Kolkata: Discussion on security lapses, suspension of ‘insiders’ who assisted the ‘outsiders’ to enter and attack Jadavpur University (JU) in the early hours on Thursday till the probe is complete, protecting autonomy and resisting saffronisation will be some of ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: At least three BJP supporters were injured on Saturday after an alleged attack by TIPRA Motha supporters on a BJP office at Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) headquarters in Khumulung, amid ongoing seat-sharing talks for next ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hooghly Rural Police have arrested Uttam Kundu, district TMC president and former chairman of Tarakeswar Municipality, in connection with Tarakeswar PS Case No. 463/2026, registered on August 22.Kundu faces charges under several sections of the BNS, including serious ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Iskcon-backed Annamitra Foundation has expanded its midday meal coverage outside Kolkata to include Biddhannagar, Dumdum and Rajarhat in North 24 Parganas, Howrah, Purulia, as well as Nandigram blocks I and II in East Midnapore. The foundation received a ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court paused KMC’s attempt to demolish structures at a Grade-I heritage site on wakf property on Satish Mukherjee Road in Kalighat. The court granted residents 30 days to appeal the Aug 19 order.Police and central ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have questioned 16 persons, including Sealdah court public prosecutor Dilip Kumar Ram, over allegedly locking the Entally PS during a protest in the wee hours of Independence Day.Those questioned include Ram’s brother Sudeep Ram and several BJP ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Professors and students at Jadavpur University have called the govt’s differing voices on the institution confusing, and described the branding of the entire university as “anti-national” as unfortunate.Associate professor of the electrical engineering dept Arindam Kumar Sil said. ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A new floor has been added to Rotary Vivekananda School & Skill Development Centre in Bamon Mollar Chawk village of Kultali Block, South 24 Parganas, as the institution prepares to expand its academic reach, double its student strength ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A section of Bangladeshi patients currently in Kolkata are seeking help from hospitals to find accommodation following the closure of scores of hotels where they had been staying. Many scheduled to arrive in the city for treatment have ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The owner of the fire-ravaged Free School Street hotel on Sunday told police that he had shelled out Rs 1 lakh-Rs 1.5 lakh to touts and local syndicates to get neccessary permission to run the hotel.Bireswar Mitra (46), ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller on Saturday unknowingly triggered a political row when asked to move off the pavement by state urban development minister Agnimitra Paul during an anti-encroachment drive, to which she replied she was ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several establishments in Stephen Court on Park Street, where 43 people had died in a fire 16 years ago, are yet to receive clearance from the fire department. The building houses several offices, shops and restaurants on the ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Florence Mansion at 15 G, Mirza Ghalib Street where last week’s fire claimed nine lives — including seven Bangladeshi citizens — illegally added three floors on a terrace when Bangladesh was in turmoil two years ago. The illegal ...
24 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state higher education department has begun restructuring college governing bodies across the state-aided colleges by appointing local BJP MPs and MLAs as the presidents.The initiative follows an official directive issued on Saturday and covers an initial phase ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 60-year-old woman, Meena Devi Thakur, sustained injuries after being allegedly assaulted by her domestic help, who fled with gold jewellery and cash worth lakhs from her central Kolkata residence. She is undergoing treatment at a nursing home.It ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Students and faculty members at Jadavpur University (JU) pointed fingers at their ‘own’ who helped ‘outsiders’ to enter the campus and unleash violence and vandalism in the early hours of Thursday and demanded to bring them under the ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 24 hours after Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee filed an FIR against “unknown outsiders/persons” for the violence and vandalism on campus, police on Saturday claimed they have identified some of those involved in the disturbance.They are, ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said all eligible women financially dependent on monthly assistance would be covered under the Annapurna Yojana, even if the number of beneficiaries rises by 20-30 lakh.He also announced that Sept 17, Prime Minister ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Teachers of Presidency University issued a statement on Saturday, expressing their solidarity with Jadavpur University students and faculty over ABVP’s storming of the campus on Thursday.“As members of Presidency University, we are shocked and dismayed by the recent ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: KMC officials on Saturday broke open the lock on the main gate of Padmapukur Park in Entally, restoring public access to the neighbourhood ground that had been shut since Aug 14 following a dispute between two local BJP ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM), JU unit, has written a letter to vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, raising strong objections regarding the neutrality of the investigation committee that was formed to probe the incident on Aug 19 and 20.ABRSM ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Coffins containing bodies of six of the seven Bangladeshi nationals killed in the Free School Street lodge fire crossed the border and reached the neighbouring country on Saturday evening.The bodies of five victims — Babu Ahmed (37), a ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hundreds of tourists from Bangladesh and Nepal, as well as travellers from Assam, Nagaland and other parts of India, were left virtually homeless on Saturday, spending hours hunting for rooms after several budget hotels and guest houses in ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A crackdown on hotels and guest houses following the fire at Shikha Inn that claimed nine lives has dealt another blow to the fragile economy of central Kolkata’s “Mini Bangladesh” looking for a turnaround, as rows of budget ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bireshwar Mitra, owner of Shikha Inn, the lodge at Florence Mansion on Free School Street, where nine people died following a fire early on Wednesday, was arrested from the home of one of his employees in Behala on ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 24 hours after Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee filed an FIR against “unknown outsiders/persons” for the violence and vandalism on campus, police on Saturday claimed they have identified some of those involved in the disturbance. They ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A male tiger, Sundar, approximately 16 years old, died at the Sundarban Wild Animal Park in Jharkhali on Saturday morning. He had been undergoing treatment for an infection for the past 12 days.With Sundar’s death, the Jharkhali rescue ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An MBBS aspirant whose mother’s name was deleted from the electoral roll during the SIR and two men working in West Asia who were also disenfranchised during the revision have moved Calcutta High Court seeking directions for the ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 100 hotels and guest houses across Kolkata stared at closure as civic and fire officials on Saturday continued the inspection of safety compliance and statutory clearances at these establishments. The city’s hotel room inventory was estimated ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday asked central and state agencies to keep the strategically sensitive Siliguri Corridor or ‘Chicken’s Neck’ free from encroachments and directed them to curb illegal immigration in the zone.Shah undertook a review ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: The Tripura High Court held that Child Care Leave (CCL) for female govt employees was not an unconditional legal right, but authorities had to genuinely assess the necessity behind each request and not reject it without valid reasons.Justice ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose on Friday said he would urge state MLAs to adopt a no-honking policy while driving cars. The Speaker has already been following the practice in his own vehicle.Addressing an interactive session at Bharat ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The room crisis in central Kolkata’s Free School Street-Marquis Street belt, which is a hub for Bangladeshi tourists, that had begun on Tcontinued to fester on Sunday as an administrative crackdown following the deadly fire at Shikha Inn ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKulti: A group of Kanwariyas travelling on 17008 Down Darbhanga-Charlapalli Express allegedly stopped the train several times by pulling the emergency chain and later refused to let it move from Kulti station until one of their companions was released ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two teachers — Shantanu Patra, a geography teacher at Government Model School in Jhargram, and Palash Chowdhury, headmaster of Sree Ramkrishna Sarada Vidyapith Primary School in Burdwan — have been selected from Bengal for National Teachers’ Award. They ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a tripartite meeting with Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, Centre-appointed interlocutor and former deputy NSA Pankaj Kumar Singh and political parties of the region and decided that Singh would steer the ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Trinamool MLA Nirmal Ghosh was produced before a Barrackpore court on Saturday in connection with an extortion case and remanded in police custody for seven days.Ghosh is already in police custody in a Rs 1-crore lottery ticket ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 32-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide at Bachahar village under Karkach gram panchayat in Malda’s Gazole on Saturday, with her family alleging that financial distress over irregular payments under the state govt’s Annapurna Yojana contributed to her ...
23 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than two days after ruckus broke out at Jadavpur University campus with ABVP storming the campus after Thursday midnight and clashing with left student unions the same afternoon, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said the path ...
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22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At the entrance to the sealed five-storey building at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street, eight hoardings advertise eight different hotels and guest houses. Apart from Shikha Inn, where nine people died of asphyxiation after a fire early on Wednesday, ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A scuffle broke out between a school student and a female non-teaching staff member over the issuance of a transfer certificate (TC) at Jagdala High School in Bamangola, Malda.The staff member, who joined the school a year and ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A tense and anxious Jadavpur University campus on Friday witnessed rallies and demonstrations to protest the “unprovoked attack” and the labelling of university students as “anti-nationals”.Students and alumni gathered in large numbers at the university and marched to ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the emblem of Jadavpur University was vandalised by ABVP supporters while they were attempting to storm the campus by scaling gate 4, the university repaired and restored it with vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee re-installing it. But ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The class 3 student who had been bitten by a snake in the school washroom has been back home from the hospital for a day but is yet to overcome the trauma. Speaking to TOI, her mother said, ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday held that teachers do not have to work beyond school hours for census duty but those deputed for census duty cannot deny performing the work assigned to them and will be treated as ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As one budget hotel after another was served closure notices and forced to down shutters on Friday, tourists — a majority of them from Bangladesh — found themselves caught in a double jeopardy: asked to vacate rooms booked ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIT Kharagpur is expanding its academic footprint to the global stage with the launch of a two-day in-person Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme for engineers and scientists at its Houston outreach centre.As the institute celebrates its platinum jubilee, the ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The liver and two kidneys of a 34-year-old fisherman from the Sundarbans, who was declared brain dead after an accident earlier this month, have saved the lives of three patients. Organs from deceased donor, Subodh Das of Kakdwip, ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a bustling, overcrowded compartment of the Canning local train on Wednesday morning, what began as an ordinary daily commute quickly transformed into an extraordinary story of quick thinking, courage, and unexpected new life.Aarti Bain, a compassionate counsellor ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The students and professors of Jadavpur University protested against the ‘missing VC’ on Thursday though he was very much on campus monitoring the situation from the Technology Bhavan.VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said: “I was present at the university from ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 64-year-old man, a small time former trader, allegedly stabbed his 56-year-old wife to death in their Kalighat home before ending his own life by consuming sleeping pills mixed with alcohol and slashing his wrists on Thursday.Both individuals ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The cop probe into the Shikha Inn fire that killed seven Bangladesh nationals along with two Indians on Wednesday has now found that the hotel owner Bireswar Mitra – a resident of Behala who is still absconding – ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Ahead of a scheduled meeting between senior netas of BJP and its ally TIPRA Motha in Agartala on Friday, TIPRA chief, Pradyot Kishore Debbarman, reiterated that his party would not enter into a seat-sharing arrangement with BJP unless ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the JU incident, tensions escalated on College Street as ABVP supporters staged protests outside Presidency and Calcutta Universities on Friday.Around 4 pm, ABVP activists staged a protest outside the locked main gate of Presidency University, ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta on Friday said that “a student agitation should not be hijacked by people who are professional politicians”, referring to the vandalism at Jadavpur University. His cabinet colleague Dilip Ghosh, however, on Friday said ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State commerce and industry secretary Vandana Yadav clarified on Friday that there was no dispute about the land status of Lux Cozi group’s Rs 600-crore project in Dankuni, the first one to be inaugurated by Suvendu Adhikari after ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The advocate-on-record in former minister Sujit Bose’s plea case filed a petition in the court of Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty on Friday, urging an enquiry and preservation of CCTV footage of the front room ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) has postponed the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) supplementary examinations scheduled on Friday afternoon following campus unrest and palpable fear among students.FET students on Thursday requested authorities to postpone the exam citing tension on ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said those who had come to India from Bangladesh due to religious persecution and had applied under the CAA, will get citizenship within six months.“The Hindu, Sikh and Jain refugees who ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday paid tribute to shehnai legend Bismillah Khan on his death anniversary.Shah recalled an interaction with Khan when the maestro was unwell and said Khan’s expression changed instantly when they began discussing ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday highlighted the easing of the border land deadlock with a BJP govt in office in Bengal and said a special “triangular security grid” would be set up to secure the strategically ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Disbursal of the third monthly instalment of Rs 3,000 under Annapurna Yojana has been extended by a couple of days after missing its initial Thursday deadline.DBT (direct benefit transfer) began on Monday, covering 1.37 crore of 1.45 crore ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Indian philanthropy must move beyond merely increasing the amount of money being given and become more willing to take risks, exercise patience and think strategically to create lasting social change, philanthropist Rohini Nilekani said in Kolkata on Friday.Speaking ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Investments in India featured in discussions as Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal held a meeting with Singapore Business Federation (SBF) on Friday in Singapore. The meeting, to increase India-Singapore business engagement, was attended by SBF ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Protests erupted across Bengal on Friday as Annapurna Yojana beneficiaries raised concerns over non-payment of funds.In Midnapore, urban development minister Agnimitra Paul and MLA Sankar Guchait faced demonstrations at the district magistrate’s office. Women holding certificates of previous ...
22 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An informal assessment by hotel and lodge operators in central Kolkata’s hospitality hub of Free School Street, Marquis Street and Sudder Street has indicated that nearly 90% of hotels, guest houses and lodges in the cluster may be ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A railway travelling ticket examiner (TTE) in his early 40s was arrested from Sonarpur on Thursday morning, days after two students of a dance school accused him of subjecting them to severe harassment after they mistakenly boarded a ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Directing the Centre to conduct a fresh survey of elephant corridors and report on measures to prevent their obstruction, the Supreme Court has once again flagged the use of fireballs, ‘mashaals’ and other coercive methods to divert elephants ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Protests erupted in Khedabari village of Sonamura in Sepahijala on Thursday over alleged chemical pollution of farmland and water bodies from an ONGC drilling project.Local farmers and fish cultivators demanded compensation for losses attributed to contaminated water. Demonstrators ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Wednesday evening arrested Vivek Tripathi, a local BJP Youth Morcha functionary, in connection with a multi-lakh cheating and forgery case registered against him, according to ACP (crime) Kunal Agarwal.Tripathi, who was earlier accused of assaulting workers ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Meera Nandwani (50) was fast asleep in her first-floor flat when frantic knocks on her door jolted her awake.A neighbour told her a fire had broken out on the floor above. Still in her nightgown, Nandwani grabbed her ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ‘Rakhal Da’s cafe’ on the College Street campus of Calcutta University—a whiff of nostalgia—kicked off its second innings on Thursday. This time, it has been reopened not just to satiate the hunger pangs between lectures, but to support ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Abu Jafar (32), leaseholder of Shikha Inn on Free School Street, where nine people died in a fire early on Wednesday, was arrested from the Entally area by a special investigation team (SIT) late on Wednesday. The Bankshall ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 31-year-old youth, who has returned from Ludhiana, has complained that one of his kidneys was extracted without his consent at a hospital there. Mongal Mondal is admitted to Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Multispecialty Hospital (DBCRMH) in Salt ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The school education department has served a show-cause notice to the private school near Ruby Hospital where a class 3 student was bitten by a snake. The notice highlights serious lapses in handling the incident and questions why ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The two remaining bodies from Shikha Inn has been identified as those of S M Alimuzzaman (48) and Rebati Sarkar (35), both residents of Satkhira district in Bangladesh, who had come to India for medical check-up.According to officials ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 51-year-old patient who went missing from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital shortly after being admitted on Aug 6 was found dead 10 days later at the Kolkata Police morgue, triggering allegations of severe negligence and lack ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Florence Mansion at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street used to be a residential building with 24-25 flats, many of them occupied by Sindhis. Over the years, as residents sold off their properties amid the commercialisation of the neighbourhood, the ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: On World Mosquito Day, observed on Thursday, virologists and infectious diseases experts warned against mosquito-borne diseases. According to them, these diseases have claimed over 400 lives in the state in the last decade. Kolkata accounted for 20%-30% of ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Waves of violence and vandalism rocked Jadavpur University from late evening on Wednesday as right-wing supporters entered the campus and went on a rampage for nearly three hours past midnight and then did a repeat on Thursday afternoon ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after a fire at a Free School Street lodge killed nine boarders, including seven Bangladeshi nationals, Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Thursday raided several hotels and guest houses in the area and closed down 16 of them ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nehru Children’s Museum will resume its dance, painting and recitation classes at the ground floor, starting from Saturday after the state govt pledged support to upgrade fire safety. The museum had decided to shut its classes, keeping in ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The two grew up together in the narrow lanes of Dhaka’s Amin Bazaar Begun Bari, chasing cricket balls and talking about the future. Years later, Mohammad Sohail and Babu Ahmed (37) happened to be in Kolkata at the ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaPurbasthali (East Burdwan): A six-month-old infant who mysteriously vanished from a locked AC coach of the Kamrup Express while the train was on the move was found alive hours later lying between active railway tracks in East Burdwan.Rahul Kumar, ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday refused to quash proceedings against stone trader Tulu Mondal alias Md Nazibuddin in a case involving the seizure of gold bars and large amounts of cash from his brother-in-law’s house on July 29 and ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two people, including a woman, were injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Champahati on Thursday morning. Both suffered burns and were admitted to a local hospital. The blast destroyed the makeshift unit and ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: A woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed while another was severely injured in an attack near the Bengal-Bihar border on Wednesday afternoon.The two women, residents of Doulatnagar village under Harishchandrapur Police Station in Malda, had gone to collect ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of Hindu Jagran Manch on Thursday announced that North 24-Parganas zilla parishad’s “Titumir Sabhagriha” in Barasat will henceforth be known as “Syama Prasad Bhavan”, sparking a controversy. While conducting a meeting at the hall as part of ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata’Jalpaiguri: Bengal Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has arrested another man from the Dinhata module for his alleged link with ISI-sponsored FICN network. Pradipta Basu (35) was picked up from Delhi and brought to Cooch Behar on transit remand. ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaSuri: Kajal Sheikh on Thursday resigned as Birbhum zilla parishad sabhadhipati after failing to secure a majority in the 52-seat body, which currently comprises 50 active TMC members and one Congress member. All Birbhum Trinamool factions are aligned with ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The battle on the Jadavpur University (JU) campus on Thursday was fought on several fronts — including over a political emblem and the university’s own emblem, designed by one of the pioneers of modern Indian art — Nandalal ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have registered a case under stringent, non-bailable sections, including attempt to murder and the SC/ST Act, against 11 Jadavpur University students for allegedly assaulting fellow students. Cops confirmed that all accused are students and said those named ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaSabang/Arambag: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday made an aerial survey of flood-hit zones in Sabang and adjoining areas in West Midnapore and announced Rs 18 lakh compensation for two deaths and Rs 30,000 each for families of 3,200 damaged ...
21 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The fire that claimed the lives of nine people, including Bangladeshi nationals, at Shikha Inn on Free School Street (Mirza Ghalib Street) in the early hours of Wednesday has brought renewed scrutiny on fire-safety violations in the dense ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 60 restaurants from Bengal are attending the food delivery summit of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) in Ahmedabad that started on Aug 20, according to NRAI national president and founder of Wow! Momo, Sagar Daryani.The ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday extended the interim stay granted on demolition of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s Amtala office till Sept 18.The matter was taken up for hearing by Justice Suvra Ghosh. Senior advocate Kishore Datta submitted that while ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaChandernagore: Hooghly Rural District Police arrested Uttam Kundu, former chairperson of Tarakeswar municipality and current Arambagh organisational district president of the Ritabrata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress (TMC), from a hideout in Kolkata late Wednesday night.He was produced before ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police, civic agencies, and the state health department held discussions to streamline the implementation of three major central govt schemes aimed at improving emergency medical care for road accident victims and reducing traffic fatalities across the city.The ...
20 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: When smoke began filling their second-floor room at Shikha Inn on Mirza Ghalib Street, tourists Rizaul Islam and Sumaiya Akhtar knew that stepping out into the corridor could be a fatal mistake. With the passage outside their room ...
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