befriended him at a bar-cum-restaurant on EM Bypass. The 54-year-old man was at the restaurant on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    No bar on TMC's July 21 rally but Calcutta HC adds 11am rider

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to stop the July 21 rally from going ahead but told police that congregations could happen only after 11am to allow normal office-time traffic.The HC, which would hear the case again on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    PhD student files harass plaint with CU against guide

    Kolkata: A research scholar at Calcutta University lodged a complaint of mental harassment against her guide over the past year. The husband of the research scholar, who is pursuing PhD in the education department, recently made a social media ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Kol airport flags off DigiYatra for transit flyers

    Kolkata: Some passengers, transiting Kolkata airport on Thursday, had a smoother experience with the commissioning of DigiYatra services in the domestic-to-domestic (D2D) transfer area.The facility can make a big difference to more than 3,500 flyers who travel between the ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    4 out of 5 women face violence from parents, siblings, finds survey

    Kolkata: Contrary to the social myth that a woman's birth family is a space of safety, a study has revealed that natal family violence (NFV) is a pervasive and under-recognised form of domestic violence. The study, drawing testimonies of ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    City amusement parks plan to deploy more medics & lifeguards, bolster safety checks

    Kolkata: A day after an 18-year-old student died at Nicco Park's water park, the authorities of three major amusement destinations in Kolkata — Nicco Park, Aquatica, and Happy Valley Park — initiated a series of precautionary measures to prevent ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Extra time, extra fuel, risk to life and limb: Bikers count the cost of battered roads

    Businessman Asif Iqbal, who drives down the Park Circus Connector at least five days a week, is taking at least 20 minutes extra this monsoon due to cratered and undulating roads. Despite driving carefully, his car hit potholes several ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Pilots: Deliberate ambiguity in report timeline to shift blame

    Kolkata: Serving and retired pilots have expressed concern over what they term "deliberate" ambiguity in the timeline mentioned in the preliminary probe report by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the AI 171 crash. They allege this has been ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Death due to negligence? Park faces probe as dad blames lack of infra

    Kolkata: A case of death due to negligence was initiated against Nicco Park authorities following a complaint lodged by the father of the 18-year-old BBA student who died during an outing with friends at the water park on Wednesday. ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Modi in Durgapur today, will launch projects worth Rs 5k cr

    12 Kolkata/Durgapur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Durgapur on Friday, from where he will inaugurate projects worth Rs 5,000 crore in Bankura, Purulia and Durgapur.The largest of these will be the Rs 1,950 crore piped ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Mamata: Tell me where to find ‘17 lakh Rohingya’ in Bengal

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday challenged those "claiming there were 17 lakh Rohingya" in Bengal to give her the addresses of these illegal immigrants if they really knew where they were.Launching an attack on a campaign to "equate ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Techie helps cops arrest molester

    Kolkata: A techie who was molested near her home in Salt Lake chased the tormentor and helped police nab him within 18 hours.The 25-year-old Sector V employee was allegedly molested in Salt Lake FD Block around 5.30 am on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Victim-naming: HC exonerates Goyal after apology

    Kolkata: Former Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal was exonerated for naming the victim in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case following an apology to the Calcutta High Court. The HC was convinced that he named the deceased unintentionally.While dropping the ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘House being demolished not linked to Satyajit Ray’

    Kolkata: The Bangladesh govt has confirmed on Thursday that the property in Mymensingh that is being demolished has no links to filmmaker Satyajit Ray or his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. Filmmaker Sandip Ray told TOI on Thursday that he ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    IIEST teachers write to director over PhD fee hike

    Kolkata: The IIEST Teachers' Association has written to the institute director raising concerns over the exorbitant hike in PhD admission fees. They claimed the rise in fee may act as a deterrent to the PhD admission process that takes ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Dilip to skip rally to avoid ‘seating row’

    123 Kolkata: BJP's former national vice-president Dilip Ghosh will not attend PM Narendra Modi's rally in Durgapur on Friday. Even a day earlier, Ghosh said he was willing to listen to Modi's speech."I am not attending the rally on ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Gurugram cops harassing workers for speaking Bengali’

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Partha Pratim Ray, who hails from Cooch Behar, said on Thursday that several people from Sitalkuchi, working in Gurugram, were being summoned by local police for speaking in Bengali.Ray said, "For a long time, several ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Former Kol CP not guilty of any botch-up in RG Kar probe: CBI

    Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday told a Sealdah court that it has found nothing "incriminating" against former Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal to suspect his role during the RG Kar rape-murder probe. The CBI also reiterated in court that ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Awami League calls for mass resistance after 4 B’desh deaths

    123 Kolkata: A day after violence in Bangladesh's Gopalganj killed at least four people and left nearly a dozen Awami League supporters injured, "leaders in exile" of the now-restricted former governing party called for "mass resistance" across the country.Former ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Agra cops arrest 2 in Barrackpore over religious conversion

    Kolkata: The Agra cyber crime cell of UP Police arrested two people from Barrackpore on Thursday for allegedly abducting two women and forcing them to undergo religious conversion. Accused Sekhar Roy alias Hassan Ali is a resident of Bakar ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    B’desh tea board introduces minimum protection price

    Kolkata: Bangladesh Tea Board has introduced a minimum protection price to support struggling tea gardens. Though this has been a long-time demand of the Indian tea industry, the Tea Board here is yet to implement it.A circular issued by ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Sodepur flyover to be shut on weekend nights till Sept 15

    Kolkata: Brace for significant traffic snarls across Kolkata's northern suburbs as the Sodepur flyover, a crucial link connecting BT Road to Jessore Road via Kalyani Expressway and airport-bound Belgharia Expressway, is set to undergo urgent repair work beginning this ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Silvered leaf monkey, cuscuses seized at Kolkata airport

    123456 Kolkata: In the third seizure of rare and exotic animals at Kolkata airport since this Feb, a silvery lutung or silvered leaf monkey — an old-world monkey native to Sumatra, Borneo and Java — and a pair of ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    2nd AC rake arrives in city, more EMU services added

    Kolkata: A month after the city got its first air-conditioned local train, the second one has arrived. Eastern Railway has procured two AC rakes for suburban services. The first one will be run on the Sealdah-Ranaghat section. The route ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    CM opens 5 projects worth 455 crore, 4 in New Town

    1234 Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated five projects worth Rs 455.5 crore, four of which will be located at New Town. This includes two separate housing projects for the economically weak, an eight-storey parking complex beside ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    July’s 1st rainless day pushes up mercury

    Kolkata: With the first rainless day this July and the sun emerging from the cloud cover, the mercury rose slightly above the normal mark in Kolkata on Thursday. While the Met office expects similar weather conditions on Friday, officials ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Law college seeks ban on cultural events till union poll, cop outpost

    123 Kolkata: The law college in south Kolkata, where the rape incident occurred, filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court requesting a police picket at the college. The college argued that a police picket should be set up ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Place educationists in school, college GBs rather than politicians, HC tells state

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday said that educationists should be placed in the governing bodies of state colleges and schools rather than politicians. The HC also asked the state to inform it on students' union election notification ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    Focus on forensic nursing for medico-legal cases

    Kolkata: Forensic nursing is emerging as an important speciality to support forensic medicine specialists in handling medico-legal cases, including survivors of sexual abuse and other forms of violence. With the Indian Nursing Council recognising MSc in forensic nursing as ...

    18 July 2025 Times of India
    HC orders 2nd autopsy of Malda student

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a second autopsy of a Class 8 student who was found hanging in a hostel room of a private school in Malda's Manikchak block on July 3.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata horror: Youth held on rape charge; parents end lives on tracks

    12 KOLKATA: The arrest of a 26-year-old by Maniktala police on Tuesday from his Nimta home for raping a woman with a false promise of marriage prompted his parents to end their lives by suicide hours later.According to the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Alipore Museum to exhibit Satyajit Ray photographs by Nemai Ghosh

    The Alipore Museum, in collaboration with DAG, is set to host an exhibition showcasing photographer Nemai Ghosh's extensive documentation of Satyajit Ray KOLKATA: The Alipore Museum, in collaboration with DAG, will host photographer Nemai Ghosh’s decades-long documentation of the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Shakespeare meets Surrealism in Dalí works at Victoria Memorial

    On May 16, International Museum Day, the Victoria Memorial museum brought out twin rare gems from its formidable collection of art — two Salvador Dalí colour etchings from his Macbeth series, originally created in 1946 as illustrations for William ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Why Santiniketan Is Your Ultimate Monsoon Getaway

    12 Heed our suggestion now, thank us later — the best season to be in Santiniketan is during the monsoons. Yes, you read that right: pass on the winter jostle and the overcrowded Poush Mela, not to mention overpriced ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    209 pregnant women rescued during Ghatal floods give birth

    12 Ghatal: As many as 209 out of 275 pregnant women — displaced by the recent floods in the Midnapore Sadar area and admitted at Ghatal Super Speciality Hospital and Keshpur Rural Hospital — have given birth within eight ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Humid and rain expected

    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's weather forecast for July 17, 2025, indicates a typical monsoon day with temperatures ranging ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    New format unique & contemporary: 'S'-shaped seating pattern; OMR-based exam in Bengal Higher Secondary 3rd semester to curb cheating

    KOLKATA: An S-shaped seating pattern is set to debut in the semester-based Higher Secondary examination to be held from Sept 8 to Sept 22 to prevent students from cheating. West Bengal Higher Secondary Council has split the HS exam ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Any reason behind raids to identify Bangladeshis, asks Calcutta HC

    KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre why there were countrywide raids suddenly in June to identify Bangladeshis staying illegally in the country. Cops could conduct coordinated raids but there had to be a reason, the HC ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Not in our name: Migrants working in city say Kol offers acceptance, this is home too

    Kolkata: As chief minister Mamata Banerjee marched through the heart of Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon, protesting against reports of discrimination faced by Bengalis in other states, several migrant workers and traders from other states watching the rally from the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Mohun Bagan edge Kalighat MS 2-1 ahead of derby

    Kolkata: Mohun Bagan Super Giant rode a second-half goal from Karan Rai to defeat Kalighat Milan Sangha 2-1 at the Kalyani stadium on Wednesday, gaining a much-needed boost three days before facing East Bengal FC in the season's first ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    HC to hear Sanjay, CBI pleas in Sept

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court in Sept will hear RG Kar rape and murder case convict Sanjay Roy's acquittal appeal, along with the CBI's appeal, seeking a death sentence for him."Evidence was not sufficient for his conviction, and he ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Lawyer raises questions on ‘mystery room’

    Kolkata: The CBI on Wednesday filed a status report on the investigation of the rape and murder of the RG Kar PGT doctor. In the Sealdah court, the victim's parents' lawyers asked CBI about a hospital room on the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Rare heart surgery on 6-month-old gets medical journal entry honour

    Kolkata: The case of a rare and complex heart surgery on a six-month-old girl in a Kolkata hospital was published by the World Journal of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery due to the rarity of the procedure on such ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Captivity challenges: Study finds ailments in zoo animals

    123456 Kolkata: Disease diagnosis of animals at Alipore Zoological Garden, one of the oldest in the country, has unearthed frequent cases of lameness, hepato-renal abnormalities (liver and kidney diseases), and respiratory complications. According to experts, this points to challenges ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Resto war heats up in Hills as Darj icons vie with brand from Kolkata

    123456 Kolkata: Darjeeling's iconic confectionery Glenary's and breakfast joint Keventer's now face competition from Kolkata's heritage tea room Flurys, with the latter setting up shop a few metres away on Nehru Road.Flurys, the European-style tea room on Park Street ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Work on Purple Line’s Kidderpore station starts

    Kolkata: The two-year impasse over permission to use land inside the Kolkata Armed Police property have been resolved with the agencies conducting inspections of the Alipore Bodyguard Lines on Wednesday to start the pre-construction work for the Purple Line's ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    18-yr-old BBA student on day out with friends falls ill at Nicco Park, dies

    Kolkata: A BBA student died during a day out with friends at Nicco Park on Wednesday. Police suspect he died of heart attack. Rahul Das (18), the only child of his parents, studied at a private university in New ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Trans woman appears in job viva with CS help

    Kolkata: A trans woman from Nadia successfully appeared in her WB Health Recruitment Board viva for the post of medical technologist (lab) after the intervention of chief secretary Manoj Pant.Born Ayan Sanyal, Anurupa applied for the post in 2019 ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    New lease of life for Nimtala ghat

    Kolkata: After inking a deal with Adani Port for the redevelopment of Kumartuli Ghat, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK), has signed an MoU with a city-based realty developer for the redevelopment, renovation and beautification of Nimtala ghat.Speaking on ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    New Town set to get parking lot for 1,500 car

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate the city's biggest multi-storey car parking complex in New Town on Thursday. The eight-storied ramp-up complex, set up by Hidco, will accommodate about 1,500 cars. The parking complex has been ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal BJP takes aim at ‘protection of illegal immigrants’

    123 Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Wednesday intensified its campaign against what it perceives as the legitimisation of illegal immigrants by Trinamool Congress. BJP alleged that Trinamool's protests were an attempt to politicise Bengali identity and protect illegal immigrants.Bengal BJP ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    292 get HC nod to be hired in madrassas

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for recruitment of 292 Group D employees against vacant posts in state-run madrassas, which had been held up for the last 15 years.Justice Partha Sarathi Sen directed the West Bengal ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    6 from Malda rescued from assault, jailed in Ludhiana

    Malda: Six Malda workers, employed by a company in Ludhiana, were jailed after Punjab cops rescued them from being brutally assaulted on July 2 and then slapped non-bailable charges on them, their families alleged on Wednesday.The families said the ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Birla Tyres re-enters market with plans for full capacity utilisation, export

    Kolkata: Birla Tyres has re-entered the market with 10% capacity utilisation under new ownership. The company aims to achieve 100% capacity utilisation within the next two to three years and initiate exports to the Middle East and Africa.Birla Tyres ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengali migrant workers join rally, recount tales of detention horror

    Kolkata: Singur resident Jhantu Mondal (47), who was rounded up from near his work site in Odisha and confined to a small room for nearly a week on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi, on Wednesday walked along with chief ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Gritty rape survivor writes 1st-semester law exam

    123 Kolkata: The law student, who went through three hours of torture and sexual abuse on the college campus in south Kolkata on June 25, appeared for her first-semester law examination on Wednesday.Her family has been supporting her since ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    ‘Cultural obliteration’ fears in Bengal after Ray ancestral home demolition in B’desh

    1234 Kolkata: The demolition of the house of Satyajit Ray's ancestor, Harikishore Ray Chowdhury, formerly used as Mymensingh Shishu Academy, has elicited strong criticism from both sides of the border.While Mamata Banerjee urged the Bangladesh interim govt, led by ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    SC upholds Bengal’s reclaiming of land allotted to HM

    Kolkata: Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a Special Leave Petition filed by Hindustan Motors and upheld Bengal govt's taking back of 395 acres of land at Uttarpara."This marks the culmination of a prolonged legal battle, during which the state ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    HC dismisses 4 appeals, clears decks for fresh SSC recruitment

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday dismissed four appeals against certain sections of the 2025 rules for the fresh selection process to be conducted by School Service Commission (SSC). Clearing the decks for recruitment, HC said the appelants, by ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Himanta accuses TMC of shielding Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators

    12 Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday accused Trinamool of portraying his govt's firm stance against illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims as anti-Bengali. He claimed TMC's alleged attempt was nothing but a desperate ploy to shield Muslim ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    NCB nabs 2 with cocaine from Kenya

    Kolkata: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) dismantled a major international drug trafficking operation, seizing cocaine worth Rs 2 crore and arresting two individuals in Kolkata, officials announced on Wednesday.The suspects,Anirban Mallik and Jayita Saha, were apprehended following an investigation ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    KMC starts road repairs using paver blocks & rubbish

    Kolkata: Taking advantage of the slight breather from rains on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, the roads department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) started repairing some of the most damaged road points where potholes and craters developed, using paver ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    Met spies few rain spells today, slight rise in mercury

    Kolkata: A depression that kept the city under a loud cover with intermittent rain on Monday moved away from the region and dissipated into a low-pressure area. However, moisture flow from the system, along with local convection, triggered moderate ...

    17 July 2025 Times of India
    130cr upgrade for Siliguri diesel loco shed

    Kolkata: The Union railway ministry has sanctioned Rs 130 crore for the upgrade and expansion of the Siliguri diesel loco shed. The shed at Siliguri Junction station will be expanded to maintain 250 locomotives, from its present 100 locomotives, ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Air India crash: Pilots slam 'deliberate' ambiguity in report timeline

    Air India crash KOLKATA: Serving and retired pilots have expressed concern over what they term "deliberate" ambiguity in the timeline mentioned in the preliminary probe report prepared by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the AI 171 crash. ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Identity first: Mamata Banerjee braves rain, leads Kolkata march over targeting of Bengalis in BJP-ruled states; questions migrant profiling

    The TMC alleges a growing pattern of linguistic profiling, arbitrary detentions, and attempts to label Bengali speakers as illegal immigrants. NEW DELHI: Braving heavy rain, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a protest march in Kolkata, ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Safety notices raised alerts on B787 fuel valves, switches

    KOLKATA: A day after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation belatedly ordered checks on the fuel control switches of Boeing aircraft, including B787 and B737, based on a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) NM-18-33 issued by US regulator Federal ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college gang-rape: Survivor collects admit card; exam centre to be 'secure and comfortable'

    A law student in Kolkata, who endured a horrific assault on her college campus, received her first-semester exam admit card KOLKATA: The law student, who went through three hours of torture and sexual abuse on her college campus in ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    I-T raids on TMC edu cell functionary

    Jalpaiguri: The income tax department conducted a 19-hour raid starting from Monday afternoon at the house of Trinamool Shiksha Cell functionary Joydeb Arya in Cooch Behar's Tufanganj, reports Pinak Priya Bhattacharya. The raid gave rise to speculation about Arya's ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    City school students thrilled to track splashdown live

    1234 Kolkata: The return of the Crew Dragon Grace Spacecraft capsule, which made a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, around 3.01 pm (IST) on Tuesday, brought excitement to the faces of students ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    KMC waits for 7-day dry spell to run hot-mix plants, finish repairs

    123456 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is hoping for at least seven days of dry spell to ensure that road repair work could be completed across the city. The civic body used the brief dry spells since Tuesday ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Heavy rain triggers multiple landslides in Darjeeling

    Darjeeling: Incessant rainfall has triggered multiple landslides across districts in Darjeeling on Monday. Two tourism department quarters suffered damages, affecting around 10 houses in Ward 17. A wall was damaged in Ward 23. In a separate incident, a tree ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    8 Bengal workers ‘shoved into buses, forcibly sent back’: Mahua

    Krishnanagar: Eight residents of Thanarpara in Nadia who went to Chhattisgarh to work as construction workers in Bastar and were jailed by Chhattisgarh police as suspected Bangladeshis on July 12, were packed into buses and sent back to Bengal ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    DVC releasing water to save itself, flooding Bengal: CM

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was releasing water to save itself while causing floods in Bengal. "DVC released nearly 27,000 lakh cubic metres of water. Despite repeated requests, they refuse to make repairs ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Experts deliberate on AI and liberals arts at principals’ meet

    123 Kolkata: The Times NIE Principals' Seminar, held recently at a city hotel, offered unique insights into holistic education. Organised in association with Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, the seminar held on July 3 provided a platform for ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Didi’s rally today over B’desh tag on Bengalis

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will hit the streets on Wednesday against the profiling of Bengali-speaking persons as Bangladeshis in BJP-governed states.The spate of arrests and detentions of Bengali-speaking migrants in Odisha, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Delhi — ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    8 Bengal workers ‘shoved into buses, forcibly sent back’: Mahua

    Krishnanagar: Eight residents of Thanarpara in Nadia who went to Chhattisgarh to work as construction workers in Bastar and were jailed by Chhattisgarh police as suspected Bangladeshis on July 12, were packed into buses and sent back to Bengal ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Med student expelled for using fake ST certificate

    Bankura: Juhi Kole, a fourth-year medical student, was expelled from Bankura Sammilani Medical College for taking admission with a fake ST certificate. The college authorities have filed a complaint with the police.According to sources, Juhi took admission in the ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Pocso, voyeurism charges on 2 youths in Gol Park gang rape

    Kolkata: A special Pocso court on Tuesday framed charges against two youths, Aryan Mishra and Rishi Agarwal, for the alleged gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl last year. They have been slapped with charges under various sections of the BNS, ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    2 held for creating fake Aadhaar, lens on terror links

    Kolkata: The Bengal STF has arrested owners of a mobile shop on Birbhum for allegedly creating fake Aadhaar cards, using forged documents, in exchange for money. Sheikh Miraj and Abdul Quddus, alias Sheikh Munna, were rounded up from Sattor ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    3 die in Purulia as mud house crumbles

    12 Purulia: Three people died and three others were injured when a mud house collapsed due to heavy rain at Bhandar Puara village in Purulia on Tuesday morning. Locals stepped into action when the house collapsed and helped the ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Samik: Not party’s job to attend ‘namaz’ or ‘hari naam sankirtan’

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya, who has been making attempts to recalibrate its political narrative in the state, on Tuesday said a party's job was not to attend "namaz" or "hari naam sankirtan (chanting Hari)". Bhattacharya, who emphasised ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC MP: Matuas in Pune called ‘Bangladeshi’, held

    Kolkata: Matua community members were now being arrested in Pune as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and police were refusing to accept their identity cards issued by All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM), along with Aadhaar and EPIC, Trinamool MP Samirul Islam ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Dhaka sends Haribhanga mangoes for Didi

    Kolkata: A consignment of 200kg of the famed Haribhanga mangoes from Dhaka reached Kolkata on Wednesday evening for chief minister Mamata Banerjee as Bangladesh continued its "mango diplomacy" to serve as a goodwill gesture between the two nations.Haribhanga mango ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Safety notices raise alerts on B787 fuel valves, switches

    123 Kolkata: A day after DGCA ordered checks on fuel control switches of Boeing aircraft based on a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) NM-18-33 issued by US regulator Federal Aviation Authority in Dec 17, 2018, an Airworthiness Directive (AD) ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    KMC pipe work damages metro diaphragm wall

    Kolkata: A portion of the diaphragm wall of the North-South Metro (Blue Line) was damaged during the installation of water pipelines by the KMC near Mudiali on SP Mukherjee Road. Metro Railway has asked the civic body to repair ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Work set to begin on 1.7-km underground leg of Yellow Line

    Kolkata: The second phase of the underground Yellow Line beyond the airport to Birati is set to begin with the engineering firm—which built the underground packages for the East-West Metro—securing a Rs 1,330-crore contract. ITD Cementation's job includes construction ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    CM flags razing of Upendrakishore home in B’desh, India offers help to rebuild it

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she was "saddened" by reports emerging from Bangladesh that the residence of writer and painter Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury in Bangladesh was being demolished. Upendrakishore was the father of one of Bengal's most ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
    Govt extends CAP deadline by 10 days

    123 Kolkata: The state higher education department on Tuesday issued a notice and extended the admission deadline to July 25. A total of 19.9 lakh applications were submitted by Tuesday evening.This was the second extension of the deadline for ...

    16 July 2025 Times of India
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