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  • Local support buoys doctors’ stir, traders offer food, use of facilities during night sit-in

    12 Kolkata: Local residents, traders and business owners in the BB Ganguly Street belt extended their support to protesting junior doctors on Monday and Tuesday, trying to make their life a little less uncomfortable on the street. Their actions ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    What is progress of RG Kar rape-murder probe: TMC

    Kolkata: What progress had been made on the rape-murder probe, Trinamool asked CBI on Tuesday, a day after the arrest of former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh.Speaking to reporters, the party’s former Rajya Sabha MP ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Protest chokes Shyambazar for 4 hrs, evening traffic takes a hit as cars crawl along one lane

    123 Kolkata: A Left rally demanding justice for the RG Kar victim converged at the Shyambazar five-point crossing on Tuesday evening, choking peak office-hour traffic for over four hours. A 10-minute drive to cross the Shyambazar crossing took over ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Hosp security meet: Cop focus on response time

    Kolkata: Senior officials of five medical colleges in Kolkata — led by assistant supers and security advisors — held a high-level meeting with senior officers at Lalbazar on Tuesday to discuss ways to enhance security on the premises.The cops ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata friends go to Mumbai for 49th anniversary special screening of ‘Sholay’

    Kolkata: A childhood memory of watching ‘Sholay’ at Jyoti, an interest in archiving and an urge to pay tribute to two doyens of writing in Hindi cinema prompted adman-cum-writer Sugata Guha to take a flight from the city to ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Long recovery time for injured sergeant

    Kolkata: Sergeant Debashis Chakraborty (37), who received injuries on his left eye on the day of Nabanna march, will need to wait at least three to four months to know if he would be able to see in his ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Contempt plea in HC on tram ops

    Kolkata: A contempt application was moved before the division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday against the state over tram services in the city.Petitioner’s counsel Anindya Lahiri ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘Not invited’ to puja, drunk goons molest women, wield firearms

    Kolkata: Locals from a neighbourhood in Behala alleged that a group of firearm-wielding inebriated goons allegedly assaulted them and molested a few women by disrobing them while trying to extort money for not receiving an invitation to the local ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    2nd call for New Town flyover bid

    Kolkata: KMDA on Tuesday initiated a second call to engage an agency for the construction of the proposed 7km-long flyover from EM Bypass to New Town. Officials said the second call was initiated as only two firms responded to ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Lens on 2 vendors in ex-principal's graft probe: CBI

    KOLKATA: Two vendors - Biplab Singha and Suman Hazra - laundered money for Sandip Ghosh and he took 20% commission on each tender, a CBI officer probing alleged financial irregularities by the arrested ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Bill a bid to deflect attention, says BJP after supporting it

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Tuesday termed the Aparajita Bill a “diversionary tactic” to take attention away from protests on the RG Kar rape-murder. The party, which had proposed seven amendments to the bill, supported it in the assembly leading ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Shun phrases of colonial era: HC

    Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court circuit bench at Jalpaiguri took exception to a lawyer’s submission, stating, “I beg to appear for the appellant”.Justice Harish Tandon held that the use of “such language was a hangover ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Dengue tally below 50 in BMC areas so far this yr

    Kolkata: Fewer dengue cases have been reported in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area of Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur so far this year, compared to the infection tally of last two years. The number of cases has remained below the ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    HC pulls up KMC for report delay

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday pulled up KMC for delay in filing the compliance report with regard to a garment shop run on the ground floor of Paradise cinema. “You cannot go in a slumber for so ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Salt Lake, VIP Rd stretches get paver-block patchwork

    12 Kolkata: Multiple cratered stretches of Salt Lake and VIP Road have undergone patchwork repairs with paver blocks to last the monsoon season prior to a full-fledged repair work before Durga Puja starts. TOI has previously written about how ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Victim's parents to join RG Kar protest on eve of SC hearing

    KOLKATA: Hours before the Supreme Court hears the rape-murder case on Sep 5, the victim's family will be with the protesting doctors at the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on Wednesday.The deceased PGT doctor's parents told reporters that ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Pre-dawn National Anthem breaks doctor-cop ice

    KOLKATA: In the dead of the night at 3.45 am on Tuesday, doctors who were at a sit-in demonstration on BB Ganguly Street stood up and began singing the National Anthem. Some 300 policemen who were also present stood ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    Trinamool, BJP join hands to pass Aparajita anti-rape bill in assembly

    Kolkata: Trinamool and BJP joined hands to ensure an unanimous passage for the Aparajita Bill in the state assembly on Tuesday, with CM Mamata Banerjee expressing "solidarity with the protesters" and calling rape "a national shame".The proposed law makes ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    KMDA initiates 2nd call for EM bypass-New town flyover

    KOLKATA: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) on Tuesday initiated a second call to engage an agency for constructing the proposed seven km long EM Bypass to New Town flyover. Officials said that the second call was initiated as ...

    4 September 2024 Times of India
    5 years on, E-W finishes shaft work that led to collapse in Bowbazar

    Kolkata: The East-West Metro on Sunday successfully completed the most crucial construction challenge in the problematic Sealdah-Esplanade section: joining of the twin tunnels and the evacuation shaft coming up at Durga Pituri Lane through micro-tunnelling method. Five years ago, ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: Bengal BJP slams TMC MLA Lovely Maitra for 'doctors turning into butchers' remark

    West Bengal Junior Doctors' Forum(WBJDF) supporters during a protest march to police headquarters in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The West Bengal BJP on Tuesday slammed Trinamool Congress MLA Arundhuti Maitra, popularly known as Lovely Maitra, over a video ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Submit case diary, info on four held ahead of Nabanna march: HC to cops

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court directed police to submit on Tuesday the case diary, along with other information, relating to the four persons arrested on Aug 26, a day before the Nabanna Abhijan, and released from police custody 24 ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Don’t make ‘insensitive’ comments on RG Kar, Trinamool tells members

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress said on Monday that it had instructed party workers not to make any statements regarding the RG Kar issue that can be construed as insensitive.Party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in a statement on X, said, “Public ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    'Beginning of the end': West Bengal governor after arrest of ex-RG Kar Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh

    West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose (left), Sandip Ghosh (right) NEW DELHI: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose described on Monday night that the arrest of the ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, marks the ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Bengal’s Aparajita Bill, with death for rape, set to be tabled in House today

    Kolkata: MLAs on Monday got a draft copy of the Aparajita Bill, which seeks to punish all incidents of rape — including cases where the woman survives — with death or life in prison. State law minister Moloy Ghatak ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Rally chokes city heart, Sealdah-Esplanade buses forced to take detour via AJC Bose Rd

    Kolkata: From long detours to tiring wait on the road, the week’s first day — punctuated with multiple rallies — posed endless traffic hurdles for commuters in the city, but barely elicited complaints. Most waited patiently for the traffic ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    BJP, TMC spar over condolence motion

    Kolkata: On the first day of the Bengal assembly’s special session on Monday, tension ran high as the RG Kar incident dominated the proceedings.Although the session was supposed to be adjourned after a condolence motion, the lack of mention ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Form panel to hear teacher plaint: HC to WBBPE

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) to set up a new appeal committee by Sept 18 to hear out a teacher of a state-run primary school in South 24 Parganas, who ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    KMC: No billboard at Shyambazar, Gariahat, Hazra, 9 other crossings

    Kolkata: As part of a plan to de-clutter some of the city’s major traffic crossings and reduce visual pollution, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to ban billboards within 50-metre radius of 12 prime intersections. The KMC authorities have ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Zandu to be Emami’s 1st ₹1k crore brand

    Kolkata: Zandu could well be the first Rs 1,000-crore brand of FMCG major Emami Ltd. The brand’s revenue now stands at Rs 800 crore. Emami had acquired Zandu in late 2008 for Rs 750 crore.Emami vice-chairman and MD Harsh ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kanchan faces Tolly backlash after ‘return govt salary, award’ comment

    Kolkata: Uttarpara’s Trinamool MLA Kanchan Mullick’s remarks asking if protesting govt employees will accept their salaries, bonus and artists will return their awards, has resulted in sharp response from all quarters. While his long-time friend, actor Sudipta Chakraborty, has ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    3 additional flights to meet Puja rush

    Kolkata: To meet the passenger rush during Durga Puja, at least two airlines have decided to introduce three additional flights from Kolkata. Air India Express plans to start a six-days-a-week flight between Dhaka and Kolkata from Tuesday. IndiGo Airlines ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Vandalism SIT to probe Nabanna March plaints

    Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) — that was formed by Lalbazar to probe the Aug 14 RG Kar vandalism — will now also investigate the cases related to the Aug 27 Nabanna March. The 15-member SIT will be ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Stormy Ocean in good heart

    Kolkata: Stormy Ocean from the stable of Rutherford is in fine nick to win the Tenno Sho Cup at the RCTC here on Tuesday. This Bengaluru migrant reeled off two races on the trot since arriving here in winter ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Tea sees one of the biggest slumps in Jan-July ’24 as production falls 13.4%

    Kolkata: Tea production in the country has witnessed one of the biggest falls in any normal year as far as the first seven months (Jan-July) of 2024 are concerned. The slump was even more severe for Bengal during the ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Night vigil ends with charter of demands

    Kolkata: Amra Tilottoma, the organizers of Sunday’s protest march from College Square to Esplanade, called off their stir at 4 am with a charter of demands for various administrative authorities of the state to acknowledge. However, the collective is ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Vandalism at agitation-hit SSKM as hospital struggles to cope with emergency situations

    Kolkata: Delayed admission of two persons injured during a firing at Babughat led to vandalism by their kin at the SSKM trauma care unit in the early hours of Monday. Subsequently, disruptions continued in the emergency unit due to ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Protest zone malls continue to suffer, others see signs of revival

    12 Kolkata: Malls in Salt Lake and New Town clocked a surge in footfall on Sunday when people turned up in large numbers to start shopping for Durga Puja. But turnout at malls in Kolkata continued to suffer with ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Trinamool MP apologises for RG Kar remark

    Kolkata: Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar issued a public apology on Sunday following a statement she had made about how “in the previous regime, female students were made to sit on the lap of examiners to clear exam” during ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Civic volunteer held for slapping, kicking 12-yr-old

    Kolkata: A civic volunteer was arrested on Saturday for allegedly slapping and kicking a 12-year-old boy near Burrabazar after he was caught jaywalking. Around 3 pm on Saturday, a 12-year-old boy who works at a local tea shop was ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata PGT doctor death: TMCP axe on 'red-shirt' doc after RG Kar presence audio goes viral

    Avik De (left), police had claimed the man in red was a fingerprint expert but IMA Bengal said he was Avik De (right) KOLKATA: The Trinamool students' union on Monday suspended Avik De, the first-year PGT doctor at SSKM ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Don't make 'insensitive' comments on RG Kar, Trinamool tells members

    <p>TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee (File photo)<br></p> KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress said on Monday that it had instructed party workers not to make any statements regarding the RG Kar issue that can be construed as insensitive.Party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Junior docs stay the night at Bowbazar after cops block Lalbazar march

    KOLKATA: The junior doctors on Monday marched to Lalbazar carrying roses and a replica of the human spine, demanding the resignation of Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal. The protest continued till late into the night as the doctors demanded ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata RG Kar doctor death: Parents were in dark about drunk molester's rally plans

    Tapas Paul during the scuffle on Sunday night (left) and after his arrest (right) KOLKATA: The 40-year-old Tapas Paul, a pest controller from Sahanagar off Sadananda Road, had told his parents that he was "upset" over the rape and ...

    3 September 2024 Times of India
    Alumni body of another hospital expels ‘N Bengal lobby’ faces

    Kolkata: The act of ostracising doctors, who are allegedly members of the ‘North Bengal lobby’, has reached another medical college campus. The axe fell on three faculty members of Medical College Kolkata on Sunday when the Medical College Ex-students’ ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute gets LoI on deemed varsity status

    SRFTI, Kolkata KOLKATA: The ministry of education, on the advice of UGC, has issued the letter of intent to SRFTI Society, Kolkata, for fulfilment of certain conditions within a period of three years before conferment of deemed university status. ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Airport’s second terminal to have 21 aerobridges for swift boarding

    Kolkata: The proposed second passenger terminal (T2) — to be built at a cost of Rs 4,200 crore — at the Kolkata airport will have three more aerobridges than the existing terminal (T1). T2 will have 21 aerobridges against ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Entry denied: 12 held for violence at Vedic Village

    Kolkata: A group of men, who had booked two bungalows, were arrested after they allegedly assaulted the security guards and residents of Vedic Village in Rajarhat when the guards denied entry to their friends — about whom the guards ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Over 13,000 take under-river E-W Metro’s first Sunday ride

    Kolkata: East-West Metro on Sunday started its all-seven-day run in the under-river stretch and passengers lapped it up like a much-craved for pre-Puja gift. “Till 8pm, around 13,940 commuters availed the Sunday services,” said Kausik Mitra, CPRO, Metro Railway.The ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Bengal swimmer Sayani Das first Indian woman to cross North Channel

    KALNA: Bengal's open water swimmer, Sayani Das (26), became the first Indian woman to cross the North Channel in a 13 hour 22 minute feat of endurance. She dived into the North Channel from Donaghadee town in Northern Ireland ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    60% of the recent sexual harassment allegations are against directors and directors-cum-producers: Swarup Biswas

    KOLKATA: Swarup Biswas, the president of The Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), has claimed that an alarming 60% of the recent deluge of sexual harassment allegations that have surfaced online are levelled against directors ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    9 injured in head-on collision as car enters no-entry zone on Kolkata's AJC Bose flyover

    Nine individuals were hurt in a morning collision on the AJC Bose flyover. The accident transpired when a private vehicle entered the flyover from a restricted zone, colliding head-on with a vehicle carrying IT professionals. NEW DELHI: Nine people ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    MSC in Super Six

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting (MSC)’s final group-stage match against Measurers Club was abandoned due to inclement weather at the Naihati stadium on Sunday but the three-time defending champions advanced to the CFL Premier Division’s championship round as one of the ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    CM calls cow vigilante victim’s parents, promises job to kin

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called the grieving parents of Sabir Malik (24), a migrant worker from Basanti in South 24 Parganas who was allegedly lynched in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district on Aug 28 on the suspicion that ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    PhonePe starts Credit Line on UPI

    Kolkata: PhonePe has announced the launch of Credit Line on UPI on its platform. Consumers who avail credit lines from their banks can now link these credit lines to UPI on PhonePe and seamlessly make merchant payments. tnn

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘Star’ ready to shine

    Kolkata: Prasad Raju-nursed Star Forever looks good to lift the Rani Rudrama Devi Cup at Malakpet on Monday. The daughter of Forever Glory is all set to make amends for her last failure in the hands of P Sai ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Language honour for SAIL CMO

    Kolkata: SAIL, CMO Kolkata has received award for implementation of official language among Kolkata-based PSUs at the half-yearly meeting of Town Official Language Implementation Committee (PSUs) Kolkata. The award was presented to CGM (HR) Bijaya Mishra, GM (HR) SK ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Hat-trick of 1,000 tree plantation in New Town

    Kolkata: For the third year in a row, ‘Ecologic’ — a nature lovers forum formed by a group of residents in New Town — on Sunday achieved the milestone of planting another 1,000 trees this year in different areas ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Cop msg to netizens on Police Day

    Kolkata: Cops put out a message on the occasion of West Bengal Police Day on Sunday appealing to netizens to stop putting up misogynistic and hate posts while reminding protesters that thousands of women work in the force. “Police ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    This Teachers’ Day, IMA & med profs to discuss ‘syndicate’ ills on campuses

    Kolkata: It will be a different Teachers’ Day this Thursday when IMA West Bengal ropes in teachers from medical colleges across the state to hear from them in person of the rot that is being injected by the ‘health ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    SC order may have ₹35k cr impact on CIL

    Kolkata: The financial impact on Coal India may run up to Rs 35,000 crore in the “worst-case scenario” if the Supreme Court’s review on mining taxes doesn’t yield favourable outcome or if the company fails to recover the taxes ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Celebs march for 3 hrs from College Square, on sit-in protest at Esplanade

    12 Kolkata: An apolitical march demanding justice for the R G Kar victim from College Square to Esplanade on Sunday afternoon drew artists, celebrities, doctors, members of the civil society and common people and coalesced into a spontaneous sit-in ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Jr docs: Uproot threat culture from med colleges

    Kolkata: Twenty-four days and counting, the agitating junior doctors are showing no signs of retreat to resume work. They will be stepping up their agitation as the week begins, with the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) deciding to ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    'We want justice': RG Kar protest reaches Ladakh peak

    KOLKATA: The 'Justice for RG Kar' campaign reached new heights, quite literally, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers' association scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee doctor who ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Edu dept defers Teachers’ Day event

    Kolkata: State school education department has deferred the Teachers’ Day programme which was scheduled to be held at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan. A section of the teaching community is considering the matter due to the present situation in Kolkata.Sources ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Biz partner held for New Town shooting

    Kolkata: Probing into the murder of a Bhangar businessman, Nasiruddin Khan (27), who was shot dead at point-blank range by two bike-borne assailants in New Town on Saturday night, police have arrested his business partner from his Haroa residence ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘We want justice’: RG Kar protest reaches new heights in Ladakh

    Biswajit Biswas, a climber from Kolkata, with a poster demanding justice for the RG Kar victim at Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh (left); Shampa Oraon, another member from the team (right) KOLKATA: The 'Justice for RG Kar' campaign reached ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Prime accused Sanjay Roy tells lawyer he wants to plead 'not guilty' in court

    A file photograph of Sanjay Roy KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape-and-murder of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital doctor, in his first interaction with his lawyer in Presidency Jail, has told her that he ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    CBI probing biomedical waste scam flagged in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College earlier

    CBI team leaves RG Kar hospital after investigating the rape-murder case in Kolkata on Sunday KOLKATA: CBI officers probing the financial corruption in RG Kar Medical College are looking into the alleged scams that had already been flagged within ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal horror: Howrah hospital lab technician held for molesting minor

    People voice their protest against the incident in the hospital superintendent’s office in Howrah District Hospital (left); the arrested lab technician, Aman Raj (right) HOWRAH: A laboratory technician at Howrah District Hospital has been arrested for allegedly molesting and ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: CBI lens on biomedical waste scam flagged earlier at RG Kar Hospital

    KOLKATA: CBI officers probing financial corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are looking into alleged scams that were earlier flagged at the institute.The agency came across documents related to an inquiry committee report related to disposal of ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Another hospital body for doctors expels lobby faces

    KOLKATA: Three faculty members of Medical College and Hospital (MCH), Kolkata, were expelled from the Medical College Ex-students' Association (MCESA) on Sunday, as the trend of "ostracising" doctors, who are allegedly part of the 'North Bengal lobby' in the ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Hospital staff held for sex assault on teen headed for CT scan

    People voice their protest against the incident in the hospital superintendent’s office in Howrah District Hospital (left); the arrested lab technician, Aman Raj (right) HOWRAH: A laboratory technician at Howrah District Hospital was arrested for allegedly molesting and physically ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal hospital horror: Patient held for outraging nurse's modesty in Birbhum

    Representative Image SURI: A patient admitted with fever allegedly outraged the modesty of an on-duty nurse while she was treating him at Illambazar block hospital in Birbhum on Saturday night. The hospital authority was informed and the accused was ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Business partner arrested in New Town shootout case

    KOLKATA: Probing into the murder of a businessman from Bhangar who was shot from point blank range in New Town on Saturday night, police have arrested his business partner on Sunday. Cops claimed the business partner had hired contract ...

    2 September 2024 Times of India
    Evaldo does an encore

    Kolkata: Prasanna Kumar-trained Evaldo claimed the Idar Gold Trophy at Pune on Saturday. The six-year-old gelding was ridden by A. Sandesh.Pune short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1. (1.12-6) Mazal 1: Lion King 2: Arbitrage 3. 2. (4-3-1) Madam Rich 1: Golden ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Mob vandalises house of panchayat committee member in Bengal for molesting girl

    Representative Image KOLKATA: A mob vandalised the house of a panchayat member in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl, police said on Sunday. A senior police officer said the accused was arrested on ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    11 Bangladesh nationals arrested

    Kolkata: Sundarbans Coastal Police arrested 11 Bangladesh nationals, allegedly Awami League activists, who had been hiding in Jhila forest.The arrested were produced in Alipore court on Saturday. While four men were sent to police custody, four women were sent ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Customs seal Super 6 spot, Bagan out of CFL

    Kolkata: Calcutta Customs defeated Kalighat Sports Lovers Association 2-0 in Kalyani on Saturday to seal their place in the championship round of the ongoing CFL Premier Division. After a goalless first half, Johny Lalremruata (62nd minute) and Ashsish Chhetri’s ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 shakes Bay of Bengal

    Representative image NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale struck the Bay of Bengal on Sunday morning, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported. The quake occurred at around 09.12am IST at a depth of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Man shot dead in Kolkata’s New Town, one held

    A man was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in New Town, Kolkata. The incident took place near Ram Mandir while the victim was at a tea stall. He was declared dead at the hospital. Police have arrested one ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Man in red shirt in leaked video sparks IMA-police war of words

    KOLKATA: A man dressed in a red T-shirt in a leaked video of the crime scene on Aug 9 that went public on Friday and led to clarification from police sparked a fierce row with the state chapter of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Drunk civic cop drives Kolkata Police bike into protest site, held after 5-hour blockade

    KOLKATA: A drunk civic volunteer riding a Kolkata Police motorcycle crashed into a barricaded section of BT Road near Sinthee More where Rabindra Bharati University students were protesting the RG Kar Hopsital rape-murder in the early hours of Saturday. ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Ensure prison stay doesn’t affect mental health of undertrials, Calcutta HC tells Bengal

    KOLKATA: Bengal's prison system should have measures in place to ensure that an undertrial prisoner's jail stay does not, in itself, contribute to mental illness, Calcutta High Court has said.The bench of justices Joymalya Bagchi and Gaurang Kanth made ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    DGCA to probe IndiGo flight engine blow-up at Kolkata airport

    A video clip by a flyer that shows sparks flying out of the engine KOLKATA: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will investigate the engine failure incident of an IndiGo flight during take-off on Friday night that led ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata cops go for netting of police cars, reissue arms ban notice

    Representative image KOLKATA: Lalbazar has made it mandatory for police vehicles out on difficult law-and-order duty to have a strong protective wire mesh on their windscreens and the windows. Also, the cops imposed restrictions on carrying of weapons ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: A patient needed oxygen, was looking for a doctor, says accused Sanjay Roy

    KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of the R G Kar Hospital PGT doctor, has told CBI investigators that he had gone to the upper floor of the hospital in the wee hours of ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Bengal labourer lynched in Haryana on suspicion of eating beef

    Sabir Malik (right) was beaten to death on Aug 28. Cops later arrested five persons for the lynching and detained two minors HISAR/KOLKATA: Five men associated with a cow vigilante group have been arrested and two boys below 18 ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Live-in partner files plaint, doctor held

    Kolkata: A doctor was arrested from Gariahat on Saturday for allegedly living with a woman for four years, having sexual relations with her on promise of marriage and then, throwing her out of the house. The woman, a receptionist, ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    After schools, neighbourhood clubs now seek to sensitise boys

    Kolkata: Counselling sessions for youths, especially teenage boys, are going to be held in some city localities to help them understand how to behave properly with women around them. A number of local clubs are taking this initiative to ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Cert of merit for top 0.1% CISCE students

    Kolkata: CISCE, which stopped declaring the names of rank-holders in Class X and XII boards exams this year, introduced the ‘Certificate of Merit’ to recognise and felicitate candidates with outstanding academic performance. ICSE and ISC candidates, who were among ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Not-so-civil civic cops a problem for police image

    Kolkata: In the past two years, at least eight civic volunteers in Kolkata have been arrested on charges including murder, rape, robbery, theft and extortion. The most recent arrest happened on Saturday when a civic volunteer attached to Sinthee ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    9 cops hurt in attack by rape accused, aides

    Kolkata: At least nine police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were attacked and injured by a group of miscreants during a raid to arrest a rape accused at Hasnabad in North 24 Parganas on Friday night.At least three policemen sustained ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Doctors on cease-work ‘see’ patients via telecon, attend to 600 on first day

    Kolkata: On Saturday, a group of junior resident doctors at R G Kar were seen taking calls, including video calls, and writing down notes. No, they were not discussing how to take the agitation forward and jotting down the ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    ‘People want to stay together’: Spiritual leader at docu screening

    Kolkata: In 2015-16, spiritual leader and educator Sri M decided to walk 7,500 km — from Kanyakumari to Kashmir — to promote communal harmony and peace in a polarised world. On Saturday, at the premiere of award-winning documentary ‘Walking ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    In troubled season, discretion better part of publicity for puja organisers

    Kolkata: For Durga Puja organisers, discretion is better than all-out activity.Durga Puja is a little over five weeks away, but a majority of organisers are holding back publicising their plans and keeping preparations “low key” as the “mood is ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Less-dangerous viral infections take over hosps in dengue-malaria season

    Kolkata: In this season of dengue and malaria, mostly cases of lesser evils, like lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), influenza and less-severe pneumonia, are being reported, leaving doctors and hospitals relieved. This month, just one dengue death was reported ...

    1 September 2024 Times of India
    Health dept appoints CNMC chest med head as principal

    Kolkata: State health department has appointed a professor of chest medicine as the principal at Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC). The move comes as present principal Ajay Ray superannuates on Saturday. Professor Subhra Mitra will now take charge as ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Govt well within rights to amend penal laws’

    Kolkata: Sanjay Basu, senior standing counsel for Bengal govt in SC, said, “We have researched multiple SC and HC judgments. We propose to have both death and rigorous imprisonment for remainder of a person’s life and fine/compensation for trauma, ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP's Suvendhu Adhikari alleges illegal mining activities in West Bengal's Saltora; 2 dead after 'dynamite blast'

    Suvendhu Adhikari NEW DELHI: In a shocking incident, two people lost their lives in a dynamite explosion in Saltora, Bankura, on Friday night. The opposition leader, Suvendu Adhikari, took to social media to reveal that the deceased, Joydeb Mandal ...

    31 August 2024 Times of India
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