KOLKATA: The period when families of the deceased can donate a body to any state-run medical college is likely to be expanded by seven hours. A change in regulations on body donations is being proposed, and the health department ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: About 60% of samples collected from patients at government hospitals across the state have been found to be resistant to the common spectrum of antibiotics. As part of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevention, the state health department has ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to tie up with registration offices for hassle-free mutation of land and buildings. The objective is to also come to the rescue of flat-buyers, who are often burdened with the share of ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaMALDA: Two members of a family of five in Malda’s Gazole — all of them persons with blindness, who had to beg on the streets to survive — have got back their vision with assistance from the state government’s ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In an attempt to streamline the city’s property tax system, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to levy a penalty on the existing property taxpayers who have not yet switched to the Unit Area Assessment (UAA) method for ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed her frustration at the number of court petitions that were getting in the way of fresh recruitment attempts by the state. During question hour in the assembly, Banerjee said that fighting ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a landmark development, the biggest encroachment on bheris in the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) has been removed and the water bodies have been restored by Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation at a cost of nearly Rs 2 crore. While ...
25 November 2022 Times of IndiaDHUBRI: A 63-year old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court under the POCSO Act for raping a nine-year old girl. Dhubri Additional Session Judge Cum Special Judge (POCSO), Poli Katoki convicted and sentenced the man ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The drop in temperature to 16.9 °C on Wednesday had an immediate impact on the ambient air quality across the city. After a brief respite for a couple of days, the city's ambient air once again swung back ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: There have been 11 dengue deaths this season of people who didn't have any comorbidity, chief minister Mamata Banerjee told the Bengal assembly on Wednesday. The CM said six of these deaths took place in government hospitals, the ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: CV Ananda Bose took charge as Bengal governor on Wednesday, his first day in office sweetened by two handis of rasagollas from CM Mamata Banerjee but also bearing a taste of the intense political back-and-forth he may have ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that Bengal did not believe in "bulldozing" people's property, urging residents to resist if their land was seized without compensation and advising them to be vigilant against any "nefarious" attempts by ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The dengue positivity rate has stayed below 10% for the past week. With positivity at 6% in the past few days, health officials say the dengue outbreak may end in a couple of weeks. The dipping mercury has ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city of joy, as usual, has two predominant teams in this football World Cup - Latin American neighbours Argentina and Brazil. The shock loss of one in the first match, which was followed by Germany's loss to ...
24 November 2022 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Wednesday launched Anaemia Mukta Lakhya Abhiyan (Amlan), a multi-departmental campaign to reduce anaemia or haemoglobin deficiency in the state. The health and family welfare, school and mass education, women and child development, mission shakti ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A team of fishermen — who had braved inclement weather and choppy waters to return to the sea, despite the warnings of an impending storm to rescue six missing fishermen after a trawler had capsized — were awarded ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata Municipal Corporation swung into action on Tuesday to clean the mess around Prinsep Ghat, a day after CM Mamata Banerjee expressed her displeasure over the lack of upkeep in and around the ghat. Officials from KMC civil ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Dharani Sardar, 50, who stays on the second floor of 185/1B, BB Ganguly Street, returned to his rented mess room on Sunday night after 36 days of hotel stay. He was the first returnee after the October 14 ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 101-year-old film featuring Patience Cooper, India's first Anglo-Indian actress and one of Bollywood's early superstars, has been restored in a Paris lab and will be screened in India next month. 'Behula', a five-reel film, was produced by ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around 300 school students from Bengal wrote an open letter to the government for its active intervention to ensure their "right to breathe clean air." The students took part in an open letter drive organized by NGOs working ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaHOWRAH: Two groups of students came to blows with each other in a school in Howrah on Tuesday after members of one group came to school wearing 'namabalis' (religious scarves) because members of the other group were allowed to ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Desperate to get their widowed daughter re-married to her brother-in-law, a father-son duo murdered an 18-year-girl in Entally, suspecting her to be the reason behind the prospective groom's reluctance to this alliance. The body of the teenaged victim, ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaGUWAHATI: Quashing Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma’s statement, Assam said that the firing incident took place well inside Assam's territory and not in Meghalaya. The Assam government also said that when its forest guards tried to stop timber smugglers, ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A court in Serampore relied on the expertise of a ballistic expert, CCTV footage and call details – a multiple number of technical evidence – to send a person to ten years of prison in an attempt to ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaGUWAHATI: The Assam government on Tuesday said it will hand over the investigation into the violence that left six people dead on the state's disputed border with Meghalaya in West Karbi Anglong district to a central or neutral agency. ...
23 November 2022 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Howrah City Police’s decision to allow Kolkata-bound vehicles to move through a single lane on the partially shut Santragachhi ROB — by holding up the Kona Expressway-bound traffic for a longer duration of five to six minutes ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 52-year-old tutor was arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a Class-VI student and molesting her at Narayanpur near Baguiati. The accused, Kestogopal Adhikari, a contractual employee of the state transport department — who gives private tuition in computer ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Come December 15, the attendants at some of the city’s major parking lots will receive payments through e-wallets only. In a bid to bring transparency, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) car parking department is gearing up to introduce ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Upset over frequent referrals of patients, particularly pregnant women, from districts to city hospitals, CM Mamata Banerjee warned on Monday that "if there is death of a pregnant woman, the doctor referring the patient should be held liable". ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 46-year-old trader, who was allegedly duped in 2019 in the name of insurance, was cheated again and lost Rs 7.4 lakh recently after he had received calls from an RBI "ombudsman" who won his trust by referring ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Even as the demand for Covid vaccines has come down to a trickle, some private hospitals in Kolkata are witnessing a sudden spurt in the number of people, especially senior citizens, seeking the influenza vaccine. At least two ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Two cops, posing as insurance agents, made multiple visits to the house of an absconder at Tiljala - against whom an arrest warrant was issued 10 years after his alleged involvement in an abduction case - and nabbed ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaAIZAWL: The 272 Kuki-Chin refugees, who fled from Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, were lodged in a church and a primary school building in Simeinasora village near the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Myanmar tri-junction, an official report submitted to the Mizoram home department ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After a two year break, LGBTQI+ international film festival — Dialogues — returned to Kolkata on Thursday for its 16th edition. The festival was supposed to be concluded on Sunday but it was extended for three more days. ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Several workers of a cold drink manufacturing unit located in Kamalgazi area in the southern fringes of Kolkata fell ill following leakage of toxic gas on Monday, police said. Two firefighters, who went there to rescue the workers ...
22 November 2022 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops arrested Dip Mondal, prime suspect of a murder at Sonarpur, on Sunday. Laltu Hazra (26), who was shot from close range at a friend’s house at Sonarpur, was killed due to mistaken identity, said the police. On ...
21 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Supreme Court has asked a Kolkata court to complete a 32-year-old trial within the next six months. The case probed by CBI was lodged in 1990. A division bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S ...
21 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Gold worth Rs 70 lakh was seized at Kolkata airport from two passengers who were returning from Bangkok on Sunday morning. The two were carrying gold ornaments and gold bars weighing around 1.2kg and they were trying to ...
21 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Sunday slammed BJP legislators’ repeated demands to divide Bengal a day after Onda MLA Amarnath Sakha brought up separate statehood for “Rarh Bangla” at a rally. BJP’s Bankura MP Saumitra Khan had earlier made the ...
21 November 2022 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A few months ago, while digging the land for laying the approach way to the underground Howrah Metro station, the oldest line along which the first train chugged off from Howrah on August 15, 1854, re-surfaced. On Sunday, ...
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