Kolkata: Northern parts of the city recorded heavy downpours ranging between 90 mm and 150 mm, with Belgachhia (150 mm) and Dum Dum (135 mm) bearing the brunt of the rain. In sharp contrast, southern pockets received significantly lighter ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Special Investigation Team has filed a chargesheet against four women police personnel, including Sathi Barik, former officer-in charge of Kotwali Women’s Police Station in West Midnapore, on charges of assaulting a student in March 2025.Court sources said ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: At a blood donation camp in Taltala on Sunday, BJP functionaries made a direct appeal to Muslim electorate ahead of the KMC polls, urging voters to support BJP candidates and promising to “think” about their development if they ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s aide Sumit Roy has moved the Calcutta High Court challenging four FIRs lodged against him in different parts of Bengal, alleging they are “politically motivated”. The petition is likely to be heard on Tuesday.The ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday staged protests on the streets, at the assembly and in Delhi against the attack on party chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee, who was targeted in Halisahar a day earlier while visiting the family of ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Some Christians from the Haridevpur area were threatened on Sunday while offering prayers at a house.Around 5 to 10 locals arrived chanting 'Jai Shri Ram’ around 7.10 pm on Sunday, alleging forced religious conversions taking place. Anil Dolui, ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 57-year-old assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Kolkata Police Special Branch was seriously injured on Sunday evening after a glass-coated kite string (manja) cut his neck while he was riding a bike on the Maa Flyover.The victim, Sanjib ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaCalcutta High Court on Monday allowed the filing of a PIL challenging alleged “oral instructions” of the state govt for removal of loudspeakers from mosques. The matter may be heard on Thursday. Senior advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay mentioned the PIL ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A monk from Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas on Monday complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at Janata Darbar that BJP MLA Rekha Patra had occupied his house since March without paying most of the rent. Patra was the ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday permitted Jamiat-e-Ulama to hold their protest rally, against removal of loudspeaker from mosques, from Rajabazar to Moulali on Tuesday from 11.30 am to 1 pm. The judge called the administrative pattern of “routinely” ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Acting on a viral Facebook post by an engineer who alleged that a group of porters at Howrah station charged him Rs 4,700 — nearly 21 times the usual fare — for carrying seven trolley bags and four ...
11 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sand-laden truck lost control while travelling at high speed and crashed into several shops at Bonhooghly More on BT Road in Baranagar around 3.30 am on Sunday, damaging at least five establishments before overturning. Police detained the ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand has directed all traffic guards to identify motorists who repeatedly violate traffic rules, signalling a tougher approach towards habitual offenders.“Let us identify repeat offenders... . Three traffic violations and you are out. No ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: WWF-India has invited schools across the country to participate in the Wild Wisdom Global Challenge (WWGC) 2026, an international learning initiative designed to encourage students to explore nature, develop environmental awareness and take meaningful action for the planet.Open ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: The Press Information Bureau (PIB), Kolkata, organized a media workshop, Vartalaap, at Abdarpur in Birbhum district on Friday to strengthen awareness regarding key flagship initiatives of the Centre. The event brought together govt officials, media personnel, and local ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state higher education department conducted a drive to assess subject-wise enrolment across colleges registered under the Centralised Admission Portal (CAP). It is exploring ways to rationalise seats in line with job-market demands and revive student interest.Over 9 ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two years after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a multi-agency probe — with the West Bengal Police and state health dept joining the Central Bureau of Investigation ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee came under attack in Halisahar, North 24 Parganas, on Sunday afternoon when protesters surrounded her SUV and allegedly hurled stones, bricks, mud and slippers at it.Banerjee was ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaChicago just dropped 90,000 rubber ducks into a river – and no, this wasn’t a prank. The annual Ducky Derby turned the Chicago River into a moving sea of yellow, with thousands watching the race unfold. The twist? It’s ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee came under attack in Halisahar, North 24 Parganas, on Sunday afternoon while she was visiting the family of a TMC worker who died in police custody late on Friday.Her white SUV was smeared ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata received sporadic drizzles on a cloudy Sunday even as the Met office has predicted light to moderate showers in the city and its surrounding districts over the next two days. While thunderstorms and rain lashed several districts ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The crackling sound over walkie-talkies announcing the VIP call sign, “Charlie Mike on the go” (Chief Minister on the move), will soon be a thing of the past.The police Wireless Branch, which maintains radio communication networks to enable ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Rs 45,810.9 crore expansion of IISCO Steel Plant at Burnpur is on schedule for completion by June 2027, Union minister of state for steel Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma told Rajya Sabha. Orders for all 14 major packages have ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It has been two years since the protests over the rape and murder of the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 rocked the city.However, the answer to whether doctors and women ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than two dozen residents of Siddha Happyville, a housing complex near Rajarhat Chowmatha, have reportedly fallen ill after allegedly consuming contaminated water supplied from the complex’s reservoir, prompting residents to stage a protest on Sunday and lodge ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Tripura CM Manik Saha held a late-night review meeting on Saturday, soon after returning from Delhi, amid widespread protests over high electricity bills, smart meter installation and frequent power outages.The protests were triggered by complaints of exorbitant electricity ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt will set up an inquiry commission to investigate the RG Kar rape-murder case, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Sunday, exactly two years after the crime shook Bengal and the nation. Police will also investigate ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Disoriented by laser beams, the pilot of a Malaysia Airlines flight was forced to reposition his craft and delay the landing barely 15 km away from Kolkata airport on Saturday night. The plane, with 159 passengers and seven ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the delimitation exercise, the assessee numbers of more than 9 lakh property taxpayers in Kolkata will change as the ward numbers to which the assessee numbers are linked are undergoing a major rejig following the addition of ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata bucked West Bengal’s broader trend of improving air quality in the first half of 2026, recording a rise in fine particulate pollution even as Howrah, Asansol, Durgapur and Barrackpore registered significant declines, finds an analysis by an ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Supreme Court collegium has recently proposed elevation of Bombay High Court’s Acting Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge as the 45th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court.Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge took charge as the ACJ of Bombay High Court ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The brother of deceased Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker Birju Keot on Sunday said he did not want to meet former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and demanded justice for his brother, who he alleged died after being ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s aide Sumit Roy was questioned for another eight hours by CID officers at Bhabani Bhawan on Sunday in connection with a land-related corruption case in Salboni. Roy had been interrogated for nearly 10 hours ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state health dept has removed the MSVP of Burdwan Medical College & Hospital (BMCH). An order on Saturday from Swasthya Bhawan not only shunted Tapas Ghosh to MJN Medical College & Hospital, Cooch Behar, but also stripped ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was keeping regular tabs on policy execution in Bengal.“The PM keeps tabs on developments in the state regularly. He takes updates on policy execution in ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a first in Bengal, 325 people imprisoned during the 1975 Emergency were conferred the Paschimbanga Loktantra Senani Samman by the state govt on Sunday. CM Suvendu Adhikari handed over the honour at a special programme at Nabanna.Loktantra ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a first in Bengal, 325 people imprisoned during the 1975 Emergency were conferred the Paschimbanga Loktantra Senani Samman by the state govt on Sunday. CM Suvendu Adhikari handed over the honour at a special programme at Nabanna.Loktantra ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee came under attack in Halisahar, North 24 Parganas, on Sunday afternoon while she was visiting the family of a TMC worker who died in police custody late on Friday. Her white SUV was ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bangladeshi nationals abducted an Indian small tea grower from near the border in Jalpaiguri on Saturday, apparently in retaliation for the BSF’s arrest of a Bangladeshi intruder two days earlier.At least 15 Bangladeshi nationals crossed into Indian territory ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The appearance of an image of Lord Krishna accompanied by a religious-philosophical message on the official website of the Bengal legislative assembly triggered a political controversy, with Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh questioning whether imagery associated with a particular ...
10 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following a directive from Nabanna, Lalbazar’s top brass has instructed all divisions to re-examine pending Pocso cases, including those where chargesheets are yet to be filed and those currently under trial. Officers have been asked to take necessary ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Claims and allegations by a section of motorists that E20 fuel is damaging vehicles and reducing mileage dominated a townhall held in Kolkata on Saturday, with car and two-wheeler owners demanding that ethanol-blended petrol be made optional.Around 200 ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur carrying 159 passengers was delayed while approaching Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata after the pilot was reportedly distracted by a laser beam, airport sources said on Sunday.Flight MH-184 ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 for 325 people who were jailed for participating in protests during the Emergency.Addressing a programme at the state secretariat, Adhikari said those imprisoned ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: When Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand was the assistant director (outdoor training) at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Police Academy almost 14 years ago, he had sought leave for 40 days and joined IPS officer GUG Sastry from the National ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state has asked cops to strictly enforce the ban on toto operation on national highways, state highways, and other major roads. In a letter to the DGP on Friday, transport department principal secretary Ravi Inder Singh said ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The health department will summon doctors, interns and staff who were present in the chest medicine department of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on the intervening night of Aug 8 and 9, 2024, when a female PG ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eight lawyers from the Bar were sworn in as additional judges in Calcutta High Court on Saturday. They are Justices Aryak Dutt, Atarup Banerjee, Sandip Kumar De, Partha Pratim Roy, Sudip Deb, Anuj Singh, Arjun Ray Mukherjee and ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police in Barrackpore said on Saturday that they have identified some youths, who were allegedly involved in the assault on the 40-year-old theatre activist, Subhankar Dassharma, near Shyamnagar railway station in North 24-Parganas.Dassharma, a member of theatre group ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A police complaint has been lodged against a BJP functionary from Sarsuna in Behala following allegations of extortion and violence.But despite the submission of the written complaint and accompanying visual evidence, no further action has allegedly been taken ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The father of the Jadavpur University (JU) ragging victim has written to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Aug 6, seeking an appointment to discuss the status and progress of the ongoing court proceedings. The first-year student died after ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following urban development & municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul’s instructions to come up with plans to further develop Rabindra Sarobar as a tourist destination, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is planning to introduce a guided tour programme and ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the surprise inspections by urban development & municipal affair minister Agnimitra Paul on Saturday, hawkers were instructed to vacate two spots on Park Street.Paul highlighted the two spots on Park Street, infront of Madhya Shikkha Parishad office ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two patients who were being treated at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital “went missing” from their beds on Friday. The hospital administration later said both patients had “left” before completing the formal discharge process. The patients are ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal’s 7th Pay Commission will examine an overhaul of the pay structure of state employees, including raising annual increments from the existing 3% to at least 5%, aligning pay levels with those of central staffers and recommending a ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A prosperous Bengal is essential to a resurgent Bharat, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Saturday, urging young entrepreneurs and home-grown businesses to be the change agents.Speaking at the inaugural conference of the Kolkata chapter of World ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eggs were served on Saturday with midday meals at 500 state-run schools, where Iskcon-supported Annamrita Foundation provides vegetarian food. The move followed chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement last Saturday that eggs would be supplied separately by self-help groups ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A low-pressure area has formed over the southern part of Bengal and north Odisha which could trigger light to moderate showers in south Bengal. Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty wind is likely at some places in North and ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt will hold a meeting with industry stakeholders on Aug 11 to discuss the proposed new industrial policy before it is placed before a group of ministers (GoM) and subsequently sent to the state cabinet for ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Over 300 families of Jainti, the largest forest village in Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR), have agreed to move out, marking a major step towards tiger reintroduction in the reserve.Jainti has 427 families and an adult population of around ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Nature photography is much more than capturing beautiful images. It is a powerful medium for documenting the natural world, dispelling myths about wildlife, and creating awareness about the urgent need for conservation, internationally acclaimed nature photographer Dhritiman Mukherjee ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Future Foundation School celebrated India’s vibrant culinary heritage on Friday through its Sixth Food Fiesta, themed "Festival of India," featuring students from Classes 9 to 12.A key highlight was an inter-school non-fire cooking competition that drew over ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Saturday arrested former Trinamool MLA from Naihati, Sanat Dey, in connection with several allegations, including extortion and post-poll violence. He was arrested from Duttapukur early on Saturday and remanded in police custody for six days after ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Driven by a specific ideology, party workers are at times distanced from Gen Z, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya admitted on Saturday.Bhattacharya’s comments come two days after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, in an attempt to reach out to ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 16-year-old girl was rescued from Kolkata’s red-light district of Sonagachi within an hour of police receiving a distress call alleging that she had been “sold” after running away from home with her alleged lover, an officer said ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: While “deviations” can’t be completely wiped out, BJP will have zero tolerance towards indiscipline, said party state president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday. This comes a day after BJP national general secretary Sunil Bansal held a series of meetings ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a surprising twist on Friday night to one of the most high-profile cases involving alleged extortion and threat by people who were considered close to the erstwhile Trinamool Congress regime, make-up artist who had accused the former ...
9 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A section of pvt hospitals and nursing homes in Kolkata is faced with a blood shortage in the wake of restrictions imposed on 11 pvt blood banks earlier this week. While most big ones have their own blood ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A low pressure area brewing over the Bay of Bengal is likely to keep the rainy days going in the next few days. Met officials said while this system will impact parts of Odisha the most, Kolkata and ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Posta Bazaar Merchants’ Association secretary Biswanath Agarwala, who was slapped, harassed and attacked with eggs inside the association office last month, has resigned from his post, saying he was “forced” to step down after the public humiliation. The ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several developers in Kolkata have started calling back labourers to construction sites after Thursday’s meetings with the chief minister and urban development minister and were assured of 190-odd stalled projects getting a go-ahead to resume work within next ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaJALPAIGURI: A tribal woman was allegedly raped inside a compartment of the moving 15484 Sikkim Mahananda Express, which was bound for Alipurduar Junction, on Thursday night. According to the victim’s husband, the woman was two months pregnant.The woman, who ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A 26-year-old man was hacked to death in Malda’s Mothabari on Friday evening. Cops say the slain Nasiruddin Ahmed, alias Nasir, had a criminal background and had been jailed earlier. Nasir’s brother Mohsin claimed a financial dispute led ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A schoolteacher was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle in North Dinajpur’s Islampur on Saturday morning. The 55-year-old Najrul Islam, headmaster of Ramgunj Rajavim Primary School and a neta of the TMC teachers’ cell, was on ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Two MPs from Murshidabad met chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday over the removal of loudspeakers from mosques and delays in cases before SIR tribunals.After the meeting at the state secretariat Nabanna, MP Abu Taher Khan alleged that ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: The state govt has intensified liaison with BSF after intelligence inputs indicated an increase in the activities of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in districts along the India-Bangladesh border, senior officials said.While state police brass are holding weekly coordination meetings ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of Paschimbanga Visvavidyalaya Karmachari Sangh (PVKS), JU unit, performed a ‘yajna’ at the portico of the university’s administrative building, Aurobindo Bhavan, demanding removal of acting registrar Selim Box Mandal and acting finance officer Shiladitya Chatterjee and for ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The latest delimitation exercise in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area has triggered one of the biggest reworkings of the city’s civic map, with the number of wards set to rise from 144 to 209. The addition of 65 ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 40-year-old theatre activist, identified as Subhankar Dassharma, has alleged that he was assaulted near Shyamnagar railway station in North 24 Parganas by some men last month.The victim lodged an FIR at Noapara Police Station on Friday. In ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A criminal case has been registered against a Bansdroni resident for posting allegedly offensive and hate comments on Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.Debojyoti Majumdar, co-convener of BJP Swasthya Pariseva Cell, lodged a complaint against Ankit Sharma, referred to ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A middle-aged man attempted suicide at Rabindra Sarobar Metro station, leading to the disruption of Blue Line services between Maidan and Shahid Khudiram from 7.57 pm to 9.02 pm. Truncated truncated operations ran between Maidan and Dakshineswar.“Normal services ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Assistant teachers from the 2016 SLST panel, whose jobs were terminated following a Supreme Court ruling, held a protest march on Friday from Sealdah to the Gandhi statue at Esplanade. As the court-granted extension of their jobs nears ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: About 50 census workers on Friday staged a demonstration outside KMC headquarters, demanding “on-duty” status during their field assignments and payment for the jobs. They also demanded electronic devices, along with the expense for Internet. Swapan Mondal, general ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Cops have issued a traffic advisory announcing major road closures, parking restrictions, and vehicular diversions across central Kolkata on Monday in connection with the state’s planned ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ rally that will be attended by CM Suvendu Adhikari. ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state health department on Friday asked all private hospitals in Kolkata to be ready to admit patients under Ayushman Bharat from Aug 16. While most hospitals have been empanelled under the scheme and trained their staff in ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt has urged science and technology researchers across universities in the state to write the abstracts of their theses in Bengali. The ones that may be of interest to international audience will be translated into English.“A ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday visited actor and BJP’s national executive committee member Mithun Chakraborty at a private hospital off EM Bypass, where he underwent a surgery. During his 10-minute visit, the CM also had a talk ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaThe Centre plans to install a memorial statue for Partition victims on the premises of Sealdah station.The Indian Railways had allotted on the premises of the station for the statue, said Union culture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who was ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh’s plea seeking a judicial review of him not being allegedly allowed to participate in assembly proceedings. Ghosh’s grievance, as submitted before Justice Krishna Rao, was that the LoP ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 11 blood centres directed to stop “outside voluntary blood donation (VBD) camps” by Swasthya Bhawan over an “ongoing investigation” were permitted to continue their “in-house collection of blood”, the state told Calcutta High Court on Friday after ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaAsansol: Union minister of state for labour and employment Shobha Karandlaje, in a written statement to Rajya Sabha MP and Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya, said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Employee’s State Insurance Corporation ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To attract more foreign tourists, Bengal govt is talking to stakeholders in both India and abroad. On Thursday, tourism minister Shankar Ghosh met representatives of an Australia-based company interested in setting up hotels in coastal regions of the ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: PM Narendra Modi on Friday helped break the ice among NCPI ranks as he met 19 party MPs, including three from Murshidabad who skipped two NDA meetings, over breakfast. Ghatal MP Dev was the only NCPI MP absent ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State govt’s industrial incentives would be linked to employment generation and not to the quantum of investment, Bengal commerce and industry minister Tapas Roy reiterated on Friday.Roy was speaking at ‘Uttoron 2026’ – a business conclave organised by ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its primary charge sheet against 11 individuals — including two BJP workers who joined the party in 2020 — in connection with the fatal shooting of Chandranath Rath, a personal ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Starting Saturday, the Bengal govt will begin serving eggs in mid-day meals at schools to supplement the Iskcon veg meals. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have been asked to provide the eggs.Following an internal meeting on Friday, it was decided ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari has urged people, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion or political affiliation, to join the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ rally on Aug 10. On Friday, Adhikari launched the campaign from his Bhowanipore constituency, walking from Alipore ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A substantial deposit of rare earth minerals, including caesium, lithium and rubidium, has been found in Jhalda-II block of Purulia, Centre has informed Parliament.In a written reply to a question by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya, Union ...
8 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nine people were injured and property worth around Rs 10 lakh was damaged after employees of two manufacturing units clashed over vehicle parking inside Kasba Industrial Estate (Phase III) on Tuesday. Anandapur police registered FIRs after both sides ...
7 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Election Commission will start Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tripura starting Sept 5.Chief electoral officer (CEO) Brijesh Pandey said it will involve identifying and eliminating duplicate voters, as well as entries involving individuals who have ...
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