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  • KP to spent 48 lakh on grooming its dogs, horses

    123456 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police is all set to spend more than Rs 48.5 lakh this year for the grooming of the four-legged members of its two prized units – the horses of the Kolkata Mounted Police unit and ...

    8 June 2025 Times of India
    Airline to refund ‘unaccompanied fee’ to minors

    12 Kolkata: Akasa Air offered a full refund of the Rs 5,000 they took from two sisters, aged 9 and 17, in cash as an "unaccompanied minor fee" at Kolkata airport on Wednesday. This followed a TOI report highlighting ...

    8 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Pay Rs 5,000 or miss flight’: Airline tells sisters aged 9 & 17 at Kolkata airport; insists on cash payment as ‘unaccompanied minor fee’

    A file photo of Mahira & Manyata with their mother Shalini Dugar KOLKATA: A Kolkata-Ahmedabad flight turned into a nightmare for two sisters, Mahira (9) and Manyata (17), after airline ground staff asked them to pay Rs 5,000 in ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Every payment counts – EaseMyDeal’s mission to support India

    In the digital era, where most platforms operate solely for profit, EaseMyDeal is setting itself apart with initiative and purpose. Since 1st April 2025, the company has contributed to a Nation-First donation model that turns every user transaction into ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Bus race ends in accident, 25 injured

    Kolkata: A race between two buses during the Friday morning rush hour ended in a severe accident on Thakurpukur-Bakrahat Road, in which 25 passengers were injured, 15-16 of them critically.The incident occurred around 9.30 am involving buses on routes ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    State logs 58 new Cov cases, 2 of them kids

    Kolkata: Bengal on Friday logged 58 fresh Covid cases over the past 24 hours, taking the active case tally across the state to 596. At least two kids were among the new cases, with one of them needing admission ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Lawyer held in kidney racket case

    Kolkata: In a breakthrough in the Ashoknagar kidney trafficking case, Pradeep Kumar Bar — a 37-year-old lawyer practising at Alipore court — was arrested on Friday. He was sent to cop custody for a week. Cops said his name ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    New temple impact: Digha Rath train WL crosses 100

    12 Kolkata: While Rath Yatra, scheduled on June 27, is still three weeks away, bus and train bookings to Digha, where the occasion will be celebrated for the first time at the Jagannatham Dham complex, are almost full. The ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    North Carolina murder: Justice for Kolkata parents after two years

    12 Kolkata: Around two years after a 33-year-old woman from Behala, Nabaruna Karmakar, was killed in a gunshot incident in the US, her husband, Michael Aaron Matthews (40), pleaded guilty in court. He was sentenced to imprisonment for 13 ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    FIR after sick mare found tied up without food, water

    12 Kolkata: An FIR was registered after Peta India rescued a horse from Maidan with assistance from cops last Monday. The mare, blind in one eye and whose physical condition indicated prolonged neglect by her former owner, was found ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Mkt eyes turnround in affordable home sales after repo rate cut

    Kolkata: Property developers in Kolkata anticipate increased sales of affordable housing units, priced around Rs 50 lakh, following the cumulative 1% reduction in repo rate since Feb. Kolkata's affordable housing sector, traditionally robust in this cost-conscious market, experienced notable ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Jafrabad murders: 55 days on, charge sheet names 13, blames ‘mosque attack, firing by forces’ rumours

    12 Kolkata: The April 12 violence in Murshidabad which led to the deaths of a septuagenarian and his 44-year-old son in Jafrabad was engineered by a mob after a rumour was spread deliberately that a nearby mosque had been ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    More than 200 fruit trees to boost Salt Lake green cover

    12 Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will plant over 200 small and medium-sized fruit trees of different varieties across Salt Lake.BMC MMIC (Environment) Rahima Bibi Mondal said saplings of mango, rose apple, guava, sapota, and other trees will ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Offering all help to Assam cops: KP

    Kolkata: Lalbazar on Friday denied reports that they were not providing any assistance to Assam Police in their efforts to nab Qadri. "Kolkata Police strongly refutes the misleading claim being circulated on social media suggesting non-cooperation with Assam Police. ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol chain-snatch mastermind nabbed in Bihar

    Kolkata: The alleged mastermind of a gold chain-snatching incident reported in Kolkata in March was arrested from Mahpur Faridpur village in Siwan on Thursday after coordination between Kolkata Police and local cops in Bihar. Md Arbaz (24) had been ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    16-yr-old boy in CCU with poison in stomach

    Kolkata: A Picnic Garden resident, a Class 11 student at an English-medium school who went to his tuition class 10 minutes away from home, ended up in the CCU of a govt hospital with poison in his stomach. The ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    MCH intern held for rape, forced abortions

    Kolkata: A 24-year-old Calcutta Medical College student from Malda was arrested by Patuli Woman PS cops in connection with allegations of sexual assault and forcing multiple abortions on his girlfriend without her consent or knowledge. A formal complaint had ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata schools get CISCE notice on uniform exam fees

    Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Friday issued a circular to heads of several city schools affiliated to the board informing them about the uniform examination fees for ISC and ICSE examinees. The Council ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Vermicelli, attar, ethnic wear fly off shelves as markets see festive rush ahead of Eid

    12 Kolkata: Markets across the city remained open till midnight ahead of Eid-ul-Zuha on Saturday as shoppers flocked to bazaars for last-minute festival purchases. Key trading hubs, including Zakaria Street, New Market, Entally and Rabindra Sarani, reported brisk business ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    To battle floods, Bengal govt to start Teesta dredging soon

    123 Jalpaiguri: With the bed of the Teesta rising around two metres following the 2023 Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Sikkim, Bengal govt has decided to dredge and desilt the river.The GLOF at North Sikkim's South Lhonak Lake ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Airport issues new SOP to tackle laser interference

    Kolkata: Following a spate of laser light interference incidents threatening flight safety, Kolkata airport authorities issued a fresh set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for Bidhannagar City Police and surrounding municipal bodies to tackle the issue. At least 13 ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    All tourists airlifted from Chaten, locals still stranded

    123 Kalimpong: The remaining 63 tourists were airlifted from Chaten on Friday as part of the ongoing rescue operations in North Sikkim.Some locals were also evacuated, said sources. Helicopter services are scheduled to resume on Saturday and they will ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata East-West Metro: Work done, KMRC starts sealing 98-ft TBM shafts

    123 Kolkata: KMRC has started sealing the last openings to the twin East-West Metro tunnels. The 98-feet deep shafts at the Esplanade metro station were built to launch the giant tunnel borers, Chundi and Urvi, in Jan-Feb 2019. A ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata police tighten passport checks to crack down on illegal immigrants and ID fraud; address checks mandatory

    Kolkata police tighten passport checks to crack down on illegal immigrants and ID fraud; address checks mandatory KOLKATA: Breaking the syndicates dealing with illegal immigration by identifying the gang heads and double-checking all received ID documents from the source ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Parnasree digi arrest: 8 from Rajasthan held in New Town, Hwh

    Kolkata: Barely two weeks after a young assistant director-ranked official of the Bureau of Indian Standards — the national standards body under the ministry of consumer affairs — in Kolkata was allegedly held under "digital arrest" for four days ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    My daughter has decided to be off social media for now: Influencer’s dad

    Kolkata: "My daughter voluntarily decided to be off social media for the time being and vowed to be more careful about what she writes and speaks," said the father of the fourth-year law student who was granted bail by ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Med emergency landing at airport as Guj flyer from Oz dies after falling ill on flight

    12 Kolkata: A 66-year-old woman travelling to India from Australia died after falling ill mid-air, prompting the international flight to make a medical emergency landing at Kolkata airport in the early hours of Friday. Co-passengers and doctors couldn't find ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Patuli doc loses 78k online after fake BSF call

    Kolkata: A Patuli resident, a homoeopathy doctor by profession, lost Rs 78,054 in an online scam after receiving a fraudulent call from someone posing as a member of the Border Security Force (BSF). The caller asked the victim to ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Mind the gap: Cop focus on safe distance between vehicles

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police launched a comprehensive awareness campaign titled ‘Mind the Gap' on Friday, focusing on the growing menace of tailgating, which has led to multiple freak road accidents and even road rage incidents across the city ...

    7 June 2025 Times of India
    Union asks for more rakes, personnel for Purple, Orange Lines

    Kolkata: The Pragatisil Sramik Karmachari Union has urged Metro Railway to add rakes and traffic personnel for the Purple and Orange lines, which are set to extend operations now that they are equipped with the advanced signalling system.On behalf ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    63 tourists airlifted off Sikkim’s Chaten, more await evacuation

    Kalimpong: As many as 63 stranded tourists were airlifted from North Sikkim's Chaten in the early hours of Thursday. Not all tourists could be evacuated as the weather deteriorated later. The tourists had been stranded in Lachen since May ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Film with TMC netas to tell story of Calcutta University official Manisha Mukhopadhyay, who vanished like 'karpoor' in CPM era

    Calcutta University KOLKATA: One of Bengal's enduring "political" mysteries - the 1997 disappearance of a senior Calcutta University official believed to have been close to seniors in the erstwhile Left Front regime - is going to come alive on ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Ex-chairman of Bidhannagar Municipality passes away

    Kolkata: Biswajiban Majumdar, the former chairman of the erstwhile Bidhannagar Municipality, which has now been upgraded into a municipal corporation, passed away on Thursday. He was 90.Majumdar, who was also a retired college principal, was elected the chairman of ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    JU vandalism: Univ files plaint against guard

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University lodged a police complaint against a security guard on Thursday in connection to the vandalism of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students' Union (FETSU) room on Wednesday. JU had lodged an FIR on Wednesday as ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Fake HC lawyer dupes woman of 3 lakh

    Kolkata: A complaint was filed at Tiljala PS against an individual who allegedly impersonated a high court lawyer and defrauded a Picnic Garden resident of Rs 3 lakh. The accused allegedly forged official court orders, notices, and even judges' ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Metro seeks 20cr from KMDA for Chingrighata subway

    Kolkata: Metro has asked KMDA to deposit 50% — Rs 20 crore — of the cost of the proposed underpass at Chingrighata. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), the implementing agency of the New Garia-Airport corridor, will share half the ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Medical intervention could’ve saved him: Parents of Vande Bharat victim

    1234 Kolkata: The mother of 57-year-old Dhakuria resident Himadri Bhowmick, who died while travelling on the Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express on Wednesday, has alleged that her son was a victim of negligence on the part of the Railways."If my ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    New cases hit a century in biggest single-day spike in current wave

    Kolkata: Bengal on Thursday logged the highest single-day spike in Covid cases during the current wave, with the state reporting 106 positive cases in the past 24 hours. The total active cases in the state now stand at 538, ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    2016 Leh flight victim’s kin get 30 lakh as compensation

    12 Kolkata: The state consumer disputes redressal commission has awarded Rs 30 lakh as compensation to a family of a passenger who had died in a flight a decade ago.The two-member bench comprising Ajeya Matilal and Nityasundar Trivedi determined ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    HC grants influencer interim bail in hate speech case

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted interim bail to the fourth-year law student of Symbiosis International University in Pune who was arrested for a video that she had posted online that hurt religious sentiments. The court cautioned ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Cavalier attitude’ in report: Go back to campus, Cal HC tells KMC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday called out the "casual and cavalier attitude" of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in submitting a report lacking details on the repairs needed at the La Martiniere schools. KMC was directed to ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Covid symptoms in this round feel like Omicron during pandemic, say doctors

    Kolkata: Around 30% of Covid patients in some Kolkata hospitals are showing gastrointestinal symptoms, which were prevalent during the spread of the Omicron variant in early 2022. Many elderly patients admitted during the current cycle suffered a quick worsening ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops fail to nab Qadri, may move court for arrest warrant

    Kolkata: Multiple raids by Kolkata and Assam police teams on Rashidi Foundation co-founder Wazahat Khan Qadri's Garden Reach home have drawn a blank. Police are now likely to move court, seeking an arrest warrant against him.Qadri (34) faces multiple ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    CP: Stricter passport check to root out illegal immigrants

    Kolkata: Breaking the syndicates dealing with illegal immigration by identifying the gang heads and double-checking all received ID documents from the source to examine their authenticity were the two reasons behind the changes introduced in passport verification, said Kolkata ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Factory owner held in Mum for teen’s torture

    Kolkata: Shahenshah, the owner of a jeans manufacturing unit in Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas was arrested from Mumbai by a team of Bengal Police on Thursday for the alleged torture of a teenaged boy, who worked at his ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Hate-speech: Cal HC judge gets death threats on X after denying bail to influencer

    Kolkata: Multiple X handles have posted death threats to Calcutta High Court's Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee after the judge on Tuesday refused to grant interim bail to a social media influencer in a hate-speech case. The reply threads to ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Working institution, not a museum: School to KMC

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) heritage conservation department claimed its officials spotted anomalies in the renovations done at the twin La Martiniere Schools, which were in contravention of the established norms on how heritage buildings should be conserved. ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Moitra weds ex-BJD MP Misra in quiet Berlin ceremony

    123 Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra tied the knot with former BJD MP Pinaki Misra on May 30 in a quiet ceremony in Berlin. The couple is expected to return to India by the end of June. After ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Can’t expect PM to start dialogue with Pak gen: Samik

    12 Kolkata: BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Thursday said that while countries across the world were asking them to start a dialogue with Pakistan, the neighbouring state had not left any ground for India to do that. ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Green move: Maruti sent over 5L vehicles by rail in 2024-2025

    Kolkata: From dispatching just one in 20 cars by rail a decade ago, Maruti Suzuki sent one in four cars to dealers by rail last fiscal. Five years from now, the company plans to dispatch over one in three ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata man dies aboard Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat

    123 Bhubaneswar: A 57-year-old man died after he fell ill on board the Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express on Wednesday. The deceased, Himadri Bhowmick, lived at Dhakuria in south Kolkata.He was travelling to Bhubaneswar on coach number C2 along with ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    7-month-old among 60 fresh Covid-positive patients in state

    12 Kolkata: A seven-month-old baby was among the 60 fresh Covid-positive cases reported in Bengal on Wednesday. The infant, possibly the youngest to get the infection in the state during this current spike, is admitted to Peerless Hospital. Doctors ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Woman held for duping Salt Lake sr citizen of 32.3L

    123 Kolkata: Police probing a cyber fraud case where a 72-year-old Salt Lake resident lost Rs 32.3 lakh after being duped by a woman claiming to be from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) arrested the accused on ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Focus on ward weather stns, clean air zones, AC temp as Kol launches climate action plan

    123456 Kolkata: In a defining moment for the city's sustainability goals, mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday unveiled final draft of Kolkata Climate Action Plan (KCAP), calling it "not just a climate action plan but a survival plan for the ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Pollutants order changes post Covid pandemic: Cooking, industry emissions on PM2.5 rogue list

    1234 Kolkata: On the occasion of World Environment Day, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) released a comprehensive report revealing how Kolkata's air pollution sources had significantly shifted in the years following Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis, drawing on ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops recover 35L lost by Survey Park doc to digi arrest fraud

    12 Kolkata: Cops have recovered around Rs 35 lakh of a total of Rs 1 crore that was lost by a Survey Park victim last Nov in a digital arrest fraud. The crime was planned and carried out from ...

    6 June 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek Banerjee to skip MEA meet; TMC slams Centre for refusing special session

    Abhishek Banerjee to skip MEA meet; TMC slams Centre for refusing special session NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said he will not be attending the external affairs ministry meeting scheduled on Thursday and will instead write ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Malda cops help Nepal boy return home

    Malda: A 14-year-old boy from Nepal, missing for 11 days, was reunited with his family on Wednesday, thanks to the efforts of Malda Police. The boy, deaf and speech-impaired, was found on June 2 in Gourhanda village under Chanchal ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Tortured with iron rods in Gujarat, West Bengal boy fights for life back to home

    Tortured with iron rods in Gujarat, West Bengal boy fights for life back to home KALNA: After a video showing inhuman torture being meted out to a minor in Gujarat's Rajkot went viral, Bengal government has stepped in to ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Maruti Suzuki now dispatches 1 in 4 cars by rail; targets 1 in 3 by 2030 to cut emissions, fuel use

    KOLKATA: From dispatching just one in 20 cars by rail a decade ago, India's largest carmaker sent one in four cars to dealers by rail last fiscal year. Five years from now, the company plans to dispatch over one ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC MP Mahua Moitra marries former BJD MP Pinaki Misra in Germany

    NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has tied the knot with senior Biju Janata Dal leader (BJD) Pinaki Misra in a private ceremony held in Germany.A senior TMC leader confirmed to TOI that Moitra and Misra got married ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    'Party lacks direction': Sankar Malakar quits Congress, joins TMC in Darjeeling

    'Party lacks direction': Sankar Malakar quits Congress, joins TMC in Darjeeling KOLKATA: Two-term Matigara-Naxalbari MLA and Congress veteran Sankar Malakar defected to Trinamool on Wednesday, saying that CM Mamata Banerjee-led TMC was the only party in Bengal fighting BJP's ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    BSF jawan dragged across border by Bangladeshi criminals; returns after flag meet

    BERHAMPORE: A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was forcibly dragged into Bangladesh by a group of Bangladeshi nationals while he was questioning them near the Chandni Chowk border outpost in Suti Police Station area at the Malda-Murshidabad border on ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Eng-Beng-physics worry prompts ‘cluster’ schools

    123 Kolkata: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education is set to introduce a cluster model for schools to address teacher shortage in the higher secondary section. The council conducted a survey of all subjects being taught in ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Restoration of New Market clock tower may start in a fortnight

    Kolkata: A report detailing the scope of work for the restoration of the New Market clock tower was submitted to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) by restoration architect Anjan Mitra on Wednesday. The document will form the basis of ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata police get careful, put dogs through battery of 18 medical tests before induction into force

    KOLKATA: In a bid to strengthen its K9 unit, Kolkata Police has launched a recruitment drive and has also announced a stringent medical testing protocol for potential canine sleuths.The new line of requirements, issued last week, specifies as many ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Mixed report card for Bengal environment

    Kolkata: Bengal received mixed results in a nationwide assessment of states' performance on environment, sustainability, agriculture, public health, and infrastructure, according to State of India's Environment in Figures 2025, released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Fraud busted as painter blocks a/c after 1.7cr credited to it

    Kolkata: A Jamtara-style cyber fraud racket, in which unsuspecting residents' bank accounts were being used to launder crores of ill-gotten money, was busted at Nimta in north Dum Dum on Wednesday. Six people, including a dismissed bank employee, were ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC drive to clear garbage, stagnant water

    Kolkata: In the wake of intermittent rain, KMC has decided to undertake a drive to clear garbage and stagnant water from abandoned plots and buildings so that they do not turn into breeding grounds for mosquitoes and lead to ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Rain impact: Movement of vehicles curbed on NH-10

    12 Kalimpong: Traffic movement for heavy vehicles was restricted on NH-10 starting Wednesday due to poor road conditions in several stretches of the highway. The worst-affected areas include Likhuvir (towards Siliguri) and parts of Kirnay and Melli (towards Sikkim ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Hawker pushback drive to begin anew after Eid

    12 Kolkata: A Town-Vending Committee meeting held at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters on Wednesday decided to conduct drives to keep carriageways free in and around New Market after Eid. A fortnight ago, TVC members advocated a continuous drive ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Lone rake pulls Purple Line ops, normal services from today

    123 Kolkata: The currently operational curtailed services of the Joka-Esplanade Metro are likely to continue to face challenges unless new rakes are added immediately. An official, however, said late on Wednesday that normal services would be available from Thursday. ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Muktijoddha’-to-‘associate’ shift upsets Bangla veterans

    12 Kolkata: Bangladesh govt's ordinance, which has redefined the ‘Freedom Fighter' status for those involved with the 1971 Liberation War, has sharp reactions from both sides of the border. The National Freedom Fighters Council (Amendment) Ordinance-2025 on Tuesday amended ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    More rain on horizon but relief may be brief: Met

    12 Kolkata: An intense downpour late on Tuesday night dragged the mercury down significantly, with both the maximum and minimum temperatures plunging below the normal mark. The Met office has not ruled out more spells until Thursday before the ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Cong Darj veteran Sankar Malakar joins TMC

    123 Kolkata: Two-term Matigara-Naxalbari MLA and Congress veteran Sankar Malakar defected to Trinamool on Wednesday, saying that CM Mamata Banerjee-led TMC was the only party in Bengal fighting BJP's communal politics. Malakar, who headed Congress in Darjeeling for 20 ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Vacation rush to tourist hot spots in south India

    Kolkata: As temperatures soar across India, tourists are increasingly turning to hill stations in south India for their summer getaways. Popular destinations like Munnar, Ooty and Kodaikanal have emerged as popular destinations for holidayers from Kolkata. Also in demand ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal woman summits tallest peak in Oceania

    12 Kolkata: Arpita Patra, a resident of Midnapore and a Bengaluru IISC faculty member, summitted Mt Wilhelm, the tallest peak in Oceania, last week on Thursday. She has already climbed three of the seven volcanic summits, including Mt Giluwe, ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    State to take care of expenses of Kalna boy tortured in Guj

    12 Kalna: After a video showing inhuman torture being meted out to a minor in Gujarat's Rajkot went viral, Bengal govt has stepped in to take care of the medical and legal expenses of the 10-year-old Kalna boy purportedly ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Another US-based semicon co to set up project in Bengal

    Kolkata: After GlobalFoundries (GF), another US-based semiconductor company — Santech Global Inc — has expressed its interest in setting up a project in Bengal, the state govt said after US Consul General Kathy Giles-Diaz met Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC bats for more centres of excellence for rare diseases in state

    Kolkata: Persons suffering from rare diseases should be treated as a "class of themselves", the Calcutta High Court observed while suggesting the state increase the monthly stipend from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000.The division bench of Chief Justice TS ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    New drivers flee with cars to Lucknow, Gaya

    12 Kolkata: Be careful before handing over your car to a driver based on some random online searches. Cops insist that if possible, hire the driver from a reputed agency and ensure you have enough documents ready.At least two ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Man molests women in pool, held

    123 Kolkata: A young woman and her sister-in-law swimming in the rooftop pool of their housing complex in Rajarhat were allegedly molested in the water by a man who was visiting the home of another complex resident. The man, ...

    5 June 2025 Times of India
    Schools focus on awareness, hygiene to curb virus spread

    12 Kolkata: As state schools reopened after the summer vacation on Monday, institute heads implemented precautionary and hygiene measures against the fresh Covid surge to prevent the spread of infections while ensuring students did not panic. Even CISCE and ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC, NKDA get 900 plaints in week-long ‘report-garbage’ drive

    12 Kolkata: An overwhelming response marked KMC's and NKDA's week-long special cleanliness drive across the city and New Town, respectively, which ended on Tuesday. According to a KMC solid waste management department official, the civic body control room received ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    North Sikkim landslides: 113 tourists rescued, 30 airlifted; search efforts continue for 6 missing individuals

    NEW DELHI: The Army successfully rescued 113 stranded tourists from North Sikkim, with 30 individuals evacuated by helicopter after a massive landslide isolated Lachen village, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) statement.Military personnel are conducting rescue operations whilst ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Four more HC cases come in way of SSC teacher appointments

    Kolkata: Four petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court, challenging the new May 29 teacher recruitment rules, 2025, for filling up 44,203 vacancies in the teaching posts in state-run schools. The petitions also challenge the monthly interim ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC panel reviews La Martiniere bldg restoration plans

    Kolkata: The Heritage Conservation Committee of KMC met on Tuesday to deliberate on the application for repair and renovation it received from La Martiniere School. They aimed to prepare a report based on the condition of the heritage buildings ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Can’t hurt sentiments under freedom of speech’: No Calcutta HC relief yet for Instagram influencer Sharmishta Panoli

    KOLKATA: Freedom of speech and expression did not mean one could hurt the sentiments of others, a Calcutta High Court vacation said on Tuesday while hearing a plea for interim bail moved by a South Kolkata woman arrested by ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Sharmishta Panoli row: Wazahat Khan Qadri, who filed plaint against Instagram influencer ‘untraceable’; FIR registered for insulting posts on Hindu deities

    Sharmishtha Panoli (File photo) KOLKATA/GUWAHATI: Wazahat Khan Qadri, the man whose FIR led to the arrest of a 22-year-old Instagram influencer and fourth-year law student of a Pune-based university for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an Instagram video, is ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Police launch app for transparent passport check, fraud detection

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police introduced a new mobile application, ‘Passport Seva Police,' to enhance transparency in passport verification processes and combat document fraud. The app also allows applicants to be updated about the status of their application. The app, ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    New Tajpur port tender in mths; JSW, DP World may bid

    Kolkata: The new tender for the Tajpur deep sea port would be floated in a few months and JSW, DP World and Port of Singapore may be interested in the project, sources said on Tuesday.This comes after the Bengal ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Overlapping symptoms make Cov diagnosis difficult without tests

    Kolkata: The overriding symptoms of Covid during the current surge were a low-grade, persistent fever, along with a mild cough, which could be deceptive, warned doctors. While it made a vast majority ignore the symptoms and take over-the-counter medicines, ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Accused of mobile theft, 14-year-old hanged upside down, administered electric shock

    Kolkata/Malda: A 14-year-old boy, who worked at a jeans factory in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, was reportedly hanged upside down, administered electric shock and thrashed apparently for stealing a mobile. But his father said Samsad Ali's fault was he had ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Caught during traffic drive, helmetless motorcyclist runs over sergeant’s foot

    123456 Kolkata: A helmetless biker, hailed down during a rule-violation check on CIT Road on Monday, tried to reverse and speed away and ran over a police sergeant's foot. The sergeant, Malay Singha Mahapatra from Park Circus Traffic Guard, ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Body found near planetarium

    Kolkata: A 25-year-old man was found dead near Birla Planetarium on Monday night. A passer-by found Sabbir Laskar from Usthi, South 24 Parganas, lying on the pavement around 11 pm. He was taken to SSKM Hospital, where he was ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Woman seeks bail for live-in partner she charged with abuse of minor daughter

    Kolkata: In a bizarre turn of events, a Salt Lake-based entrepreneur, who lodged a complaint against her live-in partner for allegedly abusing her minor daughter leading to his arrest under Pocso charges, pleaded for his bail in Calcutta High ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Freedom of speech does not mean one can hurt others’ sentiments, says Calcutta HC

    12 Kolkata: Freedom of speech and expression did not mean one could hurt the sentiments of others, a Calcutta High Court vacation said on Tuesday while hearing a plea for interim bail moved by a South Kolkata woman arrested ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Season’s 1st Covid death in state is 43-yr-old with comorbidities

    12 Kolkata: Bengal saw its first Covid-related death this year, after a 43-year-old woman passed away at a south Kolkata hospital on Tuesday. The deceased had heart and kidney ailments, said sources. This was among the five Covid deaths ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Police remove hawkers from Brabourne Road church gate

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police—led by the local cops and Howrah Bridge Traffic Guard—on Tuesday launched a drive to remove all forms of encroachments from the main gate of Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary on Brabourne Road.The move ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    16 Bangladeshis held in Dinhata while trying to cross over

    Jalpaiguri: Dinhata Police on Tuesday arrested 16 Bangladeshi nationals while they were attempting to cross over to Bangladesh. This comes within four days of the same police station arresting 28 Bangladeshis in a similar operation.Early on Tuesday, Dinhata cops ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
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