Kolkata: Indian chess looks to be in good hands as the country's youngsters shone brightly at different world age-group meets this week. While India clinched seven including three gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the World Cadet ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaMonojit Mishra KOLKATA: The 'girlfriend' of Monojit Mishra has claimed that she was facing severe social media harassment and public humiliation due to her relationship with the accused. She stated that despite having no connection to the crime, ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Behala College has received an autonomous status from the University Grants Commission. The status will allow the institute to independently frame syllabus, conduct examinations and award degrees while maintaining its affiliation to the University of Calcutta."It's a historic ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Using the word ‘sadharan' (ordinary) for other products in a talcum powder advertisement is not an insult to the rival company's product, Calcutta High Court observed on Wednesday while dismissing Emami's "disparagement" claim against Dabur.A division bench of ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The lawyer of the arrested security guard, Pinak Banerjee, of the law college appealed for bail on Friday, arguing that if Banerjee was liable as a contractual college guard, then the college principal and vice-principal were equally culpable ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the law college gang rape, had asked security guard Pinaki Banerjee to keep the "guards' room ready" with "enough water and a clean bed sheet" a little before committing the crime on ...
5 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A 56-year-old resident of Tollygunge fell victim to a combination of scams, involving cryptocurrency, investment, and share trading, followed by ‘digital arrest' fraud and lost about Rs 1.5 crore through multiple transactions between May and June this ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya spoke to senior neta Dilip Ghosh after assuming his new post, following which both rebuffed suggestions that the former Midnapore MP may sever ties with the party.Bhattacharya said on Friday: "Dilip Ghosh is ...
5 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Bengal govt will unlock around 20 acres – the size of 20 football fields – in New Town Action Area II and III for residential, commercial and mixed-use purposes. HIDCO will allot the land parcels on a ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaCops on Friday took the accused in the law college rape case to the scene of crime and reconstructed what happened last Wednesday to come up with a water-tight case in court. But the crime that Monojit Mishra, Pramit ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University has received a significantly lower number of UG applications for its arts and science subjects compared to that last year. The JU English department, which has been topping the list of arts subjects for the highest ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The law college where a student was raped on June 25, and which was shut since then, is set to reopen on Monday after cops gave the green signal on Friday. TOI reported that over a week of ...
5 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Former Trinamool MP Santanu Sen on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the West Bengal Medical Council's decision to suspend his registration. The move came a day after the council's president, Sudipto Roy, briefed the media ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The delay in the declaration of WBJEE results, primarily attributed to the legal entanglements surrounding OBC reservations, has caused considerable anxiety among students as well as engineering colleges in Bengal."Colleges will start their classes late and consequently, everything ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKharagpur: Anil Das, a 66-year-old Left activist, moved Calcutta High Court on Friday accusing the police of inaction after Baby Kole, a woman Trinamool member, assaulted him on June 30.In his petition, filed through lawyer Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Das accused ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two habeas corpus petitions were filed in Calcutta High Court on Friday against Odisha Police for "illegal detention" of migrant workers from Bengal.Trinamool MP and chairman of West Bengal Migrant Workers' Welfare Board Samirul Islam said the parents ...
5 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The Met office has predicted intensified rain on Saturday and Sunday in Kolkata, during which, neighbouring districts could also be lashed by heavy rain. A few weather conditions, including the monsoon trough, which, at present, passes through ...
5 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The Iskcon Rath Yatra in Kolkata attracted a higher number of participants this year, marking a 15% increase compared to previous years. This rise is attributed to the chief minister's personal involvement in organising the Rath Yatra ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The role of the law college administration in allowing Monojit Mishra to handle student affairs or to operate with a free hand despite repeated complaints against him has come under the scanner of Calcutta University. The notice on ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the wake of the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old law student on campus on June 25, the state women's commission has announced a series of awareness programmes focused on sexual assault. This is the first time ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mutual fund gross sales in the city have jumped 39% in a year. Most of this investment has come from the retail sector. During the same period, SIP growth stood at 53%. Kolkata is 5th in the country ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 15-year-old class 10 student was detained from his southern suburban condo for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at her Ballygunge residence. The accused befriended the survivor, a class 9 student, through social media platforms like Instagram and ...
5 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, a group of doctors conducted a follow-up on 38 heart recipients, who underwent transplantation of the organ in Kolkata between 2018 and 2023. The survey conducted by these doctors show that 27 of ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted permission to two Sufi groups to take out Muharram processions in Howrah on Sunday. The court, however, kept the Khajutty Amtala "Quarbala" out of bounds for both processions.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed the ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaMalda: A Malda trial court on Friday sentenced a retired school teacher to life for the rape of a Class 4 student on June 5, 2021.HC had on Aug 19, 2021, ordered CBI's special crime branch to investigate this ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) celebrated its 144th birthday on Friday as the first ‘Toy Train Day', marking the occasion with tributes to the rich past of the heritage marvel and promises of a dynamic future.To commemorate the ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: A BJP MLA's son and his driver were arrested on Friday following an attack on a Cooch Behar Trinamool neta. Raju Dey, karmadhyaksha of Cooch Behar Block 2 Panchayat Samity, was travelling to his home on his bike ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: The families of two cousins from West Midnapore's Daspur, who died in the Telangana factory blast, were informed on Friday that the bodies would be reaching their Harirajpur village homes on Saturday.Asim Tudu (39) and Shyam Sundar Tudu ...
5 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Representatives from the Nepal govt flew in on Thursday to discuss shifting their Kolkata address to facilitate Metro's Purple Line project. The team, led by the joint secretary of Nepal's ministry of foreign affairs Surendra Yadav, visited a ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: There is nothing official about the ‘job' that key accused Monojit Mishra, popularly known as ‘Mango', held on the campus. Mishra's appointment as an ad-hoc employee did not follow any procedure, he had no assigned role, and ...
4 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: After normal June rain, the city is set to receive a normal amount of rain in July as well. According to the Met office's monthly rain outlook for July, south Bengal, including Kolkata, is likely to experience ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Bengal govt to put under lock and key union rooms of all state colleges and universities. The HC also asked the state to pass an order so that no student ...
4 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The law college, where a first-year student was raped last Wednesday, appealed to Calcutta University on Thursday not to schedule any exam for the first-semester students on the campus.The college was supposed to be a centre for ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank India termed Kolkata's commercial real estate transactions from Jan to July 2025 a watershed moment, with leasing volume reaching 11 lakh sq ft, a 60% year-on-year surge over the first half of ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The detective department's investigation into the "wider conspiracy" angle has led cops back to the law college. Based on the questioning of security guard Pinaki Banerjee, the cops are also trying to ascertain if there were others ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: BJP "isn't fighting Muslims... and the state's plurality needs to be saved", Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday after taking over as the party's new state president."There is a conscious effort to divide Bengal on basis of religion. ...
4 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Chetla police registered a case under section 11 (1) of the West Bengal Trees (Protection and Conservation in Non-Forest Areas) Act, 2006, after at least eight fully grown trees—two of which were allegedly mahogany trees—inside a ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint has been filed against BJP leader and lawyer Kaustav Bagchi at Mohanpur police station for allegedly creating a ruckus at a private hospital in Barrackpore. Police have summoned Bagchi to the police station at 11 am ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will set up two more smart bus-passenger shelters in New Town. The authorities have so far set up 22 such shelters in different places off the main thoroughfares across the township. ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The finance department has given in-principle approval for the construction of the Shantinagar culvert at Chingrighata, though they have proposed rectifications to the DPR. In a communication with Kolkata Police at the Road Safety Committee meeting, KMDA ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Should a crime halt lectures and normal activities at an educational institute, putting youngsters' academic career in uncertainty, questioned students of the law college, which has remained shut for a week, ever since a first-year student was raped ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: CBI submitted a supplementary charge-sheet in connection with the SSC jobs-for-cash scam and the group-D recruitment corruption case at the Alipore Special CBI Court Thursday.The agency informed the court that the number of witnesses has increased and new ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state animal resources development department is looking at investment from private players for processing meat of Black Bengal goat and boost its export in global markets.State animal resources development (ARD) minister Swapan Debnath on Thursday asked stakeholders ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state to submit a report on the progress of the investigation into the campus rape and the case diary. The incident is being probed by the Kolkata Police detective department, ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Entally Police has initiated an investigation into a case of mobile phone theft and subsequent unauthorised bank transactions via UPI leading to a loss of over Rs 63,000 after a complaint was filed by a Bihar resident ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Passengers travelling through Kolkata airport on Thursdays can now learn a recipe of some culinary delight from a master chef at the Kolkata airport lounge. This comes as an initiative undertaken by the Kolkata airport to elevate the ...
4 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Mere scolding of a student cannot fall within the definition of abetment of suicide as it is a teacher's duty to do so, Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri circuit bench recently held while quashing criminal proceedings against the ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Expressing concern over the increase in "provocative social media content", CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday, urging a deterrent legislation to address the issue as it posed a "serious challenges to ...
4 July 2025 Times of India12 Monteswar: Minister Siddiqullah Choudhury faced protests during his visit to Monteswar in East Burdwan district on Thursday. Choudhury, whose hand was hurt, described the attack as an "attempt on his life" and demanded strict action against the protesters. ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior counsel Anindya Mitra challenged the 2023 Calcutta High Court order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay annulling services of 32,000 primary school teachers and argued that a court of law cannot cancel appointments of people not made parties in ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state to not take any step against Padma Shri awardee Kartik Maharaj, who is facing rape allegations, until it hears the case.Justice Jay Sengupta's directive came as the accused moved court ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Indicating a growing frustration with Bengali-speaking migrant workers being illegally detained in Odisha as Bangladeshis, Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, Manoj Ahuja, to put an end to this "continuing harassment faced ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police received an unusual complaint from a motorist after discovering a concerning discrepancy in a traffic violation notice. The vehicle registration number of his car appeared to have been used on a different car. This ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a move to improve public transport transparency, safety, and commuter convenience, the state transport department met private bus operators on Thursday to discuss expanding the ‘Where-is-my-Bus' app across the city's fleet. The department aims to bring at ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar: The family of 10-year-old Tamanna Khatun, who was killed in a bomb blast on June 23 following Trinamool Congress's bypoll victory in Kaliganj, plans to approach Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI probe into her death. Police had ...
4 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Kolkata airport clocked the highest ever revenue and profit in 2023-24, surpassing the previous highest recorded in 2019-20 prior to the pandemic. Kolkata retained the numero uno position in the list of airports operated by the Airports ...
4 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Baguiati cops busted a passport racket, arrested a key suspect and recovered 132 original passports from a rented house in East Burdwan.Khalid Ahmed, also known as Ahmed Khan (46), was arrested following investigations into a Zero FIR filed ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declined to interfere with the single bench order directing the principal secretary, information and cultural affairs department, to consider the representation by Tollywood film directors and submit the decision of the govt to ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sealdah trial judge Anirban Das, who sent the RG Kar rape-murder accused to life behind bars, sentenced a 45-year-old to death on Wednesday for murdering and robbing an elderly Chitpore couple 10 years ago. The judge ordered that ...
3 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Indian chess lost one of its greatest supporters with the passing of Soumen Majumdar in the early hours on Wednesday in the city. Majumdar was 69 and is survived by wife and a son.Very few organisers had ...
3 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: From litter, including alcohol bottles, strewn at doorsteps to the encroachment of pavements and fights among escorts over tips, the residents of Harish Mukherjee Road near a popular dhaba bear the brunt of nuisances committed by visitors ...
3 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A second-year law student, known as the "general secretary" on the law college campus, claimed she could not recollect the time of meeting the rape survivor last Wednesday evening or the conversation she had with her. Students ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet in the 2021 murder case of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, who was killed during post-election violence in Kankurgachhi. The charge sheet names Beleghata MLA Paresh Pal, Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Monojit Mishra, accused of raping a first-year student at a law college last Wednesday, was so powerful that he allegedly influenced the rescheduling of class hours from 7.30 am to 9 am. Questions are now being raised how ...
3 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has started shifting hawkers from one side of certain road stretches in Sector V and rehabilitating them to the other side of the road to make one side free from encroachment.Officials ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Bar Council on Wednesday debarred the law college rape prime accused, Monojit Mishra, from state enrolment. Monojit can no longer practise anywhere in Bengal, neither at Calcutta High Court nor subordinate courts.A meeting led by ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee, the two cronies of Monojit Mishra who are in police custody, have told interrogators that Monojit had set his eyes on the survivor the very day she had enrolled in the college. The ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the first-year law student, who was allegedly raped at her college last week, don't want a CBI probe as of now. They want to keep their faith in the trial court proceedings, one of the lawyers ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Commission for Women chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay on Wednesday said the survivor is still "traumatised". "We have spoken to her; she is visibly traumatised. Her hands were shaking, and we could see the pain on her face. ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A youth, reportedly a member of the Trinamool youth wing, was brutally attacked in what locals claimed was an internal party conflict near Beadon Street on Tuesday. Santu Haldar, was assaulted with bricks, iron rods, and glass bottles. ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police has requested the state transport department to extend the minimum driving licence suspension period from three to six months, for cases involving fatal accidents and serious traffic violations. In the latest road safety committee meeting, ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tourists planning their vacation to Darjeeling this festive season may encounter major travel disruptions. The Himalayan Transport Coordination Committee, the apex body representing local taxi syndicates, has announced a possible suspension of services to protest against the authorities' ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Doctors specialising in different streams of laboratory diagnosis and treatment came together in Kolkata to launch the Association of Laboratory Medicine (ALM) on Wednesday to enhance patient care in the city. While biochemistry, pathology, microbiology and transfusion medicine ...
3 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Purple line overcame a major hurdle on Wednesday as a Calcutta High Court division bench dismissed the appeal of tenants of a DH Road property where the Nepal Consulate is supposed to be shifted, to make ...
3 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the June 25 law student gang-rape case, before leaving the college after committing the crime had asked a few of his trusted aides to stay back on the campus and keep ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hundreds of BJP supporters on Wednesday afternoon marched down a 3-km route from Rashbehari crossing to the law college where a first-year student was gang-raped a week ago. The rally took place after the organisers — Bharatiya Janata ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI) has written to Centre to bring medical insurance under the ambit of cost audit through Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013. It has also sought the inclusion of essential ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee held a meeting on Wednesday with top officials and senior ministers to review security arrangements during the upcoming Ulta Rath, Muharram and Srabani Mela. The CM made it clear that she would not tolerate any ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool's Alifa Ahmed was sworn in as Kaliganj MLA on Wednesday. She was administered the oath by assembly speaker Biman Banerjee. However, she will remain an MLA for only 10 months, as Bengal polls are due in May ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday moved Calcutta High Court challenging his "unlawful detentions by state police" at recent political protests. The petition was admitted by Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, and the matter is expected to be taken up ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaPanskura: The mother of a Panskura minor, who died by suicide over being accused of stealing chips, filed a police complaint on Tuesday alleging that a civic volunteer was pressuring her to withdraw the case against the accused shopkeeper. ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The homicide section of the detective department filed the chargesheet on Tuesday at the Alipore Court against film director Siddhanta Das in connection with the April 6 crash that killed one pedestrian and injured six others at Thakurpukur ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt has approved the proposed second bailey bridge project on Kestopur Canal to connect Salt Lake and VIP Road, as the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to take up work to set up the foundation ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: School students who visited Kolkata Traffic Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Wednesday posed a few questions that stumped even senior officers. During their visit to the traffic control room on Road Safety Week, students from Sri Chaitanya Techno ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKrishnaganj: A suspected Bangladeshi smuggler was shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along the India-Bangladesh border in Nadia district on Tuesday. The incident occurred near the Gede Halderpara Border Outpost (BOP) under the jurisdiction of the 32nd ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A retired govt school teacher was convicted of raping a nine-year-old girl by a Malda court on Wednesday. Rafikul Islam, also known as Bhelu, was convicted under section 6 of the Pocso Act and Section 376AB of the ...
3 July 2025 Times of IndiaHOWRAH: On Wednesday, within the Howrah Municipal Corporation, two municipal workers died after being crushed by a large eucalyptus tree, and another was injured. The incident occurred around 5.45 am when three municipal workers were having tea in front ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaRepresentative Image TAMLUK: A police patrol car from Mahishadal police station in East Midnapore was involved in a severe accident in the early hours of Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of two police personnel, including sub-inspector Jayanta Ghoshal.Around 1 ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata Police's Detective Department is now investigating the gangrape of a law student within a south Kolkata college. The survivor, a Trinamool student activist, alleges she was lured with promises of a key position before being assaulted.NEW DELHI: The ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaThe court raised the amounts to Rs 1,50,000 and Rs 2,50,000 per month, respectively, acknowledging that a wife's income doesn't negate her right to monetary relief.KOLKATA: The Calcutta HC on Tuesday increased the interim maintenance amount to be provided ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city witnessed 84 fatal accident deaths in the first six months of this year compared to 92 in the same period last year. However, with the city having around 4% of road space – which ideally should ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The rapists of the law student showed intense inhumanity by buying an inhaler, not to alleviate her suffering but to prolong the torture, showing both "intent and desperation", Kolkata Police told Alipore court on Tuesday."They were very desperate. ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaThe patient alleges the doctor performed the appendectomy to fraudulently claim funds from the Swasthya Sathi health scheme, as hernia surgeries are not covered. KOLKATA: A Sodepur resident has alleged that the doctor had removed his appendix while he ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: International passenger footfall at Kolkata airport has bounced back after a sudden four-day slump in June caused by the closure of airspace over Middle East after Iran launched a missile strike on US air bases in Qatar and ...
2 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Higher than the mean monthly, rainy days kept the city's June mercury in check. Even though the city did not experience any heavy rain spell on Tuesday, 11.7 mm of rain till late evening and a partly ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The notoriety of Monojit Mishra, the key accused in the rape of a first-year student on a law college campus, is such that after he had joined back the college in mid-2024 as an ad-hoc staff members, the ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old law student on the campus has led to a surge in online searches for the video, reportedly recorded during the incident. Google Trends data indicates that searches related to the ‘Kolkata ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior citizens attended a cyber awareness session organised by Kolkata Police. Close to 500 senior citizens from across the city gathered at a cyber awareness and sensitisation session organised by Kolkata Police on Tuesday afternoon under their Pronam ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaIn 2023, the year I had joined college, we had gone on a picnic to Budge Budge. The seniors had organised the outing for juniors. I was new to the city and I was all excited about the picnic. ...
2 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The vice-principal of the law college where a first-year student was gang raped said the perpetrators should be hanged even as the governing body expelled Monojit Mishra and decided to appeal to the bar council for the cancellation ...
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