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  • News from West Bengal | 15 May, 2025 | ৩১ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২
  • Smoke from Dhapa fire, smelting activities chokes Bypass residents

    Kolkata: Residents living in upscale condominium projects near JW Marriott and Tangra off Bypass are unable to open their windows — in apartments costing over Rs 1.5 crore — to prevent thick acrid smoke from a fire raging in ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    CBI nabs 13th suspect in 2021 post-poll murder

    12 Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended Amit Das, a key suspect in the 2021 murder of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar in Narkeldanga. The accused, working as a food delivery agent in the Kestopur-New Town area, ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Man held for raping woman with spl needs

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old man was arrested within an hour of a rape complaint being filed against him for allegedly assaulting a 20-year-old woman with special needs in the Rabindrapally area of Kestopur. The accused, Kaushik Bhattacharya, is a private ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Waqf-SSC stirs grip city heart in twin choke-hold

    Kolkata: Central Kolkata had a chock-a-block start to Thursday as thousands of protesters, belonging to organisations, like Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind and its affiliates, converged on a spot near Ramlila Maidan on CIT Road and surroundings as early as 7am, catching school- ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    KP files two cases for clash, claims arson bid

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police registered two FIRs on the clash at the Kasba school district inspector's office on Wednesday, one following a complaint from the DI office and the other filed suo motu by the Kasba PS, based ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Commute pain: Students and office-goers bear rally brunt

    123456 Kolkata: Back-to-back rallies and the consequent traffic disruptions impacted the commute of students, both while going to school and also while returning home after dispersal. A school bus from the South Point junior section, ferrying children home after ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    TagoreTech’s radio frequency lab in Sec V to start ops in 2-3 mths

    Kolkata: The city's first private radio frequency (RF) laboratory, being set up by Chicago-based semiconductor company TagoreTech, will be operational in Salt Lake's Sector V in the next two-three months. The company is considering shifting some of its product ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Waqf-SSC stirs grip city heart in twin choke-hold

    Kolkata: Central Kolkata had a chock-a-block start to Thursday as thousands of protesters, belonging to organisations, like Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind and its affiliates, converged on a spot near Ramlila Maidan on CIT Road and surroundings as early as 7am, catching school- ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Day after Kasba cop kick, jobless teachers lay siege near SSC office

    12 Kolkata: The "kickgate" episode ignited strong emotions with jobless teachers launching a two-pronged protest on Thursday. While one group camped outside the SSC office in Salt Lake on a relay hunger strike, another group took out a mass ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Ahead of Poila Baisakh, festive shopping in stir throes

    12 Kolkata: Thursday was expected to be one of the busiest days for retailers ahead of Poila Boishakh, but it turned into a nightmare as twin rallies disrupted festive shopping across the city.Several schools and offices were shut on ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Lightning strike kills BSF constable in N Bengal

    12 Siliguri: A 42-year-old constable of 18th Battalion of BSF died after being struck by lightning along the India-Bangladesh border at Bandargach in Phansidewa on the outskirts of Siliguri on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Deepak Kumar, a ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Katju sparks TMC ire with post, deletes it

    12 Kolkata: Facing backlash on social media, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju on Thursday deleted a social media post asking "Bengalis to find a good husband for Mamata Banerjee". The ex-judge's post had drawn Trinamool's ire, with party ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Youths’ air rifle practice kills stray

    123 Kolkata: Two youths fatally injured a stray dog with pellets fired from an air rifle in broad daylight in the Moyna-Ardebak area under Barasat police station, sparking widespread outrage among local residents.According to eyewitnesses, the accused youths—Sishir Roy ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Deliberate attempt to stoke DI office row’

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday alleged that there was a "deliberate attempt" to instigate trouble at the Kasba DI office, questioning whether these attempts were being stoked by the opposition to stop the state from finding a legal ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar protesters and Left join teachers in march for the jobless

    123 Kolkata: A number of individuals, who marched during the R G Kar protests, have joined the agitation by the deprived teachers, who took out a rally on Thursday, criticising the assault on teachers by policemen at the Kasba ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Cops moot Kasba outpost at Bypass

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police, based on local inputs and detective department inputs, are planning to overhaul policing in the Kasba Tagore Park area to enhance security. Among several plans, one is to try and set up an outpost on ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Asiatic Society launches AI initiative to decipher ancient manuscripts in archives

    123 Kolkata: The Asiatic Society is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to unlock the vast repository of ancient wisdom hidden within its archives. With over 52,000 manuscripts—many undeciphered for centuries—the institution is now leveraging transcription technology and machine learning ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Rlys eviction notice on Kgp bungalow used by Dilip

    123 Kharagpur: The railways on Tuesday asked Tushar Kanti Ghosh, a former member of the Passenger Services Committee who was allotted a 230-square metre railway bungalow in Kharagpur until March 2020, to vacate it or face eviction. The bungalow ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Kali idol faces stolen from Kumartuli

    Kolkata: The clay faces of Kali mouled for two eight-foot idols were stolen from a potter's studio in the Kumartuli potters' hub, raising concern among local artisans about the bizarre nature of the crime in the area.The theft, which ...

    11 April 2025 Times of India
    Rajarhat complex dog bite case divides city housing societies

    12 Kolkata: The debate over pet safety and responsibilities at housing complexes has surfaced again in Kolkata following an incident last week where a pet pitbull — a dog banned by the central govt — allegedly bit and scratched ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Experts caution young gym-goers about cardiac risks in summer heat

    KOLKATA: Fitness enthusiasts who love to sweat it out in the gym or go for long morning jogs have been warned to watch out for the rising heat and humidity, which could not only be energy-sapping but fatal as ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata crawls due to massive protests by jobless teachers, Jamiat-e-Ulama

    KOKLATA: The city centre remained choked throughout Thursday morning — once again mid-week — as two separate protests, held just 1.5 km apart, brought north-south traffic to a crawl. One rally was organised by the West Bengal State Jamiat-e-Ulama ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Revisiting Bombai Ka Babu

    The original poster of the film with Madhubala (left,) (centre) Suchitra Sen with Dev Anand and (right) the hand-painted film poster with Suchitra Sen Sixty five years have passed, yet the magic of Bombai Ka Babu still remains intact. ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘My wife is paralysed and lost her speech. Will bring her home only after hospital cures her fully’

    123456 Kolkata: Days after an Amherst Row resident submitted to the Calcutta High Court his financial inability to take his disabled wife back home from a private hospital, TOI visited and spoke to the man sitting in an AC ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Flash protests at busy crossings throw evening traffic out of gear

    12 Kolkata: Flash protests against against 25,752 teachers losing their jobs threw traffic out of gear in south Kolkata on Wednesday evening. Though each of the demonstrations at Park Circus, Kasba and Gariahat crossing lasted only five to 15 ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Sacked teachers' names still on West Bengal salary list

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal govt has retained the names of all teachers - whose services were terminated by the Supreme Court - on its Integrated Salary Management System (ISMS) portal. However, those who lost their jobs are in two ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Proceed with probe, let Ram Navami rule ‘flouters’ face the music, HC tells cops

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the police to proceed with the investigation against 10 organisers of the Ram Navami rallies in Howrah and Shibpur. This was based on the cases registered suo motu for violating the ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    HC: Can’t let her be thrown out

    12 Kolkata: Due to the unavailability of advocate general Kishore Dutta on Wednesday, the matter concerning an ailing woman ‘abandoned' at Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals for over two years will be heard on April 21. The husband of the woman ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Promoter, goons thrash 62-yr-old for ‘illegal’ building complaint

    Kolkata: A 62-year-old retired private company employee and social worker, Bijoy Neogi, claimed that he was assaulted by a local promoter and his goons early on Wednesday after he opposed the construction of an "illegal" building in his locality. ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    All teachers’ names on state salary list

    Kolkata: The Integrated Salary Management System (ISMS) portal, the online bill generation system, started functioning from Wednesday afternoon. No changes were made by the state govt even after the Supreme Court order. However, those who lost their jobs are ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    After ‘party prod’, BJP MP shies away from edu min meet

    12 Kolkata: BJP MP Abhijit Ganguly, an ex-judge, went to the School Service Commission's Salt Lake office on Wednesday but did not have the schedule 2 pm meeting with education minister Bratya Basu, which he himself had confirmed on ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Tolly’s Nullah bridges: Cop SOS to civic agencies

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has issued an SOS to civic agencies, such as HRBC, KMDA and the irrigation department, requesting the repairs of multiple bridges, which will help them streamline the movement of vehicles, especially trucks, on ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Aesthetics & convenience: Airport to woo flyers with a glossy revamp

    12 Kolkata: Work on removing the worn-out carpets at Kolkata airport's integrated passenger terminal is set to commence next week. The dark grey-blue carpets will give way to bright flake epoxy flooring, which is expected to impart a new ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    After 53 years, another ‘Joker’ goes to Moscow film festival

    Kolkata: In 1972, Raj Kapoor sold the Russian version of ‘Mera Naam Joker' (1970) to Russian distributors for Rs 15 lakh. The film, which was a huge flop in India, became a massive hit in Russia, earning Rs 17 ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    JU limbo stalls fellowship & PhD entry, IoE status appeal

    12 Kolkata: Important academic and administrative work at Jadavpur University, such as release of student fellowship, admission to PhD, thesis evaluation and writing to the education ministry to reconsider the Institute of Eminence tag, have been stalled due to ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    No place for divide-and-rule policies in Bengal: Mamata

    Kolkata: Policies that divide people would not be allowed in Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, a day after Centre notified the Waqf (Amendment Act) 2025 into a law, adding that she would keep advocating unity and love ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    SSC job losers march to DI offices across Bengal, face off with police

    12 Kolkata: A section of teachers and non-teaching staff of govt-aided schools in Bengal — rendered jobless after Supreme Court ruled their selection process "vitiated and tainted" last week — tried to break into school district inspector (DI) offices ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Panel tells hosp to pay 50k for treatment delay

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has directed Manipal Hospital Dhakuria to pay compensation of Rs 50,000 for the delay in starting the treatment of a patient, who is now in a comatose state at home.The patient's ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Mullick Ghat flower waste to power perfume, abir and incense industry

    12 Kolkata: A huge volume of flowers that goes to waste daily at Mullick Ghat, the city's wholesale flower market off Strand Road near Howrah Bridge, may be processed for use in manufacture of natural incense, perfume and abir. ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Custody confession valid in drugs cases: HC

    12 Kolkata: Confessions made during police interrogations in drugs bust cases under NDPS Act were maintainable in court, the Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench held on Friday, refusing to quash criminal proceedings against a man, implicated based on ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    CR Park video: After LS polls, TMC brings back ‘maachh’ to its 3-M slogan

    Kolkata: A viral video where a person is seen purportedly schooling a Chittaranjan Park fish-seller on eating habits of ‘Sanatani' Hindus in Delhi had reverberations nearly 1,500 km away in Kolkata, with Trinamool speaking out against imposing "alien" food ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Internet cut off in Jangipur after violence during waqf protests

    Behrampore: Internet services have been suspended in the Jangipur sub-division from Tuesday evening to Friday, and prohibitory orders have been placed following violent protests on the waqf issue. On Wednesday, protesters attempted to block the National Highway 12 in ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Ex-boyfriend held for harassing bank staffer with 300 CODs

    12 Kolkata: An ex-boyfriend of a young bank executive was arrested for spooking her with 300 cash-on-delivery orders in four months, which led the woman to file a harassment complaint.TOI reported on March 7 about the 24-year-old woman who ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Cops bust fake call centre in Patuli, 8 held

    123 Kolkata: The DD Cyber Cell of Kolkata Police conducted a raid on a fake call centre operating from the Baishnabghata-Patuli area off EM Bypass, leading to the arrest of eight individuals involved in an out-of-the-box online fraud scheme.The ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Eco Park pressure prompts New Town traffic rejig

    1234 Kolkata: To tackle the rising traffic volumes, increasing office spaces, and a spate of recent accidents, Bidhannagar city police is bringing in a major traffic overhaul on Biswa Bangla Sarani in New Town. The New Town Traffic Guard ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    56-yr-old gets 25-year RI for rape, impregnation of minor in Jalpaiguri

    Jalpaiguri: A 56-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment by a Pocso court in Jalpaiguri on Wednesday for raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl in 2018. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Teacher gets 40 years for sex assault of girl with disabilities

    12 Siliguri: The Darjeeling district court convicted a 24-year-old teacher for the sexual assault of a minor with disabilities and sentenced him to 40 years of rigorous imprisonment on Wednesday.Public prosecutor Pranay Rai said Mohammad Hasim, a special educator ...

    10 April 2025 Times of India
    Cold-weather flu strain continues into summer, lays Kolkata low

    Kolkata: The city has been reeling under intense heat and humid weather with the arrival of summer but influenza B cases, which spike mostly during the monsoon and colder months, have refused to bow out. "At present, three children ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Kol Police cracks down on Dalhousie 2-lane parking, plans to install CCTVs

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police on Tuesday launched a drive to remove multi-lane parking in Dalhousie with cops from the headquarter traffic guard doing the rounds of Netaji Subhas Road, India Exchange Place area, and Bentinck Street to identify ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Murshidabad violence: 4 cops injured in stone-pelting during Waqf protest, police vehicles torched; 18 detained

    KOLKATA: Nine people, including four cops, were injured in stone-pelting and two police vehicles were torched when a group of people protesting against the Waqf (Amendment) Act turned violent at Umarpur in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Tuesday.The protesters, ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    State seeks urgent SC hearing on terminations

    1234 Kolkata: A day after filing the review petition in the Supreme Court, the state lawyers on Tuesday mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna the need for an urgent hearing, if possible, on Wednesday. The Bengal ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Releases during IPL no more a worry for Tolly filmmakers

    123456 Kolkata: There was a time when the IPL craze significantly impacted the film industry, with many entertainment enthusiasts glued to cricket match telecasts and some even going for the matches at Eden Gardens. This year, the tournament runs ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Cricket lovers take heat in stride with hats, sunscreen & chilled lemonade

    Kolkata: Despite the punishing sun and oppressive humidity, thousands of cricket fans swarmed Eden Gardens on Tuesday to witness a crucial match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). The home team fell short by a ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    CIT Road residents wake up to clamped cars after KMC-cop drive

    123456 Kolkata: Residents of the Anand Palit area near Entally woke up to clamped cars after Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), with help from the Park Circus Traffic Guard, carried out a two-hour night raid on illegally parked vehicles along ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Scuffle, cop plaint over Israeli flag at Ram Navami rallies

    123 Kolkata: Jagaddal's Trinamool MLA Somenath Shyam Ichini on Tuesday lodged a complaint against Arjun Singh and other BJP functionaries, including Priyangu Pandey, at Bhatpara PS over the display of Israeli flag at a Ram Navami procession in the ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Not token job, raze illegal bldgs to make them uninhabitable: KMC

    Kolkata: The KMC buildings department will have to properly raze illegal structures instead of doing a symbolic job by punching holes in the roof that can then be repaired. A circular from municipal commissioner Dhaval Jain's office last week ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Dumper truck crashes into height barrier, cop kiosk

    12 Kolkata: A speeding dumper truck crashed through a height barrier on Aurobindo Setu and dashed into a police kiosk late on Tuesday, leading to traffic disruptions for around an hour. No one was injured.The incident occurred around 10.45 ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Ex-student hacks school’s social media account

    Kolkata: A former student of a missionary school, located on the outskirts of south Kolkata, had allegedly hacked the social media accounts of his alma mater and posted pornographic content and other provocative messages using AI-generated images of some ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    4 KOL STUDENTS INJURED IN HILLS

    12 Siliguri: Four college students from Kolkata, returning to Siliguri from Pelling, were critically injured, while five others, including the driver, suffered minor injuries as their vehicle fell into a gorge after a tree fell onto it at Lapchey ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal seeks investment from Germany in rlys

    123 Kolkata: State industry minister Shashi Panja sought investment in Bengal from the German railway industry while interacting with a delegation in the city on Tuesday. She was addressing a symposium on boosting Indo-German railway partnerships. "Germany is looking ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    At 9%, Kol leads in office rental growth in Q1 25

    123 Kolkata: The city witnessed highest growth in office rentals in the first quarter of 2025, alongside Hyderabad. According to the Knight Frank Report for Q1 2025, a total of 0.16 million square feet of office space was leased ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan launches attack on party MPs after WA chats go viral

    12 Kolkata: Stoked by veteran Trinamool MP Sougata Ray's "he should be removed as (party's Lok Sabha) chief whip and none (in the party) likes him" comment and his WhatsApp texts in a closed group being gleefully shared by ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    KMC: New Mkt hawker drive after Poila Baisakh

    1234 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Kolkata Police, and Town Vending Committee (TVC) will conduct a joint drive to remove encroachments from the carriageways in and around New Market after Poila Baisakh, a civic official told TOI on ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal cabinet clears new fertiliser factory

    12 Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet's infrastructure committee on Tuesday gave nod to Agrisource India to set up a new fertiliser factory on a 33.1-acre plot at WBIDC's Panagarh Industrial Estate. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Neta behaving like judge’: Bratya barb at Ganguly protests

    12 Kolkata: Former judge Abhijit Ganguly, now a BJP MP, on Tuesday went to School Service Commission offices in Salt Lake to protest. This is a body against whom he delivered orders in the past, drawing barbs from state ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    ‘Probe must be unbiased’: HC hands Nadia death probe to CBI

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday handed over an investigation in Nadia to CBI after taking note of an observation by Supreme Court that the possibility of "police vendetta" in a related case could not be ruled out.Justice ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Board seeks urgent SC hearing on terminations

    123 Kolkata: A day after filing the review petition in the Supreme Court, the state lawyers on Tuesday mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna the need for an urgent hearing, if possible, on Wednesday. The Bengal ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    No clarity on salary disbursal after school head-edu dept meet

    123 Kolkata: In a verbal communication with several heads of schools in Kolkata on Tuesday, education department officials instructed them to upload data for disbursement of salaries for the employees with disabilities. However, no clear instructions were provided for ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Missing NJP girl rescued from Odisha in joint op

    Kolkata: A coordinated effort between multiple law enforcement agencies and NGOs resulted in the rescue of a minor girl from Odisha nearly a month after she went missing from New Jalpaiguri (NJP).The anti-human trafficking unit of BSF North Bengal ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Didi slams Modi govt over LPG price hike ahead of Poila Baisakh

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led central govt after the price of a 14.2kg domestic LPG cylinder was hiked by Rs 50, calling it an "anti-people move that adds to the already rising ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Explore expert advice on jumbo darting, Cal High Court tells state

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the state to take instructions from the forest dept over engaging expert K K Sharma, a Padmashree awardee and popularly known in Assam as the "elephant doctor", to examine the procedure ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Won’t do voluntary service: Affected teachers

    12345 Kolkata: A large number of job losers did not attend schools a day after CM Mamata Banerjee urged them to return to work voluntarily while assuring them that no one would lose their jobs. The Supreme Court ordered ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    Waqf protesters burn 2 police vehicles, throw stones at Omarpur; 9 injured

    12 Behrampore: People protesting against the waqf bill threw stones at cops and burnt two police vehicles at Omarpur, under Raghunathganj Police Station, on Tuesday when the latter urged the protesters not to block the National Highway 12. Nine ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    HC allows Suvendu to visit Mothabari on April 11

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP Siliguri MLA Shankar Ghosh to visit four places under the Mothabari Police Station in Malda on April 11.The court, however, barred processions or ...

    9 April 2025 Times of India
    No brakes on vehicle sales, 8K added to Kolkata fleet in March

    12 Kolkata: The city's vehicle boom showed no signs of slowing down in March, with a record 8,188 new additions to its already massive fleet this year. Fuelled primarily by the growing demand for personalised vehicles, the surge highlighted ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    India Power Corp unveils Bengal’s 1st green EV charging station

    123 Kolkata: India Power Corporation Ltd has built its first EV charging station in collaboration with Kolkata-based startup ChargET, in Salt Lake's Sector V. About 60 EVs can be charged at this facility simultaneously.On Monday, minister of state for ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Appoint regular director urgently: IIT-Kharagpur teachers

    12 Kolkata: The IIT-Kharagpur Teachers' Association has written to the Board of Governors (BoG) chairman T V Narendran recently, seeking his support in facilitating the ‘urgent appointment of a regular director' with a sound academic background and clean image ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    TMC to hit streets on Wed over ‘vulture politics’ by BJP-CPM

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool is set to hit the streets statewide on April 9 on the SSC issue, blaming a "BJP-CPM" nexus and their "vulture politics" for taking away jobs of 25,752 school staff. The party's student and youth wing ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Citizens, PWD join hands to save SSKM giant Himalayan cedar tree from axe in Kolkata

    1234 Kolkata: A giant 75-foot-tall Debdaru (Himalayan cedar) tree beside the historic Woodburn Building at SSKM Hospital was successfully transplanted. The tree, which stood sentinel for over six decades, was originally slated for removal to accommodate an extension of ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Ram Navami: No trouble in Kolkata, dists still on alert, say cops

    12 Kolkata: The Ram Navami celebrations in the city passed off peacefully, cops at Lalbazar said. For the first time in past three years, cops said no cases were drawn up for violations, barring minor complaints of DJs being ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Hosp-gurdwara tie-up to revive old facility

    Kolkata: The Gurudwara Sant Kutiya-run health facility, dormant since 2012, took on a new wing on World Health Day, with the Liver Foundation West Bengal (LFWB) infusing a fresh lease of life. The renovated Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital on ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    No ‘eligible’ person to lose job; Plan A, Plan B ready: Mamata

    Kolkata: Not a single "eligible" teacher or non-teaching staff member would lose their job, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday at a meeting with thousands rendered jobless after last week's SC decision on SSC appointments. Their jobs would ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Cruelty allegations against hubby can’t be vague: Cal HC

    Kolkata: An allegation under Section 498A of the erstwhile IPC could not be "omnibus and vague"; it needed to be backed by evidence, Calcutta High Court said in a recent judgment, quashing criminal proceedings against a man and his ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Rain chances slim, says Met

    Kolkata: The maximum temperature dipped by close to two notches on Monday. Despite the drop, the rising humidity level continued to make the weather uncomfortable in the city. With no significant rain expected for now, the Met office does ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Bike thieves held during helmetless ride

    Kolkata: Two suspects were apprehended early on Monday for stealing a motorcycle at Poddar Nagar in Jadavpur. Initially the two were stopped by cops for riding without a helmet, but during interrogation the suspects claimed the motorcycle belonged to ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    State files review petition in apex court, seeks 1-yr breather

    123 Kolkata: The Bengal secondary education board has filed a review plea in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking a breather for the ‘untainted' school staff to continue "until the end of the academic year or until the process ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kgp study exposes critical surface ozone pollution effect on food crops

    12 Kharagpur/Kolkata: An IIT Kharagpur study led by Prof Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath at the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) has warned of significant threat to rice, wheat and maize production due to surface ozone pollution and ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    At schools across state, colleagues stay glued to TV

    123456 Kolkata: As CM Mamata Banerjee stood up to speak for nearly 33 minutes at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday to address the affected teachers and staff of schools across Bengal, their colleagues remained glued to television sets and ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Schools to wait & watch after CM’s ‘return-to-work’ appeal

    12 Kolkata: School heads and managing committees have decided to adopt a wait-and-watch policy on how the affected teachers respond to CM Mamata Banerjee's appeal to report to work, while they also keep an eye on the subsequent Supreme ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Bengal to roll out triple disease elimination programme this month

    Kolkata: After a successful pilot project, Bengal govt is set to roll out a triple elimination programme for HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis by preventing vertical transmission from mother to child. It is the only state that has taken ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Guard rails become median dividers for safety of pedestrians

    12 Kolkata: The police finalised plans with civic agencies to set up pedestrian barriers and median dividers at five stretches in an effort to increase the safety of pedestrians and stop jaywalking on some of the busiest central and ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Plagiarism row: ‘Registered Laapataa Ladies script well before Burqa City was made’

    123456 Kolkata: Biplab Goswami, an alumnus of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) and scriptwriter of Kiran Rao's ‘Laapataa Ladies' (LL), was recently embroiled in a plagiarism controversy. His script is allegedly copied from Fabrice Bracq's 2019 ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Cal HC lens on police custody torture of 4 picked up from in front of Vidyasagar University

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday enquired about the alleged torture of Susrita Soren and three others in the police custody at the Women Police Station, Paschim Midnapore, after the agitators were picked up by the police from ...

    8 April 2025 Times of India
    Questions, wish list on SSC jobless lips before CM meet

    12 Kolkata: Teachers of state-aided schools, who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court judgment last Thursday, demanded to find out what happened to the copies of their OMR sheets that the School Service Commission reportedly failed to present ...

    7 April 2025 Times of India
    'CM gave lollipop today': Sacked West Bengal teachers after Mamata Banerjee's assurance

    KOLKATA: After meeting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee following the Supreme Court verdict, the teachers who lost their jobs said the state government must be held accountable, accusing the TMC chief of offering nothing more than a 'lollipop' ...

    7 April 2025 Times of India
    'I can even be jailed for saying this': Mamata Banerjee meets sacked West Bengal teachers, says 'unable to accept SC verdict'

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressed her refusal to accept the Supreme Court verdict upholding the dismissal of over 25,000 school jobs, alleging political motives behind the decision NEW DELHI: "I will not allow eligible candidates to lose school ...

    7 April 2025 Times of India
    'CM main beneficiary, her nephew took Rs 700 crore bribe': BJP's Suvendu Adhikari demands Mamata Banerjee's resignation over teacher recruitment scam

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari, along with several BJP MLAs, staged a protest on Monday demanding the resignation of chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent order that led to the termination ...

    7 April 2025 Times of India
    'We should be proud to say that we are Sanatanis': BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Ram Navami Shobha Yatra

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    7 April 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur team develops ‘graphene tech’ for greener, cleaner way to mop up oil spills

    KOLKATA: Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) have developed a 'graphene-based' technology that could change the way the world tackles oil spills, which wreak havoc on aquatic biodiversity.The IIT team, led by Chirodeep Bakli from the School ...

    7 April 2025 Times of India
    SSC starts prep for fresh tests but unsure of process, candidature

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