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  • News from West Bengal | 27 Jul, 2025 | ১২ শ্রাবণ, ১৪৩২
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  • IITian held for stabbing 3 in stray dog death revenge

    KOLKATA: A first-year student of IIT-Madras and resident of Sonarpur on the outskirts of Kolkata was arrested Saturday on charges of stabbing and grievously wounding a family friend's neighbour, his wife and their son in retaliation for the killing ...

    7 July 2024 Times of India
    Refurbished airport loos set to give relief from stink

    Kolkata: City airport authorities are in the process of completely refurbishing all washrooms in the arrival and departure terminals following a flood of complaints on the micro-blogging site X about the unpleasant odor and unsightly stains in the washrooms.Currently, ...

    7 July 2024 Times of India
    JNU prof: No room for toxic majoritarianism

    12 Kolkata: The nation has withdrawn support to anyone who has tried to convert cultural sense of belonging to toxic majoritarianism. The nation is ready to celebrate cultural nationalism but not at the cost of pushing out those in ...

    7 July 2024 Times of India
    IRCTC focusses on Andaman packages as night flights take off

    KOLKATA: Anticipating a huge boost in tourist flow after Air India’s successful night landing at Port Blair airport, IRCTC, eastern region has repackaged its Andaman tour product."Building on the success of last year when 1,540 travellers experienced the pristine ...

    7 July 2024 Times of India
    Unprecedented: Firing in posh Southern Avenue neighbourhood shocks residents

    Kolkata: Residents of the leafy and quiet Southern Avenue locality could not believe that a gang could enter a home in their neighbourhood and open fire. People could be seen standing in huddles on Friday, discussing how their neighbours, ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    In 1st 4-yr sem exam, CU BSc results crash, pass percentage drops by 9%

    Kolkata: The pass percentage in the first-semester exams for BSc major students of Calcutta University-affiliated colleges has dropped by 9% from that last year. In 2023, 53.8% BSc honours students had cleared their first-semester exams, but this year, the ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Typhoid, flu, gastro diseases push up hospital occupancy

    Kolkata: Spread of influenza, typhoid and gastrointestinal diseases has led to a rise in hospital occupancy that had dropped in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections in May and June. While it had dipped to almost half at ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    City to get rain again next wk: Met

    Kolkata: With no rain for a day in the city, mercury climbed up on Friday. The Met office has predicted sparse rain for Kolkata in the next few days till it gets revived next week. However, despite a rising ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose plaint to President Droupadi Murmu as speaker administers oath to MLAs

    KOLKATA: Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday administered the oath of office to newly elected MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, prompting governor C V Ananda Bose to complain to President Droupadi Murmu alleging "constitutional impropriety".Speaker Banerjee ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Woman & son die, husband hurt as house 'set ablaze' in West Bengal

    Representative image BOLPUR: A woman and her child were killed and her husband is battling for life after a fire razed their Bolpur home early on Friday. Family members claimed kerosene had been thrown in through the window ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    WWII Japanese bomb detonated in West Bengal's Jhargram

    JHARGRAM: On June 29, while some digging work was on in Jhargram's Bhulanpur village, workers unearthed a large cylindrical object. Soon, a crowd gathered around it and everyone had an opinion about what it could be. It was only ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    ED files chargesheet against P Chidambaram's wife in Saradha case

    KOLKATA: ED on Friday submitted its third supplementary chargesheet in Saradha chit fund case in West Bengal, naming Nalini Chidambaram there.Nalini is wife of Congress Rajya Sabha member and ex-Union minister, P Chidambaram. However, the special court has not ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Nalini Chidambaram in Saradha chargesheet; why wait 11 years, court asks ED

    KOLKATA: Why an 11-year delay, PMLA court judge Prashanta Mukhopadhyay asked ED on Friday when it named Nalini Chidambaram, Congress senior P Chidambaram's wife, in its 64-page chargesheet in the Saradha case.In its third supplementary chargesheet, the agency named ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Body found in Kestopur canal

    Kolkata: The body of a man in his 30s — a rope tied around one of his hands — was found floating in Kestopur canal near Salt Lake AA block on Friday. Local residents alerted the police after they ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    ‘In summer, aerosols push up pollution risk’

    Kolkata: While high amount of pollutants in the air is a significant concern during the winter months in India, a recent study by Climate Trends reveals that elevated temperatures can also lead to occasional spikes in PM2.5 levels. This ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Kalighat MS stun MSC

    Kolkata: Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club suffered their first defeat of the season when they went down to Kalighat Milan Sangha 1-2 in the CFL Premier Division at home on Friday.After starting their campaign in an upbeat mood beating ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    ‘No point hanging around in party’: Dilip hints at BJP exit

    Kolkata: Former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday hinted at retirement from active politics if he was not given any responsibility in the party. “If there is no work for me, it means the party doesn’t need me ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Cataract patients recuperating

    Kolkata: The 16 patients admitted to the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO), who had complained of blurry vision post cataract surgeries at Metiabruz Super Speciality Hospital, are responding well to treatment and many have already got their vision back. ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Cops keep Behala diversions ‘dynamic’

    Kolkata: The Southwest Guard of Kolkata Traffic Police, which has been diverting all vehicles on Diamond Harbour Road from the Mominpore-end towards the Majherhat bridge via Lal Batti-Burdwan Road in the morning office hours, has decided to keep the ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Nothing official about it, hawkers are being allowed back in New Market zone

    123 Kolkata: Less than two weeks after a city-wide drive was launched by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Kolkata Police (KP) to push back hawkers who had occupied entire pavements and even encroached upon roads, hawkers have made a ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Ather looks to export e-scooters to int’l markets

    Kolkata: Ather Energy is considering options to export e-scooters to South Asia, South-East Asia, Europe and Latin America. The company currently manufactures two e-scooters — a performance vehicle with three variants and a family scooter with two variants. It ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Hawker pushback drive targets blocked pavements on CIT Road

    12 Kolkata: The Park Circus Traffic Guard — along with Entally Police and Beniapukur Police — carried out a night-long anti-encroachment drive on CIT Road and the adjoining areas on Thursday.“The pavements between Entally and CNMC Hospital were encroached ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    In Howrah, ‘parikrama’ of deities starts from Muslim prof’s house

    Kolkata: The Kadamtala neighbourhood in Howrah eagerly awaits the day of Rath Yatra. Not only children but adults too participate in a unique Rath Yatra that starts from the residence of Sheikh Makbul Islam. Islam, along with his Hindu ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    DVC to invest ₹20k cr in solar projects by ’30

    Kolkata: Damodar Valley Corporation on Friday announced that it has planned to invest Rs 20,000 crore by 2030 to install nearly 4,000 MW of solar capacity, a top official said. Agencies

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Speaker administers oath to MLAs, guv takes plaint to Prez

    Kolkata: Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday administered the oath of office to newly elected MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, prompting governor C V Ananda Bose to complain to President Droupadi Murmu alleging “constitutional impropriety”.Speaker Banerjee ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    But shoppers finally get to drive up to New Mkt

    Kolkata: Last Friday, Sudeep Ghosh of Bakul Bagan Row drove down to New Market after nearly 15 years when a friend told him that Bertram Street and Humayun Place that had been run over by hawkers had been cleared ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    Take expert help in OMR probe: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed CBI to take every step possible in the investigation into alleged tampering of OMR sheets and data transfer from the main server of the 2014 Teacher Eligibility Test.Justice Rajasekhar Mantha issued the ...

    6 July 2024 Times of India
    SSC scam: I-T seeks court nod to quiz Arpita

    Kolkata: The income tax department has moved the special PMLA court to seek its permission to interrogate SSC scam accused Arpita Mukherjee. The agency has told the court that it had reasons to believe that Mukherjee held several benami ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    All India Save Education Committee protests against corruption in medical entrance and UGC-NET exams

    KOLKATA: In protest against ongoing controversy over medical entrance exams and UGC-NET exams, a protest week observed by the All India Save Education Committee from June 27 to July 4 following an online protest meeting held on Thursday night ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Ariadaha attack: Main accused held

    Kolkata: Jayant Singh, an Ariadaha tough, was arrested early on Thursday for masterminding the attack on a 20-year-old college student, Sayandip Panja, and his 45-year-old mother, Bubun, over a rivalry between two local clubs. Singh, who had fled the ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    HC allows guv to file libel suit on July 10

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday permitted senior Counsel Dhiraj Trivedi, representing Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, to proceed with a defamation suit against CM Mamata Banerjee on July 10, reports Subrata Chattoraj.This comes after Justice Krishna Rao ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Float tenders for Gariahat parking lots: KP to KMC

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has written to KMC to try and solve the parking issues at Gariahat-Deshapriya Park. The cops have asked the civic body to hold tenders for at least three spots — the space below Gariahat flyover, ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Oath stand-off: WB governor 'allows' dy speaker to swear in 2 MLAs

    KOLKATA: Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose put out a six-page Q&A on his social media handle Thursday, seeking to explain the implications of the stand-off over newly elected Trinamool MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar refusing to ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Having Aadhaar no proof of citizenship: UIDAI in Calcutta HC

    KOLKATA: Having an Aadhaar number is no proof of citizenship or domicile, senior counsel for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) submitted in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, citing provisions of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Act.Senior ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    In oath tussle with West Bengal govt, governor CV Ananda Bose blinks first

    KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing standoff over the swearing-in of newly elected MLAs, governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday blinked first, authorising assembly deputy speaker Ashish Banerjee to administer oath to Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.Bose's six-page statement on ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    City schools calm parents, issue advisory after child-lift rumours

    Kolkata: Don’t panic, don’t pay heed to rumours but teach your children to stay away from strangers: these are part of the advisory list that several schools in Kolkata have been sending to parents to allay fears of child-lifting ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Lake Gardens shooting: Man left behind 6-page note

    Kolkata: The 27-year-old youth who had shot her girlfriend inside a Lake Gardens guest house before shooting himself had left behind a six-page suicide note where he vividly wrote about his plan to end his girlfriend’s life as well ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    2 die in bike accident near Sampriti flyover

    Kolkata: Two men died in a motorcycle accident near Maheshtala Sampriti flyover on Wednesday when the duo was travelling from Batanagar towards Jinjira Bazar. Police said they were drunk and riding at high speed without helmets. The biker lost ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Doctors blame contamination of water after rise in cholera figures

    Kolkata: With the onset of rains, cases of cholera — another monsoon-season ailment — are being reported from different city hospitals. On Thursday, a team from ICMR-National Institute For Research in Bacterial Infections, formerly known as ICMR-NICED, visited a ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Bookseller arrested

    Kolkata: Following a complaint lodged by the state HS council about illegal sale of free textbooks in the open market, Bidhannagar East police arrested Aftabuddin Malik, a bookseller from College Street, on Thursday. The council president had lodged the ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    NIA files chargesheet in Bhupatinagar blast case

    Kolkata: The NIA on Thursday filed a chargesheet in the Bhupatinagar blast case and claimed that the blast was a bid to terrorise locals. Six persons — Raj Kumar Manna, Biswajit Gayen, Buddhadeb Manna, and Trinamool Congress workers Balaicharan ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Bengal govt raises terminal benefits from ₹2-3L to 5L

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Thursday announced an increase in terminal benefits for various categories of workers, including higher secondary contractual teachers, para teachers, SSK and MSK teachers, academic supervisors, ASHA workers, honorary health workers, Anganwari workers and helpers, civic ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    City airport’s new terminal to handle 1.1 crore flyers a year

    Kolkata: The city airport has started work on the Rs 5,000-crore Kolkata airport expansion project in earnest.A new 1.1-crore passengers per annum capacity integrated terminal for domestic and international passengers will be constructed within the next six years. The ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    GKB joins hands with Widex to give audiology services

    Kolkata: GKB Opticals has collaborated with Widex, a Denmark-based hearing aid manufacturer, to provide ophthalmic and audiology services under one roof. The eyewear retailer is also planning to invest Rs 17-20 crore in refurbishing its stores across Kolkata.Priyanka Gupta, ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Bowbazar accused can take exams: HC

    Kolkata: The police custody of all the 14 hostel boarders, arrested for the lynching of a 37-year-old TV and mobile mechanic inside a Bowbazar state-run hostel, Udayan, on suspicion of mobile theft, has been extended till July 10. But ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Contaminated saline solution infected eyes post op: Report

    12 Kolkata: The primary report in the infection cases post cataract surgery at state-run Metiabruz Supespecilaty Hospital points to the use of contaminated saline solution for cleaning eyes . The report was submitted to the health officials at Swasthya ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Subodh aide in CID custody

    Kolkata: The CID has taken into custody Roshan Singh alias Tantia, who is considered close to gangster Subodh Singh. They will now seek his police custody so that they can question Roshan along with Subodh. CID sources said it ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    HC allows guv to file defamation suit on July 10

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday permitted senior Counsel Dhiraj Trivedi, representing Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, to proceed with a defamation suit against CM Mamata Banerjee on July 10, reports Subrata Chattoraj.This comes after Justice Krishna Rao ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol clocks highest home sales and launches in 7 yrs

    Kolkata: Kolkata’s primary residential market continued to witness strong homebuying demand in the first half of 2024, with sales as well as launches clocking an eight-year high.During Jan-June this year, 9,130 residential units were sold in the market, recording ...

    5 July 2024 Times of India
    Processed plasma therapy emerges as new cure hope

    Kolkata: A safe, non-surgical and cost-efficient treatment utilizing the healing properties of platelets from one’s own blood is making a silent entry into the field of regenerative medicine. Called platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, it is currently used in ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Exhibition, folk dances to celebrate Rath

    Kolkata: Utkala, the cultural wing of Sri Jagannath Seva Samiti, will celebrate Rath Yatra and Odisha Festival from July 7 to 15. The festival, which was first held in 2003, will commence with Netrotsav this year, followed by the ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Framing of charges in coal case deferred

    Durgapur: Framing of charges in the multi-crore illegal coal mining case was deferred on Wednesday after the special CBI court asked the central investigating agency to serve the second supplementary chargesheet to each accused. CBI lawyer Somnath Chattopadhyay said ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Cop circular to fight lynching menace

    Kolkata: Following the back-to-back cases of lynching, ADG (law and order) Manoj Verma on Wednesday issued a circular instructing the use of civic volunteers and rural police to gather inputs for prompt police action. The circular emphasized the need ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Abattoir to reopen in city

    Kolkata: The city’s first fully automated abattoir, which was closed in 2017, is set to reopen. A proposal for its reopening was passed in the mayor-in-council meeting on Wednesday. The supply of buffaloes had reduced to a trickle ever ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    After eviction drive, Sec V hawkers change addresses

    Kolkata: Hawkers evicted from multiple illegal hawking zones in Salt Lake Sector V following the chief minister’s prod have settled on empty walkways and footpaths outside other offices in the tech township where there were no hawkers even a ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    NEET scam: CBI raids New Town flat

    Kolkata: The CBI, probing the alleged malpractices in the NEET-UG examination, on Wednesday reached Kolkata tracing the links of the Sanjay Mukhia gang — the prime suspect and mastermind in the paper leak scam. The agency officials reached an ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Job scam: HC gives CS three weeks to act on CBI report

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered Bengal chief secretary BP Gopalika to respond within three weeks to the CBI report and sanction the prosecution of govt employees in custody regarding the money-for-job scam. A division bench comprising ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    After ‘break-up’, youth shoots at girlfriend, kills self in guest house

    Kolkata: A young man, Rakesh Kumar (27), allegedly shot his girlfriend, Nikku Kumari Dubey (23), inside a guest house in Lake Gardens and turned the gun on himself on Wednesday evening, less than three hours after they had checked ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Hawkers script a tale of two sides of Bertram St

    Kolkata: The attempt to discipline hawkers who had encroached nearly half of Bertram Street and Humayun Place has yielded mixed results with a section toeing the line on one flank and others encroaching the other. While hawkers who sold ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Work for Nabadiganta metro stn starts at Technopolis crossing

    Kolkata: Work on the airport-bound flank at New Town’s Technopolis crossing started on Wednesday for the Orange line’s Nabadiganta Metro station, after RVNL performed the customary puja on Tuesday. Cars and buses are flowing normally, as an extra road ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    HC nod to BJP dharna at Raj Bhavan for 4hrs on July 14

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday allowed Bengal BJP to hold a peaceful sit-in demonstration in front of Raj Bhavan in protest against alleged cases of post-poll violence in Bengal. BJP can hold the demonstration for four hours ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Chopra MLA: Never questioned woman’s character, not moral police

    Kolkata: One more person has been arrested in the case of the public flogging of a woman in North Dinajpur’s Chopra, police said on Wednesday. According to sources, the arrested Amirul alias Budha Mohammad, is an aide of Tajemul ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    2 more held for Ariadaha attack, victims still in hosp

    Kolkata: Two more persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the attack on a 20-year-old college student Sayandip Panja, and his 45-year-old mother, Bubun, in front of their home at Ariadaha late on Sunday after Panja protested against ...

    4 July 2024 Times of India
    Entally Mkt, space below Park Street flyover: Spots for new parking lots

    Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has decided to collaborate with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to establish new parking lots across the city in a bid to meet the growing demand for additional parking spaces. Each traffic guard has also been ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Kumar Birla consolidates group holdings after 5 yrs

    Kolkata: Kumar Mangalam Birla is further consolidating investments in group companies under Birla Group holdings.As per stock exchange filings, Birla Family Investments, Birla TMT Holdings, Umang Commercial Company, Aditya Birla Online Fashion, Sunbeam Trading and Infocyber India will be ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose scraps trip as flogging survivor ‘refuses’ to meet him

    SILIGURI/CHOPRA: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday flew to Siliguri from Delhi but was back in three hours, cancelling his planned trip to Chopra where a woman was publicly flogged after a kangaroo court deemed her "guilty" of ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Borough officials to keep eye on hawkers

    Kolkata: A civic official in each borough will be tasked to keep a hawk eye on hawker encroachment in the wards in his jurisdiction. A senior KMC official said that an official would be identified in each borough and ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    ₹10k fine for wasting court time, money to be used to plant trees

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court fined a petitioner willing to withdraw his petition for wasting the court’s time and directed the state to use the Rs 10,000 fine for improving the green cover in the precincts of the court.The ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Woman kills self after assault by neighbours

    Jalpaiguri: Four persons were arrested in Jalpaiguri’s Fulbari after a woman died by suicide on Saturday, after being assaulted and humiliated for an alleged extramarital relationship.Sabita Barman had eloped with her neighbour, Sagar Roy, a week ago, following which ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Interviews, appts done within 24 hours in municipalities: CBI

    Kolkata: CBI’s first chargesheet in the municipal recruitment scam has revealed how interviews were taken in the morning, candidates were shortlisted during the day, and appointments were made within 24 hours. The central investigating agency, which earlier named Ayan ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol Pol makes 1st BNS arrest in ‘case of hurt’

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police carried out its first arrest under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 2023 (BNS) which replaced the 164-year-old Indian Penal Code from Monday. It involved a case of hurt, in which two groups clashed in the Watgunge area ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Joka Metro diaphragm work begins

    Kolkata: The tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will be used to construct the 5 km underground section of the Joka-Esplanade Metro or the Purple line are expected to arrive from Germany next Jan. They will be assembled and deployed ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    History-sheeter shot near Kalna stn

    Kolkata: A 30-year-old history-sheeter, Milan Singh, was shot dead while having dinner at a friend’s shack outside Kalna railway station in East Burdwan on Monday night. Police said two bike-borne assailants fired two rounds at Singh, who was a ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    56-year-old Alipore cafe shuts down, looks for new address

    Kolkata: The closure of a popular vegetarian eatery in Alipore that was established in 1968, and began serving 108 varieties of dosa eight years later, has evoked widespread reactions on social media with residents of this tony neighbourhood, staff ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Once-a-wk drive to rein in parking touts

    Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Police will strengthen their drive against illegal parking and review the punitive action that needs to be taken on the ground to book parking touts. At a meeting held in the KMC headquarters ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Bagan held in opening game

    Kolkata: Mohun Bagan failed to make a winning start to their CFL Premier Division campaign as they were held 1-1 by Bhawanipore Club in Barrackpore on Tuesday. While their arch-rivals East Bengal began with a 7-0 thrashing of Tollygunge ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Kol’s Jan-June battery EV sales this yr outdo diesel’s

    Kolkata: More ‘battery electric vehicles’ (BEVs) have been sold in Kolkata than diesel-run ones in the first six months of 2024, the first time the former category has outsold the latter in a city that was, not too long ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Biker killed on VIP Rd flyover

    Kolkata: A 45-year-old man riding a bike was killed after being hit by a car on the approach road of the one-way airport flyover on VIP Road on Sunday. Dhiman Das, a resident of New Town, was riding towards ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Hawker pushback drive reaches Zakaria Street

    Kolkata: A team from Jorasanko and Bowbazar police stations on Monday cracked down on encroachers on Zakaria Street, Maulana Shaukat Ali Street, Kanai Seal Street and the adjoining areas, removing hawkers occupying the road and large parts of the ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    To deal with ghost hawkers, KMC gives 3 days for Aadhaar-phone link

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team assigned to conduct a hawker survey in and around New Market has given a three-day deadline to hawkers to furnishing Aadhaar cards linked to c ellphones so that they can be registered ...

    3 July 2024 Times of India
    Bengal may set up garment park: Chandrima

    Kolkata: Bengal govt was considering the possibility of setting up a garment park, state finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said at the inaugural ceremony of a garment sellers and buyers meet at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan on Monday.Addressing the 56th ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Governor ‘misses’ Kunal’s ‘deadline’ on oath ceremony

    Kolkata: Governor C V Ananda Bose ‘missed’ Trinamool Congress’s former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh’s Monday 3pm ‘deadline’ to administer oath to TMC MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar. Ghosh, however, didn’t bring up the ‘deadline’ on Monday, ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Guj women held for ₹15 lakh Kol robbery

    Kolkata: Two women – hailing from Kalupur, Ahmedabad and currently residing in Rishra, Hooghly – were arrested from the Hooghly PS area for allegedly robbing at least two persons, one of them being an employee of a jewellery firm ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata government tightens Swasthya Sathi norms for hospitals

    KOLKATA: The state health department has introduced two checklists to ensure judicious use of Swasthya Sathi, Bengal govt's universal health scheme. The latest advisory from Swasthya Sathi Samiti discourages hospitals from prolonged hospital treatment for common medical issues and ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    'Talibani punishment': West Bengal governor meets Chopra flogging victims

    KOLKATA: West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose changed his plans to meet victims of a flogging incident, initially scheduled to be in Chopra, by meeting them instead in Cooch Behar on Tuesday morning. Bose arrived in Bagdogra from ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Massive fire at engine oil factory in Kolkata

    NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at a engine oil manufacturing factory in Kolkata on Tuesday, a fire brigade official said.At least nine fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze which was reported from Shairabad ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Loreto college introduces apolitical students council with state education minister's support

    KOLKATA: Loreto College has taken an initiative on Monday to form an apolitical students council conducting an oath taking ceremony at college for the students representatives. The state education minister Bratya Basu was present as the chief guest. Education ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata: Extended tax holiday for CNG, electric vehicles

    KOLKATA: The state transport department has announced an extension of tax holiday for two-wheeler and four-wheeler electric vehicles (EVs) and all categories of CNG vehicles until March 31, 2025. The announcement, made by transport secretary Saumitra Mohan, includes a ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    In Bidhannagar, first case under BNS follows 24-year-old pillion rider’s death in Baguiati

    Kolkata: The first case recorded under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) in Bidhannagar was a death case, where a 24-year-old youth riding pillion on a bike died after falling from the two-wheeler near Kestopur crossing around 3 am on Monday.Sourav ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    At very first New Mkt stop, KMC survey team finds irregularities

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team assigned to conduct a hawker survey was baffled on Monday morning when they found three hawkers claiming a common space on Bertram Street. Asked to show documents in support of their claim, ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    After 'women move back' backlash, ICAI orders probe, says it's 'deeply perturbed'

    KOLKATA: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has started an internal probe to find out why women in the audience were asked to move back five rows at a recent event in the city just before chief guest ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Ruckus at city hospital

    Kolkata: Cops allegedly beat up a patient’s family with sticks at a govt-run city hospital on Sunday after an altercation with a nurse when the patient’s hand swelled after an injection. The patient’s relatives lodged a complaint with the ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Hostel lynch: Forensic officials collect bat

    Kolkata: A forensic team reached the Udayan hostel on Monday, three days after a 37-year-old TV and mobile mechanic was allegedly lynched by several hostel inmates, all of whom are now in police custody. The development came on the ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    KP letter to KMC on parking lots

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police has requested the KMC to carry out certain uniform changes at all authorized parking lots so that motorists can have a seamless experience, the first step being to set up prominent boards across the length and ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    52 plants discovered in Bengal in 2023, highest in India: Survey

    Kolkata: Bengal has emerged as the leading region for the discovery of new plant species in India, according to the Plant Discoveries 2023 report, compiled by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI). Unveiled by minister of environment, forest and ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    At 12.05am, forgery FIR is Kol’s 1st case under BNS

    Kolkata: A forgery complaint from Bansdroni in south Kolkata, recorded at 12.05am, became Bengal’s first registered case under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, the new criminal code that replaced the 164-year-old Indian Penal Code on Monday. An FIR was drawn up ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Kidderpore manage to hold Md Sporting 0-0

    Kolkata: Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting were held to a 0-0 draw by Kidderpore SC in a CFL Premier Division match on Monday. Five days ago, Mohammedan Sporting began their title defence in style blowing away Wari 6-0. However, despite ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Maidan clubs fit in containers to make room for metro stations

    Kolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has started pulling down Calcutta Police Club, one of the century-old Maidan tent clubs, to make way for the underground Park Street and Esplanade Metro stations of the Joka-Esplanade corridor or the Purple ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    Shatabdi gets Vistadome

    Kolkata: A Vistadome coach has been attached to the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shatabdi Express. The journey with the Vistadome coach started on Monday from Howrah station. The coach comes with a host of impressive features designed to better the travel ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
    GRSE signs deal with German co for 4 vessels

    Kolkata: Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited has signed a deal with Carsten Rehder Schiffsmakler and Reederei GmbH & Co, KG Germany for construction and delivery of four multi- purpose vessels of 7,500 DWT each, with an option of ...

    2 July 2024 Times of India
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