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  • News from West Bengal | 26 Jul, 2025 | ১১ শ্রাবণ, ১৪৩২
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  • Rescued Patuli bizman turns out to be cyber crook

    Kolkata: A businessman from Patuli who was abducted over a week ago and rescued in Noida by detective department officers and cops from Patuli police station on Tuesday has turned out to be a cyber fraud himself. Three days ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Sonarpur’s Jamal in police net

    Kolkata: Police on Friday finally arrested Jamaluddin Sardar of Sonarpur from an area near Kolkata Leather Complex after a three-day hunt. He will be produced before the court on Saturday.A complaint was filed against him at Sonarpur PS on ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Issue death certs for Nandigram 3 who went missing in 2007: HC

    Kolkata: Seventeen years after three Nandigram villagers went missing after participating in the anti-land acquisition movement, Calcutta High Court on Thursday stepped in to help their widows get death certificates of their husbands.Justice Shampa Sarkar directed the state panchayat ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Bike gang keeps Sarsuna on edge, 2 hurt in clash

    Kolkata: Two persons were injured in a clash involving over two dozen bikers in a Sarsuna neighbourhood, near Sarsuna College, in the early hours of Wednesday. According to locals, the clash may have been over control of the syndicate ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Less footpath space for stacking building materials in New Town

    Representative Image KOLKATA: From now on, developers and builders of new buildings in New Town, having valid and sanctioned building plans will be allowed to stack building construction materials on the footpath by leaving a 1.5 meter gap abutting ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Gurugram hospital brings vascular surgery awareness for diabetes patients in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A good number of people with diabetes develop foot infections which may require amputation. But such drastic measures can be prevented with newer modalities of treatment in vascular surgery. West Bengal has a relatively higher prevalence of hypertension ...

    20 July 2024 Times of India
    Submit all 26 Suvendu case diaries: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed state police to submit case diaries for all 26 pending cases against state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari. Justice Jay Sengupta directed cops to produce the case diaries at the next hearing ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    File affidavit on Santragachhi by Sep 11: NGT

    Kolkata: The NGT Eastern Zonal Bench has directed state chief secretary to file an affidavit by Sep 11, detailing the expedited implementation of the detailed project report for the installation of a sewage treatment plant at Santragachhi Jheel, including ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Class X1 student run over by bus in Kolkata

    Representative image KOLKATA: A Class 11 student returning home from his Salt Lake school died after he accidentally fell from a bus while deboarding at VIP Road near Haldirams crossing on Thursday evening.Police said Angikar Dasgupta (17), a resident ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    'Going to the back stone age ... ': IndiGo issues handwritten boarding passes to fliers at Hyderabad airport

    A hand-written boarding pass at Hyderabad Airport. (Image credit: X/@akothari) HYDERABAD: A major Microsoft outage has caused disruptions at various airports across India, including the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. As a result of the technical issues, passengers ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    What are rail authorities & govt doing: Mamata

    Kolkata: “When will the govt come to its senses?” Bengal CM and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee asked Centre on Thursday as she expressed her condolence following the death of seven people in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment near Gonda in ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    ‘Lass’ hard to toss

    Kolkata: A small field of five three-years-old have accepted the invitation to run the Karnataka Juvenile Million Gr-III in Bengaluru on Friday. Excellent Lass from the stable of Rajesh Narredu is the one to beat in this prized event ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Indians in Dhaka wait for peace to return as quota protests singe Bangladesh

    KOLKATA: Indians employed in Bangladesh are adhering to the govt's directive to stay indoors amidst demonstrations over a controversial job quota system. The protests, followed by the reinstatement of a 30% job quota for families of war veterans, have ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Nurseries, eateries on Salt Lake govt plots

    12 Kolkata: At a time when agencies are conducting drives to evict encroachers from govt land and reclaim the “lost properties”, multiple plots in Salt Lake were found being occupied by squatters or “traders”, who run private business, like ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Stay on probe not fetter on hearing bail plea: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday held that the HC stay on further investigation into 47 FIRs lodged by Nandigram police against individuals would not be a fetter on the subordinate court to hear bail petitions of the accused ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol Pol to get four blast-inhibitor blankets to save people, properties

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police plans to procure four blast inhibitors or anti-blast blankets to protect people and properties from the effects of accidental or controlled explosions. Though police here have been using blast inhibitors for a while, this is the ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    VIP Rd, Behala accidents kill boy, sr citizen

    Kolkata: A 77-year-old woman was run over by a long-distance bus in Thakurpukur on Thursday morning. Her daughter was injured in the accident. In the evening, a class XI student died after he fell off a bus while alighting ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Black magic whiff in Kasba skulls and bone recovery case

    Kolkata: Two skulls and a bone, smeared with vermilion, were recovered from a private property at Kasba’s Kamala Park on Sarat Ghosh Garden Road. The incident sent shockwaves through the densely populated neighbourhood near Haltu.“The skulls and bone have ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    2nd state-run school gets digi-attendance system

    Kolkata: Taltala High School has introduced digital attendance for students of classes XI and XII from Thursday. The move aims at ensuring that senior students regularly attend classes. Jadavpur Vidyapith, another state-run school in the city, had earlier introduced ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Sourav to get Big 2’s top honours

    Kolkata: In an unprecedented incident, Sourav Ganguly will be the recipient of both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal’s top awards this year.The Mohun Bagan club’s executive committee on Wednesday chose the former India captain and BCCI president’s name for ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    City GM overcomes travel woes to win

    Kolkata: It’s a case of all’s well that ends well for Deep Sengupta. The Kolkata-based Grandmaster, who was once uncertain whether he could make it to Warsaw in time to take part in the Najdorf Memorial chess tournament, eventually ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    HC cannot take over role of an employer: Division bench

    Kolkata: The court cannot appropriate an employer’s role, said a Calcutta High Court division bench while hearing an assistant teacher’s plea against a single-judge bench order in a transfer case.The HC said the govt should decide whether the grounds ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Minister Sukanta can’t agree to my slogan in public: Suvendu

    Kolkata: Despite intense criticism from within the party and outside, Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday held on to his “jo hamare saath, hum unke saath” stand, saying that Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar could not endorse ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    BJP’s defeated DH candidate files election petition in HC

    Kolkata: BJP’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha poll candidate Abhijit Das, who lost to Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee by more than 7 lakh votes, filed an election petition in Calcutta High Court on Thursday, alleging large-scale rigging in the ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Fire in New Town complex, none injured

    Kolkata: A fire broke out at a 8th floor flat in an 12-storey building called Orange tower at Sunrise Point housing complex in New Town on Thursday afternoon.The fire caused initial panic trapping a group of residents on the ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol to have a leather mall near Alipore Jail Museum

    Kolkata: The city will soon have a leather mall developed by Hidco at Alipore, former chief secretary and chief adviser to the CM, Alapan Bandopadhyay, said on Thursday.Addressing the media at Nabanna after a review meeting on Kolkata Leather ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Private schools across boards join hands to address common concerns

    Kolkata: Multiple private schools, across educational boards, in Bengal have come together to form a platform — The West Bengal Association of Private Affiliated Schools — to collectively nurture education to the right direction and usher in best practices. ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Pre-puja date for New Town’s multi-level car park, solar dome, cycle velodrome roll-out

    Kolkata: The much-awaited solar dome project, a 250m cycle velodrome — the first of its kind in Bengal — and a multi-level car parking complex in New Town are nearing completion. Govt officials said that about 90% of the ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Councillor in N Kol slap FIR

    Kolkata: Police have registered a case against Sunanda Sarkar, the Trinamool councillor of ward 18, hours after a video surfaced showing her slapping local party functionary Kedar Das. The FIR was drawn up on the written complaint of Kedar ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    CII bestows ITC Royal Bengal 'Best Energy Efficient Commercial Building/Hotel' award

    KOLKATA: ITC Royal Bengal has been awarded the prestigious “Best Energy Efficient Commercial Building/Hotel” during the CII National Energy Efficiency Circle Competition 2024. The accolade acknowledges ITC Royal Bengal’s dedication to sustainability, state-of-the-art energy efficiency practices, and unwavering commitment ...

    19 July 2024 Times of India
    Syndicate attack on doc home

    Kolkata: Two Dum Dum-based real estate syndicate members were arrested on Wednesday for carrying out an attack on a doctor’s house in Birati over a dispute over building material supply. Cops said Ankush Dutta and Sunny Pal barged into ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    14 ROBs to replace level crossings

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway has decided to immediately build 14 road overbridges (ROB) to replace level crossings in various stations, including Khardah where a major accident was averted on Sunday when a train hit a car that had defied the ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    ‘Human bones’ found in drain

    Kolkata: Civic personnel found suspected human bones and a skull in a drain and a bush while cleaning a drainage channel at New Town’s Tarulia on Wednesday afternoon. Conservancy worker guarded the area till a team of officers from ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Youth held for raping woman he met at pub

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Tuesday arrested a youth who owns a guest house for allegedly raping a woman after befriending her at a central Kolkata pub-cum-nightclub through a common friend.According to police, the accused met the woman at ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Twid looks to expand cashless transactions

    Kolkata: Rewards-based payment network Twid is expanding its digital-first business strategy to enhance cashless transactions in B2C platforms.Several merchants have been engaged by Twid to onboard more acquirers, issuers and merchants to enhance cashless payment for consumers, according to ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    DVC told to expedite corporatisation process

    Kolkata: Public sector power utility Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) will be corporatised soon — unbundling into at least three entities for transmission, generation and distribution to achieve greater efficiency. On Wednesday, Union power minister Manohar Lal asked DVC to ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Cop in hosp after man attacks him with bottle

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police constables Debashis Mandal and Uday Barman were attacked on Wednesday while patrolling the Sovabazar-Sonagachhi area. The accused, Rahul Das (37), allegedly under the influence of alcohol, struck Mandal with a glass bottle. He had to be ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    No outsiders at night: JU to enforce hostel rule

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University is enforcing the rule of not allowing non-boarders to stay at hostels overnight. “No non-boarder will be allowed to stay as guests at hostels. If students are found with a non-boarder unofficially, strict action will be ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    TMC: BJP doesn’t believe in representation of minorities

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress as well as other INDIA bloc parties in Bengal, CPM and Congress, criticised BJP and Suvendu Adhikari for the latter’s call to dissolve the party’s Minority Morcha and his statement that he “would not speak about” ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Hatibagan hawkers back on Arabinda Sarani

    Kolkata: Several hawkers, who were evicted from the carriageway at Hatibagan during a joint pushback drive by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and cops, have started encroaching upon the pavements along Arabinda Sarani. The encroachment has drawn ire of ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Restore ex-IPS officer’s retirement benefits: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to give post-retirement benefits to a West Bengal cadre IPS officer, dismissed in 2013 on corruption charges. The IPS officer, Akbar Ali Khan, was dismissed following a disciplinary committee ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    ‘Proud of him,’ say grieving parents of fallen Darj soldier

    Siliguri: The parents of Brijesh Thapa, a 27-year-old Army captain who died — along with three other Armymen — in a gunfight with terrorists in J&K’s Doda on Monday night, expressed pride at their son’s sacrifice for his country, ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Abducted Patuli bizman rescued from Noida, 6 held

    Kolkata: A Kolkata Police team rescued a businessman — Satyendra Kumar (28) of Briji Pranabananda Road under Patuli police station — from Delhi-NCR on Tuesday. The business man was allegdely abducted by a gang there after he was convinced ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    Woman alleges assault by promoter

    Kolkata: A Paikpara resident has filed an FIR against a promoter who allegedly punched her on the face after a dispute over alleged theft at a construction site.The incident has been reported from Simlaipara Lane in Paikpara, close on ...

    18 July 2024 Times of India
    2 dead, 7 injured in six accidents

    Kolkata: At least two persons died and seven injured in six accidents in the city. Early on Tuesday, a 73-year-old woman, who went to buy puja flowers after taking a dip in the Hooghly, was run over by a ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Fresh eviction drive set to start in New Town

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is planning to conduct another drive from Thursday to clear pavement encroachments in New Town. The authorities have instructed street vendors and hawkers to shift to the hawker rehabilitation stalls as ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Cal HC interim order bars CM, 3 others from 'defaming' governor

    Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has restrained CM Mamata Banerjee, newly elected Trinamool MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar and former MP Kunal Ghosh from "making any defamatory or incorrect statement by way of publication and on ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Amartya: Rahul has matured, real test will be as oppn leader

    BOLPUR: Describing Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as a man who had "significantly gained maturity" over the years, Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen felt the neta's true test would be how he led the opposition in Parliament.The nonagenarian also opined ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Local onion variety @₹39 to bring price relief

    Kolkata: In a bid to check the soaring onion prices in Bengal, the state has started procuring the home-grown Sukhsagar variety. The decision aims at stabilizing retail market prices and providing relief to consumers across the state.Retailing at a ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    CM has right to freedom of speech under Art 19: Counsel

    Kolkata: Reacting to the HC order restraining CM Mamata Banerjee and three others from making any “defamatory statement” against the governor for now, Banerjee’s lawyer, Sanjay Basu, said: “The CM has merely alluded to the apprehensions of numerous women ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Birla Tyres to re-enter mkt with new products in Q4

    Kolkata: Birla Tyres is likely to re-enter the market with a new range of products in the fourth quarter of this fiscal, said Anurag Choudhary, CMD and CEO of Himadri Speciality Chemicals, one of the owners of Birla Tyres. ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    HC seeks Mallick’s med report in 2 wks

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday sought a report on the health of former food minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, now lodged at Presidency Correctional Home as an accused in the ration scam.Justice Subhra Ghosh directed the correctional home superintendent ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    After new criminal laws, state forensics, CID to hire experts, fill vacant posts

    Kolkata: The state govt is in the process of recruiting scientific officers as well as scientific and lab assistants for the state forensic sciences laboratory, which has been running with merely 50% staff strength. The state forensic sciences lab ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Sukanta has his ear to the ground, so do I: Suvendu

    Kolkata: “Sukanta Majumdar has his ear to the ground and so do I,” state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday. His remark followed the Bengal BJP president and junior Union minister’s earlier comments telling BJP workers not ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    11-year-old raped & killed, youth arrested

    Kolkata: An 11-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered by a 22-year-old youth, living in the same neighbourhood in Howrah’s Amta.Police said the girl had been missing since Sunday. Following a complaint lodged by her parents, cops began ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Sheeba looks good

    Kolkata: The first day of the Mysuru season begins with a good card of seven races. The main attraction of the afternoon is the running of the Varahi Trophy in two divisions. The first division should see Feroz Khan-nursed ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Anti-ragging: Fewer members in new JU panels

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University has reconstituted its anti-ragging committee and anti-ragging squad by reducing the number of members.While the earlier anti-ragging committee had 33 members, the newly formed body will have 27. Similarly, the anti-ragging squad that had 56 members ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    N Bengal train accident was waiting to happen: CRS report

    Kolkata/New Delhi: Commission of Railway Safety (CRS), in its provisional findings in the fatal Kanchanjungha Express accident on June 17, has pointed to wrong authority letters issued to loco pilots on how to negotiate defective signals and lapses at ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Ripley consortium gets Haldia mechanisation contract

    Kolkata: The consortium of Ripley & Co and Bothra Shipping Services has submitted the highest revenue share bid for the mechanisation of berth 5 at the Haldia dock complex under a PPP arrangement.An official stated that the consortium plans ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    KMC’s ‘concrete steps’ to save roads from rain ravage

    12 Kolkata: The KMC roads department has started paving some of the city stretches with concrete blocks to ensure they last longer, withstanding the onslaught of rain and waterlogging. The civic body has started with a couple of roads ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    ₹1.3 cr granted for road repairs in Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday received an approval of about Rs 1.3 crore from the state urban development department for repairing damaged roads in four blocks in Salt Lake. The administrative approval and financial sanction have ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    TMC cites martyrs’ day, says no MP will attend all-party meet

    Kolkata: Trinamool will skip the all-party meeting convened on July 21 owing to the Shahid Diwas (martyrs’ day) rally being organised in the city, like every year, on that day. The party has informed Union minister of parliamentary affairs ...

    17 July 2024 Times of India
    Now, an AI kit to detect pesticide residue in tea leaves

    Kolkata: Tea Research Association (TRA) Tocklai, Kolkata has collaborated with Arogyam Medisoft Solution, a deep tech digital solution company in life sciences from Kolkata, for validation of ACLIVIA for Tea, an artificial intelligence-based rapid screening platform for detection of ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Cops, KMC shift New Market zone parking lot to act as hawker shield

    KOLKATA: A third of Bertram Street next to New Market has been freed up for traffic with Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Police shifting the parking lot next to the line of hawkers along the market’s western wall. The ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal: Tunnel leading to canal found underneath fake gold idol dealer's house

    Representative Image KOLKATA: The West Bengal Police discovered a tunnel leading to a canal connected to the Matla River beneath the house of an alleged fake gold idol dealer in South 24 Parganas district. The accused, Saddam Sardar, reportedly ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata witnesses a musical ode to the monsoons

    Bidisha in performance with Ashanis TutejaPics: Anindya Saha Bidisha Mohanta’s performance in the city this time was special as it marked a professional milestone. The event offered an unforgettable evening of music and creativity with celebrities in attendance. The ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Cops attacked during Kultali raid

    Kolkata: A police team was attacked and shot at while attempting to arrest a notorious fraudster, Saddam Lashkar, in the Paytarhat area of Kultali in the South 24 Parganas district during the wee hours of Monday.The kingpin of the ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Teen drowns near Eco Park

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old resident of Narayanpur, Hatif Mondal, drowned in a water body inside Eco Urban Village near New Town’s Eco Park on Monday afternoon. Mondal was visiting the place with five friends when he fell in the water ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro rake briefly stranded at Tollygunge station due to power snag

    Representative Image KOLKATA: A Kolkata Metro train headed for Dakshineswar was momentarily stranded at the Tollygunge station on Tuesday morning due to a power disruption. This incident caused train services to be regulated along the older North-South corridor during ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Kanchanjunga Express accident was 'waiting to happen': Railway safety report

    Kanchanjunga Express accident (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has said that the Kanchanjunga Express accident, which claimed ten lives including the loco pilot of the goods train was "waiting to happen" because of multiple ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol catches sister’s docu ode to slain journalist Gauri Lankesh

    Kolkata: Was it the extinguishing of optimism that Gauri Lankesh’s assailants aspired to achieve when they brutally murdered the journalist outside her residence in Bengaluru on Sept 5, 2017? The perpetrators had sprayed a minimum of seven rounds at ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    1 eye lost, chemotherapy on 18-month-old girl suffering from eye cancer

    Kolkata: A one-and-a-half-year-old girl has undergone ophthalmic chemotherapy at Regional Institute of Ophthalmology for retinoblastoma. Govt officials said this is the first time such a procedure is being carried out to treat eye malignancy in eastern India. The girl ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    4 out of 10 students in this year’s IIM-C batch non-engineers, more than a 3rd women

    KOLKATA: In a dramatic swing in admission trend, 200 out of 479 (42%) students who have secured a place in the two-year flagship MBA programme at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta this year are non-engineers. This is a nine-fold ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    4 mixed waste processing units in Bengal soon

    Kolkata: Four mixed waste processing units are set to come up in Kolkata, Salt Lake and two other places in Bengal for recycling domestic and industrial waste into various by-products like refuse-derived fuel (RDF).At a conclave on plastics and ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    HC hears Xav boy’s plea on attendance

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday asked St Xavier’s University to disclose whether any student having between 65% and 75% attendance was debarred from appearing in the semester exam. The court refused to immediately pass an order following ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    ED, CBI actions won’t help BJP win elections: Sukanta

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP president and junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar told party workers that relying on CBI and ED actions wouldn’t help win elections. He urged the workers to focus on strengthening the organisation instead of depending on the ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Cases of hand, foot & mouth disease on rise

    Kolkata: An increasing number of children are falling prey to hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). With the monsoon in full swing, doctors apprehend a surge of this infection as the virus is extremely contagious. While the disease is ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    India plans rail tracks through Nepal to bypass Chicken’s Neck

    Jalpaiguri: India plans to build railway lines through Nepal to connect Jogbani in Bihar to New Mal Junction in Bengal via Biratnagar in the neighbouring nation to reduce the country’s dependence on the Siliguri Corridor, also known as ‘Chicken’s ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    1 hurt in clash over ‘satta’ biz in Baghajatin

    Kolkata: At least one person was seriously injured when two groups got involved in a pitched battle on Sunday night in the Bagha Jatin area. The fight was over who controls the illegal satta business in the area. Sources ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Train-car collision: SUV driver held

    Kolkata: Police on Monday arrested Amal Sarkar, the driver of an SUV, which tried to cross over a railway level crossing near Khardah station while a train was approaching late on Sunday night. The SUV was hit by the ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Police propose road infra rejig before RVNL starts Joka Metro work

    Kolkata: The city traffic cops have raised a fresh proposal to widen Dufferin Road, which connects the Gandhi statue with Fort William’s East Gate (adjoining Red Road), decrease the size of J&N Island and ensure that an alternative road ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    TMC performs ‘khuti puja’ for martyrs’ day rally

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Monday performed ‘khuti puja’ in front of Victoria House in Esplanade, where the party observes martyrs’ day on July 21. TMC state president Subrata Bakshi officially launched the setting up of the makeshift structure by ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    8-year-old falls while boarding racing bus on Bidhan Sarani

    Kolkata: An eight-year-old was injured in her right leg after she fell from a private bus while boarding it with her mother on the way back from school. The incident took place near Bethune Collegiate School on Bidhan Sarani.Locals ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    In a first, jailed Maoist gets univ entry for PhD

    Kolkata: Arnab Dam, the first convicted prisoner in the state to have attempted to pursue a PhD, was given an admission at the Burdwan University on Monday after his counselling was over. He is likely to start the course ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Labour of love: MP’s guard ferries 10 elderly rickshaw-pullers on Ultorath

    Kolkata: A 45-year-old Kolkata Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI), Bapan Das, pulled hand-drawn rickshaws, carrying 10 elderly rickshaw-pullers, through the city streets on Monday to celebrate Ultorath. He also presented them with sweets and clothes. Currently deployed as a police ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Guv will be sent letter to administer oaths to new MLAs: Speaker

    Kolkata: Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee on Monday said the parliamentary affairs department would write to governor C V Ananda Bose to administer oaths to the four newly elected MLAs. The new Trinamool MLAs — elected from Maniktala (Supti ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    Botched op: 2 go home after losing sight in one eye

    Kolkata: Two elderly persons, who were among the 18 whose eyes got infected after cataract surgery in a state-run hospital, have lost vision in one eye. While one is a 75-year-old man, the other is a 76-year-old woman. Doctors ...

    16 July 2024 Times of India
    KMC to agencies: Plug death holes on roads immediately after work

    12 Kolkata: A day after the body of a woman — who had ‘accidentally’ fallen into a pit on Kashi Bose Lane last week— was recovered, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) alerted all agencies on Sunday to plug the ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Md Sporting beat Southern 3-1, go top

    Kolkata: Mohammedan Sporting provisionally moved to the top of Group A, beating Southern Samity 3-1 in their CFL Premier Division match on Sunday. Mohammedan Sporting, playing at home, went into the break with a 1-0 lead, thanks to Robinson ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Two cars come on tracks, hit by train in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: The Down Hazarduari Express collided with two vehicles at a level crossing near Khardah railway station on Sunday night, causing significant panic. The occupants of the vehicles had a close shave. The vehicles were severely damaged, and train ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    City clubs promote social causes, spread harmony msg with Khuti Puja

    12 Kolkata: Messages of peace, harmony, inclusivity and equality are being adopted as themes for Khuti Puja across the city this year. While several Durga Puja organizers — who commence their puja preparations with the Khuti Puja ceremony — ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol sees sudden rise in swine flu cases

    Kolkata: The city has seen a sudden, sharp spurt in swine flu or H1N1 cases leading several hospitals to step up tests even as one has introduced an isolation ward to prevent transmission. A respiratory disease caused by an ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Iskcon recalls Fifth Avenue help after bid on Trump life

    Kolkata: On a day the frontrunner in the US presidential race was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) recalled Donald ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Man found hanging near Lake Mall

    Kolkata: The body of a man was found hanging from an advertisement hoarding outside the Lake Mall on Sunday morning. Locals discovered the body and informed the cops.Preliminary investigation has revealed that the man is a local flower trader. ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    India’s ‘solar man’ wants Bengal to draw up climate action plan

    Kolkata: Energy Swaraj Foundation founder Chetan Singh Solanki — MP govt’s brand ambassador for solar energy — wants to collaborate with various industry sectors in Bengal to draw up green strategies to promote clean energy and reduce reliance on ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Smart, clean street food hubs ready to serve Kol favourites in Patuli, Russel St and Tala

    Kolkata: In an endeavour to enable the citizens to savour the taste of famous Kolkata street food in a smart and hygienic manner, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has set up food hubs in three locations across the city. Shabby ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Biker without helmet killed in AJC Bose Rd flyover accident

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old helmetless biker died after he lost control over the two-wheeler and rammed a median divider on the Police Training School (PTS)-bound ramp of AJC Bose Road flyover around 12.32 am on Sunday.The deceased, Md Hussain, a ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Fire-proof polycarbonate view-cutters make debut in Gariahat, work in Ballygunge soon

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has started installing polycarbonate view-cutters mounted on steel frames at hawking hub Gariahat to camouflage the shabby rear portions of hawker stalls that face the roads and are an eyesore. The view-cutters being installed ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    B’desh delegation visits V-B museum

    Kolkata: A four-member delegation from Bangladesh, led by deputy secretary of the ministry of cultural affairs Md Saiful Islam, visited the Bangladesh Bhavan museum at Visva Bharati on Saturday and presented a sculpture of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to interim ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
    Missing woman’s family got freak death news from TV

    Kolkata: The middle-aged woman, whose body was recovered from a pit dug up by KMC on Bidhan Sarani near Kashi Bose Lane on Saturday, was identified as a mentally-challenged woman, Suparna Seal (45). She lived barely 700 metres from ...

    15 July 2024 Times of India
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