Sparks flew and punches were traded, albeit verbal. A debate at the American Center in Chowringhee saw college and university students lock horns in an engaging contest on Monday.The topic of the Jefferson Debates 2024, hosted by the US ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphVoices of children and those with disabilities should be included in decision-making processes, a student urged Unicef after taking over as its chief for a day.Riya Sardar, 16, who uses calipers to walk and sometimes a wheelchair because of ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA son of a Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was arrested early on Wednesday for allegedly knocking down a 70-year-old woman on Southern Avenue while driving his mayoral council member mother’s car.Suddhasatwa Banerjee, the younger ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe following notice was published in the daily Bengal Hurkaru, brought out from Calcutta, on this day:ESTATES OF DECEASED INDIVIDUALS.—Notice is hereby given, that on the 15th instant, was published at the Military Orphan Press, and circulated with the ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphCouncillor Sushanta Ghosh, who escaped a murder bid last week, met mayor Firhad Hakim at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Wednesday afternoon. This was the first time Ghosh, who represents Ward 108 in the civic house and ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThree persons were arrested early on Wednesday on charges of abetting the suicide of Satyajit Banerjee, the vice-chairman of the Trinamool Congress-run North Barrackpore Municipality, police said.Banerjee, 66, was found hanging in the bedroom of his rented accommodation in ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe city, thankfully, has avoided the dreaded “dark red zone” on Google’s timely offering, Air View+, at least for the day while Delhi continues to trudge through an air pollution nightmare and so do many other parts of the ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe city’s detective chief, Murli Dhar, was transferred to a relatively minor posting on Wednesday, at a time when Calcutta has seen a spate of daring crimes and police have been unpopular among many.Murli Dhar, who supervised the functioning ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphAs many as 40 persons were arrested for allegedly possessing illegal arms and around 50 arms and 20 bullets were seized following coordinated raids by the state police and the CID in districts, including a few adjoining Calcutta, on ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court will approach the chief justice “for appropriate direction” after the two judges on the bench differed on Wednesday over granting bail to former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four others in a ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur authorities have sent a show-cause notice to the teachers’ association of the institute over its letter to the Union education ministry about alleged nepotism, arbitrary faculty recruitment and other issues.The association, in its September 20 letter, ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphProtests to raise voices against atrocities on women are needed but sex education at a young age and teaching children about equality, the right to consent and the need to understand boundaries will address the problem at its root, ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphOnly one construction company, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), has submitted a bid for a proposed flyover between the Metropolitan crossing on EM Bypass and Mahisbathan near New Town, sources in the state government said. The company was the lone ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphCanals will be desilted, drainage pipes cleaned and high-power drainage pumping stations installed to resolve the problem of waterlogging in and around the airport, a meeting decided on Tuesday.For many years now parts of the airport have been flooded ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA senior US official on Tuesday paid homage to the victims of the January 22, 2002, attack on the American Center in Calcutta that left five policemen dead and a city stunned.Gentry Smith, the assistant secretary of state for ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the school service commission to file an affidavit while hearing a petition which said the commission has failed to conduct the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) each year to appoint upper primary teachers despite a ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphA fish that eats mosquito larvae and is released by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in canals, ponds and pools of water at construction sites to prevent the spread of dengue is now much in demand among Calcuttans. KMC ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe scooter that Sushanta Ghosh’s attackers had used was found on Tuesday on Dharmatala Road in Picnic Garden, barely 1.5km from Kasba’s Rajdanga where the Trinamool councillor survived an attempt on his life on Friday night.Police seized the vehicle ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday allowed five undergraduate students at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital to write their exams and attend classes, turning down a decision by the college barring the five from academic activities following allegations that ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphBlinking amber lights have been installed at two busy intersections on the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector and several gaps in the divider blocked with guard rails after a recent traffic survey revealed a sharp rise in the ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the new officers of the Militia, put together from Calcutta inhabitants and under the command of Colonel Cruttenden, were ordered to “attend on the Parade on Monday, 20th November, at six of the clock, in the ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe mercury dipped below the normal in several places of West Bengal on Tuesday, the IMD said.Mostly dry weather will prevail across the Gangetic plains and in the sub-Himalayan region of the state over the next few days, it ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphBharat Deb Burman, a member of the former ruling family of the princely state of Tripura, passed away at his residence in Calcutta on Tuesday morning.According to sources, an ambulance service from a private hospital in south Calcutta was ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphA fire destroyed at least seven shacks and fast food stalls on a pavement stretch adjacent to the main gate of TCS Gitanjali Park in New Town late on Sunday.The stalls on the pavement were shut when the fire ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar police on Monday prevented a doctors’ rally from entering the Swasthya Bhavan premises citing an order prohibiting the assembly of five or more people inside and outside the headquarters of the state health department.Swasthya Bhavan, in Salt ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphTwenty-four cars that run on CNG produced from cow dung left Eco Park in New Town on Monday morning for an interstate journey that will culminate in Delhi on November 26.The participants will drive through Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphFormer England defender and Premier League star Sol Campbell will flag off eastern India’s biggest road race from Red Road in the early hours of December 15. Campbell was named the international event ambassador of Tata Steel World 25K ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA nod from the defence ministry to shift a market in the heart of the city has come as a shot in the arm for the Joka-Esplanade Metro project (Purple Line).The project, already plagued by several delays, is still ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphIn the aftermath of the Great Bengal Famine of 1770, the textile-makers were among the most affected. Figures available for this date suggest how severely the famine affected the rearers of silkworms, which grew on mulberry plants. The famine ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe man who allegedly hatched the plot to kill Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh in Kasba had swapped the number plate of the scooter the attackers used with a fake one, police said.Gulzar Khan, the alleged mastermind, had even ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphHer filmography contains only one film but it is one that shook the world. Uma Sen, née Dasgupta, who is known to legions of Pather Panchali devotees as Satyajit Ray’s Durga, passed away at a private hospital on Monday ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at an outlet of Wow! Momo in the food court of Acropolis Mall in Kasba on Monday morning, triggering panic among employees in the offices and shops in the building where a blaze in June ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe magistrate who performed the inquest on the 31-year-old doctor who was raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 was among the three persons who deposed before the Sealdah court on Monday.The other ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA teacher at a primary school in Chopra, North Dinajpur, was among the three men arrested by Kolkata Police on Sunday for their alleged role in the defalcation of funds meant for plus-II students at government and government-aided schools ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at the food court of Acropolis mall on Monday morning around 10.45 am.Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot, which was shut down earlier after a blaze in June this year.The blaze was spotted ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University will hold a second independent counselling this month, two months after the first counselling, to fill vacant BTech seats.The university held its first independent counselling in late September as many seats remained vacant after the centralised counselling ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphAn inter-school fest was organised to raise awareness about mental health and help students identify “invisible signs” that might suggest one needs help. The Heritage School organised the psychology fest in an attempt to dispel the stigma attached to ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphA 20-year-old man from Jharkhand's Dumka who was stabbed multiple times in a fair near his home earlier this month underwent surgery at a Calcutta hospital and is recovering well, doctors said. Anand Kumar, an undergraduate student of history, ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphJewellery worth several lakhs of rupees was stolen from a house in Baguiati’s Hatiara, police said. The house was empty as owner Sandeep Kumar Gupta, his wife and two children had gone to Kankinara in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday, ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphThree air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta recorded “poor” air and four recorded “moderate air” on Sunday morning.With winter approaching, scientists feared the city’s average air quality would only worsen.Doctors said the worsening air quality means people with lung ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphThe owner of a jewellery store in Mukundapur was stabbed in his neck when he tried to resist a robbery and held on to the man who allegedly tried to loot ornaments on Sunday morning. The owner, despite his ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphGulzar Khan, who police said had hatched the failed plot to kill Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh, reportedly told officers that he wanted to take revenge because the leader had allegedly grabbed a 2,000-sqft godown that he owned in ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphA cycle rally of 100 people, 100 seconds of silence and a protest gathering by junior doctors on Sunday marked the passing of 100 days since the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphThe India Gazette, or Calcutta Public Advertiser, published from Calcutta, was first brought out on this day.It was the second newspaper printed in India, after Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.James Augustus Hicky, founder-editor of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, had made the newspaper ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphCharges of corruption have singed the Mamata Banerjee government’s efforts to implement safety measures at its hospitals following the RG Kar atrocity.Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has alleged the government paid “exorbitant prices” for the CCTVs that the ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphAmidst the ongoing construction work between Esplanade and Sealdah stations, East-West Metro services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade stretch will be increased from Monday, to manage the rush during morning and evening peak hours, an official statement said.At present, 150 ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphA fire early on Saturday in a cluster of timber depots on Maharshi Debendra Road in Nimtala gutted at least five units stocking timber logs along with the homes of 17 families who used to live above these depots.The ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day poet, editor and officer of the British East India Company David Lester Richardson passed away. His father was a Bengal army officer and scholar and had established the company’s staff training college at Barasat.Richardson entered the ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphAn 18-year-old boy cycles to school and then slips onto his wheelchair.His physical movements and speech are limited to an extent but not his ideas or his use of technology.Mohammad Aryan, who has cerebral palsy, has typed out a ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphThe city’s mayor on Saturday doubted Calcutta’s police’s intelligence gathering and questioned how arms and criminals from “outside the state” were making their way into the city.The comments came in the wake of a murder bid on a Trinamul ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphA protest gathering at the Shyambazar five-point-crossing, a cycle rally from Sodepur to Shyambazar and 100 seconds of silence, the junior doctors’ front and senior doctors’ associations have lined up several protests on Sunday evening to mark 100 days ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphIn a departure from previous years, Bangladesh is absent from the list of participating countries at the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair, which will kick off on January 28.The fair will feature Germany as the focal theme country, showcasing ...
17 November 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate seized around ₹3 crore from multiple locations in Calcutta in connection with an alleged multi-crore rupees pan-India lottery scam.Multiple teams of the central agency carried out day-long searches and seizures at two locations on Kavi Bharati ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphA major fire broke out in a timber shop in the Nimtala area of Kolkata in the early hours of Saturday, officials said.The fire was first noticed at around 2:15 am in a timber shop and it spread to ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphOn July 2, 1999, a rainy day, a group of 15 had set out for a walk in Calcutta. They knew that they were doing something meaningful, but had no idea that the walk would be celebrated later as ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe 48th edition of the Calcutta Book Fair will start on January 28 and continue till February 9, senior officials of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild said on Friday.It will be held at Boimela Prangan in Central Park in ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department issued a fresh advertisement on Friday seeking applications for appointment of vice-chancellors of two state-aided universities — Rabindra Bharati University and the West Bengal University of Health Sciences. The advertisement had to be issued because ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe Guru Nanak Jayanti celebrations were marked by prayers and shared meals that fostered the spirit of amity championed by the founder of Sikhism.The biggest gathering was on the Maidan around Shahid Minar, where the celebrations started with katha ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphA youth allegedly tried to gun down Trinamul Congress councillor Susanta Ghosh in front of his Kasba home on Friday evening.The youth failed to carry out his job as the gun malfunctioned, police said.Ghosh and his acquaintances managed to ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphRows upon rows of thatched houses on the slope of a hill. Not a single tin roof, lamp post or electric cable sticking out like a sore thumb in this prelapsarian domain. The interiors of the houses of chieftains ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphBuses and minibuses will have to cover their routes within a specified time and any deliberate delay or haste would invite penalties for the operators, the state government has decided. The move is among the measures being drawn up ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe user ID for each school to log into a government portal to upload students’ data contains its DISE (District Information System for Education) code followed by the digits “32”. All the schools were given a common, easy-to-guess password ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Calcutta Gazette published an advertisement about two “drummer boys” who were runaway slaves. The two boys bore the last name De Rozario and had run away from Fort St George in Madras (now Chennai) and it ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe 48th International Kolkata Book Fair will kick off on January 28 and continue until February 9, 2025, organisers Publishers and Booksellers Guild said here on Friday.The fair will feature Germany as the focal theme country, showcasing its rich ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police arrested a renowned musician from Mumbai for allegedly molesting a student at his institute here, an officer said on Friday.Renowned singer and composer Sanjay Chakraborty, brother of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, was arrested by a Charu Market police ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphManoj Mitra did not live in his Salt Lake para as a celebrity. He believed in simple living and lived as one of them, his neighbours say. The thespian, who called AG Block home, passed away on Tuesday at ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA fortnight ago, residents of several highrises in New Town were upset at the disruption of the daily process of garbage collection from their complexes.Social media groups were agog with outraged comments on garbage bins overflowing and overbearing stench. ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA hint of chill, missing altogether in November so far, is on its way, the Met office has said.After consistently staying several notches above normal for half of the month, the minimum temperature is set to slide from Saturday, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe school education department has started transferring money afresh to students who did not receive it earlier under a scheme to help them buy smartphones or tabs because of defalcation of funds. An official in the department said on ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe number of students falling victim to the “tab funds scam” crossed 100 on Thursday, police said.A special investigation team has been formed to probe cheat complaints where students, eligible to receive the government grant to buy smartphones or ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA pool car ferrying school students crashed into a stationary truck on Dhapa Road, near the Science City crossing of EM Bypass, on Thursday morning and one of the students and the driver were injured, police said. Ankita Malick, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee government proposed on Thursday a monthly salary for drivers and conductors of private buses, which will replace the existing commission-based remuneration system that makes them take undue risks, to make Calcutta’s roads safer.Such a proposal is ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphPeople on two-wheelers without helmets, many of whom were stopped by police near Salt Lake’s gate number II, where a child suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Tuesday, gave several excuses for not wearing helmets or letting pillion ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphTwo students of Classes III and IV and a woman attendant had a close shave after the school bus they were travelling in hit a cyclist and then rammed into the wall of a park in Survey Park around ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash was published first on this day by Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan.Dwarakanath, who taught at Sanskrit College, Calcutta, was inspired by Ishwar Chandra Vidya-sagar’s idea. Vidyasagar, who continued to advise him on editorial matters.A resident of Chang-ripota, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphHe has seen Mahatma Gandhi face-to-face. Jawaharlal Nehru would hop into the sidecar of his father’s motorbike, and he owns an autograph book containing the signatures of Netaji, Tagore, C.V. Raman and others.Arun Kumar Gupta of GC Block celebrated ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphDid you know that authentic pizzas aren’t perfectly round? “In Italy, pizza is a staple. Much like how our mothers make luchi at home without worrying about perfect shapes, it is the same with pizza. The bread must be ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphKB Block last week organised what was perhaps the only community Chhath puja in Salt Lake this year.The festival, which is most celebrated in and around Bihar, requires a water body for devotees to enter and worship the sun ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphFormer English Premier League star footballer Sol Campbell on Thursday was announced as the international event ambassador of the Tata Steel World 25K, the world’s first World Athletic Gold Label Race, to be held here on December 15. At ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe school education department has stated in a report that funds to buy tabs or smartphones could not be transferred to 484 students at government and aided schools in Calcutta because of incorrect data provided by the institutions.The office ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal School Service Commission has mentioned in the recommendation letters issued to the candidates appointed as upper primary school teachers that they have “graduated with a BEd degree”, a mandatory qualification for the post.The commission said the qualification ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men have been arrested in North Dinajpur’s Chopra in connection with the alleged defalcation of funds meant to buy tabs or smartphones for students in Classes XI and XII at a government-aided school in Sarsuna in Behala. A ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe state government will tell owners of buses and minibuses at a meeting scheduled for Thursday that they will be held accountable for rash driving by drivers hired by them and booked for negligence, sources in the government said. ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphMetro Railway has expedited the construction of the Esplanade-Sealdah stretch, the only unfinished section of the East-West corridor (Green Line).The carrier wants to finish civil engineering work in the west-bound (Howrah-bound) tunnel by this year-end and in the east-bound ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA government-sponsored school in Behala will start an English medium section in January.Children's Welfare Association High School for Girls felt there was a demand for an English medium school in the area. Many of the existing students, some of ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fire gutted a series of stalls and shanties at the Lord's intersection on Prince Anwar Shah Road on Wednesday afternoon.There were no casualties, police said. The blaze was reported around 3.10pm from an area locally known as Sandhyabazar, ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphNine minor girls and a woman from Bengal were rescued in a police crackdown on a clutch of “orchestras” in Bihar on Tuesday.They were forced to dance to sleazy numbers at social gatherings, said police and rights activists.The swoop ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser published a report headlined “Calcutta News”. It was about the battle at Ashteen (or Ashta) between Peshwa Baji Rao II and the British. The report said: “The following ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe mother of the 11-year-old boy who was killed in Tuesday’s accident in Salt Lake alleged that police did not come to her help while her son lay bleeding on the road.Nur Jahan Paik, whose son Ayush was killed ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphTwo doctors — an associate professor and a junior medic — deposed before the Sealdah court on the third day of the trial in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The associate professor, according to the CBI chargesheet, had ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe repair and renovation work that slapped marble slabs on a much-loved stone stairway of the 188-year-old La Martiniere for Boys did not have the permission that a “Grade I heritage” structure needs for such work. On Wednesday, the ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out on Wednesday in a market near Anwar Shah Road in south Calcutta, a Fire Brigade official said.He said that 16 fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the blaze.No one was reported to ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fortnight from now, more than 1,400 cameras will be installed at strategic locations across the Sunderbans forest to capture images of its apex predator.The trap cameras will be in place for around 45 days as part of the ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA few months ago, hawkers in the New Market area were forced to vacate roads and shift to pavements, and stay within a third of the width of the sidewalks. They are now back to flouting rules, a two-day ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe duo arrested for allegedly trafficking a two-day-old baby last Sunday had recently visited Maldives and Congo raising suspicion about whether the racket was an overseas one.The state CID probing the human trafficking case has found links between this ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University on Tuesday published the results of the Bengali MA first-semester examination.Following the publication of the results, the 104 students whose answer scripts in one of the four papers had been misplaced by examiners would be able to ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphPrivate hospitals across the city have been packed with patients over the past few days and many are having to wait for hours in the emergency room at some of the facilities before being allotted a bed.Many patients are ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphTwo government-aided schools in Calcutta have lodged complaints alleging cash irregularities in the Taruner Swapna Scheme for students of Classes XI and XII.According to the complaints, the money earmarked by the state government for students to buy smartphone or ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe following advertisement appeared in Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from Calcutta, on this day.Birkmyre brosPaulinsWaterproof and durable No Oil nor tarLight and easily Handled And last double the timesOf tar and oil paulin.Made up into any size complete on ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA La Martiniere stairway that has been an indelible part of its history of over 180 years has been changed forever after a round of repair work.The “original steps” on the southern side of La Martiniere for Boys that ...
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