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WB: Several injured in clash between two groups

4 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Several persons including two policemen were injured when two groups clashed in the southern part of the city's Jodhpur Park area over a discussion on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, police said on Friday...

Sun God 'emerges' from earth at Cotton varsity

11 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An intricately carved figure of a Pala Empire Sun God surprised construction workers when they were recently digging the earth for the building of the new administrative office of Cotton University. The historical find, weighing about 200 kg and about 3ft tall, has also taken the university authority by surprise. The figure was lying just a few meters under the earth's surface...

Hot days: Swimming pool for Kol’s canine cops

15 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

olkata Police is making sure their four-legged members have more than just a dog’s life. Ahead of the dog squad’s golden jubilee next year, a swimming pool — to be used exclusively by the canine members — is coming up at the Police Training School before the onset of summer...

Northwesterly wind to bring in chill on Friday

15 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An unexpected morning drizzle accompanied a rise in temperature as Kolkata woke up to a cloudy Thursday morning...

West Bengal: Woman falls from bus, dies

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 75-year-old woman was killed in an accident on Thursday morning.Around 9am, when the woman was getting off a bus on the route 24 A, the driver suddenly started moving the vehicle...

'Climate change wiped out ancient river, city'

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The extinction of Dholavira — the biggest and most spectacular Harappan city in present-day Kutch district of Gujarat — was caused by the drying-up of a massive river that originated in the Himalayan glaciers in prehistoric times because of climate change, research by a team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur suggests...

International Bengali Conference inaugurated

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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BJP activists held over inflammatory posters

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Several BJP activists were arrested by the police from Titagarh area of North 24 Parganas district on Thursday for putting up inflammatory posters against CPM leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who is scheduled to address rally there...

Heroin route: UP to Bangladesh via Kolkata

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The special task force of Kolkata Police, probing into the heroin haul worth Rs 105 crore in the international grey market, found that the contraband was to reach the city from UP where it was mingled with the mixture coming from northeast before being smuggled across “international borders”...

Rs 500 notes FICN gangs' new favourites

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

With the use and demand for currency of Rs 2,000 denomination coming down, those making fake notes have also shifted gears. The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has busted a gang that makes counterfeit notes of Rs 500 denomination only...

Kol: ‘Northwesterly will bring temperature down’

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The chill is set to intensify in Kolkata this weekend as the northwesterly wind gains strength. A two-degree drop in minimum temperature is expected in the course of the week...

WB: 4 held for smuggling arms from police stn

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Four persons, including a police officer, have been arrested for allegedly smuggling out 18 seized firearms from the 'malkhana' of a police station in Jhargram district of West Bengal, officials said on Wednesday...

India pips Lanka, becomes top tea exporter to China

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

India has emerged as the largest exporter of tea to China — the world’s biggest tea producer — in 2019, overtaking Sri Lanka, riding on the rising demand for Indian varieties of black tea among Chinese millennials in the mostly green tea-producing country...

Kolkata: Airport logs 13% rise in int'l flyers

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city airport registered the highest-ever growth in international traffic in 2019, riding a record addition in international flights from the city by Indian carriers keen to spread their wings. The growth in domestic traffic movement was, however, modest...

Kolkata: Girl ends life after phone tiff with mom

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 16-year-old school girl allegedly committed suicide after being reportedly asked by her parents to concentrate on her upcoming board exams instead of spending time on repairing her smartphone that got damaged recently...

MLA Manirul's brother held for duping people

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Brother of TMC MLA Manirul Islam, who switched over to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last year, was arrested for allegedly duping several people in West Bengal's Birbhum district by collecting lakhs of rupees, promising them jobs, police said on Tuesday...

25 kg heroin worth Rs 105 cr seized in Kolkata

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

In one of the biggest drug seizures in the East in recent history, the Kolkata Police on Tuesday arrested two persons with 25 kilogram of heroin worth more than Rs 105 crore in the international market, a senior officer said...

Kol airport on toes over mystery China virus

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The mystery virus that has affected scores in China and resulted in three deaths may be a threat to Kolkata, which serves as a gateway to the southeastern part of the country, experts have warned...

KMC property tax form made easier

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) assessment department has made changes in the application form for existing property tax-payers to enable them switch over to the Unit Area Assessment (UAA) method...

Flyer throws luggage at staffer at Kol airport

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Angered by the multi-level checking going on at the Kolkata airport, owing to red alert issued ahead of Republic Day, a 28-year-old youth threw his bag at a security officer on Sunday, saying “the bag contained bomb”...

WB: Woman stabbed near Dakshineswar temple

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A middle-aged woman was injured after she was stabbed multiple times by a man on Monday near the Dakshineswar Kali temple in northern fringes of the city, police said...

CM should withdraw statement on PM: WB guv

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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IPGMER to set up skill lab for MBBS students

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER) on SSKM Hospital campus, is going to develop a skill laboratory where undergraduate medical students will learn to handle patients by practising mannequins on intravenous injections, catheter insertion and skin suturing...

Kolkata: Light rain today may pull mercury down

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A light early morning shower may hit Kolkata on Monday. But it will pave the way for a temperature drop over the next 24 hours, said the Met office...

Kolkata: Guard injured after fight with intruder

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An elderly security guard of a residential apartment on Moore Avenue in Tollygunge allegedly fought a man who had sneaked into the building and tried to snatch a cellphone from the guard when he found him loitering suspiciously on the premises on Sunday..

Kol: Early-morning fire guts wellness centre

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A fire at a building in a building at the Kankurgachhi intersection on Sunday morning left residents — mostly senior citizens — panicked and a paralysed woman panting for breath till she was rescued by neighbours...

Early E-W Metro launch: New GM visit raises hopes

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The new GM of Kolkata Metro on Saturday inspected East-West Metro’s 5km Salt Lake section. Sources said efforts are on to unveil Kolkata’s Line 2, whose truncated launch has been long overdue, by January-end...

Kolkata girl tops WB in JEE (Main) exam

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Sreemanti Dey, a Class-XII student of Delhi Public School Ruby Park, has topped the state in the JEE (Main) examination — with 99.9 percentile score...

WB: Youth jumps off train ‘to avoid TTE’, dies

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 35-year-old man was found dead on the railway tracks between Taldi and Canning stations on Saturday...

Dilip Ghosh stopped from visiting Nandigram

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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Kolkata shines as 2 top the chart in CA exams

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Two from the city—both former students at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous)—topped the chartered accountants (CA) final examinations, held in November last year...

Snatchers on scooter rob woman in Salt Lake

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Scooter-borne miscreants snatched a handbag from a 57-year-old woman at Salt Lake CB Block on Friday evening while she was about to get into her car coming out of a beauty parlour on the other side of the road...

Bull fights mark Magh Bihu in Assam despite ban

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Several instances of bull fights have come to light in different parts of Assam over the past couple of days, while more are scheduled in the coming days, despite a Supreme Court ban on such events...

Hindus, Muslims eat at food ATM run by nuns

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

As the clock strikes noon, this small empty courtyard in Entally fills up with eager eyes and empty tummies. The promise of food has been bringing the hungry mouths from the neighbouring slums to this courtyard every afternoon since the beginning of the new year...

Teen researches online, donates liver to father

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 19-year-old youth on Thursday donated a portion of his liver to save the life of his father. Ranjit Kundu (44), who runs a hardware shop in Basirhat, has been suffering from a serious liver disease for more than three years...

BJP office in Bankura set ablaze, TMC blamed

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) office in Chandai Gram area in Bankura district was set ablaze last night. The party has alleged that Trinamool Congress is behind the incident...

Will shun CMs’ meet on NPR: Mamata Banerjee

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee declared on Wednesday that neither she nor anyone from the state would attend the CMs’ meet on the National Population Register in New Delhi on Friday...

Kol woman’s biometrics used for forgery in Raj

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

If you are asked to provide your thumb impression to buy a mobile SIM card, be careful lest you fall victim to identity theft...

Park Circus protesters treated to ‘pithe-puli’

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a citi-zens’ group distributed patisapta among the women at the sit-in at Park Circus Maidan. ..

Kolkata: Temp likely to touch 15°C by Saturday

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city continued to remain chilly with minimum temperature touching 12.1°C on Tuesday...

Bengal: Onion price dips below govt subsidy rate

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The onion retail price on Tuesday dropped to Rs 50 per kg — the price prevailed just before the festive season in September. The price, which ‘burnt a hole in pockets’ back then, is now thought to be a respite. The onion price is expected to plunge further with Bengal’s own production hitting the market shortly...

West Bengal: 4 held for forgery of NSCs, KVPs

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The detective department nabbed four men on Monday night from various parts of the city and South 24 Parganas for allegedly duping a public bank using 60 fake National Savings Certificates (NSC) and securing a total loan of Rs 40 lakh...

CAA comment: Two FIRs lodged against Dilip Ghosh

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

TMC has lodged two police complaints against West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts for his comments that anti-CAA protesters "were shot like dogs", police and TMC sources said on Tuesday...

Javelin pierces kid’s head at Hawrah school

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A Class-VI student suffered a life-threatening injury after a javelin pierced his head during the annual sports day event at his school on Monday...

West Bengal governor’s Wikipedia page defaced

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Wikipedia page was “vandalised” on Monday, with incorrect information like “ex-chancellor of Jadavpur University” being added to his introduction along with several “objectional adjectives and content” about his early life, education and career...

Presidency girl alleges harassment by professor

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The internal complaints committee (ICC) of Presidency University has started a probe into a complaint of verbal harassment lodged by a second-year student of political science against a senior professor of the department. The professor has, however, denied the allegations and said the complaint was politically motivated to malign his image...

Chess enthusiast dies in middle of tournament

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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‘Regulate vehicle registration to check pollution’

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A report by IIT Kharagpur has suggested that prohibitive parking fees in some areas, regulating vehicle registration according to availability of road space, initiating variable parking fees and congestion fees to discourage use of private vehicles and more public and shared mode of transport can reduce city’s increasing air pollution...

PM Narendra Modi misused RKM platform: TMC

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Trinamool Congress issued a point-by-point rebuttal to PM Narendra Modi after his departure from the city, questioning the manner in which he used the RKM headquarters to defend CAA on Swami Vivekananda’s 157th birth anniversary...

Kolkata: Blind poets’ collection sees light of day

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An anthology of blind poets, possibly the first in the world, was released at Jadavpur University on Thursday, opening up the world of the blind to the sighted...

Kolkata: Malaria tests for pavement dwellers

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department has formed a mobile team to conduct a special drive for malaria tests among the pavement dwellers...

Bizman loses Rs 2.8L to e-wallet fraud in Kolkata

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Twenty-five cases of fraud involving e-wallets have been reported in the city over the past eight days. Given the sudden spurt, JCP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma issued fresh warning against walking in the traps...

Kolkata: Killer bus on Remount Road has 366 cases

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The private bus that ran over a biker on Remount Road near Mominpore, following which a mob set three buses on fire and damaged two, has 366 cases pending against it...

PM to arrive today, buzz over meet with WB CM

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

PM Narendra Modi will be touching down in the city on Saturday evening for a less-than-24-hour visit that has four scheduled programmes besides the night halt at Raj Bhavan...

Defer exams for Saraswati Puja: Partha

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Education minister Partha Chatterjee on Friday said that he has requested all the universities across the state to postpone their examinations scheduled on January 30...

Kolkata: Kalighat Bridge height barrier damaged

17 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Traffic came to a halt on Kalighat Bridge around 7.30pm on Thursday when a bus hit the newly constructed height barrier. The KMDA officials put up height barriers on both sides of the bride in the early hours of Thursday. The 45-year-old bridge connects Alipore with Kalighat over Tolly’s Nullah...

Hepatitis B: Antenatal screening in hosps soon

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The state government run hospitals and will soon have facility-based antenatal checking for hepatitis B in order to prevent mother to child transmission of the viral infection...

At 87, he’s oldest from Kol to have angioplasty

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

An 87-year-old man underwent a successful angioplasty at a city hospital last week, making him probably the oldest Kolkata resident to go through the procedure that involved a fair amount of risk because of his age and vulnerable cardiac condition...

2 dead, 9 injured in 5 accidents in 8 hours

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A couple in their early 30s died and nine others were injured in five accidents that took place in the city over a span of eight hours from late Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning. Two of these accidents were reported from the Port area and one each from Central Avenue, EM Bypass and near the Tollygunge Metro station...

Kolkata gets second Park Circus, in Ekbalpore

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Over a hundred women, including homemakers, professionals and students, are staging a sit-in in Nawab Ali Park in Ekbalpore for the past four days, demanding a rollback of CAA and NRC. The women fasted on Wednesday morning hoping for a Supreme Court intervention and broke their fast in the evening with a promise to carry on their protests till the apex court decides on the issue...

Rajdhani Exp trains 12 hrs behind schedule

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The New Delhi-Howrah and the Sealdah Rajdhani Express trains reached their destinations nearly 12 hours behind schedule on Wednesday, owing to late start and dense fog in north India, an Eastern Railway official said...

3 Northeast states celebrate 48th yr of statehood

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur on Tuesday separately celebrated their 48th statehood day through colourful functions...

Every second person killed on roads is pedestrian

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata is not a safe city for pedestrians. More than half the number of people killed on the city’s roads are pedestrians, Kolkata Police records show. Worse still, the number of such deaths per year is on the rise when all other road fatalities — death of two-wheeler riders, motorists or bus passengers — are on the decline...

All-faith human chain planned for R-Day

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

All religions will come forward under the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church to raise the anti-NRC/CNN pitch on Republic Day...

Kolkata: Conman who preyed on teenagers held

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

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30 injured as bus overturns in West Bengal

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Thirty passengers of a bus were injured when the vehicle overturned while overtaking a motorbike in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Tuesday...

Visva-Bharati plans Basanta Utsav in February

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Visva-Bharati authorities are planning changes in the date and rules of Basanta Utsav to make it more orderly...

West Bengal will pass anti-CAA resolution: CM

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

"We will pass a resolution against CAA.There can be an all-opposition party meet in Kolkata.The Centre should remove all clauses in NPR that support NRC," Mamata said...

Spurt in truck mishaps as closed routes take toll

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Multiple fatal truck accidents reported across the city since the beginning of the New Year have led the police to brainstorm for solutions...

Boy killed after old lamp post collapses on him

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A five-year-old boy died after an old KMC lamp post snapped in two and collapsed on him in Ekbalpore on Monday morning...

Man tries to kidnap girl; beaten up in Malda

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A man was beaten up after he allegedly tried to kidnap a child from a wedding in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Monday. The incident happened on Sunday night in Englishbazar town's Buroburitola area...

Odisha: 146 dolphins sighted in Chilka Lake

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

As many as 146 dolphins were sighted in Chilika lake, a brackish water lagoon in Odisha, during annual census carried out by the forest department on Sunday...

Bengal: 53-yr-old molests woman in auto, held

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 53-year-old man was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman travelling in an auto on her way to Baguiati home from work on Friday night.The accused was identified as Wadud Biswas...

Kol: Man falls asleep with burning cigarette, dies

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Md Elyas (74), a resident of 34/1, Munshigunge Road in Watgunge, died at his residence after his bed caught fire on Saturday morning...

PCR vans make cop response to crisis call faster

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Kolkata Police has managed to bring down its response time to a crisis call to 10 minutes on an average, thanks to the 82 patrol vehicles staying on roads for 24 hours for 70-odd police stations across the city. ..

1 more held for attack on Visva-Bharati students

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

One more person was arrested from Jharkhand on Sunday in connection with an attack by a group of students on another near a boys' hostel of the Visva-Bharati University campus last week, police said...

'No NRC in WB, as birth cert demand surges 50%'

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Applications for obtaining birth certificates from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation offices have registered a 50% surge in the recent times, amid fears of being left out of the NRC list after CAA was notified..

Single agency for inline baggage screening

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The airport operator in Kolkata has taken control of screening of checked-in baggage for international flights and will soon take over the operation in the domestic wing as well once the inline X-Ray baggage inspection system (XBIS) is operational...

Philippines flyer undergoes skull surgery in Kol

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The Philippino who had developed chest pain mid-air, leading to the aircraft making an emergency landing in Kolkata on Wednesday, underwent a craniotomy on Friday after the patient’s wife gave consent to the surgery. Doctors at Charnock Hospital, where Ramos Virgilio, 44, is undergoing treatment, said the patient is recovering...

Two new ministers inducted into Assam cabinet

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Sanjay Kishan and Jogen Mohan were on Saturday sworn in as ministers in Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's ministry. Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of office and secrecy to the two new ministers at a simple ceremony in the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhawan here. Both Mohan and Kishan were sworn in as ministers of state with independent charge...

Kolkata: Face-recognition technology helps cops solve mystery of lost bangle

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A tale of moral quandary could have ended in being registered as a criminal case had it not been for a face-recognition software...

Kolkata: Man held with 2kg heroin worth Rs 6 cr

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A notorious drug peddler has been arrested from an area in the southern part of the city with two kilograms of heroin worth Rs 6 crore in the international grey market, police said on Friday...

Kolkata: AQI inches closer to 'severe' category

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The city’s ambient air quality on Thursday worsened, with air quality index spiking further, putting it closer to the worst possible category of air quality — ‘severe’ (401-500)...

Kolkata: ATK-Bagan merger news sinks in, slowly

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Die-hard fans of Mohun Bagan had a tough digesting the news of the merger of India’s oldest surviving top-tier football club with two-time ISL champion ATK, with some of them lashing out their angst and perplexity on social media. But in the end, the reaction from most fans was obvious — acceptance with a heavy heart...

Kolkata: Clothes burnt as fire breaks out in stall

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A fire broke out at a stall in the G Block of New Market on Thursday. Around 11.45am, the stall owner selling hosiery products noticed the fire. He raised an alarm to draw the attention of other traders. They applied fire extinguishers to douse the flames before alerting the fire officials...

WB: Woman held for throwing acid on three

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A 42-year-old woman, Anima Sarkar, was arrested for allegedly throwing acid on three women, Nitu Biwi, Ajira Biwi and Hosenara Biwi, during an argument...

Cops shoot twin troubles of last year’s book fair

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

If your were extorted by the auto driver on your way to the book fair last year and couldn’t even vent your frustration over phone to your near and dear ones after reaching the venue, rest assured that both the problems have been taken care of ahead of this year’s edition of the event...

Gang travels 1,700 km to rob Kol jewellery stores

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Police have busted a gang of conmen, who had travelled around 1,700 km to the city— all the way from Bidar in Karnataka—and targeted jewellery stores in Bowbazar, Entally and Beliaghata. According to the cops, while one of them, Amzad Hussain, was arrested, three others were identified...

Bus conductor held for outraging woman's modesty

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A ticket conductor of a private bus was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman passenger inside the vehicle which was going through Beliaghata in the eastern part of the city, police said...

West Bengal: TikTok star goes missing in Delhi

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Chandernnagore Police is investigating the disappearance of 25-year-old Pratima Mondal, a regular performer at music, dance and fashion shows in Delhi, Jharkhand and Bihar for the last nine months. Mondal has been missing since January 2...

Kol airport staff refuses wheelchair to patient

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A spinal patient travelling to Coimbatore for surgery on low-cost carrier SpiceJet was refused a wheelchair by an airline executive at the Kolkata airport’s check-in counter on Tuesday. All pleas and arguments by Mamta Agarwala — who was plainly in discomfort — and her husband fell on deaf ears...

Frauds strike before e-sale season in Kolkata

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

A caller introduces himself or herself as a representative from an online sales platform and offers hefty discounts, prizes to and special access to products to a ‘lucky winner’ way before the big discount sales begin...