The city will get light rain on Thursday as well, though the Alipore Met office ruled out an intense rain like Tuesday. The Met office also predicted a wet weekend.A low pressure that was hovering over coastal south Bengal ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court on Wednesday turned down an appeal from the parents of the slain RG Kar doctor to visit the hospital crime scene with their lawyers.Additional chief judicial magistrate Arijit Mandal rejected the plea, stating that since the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphPolice officers will visit colleges under their jurisdiction and speak to students, security staff, and the administration to spread awareness about crime prevention, especially crimes against women, city police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Wednesday.“The team will comprise men ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Wednesday asked the school service commission (SSC) counsel why he was arguing in favour of candidates identified as tainted by the Supreme Court.The commission’s counsel was arguing that the tainted candidates ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphHeavy rainfall on Tuesday left large parts of the city underwater, with waterlogging persisting into Wednesday afternoon in several areas.Jodhpur Park and neighbouring localities remained flooded until late Tuesday, while stretches of Sarat Ghosh Garden Road were still waterlogged ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphFour officers of New Alipore police station were suspended on Wednesday after they allegedly smashed the windshields and deflated the tyres of at least 30 trucks parked in the area because the drivers refused to pay bribes.Police sources said ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphState-aided Behala College has requested permission from Calcutta University to conduct its own postgraduate admissions this year, following the UGC’s approval of its autonomous status.Principal Sharmila Mitra wrote to university registrar Debasis Das on July 4, outlining the college’s ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphMotorists continue to make basic mistakes that children are taught in schools, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Tuesday.They continue to not wear helmets, over-speed and drink drive, he added.“When we were in school, we were taught the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA senior government official will conduct a hearing into the allegations levelled by some directors against a federation of technicians in Tollygunge, the counsel for the state informed the high court on Tuesday.Justice Amrita Sinha heard a contempt petition ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe IMD on Wednesday forecast heavy downpour in some districts of West Bengal, while other places are likely to receive light to moderate rain owing to a low pressure area.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that thunderstorms with gusty ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphTwo men, one of them from Kalighat, have been arrested for allegedly helping an NGO worker in Pakistan open a WhatsApp account against an Indian SIM card. According to Bengal Special Task Force (STF) sources, Mukesh Rajak and Rakesh ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe college in Howrah, where a Trinamool Congress student leader allegedly sexually harassed his juniors and video recorded the act last year, will discuss whether there is a need to take further actions.Soma Bandopadhyay, the principal of the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old student at South Calcutta Law College on June 25 has cast a shadow not only over the woman and the institution, but also over innocent male students who now find themselves under scrutiny.Jeet ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress student leader allegedly sexually harassed his juniors and video recorded the act in a Howrah college last year.A purported video that was originally circulated more than a year ago has re-emerged in the wake of the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe body of a 16-year-old student of class X was found hanging at his home early on Monday, police said. The teenager, according to the cops, was undergoing treatment for depression. Sources said the incident happened hours before he ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe fate of restaurants, pubs, and lounges — currently shut because of fire safety concerns — will depend on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision regarding three of them, whose representatives attended a hearing at the civic headquarters in May, ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphJunior doctors from various medical colleges have planned a night vigil at Shyambazar from midnight on August 8, a year since one of their colleagues was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College Hospital. The night vigil has ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe state counsel, along with lawyers for Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mandal, on Tuesday objected to the slain RG Kar doctor’s parents’ petition seeking permission for their lawyers to visit the crime scene.The matter came up before the additional ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe government has assured sufficient state buses for commuters on Wednesday, the day a joint forum of trade unions has called a strike or Bharat Bandh.Arrangements have been made to run additional vessels on the Hooghly, transport department officials ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphIncessant rain since early Tuesday affected attendance in schools across Calcutta. While some classes saw attendance drop to 25–30 per cent, others recorded between 50 and 70 per cent. As the city’s roads were waterlogged, many students and teachers ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA group of teaching job aspirants moved a division bench of the high court on Tuesday, appealing that the new recruitment test rules for the appointment of teachers in government-aided schools be struck down.The education department issued the new ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Tuesday sent the four accused in the South Calcutta Law College gang-rape case to judicial remand till July 22.They will be lodged in the Presidency jail for at least two weeks.The defence lawyer for three ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphBetween midnight on Monday and Tuesday afternoon, Jodhpur Park received over 290mm of rain, records shared by the civic body showed.A senior engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said rain that usually pours over a month came down ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday issued an order restraining the school service commission (SSC) from allowing candidates identified by the Supreme Court as “tainted” to appear for the upcoming selection test to appoint teachers.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya asked the commission ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA 26-year-old youth from Picnic Garden has tested positive for cholera, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Tuesday. A team from the civic body collected water samples from the flat where the youth, Afroze Ahmed Khan, ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphSchools are facing a challenge of a different kind — students not signing up for sporting activities after school hours.The numbers keep dwindling more in higher classes when academics is prioritised, mainly by parents, several principals said.In Lakshmipat Singhania ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe college where a 24-year-old law student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 reopened on Monday.Such is the scar that many parents accompanied their daughters to South Calcutta Law College on the first day.First-year students came to fill out ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphEmirates airline is going to introduce premium economy service on its Calcutta-Dubai-Calcutta flights from July 18, the carrier announced on Monday.The premium economy cabin with 24 seats offers an enhanced experience, including wider cream leather seats, increased legroom, adjustable ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphJodhpur Park recorded 115mm of rain in just four hours on Monday evening, making it difficult for residents to get home.The rainy spell will continue on Tuesday, but the Met office said the spread and intensity of the rain ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA first-year law student said she is terrified at the thought of spending four more years at South Calcutta Law College before graduating.Her will to attend classes is overshadowed by fear triggered by the alleged gang-rape on campus on ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a first-year student at South Calcutta Law College, had been arrested five times over 12 years and had 11 cases registered against him on charges including molestation, assault ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphDuring cancer treatment, a structured support system is necessary. It forms a bridge between patients and access to care.To achieve this, creating a special workforce is essential. They are patient navigators. Navigators are not oncologists, but their overall contribution ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe security guard of South Calcutta Law College, whose phone has been seized by police, had been assaulted by Monojit Mishra a year ago on the campus, police said.The police are trying to extract evidence against Mishra from his ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphExercise: A teacher gave out verbal instructions as to how to make a diagram. While some participants in a workshop drew a diagram of a house as the teacher instructed, there were others who struggled and came up with ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphNo one would be allowed to enter the college campus without valid identity cards, the South Calcutta Law College authorities told teaching and non-teaching employees during an online meeting on Sunday, a day before the college is set to ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by a friend and his father during a scuffle on Sunday over splitting the bill of alcohol they consumed on Saturday night, police said. The friend reportedly called his father to ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe city police want Dufferin Road, the thoroughfare that connects Outram Road with Mayo Road and RR Avenue, and cutting through the Maidan, widened by de-reserving the existing tram tracks.At a recent meeting on road safety held in Lalbazar, ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA road in Tangra, bustling every evening with people heading to popular restaurants and bars, has been in a terrible state for months, a resident of the area complained to mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday.Hakim, responding to the complaint ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe crime scene at South Calcutta Law College will be guarded by eight constables, two officers, and an officer-in-charge, a senior police officer at Lalbazar said on Saturday.Just a year earlier, the crime scene at RG Kar Medical College ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will extend the last date for submission of online forms for the appointment of schoolteachers at least by a week, said an official.The online submission of applications started on June 16 and was scheduled ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphFor today’s teenagers, a massive follower count is more than a number — it’s a status symbol, a source of self-worth, and a digital badge of honour.But principals and psychiatrists are sounding the alarm: behind the selfies and likes ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphPolice sleuths on Saturday seized the mobile phone of the security guard whose duty hours just preceded that of his arrested colleague Pinaki Banerjee on the evening of the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe Met has forecast a wet weekend.Friday was consistently overcast in Calcutta. The rain was far from heavy in most places, but it was persistent. "If anything, the rain is likely to be heavier on Saturday and Sunday," said ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA Thai Lion Air flight with 130 passengers and seven crew on board returned to the parking bay at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport shortly after push back on Saturday due to a "technical snag", officials said.Later, ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe mayor on Friday announced a health check-up of the city’s trees.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will check trees along city roads, while the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) will inspect trees at Rabindra Sarobar and Subhas Sarobar, said ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Metro Railway officials met on Friday to chalk out a road map for the Baranagar-Barrackpore Metro project that was announced in 2010.It was decided that the engineers of the two organisations would draw up ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Friday extended the police custody of Pinaki Banerjee, 55, the arrested security guard of South Calcutta Law College, till July 8.Banerjee had allegedly allowed the guard’s room on the Kasba campus to be used during ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphInadequate faculty strength of Calcutta University’s BTech programmes is not allowing most of the departments to get accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), said the university’s secretary of science and technology.NBA assesses whether the departments are ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe state JEE board chairperson said on Friday that they could not publish the results of the JEE examination last month because of the OBC reservation dispute, now under legal scrutiny.Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee said they are awaiting directives from ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench has refused to interfere with an earlier single judge’s order restraining a federation of technicians from creating hurdles in the independent functioning of directors.The case pertains to a long-standing tussle between a section of ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe effect of loneliness on health is akin to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A state-level conference titled United for Elderly: Promoting Well-being, Dignity and Rights in Ageing against Loneliness and Isolation highlighted several such observations on what the ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphBehala College, a state-aided college that received the highest possible rating from the national assessment council has been granted autonomy, freeing it from Calcutta University’s administrative control and allowing it to make independent academic decisions.The University Grants Commission (UGC) ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphFour men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student were taken to the campus early on Friday for a “reconstruction” of the crime scene.The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, 31, his associates Pramit ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College, closed since June 30 following the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old student on campus, will reopen on July 7.A notice issued by the college on Friday stated that LLM classes will resume that day. ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphSreebhumiSreebhumi’s pandal this year will be modelled on the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in New Jersey.The crowd-pulling puja, patronised by Sreebhumi Sporting Club president Sujit Bose, held its khuti puja on Sunday morning when the fire and emergency services ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphMadhumanti Banerjee has eight cats —Nadush, Kutum, Tukun, Bhuto, Bukun, Phuchka, Jahanara, Roshanara. If you stumbled over the last two names, it’s because she ran out of pet names! “At one point we had 20 cats and I could ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphMany dog owners wonder whether they share similarities with their dogs, including characteristics like a calm temperament, a sociable personality or even a bit of stubbornness. The idea that people and dogs resemble each other is not just a ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphA school has decided to reach out to underprivileged girls in the districts by offering them exposure to Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education through scientific experiments. The outreach programme announced on Thursday is part of the platinum ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Thursday ordered the closure of union rooms across all state-aided colleges and universities in Bengal.The bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De passed the order on a PIL filed ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphA man has been arrested for allegedly setting up a shell company to evade ₹7 crore in goods and services tax (GST) using documents of a Howrah resident. The documents were also used to open a bank account at ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphA battle of ideas featured hundreds of young minds with one goal — to provide a technology-based solution to address some pressing biodiversity challenges that India faces.The Zoological Survey of India organised a 110-hour hackathon in the run-up to ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the state government to file an affidavit explaining the state’s role in conducting student union elections in state-aided colleges and universities, which have been stalled for many years now.The ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphA governing body member of South Calcutta Law College has revealed that Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old woman student on June 25, had threatened to shoot teachers who questioned his conduct ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the state government to file by July 10 an affidavit on the status of the police investigation into the alleged gang rape of the South Calcutta Law College student ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphUrban expansion across Rajarhat, New Town and the nearby wetlands on Calcutta’s eastern flank has outpaced planning limits, with the built-up area increasing 11-fold over 30 years in some localities and projected to grow, researchers have found.Geographers from Presidency ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday that it was not clear to him why the authorities of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, decided to close the college.The minister ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MLA Paresh Paul, two councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, a former officer-in-charge of Narkeldanga police station, an officer and a home guard then posted at the same police station have been chargesheeted by the CBI in ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Wednesday asked tenants of a dilapidated building at Ekbalpore to vacate the premises within two weeks so that Metro Railway can demolish the structure for the construction of the Joka-BBD Bagh ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim will chair a meeting of senior officials from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the Metro Railway on Friday to discuss challenges facing the construction of the Barrackpore Metro, where construction is yet to start. One of ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphThe future of digital is beyond the smartphone, said a man at the helm of content at multimedia messaging app Snapchat.“Our focus is on looking beyond smartphones. We believe the future of content consumption and experiencing digital is not ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphA man accused of killing two elderly professors at their Chitpore home 10 years ago has been found guilty. A Sealdah court on Wednesday sentenced Sanjay Sen to death.The judge who gave the verdict had sentenced Sanjay Roy to ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphA five-member fact-finding team from Calcutta University visited South Calcutta Law College on Wednesday morning and sought details of the governing body meeting that approved the appointment of Monojit Mishra as a casual employee.Mishra — the prime accused in ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student on June 25, and his associate Zaib Ahmed were on Fern Road the evening of June 26, about an hour before ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphA law student, who participated in a gathering outside South Calcutta Law College on Tuesday to protest the alleged gang-rape of the 24-year-old student on the campus on June 25, said the administration was taking a knee-jerk action only ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMany students of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, were concerned about their future because it is not clear when the classes will resume.A meeting of the college’s governing body ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway has started installing a set of batteries that can chug a train stranded inside a tunnel on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) to the nearest station during a power failure.The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is being ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphDual blow of a vehicle getting stalled on AJC Bose Road flyover and a collision involving three vehicles on the link between Parama and AJC Bose Road flyovers accompanied by high volume of school traffic on the roads below, ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into their curricula and academic calendars. Physics lessons in Class V of an international school are being conducted using AI-generated text. Two more schools — one ICSE and the other CBSE — ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphTwo Boeing aircraft, operated by Air India, are stranded at Calcutta Airport because of technical snags.One of them, a San Francisco-Mumbai flight that had developed a technical snag before takeoff, has been stranded since June 17.The other on, a ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphIn January this year, Monojit Mishra, 31, the arrested main accused in last Wednesday’s gang-rape of a woman student of South Calcutta Law College, allegedly targeted a fourth-year student of the same institution, insisting she join him for a ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphThe governing body of South Calcutta Law College on Tuesday announced that Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the gang rape of a 24-year-old student last week, had been terminated as a casual staffer. However, the college failed ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday directed the school service commission (SSC) and the state government to explain by next Monday the need for a tweak in the format of the upcoming recruitment test for assistant teachers at government-aided schools.Justice ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphCall records of Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape at South Calcutta Law College in Kasba on June 25, has revealed that he had called the college’s vice-principal Nayna Chatterji on June 26, a day ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphMore than 650 animals were discovered in India in 2024, most of them from Kerala, said a report published in Calcutta on Monday.The report, published by Zoological Survey of India, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest, and ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphDoctors found scratch marks on the body of Monojit Mishra, the arrested prime accused in the gang rape of a student at a Kolkata law college, a well-placed police source said on Tuesday.The injury marks from nails are indicative ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Monday ordered a CBI probe into the alleged murder of two BJP activists and the disappearance of another party worker from Sandeshkhali in South 24-Parganas after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll results were declared. Sheikh ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThe South Calcutta Law College authorities held a five-minute online meeting with teachers and staff members on Sunday, where the alleged gang rape of the 24-year-old student on the campus on June 25 was not discussed.The vice-principal, Nayna Chatterji, ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThe shooting of a music video by actor-director Anirban Bhattacharya scheduled for Monday had to be cancelled as the technicians allegedly stayed away from work.“This is the second time in a fortnight that the shooting was stalled for technicians ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked its affiliated schools to register all students from Classes I to XII for the council’s “physical health and fitness assessment” programme.Under Active CISCE programme, the council plans to ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphParts of central Calcutta were waterlogged on Monday following overnight rain and another sharp spell in the morning. A senior official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation blamed the waterlogging on the “heavily silted” drainage network under BB Ganguly Street. ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphPolice have added six additional sections under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against Monojit Mishra and his associates in the alleged gang rape case, including charges of watching, capturing, or disseminating images of a woman engaged in a private act ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphStudents of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, demanded the end of political influence on the campus and the installation of CCTV cameras to ensure their safety.The students went to their ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro authorities on Monday blamed sudden water ingress caused by heavy downpour for the morning suspension of services between key stations on the North-South corridor — throwing thousands of commuters off track at the start of the workweek.“Due ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThe pressure is building on Bengal’s ruling party over the gang-rape of a law student on the South Calcutta Law College campus. .Three separate PILs were admitted in the Calcutta High Court on Monday demanding a court-monitored Central Bureau ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphA National Commission for Women member alleged that police did not let her meet the 24-year-old law college student on Sunday.Archana Majumdar said she was scheduled to meet the woman at her residence."I could not meet her because the ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphA young man and a woman riding a motorcycle without helmets died after the two-wheeler crashed into a divider on the Parama flyover on Sunday morning.The accident occurred around 11am on the ramp connecting the Parama flyover to the ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphAn Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Tokyo to Delhi carrying 243 passengers was diverted to the Calcutta airport on Sunday afternoon after the air conditioning system malfunctioned.Passengers were stranded at the Calcutta airport for over eight ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphFour youths in their early 20s who had allegedly murdered a 45-year-old property dealer in Bihar’s Nalanda on June 19 were arrested from a hideout in Narendrapur, on the city’s southern fringes, late Friday following a coordinated raid by ...
30 June 2025 TelegraphThe authorities of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on the evening of June 25, sent a report on the incident to Calcutta University on Saturday — a report CU officials described as “shoddy”.Nayna ...
30 June 2025 TelegraphThe 24-year-old law student who was allegedly gang-raped at South Calcutta Law College had to overcome deep-seated fears about social stigma before she could file a police complaint against her attackers, the West Bengal Commission for Women said on ...
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