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  • MSC end on a winning note

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting Club ended their Durand Cup campaign on a winning note getting past Indian Navy 1-0 in a Group B encounter at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan on Tuesday. However, the result could not prevent them from getting ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    Rights panel seeks report

    Kolkata: The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to chief secretary B P Gopalika and the DGP, seeking a report in two weeks. “It is expected to include the probe status, action taken and compensation paid,” NHRC said. ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    Debate after group seeks Mujib bust removal

    Kolkata: While Bangladesh is still on the boil, the All India Minority Federation has demanded removal of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s bust from Baker Hostel in Kolkata. The demand has raised debates among the academics and intellectuals in Kolkata ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    35,000 patients from across state camp at city hosps, wait for doctors’ stir to end

    Kolkata: Thirty-five thousands patients — enduring pain and anguish — from far-away districts are camping in the city hospitals for four days now waiting for the protesting doctors to return to OPDs and treat their sufferings.Mala Bose (74) from ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Some demands yet to be met, will keep the heat up’

    Kolkata: The protesting doctors at R G Kar Medical College have refused to go back to work despite the Calcutta High Court handing over the investigation to the CBI. While they welcomed the court’s order, they said some of ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    HC reminds docs of ‘pious obligation’

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court division bench held that the facts and circumstances of the RG Kar rape-murder case warranted appropriate orders without further delay and, in view of the fact that the protests had gone beyond the boundaries ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    Revised fines for vehicles flouting rules

    Kolkata: The state govt has amended the penal provisions under Section 190 (2) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, which deals with violations related to road safety, noise, and air pollution standards. The revised penalties, effective immediately, introduce a ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    Police hold up Sanjay Roy example for civic volunteers on what not to do

    Kolkata: The Sanjay Roy episode has prompted Kolkata Police to ask all unit heads to ensure that their personnel — including civic volunteers — are governed by the rules and discipline of the force. The state is now mulling ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    City to now host first T20I vs Eng on Jan 22

    Kolkata: Eden Gardens will now host the first match of the T20 International series against England on Jan 22, as per the revised schedule released by the BCCI on Tuesday. As per the earlier schedule, Kolkata would have played ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    EB look to defy odds

    Kolkata: Carles Cuadrat, the realist, is insisting East Bengal FC will not start favourites against Turkmenistan’s Altyn Asyr FC in the AFC Champions League preliminary play-off.Cuadrat the believer, however, is ready to embrace this challenge as a new beginning ...

    14 August 2024 Times of India
    Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into RG Kar Hospital doctor's rape-murder case

    Resident doctors at government hospitals nationwide have been protesting over the incident since Saturday. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Amid the growing nationwide outrage, the Calcutta high court on Tuesday ordered a CBI probe into the rape and murder of ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    EB juggernaut rolls on

    Kolkata: There’s no stopping East Bengal FC in the CFL Premier Division this season. Bino George’s unbeaten brigade edged past Bhawanipore SC 1-0 in a top-of-the-table clash thanks to Jesin TK’s early penalty on Monday, taking sole control of ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Now, CNMC erupts over Ghosh's return as principal

    Students and junior doctors stop a senior doctor’s car from entering the CNMC campus on Monday KOLKATA: Students, interns and junior doctors of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital staged a stir on the campus against the return of ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Post-mortem report highlights brutal assault, confirms multiple injuries, signs of struggle

    A file photo of Sanjay Roy from one of his wedding albums (left) KOLKATA: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    We share your pain: Kolkata Police on social media

    Students protest on RG Kar campus on Monday KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has time till Sunday to wind up the RG Kar rape-murder probe, failing which Bengal govt will hand over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation.Bengal CM ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor rape-murder: Calcutta HC asks Bengal govt to produce case diary at 1 pm

    Calcutta high court KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court has directed the West Bengal government to produce the case diary of an investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: 25 from RG Kar hospital summoned for questioning

    NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police summoned junior doctors, interns, and other staff, alongside the Head of the Department of chest medicine and a security guard from RG Kar hospital on Tuesday, to question them regarding the suspected rape and murder ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: NHRC seeks detailed report from West Bengal authorities

    The NHRC took suo motu cognizance of an alleged sexual assault on an RG Kar Medical College student in Kolkata. Notices were issued to West Bengal officials seeking detailed reports within two weeks. NEW DELHI: The National Human ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Appointment of former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh at CNMC in Kolkata triggers massive protest

    The appointment of Sandip Ghosh to Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata led to a massive protest. KOLKATA: The appointment of former Principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, Dr. Sandip Ghosh, to Calcutta National ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: HC fumes over former principal's appointment, asks him to submit leave application

    The Kolkata high court criticized Sandip Ghosh's immediate reappointment as a principal after resigning over a trainee doctor's rape and murder. NEW DELHI: The Kolkata high court on Tuesday expressed strong disapproval over the appointment of Sandip Ghosh ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    National women’s commission in Kolkata, TMC slams panel

    Kolkata: A two-member team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) arrived in Kolkata on Monday in the wake of the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.The team, led by Delina Khongdup, went straight to ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Anwar signs for East Bengal

    Kolkata: India defender Anwar Ali is now an East Bengal FC player. Sources confirmed on Monday that the central defender has signed a long-term deal with Emami East Bengal FC, thus completing his dramatic switch from Mohun Bagan SG. ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Wrap up RG Kar probe by Sunday or else we'll call CBI, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee tells cops

    Chief minister Mamata Banerjee speaks after meeting the victim’s family in Sodepur on Monday KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has time till Sunday to wind up the RG Kar rape-murder probe, failing which Bengal govt will hand over the probe to ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal: SUV hits kanwariyas near Bagdogra, teen among six killed

    Representative image DARJEELING: A group of kanwariyas was run over by a speeding SUV near Bagdogra on NH-31 early on Monday, killing at least six of them and leaving seven injured.Among those who died was a 17-year-old boy, a ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    3 petitions in HC seek CBI probe

    Kolkata: At least three writ petitions were filed in Calcutta High Court on Monday praying for a CBI investigation or a judicial probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at R G Kar Medical College and ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    See if childcare leave can be given to single fathers, Cal HC tells state govt

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday directed state govt to decide whether to extend childcare leave — on a par with women — to an employee who is a single father, saying a father is as equally responsible for ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    No politics please, students slam door on parties, netas

    Kolkata: In a rare show of resistance, students, doctors and even the family members protesting against the brutal rape and murder of the PGT doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital last week, have managed to keep ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Rahara RKM 3rd among colleges; JU, CU ranks dip

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) has slipped from the fourth position to the ninth among the top-100 universities in the country in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024 (NIRF 24). Calcutta University (CU), which was in the 12th position last ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Audio surfaces, adds grist to ‘others involved’ mill

    Kolkata: A viral audio that is being shared over social media and instant messaging platforms since Sunday night has raised fresh questions about who else may be involved in the brutal rape and murder of the second year PGT ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    To check fraud, Centre & Bengal roll out GST Suvidha Kendras

    Kolkata: Bengal has become the first state in which Centre and state have come together to roll out biometric-based Aadhaar authentication centres for GST registration. The formal rollout was started on Aug 5. This is aimed at checking GST ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Cops to quiz official who called woman's kin, said it was suicide

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police have summoned Tuesday an assistant superintendent of RG Kar Hospital who had allegedly called the slain PG trainee doctor's family and informed them that their daughter "died by suicide".The doctor's father said on Sunday that the ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Don’t move alone on campuses at night: Sr docs caution nurses, female staffers

    Kolkata: The rape and murder of a PGT doctor atRG Kar Hospital has prompted senior doctors and nurses to issue unofficial safety advisories over WhatsApp groups, asking woman doctors and nurses to refrain from moving alone on their respective ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    KMC to get 500 cr for flood mgmt

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to receive a Rs 500 crore grant from the Centre, as part of a disaster management scheme, to develop an effective flood management system for the city. An intimation from the ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Congress leader, ex-MMiC Pradip Ghosh passes away

    Kolkata: Congress leader and former MMiC of KMC Pradip Ghosh passed away at a city nursing home on Monday. Ghosh, 75, had been suffering from age-related ailments for a few years. His son Sajal said the last rites will ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    B’desh nat’ls come to border to talk to Indian leaders

    Kolkata: Hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals from the minority Hindu community gathered near the zero point of the India-Bangladesh border in Gotamari village in Lalmonirhat on Friday morning after a rumour spread that Indian leaders would come to the barbed-wire ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Berger Paints to invest ₹2k cr in 2 plants in Bengal, Odisha

    Kolkata: Berger Paints will invest around Rs 2,000 crore in two greenfield projects, one in Bengal and the other in Odisha, aiming to expand its overall production capacity by around 25-30%. Berger’s production capacity stands at around 1 lakh ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Aadhaar Act norm goes beyond scope of statute, HC told

    Kolkata: The Joint Forum Against NRC on Monday challenged in Calcutta High Court the constitutional validity of Regulation 28A under Aadhaar Act, 2023, on the grounds that the regulation went beyond the scope of the statute. A division bench ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar principal quits, gets new posting in 4 hours

    KOLKATA: Sandip Ghosh, principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, resigned Monday after three days of protests by junior doctors and students accusing him of covering up the rape-murder of a trainee doctor at the institution. ...

    13 August 2024 Times of India
    Mamata seeks Majhi help over Odisha hate crimes on Bengalis

    Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called up Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi, seeking his intervention into reports of workers from Bengal in Odisha being assaulted, intimidated and abused as "Bangladeshis" by local vigilante groups.Odisha govt has ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor's rape-murder: BJP's Shazia Ilmi slams Mamata Banerjee, INDI Alliance

    NEW DELHI: BJP leader Shazia Ilmi has strongly criticized West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and the INDI alliance for their silence regarding the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical Hospital.Speaking at ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Forensic tests point to suspect’s hand in Kolkata doctor’s rape-murder

    KOLKATA: Traces of blood and skin found under the nails of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor found raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are of arrested suspect Sanjay Roy and correspond to his injuries, ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    11 Bangladeshis held in West Bengal, North-East for illegal entry

    NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Eleven Bangladeshis have been arrested for illegally entering India, Border Security Force (BSF) said on Sunday."Two each were apprehended at West Bengal and Tripura borders, while seven were caught at Meghalaya border. We have not yet ascertained ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    6 dead as car rams into group of pilgrims in West Bengal's Darjeeling

    Image used for representative purpose only NEW DELHI: Six people were killed after a car rammed into a group of pilgrims at Muni tea estate near Bagdogra in Phansidewa block of West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Monday morning, confirmed ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Outrage grows over Kolkata doctor's rape-murder: Mamata Banerjee vows CBI probe if no headway by Sunday

    KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited the home of the post-graduate trainee doctor who was found raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata.The visit took place around 12.45pm, during ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: 4 RG Kar Hospital doctors called for questioning

    KOLKATA: At least four doctors from Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital have been called in for questioning regarding the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor.As per the TV reports, the doctors summoned were all on night duty ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Cease work continues for 4th day, hospital services hit across Bengal

    The protesters are demanding a magisterial inquiry into the rape and murder of a woman doctor and have ceased even emergency duties as of Monday morning. NEW DELHI: The ongoing strike by junior doctors, interns, and postgraduate trainees in ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Skin under PGT doc’s nails is of accused, says forensic report

    Kolkata: Investigators on Sunday found the strongest evidence yet against Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital: traces of blood and ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Patients left in pain as jr docs’ cease-work disrupts treatment at RG Kar for 2nd day

    Kolkata: Patients were in the lurch at RG Kar Medical College on Sunday as junior doctors continued their ceasework and vowed to carry on the protest till all their demands are met.Four-year-old Arian Molla from Bhangar was brought to ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata, Bangla artists protest against vandalism in Mujibnagar

    Kolkata: Cultural workers and intellectuals in Kolkata and Bangladesh have criticized the vandalism that was carried out in Mujibnagar at Meherpur where nearly 200 sculptures were destroyed. They claimed that the attack on sculptures and theatre groups point at ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Accused’s role in money chain: Getting patients from local nursing homes, running tout racket

    Kolkata: An independent investigation by TOI following the horrific rape-murder of a young doctor has revealed several other ills plaguing R G Kar Medical College and Hospital under the current dispensation led by principal Sandip Ghosh.One of them is ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    George stun Bagan

    Kolkata: George Telegraph rode a second-half brace from Amit Ekka (54 and 57 minutes) to stun Mohun Bagan SG 2-1 at the Kalyani stadium on Sunday. The result left Mohun Bagan with 12 points from 8 matches. East Bengal ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    At Khuti Puja, club prays for B’desh peace

    Kolkata: Due to the recent unrest in Bangladesh, a club in north Kolkata organised a peace prayer on the occasion of their Khuti Puja — the ceremonial start of the Durga Puja preparations — on Sunday. On the 64th ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Sukanta seeks CBI probe, writes to Nadda

    Kolkata: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday wrote to Union health minister J P Nadda seeking his intervention in the R G Kar incident.Seeking a CBI inquiry, Majumdar requested Nadda to send a National Medical Commission team to assess ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    UG entry phase 2: In 5 days, portal gets 2.5L applications

    Kolkata: The centralized portal for undergraduate admissions received 2.5 lakh applications from 32,000 applicants till Sunday for second phase of admission process. Of the 32,000 applicants, 17,000 are new.The second phase of admissions was rolled out on Aug 7. ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Truth may prevail

    Kolkata: S Sreekanth-saddled Truth should bag the Bhagyanagar Million at Malakpet on Monday. The grey is the winner of the Calcutta St. Leger and will have Kuldeep doing duty in the saddle.Hyderabad selections1.20pm: 1. White Pearl 2. Caraxes 3. ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Sundarbans tourism set to get costlier from Sep

    Kolkata: The forest department has revised tourism fees in the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve and the new rates will be applicable from Sep 1.In a notification issued by the chief wildlife warden, it has been stated the daily entry fees ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Pockets of insecurity dot govt hospital campuses, say docs, staff & patients' kin

    Desolate stretches on the RG Kar hospital campus and (right) on the Calcutta Medical College & Hospital premises KOLKATA: Almost every govt-run hospital campus has a few pockets where women - patients, their kin and even hospital staffers - ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder horror: Doc's last rites performed at home, senior cop shares probe progress with family

    Additional commissioner of Kolkata Police, Murlidhar Sharma, near the victim’s house in Sodepur (left); women in her neighbourhood take out a rally (right) KOLKATA: On Sunday - the day when last rites of the 31-year-old PGT doctor were performed ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor rape-murder case: Civic volunteer's ASI sister for 'strictest possible punishment'

    A photograph from Sanjay Roy’s wedding album (left) KOLKATA: Disowning her brother, Sanjay Roy - arrested for the brutal rape and murder of the RG Kar Hospital's trainee doctor - the accused's sister, an assistant sub-inspector with Kolkata Police, ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: How the Sanjay Roys flout every point in rulebook

    Cops In front of the emergency ward of RG Kar on Sunday KOLKATA: Arrested for the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjay Roy is accused ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Judicial probe on junior docs' demand list, govt scurries to fill hospital gaps

    Students protest at Calcutta National Medical College on Sunday KOLKATA: The agitating doctors at RG Kar Medical College hospital on Sunday demanded a judicial probe, daily update on the probe progress, compensation to the victim's family and capital punishment ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Skin under PGT doctor’s nails is of accused, says forensic report

    Junior doctors protest at RG Kar Hospital on Sunday KOLKATA: Investigators on Sunday found the strongest evidence yet against Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of a 31-yearold postgraduate trainee doc at RG Kar Medical ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder accused's role in money chain: Getting patients from local nursing homes, running tout racket

    Accused Sanjay Roy would charge money for arranging hospital beds and tests KOLKATA: An independent investigation by TOI following the horrific rape-murder of a young doctor has revealed several other ills plaguing R G Kar Medical College and Hospital ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: RG Kar super removed but doctors, students demand principal's scalp

    Doctors and students protest on R G Kar campus on Sunday KOLKATA: Giving in to the demands of the agitating junior doctors, the state health department on Sunday removed R G Kar Medical College and Hospital medical superintendent and ...

    12 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh crisis: Villagers help BSF catch man filming border scene in West Bengal

    The man was caught shooting videos near this spot at Petrapole PETRAPOLE: It was a busy afternoon at the Petrapole border with Bangladeshi nationals trickling into Bengal after rigorous checks by the BSF. While some walked past the check-point ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Reign of chaos: As crime surges in Bangladesh, kin on this side pray for peace

    A violence-hit street in Bangladesh KOLKATA: Deep Chowdhury (name changed) of Dum Dum is anxious about his mother, sisters and cousins who are now in Chittagong. Over the last two days, however, he has been feeling a little relieved. ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    'Rapists don't deserve to live': TMC's Abhishek Banerjee calls for 7-day trials

    Abhishek Banerjee at the administrative meeting in Amtala on Saturday KOLKATA: "Rapists don't deserve to live, they should either be hanged or (shot) in an encounter," Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Saturday, adding, "these people do not ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder case: FORDA announces nationwide shutdown of elective services in hospitals

    NEW DELHI: The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) sent a letter to Union health minister JP Nadda on Sunday announcing a nationwide halting of elective services in hospitals tomorrow in solidarity with RG Kar Medical College residents.FORDA on ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder case: Doctors announce protest in Kerala

    NEW DELHI: Doctors and medical professionals in Kerala will hold a protest on Monday across government medical colleges in response to the recent sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in a Kolkata state-run hospital. The protest, ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor death: Who is Sanjay Roy? Civic volunteer arrested in RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case

    Sanjay Roy (In middle) was taken into custody on Saturday NEW DELHI: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata mayor and officials visit tram depot for R G Kar medical college annexe building

    KOLKATA: Mayor Firhad Hakim and several state officials, including transport secretary Saumitra Mohan, on Saturday visited the Belgachhia tram depot to identify land to set up an annexe building for R G Kar Medical College. Earlier in the day, ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder case: Can this happen in a hospital where we save lives?

    The bone-chilling incident has shattered me, I feel unsafe. A colleague was raped and murdered at a place, which has grown to be my second home. I shudder to imagine what she must have felt. It could have been ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Despicable crime, if needed, accused will be hanged: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee, in her first reaction to the RG Kar crime, called it "despicable" and said the young doctor's death felt "like a personal loss".The state government would do everything to fast-track the case and ensure the ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    'A torn earphone and lost soul': How police arrested accused for brutal rape-murder of Kolkata doctor

    KOLKATA: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was arrested on Saturday for the brutal rape-murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital, barely six hours after the police force set up a seven-member Special Investigation ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Volunteer held for rape-murder of Kolkata doctor; Will hang him, says CM Mamata

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Airport arrival section gets childcare room

    Kolkata: The Kolkata airport authorities have offered a much needed relief to new mothers arriving with infants at Kolkata airport from other cities, as they transformed an old and vacant office room into a childcare room at the arrival ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Cancer survivor dies in accident while trying to save stray

    Kolkata: Debojit Roy, a 23-year-old cancer survivor and resident of Shantinagar area off Sukantanagar, died in a freak bike accident at Salt Lake’s KB-KC block on Friday night as he tried to save a stray dog that had come ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    IIM-C launches centre of excellence

    Kolkata: IIM-Calcutta launched a centre of excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation and brainstormed ideas on the areas of work that the centre would focus in the future after the inauguration of the two-day conclave titled ‘India 2047: Building the ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Explosives seized, 1 held

    Kolkata: Bengal Special Task Force (STF) recovered 58kg of explosive materials used in making crude bombs from the Suti area of Murshidabad, close to the international border, during a joint raid with local police on Friday. One Akbar Biswas ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Irresponsible’ Budget cheated people: Mitra

    Kolkata: Amit Mitra, the principal chief adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday termed the Union Budget placed by Nirmala Sitharaman “irresponsible”.“After the Budget announcements, the govt had to amend a lot of its proposals. That is why I ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Deep malaise: Tout raj lords over hosp zones

    Kolkata: Thousands of patients and their families at govt hospitals fall prey to touts who extract money by promising them admission or even for basic facilities like oxygen cylinders, doctors’ appointment, faster diagnostic tests. They even charge a premium ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    It is extremely unfortunate. We are sorry: CP

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal said they were “sad and anguished” over the rape and murder of the second-year post-graduate trainee at R G Kar Hospital. “We are concerned, worried, and angry. We are with the family, the ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Divine Art set for an encore

    Kolkata: In a small field of five three-year-olds only, it is S. Narredu-nursed Divine Art who is ready to strike once again in the Golconda Juvenile Million on Sunday at Malakpet. A impressive last start winner at Bengaluru will ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    MSC held again

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting Club’s title defence of the CFL Premier Division is getting more complicated now. The black-and-white brigade, three time defending champions of the league, were held 0-0 by BSS Sporting Club at the Kalyani Stadium on Saturday ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor death: 'Accused failed to explain his presence at hospital'

    Protests at RG Kar on Saturday KOLKATA: Investigation revealed the doctor was asleep when civic volunteer Sanjay Roy attacked her in the seminar room. She and her two juniors had ordered food post-midnight and at least five doctors had ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder case: Rogue civic volunteer a trouble for family, force

    Sanjay’s mother Malati Roy KOLKATA: Civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, appointed in 2019, has been a rogue figure and a troublemaker for his family, his force and even neighbours."I have been in trouble ever since I gave birth to my ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: R G Kar Hospital emerges as headache for health department

    Protests continued on Saturday at RG Kar Hospital, where the body of the post-graduate trainee doctor was found on Friday KOLKATA: R G Kar is probably the state-run medical college and hospital that has been in the news most ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar doctor death: Will always be with doctors, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee, who supported the agitating doctors and felt their anger was justified, said: "Losing a colleague affects everyone. Even I have two junior doctors in my family. I will always be with them (doctors). ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata murder: Medicos' stir adds to patients' trauma at govt hospitals

    Family members of patients anxiously wait at Medical College Hospital on Saturday KOLKATA: Many patients and their kin were left in the lurch as doctors stayed off their wards, staging stir on the campuses of different govt hospitals across ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata murder case: 'Can't let civic volunteers become a rogues' gallery'

    Civic volunteers assist cops but their contracts are renewed every 6 months KOLKATA: On a day when a civic volunteer was arrested for raping and murdering a medical students, former police officers and a section of those still in ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor murder: R G Kar anger rocks hospital campuses across West Bengal

    Protesting doctors from several hospitals converge at Moulali crossing KOLKATA: While RG Kar Medical College continued to be in the eye of storm on Saturday, the anger spilled over to other medical institutes across Bengal and beyond. Messages of ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata woman doctor death: Have full faith in West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and cop probe, says victim's family

    Medical College students take out a protest rally KOLKATA: Father of the second-year post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor - whose brutalised body was found in a seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital - on Saturday said ...

    11 August 2024 Times of India
    Two from Bangla interim govt started career in Kol

    Kolkata/Dhaka: Former Bangladeshi foreign secretary Mohammad Touhid Hossain, who was on Friday entrusted with the charge of the foreign ministry in the Muhammad Yunus-headed interim govt, had started his diplomatic career in Kolkata. A F Hassan Ariff, who will ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Will hang accused if needed, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will seek the death penalty for those accused in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor, whose body was discovered ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Bangladesh crisis: BNP workers recall night of terror in Dhaka

    BNP’s Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain helped out protesting students KOLKATA: BNP workers Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka were arrested on July 22 for helping out students during the movement—they distributed water and food among them. The ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Pocso cuffs on 40-year-old

    Kolkata: A 40-year-old man was arrested from his residence by Nadial police on Friday for allegedly raping a minor, twice, within a span of four days this month. The accused, Mohammad Ali Thandar, will be in police custody till ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Hospitals stand beside stranded B’deshi patients

    Kolkata: Several hospitals in Kolkata are extending support in the form of discounts and accommodation to Bangladeshi patients who need to stay here for several weeks for treatment but are running out of cash. Since many had banked on ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Royal Mysore in fine fettle

    Kolkata: Royal Mysore from the stable of Prasanna Kumar gets the first call to win the Y.Z. Poonawalla Turf Club Gr-III at Pune on Saturday. The progeny of Daffodils has struck a purple patch and will be ridden by ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor murder: Autopsy confirms sexual assault before murder, one held

    NEW DELHI: Police have arrested one person in connection with the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, a senior officer said on Saturday. The man was an outsider who ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
    Coexist with all communities, fight for what's right: WB CM Mamata Banerjee

    During an event in Jhargram, CM Mamata Banerjee urged for peaceful coexistence and justice. She announced various development projects and expressed hopes for Olympic success from local athletes JHARGRAM: Pledge to coexist peacefully with people from all the communities ...

    10 August 2024 Times of India
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