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Posta killers held from Agra after Kolkata tip-off

KOLKATA: A joint team from the detective department of Kolkata Police, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UPATS) and Agra Police arrested three persons from Agra in UP in connection with the robbery and murder of a 61-year-old jeweller who was found dead at his office on Shibtala Street at Posta.

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Kolkata: Book fair returns with 1 lakh visitors on a weekday

KOLKATA: Around a lakh thronged the International Kolkata Book Fair on a weekday which saw a significant number of foreign participants despite a Covid-scarred year.

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Lucky to catch last Ukraine flight only 4 hours before Russia invasion: Bengal students

KOLKATA: While hundreds of families in Kolkata and rest of Bengal are spending sleepless nights worrying about the safety of their relatives caught in war-torn Ukraine, there are a few who breathed a sigh of relief after their loved ones returned home on Thursday and Friday. They had flown out…

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After 38 days on ECMO, Kolkata’s rescue man back on streets saving lives

KOLKATA: Covid-19 had pushed him to the wall. But 53-year-old Nitaidas Mukherjee refused to give up. Better known as Kolkata’s rescue man, Mukherjee is now back in action despite the post-Covid health issues that continue to bother him. His associates say he has helped rescue about 500 destitute people from…

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KMC plans mobile courts to rein in city litterbugs

KOLKATA: In an effort to keep city streets free of garbage, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to set up a mobile sanitation court that will be doing the rounds and imposing littering fines on the spot. The mobile court will consist of a senior civic official, inspectors and clerical…

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Two held for robbery bid with fake gun in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Two persons allegedly barged into a house on Rotu Sarkar Lane at Jorasanko in central Kolkata, held a young woman and her mother at “gun point” and attempted to rob jewellery and cash on Thursday evening. The accused, Sk Adil Hussain and Md Arman, were arrested from the Park…

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Kolkata airport flight count set to soar 20% with 3 new ‘rapid exit taxiways’

KOLKATA: The city airport is ready to kick off a crucial project that will help increase flight operation capacity by 20% and allow seven to eight additional arrivals and departures per hour.

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Russia-Ukraine crisis: Scared students from West Bengal make a dash for Polish border

KOLKATA: Young Kolkatans holed up in tube stations and makeshift bunkers across Ukraine are set to undertake a perilous, cross-country journey to safety, braving Russian bombs and missiles, to reach Poland.

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Sr State Handball meet: Nadia bags women’s title, Paschim Bardhaman clinches men's crown

KOLKATA: Nadia district beat Kolkata 5-2 in the women's team final match while Paschim Bardhaman defeated Kolkata 9-8 in the men's team category in the 41th State Handball championship organised by West Bengal State Handball Association.

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Kolkata: Skydiving show in Maidan may delay incoming flights tomorrow afternoon

KOLKATA: Flights arriving at Kolkata airport during a 30-minute window on Saturday afternoon will be kept on hold and guided away from the Maidan to ensure that Indian Air Force paratroopers participating in a skydiving exercise don’t face any possible danger.

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Kolkata: No more PPE at private hospital non-Covid wards

KOLKATA: With the number of Covid patients sliding drastically across Kolkata’s private hospitals, the latter have discontinued the compulsory use of full PPE and protective gear for their health workers in non-Covid wards that have seen a sharp rise in occupancy ever since the third wave ebbed in late-January. Several…

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Kolkata flight count set to soar by 50% in a month as carriers plan more operations

KOLKATA: The flight count at Kolkata airport is set to soar by more than 50% in a month with daily flight operations set to increase by 140-150 movements (departures and arrivals) by March-end.

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War declared, Kolkata students stuck in Ukraine on tenterhooks

KOLKATA: Parents of at least three Bengal medical students studying in Ukraine heaved a sigh of relief as they flew back home in evacuation flights on Thursday.

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Kolkata: Colleges focus on infra upkeep as offline classes start in full swing

KOLKATA: After the resumption of offline classes, universities and colleges have shifted their focus on infrastructure, repairs and renovations that could not be carried out during the pandemic.

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Kolkata: Youth found dead at Patuli home, dad absconding

KOLKATA: A 25-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside his ground floor residence at the N block of the Baishnabghata-Patuli Township on Thursday.

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Goldsmith employed by jeweller arrested in West Bengal for making off with 1.3 kg gold bar

The Jayanagar police on Thursday arrested a 33-year-old goldsmith from Kolkata who was on the run with a gold bar weighing 1.3 kg that he had taken after promising his employer in Bengaluru that he would craft pieces of jewellery from it to be sold to customers.

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AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers: India clubbed with Cambodia, Afghanistan and Hong Kong

NEW DELHI: The Indian team was on Thursday drawn alongside Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Cambodia in Group D of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers to be played in Kolkata in June this year.

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Gokulam Kerala to play AFC Cup Group matches in Kolkata

KUALA LUMPUR: Kolkata will host the centralised Group D South Zone matches of the AFC Cup 2022 featuring Indian club Gokulam Kerala FC, the Asian Football Confederation confirmed on Thursday.

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Deepak Chahar to miss Sri Lanka T20Is due to injury

MUMBAI: A hamstring pull while bowling in the third T20I against the West Indies at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata will keep pacer Deepak Chahar out of the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka, TOI has learnt. The series begins with the first game on Thursday in Lucknow.

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Anis death protests bring central Kolkata to its knees for 3 hours

KOLKATA: The city erupted in wide-spread protests on Tuesday as Left-backed students and Aliah University students on the Park Circus campus protested against the death of Anis Khan.

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Kolkata: January Covid positivity rate slows down private hospital vax rush

KOLKATA: A major reason behind the sharp drop in vaccination across Kolkata’s private hospitals is that thousands — who had Covid during the third wave in January or suffered from symptoms of the virus but didn’t get tested — have deferred their jabs for three months as per the rule.…

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Kolkata: Rs 2 crore jewellery missing from store, manager flies abroad

KOLKATA: Kolkata Police sleuths are probing the role of a jewellery store manager on allegations that the she might have fled with gold and diamond worth Rs 2.5 crore to foreign shores. Complaints were lodged last month by a top jewellery firm headquartered at Bhowanipore after an internal audit indicated…

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Kolkata: Clean-up drive kicks off along 10 stretches to snap defunct cables

KOLKATA: The mammoth task of decluttering lamp posts in the city by removing defunct optic fibre cables that have turned much of the city’s skyline into an eyesore got underway in earnest with eight teams comprising a dozen people hitting the road from Tuesday morning.

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Alia Bhatt reacts to Kangana Ranaut’s comment on ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ with reference from Bhagavad Gita: ‘Inaction is in action’

Bollywood star Alia Bhatt on Monday launched a new song 'Meri Jaan' from her upcoming film 'Gangubai Kathiawadi' at a promotional event in Kolkata. The Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed film, based on a chapter from writer S Hussain Zaidi's book 'Mafia Queens of Mumbai', features Bhatt as Gangubai, one of the…

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