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  • Markets abuzz with last-min shoppers as families wrap up preparations for Eid

    Kolkata: Markets across the city were teeming with shoppers on Friday, ahead of Eid, which falls on Saturday. From central Kolkata's sweet shops and grocery stores to the busy garment stall stretches of Rabindra Sarani and New Market, people ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    Man robs beggars, hits youth, stabs another when stopped

    Kolkata: Two youths were injured — one of them stabbed with a chopper — after they tried to protest against a local criminal stealing money from beggars in Tiljala. The accused first assaulted the main protester before returning to ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    Airfares to US shoot up to 9 lakhas execs bypass war-zone skies

    Kolkata: Businessmen and corporate executives are going to extraordinary lengths to avoid the war zone while travelling to attend meetings in the US.While fares on carriers, such as Emirates and Etihad, which have hubs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    HC nod for VHP Ram Navamirally in Hwh

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday allowed Vishva Hindu Parishad to organise a Ram Navami procession from BE College Gate 1 to Ramkrishnapur Ghat via GT Road on March 26, with conditions that the number of participants cannot ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    12.5 years not enough: Court refuses to slash lifer’s sentence

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to reduce the sentence of a lifer, convicted of stabbing to death his extramarital partner who had asked him to marry her, stating the argument that the convict had "suffered enough ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    Qatar Airways to resume Kol ops from Sun

    Kolkata: Qatar Airways has announced that it will resume flights between Doha and Kolkata from March 22.The airline, along with other carriers from the region, suspended flights on Feb 28 following the US and Israel's strikes on Iran and ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    Monk to fight election on BJP ticket; political trap, says Sangha

    Kolkata: Bharat Sevashram Sangha, in an internal note to all monks in the order on Friday, announced it has expelled Swami Jyotirmayananda —popularly known as Utpal Maharaj — who was nominated as the BJP candidate from Kaliaganj, Uttar Dinajpur. ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    HC relaxes bail conditions to allow UAPA accused to vote

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday relaxed bail conditions of UAPA accused Md Imadul Hoque in the 2022 Beldanga blast, permitting him to go home, under Beldanga PS, for a day to vote in the assembly election on April ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    84 police observers in state, highest from UP

    Kolkata: Bengal has the highest number of police observers — 84 — deployed among all four states and the union territory headed to polls. Most of these officers arriving in Bengal are from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and ...

    21 March 2026 Times of India
    Bengal assembly election: Suvendu Adhikari hits the street in CM lair, vows to defeat Mamata Banerjee by 25,000 votes

    KOLKATA: Leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday launched his campaign in Bhowanipore, beginning with a visit to Bhowanipore Police Station to lodge a complaint over alleged attacks on local BJP workers.Returning from Delhi in the morning, Adhikari ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata man dies after being trapped in lift at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital

    KOLKATA: A middle-aged man allegedly died after being trapped inside a lift at a state-run hospital in north Kolkata on Friday, officials said.The man, in his early 40s, was taken to the hospital’s emergency unit bleeding from his nose, ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal elections: Left Front names 32 more candidates, key netas not on list

    KOLKATA: The Left Front on Thursday announced its second list of candidates for 32 seats. Names of key party functionaries like Mohammad Salim, Sujan Chakraborty and Satarup Ghosh did not figure in the list raising speculation if the leaders ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Teen abducted after dispute over accident

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old was allegedly abducted from Tiljala and assaulted by a group of young men before being rescued from a secluded area in Beleghata in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The victim, Areeb Ali, was initially admitted ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Met spies nor’wester spells today and tomorrow in Kolkata, districts

    Kolkata: Brace for spells of thundershowers in the next two days, with the Met office predicting enhanced thunderstorm activities between Friday and Saturday in Kolkata along with various other districts across Bengal. Met officials said a combination of moisture ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    ‘Bypass surgery’ heals airport traffic mess

    Kolkata: A traffic timing and peak-hour vehicular movement analysis conducted by the Bidhannagar Police has shown significant improvement in vehicular flow and vehicular speed along the road to airport on VIP Road following a series of experimental changes in ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Body of TMC activist found with wrists cut off in Haroa

    Kolkata: A 38-year-old Trinamool booth president was found dead on Thursday morning, with his wrists severed and signs of acid burns on his face, at Haroa-Bhangar Road in Minakhan, North 24 Parganas.Police said Kazi Masiur Rahman was a resident ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    IIT-Kgp revokes permission to feed stray dogs on campus

    Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur has issued a notice revoking permission for feeding stray dogs inside the campus. The notice also asked the nodal officer (security) to ensure that stray dogs do not enter and inhabit the campus.IIT-Kgp, in Oct, had ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Newborn declared dead by nursing home found alive hours later

    Kolkata: A newborn declared dead by a private nursing home was found alive hours later just as her family was preparing for her burial in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas on Thursday afternoon. The incident has triggered allegations of medical ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    HC refuses bail to Shahjahan, bro in Sandeshkhali ED ‘attack’ case

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday refused bail to Sk Shahjahan and his brother Sk Alamgir in a CBI case over the attack on ED officers during a raid at Shajahan's Sandeshkhali residence, calling them "influential persons of the locality ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    ‘Smuggling’ lens on 5-fold spike in auto LPG demand in Kolkata over 10 days

    KOLKATA: An almost five-fold spike in auto LPG sale in the city over the past 10 days, coinciding with the curtailment of several autorickshaw routes, has raised red flags among oil marketing companies (OMCs), which suspect illegal diversion of ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Baduria man ends life over ‘SIR anxiety’

    Kolkata: A 36-year-old man allegedly committed suicide at Baduria in North 24-Parganas on Thursday after his name was placed under the "adjudication" category in the final electoral rolls. The first supplementary voter list under the SIR process is likely ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Adhir eyes Beharampore comeback after 30 yrs, TMC says ‘not a factor’

    Kolkata: Senior Congress neta Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday said he is set to return to legislative politics in Bengal after nearly three decades, expressing his wish to contest from the Beharampore assembly seat, subject to approval from the ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    CCTV footage helps in conviction

    Kolkata: A local Diamond Harbour court has convicted an extortionist and sentenced him to life imprisonment after connecting the dots through CCTV footage in an attempt-to-murder case reported on March 5, 2023. The accused, Rejajul Laskar alias Choto Matal, ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    15-yr battle: HC commutes convict’s sentence to 15 days

    Kolkata: Observing that the "sword of litigation" hanging over a convict's head for nearly 15 years itself amounts to a form of punishment, the Calcutta High Court reduced the one-year sentence of a man from Joypur — convicted of ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Young at risk: Boy writes boards with pacemaker, teen gets stent

    Kolkata: Akash Dey (16) from Coochbehar was rushed to a Kolkata hospital a few days before his Madhyamik board examination. Doctors found complete heart blockage, uncommon at such a young age. Five days after a life-saving pacemaker implantation, the ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Psst, do you want a commercial cylinder? Get ready to pay 3,000

    Kolkata: Cashing in on the current LPG crisis, a cylinder sale racket has emerged, with commercial cylinders being sold at exorbitant prices. Owners of roadside eateries, especially those in the central business district, are paying Rs 3,000 or more ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Thanks to crisis, auto drivers lose 2 days’ work a week, spend hrs in fuel stn queues

    Kolkata: Long queues at LPG fuel stations have meant that autos that usually operate six days a week are now able to run for only four days. Autos that have a full tank can operate for two days without ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    JU asks edu dept to sanction 21cr funds

    Kolkata: JU has written to the higher education department, urging it to sanction Rs 21 crore towards a maintenance grant to restore and sustain functioning of laboratories, hostel facilities, teaching-learning processes. A source said, "The university is facing a ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    17 doctors refuse bond postings in state hosps

    Kolkata: Days after 930 senior resident doctors were given postings at various govt hospitals in the state, 17 have refused to join. They were allowed to exit the bond that made three years of posting mandatory at govt facilities, ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Restos wait for power bill to check e-cooking viability

    Kolkata: Having passed the first-weekend challenge of operating with dwindling LPG stock and new electric cooking gadgets with flying colours, city restaurants have been emboldened to consider retaining some of the electric cookware if it proves to be economically ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata communities ring in new years with prayers, food & family

    Kolkata: Communities across the city are ushering in a new year with prayers and traditional food. From Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, and Navreh to Cheti Chand and Sajibu Cheiraoba, the celebrations reflect Kolkata's cultural vibrancy. Families from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Blood supply worry for hosps as summer, polls hit collection drive

    Kolkata: With elections just over a month away, hospitals across Kolkata are bracing for a blood supply shortage, since donation camps, which are the principal source of blood, are set to be discontinued as local clubs and voluntary organisations ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    At Bhowanipore, TMC war room focuses on door-to-door visits, cultural outreach

    Kolkata: Ward 77 of Bhowanipore constituency — long considered Trinamool Congress's electoral bulwark — emerged as the primary talking point during a recent closed-door strategy meeting.Senior functionaries and councillors, who attended the meeting on Thursday, acknowledged that the minority-dominated ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    Supplementary lists: Hour of reckoning draws closer for 60L

    Kolkata: Before the announced publication of supplementary list by Saturday, voters placed under adjudication in the city have started calling up their BLOs and enquiring how to check their names.Till Thursday night, 25 lakh cases have been cleared. EC ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP mum on Panihati after ‘reclaim night’ blowback

    Kolkata: The mother of the RG Kar victim on Thursday claimed that she is set to contest the assembly elections as a BJP candidate from the Panihati constituency to "secure justice for her daughter's murder and to fight for ...

    20 March 2026 Times of India
    W Asia war carves up Kol auto routes, hikes cost of daily travel

    Kolkata: Daily commuters across Kolkata and its southern and eastern fringes are paying up to three times their usual fares as auto operators have started abruptly truncating routes to cope with fuel shortages linked to the ongoing West Asia ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    'Political' films add a dash of glamour to West Bengal polls, focus on personalised tales

    KOLKATA: With West Bengal heading to the polls, Tollywood’s political cinema is trading traditional class analysis for a gritty look at individual agency and systemic failure. While masters including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Utpalendu Chakraborty, ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Bengal polls: EC directs Kolkata Police to use central forces

    KOLKATA: The EC on Wednesday directed the state's top police officials to immediately deploy central forces in any area where the law-and-order situation deteriorates. In a review meeting with Bengal DGP, CP Kolkata, ADG (law and order), IG CRPF ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    ‘Deeply religious’ Vijay Upadhyay is Trinamool’s ‘surprise pick’ in trading hub Jorasanko

    KOLKATA:Trinamool has fielded twotime councillor Vijay Upadhyay from Jorasanko for the April 29 assembly election, replacing sitting MLA Vivek Gupta in one of Kolkata’s most closely watched constituencies.Party leaders called the move strategic, in a seat where BJP has ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: TMC sets in motion a generational shift; only 1 of 4 on candidates’ list a senior citizen

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s list of candidates for the assembly poll has only 25% nominees who are senior citizens, marking a significant deviation from the norm in a country where gerontocracy thrives in politics. In 2021, 42.4% of the party’s ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    HC backs CEO on past experience for surveillance tender

    Kolkata: Upholding the ‘past experience' criterion by the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Bengal for awarding tender for surveillance systems for live web streaming and CCTVs in counting centres, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday held that courts cannot ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP earnings 2x other parties combined, says ADR report

    Kolkata: BJP had the highest earnings between 2014-15 and 2023-24 — more than twice the total funds collected by all remaining national parties combined — followed by Congress and Trinamool, according to an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report.The ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Kabir picks 2 Murshidabad seats, unveils candidate list

    Kolkata: The founder of Aam Janata Unnayan Party, Humayun Kabir on Wednesday announced a fresh list of candidates ahead of the Assembly elections and clarified the two seats from which he will contest.Kabir declared that he will enter the ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Cops seize Rs 2.75 lakh cash from Assam couple in Alipurduar

    Jalpaiguri: Within 48 hours of the Election Commission (EC) declaring Bengal polls, Alipurduar police seized Rs 2.75 lakh cash from a couple travelling in an Assam registered car on Wednesday afternoon.According to norms, individuals are not allowed to carry ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    TMC moves EC over ‘threat’ by Dilip Ghosh

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against former party national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, alleging that he threatened Trinamool netas, workers and the public.The party said Ghosh, referring to the recent incident at state minister ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Green activists protest felling of tree in Dhakuria

    Kolkata: Green activists and residents in the city protested after a mango tree was axed near the Dhakuria flyover. They demanded a probe. A campaign was started under the banner of an organization called ‘Each One Plant One.'According to ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    123-yr-old Nahoum’s downs shutters in face of LPG crisis

    Kolkata: The West Asia war seems to have had its effect on Kolkata's only Jewish bakery, the 123-year-old Nahoum and Sons in New Market, which downed shutters on Wednesday, unable to sustain operations due to the ongoing LPG crisis. ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Bhowanipore sees early campaign blitz for high-stakes political fight

    Kolkata: Five years on, the battleground has shifted from a largely rural setting to a fully urban constituency. Yet the Bhowanipore contest — between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari — remains as unpredictable as ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Intercepted before takeoff: US man’s Myanmar trail raises security alarm

    Kolkata: Fresh details emerging from the probe into the arrest of US national Aaron Van Dyke have revealed that he was detained at Kolkata airport for nearly two days before being formally handed over to the National Investigation Agency ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Bkp hosp barred from admitting new patients

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has barred a private hospital in Barrackpore from admitting new patients pending a probe against the hospital. According to a complaint by Soumik Majumder, his wife was admitted the hospital between ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Kol Pol set to procure underwater cams, drones and comms system

    Kolkata: The Disaster Management Group (DMG) of Kolkata Police is set for a major overhaul. This time the focus is on its water wing that carries out rescues and recoveries in the Hooghly but often faces multiple challenges, most ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Help held for 70L jewellery theft in N Kol

    Kolkata: Gold ornaments worth nearly Rs 70 lakhs, reported missing from a Kestopur apartment on Monday, have been recovered within 24 hours. Police arrested the house help, Mandira Halder (26) in connection with the theft.During interrogation, she allegedly confessed ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Pregnant woman killed, body hidden under bed; hubby held

    Kolkata: Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman, six months pregnant, was allegedly murdered by her husband in Sodepur, with her body wrapped in plastic and hidden under a bed, sparking shock in the area.Police recovered the body on Wednesday evening and ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Digi arrest: Three held for duping sr citizen of 3cr

    Kolkata: Kolkata Cyber Police arrested three persons who duped a senior citizen of Rs 3 crore through digital arrest fraud and seized six SIM boxes and 130 active SIM cards, which were all embedded in a wired system that ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    North 24 Pgns, Hooghly see maximum changes

    Kolkata/Chinsurah: North 24 Parganas and Hooghly have emerged as the districts with the most new faces on the Trinamool Congress candidate list.In North 24 Parganas, the party denied tickets to MLAs in six of the seven assembly constituencies along ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Oil cos seek comm gas customer data

    Kolkata: Oil marketing companies have asked LPG distributors in Bengal to submit detailed data on priority and non-priority commercial custom-ers and their consumption patterns. The move comes amid concerns over supply disruptions, prompting Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the state-level ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    CU-affiliated PG colleges to get back autonomy

    Kolkata: Calcutta University will allow affiliated colleges offering PG programmes to enjoy academic autonomy. Representatives from these colleges will soon be included in the PG Board of Studies as well.The move comes after Asutosh Ghosh took charge as CU ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Sobhandeb eyes record 10th term in assembly

    Kolkata: Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, 82, will create history if he wins the Ballygunge seat this time. He is set to become the only Bengal MLA to win a record 10th consecutive term.An octogenarian and one of Mamata Banerjee's closest associates, ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    Minister Shashi Panja clears SIR hurdle

    Kolkata: The EC on Wednesday said that minister Shashi Panja's name had been cleared from the ‘Under Adjudication' list, and her name will be included on the supplementary list. Panja, who is recontesting from Shyampukur, was among the notable ...

    19 March 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal polls: Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari in Bhabanipur, TMC bets on mix of old guard, fresh faces; drops 74 incumbent MLAs

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress released its entire list of 291 candidates for next month’s assembly election in one go on Tuesday, keeping the party’s founder and mascot — CM Mamata Banerjee — at her home constituency of Bhowanipore.Banerjee, who started ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Darj tea body seeks CM intervention for gas supply

    Kolkata: Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) has sought intervention of chief minister Mamata Banerjee for resumption of gas supply to tea estates.Incidentally, the production of first flush tea has just started and the tea factories require gas for processing of ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    At 478, EC appoints max observers for Bengal among poll-bound states

    KOLKATA: The Election Commission has appointed the maximum number of observers for Bengal among the four poll-bound states and the Union Territory of Puducherry.The 478 observers — across general, police and expenditure categories — would be stationed in their ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    EC moves former Bengal home secretary to TN as poll observer

    Kolkata: Bengal's former home secretary J P Meena, who was replaced by Sanghamitra Ghosh on Sunday, has been posted by the Election Commission (EC) as an observer in Tamil Nadu. According to an EC note, he will oversee the ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    2nd cop reshuffle in 24 hours; EC 'playing game' to help BJP, says CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: Election Commission on Tuesday ordered yet another round of large-scale transfers of senior police officers in Bengal, shifting as many as 12 superintendents, four commissioners and the additional DGs in charge of north and south Bengal, prompting CM ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari 2.0: High-stakes West Bengal fight shifts from Nandigram to Bhowanipore

    KOLKATA: The battle between the state CM and the assembly’s opposition leader will now shift from Nandigram to Bhowanipore.Trinamool Congress on Tuesday said Mamata Banerjee will be re-contesting from the seat, which will go to polls in the second ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP MLA Dinda moves HC

    Kolkata: MLA and BJP candidate for the upcoming assembly elections from Moyna, Ashok Dinda has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking details of the criminal cases pending against him. Appearing before the single-judge bench of justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    ‘Concretisation, low water table to blame for tree falls’

    Kolkata: Two back to back nor'westers on Sunday and Monday that uprooted over 40 full-grown trees, nearly all of them in south Kolkata, is yet another pointer to the peril of rampant concretisation and depletion of the water table ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Clash erupts at Kalyani hosp, 5 hurt

    Kalyani: Tension erupted at the state-run College of Medicine and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Kalyani, on Monday night following a clash between junior doctors and a patient's family, leaving at least five injured. While the patient's family alleged that ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Experts sound caution over rise in colon cancer among young adults

    Kolkata: Colon cancer, which was once considered a disease of the elderly, is now rising among younger adults at an alarming rate. Doctors in the city said that they are detecting the cancer in an increasing number of patients ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Sushil Poddar to head West Bengal Traders’ Welfare Board

    Kolkata: Sushil Poddar, president of the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Association (CWBTA), has been elected as the chairperson of the West Bengal Traders' Welfare Board (WBTWB). Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had tweeted about the formation of this welfare ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Amateur swimmers get a pool in Deshbandhu Park

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation handed over the Deshbandhu Park swimming pool in north Kolkata to the Bengal Amateur Swimming Association (BASA), giving the association a dedicated pool for its swimmers.Set up in 1938, BASA produced several ace swimmers ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Young faithfuls anchor strategy in fight for seats

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress has signalled a clear preference for long-serving young party workers in its latest ticket distribution, rewarding those who have been building the organisation at the grassroots level and in public outreach.Among those fielded are party IT ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Transport facility for elderly, disabled voters

    Kolkata: The EC is planning to arrange for transport for electors aged 85 years and above as well as those with a minimum 40% disability (PwD) to reach polling stations and cast their votes. These arrangements will be provisional ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Tree blocks Kasba hsg complex for 14 hours

    Kolkata: The KMC parks dept that is known for its efficiency for clearing trees that topple on the road took 14 hours to clear a Rudrapalash tree whose trunk split in two during the squall on Monday evening and ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP slams TMC picks, flags ‘tainted faces’ on candidate list

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Tuesday pointed at ‘tainted candidates' on Trinamool's list while taking a dig at the dearth of eligible candidates in the party.BJP's Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya took to his X handle to point at Paresh Adhikari, ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Nor’westers pull min temp down to 5°C below normal, more rain likely from Fri

    Kolkata: The late-night intense nor'wester, accompanied by squally wind on Monday night, pulled Tuesday's minimum temperature down by five notches below the normal mark. The day temperature too dipped on Tuesday by 3.6 notches below normal. The Met officials ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Mutton, ‘tough’ items back on menu as limited LPG supply resumes in Kol

    Kolkata: Restaurateurs are again breathing easy. Dishes that had gone off the menu are back. Some restaurants that had drastically reduced operation hours have relaxed the timing a bit.The commercial LPG crisis that was threatening to derail the food ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    On-&-off LPG supply puts auto ops on stop-and-start mode

    Kolkata: On-and-off supply of auto-LPG has left a yawning gap between the demand and supply, adversely hitting auto operations in the city. Auto gas shortage, triggered in part by the ongoing conflict in West Asia, has disrupted Kolkata's auto-rickshaw ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    Some big names omitted, some retain seats in poll list reshuffle

    Kolkata: Seventy-four MLAs were dropped and 15 of them were shifted from their existing seats in the list of candidates announced by Trinamool Congress on Tuesday, retaining 135 out of its 209 MLAs.Among those dropped are big names like ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP slams TMC picks, flags ‘tainted faces’ on candidate list

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Tuesday pointed at ‘tainted candidates' on Trinamool's list while taking a dig at the dearth of eligible candidates in the party.BJP's Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya took to his X handle to point at Paresh Adhikari, ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    BLOs to manage voter help booths at poll stns

    Kolkata: The Election Commission has asked for the setting up of voter assistance booths (VABs) near polling booths, and a team of booth-level officers (BLOs) will be deputed there to help the voters reach their respective stations to exercise ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    In SIR times, parties opt for veterans in Kol seats

    Kolkata: Amid SIR uncertainty, parties have put their faith in the hands of trusted old hands for the 2026 assembly elections.The prominence of this move lies in the candidature list announced by Trinamool Congress (TMC), Left Front and Bharatiya ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    4 hours after switch, former protege on TMC Nandi list vs Suvendu

    Nandigram: Trinamool Congress nominated ex-BJP panchayat chief Pabitra Kar as its candidate for Nandigram in the 2026 assembly election, setting up a contest against Suvendu Adhikari. This happened a few hours after Adhikari's campaign coordinator for the high-voltage 2021 ...

    18 March 2026 Times of India
    April 9 cut-off tension for 3.6 lakh Kolkata voters

    KOLKATA: Around 3.6 lakh voters in Kolkata whose electoral status is under judicial scrutiny have just over three weeks to find out if they will be eligible to vote in the upcoming Bengal assembly elections. The clarification is expected ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal poll: ‘Temple Man’ may boycott vote as kin names missing from list

    MIDNAPORE: Septuagenarian Yeasin Pathan, who received the Kabir Award from the President of India in 1994 for preserving ancient Hindu temples and promoting communal harmony, announced on social media that he might boycott the vote because the names of ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata doctors remove brain tumour from Dutch tourist misdiagnosed abroad

    KOLKATA: Doctors in the Netherlands dismissed a 36-year-old Dutch citizen’s unrelenting headache and bouts of vomiting as his body’s reaction to 2 opposite weather conditions in quick succession. This was in mid-January, upon his return home to biting European ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Auto services yet to be in full throttle, queues still at LPG stns

    Kolkata: The first Monday after the LPG supply disruption exposed the extent of the fuel crisis in Kolkata, with panic refuelling by auto drivers and domestic consumers leading to long queues outside LPG dispensing stations. Autos were yet to ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    ‘Sidelined’ by TMC, Arabul meets ISF’s Nawsad

    Kolkata: Bhangar strongman Arabul Islam, whose ties with Trinamool have become increasingly estranged, visited Furfura Sharif on Monday—home to Indian Secular Front (ISF) MLA Nawsad Siddiqui—and openly aired his dissatisfaction with the party.Arabul said he was repeatedly expelled from ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    State notifies DA arrears payout in phases

    Kolkata: Nabanna will pay DA (dearness allowance) arrears to state employees in multiple phases, according to a finance department notification. The arrears, covering the period from April 2008 to Dec 2019, were announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    9,500 ex-enclave dwellers in N Bengal fear losing vote

    Jalpaiguri: Around 9,500 former enclave-dwellers who became Indian citizens on Aug 1, 2015, face another hurdle — voter rolls released on Feb 28 following Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have marked them "under adjudication."With barely a month before assembly polls, ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    CEO seeks report on 2021, 2024 poll violence cases in Bengal

    Kolkata: The Bengal CEO has directed the ADG (legal) to submit a report on poll-related violence during the 2021 Bengal Legislative Assembly election and the 2024 general election.In a letter dated March 15, the CEO sought a list of ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    After poll dates, EC rejigs Bengal’s bureaucracy and top cops; chief secretary, DGP among those replaced

    KOLKATA: Hours after the assembly poll dates were announced and the model code of conduct came into force, Election Commission initiated an overhaul of Bengal's top bureaucracy and police brass on Sunday night and Monday morning, changing the chief ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    BJP 1st list: Suvendu to contest from Mamata backyard, Nandigram; Dilip back in old seat

    Kolkata: BJP neta Suvendu Adhikari will contest from Bhowanipore, CM Mamata Banerjee's home turf, as well as Nandigram in the upcoming assembly elections. Dilip Ghosh has been fielded in Kharagpur Sadar, a preferred seat for the BJP veteran. Soumitra ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    EC to clear 50% of pending cases, release supplementary list in 7 days

    Kolkata: Around 50% of the slightly more than 60 lakh cases marked as ‘Under Adjudication' in the electoral roll are expected to be disposed of within the next seven days, Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal said. He added ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    2k CAPF cos in each phase in Bengal

    Kolkata: The EC is all set to deploy 2,000-2,500 companies of central forces in each of the two-phase elections in Bengal to ensure peaceful and violence-free voting, Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal said on Monday. The EC has also decided ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Serving time increases as restos shift to chullahs

    Kolkata: Pushed to migrate to electrical gadgets and coal, wood-fuelled chullahs, serving time went up at several restaurants. Serving time is set to rise by 25% at Songhai-Manthan and MS Bar & Lounge in central Kolkata, which began its ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Kerosene price rises as grey markets flourish across state

    Kolkata: After coal, kerosene remains one of the most widely used traditional fuels for households across eastern India, following the fuel crisis triggered by the West Asia conflict. However, rising prices and supply constraints pushed kerosene into a thriving ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Office para lunch menu bears the brunt: Prices go up, food stalls down shutters

    Kolkata: The lunch rush in several of Kolkata's busiest office districts — from Dalhousie and Camac Street to Park Street and Salt Lake — is beginning to look very different as a worsening LPG shortage forces eateries and food ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    Didn’t book gas for 9 months? Head to LPG office for KYC to get cylinder

    Kolkata: Oil marketing companies tightened LPG booking norms as global energy disruptions triggered by the ongoing West Asia conflict continue to affect fuel supply chains in India. Under the revised instructions, LPG distributors in the state were asked not ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
    SIR shadow puts ministers’ election plans in limbo

    Kolkata/Malda/Murshidabad: While Trinamool Congress is expected to announce its candidate list any day now, several MLAs — including state cabinet minister Shashi Panja — whose names figure in the judicial adjudication list remain anxious over their electoral status. They ...

    17 March 2026 Times of India
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