One 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 ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) is planning the first significant expansion of East-West Metro’s upkeep-cum-parking hub at Salt Lake’s Central Park. The maintenance depot currently has space to house 23 rakes. Post expansion, it will be able ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three persons were injured when the driver of a private car lost control of the vehicle and hit an auto, a scooter and a bike before ramming into the median divider on Deshapran Sashmal Road on Tuesday. The ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Security in Kolkata and Howrah were ramped up further on Tuesday, a day ahead of Ram Navami, with Kolkata alone seeing a deployment of 5,000 personnel as 60-odd processions, four of them bigger than the others, are scheduled ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The anti-bank fraud section of Kolkata Police’s detective department has arrested two persons from Surat in Gujarat who impersonating cops—from the Mumbai Police crime branch or Gujarat Police ATS or the Narcotics Bureau—and extorted money from residents of ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Jadavpur University granted permission to a group of students, affiliated to ABVP, to observe Ram Navami on campus, the authorities on Tuesday withdrew the permission on Tuesday amid pressure from students. Several students staged a ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a match where the openers dictated terms, it was Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Buttler who spoiled Kolkata Knight Riders’ Sunil Narine’s party to take his side home in a high-scoring match.While Narine’s belligerent 109 off 56 balls helped ...
17 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: There is an overwhelming response among the general public to have strict regulations on the use of plastic during election campaigns, stressing on conducting digital campaigning and to prioritise eco-friendly policies in political manifestos along with implementing recycling ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around 3,000 cops will be deployed in Kolkata and a large number in " past trouble areas" of Howrah, Chandernagore, Serampore, Dalkhola and Asansol, to ensure peaceful Ram Navami celebration on Wednesday. All police stations in the city ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: From the fierce football rivalry between Mohun Bagan’s “chingri” (tiger prawn) and East Bengal’s “ilish” (hilsa) to integral roles in Hindu religious rituals, fish is more than just a culinary delight in Bengal. It’s a way of life ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: From the fierce football rivalry between Mohun Bagan's "chingri" (tiger prawn) and East Bengal's "ilish" (hilsa) to integral roles in Hindu religious rituals, fish is more than just a culinary delight in Bengal. It's a way of life ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A fire broke out at the BNR Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday, causing commotion within the medical center, according to a police official. There were no injuries reported in the fire, which was initially sighted around ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There is an overwhelming response among the general public to have strict regulations on the use of plastic during election campaigns, stressing on conducting digital campaigning and to prioritise eco-friendly policies in political manifestos along with implementing recycling ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Five persons were injured in two separate bus accidents on Monday. The first accident occurred at 12.40pm near New Alipore when a private bus hit cyclist Basudev Sapui (50). Passengers, Julie Paswan (41) and Priyanka Paik (19), were ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has used real-time data on vehicular flow and tweaked the signal timings at the Police Training School crossing for different slots of the day to ensure less waiting time and ease congestion. Under the ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the first month, East-West Metro’s Esplanade-Howrah Maidan segment carried over 12 lakh passengers and earned almost Rs 1.8 crore. It has also led to the addition of nearly 61,000 daily riders on the North-South line, taking its ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP Kolkata North candidate Tapas Roy has filed a complaint with CEC Rajiv Kumar and CEO Aariz Aftab, alleging he was attacked by TMC goons during a rally on Sunday. He felt the attack was planned on the ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Curtains is set to come down on the Calcutta Winter Season (2023-24) at the RCTC here on Tuesday. The last day of the season has a well-filled card of seven races with Whomakestherules Cup being the star attraction ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An HR executive, living in a condo at Survey Park off EM Bypass, fell victim to a work-from-home fraud and lost Rs 1.5 lakh. The victim, a mother of a Class-IX student, said she had appeared “for an ...
16 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: In a distressing event on an Indian Railways train, a passenger shared an account of his sister's harrowing experience. The woman, traveling in an AC-3 Tier coach, found herself in a dangerous situation due to extreme overcrowding.The ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: IIT-Kharagpur, the oldest IIT in the country, is set to introduce a four-year BTech course in artificial intelligence (AI) from this academic session. After a gap of more than two decades, IIT-Kharagpur is floating a BTech course and ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: NIA and Bengal police are looking for local "links" who helped the two Bengaluru cafe blast terror suspects hide in the state till their cover was blown leading to their arrest from a New Digha hotel on Friday.Investigators ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lok Sabha candidates in Bengal chose to campaign while celebrating Poila Baisakh on Sunday morning. Some started their day by offering puja at temples, while others chose to do Poila Boisakh shopping. Some Left and Congress candidates took ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The second edition of the two-day Poila Baisakh Bird Count in Bengal, that started on Saturday, has recorded over 300 species till Sunday afternoon. On the first day, 65 birders reported sighting of 196 species, contributing to 165 ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 50-member theatre group — ‘Canteen Theatre’ — stages plays across the city to raise funds for running their community kitchen that caters to around 300 underprivileged people at Shibpur in Howrah. Under this initiative — launched during ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The civic body is likely to open the Kalighat skywalk on Janmasthami, which falls on Aug 26. CM Mamata Banerjee, who visited the Kalighat temple on Saturday night with her family and mayor Firhad Hakim to offer prayers, ...
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