Kolkata: Commuters on one of South Kolkata’s crucial transit corridors were left in the lurch on Sunday morning after auto services along the Baghajatin–Ranikuthi route were abruptly suspended following an argument over unauthorised autos trying to ply the route. ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kashmira Sheikh, 36, visited the Kultali Jamtala branch of PNB in Bengal’s South 24 Parganas to check whether the subsidy for her LPG cylinder had come through. She froze at the sound of what the bank official said ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 22-year-old woman from Jharkhand, arrested alongside a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative, was allegedly being groomed by Pakistan-based handlers to run espionage and honey-trap operations in India, according to investigators.The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) said it ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Above 90% engineering students at Jadavpur University (JU) bagged job offers in reputed companies across the country in this year’s (2025-2026) placement season. The hiring trends witnessed strong traction in core engineering sectors. A student from the computer ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A rapid transition to zero-emission vehicles could save thousands of lives in West Bengal over the next quarter century, with Kolkata expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries because of its chronic air pollution, dense traffic and location ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two persons died in two incidents in the city on Sunday. Basirhat resident Ranjit Ray (25) died after allegedly coming in contact with a live high-voltage electric line in a building on Taratala Road. Co-workers and locals took ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A retired scientist from New Town who was allegedly defrauded of more than Rs 1 crore in a digital-arrest fraud earlier this year finally has hope of a full recovery of his money. Bidhannagar cops have arrested three ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A dispute over feeding stray dogs near the main gate of a complex in the Sovabazar area escalated into attack and death threats last week. A complaint by residents of the apartment has prompted cops to register an ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that a section of party workers was engaging in corruption, senior BJP neta and state panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh said extortion culture can’t be ended overnight.“This (extortion) culture cannot ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A class 10 student of La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, Aarav Agarwal (16), has won two medals at the First Para National Rowing Championship in Pune, marking another milestone in a sporting journey shaped by resilience and discipline.Representing ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite a cloudy sky and moderate rain in some parts, Kolkata experienced a humid Sunday when the maximum temperature climbed up to 34°C, nearly two degrees above normal.While the cloud cover has been predicted to persist on Monday, ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 42-year-old hawker, Md Bellaluddin, was severely assaulted by fellow vendors for trying to set up his stall along Chowringhee Road on July 31. The altercation started due to reduced vending space in Esplanade.According to police, the incident ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hamim Mondal, the alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative who was arrested in Burdwan last Thursday, communicated with his Pakistani handlers first on the now-banned Element X and later on Session, both end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, officers of Bengal’s Special Task ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh-born author Taslima Nasrin said she “wants to believe” that the BJP govt in Bengal will protect freedom of expression and the fundamental rights of every citizen. “I believe they (the govt) will accommodate those with differing opinions ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: How does it feel to suddenly receive Rs 100 crore in your bank account?Not good, as Kashmira Sheikh — a poor zari worker from Kultali in South 24 Parganas, more than 100 km from Kolkata — is finding ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata’s next phase of growth must be guided by where the city can expand safely and where expansion must stop. A new IIT Kharagpur study, 'Heat island, pollution load and urban sprawl in the Kolkata metropolitan city of ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Every person — Pakistani or of any nationality — should be given all opportunities to prove his/her case, Calcutta High Court said on Saturday, criticising the Centre and state for taking 24 years to decide on the citizenship ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sharp spike in vegetable prices over the past week has left households across Kolkata and its adjoining districts grappling with soaring kitchen expenses, as the cost of several daily vegetables has nearly doubled following supply disruptions and ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday cautioned party workers against using loudspeakers as a show of strength and warned them of strict action if members are found collecting “protection money.”“There is no reason to blare loudspeakers during ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A social media buzz about former Bengal minister Shashi Panja meeting NCPI MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar at a fertility clinic in Bhowanipore on Saturday has led to speculation over the former’s political future. Kakoli’s husband Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaTaslima Nasrin said denying Joy Goswami the opportunity to speak was an insult to him. She said, “I felt bad. I invited Joy and requested him to speak. I spoke about freedom of speech — people can have different ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: Fear and concern over security gripped residents of Renaissance Township after STF arrested Md Hamim Mondal on Friday on suspicion of terror links.On Sunday, the Renaissance Central Welfare Society met to discuss security and communal harmony. Member Bapi ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: From Sept 1, the govt would launch a state-wide enforcement drive against illegal construction, encroachment, plastic pollution and public nuisance. Builders found storing bricks, sand, stone chips or other construction materials on public roads would face strict penalties.“If ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal and his father, Maniruddin Mondal, operated a business from the ground floor of 7 Alam Mistry Lane in ward 13 of the Howrah Municipal Corporation— the same ward where minister of state for urban ...
3 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal health dept has barred 11 blood banks from collecting blood at donation camps anywhere in the state till further orders. The dept had started an investigation against 11 blood banks accused of severe irregularities, including ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Arpita Sarkar, a 22-year-old from Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district, has emerged as a key figure in the Bengal Special Task Force’s probe into an alleged Pakistan-linked terror module.Sarkar, who was arrested from Barharwa, is described by investigators as an ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Faculty members, scholars and students of Indian Statistical Institute on Saturday requested the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) to initiate discussions over the bill with the “stakeholders of ISI”. They alleged that there are “serious anomalies” ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mid-day meal scheme through Iskcon rolled out from Saturday with a target to serve nutritious meals to more than two lakh students every day. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, from the programme dais, announced that every student where ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 22-year-old aspiring influencer from Jharkhand — known online for reels of motorcycle rides and travel — has been arrested for her alleged role in a Pakistan-linked terror module, Bengal's Special Task Force (STF) said on Saturday. Arpita ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: The densely packed slums of Howrah have come under the police scanner after claims that Hamim Mondal, the suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested from Burdwan on Friday, lived in the city’s slum belts. Mondal is accused of plotting attacks ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 10 residents’ associations at Renaissance Township in Burdwan, from where suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Mohammad Hamim Mondal was arrested on Friday, have convened urgent meetings on Sunday to discuss tighter security measures and stricter checks on tenants moving ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who returned to Kolkata after 19 years on Friday, said criticism of Islam or speaking the truth about Islam was not an attack on Muslims. It was necessary to bring about reforms, evolution and ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An attempt by the Calcutta High Court to work on a Saturday to meet its 210-day yearly working roster was frustrated as few lawyers turned up for the weekend hearings.On July 3, Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first day of the Census self-enumeration process passed off smoothly on Saturday, with most users completing the online questionnaire in under five minutes and reporting a hassle-free experience. Some respondents, however, encountered minor hiccups with the captcha ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt will review the utilisation of leasehold land allotted to private companies during the previous Trinamool Congress govt, with an eye to reclaim unused or misused plots for productive industrial use.The decision comes as the govt ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rinku Das, holding on to her daughter’s hand, was writhing in excruciating pain when her husband threw acid on her face following a tiff over dowry about a decade ago. Das, now in her late thirties, travels around ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Bengal rolled out its first fully digital Census with the launch of the self-enumeration process on Saturday, the authorities issued a strong warning against cyber frauds and urged citizens not to share documents, bank details or one-time ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Launching the 2027 Census in Bengal on Saturday, CM Suvendu Adhikari said the status of those excluded from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls remain under consideration, saying the guidelines were clear but stopping short of ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl was rescued from an Indo-Bangladesh border village in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas after she was allegedly trafficked into India by a human trafficking racket. Police said the girl was drugged with sedatives mixed in ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Burdwan : Police on Saturday arrested suspected Jaish terrorist Hamim Mondal’s girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Jharkhand’s Sahibganj and said they are probing the duo’s alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of last month’s students’ protest. ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/BURDWAN: West Bengal Police STF on Saturday arrested suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal's girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Sahibganj in Jharkhand and said they are probing the duo's alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of recent student ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A young woman, Pratigya Gon, suffered serious injuries after being hit by a govt bus while attempting to cross a busy road near Webel More in Salt Lake Sector V, the state’s IT hub, on Saturday morning. The ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two siblings died in front of their father, who is critically injured, after a speeding truck hit their two-wheeler on BT Road in Baranagar on Saturday morning. According to cops, the accident took place near Mallik Colony, close ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaBurdwan: Until Special Task Force (STF) personnel surrounded the Renaissance Fitness Studio gym on Thursday night in Burdwan’s upscale Renaissance Township off NH-2, local residents had no idea that their neighbour of three months had been under scanner for ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Friday cited the ‘Force Majeure’ clause due to the war in Iran to grant a four-month extension to real estate projects across the country, KMC on Friday ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The plot to assassinate Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant to Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, was put into motion in Dec 2025, when cash movement began for the operation.Investigators claimed to have established the timeline and operational outline of ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Saturday that despite the party’s efforts a section of party members is indulging in extortion. The state BJP chief and CM Suvendu Adhikari have both repeatedly cautioned against extortion rackets.“It will ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: BJP govt in Bengal has given citizenship certificates to 5,966 persons under CAA, and pending applications will be cleared within six months, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.After handing over citizenship certificates to beneficiaries from North 24 ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested by the West Bengal STF had planned to target chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and disrupt the recent students’ protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar by disguising himself in a police uniform, a senior STF ...
2 August 2026 Times of IndiaMONTESWAR: Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar, barely an hour’s drive from where he was arrested, learnt that the 24-year-old was a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative at 10 am on Friday.The family has been in the rice trade for ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Centre on Saturday released Rs 7,866 crore to Bengal as an additional instalment of tax devolution, part of a broader Rs 1,09,019 crore release to state govts on August 1 — ahead of the normal monthly devolution due ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has missed the second deadline — July 31 — to submit a draft report on the delimitation survey. On Friday, KMC commissioner and administrator Smita Pandey stated that the deadline would be further extended.Previously, ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaCHENNAI:/KOLKATA: The first phase of Census 2027 began on Saturday in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, with lakhs of enumerators beginning the houselisting and housing exercise. While around 1.15 lakh enumerators will conduct a month-long door-to-door survey across Tamil ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traders of BC Roy Market, or more popularly Maidan Market, seemed resigned to fate 24 hours after the state govt pasted a notice asking them to shift to the temporary stalls to facilitate construction of Purple Line’s Esplanade ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as India grapples with an unpredictable monsoon, Bengal has emerged as an anomaly, recording near-normal rainfall despite a 30% deficit across eastern and northeastern India, a Climate Trends briefing has found.Monsoon 2026 began under the threat of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 24-year-old man suspected of being a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative was arrested by the state's Special Task Force (STF) from a gym inside a gated township in Burdwan on Thursday night, with investigators alleging he had been tracking ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ripon Street looked like any other normal weekday on Friday afternoon. People dispersed peacefully after offering Friday prayers at local mosques, garment shops at the busy AJC Bose Road crossing remained open, customers walked in and out of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 1.8 lakh enumerators led by 30,000 supervisors will hit the streets and cover around 3.1 crore establishments after the first phase of Census 2027, which is set to begin from Saturday with an online self-enumeration process.On Saturday, ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police on Friday threw a tight security ring around Bangladesh-born writer Taslima Nasrin following her arrival in Kolkata after 19 years.Acknowledging the persistent threat perception surrounding the author, the Special Branch (SB) of Kolkata Police has ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 4.4-acre nature study park, complete with nature trails, biodiversity zones, a butterfly garden, a meditation space, an open-air gym and an amphitheatre, was inaugurated on the campus of IIEST, Shibpur, on Friday.The project is a collaborative environmental ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have registered a criminal case and launched a multi-pronged probe after a 75-year-old retired businessman from Bhowanipore was cheated out of Rs 10,22,353 by a cyber-fraud syndicate impersonating officials from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have started a probe after two bike-borne miscreants snatched a purse from a 34-year-old woman on Strand Road near the Adi Bhootnath Mandir early on Thursday morning.According to police, the incident took place around 4.15 am on ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Narkeldanga Police on Friday has arrested two men, one of them a key accused from Bantra in Howrah, for stealing a bag containing Rs 20 lakh from a vehicle on Wednesday. Cops recovered more than Rs 1.1 lakh ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Non-smokers and the young, who do not use tobacco in any form, are increasingly being diagnosed with lung cancer, leading to concerns among oncologists about environmental pollution and other undetected triggers that could be causing the disease.There is ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state will prepare a ‘Vision-2047’ document for Greater Kolkata Metropolitan Region for urban expansion and long-term infrastructure planning, including elevated urban corridors and economic growth in MKA and its immediate influence areas for the next 20 years.KMDA ...
1 August 2026 Times of India24-Yr-Old Picked Up From Gym In Gated TownshipBurdwan/Kolkata: A 24-year-old suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative, who was allegedly tracking CM Suvendu Adhikari’s movements, was picked up from a gym within a gated township in Burdwan by the state’s Special Task ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh-born author Taslima Nasrin was overwhelmed by the response on her return to Kolkata after 19 years on Friday, saying she was thrilled to be back in the city which gives her a “sense of belonging”.“It is homecoming ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Iskcon will start serving cooked midday meals to 309 state schools in Kolkata from Saturday, benefiting around 30,000 children. The programme will be inaugurated by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.Of the 309 schools, 178 are in north Kolkata and ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: One out of every three children is bullied online, a growing concern highlighted by experts during a seminar at Rotary Sadan on Friday. Education experts gathered to discuss ways to eradicate this social vice.The panel discussion, ‘Bullying in ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Rs 150 crore in cash, gold and assets including 242 vehicles, two petrol pumps, seven houses, a farmhouse, and counting. The list constitutes only a part of Birbhum stone mining baron Tulu Mondal’s properties. Reading out the details ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaAgartala: Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing death of Tripura DGP Anurag Dhankar, who was found hanging in his office washroom on July 20, has reached New Delhi to interact with family members and collect evidence.Team comprises Amtali Police Station ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A report by the joint commissioner of Kolkata Police to Calcutta High Court on Friday noted that the Mamata Banerjee faction of Trinamool occupied both flanks of Cathedral Road during its July 21 Martyrs’ Day meeting, contrary to ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangladesh has appointed Md Khaled as deputy high commissioner in Kolkata, while former journalist Umme Marufa is expected to join next week as first secretary (press), becoming the first woman to hold the post at the mission.Khaled, a ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Higher taxes on cigarettes pulled ITC’s Q1 net profit down 27% to Rs 3,578 crore against Rs 4,910 crore recorded in the corresponding period last fiscal. The revenue, however, rose 28% to Rs 27,588 crore from Rs 21,731 ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Peerless Group is hoping that its hospital subsidiary will alone cross the Rs 500-crore mark by the end of this fiscal. The group as a whole had a revenue of Rs 500 crore four years back, and it ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police, bank officials and the I-T department have launched a probe after an unexplained Rs 47 crore was credited to the bank account of a cloud kitchen owner in Beleghata.The account holder, Nupur Gupta, who runs a home-delivery ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt will introduce a “one-side parking” system across Kolkata and bring the city’s parking network under a unified digital platform, urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said on Friday.A dedicated app will provide real-time ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ED has conducted searches at 12 spots across Kolkata and adjoining areas, including at least two premises linked to former Trinamool MLA Sabyasachi Datta, who is now in police custody.Datta was arrested last month for alleged extortion.
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal BJP has already started preparing for the Nandigram and Rejinagar assembly bypolls — still more than two months away. Party general secretary Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has been assigned charge of Nandigram. BJP vice president Prabal Raha will ...
1 August 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state may appeal to the SC for an extension of the deadline if it fails to complete the recruitment of assistant teachers for classes 9 to 12, according to the apex court order.School education minister Dipak Barman ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state higher education department on Thursday issued a notification, appointing its nominees to ECs and courts of 14 state-run universities. The nominees to these universities are WBCS and IAS officers from the department and their tenure is ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The govt would procure eggs for midday meals at state schools but the logistics would be decided later, school education minister Dipak Barman indicated on Thursday at Bikash Bhavan.Barman declined to elaborate on the logistics as chief minister ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University students on Thursday met vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, asking for an investigation into CM Suvendu Adhikari’s claim that hostel boarders were forced to take part in the protest against the NEET paper leak and make the report ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged a Rs 15,000 crore revenue leak in Birbhum over the past 15 years, claiming the alleged corruption could not have taken place without the support of the previous government.Speaking ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaFriendship Day celebrations this year are taking inspiration from one of the most familiar parts of modern friendships, the WhatsApp group chat. Marking the occasion, SOCIAL is hosting an initiative that invites friend groups to share the names of ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened its first centre of excellence in AI in eastern India at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (HITK) on Friday. Talks are on for two such centres at IIEST and Jadavpur University.The centre, built ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaBURDWAN: A suspected member of the banned terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has been arrested in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district, news agency PTI reported on Friday.The Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal police arrested Hamid Mondal from ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal lost a definitive pillar of its classical music heritage with the passing of Sangeetacharya Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay on Guru Purnima. The city is left mourning the centenarian maestro whose life was measured not just in years, but ...
31 July 2026 Times of India: The post-mortem of Deepak Reddy Pullaguram, the deceased assistant professor at IIT Kharagpur, was concluded under strict videography at the Midnapore Medical College Hospital on Thursday. Following a magisterial inquest and the autopsy, police collected samples for a ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday sought a report from the district police regarding the encounter of Prabhas Mondal, the prime accused in the Baruipur rape and murder of a minor.The division bench of Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) Tapabrata ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Centre circulated the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026, aimed at bringing a comprehensive statutory framework for the institute, among MPs on Wednesday.The bill has raised suspicion among institute students and faculty members on the possibility of the ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur resident Pratima Roy came to Janatar Darbar on Thursday to allege that her shop has been occupied by outsiders, and that she had failed to get it back even after seeking intervention of BJP MLA Sarbari Mukherjee.Roy ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 81-year-old Bhowanipore resident, Prabir Mukherjee, who was allegedly cheated by Joy Kamdar, one of the accused in the land grab case, and who lodged a complaint with chief minister Suvendu Adhikari at Janatar Darbar on May 25, ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eastern Railway on Thursday inaugurated a “Central Gate” at Sealdah station for faster access to mail and express trains. It is also planning an exclusive area for long-distance passengers to get app cabs.“The fifth gate will ease passenger ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city police has unveiled a new look for its all-women scooter patrol team, Durga Suraksha Vahini. Formerly known as Winners, the unit is transitioning from the standard all-white police attire to a custom-designed uniform and specialised safety ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Technology and social media have become aides of both cops and traffickers, an analysis of recent events across Bengal shows, with Malda and South 24 Parganas among the worst affected. Anti-trafficking NGOs working in Bengal revealed the study ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An elderly couple from Salt Lake, who had been suffering from prolonged illnesses, was found dead in their bed on Thursday morning, with froth around their mouths. Their son and daughter-in-law had been away for a day.Although no ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State schools would have a revised syllabus from primary to higher secondary levels, aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, state education minister Dipak Barman announced on Thursday.The school education department recently formed a new syllabus-cum-curriculum committee ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The real estate industry in Kolkata has urged the state govt to lift the embargo on high-rise construction projects immediately, arguing that the audit of projects in the city and adjoining districts can continue alongside regulated work at ...
31 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The white-and-blue colour of state school uniforms and state school buildings did not need to change, provided the ‘Biswa-Bangla’ logo was removed, state school education minister Dipak Barman clarified on Thursday at Bikash Bhavan.“If a school has a ...
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