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Odisha cop suspended for in teacher's case

5 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The state police headquarters on Thursday suspended Damu Parja, the inspector-in-charge (IIC) of Kegaon police station in Odisha's Kalahandi district, for dereliction of duty in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of schoolteacher Mamita Meher...

Kol airport opens terminal for int'l courier clearance

14 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city airport has opened an international courier terminal to facilitate express cargo clearance from here itself. This will enable direct export and import of courier which had to be routed via Delhi or Mumbai till now and required an addition two days in transit...

Mother smothers one day-old girl to death in Ekbalpore

14 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 21-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly smothering her one-day-old girl at a private nursing home in the Ekbalpore area on Wednesday morning. The accused has been identified as Lovely Singh, a resident of the Docks’ Eastern Boundary Round in the Port division. She was put under arrest in the evening after confessing to the crime. She admitted she used a pillow to suffocate the newborn...

Diesel price inches closer to century mark in Kolkata

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A litre of diesel is only Rs 2 shy of a century in Kolkata at present as fuel prices in the city rose again on Wednesday, with diesel reaching Rs 98.03 per litre and petrol selling at Rs 106.78 per litre in yet another all-time high...

Kolkata: Prices of vegetables, fruits touch new highs

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

With a steady rise in diesel prices and damage to standing crops because of excessive rain in October, prices of a number of vegetables and fruits have scored centuries — and even double centuries — and have started burning bigger holes in the pocket of consumers...

New Tallah bridge may be ready by Bengali new year

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The reconstructed Tallah bridge is expected to be ready by next April. The state public works department (PWD), the nodal agency of the project, expects to start working on launching the steel girders of the bridge from November once it receives the permission from the Railways...

'Twin weather systems causing rain moving away from Kol'

20 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

After the sky remaining overcast for the past couple of days and the city being lashed by continuous rain—sometimes, heavy spells—the weather might improve in Kolkata and other parts of south Bengal from Thursday, the Met office predicted on Wednesday. The twin weather systems that brought in the showers were gradually moving away, weathermen said...

Rain hits life, causes landslides in N Bengal

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Road connectivity in several places of Kalimpong district, linking Kalimpong town with several hamlets such as Pedong, Lava and Algara, was snapped owing to landslides, the officials said...

Kolkata: Vaccine footfall drops at private CVCs

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Number of vaccine recipients has dropped sharply across the city’s private hospitals post-festival. The decline has been sharper than the last one in September and has left private hospitals worried even as a spurt in admissions has been reported this week...

First semester ICSE, ISC exams postponed

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has postponed the first semester ICSE and ISC 2021-2022 exams, which were originally scheduled to start on November 15. A circular announcing this, issued by council chief executive and secretary Gerry Arathoon, reached school principals late on Tuesday, saying the decision was taken due to “reasons beyond our control”...

Light rain likely in Kolkata today

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city remained cloudy and received multiple spells of rain on Tuesday even as a low-pressure, that has been triggering showers across south Bengal since Monday, moved away towards Bihar. A strong southeasterly wind, however, continued to blow into Gangetic Bengal, carrying in moisture and clouds from the sea. Kolkata received 6 mm rain till 5.30 pm on Tuesday...

Kolkata: High fuel rates lead to spike in fruit prices

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The continuous rise in diesel and petrol prices and the ongoing festive season have led to a steep hike in fruit and vegetable prices across retail markets in the city and districts on the eve of Lakshmi Puja. According to retailers, the festive period restrictions and higher cost of transportation widened the demand-supply gap, leading to an escalation of costs...

Kolkata: National Library back to pre-Covid schedule

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

National Library on Monday eased restrictions and returned to its pre-pandemic schedule. The fully vaccinated people were allowed to access the reading rooms. All this time, readers booked slots 24 hours in advance to walk into the sprawling Belvedere campus in Alipore...

Senior exec, driver murdered at ancestral Golpark house

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 61-year-old managing director of a BSE-listed company was found murdered on Sunday night — stabbed in the neck and legs — on the ground floor of his two-storey ancestral house on Kankulia Road near Golpark. The corporate executive, Subir Chaki, lived in an upscale condominium in New Town and had put the house up for sale. The body of the family driver, 65-year-old Rabin Mondal, was also found with similar injuries on the first floor...

This Durga Puja, Kol airport gets 57% more flyers

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city airport recorded the busiest week in over 20 months with 3 lakh flyers travelling through the facility this Puja, up from just under 2 lakh passengers it catered to during the festival last year — a jump of around 57%...

Odisha plans drone cameras for jail security

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

"The proposed drone service will help us keep tabs on the sprawling premises of jails that are not covered under the CCTV cameras. The drone cameras can also detect illegal activities in jails and keep a watch on the activities of the prisoners," DG (prisons and correctional services) Santosh Upadhyay said...

Muslims in Bengal condemn violence in Bangladesh

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Muslims in West Bengal, including civil society and religious figures and youths, have strongly condemned the violence in Bangladesh during Durga Puja last week that resulted in the deaths of at least four persons...

West Bengal: Rising diesel price sets fire to kitchen budgets

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The diesel price is steadily marching towards the century mark, now costlier by Rs 20.26 a litre than what it was a year ago. The petrol price crossed Rs 105 and is now costlier by Rs 23 than a year ago. While auto LPG price has touched Rs 57.95 a litre, cooking gas is nearing Rs 1,000 for a 14.2kg domestic cylinder. The sharp rise of fuel prices has set kitchen budgets on fire and resulted in skyrocketing commuting costs...

Kolkata malls see record Puja crowd, sales

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

After surpassing 2019 sales in the run-up to Durga Puja, malls in the city turned into hangout zones for youngsters and clocked record food and beverage (F&B) sales during the festive days...

Bars celebrate ‘1st phase of good business since March 2021’

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bars and pubs in the city witnessed record sales on all Puja days with the weekend acting as the cherry on top of the festive business pie...

Kolkata: Crackdown on crowd-puller Puja pandal

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Taking a lesson from the fiasco that led to visitors being banned from entering the pandal from Ashtami night, officials of Sreebhumi Sporting in Lake Town have said they will henceforth lay more emphasis on crowd control measures and start planning for it in close coordination with police seven to eight months prior to the Puja...

Kolkata: Accident claims techie, 7th victim in festive week

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 24-year-old techie, riding a colleague’s motorbike, was killed and the colleague riding pillion was severely injured after they dashed into the guardrails of Ultadanga flyover on Saturday morning...

Docs sound case-spike alarm as revellers drop Covid guard

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Health experts on Saturday sounded a warning against an imminent spike in Covid cases over the next few weeks following nearly four months of relative calm when Covid cases in the state were under control. Hospitals are already witnessing a rise in number of Covid positive patients. The silver lining, however, is the vaccination coverage that many experts feel could act as a shield against a massive surge that had put the health system under severe strain during the second wave...

Kol: North-south Metro rider count crosses 12 lakh mark

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Metro registered eight to nine times Puja footfall compared to last year. On Sashthi, Metro crossed the 3.5lakh mark, clocking 3,77,761 passengers. The carrier ran 12 extra services from Saptami to Navami to meet the passenger rush and adhere to distancing norms...

Food, drinks bill behind youth murder, 3 held

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bhubaneswar Police on Saturday arrested three persons for allegedly murdering Manish Anurag (30), son of senior journalist Navin Das, six days ago on October 10...

West Bengal logs 530 new Covid-19 cases, 10 deaths

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

West Bengal's Covid-19 tally rose to 15,79,012 on Thursday as 530 more people tested positive for the infection, while 10 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 18,945, a health bulletin said...

Secy to Odisha CM reviews sports infra in Puri

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

VK Pandian, secretary to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday visited Puri stadium project site to oversee the progress of works and directed to expedite the works for early completion...

Chefs at ITC hotels hand-craft Durga idols with chocolate

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Care for a chocolate Durga? But one who has been conceived as the super power protecting us with the vaccine as her supreme weapon? Check in at ITC Royal Bengal and ITC Sonar...

Parents breathe easy after Covid vax nod for kids

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Parents breathed a sigh of relief as an expert committee on Tuesday gave emergency approval to Covaxin for children, even as health experts say immunity levels among kids are better than adults to resist the virus...

Odisha: Three Maoists killed in Malkangiri

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

At least three Maoists, including two women, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Malkangiri district, in the early hours of Tuesday...

Fire in CM Mamata Banerjee's office building in Kolkata

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A fire broke on the top floor of West Bengal's state secretariat building in Kolkata on Tuesday noon. The fire created panic among the top officials as chief minister Mamata Banerjee sits on the top floor of the 14-storey building...

Kolkata: Trader in ‘financial crisis’ found hanging

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 51-year-old trader, who owned an iron smelting unit in south suburban Kolkata, reportedly died by suicide at his Bijoygarh home on Sunday. Cops said the man, Debiprasad Aich, had multiple reasons to take the extreme step. He was found hanging by his daughter. He was taken to Baghajatin State General Hospital where he was declared dead...

Fire breaks out at Vodafone mobile tower in Nabanna

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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Fearing slow vax drive, Bengal gives 50L doses in a week

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Ramping up the inoculation drive before the Durga Puja, the state has administered around 50 lakh doses in the past seven days...

'Odisha scribe's son didn’t die by drowning'

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Though the police did not disclose the findings of the post-mortem report, the doctors, who conducted his autopsy reportedly told the police that Manish did not die by drowning...

Drug flow to Mizoram rises amid turmoil in Myanmar

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The current state of turmoil in Myanmar owing to the ongoing civil war resulted not only in the influx of refugees to Mizoram but also led to a sharp rise in drugs and narcotics trafficking across the 404 km-long highly-porous Mizoram-Myanmar international border, state excise and narcotics department officials said...

Video on homecoming touches a chord with Kolkata

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Nothing perhaps makes the heart ache more than the absence of the company of their loved ones during the Pujas. Actor Rituparna Sengupta understands that every time she walks up to her son Ankan’s bedroom. His drawings still adorn the walls while his books and toys peep through the shelves. The smell of his shirts tucked in the closet makes her feel his presence in his absence...

West Bengal: Met predicts rain from Wednesday to Friday

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A low-pressure is set to form over north Andaman Sea over the next 24 hours. It may lead to showers in Kolkata and south Bengal from October 13-15 (Ashtami-Dashami). Kolkata could receive a heavy, consistent spell of rain one of these days...

Kolkata: Pujas record crowds like Saptami-Ashtami

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An extended pre-Puja weekend and a dry Sunday brought thousands of revellers out on a pandal-hopping spree on Panchami. The surge had begun from Chaturthi, a Saturday, and as the rain eased off, revellers thronged the city streets from early on Sunday morning. As the day progressed, the crowd continued to grow...

Won't change pandal: Dumdum Park Bharat Chakra

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A day before Sasthi, a complaint was lodged at the Lalbazar against the organisers of the Dumdum Park Bharat Chakra puja for hurting the religious sentiments by decorating the pandal with chappals. The organisers on Sunday said that they are not willing to remove the shoes despite some more legal notices reaching them on Sunday...

Kolkata: Cops take guard after terror alert during Puja

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata Police has decided to deploy combat battalion commandos and special striking force commandos at 38 points in the city to foil any terror attack during the Durga Puja. In addition, there will be 31 rapid city patrols across the city. The three divisions in south and southwest Kolkata where 50% Pujas are located will have 18 such patrols. The deployment in central and north Kolkata will be mobile with vigil on the roads as entry to pandals is banned under the Calcutta High Court order...

Kolkata: Robbers caught from hotels

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A gang of robbers planning to strike during the Puja were caught from two hotels off Belgharia Expressway on Saturday. Seven people were arrested with four firearms, 25 rounds of cartridges, Rs 32,000 cash and a gold chain...

Kol: 10 days on, another house collapses, 2 bikers killed

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A portion of a house on Rabindra Sarani came crashing down on the road below on Saturday, killing two two-wheeler riders...

Durga Puja: City eateries seek extension of closing hours

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Due to easing of night curfew during the festival season, owners of fine dining restaurants in the city have sought the West Bengal government to extend the closing hour by another hour from 10:30pm during Durga Puja days...

Kolkata: Teacher held for ‘molesting’ 16-yr-old girl

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 40-year-old Biology teacher was arrested by the Ekbalpore Police for allegedly outraging the modesty of a 16-year-old student who had gone to his residence to attend special classes for her upcoming exams. The arrest was carried out on the basis of a specific complaint by the victim's father...

Polls over, stop political wrangling: Calcutta HC

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Elections were over and people had given their verdict and it was time to “stop political wrangling”, the Calcutta high court said on Friday while dismissing the CBI’s and ED’s petitions questioning the Bengal assembly speaker’s notices to them...

Restaurants in Kol seek late-closure permission

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A large number of restaurants across Kolkata have applied for a late-closure permission on all Puja days — October 12-15 — anticipating a sharp rise in footfalls during the festival. They expect the curb on entering pandals will divert many to their favourite eateries...

Odisha villagers urge Centre to speed up NH-55 work

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Villagers of Boinda in Angul district of Odisha have urged the Centre to speed up the work of Cuttack-Angul section and Sambalpur-Angul section of the National Highway-55 (previously NH-42)...

Kolkata: 4,000 cops to be on streets from Tritiya

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Pre-Puja traffic snarls returned to several Kolkata pockets as shoppers and pandal-hoppers jostled with office-going traffic since Thursday evening...

Kol gets own lab to check adulteration in food

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department on Thursday got its own state-of-the-art food testing laboratory. Now there will be no more waiting for a stamp of approval from the state- or Centre-approved laboratories for a certificate for adulteration in cooked food, raw meat, spices or other items of daily necessity...

Sabyasachi Dutta quits BJP, makes a comeback to TMC

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Sabyasachi Dutta, the two-time Trinamool Congress Rajarhat-New Town MLA and former Bidhannagar mayor who had defected to BJP in 2019 and was rewarded with a nomination in the recently held assembly polls, returned to TMC after two years on Thursday...

Mamata Banerjee and 2 other TMC MLAs take oath

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took oath as a member of the Bengal legislative assembly. She was administered the oath by governor Jagdeep Dhankhar...

70 from West Bengal still stuck in Uttarakhand

20 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

As rain has started to recede in Uttarakhand on Wednesday, tourists heaved a sigh of relief looking forward to a faster restoration of the roads. The state government estimated that nearly 70 people from Bengal are stuck there...

Fresh Covid cases rise to 244 in Kolkata

20 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Fresh Covid cases in Kolkata rose to 244 and two deaths were reported from the city on Wednesday. The last 10 days, ever since night restrictions were eased, Kolkata have witnessed 1,665 Covid cases and 22 deaths...

CU students may change subjects till mid-December

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Colleges affiliated to Calcutta University will have to submit all the details of students who have taken admission in UG courses this year between October 25 and November 30. Students will be allowed to change their subjects, courses and streams within two weeks — by mid-December — after completion of final registration data uploading process...

Howrah station gets digital reservation chart board

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Tired of peering at those tiny, faint, almost illegible typed out letters on the reservation charts? Not any more. Eastern Railway installed a digital passenger reservation chart board at Howrah Station on Monday afternoon for passengers to get a clear view of their reservation status. A senior ER employee commissioned the e-chart board...

'Exec murder probe points to multiple assailants'

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Senior corporate executive Subir Chaki (61) and his driver Rabin Mandal (65) had put up a valiant fight before they were overpowered and stabbed to death, probably by more than one assailant, police said on Tuesday, explaining the multiple stab wounds inflicted on both the victims. Their bodies were found at Chaki’s Kankulia Road house late on Sunday...

Deluge likely in Darjeeling, Kalimpong in WB

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Met department on Tuesday said that heavy rainfall is very likely to continue in West Bengal till Thursday morning even as the low-pressure system that developed over the Gangetic Basin in the southern part of the state moved to Bihar...

‘Accidental’ gunshot kills BJP leader in North Dinajpur

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 32-year-old BJP Yuva Morcha leader died of a gunshot wound near his Itahar home in North Dinajpur late on Sunday, sparking a political blame game in the district. While the BJP sees “a Trinamool conspiracy” in Mithun Ghosh’s death, the Trinamool Congress has denied the allegation...

Birding season starts with rare Sunderbans sighting

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The movement of migratory birds from the northern hemisphere has started and bird watchers across Bengal have started photographing the winged wonders that are flying to their wintering grounds...

Bengal literati protest violence across border

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

People from across the Indo-Bangla border have strongly condemned the spate of attacks on temples and Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh...

WB BJYM leader shot dead at home; one held

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Mithun Ghosh, a local leader of the BJP's youth wing, was fired upon at around 9.30pm on Sunday. When he was taken to a hospital, doctors declared him brought dead, district superintendent of police Mohammed Sana Akhtar told PTI...

Heavy rain in South Bengal dists till Tuesday: Met

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Inclement weather prevailed over most parts of South Bengal on Monday as continuous rain with one or two spells of heavy downpour caused by a low pressure system affected normal life in the city and several other places...

Digha-Bakkhali hotels full in post-Puja weekend

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Digha in East Midnapore and Bakkhali-Frasergunj in South 24 Parganas are overflowing with tourists during this weekend of extended puja holidays. For the first time in the last two years, hotels, holiday homes and guest houses are refusing tourists as occupancy has reached 100 percent...

Iskcon Kolkata devotees gather outside Bangladesh mission

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Five-hundred-odd monks, brahmacharis and devotees of Iskcon gathered outside the Bangladesh deputy high commission here on Sunday, holding candles and singing bhajans and kirtans, in peaceful protest against the violence perpetrated on their temple premises in Noakhali, Bangladesh...

Kol: Durga idols set to get new homes at steel plant, GPO

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Durga Puja may be over this year with majority of organisers concluding idol immersions by Sunday but a handful of idols that had become the talk of the town will be preserved at different locations where people can still admire the artwork at leisure...

Heavy rainfall likely to lash West Bengal till Oct 20

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The meteorological department on Sunday said heavy rainfall is likely to occur in West Bengal till October 20 owing to a low-pressure area over north Telangana and strong southeasterly wind from the Bay of Bengal...

Kolkata: Restaurants run out of food, down shutters

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The food and beverage industry in Kolkata clocked record footfall and revenues this Durga Puja as people took to revenge eating after nearly two years of caution and restraint. The heavy rush saw many restaurants being forced to down shutters after they ran out of food. Restaurateurs who have been in business for decades said they have never witnessed anything like this in their lifetime...

Pujas clock revenue rise in Kolkata, local economy gets a boost

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Durga Puja committees in the city claimed to have made up for a large portion of the loses they incurred last year owing to the pandemic and the consequent economic slowdown. After the sweeping second wave, as Covid cases gradually came down, business started picking up, albeit slowly, and for the Puja, more jobs were created than that last time, providing a shot in the local economy arm, prominent Puja committees said...

WB: Vax drive picks pace after slow progress in Puja

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

When the entire state was immersed in festivity, the state government had kept up its vaccination drive from state-run medical colleges and other hospitals. Despite a low turnout during the festivity, the drive picked up from Saturday itself. Till reports came in last the state was inching towards 6 lakh doses for the day. Health officials said there would be further shift in vaccination gear from Monday...

Carjacker couple posing as puja revellers held

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A couple in their 20s were arrested for posing as revellers and robbing the car, cash and mobile phone from an app cab driver in the early hours of Saptami after hiring the car for an overnight trip around the city...

Bengal: Fire breaks out at Kolkata restaurant

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze, which probably started from the kitchen of the Mughlai restaurant at Mullickbazar area, a police officer said...

3.3 magnitude earthquake hits Assam

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An earthquake of 3.3 magnitude shook Assam on Thursday, a Met official said here. The quake hit at 11.06 am and its epicentre was in Lakhimpur district, the official said...

Covid: 11 die in Bengal, 771 cases reported

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Covid-19 toll on Wednesday rose to 18,935 after 11 more people succumbed to the disease, while 771 fresh cases pushed the tally to 15,78,482, a bulletin released by the state health department said. North 24 Parganas accounted for four deaths, followed by three in Kolkata...

5-year-old boy killed in firecracker explosion in WB

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A five-year-old boy has been killed in a firecracker explosion in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said on Wednesday...

Kuki militants shoot dead Manipur village chief

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Tension gripped the B Gamnom area in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district after some miscreants, suspected to be Kuki militants, allegedly opened fire, killing four civilians, including the chief of MP Khullen village and a minor boy, on Tuesday morning...

Kolkata: Burj Khalifa laser show suspended

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city's most-hyped Durga Puja pandal, a replica of Dubai's iconic skyscraper Burj Khalifa created at Sreebhumi, Lake Town, has suspended a spectacular laser show that had emerged as a show stopper...

Shashthi pandal-hopper count tops Panchami high

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city woke up to the beats of dhaak with ‘Bodhan’ on Monday, heralding the start of five-day festivities. By evening, lakhs hit the streets. The crowd count on Monday surpassed Sunday’s high...

Odisha: Three Maoists gunned down in Malkangiri

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three Maoists, including two women, were gunned down by the police in Tulsi forest range in Odisha's Malkangiri district on Tuesday...

Puja tribute in Kolkata to those who lost Covid battle

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three of the city’s big-budget Durga Pujas are paying tribute to those who fell in the war against the pandemic — prominent citizens, artists, club functionaries whose decades of association with their respective pujas was abruptly halted by Covid-19...

Kolkata: Rush at bars after business-hour extension

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bars and restaurants in the city had a “super Sunday” on October 10, the first day of relaxation in timings announced by the state government earlier this week. Most of the restaurants registered good figures and many of them witnessed the best sales on a Sunday in almost two years since the onset of the pandemic. In some cases, it was even better than pre-pandemic times in 2019...

Kolkata: This 'Burj Khalifa' is a huge draw

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A slice of the desert Emirate of Dubai seems to have been imported into Kolkata, with a lit-up replica of Burj Khalifa having been created by artists and electrical whiz-kids in Salt Lake City's Lake town area, attracting tens of thousands of people and creating traffic jams throughout the day...

EM Bypass bike ride ends in fatal crash for man

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 27-year-old man was killed and his 25-year-old wife is battling for life after their bike hit a median divider on EM Bypass, between Metropolitan and Chingrighata crossings near Captain Bheri in the early hours of Sunday. The duo from Garia Nathpara, were headed to the Sreebhumi Puja pandal when the accident happened around 2.10am...

Puja sales cross 2019 figures in Kolkata malls

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Malls in Kolkata have bounced back with a bang, clocking more revenue during the festive sales than it had done prior to the pandemic in September-October, 2019. If the momentum persists through Diwali and Christmas, this could turn out to be one of the best second half for malls in Kolkata, despite the three-month closure during the second wave...

Red Road bike goons threaten hockey coach ‘at gunpoint’

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 42-year-old hockey coach, who after completing training in Maidan was walking along Red Road to take a bus to his Beniapukur home on Sunday evening, told police that he was accosted by two bike-borne miscreants who threatened him...

3rd wave: Doctors start diabetes screening

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Ahead of the third Covid-19 wave, doctors in Kolkata have started an awareness drive so that diabetic patients can be screened in advance and deaths in comorbid persons can be prevented...

Biker dies, pillion rider hurt in bike mishap

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 23-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old woman was critically injured when a motorcycle they were riding skidded off the road and hit a concrete slab in Kolkata on Sunday, police said...

Kolkata: Bodies of 2 conservancy workers found in reservoir

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The bodies of two workers were recovered from a reservoir of an under construction building in Tollygunge area on Saturday morning. Police have identified the two victims as Shyam Halder (35) and Palan Haldar (36)...

Bengal: Restaurants, bars allowed to close late during Pujas

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The state government on Saturday issued an order permitting all bars, restaurants and shops to remain open as per pre-pandemic normal hours, that is till 11pm, during the festival days. It has also allowed bars to operate beyond these hours, but they would have to seek a licence for late closure from the excise department ...

Airports on a festive high as flyer count sets new record

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata and Bagdogra airports clocked record passenger traffic since the onset of the pandemic 18 months ago, riding the festive season rush as Kolkatans settled in other cities flew in to spend Durga Puja with family and friends and others from the city flew out on holiday...

Priest held for molesting minor in Puri Jagannath temple

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Puri Police on Saturday arrested a priest of a subsidiary shrine inside the famous Jagannath temple for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old girl from Hyderabad on Friday evening...