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  The largest locomotive manufacturer in the world, based in the state, has scripted history by rolling out a record 467 locos in the January-December, 2021 period.
  - 21 hours ago 18 Jan 22, 8:47am -
• Major fire at paint godown in Kolkata
  A major fire broke out on Saturday morning at a godown here, where paint, thinner and other related items were stored, an official said.
  - 18 days ago 1 Jan 22, 1:50pm -
• Kolkata thanks UNESCO for 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' tag to Durga Puja through massive rally
  On December 15, UNESCO accorded ICH status to Kolkata's Durga Puja festivities, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lauding the move.
  - 27 days ago 22 Dec 21, 7:10pm -
• One arrested for alleged EVM tampering in Kolkata
  The complaint was lodged at Burtolla Police Station and the 33-year-old accused was arrested from his Sree Aurobinda Sarani residence on Tuesday night.
  - 28 days ago 22 Dec 21, 10:43am -
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation​ election: TMC wins 13 wards, leads in 108; BJP ahead in five seats
  TMC candidates in ward number 117, Amit Singh, and Kakoli Bag in ward number 119 have emerged victorious, data on the SEC website showed.
  - 29 days ago 21 Dec 21, 11:46am -
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation election: TMC leading in 99 wards, BJP 2, CPM 2, Congress 1
  The counting of the votes for the 144 wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation began this morning at 8 am.
  - 29 days ago 21 Dec 21, 10:22am -
• Violence mars Kolkata civic body elections
  Although the SEC claimed that only one person was injured, police said that three people were injured, with one of them losing a leg.
  - 30 days ago 19 Dec 21, 6:42pm -
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls: Sporadic violence reported; 52.17 per cent voter turnout recorded till 3 PM
  Although the SEC claimed that only one person was injured, police said that three people were injured, with one of them losing leg.
  - 31 days ago 19 Dec 21, 5:25pm -
• Action to be taken in 24 hours if any TMC leader's involvement in violence during KMC polls proven: Abhishek Banerjee
  The TMC had in the run-up to the polls also warned party candidates against using force during the elections.
  - 31 days ago 19 Dec 21, 5:21pm -
• 72 arrested for disturbing law and order during Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls: Police
  Crude bombs were hurled in front of Taki school in ward number 36, in which three voters of the area were injured.
  - 31 days ago 19 Dec 21, 4:45pm -

• Sporadic incidents of violence mar KMC polls as 36.78 per cent voter turnout recorded till 1 PM
  Although the SEC claimed that only one person was injured, police said that three people were injured, of whom one has lost his leg.
  - 31 days ago 19 Dec 21, 2:53pm -
• Kolkata-based artist Piyali Sadhukhan has emotional ode to experiences with cut glass bangles
  The poignant works at the 'Kingdom of Cards' exhibition deal with contemporary topics, like the pandemic, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and women's issues.
  - 37 days ago 13 Dec 21, 7:57am -
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls: TMC manifesto stresses on better civic, health services
  The TMC leadership cautioned party workers against being over-confident and urged all the candidates to take everybody along in the polls.
  - 38 days ago 11 Dec 21, 9:08pm -
• UK returnee tests positive for Covid in Kolkata, genome sequencing underway for Omicron variant
  Top officials of the health ministry informed a parliamentary panel that there are 23 cases of the omicron variant across the country, and authorities are closely monitoring the situat
  - 40 days ago 10 Dec 21, 3:53pm -
• Kolkata Traffic Police to sensitise cab drivers on safety of women passengers
  A senior officer said that Kolkata Police Training Academy and the Kolkata Traffic Police will jointly start the training of drivers of app-based cabs, taxis and autorickshaws.
  - 43 days ago 7 Dec 21, 1:28am -
• Kolkata municipal polls: Left Front manifesto urges voters to 'save city from damage'
  The manifesto, which was released during the day, has a colourful layout with poll promises such as shelter for labourers, women empowerment and amenity provisions for third gender written in Bengali.
  - 43 days ago 7 Dec 21, 12:50am -
• Kolkata's air quality ambience ranges from poor to very poor
  The air quality index (AQI) had ranged between 270 to 320 at Rabindra Bharati air monitoring station this November, he said.
  - 53 days ago 27 Nov 21, 3:30pm -
• Kolkata Police arrests gangster Sheikh Vinod in Rs 45 lakh bank fraud case
  Sleuths of Kolkata Police's bank fraud section have arrested 11 persons in connection with their investigation into the matter.
  - 53 days ago 27 Nov 21, 1:04pm -
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls on December 19, counting of votes on December 21
  The counting of votes polled in the 144 wards of the civic body will be held on December 21, State Election Commission said.
  - 55 days ago 25 Nov 21, 10:46am -
• Bank loan fraud: Enforcement Directorate attaches Rs 42-crore assets of Kolkata company
  A provisional order for attaching 11 properties of Shree Mahalaxmi Corporation Pvt Ltd has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
  - 57 days ago 22 Nov 21, 7:31pm -
• CU ranks first among all Indian state-run universities in QS Rankings
  While CU is ranked first among all state-run universities in India, it occupies the third rank among all the universities in India.
  - 76 days ago 4 Nov 21, 12:41pm -
• Bengal bus owners want state government to reduce tax on diesel after Centre's move
  In a Diwali bonanza, the central government announced a reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 per litre, respectively.
  - 76 days ago 3 Nov 21, 11:32pm -
• SEC likely to give nod to polls in Kolkata, Howrah municipal corporations on Dec 19: Official
  BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh claimed that the TMC had postponed urban local body elections for the past two years, fearing it would lose.
  - 76 days ago 3 Nov 21, 10:36pm -
• Calcutta HC allows conditional entry into pandals of Kali puja, others
  Kali Puja will be celebrated on Thursday, November 4 while the four-day Jagadhatri Puja will start from November 12.
  - 76 days ago 3 Nov 21, 10:17pm -
• Two more arrested in Kolkata double murder case
  Two more persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in the recent double murder case in the southern part of Kolkata.
  - 88 days ago 22 Oct 21, 10:41pm -
• Kolkata double murder: Former domestic help arrested
  The officer said that the police had reason to believe that two of her sons are also allegedly involved in the double murder.
  - 90 days ago 21 Oct 21, 12:39am -
• Junior doctors of Kolkata hospital to continue with strike despite warning of action
  The health department on Sunday said striking junior doctors will be marked absent if they do not report for duty.
  - 91 days ago 20 Oct 21, 12:46am -
• Kolkata Police make 'Burj Khalifa' Durga Puja pandal out of bounds to people amid COVID concerns
  The laser show in the pandal was suspended on Wednesday evening following a massive gathering that stoked fears of the spread of COVID-19.
  - 97 days ago 14 Oct 21, 12:56am -
• 'Burj Khalifa' Durga Puja pandal suspends laser show over Covid fears
  The 150-feet-marquee, modelled on the 828-metre-Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, is the biggest draw among puja revellers this year.
  - 98 days ago 13 Oct 21, 12:35pm -
• Durga, the Himalayan goddess, arrives to reign over the megapolis of Kolkata
  While no one is quite sure where the legend of Durga originated, worshippers in Kolkata are certain that she is their mother and daughter rolled into one.
  - 10 Oct 21, 7:39pm -
• Kolkata restaurants seek extension of closing hour during Durga Puja
  The restaurant owners have taken their appeal to the state chief secretary.
  - 9 Oct 21, 5:14pm -
• COVID: Calcutta HC bars entry of visitors into Durga Puja pandals for second year
  State Advocate General S N Mukherjee submitted that the previous year's orders will be followed by the authorities concerned.
  - 1 Oct 21, 9:29pm -
• Initiative taken to make Durga puja pandals differently-abled friendly in Kolkata
  The jury team which will include medical personnel will wrap up the visit to the pandals by Mahasasthi, which heralds the four-day festival.
  - 24 Sep 21, 7:09pm -
• Kolkata's Jadavpur University announces free COVID vaccination camp for students
  Registrar Snehamanju Basu said in a notification on Wednesday that the West Bengal government has consented to the proposal by the university in this regard.
  - 23 Sep 21, 1:15pm -
• Man arrested from south Kolkata for running illegal telecom installation
  A seniro police officer said that the telecom installation was terminating the ISD/VOIP calls, and bypass the legal international gateways of domestic operators.
  - 22 Sep 21, 11:10am -
• Normal life comes to standstill in Kolkata as heavy rains pound city
  More than 100 mm rain was recorded at different places in the city from 1 am to 7 am, submerging many important thoroughfares and low-lying areas under knee-deep water.
  - 20 Sep 21, 12:44pm -
• Left government failed to commission Kolkata's 'Maa' flyover on time: State minister Firhad Hakim
  CPM leader Bikash Bhattacharya had said that 'neither the Centre nor the TMC government in the state should seek recognition' for the flyover.
  - 16 Sep 21, 7:08pm -
• Debt-ridden relatives held for killing Kolkata woman, son
  Acting on circumstantial evidence, sleuths of Kolkata Police's Detective Department arrested two cousins of Sushmita Mondal for killing her and her son Tomojit Mondal at their residence.
  - 12 Sep 21, 11:41pm -
• Politicians, industrialists visit Kolkata's Kalighat temple as monetary issues, poll battles sharpen
  The last crush of worshippers, few of whom bother about the social distancing norms codified in large letters on a board outside, are anxious to have a glimpse of the reigning deity of Calcutta.
  - 12 Sep 21, 7:23pm -
• Kolkata: President University students withdraw 96-hour sit-in after authorities accept free vaccine demand
  PUSC office-bearer Adrija Adak told PTI Saturday, the authorities issued a notice promising to start free vaccination at the earliest at the campus in collaboration with the state government.
  - 11 Sep 21, 2:30pm -
• Major fire at plyboard godown in north Kolkata, no casualties reported
  Six fire tenders were working to douse the flames, first spotted around 7.45 am at the first floor of the godown in the congested area filled with old structures, officials said.
  - 10 Sep 21, 11:38am -
• Pakhtoon residents to sing theme song of Durga Puja committee of North Kolkata 
  The theme song, in the 40th year of the popular puja in the Baguiati, Kestopur, Lake Town and Dumdum Park area, will have typical Afghan folk tunes and Pushtu language.
  - 9 Sep 21, 12:02pm -
• Four held for intrusion into actor-politician Moon Moon Sen's residence in Kolkata
  According to the officer, a group of around 15 people had allegedly barged into the former TMC MP's Ballygunge flat on Saturday and assaulted three of her domestic helps.
  - 7 Sep 21, 1:45pm -
• Eminent Bengali writer Buddhadeb Guha dies of post-covid complications
  The writer was suffering from post-Covid complications and had been hospitalised earlier this month after complaining of breathlessness and urinary infection.
  - 30 Aug 21, 9:37am -
• Delhi-bound Air India plane suffers tyre burst on Kolkata airport taxiway
  The aircraft, carrying 226 passengers, was subsequently brought back to the parking bay.
  - 28 Aug 21, 7:38pm -
• COVID-19 vaccine to be administered at health clinics every day: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
  West Bengal transport minister Firhad Hakim further said that the civic body has the infrastructure to vaccinate as many as one lakh people in a day.
  - 21 Aug 21, 4:57pm -
• Uttam Kumar Sarkar named new director of IIM-Calcutta
  Sarkar was selected from a large number of highly accomplished and qualified aspirants from India and abroad, through a very rigorous search process that lasted several months.
  - 18 Aug 21, 3:10pm -
• Kabuliwalas of Kolkata worry about kin back home as Taliban seize power in Afghanistan
  Kabuliwalas usually visit from one door to the other selling wares from their country, mostly dry fruits, rugs and perfume, or deal in the business of lending money.
  - 16 Aug 21, 7:57pm -
• 11 injured as bus hits pillar in Kolkata; police search absconding driver
  The driver of bus -- which was on its way to Science City -- somehow lost control of the wheels near Pragati Maidan area and rammed into one of the pillars of ‘Maa flyover', an officer stated.
  - 11 Aug 21, 2:34pm -
• COVID vaccine at doorstep for old, ailing Kolkata residents
  Many Kolkata residents, who are above 80 years, and those over 60 years and have serious illness, could not travel to COVID vaccination centres
  - 1 Aug 21, 1:34pm -
• Congress protests outside Raj Bhavan in Kolkata over snooping row, many held
  Police detained some of the protesters and took them to the central lock-up at the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar.
  - 26 Jul 21, 5:41pm -
• Kolkata: 30 shops gutted in fire in Kestopur, one severely injured
  Fifteen fire tenders fought the flames for three hours to put off the blaze which broke out at around 2 am, the sources said.
  - 25 Jul 21, 1:55pm -
• Kolkata Police STF arrests drug peddler, heroin worth Rs 26 crore seized
  The STF of Kolkata Police arrested a drug peddler and seized heroin worth nearly Rs 26 crore from his possession.
  - 18 Jul 21, 1:29pm -
• Three arrested with huge quantity of explosives near Kolkata
  Acting on a tip-off, the STF of the West Bengal Police made the arrests on Wednesday from Shasan, around 30 km from Kolkata.
  - 15 Jul 21, 10:53am -
• COVID: Kolkata Metro to run 192 trains in north-south route from Friday
  While the services will start from 8 am, the last train from both directions will leave the originating station at 8 pm, a Metro spokesperson said.
  - 15 Jul 21, 12:18am -
• JMB terrorists arrested in Kolkata may have Al-Qaeda links: Police
  It is suspected that they have associates in some districts of the state, a senior officer of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police said on Tuesday.
  - 14 Jul 21, 12:38pm -
• Kolkata gears up for Durga Puja, all involved to be vaccinated in three months
  The pandals have to be built in such a way that devotees can see the idols from a distance and need not come near, as per the guidelines.
  - 14 Jul 21, 11:37am -
• 37 held from top Kolkata hotel for partying amid COVID restrictions; hotel authorities booked
  An FIR was lodged against the hotel authorities and they were called for questioning in connection with the matter, an officer said.
  - 11 Jul 21, 8:54pm -
• Durga Puja: Kumartuli clay modellers optimistic as idol bookings rise amid COVID shadow
  Mintu Paul, one of the leading clay modellers in the area, said that the number of bookings is only 20-25 per cent of what was registered in pre-COVID times two years back.
  - 11 Jul 21, 8:18pm -
• Two doctors transferred from Kolkata hospital over sexual harassment plaint by medical student
  The main accused in the case, an assistant professor, was transferred to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.
  - 9 Jul 21, 8:19pm -