Contractual workers of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) in Jadavpur started an indefinite demonstration on Wednesday to protest against the institute’s decision to lay off 51 of them.The protesters, many of whom have been working as lab ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA 64-year-old man was allegedly assaulted after he protested felling of trees at a park in Kasba on Wednesday morning, police said. The complainant has alleged that it was an attempt by local Trinamool Congress activists to occupy the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA bronze statue of a girl child clutching a notebook was unveiled at The BSS School on Wednesday.As it stepped into its 75th year on January 1, the school in Gariahat installed the statue to highlight the transformative “power ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA college student has been arrested for the alleged rape of a former classmate in another friend’s house. The alleged incident is said to have happened on December 21 and was reported to police on December 31. Police arrested ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA will written on this day by an affluent Jewish merchant residing in the city indicates some presence of the community in Calcutta. The merchant, Joseph Israil Levy, left to his daughter Abigail 1,000 pounds in the custody of ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphBiryani evokes varied reactions among people. Some love it, some could “die for it”, some debate and some research.It is not enough just to partake of the delicately flavoured rice and meat but to understand its origins and etymology, ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA trader from North 24-Parganas brought his family to Eco Park.A couple in New Alipore who could not spend New Year’s Eve with their son took him out for shopping and dinner on Wednesday. New Year revelry had many ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphAnother new year has come but many things in Calcutta have not changed in many years. On Day I of 2025, many Calcuttans listed for this newspaper things they would want to change in the city they call home.They ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRabindra Ghosh, the lawyer for Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, will miss Thursday’s court appearance due to hospitalisation, and instead, two of his junior lawyers along with 18 other legal representatives will handle the case.Ghosh, who has been ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) ended its sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue at Esplanade on Tuesday. JPD members, who had earlier spoken about extending their sit-in beyond December 31, said they would intensify their protests and ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe temperature of the concrete under the Durgapur Bridge in Chetla had gone up significantly on December 21 when a fire gutted shanties under the bridge, sources in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said. The heat damaged the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphIt’s one-legged and carries the children it steals to treetops, from where it drops them. Another is diminutive and is the harbinger of wealth if it lingers in a house. Yet another appears as a phosphoric glow over a ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRevellers flooded streets and trooped into pubs and restaurants as the city bade farewell to 2024 and welcomed the New Year.Since afternoon, Park Street and its adjoining roads had been teeming with year-end revellers.The weather — a drop in ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphMore than 7,000 motorists were prosecuted across Calcutta for violating traffic signals and over 4,500 were penalised for driving two-wheelers without wearing a helmet between December 27 and 30, figures released by Kolkata Police showed.The figures showed that prosecutions ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTwo buses racing along a busy road in Ultadanga left a pedestrian critically injured and triggered a mob fury on Tuesday morning, police said.The accident happened at the crossing of Muraripukur Road and Ultadanga Main Road, near Telengabagan, around ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphAny ride on the last Metro between Kavi Subhash (New Garia) and Dum Dum in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) will cost an extra ₹10 from New Year’s Day.From January 1, a passenger must pay a fixed “surcharge” of ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTigress Zeenat left the Alipore zoo on Tuesday night for Similipal in Odisha, the same forest she had escaped on December 5 and went on a month-long odyssey covering three states before being captured in Bankura on Sunday.She was ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphDrug regulatory authorities have seized from a wholesale premises facility in Calcutta large quantities of suspected spurious medicines, including purported anti-cancer and anti-diabetes drugs labelled as manufactured in other countries, the health ministry said on Tuesday.A joint investigation by ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphWalter Savage Landor Dickens, the fourth child of British novelist Charles Dickens, died on this day in Calcutta. He was in the British Indian army.Walter had shown an inclination towards writing early in life, but his father did not ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphA group of women from Hooghly district was arrested on Sunday for allegedly running a racket that targeted people on buses and in autorickshaws by posing as fellow passengers and robbing them. Being women, police said they would attract ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, who Kolkata Police have summoned in connection with the case of extortion calls made from the MLA hostel on Kyd Street, has sought “a little more time” to appear before the cops. Nikhil ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphA combination of climatic changes and a lack of sediment flow is playing havoc with the ecology of the Sunderbans, experts said during a meeting at Jadavpur University recently.They said the region needs innovative funding support to sustain its ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe process of framing charges in connection with the alleged government school jobs scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was stalled on Monday as one of the accused, Sujay Krishna Bhadra, lost consciousness inside the jail before ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral CBSE schools are in the process of finalising the dates of the Class XII practical examination in consultation with teachers of other schools who would be their external examiners. Some schools have already fixed the schedule.CBSE (Central Board ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphStar Theatre in Hatibagan will be renamed Binodini Theatre after Binodini Dasi, the first celebrated actress of Bengali theatre who quit acting in her early 20s but had earned enormous popularity by then, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe outgoing director of IIT Kharagpur said on Monday that he had failed to execute some projects during his tenure.“I would like to speak about my failures. We wanted to open a campus in Malaysia but we failed for ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants witnessed around 10-15 per cent increase in table occupancy during the December 24-30 period compared to last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Eastern India said on Monday, adding ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral changes are being brought in the police verification process for issuing passports to ensure no illegal immigrants can obtain an Indian passport, Rajeev Kumar, Bengal’s director general of police, said on Sunday.Kumar said the passport application-verification process would ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is about bonhomie, camaraderie, and inclusiveness, said officials of several organisations who tried to make the festival special and engaging. Before the school closed for the winter, Mahadevi Birla World Academy students went to a home run by ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphIn Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Jibito O Mrito (The living and the dead), a woman presumed dead comes back, but no one, including herself at times, believes that she is alive. In the end, she jumps into a pond ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe All-India Muslim League was founded on this day in Dhaka to protect the interests of Indian Muslims.Following the opposition to the Partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a Hindu protest in a major way, the Nawab of ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe diversity in the Indian kitchen, made up of influences from all over the world, is the subject of a 2025 calendar made by three Calcuttans.An introductory note to the monthly pages says the Indian kitchen is a “diverse ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of the racket that used to produce fake identity documents to get Indian passports for foreigners was arrested from Gaighata in North 24-Parganas early on Sunday, police said. Manoj Gupta, a resident of Thakurpukur, was wanted ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe last Sunday of 2024 had the weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta teeming with visitors.The chill was missing but the clear sky played a near-perfect ally to Sunday revelry.The traffic on New Town’s Major Arterial Road was clogged ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA charity organisation, promoting awareness against non-communicable diseases (NCD), has released a slogan that screening of blood pressure and blood sugar should start from the 20s.The slogan: “Screen for NCD by Twenty/Add healthy years, a plenty” was released at ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo bridges in the city that the authorities had initially planned to dismantle because of safety concerns are now being retrofitted with steel support and given a fresh lease of life.The Baghajatin Railway overbridge, from which chunks of concrete ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphSecurity was strengthened in Kolkata ahead of New Year's Day following the arrest of two Bangladeshi infiltrators from the heart of the city, Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma said.Addressing a press conference, Verma said the police were surveilling the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national was arrested from Park Street area of the metropolis for allegedly residing in the country illegally, procuring fake identity cards, police said.The person, a native of Narail in Bangladesh, was apprehended from Collins Lane on Thursday ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the state primary education board to oversee the task of reviewing if some of the questions set in the (teachers’ eligibility test) TET 2021 and 2022 were wrong. The president of the state primary ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have summoned BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, Nikhil Ranjan Dey, in connection with the alleged extortion call made by men who were lodged inside a guest room of the MLA hostel on Kyd Street which was allegedly booked ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphFormer students of Jadavpur University’s two departments — civil and electrical engineering — collaborated to set up two state-of-the-art labs that the university could not afford on its own. The 1999 batch of JU’s civil engineering department raised ₹23.15 ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is a time to exchange greetings of peace, joy, love and hope, said the archbishop of Calcutta, Reverend Thomas D’Souza, on Saturday evening.Christmas is not just an external celebration but about coming together and creating an inclusive society ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo-wheelers will be allowed to ply on the Parama flyover throughout the day and the restrictions at night that were earlier in place have been withdrawn, police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday.The decision was taken to ease the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe city police on Friday announced restrictions on the movement of vehicles on some of the major thoroughfares of the city on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year.Vehicles will be allowed to head towards ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Calcutta Trades Association, which would later become Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, was granted recognition as the first public body with powers to address the government directly, says the chamber of commerce website.On January 18, 1883, the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati mourned the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, crediting him with paving the way for Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan to receive the Unesco World Heritage tag in September last year.Visva-Bharati authorities —past and present — said Singh, during ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has asked the lighting department officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to prepare a roster of engineers who will go around the city after sundown to spot stretches without lights or adequate illumination.Hakim asked the mayoral ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe 12th session of the Indian National Congress began on this day and continued till December 31.The session was presided over by Rahimtulla M. Sayani, who was from Bombay (Mumbai). His presidential address was praised by a contemporary journal, ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphManmohan Singh was the chief guest at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence in 2003, nine months before he became Prime Minister.Singh had arrived 45 minutes before the event was scheduled to start and was apologetic for having landed ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) partly cleaned up the Maidan on Thursday after hundreds of revellers spent Christmas Day there and it was full of litter.While the stretch of the Maidan along Casuarina Avenue was cleared of filth, ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe fire that gutted rows of shanties under Durgapur bridge in New Alipore last Saturday also damaged the bridge’s health, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday.The state government has barred the movement of heavy vehicles on the bridge ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphAn elusive tigress that has been on a multiple-district expedition in Bengal after an Odyssean trail through Odisha and Jharkhand has had this state riveted for over a week.Away from the spotlight, two fishermen from the Sunderbans have been ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe portraits are among those displayed at an exhibition that was inaugurated at Netaji Bhavan on Thursday. The exhibition was opened on the 94th birth anniversary of Krishna Bose, academic, social worker and three-time parliamentarian and wife of Sisir ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOver 11,000 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for various traffic violations.Among them, 100 motorists were prosecuted for drink driving, police said.Last year 103 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for drink driving.On Christmas Eve this year, 62 motorists ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) to continue their sit-in at Esplanade till December 31 after the doctors’ body petitioned the court seeking an extension of the December ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from the city, carried this advertisement, along with news of World War II. The advertisement said:MISS SULEKHA RAY M.A., B.T., Ex-EXAMINER & LADY PRINCIPAL (Assisted by Other M.A.s ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphSmaller fair, fewer stalls but Bidhannagar Mela (Utsav), at Central Park, is worth a visit.The last edition featured 620 stalls, but this time there are fewer than 500, with several of even these lying vacant. A notable absence is ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA resident of Duttapukur in North 24-Parganas has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the racket that obtained passports for ineligible candidates using forged documents. Moktar Alam, 42, a resident of Chhoto Jagulia in Duttapukur, was arrested from ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphWater wastage goes unchecked because of the lack of public conversation around it, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee said at the culmination of the Santiniketan chapter of the Bengal Biennale on Sunday. “I think we need to have many ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) has written to Kolkata Police for permission to continue their ongoing sit-in at Esplanade beyond Thursday, the last day of the protest as mentioned in Calcutta High Court’s orders.The police have turned down ...
26 December 2024 Telegraph5.25pm: The crowd bursts onto Park Street as police stop vehicles from entering the road.Since early afternoon on Wednesday, the pavements had been teeming with people.By 5.25pm, the numbers had swelled so much that it had become impossible to ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas revellers painted the city red on Wednesday, thronging parks, museums and eateries.The weather was not ideal for outdoor activities. The sky was gloomy and some pockets received a drizzle or two. But the revellers, many of them with ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has sought an explanation from the state government about why a committee set up to work towards the conservation of trams has not met since January.The bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphMost of these and several other photographs, some taken nearly 100 years ago, of heads of states, Nobel laureates and politicians, which were in the archives of the Calcutta airport, are now on display at the terminal.The exhibition of ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court rejected the bail petition of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former officials in connection with the alleged irregularities in recruitments in state-aided schools on the ground that the allegations are “very serious”.Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphA group of college students played Santa Claus to underprivileged children.Besides handing out gifts, the students from the department of journalism and mass communication of Women’s College, Calcutta, in Bagbazar, also shared valuable lessons with the children, stressing the ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphMore than 54,000 motorists have been prosecuted for traffic violations in the city in the past five days, police said on Tuesday. Around 5,000 of them were motorcyclists riding without helmets and more than 8,000 were fined for violating ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe track-laying work in the Bowbazar section of East-West Metro has been completed, the agency building the corridor said on Tuesday. The two-kilometre stretch between Esplanade and Sealdah stations is the only unfinished part of East-West Metro (Blue Line), ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphPark Street was bustling with people out to soak in the spirit of Christmas Eve. With the footpaths already taken over, a pedestrian channel carved out of the road was teeming with revellers.A drizzle from around 8.15pm was a ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court judge on Tuesday advised the parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim to seek a clarification from the division bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam on whether the single-judge bench could hear their plea ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphJadavpur University (JU) went ahead with its convocation and held the ceremony on Tuesday, braving alleged last-minute attempts by the governor to slam the brakes on the proceedings. A senior teacher at the university said governor C.V. Ananda Bose, ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphBritish administrator and historian Robert Orme was born on this day in Travancore state. His father was a physician in India.Orme was a member of the Council at Fort St George, Madras (now Chennai), in the 1750s. He suggested ...
26 December 2024 Telegraph“Christmas is for giving/And for showing that we care,/For honouring the Christ Child/With the loving gifts we share./The wise men gave of riches;/The shepherds, faith and love./Each gift, in its own measure,/Was smiled on from above.”Parade by Iris W. ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose wrote to the Jadavpur University vice-chancellor on Monday that the explanation he gave for going ahead with the annual convocation, scheduled for December 24, “is unacceptable”. Bhaskar Gupta, JU’s “authorised” (interim) VC, went to Raj ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphKolkata Metro General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy on Tuesday conducted a trolley inspection of the Esplanade-Sealdah section of the East-West corridor, which was nearing completion after multiple incidents of subsidence.The East-West corridor or the Green Line will connect ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphA single bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed parents of the RG Kar hospital victim to seek clarification from the bench of the Chief Justice whether it can hear their petition seeking further probe in the ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphFour law students were allegedly caught cheating during the All India Bar Council Examination at a centre in Narkeldanga on Sunday.Police said they had smuggled their mobile phones into the examination hall.All four are students of law. They would ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphA report related to the RG Kar rape and murder and attributed to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, which was in circulation among doctors on Monday, mentioned the detailed findings of the forensic examination on the victim. The report ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphSuspected terrorist Javed Munshi, who is wanted in Jammu and Kashmir, had planned to sneak into Bangladesh through the Sunderbans, sources in the Bengal police said on Monday. Munshi, who was arrested in Canning on Saturday night and is ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphThe state fire and emergency services department has requested police to cordon off a sizeable area around a blaze site so firefighters can work without getting attacked by large groups of people, officials said.The fire department and the police ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphChurches in the city are decked out with Christmas lights and trees. Many churches will have a midnight mass, followed by the service on December 25.Some churches are making arrangements to accommodate large crowds that visit on Christmas Eve ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday demolished over 30 temporary shelters that were allegedly occupying a portion of Ramesh Dutta Street in the Beadon Street area.The drive triggered protests. Those whose homes were demolished went to the home ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA BCom third-year student at a city college died after his motorcycle rammed into a footpath railing in Beleghata on Sunday night.Roshan Singh, a resident of 44A/H/1 Chaulpatty Road, was riding his two-wheeler at a high speed when he ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the number of people allowed at the sit-in by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) be reduced to 100 from the earlier limit of 250 set by a ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the ship Hindostan, which had sailed from Liverpool to Bengal several times, was wrecked near Omoa in Honduras. The ship, launched in Liverpool in 1817, made its first trips under a British East India Company licence. ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA car rammed into a bus that braked suddenly in front of it to avoid hitting another bus it was racing on the airport-bound flank of VIP Road near the Haldirams’ intersection on Monday afternoon, police said.The two buses ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphVehicles will not be allowed on Park Street “as and when required” on Christmas (Wednesday), police have said in a traffic advisory. On Christmas Eve (Tuesday), several curbs will be in place and two-way traffic will not be allowed ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA minimally invasive surgical procedure to replace the heart’s aortic valve is becoming popular among elderly patients at private hospitals, cardiologists said.The high-cost factor, however, has stalled its large-scale implementation in government hospitals, doctors pointed out.The procedure, called transcatheter ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe future will need more job creators and, for that, one has to create an entrepreneurial mindset, said the South Asia head of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. His advice was against depending entirely on the government to create ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphTwo youths died after the motorcycle they were riding crashed into the parapet of the Parama flyover and they were flung on the road below on Sunday morning. Police said it appeared the motorcycle was moving at a high ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphStudents at a government-sponsored school in Santoshpur are making jewellery from waste materials. The idea is to creatively engage the students and keep them away from browsing mobile phones at all times, said Sarbani Sen, the headmistress of the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphA college student wants to visit Metiabruz to witness first-hand the legacy of a king hitherto confined to a few passages in a history textbook.A visit to a jail museum made another student indebted to freedom fighters who did ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThere is a pressing need to increase the number of cadaveric organ donations in Bengal, doctors said at a conference in the city on Sunday. Cadaveric donations or deceased donations in Bengal are lagging behind many other states in ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) will light candles at their sit-in protest in Esplanade on Christmas Eve and call the day “Droher Borodin” (Christmas of Protest), a member of the platform said on Sunday. The doctors’ platform will ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphCalcuttans breathed a bit cleaner air on Sunday compared with other winter days as rain on Saturday resulted in a “satisfactory” pollution index at all seven air quality monitoring stations in the city.A state pollution control board (PCB) scientist ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe clouds are gone and Christmas revelry has set in.As the sky cleared on Sunday, people flocked to parks and museums across the city. The eateries and watering holes, on Park Street and elsewhere, did brisk business.Places like the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a group of revolutionaries from Bengal and Punjab, led by Rash Behari Bose, attempted to assassinate Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, in Delhi.A homemade bomb was hurled at Lord Hardinge and his wife, Lady Hardinge, ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphTwo persons were killed on Sunday after they fell from a flyover when their motorcycle rammed into its guard wall in the metropolis, police said. The duo was heading to Park Circus from Chingrighata area at high speed when the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe 210-year-old Indian Museum’s administrative building has suffered “significant structural damage to the roof slab on its second floor, rendering the area unsafe for occupants”, according to a report by IIT Madras.Other portions of the heritage structure, according to ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphWhen the Tirupati temple administration, the Tirupati Tirumalai Devasthanams (TTD), decided to sort the ancient coins from its collection because of lack of storage space in the treasury in 2011, one of the numismatic experts who were consulted was ...
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