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  • Digital arrest conman held in Rajasthan

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old man from Rajasthan, Mahesh Kumar, was apprehended from Alwar on Tuesday by Bidhannagar cops for allegedly defrauding a 76-year-old woman from Lake Town of Rs 11 lakh on Dec 24, 2024. The victim, Manju Ganguly, received ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    EDII Champions Green Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Growth at Kolkata Roundtable Meet

    KOLKATA: The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), a globally unique institution fostering entrepreneurial skills, reaffirmed its commitment to green entrepreneurship at a recent roundtable meet in Kolkata. Aligning with the Government of India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death: Mom goes to HC, seeks fresh probe

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted leave to the mother of the event management professional victim who died in a road accident at Panagarh on Feb 24 to file her petition praying for a thorough investigation into the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Gang assaults Burrabazar trader at office, loots lakhs

    Kolkata: A trader was assaulted and robbed of lakhs inside his office in Burrabazar.The attack took place on Monday evening at Synagogue Street in central Kolkata, where three men allegedly robbed the trader at his fourth-floor share trading and ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Our job is done: CISF wants to hand over RG Kar security charge

    Kolkata: Six months after the Supreme Court ordered the deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the central force wants to be relieved of the charge and hand over the hospital's ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops take Prasun to Tangra crime scene

    Kolkata: Cops on Wednesday took Prasun Dey, the younger brother of the Tangra Dey family, to his Atal Sur Road residence to reconstruct the sequence of events that took place on Feb 17-18, when three people were found dead ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Education minister visits Jadavpur Univ VC in hosp. Students seek union election, stretch stir

    123456 Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu visited Jadavpur University's interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta at a private hospital on Wednesday, where he got admitted in the morning with complaints of fluctuating blood pressure. Even as Gupta lay in hospital, ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    HC on security PIL: Let state work as per statute

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday refused an urgent hearing of a PIL, seeking the deployment of state police at the Jadavpur University entrance gates for the time being, instead of private agency personnel currently on the job. ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    AIDSO members to move court, write to Prez against Midnapore cop ‘excess’

    Kolkata: Several AIDSO girls were allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad members and policemen on Monday during a protest on the Vidyasagar University campus in West Midnapore. The students alleged on Wednesday that they were tortured inside Kotwali police ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Infighting suspected in marsh crocodile death

    123 Burdwan: A male marsh crocodile was found dead in a water body at Burdwan Zoological Park, Ramnabagan Mini Zoo of Burdwan town in East Burdwan on Monday night.The preliminary autopsy report indicated infighting between two male crocodiles as ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Kalighat patachitra now on board skywalk ahead of opening

    123456 Kolkata: The Kalighat skywalk is set to open on April 14 on the eve of Poila Baisakh, the Bengali new year. A KMC official on Friday said work on the skywalk, including that of ‘Kalighat patachitra' on the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Schools take guard against dengue ahead of peak season

    Kolkata: Schools across the state have started taking preventive measures against dengue well ahead of its peak season. The state education department has already issued a circular, asking govt schools to take up all preventive measures on the school ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Disha opens 19th branch, set to invest Rs 100 crore

    Kolkata: Disha Eye Hospitals on Wednesday opened its 19th branch, at Kolkata's Girish Park. The four-storey branch is spread across 10,000 sq ft. It is a 30-bedded eyecare unit which is well-equipped with trending and progressive technologies. The hospital ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Birbhum, Bankura mushroom can fight cancer: Nature publishes Rahara RKM scientist study

    Kolkata: For years, a quiet mystery surrounded some regions in Birbhum and Bankura — cancer seemed to spare them. Swapan Kumar Ghosh, a scientist who grew up in Birbhum, was intrigued. His search for answers led him to an ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Cybercrime in lowest strata prompts training for NGOs

    Kolkata: Frequent cases of cyber fraud among the underprivileged sections of the society has prompted NGOs in the city to organise online training programmes for their members so that they can help the victims of such crimes in a ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Roadside waste-burning haunts Ballygunge again

    Kolkata: Early on Wednesday morning, thick black smoke engulfed a stretch of Paddapukur Road in upscale Ballygunge Circular Road neighbourhood after waste that had been dumped there was set ablaze. Last autumn, similar incidents of waste and leaf burning ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    6 teachers injured as HS examinees turn violent over checks

    Malda: At least six teachers were injured at Chamagram High School, under Baishnabnagar police station, on Wednesday as Higher Secondary Examination candidates turned violent over checks for mobile phones.The school was hosting students from Kanditola High Madrasah, Char Sujapur ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC brass to hold meet on voter list complaints today

    Kolkata: TMC brass will meet at Kolkata's Trinamool Bhawan on Thursday to take stock of complaints of voter list discrepancies that have been emerging statewide. In addition to EPIC numbers of Bengal voters being linked to those outside the ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Shah to visit Bengal by end of March, discuss ‘fake voter’ issue

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah, who met state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and state minder Amit Malviya on Wednesday, is likely to visit Bengal by the end of this month. Shah is likely to discuss the issue of ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    Jaldapara, Gorumara forest divisions start rhino census

    12 Jalpaiguri: Jaldapara and Gorumara forest divisions kicked off a census on Wednesday, for a count of the one-horned rhinoceros in the two national parks. The exercise will take place over two days (March 5 and 6), with a ...

    6 March 2025 Times of India
    GSI celebrates 175th Foundation Day with digital initiatives and strategic collaborations

    KOLKATA: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) marked its 175th Foundation Day with a grand ceremony at its Central Headquarters in Kolkata. The event was graced by Union minister of Coal & Mines, G. Kishan Reddy, who launched two ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata woman dies in auto accident while taking daughter to ICSE Class 10 maths exam; girl completes paper in shock

    A Class X student in Sodepur, Kolkata, lost her mother in an auto accident just minutes before her ICSE math exam. Despite the shock, police ensured she reached the exam hall on time. KOLKATA: A Class X student ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Counting down to women’s day: Breaking stereotypes, one tattoo at a time

    These tattoo artists are overcoming prejudices, proving talent has no genderIf you are passionate about art, hone your craft & take the leap: Susweta BhattacharyaSusweta Bhattacharya’s style is a mix of intricacy and realistic detailsThe beginning: I was born ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Tangra, Behala, Kasba: Experts focus on breaking the chain

    Kolkata: The difference in psychological resilience differentiated every individual from the other, with most striving to overcome their crises and only a few choosing to take extreme steps, like suicide, said mental health experts. The discussion followed three incidents ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Choose to die a legal death, Prasun tells court

    Kolkata: Prasun Dey, the younger of the Dey brothers from Tangra, told the advocate appointed on his behalf by the state that he neither wanted a legal representation nor did he wish to argue his case as he "chose ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death case: Dancer’s driver held

    Panagarh/Chandernagore: Cops from the Kanksa PS on Monday arrested Rajdeo Sharma, who was driving dancer Sutandra Chatterjee's car, which during a high-speed chase with an SUV on NH-19, crashed into a concrete chunk and a toilet on Rice Mill ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    AFC Challenge League: East Bengal look to start afresh as Arkadag test awaits

    Kolkata: It was with the AFC Challenge League that East Bengal FC's long and laborious climb back to respectability under Oscar Bruzon after a wretched start to the season began four months ago in Thimphu. The Super Cup champions ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    CIL aims for net-zero emissions with solar power push

    Kolkata: Coal India wanted to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by stepping up solar power generation, chairman P M Prasad said at the AGM of Bharat Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. The coal behemoth was also giving major stress to ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Kestopur homemaker, 24, is state’s largest seller of phone SIMs used in cybercrimes

    Kolkata: A 24-year-old homemaker living in a Kestopur bylane has emerged as the state's largest — and one of India's highest — seller of SIMs generated through fraudulent means. A search by a Kolkata Police detective department team at ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Husband, wife kill selves, son; kin held for abetment

    Kolkata: The bodies of a 40-year-old man, his infant son's body tied to him, and his 35-year-old wife were found hanging at their home in Kasba, south Kolkata, early on Tuesday. Autorickshaw owner Somnath Roy and his homemaker wife ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Reclaim night, cops encourage women on social media

    Kolkata: The Bengal Police have some definite messages for everyone this Women's Day. Reclaiming the Night should not just be confined to outdoors but equally indoors, they have stated. International Women's Day is on March 8 and to mark ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Body in bag: Cops recover ‘bnoti’, hammer

    Kolkata: Police on Tuesday recovered a ‘bnoti', a machete and a hammer used by Madhyamgram residents Falguni Ghosh and her mother, Arati, to kill Falguni's aunt-in-law Sumita on Feb 23. The weapons were recovered from a pond in Bireshpalli, ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Cops probe ‘organized vandalism’

    Kolkata: Mohammed Sahil Khan (25), a former JU student who hails from Birbhum, was one of the many foot soldiers who were part of a larger conspiracy to create anarchy, the police claimed on Monday.The cops stated that Khan ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    HS exams off to smooth start amid stir

    Kolkata: The presence of a large team of policemen around the trouble-prone zones of Jadavpur and College Street, which have multiple exam venues, ensured a smooth start to the HS exams on Monday. In close vicinity of Jadavpur University ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Road repair work starts across all Salt Lake wards

    123 Kolkata: Road repairs across Salt Lake and adjoining areas formally started on Monday, beginning with a stretch in Nayapatti in Ward 28 adjoining Salt Lake.State fire and emergency services dept minister and Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose was present ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Submit Kakdwip murders progress report on May 2: HC to SIT

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the new investigating team under IGP Murlidhar Sharma to submit a progress report on the 2018 Kakdwip twin murder case on May 2.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh's order came while declining a prayer by ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    HC orders stay on probe against Mithun

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered a stay on the police investigation against actor-turned BJP neta Mithun Chakraborty based on an FIR accusing him of delivering a provocative speech at an event on Oct 27 last year. Justice ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    4-day festival of creative docus kicks off in Kolkata

    1234 Kolkata: A festival of creative documentary featuring Shaunak Sen's ‘All That Breathes', Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh's ‘Writing with Fire', Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's ‘Nocturnes', Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbo's ‘Agent of Happiness', Nistha Jain's ‘Golden Thread', ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    CISF cyclothon to raise awareness on coastal security

    Kolkata: Central Industrial Security Force is embarking on a major outreach with citizens across the country with a 25-day cyclothon that will cover the entire Indian coast.Two sets of cyclists will start the ride on March 7 from Bakkhali ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Bengal home to 111 endangered Irrawaddy dolphins, Sundarbans has 108: Nat’l survey

    12345 Kolkata: In the first comprehensive study on Irrawaddy dolphins — estuarine dolphins that are more salt-tolerant — in the Indian Sundarbans, researchers found that the delta harbours 108 of these endangered dolphins. The findings emerged during the release ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Batches of 63 common drugs fail quality test

    Kolkata: Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the national regulatory body for drugs, cosmetics and medical devices, has listed numerous batches of 63 common drugs manufactured by various pharmaceutical firms across the country that have failed quality tests. According ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    Police evict hawkers, reclaim parking lots in New Market zone

    123 Kolkata: Car parking lots were reclaimed by cops in and around New Market on Tuesday morning as they evicted hawkers from the carriageway to vacate space for shoppers to park their cars. The police drive came a day ...

    5 March 2025 Times of India
    From April, pay BMC property tax on app

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to introduce the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) as an additional payment mode option for taxpayers to pay property tax bills, apart from the existing online and offline modes, from the ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    2 kidnapped Murshidabad youths rescued from Tiljala, 4 arrested

    Kolkata: In an overnight operation by a joint team of Murshidabad police and Kolkata Police, two kidnapped youths were rescued and four persons arrested from a hideout in Tiljala on Saturday night. The primary victim, who was missing for ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Match-day offer: ‘Rohit garlic prawn’, ‘Kohli kebab’ to go with free drinks

    Kolkata: With the Men in Blue looking to avenge the '23 World Cup final defeat and recent reverses in the Test series, the India-Australia Champions Trophy semi-final duel on Tuesday is set to be a prime-time blockbuster with the ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Daughter of Kol couple to represent US in under-12 Chess World Cup

    123 Kolkata: The 10-year-old daughter of parents from Kolkata, who now reside in Tampa, Florida, will represent the US in the under-12 years Chess World Cup in Butami, Georgia, this June-July. Kolkata-based grand master Diptayan Ghosh is coaching her ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Santu’s death unites fans across Indo-Bangla border

    123 Kolkata: Santu, the dog from Khulna in Bangladesh who often crossed over to Barasat for treatment with her owner and had turned a social media star, died at her home on Sunday, leading to a pall of gloom ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Now, Bengal BJP starts voter survey in Bhowanipore

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Monday started a survey of voters in Kolkata, beginning with the Bhowanipore assembly area through a door-to-door campaign. The party has asked workers in each assembly constituency to reach every booth and identify fake and ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Port Blair to host inaugural Andaman book fest

    123 Kolkata: The inaugural ‘Andaman Book Festival' will be held in Port Blair from March 19-23. The organisers — Atul Smrity Samity, Andaman — have invited the Publishers & Booksellers Guild and EZCC for support. The fair will be ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    I killed my daughter, younger Dey bro tells cops hours after his arrest

    Kolkata: Prasun Dey told cops on Monday that it was he who had murdered his daughter, 14-year-old Priyamvada Dey, on Feb 18. The revelation came hours after the younger of the two Dey brothers at the heart of a ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    End bureaucratic red tape for devpt of state: Mamata

    Kolkata: Stressing that she wanted to end bureaucratic red tape, CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked officials to accelerate the approval of projects for development of the state. The CM also issued a warning to the fire, environment and ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Coal India expects lower production amid rake shortage

    123 Kolkata: Coal India expects a production of 788 MT for the current financial year against the initial production target of 838 MT. Although international coal prices have softened, CIL has ruled out any price rationalisation by it.Speaking at ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    CIL waives fin coverage for NPS consumers

    Kolkata: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has done away with the financial coverage of ten days of coal value that its non-power sector (NPS) consumers had to pay for coal received through rail. "The latest decision is one more step ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Celebration of Bhajanka’s Padma award

    123 Kolkata: A felicitation ceremony was held recently to honour Century Ply chairman Sajjan Bhajanka for receiving the Padma Shri from the President of India. The event, organized by FACES and supported by Kolkata We Care, was a celebration ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Jaldapara poacher gets 6-yr RI, fined Rs 40k for illegal wildlife trade

    Jalpaiguri: The Alipurduar chief judicial magistrate's court on Monday sentenced notorious poacher Lukash Basumatary to six years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 40,000 for illegal wildlife trade. This is the highest quantum of jail term awarded under ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 of family found dead in Madarihat forest quarters

    Jalpaiguri: Three of a family were found dead in forest quarters in Madarihat range of Jaldapara wildlife division on Monday.While Ravi Oraon (32) was found hanging, the bodies of his mother Bibi Lohar Oraon (52) and nephew Vivek Oraon ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Couple gets life term for parents’ supari killing

    Kolkata: A district court on Monday sentenced Nivedita Sandhu (26) and her husband Bunty Sandhu to life imprisonment for the murder of Nivedita's parents, Ramkrishna Mandal and Lila Mandal in Habra five years ago. The elderly couple was shot ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Night car theft after day test-drive

    Kolkata: A man, who repeatedly took a second-hand sedan car on test drives, allegedly stole the vehicle from a used-car garage at Duttabad on EM Bypass recently. The suspect, who had showed interest in purchasing the used car — ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Girl molested inside toilet at railway stn

    Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly molested inside a public toilet for women by a worker of the facility near Sodepur railway station on the Sealdah-Ranaghat main section of Eastern Railway on Monday afternoon. The accused, identified as Bikram ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    GF attacks wife with hammer at hospital

    Kolkata: A middle-aged woman, Priyanka Mazumdar Baidya (28) of Sukchar near Khardah, was allegedly attacked inside Calcutta Medical College Hospital on Monday morning with a hammer by a female medical representative, Payal Chakraborty (31) who was allegedly having an ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Constable dies on wedding day

    Hooghly: A Hooghly cop, who had sustained a gunshot wound on Friday, died at a Chinsurah hospital on Monday, the day he was supposed to get married.Constable Himanshu Maji (26) received the injury on his head while on duty ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Stir during placement not a good ad: Bengal Inc

    Kolkata: The strike call and the violence that Jadavpur University has witnessed over the last three days in the middle of a placement season for its engineering students are definitely not good publicity for either the university or Bengal ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Residents protest night tree-hacking in Kasba

    123 Kolkata: An overnight (Sunday) drive to hack full-grown trees in a Kasba neighbourhood met with vehement protests from the residents, who chased the tree hackers and caught a couple of them. They were later brought to Kasba police ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Hawkers’ forum to gherao New Market PS against illegal hawkers

    123 Kolkata: In a reversal of roles, the Hawker Sangram Committee, one of the largest platforms for the protection of hawkers that used to gherao police stations to protest against the eviction of hawkers from Kolkata streets, has decided ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    Kol campuses give strike a miss, JU and Presidency only outliers

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University, the campus where the latest bout of violent student politics originated on Saturday, along with Presidency College, which has seen several episodes of student politics since the 1960s, were the only two outliers on Monday when ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 of Belghariafamily killed in UP accident

    Kolkata: A trip to attend a marriage ceremony in Uttar Pradesh ended in tragedy for three persons of a Belgharia family after their SUV collided with a truck in UP's Chandauli on Saturday morning. Three of them, including a ...

    4 March 2025 Times of India
    3 family members found dead in West Bengal's Jaldapara wildlife division

    Representative image JALPAIGURI: Three people from the same family were found dead in a forest quarter in the Madarihat range of Jaldapara wildlife division on Monday morning.While Ravi Oraon (32) was found hanging from the ceiling of a room, ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase death: 4-day jail custody for trader

    12 Panagarh: A Durgapur court on Sunday rejected the bail plea of Bablu Yadav (37), the motor parts scrap trader arrested in connection with the death of Sutandra Chatterjee after a high-speed chase on NH 19 in Panagarh. He ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Jadavpur University violence: Clash erupts between TMCP and AIDSO in Siliguri during SFI's strike

    NEW DELHI: A clash broke out between members of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) and All India Democratic Students' Organisation (AIDSO) workers during a students' strike called by the Students' Federation of India (SFI) across universities in West Bengal ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Harassment video: Woman kills self

    Howrah: Humiliated by a video showing her being harassed by neighbours, that went viral on social media, a woman killed herself on Saturday night in Howrah. According to cops and locals, the woman's husband works in another state. Some ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    YouTuber files plaint against HC lawyers

    Kolkata: A journalist associated with a YouTube channel filed a complaint at Hare Street PS alleging harassment by a group of lawyers at Calcutta High Court on Feb 28. Cops have started a probe.The journalist said she and her ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Early summer onset: Doctors issue afternoon heat alert for elderly, kids

    Kolkata: With day temperatures set to cross 33°C in Kolkata, doctors have sounded an "afternoon heat alert" for the elderly and children. While Kolkata recorded a maximum temperature of 32.8°C on Sunday, the minimum was 23.1°C. The maximum is ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    In green move, Gangasagar plastic waste goes into building stronger road in Canning

    Kolkata: As debates rage across the nation over the massive waste accumulation at the Maha Kumbh Mela and its environmental impact, with social media flooded with public outrage and criticism from environmentalists, Bengal's South 24 Parganas administration took a ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Metro starts inspection of E-W’s Esp-Sealdah stretch

    Kolkata: Metro Railway has started inspecting the East-West Metro's upcoming Esplanade-Sealdah section to compile a status report of the stretch. Submitting the documents on the readiness of the new section is a prerequisite for a Commission of Railway Safety ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    7 FIRs, 1 arrest, arson probe as Left JU unions dig in heels

    Kolkata: The Jadavpur University (JU) campus seems to be facing an extended period of unrest after SFI on Sunday called for a students' strike at all state universities on Monday, even as the cops arrested a former student and ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    3 days after TMC’s voter-list fraud charge, EC gives an EPIC reply

    Kolkata: Election Commission of India (EC) on Sunday conceded that two voters from two different states or UTs may have been issued the same number on their electoral photo identify card (EPIC), but denied that that implied duplicate or ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    120m-tall observation tower, India’s loftiest, coming up in Howrah

    123 Howrah: India's tallest observatory, standing a staggering 120m, is nearing completion in Howrah city, and will open up to visitors in three-four months.Situated in Howrah's Belilious Park, adjacent to the East-West Bypass in Howrah that connects Dumurjala and ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Campaign to save birds from ‘ghost’ nets

    Kolkata: In a bid to check hunting of migratory birds that visit various sites in the state in winter, a major initiative was recently launched to save them in different parts of North 24 Parganas. Between Dec and Feb, ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Ind, B’desh river experts at Farakka today to take water pact talks forward

    Kolkata: Indian and Bangladeshi river experts will visit Farakka on Monday to make a review of the water level at Farakka to take forward the dialogue on the renewal of the Ganga Water Treaty, set to end in Dec ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Names removed, ‘daughter’ older than dad: TMC finds voter list discrepancies

    Kolkata: From names being removed from electoral rolls to a daughter listed as older than her father, Trinamool Congress netas on Sunday heard out multiple discrepancies when they hit the streets to check the voters' list.The revised electoral roll ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    RSS-BJP meet discusses creation of ‘counter-narrative’ in Bengal

    Kolkata: RSS, its 57 sister organisations and Bengal BJP netas concluded a two-day ‘samanvay baithak' in Howrah on Sunday with proposals to create a "counter-narrative" in the state. Sources said Sangh had asked its sister organisations to activate themselves ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Worry for city cops as HS begins today

    123 Kolkata: With 30,000-odd students in Kolkata set to appear for their HS examination on Monday, Kolkata Police has issued a stern warning against any obstruction or blockade that could delay their commute or disrupt law and order. The ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    LED-there-be-light mission in Salt Lake

    123 Kolkata: Streets across Salt Lake are set to be better illuminated with LED lighting. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) wants to procure and install LED street lights across all its 41 wards under the Green Cities Mission scheme. ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Pol docus on B’desh, Myanmar & Pak find place in city film fest

    Kolkata: The names of three compelling documentaries addressing issues in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar were announced last week in the programming list of a film festival scheduled in the city in March. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, who was amon- gst the ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    BMC plans new pumping stn to check Salt Lake waterlogging

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to set up a drop pumping station off Kestopur Canal to strengthen the drainage outfall system and quickly drain excess storm water to prevent waterlogging in the Salt Lake area.Civic officials ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    JU violence exposes campus fault lines

    123 Kolkata: Hours before the scheduled start of first semester B Tech examinations across seven engineering streams, multiple post-graduate courses and some supplementary examinations at Jadavpur University on Monday, the ongoing campus unrest and the strike call have thrown ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Airport pushes to ramp up self check-in tag use

    123 Kolkata: Kolkata airport authorities are exploring ways to improve visibility and awareness through repositioning and fresh advertising of the self-baggage drop kiosk facility. Despite the convenience and efficiency of the service, passenger adoption remains surprisingly low at the ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    At hosp to meet injured students, JU VC ‘heckled’

    123 Kolkata: After state education minister Bratya Basu, Jadavpur University's interim VC Bhaskar Gupta was also heckled, and his shirt was torn when he went to meet the injured student at the hospital late on Saturday. Gupta, referring to ...

    3 March 2025 Times of India
    Madhyamik examinee gang-raped, 1 arrested

    123 Kolkata: A 15-year-old Madhyamik examinee was allegedly abducted, dragged to an abandoned house, and gang-raped by two youths at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas on Friday evening.The duo allegedly filmed the rape scene on their cellphone and threatened ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Pigeon-racing, remnant of 19th-century Babu culture in Bengal, on its last wings

    1234 Kolkata: The city that once ruled the pigeon racing circuit with several clubs vying for coveted trophies now has only a couple of them and a handful of pigeon fanciers who are continuing with the passion of nurturing ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Jadavpur University clash: 5 FIRs registered, 1 arrested after minister heckled, car vandalised

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, centre, speaks with Students' Federation of India (SFI) members at Jadavpur University campus, in Kolkata. (PTI photo) KOLKATA: Five FIRs have been registered, and one person has been arrested so far in connection ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Mayor hits the streets to weed out bogus voters

    123 Kolkata: After being prodded by CM Mamata Banerjee, mayor Firhad Hakim hit the road on Saturday to identify bogus voters. Hakim chose a neighbourhood located close to his residence in Chetla, which falls under ward 82. The mayor ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Students, guide go Maidan ‘plogging’

    123 Kolkata: Students from a private university in Kolkata joined hands with a walking tour guide to remove litter from a section of the Maidan on Saturday morning.Soham Chakraborty, who takes pride in showing Kolkata's natural and architectural heritage ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Did business loss drive them to murder? Dey brothers took Rs 15 crore loan, left with just Rs 25,000- 40,000

    KOLKATA: Barely a few thousand rupees-something between Rs 25,000 and Rs 40,000-remain in the bank accounts of the Dey brothers. Faced by huge losses in their family business, Pranay and Prasun Dey planned a suicide pact for the entire ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu heckled; student, professors injured in clashes on Jadavpur University campus

    West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, centre, speaks with Students' Federation of India (SFI) members at Jadavpur University campus, in Kolkata. (PTI photo) KOLKATA: Jadavpur University students primarily belonging to ultra-Left organisations heckled education minister Bratya Basu, ransacked his ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    CM to hold meet on Rs 4.5 L cr BGBS investment proposals on Mon

    Kolkata: The Bengal administration is going to convene a meeting on Monday to execute investment proposals amounting to around Rs 4.5 lakh crore, which were proposed during the Bengal Global Business Summit held in Feb. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 1 injured as car crashes against tanker

    12 Tamluk: Three people died, and one was injured when a car hit a stationary tanker from behind on Digha-Mecheda NH116B on Saturday morning. The driver — Sudip Maity of South Khodambari in Nandigram — and two passengers — ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Jalpaiguri tea auction centre set to reopen after a decade

    123 Jalpaiguri: The North Bengal Tea Auction Centre (NBTAC) in Jalpaiguri is set to resume operations after a decade. In a letter to NBTAC, the Union commerce and industries ministry has informed that operations will restart from March 31.Opened ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Copycat cases? Experts weigh in, stress mental well-being

    123 Kolkata: The suicide of a father and his autistic daughter at Behala's Shakuntala Park could be a case of ‘copycat suicide'. This incident occurred almost two weeks after the Tangra incident, where three members of a family died ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Hull welded, Bangla barge towed away

    123 Kolkata: The Bangladeshi barge, Sea Wald, that has been stranded in the channel off Ghoramara Island after its hull cracked when it ran aground on a sandhead on Feb 13, was finally towed to Lot 8 in Namkhana ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
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