Kolkata: Former India captain and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly’s security cover has been downgraded from Z to Y category following a recent security review by the state govt, reducing the number of personnel in his security team from around ...
4 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State health officials said six flyers who arrived in Kolkata from either Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or Uganda in recent weeks are under home surveillance by health officials. While none of them have any symptoms this surveillance ...
4 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A disabled man, who had travelled to Kolkata from Gosaba in a tricycle with his wife walking alongside to reach the BJP state office, sought assistance from CM Suvendu Adhikari at Janatar Darbar on Tuesday for a ‘room ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sachin Singh, the KMC councillor of ward 36, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of extortion, fraud and allegedly collecting cut money in the Narkeldanga area, police sources said.Singh became the second KMC councillor to be arrested after ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a paper published in the international journal Nature Communications, a team of scientists from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, that operates under the department of atomic energy, discovered a tiny protein inside liver cells called ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal government has downgraded the security cover of former India captain Sourav Ganguly, officials said on Wednesday.According to sources, Sourav Ganguly, who was earlier protected under the Z-category security arrangement, will now receive Y-category security.The decision ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Around 32 acres of land have been handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) by the West Bengal government for fencing along the India–Bangladesh border, completing a process that had been pending for several years.Panchayat Minister Dilip ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress spokesperson and state vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar was arrested by police on Wednesday on charges of harassing a woman and illegally occupying her house for several years, a police officer said.The complainant, Arati Roychowdhury, alleged that ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIT Kharagpur will enforce a graded framework of punishments for handling examination malpractice in place of uniform punitive norms to ensure fair and proportional consequences and provide students with a path to reform themselves.Director Suman Chakraborty said, “We ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ‘M’ word entered the lexicon of Bengal politics on Tuesday, with both Trinamool and BJP seniors referring to the ‘Maharashtra model’ to explain what is happening to Trinamool Congress following the Signgate mess.Tapas Roy, who took oath ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two suitcases, stashed with currency notes, most of them destroyed by termites, were recovered from a locked storeroom at Surendranath College on Tuesday. The college authorities alerted the police, who discovered a firearm in the union room, which ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic was briefly suspended on the Taratala flyover on Tuesday morning following a gas leak from a CNG cylinder. The emergency shutdown of traffic led to congestion on Diamond Harbour Road in the morning peak hour.“No untoward incident ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The complete feature filmography of Ritwik Ghatak’s has undergone a 4K restoration by NFDC-NFAI in honour of the film-maker’s birth centenary.The project utilised diverse film elements safeguarded by NFDC-NFAI and the West Bengal State Film Archive. To faithfully ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state municipal affairs minister, Agnimitra Paul, on Tuesday inspected the waterlogging black spots across the city after the MMiC overseeing the KMC sewerage and drainage, resigned on Tuesday, citing his ‘helplessness' in tackling the drainage issues ahead ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Leading her first protest on the streets of Kolkata since her party's defeat in the assembly election, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday, "If I survive, I will remove BJP from office in Centre."Accusing Centre of orchestrating ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A letter, with 205 signatures from students, scholars and alumni of Jadavpur University, was on Tuesday handed to the vice-chancellor, demanding the demarcation of feeding zones for dogs on the campus, renovation of the existing shelter and allocation ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a pre-budget meeting with state additional chief secretary Prabhat Mishra and his team, CREDAI West Bengal president Sushil Mohta and CREDAI Kolkata president Apurva Salarpuria submitted targeted suggestions to unlock land, speed up planned urbanisation, and improve ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 55-year-old man died after falling from the terrace of a 15-storey tower at Sunrise Point complex near New Town Akanksha More on Tuesday around 6.30 pm. The deceased has been identified as Deepak Hirawat, a resident of ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Indradeb Bhattacharya, 51, the joint secretary rank officer of agricultural marketing dept, who fell from the fourth-floor stairwell balcony of O Block at Khadya Bhavan on Monday, continued to be unconscious and critical on Tuesday as well.SSKM Doctors ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ‘Pancha kobir gaan’ singer Riddhi Bandyopadhyay and singer Dola Banerjee met chief minister Suvendu Adhikari at Tuesday’s ‘janata darbar‘ to publicly expose the ‘toxic favouritism’ and ‘cancel culture’ plaguing Bengal’s music industry. They voiced their frustration over a ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The BJP govt’s directive making the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ mandatory in madrasas has drawn objections from sections of Bengal’s Muslim community, with religious and community leaders urging the administration to reconsider.The pushback is notable as the community ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: After CM Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement that religion-based handouts will be discontinued, organisers of low-budget Durga Pujas are anxious about whether the new state govt will continue the festival grant, saying they need an early, clear decision to finalise ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state higher education department has issued an order mandating that colleges must not charge students in the name of 'union fee’. The Calcutta High Court passed an order on July 7 in this regard.College principals have received ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former sports minister Aroop Biswas has been summoned by Bidhannagar police to report at Bidhannagar south police station on Thursday and meet the investigating officer probing the case of cheating, criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation and extortion in connection ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has urged landlords in and around Golf Green to be more vigilant while renting out their properties following the deaths of a young man and woman in an apartment at Arabinda Nagar, an incident that has ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Howrah: Arrests, FIRs, resignations and administrative flux across several municipal corporations and municipalities in Bengal have triggered concerns over the functioning of civic bodies and delivery of services.The strain is most evident in the Trinamool Congress-run KMC, where the ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Statues of two footballers in action — one wearing the jersey of Mohun Bagan Super Giant and another one wearing the jersey of East Bengal FC — are likely to replace the recently demolished Football-Man installation outside Salt ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Six flyers who have returned from Ebola-hit nations over the past week have been sent to home quarantine for 21 days under advice of Kolkata airport authorities, with state health dept officials following up on a daily basis ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than Rs 1 lakh in currency notes, most of them damaged by termites, was recovered from two suitcases kept inside a college union room at Surendranath College in central Kolkata on Tuesday, triggering a police investigation into ...
3 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: ‘Vande Mataram’ was introduced in school prayers across the state on Monday. But though the first two stanzas were sung properly, many students faced challenges with the remaining four stanzas as they were unfamiliar with them. Teachers were ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaMATHABHANGA: Several residents of Mathabhanga in Cooch Behar district have received back the “cut money” they had paid to local toughs while availing benefits of government schemes. Reportedly, the residents had paid significant sums during the tenure of the ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKRISHNANAGAR: The Nadia district administration has launched an investigation after 173 male names were found in the beneficiary list of the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, which is intended exclusively for women, officials said on Tuesday.The irregularities were detected in the ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The newly sworn-in West Bengal cabinet under chief minister Suvendu Adhikari reflects a blend of experienced politicians, emerging leaders, social diversity and professionals from various fields.A total of 35 ministers took oath on Monday at Lok Bhawan in ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Centralised Admission Portal (CAP) closed at midnight on Monday, with 24.6 lakh applications and registrations from over 4.4 lakh candidates. Meanwhile, Presidency University closed its UG admission portal on Monday after receiving over 15,000 applications.The CAP merit ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal crime investigation department (CID) has recorded statements of 13 Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs so far as part of its probe into alleged signature forgery case.According to officials, three legislators have stated that the signatures in ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Alleging that BJP was trying to break the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mamata Banerjee on Monday dared the saffron party to “arrest her if they want”, her words coming shortly after police denied TMC permission for a sit-in at ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: First-time MLA Swapan Dasgupta, for long the intellectual voice championing BJP's vision for his native Bengal, was among the 35 new ministers sworn in Monday. This took the strength of chief minister Suvendu Adhikari's government to 41.Nine MLAs ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ‘Signgate’ row over the alleged forging of Trinamool MLAs’ signatures claimed its first casualties on Monday, immediately after a press conference by Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, and threw Trinamool into even greater disarray.Trinamool was forced to expel ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A senior official of the food and supplies department was critically injured after falling from a fourth-floor stairwell balcony of Khadya Bhavan on Monday morning. The incident has triggered a probe into whether it was an accident or ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: BJP MLA Biraj Biswas on Monday became the youngest member of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s Council of Ministers at the age of 32.Biswas, the MLA from Karandighi in Uttar Dinajpur, took oath as Minister of State at Lok ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The iconic clock tower in Lake Town is likely to undergo a health and safety check soon. Bidhannagar MLA Sharadwat Mukherjee said he will be writing to the urban development department to find out if permission was obtained ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ministers from Kolkata and its suburbs took centre stage in chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s expanded cabinet, placing education, healthcare, women’s safety and clean governance at the core of a shared plan to rebuild Bengal, with added stress on ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Travel, tourism and hotel industries hope state govt will treat tourism and hospitality as core economic drivers, backed by clear policy direction, faster approvals and funding. Industry bodies want priority infrastructure upgrades across destinations, along with single-window clearance ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The parents of TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee moved Calcutta HC on Monday, seeking the quashing of an KMC notice served against their property at 29-C, Harish Chatterjee Street. Amit and Lata Banerjee stated that the building ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaBerhampore: The BSF has pushed back 17 Bangladeshi nationals into Bangladesh through the Raninagar border point. The Murshidabad district administration on Saturday had handed over these individuals to the BSF from the Lalgola holding centre, following the verification and ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri/Kolkata: After swearing in as a minister in the newly formed Bengal govt, Siliguri BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh on Monday said he "cannot forget" his roots and he would ensure concerns of north Bengal are taken to relevant departments ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: For the first time in more than five decades, a Gorkha neta has been inducted into the Bengal cabinet, with BJP MLA Bishal Lama taking oath as a minister of state on Monday. His elevation marks a historic ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three days after Trinamool MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was assaulted and heckled by a section of protesters in Sonarpur, CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday appealed to the public not to take the law into their ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaSarthak.GKolkata: Women claimed their first “zero-balance” trips on wheels on Monday when Bengal govt rolled out free rides for them in all state-run buses plying on different routes, from hills to plains. These commuters got free-ride tickets from conductors ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Probal Dasgupta, an eminent Indian linguist, Esperantist and academic administrator, passed away in his sleep after suffering a stroke in the early hours of Monday at the age of 72.His sudden demise has cast a pall of gloom ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Monthly financial assistance provided by the state govt to imams, muezzins and Hindu priests was discontinued from June, with beneficiaries receiving their last payments in May, following a decision by the newly elected BJP govt to end religion-based ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The giant and “unstable” 64-feet statue of Lionel Messi at Lake Town was uprooted using a crane, laid down on a trailer and was carried to a PWD warehouse in Baguiati in a five-hour effort, where officials said ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than 130 hawkers from a market in east Kolkata’s Anandapur, near Ruby Hospital, have lodged a police complaint against ward 108 councillor Sushanta Ghosh and at least seven of his associates, alleging that they extorted nearly Rs ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has advised the Kolkata Municipal Corporation buildings department not to hurry in demolition of buildings without giving notices in advance, thus giving the errant persons enough time to defend themselves. Adhikary, during an interactive ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari has directed the state DGP to constitute a Special Investigation Team to probe the alleged Lakshmir Bhandar scam.Announcing the decision, the CM said that 22 fake beneficiary cases have been detected in Berhampore. ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Security aide of former mayor and ex-MLA Sovan Chatterjee was arrested after being accused of molesting the minor daughter of his associate, police said.The accused, identified as Sanju Sharma, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Rabindra Sarobar ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Security aide of former mayor and ex-MLA Sovan Chatterjee was arrested after being accused of molesting the minor daughter of his associate, police said.The accused, identified as Sanju Sharma, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Rabindra Sarobar ...
2 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday expelled two of its MLAs, Sandipan Saha and Ritabrata Banerjee, from the party's primary membership with immediate effect, accusing them of anti-party activities and actions prejudicial to the organisation's interests.In separate expulsion notices ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A cancelled meeting of Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators, a growing list of arrests of party leaders across West Bengal and fresh protest plans announced by the ruling party have brought the spotlight back on the political turbulence unfolding ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Expelled Trinamool Congress MLA Sandipan Saha on Monday hit out at the party after he and fellow legislator Ritabrata Banerjee were removed from the party's primary membership over alleged anti-party activities.Saha said, "In this party, anyone who speaks ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday alleged large-scale irregularities in the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme launched by the previous TMC government and said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) would be constituted to probe nearly 30 lakh suspected ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 70-foot-tall statue of Argentine football icon Lionel Messi was removed from Kolkata's Lake Town area on Monday after authorities found the structure had become unstable following recent storms.Public Works Department (PWD) officials said the statue was carefully ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal cabinet underwent a major expansion on Monday, with 35 new ministers taking the oath of office at Lok Bhawan in Kolkata.With Governor R N Ravi administering the oath, the Council of Ministers expanded to 41 ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Police arrested five men, including a Trinamool Congress worker who helped organise the party's Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee's visit to Sonarpur on Kolkata's southern edge Saturday, where a mob hurled eggs, stones and shoes at him, tore ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata : The need to strike a balance among Bengal’s various regions and between BJP veterans and new entrants was among the factors that weighed heavily on the party leadership during the selection of ministers who will be sworn ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In yet another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) following its rout in the recent Bengal assembly elections, the board of Diamond Harbour municipality was dissolved on Sunday. This came after nine of the party's councillors resigned, leading ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Fear of reprisals has driven the elderly parents of deceased TMC worker Sanju Karmakar out of their home in Sonarpur on Kolkata's southeastern fringe after a mob attacked party MP Abhishek Banerjee during a visit to the family ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Students of a girls’ hostel of Presidency University in Salt Lake sector I allegedly chased away a man after spotting him flashing and masturbating on a road near the hostel late on Saturday night, triggering fresh concerns over ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaMalda: GRP on Saturday detained five Bangladeshis in Malda Town station, reports Subhro Maitra. The five arrived from Delhi and Gujarat and had planned to go to Bangladesh through Malda border, said cops. Police also said that the detainees ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaChanditala (Hooghly): Trinamool chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused BJP of "murdering democracy" after her party's Lok Sabha chief whip Kalyan Banerjee suffered head injuries in an assault during a protest near Chanditala police station.Serampore MP ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city woke up to a stifling morning and endured a scorching Sunday, with the maximum temperature soaring to 35°C, after a brief one-and-a-half-day respite from the sweltering summer heat, triggered by the squall on Friday afternoon. Sunday’s ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The decomposed bodies of a 26-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, believed to have been in a live-in relationship, were recovered from a rented one-bedroom flat in Golf Green’s Aravinda Nagar on Sunday. The incident has triggered a ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after an FIR was registered against former state sports minister Aroop Biswas and others in connection with the Lionel Messi GOAT India Tour controversy at Salt Lake Stadium, Bidhannagar Police has begun the process of issuing ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaSrishti LakhotiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Sunday upheld the demolition of the fourth floor of a building under Howrah Municipal Corporation, while observing that flat buyers cannot claim that unauthorized construction be regularized purely on the basis that they ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State-run schools are preparing to introduce 'Vande Mataram’ in morning assemblies as schools reopen on Monday after the summer vacation. Several schools have decided to play the original version on loudspeakers to guide students during the prayer session.Ahead ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The shockwaves of the ongoing crisis in West Asia have travelled thousands of miles into the kitchens of Bengal. Across the country, fuel prices have skyrocketed by over Rs 7 per litre, triggering an immediate spike in neighbourhood ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the deadline approached for receiving applications for undergraduate admission across state-aided colleges, there was a surge, with around 23 lakh applications submitted through the centralised admission portal. Over 4 lakh candidates registered for 9 lakh UG seats, ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A massive anti-encroachment drive was conducted by railway authorities and police at Dum Dum Junction railway station throughout the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, which demolished more than 200 illegal shops and evicted hundreds of vendors.According to ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Orange Line Metro project has gained more speed with RVNL successfully bridging two more pillars at Chingrighata. The agency is now all set to start construction of the foot overbridge (FOB) — also the most important access ...
1 June 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced a major expansion of his government, with 35 ministers set to be inducted into the state government during an oath-taking ceremony scheduled for Monday.The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will hold a sit-in protest on June 2 at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in Esplanade under the leadership of party chairperson Mamata Banerjee in connection with alleged post-poll violence and attacks on TMC functionaries.The announcement ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The state govt’s decision to provide free rides for women on all state-operated buses from June 1 has been widely welcomed across Darjeeling. Women have hailed the scheme, stating that it will substantially cut travel expenses on the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaAHMEDABAD: Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane on Sunday linked the attack on Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee to the ruling party's governance in West Bengal, saying that people are the ultimate authority in a democracy.Rane said political leaders must ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A training programme for the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2026 counselling process was held on Friday at New Town, Kolkata.A total of 53 Verification Centres, including 31 National Institute of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Technology (IIIT), ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday assaulted and abused by a crowd of protesters in Sonarpur as he tried to reach the home of ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A BJP functionary has lodged a complaint against former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and a TMC MLA alleging misuse of annual Eid congregations on Red Road in central Kolkata during her stint in office for political purposes in ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tobacco use was one of the principal triggers of cardiac diseases that now affect more people under 40 than ever before, said cardiologists on the eve of World No Tobacco Day on Sunday. One in every four heart ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Vehicular traffic on Vidyasagar Setu will remain suspended on Sunday from 6 am to 2 pm to facilitate the replacement of stay cables and bearings, police said.A notification issued by the Kolkata Police commissioner Ajay Nand said the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Centre has set a target of installing rooftop solar systems for 2.7 lakh domestic consumers under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana over the next two years. Additionally, the Centre has also directed the state govt ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister and Bhowanipore MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday evening visited two key public parks in former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s neighbourhood, flagging what he described as a worrying pattern of encroachment and restricted access in city green ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister and Bhowanipore MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday evening visited two key public parks in former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s neighbourhood, flagging what he described as a worrying pattern of encroachment and restricted access in city green ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Private hospitals in Bengal that have acquired land from the govt at a nominal cost for building the health facility will have to keep 15% of their beds for free treatment of poor patients. This was among the ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thousands of members of the Jain community participated in a silent rally in Kolkata on Saturday under the banner of Sakal Jain Samaj. The rally was organized to seek justice for the revered Jain Aryika Matajis who tragically ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: NITI Aayog is working on a long-term economic and industrial blueprint for Bengal, identifying key growth sectors and structural reforms for the new state govt to prioritise. The think tank is expected to stress balanced regional industrialisation to ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Kalyani/Kharagpur: Police on Saturday arrested 12 persons associated with the Trinamool, including an Amdanga panchayat chief and three municipal councillors, in cases linked to post-poll violence, extortion, intimidation and alleged corruption, as the administration widened its crackdown on criminal ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (WBSEDCL) has completed the construction of underground power distribution networks in Rajarhat, Baruipur, Kharagpur and Chandannagar under a World Bank-funded project aimed at strengthening and modernising the state’s electricity infrastructure.Work ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement of “maach-bhaat” for Rs 5 at Maa canteens twice a week, people have started enquiring about when the new menu will be introduced. Those running the heavily subsidised canteens across the city ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt wants to give a push to e-transport, improve city connectivity and renewable energy under the Centre-assisted schemes.Speaking during the launch of Swachh App on Saturday, Adhikari said that the Prime Minister has repeatedly said that ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Jadavpur University has unveiled a functional prototype retrofitted electric Ambassador taxi, demonstrating a practical pathway to accelerate India’s transition to electric mobility without forcing the premature scrapping of existing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles. In a country where ...
31 May 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When the BJP began preparing for the West Bengal Assembly elections of 2026, it avoided “a generic national campaign pasted onto a difficult state.” The strategy was “focused and targeted,” built around specific public grievances against the incumbent ...
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