Security has been beefed up further at all airports across the country, including Calcutta. In the air, pilots of civilian planes are on heightened alert and relying more on a conventional navigational system.Pilots normally rely on the satellite-based global ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe BD Block-based club, Balaka Salt Lake City, recently hosted a month-long carrom tournament. Now in its third year, the Dr Nilakshi Jana Memorial Carrom Tournament attracted over 150 members across age groups, with matches held in both league ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government has directed that all buses, especially those carrying school kids, must be fitted with grab rails at the doors and that the steps should be built at a fixed height, making it easier to get on ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have recovered ₹48 lakh of the ₹2.66 crore robbed from two employees of a forex company in Entally earlier this week. Investigators said on Thursday, ₹26 lakh was recovered from a hideout in Baruipur, South 24-Parganas, and ₹3 ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal Special Task Force arrested four men from the interiors of Rajarhat and seized a cache of arms and ammunition, police said. According to officers, the STF stopped a vehicle based on specific input that the four were ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to lodge FIRs in connection with the deaths of two students — Shaon Malik from Calcutta and Aniket Walkar from Maharashtra — and a junior lab technician, Sakir Ali Mollah, after a prod from the ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe city’s civic body has completed at least one inspection of all rooftop bars and restaurants on a list prepared by police as part of an administrative swoop on the segment.Following a blanket ban on rooftop restaurants announced a ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe mercury almost touched 40 degrees Celsius in the northern tip of Calcutta on Friday, and the Met office warned of hotter days ahead.The maximum temperature at Dum Dum was 39.4 degrees on Friday, the Met reading said. In ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have started monitoring social media posts related to information on the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan.A few that originated from the districts, and could have hurt national sovereignty, were pulled down, and cases were started, said sources ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphResidents at Diamond City South, a south Kolkata high-rise, have been standing on duty guarding the gates to the complex as the security company engaged has withdrawn services for over five days.The agency engaged to provide security personnel has ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphMayor Krishna Chakraborty organised a Jagannath puja on the tithi of Akshay Tritiya in a corner of CJ Park on April 30. The puja was held on the same day when chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a newly built ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe World of Children, a free English-medium school for the needy in New Town, held its fifth annual day, recognising the efforts and achievements of its students. Nearly 40 children were awarded for academic excellence, attendance, discipline, neatness, and ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe annual day of Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 was an occasion for the school to showcase all that it had achieved over the past year.The function at EZCC commenced with the mantra Deep jyoti namaste in the presence of chief ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphA team of students from the Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM) will be headed to Australia next month to participate in conferences and a preview to the same was held at their Sector V campus recently.The conference will ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal administration has initiated a drive against rumour mongering and spreading fake news related to the ongoing cross-border tension between India and Pakistan, sources in the state home department said.Police and intelligence agencies have been asked to keep ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools on Thursday decided to close for summer or switch to online classes from next week.The decision followed an appeal to private schools by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday to start summer vacation from Friday.The La Martiniere ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphOver one thousand teachers “not found specifically tainted” and allowed to return to schools till December have been staging a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the education department headquarters in Salt Lake, since Wednesday afternoon.They are protesting the school education ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe family of Aniket Walkar, a fourth-year BTech student found dead on the IIT Kharagpur campus last month, wondered why the IIT authorities had not lodged an FIR after the Supreme Court, in an order on March 24, said ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphYoung adults, diagnosed with asthma and who have long working hours, tend to miss their inhalers more than children or older people, said doctors.When it comes to children, parents administer the inhalers twice a day or as prescribed, and ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphA mandatory safety clearance for the commissioning of the full stretch of East-West Metro (Green Line) arrived last week, but with a rider.When trains run on the full corridor between Howrah Maidan and Sector V, they will run on ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphAt a time the spectre of war looms on the subcontinent, an “institute of peace studies” was unveiled in Calcutta. The Tagore Institute of Peace Studies (TIPS) is an initiative of the West Bengal Federation of United Nations Associations. ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphWomen are mentally tougher, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh told a city audience last month.“We are tougher mentally. I am mentally stronger... the consistency in us is more than anything because we are trained. The mental structure is such. So, ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe runway was pitch dark and the airport closed, but the Prime Minister’s aircraft was on the taxiway, ready for take-off.A small vehicle guided the Prime Minister’s aircraft through the dark taxiway towards the runway. The man at the ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphWork on a drainage pumping station at Gulshan Colony in Anandapur along EM Bypass was stalled by a group of men who allegedly attacked Kolkata Municipal Corporation workers at the site and damaged a KMC vehicle.Calcutta Mayor Firhad Hakim ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe desilting of the Beleghata Circular Canal will be done by May end, a state irrigation department engineer said at a monsoon preparedness meeting chaired by mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday. The Beleghata canal, which runs from Kolkata station ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphAt least three prominent city bars and restaurants have moved Calcutta High Court against the administration’s clampdown on rooftop establishments.According to sources, the petition filed by the three establishments, likely to be heard on Tuesday, is backed by the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphTwo employees of a money changer company who were going to deposit ₹2.66 crore to a bank were allegedly robbed of the cash on Monday, police said.The employees themselves reported the incident to the police. The police said they ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities on Monday asked hostel wardens to interact more with students to gauge if any of them is facing mental health issues and needs counselling.The move came a day after a third-year student, Md Asif Quamar, allegedly ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is investigating whether rooftop restaurants, cafes, and bars in the city have sanctioned building plans, civic officials said on Monday.Without these plans, the officials warned, such establishments are illegal and subject to demolition.The officials emphasised ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphPopular Park Street rooftop hangout LMNOQ moved the high court on Monday, alleging that a demolition job carried out on its premises by the Calcutta civic body was illegal.Justice Gaurang Kanth wanted to know the legal basis of the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphBJP supporters on Monday staged a protest outside the South 24 Parganas district magistrate’s office here demanding the identification, arrest and deportation of Pakistani citizens living in India, following the recent terror attack in Pahalgam.Around 200 BJP members led ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Monday granted interim protection to the owner of an upmarket rooftop restaurant here, halting further demolition activities initiated by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).The demolition followed a devastating fire at a city hotel that ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphRestaurant owners are likely to move court against the directive to shut down all rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns. Sources in the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) said a writ petition will be filed in ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to revoke the permissions it had given to the city’s rooftop establishments, said a senior official on Sunday.The KMC official said the civic body is well within its rights to withdraw the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run in their Indian Premier League match here on Sunday to keep their play-off qualification hopes alive.Chasing 207 for a win, RR could manage 205 for 8 in 20 overs to ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal is set to experience moderate to severe thunderstorm activity over the next four days due to a combination of upper air circulations over the region.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), an upper air cyclonic circulation persists ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphWith Kolkata’s thriving rooftop dining scene facing sudden turbulence, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has stepped in to support restaurateurs grappling with uncertainty, business losses, and the looming threat of closure. The move comes in response to ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Saturday began sending notices to rooftop restaurants across the city, directing them to pull down illegally built portions or face legal action.A team from the fire services department and the KMC visited What’s ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphOver 96 per cent of the 3,250 students of Jadavpur University in the arts and science faculties said in a referendum that they wanted campus elections.On Wednesday and Thursday, a student referendum was held, seeking to know if they ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, has decided against opening a commerce section this year as the college does not have enough hostel facilities to accommodate the additional students.The college initially thought about starting a commerce section for day ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphSt James’ School held a special assembly on Friday to condemn the terror attack in Pahalgam and also to reinforce the ideals of brotherhood, unity and amity among the students.“We stand here today as Indians united in grief, cutting ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphBengal’s rugby team knocked powerhouse Haryana off its perch in the just-concluded national championships in Guwahati.In a thrilling final at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium on April 28, Bengal beat Haryana, which had been winning the tournament for eight ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphResidential buildings in New Town, which have been partly converted into commercial spaces, are being inspected over the weekend to check for fire safety compliance.The two-day drive will be held on 227 premises in the township that are used ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphPolice teams will start visiting hotels, restaurants and pubs in the jurisdiction of their police stations to check for fire preparedness, senior officers said on Saturday.Officers will check a list of things mandatory for the fire safety of visitors ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphDemolition work at LMNOQ Skybar, a popular rooftop establishment on Park Street, continued through Saturday following Thursday’s surprise inspection by the chief minister who voiced fire safety concerns.The rooftop venue, located on the 12th floor of Celica House within ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphA night navigation system that will allow ships to move into the city even during the high tide at night was launched at the Calcutta port on Saturday.The move promises to enhance the port’s capacity to handle ships.The Calcutta ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphHospitals in Calcutta should have preventive oncology departments which could help in early detection of cancer cases, several experts said on Friday.“There are many who don’t have cancer but who fall in the high-risk category because of family history ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s rooftop cafés, lounges, bars and restaurants will be shut down, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday, confounding a segment that has been booming since the pandemic and boasts of some of the city’s most popular hangouts.A building’s terrace ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphA contractor engaged for interior work on the first floor of Rituraj Hotel, where a fire killed 14 people, has been arrested.Khurshid Alam, 42, is a resident of Rifle Range Road in Karaya. He was arrested on Thursday evening.Police ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will operate more trains on the Purple Line, bringing down the interval between two services from 50 minutes to 22 minutes, officials said on Saturday.The isolated Purple Line is at present operational between Joka and Majerhat in ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers barred from returning to school met education minister Bratya Basu at Bikash Bhavan on Friday. The teachers demanded they be allowed to go to school and draw salaries till December 31, along the lines of the temporary relief extended to those ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphThree teenagers overcame tough obstacles and passed this year’s Madhyamik exams on Friday.The marks scored by the trio not only narrate stories of achievements but also bear proof of their resilience and spirit to not give up in the ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a flex and hologram manufacturing unit in Sector V on Friday afternoon, police said.Thick smoke covered Salt Lake’s eastern skyline. Eleven fire tenders took around two hours to bring the blaze under control. An ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphSome former students of Jadavpur University, with support from Rotary International, have raised funds to upgrade the university’s accessible library used by visually impaired students.The library, upgraded at a cost of ₹38.5 lakh, was thrown open to the students ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities have decided to constitute a committee to look into the reasons behind the spate of student suicides on the campus and suggest if there is a need to improve the system, the institute’s acting director said ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphA pandemic fuelled their stupendous growth. Now, a devastating fire has cast a cloud of uncertainty over their future.Like other metros, Calcutta witnessed a steep rise in the number of al fresco food and beverage outlets in the wake ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphParts of a popular rooftop hangout on Park Street were demolished on Friday for alleged violation of the civic body’s building rules on terraces.LMNOQ Skybar was one of the six restaurants at Celica Park on Park Street which were ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a directive shutting down all rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns, reported ABP Ananda on Friday.The decision comes a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited Celica Park, Park Street on ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphFire broke out at a chemical factory in Sector V Salt Lake on Friday afternoon. Multiple fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. Second major fire in three days after 14 people died of suffocation in a Burrabazar ...
3 May 2025 Telegraph“I studied at Presidency from 1936 to 1940. I didn’t start in arts. I began with science.” The words are Satyajit Ray’s. In a 1993 interview for ‘Nostalgia’, a commemorative illustrated history of Presidency College (now Presidency University), Ray ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have come out with a list of the victims of the fire at Rituraj Hotel, which claimed 14 lives. The deceased include 11 men, one woman and two children.Two of the deceased have yet to be identified, the ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphThe marks they scored in the board exams are not a testament of what they wrote in their answer scripts alone, but of their grit, patience and resilience.Metro spoke to two boys who braved the odds and emerged successful.Sk ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphRain lashed the city after a round of powerful gusts of wind on Thursday evening, the third thunderstorm in five days.A woman who took shelter under a tree in Behala died after the tree got uprooted during Thursday’s squall. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sent the city’s business community a tough message: Follow fire safety norms or face government action.Mamata, who was visiting Rituraj Hotel where a fire had killed 14 people on Tuesday night, said the ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphSix bars and restaurants in Celica Park, formerly known as Magma House, on Park Street were shut down on Thursday after chief minister Mamata Banerjee made a surprise visit on her way from the fire-ravaged Rituraj Hotel and flagged ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphSacked teachers allowed to return to schools until the end of the year, organised a drive to speed up their preparations to file a review petition against the Supreme Court order terminating their jobs.The Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum held ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphA 61-year-old from Tamil Nadu and his two grandchildren stayed back in the hotel while his son and daughter-in-law went out to get dinner. All three at the hotel are now dead. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphOn Tuesday night, T. Prabhu climbed up a fire rescue ladder, smashed one of the windowpanes of Rituraj Hotel and tried to look in, searching for his two kids and father-in-law.A thick layer of smoke hung inside Room No. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphFirefighters and police broke open at least 10 doors bolted from inside at Rituraj Hotel on Wednesday morning and found people hiding in washrooms or lying on beds. All of them were dead by then.Some of them would have ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphFrom the ashes and tears of Tuesday night’s fire emerged the story of a family that braved the flames and stood on a fourth-floor cornice of Rituraj Hotel for nearly an hour, patiently waiting to be rescued.A couple and ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphA brother and sister, who had come from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Calcutta to buy rakhis for an exhibition, were among those who died in Tuesday night’s fire at Rituraj Hotel.Akriti Navalgarhia, 22, and her brother Kamal, 36, ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphOver 250 teenage rowers, gearing up for a tournament in the Rabindra Sarobar slated next month, will have to learn how to cling to a boat in the event of a capsize, remain calm, not panic and wait for ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphAlmost 24-hours after a fire in a city hotel claimed the lives of 14 people, including two children, the Kolkata Police registered a case against authorities of the Rituraj Hotel.The Jorasanko police station, under whose jurisdiction the hotel at ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphPolice on Wednesday afternoon demolished a shanty at the rooftop slum in central Kolkata’s Karnani Estate that started as the servant quarters for the cooks, khansamas and drivers employed by American and British officers who lived in the building ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphThe Rituraj hotel at Burrabazar’s Mechhuapatty turned into a gas chamber on Tuesday night with no outlet for the thick smoke sparked by a fire that claimed at least 14 lives.The fire broke out around 7.30pm on Tuesday and ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities will decide this week whether they will form a committee to probe the death of a fourth-year student who was found hanging on the campus on April 20, said the institute’s acting director.The mother and brother ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphJadavpur: Authorities of Jadavpur University on Tuesday whitewashed graffiti that said “Azad Kashmir”, a day after a section of students wrote to the pro-vice chancellor demanding it be erased.At a time when 26 people were killed by militants in ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphMathematics is not just for textbooks, it can also effectively address real-world issues — even those faced by supply chains in bustling cities worldwide. A notable contribution to this direction was presented by professor Leopoldo Eduardo Cardenas-Barrón, a faculty ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphThe tragedy at Pahalgam is a stark reminder of the “fragility of peace” and the memories of those who died in Kashmir should inspire others to work harder for “a world free from hatred and violence”, the principal of ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphBidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya has decided to bring the entire campus under CCTV surveillance by May 15 after an offensive poster was pasted on the university’s notice board in the wake of the Pahalgam tragedy. Ashok Kumar Patra, vice-chancellor of the ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphThe chief justice of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday set up a special bench of three judges to probe the alleged attack on the chamber of senior advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya last week.The panel set up by Chief Justice ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA domestic help suspected of stealing gold jewellery at her employer’s home allegedly kept changing location to avert arrest.The woman was arrested recently from Regent Park, which police said was the third house she had shifted to in the ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphSacked teachers barred from returning to school met the school service commission chairperson on Tuesday evening to demand that they be allowed to work until December and draw their salaries.The sacked teachers identified as tainted met SSC chairperson Siddhartha ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphAt least 14 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in central Calcutta on Tuesday night, a senior police officer said.The fire erupted at Rituraj Hotel in Jorasanko’s Mechua area around 8.15pm on Tuesday."Fourteen bodies have been ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of overnight rain dragged the Celsius down by several notches in Calcutta on Tuesday, making an end-April afternoon far more bearable than it usually is.The Met office recorded around 23mm of rain in Alipore between 8.30pm ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphBoxes, each the size of three train coaches, are being pushed through the soil to create a Metro Rail tunnel at the city airport.The 14 boxes constructed of concrete and reinforced cement are being used to build the 135-metre ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA hotel in central Calcutta caught fire on Tuesday night, trapping several and prompting at least two people inside to panic and jump from the third floor.One of those who jumped died from his injuries. The other was admitted ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a guesthouse at Gol Park by men aged 20 or less whom she had befriended on Instagram and later subdued into silence with the threat of posting a video of the crime ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata: Three persons have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor at a guest house in south Kolkata’s Golpark area, while the fourth accused is absconding.The accused- all teenagers- had met the victim through social media and invited ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA stretch of Camac Street has been cordoned off to repair a cave-in that followed the collapse of an underground brick sewer.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has dug a 6ft-wide and 20ft-long trench to repair the cave-in. Police cordoned off ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphThe names of some of the protest leaders among sacked teachers who did not feature among those being allowed to work till December have been included in an updated list.The district inspectors of schools (DIs) on Monday started sending ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake’s roads remain a shame. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority — both involved in road repair works — say they have repaired half the roads allotted to them. Township residents, however, complained ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphA man jumped in front of the rear wheels of a goods vehicle on Diamond Harbour Road in Thakurpukur on Monday morning and ended his life.Police said the identity of the person could not be established till Monday evening.The ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe CBI has examined 12 new witnesses in the last month in connection with their probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024, the central agency ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court will hear from May 7 the state’s appeal against an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in May 2023 cancelling the appointments of over 36,000 primary school teachers based on the 2014 teachers’ eligibility test.On Monday, the ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphDismissed teachers who have been barred from returning to school assembled near the Hazra crossing on Monday afternoon, demanding that they be allowed to work till December 31 like the rest or be given a monthly allowance until their ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta high court on Monday instructed the Kolkata Police to identify those involved in the heckling of lawyers inside the court premises.On Friday lawyers Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and Firdous Shamim, representing those qualified in the school service commission ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphAn elderly city businessman, who lost his wife a month ago, was found dead in a pool of blood with a gunshot to his head and his licensed gun lying near him on the terrace of his CIT Road ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphA doctor refusing to treat a patient because of her religion would be violating the ethics of the profession and the oath taken by doctors, several senior doctors said on Sunday.A public health expert said that the refusal by ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphAnger is a normal and fundamental human emotion. According to a study, healthy individuals get angry once or twice a week. However, excessive anger is abnormal and considered an unacceptable social behaviour.Anger exists as a spectrum from normal emotion ...
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