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  • Flexible evaluation at IIT to reduce anxiety

    Kolkata: After discontinuing the de-registration of students due to low attendance, IIT Kharagpur will implement a flexible evaluation scheme from the next semester. It will be applicable in continuous assessments and mid-term exams, but end-semester exams will be a ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Touch-&-go, logistics behind Modi’s address from airport

    Kolkata: PM Narendra Modi spent more than two hours — about 30 minutes of this on the tarmac — at NSCBI Airport on Saturday, the longest time that any Indian PM spent at the city's airport in recent memory. ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    City gets festive ready with Christmas carnivals, lit-up streets & packed malls

    Kolkata: With Christmas just a few days away, Kolkata slipped into full festive mode over the weekend, as churches, neighbourhoods and markets across the city put final touches on preparations for the festival. The last weekend before Christmas saw ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Articles on 1971 Lib War led to attack on dailies: Journos

    Kolkata: The immediate trigger of the violent attacks on two of Bangladesh's leading dailies — Prothom Alo and The Daily Star — was their sustained focus on the 1971 Liberation War in the run-up to the Dec 16 Vijay ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Exhibition at book fair to honour Uttam Kumar in his centenary year

    Kolkata: Commemorating the birth centenary of Mahanayak Uttam Kumar, there will be a special exhibition hall dedicated to the legendary actor titled "History of Bengali Cinema and Mahanayak" at the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair which is to take ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    EC upgrades app for BLOs to fix voters’ spelling errors

    Kolkata: The Election Commission on Saturday upgraded the BLO App with a new feature with the help of which booth-level officers can correct discrepancies, such as spelling variations of electors' names, addition or omission of their middle names and ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    EC starts issuing hearing notices 96 hrs after draft list

    Kolkata: The EC started issuing hearing notices to unmapped electors on Saturday evening, over 96 hours after the draft SIR rolls were published in Bengal on Dec 16. Those who received notices on Saturday would appear for a hearing ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Goons take over Keoratala as darkness descends, harass mourners & doms

    Kolkata: The Keoratala crematorium ground turns into a terror zone as darkness descends with drunk goons from adjacent neighbourhoods taking over the area and creating mayhem, locals have alleged. Such elements harass mourners for money. Some of them even ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Border tensions rise amid B’desh unrest

    Kolkata: Unrest in Bangladesh following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, one of the prominent faces of the July uprising, spread over to the India-Bangladesh border areas since Thursday night, triggering tension at Petrapole-Benapole and Ghojadanga in North 24 ...

    21 December 2025 Times of India
    Sweety Bibi, Sunali’s hubby compile docus to prove citizenship

    Kolkata: After Sunali Khatun and her eight-year-old son were brought back from Bangladesh to their village of Paikar in Birbhum, her husband Danish Sheikh on Friday put together documents to prove his Indian citizenship, as did Sweety Bibi, another ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    'The Onion Router': Kolkata billionaire gets Rs 25cr sextortion mail; threatened to circulate defamatory photos of kin

    KOLKATA: A city-based billionaire who owns an ethnic retail empire valued at approximately Rs 14,300 crore, with stores across India, allegedly received a sextortion email demanding Rs 25 crore in Bitcoin. The sender threatened to circulate obscene and defamatory ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Action must for any violation, says Hakim

    Kolkata: Police on Friday launched a manhunt for the Kankurgachhi cylinder warehouse owners, while the fire department registered an FIR, citing gross irregularities and lack of fire safety measures. Mayor Firhad Hakim said if the godown was found without ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Infection treatable, tiger might have had underlying condition’

    Kolkata: The young tigress that died at Alipore Zoo on Wednesday may have been suffering from other complications apart from a bacterial infection, which is primarily suspected to be the reason behind its death.Haemoprotozoa, said vets, could be fatal ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Bizman gets bail in Rs77 crore forex case

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to Viraj Subas Patil in a Rs 77 crore forex-related money laundering case being probed by ED.Justice Suvra Ghosh, while noting that he was an independent distributor of IX Global from ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Modi visit to Matua heartland a damage-control move: TMC

    Kolkata: BJP is flying in PM Narendra Modi to Bengal as a "damage-control move after pushing Matuas into the deep sea," Trinamool said on Friday, ahead of Modi's rally in Nadia. The damage has already been done, and can't ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Fire-safety drive reveals gaps in upgrade at most rooftop restos

    Kolkata: A joint team comprising officials from fire services department, KMC and police, assigned to conduct surprise checks at the city's rooftop restaurants, has found several anomalies that owners need to rectify if they want to keep their establishments ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Rioters target Chhayanaut, set up on Tagore’s centenary

    Kolkata: Bengal's cultural fraternity has strongly condemned the vandalism of Chhayanaut office in Dhanmondi — one of Bangladesh's oldest heritage-rich cultural organisations — in the wake of the death of Inquilab Moncho neta Osman Hadi. Chhayanaut was founded in ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    182-year-old St Andrew’s Church in Darjeeling reopens after restoration

    Darjeeling: The 182-year-old St Andrew's Church near Mall Road in Darjeeling, which had been restored by the state govt, was virtually inaugurated by CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday. The CM inaugurated the restored structure, with its distinctive Gothic-style features ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    IIEST launches well-being course for 1st-year students

    Kolkata: One of the oldest engineering institutes in the country, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (formerly BE College), has introduced a compulsory two-credit well-being and happiness course for first-year students across disciplines from this academic ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Now, poor performers at IIT-Kgp to graduate with BTech pass degree

    Kolkata: Students at IIT Kharagpur failing to get a CGPA (cumulative grade point average) of six out of 10, the minimum required for a BTech honours degree, will get a BTech pass degree if they score 5 or more.In ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    RKM plans week-long Swamiji birth anniv event

    Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) has planned a week-long celebration to mark Swami Vivekananda's 164th birth anniversary on Jan 12 at his ancestral house in north Kolkata. The day is also celebrated as India's National Youth Day (Rashtriya Yuva Divas). ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Fake call centre in Golf Green busted, 4 held

    Kolkata: Cops busted a fake call centre at Bikramgarh under Golf Green Police Station, and arrested four persons — Jamshed Ansari, Md Soyeb Ansari, Birendra Pandit, and Pradeep Mandal on Thursday. All four are residents of Jharkhand. Twenty-four cellphones, ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Illegible writing, brand names: Govt hosp prescriptions under scanner

    Kolkata: From illegible handwriting and rampant use of brand names of medicines, to incomplete drug instructions, the prescription audit across state-run health facilities found several critical gaps in prescription practices by its doctors. Following the identification of these gaps, ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol cancer study group gets ICMR funding

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Gynaecological Oncology Trials and Translational Research Group received ICMR funding for the clinical trial of a PARP inhibitor, a costly anti-cancer drug for targeted therapy involving mutations in the BRCA gene. The clinical trial will involve ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Coast Guard team inspects wreckage of sunken trawler

    Kolkata: The Indian Coast Guard on Friday inspected the wreckage of the fishing trawler FB Paramita-11, which sank in the Bay of Bengal near the India-Bangladesh International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) on Dec 15 after a collision with a ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    PM to launch 3,200cr worth projects

    Ahead of his public meeting in Bengal's Nadia, PM Narendra Modi wrote on X Friday: "I will address a BJP rally in Ranaghat. The people of Bengal are benefitting from numerous pro-people initiatives of the central govt. At the ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    JSW Energy to acquire GE’s thermal boiler plant in Durgapur

    Kolkata: JSW Energy will acquire GE's supercritical thermal boiler manufacturing facility in Durgapur, the only such facility in eastern region and the third facility in India.JSW Energy joint MD and CEO Sharad Mahendra told TOI that it has already ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Anxiety spills across border, unrest back home unsettles Bangla visitors in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Tension and anxiety gripped many Bangladeshi tourists staying in central Kolkata following a fresh outbreak of violence in Dhaka and other cities. This has prompted several visitors to closely monitor developments back home and consider cutting short their ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Cops raid Satadru home, find pool, terrace football ground

    Kolkata: A swimming pool on one level, a soccer ground on the terrace and an expansive office: These were the findings that greeted the special investigating team (SIT), probing the mismanagement at the Lionel Messi event at the Salt ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Tagore painting fetches record Rs 10.7 crore at auction

    Kolkata: Rabindranath Tagore's masterpiece, ‘From Across the Dark', has sold for Rs 10.7 crore at an auction, making it the highest-realised price for an artwork by the Nobel laureate. The estimated price of the work at AstaGuru's recently concluded ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Shattered glasses, cracks in pillars, pollution force locals to move out after cylinder blasts

    Kolkata: Residents of Kankurgachhi were still in a state of shock— grappling with damage to properties, fear for their safety, especially their children's, and the trauma of being forced to suddenly shift elsewhere, albeit temporarily—a day after a blaze ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Hearing from Dec 26-27, notices starting today

    Kolkata: The Election Commission is expected to start the hearing process of the ongoing SIR exercise after Christmas, most likely from Dec 26-27, officials said on Friday. The commission on Friday ordered the appointment of 3,300 micro-observers who will ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    PM’s rally in Nadia today amid ‘unmapped’ fears in Matua belt

    Kolkata: Amid rising concerns over the large ‘unmapped' population in Matua-dominated Nadia, PM Narendra Modi will address a rally at Taherpur in Nadia's Ranaghat on Saturday—his first in the run-up to assembly polls in Bengal. Around 4,50,000 people were ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Doc couple returns to find Salt Lake home burgled

    Kolkata: What was supposed to be a quiet homecoming after days of travel turned into a scene of shock for a doctor couple in Salt Lake. As the Senguptas unlocked the door, they stepped into a ransacked home with ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Kol hosps fear dip in patient count, keep a watch on volatile neighbour

    Kolkata: Fresh violence in Bangladesh is set to slow down the flow of patients from the neighbouring country, which had started rising over the last two months. After an assistant high commissioner in the Indian Embassy was attacked in ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    Security stepped up on border, around B’desh mission in Kol

    Kolkata: BSF has beefed up security along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border across Bengal and four other states as political unrest in the neighbouring country intensified following the death of one of the faces of the July uprising. On Friday, ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    New upkeep protocol: Every toilet at Kol airport to be deep-cleaned every 3 months

    Kolkata: As Kolkata airport nears the renovation of all toilet blocks in the integrated terminal, it has implemented a deep-clean regimen to ensure that the new restrooms remain clean and sparkling for the next six to seven years, instead ...

    20 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC distances itself from MLA’s ‘remarks on Ram’

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Thursday dissociated itself from MLA Madan Mitra's comments on Lord Ram shared on social media by Bengal BJP.Party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "All of us know ‘Ramayana' and Ayodhya and we are not fit to comment ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘If others won’t respect national icons, we will’: West Bengal to rename job scheme Karmashree after Mahatma Gandhi

    KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee govt will be introducing a bill in the assembly to rename its job-guarantee scheme, Karmashree, after Mahatma Gandhi. CM Banerjee announced this at the Bengal Business and Industry Conclave, held at Dhana Dhanya auditorium on ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to rename job scheme Karmashree after Mahatma Gandhi: CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee govt will be introducing a bill in the assembly to rename its job-guarantee scheme, Karmashree, after Mahatma Gandhi. CM Banerjee announced this at the Bengal Business and Industry Conclave, held at Dhana Dhanya auditorium on ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    SC gives SSC 8 months more to complete teachers’ recruitment

    KOLKATA: Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for completion of teachers’ recruitment process by state School Service Commission till Aug 31, 2026.The apex court had earlier directed SSC to complete the recruitment for the posts of assistant teachers ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    State assembly won’t challenge Cal HC order on Mukul’s ouster

    Kolkata: The Bengal assembly secretariat on Thursday said that it will not challenge Calcutta High Court's order striking down Mukul Roy's membership of the state assembly.This comes after Bengal speaker Biman Bandopadhyay had indicated that the assembly was mulling ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    TMC man death: HC hands probe to CBI

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court directed the handing over of a CID investigation into the death of a Hooghly Trinamool activist to CBI on Thursday.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh passed the order acting on the complaint by the victim's family that the ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    PIL in HC against Kabir’s ‘Babri’ withdrawn

    Kolkata: A public interest litigation (PIL) against the proposed construction of Humayun Kabir's Babri Masjid, filed in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday was subsequently withdrawn.The counsel for the petitioner told a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Bangla on boil, ‘mini Bangla’ frets over blow to business

    Kolkata: The temporary shutdown of India's visa application centres in Dhaka, Khulna, and Rajshahi following political protests in the neighbouring nation has dealt another blow to businesses in central Kolkata's "mini Bangladesh" that depend heavily on Bangladeshi visitors. Traders ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    CM approves 350 acres for CESC’s Rs 12,000-crore battery storage unit

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she would allot 350 acres of land to CESC for its battery storage unit in the state. "We have 350 acres of land available at Uttarpara, which can be allotted to ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Sourav in Messi crossfire, sues Arg fan club prez for 50 crore

    Kolkata: Former Team India captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has filed a Rs 50-crore defamation suit and lodged a complaint against the Argentina Football Fan Club of Kolkata president Uttam Saha for tarnishing his image in an online ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Small halls, big push: 50-seater theatres to debut in Bengal

    Kolkata: The increasing demand for spaces to exhibit audio-visual content and the rising interest in small group movie viewings has prompted the state govt to launch a mini cinema policy. This policy was announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Asiatic Society ties up with IIT-Kharagpur to breathe new life into fragile manuscripts

    Kolkata: In the Museum of the Asiatic Society on Thursday, centuries-old manuscripts—many too fragile to be touched—found hope of a new lease of life through cutting-edge technology. The Society conceived this pioneering initiative to preserve its brittle and deteriorating ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Ailing tigress dies, 3rd death at zoo in 3 months

    Kolkata: An adult royal Bengal tigress, aged two years and 10 months, died at Alipore zoo on Wednesday. It was the third tiger death at the zoo in the past three months, raising concerns over the medical care facilities ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Presi panel seeks admission feedback from departments

    Kolkata: Presidency University's admission committee on Thursday discussed the modalities of undergraduate admission for the next academic session and sought feedback from departments. The committee said the final decision on whether the entrance tests for the 2026 session would ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Traders from New Market seek CM’s intervention to check hawker ‘menace’

    Kolkata: New Market traders sought intervention by the chief minister's office to tackle hawker encroachment in and around the grade-1 heritage market. They presented their request at a business conclave organised by Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations at ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    KMC House debate ends in ‘mini Pakistan’ scrap

    Kolkata: A nine-year-old controversy reared its head again at the KMC monthly House session on Thursday, when a BJP councillor claimed that mayor Firhad Hakim had called Garden Reach ‘mini Pakistan' in April 2016. Hakim, who was then a ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Where are 1 crore Rohingya?’: Abhishek slams BJP over rolls, seeks public apology

    Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticized BJP for its alleged attempts to brand Bengal as a hub of infiltrators, stating that the party "deliberately attempts to defame Bengal". The Diamond Harbour MP asked whether those ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    PM’s Sat visit to be followed by Shah-led BJP poll-preparedness meet

    Kolkata/Krishnagore: Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to reach Bengal days after PM Narendra Modi's Dec 20 visit to the state to hold a rally at Nadia's Taherpur. Shah, who claimed a week ago that NDA would win ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    First bottle thrown from lower tier, finds probe team

    Kolkata: The SIT probing the Lionel Messi event fiasco on Dec 13 is focusing on particular blocks of the Salt Lake stadium from where they believe the "vandalism" was initiated. The cops are now certain that the first round ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengal biz conclave draws Rs 43,000cr investment pledges

    Kolkata: The business and industry conclave organized by the Mamata Banerjee govt saw investment proposals from leading houses such as JSW, Ultratech, JK Group, ITC, Titagarh Group, KFW and Texmaco, along with RPSG Group's green venture. Total investment proposals ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Biometric attendance actual target of airport workers’ stir

    Kolkata: The demand for a fresh uniform, which led to a demonstration before the airport manager's office two days ago, was an excuse to suspend a newly introduced biometric attendance system. This system ensured housekeeping staff did not leave ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Mamata’s mela-to-khela push for religious harmony in Bengal

    Kolkata: Bengal equally loved all its festivals, cultural events and games, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, reiterating the state's commitment to religious harmony. The CM was speaking at the inauguration of Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Mayor seeks police help to curb roadside burning of dry leaves

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)'s environment department will write to the officers-in-charge of police stations in the 144 wards to monitor the burning of dry leaves and other materials in the evenings. Street-side burning leads to worsening of ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    SIR row overshadows home loss tragedy for 75 families

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday ordered an investigation into the fire at the Ghuni settlement adjoining New Town that reportedly affected more than 400 people. The blaze, which broke out at the settlement behind Eco Park in ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Night blasts wake up citizens from Salt Lake to Girish Park

    Kolkata: A major fire and a series of explosions tore through a medical oxygen cylinder storage facility in Kankurgachhi's Lohapatty area during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. The incident shattered windows and jolted hundreds of residents — ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    BLOs field voters’ panic after glitches in draft roll

    Kolkata: Lalu Rabi Das, 45, is very much alive and healthy but he was declared dead in the SIR draft roll. Shocked, Das rushed to the BLO on Thursday to find out how such a grave mistake could have ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    78-yr-old ex-hockey player out on morning walk dies under BMW

    Kolkata: A 78-year-old retired central govt employee, who was an established hockey player and served as a senior functionary at Food Corporation of India (FCI), reportedly lost his life after being hit by a luxury sedan, a BMW, on ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Darj cabbies to boycott sunrise trips to Tiger Hill

    Darjeeling: Ahead of the peak winter tourist season, the United Forum of Drivers — an umbrella organisation representing Hills-based drivers — has announced an "indefinite ban" on sunrise trips to Tiger Hill from Friday. The decision comes after the ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Min temp rises to 16.7°C, dip likely around Christmas eve

    Kolkata: After staying below 16°C for the past two days, the minimum temperature rose to 16.7°C on Thursday. While the weather is expected to remain pleasant, the Met office sees no significant change in temperature in the next few ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Gun gift for panchayat head sparks controversy

    Howrah: At a reception in Bankra, Howrah, on Wednesday night, the head of the Bankra no. 1 panchayat was presented with a gun, sparking political controversy. The recipient, Trinamool panchayat head Akhtar Hossain Molla, maintained that the weapon was ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Respond to EKW fishers’ plea: HC

    Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday took cognisance of a petition filed by fishermen from the East Kolkata Wetlands and directed the East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority (EKWMA) to submit a reasoned response to ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    2 hurt as clothes storage dispute ends in stabbing

    Kolkata: A violent altercation over business rivalry between two adjoining garment shops in the Park Street area escalated into an incident of stabbing around 2.40 am-2.50 am on Thursday, leaving two brothers injured. Victims Md Shahrukh (29) from Taltala ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Told organisers to delay Messi’s arrival to stadium’

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Police had asked the organisers to pause Lionel Messi's arrival at the Salt Lake stadium on Saturday because of the presence of large number of people on the field. According to reports reaching the state govt, ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    CEO office may get central forces

    Kolkata: The EC on Thursday wrote to the ministry of home affairs, seeking central forces at the CEO West Bengal's office. The office is now manned by Kolkata Police.The EC, in a letter to the MHA, wrote: "Adequate CAPF ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Poor visibility in N India diverts 3 flights to city, 1 cancelled

    Kolkata: Three flights heading to Gaya and Varanasi were diverted to Kolkata on Thursday following dense fog in north India. Poor visibility also forced cancellation of a flight from Varanasi to Kolkata on Thursday evening.A Sky Ankor flight from ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    Youth on phone falls off bus in Dalhousie, dies

    Kolkata: An 18-year-old from Howrah's Salkia, Karan Singh, died after falling off a moving private bus while speaking on his phone on Hemanta Basu Sarani in the Dalhousie area around 10.50 am on Thursday.According to cops, when the route ...

    19 December 2025 Times of India
    FCTWEI, SSKM launch workshops to support Tollywood professionals facing mental health issues

    KOLKATA: The Federation of Cine Technicians’ Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), in collaboration with SSKM Hospital, launched its first sensitization workshops to support Tollywood professionals facing mental health challenges recently. This initiative comes in the wake of two cinematographers' ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Centennial exhibition honors Krishna Reddy and celebrates his artistic journey and friendships

    KOLKATA: The centennial exhibition "Krishna Reddy at 100: Of Friendships," currently underway at Santiniketan, offers a heartfelt homage to one of the most influential printmakers and pedagogues of his generation. It showcases key rare and early works of Reddy ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    After missing out on Messi moment in Kolkata, teen plays with icon in Hyderabad

    KOLKATA: When 17-year-old Vedang Sharma missed out on tickets for Lionel Messi’s Kolkata appearance, he did what any diehard fan would do: kept chasing his dream. The Class XII student at Sri Sri Academy flew to Hyderabad and what ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies, comfortable temperatures, but air quality concerns linger

    Kolkata, on December 18, 2025, awakens to a sunny morning characterized by clear skies and a cool breeze, creating an ideal environment for outdoor activities. The city's temperature is anticipated to fluctuate between 16°C and 27.6°C, promising a comfortable ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    HC quashes GTA regularization of 313 ‘voluntary teachers’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside regularization of the 313 voluntary teachers in state-sponsored schools under the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), calling it "illegal." These teachers were regularized by the school education secretary in March 2019.Calling it ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Responsibility in using AI models key to maintaining social sustainability’

    Kolkata: Artificial Intelligence is a tool where people can build models and use those models to run machines that can work independently in real-time scenarios and even predict probable scenarios using real-time data. This tool can also simultaneously help ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Lakshmir Bhandar helps build human capital, revdi economics does not: Economist Bardhan

    Kolkata: Pranab Bardhan, economist and professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, on Wednesday said that while schemes like Lakshmir Bhandar may not create physical assets, human assets should not be forgotten. Bardhan also flagged concerns about 12-hour shifts ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    4 vehicles in 4 major accidents last month have 179 pending cases

    Kolkata: The city's worst four accidents in the past month involved vehicles that had 179 cases against them together.When a bus, plying on route 234 (Golf Green-Belgharia), ran over 15-year-old Aranya Chakraborty—son of a Cossipore Gun and Shell factory ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek speaks of accountability, Suvendu seeks mantris’ arrest as Messi chaos continues to loom large

    Kolkata: Bengal govt will hold every person responsible for the mishandling of the Lionel Messi event at Salt Lake stadium accountable, said TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday. The statement came on a day BJP upped its ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Deleted names in focus, Didi to address TMC BLAs on Mon

    Kolkata: As Bengal steps into the second phase of SIR, with a 7.6-crore voter list already trimmed by 58.1 lakh, CM Mamata Banerjee is expected to address TMC's booth level agents (BLAs) in Netaji Indoor Stadium next Monday. BLAs ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    EC tweak: More new voters to attend hearings before enrolment in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Election Commission has tightened the norms for enrolment of new voters, making it mandatory for the applicants to submit Annexure IV, which partly resembles the SIR enumeration form, and introducing more red flags that would lengthen the list ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata ‘digital arrest’ scam: Retired ONGC employee duped of Rs 99 lakh by fraudsters posing as Mumbai cops

    KOLKATA: A 74-year-old retired ONGC employee was allegedly cheated out of Rs 99 lakh — his life’s savings — after cyber fra-udsters posing as Mumbai Police officers placed him under “digital arrest” for four days.Gautam Kumar Ray, the victim, ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Journo held at Thailand detention camp, reunites with family in Kol after 10 years

    Kolkata: A journalist who was missing for nearly a decade, Subhajit Chandra, finally returned to his family in Kolkata on Dec 13, after spending years at a concentration camp in Thailand since 2019. The reunion was possible due to ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    VIPs accosting Messi at Salt Lake stadium under SIT probe scanner

    Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which began probing the vandalism at the Salt Lake stadium, has identified several individuals who were present in the vicinity of Lionel Messi on the field. While some of them are VIPs, several ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    SC transfers RG Kar suo motu case to Calcutta HC

    Kolkata: Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the transfer of the suo motu case it initiated to monitor the RG Kar rape-murder investigation, including the formation of a National Task Force (NTF), to Calcutta HC.A bench of justices MM Sundresh ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    State issues show-cause notice to Contai civic body board

    Contai: Bengal's urban development and municipal affairs department has issued a show-cause notice to the board of the Trinamool-run Contai municipality, seeking explanation as to why the board should not be dissolved over alleged "arbitrary" tax hikes and failure ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Bodies of 2 fishermen found in trawler that sank off Kakdwip coast

    Kolkata: Bodies of two fishermen were recovered on Wednesday from the fishing trawler that sank upon allegedly being hit by a Bangladeshi naval vessel near the India-Bangladesh Maritime Boundary Line. The sunken trailer was found on a sandbar in ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Day after stepping down, Aroop stays away from spotlight

    Kolkata: Always in the public glare, Bengal cabinet minister Aroop Biswas chose to stay away from it on Wednesday, a day after he resigned as sports minister over the chaos at the Messi event at Salt Lake Stadium last ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Will plant 50 trees at Theatre Rd park within a month: Foundation

    Kolkata: Three weeks after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) parks department asked Dhanuka Dhunseri Foundation to plant 25 large trees to compensate for the loss of greenery at McPherson Square, which is undergoing a makeover, a senior group functionary ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Bengali co-author of Oscar-shortlisted film looks forward to meeting Scorsese

    Kolkata: Following the shortlisting of Neeraj Ghaywan's ‘Homebound' in the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards, the Bengali script writer who co-authored the story, Sumit Roy, is celebrating with a bowl of ‘mishti doi'. Eagerly ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    EC plans 100 hearings per official per day, yet to announce exact starting date for exercise

    Kolkata: The exact date for the start of SIR hearings remains unknown, even a day after the draft rolls for Bengal were published on Tuesday. According to the schedule announced by the EC, the hearing and verification phase is ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will act only after seeing full video,’ says Abhishek as BJP releases video of Azad ‘vaping’

    Kolkata/New Delhi: With BJP sharing a video from inside the Lok Sabha claiming TMC MP Kirti Azad was vaping in the House, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said, "We will act only after seeing the full video."Speaking to ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    CM eyes GI boom, roles out initiatives for traders

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced a slew of measures for the nearly 60-lakh strong trading community in the state while addressing a packed Netaji Indoor Stadium at the Byabasayi Sammelan organised by the Confederation of West Bengal ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Anxious calls flood BLOs as voters find spelling, age errors on list

    Kolkata: Booth-level officers (BLOs) across the city have been inundated with phone calls and walk-in queries from anxious voters ever since the draft SIR list was published on Tuesday, pointing at a range of errors, ranging from spelling errors ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    ‘Organisers failed to stick to timeline’

    Kolkata: The event organisers had turned a blind eye to the plans agreed in the coordination meeting, atleast one show-cause reply submitted to the state government on Wednesday evening claimed.The state govt had on Tuesday showcaused state DGP Rajeev ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    Messi’s India tour reel gives Salt Lake stadium a miss

    Kolkata: Lionel Messi on Wednesday shared a one-minute Instagram video recapping his recent India tour, but the Kolkata leg appears for barely four seconds, three of which are devoted to the unveiling of his 70-foot statue at Lake Town. ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
    3 get life termfor murder of Panihati councillor

    Kolkata: Observing that the accused deserved the death penalty for "cold-bloodedly and meticulously" plotting the murder of Panihati councillor to serve their own interests, a Barrackpore court on Wednesday sentenced three convicts to life imprisonment.The judgment pertains to the ...

    18 December 2025 Times of India
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