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  • News from West Bengal | 25 Jun, 2025 | ১১ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • ‘Same-side goal’: TMC hits back at Shah’s ‘infiltration’ jibe

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Monday hit back at Union home minister Amit Shah's "infiltration" jibe at the Bengal govt, dubbing it a "same-side goal."Party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "Who guards the borders? Amit Shah just delivered a same-side ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Right to life’: Cal HC cites trial delay, grants bail to 2 in 2012 murder case

    Kolkata: Citing right to life and liberty and linking a delay in trial with it, the Calcutta High Court recently granted bail to two murder accused following more than 12 years of incarceration. The duo, along with two others, ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Tajpur deep sea port: Adani deal ‘over’, state to float fresh tender

    123 Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet on Monday decided to issue a fresh tender for the Tajpur deep sea port, ending its four-year association with Adani Group for the project.The state govt had announced in Nov 2023 that it would ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Team finds water damage in school, may grant repair nod

    Kolkata: Officials of KMC and West Bengal Heritage Commission inspected three heritage buildings at the twin La Martiniere campuses on Monday afternoon, following a Calcutta High Court order. They indicated that they would grant permission for urgent repairs against ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal govt identifies 140 OBC sub-groups

    123 Kolkata: Bengal govt will table in the assembly's monsoon session an OBC survey that has identified 140 sub-groups under this category. The state govt is also likely to retain its 17% OBC reservation. The OBC policy was discussed ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Maruti eyes 4 lakh exports to offset domestic slump

    123 Kolkata: Maruti Suzuki has set a target of 4 lakh exports in 2025-26, a 20% growth over the 3.3 lakh cars it exported in 2024-25. Exports this May were 80% higher than last May. Aggressive exports helped the ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal records 18% jump in mutual fund AAUM from April 2024-25

    12 Kolkata: Bengal has recorded an 18% year-on-year jump in mutual fund average asset under management (AAUM) in April. The state's AAUM has gone up from Rs 2.9 lakh crore in April 2024 to Rs 3.4 lakh crore in ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    After 69 years, Phari resto-bar shifts, looks for new address

    Kolkata: Kwality restaurant, located at the intersection of Gariahat Road and Ballygunge Phari — which made the crossing better known as the ‘Kwality Mor' over the last seven decades — has shut down. Established in 1956, the restaurant, famous ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    18-year-old New Town girl dies while learning scooter

    123456 Kolkata: A class XII examinee taking scooter lessons from her friend on a New Town road without wearing a helmet died after she failed to negotiate a speed-breaker and fell on the ground, suffering severe head injuries on ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Work starts near VIP Road for bottom tier of three-layer airport transit system

    123 Kolkata: Construction began on the two-level tunnel under VIP Road near Kolkata airport. The lower-level tunnel will cut across VIP Road to create a four-lane underpass connecting the Kolkata airport's operational area with the Airports Authority of India ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    ED slaps PMLA in 1,500-crore digi-arrest fraud run from Dubai

    Kolkata: In its first such charge sheet in Kolkata, the Enforcement Directorate on Monday slapped money laundering charges under PMLA 2002, accusing two digital fraud scammers for pulling off Rs 1,500 crore digital arrest and using a maze of ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Goons assault doc in Kasba chamber

    123 Kolkata: A 64-year-old practising doctor, who was earlier posted with the state govt health department and now at Sankrail in Kasba, was physically assaulted in his chamber at Bediadanga, Kasba, allegedly by four individuals on Saturday evening, police ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    Be friends with kids, advise experts as cops flag Insta concerns

    Kolkata: If you have a teenager, who spends a good part of the day on social media, it is important that you try and know how your ward is conducting himself or herself in the virtual world. With message ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    7 passengers hurt in MG Rd bus collision

    Kolkata: Seven passengers were injured in a head-on collision between two private buses on MG Road near Pagaya Patti in Burrabazar early on Monday morning. The accident occurred around 6.05 am when a private bus on route 24A collided ...

    3 June 2025 Times of India
    3 dead, 6 security personnel missing as landslide hits Sikkim; search operations underway

    Sikkim landslide: 3 dead, search operations underway for missing tourists (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Atleast three persons died and six security peronnel went missing following a landslide in North Sikkim's Chatten area on Sunday evening, including those of military ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Talks with Pak only on POK: Abhishek in Kuala Lumpur

    12 Kolkata: Despite differences with BJP, political interests can never outweigh national interests, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Banerjee also insisted that talks with Pakistan can only be on POK.Interacting with ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    IPL final lap sends airfares flying high as Kolkata-Ahmedabad sector sees over 2-fold surge

    KOLKATA: Cricket fever has gripped Kolkata once again - even without the home team in the race - as hundreds of die-hard fans prepare to fly to Ahmedabad for the final leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) calls 24-hour strike in Siliguri over alleged attack on Hindus, arrest of workers

    Vishwa Hindu Parishad calls for a 24-hour bandh in Siliguri NEW DELHI: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has announced a 24-hour bandh in West Bengal's Siliguri on Monday to protest against alleged attacks on members of the Hindu community, ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    STF gets first police station

    123 Kolkata: Almost six years after the formation of this specialized unit and three years since plan was initiated by Bhawani Bhavan and sent to Nabanna, the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) finally has its own police station ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Notice slapped to vacate ‘White House’ in 10 days

    Kolkata: Days after Justice Amrita Sinha ordered the demolition of former Trinamool Kamarhati strongman Jayanth Singh's illegal house, Kamarhati Municipality on Sunday issued an emergency notice, directing the occupants to vacate within 10 days. The three-storey ‘White House' was ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Instagrammer’s lawyers to move court for early hearing

    12 Kolkata: Advocates representing the law student of Symbiosis International University in Pune, arrested in Gurgaon on Friday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an Instagram video, will seek an early hearing. They said the Kolkata-based girl, in judicial ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Symptoms mild but Cov admissions rise, hosps expand isolation facilities

    12 Kolkata: The spike in Covid patients in Kolkata and the rest of Bengal makes the elderly with comorbidities and children, especially those who suffered an adenovirus infection or pneumonia over the past three years, vulnerable to the existing ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Give Modi a chance,’ Shah urges Bengal voters from rally

    12 Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday took off from where PM Narendra Modi had ended his first Bengal poll campaign speech on Thursday, signalling BJP's twin strategy for the 2026 assembly election in Bengal: Focus on ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC seeks HM resignation over Pahalgam, slams ‘sindoor politics’

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool on Sunday ripped into Union home minister Amit Shah's speech, asking him to take responsibility for the security lapses during the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 and resign instead of politicising Operation Sindoor. It also ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Shah inaugurates central forensic lab in Rajarhat

    12 Kolkata: Amit Shah said on Sunday the Centre will take a "holistic approach" to criminal justice from Jan 2026, through which India's criminal justice system will be "based on evidence rather than argument". The Union home minister was ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Tread middle path: Heritage panel tells school, KMC

    12 Kolkata: The West Bengal Heritage Commission on Sunday urged La Martiniere Schools and the civic body to tread a middle path on the eve of a court-directed joint inspection of school, where even regular maintenance work had been ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    SSC considers tech route for caste cert check

    Kolkata: In a bid to enhance transparency in the teacher recruitment process for state schools, the state School Service Commission (SSC) has started discussions with the Backward Classes Welfare Commission to introduce an Application Programming Interface (API) for the ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Italian cos seek biz opportunities in Bengal

    12 Kolkata: Several Italian companies are looking for opportunities to invest for business expansion as well as to partner with local firms in Bengal. The sectors that these companies are considering include machinery, automotive parts, steel, leather, textile, and ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Row erupts over Sukanta remarks on Mamata

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Sunday threatened to take to the streets in protest against junior Union minister and Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar following his disparaging remarks against CM Mamata Banerjee.The party was responding to comments made by ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Anubrata skips cop summons again; lawyer claims ‘AI plot’

    12 Suri: Trinamool's Birbhum strongman Anubrata Mondal skipped police summons for a second consecutive day on Sunday. Instead, his lawyer met the investigating officer with a detailed medical report explaining his absence. Mondal has reportedly been advised bed rest ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    2 cases in a day, Bengal Covid tally rises 20 times in 2 weeks

    12 Kolkata: From a mere 13 active cases until the second week of May, active Covid-19 cases in Bengal rose to a staggering 287 on Sunday, increasing more than 20 times over the past fortnight. According to the Centre's ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    State to use AI to detect fake applications in UG college admissions

    12 Kolkata: The state higher education department will use an application driven by artificial intelligence (AI) in its centralised admission portal to weed out fake applications for undergraduate college admissions this year. The system, which was test-piloted during last ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Geopolitics scores but other influencer contents take a hit amid Bangla turmoil

    1234 Kolkata: From a noticeable dip in viewership from Bangladesh to a marked increase in hate comments, Bengal's content creators have encountered significant changes amidst the ongoing volatility in Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh relations. During the Aug uprising, content creators ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Give adequate time to NDPS accused for probe expansion: HC

    12 Kolkata: The prosecution needed to give adequate notice to an accused or his/her counsel in an NDPS case before the prayer for an extension of time for the probe was considered, the Calcutta High Court held while granting ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal tourists among 1,400 stranded in north Sikkim after key bridge collapse

    12 Kalimpong: Close to 1,400 tourists, most of them from Bengal, are stranded in North Sikkim after parts of the Phidang Bridge collapsed. The bridge, which serves as the main entry point to parts of North Sikkim, including Dzongu, ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    As heat soars, cops gift 4 AC stables to their horses

    12 Kolkata: Eleven years after AC stables were introduced at the SN Banerjee Road Stable of Kolkata Mounted Police (KMP), Sunday saw the inauguration of four more similar stables at the Police Training School in Alipore.The proposal for setting ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    NKDA to rehabilitate hawkers to new buildings, plans to turn temporary markets into mango orchards

    123 Kolkata: Close to 290 hawkers presently doing business at the temporary hawkers' market in different places of New Town are expected to be rehabilitated to two new buildings that have been set up by the New Town Kolkata ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    24km Rajarhat road test for Jagannath rath’s Sukhoi tyres

    123 Kolkata: The chariot used to carry Lord Jagannath during the Rath Yatra in Kolkata did a 24 km dry run on Saturday night, hours after its ageing Jumbo jet wheels of 1978 vintage were replaced with mint-fresh wheels ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    State logs 7th organ donation in ’25, 2nd in less than 2 weeks

    123 Kolkata: The liver and two kidneys of a 23-year-old brain-dead individual were transplanted into three patients in two hospitals of Kolkata on Sunday night. Bengal's seventh deceased donation of 2025 follows the organ donation of a 12-year-old by ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Strand Road guard rails lead to road rage

    123456 Kolkata: Guard rail barricades placed on Strand Road triggered a violent road rage incident in the early hours of Saturday. A 33-year-old chartered accountant from Jaipur, visiting relatives and friends in Kolkata, slowed down his car to avoid ...

    2 June 2025 Times of India
    Monsoon guard: KP readies list of vulnerable bldgs, trees

    12 Kolkata: Kolkata Police, along with its specialised Disaster Management Group, launched their preparations for the upcoming monsoon season. This includes buying and even repairing new electronic axes, wood-cutting chainsaws, and solar lights.Moreover, the teams will be stationed at ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Secularism must be two-way street’: Pawan Kalyan slams arrest of Pune law student, calls for equal stand on blasphemy

    He questioned the silence on similar actions by TMC leaders who mock Sanatana Dharma, demanding equal condemnation for all acts hurting religious sentiments. NEW DELHI: Actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan condemned the arrest of a Symbiosis law student, who was booked ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Project Pink Alert launched in Kolkata: Empowering youth for a cancer-aware future

    In a significant step towards creating a cancer-aware generation, the Institute of Breast Disease, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Asian Medical Foundation, launched Project Pink Alert—a youth-focused cancer awareness initiative—at Presidency University.The project was unveiled during a dynamic three-hour ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal man walks to Police station with sister-in-law's severed head in one hand, chopper in other

    AI image (TIL creatives) KOLKATA: People walking along the road in Bharatgarh, Basanti, witnessed a chilling sight on Saturday morning - a middle-aged man walking down the main road with a woman's severed head in one hand and a ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Sankalang Bridge washed away as Teesta River swells amid heavy rainfall in Sikkim; IMD issues red alert for Mangan district

    SIKKIM: A section of the under-construction Sankalang Bridge in North Sikkim was swept away by the Teesta River on Sunday, following intense and continuous rainfall in the region.The bridge holds critical importance as it serves as the only road ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Shah arrives in Kol, to address party workers’ rally today

    Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Bengal on Saturday night on a two-day visit, held a meeting with the key state functionaries. Shah, who reached at 10.10pm, is expected to address BJP functionaries at a meet ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Shopping Para Gariahat

    1234 The Gariahat neighbourhood, a microcosm of the city's history, commerce, culture and daily life, has evolved with the onslaught of times but its lively and dynamic environment characterized by shopping on pavements as well as din and bustle ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Sports museum comes up in Bengal district

    12 Kolkata: The seaside tourist destination of Mandarmani will have an added attraction now with the coming up of a sports museum there this week. The museum, the first of its kind in the districts of Bengal, was opened ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol cops pick up law student from Ggn for post ‘hurting religious sentiments’

    Kolkata: A law student at Symbiosis International University in Pune was on Friday arrested from Gurgaon by a Kolkata Police team for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in a video she posted on Instagram. The girl, who had been evading ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    UPI payment helps cops rescue abducted trader

    Kolkata: Bhowanipore Police on Saturday rescued a Kulpi-based trader who was kidnapped 48 hours earlier from near the Netaji Bhavan metro station and kept confined to a condo's 11th-floor flat on SC Mullick Road, close to Jadavpur's Sulekha area. ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata nurse gets Florence Nightingale award from Prez

    123 Kolkata: Doli Biswas, a nurse at a private hospital in Kolkata, received the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Award for her ‘exemplary contribution to nursing and compassionate patient care'. She received the award from President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Woman pushed off bus after molest protest

    Kolkata: A 22-year-old woman sustained injuries near her eyes after being allegedly pushed off a moving bus by her molester in north Kolkata's Sinthee More on Friday afternoon after she protested against sexual harassment by a fellow passenger.The accused, ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    NIA detains guard at Topsia hotel in espionage probe

    12 Kolkata: The NIA, probing the network involved in espionage across the country, detained a security guard of a hotel in Topsia on Saturday. The officers are trying to determine if the guard shared classified information with agencies or ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Met: Temp to rise, no rains in South Bengal soon

    12 Kolkata: A spell of sharp rain and clouds on Saturday morning kept the mercury in check, but Kolkata remained humid and uncomfortable. The city also witnessed scattered rain on Saturday evening. The maximum temperature was 33.9°C on Saturday. ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Anubrata cites ill-health to skip cop call, police issue 2nd summons

    12 Kolkata/Bolpur: Birbhum Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal failed to appear before the Bolpur sub-divisional police office on Saturday, prompting cops to issue a second notice, asking him to present himself by 11am on Sunday.Mondal cited "ill-health" for skipping the ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Rain-ready: KMC focus on pumping stns, sewer gangs

    12 Kolkata: With the monsoon knocking on the door, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) drainage department has set its sights on the city's major drainage pumping stations. The civic body's drainage department brass has alerted executive engineers in charge of ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Plea for La Martiniere water seepage repair ahead of inspection tomorrow

    123456 Kolkata: Ahead of the Calcutta High Court-directed joint inspection of the heritage buildings at La Martiniere schools in Kolkata on Monday, school secretary Supriyo Dhar pointed at water seepage at the main buildings of both the boys' and ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Baby among 3 of family killed in elephant attack

    Jalpaiguri: An infant was among three members of a family killed in an elephant attack in Alipurduar's Falakata early on Saturday. The deceased were Manoj Das, 35, his mother Makhanrani, 68, and his 35-day-old daughter Manisha.A herd of 20 ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Indira created B’desh, yet library in her name gutted: Samik

    Kolkata: BJP Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya said that while former PM Indira Gandhi was behind the creation of Bangladesh, a library named after her in the country was burnt to ashes. The MP, who is in Copenhagen, Denmark, ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    1823 tea bushes come alive at Botanic Garden after 4-month revival efforts

    123 Howrah: A full-fledged tea garden that had been established by the British at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanic Garden in Shibpur, Howrah, in 1823 but subsequently declined due to neglect has been revived once again.The new tea ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Visa interview suspension: US plans in limbo for Kol students

    123456 Kolkata: The unexpected halt in US student visa interview appointments has left students and parents distressed and educational advisers perplexed. The move has particularly affected recent Class XII graduates planning to commence undergraduate studies in the US this ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Goodbye to change: QR code ticket payment on tech zone route buses

    123 Kolkata: The perennial problem over loose change may soon be a thing of the past with several bus owners providing UPI payment options to their passengers.The latest to introduce this system are four buses plying between Barasat and ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    NKDA takes up week-long cleaning drive in low-lying zones

    Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is implementing a series of monsoon preparedness measures for New Town to minimise waterlogging and tackle any adverse weather conditions.NKDA is currently conducting a week-long special cleaning drive across New Town, ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Man seen walking with severed head after family dispute in Bengal’s Bharatgarh

    Kolkata: Early on Saturday morning, people walking along the road in Bharatgarh, Basanti, witnessed a chilling sight: a middle-aged man walking down the main road with a woman's severed head in one hand and a chopper in the other. ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata victims lose over Rs 78 lakh in jewellery and cyber fraud cases

    Kolkata: Two separate frauds in the city have led victims to lose more than Rs 78 lakh. In the first case reported from central Kolkata, a woman who arrived in Kolkata after the pandemic filed a police complaint against ...

    1 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal shocker: Man walking around with sister-in-law's severed head arrested

    NEW DELHI: A man was arrested on Saturday in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal after he was discovered walking around carrying the severed head of his sister-in-law, according to police reports. A senior police official confirmed ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Mamata gives point-by-point rebuttal to BJP’s ‘vicious propaganda’ on Alipurduar

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday gave a point-by-point rebuttal to BJP's claims over "non-development of north Bengal, particularly Alipurduar" just hours after PM Narendra Modi's speech there.In a long post on her X account, Banerjee claimed the campaign ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Instagram influencer Sharmishtha Panoli arrested in Gurgaon for communal post on Bollywood's silence on Operation Sindoor

    Kolkata Police have apprehended Sharmishtha Panoli, an Instagram influencer and Pune law student, from Gurugram for allegedly posting a communal video. The video criticized Bollywood actors' silence on 'Operation Sindoor,' sparking outrage and threats NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police has ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Patuli senior citizens join hands to plant saplings, save trees

    Kolkata: Senior citizens in Patuli, who, over the past three decades, have planted and nurtured thousands of trees across the mini-township off EM Bypass, welcomed the prompt action of police against a man who was illegally cutting a mahua ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Cops, jobless teachers in cat-and-mouse game in city centre, Salt Lake for 5 hours

    1234 Kolkata: Hundreds of cops and jobless teachers played a cat-and-mouse game across Sealdah, Esplanade and Salt Lake for five hours on Friday as police pulled out all the stops to thwart the SSC teachers' march to Nabanna. Kolkata ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Oral cancer cases rising among women: Experts

    12 Kolkata: The incidence of oral cancer, which is more common among men, is rising alarmingly among women. In 2024, the state-run R Ahmed Dental College (RADC) Kolkata, the foremost dental institute in Bengal, registered 422 oral cancer cases, ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    State felicitates 10 from Bengal who cracked civil services exams

    123456 Kolkata: Meghna Chakravorty, a Modern High School alumna, who ranked 79th in the Civil Services Exam 2024, scored the second highest (215) in interview, just one mark below the national highest of 216. "Now that I transition from ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    1 in 2 men, 1 in 10 women in state smoke, finds study; docs flag lung cancer risk

    123 Kolkata: Nearly one in two men and about one in 10 women in Bengal are smokers, one of the highest proportions in the country, making the state's population vulnerable to lung cancer, says the latest National Family Health ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Anubrata says sorry in 40 mins after party fire over ‘abuse’ audio

    Kolkata/Bolpur: Birbhum TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal was forced to tender an unconditional apology on Friday after a four-minute audio clip surfaced where the neta was purportedly heard abusing and threatening Bolpur IC Liton Halder and his family.The audio clip ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Marks for ‘lecture demonstration’, ‘experience’ to help jobless teachers

    1234 Kolkata: Ten marks have been allocated for ‘lecture demonstrations' and 10 for ‘teaching experience' have been introduced in the new exam module, meant for the recruitment of state school teachers, which was rolled out on Friday. The new ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    KMC clears funds for laying pipes in S Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: The twin water augmentation projects at Dhapa and Garia Dhalai Bridge have taken a step ahead with KMC sanctioning funds for the procurement of water pipes for areas off EM Bypass and parts of south Kolkata. A ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    After airport survey, 98 of 377 flight hurdles removed

    12 Kolkata: Despite repeated warnings and ongoing efforts, only 98 out of 377 identified obstacles that directly come in the flight path of Kolkata airport were removed, according to the latest Obstacle Limitation Surface (OLS) study released by the ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Pedestrians to get more time to cross Ruby

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has made changes to the time allotted for pedestrians to cross the busy Ruby crossing on EM Bypass during peak office hours. The cops will hold up Bypass traffic a few seconds longer ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    KMDA to raze illegal shanties under canal bridges

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority has decided to demolish unauthorised structures under several canal bridges across the city. They will also set up barricades to prevent further encroachment at these spots. The canal bridges where the authorities ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Theft suspicion after maid ‘throws away’ heirloom ring

    Kolkata: A domestic help in Cossipore is under scrutiny after allegedly stealing a valuable diamond-fitted gold ring worth lakhs. However, she claimed she mistook it for costume jewellery, leaving authorities with limited evidence to pursue criminal charges.Anamika Shaw (25) ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Youth ‘assaults’ MBA classmate, faces probe

    Kolkata: A 26-year-old MBA student from Jharkhand on Thursday lodged an FIR, accusing her classmate of assault, molestation, and verbal abuse at her rented Salt Lake accommodation. The complainant had allegedly caught the youth, a Girish Park resident, sending ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Malda woman in B’desh to meet lover held by border guards

    Malda: A 21-year-old woman from Bengal's Malda was apprehended by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after she crossed the international border in an apparent bid to meet a Bangladeshi man, with whom, it is said, she had a romantic relationship. ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    DVC dismisses appeal against power tariff revision

    123 Kolkata: Damodar Valley Corporation has dismissed an appeal by Steel Re-Rolling Mills Association, WB Sponge Iron Manufacturers' Association and Damodar Valley Power Consumers' Association earlier this week over the abrupt upward revision of power tariffs."The appeal consists of ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Jharkhand coal-fired power project LoA by year-end

    123 Kolkata: The letter of award (LoA) for execution of a coal-fired 1,600 MW ultra-supercritical power project in Jharkhand's Chandrapura will likely be issued by the end of 2025. The project is a joint venture between Coal India and ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Teen abducted over dad’s 10L loan in Kolkata, saved

    Kolkata: A 17-year-old youth, Soumen Pradhan of Thakurpukur, was rescued by cops on Friday after five persons, allegedly engaged by an East Midnapore agri-cooperative bank to recover an outstanding loan amount of Rs 10 lakh from the victim's father, ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    28 Bangladeshis arrested from Dinhata station while trying to return home

    Jalpaiguri: Police arrested 28 Bangladeshi nationals, including eight women and nine minors, from Dinhata railway station early on Friday, intending to cross over into Bangladesh. A preliminary probe revealed that the group was fleeing Haryana, where a recent drive ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    PWD to implement pedestrian safety measures in Kolkata

    123 Kolkata: The Public Works Department (PWD) has agreed to implement comprehensive pedestrian safety measures across several iconic central Kolkata locations following concerns raised by the Kolkata Traffic Police regarding illegal crossovers and pedestrian safety, especially in the Esplanade-Maidan-Babughat ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    City hospitals pad up to guard against infection

    Kolkata: Personal protective equipment, or PPEs, the full-body uniform complete with gloves and mask that doctors and health workers wore during the pandemic to prevent infection spread, have made a return at some private hospitals that now have Covid ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Civic body sets up its first women & childcare facility

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has set up a 450 sqft women and childcare facility on Freeschool Street. Funded by the state govt, the Rs 22 lakh facility will cater exclusively to women requiring urgent nursing spaces. ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Deep depression triggers Kol showers, brace for rainy Friday

    12 Kolkata: A deep depression that crossed over to the land near Sagar Island on Thursday triggered moderate rain in Kolkata. The Alipore weather office recorded 15.5 mm rainfall till Thursday night. Met officials said the system is likely ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Give childcare leave when mom, child need it: Cal HC

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court rapped Calcutta Girls' College for denying to grant child care leave (CCL) of 189 days to an economics assistant professor for looking after her 13-month-old twin daughters. "If the nourishing years of the two ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    You cannot move RERA, consumer court at same time: Realty tribunal

    12 Kolkata: The West Bengal Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (WBREAT) ruled in a case that a complainant cannot simultaneously approach the real estate regulatory authority and the consumer court. "Since the cause of action in the proceedings before a ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Discomfort spike as deep depression moves to B’desh

    123 Kolkata: While spells of rain and a gloomy sky through Thursday kept the city cool, the discomfort level rose on Friday with the city remaining mostly dry. The deep depression that brought rain to the city and other ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Roof cracks: HC orders jt inspection at La Martiniere

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a joint inspection of the heritage buildings of La Martiniere School for Boys on Monday to examine the cracks on the building roof. The building was constructed nearly 200 years ago ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    City debates lungi no-entry to auditorium for theatre show

    12 Kolkata: On Thursday evening, a theatre practitioner was denied entry to GD Birla Sabhagar for watching a play, due to his wearing a lungi. Despite Sanskriti Sagar issuing a statement clarifying that the auditorium has no dress code ...

    31 May 2025 Times of India
    Despite threats, we refused to respond to his questions on Islam: Orphanage members

    123 Bongaon: Thirty-five-year-old Humayun Kabir first asked those present at the Hafizia Kharizia Orphanage Madrasa about their knowledge of Islam. Only when they refused to respond to his "absurd" and "irrelevant" questions and asked him to leave, did he ...

    30 May 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar Police arrests taxi driver and tout for scamming American vlogger in Kolkata

    123 Kolkata: Bidhannagar police arrested the taxi driver and the tout who scammed and threatened a popular American vlogger during his trip to a Park Street hotel from Kolkata airport last week. TOI wrote about the ordeal and shared ...

    30 May 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police file charge sheet in Tangra triple murder case

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police submitted a charge sheet in the Sealdah court on Thursday in connection with the murder of three members of the same family in Tangra on Feb 18. The charge sheet was filed 99 days ...

    30 May 2025 Times of India
    Woman harassed during morning workout

    Kolkata: A young mother was allegedly harassed and verbally abused by a group of local miscreants during her morning workout session at Dhankal Maath playground in the Kasba area on Saturday . The victim, a resident of Kasba, reported ...

    30 May 2025 Times of India
    Airport logs into social media to address plaints

    Kolkata: The city airport authorities have put in place a social media monitoring team that tracks complaints lodged by passengers on social media and tries to address the issues at the earliest.On Monday, a passenger flying out of the ...

    30 May 2025 Times of India
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