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  • 'More rain on Tuesday, temperature may rise but stay below normal in Kolkata': IMD

    Kolkata’s maximum temperature was 31.6˚ C on Sunday KOLKATA: Despite a partially cloudy sky, the city remained mostly dry on Sunday. While similar conditions are likely to prevail on Monday as well, the Met officials are hopeful of rain ...

    5 August 2024 Times of India
    Duty hike: Get ready to fork out more for bar bill in Kolkata

    The new rates will come into effect from Aug 14 KOLKATA: Tipplers may have to shell out more for their pegs from Sept at most restaurants, bars and nightclubs across Kolkata that are ready to spike their liquor charges. ...

    5 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘Raise electrical joint boxes to stop electrocution death’

    Kolkata: Taking a lesson from the electrocution death of a young girl at Malipachghara in Howrah due to waterlogging, state urban development minister Firhad Hakim on Saturday said efforts were being taken to raise the electrical joint boxes that ...

    5 August 2024 Times of India
    Indian Academy of Paediatrics-Oxford University fellowship MOU signed in Kolkata

    Indian Academy of Paediatrics-Oxford University fellowship MOU signed in Kolkata. KOLKATA: On Sunday, a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between IAP (Indian Academy of Paediatrics) and Oxford University, England, to train doctors in Oxford under a fellowship ...

    5 August 2024 Times of India
    Kumartuli artisans scurry for plastic cover

    Kolkata: The rain over the past few days has forced potters in Kumartuli to take refuge under plastic sheets to complete the idols before the onset of the festive season.Many idol makers are also using pedestal fans, blowtorches and ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Rangdajied United replace Hyderabad FC in Durand Cup

    Kolkata: Meghalaya’s Rangdajied United FC will replace Hyderabad FC in the ongoing Durand Cup. Hyderabad FC — in the midst of financial troubles — failed to field a team and eventually dropped out of the tournament, forcing the organisers ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Microplastic in West Bengal's Digha and Puri seawater at alarming levels

    Researchers have found an average of 5.3 microplastic items per litre of water on Digha beach (pic) and 6.4 per litre on Puri beach KOLKATA: The single-use plastic bag that you left on the Digha beach last summer might ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Raining problems for flyers outside and inside city airport

    Kolkata: Flyers were hit by a double whammy on Saturday, first because of waterlogging on VIP Road and Jessore Road and then by sporadic snags in the DigiYatra check-in system that delayed passenger entry into the terminal.Waist-deep water in ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Illegal bldgs: KMC to seek legal help

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will seek legal assistance against a section of promoters who first flout building rules and then move court against the civic body’s demolition drive, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Saturday. He said this ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Stagger release, state requests after DVC discharges 1.4L cusec water

    12 Kolkata/Burdwan: Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) on Saturday released around 1,38,000 cusec of water from Maithon and Panchet dams, raising fears of widespread flood across south Bengal, which has been receiving steady rainfall this week. The move prompted the ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    No irregularity in Garbeta plot transfer: State

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Saturday said that there was no irregularity in the transfer of a plot for promoting industry in West Midnapore’s Garbeta.Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chief adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, said at a press meet in Nabanna that ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘African’ strikes gold

    Kolkata: Parvati Byramji- saddled African Gold won the Colts Trials Championship Stakes on Saturday at Bengaluru. The Fillies Trial Championship Stakes was claimed by Rajesh Narredu-nursed Excellent Lass.Bengaluru short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1. (5-4-1) Akasi 1: Recreator 2: Phoenix Surprise ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    MSC snatch a point with late penalty

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting required a stoppage-time penalty to hold Diamond Harbour FC 1-1 in their CFL Premier Division match in Naihati on Saturday and keep their title defence on track. Jobby Justin gave Diamond Harbour the lead in the ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    A year after 8-yr-old’s death, Behala to get model crossing

    Kolkata: It has been exactly a year since eight-year-old Swarnanil Sarkar — a student of class II of Barisha High School at Behala Chowrasta — was mowed down by a truck while he was on his way to appear ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Waterlogging, bad roads make traffic crawl

    Kolkata: Traffic remained slow across Kolkata on Saturday but the worst affected area remained Mominpore where cops had to request RVNL to carry out work on the road on a SOS basis for temporary relief.Among the spots to be ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Hard to shift unsafe bldgs’ tenants: Mayor

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation buildings department will need to focus on the city’s dilapidated buildings in the wake of spells of rain. However, the KMC buildings department officials find it difficult to convince tenants of the vulnerable buildings ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Going by SC order, interim VC should not enter CU: Min

    Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu on Saturday said if the Supreme Court’s order is followed, the interim vice chancellor of Calcutta University should not enter the university. This comes a day after TMCP members kept CU officials, including ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Parts of airport waterlogged but flights stick to schedule

    Kolkata: Overnight showers led to waterlogging in both the approach road to the Kolkata airport terminal as well as a couple of bays in the operational area as attempts to pump water into the canal outside drew a blank ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Desperate cops’ new Maa measure: ₹5k fine

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has decided to levy a penalty of Rs 5,000 and above under section 190(1) of Motor Vehicles Act on motorists driving unfit vehicles on Maa and AJC Bose Road flyovers in case of breakdowns caused due ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC team visits Wayanad; Bengal govt offers to bring stranded labourers home

    Kolkata: Bengal govt would bring home 242 migrant labourers from the state who are stuck in Wayanad, if they wished to return.On Saturday, a Trinamool delegation of Rajya Sabha MPs Saket Gokhale and Sushmita Dev visited the affected in ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Youth poses as delivery boy, attacks woman, snatches chain

    12 Kolkata: A youth, posing as a delivery boy, attacked a 62-year-old resident of Baranagar Gopalal Thakur Road, Behalapara, and snatched her gold chain before fleeing the spot on Saturday afternoon. The victim, Pulu Goswami, was out shopping and ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Row over missing theatre grants

    Poulami Bose and Debshankar Halder in the play titled 'Typist' Kolkata: A controversy has erupted in the city’s theatre circle after a govt circular on Thursday listed those eligible for the Guru-Shishya Parampara (repertory grant). Among Padma or Sangeet ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Repair work begins on rain-battered VIP Road

    Kolkata: Repair work on a battered and bruised stretch of VIP Road near Kolkata airport began on Friday, but prolonged rain wiped off even parts of the patchworks. Large portions of the VIP Road remained submerged, causing inconveniences to ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Rain to continue in Kolkata at least for 5 more days, says IMD

    A man with his motorcycle wades through the severely waterlogged Patipukur underpass as a result of heavy downpour, in Kolkata. KOLKATA/SILIGURI: The city and most parts of south Bengal received widespread rain on Saturday even as a threat of ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal minister Akhil Giri abuses forest ranger over Tajpur anti-encroachment drive

    Minister Akhil Giri gestures during his verbal spat with the forest ranger on Saturday CONTAI (EAST MIDNAPORE): Bengal minister of state for correctional homes Akhil Giri landed in a fresh controversy on Saturday after he launched a volley of ...

    4 August 2024 Times of India
    Santissimo is class apart

    Kolkata: The first classics of the summer season — the Colts and Fillies Championship Stakes — will be run in Bengaluru on Saturday. Pesi Shroff-tutored Santissimo looks home and dry in the Colts Championship Stakes with Vivek G in ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Watch: Planes grounded as rainwater enters Kolkata airport runway

    Waterlogging was reported inside Kolkata airport. KOLKATA: Kolkata and its surrounding areas experienced heavy rainfall on Saturday due to a low-pressure area that intensified into a deep depression. The downpour caused waterlogging in various parts of Kolkata, including the ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Ration scam: TMC block prez, bro held

    Kolkata: ED has arrested Trinamool Deganga block president Anisur Rahman and his brother Alif Noor alias Mukul Rahman in the multi-crore ration scam case. The duo was remanded in ED custody till Aug 12. After nearly 14 hours of ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Man dies as car swept away while crossing submerged bridge in West Bengal

    Image used for representative purpose only KOLKATA: One person died after his car was swept away while crossing a submerged bridge in the Kalyanpur Housing area of Asansol, West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district.Torrential rains have caused significant waterlogging in ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Emami eyes 50% of top line from its acquired brands

    Kolkata: The acquired brands of Emami Ltd now contribute 45% of the top line of the FMCG major and this could go past 50% soon.Emami vice-chairman and MD Harsha V Agarwal mentioned in the company’s annual report that acquired ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    After showers, craters back on Kol thoroughfares

    12 Kolkata: A day-long drizzle on Thursday and intermittent showers on Friday left several roads in the city cratered. The rain eroded the top layer of blacktop in some sections, where the civic body had carried out a project ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Albopictus, mosquito that caused dengue surges in 1950s, back in Kolkata

    Representative image KOLKATA: A mosquito species that used to cause dengue surges in Kolkata in the 1950s and 1960s has returned. Larvae of Aedes albopictus, a dengue virus carrier, is being found in increasing numbers in the city this ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Yatri Sathi AC cabs at airport hike fares by ₹70

    Kolkata: Those booking air-conditioned taxis at the airport on the Yatri Sathi app started paying Rs 70 more from Friday as the airport authorities charged the AC cabs parking fees of Rs 70 per ride. The fares of AC ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    IIM slashes ‘entry fee’ by 80% for KV vehicles

    Kolkata: IIM Calcutta officials on Friday slashed the “entry fee” by 80%, a day after parents of Kendriya Vidyalaya Joka students blocked D H Road to protest against the charge all vehicles were asked to pay while dropping children ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Boost for MSC’s ISL dreams

    Kolkata: In a major boost to Mohammedan Sporting’s participation in the Indian Super League (ISL) this season, the club has formalised a partnership with Shrachi Sports. Following a meeting at the club tent on the Maidan between representatives of ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    CU VC, registrar gheraoed over syndicate meeting

    Kolkata: TMCP members on Friday kept Calcutta University officials, including interim VC Shanta Dutta De and registrar Debashish Das, gheraoed till late at night, protesting against the “syndicate meeting being held without the higher education nod”. The officials sought ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP walks out of assembly over price rise discussion

    Kolkata: State agriculture minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay’s “high fuel price” jab at BJP MLAs on Friday culminated in a noisy walkout by the opposition benches in the state assembly. BJP had demanded a discussion on price rise but walked out ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    17-year-old killed as house collapses in Baguiati

    12 Kolkata: A 17-year-old youth was killed after being trapped under the debris of his three-storey home in Baguiati which was made of wood and bamboo beams and lacked an iron framework. It collapsed following a spell of continuous ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    No encroachers, Tiretta Bazar cleanest in decades

    Kolkata: The administration on Thursday removed over 200 illegal establishments in Tiretta Bazar, the city’s oldest Chinatown. The encroachers had take up space on pavements and carriageways and even blocked entrances to several Chinese temples and government offices.A month ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Bar violence started with booze demand at 2am

    Kolkata: The hooliganism at the EM Bypass pub owes its genesis to an incident that took place a few days ago, when a local syndicate, holding a meeting regarding the “transfer of a plot”, had requested for drinks after ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Foresters dismantle illegal resort in Jaldapara Nat’l Park

    Jalpaiguri: Foresters on Friday dismantled an under-construction private resort at Chilapata in Jaldapara National Park. The resort was being built illegally on forest land. The department had asked the owner several times to stop construction work, to no avail.On ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    After RSS, CPM hits ‘like’ button on Lakshmir Bhandar

    Kolkata: After RSS mouthpiece Swastika, CPM, in its letter (party chithi) to party workers, has said that Lakshmir Bhandar cannot be ignored as dole politics. Criticism of Bengal govt’s cash-assistance-for-women scheme and other welfare measures have not gone down ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    BJP’s Ghatal candidate files poll plea in HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed election authorities to preserve all documents and CCTV footage relating to the Ghatal LS polls after BJP’s candidate Hiranmoy Chattopadhyaya, who lost to Trinamool’s Dev, filed an election petition alleging malpractice, reports ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Legal vacuum of ‘dance bars’: From guns to roses, every deal is on the table here

    12 Kolkata: From guns and roses, everything is on the table in the city's ‘dance bars’ that are a law unto themselves. Faces that welcome you inside with a smile can turn menacing within seconds if you don’t hand ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    KMC surprise raids after parking extortion plaints

    12 Kolkata: Based on complaints from motorists, KMC has started conducting surprise raids at some of the city’s prime parking zones. “We have received several complaints from motorists that a section of parking attendants is demanding four-five times more ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    JU may set up CCTV cameras in hostel corridors

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University is mulling an option to install CCTV cameras in the hostel corridors as part of anti-ragging measures and for security after a PG student was mentally tortured on allegations of stealing a laptop at the Main ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal passes resolution for review of new criminal laws

    Kolkata: The state assembly on Thursday passed a resolution urging Centre to review the three newly introduced criminal laws — BNS, BSA and BNSS. Terming them “draconian”, Trinamool legislators moved the resolution under Rule 169. It was passed by ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    Rajya Sabha: Kharge demands Shamik Bhattacharya's expulsion

    Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge KOLKATA: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday demanded expulsion of BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya. Bhattacharya on Thursday objected multiple times when Trinamool lawmakers were speaking in the house.Bringing the issue to the notice ...

    3 August 2024 Times of India
    ITC net profit sees marginal rise in 1st qtr

    Kolkata: Diversified conglomerate ITC Ltd has witnessed a marginal rise in net profit in the first quarter of this fiscal to Rs 4,917 crore. The figure stood at Rs 4,902 crore during the same period last year.The gross revenue, ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    HC div bench to hear PIL on Sourav steel factory land

    Kolkata: A PIL challenging the handing over of land to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly for setting up a steel factory at West Midnapore has been fixed for hearing by a Calcutta High Court division bench of justices ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata gets a non-invasive osteopathy clinic

    Kolkata gets a non-invasive osteopathy clinic KOLKATA: The city got a state-of-the-art Osteopathy Clinic on Friday which will offer non-invasive treatment to patients. Osteopathy is a drug-free, holistic, non-invasive manual therapy that aims to improve overall health by strengthening ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Favourites to the fore

    Kolkata: The opening day of the monsoon season was good for the betting public with five favourites scoring at will. It could have been six had Snow Leopard not come a cropper a few metres from home at the ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    HC directs state to probe PMAY ‘fraud’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state to conduct an inquiry into an allegation of fund misappropriation under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana scheme at a Magrahat village in South 24 Parganas.The counsel for the petitioner submitted ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Arrests hint at syndicate hand in EM Bypass bar violence

    Kolkata: The father of Biswajit Mondal (24), one of the youths arrested on Thursday in the Anandapur bar attack and vandalism incident, has told cops that his son and others received a call on Monday evening to assemble for ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC joins Cong to slam ‘violent’ RSS after VP’s praise

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Trinamool Congress on Thursday joined Congress in speaking out against RSS, a day after Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar praised the organisation in the House. TMC backed Congress’s allegations that RSS had a long history of “corroding ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Work starts on Joka-Esplanade Metro’s Park Street station

    Kolkata: RVNL has started construction of the Purple line’s Park Street Metro station with the casting of the diaphragm wall.Railways officials said Kolkata should get its second Metro station at Park Street in the next two or three years. ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    NKDA to manually clear completion certs

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to manually process pending applications and has issued an advisory on it. A system crash of the e-district portal has stalled the completion process of applications for occupancy certificate ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Govt revives old route to stop hawker comeback

    Kolkata: After a gap of four years, the West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) on Thursday reintroduced the popular Sealdah-Howrah bus route. Traffic cops claimed that once the bus starts operating in full swing, it will be difficult for encroachers, ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Joka school stir over vehicle entry bar shuts down DH Road for 2 hrs

    Kolkata: Diamond Harbour Road — the key connector between Kolkata and South 24 Parganas — remained either completely shut or traffic crawled at times for around two hours on Thursday morning due to a protest staged by the parents ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Govt must remove ‘anti-people’ GST on life, health cover: CM

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday upped the ante on Centre over GST on life insurance and medical insurance premiums and sought rollback of the “anti-people” tax component.Her statement came a day after Union road transport and highways minister ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Verify records of caste cert recipients: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Malda sub-divisional officer to serve notice on three private respondents, asking them to come to the SDO office for verification of documents for the Scheduled Caste certificates issued to them.A division ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Population, ‘entertainment biz’ influx has changed area, frayed social fabric

    Kolkata: Two sides of what has now turned into one of the city’s busiest neighbourhoods have transformed remarkably — and in diverging ways — over the last few decades.One side of the Bypass has changed from neighbourhoods populated by ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Freshers get separate hostel, Main Hostel jitters for seniors

    Kolkata: A batch of 12 first-year students arrived at the Jadavpur University’s Old PG Hostel on Thursday, which has been earmarked as a freshers’ hostel from this year along with the New Block Hostel. Meanwhile, some senior students (UG3, ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Bar employee arrested for molesting woman

    Kolkata: The New Market Police has arrested one Irfan Khan (31), an employee of a bar on Chowringhee Road, for allegedly molesting a female staffer of another bar in central Kolkata. The complainant alleged that the accused — a ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    KMDA plans to repair Sdah flyovercarriageway

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to take up urgent repair of Sealdah flyover carriageway, including patchwork of the surface, repairing of potholes, minor repair and uprooting of plants from the flyover structure. Officials said that wear ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Adhir gets ‘invites’ from ex-aide, Union min even as neta keeps up anti-Trinamool stance

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Even as the Congress high command remained indecisive on the future of Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the latter on Wednesday hardened his anti-Trinamool stance and alleged that the party was attacking Congress supporters. “How can ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Stick to closing time, cops tell bars

    Kolkata: In the wake of the Anandapur bar brawl, the police brass has asked the local police stations in charge of EM Bypass stretches to ensure that the pubs close on time at night. According to cops, the bar ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Coal India sees 4.2% rise in net profit

    Kolkata: Coal India has reported a 4.2% year-on-year increase in its consolidated net profit from Rs 10,498.4 crore in the first quarter of last fiscal to Rs 10,943.5 crore for this year. The company’s revenue from operations grew 1.3% ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Rainy start to August, Kolkata may get more spells today

    A waterlogged service road stretch along VIP Road on Thursday KOLKATA: While July, the rainiest month of monsoon ended with a splash, the beginning of Aug, the second rainiest month, began on a wet note as well. Multiple spells ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Behala murder: Boy watched YouTube videos to plan crime

    The room where the woman was murdered KOLKATA: The 17-year-old who strangled his girlfriend's adoptive mother had planned the crime by watching YouTube videos, cops have told the boy's mother. She, in turn, told cops that on the day ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    Yatri Sathi AC cabs from airport to cost 70 more from today in Kolkata

    There will be no extra fee for non-AC yellow Yatri Sathi cabs KOLKATA: Passengers booking AC Yatri Sathi cabs at the airport will have to pay Rs 70 extra per trip from Friday with the airport authorities now charging ...

    2 August 2024 Times of India
    El Nino impact: Jan records only four sub-13°C days

    Kolkata: Despite the mid-month temperature plunge, Jan 2024 saw only four days of sub-13°C temperatures due to the effects of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean that leads to western disturbances triggering clouds and pushing the mercury up. Most ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    New CCTV camera to stop U-turns from PTS crossing

    Kolkata: The Bhowanipore Traffic Guard has installed a CCTV camera to stop vehicles from taking a U-turn towards Nandan from AJC Bose flyover without signal and penalize errant motorists.According to cops, hundreds of vehicles come off AJC Bose flyover ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Entrepreneurship focus of CU dept workshop

    Kolkata: Students from 12 colleges participated in a four-day workshop organised by the Calcutta University’s business management department to create interest among students in honing their entrepreneurial capabilities, while keeping in mind the local traditional craft-based businesses. The workshop ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    ₹1.4 cr funds for Salt Lake road repairs

    Kolkata: State urban development department has sanctioned additional funds worth around Rs 1.4 crore for the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to repair interior roads passing through some more blocks in Salt Lake.The civic body has been repairing the roads ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Rampant lawlessness spooks residents along E M Bypass

    12 Kolkata: Unabated lawlessness in the bar zone along the E M Bypass stretch between VIP Bazar and Tagore Park — which has about six bars operating till late night — has started spooking the residents of Netaji Subhas ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Metro’s Orange Linewon’t run on weekends

    Kolkata: Metro Railway clarified it will operate trains in the Orange Line — between New Garia and Ruby — on weekdays but not on weekends. The officials had on Tuesday said that while more trains would be operated between ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata: Cops in schools to teach kids cyber risks, get 'hacking lessons' from teens

    City school workshops revealed students engaged in hacking. Authorities used real-life examples to educate about cyber risks and responsible internet use, emphasizing the difference between ethical and illegal activities to combat bullying and protect mental health. A Class 6 ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    HC admits poll petition by BJP’s Basirhat candidate

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday admitted an election petition by BJP’s Basirhat candidate Rekha Patra and directed that notices be issued to all parties concerned — from the Bengal CEO to the constituency’s MP, Sk Nurul Islam.In her ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Hawker union leader assaults KMC official

    Kolkata: An assistant director of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was assaulted by a hawker union leader in the Parnasree area of Behala on Tuesday evening. According to a KMC source, the civic official was leading a team to ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Spike in severe H1N1 cases this year worries doctors

    Kolkata: With the rise in H1N1 cases in the city, doctors have started coming across patients with severe infection, some needing intensive care treatment. Though influenza is common around this time of the year, health officials said Aug and ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Behala death: Cops in court for man’s magisterial statement

    Kolkata: Investigators probing the death of a 54-year-old Behala woman, who was allegedly murdered by her 14-year-old daughter and her 17-year-old boyfriend, have moved court, seeking the recording of the confidential statement of the woman’s husband in front of ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    First 2 phases of KMC survey find 11,527 hawkers in Kol vending hubs

    Kolkata: After registering 11,527 hawkers in the first two phases of the survey, which included prime hawking zones like Gariahat, New Market, Hatibagan, Chandni Chowk, College Street, Sealdah, Bowbazar, S N Banerjee Road and Lenin Sarani, the Kolkata Municipal ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    CM to visit Jhargram next week

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee would go to Jhargram on Aug 8-9 on the occasion of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, sources in the state secretariat said on Wednesday. Banerjee is likely to hold an administrative meeting and ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Kol gets 1 more flight to Dhaka

    Kolkata: Air India Express will operate a flight between Kolkata and Dhaka six times a week from Sep 3. The flight, which will operate on all days except Mondays, will take off from Kolkata at 11.55 am to reach ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    10 cr fund for two new bridges across canals

    Kolkata: The urban development and municipal affairs department has approved funding of Rs 10 crore for the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to set up two steel bridges over canals — one between EM Bypass and Chowbhaga Road across ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Gold Ride wins Fillies Trial Stakes

    Kolkata: James Mckeown-nursed Gold Ride won the Mysore Fillies Trial Stakes at Mysuru on Wednesday. The daughter of Flying Show was guided by A SandeshMysuru short results1: (13-12-14) Raise A Buck 1; D Fighter 2; White Lies 3.2: (3-4-5) ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Back-to-back organ donations: Heart, kidneys save 3 in 2 days

    Kolkata: Kolkata recorded another deceased organ donation on Wednesday, a back-to-back such donation in two consecutive days. Doctors found only the heart of the deceased donor fit. The 54-year-old’s heart is set to save the life of a 35-year-old ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    India-Bhutan rail link FLS to be submitted by Nov

    Jalpaiguri: The Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) will submit the Final Location Survey (FLS) for railway connectivity from Jalpaiguri’s Banarhat to Bhutan’s Samtse, and Assam’s Kokrajhar to Gelephu in Bhutan by Nov. “The FLS for the rail link between Samtse ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    2 cr boost to speed up Kalighat skywalk work

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to to inaugurate the Kalighat skywalk before Durga Puja. The state urban development and municipal affairs department on Wednesday released an additional Rs 2 crore for speedy completion of the project ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    Low turnout on 1st day of physical docu verification

    Kolkata: Colleges on Wednesday started the physical verification of documents of undergraduate candidates who applied on the centralised admission portal. This process, under which the students will confirm they will pursue the courses they chose and paid for online, ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    ‘CNG pipeline impasse likely to be resolved in 15 days’

    Kolkata: The supply of CNG to the city may go up three-fold in the next month since Gail is hoping to resolve the impasse regarding laying of the gas pipeline linking the city in 15 days. Gail chairman Sandeep ...

    1 August 2024 Times of India
    KP STF busts arms unit in Bihar

    Kolkata: Weapons used in crimes in the city, including an attempted robbery at Southern Avenue, have been traced to illegal arms factories operating in Bihar. Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force, in a joint raid with Bihar STF, has busted ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Bombs, cartridges recovered from Kolkata guest house

    Representative photo NEW DELHI: Law enforcement authorities discovered explosive devices and ammunition at a lodging facility in Kolkata's Iqbalpur neighborhood, according to officials' statements on Wednesday. The police team, acting on a tip, arrived at the guest house on ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Heavy rain likely in Kol tomorrow

    Kolkata: Several shower spells between Monday night and Tuesday evening added 44.3 mm of rain to the city’s July rain kitty, narrowing down the shortage further. The Met office expects more rain, including some heavy spells on Thursday. The ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Excited to link up with Dimitri & Jason at Bagan: Maclaren

    Kolkata: Jamie Maclaren is no stranger to success. A four-time Golden Boot winner and all-time leading scorer in A-League’s history, he’s been instrumental in Melbourne City’s recent reign in Australian football.And determined to bring the same winning mentality to ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Goods train wagon derails in Bengal's New Jalpaiguri

    NEW DELHI: A wagon of a goods train derailed near Rangapani station in West Bengal's New Jalpaiguri Rail Division on Wednesday, according to a senior official from the North-East Frontier Railway (NFR). The incident occurred at 11:45 am when ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Train derailment: Upper berths toppled onto cancer patients on way to Mumbai for treatment

    Several passengers were injured when upper berths collapsed on a Mumbai-bound train. Among the injured were couples traveling for cancer treatment MALDA/KHARAGPUR/KOLKATA: Badal Kumar Das and his wife Sabita Das were sleeping on the lower berths when the upper ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Didn’t notice any signs of foul play, say docs

    12 Kolkata: Not just one but two elderly doctors — a homeopath and an MBBS — had apparently checked the body of the 54-year-old woman but didn’t flag any concern. However, while one stuck to norms and refused to ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
    Clifford sprints to victory

    Kolkata: Neil Darashah-saddled Clifford sprinted away with the Cavallo Velloce Cup at the RCTC here on Tuesday. The son of Jolie Rue was given a confident ride by Neeraj Rawal.There was a major mishap in the last race of ...

    31 July 2024 Times of India
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