Kolkata

Indian startups raise $184.75 million this week; Bengaluru leads

The startup activity was also spread across cities. Bengaluru led with nine deals, followed by Delhi-NCR with five. Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai also saw their startups securing investments. Sector-wise, fintech startups emerged at the top with six funding deals.

Jun 15, 2025

Bengal fake passport scam: Pak infiltrator used deceased wife's address to forge identity

Azad Mullick, a Pakistani national arrested earlier this year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata for his alleged involvement in a fake passport and hawala racket, initially secured Indian identity documents by using the parental address of his deceased Hindu wife, Late Suchandra Biswas.

May 22, 2025

Kolkata hotel blaze: City of joy has history of negligence-prompted major fires

Kolkata has a history of negligence-prompted major fire mishaps in important buildings, which have claimed several lives, and in the latest that happened in the six-storey hotel at Madan Mohan Burman Street, 14 people were killed.

Apr 30, 2025

Woman's body with sealed lips found in dumped trolley bag in Kolkata

The body of a woman with sealed lips was recovered from a trolley bag dumped at the roadside at Baguihati in the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Tuesday.

Apr 22, 2025

Fresh ED raids in Nadia in Bengal fake passport case

Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have been conducting fresh raids and search operations since Thursday morning at Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal.

Apr 17, 2025

ED arrests Bangladeshi hawala racket kingpin operating from Kolkata

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a Bangladeshi citizen who was not only residing in Kolkata after possessing fake Indian identity documents, including a passport, but also was operating a hawala racket from his residence.

Apr 16, 2025

Bengal school job case: CBI probes why WBSSC infrastructure not used to preserve OMR sheet scans

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore cash-for-school job case are now probing why the available infrastructure of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) was not used in preserving the "scanned" or "mirror" images of the optimal mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in the written examination for appointments for teaching and non-teaching jobs in state-run schools in 2016.

Apr 14, 2025

Communal tension continues in Bengal's Mothabari, 57 arrested

Tension continued in Mothabari in West Bengal's Malda district, where communal attacks took place last week. The state police have claimed to have made 57 arrests in this connection so far.

Mar 30, 2025

RG Kar case: Calcutta HC asks CBI to clarify 'rape or gang-rape', seeks diary

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to clarify to the court whether the woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, was a victim of "rape" or "gang-rape", and also to submit the case diary.

Mar 24, 2025

Four killed, two hurt as vehicle falls from flyover after tyre burst in Kolkata

Four persons were killed and two others seriously injured in a horrific accident on a flyover on the northern outskirts of Kolkata over the Hooghly river, on Friday morning.

Mar 21, 2025

Calcutta HC directs JU student named in FIR to cooperate with police

A single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed a student of Jadavpur University (JU) to cooperate in the ongoing investigation by Kolkata Police in the case of ruckus within the university campus on March 1.

Mar 12, 2025

Calcutta HC lifts ban on political rallies in JU campus locality till March 13

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, lifted the earlier ban on any political rally in the locality in the vicinity of the Jadavpur University (JU) campus in Kolkata till March 13 without prior permission of the court, which the same bench had earlier imposed last week amid the prevailing and continuing tension in the area then over the ruckus within the university premises on March 1.

Mar 12, 2025

Statements of few Kolkata cops inconsistent with circumstantial evidence in RG Kar case: CBI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths, probing the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, have noticed major inconsistencies between earlier statements made to them by some cops of Kolkata Police and circumstantial evidence accumulated by the central agency officials in the matter at a later stage.

Mar 6, 2025

Flights take off from Hindon Airport to Bengaluru, Kolkata, Goa

Ghaziabad's Hindon Airport is set to expand its flight operations, offering greater convenience to travellers. Starting Saturday, direct flights to Bengaluru, Kolkata, and Goa will commence. Additionally, flights to Chennai and Jammu will be launched on March 22.

Mar 1, 2025

In Mamata's Bengal, 64,910 female students opt out of higher secondary exam

The number of female students appearing for the higher secondary examinations conducted by the West Bengal state board has drastically reduced, raising questions about whether they are increasingly reluctant to appear for the exam.

Feb 28, 2025

RG Kar case: Victim's parents seek meeting with CBI Director on slow pace of probe

The parents of the victim in the R.G. Kar rape and murder case have sought the appointment of the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complain about the reluctance of the investigating officials in updating them about the progress of the investigation.

Feb 27, 2025

48 hours: Bengal cops yet to trace men who chased dancer leading to her death in accident

West Bengal Police is under all-round criticism following its failure to track five youths accused in the death of dancer and event management professional Sutandra Chattopadhyay early on Monday morning.

Feb 26, 2025

Two women arrested for trying to dispose of headless body in Ganges

Two women were arrested on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata's Kumartuli early Tuesday as they were trying to dispose of a trolley bag carrying the headless and chopped body of a woman in the river.

Feb 25, 2025

RG Kar case: CBI to submit fresh progress report today seeking death penalty for accused

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will submit a fresh progress report on the agency's continuing probe in the R.G. Kar rape and murder case on Monday at a special court in Kolkata, which had recently sentenced a civic volunteer and the prime convict in the case, Sanjay Roy, to life imprisonment.

Feb 24, 2025

NRI quota medical admission scam: ED probes influential Bengal links

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials have started probing the influential links of a racket involved in massive irregularities in admission to private medical colleges in West Bengal under the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota.

Feb 21, 2025