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  • FIR against Anubrata over 2021 post-poll brick kiln loot

    Bolpur: An FIR was registered against Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal on Saturday for allegedly orchestrating an attack at a brick kiln owned by a BJP supporter in Bolpur's Kankalitala during the post-poll violence of 2021.The complainant, Subhendu Mondal, has ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Missing Sikkim family of 4 found dead in Teesta

    Darjeeling: The bodies of four residents of Lingdok in East Sikkim, who had been missing since Friday, were recovered from an SUV pulled out of the Teesta River near Coronation Bridge at Sevoke on Sunday morning, reports Roshan Gupta.The ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    CM rings up ailing Left neta at hosp

    Siliguri: Veteran Left neta Ashok Bhattacharya, in hospital after he suffered a head injury in a fall at his home, was met by minister Shankar Ghosh on Sunday. Ghosh, directed by CM Suvendu Adhikari to meet Bhattacharya, inquired about ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC tries to hold MP flock together amid buzz of split

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief and former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee travelled to Delhi on Sunday, a day before the INDIA bloc meeting, as the party scrambled to prevent the rebellion that shattered its legislature wing in the Bengal assembly ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    5 rebel TMC Birbhum MLAs get security upgrades

    Bolpur/Kolkata: Bengal govt on Sunday upgraded security of five Trinamool MLAs, all of whom are part of the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel camp of 58 MLAs.The five are Chandranath Sinha (Bolpur), Rajendra Prasad Singh (Nalhati), Mosaraf Hossain (Murarai), Bidhan Chandra ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    4,800 ‘illegals’ pushed to Bangladesh, 836 housed at holding centres: Suvendu

    Kolkata: Around 4,800 people have been pushed to Bangladesh and another 836 people are in holding centers, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Sunday at a BJP programme. Saying that border security and illegal infiltrators were some of the biggest ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    5 rebel TMC Birbhum MLAs get security upgrades

    Bolpur/Kolkata: Bengal govt on Sunday upgraded security of five Trinamool MLAs, all of whom are part of the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel camp of 58 MLAs.The five are Chandranath Sinha (Bolpur), Rajendra Prasad Singh (Nalhati), Mosaraf Hossain (Murarai), Bidhan Chandra ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    3 Bengal pilgrims among 5 rescued from ravine

    Dehradun: Five people, including three pilgrims from Bengal miraculously survived after the SUV they were travelling in fell 200 ft into a deep ravine at Tilwara, a popular transit hub in Uttarakhand, while returning from the Kedarnath temple.The SDRF ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Bolstering N Bengal links, state govt plans ‘Himalayan Hill City’

    Siliguri: North Bengal is set for a major development push, with state govt announcing plans to create a ‘Himalayan Hill City' by bolstering the links between Siliguri and the towns of Darjeeling, Kurseong, Kalimpong and Mirik. There will be ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    ‘Nobody listens to Didi’: BJP MLA Shankar Sikdar on Mamata Banerjee losing grip on party

    KOLKATA: BJP MLA Shankar Sikdar claimed on Sunday that the Trinamool Congress is "collapsing" and that former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is losing her grip on the party, according to news agency ANI.Speaking to the media, Sikdar ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Bengal govt to review bicycle ban on 70 Kol roads

    Kolkata: In a major policy shift, the Bengal government is to conduct a detailed review of the long-standing bicycle ban on 70 major roads in Kolkata. Introduced by a previous regime, the restrictions had faced intense criticism for turning ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Focus on monsoon: BMC administrator charts out plans for Salt Lake

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic board has been dissolved with the commissioner being appointed as the administrator of the civic body. The authorities are now working round-the-clock to ensure uninterrupted civic services with primary focus on the ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Cops paste summons notice on Aroop house, ask him to appear today

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Police on Sunday escalated pressure on senior Trinamool neta and former Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas in connection with the probe into the controversy surrounding Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour at Salt Lake stadium on Dec ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Citizens & state unite to restore historic Adi Ganga

    Kolkata: A massive citizen-led cleanup at the historic Sadar Ghat catalyzed a major political commitment to revive the Adi Ganga, Kolkata’s ancient and long-neglected waterway. Decades of industrial and municipal neglect had turned the once-thriving trade route into an ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Bombs explode near house of Howrah’s former mayor

    Howrah: Miscreants hurled bombs one after another outside the residence of Howrah’s former and last mayor and senior BJP neta Rathin Chakraborty after he protested against the illegal filling and promotion of a very old pond near his home ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC neta in net after dramatic escape bid in Bihar

    Howrah: A Trinamool neta from Howrah climbed up a coconut tree and then jumped into a pond to escape the police in Madhubani, Bihar. According to sources in the detective department of Howrah City Police and Howrah Rural Police, ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Kitchen on fire after fresh rise in domestic LPG price

    Kolkata: Middle-class households across Kolkata woke up to a cold shock this Sunday, June 7, as domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices surged by Rs 29, bringing the cost of a 14.2 kg cylinder to Rs 968.The hike comes ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Trinamool Congress councillor Mohammad Jasimuddin arrested for molesting minor

    KOLKATA: The Bengal Police on Sunday arrested Mohammad Jasimuddin, a Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on charges of molestation and harassment of a minor girl.Jasimuddin, a councillor from Ward No. 39 in the Jorasanko area ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Vidyasagar Setu closed for 16 hours on Sunday

    Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu was kept closed for 16 hours on Sunday for the ongoing repair and rehabilitation work of the bridge, including replacement of stay and holding cables and bearings. Work is being undertaken in phases by the Hooghly ...

    8 June 2026 Times of India
    Two arrested for torching BJP worker’s cyber cafe in Bagnan

    Bagnan: Two people were arrested on Saturday after a group of miscreants burnt down a local BJP worker's cyber cafe in the Nuntia Crossing area under the Bagnan police station. Following the arson, locals, including Howrah BJP secretary and ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Cannot skip govt duty for Annapurna tasks: State to staffers

    Kolkata: The govt has withdrawn the “on-duty” status of state officials assigned to Annapurna Yojana work. This means, booth-level officers (BLOs), Anganwadi workers and other state officials, who are tasked to process and verify appeals by beneficiaries of the ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Friends, colleagues remember Anik Dutta through films & music

    There was a quiet sense of grief at Nandan on June 6 as a retrospective of filmmaker Anik Dutta opened with a screening of Aparajito—the film that brought him widespread acclaim, numerous awards, and renewed recognition as one of ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Extortion and forgery case: Ex-TMC MLA Sujoy Hazra taken into custody; residents hurl eggs at vehicle carrying him

    KOLKATA: Former TMC MLA Sujoy Hazra was taken into custody on Sunday over allegations of extortion and forgery.Residents reportedly hurled eggs at a police vehicle carrying TMC leader Sujoy Hazra, alleging that he had taken money for housing construction ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Trinamool College Street councillor joins Patuli representative in prison

    Dwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Yet another Trinamool Congress councillor, Mohammad Jasimuddin (54), representing ward 39, was arrested on Sunday morning by Kolkata Police from his College Street residence.He joined his colleague, Trinamool Patuli councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta, in police custody in a gap ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Abhishek aide arrested

    Kailash Misra, an alleged aide of Abhishek Banerjee, was arrested by Howrah City Police from Madhubani in Bihar, said DC (North) Amlan Kusum Ghosh. The Bally candidate was booked for extortion, assault and issuing threats.Misra was the president of ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Why did TMC seniors fail to rein in Swarup Biswas?

    KOLKATA: Swarup Biswas’s arrest has exposed a long-standing culture of bullying in the Bengali film industry. As state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya pointed out—a sentiment widely shared across Tollywood—complaints had quietly piled up for years, but the previous government's ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    State dissolves BMC board, appoints admin; KMC likely to follow

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic board was dissolved on Saturday and municipal commissioner Ravi Agarwal took charge as the administrator. There are indications that Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will also get an administrator next week to run ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    City vets’ gene research on blood parasite disease makes it to global science database

    Kolkata: Two veterinary doctors from the city have made an international breakthrough in the field of veterinary molecular diagnostics and pathogen research, as National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), USA, has accepted their gene sequencing research for treatment of ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Amid buzz of TMC's Lok Sabha unit split, Abhishek Banerjee rushes to Delhi

    KOLKATA: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee flew to Delhi on Saturday, a day ahead of schedule, amid indications that rebel party MPs may make their first move early next week. The dissidents reportedly plan to write to Speaker ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Watch: Eggs hurled at TMC MLA Madan Mitra's vehicle amid protest in Kamarhati

    KOLKATA: Residents in Ariadaha allegedly hurled eggs at a vehicle linked to senior Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra's vehicle on Saturday night, the latest in a string of protest actions that have increasingly targeted TMC leaders from the party’s ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    ISL clubs look for breakthrough in Delhi meeting

    Kolkata: The ISL clubs are preparing to meet with Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya in New Delhi, desperately searching for some clarity about Indian football's roadmap.In a communication to the clubs, Mandaviya has invited them for a meeting at ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Patuli councillor in cop net on extortion charge

    Kolkata: Bappaditya Dasgupta, KMC councillor from the Patuli area, was arrested on Saturday night on the charges of extortion, criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation.Dasgupta is the sixth KMC councillor to be arrested in the past 13 days.In the evening, ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    KMC to hold rain-ready meeting tomorrow

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has convened a series of meetings to take stock of the civic body’s preparedness for the rainy season.MLAs of Cossipore-Belgachhia, Jorasanko, Beleghata and Chowringhee and councillors from 59 wards (1 to 59) have been ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    ‘Appeasement era over’: CM vows investment, nat’l security focus

    Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday declared the era of "goonda raj" and appeasement over, promised to attract investment and jobs for educated youth, and said national security would now be the state's top priority.Speaking at a programme in ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    CM meets Amul brass as dairy co plans Bengal expansion

    Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday met Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) managing director Jayen Mehta, and Amit Vyas, the head of Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union, also known as Amul Dairy, at the state secretariat.In a ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    CM orders reopening of 2019 CAA protest cases

    Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari has ordered the reopening of all cases related to the 2019 CAA protests across Bengal's railway network and directed that financial compensation be extracted directly from those responsible for the damage.The directive came during a ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    10 Bangladeshis turn up at holding centre to return home

    Jalpaiguri: Ten Bangladeshi nationals turned up voluntarily at a holding centre at Changrabandha in Cooch Behar's Mekhliganj on Saturday, requesting the authorities to deport them to their homeland.Sources said these individuals had entered India illegally almost a decade ago ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Saokat sent to NIA custody for 14 days, protesters throw eggs, fish at ex-MLA

    Kolkata: Former Trinamool MLA Saokat Molla was remanded in NIA custody for 14 days on Saturday, a day after he was arrested from Kamalgazi in connection with a pre-poll blast case in Bhangar that claimed one life.Molla was produced ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Border standoff ends, BSF sends stranded ‘illegals’ to Bangladesh

    Jalpaiguri: A high-stakes standoff between BSF and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at four points along the India-Bangladesh border in Bengal ended abruptly overnight, with all 40-odd Bangladeshi nationals who had been stranded at zero points since Friday disappearing by ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Two held for torching BJP worker’s cyber cafe in Bagnan, cops scan CCTV footage

    Bagnan: Two people were arrested on Saturday after a group of miscreants burnt down a local BJP worker's cyber cafe in the Nuntia Crossing area under the Bagnan police station. Following the arson, locals, including Howrah BJP secretary and ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Suvendu meets L&T CMD, says talks productive

    Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari met S N Subrahmanyam, chairman and managing director of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), at Kolkata airport on Saturday.The meeting, coming days after Adhikari held talks with Adani Ports MD Karan Adani, assumes significance in the ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Bengal begins review of all state madrasas, seeks reports by July 5

    Kolkata: The Suvendu Adhikari-led Bengal govt has started a review of all madrasas in the state and dire- cted DMs to send compre-hensive repo- rts on institutions in their respective districts to state secretariat Nabanna by July 5.The West ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    91 B’deshi fishers repatriated after 5 mths in custody

    Ninety-one Bangladeshi fishermen were repatriated on Saturday along with four fishing trawlers that had been detained for allegedly crossing into Indian territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal, reports Monotosh Chakraborty. The fishermen were apprehended between Dec and Feb ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC minority cell secretary Ajmal Siddiqui resigns, says party is collapsing because of Abhishek Banerjee

    KOLKATA: TMC State Minority Cell Secretary Ajmal Siddiqui has resigned from his post on Saturday and launched a sharp attack on the party’s leadership, citing dissatisfaction with its functioning.Ajmal told ANI after his resignation that he had recently returned ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Temp rises, cloud cover likely to stay for 3-4 days

    Kolkata: The city woke up to a grey sky and a spell of showers that was heavier in the northern and eastern parts of the city than the south, that received a steady drizzle for more than an hour ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Med student drowns in Hooghly

    Kolkata: A third-year MBBS student of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital drowned in the Hooghly during while bathing at Golabari Ghat in north Kolkata early on Saturday morning.The deceased, identified as Soham Basak, 23, a resident of Pranab Nagar ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Piped gas inches closer to Kolkata

    Kolkata: After the change in govt in the state, Bengal Gas Co Ltd (BGCL) has obtained necessary approvals from the administration to lay pipelines in Chandannagar and along a one-kilometre stretch near Kolkata airport, which had remained pending for ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    JU probe finds placement data discrepancies

    Kolkata: The enquiry committee probing the issues and allegations related to the office of the placement and training at Jadavpur University submitted their interim report to the vice-chancellor urging the authorities to take steps so that the glory and ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Brain tumour : Early diagnosis rises 40% in eastern India, saves lives

    Kolkata: Advances in awareness and care have raised early brain tumour detection by 30%-40%, even as delayed referrals and MRI access continue to affect outcomes in aggressive cases like glioblastoma, according to a report by neurologists from Bengal and ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    IIEST stumbles upon WW II aircraft cam, Benioff seismograph, bench vise

    Kolkata: Almost a century-old bench vise, an aircraft camera used in the Second World War, a wooden model of Piston assembly, an original Benioff horizontal seismograph and other rare historical artefacts were recovered from the junk, restored and displayed ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Thrash-strip video of Dum Dum Trinamool councillor goes viral

    Kolkata: A mob on Friday stormed the house of North Dum Dum Trinamool Congress councillor Shankar Das and severely assaulted him, leaving him seriously injured. A video that quickly went viral purportedly shows a ‘kangaroo court’ stripping and beating ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Trinamool-run BMC board dissolved, Ravi Agarwal appointed as administrator; Kolkata civic body likely to follow

    KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic board was dissolved on Saturday and municipal commissioner Ravi Agarwal took charge as the administrator. There are indications that Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will also get an administrator next week to run ...

    7 June 2026 Times of India
    Calcutta High Court grants bail to two in Rs 50 crore crypto case

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to two of the three accused in a cryptocurrency case involving transactions worth more than Rs 50 crore and links with China.Justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) granted bail to Sourav Kar and ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC’s LS unit stares at split: Facing desertion by MPs, Mamata Banerjee clips Abhishek’s wings; what we know

    KOLKATA: After a split in its state legislative wing, Trinamool’s parliamentary party is also headed for a split, with several MPs already in New Delhi or expected to reach there by next week.Anticipating the development during a party National ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Councillor Susanta, named in extortion case, dodges cops, driver held

    Kolkata: KMC councillor Susanta Ghosh, named in an extortion case, was spotted on the Bengal-Odisha border on Friday but he, along with his family, reportedly fled, leaving his car behind, before police could reach him. His driver was, however, ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Signal snag hits Blue Line ops for 20 mins

    Kolkata: North-South Metro (Blue Line) services were disrupted for 20 minutes on Friday because of a technical issue in the signals at the Shahid Khudiram station. Officials said the heavy rain in the morning may have been the reason ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    West Bengal CM Suvendu in Delhi to ‘discuss portfolios’

    KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari made an unscheduled trip to Delhi on Friday and met BJP’s central leadership, the trip coming close on the heels of the state cabinet expansion.Sources said Adhikari met BJP president Nitin Nabin and ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC defection hands Congress civic body

    JALPAIGURI: Trinamool lost control of Mekhliganj municipality in Cooch Behar after its chairman, who defected to Congress on Friday, said six councillors would follow him into Congress. This will be the first civic body to be managed by Congress ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Jadavpur University campus residents urge registrar to take dog-control measures

    Kolkata: A letter, signed by 607 Jadavpur University campus residents, including teachers, non-teaching staff, and scholars, submitted a letter to the JU registrar, demanding that measures be taken to control the dog population on campus amid an alarming rise ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Visva-Bharati tries to rein in profs, faculty calls move demeaning

    Kolkata: Visva-Bharati issued a notification stating that no employee — teaching and non-teaching — shall leave office premises during working hours without obtaining prior permission from the heads of the departments and centres. The notification prompted the teachers to ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Rabindra Bharati University VC resigns

    Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University’s (RBU) vice-chancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee resigned on Friday.She sent her resignation letter to Lok Bhavan. However, she could not be reached for comment on her decision.Sources close to her at the university said she cited ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Salt Lake councillor’s Duttabad home burgled

    Kolkata: The house of a Trinamool councillor in Salt Lake, Alo Dutta, who reportedly went into hiding, fearing post-poll violence, was burgled earlier this week, prompting her to return and lodge a complaint on Thursday.Police said Dutta, councillor of ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Repair work: Setu to be shut for 16 hours on Sun

    Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu will be closed for 16 hours from 5 am to 9 pm on Sunday to facilitate the repair and rehabilitation work of the bridge, including replacement of stay and holding cables and bearings.Work is being undertaken ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Court sends Swarup to cop custody till June 18, complainant says she was barred from work after she denied sexual demands

    Kolkata: The Alipore court on Friday remanded Trinamool functionary Swarup Biswas, also brother of former state sports minister Aroop Biswas, in police custody till June 18 following his arrest on Thursday on multiple charges, including attempt to murder, sexual ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Signgate: HC to hear Abhishek plea on CID call on June 10

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court is scheduled to hear Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee's petition challenging a CID summons and seeking protection from coercive action in a signature forgery case on June 10.The matter was listed before the single bench of ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    E Midnapore ZP prez quits, NIA nets TMC office-bearer

    Kolkata: East Midnapore zilla parishad president Uttam Barik resigned on Friday, coinciding with the arrest of a Trinamool zilla parishad office-bearer by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with election-related violence.Barik travelled to Midnapore and submitted his resignation ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Protesters hurl cow dung, rotten eggs at TMC MLA’s home

    Howrah: Around 400 people, many of them women, gathered on Friday outside Bagnan MLA Arunava Sen's home, accusing the Trinamool neta of using his influence to terrorise residents who resisted selling land cheaply along National Highway 16 and other ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Mekhliganj 1st TMC civic body to change to Congress colours

    Jalpaiguri: Trinamool lost control of Mekhliganj municipality in Cooch Behar after its chairman, who defected to Congress on Friday, said six councillors would follow him into Congress. This will be the first civic body to be managed by Congress ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    2 arrested for setting up cam near airbase

    Panagarh: Two persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly installing a CCTV camera near the boundary of an airbase in West Burdwan's Panagarh. The arrested duo have been identified as Munna Pandit, a garage owner, and Sandip Dubey, a ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Kabir offers Rejinagar assembly seat to Didi

    Kolkata: Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief and Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir offered to vacate the Rejinagar Assembly seat for former CM Mamata Banerjee.Kabir, who won both Nowda and Rejinagar seats after being suspended from Trinamool, stated that Banerjee ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Bhangar blast case: NIA arrests ex-MLA Saokat Molla from Kamalgazi

    Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday night arrested former Trinamool MLA Saokat Molla in connection with the Bhangar blast case.Molla who was on the run for the past 48 hours was picked up from a Kamalgazi hideout, ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC to move Calcutta high court against Ritabrata Banerjee's recognition as LoP

    KOLKATA: Escalating its battle against the rebel faction, the TMC will approach the Calcutta high court against assembly speaker Rathindra Bose's decision to recognise Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the opposition.The party has termed the Speaker's move illegal ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Morning rain & thunderstorm bring max temp down by over 5 degrees

    Kolkata: An intense rain spell along with lightning, thunder and gusty wind pushed the mercury down to its lowest in more than three weeks in Kolkata. The maximum temperature dipped to 32.1 degrees Celsius from 36.8 a day ago ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata Youth’s Organ Donation at Apollo Saves Three Lives

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old brain dead youth’s organs are set to save at least three lives struggling organ failure and show the light to another battling blindness. The liver and kidneys of the Sukumar Sarkar were transplanted into three patients ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Power demand hits record peak, triggers nighttime outages in Tollygunge-Garia belt

    Kolkata: Several neighbourhoods in the Tollygunge-Garia belt experienced power cuts between midnight and 3 am on Friday as circuits in CESC distribution boxes tripped following a sharp surge in load. The utility said its demand hit a record peak, ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC chairman, 5 councillors join Congress; party loses control of municipality

    KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) faced another political setback on Friday after the chairman of Mekhliganj Municipality in Cooch Behar district, along with five councillors, resigned from the party and joined the Congress, shifting control of the civic body ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    KP, KMC raze 200 Illegal structures on riverfront, push-back drive held on S N Banerjee pavements

    Kolkata: A joint team of Kolkata Police and KMC carried out an anti-encroachment drive—apparently among the largest in recent times—near Armenian Ghat, on parts of Strand Road and on the approach road to the Mullickghat flower market on Wednesday ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    IndiGo set to cut intl flights from city, Malaysia Airlines to reduce frequency

    Kolkata: IndiGo Airlines will cancel flights from Kolkata to Singapore, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Siam Reap from July 1 and reduce frequency to Phuket, majorly impacting the city’s international flight connectivity.IndiGo is also slashing domestic flights, cutting ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    ‘Talk to Mayor’ Firhad leaves after 8 yrs of pushing ahead on water supply, flood control, garbage fronts

    Kolkata: Firhad Hakim took up charge as mayor in 2018 amid a severe water crisis in several parts of the city, particularly in the Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt and parts of Behala and neighbourhoods off EM Bypass.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation in ...

    6 June 2026 Times of India
    Govt eyes 1.8 cr student force in Bengal for state-wide plantation drive

    Kolkata: The state is set to roll out ‘Ekti Gaachh Maa-er Naam-e’ drive across Bengal on Friday, World Environment Day, with a target of planting 1.1 crore saplings by March 2027. The project is in alignment with the PM’s ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    IISER Kolkata hosts symposium on eco-friendly and inclusive AI

    KOLKATA: Commemorating World Environment Day, the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata and GreenAI Services Private Limited jointly designed and delivered a pivotal symposium on Friday. The landmark event gathered top technologists, academicians, and industry leaders ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    At 125 ft, tallest Syama Prasad statue to come up in Kol

    Kolkata: A 125-ft-tall statue of Syama Prasad Mookerjee would be erected in the city to honour the legacy of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder in his 125th birth anniversary year, announced minister Agnimitra Paul. The statue may come up ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Govt warning to teachers running pvt coachings

    Kolkata: The state school education department on Thursday reiterated that in-service teachers are not permitted to engage in private coaching and warned of action against violators.The order, issued with reference to Section 28 of the RTE Act, 2009, and ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Amid ‘cold feet’ buzz, only 32 TMC rebels turn up for meeting; 16 demand Mamata Banerjee be named ‘chairperson’, not ‘chief adviser’

    KOLKATA: TMC’s post-split turmoil played out Thursday along divergent tracks, with several Lok Sabha MPs receiving feelers to dump the Mamata Banerjee -Abhishek Banerjee duo amid signs that some among the 58 MLAs of the breakaway group may have ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC man named in FIR arrested in Surendranath College cash, arms case

    Kolkata: Cops on Thursday arrested Paritosh Dutta in connection with the alleged irregularities and recovery of cash and arms at Surendranath College. Dutta had been named in the FIR. The Trinamool functionary and college vendor was arrested from Burdwan.Dutta ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Nine days after Anik’s death, director’s ‘Aparajito’ set to be screened at Nandan

    Kolkata: Anik Dutta’s Satyajit Ray centenary tribute, “Aparajito”, will begin screening at Nandan this Friday in honour of the recently deceased director. Despite a written recommendation from the Nandan film selection committee, the movie was originally blocked from the ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    ER Sealdah division traffic & power blocks this weekend

    Kolkata: Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division will impose two major traffic and power blocks over this weekend for infrastructure upgrades and safety maintenance. Suburban services in Sealdah North and South sections will be regulated because of this.The first is a ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Roadblocks to livelihood for 73% of Kol cyclists: Study

    Kolkata: Livelihood cyclists made up 73% of bicycle-riders in Kolkata, revealed a newly released study, prompting demands for the lifting of the prohibition on the eco-friendly two-wheelers on as many as 71 roads in the city.Bicycles, the cleanest mode ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    BJP irons out creases ahead of portfolio allocation on Fri

    Kolkata: BJP is ironing out last-minute differences over the allocation of key portfolios, particularly school and higher education, delaying the announcement of ministerial responsibilities in the newly expanded state cabinet by two days. The allocation of portfolios, originally scheduled ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Explosion case: NIA team searches Saokat, son properties

    Kolkata: The NIA on Thursday raided properties linked to former Canning East MLA Saokat Molla in connection with an explosion probe. Days before the assembly elections, an explosion during bomb-making killed one in Bhangar's Bamunia.The team of six NIA ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Speaker rejects TMC expulsion of Ritabrata, Sandipan

    Kolkata: Bengal speaker Rathindra Bose said on Thursday that Trinamool's expulsion of MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha did not happen in accordance with the party's constitution."According to the party constitution, the expulsion letter isn't valid," said Bose. He ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    TMC head or chief adviser? Rebels divided on Didi role

    Kolkata: Whether Mamata Banerjee would be Trinamool chief or chief adviser appeared to be the fulcrum of the standoff among half of the 32 rebel MLAs who turned up at the Bengal assembly for their first meeting with newly ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Deep-sea port project: State eyes new site at Dadanpatrabar

    Kolkata: Bengal govt has identified 1,700 acres at Dadanpatrabar — about 10 km from Tajpur — for the long-delayed proposed deep-sea port project in the state. Govt is also exploring the development of minor ports and may consider setting ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    State to make Sagar Mela an int’l event

    Bengal plans to make the Gangasagar Mela an international event, CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday and added that the Centre had agreed to a plan to beautify the coastal area around Kapil Muni temple and restore the shoreline. ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    150+ B’deshis now at Malda holding centre

    Malda: Over 150 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants are stationed at a holding centre in Malda's English Bazaar. Sources said they were picked up from North 24 Parganas and brought to Malda under police vigilance. The holding centre for illegal immigrants ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    ‘Bid to provoke unrest’: Lawyer files plaint against Mamata over Kol protest remarks

    Siliguri: A complaint was filed against ex-CM Mamata Banerjee over remarks she made during a protest in Kolkata on June 2 at Siliguri Cyber Crime Police Station. Rinki Singh Chatterjee, an advocate, said she will move Calcutta HC on ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Govt warning to teachers running pvt coachings

    Kolkata: The state school education department on Thursday reiterated that in-service teachers are not permitted to engage in private coaching and warned of action against violators.The order, issued with reference to Section 28 of the RTE Act, 2009, and ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Dilip announces central schemes’ revival, 11k+ panchayat vacancies

    Kolkata: Several major centrally sponsored rural development schemes stalled in Bengal for years are set to resume, state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh announced on Thursday. He further announced that there were 11,154 vacant posts across different ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Presidency University Applications Double as Own Admissions Boost Demand

    Kolkata: Presidency University has received more than 15,000 applications, nearly double the last year’s figure. Last year, the number of applications was 7,803. The surge came in a year when the university conducted the admission process on its own, ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata joins national water metro project, 41 new jetties approved

    Kolkata: Kolkata has decided to join the countrywide water metro network, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on Thursday.While the water metro is in operation in Kochi since Dec 2021, it is set to be rolled out in Guwahati, Srinagar, ...

    5 June 2026 Times of India
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