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  • Fire at copper wire factory hits rail and road traffic near Park Circus, no casualties reported

    123 Kolkata: A fire broke out in a copper wire factory located on Tiljala Road under Beniapukur police station, right next to the Park Circus railway station, on Monday afternoon, halting rail movement on the loop line briefly and ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    Massive fire engulfs abandoned warehouse at Burn Standard factory in Howrah

    123 Howrah: A massive fire broke out at the workshop of the closed Burn Standard factory in Howrah on Monday evening. The fire was first noticed in an abandoned warehouse of the factory around 7.30 pm. Workers present in ...

    21 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case: Victim's father demands harshest punishment for Sanjay Roy, alleges involvement of others

    KOLKATA: Ahead of the sentencing in the RG Kar rape-murder case at the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court, the victim's father demanded the maximum punishment for the convicted Sanjay Roy. He also voiced his belief that other accomplices were ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Bangla patients trickle back to Kolkata hospitals

    123 Kolkata: Bangladeshi patients have started trickling back to some Kolkata hospitals after a lean period of five months despite tensions at the border, bringing a glimmer of hope for the medical tourism sector in the city that was ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    E-detection drive against over 15-yr-old comm vehicles

    123 Kolkata: Despite losing roadworthiness, a significant number of commercial vehicles over 15 years old continue to ply on the roads, posing environmental and safety risks. In a decisive move, the Bengal transport department, in collaboration with the ministry ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Parents look at next stage of court battle

    KOLKATA: The R G Kar trial based on the first charge sheet by CBI implicating rape and murder is set to conclude on Monday, but the proceedings will now shift to Supreme Court on Jan 22 when the apex ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    'Court should hear Sanjay Roy': Opposition leaders on RG Kar case verdict

    KOLKATA: BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya on Monday morning questioned the precipitous proceedings in the RG Kar rape and murder case, while emphasising that the investigation ought to continue and additional perpetrators involved in the heinous crime must likewise be ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    'CBI probe worthless, many involved left free': RG Kar doctor ahead of verdict in rape-murder case

    Sealdah Court is set to announce the punishment in the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case involving Sanjay Roy. Convicted, Roy faces either life imprisonment or death. NEW DELHI: Sealdah Court is set to pronounce the quantum of punishment ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Hope scope for more probe emerges today’

    Kolkata: When the court spells out the quantum of punishment for Sanjay Roy on Monday, friends and colleagues of the 31-year-old rape-murder victim will be keeping their fingers crossed, hoping for further investigation scope to emerge from the court. ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Post RG Kar hospital horror, death given in 5 cases of minors’ rape & murder in West Bengal

    Representative photo KOLKATA: A Pocso court in Bengal's Hooghly sentenced a convict to death on Sunday for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl last Nov, marking the fifth death penalty in cases of minors' rape-murder in the state since ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Blood-sucking flies found in Andaman & Nicobar: 13 of 23 species new to India

    Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India researchers have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Of these, 13 species were reported for the first time in India.Published in the international ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    High-end sports bike lands 3 in cop net

    Kolkata: Tracing a high-end blue sports bike with a tampered registration number plate, used in the Rs 11.9 lakh heist in front of a city mall, was key to tracking those involved in the robbery, cops said on Sunday. ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Art-science exhibit focuses on innovation at city school

    Kolkata: To encourage creativity among students, St Sebastian's School organised ‘Acrayon 2024', the annual art and science exhibition within their school premises recently. Stalls were put up exhibiting the finest of creations presented by the children, reflecting their artistic ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Two held for looting 30L from bizman

    Kolkata: Probing into the daylight snatching of Rs 30 lakh from a businessman in Narkeldanga on Saturday, cops arrested two men on Sunday. The two were produced before a Sealdah court that sent them to police custody till Jan ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Man who gave Sajjak Alam bike to escape held

    Malda: A person has been arrested in relation to the Goalpokhor firing incident. Sk Hazrat had allegedly assisted primary suspect Sajjak Alam and his aide Abdul Hussain. Alam, who had fled from a prison van on Jan 15 after ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata kicks off week with fun Sunday as Happy Streets returns

    Kolkata: The city woke up to a fun-filled Sunday morning with Happy Streets, organised by The Times of India, presented by Shyam Steel Industries Ltd, and powered by PS Group and Manipal Hospitals, along with education partner Adamas Kids ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Kumbh rush sends airfares soaring ahead of once-in-144-years event

    Kolkata: Ahead of Mauni Amavasya on Jan 29, considered the most auspicious among the royal baths during the ongoing Maha Kumbh, airfares have skyrocketed, with high demand pushing up ticket prices to four times the regular fare.During the Maha ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Jr docs protest, seek relief for suspended 7

    Midnapore: Junior doctors of Midnapore Medical College began a sit-in outside the principal's office at 10.30 pm on Saturday, demanding immediate withdrawal of the suspension and legal cases against seven junior doctors. The stir continued on Sunday.Principal Mausumi Nandi ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Hasnabad budding cricketer drugged & robbed in Kol, dies

    Kolkata: A 17-year-old boy from Hasnabad who came to Kolkata on Saturday morning to play cricket at a club, was allegedly waylaid by a group of youths. His family finally found him at a hospital. He later died at ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Konnagar man, caught in LA fire, counts his luck

    Kolkata: Goutam Chattopadhyay, a Konnagar native, can finally breathe easy in Pasadena, California — a city that has been his home since 1994. The wildfire in his neighbourhood burnt down scores of homes. But his house in the distant ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    ER wraps up Kavach trials on Hwh-Burdwan section

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway has completed Kavach — the indigenous train collision avoidance system — passenger trials in the Howrah-Bardhaman section, general manager Milind Deouskar said on Tuesday. The technology aims to prevent accidents caused by human error or equipment ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    19-yr-old held for stealing bicycles in New Town

    Kolkata: A youth was arrested for allegedly stealing high-end bicycles parked outside premium residential complexes in New Town on Sunday. Eight bicycles were seized from him.With multiple bicycles being stolen from various residential complexes in New Town, cops increased ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Bangla barge with fly ash sinks in Hooghly, raises green concerns

    Chinsurah: A Bangladeshi barge, A D Basiruddin Kaji, capsized in Hooghly near Bansberia on its way back to the neighbouring country after loading fly ash from Bandel Thermal Power Station (BTPS). Efforts are now underway to retrieve the submerged ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    Award for ‘Padatik’ at Dhaka fest despite no B’desh release

    Kolkata: Srijit Mukherji's ‘Padatik'— amongst the five Indian films showcased at the 23rd Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) — won the Best Audience Award under the world cinema segment on Sunday. This was confirmed by Bidhan Rebeiro, media in-charge ...

    20 January 2025 Times of India
    CBI has lost all credibility: Salim on RG Kar

    Kolkata: CPM state secretary Mohammed Salim held on Sunday that CBI had lost its credibility as an investigating agency. He said this at a press conference while responding to questions on the fate of the RG Kar rape-murder case ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Kol’s oldest Art Deco cinema hall coming back to life

    123 Kolkata: A century-old cinema hall, considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in Kolkata, is undergoing repair and restoration. The makeover marks a remarkable turnaround in its fortune, as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    New Town set to get new govt healthcare facility

    123 Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has received approval from the state health department to set up a 30-bed govt healthcare facility in New Town Action Area ID, which will provide 24-hour round-the-clock basic healthcare services. ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Cameras click fresh tiger pics in Purulia; big cat moves closer to Jharkhand

    123456 Kolkata/Purulia: Fresh images of a tiger were captured in a Purulia forest early on Sunday morning, sending the forest teams back on the big cat's trail.Later in the afternoon, foresters found its trail towards Jharkhand, where it presumably ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    India, Bangladesh farmers clash over 'stolen crop', 'cutting of mango trees'

    KOLKATA/MALDA/DHAKA: Indian and Bangladeshi farmers clashed at the border in Malda’s Sukhdevpur on Saturday, with Indian nationals claiming that their Bangladeshi counterparts were stealing their standing crops and the Bangladeshis saying the Indians had crossed over and cut down ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    3 Rohingyas detained, Afghan youth held

    123 Kolkata: Three alleged Rohingya nationals – two of them minor girls aged 12 years and 10 years – were apprehended by the Sealdah GRP after they were found loitering suspiciously outside Sealdah Railway Station main gate early on ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Bike-borne goons attack bizman on APC Rd, loot 30L

    Kolkata: Two-bike borne miscreants snatched a backpack containing cash from a 42-year-old businessman, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, residing at Canal East Road, from near a public toilet on APC Roy Road around 9am on Saturday, said joint CP (crime & ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    4 held for theft at New Alipore bizman’s house

    Kolkata: Four days after police filed an FIR in a theft involving a businessman's three-storey house in New Alipore, four individuals were arrested on Saturday. The robbers had completely emptied the house. All four arrested persons reside in nearby ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar woman fights off 2 on bike, foils loot bid

    Kolkata: A homemaker in her early 40s, Suparna Bhattacharya, put up a brave fight against two bike-borne miscreants and thwarted a robbery attempt on Saturday morning at Bonorini Housing Complex in the Bonhooghly area of Baranagar. The accused had ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Police and legal team feel vindicated after verdict

    Kolkata: Senior Kolkata Police officers and its legal team said they felt "vindicated" that their arrest in the rape and murder of the RG Kar PGT doctor had been upheld in court. Once the Sealdah court declared arrested civic ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Systemic rigging’ by RG Kar ex-principal: CBI

    1234 Kolkata: The CBI, probing alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College, accused former principal Sandip Ghosh of "systemic rigging" of the process while awarding work orders at the hospital and allowing vendors close to him to prepare ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Movement started talks on gender justice, rights’

    Kolkata: Women, who had taken to the streets to protest against the rape and murder of the young RG Kar doctor, said the initial outpouring of support from the common man, before politicians and lobbies appropriated the movement, demonstrated ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Runaway UP teen rescued in Bengal

    Burdwan: A 15-year-old boy from Prayagraj, who ran away from the Kumbh Mela and boarded a train to Howrah, was rescued by the RPF personnel in East Burdwan with the help of passengers. A lawyer's son, the boy had ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    S Kol normal water supply from today

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation water supply department on Saturday successfully completed the repair and maintenance of Garden Reach water treatment plant and necessary maintenance works at some water booster pumping stations across south Kolkata. Water supply to ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar: Differences in voices even as parties seek severest punishment

    Kolkata: Parties across the political spectrum have called for the "severest punishment" for civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, hours after he was declared guilty by the Sealdah trial court. However, there were some differences in voices, too. While Trinamool said ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Hungerford St residents yet to return home

    123 Kolkata: Multiple residents of Santosh Apartments on Hungerford Street in south Kolkata, where a fire broke out on Friday, couldn't return home even on Saturday. This was because the water connection couldn't be restored at the building in ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    DMs asked to check building mat prices

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt has asked district magistrates to see to it so that there was no sudden escalation in the price of building material, ensuring that beneficiaries of the Banglar Bari scheme did not face any problem. Complaints ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Med frat welcomes exam transparency but staff crunch a hurdle for long-term change

    123 Kolkata: The incident of a postgraduate trainee's rape and murder at RG Kar has prompted an overhaul of the medical education and examination system in the state. Doctors in state-run hospitals have hailed the reforms made by the ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    7 Bangla nationals arrested in Jalpaiguri

    Jalpaiguri: Jalpaiguri Kotwali Police arrested seven Bangladeshi Hindu nationals, who had trespassed into Indian territory to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh.Those arrested are Chandana Rani alias Rittika Sen, Bhairab Sen, Nikhil Chandra Sen, Dhanesh Roy, Bipul Roy, Deb Babu ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    7 Bangla nationals arrested in Jalpaiguri

    12 Jalpaiguri: Jalpaiguri Kotwali Police arrested seven Bangladeshi Hindu nationals, who had trespassed into Indian territory to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh.Those arrested are Chandana Rani alias Rittika Sen, Bhairab Sen, Nikhil Chandra Sen, Dhanesh Roy, Bipul Roy, Deb ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Accept judgment but not sure if he was the only one involved: Kin of accused

    Kolkata: As the news of Sanjay Roy's conviction was broadcast on television, his elder sister broke down in tears. "He should be punished if he committed the crime but I am not sure if he was the only one ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    For RG Kar victim’s colleagues, one eye on court on normal hospital duty day

    Kolkata: Around 2:30 pm on Saturday, when the Sealdah Court pronounced the verdict, many senior and junior doctors, and colleagues of the raped and murdered 31-year-old PGT at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital kept tabs on the court ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    Uproar at Bagan’s AGM

    Kolkata: Internal bickering came to the fore during Mohun Bagan club's annual general meeting on Saturday, with rival factions engaged in pushing and shoving as well as throwing chairs at each other. The term of the club's current dispensation ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH on boil after suspension letter for 7 jr docs

    123 Midnapore/Kolkata: A series of protests, including the gherao of administrators of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), happened on the campus on Saturday after seven postgraduate trainees received official suspension orders. Two members of the State Level Grievance ...

    19 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar verdict: 'If I committed crime, my Rudraksh chain would have been broken', says accused Sanjay Roy

    KOLKATA: The Sealdah Civil and Criminal court on Saturday convicted Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The verdict was delivered by Justice Anirban Das, who stated ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Cameras click wandering ‘Jharkhand’ tiger, first photo record from Purulia

    123456 Kolkata/Purulia: A photograph in the predawn hours of Saturday from one of the trap cameras beneath a hilly forest of Purulia provided the district its first photographic evidence of tiger.This also marks the second instance in less than ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar case verdict: Prime accused Sanjay Roy found guilty of raping, murdering doctor

    NEW DELHI: A local court in Kolkata on Saturday convicted Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer in the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar hospital.The court stated that BNS Sections 64, 66, and ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar victim’s parents wait for ‘first step to justice’

    Kolkata: A day before the RG Kar verdict is pronounced on Saturday, parents of the deceased PGT doctor, who was found raped and murdered on Aug 9, felt their daughter was one step closer to getting justice. "We are ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Islampur man finds lost S Kolkata woman at Kumbh, brings her home

    Kolkata: Krishna Sarkar, sitting beside her grandson Deep Haldar at Vivekananda Park in Mukundapur, could hardly control her tears. Hours after arriving at the Kumbh Mela in UP, the 77-year-old got lost among the lakhs of devotees. For six ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Kol amputee wins India’s highest adventure award

    12 Darjeeling: A 35-year-old amputee from Kolkata, with 91% physical disability, was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award — the highest honour in Indian adventure sports for conquering mountain, sky, and ocean all at once in August 2024.Uday ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Colleagues, friends call for protest near Sealdah court today

    Kolkata: Friends and colleagues of the RG Kar PGT doctor said they would visit the Sealdah court on Friday, not to celebrate the verdict but to stage a protest as they believed the investigation was not complete and reiterated ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    MMCH jr docs call off total cease-work

    12 Midnapore/Kolkata: Services were normal at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) on Friday as the junior doctors decided to go for a partial cease-work and would attend to admitted patients. On Thursday night, they had announced a total ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Everything is finished for me: Sanjay mom

    Kolkata: A day before judgment was delivered, family members of Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder, expressed their faith in the judiciary to punish those involved in the crime.Ever since Roy's arrest, ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Coal India’s production set to dip this fiscal

    Kolkata: Maharatna PSU Coal India (CIL) is likely to witness a drop in production this year. It is expected to produce 806-810 million tonnes this fiscal, compared to 838 million tonnes last fiscal."Four companies — Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL), Western ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Texmaco to diversify portfolio, reduce govt dependence by 2025-26

    Kolkata: Texmaco Rail and Engineering on Friday announced steps to de-risk its business and improve margins by tapping into growing private sector wagon demand and export orders, which will reduce dependence on govt wagon orders.The engineering major aims to ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    162 days after RG Kar murder, 1st judgment likely today

    KOLKATA: Central Bureau of Investigation, which for more than two months argued the RG Kar rape-murder case following a high court-ordered investigation, is confident of securing the conviction of prime accused Sanjay Roy.Sessions court judge Anirban Das is scheduled ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    S Kol to go without water from 9 am today till 6 am tomorrow

    Kolkata: Major parts of south Kolkata will go dry on Saturday as the KMC water supply department will shut the Garden Reach treatment plant for repair and maintenance work. According to a civic official, water supply will be suspended ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    At 10L, visitor count to Malaysia crossed pre-Cov mark in ’24

    Kolkata: Buoyed by the Malaysia govt's decision to extend its official visa exception for Indian nationals till Dec 2026, tourism officials there said on Friday that more than 10 lakh tourists from India visited Malaysia in 2024, breaking even ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur students seek to enhance interaction to bridge junior-senior gap

    Kolkata: IIT-Kharagpur students proposed to the authorities to increase interaction among students in the Halls of Residence so that bonds can be strengthened beyond the scope of academics. The students felt there is a need to introduce more extracurricular ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Rezwana remembers Jyoti Basu fondly, thanks Mamata

    Kolkata: Bengal is her "baaper bari", said Bangladeshi Rabindrasangeet exponent Rezwana Choudhury Bannya as she attended the inauguration of the Jyoti Basu Centre for Social Studies and Research in New Town on Friday to mark the former CM's 15th ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Planet parade in evening sky on Jan 25

    Kolkata: Gear up for a spectacular celestial show with six planets lining up for a planetary parade in the sky. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will align in evening sky. Two planets — Venus and Saturn — ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Jumbo duo tranquillized after they cross 3 dists in 24 hrs

    West Burdwan: Two tuskers that covered over 80 km in the past 24 hours to cover three districts — Bankura, West Burdwan and Birbhum — were tranquillized on Friday morning near Jaydev Kenduli village. During their journey, the jumbo ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Baghajatin collapse: 3-day cop remand for promoter

    123 Kolkata: The Netaji Nagar cops have claimed that promoter Subhas Roy, arrested after a tilting building collapsed in Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony, might have tried to rope in "experts" for hydraulic jacking without verifying the soil condition or stability ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Drone helps trace & reunite kids with kin

    Kolkata: In a demonstration of technology aiding public safety, the state administration used drones at Gangasagar Mela to find two lost children and reunited them with family. The effort, possibly a first in India, showcased the collaborative work of ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    CM may meet Dulal widow during Malda visit next week

    123 Kolkata/Malda: CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Chaitali Sarkar, whose husband Dulal, Trinamool's Malda vice-president, was gunned down on Jan 2. Banerjee's visit to Malda is scheduled for next week.On Friday, DGP Rajeev Kumar, who went to ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Friday blaze rekindles pre-Covid building fire trauma for octogenarian resident

    Kolkata: Staring at the thick black fumes gushing out of the top-floor windows of her apartment and firemen rushing in and out of the six-storey building to douse the flames, 83-year-old Reva Puri sat motionless, with the nightmare of ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Short-circuit fire spreads panic at Hungerford Street high-rise

    Kolkata: A fire broke out on a rooftop storeroom connected to a fifth-floor flat at a posh G+5 apartment building on Hungerford Street on Friday afternoon. This fire forced residents, several of them senior citizens, to rush downstairs by ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Happy Streets to be back from this Sunday

    Kolkata: Happy Streets, a Times of India initiative, is back. Starting this Sunday, Happy Streets will take place across different parts of the city and beyond over the next few weeks.The first edition of this year's Happy Streets, presented ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Film studies questions in JU comp lit paper

    Kolkata: Questions from film studies minor paper appeared in the postgraduate comparative literature semester examination paper at Jadavpur University on Thursday, leaving the invigilator as well as the examinees confused.Around 50 second-year postgraduate comparative literature students took the two-hour ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Attack on councillor: 6 named in charge sheet

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Friday issued a charge sheet naming six persons, including those with Bihar links, for the murder bid on Trinamool councillor Sushanta Ghosh on Nov 15. Cops have arrested seven persons — the last on Jan ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    Mom Sharmila misses Kol event after attack on son

    Kolkata: To commemorate Soumitra Chatterjee's 90th birth anniversary on Jan 19, his ‘Apur Sansar' co-star Sharmila Tagore was scheduled to deliver the Soumitra Chatterjee Memorial Lecture in Kolkata. However, due to an assault on her son Saif Ali Khan ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    JNU grad, aides arrested for posing as MHA officials

    12 Suri: A JNU MPhil graduate was arrested by Birbhum Police on Jan 15 for impersonating a senior MHA official and travelling in an SUV with the official Govt of India insignia and a blue beacon light.Aniket Dey, held ...

    18 January 2025 Times of India
    'Several others still free': RG Kar rape-murder victim parents ahead of court verdict tomorrow

    KOLKATA: Ahead of the Kolkata court's decision in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, the victim's parents have raised concerns that the investigation remains incomplete, with other perpetrators still at large. The body of the victim, a doctor, was ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Five dead as car falls into gorge in Sikkim's Gyalshing

    GANGTOK: At least five people died after a car skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Gyalshing district of Sikkim, police said on Friday.The car carrying five passengers plunged into a ravine, falling 500 feet below ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal to introduce world’s first ‘carbon credit cards’

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt plans to introduce the world's first 'carbon credit card' for individuals, with the aim of reducing personal carbon footprint, environment department secretary Abhinav Chandra announced at a climate change workshop in Kolkata on Thursday.The green credit ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    'Unprofessional behaviour': Passenger calls out IndiGo's handling of long delay, airline reacts after viral video

    NEW DELHI: A Kolkata-based passenger has raised concerns about IndiGo Airlines’ handling of a significant flight delay. In a LinkedIn post, Ritham Bhattacharjee shared a video of an onboard argument with the crew and described the airline's service as ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    1 mom improves but loses child, 3 others still critical

    Midnapore/Kolkata: Rekha Sau, one of the five new mothers, who developed complications post-C-section delivery at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), started showing signs of improvement but her newborn died on Thursday morning. Sau (24) was among the five ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Can fire back 4 times if shot at, says DGP

    12 Malda/Siliguri: Following the escape of a prisoner from a police van in North Dinajpur on Wednesday, DGP Rajeev Kumar met the two cops shot during the incident at a hospital in Siliguri on Thursday. "If someone fires at ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    UK-based Redoq to invest 50cr in Kol this yr

    Kolkata: UK-based IT company Redoq Group has spent Rs 20 crore over the past year in its Kolkata business. It will raise the investment in Kolkata to Rs 50 crore this year and Rs 100 crore by 2026, the ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    CM: RSS chief’s views on I-Day anti-national

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed as "anti-national" RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment that India's true freedom came on Jan 22, 2024 — the day of consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya — and the date should be ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    UGC chief bats for self-reliance, competitive funding in varsities, says ‘no platter service’

    Kolkata: Universities must learn to stand on their own feet and secure funding, UGC chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said after attending the 18th convocation and valedictory ceremony at St Xavier's College (Autonomous) on Thursday.There is a battle between central ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Spencer’s launches quick commerce service ‘Jiffy’ in Kolkata

    Kolkata: RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group's retail arm Spencer's has entered the lucrative quick commerce market in Kolkata under the brand name ‘Jiffy'. The company looks to deliver 20,000 products in under 30 minutes, said the chairman of Spencer's, Shashwat Goenka. ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Bengal suspends 12 doctors over new mom's death, orders CID investigation

    KOLKATA: Bengal govt on Thursday effected the largest number of single-episode suspensions in the health department and ordered a CID probe against all the 12 suspended Midnapore Medical College and Hospital doctors to establish "criminal negligence" in the death ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    HC: Why didn’t govt immediately pull saline stock?

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday asked the Bengal health department why it had not taken immediate steps to withdraw stocks of Ringer's lactate solution made by Paschim Banga Pharmaceutical after a govt arm had ordered the company to stop ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF hands over B’deshi nat’l to BGB

    Kolkata: BSF on Thursday handed over Alimur Rahman (40) to Bangladeshi authorities during a flag meeting in North Dinajpur. It was found that he had inadvertently crossed into Indian territory without any ulterior motive. Rahman was apprehended on Jan ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BSF lady constable foils smuggling bid

    12 Kolkata/Malda: A BSF lady constable fired bullets in the air before shooting at cow smugglers trying to get past Indian territory at Malda's Itaghati early on Thursday. The smuggling attempt was foiled and 2 cows were rescued.BSF said ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Swasthya Sathi has upped early detection of cancer

    Kolkata: About 90% of patients undergoing treatment after early-stage cancer detection are beneficiaries of the Swasthya Sathi scheme, a health insurance programme of the state govt for secondary and tertiary care up to Rs 5 lakh per annum per ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    BJP-Trinamool row over ‘illegal’ Hatibari 5th floor

    Kolkata: BJP councillor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Sajal Ghosh on Thursday alleged that the KMC buildings department had regularised a five-storey building in Santoshpur, in ward 103, under pressure from Trinamool councillor Ananya Banerjee, the owner of ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    After Baghajatin collapse, civic body sets SOP to fix tilting bldgs

    Kolkata: Taking cue from the collapse of the tilted building in Baghajatin during a lifting process, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) for undertaking similar corrective exercises.According to a KMC buildings department official, ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Digi arrest victim warns others on cop FB page

    Kolkata: A Tangra resident became the first victim of digital arrest in Kolkata to share his experience on the Kolkata Police Facebook page. The victim, Shyamal Bakshi, urged everyone to check multiple times with local police before blindly believing ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Now, register with biometrics to cut immigration queue at airport

    Kolkata: A fast-track immigration service designed to reduce wait time at immigration and customs to a quarter and offer a hassle-free experience for frequent travellers was launched at Kolkata and six other international airports in the country.Home minister Amit ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    ‘Form board for custody death victim autopsy’

    Kolkata: The High Court directed the superintendent of NRS Medical College and Hospital on Thursday to form a medical board to conduct an autopsy of the undertrial, Mousam Chatterjee, who died in judicial custody at Dum Dum Correctional Home.The ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    In a first, Kolkata hospital gifts itself a helipad to bypass city traffic choke-hold

    Kolkata: A Kolkata hospital has found an innovative way to beat the traffic and rush critically ill patients to intensive care. Desun Hospital will inaugurate a rooftop helipad on Friday where emergency patients will be flown in. Desun will ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Absconding promoter held from Bakkhali guest house

    123 Kolkata: Subhash Roy, the promoter of the building that collapsed at Baghajatin's Vidyasagar Colony, was arrested on Thursday. Roy was nabbed with the help of the Sundarban District Police from a guest house at Fraserganj near Bakkhali. He ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    Golf Green murder: Nephew killed aunt for 10,000, arrested

    Kolkata: In less than 14 hours after a 42-year-old Nafisa Khatun — a mall staffer — was found murdered inside her RP Colony home near Golf Green police station, cops arrested her nephew, Shabir Ali (38) of Dhalipara in ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
    50L diamond recovered from Bandra month after 1.2cr theft at Alipore bizman’s house

    Kolkata: Last month, the Chetla Police had arrested 11 people — four of them working as maids, caregivers and cooks — for stealing jewellery and other costly items worth crores from a businessman's residence on Raja Santosh Roy Road ...

    17 January 2025 Times of India
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