Kolkata: Sporadic clashes between protesters and police disrupted normalcy in parts of Bengal on Wednesday as 10 central trade unions and their allies observed Bharat Bandh. Police arrested 383 bandh supporters across Bengal, including 41 from Kolkata.A clash took ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 14-year-old boy, who was missing for 42 days after being tortured in a jeans manufacturing unit at Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas over an alleged theft of a mobile, returned home at Chogoria village in Islampur of ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The women's grievance cell of the detective department on Wednesday focused on reviewing the evidence it had collected since June 26 in the law college gang rape case. This review came a day after the Alipore court sent ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four sub-inspectors attached to New Alipore Police were suspended by Lalbazar on Wednesday evening after they were accused of vandalising nearly 30 trucks parked near the New Alipore railway siding in the N-block.The action followed within hours after ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A complaint of harassment and attempted molestation was reported from the Patuli area on EM Bypass where 16-year-old girl from Bansdroni and two of her friends alleged three men threatened and verbally abused them on the Pauli overbridge ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi, were labelled ‘Bangladeshi' and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26, two habeas corpus petitions filed in Calcutta ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Flyers from Kolkata will be the first among 100 cities in over 40 countries on the Etihad Airways network to witness in-flight high-speed WiFi facility across all classes. "The international flying experience will change from Sept 26 when ...
10 July 2025 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A violent clash erupted between two groups over a local cricket tournament in Siliguri's Bagracote on Wednesday. Local residents pelted stones at police and security personnel who were dispatched to the area. Security forces are working to ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Birbhum SP Amandeep on Tuesday moved Calcutta High Court, seeking quashing of NCW's direction to appear before it in Delhi on July 14 with the case diary on Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal's alleged verbal abuse of Bolpur police ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: From Tallah to Tollygunge, residents woke up on Tuesday morning and found it difficult to wade through waterlogged streets as overnight rain inundated several parts of Kolkata. Though the Met office in Alipore recorded 87.5 mm rain ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaAccording to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.July 9th ForecastKolkata residents face a rainy and humid day on July 9, 2025, with moderate rainfall expected throughout the day. The ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city witnessed 87.5mm rainfall between 8.30pm Monday and 8.30pm Tuesday, the highest 24-hour count of the season. Tuesday was also the wettest July day in four years. The rain dragged the maximum temperature down to 27.1°C, this ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Salt Lake FD block resident, Deepak Chowdhury, was arrested on Monday for allegedly duping a CA block resident of Rs 15.4 lakh under the pretext of investing in a fraudulent fixed deposit scheme of the Indian Post ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that the 2026 assembly elections will be a fight for Bengali Hindus and nationalist, educated sections of the Muslim community to retain their identity."This election is a fight to retain ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF), which spearheaded the RG Kar movement, has planned out programmes for Aug 8 and 9 to mark the one year of the rape and murder of their 31-year-old colleague. The organisation ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Heavy rain triggered by low pressure and a monsoon trough left different parts of south Kolkata, and some pockets adjacent to EM Bypass, inundated on Tuesday. Although traffic was otherwise smooth, due to few people venturing out, the ...
9 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Passengers headed to the airport faced difficulties in navigating waterlogged stretches on VIP Road near Kaikhali, Chinar Park and Haldirams on Tuesday. However, much to the relief of the passengers, there was no waterlogging on the airport ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Smartworks Coworking Spaces Limited, founded by city boy Neetish Sarda and co-founded by Harsh Binani, is likely to have a post-listing valuation of Rs 4,645 crore at the upper price band. The co-working space company, one of ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Though storm water started receding from most parts of south Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon, neighbourhoods in and around Jodhpur Park and areas along the Anwar Shah connector remained waterlogged until late evening. The KMC-run Jodhpur Park drainage pumping ...
9 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: Calling the Assam govt's NRC notice to a Cooch Behar Rajbanshi resident a "systematic assault on democracy", CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged opposition parties "to stand up against BJP's divisive and oppressive machinery.""I am shocked and ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: To accelerate Bengal's industrialisation, state govt would host a business and industrial conclave after the Pujas, Amit Mitra, principal chief economic adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, said on Tuesday.Mitra said the CM decided to host the conclave after ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police recovered the body of a 58-year-old man, Sanat Haldar, who had been missing since Monday, from the Anandapur canal on Tuesday. Haldar, a resident of Purba Rajapur, was last seen on Monday. A local alerted the police ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three persons were arrested for allegedly defrauding a job seeker by impersonating Eastern Railway (ER) officials and issuing fake appointment letters. The accused reportedly extorted Rs 35,000 from the victim on March 29, 2025, promising employment with the ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim have sought the permission from the Sealdah court for their lawyers to visit the place of occurrence. The court is likely to pass the order on Wednesday.The petitioners had earlier moved ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed all parties involved in the writ petition and contempt pleas filed by Tollywood members to participate in a meeting at Rabindra Sadan on July 16.Justice Amrita Sinha directed the information and ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will meet CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday at Nabanna. It will be the first meeting between the two CMs after the Pahalgam incident, where terrorists gunned down 26 people, including three ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The advocate general, in his submission to Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday denied BJP's allegation of discrimination between central and state forces on the Bengal assembly precincts.AG Kishore Datta pleaded that neither central nor state forces were allowed ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt has directed all its employees to report to work on Wednesday and ensure minimal disruption in every sector to counter a 24-hour nationwide strike, called by a coalition of 10 central trade unions.The strike on ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union minister and former Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar moved the high court on Tuesday, complaining that his movements were being restricted by the state police.Counsel for Majumdar cited at least three instances, one being the incident at ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: School Service Commission and Bengal govt on Tuesday moved a Calcutta High Court division bench, challenging a single judge's order to not allow candidates deemed "tainted" to participate in the fresh recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies. Other candidates ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The extension of the governing body of the law college in south Kolkata, where the rape incident occurred on June 25, has come under the scrutiny of Calcutta University's fact-finding committee. The committee found that the governing body, ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The vice principal of the law college where a second-year student was gang-raped by a temporary staff and two students said the incident was frightening and that had she been a parent of a girl, she would be ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The forensic reports of the law college gang rape have started arriving, with Kolkata Police stating that they are matching with their probe and sequence of events shared by the survivor. Cops are now further building conclusive ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Susanta Acharya, a retired central govt officer, and his wife, residents of Belghoria's Shitolatola Street, were manipulated by scammers posing as CBI officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officals over a spam of more than two ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A Re-1 UPI payment led to a loss of Rs 5 lakh for a resident of Chandpurpally near Kolkata airport a few months back. Probing into the case, police arrested a 21-year-old fraudster from Kalyani in North ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An attempt to lodge a complaint and seek a refund for food worth Rs 152 over an online food delivery platform led to a loss of Rs 1.7 lakh for a Salt Lake resident after he ended up ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A 40-year-old man died at Medical College Hospital hours after being involved in a heated altercation with the tenants of the same building in the Bowbazar areaon Tuesday.The deceased, Md Ezhar Ahmed, was a resident of Gopal ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 61-year-old French tourist fell victim to a well-orchestrated theft near the Indian Museum when a group of gypsies allegedly stole his passport and 2,500 Euros — worth Rs 2.5 lakh — on Monday afternoon. The victim, Thierry ...
9 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Tension erupted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday midnight after the death of a youth from Dakshindari. The family alleged that no medical care was given to Gopal Banik, who was rushed there after ...
9 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 26-year-old man from Picnic Garden, admitted to a hospital off EM Bypass, was diagnosed as suffering from cholera. While this diarrhoeal disease is common during the monsoon, sources said this is the first known case of cholera ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ninety-eight films, exploring diverse subjects, such as AI, the desire for hilsa in a patriarchal household and Kolkata's music shop, are vying for the top awards at the 8th South Asian Short Film Festival that started at Nandan ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As the Kolkata law college reopened under heavy police security on Monday, the survivor of the June 25 gang rape continued to live in fear — haunted not only by the trauma of the assault but also by ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12345 I have served this college for the past 30 years. And, this is the saddest phase in my career that has come just six months before my retirement. During my tenure, I have performed my duties sincerely, and ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside the West Bengal Medical Council's order, suspending former MP Santanu Sen's registration as a medical practitioner for two years from July 4, 2025, for his "infamous conduct". But the court ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first aircraft with a four-class configuration in its cabin is scheduled to touch down in Kolkata at 7.15 pm on July 18. Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, which currently operates a three-class configuration in the Boeing B 777 aircraft ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian team's victory at Edgbaston on Sunday fuelled a rush among Kolkata travellers in England and city cricket fans to catch the Lord's Test from July 10. Travel agents say they have been receiving calls for a ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bengal govt is pulling out all the stops to foil the general strike called by 10 central trade unions and their affiliates on July 9 against Centre's "anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-national pro-corporate policies".In a notification issued by ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: Trinamool Congress on Monday expelled Baby Kole for assaulting and publicly humiliating an elderly Left activist last week. Anil Das was thrashed on the street, had paint smeared on him and hit with shoes.After attending a rally in ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 2015 murders of a septuagenarian couple, both retired professors, in their Chitpur home by a 35-year-old whom they knew and trusted was "a complete betrayal of social values and trust", a Sealdah judge said while sending their ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 16-year-old student from south Kolkata was found dead in his home, with cops suspecting he might have died by suicide. The parents of the class 10 student of an English-medium school found him hanging at their Kalighat ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: An incident of stalking and harassment was reported from a south Kolkata cafe that the complainant was visiting. The cafe administration was alerted after she called for help after coming face to face with her stalker, and they ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police, lifesavers and security guards will keep a watch on the public pool at Rabindra Sarobar during the swimming hours, said KMDA officials after finalising the SOP for using the water body. The public swimming pool at the ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state task force on fire safety will increase the ambit of the audit that it had proposed for markets and rooftop restaurants to include all commercial buildings, shopping malls, hospitals and schools. The decision was taken at ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The detective department probing the June 25 gang rape at the law college has uncovered discrepancies in the attendance register, leading to questions about the presence of certain college administrators, including the vice-principal, and students at the time ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rahul Banerjee missed out on winning an Olympic medal but now as the coach of the Indian women's recurve side he gets a second chance to fulfil a cherished dream. The former India archer will take the first ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The survivor of the June 25 college gang rape remains traumatised and "extremely scared" of the main perpetrator of the crime even as the campus where it occurred tries to get back to a semblance of normalcy.The survivor's ...
8 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Cooch Behar resident Uttam Kumar Brajabashi, who received an NRC notice from the Assam govt asking him to prove his Indian citizenship by July 15 or face deportation, produced documents on Monday which showed that his parents, ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: On the first day of the week following the high court order, the union rooms in city colleges remained locked and those who spent time there were either subdued or absent. However, principals and teachers are sceptical ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mobile phone purchased as a gift from a central Kolkata store by a Salt Lake-based advocate, hailing from Sakharipara in Muchipara, for his wife has become a major headache for the couple. The mobile is now at ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKharagpur: A couple was found dead in a railway quarter in Kharagpur on Monday. Police discovered that their three-year-old daughter, who was unharmed, was sleeping beside her mother's body. The bodies of Deepa Mahat, 26, and her husband Vikram ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Senior counsel Jayanta Mitra, representing para teachers who received appointments under the primary teacher recruitment procedure in 2016, submitted before Calcutta high court on Monday that Justice Abhijit Ganguly was not informed of the amended recruitment rules for ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: On Monday, the law college finally reopened after the campus rape came to light, with only teachers and staff reporting for duty. While students — barring the 26 who couldn't fill up their exam forms — were ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: After a gloomy sky and intermittent rain on the first day of the week, the Met office has predicted similar weather for Kolkata on Tuesday. Some pockets in the city, mostly in south Kolkata, were lashed by ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: Souvik Ray, the state vice-president of TMCP and an alumnus of Narasingha Dutta College in central Howrah, has been accused of ragging. Local MLA and minister Arup Roy said that the police will probe the matter and ensure ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two rallies will take to the streets of Bengal on Aug 9 to mark one year since the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital campus. Abhaya Mancha, a ...
8 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Two operatives of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were on Monday convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years of rigorous imprisonment by a city sessions court for planning blasts in Bodh Gaya in 2018.Ahmad Ali and Mohammad ...
8 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 34-year-old woman was found dead in an alley opposite her house in Maheshtala on Sunday. Shilpi Bibi, a nurse, was reportedly alone at home on Saturday night. Her daughter went to a local fair with her aunt, ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The transport department is streamlining the permit process to ensure smoother public transport services. The move comes in response to legal challenges and operational delays arising from the current permit system and aims to improve the overall efficiency ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shahanawaz, a transgender (TG) woman, was taken to SSKM Hospital with acute abdominal pain caused by appendicitis. The Alipore resident alleged that even while she was in extreme pain, doctors at the emergency department kept whispering to each ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata residents face moderate rainfall on July 7, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 30.1°C and 26.8°C and humidity at 82%.The city experiences a 97% chance of precipitation throughout the day, with reduced visibility of 9.6 kilometers and wind speeds ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaNational Library of India in Kolkata is hosting a month-long exhibition honoring Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee KOLKATA: The National Library of India (NLI) is holding a month-long exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: South Calcutta Law College reopened on Monday under heavy security, more than a week after a first-year student was gang-raped on campus by three men linked to the TMC’s students’ wing. The reopening follows a green signal ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The city remained cloudy with occasional drizzles on Sunday, even as the Met office predicted more showers over the next two days under the impact of a low-pressure area that formed early on Sunday. Coupled with the ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the state heading for polls in 2026, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday called for "greater unity" among the opposition to "save West Bengal" and "Bengali asmita". Speaking at an event to celebrate the birth anniversary ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra on Saturday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, urging the scrapping of the Election Commission move. The EC order violated ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: A drunken brawl among friends, followed by the intervention of the father of one of them, led to the death of a 24-year-old youth by assault in Behala Sakherbazar on Sunday. Bapi Adhikari, a resident of Behala, ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: One of the oldest hotel management institutes under the Union Ministry of Tourism, Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata, secured a patent for their "sugar-free charcoal sandesh using stevia" made out of edible charcoal, stevia and chhenna. The institute ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 47-year-old man from Narendrapur, known locally as a Trinamool Congress worker, was murdered and his body was dumped a kilometre from his home on Saturday night. The killers had covered the body in a bedsheet, put a ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Around 1,700 people were duped of an estimated Rs 15 crore after investing in a dud electric scooter investment scheme for two years. Cops have arrested three men, including the mastermind behind the inter-district financial fraud. On ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A couple was allegedly assaulted by a group of drunk men outside a bar in Salt Lake's EP Block early on Sunday. The incident occurred between 1.30 am and 2 am, when the duo came out of the ...
7 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Bengal govt assured help to a Cooch Behar resident who received an NRC notice from Assam govt in Jan, accusing him of having entered India illegally from Bangladesh.The assurance came after Uttam Kumar Brajabashi (50) reached out ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: While the city experienced its first tryst with it 170 years ago, Kolkata's love affair with biryani has taken off and blossomed post-pandemic, with the volume of orders across restaurants and online trebling since 2022. Even as ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A homemaker, Priyanka Nath (28), was found lying in a pool of blood with both wrists slashed, in a room locked from the outside at her residence in Sodepur's Azad Hind Nagar on Sunday morning. Her husband Sukanta ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Thai Lion Air flight stranded in Kolkata with a technical snag since the early hours of Saturday finally took off 28 hours behind schedule on Sunday morning. Of the 130 passengers booked to travel on Saturday, 96 ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The lack of allocated funds for safety-security enhancement has emerged as a major concern among college principals. Installing CCTVs and hiring private security personnel pose significant financial challenges to several state-aided colleges, said principals, prompting them to ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops probing the law college gang-rape case, say they have enough evidence for a watertight case, even as they plan to appeal for three more days of police custody for all four accused to strengthen the case when ...
7 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Enakhi Singh, a resident of Alipore, returned home on Saturday after being stuck in Iran for seven days following the outbreak of war. Singh and her husband, who were in Iran on a month-long business trip, were ...
7 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: A day before the law college, where a student was gang-raped on June 25, reopens, vice principal Nayna Chatterji held a virtual meeting on Sunday with the teachers and non-teaching staff to remind them about safety and ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Auto rickshaw operators at Ultadanga experienced a different Sunday morning as the Ultadanga Traffic Guard conducted a sensitisation drive. The drive highlighted various safety parameters and good behaviour that operators should follow.The highlight, however, was the police ...
7 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The parents of RG Kar rape-murder victim appealed to everyone recently to walk in a protest march to Nabanna on Aug 9. They said this when Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari, who has already announced the Aug 9 ...
7 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Residents in large parts of Bowbazar and its adjacent neighbourhoods may face waterlogging in the months to come, as the century-old brick sewer line running under BB Ganguly Street is severely damaged and urgently needs refurbishment. According ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The campus rape survivor is in two minds over writing her semester examination that starts on July 16. People in touch with the family said that she was in no mental state to do so. However, the ...
7 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Despite the absence of an elected student union, many colleges continue to collect mandatory union fees from students, raising questions about justification for these charges and how the collected funds are being utilised during periods without active ...
6 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata's 'mini Bangladesh' restaurants are adapting to a decline in Bangladeshi tourists KOLKATA: Political upheaval in Bangladesh has cooked up a revolution in the kitchens of the city’s ‘mini Bangladesh’. These restaurants, which used to specialise in ‘opaar Bangla’ ...
6 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata airport KOLKATA: Visitors flying into Kolkata from abroad are facing significant connectivity issues upon landing at the airport, with no Wi-Fi service available since Nov last year. And, with no SIM card retail outlet in the arrival ...
6 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata/Digha: Thousands of tourists and devotees attended the inaugural Ulto Rath Yatra at Digha Jagannath Dham on Saturday, marking the conclusion of the week-long festivities. Although the rush was less than what was witnessed during Rath, the enthusiasm ...
6 July 2025 Times of IndiaRepresentative Image KOLKATA: An increasing number of Kolkatans are seeking out professional mental health support over ways to deal with the fallout of digital arrest. This includes both people who have been digitally defrauded, as also those who feel ...
6 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata Airport (File Image) KOLKATA: Visitors flying into Kolkata from abroad are facing significant connectivity issues upon landing at the airport, with no Wi-Fi service available since Nov last year. And, with no SIM card retail outlet in the ...
6 July 2025 Times of IndiaThis action follows inconsistencies in statements and the collection of evidence, including a drug store bill and CCTV footage confirming an accused's purchase of an inhaler for the survivor. KOLKATA: Detective department officers probing the law college gang rape ...
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