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  • 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
    Mom sets 5-yr-old on fire, kills self in Madhyamgram

    1234 Kolkata: The half-burnt bodies of a 28-year-old homemaker, Madhumita Roy, and her five-year-old daughter were recovered from their home in the Doharia Shailesh Nagar Durga Mandap area in Madhyamgram on Saturday morning, minutes after the woman's husband received ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Locals snatch ex-neta away during arrest

    Malda: In a rerun of the Goalpokhar incident, North Dinajpur witnessed another attack on police and the accused escaping. On Saturday, a police van was surrounded by hundreds in Chopra while the accused was being arrested. Some cops were ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Labour union leader found dead in Titagarh, locals stage protest

    123 Kolkata: There was tension in Palta after the bloodied body of INTTUC (Trinamool Congress-affiliated labour union) leader Hannan Gazi was recovered late on Friday night.Police said, Gazi had deep wounds on his head and multiple injuries on his ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Buses on route 46 resume ops after 3 days

    123 Kolkata:The popular 46 route started operating again on Saturday. All the 63 buses are back on the 46, 46A, and 46B routes from airport, Akansa and Derozio College to Esplanade, respectively, said bus owners.After being shut for three ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    NGT orders construction of sewage treatment plant to save Santragachhi

    123 Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal has directed state agencies Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) and the urban development department, along with Howrah Municipal Corporation and South-Eastern Railway, to complete the construction of a sewage treatment plant (STP) at ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Arrest unveils wider digi fraud network

    Kolkata: The recent arrest of Yogesh Dua from Delhi's Vivek Vihar area led investigators to uncover a sophisticated digital fraud network allegedly managed by his brother, operating between Delhi and Bengaluru. The arrest, reported by TOI in its Friday ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Chase-death case: Cops take trader to reconstruct events

    1234 Panagarh: Police on Saturday took Bablu Yadav (37), the motor parts scrap trader, who was arrested for the death of dancer-event manager Sutandra Chatterjee after a high-speed chase on NH-19 at Panagarh, to the spot to reconstruct the ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Viewpoints make debut on Kalimpong Loop Bridge

    Darjeeling: Tourists can now enjoy a breathtaking view from the Loop Bridge at Bagrakote along NH 717A, which connects Bengal with Sikkim. The Kalimpong district administration has identified two designated viewpoints where tourist vehicles can stop for photographs. Due ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Dad hangs self with autistic daughter at Behala office

    123 Kolkata: A 53-year-old trader and his daughter, who suffered from autism, were found hanging together, facing each other, from the same nylon rope tied to the iron hook of the ceiling fan of a flat in Behala's Shakuntala ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    March’s first day signals return of heat, max may touch 34°C soon

    123 Kolkata: Pre-summer heat started setting in on Kolkata and its surroundings on Saturday, even as the maximum temperature crawled up to 32.7°C, a degree above normal, while the minimum jumped a degree to clock 23.4°C, three degrees above ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata gets one more train to north Bengal

    Jalpaiguri: The Railway Board has sanctioned a new weekly train to Jalpaiguri, the gateway to the hill stations in north Bengal and also Sikkim, from Sealdah. This train will directly connect towns like Krishnagore and Berhampore with north Bengal ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    4-fold increase in DigiYatra app usage at city airport in a year

    Kolkata: The number of passengers using the DigiYatra app to travel through Kolkata airport increased by four times since Jan 2024, with nearly all frequent flyers, including industrialists, businessmen, executives and professionals, using the facility to breeze through the ...

    2 March 2025 Times of India
    Retd prof lost 1.5L as one more ATM fraud surfaces

    Kolkata: A retired professor fell prey to a card-swapping scam at an ATM in Mukundapur, losing Rs 1.5 lakh from her pension and life savings. The case, reported shortly after the twin ATM frauds in the Survey Park area, ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal horror: Woman, 5-year-old daughter found half-burned at home; suicide suspected

    A 28-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Madhyamgram. Authorities suspect it might be a murder-suicide, initiated by the mother. KOLKATA: The half-burned bodies of a 28-year-old homemaker and her five-year-old daughter ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    TMC starts drive to weed out ‘bogus voters’ in Kol today

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim will start visiting Bhowanipore households from Saturday to reach out to individual voters and cross-check whether their EPIC cards are linked with people outside Bengal. Along with Hakim, Trinamool Congress KMC councillors will also get ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Kunal holds protest march with teaching job aspirants

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Friday staged a demonstration along with job aspirants to protest the legal quagmire due to which employment of hundreds of teachers had been stalled. The candidates shouted slogans against Calcutta High ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Man on scooter dies in Setu truck accident

    Kolkata: A man, riding pillion on his brother's two-wheeler, died, while the brother was critically injured as a truck hit the scooter on the Howrah-bound flank of Vidyasagar Setu around 7am on Friday. The deceased was a resident of ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Madam asked me to chase the other car’

    Chandernagore: Breaking his silence on why he was driving so fast, Rajdeo Singh, who was at the wheel of Sutandra Chatterjee's hatchback, said on Friday that "Madam" had asked him to "chase down" the other vehicle. He was driving ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Agri credit disbursement to cross Rs 1L crore in current fiscal, expects state

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt is expecting agriculture credit disbursement in the current fiscal to exceed Rs 1 lakh crore. It already exceeded Rs 75,000 crore in the Dec quarter. Last fiscal, the figure was Rs 70,000 crore. This was ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    I slashed wife’s & sis-in-law’s wrists, younger Dey brother says

    Kolkata: Prasun Dey — the younger of the two brothers at the heart of the "suicide pact" that came to the fore with a car crash on Feb 19 — has told cops that it was he who had ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    AI, data science set for HS debut, 1st batch to take exam this year

    Kolkata: Two cutting-edge subjects, artificial intelligence and data science, will make a quiet debut in Higher Secondary this year, with the first batch of students — 30 for AI and 9 for data science — taking the examination this ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Work on 2 proposed poly parks hangs in the balance

    123 Kolkata: Work on two proposed poly parks, which were earlier announced to come up at Uluberia and at a site near Durgapur Expressway, has hit a roadblock. The Indian Plastics Federation (IPF) has said that uncertainty loomed over ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Tangra boy’s stoicism his defence against extreme shock: Rights body rep, doctor

    123 Kolkata: Pratip Dey, the 14-year-old who, in a matter-of-fact manner, recounted on Thursday how his father and uncle killed his mother, aunt, and cousin and attempted to take his life, is displaying symptoms of complicated grief and is ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    3 held for cyber ID fraud of mkt analyst

    Kolkata: Three fraudsters, including a student of BITS Pilani in Rajasthan, were arrested on charges of cyber identity fraud of a reputable stock market analyst and advisor in Salt Lake. Police said the trio had access to confidential stock ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Cop shoots self with service gun

    123 Chinsurah: A police officer shot himself in the head with his service revolver at a hospital restroom in Chandernagore on Friday. He has been admitted to the ICU and is under ventilation. The police have started a probe.Police ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Ensure safety of 5, HC tells Jibantala cops

    1234 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed South 24 Parganas' Jibantala PS to ensure that five petitioners who had moved the court seeking protection were not threatened or physically harmed as long as they stayed at any place ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Temp flip-flop brings back viruses, Kolkata reels from cough & cold

    Kolkata: With the mercury in a spike-and-slide mode at the turn of the season, viruses have made a comeback, leaving thousands across the city down with cough and cold. The outbreak has coincided with the board exams. In consistency ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    4 more small plotsget bldg sanctions

    Kolkata: The KMC buildings department on Friday sanctioned four building plans on small plots measuring — 450 square feet to 1,500 square feet — in Garia and its neighbourhoods off EM Bypass. Earlier this month, the department had sanctioned ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Ramping up AC temp, switching off air curtains may have helped mosquitoes thrive at city airport

    Kolkata: For weeks, passengers and staff at Kolkata airport were dealing with a mosquito nuisance in the terminal. Despite deploying exterminators, the pesky insects continued to thrive, leading to growing frustration and concern among airport officials. The problem may ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    All yellow but no Ambassador: City keeps iconic transport mode alive with new fleet

    123 Kolkata: A fleet of brand-new yellow cabs — but not Ambassadors — hit the roads on Friday, preserving the cultural identity of an iconic mode of Kolkata's transport. This comes at a time when the last set of ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Runner on recovery road after marathon collapse

    123 Kolkata: During a recent marathon in the city, a 26-year-old runner collapsed at the finish line. His heart stopped, his body turned pale, and there were no signs of life. A medical team revived him, administering CPR, ventilation ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    IISER telescope gets 1st images of solar flare

    Kolkata: Kolkata: Scientists at the Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) at IISER Kolkata are excited about the first scientific results from the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board India's solar space mission Aditya-L1. The telescope ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Drivers to get training on tracking of buses

    Kolkata: Drivers of private and mini-buses on around 15 routes, along with the conductors, will be trained on how to use the application for vehicle tracking. The training is likely to start within the next two weeks as the ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Bus owners want solution, services on route 46 may resume today

    Kolkata: Bus services on 46 route may resume as early as Saturday, indicated the bus owners on Friday after holding a meeting.The services on this route had remained suspended for three consecutive days due to a clash between an ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    Science Day event delves deep into Earth’s mysteries

    Kolkata: Professor Dirk Scherler of GFZ German Research Centre, Berlin, chaired the 5th National Science Day, which is being hosted by IISER-Kolkata, as a special guest on Friday. He delivered an illuminating lecture titled ‘Four Good Reasons to Study ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    KMDA, BMC joint op to heal Salt Lake’s roads

    Kolkata: After a long delay, about 30 km of road stretches across Salt Lake will get fresh layers of bitumen coating. State fire and emergency services minister and Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose on Friday announced that the Bidhannagar Municipal ...

    1 March 2025 Times of India
    ‘Khela hobe’ battle cry in 2026 but with more force, says CM Mamata to TMC

    KOLKATA: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sought to revive the "khela hobe" spirit for the 2026 assembly polls as she unveiled her party's plans to take on BJP with a focus on "voter-list malpractices, the Election Commission's lack ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata house of horror: Dey family tale more twisted than you think

    NEW DELHI: Fourteen-year-old Pratip Dey, who survived a fatal car crash on Kolkata’s EM Bypass on February 19, has alleged that his mother, Sudeshna, and aunt, Romi, were murdered after backing out of a planned family suicide. His father, ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata remembers Father Détienne, Belgian Jesuit priest and Bengali literary figure

    123 Kolkata: The birth centenary of Belgian Jesuit priest and Bengali literature scholar, Father Détienne, was commemorated on Thursday at Visva-Bharati University's Bengali Department.The celebration, organised by St Xavier's College Alumni Association, drew notable academics and institutional leaders, including ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    2 held for attack on RPF constable

    Kolkata: Two persons were arrested for creating ruckus at a ticket counter of Bandel railway station and assaulting an on-duty RPF constable on Thursday.Eastern Railway officials said some anti-socials broke the glass barrier of the ticket booking counter over ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Labourer dies

    Kolkata: A labourer was burried 30 ft under the ground while digging a well at a construction site near Rajarhat Chowmatha on Thursday. Police said two labourers, Shyam and Abhijit Mondal (40), were at work when the ground sank. ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Cops bust call centre selling fake antique materials

    Kolkata: Bidhannagar Police busted a fake call centre, operating under the name, "NEXT-era Energy Solution", at Ecosuit Building, in the Eco Park police station area. The fraudsters duped people by selling them fake radioactive materials, claiming them to be ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Dhakuria case: Cops get back snatched chain from goldsmith

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police detective department, which has already arrested the three men, who had snatched a gold chain from a Dhakuria resident, Piyali De Roy (57), near her home on Saturday evening, has recovered the stolen item."The chain ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Two crossing tracks at Sodepur run over by train

    Kolkata: A young woman and a 16-year-old girl were run over by the Hate Bazare Express around 9.45 pm on Wednesday when the two were crossing the railway tracks at Sodepur station. The body of the teenaged girl, Koyel ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Nursing home fined 5L

    WBCERC has slapped a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Uma Medical, a nursing home in Baguiati, for lapses in the care of a young woman, who developed severe post-hernia surgery complications. The patient had to be under treatment ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    ‘Mom, aunt backed out of suicide pact, were killed’

    Kolkata: Fourteen-year-old Pratip Dey, who survived a car crash on the EM Bypass on Feb 19, has told a state child rights functionary that his mother Sudeshna and aunt Romi had backed out of a suicide pact at the ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Panel glare on hosp for patient release delay

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has instructed Desun Hospital to waive six days' charges from the treatment bill of a burn patient after the panel found out that the patient was not discharged, despite her family's ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Digital arrest mastermind with 930 cases held in Delhi

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police Cyber Cell has arrested Yogesh Dua, a notorious cyber crook, who has 930 ‘digital arrest' fraud cases against him. While Dua was caught in Delhi, the Bidhannagar Police rounded up another digital arrest fraud accused, ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    ‘File affidavit on blue-white road markings’

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state to file an affidavit within three weeks from date in response to a PIL petition challenging the blue-white road markings used by the state contrary to the black-yellow-white colour ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    All heritage bldgs are decaying: HC

    Kolkata: Preserve the remaining nine bighas of the historical Hirajheel Palace of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, the HC observed while stressing the need to preserve the historical monuments in the state.Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah Smriti Surakkha Trust had filed a PIL seeking directions ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    GSI finds natural hydrogen reserves in Andamans

    Kolkata: In the first such find that can significantly contribute to the country's renewable energy landscape, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has discovered natural hydrogen reserves in the rocks of Andaman and Nicobar Islands this week.GSI director general ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Chief electoral officer seeks DM reports on bogus voters

    Kolkata: Bengal's chief electoral officer (CEO) Dibyendu Das on Thursday asked for reports from district magistrates after complaints that there were bogus voters on electoral rolls, reports Debashis Konar. The CEO also held a meeting with the officials on ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Shivratri, Ramzan push up fruit prices & sales of fasting essentials in Kolkata

    Kolkata: Fruit prices in the city's retail markets have increased in the season of fasting due to the recently-concluded Shivratri and the upcoming Ramzan month.Bananas, which are a staple, are selling for anything between Rs 70 and Rs 80 ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Students brainstorm to find Sundarbans solutions

    Kolkata: Many schools across the city took partin Spardha 5.0, an inter-school experiential learning expedition held on the premises of Mahadevi Birla World Academy. The event's theme was based on Amitav Ghosh's‘Gun Island', which highlighted the Sundarbans. The festival ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Metro eyes Poila Baisakh date for full East-West operations

    Kolkata: Metro Railway is eyeing Poila Baisakh, or April 15, as the date for launching East-West Metro's full 16.6-km run. However, engineers are divided over the feasibility of the target. One section feels the deadline is attainable with the ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    63 buses on route 46 go off the road

    Kolkata: Thousands of commuters from the airport, Baguiati, Kestopur, Chinar Park and Kankurgachhi are having a tough time since Wednesday as all buses plying on route 46 have gone off the road due to an unrest between the worker ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Body in suitcase: Accused was in property tussle with victim

    Kolkata: The mother-daughter duo, Aarti and Falguni Ghosh, was involved in a bitter tussle with the victim, Sumita Ghosh, over some property in Jorhat, Assam. The duo was caught red-handed while trying to dump Sumita's body at Kumartuli ghat ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Heat is on: Max temp to continue upward march

    Kolkata: Brace for warmer days as both the day and night temperatures are expected to start rising by the weekend, when the maximum temperature is expected to breach the 30°C mark in Kolkata. The minimum temperature will also see ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    What women want: Focus on real estate, away from stocks

    Kolkata: Women, who have always been key decision-makers in the home-buying process in India, are now increasingly making independent, individual property purchases not just to reside there but also as an investment. And demolishing the sterotype, women overwhelmingly preferred ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    IIEST rejuvenates cemetery with solar lights, grave restoration

    Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, has started rejuvenating the graveyard in the heart of the sprawling campus. It is a reminder of BESU's early days when Bishop's College, a missionary educational establishment, stood ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    Green success: Victoria’s replanted tree bears leaves

    Kolkata: The 30-year-old Radhachura tree that was successfully transplanted at the Victoria Memorial complex on Nov 10 has sprouted fresh leaves. City-based botanists believe the development is encouraging, particularly since the transplantation was done during the post-monsoon period. Usually, ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar victim’s parents meet CBI director

    Kolkata: The parents of the RG Kar doctor, who was raped and murdered on the hospital campus on Aug 9, on Thursday met CBI director Praveen Sood in New Delhi to seek justice for their daughter. They have also ...

    28 February 2025 Times of India
    NKDA assigns areas, tasks to officials in bid to address New Town civic issues

    123 Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has assigned officials the responsibility of looking after several civic amenities, including street lights, parks, community markets and health centres, across New Town to provide better amenities to the residents. ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Ghoramara barge waits for bore tide for journey back to B’desh

    Kolkata: Bangladeshi barge Sea World that had capsized while transporting fly ash from Budge Budge has been emptied of its cargo. Two vessels, including MV Gorai, have also arrived from Bangladesh to retrieve the vessel whose hull had split. ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    White House, Green House yield 1.2 cr, 100 g diamonds, 400 g gold

    Kolkata: The detective department has busted a well-organised call centre fraud that operated from multiple flats located in two buildings of Garden Reach's Iron Gate area — The White House and The Green House. Four persons have been arrested ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Body in suitcase: Accused took 25k from victim’s a/c

    Kolkata: The mother-daughter duo caught trying to dispose of the body of a relative at Kumartuli ghat on Tuesday had murdered the woman, 34-year-old Susmita Ghosh, between 4 pm and 5 pm on Sunday. They had also withdrawn Rs ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    CP wants CCTV cams to be crime-centric as well

    Kolkata: The city police wants to set up hundreds of cameras on Kolkata's roads to check crime, not merely monitor and penalise traffic violations. The shift in stance was indicated by police commissioner Manoj Verma. Cameras for this purpose ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Dey family deaths: ‘No relative willing to take responsibility of teen survivor'

    KOLKATA: World has turned upside down for 14-year-old Pratip Dey, who, till Feb 17, was busy preparing for his final exams. Losing his mother and two family members, he lies at NRS Hospital, his future uncertain over a week ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee warns of indefinite dharna before EC office over 'fake voter' allegations against BJP

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP, with the "help of the Election Commission" (EC), was adding fake voters from other states to the electoral rolls. ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Mamata Banerjee sets target of winning over 215 seats in 2026 West Bengal assembly polls

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday set an ambitious goal for the 2026 assembly elections, aiming to secure over 215 seats in the 294-member house. She asserted that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) would significantly cut ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    HS numbers drop by 1/3rd from last year

    Kolkata: This year's Higher Secondary exams, scheduled from March 3 to March 18, will have 5.1 lakh-odd candidates, around 2.8 lakh examinees fewer than last year's 7.9 lakh. "We knew this year's figure would be lower than that in ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Municipal Corporation drops Vishwakarma Puja, extends Eid break, issues revised order after BJP cries 'appeasement'

    A notice modifying holidays for Hindi-medium KMCP schools by Kolkata Municipal Corporation sparked political controversy, with BJP accusing the TMC government of appeasement. NEW DELHI: A notice issued by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) regarding holiday changes for ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    A maiden 3 in a row for East Bengal

    Kolkata: Raphael Messi Bouli got his first goal in East Bengal FC jersey as Oscar Bruzon's side got past a dogged Hyderabad FC 2-0 at the Salt Lake Stadium on Wednesday, scripting their maiden hat-trick of victories in the ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    ‘Dual CBSE X tests may affect learning process’

    Kolkata: The CBSE's proposal to conduct the Class X board exams twice a session from 2026 is aimed at offering candidates the chance of improving their scores in the second round but educators in the city have raised concerns ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    White SUV never entered fuel stn on crash night: Pump owner

    1234 Burdwan/Panagarh: Police investigating the death of dancer-event manager Sutandra Chatterjee (27), who died in a crash during a high-speed chase on NH-19 early on Monday, are piecing together the final 20 minutes leading to the accident that may ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Global focus on med college transgender health study

    Kolkata: A study conducted among students at KPC Medical College regarding their knowledge about transgender health issues and their attitudes revealed a glaring gap in their familiarity with transgender health issues and comfort in treating them for gender-related medical ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    132-year-old Minerva Theatre gets blue plaque heritage tag

    123 Kolkata: The 132-year-old Minerva Theatre at Beadon Street in north Kolkata, an iconic structure in the city's cultural map since the inception of modern Bengali theatre in the 19th century, has received Kolkata Municipal Corporation's blue plaque recognising ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    KMC retracts order to cancel Viswakarma holiday after row

    123 Kolkata: A holiday list for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation-run Hindi medium schools, which cancelled the Viswakarma Puja holiday on Sept 17 to extend Eid-ul-Fitr holidays for two days from March 31 to April 1, was retracted within three ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Trust none, want fair probe, says car-chase victim’s mom

    Chandernagore: "I am confused now. Someone is hiding something from me," a distraught Tanushree Chatterjee said on Wednesday, two days after her only daughter, 27-year-old Sutandra, died when the car in which she was travelling with three colleagues overturned ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Coco’s gift of life to Leo gives city 1st canine blood transfusion of yr

    Kolkata: They say it's a dog-eat-dog world. Not if you go by the story of Leo and Coco. The latter, a golden retriever, on Tuesday donated blood to the former, an acutely unwell Dobermann — marking not only the ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    SSC: CBI refers to ‘Abhishek Banerjee’ in charge sheet, TMC neta’s lawyer hits back

    Kolkata: After CBI referred to one Abhishek Banerjee in its 16-page Feb 24 charge sheet in the recruitment scam case, the Trinamool national general secretary's legal team attacked the agency on Wednesday, calling the reference a "politically motivated narrative" ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Bengal startup gets Rs 4cr seed funding

    123 Kolkata: A startup incubated by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce received seed funding of Rs 4 crore from Artha Ventures, at a valuation of Rs 28 crore. The company — Hornet Decentratech — is a crypto forensics and ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Comic Con and horror film fest: Mega pop events make Kol debut

    123 Kolkata: The city is witnessing a new surge in inaugural editions of events that were previously held across the country but had consistently bypassed this metropolis. Despite substantial interest, the city has never experienced a film festival exclusively ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    13th in India: Bengal scores better in SDG ranking

    123 Nimli, Alwar (Rajasthan): West Bengal showed a marginal improvement in its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ranking, achieving an overall score of 72.1 in 2023-24, compared to 70 in 2022-23 and 62 in 2021-22. According to the latest State ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    GTA appt corruption case redirected in Cal HC

    Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court judge on Wednesday released a case on alleged corruption in appointments within the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) after the advocate general pointed out that the matter did not fall under his court's jurisdiction.Justice Biswajit ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    HC poser to state on custodial death probe

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the state to apprise the court on whether an investigation in a custodial death case could be given to state authorities when a CBI probe was directed in a subsequent case ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Law clerk’s body found near Technician Studio

    123 Kolkata: The body of a 31-year-old law clerk was found opposite the Technician Studio on Uttam Kumar Sarani around 3 am on Wednesday. Police said the victim, identified as Anup Mondal, was a resident of Mondapara, close to ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Former Kamarhati councillor found dead

    Kolkata: Amit Paul, the 58-year-old former CPM councillor of Kamarhati Municipality, was found dead beside the railway tracks near Belgharia railway station on Wednesday. Paul, popularly known as Gora, was a resident of Jatin Das Nagar in Belgharia and ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Your KYC may have been used for SIM fraud

    Kolkata: The Cyber Crime Branch of Kolkata Police has arrested four more individuals, including a husband-wife duo, for providing pre-activated SIM cards to cyber fraudsters residing in Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar by using the biometric details of Kolkatans without ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
    Biz bodies warn members against ‘digital arrests’

    Kolkata: The recent surge in cyber scams, including digital arrests, has prompted several market committees in Kolkata to issue alerts to their members. The market committees have cautioned against engaging with the scammers and have requested the members to ...

    27 February 2025 Times of India
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