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  • Man molests women in pool, held

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Body found near planetarium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    CM pays surprise visit finance dept at Nabanna

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, made an unannounced visit to the finance department on the 12th floor at Nabanna on Tuesday, rather than proceeding directly to her office on the 14th floor. The purpose of her visit was to ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Post-Cov traffic speed up a little, thanks to influx of 2-wheelers, autos

    123 Kolkata: A comprehensive speed-mapping study revealed a modest rise in Kolkata's vehicular speed from 2020 to 2025, primarily due to the rise in two-wheelers. While peripheral corridors such as VIP Road and Diamond Harbour Road saw significant improvements, ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police arrests six for operating fake call centre

    Kolkata: The Cyber Police Station on Tuesday arrested six persons for allegedly operating an illegal call centre that targeted US residents through various tech support scams.The arrests were made between 4 am and 4:35 am at a ground floor ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    SNB, Entally among 4 sites to get KMC EV charging stns

    123 Kolkata: In a bid to curb air pollution by promoting electric vehicles, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to set up four more EV charging stations. Currently, the KMC electrical department runs three such charging stations. According to ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Dereliction of duty not criminal offence’

    123 Kolkata: A post office peon, who was arrested in connection with the issuance of 29 passports against 10 Aadhaar cards, was granted bail by the Calcutta High Court on the grounds that his delivering the passports to an ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Sabuj Mancha on plastic pollution threat to rivers

    12 Kolkata: Physical surveys conducted across districts of Bengal by Sabuj Mancha reveal that riverbeds in the region are choked with plastic waste, putting freshwater aquatic biodiversity under severe existential threat. If these riverbeds continue on this trajectory, they ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Centralised admission portal set to go live in 2 weeks’

    1234 Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu on Tuesday hinted that the centralised admission portal (CAP) will go live earlier than last year. While private and minority colleges have opened their UG admission portals, state-aided colleges and varsities are ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    KMDA revamps civic infra & amenities at Sarobar Lake

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is enhancing the civic infrastructure and other amenities of Rabindra Sarobar Lake. The authorities are laying trunks (bullah piling) on the sides of the entire waterbody to protect the banks of the ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    City cyclists urge CM to lift ban on cycling

    12 Kolkata: Cyclists in Kolkata rallied behind chief minister Mamata Banerjee, hailing her visionary Sabuj Sathi scheme that distributed over 1.15 crore bicycles to girl students across Bengal. In a heartfelt open letter, cycling enthusiasts and advocacy groups appealed ...

    4 June 2025 Times of India
    Docu features Vidyasagar Colony residents’ collective fight for neighbourhood tamarind tree

    123456 KOLKATA: A first-of-its-kind collective in the city, formed to protect a gigantic tamarind tree planted by freedom fighter Parul Mukherjee and almost brought down by builders, has come up with a documentary called ‘Jilipibalar Bondhura'. To create awareness ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    NDRF team flies to North Sikkim for rescue ops after landslide buries army post

    Representative AI image GANGTOK: A 23-member NDRF contingent departed from Gangtok to Chhaten in North Sikkim on Tuesday to conduct search and rescue operations for six soldiers who went missing after a landslide struck an army installation, according to ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata man who filed FIR against Instagram influencer Sharmishta Panoli now faces 7 complaints for ‘communal posts’

    KOLKATA: Wazahat Khan Qadri, whose FIR prompted Kolkata police to arrest a law student and influencer from Gurugram for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, is himself accused of regularly making communal and inflammatory posts on social media, and now faces ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    2023 Madhyamik topper comes first among girls with 16th rank in JEE(A)

    KOLKATA: A Madhyamik topper in 2023, Katwa's Devdutta Majhi has come out on top among girls in this year's JEE (Advanced), securing an overall rank of 16 with 312 marks. The Katwa Durgadasi Chaudhurani Girls' High School student, who ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal to table caste survey in assembly, lists 140 sub-groups for 17% OBC quota benefits

    Image used is for representational purposes only KOLKATA: West Bengal govt will table an OBC survey that has identified a total of 140 sub-groups under this category during the monsoon session of assembly, beginning June 9. The state ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Influencer Sharmistha Panoli’s health worsens in jail; lawyer Md Samimuddin alleges denial of basic rights

    Influencer Sharmistha Panoli’s health worsens in jail; lawyer Md Samimuddi alleges denial of basic rights KOLKATA: Social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli's lawyer, Md Samimuddin, reports her deteriorating health conditions at Alipore Women's Correctional Home following her arrest on May ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Adriyan, a new shooting star on the rise

    Kolkata: Adriyan Karmakar was seven when his father Joydeep missed an Olympic medal narrowly by finishing fourth at the London Games in 2012. Having watched that event on television, the youngster grew up with a legacy to carry forward.Last ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Chair lift’ for elderly, disabled at Kolkata’s Behala Police Station

    12 Kolkata: In a bid to provide relief to the elderly and the disabled complainants, the Kolkata Police will install a ‘chair lift' at the Behala Police Station. Lalbazar has floated tenders in this regards. The cops stated that ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: Parking mafia tipped off before civic body-cop raid

    12 Kolkata: A high-level inspection of many car parking zones in and around Burrabazar to probe complaints of alleged fleecing of motorists by the attendants turned futile on Monday. The inspection team, led by member, Mayor-in-Council overseeing the KMC ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol remains hot, humid with max at 37°C & real-feel 46°C

    12 Kolkata: The city remained warm and humid even as the maximum temperature climbed to 37°C on a scorching Monday. With warm westerly winds flowing into the region, the mercury will continue to hover around the 36-37°C mark for ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Hotel blaze brings guests out on Lansdowne Road in dead of night

    1234 Kolkata: A fire on the fourth floor of Mangalam hotel on Sarat Bose Road early on Monday forced all 48 guests to evacuate in the dead of night. The blaze raked up memories of the hotel fire at ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    15-year-old boy critical with Covid & typhoid gets well, goes home

    Kolkata: Amidst reports of a few Covid-19 related deaths across the country, no such deaths were reported from Bengal during this current spike. In fact, a 15-year-old boy who had a double infection of Covid-19 and typhoid was discharged ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Visva-Bharati to start Sun guided walks in Santiniketan heritage zone

    123 Kolkata: Visva-Bharati (VB) is set to introduce Sunday guided walking tours of the core heritage zone — the Ashrama area of Santiniketan — for tourists, probably from July. The Ashrama complex, which accommodates tourist attractions like the Upasana ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Contractor buried and plastered in wall, aunt held in Malda

    Malda: Malda Police on Monday recovered the body of a 31-year-old labour contractor, who was buried and plastered in a wall of a house in South Dinajpur's Tapan. Police were led to the home by the victim's aunt, Moumita ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Aban Thakur’s ‘Abas’ in Bolpur bites the dust

    Santiniketan: The Bolpur municipality on Monday ordered an immediate stop to the ongoing demolition of ‘Abas', which is linked to memories of Abanindranath Tagore, a painter and nephew of Rabindranath Tagore. A large part of the house was demolished ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Insta row: Man who filed plaint faces cases for hurting religious sentiments

    Kolkata: Wazahat Khan Qadri, whose FIR led to the arrest of an influencer and Symbiosis law student for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an Instagram video, now faces seven complaints against him for hurting religious sentiments with his social ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Teachers back in school but stir to go on

    Kolkata: Teachers protesting near the education department in Salt Lake returned to their classrooms on Monday following the summer vacation, temporarily halting their protest. However, the stir will continue, they said. Sahani Naznin, an English teacher at Baruipur Girls ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Green rule flout: NGT tells PCB to fine HMC

    Kolkata: The NGT directed the WBPCB to impose a penalty on Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. It also instructed the board to assess environmental compensation for continued violation of environmental laws within two months.The ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Over 1.6k tourists rescued, parts of N Sikkim still out of bounds

    Kalimpong: At least 1,678 tourists were evacuated from Lachung and Chungthang in north Sikkim and sent to Gangtok after a series of landslides cut off road access to the region. The evacuation began around 7 am on Monday, with ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Back at work after Delhi ‘call’, says Bengal guv

    Kolkata: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday said he was a "little bothered" over speculations about him being replaced at Raj Bhavan, but "responsible quarters in Delhi" advised him to ignore them.In an interview with PTI, Bose said: ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Guard averts rail accident near Bagnan

    12 Bagnan: A major accident was averted when the alert guard of a Howrah–Kharagpur local spotted a large concrete slab lying dangerously close to the tracks as the train was passing through through Naopala village in Bagnan around 12.15 ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Same-side goal’: TMC hits back at Shah’s ‘infiltration’ jibe

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Monday hit back at Union home minister Amit Shah's "infiltration" jibe at the Bengal govt, dubbing it a "same-side goal."Party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "Who guards the borders? Amit Shah just delivered a same-side ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Right to life’: Cal HC cites trial delay, grants bail to 2 in 2012 murder case

    Kolkata: Citing right to life and liberty and linking a delay in trial with it, the Calcutta High Court recently granted bail to two murder accused following more than 12 years of incarceration. The duo, along with two others, ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Tajpur deep sea port: Adani deal ‘over’, state to float fresh tender

    123 Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet on Monday decided to issue a fresh tender for the Tajpur deep sea port, ending its four-year association with Adani Group for the project.The state govt had announced in Nov 2023 that it would ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Team finds water damage in school, may grant repair nod

    Kolkata: Officials of KMC and West Bengal Heritage Commission inspected three heritage buildings at the twin La Martiniere campuses on Monday afternoon, following a Calcutta High Court order. They indicated that they would grant permission for urgent repairs against ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal govt identifies 140 OBC sub-groups

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt will table in the assembly's monsoon session an OBC survey that has identified 140 sub-groups under this category. The state govt is also likely to retain its 17% OBC reservation. The OBC policy was discussed ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Maruti eyes 4 lakh exports to offset domestic slump

    123 Kolkata: Maruti Suzuki has set a target of 4 lakh exports in 2025-26, a 20% growth over the 3.3 lakh cars it exported in 2024-25. Exports this May were 80% higher than last May. Aggressive exports helped the ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal records 18% jump in mutual fund AAUM from April 2024-25

    12 Kolkata: Bengal has recorded an 18% year-on-year jump in mutual fund average asset under management (AAUM) in April. The state's AAUM has gone up from Rs 2.9 lakh crore in April 2024 to Rs 3.4 lakh crore in ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    After 69 years, Phari resto-bar shifts, looks for new address

    Kolkata: Kwality restaurant, located at the intersection of Gariahat Road and Ballygunge Phari — which made the crossing better known as the ‘Kwality Mor' over the last seven decades — has shut down. Established in 1956, the restaurant, famous ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    18-year-old New Town girl dies while learning scooter

    123456 Kolkata: A class XII examinee taking scooter lessons from her friend on a New Town road without wearing a helmet died after she failed to negotiate a speed-breaker and fell on the ground, suffering severe head injuries on ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Work starts near VIP Road for bottom tier of three-layer airport transit system

    123 Kolkata: Construction began on the two-level tunnel under VIP Road near Kolkata airport. The lower-level tunnel will cut across VIP Road to create a four-lane underpass connecting the Kolkata airport's operational area with the Airports Authority of India ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ED slaps PMLA in 1,500-crore digi-arrest fraud run from Dubai

    Kolkata: In its first such charge sheet in Kolkata, the Enforcement Directorate on Monday slapped money laundering charges under PMLA 2002, accusing two digital fraud scammers for pulling off Rs 1,500 crore digital arrest and using a maze of ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Goons assault doc in Kasba chamber

    123 Kolkata: A 64-year-old practising doctor, who was earlier posted with the state govt health department and now at Sankrail in Kasba, was physically assaulted in his chamber at Bediadanga, Kasba, allegedly by four individuals on Saturday evening, police ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Be friends with kids, advise experts as cops flag Insta concerns

    Kolkata: If you have a teenager, who spends a good part of the day on social media, it is important that you try and know how your ward is conducting himself or herself in the virtual world. With message ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    7 passengers hurt in MG Rd bus collision

    Kolkata: Seven passengers were injured in a head-on collision between two private buses on MG Road near Pagaya Patti in Burrabazar early on Monday morning. The accident occurred around 6.05 am when a private bus on route 24A collided ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 6 security personnel missing as landslide hits Sikkim; search operations underway

    Sikkim landslide: 3 dead, search operations underway for missing tourists (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Atleast three persons died and six security peronnel went missing following a landslide in North Sikkim's Chatten area on Sunday evening, including those of military ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Talks with Pak only on POK: Abhishek in Kuala Lumpur

    12 Kolkata: Despite differences with BJP, political interests can never outweigh national interests, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Banerjee also insisted that talks with Pakistan can only be on POK.Interacting with ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    IPL final lap sends airfares flying high as Kolkata-Ahmedabad sector sees over 2-fold surge

    KOLKATA: Cricket fever has gripped Kolkata once again - even without the home team in the race - as hundreds of die-hard fans prepare to fly to Ahmedabad for the final leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) calls 24-hour strike in Siliguri over alleged attack on Hindus, arrest of workers

    Vishwa Hindu Parishad calls for a 24-hour bandh in Siliguri NEW DELHI: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has announced a 24-hour bandh in West Bengal's Siliguri on Monday to protest against alleged attacks on members of the Hindu community, ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    STF gets first police station

    123 Kolkata: Almost six years after the formation of this specialized unit and three years since plan was initiated by Bhawani Bhavan and sent to Nabanna, the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) finally has its own police station ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Notice slapped to vacate ‘White House’ in 10 days

    Kolkata: Days after Justice Amrita Sinha ordered the demolition of former Trinamool Kamarhati strongman Jayanth Singh's illegal house, Kamarhati Municipality on Sunday issued an emergency notice, directing the occupants to vacate within 10 days. The three-storey ‘White House' was ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Instagrammer’s lawyers to move court for early hearing

    12 Kolkata: Advocates representing the law student of Symbiosis International University in Pune, arrested in Gurgaon on Friday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an Instagram video, will seek an early hearing. They said the Kolkata-based girl, in judicial ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Symptoms mild but Cov admissions rise, hosps expand isolation facilities

    12 Kolkata: The spike in Covid patients in Kolkata and the rest of Bengal makes the elderly with comorbidities and children, especially those who suffered an adenovirus infection or pneumonia over the past three years, vulnerable to the existing ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Give Modi a chance,’ Shah urges Bengal voters from rally

    12 Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday took off from where PM Narendra Modi had ended his first Bengal poll campaign speech on Thursday, signalling BJP's twin strategy for the 2026 assembly election in Bengal: Focus on ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC seeks HM resignation over Pahalgam, slams ‘sindoor politics’

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool on Sunday ripped into Union home minister Amit Shah's speech, asking him to take responsibility for the security lapses during the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 and resign instead of politicising Operation Sindoor. It also ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Shah inaugurates central forensic lab in Rajarhat

    12 Kolkata: Amit Shah said on Sunday the Centre will take a "holistic approach" to criminal justice from Jan 2026, through which India's criminal justice system will be "based on evidence rather than argument". The Union home minister was ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Tread middle path: Heritage panel tells school, KMC

    12 Kolkata: The West Bengal Heritage Commission on Sunday urged La Martiniere Schools and the civic body to tread a middle path on the eve of a court-directed joint inspection of school, where even regular maintenance work had been ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    SSC considers tech route for caste cert check

    Kolkata: In a bid to enhance transparency in the teacher recruitment process for state schools, the state School Service Commission (SSC) has started discussions with the Backward Classes Welfare Commission to introduce an Application Programming Interface (API) for the ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Italian cos seek biz opportunities in Bengal

    12 Kolkata: Several Italian companies are looking for opportunities to invest for business expansion as well as to partner with local firms in Bengal. The sectors that these companies are considering include machinery, automotive parts, steel, leather, textile, and ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Row erupts over Sukanta remarks on Mamata

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Sunday threatened to take to the streets in protest against junior Union minister and Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar following his disparaging remarks against CM Mamata Banerjee.The party was responding to comments made by ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Anubrata skips cop summons again; lawyer claims ‘AI plot’

    12 Suri: Trinamool's Birbhum strongman Anubrata Mondal skipped police summons for a second consecutive day on Sunday. Instead, his lawyer met the investigating officer with a detailed medical report explaining his absence. Mondal has reportedly been advised bed rest ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    2 cases in a day, Bengal Covid tally rises 20 times in 2 weeks

    12 Kolkata: From a mere 13 active cases until the second week of May, active Covid-19 cases in Bengal rose to a staggering 287 on Sunday, increasing more than 20 times over the past fortnight. According to the Centre's ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    State to use AI to detect fake applications in UG college admissions

    12 Kolkata: The state higher education department will use an application driven by artificial intelligence (AI) in its centralised admission portal to weed out fake applications for undergraduate college admissions this year. The system, which was test-piloted during last ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Geopolitics scores but other influencer contents take a hit amid Bangla turmoil

    1234 Kolkata: From a noticeable dip in viewership from Bangladesh to a marked increase in hate comments, Bengal's content creators have encountered significant changes amidst the ongoing volatility in Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh relations. During the Aug uprising, content creators ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Give adequate time to NDPS accused for probe expansion: HC

    12 Kolkata: The prosecution needed to give adequate notice to an accused or his/her counsel in an NDPS case before the prayer for an extension of time for the probe was considered, the Calcutta High Court held while granting ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal tourists among 1,400 stranded in north Sikkim after key bridge collapse

    12 Kalimpong: Close to 1,400 tourists, most of them from Bengal, are stranded in North Sikkim after parts of the Phidang Bridge collapsed. The bridge, which serves as the main entry point to parts of North Sikkim, including Dzongu, ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    As heat soars, cops gift 4 AC stables to their horses

    12 Kolkata: Eleven years after AC stables were introduced at the SN Banerjee Road Stable of Kolkata Mounted Police (KMP), Sunday saw the inauguration of four more similar stables at the Police Training School in Alipore.The proposal for setting ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    NKDA to rehabilitate hawkers to new buildings, plans to turn temporary markets into mango orchards

    123 Kolkata: Close to 290 hawkers presently doing business at the temporary hawkers' market in different places of New Town are expected to be rehabilitated to two new buildings that have been set up by the New Town Kolkata ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    24km Rajarhat road test for Jagannath rath’s Sukhoi tyres

    123 Kolkata: The chariot used to carry Lord Jagannath during the Rath Yatra in Kolkata did a 24 km dry run on Saturday night, hours after its ageing Jumbo jet wheels of 1978 vintage were replaced with mint-fresh wheels ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    State logs 7th organ donation in ’25, 2nd in less than 2 weeks

    123 Kolkata: The liver and two kidneys of a 23-year-old brain-dead individual were transplanted into three patients in two hospitals of Kolkata on Sunday night. Bengal's seventh deceased donation of 2025 follows the organ donation of a 12-year-old by ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Strand Road guard rails lead to road rage

    123456 Kolkata: Guard rail barricades placed on Strand Road triggered a violent road rage incident in the early hours of Saturday. A 33-year-old chartered accountant from Jaipur, visiting relatives and friends in Kolkata, slowed down his car to avoid ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Monsoon guard: KP readies list of vulnerable bldgs, trees

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Police, along with its specialised Disaster Management Group, launched their preparations for the upcoming monsoon season. This includes buying and even repairing new electronic axes, wood-cutting chainsaws, and solar lights.Moreover, the teams will be stationed at ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Secularism must be two-way street’: Pawan Kalyan slams arrest of Pune law student, calls for equal stand on blasphemy

    He questioned the silence on similar actions by TMC leaders who mock Sanatana Dharma, demanding equal condemnation for all acts hurting religious sentiments. NEW DELHI: Actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan condemned the arrest of a Symbiosis law student, who was booked ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Project Pink Alert launched in Kolkata: Empowering youth for a cancer-aware future

    In a significant step towards creating a cancer-aware generation, the Institute of Breast Disease, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Asian Medical Foundation, launched Project Pink Alert—a youth-focused cancer awareness initiative—at Presidency University.The project was unveiled during a dynamic three-hour ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal man walks to Police station with sister-in-law's severed head in one hand, chopper in other

    AI image (TIL creatives) KOLKATA: People walking along the road in Bharatgarh, Basanti, witnessed a chilling sight on Saturday morning - a middle-aged man walking down the main road with a woman's severed head in one hand and a ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Sankalang Bridge washed away as Teesta River swells amid heavy rainfall in Sikkim; IMD issues red alert for Mangan district

    SIKKIM: A section of the under-construction Sankalang Bridge in North Sikkim was swept away by the Teesta River on Sunday, following intense and continuous rainfall in the region.The bridge holds critical importance as it serves as the only road ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Shah arrives in Kol, to address party workers’ rally today

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Bengal on Saturday night on a two-day visit, held a meeting with the key state functionaries. Shah, who reached at 10.10pm, is expected to address BJP functionaries at a meet ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Shopping Para Gariahat

    1234 The Gariahat neighbourhood, a microcosm of the city's history, commerce, culture and daily life, has evolved with the onslaught of times but its lively and dynamic environment characterized by shopping on pavements as well as din and bustle ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Sports museum comes up in Bengal district

    12 Kolkata: The seaside tourist destination of Mandarmani will have an added attraction now with the coming up of a sports museum there this week. The museum, the first of its kind in the districts of Bengal, was opened ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol cops pick up law student from Ggn for post ‘hurting religious sentiments’

    Kolkata: A law student at Symbiosis International University in Pune was on Friday arrested from Gurgaon by a Kolkata Police team for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in a video she posted on Instagram. The girl, who had been evading ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    UPI payment helps cops rescue abducted trader

    Kolkata: Bhowanipore Police on Saturday rescued a Kulpi-based trader who was kidnapped 48 hours earlier from near the Netaji Bhavan metro station and kept confined to a condo's 11th-floor flat on SC Mullick Road, close to Jadavpur's Sulekha area. ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata nurse gets Florence Nightingale award from Prez

    123 Kolkata: Doli Biswas, a nurse at a private hospital in Kolkata, received the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Award for her ‘exemplary contribution to nursing and compassionate patient care'. She received the award from President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
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