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Wanted jewellery designer arrested in Mumbai

3 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Mumbai crime branch's Unit 12 arrested Raja Subolchandra Mondal, a resident of Howrah in Kolkata, from the western suburb of Andheri on Wednesday, an official said...

GI tag: West Bengal celebrates 'Rosogolla Day'

3 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

'Rosogolla Dibas' (Rasgulla Day) was celebrated in West Bengal on Thursday to mark the granting of Geographical Indication (GI) tag of 'Banglar Rosogolla' (Bengal's Rasgulla) to the state on this day two years ago...

Saradha scam: CBI grills IPS officer Arnab Ghosh

5 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The CBI, probing the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam, on Thursday quizzed IPS officer Arnab Ghosh about two missing items -- a red diary and a hard disk -- crucial in unearthing a bigger conspiracy behind the scandal and the role of influential people in it, sources said...

BJP’s protest stalls north Kolkata traffic

10 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A blockade of Central Avenue by BJP workers on Wednesday afternoon over KMC’s inaction in curbing the spread of dengue left commuters in the lurch. As BJP workers fought a pitched battle with cops, who used water cannon and batons to disperse protesters, traffic came to a standstill on arterial roads, like BB Ganguly Street, Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Prafulla Sarkar Street and Chandni Chowk, for about two to three hours...

New Town accident survivor recounts horror

11 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Speeding down New Town’s Main Arterial Road in the wee hours of Tuesday, Sarbjyot Singh had dozed off in the co-driver’s seat. Snug in the seat with the seat belt fastened, Sarbjyot would have continued to sleep through the ride had he not felt a jerk. Startled, he opened his eyes to find the sedan swerve wildly to the right and then to the left. Before he could make sense of what was happening, the car crashed. And by the time he was in a position to make any sense at all, all three boys in the rear seat were dead...

How fresh is the milk? IIT-G sensor can tell you

12 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

IIT- Guwahati (IIT-G) researchers have developed a paper-based sensor that can test the freshness of milk...

36-yr-old woman forced into car, gang-raped

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 36-year-old epilepsy patient was allegedly gang-raped after being kidnapped a stone’s throw from a shelter facility that she had moved into barely two days back in Panchasayar, around 1km off the EM Bypass, in the early hours of Tuesday...

Safety on mind, KMDA wants Bijon Setu shut

18 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is trying to speed up Bijon Setu’s structural stability assessment process. It has asked for dates from Kolkata Police to keep the bridge shut for 72 hours. With the structural condition of the bridge in a doubtful state, the agency is under pressure to come out with the report of the load capacity test that was supposed to be conducted before Puja...

Dengue menace: BJP leader detained for protest

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Police on Wednesday detained BJP leader Rimjhim Mitra along with other party workers after they staged a protest near KMC office demanding a 'dengue free' Kolkata. The police also used water cannons to disperse the protesters...

Bihar's fake note dealer in Kolkata police net

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has nabbed another Bihar-based fake currency dealer Vikas Kumar Das - a resident of Chhapra - from Gostho Pal Sarani near Eden Garden Park on Monday evening...

Garden Reach flyover: Bike-borne trio robs bizman

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A businessman residing in New Alipore has claimed that snatchers robbed him of Rs 2 lakh on Garden Reach flyover on Sunday evening. The victim, identified as Suresh Shankar Aggarwal, claimed that he was followed by at least three criminals in two bikes, who later hit his two-wheeler and forced him to get off. He was returning home from his Metiabruz factory when the incident took place...

‘Bulbul cost may be thousands of crores’

yesterday

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Babul Supriyo to visit cyclone-hit areas

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Union Minister Babul Supriyo Tuesday said he has been asked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the cyclone-hit areas in West Bengal on Wednesday to look into the ground level situation...

Woman dies, kin ensure she lives on in 3 others

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The organs of a 26-year-old brain-dead woman at RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) were donated to three patients — two at the same hospital and one at SSKM Hospital — on Monday morning...

10-day E-W Metro trial focus on failure drills

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

After glitch-free dummy runs, it’s time for trial runs with tailored glitches. On Friday, East-West Metro’s ready-to-launch elevated section started another round of service trials. But this time, it will be a prolonged 10-day trial with “failure drills” to identify the system’s preparedness against sudden malfunctions...

24 students, parents hurt in school bus crash

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A private school bus ferrying school kids and their parents to a north Kolkata school rammed a parked van, hit a pedestrian, crashed into a traffic post and finally keeled over to come to stop at the PK Mukherjee Road-Cossipore Road crossing on Monday morning...

West Bengal govt owes Rs 46cr to BSNL: Official

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) claimed that the West Bengal government owed Rs 46 crore to the telecom operator and also urged the state to expedite the payment as it has been facing cash crunch...

Bulbul: Pilots at Sagar Island help evacuees

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Nearly 200 people from nearby villages took shelter at the pilotage station of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) on Sagar Island even as Cyclone Bulbul made landfall around 8.30 pm on Saturday..

Kolkata airport turns disabled-friendly

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

From disabled friendly toilets and tactile studs at floors to low-height flight information display and wheelchair friendly help desks, Kolkata airport has decked itself up with a slew of amenities for passengers with reduced mobility, days after they were criticised following an alleged case of harassment against two prominent disability rights activists at the airport last month...

Cyclone Bulbul: Mamata to conduct aerial survey

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will make an aerial survey of the severe cyclone Bulbul hit areas around Namkhana and Bakkhali in South 24 Parganas district on Monday, she announced on twitter...

Fence along Maa flyover to tackle manja menace

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is working on plans to put up fences on both sides of Maa flyover, specially on the southern flank, to prevent alloy-coated kite strings from injuring bikers. KMDA sources said that an agency recently proposed such a fence with polycarbonate sheet...

Cyclone Bulbul may expedite Sagar erosion: Experts

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul threatened to accelerate coastal erosion of Sagar Island, something, which might make the Kapil Muni ashram, situated close to the coast, vulnerable yet again, experts and district officials feared..

Cyclone 'Bulbul': Heavy rains lash WB; 1 dead

5 days ago

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Odisha: Bulbul brings heavy rain, uproots trees

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Heavy rain accompanied by high-velocity winds, trigerred by very severe cyclonic storm 'Bulbul', lashed several parts of coastal Odisha on Saturday, uprooting trees and snapping road links...

Heavy rain, high winds likely to lash Kol today

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city remained cloudy and received intermittent drizzles on Friday as Cyclone Bulbul, which raged over the sea around 550km south of the city, approached the Bangladesh-Bengal coast at a speed of 13kmph. The showers got heavier late on Friday and are set to get more intense on Saturday as the cyclone approaches land...

Cyclone Bulbul to make landfall on Sunday

5 days ago

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Cyclone Bulbul: NDRF deploys 16 teams

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Friday deployed 16 teams to deal with the cyclonic situation in West Bengal and Odisha...

Winds help Kolkata breathe easy

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A day after Kolkata’s air turned fouler than Delhi’s and the air quality index (AQI) hovered around the 400-mark at various locations, strong northwesterly winds on Thursday dispersed some of the pollutants hanging heavy in the air. At Ballygunge, the AQI fell to 232, which was still in the ‘poor’ category, while in Salt Lake it dipped below..

Banned drugs worth Rs 1 crore seized in Kolkata

7 days ago

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Cyclone Bulbul likely to move towards Bengal

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A cyclonic storm formed over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm over the next 24 hours and set to move towards West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts, skirting Odisha, a senior IMD official said...

Kolkata air turns fouler than Delhi’s

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city’s ambient air quality deteriorated from ‘poor’ on Tuesday to ‘very poor’ on Wednesday even as the air quality in Delhi displayed a marked improvement — moving up from ‘very poor’ to ‘poor — in response to multiple measures...

Kolkata: Woman constable dies of dengue

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 28-year-old woman constable, who had given birth to a baby girl on October 27, succumbed to dengue at a private hospital early on Wednesday morning. ..

Initiative to ensure care of parents launched

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Police has reiterated its support to the aged parents who feel neglected or are financially struggling to make their ends meet despite having children or dependents to whom they have gifted their property. ..

Mastermind of Dilip Ram's murder arrested

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A large cache of arms and ammunition were seized from him.He was brought on transit remand to Chandernagore on Tuesday and produced in a Hooghly court...

Tripura boy rescued from Sealdah station

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Authorities suspect that a 14-year-old boy, a resident of Agartala in Tripura, found at Sealdah station on Monday could have been trafficked...

Cyclone Bulbul likely to bring rain in Kolkata

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Cyclone Bulbul, which is approaching the Bengal and Odisha coasts, could trigger light to moderate showers in Kolkata this weekend. The cyclone, which is yet to form, is now a low-pressure over the North Andaman Sea. It is set to intensify into a deep depression on Wednesday and a cyclonic storm over the subsequent 24 hours. While the coastal areas of the state could receive heavy rain, Kolkata and the rest of south Bengal may get less intense showers...

Kolkata: Woman mowed down by bus

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 34-year-old woman, Reshma Hela, who was riding pillion with her husband was killed on Tuesday afternoon when the bike was hit by a bus at Kankurgachhi crossing in north Kolkata. The accident took place around 3.25pm when the bus was reportedly racing past a traffic signal the moment it had turned green. The driver, Rafikul Islam (32) sped away after the accident, but the bus plying on the route 44 (between Howrah and Baguiati) was stopped near Ultadanga crossing. He was arrested and charged under IPC sections 279 (rash driving) and 304 A (causing death by negligence)...

WB: 25K bottles of banned cough syrup seized

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three persons have been arrested with 25,000 bottles of a particular brand of banned cough syrup, which is used as an intoxicant, in West Bengal's Malda district, a senior Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer said on Tuesday...

Kolkata: PMO push clears Poush Mela uncertainty

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Poush Mela regulars can breathe easy: the 125th edition of the fair — which draws thousands of visitors from all over the country and the world to Santiniketan — will be held at its traditional venue in Tagore’s university town this year as well...

Flutter over human bones in Thakurpukur plot

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The discovery of some bones and parts of skulls at a vacant plot at Thakurpukur’s Satyen Park on Monday morning sent the neighbourhood in a tizzy. Police said the bones appeared to be that of humans, a claim that received verbal consent from experts...

Centre to sign peace deal with Ulfa soon

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Peace talks between the Centre and the three militant groups of Assam, including the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), are in final stages and an agreement is likely to be signed in the next few months...

Kolkata: Activists threaten to move NGT

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Faced with a likely contempt of court plea, neither KMDA nor Kolkata Police seems ready to take the blame for Chhath devotees flouting the NGT ban on any kind of ritual at Rabindra Sarobar...

Former women cricketers in ICU after accident

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three former cricketers of the Bengal women’s team were injured when the car they were travelling in hit a goods vehicle near Sardanga in East Burdwan on Sunday morning. Purnima Chowdhury, Shyama De and Chandana Mukherjee — who now serve as selectors — have been admitted to Camri Superspeciality Hospital, near Memari, along with the driver of their vehicle, Biswajit Paridha...

70 labourers trapped inside coal mine, rescued

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Around 70 labourers here on Sunday were rescued from a coal mine after being trapped in it for more than 15 hours...

WB: Chief secy to explain stand on order violation

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The violation of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order could prove to be a sore point for the state. The chief secretary has been asked to present himself before the NGT in Delhi on Monday to explain the state’s ‘failure’ to comply with the order...

WB: Minor girl rescued just before her wedding

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 15-year-old Class-IX girl at a school in Mathurapur was rescued right before her wedding ceremony was to start in the Sunderbans on Friday. Playing good Samaritan, with help from the local block development officer (BDO) and police, was Chandan Kumar Maity, headmaster of a local high school. Maity said this was the 53rd child marriage he had stopped...

Woman demands money for liquor, burnt alive

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 52-year-old woman was burnt alive by a man in West Bengal's Hooghly district after she demanded money from him for consuming liquor, a senior police officer said on Saturday...

Why go to Paris when you can be in Kolkata: Guv

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Why would anyone go to Paris if one could live and work in Kolkata, governor Jagdeep Dhankar wondered aloud on Friday morning as he took a stroll at Maidan with Victoria Memorial Hall in the backdrop. He is so impressed with the city that he is even contemplating to spending his retired life here...

Metro takes extra load off peak-hour traffic

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

At 9.30am, Mall Road resident Sudip Dey was rushing to get into the long queue for autos to reach Dum Dum Metro station. Even a delay of five minutes will cost him dear as the platform will gradually get overcrowded, making it tough for him to get on to a train...

After Puri, hotel room burgled in Digha

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Burglars allegedly broke into a prominent Digha hotel late on Thursday night after climbing up to the first-floor and opening the sliding grilleless glass window of a room, occupied by a family from Baguiati in the city. The thieves decamped with Rs 22,000 in cash and two mobile phones...

WB govt gets 131 migrant workers back from J&K

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Mamata Banerjee government is bringing home 131 Bengal labourers working in Jammu & Kashmir after tracking them down from a video message circulating in Cooch Behar’s Mathabhanga...

CM: BJP silent on killing of Bengalis in J&K

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blasted BJP for its "silence" on the killing of five Murshidabad labourers by terrorists in Kashmir...

Kolkata: Lake gears up for 40- hr closure

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

For the first time in the history of its existence, Rabindra Sarobar is bracing for a 40-hour closure — from 8pm on Friday to 12 noon on Sunday...

Emergency landings keep Kol airport staff on toes

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An Airbus A 320 neo engine failure forced a flight that had just departed from Kolkata airport with 174 passengers to return and make a full emergency landing on one engine late on Wednesday...

'Kolkata faces bigger flooding risk than Mumbai'

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Bay of Bengal is rising more than three and a half times faster than the Arabian Sea, putting Kolkata at a much greater risk of annual flooding than Mumbai, according to research carried out by IIT Kharagpur and Jadavpur University...

Kolkata: Fake branded bats, footballs flood shops

14 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Cricket enthusiasts is the city are complaining of being duped after buying cheap versions of a leading cricket-bat manufacturer, whose products are used by top cricketers across the globe..

AQI back to ‘very-poor’ zone in Kolkata

17 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Within 72 hours of cyclone Bulbul and the accompanying rain healing the city’s ambient air to its healthiest best, the air quality declined even faster, swinging back to the ‘very poor’ category. Early on Wednesday, many of the air quality monitoring stations were found to have ominously spiked to the level that can trigger serious ailments...

Bulbul: Search on for 5 missing fishermen

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Citizens seek better upkeep of trees in Kolkata

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The death of a kitchen staff at Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CCFC) after a Deodar tree in parking lot crashed on him on Saturday morning has prompted green activists and members of several city clubs to demand a health audit of trees in public spaces so that corrective measures can be taken to prevent such tragedies...

Bengal: Bullets fly, 8 hurt in BJP-TMC clash

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bullets flew and at least eight people, including three cops, were injured in a Trinamool-BJP clash in Sodepur on Monday evening.The of injured received bullet wounds...

Kolkata: Commuters to face cave-in brunt today

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Commuters travelling to central business district through Sealdah may face trouble even on Wednesday since KMC officials couldn’t finish repairing the nine-feet crater that had opened up following a cave-in on busy APC Road opposite Jagat Cinema near Sealdah flyover on Monday...

Kolkata: Seat belt saves boy from certain death

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Harjyot Singh got a call from his father, Gurbinder Singh, all the way from Punjab around 6am on Tuesday to tell him that his youngest brother was involved in a car accident in New Town. As he rushed to the accident spot near Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in New Town, fearing the worst, he was relieved to find that Sarbjyot Singh (17) had had a miraculous escape, all thanks to the seat belt he was wearing...

Kolkata Metro sees dip in littering, nuisance

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata Metro charged Rs 77,005 as fine from passengers for littering inside trains and on the platforms. The Kolkata Metro registered as many as 293 nuisance cases...

Get dengue test results at KMC centres in an hr

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department is set to clear doubts about dengue tests being done at its ward centres...

At Kolkata cemetery, blatant loot of history

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

If you go visiting the Bhowanipore cemetery, be careful of where you tread. You could easily be stepping on a gravestone that’s 155 years old...

Cyclone Bulbul: Bodies of 4 fishermen found

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bodies of four out of the nine fishermen who went missing after their trawler capsized off Mousuni Island in West Bengal under the impact of Cyclone Bulbul were recovered in a joint operation by the Indian Coast Guard and the NDRF, a senior Coast Guard officer said Monday...

Kolkata: Dengue patients double in two weeks

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The number of people affected by dengue across the state has almost doubled over the past fortnight, according to figures released at a health department review meeting on Saturday. According to the last review meeting held on October 24, as many as 23,000 had been affected by the disease till then. The figure now stands at 44,000...

Cyclone Bulbul: 10 dead, 4.6 lakh affected in WB

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Cyclone Bulbul veered towards Bangladesh early on Sunday and steadily lost strength but left a trail of death and destruction in Bengal, claiming at least nine lives spread over three districts. According to late evening reports, as many as 4.6 lakh people were affected and 60,000 houses damaged. The toll, officials feared, could rise further: eight fishermen on board trawler MV Chandrani, which capsized off Mousuni, an island in the Bay of Bengal, are still missing...

Inundated fields trigger veggie price-rise fear

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The cyclonic rain played havoc with Bengal crops, especially potatoes, and farmers have become anxious of heavy loss because of delayed harvesting and sowing. Though a section of consumers feared the delay in harvesting might lead to a spike in vegetable prices at city markets, experts said it was too early to say that. On Sunday, farms across Hooghly and Burdwan were found submerged under 6-11inches of water. While vegetable crops may rot, there is likely to be at least a fortnight’s delay in Rabi crops...

4 drunken youths assault Kolkata hosp doctors

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Four persons hailing from Burtolla were arrested by the RG Kar Hospital police for allegedly assaulting and threatening the doctors and staff on duty at the transitional care unit (TCU) on Saturday...

Auto driver molests woman in Kolkata

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 20-year-old woman has alleged that early on Saturday she and her boyfriend were attacked by an auto driver in Tiljala when they were returning home. The woman claimed that the auto driver even molested her...

WB: Thousands shifted before Bulbul landfall

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bengal’s coastline stretching over 3,500km in the Sunderbans and 79km from Digha to Khejuri in East Midnapore remained on tenterhooks throughout Saturday as heavy rain, accompanied by strong winds, lashed the shores, villages, beaches and towns ahead of Cyclone Bulbul’s landfall on Sagar Island at 8.30pm...

Cyclone Bulbul: CM Mamata monitoring situation

5 days ago

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3 get 5-yr jail for trafficking attempt in 2007

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Three persons were sentenced to five-year imprisonment on Friday more than 12 years after they had abducted a minor girl from Kolkata and tried to sell her off...

Kolkata: ‘Ignoring NGT orders adds to pollution’

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Environmental crusaders on Friday blamed the spiralling pollution and plunging air quality on the non-compliance of National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders and furnished a 35-point report on the issue...

NDRF deploys 34 teams in Bengal, Odisha

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

New Delhi, Nov 8 () The NDRF has stationed a total of 34 teams in West Bengal and Odisha in view of the approaching severe cyclone Bulbul, a senior official said Friday...

Ex-Mohun Bagan secretary Anjan Mitra dies at 72

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

One of the longest-serving administrators of Mohun Bagan, Anjan Mitra, who was the club's secretary for more than two decades, died here on Friday. According to hospital sources, Mitra died in the wee hours of Friday...

Village that lost 5 to terror will grow apples

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Bengal government has identified three plots for an ambitious project to grow apples in Murshidabad district’s Sagardighi. And one of the places from where it wants to make a start happens to be Bahalnagar, the village that the five Bengal migrant labourers — who worked in Jammu and Kashmir’s apple orchards before being gunned down by terrorists last week — called home...

Two killed, 45 hurt as bus overturns in WB

7 days ago

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the state highway 6, in protest against the police checking...

Bank official hacked, domestic help knocked out

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 24-year-old MBA working at a bank and her domestic help were critically injured when two persons reportedly barged into their three-storey house and hit one with a flower vase and hacked at the other with a boti (kitchen chopper), apparently with a motive of robbery..

TMC regains majority in Bhatpara civic body

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The changes in municipalities of the Barrackpore belt following the 2019 Lok Sabha poll came a full circle on Wednesday with 12 councillors of the 35-member Bhatpara Municipality returning to Trinamool after deserting it for BJP five months ago...

Cyclone Bulbul route keeps Met on tenterhooks

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The depression that is set to turn into Cyclone Bulbul intensified into a deep depression over east-central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday morning..

Teachers’ stir holds up students on way home

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An agitation by primary school teachers dema-nding pay hike choked south Kolkata for over six hours on Wednesday..

Kolkata: 62-yr-old jumps off hosp building, dies

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 62-year-old man suffering from scrotal abscess reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the terrace of a six-storied private hospital at Dum Dum's Nagerbazar on Tuesday morning...

Revised pay for professors from January: Mamata

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Teachers at state universities and colleges would get revised UGC pay scale from January 1, 2020, announced chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday. In addition, teachers will get a lump sum, calculated on a 3% increment on their basic salary over the past four years, giving notional effect to pay revision from 2016-17. The government has also decided to pay regular teachers house rent allowance (HRA), medical benefits and gratuity on a par with state employees...

Kol couple rides 36k km for tiger conservation

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A couple from Kolkata is out on a bike journey to create awareness on conserving wildlife and environment. Rathindranath Das and Gitanjali Dasgupta reached Ranchi after visiting Palamu Tiger Reserve late on Monday...

Kol: 87-yr-old at home alone robbed of Rs 5.5L

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An 87-year-old who stays alone was robbed of cash and valuables worth around Rs 5.5 lakh from his home in Ashwini Nagar, near the Ranikuthi crossing, in the early hours of Tuesday...

Blast in Imphal's Thangal Bazar, top cop hurt

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Five policemen, including additional SP of Imphal, and a civilian were injured in an explosion in the high-security Thangal Bazar area on Khoyathong road on Tuesday morning...

'Scrap 10-yr-old diesel cars to fight pollution'

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday asked the state government to submit a detailed roadmap on how it plans to tackle Kolkata’s growing air pollution and implement it by next year. It also criticized the state for allowing commercial diesel vehicles to ply for over 15 years. The NGT bench had earlier ordered that such vehicles should be scrapped after 10 years. The state has four weeks to file its report...

West Bengal: Low-pressure zone may trigger rain

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A brewing low pressure over Bay of Bengal may trigger showers along the east coast later this week. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), it may intensify into a depression as it approaches the coast from its present position over the North Andaman Sea...

Athlete molested, trainer arrested in Howrah

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A physical trainer at Dumurjala stadium was arrested by Howrah City Police on Sunday after he allegedly molested an 11-year-old athlete who had come there to practice...