SILIGURI: BJP's Dabgram-Phulbari MLA Sikha Chatterjee on Friday kept police on their toes throughout the day with cops restraining her, then her workers taking her away forcibly from police detention and later the men in uniform giving her a ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A fire broke out in Haldia's supermarket area, located in West Bengal, causing severe damage to multiple shops. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. No reports of injuries have been received so far. More ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaDINHATA: For seven decades, they lived in a state of limbo with their identities and rights unrecognized. But everything changed with an EPIC card in 2015, when residents of the no-man's land in Dinhata were offered citizenship following a ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Alipore zoo is gearing up to welcome a host of new animals from the Vizag Zoo next week, as part of an exchange programme. The new additions include a three-year-old female white tiger, pairs of Indian grey wolves ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lawyers at Calcutta High Court were exempted from wearing the black advocate’s gown in light of the ongoing heatwave conditions in the city. On Friday, a notification issued by the high court registrar general on instruction of Chief ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Nilgiris 1000 Guineas is the first classic at Ooty on Saturday. James Mckeown-nursed Gold Ride has the best credentials to win this event in the hands of C Umesh. The daughter of Flying Show, a winner of ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Lake Town Bailey bridge, which is used to enter Salt Lake from VIP Road, was shut from 11 pm on Friday and will reopen 10 days later after the lower deck of the bridge is replaced and ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Dhana Dhanye Setu near D L Khan Road will be shut from 11 pm on Sunday to 7 am on Monday to allow KMDA to carry out load test of the bridge that sees movement of heavy goods ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hindusthan Record, one of the first record companies owned by an Indian, and 90-year old Taj Mahal Paan Shop at New Market, famous for playing Rafi songs, were honoured with a certificate and a memento by Purono Kolkatar ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city cops will act against those social media handles who have refused to take down fake posts despite police notices.The cops stated that they have sent notice to nine ‘X’ users – and a social media group ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Runaya, one of the leaders in sustainable manufacturing and recycling industry, has inaugurated its calcium aluminate plant in Jharsuguda.The plant marks a strategic expansion of Runaya’s green aluminium portfolio, introducing the eco-friendly RuCal green calcium aluminate to its ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several Kolkatans who are using app cabs daily have complained that drivers have been refusing to switch on the AC despite the intense heat. However, the complainants said fares were still being calculated for an AC ride.Kolkata Traffic ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: John C Martin Centre for Liver Research and Innovations (JCMLRI), an initiative of Liver Foundation has collaborated with Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver and Metabolic Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, for exposing 17 young clinicians from different parts of ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaALIPURDUAR/JALPAIGURI: For the first time in Bengal elections, satellite phones have been handed over to polling personnel for three booths in Alipurduar’s Buxa, Chunabhati and Adma Hills as they headed to the hilly terrains where they trekked 3.5 kilometres ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The family of a south Kolkata-based businessman who was abducted nearly a fortnight ago has received a Rs 1 crore ransom call to secure his release. The abduction took place on April 5 when the businessman was out ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Magan Singh- nursed Egyptiana Beauty looks a good bet in the Mount Of Glory Plate at Delhi on Friday. The daughter of Egyptiana was a decent second on debut and will be guided by Akash Rajput. My Darling ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday called off his Cooch Behar visit hours before he was to leave after the Election Commission’s advice against such a trip following an outcry from the Trinamool Congress. In a statement, ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police have started a case against three persons for allegedly carrying two passports issued by separate countries — India and Bangladesh. The cops stated that besides the SCO, details have been sought from central agencies on ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Residents of a locality near Bally police station have complained of power outages similar to the ones reported from peripheral areas of Kolkata and suburbs last summer that power utility CESC had attributed to faults in its network ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the first phase of Lok Sabha elections kicking off on Friday, many top officials who hail from other states but stay and work in Kolkata might not be able to exercise their franchise as their names are ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: At least three cars caught fire outside a garage on Madan Street in central Kolkata around noon on Thursday. A motor mechanic (28), the son of the garage owner, received burn injuries on his hands and hair and ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A total of 10 crorepatis will contest the first phase of the Lok Sabha poll scheduled on Friday. Of the 37 candidates contesting from Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, the richest is from the CPM.The SUCI candidate from ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 1,000 water meters installed in neighbourhoods off Bypass and in the Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt have been stolen in a year. According to a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) official, 9,500 meters had been installed in areas like Patuli, Anandapur, ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Multiple buses are operating in the Babughat area without proper route permits. Despite the Calcutta High Court’s directive, these buses are only being issued show cause notices and fines before being released, much to the annoyance of the ...
19 April 2024 Times of IndiaAfter witnessing a triangular contest in 2019 with a narrowing winning vote margin, Maldaha Dakshin, one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, is a highly anticipated constituency as TMC and BJP have declared their candidate from the seat.Polling ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaOne needs to cross seven rivers — Bangri, Titi, Purney Khola, Kalikhola, Dayamara, Jarip, and Howrikhola—to reach Totopara from Alipurduar’s Madarihat, a 28km distance. Nestled along the India-Bhutan border, Totopara is home to an indigenous tribe—Totos, who have been ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Junior Union minister and BJP Cooch Behar candidate Nisith Pramanik wrote to EC on Wednesday, urging the panel to ensure that TMC Dinhata MLA and state minister Udayan Guha didn’t leave his polling booth on April 19, when ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A month since 13 people were killed at Azhar Molla Bagan in Garden Reach, where a five-storey under-construction building had collapsed on a slum, family members of the victims are still picking up the pieces and struggling to ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city traffic police are relying on automated traffic solutions to beat the summer heat. With senior officers unable to reduce duty hours, the new initiative — that includes automated signalling and CCTV-generated traffic prosecutions during the lean ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohammedan Sporting Club’s Andrey Chernyshov has been named the best coach of the just-concluded I-League 2023-2024 while Padam Chettri and Mirjalol Kasimov have been picked by the AIFF as the season’s best goalkeeper and midfielder respectively. The Russian ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two companies of Kolkata Police (KP) that had left for Chhattisgarh with 184 cops last month are now coordinating with multiple forces on the ground to secure Bastar and Dantewada districts as the two ‘red zones’ will go ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid the scorching heat, a few stray incidents of power outages and voltage fluctuations in the city caused inconveniences to the citizens. A neighbourhood in north Kolkata’s Cossipore experienced power outages on Wednesday morning, while another one in ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The dry heat that has prevailed in the city so far is more likely to trigger heat strokes, said experts. While humidity leads to sweating and dehydration, which, too, are harmful, they also help the body lose heat ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bus collided with a traffic signal and CCTV cameras at the SN Banerjee Road-Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road crossing, snapping overhead tram power lines and igniting sparks on Wednesday evening. Panic among those in the area soon turned ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The absence of any system that can trigger thundershowers has left Kolkata parched, said Met experts. While the city expects to get frequent nor’westers in April and May, before the arrival of pre-monsoon and monsoon showers, this time, ...
18 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: "If you don't have freedom to eat, will you have the freedom to speak?" CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday. Speaking at campaign rallies in Maynaguri and Siliguri, Banerjee said: "BJP are such divisive people that ...when ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barely six months after they had to fly back to India in the wake of the Israel-Palestine conflict last October, uncertainty again looms over researchers from Bengal working in universities across Israel with the country bracing for another ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Intense heat claimed two lives on Tuesday, one at Sonarpur and the other along the northern fringes near Barasat. A 62-year-old woman who fell unconscious while travelling in an auto died in Sonarpur on Tuesday morning. At Bamungachhi ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Raiganj: PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that Trinamool Congress had leased Bengal out to infiltrators and criminals while leaving dalits and the tribal community uncared for. Addressing two back-to-back rallies in Balurghat and Raiganj, Modi said that TMC ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Patrick Quinn-saddled Black Eagle completed an encore by lifting the Whomakestherules Cup at the RCTC here on Tuesday. On the professional front, Quinn saddled a treble. Trainer Rutherford and rider Imran Chisty were credited with a double and ...
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