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  • Morality can’t determine patent decision without tech proof: HC

    1234 Kolkata: Without considering any independent scientific or technical evidence, morality could not be the basis for denying a patent, the Calcutta High Court held as it asked the Controller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks to reconsider the patent ...

    23 May 2025 Times of India
    ISRO chief stresses national security in Kolkata

    Kolkata: ISRO chairman V Narayanan, who was honoured with the Rammohan Mission Purashkar 2025 at a ceremony commemorating Raja Rammohun Roy's 253rd birth anniversary at Science City Auditorium by the Rammohan Mission School, on Thursday emphasised the space agency's ...

    23 May 2025 Times of India
    Pharma official loses 1.1 cr to cyber crooks

    Kolkata: A senior pharmaceutical company official from Kolkata lost over Rs 1.1 crore in a fake kola nut online trading scam. Kola nuts have various uses in the pharmaceutical industry.The cyber crooks used the name of a top UK-based ...

    23 May 2025 Times of India
    No terrorist should find refuge in Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee message to cops

    CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA/SILIGURI: No terrorist should find refuge in Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee warned cops on Wednesday, asking them to increase their visibility, especially in border areas.Banerjee, speaking at an administrative meet in Siliguri, spoke of the specially ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Cops spy drones in sky over Kolkata, STF and defence launch probe

    Representative Image KOLKATA: Around 8.45pm on Monday, cops at Hastings police station spotted 'six to seven' drones travelling across the sky from southwest to northeast. They alerted Kolkata Police Special Task Force, who got in touch with the Eastern ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    3 die in West Bengal village after consuming dead goat meat, state sends team of experts to probe anthrax angle

    A Cooch Behar village is under scrutiny following the deaths of three family members after they consumed meat from a dead goat, prompting concerns about a potential anthrax outbreak KOLKATA/COOCH BEHAR: The death of three family members in a ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Santanu Sen appears before WBMC

    Kolkata: Former Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, who is also a doctor, appeared before the West Bengal Medical Council's (WBMC) penal and ethical committee on Wednesday. He was there to respond to a show-cause notice regarding use of ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    No closure till Pahalgam guilty hunted down: Behala widow

    123 Kolkata: It has been exactly a month since 51-year-old Sabari Guha lost her husband, senior statistician Samir Guha, in the terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley. However, Guha is still far from finding closure."What has been snatched away from ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar MLA joins hands with locals against tree-felling

    123 Kolkata: Local residents and green activists in Baranagar have launched a protest movement against the rampant felling of trees allegedly linked to illegal construction activities on govt-owned land near the RIC Gate nos.1 and 2, close to Brahmananda ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Justice for entire country, not just for myself: Patuli survivor

    123 Kolkata: "I miss and feel the pain of losing Bitan every day," says Soheni Adhikary, her voice trembling as she remembers her late husband, Bitan Adhikary, a Florida-based techie from Patuli who was among the 26 persons killed ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    BC Roy Mkt shift process starts, 80 traders to be moved in phase I

    Kolkata: The authorities have started the process of shifting traders of BC Roy Market to the temporary shopping complex coming up inside Mounted Police Club, to make way for the Purple Line's Esplanade station. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    HC tells SSC protesting teachers to go to Central Park

    123 Kolkata: No coercive steps can be taken against two protesting teachers who were verbally directed by the Calcutta High Court to meet cops on Thursday morning regarding the protest outside. The judge also asked the protesting teachers to ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Social media backlash after cops’ ‘don’t take law in your hands’ msg

    Kolkata: A viral video showing a woman social activist fiercely confronting police personnel over alleged extortion on the Belgharia Expressway has triggered a wave of public anger and backlash against the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate's response on social media.The video, ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    With cases rising elsewhere, 3 Kol hospitals revive Covid safety steps

    Kolkata: At least three private hospitals in Kolkata have revived Covid precautions in the wake of an outbreak in Southeast Asia and the detection of cases in Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad.Although almost no Covid case has been detected in ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Life more imp than playlist: KP reminds citizens

    n A 28-year-old woman, Rina Bauri from Kacharipara off Science City, died after being run over by a govt bus near the Milan Mela stop while trying to cross the road when she had earphones on.Cops even found evidence ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    ‘Cop suitor’ dupes woman, flees with 1cr

    Kolkata: A 38-year-old woman from Sinthee, who was looking for a groom and signed up on a matrimonial site, was duped of Rs 1 crore after a man befriended her by posing as a cop and fled with her ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    No regn of structures on rooftops, says KMC

    12 Kolkata: After deciding not to sanction structures on terraces of multi-storeyed residential and commercial buildings and declining mutation of open roofs/rooftops/terraces, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has requested the inspector general of registration and commissioner of stamp revenue ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Early-bird move: CU may start PG admissions in July

    Kolkata: Calcutta University is planning to start postgraduate admissions a little earlier this year to prevent the exodus of students at this level. PG admissions will likely begin in the first week of July, right after the final semester ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Bus owners suspend 3-day strike

    Kolkata: Private bus owners have decided to suspend their proposed three-day strike — scheduled to begin on Thursday — after meetings between bus operators and govt officials, including one on Wednesday attended by transport minister Snehasis Chakraborty, Kolkata Police ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Four days after fire, Beckbagan building reopens

    123 Kolkata: The gates of Krishna Building on AJC Bose Road were reopened to over 700 employees of various private offices on Wednesday, four days after a fire broke out on the fifth floor of the G+10 commercial establishment.The ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Govt bus stand may shift for Esplanade metro stn work

    123 Kolkata: The popular govt bus stand located off RR Avenue in Esplanade may be shifted to a vacant park opposite New Dufferin Road, next to the North-South Metro's Esplanade station's access through BC Roy market, to make way ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek leaves for Japan as part of anti-terror delegation

    Kolkata: A multi-party delegation, including Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee, departed for Japan on Wednesday as part of a diplomatic mission to convey India's stance on terrorism originating from Pakistan. The JD(U) MP ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Signal glitch continues as delay and short-termination dog Hwh passengers

    123456 Kolkata: The massive signal failure at Santragachhi yard continued to throw Howrah station into disarray. Several long-distance trains were running 6-10 hours late even on Wednesday.Passengers continued to grapple with extreme inconvenience under the sweltering heat, and no ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Govt team to reach France tomorrow to expose Pak’s terror connections

    BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya, a member of Centre's global outreach team led by MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, will reach France on Friday to brief world powers on Operation Sindoor. "We are not against the people of Pakistan. ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Panchayat chief resigns amid caste cert controversy

    123 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress neta Uma Ghosh resigned from her post as pradhan of Choygharia Gram Panchayat at Bongaon in North 24 Parganas on Wednesday. The development comes amid an ongoing case involving her in the Calcutta High Court ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    B’deshi man arrested near army cantt

    Siliguri: A 38-year-old Bangladeshi national, Mohammad Abdul Sattar Milan, was arrested from the Durpin Dara army cantonment on Tuesday after he was apprehended by Military Intelligence. The accused was produced in court on Wednesday and sent on three-day police ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    KMDA survey after tree-fall death near Sarobar

    123 Kolkata: A 47-year-old man who used to sell flowers at Kalighat died after a tall tree fell on him at Rabindra Sarobar on Monday. The man was lying below a tree when it suddenly uprooted and fell on ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    4 dead in Ghatal-Chandrakona highway collision

    Chandrakona: Four persons died on Tuesday night in a motorcycle collision along the Ghatal-Chandrakona state highway in Khirpai, West Midnapore. One person remains in critical condition and is currently receiving medical treatment. Police said that none of the motorcyclists ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Mamata urges Centre to set up Indo-Bhutan river commission

    12 Kolkata/Siliguri: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the state had approached Centre to form an Indo-Bhutan river commissionand include a representative of Bengal in it. "Bengal sees a lot of floods… We have informed Centre that our ...

    22 May 2025 Times of India
    Drone-like objects spotted over Kolkata sky, police probe espionage angle

    Representational image KOLKATA: Multiple unidentified drone-like objects were spotted hovering over parts of Kolkata night sky on Monday, prompting police to look into the matter from different angles, including the possibility of espionage, officials said on Wednesday. According to ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    12-year-old, West Bengal's youngest deceased donor, saves a life, gives sight to two

    Umang with mother Jyoti, who donated a kidney to save her son. The boy died of complications four days after the transplant surgery KOLKATA: A 12-year-old boy who battled renal failure for over a year and died four days ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Man convicted of 1997 double murder to be freed after 21 years as Calcutta HC orders early release

    Calcutta high court KOLKATA: A murder convict’s life imprisonment was cut short to 21 years as the State Sentence Review Board recommended his release, and the Calcutta High Court directed the trial court to release him within 48 ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Signal work delays trains, triggers chaos at Hwh stn, RAF deployed

    Howrah: There was commotion at Howrah station's new complex on Tuesday evening after several trains were delayed and cancelled because of signal system work at Santragachhi rail yard.RAF and railway police had to be deployed to manage passenger unrest ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    BJP women’s wing holds ‘Sindoor Yatra’ to honour forces

    123 Kolkata: Women turned out in large numbers as BJP's women's wing held a ‘Sindoor Yatra' rally in Kolkata on Tuesday to honour the valour of India's armed forces to avenge the dastardly killings by terrorists in Pahalgam.The yatra, ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Woman foils app cab driver’s harassment bid

    12 Kolkata: A 21-year-old woman residing at Parnasree in Behala showed great courage and presence of mind when she managed to stop the app car she was riding in—along with two other women—at the local police station.She filed a ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    June 16 date for 1st Srinagar flight after Pahalgam attack

    Kolkata: Flights to Srinagar, which were discontinued days after the terror attack at Pahalgam on April 22, are set to restart from Kolkata on June 16. Flights have also resumed to Hindon in Ghaziabad near Delhi, along with Amritsar ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Trinamool team begins 3-day visit to J&K today

    Kolkata: A five-member Trinamool Congress delegation will begin a three-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir starting Wednesday to express solidarity with locals who faced cross-border attacks during Operation Sindoor.The delegation, comprising MPs Derek O'Brien, Md Nadimul Haque, Sagarika Ghose, ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Will never support politics of ‘riots & chaos’: Mamata

    Kolkata/Siliguri: Reiterating that she would never support the "politics of riot and chaos", CM Mamata Banerjee said at Fulbari on Tuesday: "I want peace. Some people try to create division among people. I cannot accept such politics of division."The ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    After KMC-cop drive, shoppers rediscover parking lot near New Mkt

    12345 Kolkata: A joint drive by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and cops on Tuesday cleared carriageways around New Market, paving the way for the return of car parking areas on Bertram Street and Humayun Place. The cops from ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Man robs woman of jewellery, cash

    123 Kolkata: A 21-year-old woman fell victim to theft after meeting a man through a dating app in Sector V on Sunday afternoon. She lost valuable jewellery, cash, and personal belongings in what police describe as a carefully planned ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Buses threaten 3-day strike after talks with state fail

    12 Kolkata: The meeting between the Bengal transport department and five major private bus operators' associations failed to resolve an ongoing stand-off on Monday, as the associations confirmed they would proceed with a three-day statewide strike of stage carriage ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Met spies light rain spells in city

    123 Kolkata: In the absence of rain, the minimum temperature in the city rose on Tuesday, while it continued to remain below the normal mark. The Met office expects thundershower activities in the city between Wednesday and Friday, which ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Be alert or face the music: Cops to e-rickshaw drivers

    Kolkata: "Drive with caution or face prosecution" — that's the warning Bidhannagar City Police have served operators of mechanised retrofitted rickshaws plying in Salt Lake following the death of an elderly woman after being hit by one such rickshaw ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    RG Kar lifer Sanjay Roy gets gardener’s job in jail

    12 Kolkata: Four months into serving his life sentence, former Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, convicted for raping and murdering a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Hospitalon Aug 8, last year, has been assigned to gardening duties at ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Cops probe AI fake pic after LF neta’s plaint

    Kolkata: An AI-generated manipulated photograph linking a Left leader to an alleged Pakistani spy sparked controversy, leading to police complaints. CPM youth leaderSrijan Bhattacharya filed a cybercrime complaint on Tuesday after an AI-altered image circulated on social media, falsely ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Heartbreak for fans as IPL final & qualifier move out of Kolkata

    12 Kolkata: City IPL fans are devastated after the IPL final and Qualifier 2, which were scheduled to be held at Eden Gardens next week, were moved to Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium due to fears of rain disrupting the ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    KMC serves 7-day hearing notice to 3 rooftop restaurants

    123456 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will conduct hearings for three rooftop restaurants early next week. Notices to these restaurants will be served by Wednesday afternoon, said a civic official. The hearings for the three restaurants will be ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    HC refuses to interfere with stay on upper primary recruitments

    Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the single bench's order to continue the interim stay on recruitment in supernumerary posts in upper primary schools.The division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Darjeeling student first NCC girl from Bengal to summit Everest

    Siliguri: A 19-year-old student from Ghum, Darjeeling, successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest as part of a National Cadet Corps (NCC) all-girls expedition team.A political science student at St Joseph's College, Pratima Raiwas the only female cadet selected ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    32L cash recovered, 1 held in CIT Rd theft

    12 Kolkata: Police investigators recovered an additional Rs 32.5 lakh on Tuesday in the ongoing Entally robbery investigation, bringing the total recovered amount to Rs 1.5 crore of the Rs 2.7 crore stolen on May 5.Ten persons have been ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Malda hosp accused of concealing death for 3 days

    Malda: The state health department and police have launched an investigation into a private hospital in Sujapur, under Kaliachak police station, following allegations that it concealed a patient's death for three days while continuing to charge for treatment.Sakirul Islam, ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    WBBPE appeals against cancellation of appointment of 32,000 teachers

    Kolkata: In an appeal against the cancellation of the appointment of 32,000 candidates in primary schools, the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) on Tuesday told the Calcutta High Court that there was no case of corruption in ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    PM likely to hold rally in Alipurduar on May 29

    123 Alipurduar: PM Narendra Modi is likely to hold a public meeting in Alipurduar on May 29. Bengal BJP netas indicated that he may participate in an official event at the Hasimara airbase. Nabanna officials on Tuesday confirmed receiving ...

    21 May 2025 Times of India
    Haryana 'spy ring': Kolkata influencer says Jyoti Malhotra didn’t show interest in security installations

    A Kolkata-based social media influencer, originally from Asansol, has disclosed his interactions with YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was recently arrested on espionage charges. He met Malhotra during the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya and again in Kolkata this February. ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Cab touts return, too; 9 arrested over weekend

    Kolkata: In a crackdown against illegal taxi touts and unauthorised bike taxi operators, Bidhannagar City Police arrested nine persons outside Kolkata airport last weekend. Cops said the operation was carried out after passengers reported that several touts approached them ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    KMC to send hearing notice to three rooftop restos today

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will start dispatching notices to three rooftop restaurantsfrom Tuesday for conducting hearings for these establishments that had sought legal intervention against the order of demolition. The hearings will start around the end of ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Siliguri to get international convention centre, IT & industrial parks: Mamata

    Kolkata: Siliguri would soon get an international convention centre, the third in the state after Kolkata and Digha, and land had been identified for the same, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.The state was also setting up an IT ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    No heavy vehicle on Behala metro rd link for 3 months

    Kolkata: The Kolkata traffic police have banned all large vehicular movement on Santosh Roy Road, which connects Behala's Sakherbazar from Diamond Harbour Road to Motilal Gupta Road, to facilitate the laying of sewage pipes for the next three months.The ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Snake spotted at KMC hq

    123 Kolkata: A snake was spotted by a KMC water supply department official inside the headquarters around 2.30 pm on Monday. Soon, a group of employees gathered at the spot to keep track of the reptile.A civic employee trained ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    3.2L in 21 BMC wards inch closer to pure water supply

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started executing the Rs 333 crore project of setting up a water distribution network to supply filtered water across Rajarhat-Gopalpur, covering BMC wards 1 to 21. Overhead tanks and underground reservoirs will ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    All eyes on ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ team as Cannes screens Ray’s restored film

    12 Kolkata: The attention of all cinephiles in India is fixed on the Cannes Classics screening of the restored version of Satyajit Ray's ‘Aranyer Din Ratri', with Sharmila Tagore, Simi Garewal, and Wes Anderson in attendance on Monday.Cannes, they ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    4 days after Everester goes missing, Kol top cop’s security guard summits peak

    12 Kolkata: West Bengal Police constable Lakshmikanta Mandal on Monday reached the summit of Mount Everest, along with Chhonzin Angmo, a visually impaired climber from Nepal. Mandal, who is Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma's personal security guard, is the ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Kol’s outbound flyer count back to near normal after Pahalgam dip

    12 Kolkata: Following a three-week decline in passenger numbers at Kolkata airport after the April 22 Pahalgam terror incident and India's Operation Sindoor response, there are now positive indicators. Daily departing passenger numbers from Kolkata airport, which had decreased ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Crowdfunding miracle: 9cr for baby with rare disease

    12 Nadia: Crowdfunding through social media and donations from celebrities have raised Rs 9 crore for the treatment of 15-month-old Asmika Das from Ranaghat, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 — a rare and debilitating genetic condition ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Forensic team visits Beckbagan bldg

    Two days after a fire tore through the office of a chemical company at Krishna Building, near the intersection of AJC Bose Roadand Ballygunge Circular Road at Beckbagan, a forensic team collected samples from the gutted portion on Monday. ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Piped gas to 25k houses, 12 more CNG stns in Kol by year end

    1234 Kolkata: The Bengal Gas Company Ltd (BGCL) is set to provide domestic gas connections to around 25,000 consumers by end 2025 while the count of CNG stations in greater Kolkata area would go up to 30 from 18 ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Maximum temp likely to hit 35°C

    12 Kolkata: The mercury started spiralling up on a warm and humid Monday, even as the maximum temperature touched 35°C. While it is likely to hover around the 35°C mark for the rest of the week, chances of thunderstorms ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Shooting stars: MCH doctor, 60-year-old mom win gold

    123 Kolkata: A Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCHK) doctor, Rounak Basak, and his 60-year-old mother, Rita — a retired teacher of a Kamarhati school— claimed gold medals in their respective categories at a shooting championship hosted by the West ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    ZSI solves 150-year lizard identity mystery

    Kolkata: A scientific mystery dating back to the 19th century has finally been solved by researchers at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).ZSI scientists Sumidh Ray and Pratyush P Mohapatra have resolved long-standing confusion surrounding the identity of a ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    CM’s ‘Lakshmanrekha’ for SSC protests, ire over ‘outsider’ presence

    12 Kolkata: Those who had filed cases that led to SSC teachers losing their jobs were now instigating the jobless teachers, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday in her first reaction to the ongoing protest near Bikash Bhavan, while ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    CM slams Centre’s delegation pick without Trinamool nod

    12 Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjeeon Monday criticised the way Centre had chosen MPs for the diplomatic missions aimed at countering the Pakistani narrative without consulting the parties to which they belonged.She, however, reaffirmed her party's unwavering support when ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Probe starts a month after police vehicle hits lawyer’s car & flees

    Kolkata: Close to a month after allegations of traffic violations were raised against a police vehicle, the Shakespeare Sarani Police Stationhas finally lodged an FIR to probe into the matter. The Fatal Squad of Traffic Police has asked the ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    ‘State to set up task force, lab to protect Darjeeling tea’

    123 Siliguri/Kolkata: Raising concerns over the mixing of Darjeeling tea with other low-quality teas, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that the state would set up a lab to check these occurrences."We are setting up a task force for ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    ED collects Mallick’s handwriting samples

    123 Kolkata: In its probe into the ration scam, ED on Monday collected handwriting samples from former minister Jyoti Priya Mallick in connection with a letter discovered from SSKM Hospital in Dec 2023.Mallick appeared at the 19th metropolitan magistrate's ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Bengal gives Rs 10k cr-15k cr power subsidy annually: CM

    Siliguri/Kolkata: State govt was giving Rs 10,000 crore-15,000 crore as subsidy every year for electricity, CM Mamata Banerjee said following a request by a north Bengal businessman to cut the power tariff.The CM pointed out that the state had ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    ED: Rs 6k crore siphoned off under UCO Bank ex-chair

    12 Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate on Monday said former chairman and MD of UCO Bank Subodh Kumar Goel, who was arrested on May 16, was behind providing large credit facilities to a Chhattisgarh-based company. A total of Rs 6210.7 crore ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Pro-govt teachers split. Will continue protest, say others

    123456 Kolkata: On the 13th day of teachers' protest outside Bikash Bhavan, the protesting teachers split among themselves and formed a new platform. At least 2,500 protesters stood by the chief minister, as stated in a press conference by ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Piped gas to 25k households, 12 more CNG stns in Kol by yr-end

    123 Kolkata: The Bengal Gas Company Ltd (BGCL) is set to provide domestic gas connections to around 25,000 consumers by end 2025 while the count of CNG stations in greater Kolkata area would go up to 30 from 18 ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Blast rocks Titagarh apartment, boy hurt

    123 Kolkata: A powerful explosion rocked a five-storey apartment building in Titagarhearly on Monday morning, triggering widespread panic among residents. Police suspect bombs were stored inside a closed fifth-floor flat of the apartment, leading to the blast that injured ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    HC orders demolition of TMC leader’s house

    123 Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has ordered the demolition of a palatial house that Trinamool strongman from Kamarhati, Jayanth Singh, constructed after illegally occupying a plot and filling up a part of the adjoining pond near Mousumi Mor ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Ex-staffer held for boutique theft

    123 Kolkata: The Gariahat Police arrested a former employee of a Gariahat-based popular boutique for allegedly stealing Rs 20 lakh and expensive sarees in a late-night burglary carried out last month. The accused entered the shop through an AC ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata influencer shares details about arrested YouTuber linked to espionage case

    123 Kolkata: A Kolkata-based social media influencer, hailing from Asansol and presently under the scanner of security agencies, has come forward with details about his interactions with Jyoti Malhotra, the YouTuber recently arrested on espionage charges for Pakistan's ISI.Jyoti ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    KP focus on ‘Bikash Bhavan-like protests’

    1234 Kolkata: Lalbazar has instructed all officers to remain vigilant, with a particular focus on intelligence gathering, to prevent a "Bikash Bhavan-like" protest. With the recent violence at the Kasba DI office still fresh in their minds, senior officers, ...

    20 May 2025 Times of India
    PIL filed in Kolkata over commuting problems caused by teachers' protest outside Bikash Bhavan in Bidhannagar

    Teachers' protest at Bikash Bhavan KOLKATA: A resident of Bidhannagar filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on Monday, claiming inconvenience caused due to the ongoing teachers’ protest at Bikash Bhavan against the job loss of around 25,752 teachers.The petitioner's ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    New Town likely to get 9-acre wildlife conservation park

    Kolkata: With an indigenous population of golden jackals and other wildlife, like snakes and monitor lizards, often being spotted in New Town, the govt is considering a plan to develop an urban wildlife forestry conservation park in the township ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Kol gets scattered rain, max temp dips by 4°C

    123 Kolkata: A thunderstorm and a spell of rain on Saturday night and scattered showers in the morning pulled the mercury down by over four degrees on Sunday. The maximum temperature plunged to 31.9°C on Sunday, almost four degrees ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Apr vehicle sales soar in Kol, raise congestion & pollution concerns

    Kolkata: The city witnessed a significant surge in vehicle registrations in April 2025, with Kolkata's four primary regional transport offices (RTOs) — PVD (Beltala), Salt Lake, Kasba, and Behala — collectively recording 9,160 new vehicles.This marks an 11% increase ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Clothes of Rs 5 crore wait at border as 36 B’desh trucks caught in ‘no man’s land’

    Kolkata: As many as 36 garment-laden trucks have found themselves stranded between Bangladesh's Benapole and India's Petrapole borders, following a Saturday notification by the Union ministry of commerce and industry banning the entry of ready-made garments from the neighbouring ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    ‘Chalo Kashmir’: Kol travel cos unite in ‘aptest response’ to terror

    Kolkata: Around 100 travel companies in Kolkata have come together to support an initiative that aims to revive J&K's tourism. The ‘Chalo Kashmir' initiative — spearheaded by Travel Agents' Association of India (TAAI) — aims to put forward a ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    I was too tired to bring exhausted Ranaghat climber down: Sherpa

    123 Kolkata: The Sherpa who accompanied Ranaghat climber Subrata Ghosh during his Everest summit said he did not lose sight of him but was too tired to carry the disoriented Ghosh down and had to finally abandon him. The ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    No gap in statements, HC upholds rape conviction

    Kolkata: Placing confidence in the consistent statements of a hearing-and-speech-impaired rape survivor, Calcutta High Court refused to free the convict even though the witnesses turned hostile during examination. Instead, the court acknowledged the need to consider the long span ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    No-custody relief for 6 convicts

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    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Rooftops hit but vacation surge drives up footfall in other restos

    12 Kolkata: While rooftop restaurants remain shut, most others across Kolkata have seen a major footfall surge with the onset of summer vacation. The rise is around 25% compared to April and around 10%-15% higher than last May, say ...

    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Mamata begins 3-day visit to north Bengal today

    12 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee will be in north Bengal for a three-day visit starting Monday, with a packed schedule that includes an investment summit, a public welfare programme and a high-level administrative review meeting.From Bagdogra airport, Banerjee will ...

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    Body near Gariahat: Murder case after 50 days

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    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake couple in cop net after Kalighat temple fracas

    Kolkata: A couple from Salt Lake visiting Kalighat temple were arrested and three others were detained for questioning after they engaged in an argument with on-duty policemen inside the temple.They allegedly assaulted a policeman and a woman civic volunteer ...

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    India’s science museum man Saroj Ghose passes away in US

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    19 May 2025 Times of India
    Mamata begins 3-day visit to north Bengal today

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