Kolkata: 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, ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A middle-aged person was arrested by the police on Saturday on charges of fleeing with a vehicle loaded with fishing nets worth lakhs of rupees from the Pageyapatti area under Burrabazar police station. The accused was caught by ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mitchell Starc has got the monkey off his back. The KKR pacer’s three wickets against LSG on Sunday will surely do a world of good to his confidence. The Australian pacer, however, would rather talk about the team’s ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After successfully using recycled plastic as an ingredient for paving small lanes and fringe roads under a restoration scheme, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken up similar work on major and arterial roads. Currently, road restoration using ...
15 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/DABGRAM: Addressing a rally at Dabgram-Phulbari in Jalpaiguri on Saturday, CM Mamata Banerjee made an emotional appeal to voters of north Bengal to elect Trinamool. "Why does Dabgram or north Bengal keep voting for BJP? We will do the ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: One of the first job aspirants who had moved Calcutta High Court, asking for a stay on the upper primary recruitment process in 2016, will contest the Lok Sabha elections with a ISF ticket from Tamluk against the ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Team Arun Jain, comprising Arun Jain, Gopika Tandon, Subir Majumdar, Srinivasan Iyer and R Sridharan, entered the final of All India Shree Cement Bridge Championship at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre on Saturday, defeating Bangur Cement by 107-55 Victory ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders are back at their home venue and would be looking to return to the winning track when they take on Lucknow Super Giants at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday.After a great start, which saw ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After mahout Samudra Rabha was killed by an elephant at Iskcon Mayapur last week, the temple authorities have decided to relocate two elephants, Bishnupriya and Lakshmipriya. The Iskcon Mayapur Executive Board convened on April 10 to discuss this. ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A group of civil society members visited the CEO’s office on Saturday to express concern over the upcoming Ram Navami processions in and around Howrah district, where there had been communal violence in the past.The members urged the ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 50 shanties and over 15 cowsheds were gutted when a massive fire broke out in a slum at Dum Dum’s Chatakal on Saturday afternoon.Fire brigade sources said at least 12 fire engines were pressed into service ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 1,400 former students of a state school in New Alipore went back to their alma mater, bearing Nababarsha gifts for the youngsters studying there now. The New Alipore Multipurpose School Alumni Association gathered at the institute ...
14 April 2024 Times of IndiaHOWRAH: An 18-year-old boy in Uluberia was stabbed to death after his elder brother had objected to two locals riding "noisy" bikes. The incident took place at Chengail, Uluberia around 2.30am on Friday. The two bikers have been arrested. ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India has announced the dates for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, which will be conducted in 7 phases from April 19 to June 1, spanning 543 constituencies. The model code of conduct has ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The letter of authority (LoA), which a person has to carry while driving someone else’s car, is for the time being compulsory for commercial vehicles only, Lalbazar has clarified. Officers pointed out they were in talks with the ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Potholes have developed on several roads of Salt Lake that had been repaired just around six months ago. The situation is compounded by the Lok Sabha election model code of conduct, which prohibits any new repair work until ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Saddam Iqbal-saddled Perfect Blend will be hard to beat in the Nilgiris Police Trophy at Ooty on Saturday. The son of Windunderthewings has matched strides in good company and will be ridden by S Farid Ansari.Ooty selections11am: 1. ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The NGT’s Eastern Zonal bench, comprising Justice B Amit Sthalekar (judicial member) and Arun Kumar Verma (expert member), demanded a counter-affidavit from multiple authorities, including the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC), Bengal urban and ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Signalling a stand-off, CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday said despite EC denying its approval, state govt would help those affected by the storm in north Bengal with money to build their homes. The CM added that she was ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week before Cooch Behar goes to polls, Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said at a party meeting on Friday that he would urge the EC police observer to see that Trinamool minister Udayan Guha did not ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the second consecutive year, the Birdwatchers’ Society, in collaboration with Bird Count India, is set to conduct the Poila Baisakh bird count throughout Bengal over the weekend. The initiative aims at gathering data on birds during the ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In a remarkable display of medical expertise and teamwork, doctors at AMRI Hospitals conducted three life-saving surgeries within a single week. All the patients are now recovered and are back home. The three procedures took place at AMRI ...
13 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee criticised the BJP on Friday for claiming that West Bengal has turned into a sanctuary for terrorists. She pointed out that the state police's swift action led to the arrest of the suspects ...
12 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Cartoons hold a special place in our childhood memories, serving as an ever-present source of joy and laughter. Among them, "Tom and Jerry" emerged as a timeless favorite, weaving tales of a cat-and-mouse chase that never failed ...
12 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hours after external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday reiterated the Centre’s decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border, a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) spokesperson said the organisation has been given the responsibility to fence 298-km stretch of the ...
12 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MLA from Chopra, Hamidur Rehman, on Thursday issued a veiled threat to voters in North Dinajpur saying if they do not vote for his party, they should not complain if anything were to happen to ...
12 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A city where 56% of the population relies on buses for daily commute, is facing a potential transportation crisis: half of its privately-owned bus fleet is set to be scrapped this year after completing 15 years in service. ...
12 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Clouds and drizzle in the city brought the maximum temperature down by over two notches — to 32.3°C — on Thursday, bringing a brief respite before hot and humid conditions return for the next four to five days. ...
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