Kolkata: While parts of the city got scattered rain on Wednesday the Met office has alerted enhanced rain in the weekend. A system brewing over the Bay of Bengal is likely to add to the city’s rain count which ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ‘Nandigram to Nabanna: Bubair Joyjatra (Bubai’s Journey of Victory)’ will be the theme for the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha Durga Puja at Ruby More, where chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s political journey will be represented through various visuals and ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaMALDA: The West Bengal health department has sought a detailed report from Malda Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) after 60 children died at the facility during the first three weeks of August, including 10 deaths reported in a single ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first meeting of Jadavpur University (JU) inquiry committee will probably be held outside the main campus — at its Salt Lake campus — on Thursday to finalise the terms and conditions of the panel and decide the ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The deplorable condition of Kolkata’s road infrastructure has increasingly extended onto the city’s major flyovers, forcing Kolkata Traffic police to issue urgent appeals for civic intervention. The vital Sealdah flyover has emerged as a prime example.In response to ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rain has opened up craters and potholes along Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, making travel challenging and jarring for commuters, especially motorists and bikers. Apart from craters and potholes, uneven road surfaces due to random patchwork done in the past ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Burrabazar businessman was killed after the app-based bike on which he was travelling pillion collided with a truck at Keshtopur crossing on VIP Road on Tuesday night. Police said the bike rider was allegedly riding recklessly and ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The govt has formed a 24-member advisory board, comprising two monks, a senior journalist and representatives from various fields, to guide the Kolkata Book Fair committee in organising the 50th International Kolkata Book Fair 2027, scheduled to be ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaDurgapur: “Is this a joke? Better know the class,” said Manika Saha, NIT Durgapur’s associate dean of students’ welfare, as she stopped students dancing to the Bollywood song, ‘Chikni Chameli’ during a freshers’ orientation programme in a now-viral video.NIT ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri/Kalimpong: Thirty-two tourists from Kolkata, 18 women and 14 men who had set out for the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage from Kolkata on Aug 19 and were scheduled to cross the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday morning, have been reported missing ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Officials at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital have lodged a complaint with Bhowanipore Police Station to find out who had uploaded a prescription from the hospital’s physical medicine department that has gone viral on social media. According to the OPD prescription, ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A four-year-old was allegedly sexually abused inside a residential complex in Garfa on Wednesday morning. The 55-year-old accused, who fled the spot after the incident, was eventually detained.According to cops, the minor was visiting a relative’s flat at ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 27-year-old biker was detained by Karaya Police after allegedly assaulting, abusing, and issuing death threats to an on-duty sergeant near the southern flank of 4 Number Bridge on Monday. The incident occurred while the complainant, sergeant Abhishek ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week after the fire at a Free School Street lodge killed nine persons, including seven Bangladeshi nationals, the entire neighbourhood that used to buzz with activity has been left deserted. The fallout of the tragedy continues to ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Allen Park on Park Street, a venue that has been associated with Christmas celebrations since 2011 and Park Street Carnival for four years prior to that, will host a Durga Puja for the first time this year. The ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hastings cops have launched a probe following the theft of four mobile phones belonging to members of a theatre group from a makeup room at Sisir Mancha on Aug 23. The incident prompted the group to approach cops ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Cyber Cell of Kolkata Police has launched a probe into a widespread cyber fraud network involving the creation and distribution of unauthorised “ghost SIM cards”. The illegal operation led to residents across the city losing over Rs ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKeshpur: Internal infighting between veteran BJP workers and recent inductees turned violent in Keshpur, with several party workers injured in clashes over the past few days. The violence follows a series of defections to BJP.On Sunday, a rival BJP ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari has implemented 43% of BJP’s pre-poll promises, said Bengal minister for urban development and municipal affairs Agnimitra Paul on Wednesday. She was speaking on the sidelines of Credai Kolkata-organised ‘Techcon 2026’.Addressing criticism from opposition parties ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: The Bengal health department on Wednesday sought a report from Malda Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) after 60 children died there in the first three weeks of Aug, including 10 deaths recorded in a single day in the ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A police constable and three touts have been arrested by Bengal Anti-Corruption Branch in a crackdown on an extortion syndicate running out of Jhargram police station that generated average earnings of Rs 5.5 lakh a day.The kingpin of ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Gobardanga municipality chairman Subhash Dutta was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly storing municipal relief materials at his residence. Police reportedly recovered 30 tarpaulins and 12 blankets from his car garage.Dutta was produced before a Barasat court, which ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued notices to 20 rebel Trinamool MPs who merged with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India, seeking their response within seven days to Abhishek Banerjee’s disqualification petition under the Constitution’s anti-defection ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A 65-year-old retired schoolteacher was burnt to death and another person suffered 60% burns after a fire broke out at Uddalok residential complex in Mourigram, Howrah, around 1 pm on Wednesday. Six others, who suffered suffocation and minor ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Action would be taken against former CM Mamata Banerjee if she failed to return 19 books issued to her from the assembly library, warned Bengal mass education extension and library services minister Gouri Sankar Ghosh on Tuesday.The books ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have lodged an FIR against a police driver attached to an OC of the Bhangar police division for allegedly stalking, harassing and assaulting a pregnant woman, following court intervention after repeated complaints went unheeded.The 30-year-old woman approached ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari promised a roof over the head of Sita Mullick, the 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller who unwittingly kicked up a political storm following an encounter with state urban development minister ...
27 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Twenty-four hours after the Calcutta High Court order, directing them to shift to temporary stalls at the Mounted Police Paddock grounds, the 528 traders at BC Roy Market still wondered where to begin. There are another 114 hawkers ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the six days since the fire, the team carrying out a fire and safety audit of hotels, guest houses and lodges in Kolkata have been able to examine less than 10% of the 4,000-odd hotels that are ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A video from a students’ induction programme at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur has sparked a debate over campus decorum after a professor reportedly interrupted a student dance performance on various Bollywood songs.The incident took place ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has submitted white papers to the state govt, seeking its intervention for the revival of Darjeeling and Dooars tea.The submitted white papers examined the structural, financial, climatic, labour and market-related challenges the two ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: For Meena Nandwani, the fire at Free School Street destroyed little inside her first-floor home. Yet, a week after the blaze, she remains displaced, unable to return to the flat she has lived in because the entire building ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Back home with relatives in coffins, Bangladeshi families are grappling with the loss a week after a fire ripped through Shikha Inn at Free School Street, leaving nine people dead. The bereaved families are now contemplating returning to ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Doctor organisations have protested against the health department order that bars govt doctors from private practice for 72 hours of their ‘admission day’ in the govt health facility they are attached to.‘Admission day’ is when a faculty member ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Appointing MPs and MLAs as governing body presidents of 247 state-aided colleges was a “conscious move” by the govt, state higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said after attending a workshop at the convention centre in New Town.Responding to ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Howrah City Police’s detective department suspects Abdullah Khan and Niyamat Khan who were arrested from Kharibari border acted as agents of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Police sources said they lived in adjoining flats at 8 Sil Lane, Shibpur, where Abdullah’s father ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Domestic LPG consumers, who are yet to complete the mandatory e-KYC for their gas connections, will have time until Aug 31 to do so as oil marketing companies (OMCs) told dealers there would be no further extension of ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata:The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Bengal govt arrested three laboratory technicians attached to Panskura Super Specialty Hospital for their involvement in a well-entrenched, illegal blood sales racket operating directly out of the facility’s blood bank.The law enforcement action ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday entrusted all govt agencies and departments concerned with the task of repairing battered roads in the port area in Garden Reach and Taratala at the earliest.The CM had earlier set a deadline ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following directives from chief minister Suvendu Adhikari to curb artificial price inflation, joint teams of Kolkata and Bengal Police Enforcement Branch (EB) launched inspections across major wholesale and retail markets on Tuesday.The operations targeted key markets across north ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: “The chief minister has promised me a roof over my head,” Sita Mullick, a 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller, said on Tuesday morning after meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari at a BJP office in Salt Lake.Mullick had unwittingly ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ‘Biswa Bangla’ imprint is set to disappear from yet another prominent public landscape in Bengal, with a state govt panel proposing to rechristen Biswa Bangla Sarani as Shri Krishna Chaitanya Avenue as part of an ongoing exercise ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Another member of the inquiry committee set up by Jadavpur University to probe last Thursday’s campus violence has expressed his unwillingness to be part of the investigation. Arunasis Goswami, vice-chancellor of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University, has stepped ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police have sent SOS letters to different agencies like KMC, PWD and KMDA for infrastructure development before the onset of the festive season. It has listed a total of over 200 road stretches (there are ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After sugar and onions, vegetables are beginning to squeeze household budgets, with prices of several everyday kitchen staples rising by 50% to 100% in just 10 days as incessant rain inundates farmland, damages crops and disrupts supply to ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Actor and former politician Soham Chakraborty has landed in fresh controversy after a carpenter lodged a complaint against him and his team, alleging assault, intimidation and phone snatching.Raj Kapoor Sharma approached Behala Police Station alleging that he was ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary has approved the transfer of ‘a number of tigers’ to Bengal for the proposed big cat reintroduction programme in Buxa Tiger Reserve, with the first big cat likely to be a tigress from ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police cleared encroachments from Amartolla Street in the Canning Street area on Monday evening, but hawkers and shopkeepers had reclaimed much of the space by Tuesday morning.Police removed hawkers selling wares on the carriageway and asked shopkeepers to ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP on Tuesday appointed former state president and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar as the in charge of Kolkata Municipal Corporation election. Rajya Sabha MP Rahul Sinha has been given charge of Howrah civic body election. CM Suvendu Adhikari ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaRohitKhanna@timesofindia.comKolkata: In an open letter addressed to every BJP worker across Bengal, state party president Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday declared a zero-tolerance policy against corruption, extortion and ‘tolabaji’ (cut money) within the ranks.The strong missive made it clear that ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former CPM legislator from Uttarpara, Srutinath Praharaj, was granted bail by a district court in Chinsurah on Tuesday, a day after his arrest.Police had arrested Praharaj and two other CPM activists, Dipak Chkaraborty and Anupam Chakraborty, for allegedly ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a major push to bridge the civilian-military divide, the Territorial Army will host the two-day ‘TA-2.0 Symposium 2026’ at the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Alipore on Thursday and Friday.The symposium, themed ‘Know Your Territorial Army’, will highlight ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A multi-agency inspection was conducted at Mitra Institution following a snakebite incident involving a class 1 student. However, the snake has not been found yet. The school has sent a detailed report to the school education department on ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaTarakeswar: BJP’s Arambagh vice-president Ganesh Chakraborty was allegedly assaulted by workers of his own party on Tuesday.According to sources, Chakraborty had raised his voice against activities of Uttam Kundu, Arambagh president of the Ritabrata faction of Trinamool Congress and ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University students from both sides of the political and ideological divide have started lodging their complaints along with video and CCTV footage as evidence at the designated email address ahead of the inquiry committee’s first meeting on ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Police has completed collection of all CCTV footage from the four entry gates of Jadavpur University. A special team has now begun to compare the footage from the entry and exit points with those collected from ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s social media post on ‘anti-national’ graffiti and drawings at Jadavpur University, state higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay made an appeal on Tuesday to the stakeholders of the institution, including students, professors and researchers, ...
26 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of Leftist student unions took to streets in central Kolkata on Monday in protest against the recent violence, vandalism and entry of outsiders to the campus of Jadavpur University. They demanded punishment for those involved in the ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state health department has decided to debar faculty members and other govt doctors from private practice for 72 hours from the admission day.Admission day is when a faculty member or a doctor attends to patients in OPD, ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Karaya Police has launched a probe after a female fashion designing student alleged that she was verbally abused and intimidated by an app-based biker in south Kolkata on Thursday evening.The biker managed to escape. The student, a resident ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A low-pressure system over Bay of Bengal brought a couple of spells of light-moderate rain to the city and suburbs on Monday. While the system is on its way to Jharkhand, the Met office expects similar rain on ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The National Security Guard (NSG) on Monday began a four-day security reconnaissance of Kalighat temple, conducting a detailed security assessment and 3D mapping of the high-footfall shrine amid heightened concerns over threats to crowded religious places.A 13-member NSG ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said that steps were being taken to check the rise in sugar and rice prices in the state. He also directed the state’s food inspectors to step up inspections across Bengal to monitor prices ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University authorities have assured the hostel boarders of ramping up their security and will write to the state govt for extra security personnel and CCTVs. The authorities have also told the students that the two boarders, affiliated ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Non-compliance of fire-safety norms plagues the city’s second Mini Bangladesh at Mukundapur where many hotels have been instructed to shut down. This compounded the problems of patients and their kin, including those who shifted to these accommodations from ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In response to an alarming surge in sophisticated cybercrimes and escalating threats to state infrastructure, the Kolkata Police is laying the groundwork to constitute a dedicated “Artificial Intelligence Task Force” at its Lalbazar headquarters.The specialized unit will be ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court ex-judge Pranab Chatterjee will head the five-member committee set up by Jadavpur University to probe the campus vandalism and violence on Aug 19 and 20, vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee announced at a meeting attended by all ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Class I student at Mitra Institution in Bhowanipore was bitten by a venomous snake in the school compound during the tiffin break on Monday. Dipra Pal, 6, is being treated at SSKM’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, where ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said he would ensure his predecessor, Mamata Banerjee, was never able to hit the streets again.“Remain on Facebook. You don’t need to take to the streets. You are old. Take some rest,” Adhikari ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two alarming snakebite incidents on the school campuses within a week have triggered concern among other schools too.Schools operating out of heritage or ageing structures have been taking measures and planning to sensitise students, particularly those in junior ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state’s iconic souvenir outlets, Biswa Bangla stores, a flagship initiative of the erstwhile Trinamool Congress dispensation, is set for a rebranding under the BJP govt. The administration is planning to replace the words ‘Biswa Bangla’ with ‘Paschim ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed an arrest warrant issued against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra in a case alleging that she insulted women and delivered hate speeches. The matter will be heard again on Aug 27.A division ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday verbally asked the state not to take any action against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy in four FIRs to be heard on Sept 10. The court also directed cops to ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Tripura CM Manik Saha on Sunday presented toolkits to skilled Bru-Reang youths in Amarpur under Gomati district as part of the govt’s effort to shift rehabilitated families from dependence on aid to sustainable livelihoods.Saha said a total of ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The proposed stock market listing of West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL) has moved a step closer, with the state power department preparing a proposal to appoint a consultant for the exercise.The proposal will be placed before ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt will disburse Rs 40,000 crore in institutional bank loans to self-help groups (SHGs), state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh told members of Calcutta Chamber of Commerce on Monday. The minister stressed the need to ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The personal assistant (PA) of former Trinamool Congress MLA Sunil Singh, who is also the brother-in-law of minister Arjun Singh, was allegedly beaten to death with bricks at Garulia in Noapara on Sunday night after he objected to ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal govt has issued citizenship certificates to 23,000 people out of 2.3 lakh CAA applicants, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday. He also stated that the state govt would soon complete the hearings of the remaining applications.“I would ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaDurgapur: Police had to resort to lathi-charge and tear gas shelling in Durgapur as a mob attacked a former Trinamool councillor’s house and vandalised it on Sunday night.Former ward 39 councillor Shashank Shekhar Mondal, away from his home since ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuman.Chakraborti@timesofindia.comKolkata: The state govt on Monday notified and brought into force the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Act, 2026, with CM Suvendu Adhikari warning that those damaging govt or public property during protests would face stringent action.The ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP MLA Piyush Kanodia allegedly led a protest at Narayanpur PS in New Town on Sunday evening after police picked up three people in connection with an alleged attempt to take control of a CPM office, with the ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tension flared in Baruipur after 45-year-old BJP worker Bapi Pramanik died following a clash over the formation of a local Durga Puja committee in Uttar Tangarberia on Sunday night.Baruipur Additional SP Atish Biswas said the clash erupted between ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bird believed to have possibly disappeared from north Bengal has made a comeback through a birder’s lens after 95 years. The white-hooded babbler, considered historically resident in the Bengal Terai, had not been sighted since 1931.The photo ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state school education department will sign an MoU with NCERT to provide academic and technical guidance to state-run schools for implementing the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 at the school level.“Through the support from the NCERT teachers ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Questioning how a CM sworn to uphold the Constitution could threaten to curtail the freedom of the chief of the principal opposition party, former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday sought the intervention of President and Chief Justice ...
25 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Hastings Police has started a probe after the project manager of a French firm that has been currently entrusted with the repair work of Vidyasagar Setu lodged a theft complaint. He has alleged the theft of heavy ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), an autonomous self-regulatory body under the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs, is in talks with Bengal govt to introduce an AI-powered building plan approval system in Kolkata and other urban ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), an autonomous self-regulatory body under the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs, is in talks with Bengal govt to introduce an AI-powered building plan approval system in Kolkata and other urban ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A massive operation against cyber fraud rackets involving Rs 92.6 crore has been dismantled across Bengal in a major intelligence-led drive titled ‘Operation Cyber Prahar’.Over the last seven days, the Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police, with help ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) moved the Calcutta high court on Monday, seeking an urgent hearing over Kolkata Police allegedly failing to respond to its request to hold the TMCP foundation day ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Behala resident attempting to secure accommodation for an upcoming trip at Uttarakhand fell victim to an online hotel booking scam, losing Rs 1,74,888 through fraudulent representations and deceptive credit card transactions.The incident unfolded on Aug 17, when ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A lawyer was injured and her husband assaulted after a recklessly driven vehicle collided with their car on SN Road Roy in Behala on Friday, Aug 21 around 8 pm.The incident occurred in front of the Merlin Jabakusum ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ecologic, a New Town-based nature lovers’ forum on Saturday achieved a unique milestone of planting 5,000 trees across New Town over a span of five years with 1,000 trees planted on a trot each year since 2022.Over the ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The new-age schools that are being developed on the wetlands are giving additional focus to undertaking safety audits to eradicate snakes, especially during the monsoon season. The school where the class 3 student was bitten by a snake ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The family of a 17-year-old brain-dead youth from Beleghata, Akash Auddy, consented to organ donation following his death at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital in Kolkata. This resulted in the successful retrieval and transplantation of multiple organs, giving a fresh lease ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Subha Shankar Sarkar, a retired academic appointed by Jadavpur University to head the committee that will investigate the recent violence and vandalism on the campus, informed vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee on Saturday that he could not lead the inquiry ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced that the Bengal govt has reserved 20% posts in the police, fire brigade, forest and civil defence departments for retired Agniveers and also hinted at the reintroduction of NCC in schools and ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The closure of hotels in central Kolkata following last Wednesday’s fire at Shikha Inn, which claimed nine lives, has forced many Bangladeshis staying in that area to shift to accommodations off EM Bypass, especially in Mukundapur.Large numbers of ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A low-pressure area formed over north Bay of Bengal on Sunday, which could trigger light, intermittent rain across south Bengal and Kolkata on Monday, said the Met office.Even though Kolkata received 10.6mm of rain, the city’s northern suburbs ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The late monsoon warm spell has led to a spate of heat-induced diseases which are rare at this time of the year. Scores have sought treatment with heat exhaustion, dizziness, nausea and blackouts which are unusual during monsoon, ...
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