KOLKATA: As the Har Ghar Tiranga initiative renewed public focus on the national flag, Kolkata-based vexillologist Sekhar Chakrabarti dug into his years of research to highlight the city’s lesser-known links with the evolution of the Tricolour.Chakrabarti, a retired engineer ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaTehatta (Nadia): Two farmers from Nadia’s Tehatta, who were allegedly abducted by Bangladeshi nationals and handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), returned home on Tuesday following a flag meeting between the BSF and BGB.The incident occurred near ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Former Tripura power minister and CPM veteran Manik Dey voiced concern over emerging issues with smart electricity meters, demanding immediate action from the state govt to address allegations of inflated energy bills.Dey said consumers face soaring bills and ...
14 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department has found an ‘illegal’ structure atop Shantiniketan, a residential building on Harish Mukherjee Road reportedly owned or co-owned by Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, his family, or his company.According to a civic ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the cancellation of all the other backward classes (OBC) A and B certificates issued after 2010.The division bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Anuj Singh gave the order after the ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal is on the brink of a significant increase in municipal representation and a massive flag distribution programme tied to Independence Day as the civic and political landscape of Kolkata comes under the spotlight today.The Bengal Assembly ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling has reaffirmed that the advance ruling mechanism under GST law is intended to provide certainty only for proposed or ongoing transactions, and cannot be used as a substitute for adjudication ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The judicial commission, led by former IPS officer K Jayaraman, visited Bangla Academy and Charukala Parishad on Wednesday to probe allegations of large-scale corruption across departments under the information and cultural affairs department.Jayaraman said they spoke to officials ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt on Wednesday passed two legislations that proposed to increase the number of Kolkata Municipal Corporation wards from 144 to 209, and Howrah Municipal Corporation wards from 50 to 68. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari assured MLAs ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 30-year-old nurse was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, police said on Thursday.She was on night duty at the hospital’s high-dependency unit (HDU) on Wednesday, they said.According to ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested on Thursday in connection with the alleged hurried cremation of the body of a doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two Murshidabad students, who cleared NEET UG 2026, have moved Calcutta High Court ahead of their counselling as their applications were under OBC-B, a category the new state govt removed on May 18. They have moved the single ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of Nationalist Students’ Front (NSF), a right-wing students’ organisation, plans to screen Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘Bengal Files’, based on the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings, at the Triguna Sen auditorium at JU on Sunday. Left-leaning students’ organisations objected to ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Kunal Ghosh has alleged that his home, club and party office were attacked and vandalised on Wednesday evening, claiming that the attackers were deliberately sent to target him.Ghosh said he was away at the ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An IndiGo flight from Kolkata to Chennai carrying 224 passengers and crew was plunged into an emergency on Tuesday after its left engine became inoperative before landing, triggering a full-scale emergency response at Chennai airport.IndiGo flight 6E-723, was ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: National English School hosted the prestigious Frank Anthony Memorial All-India Inter-School Debate Competition (category II) on July 24.Organised by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), the regional event drew accomplished young debaters from various city ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An illegal call centre allegedly targeting foreign customers through VoIP calls was busted at SLS Tower in Salt Lake Sector V on Tuesday night, with police detaining 103 tele-callers and arresting 14 men after questioning, officials said.The call ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ballygunge Police have registered a case against a young woman after a luxury car allegedly ran over and killed a five-month-old pet cat on Deodhar Street on Sunday afternoon.The cat, Simba, belonged to the family of Sandeep Kumar ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Stumped by the higher education department’s “unprecedented” demand for detailed information on the past three years’ executive council (EC) meetings, professors at Jadavpur University (JU) said it appeared to be an attempt by the govt to get back ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Passengers of an Air India Express flight headed to Chennai staged a protest at Kolkata airport on Wednesday after the flight was delayed by nearly six hours due to a technical fault. The flight was scheduled to depart ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police are investigating several cases in which cyber fraudsters are pretending to be bank relationship managers and targeting the fixed deposits of retired people. The cyber cell at Lalbazar took over one such case on Tuesday.In this ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police will set up a Divisional Crime Record Bureau, or DCRB, in every police division of the city to improve digital crime record management and coordination.The move follows guidance from the Union home ministry under the Interoperable ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The candidates, empanelled after clearing the second State Level Selection Test (SLST) for the recruitment to assistant teachers’ posts for classes 11 and 12 at state schools, will now have to wait for an indefinite period as the ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt on Wednesday widened the Annapurna Yojana net to include more beneficiaries and eased some of the scheme’s eligibility criteria but warned there will be stricter verification to ensure the cash dole reaches only genuine applicants. Women ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barely 72 hours before Independence Day, the state’s Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested a 36-year-old suspected Pakistani national with links to the country’s military and spy agency ISI from near the Bangladesh border in North 24 ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ticket counter of Academy of Fine Arts got a fresh coat of saffron on Wednesday — its third colour change in a span of 31 days — encapsulating in around 200 square feet of space what colour ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Twenty-six students of Park Institution were discharged from RG Kar medical college on Wednesday. Sources said that the rest of the seven are fine. They will also be sent home in a day or two. The students from ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 42-year-old corporate executive, who was learning to drive a newly purchased car, died after the vehicle plunged into a pond in Kestopur on Wednesday morning. Cops suspect that she had possibly pressed the accelerator instead of the ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: The Tripura govt has been sanctioned a Rs 1,200-crore Asian Development Bank (ADB) soft loan to upgrade flood mitigation infrastructure, storm-water drainage, drinking-water supply and tourism initiatives under Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC).Urban development secretary Milind Dharmrao Ramteke said ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday questioned ED on the need to keep former state minister Sujit Bose in custody for questioning. The matter will again be heard on Aug 17 at 3 pm.Bose had applied for regular bail ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaBirbhum: Four BJP workers have been arrested following a violent protest at Block Land and Land Reforms Office (BLLRO) in Mayureswar on Tuesday. The accused allegedly ransacked the office premises and hurled eggs at Mayureswar BLLRO Dipankar Das during ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Private hospitals across Kolkata are getting ready to handle a surge in patients as two new state health insurance schemes — Ayushman Bharat and Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana (MMSBY) — get flagged off this Sunday. Special teams have ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal’s rural broadband expansion is set to get a boost after the state govt notified the Telecommunications Right of Way (RoW) Rules, 2024, paving the way for faster telecom infrastructure rollout and implementation of the Amended BharatNet Programme ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said anyone denigrating Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — whether MP, MLA or govt official — would face strict action. Speaking at a news conference, he directed police to identify social media posts, including ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday welcomed the proposed reorganisation of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) wards but urged the govt to ensure that the exercise does not end up “impacting a specific religious community”. His remarks triggered a ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To prevent “sins” like the RG Kar rape-murder, people should be taught the Bhagavad Gita, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday.“People should be taught the Bhagavad Gita to prevent ‘sins’ like the RG Kar incident. Reading the Gita ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: The renaming of a three-kilometre stretch of road – earlier named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and now after Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee – in Birbhum’s Rampurhat has led to protests and a political row.The stretch, running from ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old man from Murshidabad, missing in Chennai for 18 months, has been traced with help from a former senior BSNL official and Ham Radio enthusiasts.Sekabul Sheikh, a resident of Sridharpur in Murshidabad diagnosed with memory loss two ...
13 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Orange Line would start operating up to Sector V by Dec, Metro Railway general manager Prem Sagar Gupta said on Tuesday.“We are targeting to start Orange Line operations up to the IT Centre (Sector V) station by ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A laser beam flashing into a cockpit may last only seconds, but in an aircraft’s final approach, those seconds can become a serious aviation emergency. That is what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH-184 from Kuala Lumpur on ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In large parts of central Kolkata, residents and commuters continued to grapple with waterlogging even 16 hours after Monday evening’s downpour. The affected areas had received between 70mm and 90mm of rain in an hour — between 8pm ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The water contamination crisis at Siddha Happyville in Rajarhat deepened on Tuesday with more residents, including a three-year-old child, reportedly falling ill and requiring hospitalisation, prompting some families to temporarily move out of the complex. Some appealed to ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal Assembly is set to consider changes in the Kolkata and Howrah municipal corporations, bringing the city's civic politics into focus today. The proposed delimitation will increase the wards in Kolkata Municipal Corporation from 144 to ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the backdrop of the continuing deadlock on the EC meetings, the higher education department has requested Jadavpur University (JU) to submit detailed information regarding the Executive Council (EC) meetings that have been conducted in the last three ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic in north and central Kolkata remained disrupted on Tuesday as key roads, including Amherst Street, Sukeas Street and Keshab Chandra Sen Street, stayed under water. The closure of Amherst Street forced vehicles on to APC Road and ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A month after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that the party will not tolerate any “overreach” by a section of “ultra BJP” at Academy of Fine Arts, theatre workers and members of group theatres repainted the “defaced ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt will place Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 and Howrah Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in a special session on Wednesday, seeking to increase the number of elected councillors in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) from ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI has arrested another absconding accused in the murder case of BJP activist Avijit Sarkar, who was killed during post-election violence in Kolkata in 2021.Bishal Pal, also known as Gopal Das, a resident of Kankurgachhi, was arrested ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Housing complexes in New Town and Kolkata have begun tightening traffic regulations within their premises, with several resident welfare associations (RWAs) introducing stricter speed and helmet checks, banning driving lessons and installing guard rails at vulnerable stretches following ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police is warning parents and children about cyber fraud linked to online gaming, including simple games like Ludo. Cybercriminals are targeting young gamers by asking them to share OTPs, click on fake links, download unsafe APK files, ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A quest to find his missing son turned into a nightmare and financial deceit for a senior citizen, who was reportedly duped of his life savings of over Rs 29 lakh by a private detective, who apparently offered ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the wake of the state health depart finding irregularities in some private blood banks, health officials on Tuesday held a meeting with 73 private blood banks, including 11 that are under the scanner. While cautioning action against ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A technical glitch disrupted the Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram) Metro services on Tuesday morning, leading to trains running behind schedule and leading to crowding at stations. Metro Railway authorities said services normalised shortly after 6.30am, though delays persisted ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: What’s in a surname? Well, for many in Bengal during Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, it could have meant the difference between being on the voters’ list and off it.The Ayushman Bharat health insurance card, however, may ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKeshpur: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s helicopter made an emergency landing at Kolaghat on Tuesday after bad weather disrupted its scheduled flight to Mohabani in Keshpur, West Midnapore.The helicopter, which took off from Dum Dum, landed at the football ground ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro was banking on the state to clear the Purple Line’s BC Roy Market hurdle, Metro Railway general manager Prem Sagar Gupta said on Tuesday.The state PWD recently asked the 528 traders at BC Roy or Maidan Market ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that a large stone thrown at her car during a recent attack on her convoy caused chest pain.Speaking at Kolkata's Shyambazar 5 Point ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Tripura hosted its first stakeholders’ meeting on carbon sequestration and climate finance on Tuesday, bringing together 25 govt departments, academic institutions, NABARD and civil society to map opportunities and strategies.Department of good governance, with ARPAN Society, directorate of ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal secretary Sumit Roy faced yet another round of questioning by CID at Bhavani Bhawan on Tuesday – his fourth consecutive day of interrogation in connection with two separate cases.On Tuesday, Roy arrived at ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Facing mounting backlash on social media over the portrayal of Maa Kali in an allegedly inappropriate costume during a mythological dance drama, the organisers of ‘Mahavidya’ have issued an apology and said they would introduce stricter checks on ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police are investigating threat letters sent to former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and his wife, Dona Ganguly.The letters were sent by courier and may have come from Belghoria or a nearby area in North 24 Parganas. ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Chinsurah: Bengal cricketer Abishek Porel, who plays for Delhi Capitals in the IPL, was arrested from a condominium in Dum Dum on Tuesday following a medical student’s allegation of rape and criminal intimidation. He was produced before a Chinsurah ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Refusing to accept Bengal govt’s argument that Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s custodial interrogation was necessary because he was influential, Calcutta High Court on Tuesday extended his interim protection from arrest in four FIRs filed against him since the ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The past few months have been quite disappointing for Bengal, said All India Students’ Association (AISA) national president Neha Bora on Tuesday, alleging that the state has embraced a ‘brand of politics’ that is taking the country ‘toward ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri/Kolkata: Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia, who recently switched from Trinamool to NCPI and extended support to the NDA, was escorted by police from his Sitai home along with his wife, MLA Sangita, late on Monday after ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra, who has on several occasions been critical of the party, on Tuesday posted a veiled “message” apparently aimed at BJP functionaries who have recently gained prominence.Hazra, who has not been seen in ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaBankura/Midnapore: The state govt would soon introduce a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), followed by a stringent law against forced religious conversions, CM Suvendu Adhikari said. Unveiling a Rs 1,620-crore development roadmap for Junglemahal and the western districts, the CM ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri/Kolkata: Adding to the growing unease within BJP over Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj’s continued attacks on Netaji, Mamata Banerjee hit the streets on Tuesday — garlanding his statue at Shyambazar — and slammed the saffron party for repeatedly ...
12 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two Ekbalpore youths fell prey to a fake placement agency, one of them getting arrested in Uzbekistan for entering the country illegally. They finally managed to return through Kazakhstan after being released but were shocked after their return ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 90% of the highrise projects that underwent safety audit in the past month and a half were found to be structurally sound with no major deviations from plans sanctioned by the respective civic body, officials of ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Delhi Capitals player Abhishek Porel was arrested by Mogra police in Hooghly late Monday night after the Calcutta high court directed police to arrest him in connection with a rape case filed by a third-year medical student.Porel was ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that a large stone thrown at her car during a recent attack on her convoy caused chest pain.Speaking at Kolkata's Shyambazar 5 Point ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and his wife Dona have received death threats, following which the Kolkata Police STF and the directorate of security have started a probe. STF has zeroed in on a location 32km from ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A right-versus-right fight erupted at Jadavpur University after a right-wing staff union held a protest at Aurobindo Bhavan portico on Monday at the same spot where the ‘yajna’ was performed by the other right-wing group on Friday demanding ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tensions erupted in south Kolkata on Monday as local Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers locked down the Garfa constituency office of Jadavpur MP Saayoni Ghosh and removed her nameplate, accusing her of political betrayal and operating on behalf of ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The fallout from the death of a Trinamool Congress worker in police custody, the confrontation during Mamata Banerjee's visit to his family and a key court hearing involving TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee are among the developments dominating Kolkata's ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Tuesday extended the interim protection from coercive action granted to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas till November 30.The protection was granted in connection with the chaos surrounding Lionel Messi’s event at ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The owner of the 52-year-old Rangana Theatre, which has been shut for nearly 23 years, reached out to CM Suvendu Adhikari to seek his help to get its possession back. The owner, Hirak Mukhopadhyay, alleged that a cosmetic ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Ahead of elections for village committees of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC), the CPM staged a protest in Tripura on Monday, accusing the BJP-led govt of undemocratic and authoritarian conduct.A few hundred supporters were detained ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that the state govt would officially celebrate Rakhi Bandhan from this year, calling it a move not only to uphold the festival’s religious significance but to strengthen social harmony, bonding and the ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt has initiated the process to engage a consultant for preparing a detail architectural and engineering plan for setting up the proposed Syama Prasad Mookerjee memorial complex on 14.5 acres. The proposed complex will also include ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The tunnel boring machine (TBM), Divya, digging the underground section of the Purple Line metro will complete its journey from Kidderpore to Victoria Memorial on Tuesday, a month after sibling TBM Durga reached the destination.TBM Divya is scheduled ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have traced the source of the laser beam that disoriented the pilot of a Malaysia Airlines flight during its landing approach at Kolkata airport on Saturday night to Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas and are now trying ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five days after an 86-year-old man was fatally run over while taking an evening walk inside Uniworld City complex in New Town, police on Sunday arrested a 47-year-old woman who was allegedly learning to drive an SUV when ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has resumed the process of issuing death certificates, revoking a verbal order that suspended the signing authority of sub-registrars, bringing relief to at least 4,000 bereaved families by crematorium figures alone. The state had ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and his wife Dona have received death threats, following which the Kolkata Police STF and the directorate of security have started a probe. STF has zeroed in on a location 32km from ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three days after the death of a Trinamool worker after alleged police torture, CM Suvendu Adhikari met the victim’s family and said “it was clear as daylight” that 48-year-old Birju Keot had died in police custody. Investigating officer ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Northern parts of the city recorded heavy downpours ranging between 90 mm and 150 mm, with Belgachhia (150 mm) and Dum Dum (135 mm) bearing the brunt of the rain. In sharp contrast, southern pockets received significantly lighter ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Special Investigation Team has filed a chargesheet against four women police personnel, including Sathi Barik, former officer-in charge of Kotwali Women’s Police Station in West Midnapore, on charges of assaulting a student in March 2025.Court sources said ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At a blood donation camp in Taltala on Sunday, BJP functionaries made a direct appeal to Muslim electorate ahead of the KMC polls, urging voters to support BJP candidates and promising to “think” about their development if they ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s aide Sumit Roy has moved the Calcutta High Court challenging four FIRs lodged against him in different parts of Bengal, alleging they are “politically motivated”. The petition is likely to be heard on Tuesday.The ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday staged protests on the streets, at the assembly and in Delhi against the attack on party chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee, who was targeted in Halisahar a day earlier while visiting the family of ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Some Christians from the Haridevpur area were threatened on Sunday while offering prayers at a house.Around 5 to 10 locals arrived chanting 'Jai Shri Ram’ around 7.10 pm on Sunday, alleging forced religious conversions taking place. Anil Dolui, ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 57-year-old assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Kolkata Police Special Branch was seriously injured on Sunday evening after a glass-coated kite string (manja) cut his neck while he was riding a bike on the Maa Flyover.The victim, Sanjib ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaCalcutta High Court on Monday allowed the filing of a PIL challenging alleged “oral instructions” of the state govt for removal of loudspeakers from mosques. The matter may be heard on Thursday. Senior advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay mentioned the PIL ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A monk from Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas on Monday complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at Janata Darbar that BJP MLA Rekha Patra had occupied his house since March without paying most of the rent. Patra was the ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday permitted Jamiat-e-Ulama to hold their protest rally, against removal of loudspeaker from mosques, from Rajabazar to Moulali on Tuesday from 11.30 am to 1 pm. The judge called the administrative pattern of “routinely” ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Acting on a viral Facebook post by an engineer who alleged that a group of porters at Howrah station charged him Rs 4,700 — nearly 21 times the usual fare — for carrying seven trolley bags and four ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sand-laden truck lost control while travelling at high speed and crashed into several shops at Bonhooghly More on BT Road in Baranagar around 3.30 am on Sunday, damaging at least five establishments before overturning. Police detained the ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand has directed all traffic guards to identify motorists who repeatedly violate traffic rules, signalling a tougher approach towards habitual offenders.“Let us identify repeat offenders... . Three traffic violations and you are out. No ...
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