Jalpaiguri: Sweltering heat and sporadic, inadequate rainfall have heavily affected first flush tea production in Bengal and Assam.According to data released by the Tea Board, North India tea production in Jan-March was down by more than 21mkg while all-India ...
11 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The annual waterlogging woes in Kidderpore, Ekbalpore and Mominpore are likely to end as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is preparing to connect several inundation pockets of these areas to the newly-built drainage pumping station at Nawab Ali ...
11 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The festive spirit returned to B B Ganguly Street on Akshay Tritiya day following a slowdown caused by the fluctuating gold prices. Shop facades were already decked up with floral decorations and glittering lights. Amid a soothing weather, ...
11 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: N Rupa-saddled Relic Warrior has a good chance of lifting the Bangalore Turf Club Ltd Trophy at Ooty on Saturday. The son of Brunetta, who was a costly failure last time out, should score in the hands of ...
11 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hawkers in all major shopping hubs, including Gariahat and Hatibagan, have gone back to using plastic sheets to shield their wares from rain despite the civic body providing permanent sheds with corrugated steel sheets. Use of plastic sheets ...
11 May 2024 Times of IndiaBEHRAMPORE: When Irfan Pathan hits the ground, crowds go berserk – even if it’s a political pitch. So, when the former India pacer took to the streets here on Thursday to campaign for his elder brother and Trinamool Congress ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaSANDESHKHALI: Two more videos - both bites given to TV channels - have emerged out of Sandeshkhali, giving fresh life to the Trinamool charge that the entire controversy is a "BJP narrative engineered for political purposes".The first video to ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed All India Football Federation president Kalyan Chaubey to withdraw the petition he had filed, challenging his defeat in the 2021 assembly polls from Maniktala. The withdrawal removes all legal bottlenecks for ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: RVNL has started acquiring more land from the 235-year-old St Thomas’ School, from where the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will be launched for work on the underground stretch of the Joka-Esplanade corridor. A TBM’s minimum length is around ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday referred back the unauthorized building cases, particularly those under wards 35 and 36 of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), to its commissioner with a direction to examine within eight weeks whether building owners could ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to accept a plea challenging a state advisory to state universities which put certain restrictions on them.A division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya ruled that ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A hailstorm lashed Kolkata on Thursday afternoon even as the Met office issued a red alert against squalls between Thursday night and Friday morning. The rain and thunderstorms could continue till at least Monday (May 13). On Thursday, ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is evaluating a proposal to set up a pet park in a neighbourhood off Bypass. If the park does get built, it will be the first such facility in Kolkata. Officials at KMC ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Left and TMC workers clashed with each other at Gopalnagar in south Kolkata while the candidates were headed to the Alipore Survey Building near the crossing on Wednesday to file their nominations.Police said it was around noon that ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress and JMM on Thursday joined actor-director Prakash Raj and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee to take aim at BJP on social media on Thursday, asking why it had instigated false complaints in Sandeshkhali. Pawan Khera, chairman of AICC’s media ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A physically-challenged boy from Kandi Raj High School in Murshidabad has scored 80.4% in higher secondary examination by writing with his foot. Md Alam Rahaman, who was born with the disability, had to grapple through poverty to achieve ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaGHATAL: BJP was planning to trigger violence in Ghatal by killing a worker and blame Trinamool for it, claimed TMC's Ghatal candidate Dev on Wednesday."I have inputs that BJP is trying to create violence here. They will hatch a ...
10 May 2024 Times of IndiaDHAKA: In a first, Bangladesh has developed a new Bangla sign language for those suffering from deafness. At the recently concluded First South Asian Disability Theatre Festival in Dhaka, all the productions made space for one such practitioner to ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose showed CCTV footage of the premises of May 2 to around 100 common people on Thrusday, following molestation charges leveled by a woman employee of Raj Bhavan against him. Footage ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaLalbagh (Murshidabad) : In Bengal’s political discourse, Mir Jafar’s name has long been used as a synonym for ‘gaddar’ (traitor). Even 267 years after the decisive battle that brought Bengal under British control, the legacy runs so deep that ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: From now on, gatherings inside Rabindra Sarobar for meetings and rallies will not be allowed. On Tuesday, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority, the custodians of the Lake, put up notices to that effect at the gates.The decision follows a ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Heavy rain on two days in a row brought the temperature as well as AC sales down. The dip in temperature was preceded by a searing heatwave spell in April, when AC sales in Kolkata broke an all-time ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It took years for an Indian to break into the World Chess Championship (WCC) cycle after Viswanathan Anand. And when it happened, we saw three Grandmasters make the Candidates this time. But GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly feels that ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Riding on a rise in demand for hybrid vehicles, Maruti Suzuki has increased its market share from 38.4% in April 2023 to 40.9% in April 2024. Toyota, with which Maruti Suzuki shares hybrid technology, has also increased its ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: S. Nawab-trained Ashwa Frankie, a good second last time out, may lift the Good Bye Cup on the concluding day of the Winter Season at Delhi on Thursday. The fight for minor placings will be between Sir Mor ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A blanket ban on pets may not be a solution to address the concerns of morning walkers at Rabindra Sarobar, felt pet owners. They said the demand should instead be for responsible behaviour, like keeping the animals on ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A girl has scored 89% in ISC after battling numerous medical complications, including three brain surgeries, partial paralysis and memory loss over the past nearly four years. On Oct 23, 2020, Jancy Joseph, a student of St Thomas ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barred by the model code of conduct from being on the dais of a state govt programme, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sat in the audience for 20 minutes and watched Rabindra Jayanti celebrations on Cathedral Road. ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: IRDAI implemented 100% cashless in the TPA network on Jan 24 and customers were getting the benefit of this system, said National Insurance Company GM Kasturi Sengupta. Addressing the MCCI Insurance Conclave recently, she said: “IRDAI has established ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A severe asthma clinic to provide world-class asthma treatment at par with global standards was opened in Kolkata on World Asthma Day. The clinic opened at Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI), a unit of CK Birla Hospital, will ...
9 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Visitors and morning walkers are strictly prohibited from entering Rabindra Sarobar with their pets, according to a notice that the Lake custodian, KMDA, put up on Tuesday. While some pointed out the move would keep the premises clean, ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A one-year-eight-month-old boy, who has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), recently underwent gene therapy to manage his condition, which cost Rs 17.5 crore, at NRS Medical College Hospital, a first in a Bengal govt-run hospital. SMA is a rare ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro Railway authorities with the help of State Bank of India and Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) is bringing a new mode of digital payment for its commuters in the form of UPI-based ticketing system. P Uday ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata has been ranked 12 in the list of 20 million-plus cities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) as far as PM2.5 concentration is concerned in April 2024. Asansol was ranked second and Durgapur fourth in the list prepared ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Thailand has extended the visa exemption for Indian citizens, bringing cheer to holidayers.The visa exemption plan was announced in 2023 and came into effect from last Nov. The duration was till May 10. Under the scheme in motion, ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Taking a lesson from the season’s first thunderstorm that left some pockets flooded, KMC on Tuesday held a series of meetings to prevent inundation of these localities. According to the strategy adopted by the KMC drainage department officials, ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Temperature fluctuation caused by thundershowers after a heat spell can trigger asthma attacks among patients, pulmonologists warned on Tuesday. Speaking at a panel discussion organised by Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) to mark World Asthma Day, pulmonologists said ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ghost shopping centres or malls that are in distress due to high vacancies in retail space, poor customer footfalls and low revenue are on the rise in Kolkata. While there were four shopping centres in the city that ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Soham Dey, a student of Calcutta Boys’ School, has confronted a life-altering battle with renal failure since the tender age of 11. Despite his ailment, Soham achieved a remarkable 60% in ISC Science, showcasing his resilience and determination.Diagnosed ...
8 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Of the 8.5 lakh air-conditioners that were in use in homes last Tuesday, 7.6 lakh ACs stayed shut on Monday night with the thunderstorm pulling down the temperature dramatically. Similarly, in Salt Lake and New Town, which is ...
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