Kolkata: The reclaiming of the pond in Netaji Nagar’s Jorabagan by a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team suffered a temporary setback on Friday owing to resistance by a section of local residents who claimed to be owners of the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose cast his vote in the morning on Friday at Polling booth no.75,Saraswati Vidyalaya in Thiruvananthapuram. Bose reached the polling booth alongwith wife Lakshmi Ananda Bose.Though Bengal Governor had the option to vote from ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Security was beefed up at Kolkata airport on Friday following a bomb threat alert received by the airport manager on his email that said there was a bomb planted at the airport and that it would blow off ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On the occasion of autism awareness month an organisation that works on rehabilitation of individuals with neuro-developmental disabilities, has come up with an exhibition titled "A Journey Through Special Senses." Opened on Friday the two day exhibition attendees ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MAHISHADAL: CM Mamata Banerjee, in her first campaign rally in Tamluk where former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Ganguly is the BJP candidate, linked him directly to the current crisis involving the loss of nearly 26,000 jobs and called ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaHOOGHLY: Trinamool Serampore Lok Sabha candidate and outgoing MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday asked actor and Uttarpara TMC MLA Kanchan Mallick to step down from his campaign vehicle. Later, Banerjee said whenever women villagers saw Mallick, they reacted strongly ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to submit a report on the clashes that occurred during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. The court's decision came in response to two Public ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKANTHI: An 18-year-old BJP activist was discovered deceased in a betel-leaf plantation located in Goramahal village, Mayna area of Purba Medinipur district West Bengal, according to police reports on Friday. The deceased, identified as Dinabondhu Middya, had been reported ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta high court a "mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)" for BJP while stressing that HC could have "given some other advice" in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Several schoolteachers, who are set to lose their jobs following a Calcutta High Court order in the cash-for-jobs scam, are poll officials in the state's second phase of voting. While none of them relishes poll duty when their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Supreme Court, striking down a Calcutta High Court order, has said a govt officer should be summoned to appear in court only in exceptional cases, that too after first arranging a hearing through video-conference, and after the court ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At 41.6°C, the city on Thursday witnessed the hottest April day in 44 years and the second hottest in the last 50 years. The only April day in the last 50 years when the maximum temperature was higher ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If most prominent Kolkata schools have rediscovered the virtues of offline education even amid the heatwave, hospitals are moving in the opposite direction. Many of them have started online consultation, which made its debut during the pandemic, so ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and cops on Thursday conducted a surprise check at Esplanade and carried out a drive on the pavements along Jawaharlal Nehru Road, removing plastic sheets that hawkers there had been using to cover their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly the whole of Salt Lake, New Town, large parts of Sonarpur and some pockets in north and south Kolkata had a blackout on Thursday evening following a snag in a transmission line that tripped power supply. Initial ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There has been a severe shortage of packaged curd in shops and outlets across the city with its demand going up amid the scorching heat. Not just that, interrupted supply of raw milk due to cattle falling sick ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Syed H Abbas- trained Ode To Nature runs with a good chance of winning the D.R.C. Managing Committee Juvenile Sprinters Cup in New Delhi on Friday. The son of Pretty Lights has been a consistent performer and will ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: She is “102 not out” with a zeal to cast her vote.Sarala Bala Dey was born when the British ruled India, but most of her memories are blurred now. TOI accompanied the EC members to her room in ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several parts of Kolkata, particularly in the south, are now heavily dependent on tankers and packaged water to tide over the crisis triggered by the prolonged heat spell. In areas like Tollygunge, Jadavpur, Baghajatin and pockets of Prince ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly 4,000 homes were registered in March 2024, 17% more than the number of homes registered in March 2023. The month also saw affordable homes of up to 500 sq ft make a strong comeback with a growth ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It’s getting too close for comfort for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Their last two matches went all the way down to the wire with the hosts losing one and winning the other. Although the purple brigade is sitting ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Suri: In a first in Bengal, two BJP leaders have filed nominations for the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat.BJP had formally nominated former IPS officer Debashis Dhar from the seat. The second candidate to file his nomination — also on ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed first case in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, concerning allegations of land grabbing and sexual assault against five influential individuals, as stated by officials on Thursday. The case revolves around a ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her strong disapproval of the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs, labeling it as 'gross injustice.' She alleged that it was a deliberate tactic by the BJP to prevent these job ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If Covid made online education indispensable, the ongoing heatwave in Bengal four years later has shown how offline education has once again become fundamental. Several prominent schools have chosen to ignore govt's move to bring forward summer vacation ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After a two-day break, the maximum temperature in Kolkata breached the 40°C mark on Wednesday again, leaving the city sizzling. The Met office has warned that the situation could get worse with the temperature predicted to inch towards ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Breaking his silence on the arrest of 26/11 suspect-turned-approver Rajaram Rege for carrying out a recce of his house and office, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday attacked BJP, claiming: “They raided my helicopter using the I-T ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A school bus carrying students from The BSS School was stopped by traffic cops and the students were made to wait in the scorching afternoon heat for over 30 minutes near Dhalai Bridge on EM Bypass on Tuesday. ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Soujanya” and “subhechchha” (‘courtesy’ and ‘good wishes’) entered the fray ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Balurghat with Trinamool’s actor-MP Dev taking a dig at BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya for misinterpreting the two words. Dev ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There was a scare inside the Kolkata airport terminal's domestic wing when glass shards from a wall panel fell within inches of where flyers were seated. Airport officials said that though no one was injured, they were checking ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing heatwave has led many to defer their planned surgeries. While peak summer usually sees a drop in the number of procedures, since patients and their families prefer to wait until the weather improves, the continuing scorching ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: After around eight months, the Council For The Indian School Certificate (CISCE) will have a new chief executive and secretary starting in May. Joseph Emmanuel, the former academic director of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old youth from Deoghar, Jharkhand, was arrested from Durgapur on charges of duping a person of around Rs 2.2 lakh by obtaining confidential details about the victim’s credit card. The victim had received a call from the ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengaluru-based scientist Anindya Sinha, who is in town for the forthcoming centenary celebration of his actress-director mother Arundhati Devi at Nandan, is frantically trying to locate a print of ‘Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (PPBB)’. This 1972 film directed ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday started reclaiming and restoring a large pond at Jorabagan Lotus Park in the Netaji Nagar area. This water body was being gradually filled up. During an ongoing survey of the city’s existing ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaRAIGANJ: In Raiganj, it may well be a battle of defectors. Of the three primary contenders, Krishna Kalyani left BJP to receive a nomination from Trinamool, Kartik Paul left Congress to become a BJP candidate and Ali Imran Ramz ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaBALURGHAT: Amid the cheers of BJP supporters, the Delhi-bound Farakka Express has been rescheduled. From April 15, it will start from Balurghat. If MP and state BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar sees it as his achievement, for landless Mojidur Sarkar, ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaSILIGURI: General secretary of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) and the "in-charge of the hills", Binay Tamang, was expelled by Congress on Tuesday after he extended support to BJP's Darjeeling candidate Raju Bista. Tamang had been a close ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/BHATAR: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wondered who would teach the thousands of children - "BJP or RSS?" - now that close to 26,000 school staff had lost their jobs, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Mohammad Asif."Where will the ...
24 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A massive blaze engulfed a pharmaceutical warehouse located in Hooghly district of West Bengal on Wednesday morning, as reported by an official. Fortunately, no lives were lost due to the incident.To combat the fire, which was initially noticed ...
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