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  • News from West Bengal | 07 Jul, 2025 | ২২ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • Indian youngsters bag handful of medals

    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 India
    Kolkata law student gang-rape case: 'Girlfriend' of Monojit Mishra cries harassment, says 'I can't take it anymore'

    Monojit 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 India
    Behala College gets autonomous status

    Kolkata: 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 India
    HC: Talcum powder ad calling other products ‘ordinary’ not an insult

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Principal, deputy also culpable: Guard’s lawyer

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Keep room ready, Monojit told guard minutes before crime

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Trader loses 1.5 cr after ‘digital arrest’ follows investment fraud

    12 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 India
    I’m a loyal soldier, says Dilip; BJP in his blood, says Samik

    Kolkata: 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 India
    On the block: 20 acres in New Town for residential and commercial use

    12 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 India
    TOI reconstructs the real crime that led to campus gang rape

    Cops 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 India
    11,570 last year to 8,980 this time: Queue for JU arts, science shortens

    Kolkata: 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 India
    After 11 days, law college campus to reopen on Mon

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Santanu Sen moves HC over suspension

    12 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 India
    Students, colleges anxious over WBJEE result delay

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Left activist moves HC against police inaction

    Kharagpur: 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 India
    2 habeas pleas in HC over Bengal workers detained in Odisha

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Monsoon trough over Kol, brace for wet weekend

    1234 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 India
    Digha rub-off effect: Attendance soars at Kolkata Rath, riding high on state’s festive momentum

    1234 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 India
    Role of college admin in letting Monojit handle students’ affairs under CU scanner

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Women’s panel flags off rape awareness campaigns in state colleges

    Kolkata: 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 India
    MF gross sales in Kol sees 39% jump in a year

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Kolkata shocker: 15-year-old Facebook friend comes to meet class 9 girl at home, ‘rapes’ her; arrested

    KOLKATA: 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 India
    27 of Kol’s 1st 38 heart recipients survived follow-up period: Study

    123 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 India
    HC allows 2 Sufi groups to take out Muharram processions in Howrah

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Post-poll case: Retd teacher gets life for child’s rape

    Malda: 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 India
    DHR celebrates its 144th birthday as ‘Toy Train Day’

    Darjeeling: 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 India
    Cooch Behar TMC neta shot at, BJP MLA’s son, driver arrested

    Jalpaiguri: 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 India
    Bodies of 2 workers killed in T’gana blast to reach Daspur today

    Midnapore: 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 India
    Purple Line: Nepal team discusses consulate shift

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Nothing official, legal about Monojit’s ‘job’

    12 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 India
    City to get normal rain in July as well, deficit in N Bengal

    123 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 India
    Lock all college, univ union rooms: Cal HC to state

    12 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 India
    Do not schedule exams here: College plea to CU

    123 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 India
    Kol office leasing jumps 60% YoY in Jan-June 2025

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Cops probe wider conspiracy, rule-flout angles

    12 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 India
    Not fighting Muslims, plurality must be saved, says new Bengal BJP prez Samik

    12 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 India
    8 trees on vacant Port Trust land cut down, KMC files FIR

    123 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 India
    Hosp ruckus: BJP man summoned

    Kolkata: 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 India
    New Town to get two more smart bus stops

    Kolkata: 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 India
    State proposes corrections to plan, gives in-principle nod to Chingrighata culvert

    12 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 India
    Campus rape & its aftermath: A week without lectures, with 1st-semester exams 13 days away

    Kolkata: 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 India
    CBI files supplementary charge-sheet in SSC scam case

    Kolkata: 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 India
    State looks at pvt players to boost goat meat export

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Our current concern is probe progress, submit case diary and report, HC tells state

    Kolkata: 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 India
    63k UPI fraud after phone theft

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Chef classes at Kolkata airport lounge to sweeten travel memories

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Principal scolding student is not suicide abetment: Calcutta HC

    123 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 India
    CM writes to Shah, seeks laws on ‘provocative’ posts

    12 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 India
    Protesters hurl stones at minister’s car in Monteswar

    12 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 India
    Court cannot punish B for A’s mistake: Counsel on HC order nixing 32k primary teachers’ appts

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Kartik Maharaj gets HC breather

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Stop harassment of Bengal workers in your state, CS Pant writes to Odisha

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Traffic cops take up man’s wrong car fine complaint

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Push for pvt bus app rollout by Durga Puja

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Tamanna’s family to go to HC for CBI probe

    Krishnanagar: 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 India
    Kol airport records pre-Cov high in revenue, passenger footfall

    123 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 India
    Police seize 132 original passports from fraud gang

    Kolkata: 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 India
    HC sends Tolly case back to single bench

    Kolkata: 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 India
    6 months after life in RG Kar case, same court gives death for twin murders

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Majumdar: A passionate promoter of chess passes away

    123 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 India
    From row over ‘escort tips’ to littering, life’s tough for Bhowanipore dhaba zone locals

    123 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 India
    Cannot recall anything, says rape campus ‘GS’

    12 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 India
    CBI names TMC MLA, councillors in 2021 Kankurgachhi murder case

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Team MM was powerful enough to influence college routine change

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Rehab drive for Sector V hawkers

    123 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 India
    Bar Council debars accused from practising in Bengal

    Kolkata: 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 India
    ‘Monojit set sights on the survivor from day 1’

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Rape survivor’s parents do not want CBI probe yet

    Kolkata: 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 India
    State women’s panel: Girl still in trauma

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Youth beaten up near Beadon St

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Cops seek licence suspension for 6 months for serious traffic violations

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Darj taxi strike threat over traffic issues

    Kolkata: 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 India
    For improved patient care, city docs form lab med group

    Kolkata: 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 India
    HC clears stretch under litigation for Kidderpore metro station

    12 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 India
    Monojit told aides to keep watch on Kasba PS, made calls for help

    123 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 India
    Rashbehari-to-college campus rally takes up entire road flank

    Kolkata: 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 India
    ICMAI wants med insurance, essential commodities under cost audit ambit

    Kolkata: 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 India
    CM reviews arrangements ahead of festivities

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Alifa takes oath as new Kaliganj MLA

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Sukanta moves HC over ‘unlawful detentions’

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Panskura chips suicide: Getting pressured to withdraw case, says mom

    Panskura: 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 India
    Chargesheet against film director in Thakurpukur market accident

    Kolkata: 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 India
    State nod for 2nd Kestopur bailey bridge

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Cops give lane-cutting lessons to school kids

    Kolkata: 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 India
    ‘Bangladeshi smuggler’ shot dead by BSF personnel

    Krishnaganj: 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 India
    Retd teacher convicted of 9-yr-old’s rape

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Kolkata: Two municipal workers killed and one injured after tree falls in howrah corporation office premises

    HOWRAH: 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 India
    Speeding truck hits police patrol car in West Bengal's Midnapore; 2 cops dead, 1 injured

    Representative 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 India
    Law college gang rape: Detective department to take over case, say Kolkata Police

    Kolkata 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 India
    ‘Wife earning not enough to deny relief’: Calcutta HC raises Mohammed Shami’s monthly maintenance to estranged wife, daughter; cricketer to pay Rs 4L instead of Rs 1.3L

    The 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 India
    Road safety drive beefed up as accident deaths dip

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Kolkata law student gang-rape: Accused revived girl with inhaler to prolong torture, say cops; were desperate to keep her conscious

    KOLKATA: 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 India
    'Wrong operation done to claim govt funds: Bengal man goes for hernia surgery, doctors remove appendix instead; kin cry foul

    The 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 India
    International flyer footfall at Kolkata airport back to normal after conflict blip

    KOLKATA: 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 India
    More showers for five more days: Met

    12 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 India
    Girls’ attendance dipped as soon as Monojit re-entered campus as staffer

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Sickness beyond campus: Rape video search trends on Google

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Senior citizens learn how to keep e-fraud at bay

    Kolkata: 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 India
    Stayed at home for six wks after picnic trauma

    In 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 India
    Rape accused should be hanged, says law college vice-principal after GB meeting

    Kolkata: 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 ...

    2 July 2025 Times of India
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