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Five in cop net for Bhatpara shooting
Kolkata: Five persons were arrested on Monday in connection with a shooting at the Rail Quarters complex in Bhatpara, where bike-borne miscreants opened fire on Sunday afternoon, triggering panic among residents. Police suspect that a turf war stemming from ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaMolestation, assault horror for couple out on night drive
Kolkata: A 28-year-old youth from Banipur in Habra, out on a drive with his fiancée in his private car on Sunday night, was allegedly assaulted by a group of drunk youths on Jessore Road. When their vehicle was caught ...
6 January 2026 Times of IndiaEmotional connect drives community led conservation of Murshidabad heritage havelis
KOLKATA: Sandip Nowlakha, vice-president of Murshidabad Heritage Development Society (MHDS) and founder-president Atulniya Virasat Manyata Sansthan (AVMS), who spearheaded the movement to revive 3 centuries old heritage havelis in Jiaganj-Azimganj in Murshidabad, pointed out that a key ingredient for ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaPneumonia, COPD cases rise at pvt hosps
Kolkata: Pneumonia and COPD cases have risen sharply across the city's private hospitals, many of which have remained fully occupied for the past 7 days. Some hospitals reported a 5-10% mortality rate among pneumonia patients, most with pre-existing lung ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaProf Shyamapada Patra memorial lecture: Remembering a respected teacher and guide
KOLKATA: On a cold winter afternoon, reminiscences of one man spread warmth around the seminar hall at the electrical engineering department of Jadavpur University. The occasion was the Prof Shyamapada Patra Memorial Lecture, organised by the Jadavpur Electrical Engineers’ ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata shivers as maximum dips below 20°C for third time in a week
Kolkata: Persistent fog and a steady cold wind kept the city shivering through the day, with the maximum temperature dipping to 19.2°C on Sunday. Dense fog narrowed the gap between the day's maximum and minimum temperatures to 4.3°C. This ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaTwo duped of 50L in investment frauds
Kolkata: Cops are probing two online investment fraud complaints from Anandapur and Hastings, in which victims reportedly lost around Rs 50 lakh through WhatsApp groups, social media advertisements and trading applications.In Anandapur, a resident of Urbana told police he ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaBizman loses 12L in timber venture scam
Kolkata: A businessman operating from Hari Ram Goenka Street filed a case at Posta Police Station on Sunday, alleging a scam involving impersonation of senior govt officers and cheating in connection with an investment for a purported timber business, ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaAQI yet to recover after NY’s fireworks
Kolkata: Even 72 hours after the New Year's fireworks revelry, the city's air quality continues to remain a cause for concern, with pollution levels showing a slow and uneven recovery. Monitoring data on Sunday revealed that several air quality ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaBike gang opens fire in Bhatpara
Kolkata: A group of six miscreants, who were on two motorbikes, opened fire several rounds inside the Bhatpara Rail Quarters complex on Sunday afternoon. Police are looking for the accused but no one has been arrested yet.Several police from ...
5 January 2026 Times of India‘Candid’ Dilip silent after slamming BJP colleagues
Kolkata: Former Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has chosen to maintain silence following his press conference on Thursday, with party sources saying the top brass in Delhi has asked him to avoid making candid remarks for the time being.Ghosh ...
5 January 2026 Times of India‘Patriarchal barbarism’: TMC on BJP neta’s ‘lock up wives’ remark
Daspur/Kolkata: Men in Bengal should put their wives — beneficiaries of Lakshmir Bhandar scheme — under lock and key to stop them from voting for Trinamool. This was Bengal BJP state committee member Kalipada Sengupta's call from a public ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaCash-on-table video ‘featuring TMC neta’ sparks row in Barasat
Kolkata: A video showing bundles of cash laid out on a table with a Trinamool neta and a businessman sitting around it has triggered a political storm at Barasat in North 24 Parganas. The video, whose authenticity could not ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaFurry friends walk the ramp with their humans at city carnival
Kolkata: It was a fun-filled day out for 4-legged ‘athletes' that raced, jumped, hunted food and walked on a beauty ramp at a Garden Reach playground on Sunday. A group of 40 students came together to organise the Garden ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaFix glitches or halt arbitrary SIR: Didi in 4th letter to CEC
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee shot off a four-page letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday calling upon him to either "rectify glitches" or halt the "unplanned, arbitrary and ad-hoc" Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bengal's electoral ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaHUBBY NAME ERROR: 75-YR-OLD WIDOW HAS TO GET AFFIDAVIT
Kolkata: A 75-year-old woman, who had voted from Rashbehari constituency in the last state Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, was upset that she had to appear for a SIR hearing on Sunday at a school due to a discrepancy ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaPocso cuffs on man for sexual assault on 3-yr-old
Kolkata: A three-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted on Saturday evening near the rail bridge at Chaul Patty in Beleghata, police said. The child, who lives with her family in a settlement close to the railway tracks, was admitted ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaHeartbroken: Driven by break-ins, swimmer Bula Chowdhury mulls selling ‘dream home’ in Hooghly
Kolkata: Shattered by the repeated break-ins at her Hindmotor house in Hooghly — the one she would often dub as her ‘dream home' — ace swimmer, Bula Chowdhury, wants to sell it now. Though she is known for her ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaCM to lay foundation for Gangasagar Setu today
Gangasagar (South 24 Parganas): The much-anticipated Gangasagar Setu project is set to be launched with chief minister Mamata Banerjee scheduled to visit Gangasagar on Monday and lay the foundation of the bridge. The structure will not only improve connectivity ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaKMC readies water boost for BBD Bag office zone, Burrabazar belt
Kolkata: Residents and traders of China Bazar, Brabourne Road, Netaji Subhas Road, Strand Road, Bonfield Lane and Chura Market may hope to get rid of the water crisis next summer. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) water supply department is ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaBose Inst, Hyd hosp show way to treat fungal blindness
Kolkata: Scientists from the Bose Institute, Kolkata, and the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, identified a novel antimicrobial peptide that could transform the treatment of drug-resistant fungal infections of the cornea, a leading cause of blindness in South Asia. ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaYouth attacked in NT bike parking row
Kolkata: A complaint has been filed at Technocity Police Station alleging that a youth was assaulted and suffered head injuries requiring stitches following a dispute over bike parking outside Rosedale Mall in New Town on Jan 3. Miasuddin Gazi ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaHIDCO official files plaint against ‘fake website’ selling Alipore Museum e-tickets
Kolkata: Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station on Sunday registered a case after a WBHIDCO official reported a suspected fake website allegedly allowing unauthorised ticket bookings for Alipore Museum, also known as Independence Museum, and mimicking the official portal. According ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaIn new year, cops launch drive to sort out parking, road infra issues in central biz dist
Kolkata: The city traffic police began the new year by demarcating illegal parking lots at Dalhousie and finalising spots that require median railings to stop jaywalking and accidents. The final inspection was carried out on Wednesday.The broad plan was ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaElectoral roll call: 70-year-old ailing voter travels from Birati to Shyampukur
Kolkata: Arati Basak (70) was seen getting out of a yellow taxi with her son, daughter-in-law, and grandsons to appear for a hearing at Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya on Sunday afternoon. Arati has several age-related ailments, including arthritis. She could ...
5 January 2026 Times of India1.7 lakh new voters apply amid SIR distress
Kolkata: Bengal CEO's office received over 1.7 lakh new applications for inclusion of new names since Dec 16, an official said. He said that most of these were online applications for inclusion through Form 6.Number of Bengal voters, ahead ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaFamily in hearing line: 18-month-old to 70-year-old
Kolkata: Taniya Dey, in her early 30s, was called for a hearing on Sunday at Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya. Her family members, from her son aged one and a half years, her 70-year-old father, mother and husband, were also seen ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaMan goes from hosp to hearing, dies 2 days later
Kolkata: A 68-year-old man from Jaynagar in South 24 Parganas died on Jan 2, within 48 hours of attending an SIR hearing while on oxygen support, his family claimed. The deceased, Najitul Mollah, a resident of Uttar Thakurer Chak ...
5 January 2026 Times of IndiaBengal worker dies in Goa cop custody, family cries murder
Kolkata: The mysterious death of a 36-year-old migrant worker from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas while in police custody in Goa triggered allegations of murder, with his family demanding an immediate and impartial probe against jail and police officials.The ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaED submits charge sheet in Rs 145-cr illegal sand mining case
Kolkata: The ED on Saturday submitted a charge sheet at the special CBI court in connection with illegal sand mining in Bengal, pegging the total financial irregularities at nearly Rs 145 crore.The charge sheet named 14 companies and 4 ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaTea board to lay down SOP to curb illegal imports soon
Kolkata: Tea Board of India is set to roll out a standard operating procedure (SOP) within the next two weeks to curb the influx of unauthorised tea from Nepal and other countries, a practice that has been hurting the ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaEgra civic body chief arrested in multi-crore land scam case
Egra: The chairman of Egra Municipality in East Midnapore, Swapan Nayek, was arrested on Friday night in connection with a multi-crore govt land scam. Nayek, who recently made headlines by openly defying the Trinamool Congress leadership, has been remanded ...
4 January 2026 Times of India'Take care of yourself, your Ma': Kolkata cabby ensures drunk passenger reaches home safely on Christmas-eve; says it was 'basic humanity' - watch
KOLKATA: A city cabby’s helping hand to a woman, who was returning home after a Christmas-eve party, has done what four years of reels could not achieve.Munna Ajij Mollick, who besides driving a cab on Kolkata’s streets also makes ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaAttack on poll official: EC seeks report
Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has asked the DGP to submit an action-taken report by 5pm on Jan 6 over the attack on the roll observer for South 24-Parganas, C Murugan, on Dec 30. The EC directed the DGP ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaCentral force deployment on agenda as CEO heads to Delhi
Kolkata: Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal will meet Election Commission (EC) officials and Union home ministry officials in Delhi on Monday to discuss the deployment of central forces during the upcoming assembly elections.With polls likely to be ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaBurglars strike ace swimmer Bula’s Hooghly home for 4th time in 11 yrs
Kolkata/Hindmotor: For the fourth time in a decade, burglars struck swimmer Bula Chowdhury's residence at her native town, Hindmotor in Hooghly district. Chowdhury, the first woman to swim across seven seas in five continents, discovered the break-in on Saturday. ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaJan spl Sunday metro ops on Blue, Green lines
Kolkata: Kolkata Metro will run special New Year services on the Blue and Green lines on four consecutive Sundays (Jan 4, 11, 18 and 25). On these days, the Blue Line will run 160 services instead of 130. Services ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaCitizens give 70-yr-old tree a 2nd shot at life
Kolkata: A first-of-its-kind collective in the city, formed to protect a tamarind tree planted over 70 years ago by freedom fighter Parul Mukherjee, managed to save it from being felled. On Saturday, the forest department officials informed the members ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaTMC will raise tea garden workers’ wages to 300 a day, says Abhishek
Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee govt will ensure that the daily wages of tea garden workers are increased to Rs 300 per day within a month of coming to office in 2026, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaTrinamool hits back at Sisir for ‘apology’, calls it ‘drama’
Kolkata: Eighty-four-year-old Adhikari family satrap, Sisir Adhikari's remark at a public meeting in Bhagabanpur on Friday where he sought an "apology with folded hands for leading people the wrong way", referring to Trinamool Congress, drew a sharp response from ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaElections won’t achieve Gorkhaland: GTA chief
Darjeeling: Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chief Anit Thapa on Saturday said the region's long-pending statehood demand could not be achieved through electoral victories or party politics. Thapa said that voting for BJP or winning elections never led to, and ...
4 January 2026 Times of India2025 BMC dengue stats 3rd lowest in past 9 yrs
Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) areas had two consecutive years with second lowest and third lowest dengue cases reported in 2024 and 2025 within a 9-year span since 2017. While 390 dengue cases were reported across Salt Lake ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaDrones help KMC identify silted canals across city
Kolkata: KMC urged state irrigation department to take up dredging of several outfall canals that carry storm water and prevent the city from flooding after a heavy downpour. According to an official, a survey of the city's prime outfall ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaGrandmother & father killed mother, alleges woman
Kolkata: The death of a 57-year-old woman and her 78-year-old caretaker under mysterious circumstances at Kalindi in Lake Town led the woman's daughter — residing in Lake Town and pursuing an MSc in biochemistry — to allege that her ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaCan’t alter common area minus nod of 2/3rd residents: Tribunal
Kolkata: Ruling in favour of the homebuyers at ‘Atmosphere – the luxurious condominium' off EM Bypass, the West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) on Friday upheld RERA's interim order restraining promoters from ‘alienating, transferring or dealing' with any ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaAttack on cops during party worker’s arrest
Kolkata: Six policemen were injured after a mob attacked them while they were attempting to arrest a local TMC worker, Musa Mollah, in Boyarmari village under Sandeshkhali block-II. Mollah, who was arrested, had been accused of illegally occupying waterbodies ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaNew school comes up at JU as traditional med study gets 9.7 cr
Kolkata: A Rs 9.7-crore national project to study the toxicological and safety evaluation of traditional medicine systems—Ayurvedic herbs and formulations—has led to the development of the Centre for Evaluation of Traditional Medicine (TradMed-CoE) at Jadavpur University, aimed at promoting ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaAt 14.2°C, Kol min temp rises to normal mark after 5 days
Kolkata: The minimum temperature in Kolkata on Saturday climbed up by 1 degree to touch the normal mark at 14.2°C after staying sub-normal for five days. The maximum temperature, at 23.4°C, however, stayed 1.7°C below normal as the day ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaWhy fear virtual world? Stay happy in real world: Police
Kolkata: Kolkata Police would soon set up a dedicated cyber cell police station for each division so that senior citizens did not have to travel all the way to Lalbazar to lodge their cybercrime complaints, reiterated Kolkata Police commissioner ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaEx-students go back to classes
Kolkata: It was back to the classroom, quite literally, for more than 1,000 students of South Point High School who attended classes conducted by former teachers on Saturday.It was a ‘Back to School' day, organised by South Point Ex-Students' ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaSatyajit, Ritwik, RD Burman’s school steps into 100th year
Kolkata: The school that served as the alma mater of doyens, like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Shambhu Mitra and RD Burman, stepped into its centenary year on Saturday.Ballygunge Govt High School took out a colourful procession on the 99th ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaSort out hijab row: Board of studies to JU prof
Kolkata: The board of studies (BoS) of the English department at Jadavpur University suggested that the HOD, Saswati Halder, sorted out the hijab controversy with students through dialogues. The English department held its BoS meeting on Friday to discuss ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaAbuse, threat plaint against ‘loan agents’
Kolkata: The Airport Police received a complaint alleging that loan recovery agents used criminal intimidation, obscene and sexual threats, and online harassment against a borrower and his family members, including a minor child, in connection with a personal loan, ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaBJP neta in Matua belt queues up for hearing
Kolkata: Amid growing anxiety in Bongaon's Matua-dominated areas over the possible deletion of a large number of names from voters' list during the SIR process, the BJP found itself further embarrassed on Saturday as one of its own MLAs ...
4 January 2026 Times of IndiaUpload voters’ photos while serving hearing notices: EC to BLOs
Kolkata: The Election Commission has asked BLOs to post "live photos" of electors on BLO App whom they served hearing notice. The new direction of the commission reached BLOs in Kolkata and other parts of the state on Saturday.BLOs ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaUpload voters’ photos while serving hearing notices: EC to BLOs
Kolkata: The Election Commission has asked BLOs to post "live photos" of electors on BLO App whom they served hearing notice. The new direction of the commission reached BLOs in Kolkata and other parts of the state on Saturday.BLOs ...
3 January 2026 Times of India85-yr-old dies in Rishra, kin claim anxiety over hearing notice
Hooghly: Dhananjay Chaturvedi, an 85-year-old resident of Rishra who was summoned for an SIR hearing on Sunday and was admitted to Rishra Maternity Hospital on Dec 29, passed away on Thursday.His family claimed he was worried about SIR hearing. ...
3 January 2026 Times of India'No mistake of SRK': Maulana Sajid backs Shah Rukh amid Mustafizur Rahman row; says player was bought under BCCI rules
KOLKATA: All India Imam Association (AIAA) president Maulana Sajid Rashidi on Saturday came out in support of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan amid criticism over the inclusion of Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman in his IPL franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaTension in West Bengal: Mob attacks police for arresting TMC worker in Sandeshkhali; 6 cops injured
KOLKATA: Six police personnel were injured after a mob attacked them while they were arresting a Trinamool Congress (TMC) activist in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district police said on Saturday.The injured policemen, including an officer, ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaTERI’s Institute of Energy Transition gathers momentum with government backing, MoU with BEE
KOLKATA: The The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has taken a major step toward operationalising its proposed Institute of Energy Transition (IoET) with a series of formal endorsements from the Union government and the signing of a Memorandum of ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaCM likely to lay foundation of Mahakal temple on Jan 16
Siliguri: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to lay the foundation stone of a Mahakal temple, the construction of which she had earlier announced, in Siliguri, on Jan 16. Banerjee had announced the construction of a bigger temple on ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaBJP worker found dead, kin cry murder
Moyna: The body of a 33-year-old BJP worker, missing since Sunday, was recovered from a pond near his home in the Sudampur area of Moyna in East Midnapore on Thursday morning, reports Suman Mandal.The deceased, Subrata Adhikari, was a ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaEC seeks report from South 24 Pgns DM
Kolkata: EC on Friday sought a report from the South 24 Parganas district magistrate (DM) on allegations of living people being marked dead. "For a work of this magnitude, there can be genuine errors (during SIR enumeration). But if ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaConsent or not, EC can set up poll booths in housing complexes
Kolkata: Consent or lack of it will not matter if Election Commission wants to set up polling booths in housing complexes.District election officers (DEO) of Kolkata North, Kolkata South and five districts have sent lists mentioning 70-80 housing complexes ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaRush to get hitched on ‘auspicious dates’ sends wedding costs soaring this season
Kolkata: A desperate rush for ‘auspicious dates' this wedding season has pushed up the demand for and the cost of booking ceremony halls and, in turn, the cost of weddings that have taken place over the last few weeks.Kolkata's ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaDigha ready for ‘pushpa abhishek’at Jagannath temple today
Digha's Jagannath temple is all set to celebrate the ‘pushpa abhishek' (floral bathing ceremony) of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra on Saturday. Unlike the traditional ‘snana yatra' of June — where the deities are bathed in the ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaTrafficking survivor can’t be called to court repeatedly: HC
Kolkata: A survivor of a heinous crime like trafficking cannot be called repeatedly for cross-examination just because the accused's lawyer wants to put more questions to her, Calcutta High Court has ruled and set aside a trial court order ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaEgra gold merchant foils robbery bid
Egra: A late-night heist attempt in Chatla village in Egra under east Midnapore district sparked high drama on Thursday after a gold merchant, despite being seriously injured, managed to alert locals who cornered the suspects and handed them over ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaSC panel seeks report on Constitution row at JU
Kolkata: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) asked the Jadavpur University registrar to submit facts and information on the action taken following a second-year IR department student's complaint against associate professor Arup Bhattacharya, who allegedly made hateful comments ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaPvt hospitals across city set to add over 1,300 beds this year
Kolkata: Around 1,300 new beds are set to be added across multiple private hospitals in 2026. Those getting ready to augment capacity next year include Ruby General Hospital, Disha Hospital, Charnock Hospital, Woodlands Multispecialty Hospital, Belle Vue, and BP ...
3 January 2026 Times of India2nd link between Salt Lake & VIP Road by Jan end
Kolkata: Residents of Salt Lake and those staying off VIP Road at Golaghata and Dakshindari are to get better connectivity between Salt Lake and VIP Road this month with the Bailey bridge over Kestopur canal at Golaghata expected to ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaAfter Mahata quits, fissures deepen in protest forum
Kolkata: Fissures deepened in the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front, a day after anaesthesiologist Aniket Mahata, a prominent face of RG Kar protests, walked out of the front on Thursday, following differences over executive committee elections. The Resident Doctors' ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaBJP performance will live up to Shah’s expectations: Samik
Kolkata/Malda: Days after Union home minister Amit Shah claimed BJP would be voted to office in Bengal with a two-thirds majority, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said poll results will live up to Shah's expectations."Amit Shah is the finest ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaCash-for-jobs: ED attaches Rs3.6cr assets of state minister
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached assets of minister for correctional administration Chandranath Sinha worth about Rs 3.6 crore over the school cash-for-jobs scam. Sources said around 10 properties, including residential homes, flats, land and a market, in ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaJobs scam: CBI names state official in final charge sheet
Kolkata: The CBI on Friday filed its final charge sheet in the municipal jobs-for-cash scam, naming state govt official Jyotishman Chattopadhyay and a firm linked to prime accused Ayan Sil. The agency alleged that at least 600 fake appointments ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaAbhishek walks 3 voters ‘marked dead’ during SIR at Baruipur rally
Baruipur: "I will make three ghosts walk," said Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee as he ushered in three people on stage — two men from Metiabruz and a woman from Kakdwip — who he said had been marked ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaAfter Indore deaths, KMC stresses lab test for water
Kolkata: The KMC seniors on Friday put the city's water installations on high alert, insisting on stricter lab tests of raw water before being sent to treatment plants. The directive came following the death of 10 people in Indore ...
3 January 2026 Times of India2 months after KIFF, Cuban director keeps date with Kol, hopes for tie-ups
Kolkata: Visa issues had prevented Cuban director David Bim from attending the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), where his documentary, ‘To the West, in Zapatta', won the Golden Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Film in the International ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaNew flight from Bangkok to land in Kolkata today
Kolkata: The inaugural Vietjet Thailand flight from Bangkok to Kolkata is scheduled to land in Kolkata on Saturday, with the return flight set to take off on Sunday. The airline had initially announced flights from Nov 16 but service ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaAfter New Yr’s high, AQI improves but stays ‘poor’
Kolkata: The city recorded a slight improvement in air quality on Friday, offering a brief respite after a New Year's Day of severe pollution. Although air quality levels across all monitoring stations continued to remain in the ‘poor' category, ...
3 January 2026 Times of India40 lakh & counting: Scammers use NY event deals to dupe revellers
Kolkata: As the city welcomed the New Year, scammers resorted to a new trick to commit online frauds using fake event tickets, hotel deals and delivery links to steal money and personal data, cyber security experts and police said. ...
3 January 2026 Times of India15 hurt, vehicles damaged in clashes on New Yr’s Day
Kolkata: At least 15 people sustained injuries in clashes at Tangra and Tiljala during New Year celebrations. One of the injured, identified as Soumen Adhikary, suffered severe eye injury, leading doctors to fear loss of eyesight. Several vehicles were ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaAfter despair, ‘Mini Bangla’ hopes for a better new year
Kolkata: Reeling from the second straight year of poor business, traders and hoteliers in central Kolkata's ‘Mini Bangladesh' are looking at the new year with cautious optimism, even as a sharp drop in Bangladeshi tourists during the peak Dec-Jan ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaNew Yr push: Work starts for Yellow Line’s Birati stn
Kolkata: Construction of the metro line between airport and Birati began with a puja on Friday. TOI reported on Aug 5, 2024, that Kolkata Metro's Yellow Line had gained traction. Armed with clearances from Airports Authority of India (AAI), ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaMolest and assault over affair disputes
Kolkata: Two women residing at one of the biggest complexes of New Town submitted a written complaint with Techno City Police on Wednesday, accusing two men—one of whom had a relationship with their third flatmate —of molestation, assault and ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaYouth dies of concert clash injuries, 4 held
Kolkata: A 28-year-old youth from Sodepur, who was injured in an assault following an assault during a music concert of Bollywood composer-singer Ankit Tiwari at Panihati Festival, died of his injuries at a hospital four days later on Thursday ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaMin rises to 13.1°C in brief warm-up before chill spell
Kolkata: After dipping to a 15-year New Year low, temperatures in Kolkata rose slightly on Friday, though both the maximum and minimum remained below normal. The Met office expects the mercury to climb further by Saturday and hover around ...
3 January 2026 Times of India6 passportadalats in Jan
Kolkata: The regional passport office (RPO), Kolkata, announced a series of passport adalats in Jan to expedite scrutiny and processing of long-pending applications.The passport adalats will be held on Jan 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, and 29 at the ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaCan Madhyamik admit card be 14th SIR, CEO asks EC
Kolkata: Can Madhyamik admit card be Bengal's 14th SIR document? The West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer asked the EC to clarify. The SIR hearings are throwing up multiple pleas by people who did not clear Madhyamik but have the ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaPoll panel issues 30.3 lakh notices, 3.3 lakh electors turn up for hearing in a week
Kolkata: Of the 30.3 lakh hearing notices issued by EC, 20.5 lakh have reached voters. Among them, 3.3 lakh voters have attended hearing and their cases were sorted out within a week after the hearing started on Dec 27, ...
3 January 2026 Times of IndiaKP records 245 drink driving cases on Dec 31, Jan1
Kolkata: Kolkata Police has recorded 95 cases of drink driving on New Year Day, with the total number of cases on Dec 31-Jan 1 clocking 245 prosecutions. This remained one of the highest in the past 10 months, though ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaLIC officers in court, seek relief from ERO duty
Kolkata: Development officers of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) approached the Calcutta High Court on Friday, stating that a 60-day SIR duty as electoral registration officer (ERO) hampered their work as they had to compulsorily meet certain premium targets ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaSchools reopen with teachers out on BLO duty, hearings on campuses
Kolkata: The new academic session began on Friday in state-run schools in Kolkata, even as many campuses remained occupied for SIR hearings and several teachers stayed away on BLO duty, creating a manpower shortage.The state school education department asked ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaEC summons Hwh MLA for hearing on Jan 4
Howrah: Now an MLA who won the people's mandate in the last Assembly election in 2021 has been asked to prove her credentials.The EC has summoned Trinamool MLA (South Howrah Assembly) Nandita Choudhary for a hearing and directed her ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata wakes up to season’s worst air as New Year fireworks push AQI into ‘very poor’ zone
Kolkata woke up to the foulest air of the season on the first day of the year as midnight firecracker revelry pushed pollution levels deep into ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’ zones at a time when cold air tends to ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaRelief, finally: Kolkata airport mends design flaw, set to get restrooms on arrival entry level
KOLKATA: After more than a decade of clenched jaws and frantic corridor dashes, relief is finally in sight for flyers landing in Kolkata as the city's airport is set to rectify one of its most complained-about design flaws - ...
2 January 2026 Times of India‘Mandir-masjid’ doesn’t impact polls, says Dilip Ghosh day after meeting Shah
KOLKATA: BJP senior Dilip Ghosh, under whose watch the party notched up its highest ever Lok Sabha seat tally in 2019, increased the state unit’s discomfort level by several notches the very day after his “rehabilitation” in the presence ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaFamilies allege ‘SIR stress’ behind two heart attack deaths in Bengal
Kolkata/Bankura: Two deaths were reported in Bengal, with families of the deceased alleging that fears surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls triggered fatal heart attacks. The incidents occurred on New Year's Day, Thursday, in Swarupnagar of ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaTMC won’t bow to malevolent forces: Didi on foundation day
Kolkata: Trinamool "will not bow to malevolent forces," Bengal CM and the party's chief Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday on TMC's foundation day, flagging the party off into an election year.In a statement on X, the CM said: "The ...
2 January 2026 Times of IndiaPrayer for health, peace & well-being a perfect start to a new year for many
Kolkata: Devotees across faiths ushered in the new year with prayers and sermons, braving the early morning chill on Thursday to visit places of worship across Kolkata. For a large section, beginning the year with special prayers is an ...
2 January 2026 Times of India