Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

Inside the Alt News office after Mohammed Zubair’s arrest

It had seemed a regular Monday evening for Kalim Ahmed, 22, a writer at Alt News, when he reached home after shutting his office in Kolkata on June 27. But then a message from the factchecking platform’s director Nirjhari Sinha popped on his screen, informing him of the arrest of…

Newslaundry

SpiceJet freighter plane returns to Kolkata post snag; DGCA summons airline management

NEW DELHI: A SpiceJet Boeing 737 freighter (that carries only cargo) scheduled to fly from Kolkata to Chongqing in China, returned to Kolkata on Tuesday due to unserviceable weather radar.

The Times of India

SpiceJet freighter aircraft returns to Kolkata due to its unserviceable weather radar

Eighth incident of technical malfunction on a SpiceJet aircraft in last 18 days

The Hindu

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

TMC condemns its MP Mahua Moitra’s remarks on Goddess Kali

Mahua Moitra had made some controversial remarks during a conclave arranged by a media house in Kolkata.

The Hindu

West Bengal: 'Need to take steps to protect kids'

KOLKATA: Senior physician Sukumar Mukherjee, a member of the state government's Global Advisory Board on Covid-19, said a worrying thing, especially in the wake of increasing Covid cases, was that section people were not turning up for the second dose and booster.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Religious divide blurs as youths rebuild temple

KOLKATA: At a humble neighbourhood in the Olaichandi Road area near Tala Park, youths from different communities have set aside their religious beliefs to come together and restore a half-a-century-old Shiva temple. Aftab Khan, Firoz Khan and Amrit Limboo have been as busy and invested as their friends, like Vinay…

The Times of India

West Bengal: From 33,000 plus daily vaccine doses in June first week, numbers rise to 76,000 in last 7 days

KOLKATA: The door-to-door campaign accompanied by the rising Covid-19 cases has given an impetus to the vaccination drive across the state. From an average of 33,000-plus doses a day in the first week of June the average number of doses administered daily in the last one week has gone up…

The Times of India

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Kolkata police widen road, crack whip on illegal parking to clear school traffic mess

KOLKATA: After the ban on parking on Loudon Street, Rawdon Street, Robinson Street, Moira Street, Hungerford Street in the Park Street-Beckbagan zone helped unclog the school-hour traffic snarls, police have turned their attention to AJC Bose Road and Diamond Harbour Road.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Residents' welfare associations take social media route to plastic awareness

KOLKATA: Several gated communities across the city have started implementing the ban on single use plastic by prohibiting vendors from carrying the banned variety inside the premises and sensitising the resident against the perils of using the single-use plastic.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Restaurateurs split over service charge directive

KOLKATA: The hospitality industry in the city is divided over the new directive issued by The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) that bars hotels and restaurants from levying service charges on food bills. Hotel and Restaurant Association of India (HRAEI) has already issued advisory to its 1,300 odd members to…

The Times of India

Kolkata Municipal Corporation employee found dead in Bansdroni

KOLKATA: A Kolkata Municipal Corporation employee was found dead at Vidyasagar Park in Bansdroni around 10.55am on Tuesday. Balleswar Das was lying beside an open drain. Cops said the preliminary enquiry has revealed that the victim had drowned in the drain water.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Cops seal fake call centre in New Town, arrest 10

KOLKATA: A 360-seater fraud call centre operating out of a premium commercial complex in New Town was sealed by Bidhannagar Police in the early hours of Tuesday. Callers posing as Microsoft executives had been duping residents in Germany, USA, Portugal and Czech Republic for the last five years in the…

The Times of India

Kolkata: Meeting on steps to stop power theft

KOLKATA: The state chief secretary, H K Dwivedi, on Tuesday held a meeting with officials of the power department along with KMC, CESC and WBSEDCL in the state secretariat on ways to prevent hooking and electrocution.

The Times of India

South Kolkata school tweaks its weekly routine, others take Covid guard

KOLKATA: The Covid spike is taking a toll on school staff, prompting South Point school to go for staggered classes till July 15. Shri Shikshayatan School has asked teachers who are unwell to take online classes from home. South City International School has told anxious parents that offline tests will…

The Times of India

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Times of India

Kolkata: 35-year-old dies of electrocution in bid to flee blaze

KOLKATA: A 35-year-old, who used to run a roadside eatery in Tangra, was electrocuted on Tuesday while trying to escape from his shop, where a fire had broken out. According to police and fire officials, the heat from the fire had melted the insulation of some of the electrical wires…

The Times of India

First 5 July days account for 80% of entire June West Bengal Covid count

KOLKATA: The cumulative number of infections recorded in Bengal in the first five days of July alone has crossed 80% of the total recorded throughout the entire month of June, even as the number of fresh Covid cases recorded on Tuesday - 1,973 - was short of the 2,000 mark…

The Times of India

Kali is meat-eating, alcohol-accepting goddess: TMC's Mahua Moitra

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday stirred a controversy by saying that she has every right as an individual to imagine Goddess Kali as a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess, as every person has the right to worship god and goddess in his or her own way.

The Times of India

Adani lowest bidder in CIL's maiden coal import tender, miner may negotiate price

KOLKATA: Adani Enterprises has emerged as the lowest bidder in Coal India's tender for imports of the dry fuel with quoting over Rs 4,000 crore for supply of 2.416 million tonne, even though the miner is likely to "negotiate the price", an official said on Monday.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Times of India

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar returns bill making CM Mamata Banerjee state universities' chancellor

KOLKATA: West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday returned the bill making CM Mamata Banerjee the chancellor of state universities on the ground of "incompleteness of compliance". The bill, replacing the governor with the CM as chancellor, was passed in the state assembly on June 14.

The Hindu

Kolkata-Dhaka travellers welcome new bridge

However, they want immigration process to be smooth

The Hindu

Prophet row: Lookout notice issued for Nupur Sharma after she fails to appear before Kolkata Police

Nupur Sharma had cited apprehensions of a possible assault on her if she visited Kolkata and sought four weeks’ time to appear

The Times of India

English communication 'training' for budding Bengal cricketers

KOLKATA: Budding Bengal cricketers are all set for an English makeover.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Schools reach out to parents, ask them not to send kids with Covid symptoms

KOLKATA: Schools have started reaching out to parents asking them not to send their wards to school in case they have fever, even on days they are supposed to take tests, which will be re-scheduled for the indisposed.

The Times of India

Traffickers trap Kolkata girl on social media

KOLKATA: Cops rescued a 16-year-old girl of Tangra - who was taken to Faizabad in UP and about to be sold to a brothel in Delhi by her trafficker, Rohan Singh (19) - with the help of the leads obtained from a social media platform on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Cops bar parking on five roads for seven hours to tackle school traffic

KOLKATA: Traffic cops have brought more road stretches in the heart of south-central Kolkata under 7am-to-2pm no-parking zones. These no-parking zones covered the AJC Bose Road-Loudon Street-Rawdon Street-Park Street areas. The move comes in the wake of a reassessment of vehicular movement during school hours.

1 … 85 86 87 88

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Microsoft

23,679 stories

Bharatiya Janata Party

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.