Multiple police teams visited hotels, lodges and guesthouses across Calcutta on Wednesday, enquiring about whether the establishments were maintaining proper records of visitors and checking if their CCTV cameras were functioning.The move followed a virtual meeting of the Kolkata ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe mercury is going downward.On Wednesday, the Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 17.2 degrees in Alipore, three degrees colder than the normal temperature for the second week of November.The forecast is for a marginally colder Thursday. A ...
13 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government’s lawyers told Calcutta High Court on Wednesday that the school service commission (SSC) had the prerogative to decide at what stage of screening teacher job aspirants it would award marks for teaching experience.The state’s advocate-general, Kishore ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphToys from Finland, representing four of the “cherished characters” from the Nordic country’s Moomin stories, will now be up for some adventure at the Nehru Children’s Museum. On Tuesday, the ambassador of Finland handed over toys to the museum, ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is advising parents not to ask their children about their CGPA scores or internship plans too hastily when they call them. Such queries exacerbate parental pressure and could potentially trigger mental health issues, the IIT's dean of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police carried out a search and seizure operation at an office of industrialist Pawan Ruia near Park Circus for the second time on Wednesday in connection with two cybercrime cases.Apart from the investigation ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIn a patch of land where Calcutta once dumped its waste, thousands of families now live in unorganised settlements. Fires are common here, and when houses burn, identity papers are destroyed too.Many residents of Dhapa Dhipi are now worried ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphAmid the fierce political controversy over potential voter disenfranchisement, 46 lakh deceased individuals in Bengal have been identified whose names may or may not have been on the electoral rolls.The deaths occurred over the past five to seven years.Of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has acknowledged errors in the final answer keys for two subjects, which were used to evaluate the scripts of the tests designed to shortlist higher secondary teachers.In a notice late on Monday, the commission ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday directed senior officials of the state health department to create direct links between two buildings in government-run medical colleges so that women do not have to use dark stretches while moving from one ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphConducting vehicle checks, removing vehicles parked illegally, and providing immediate response if an abandoned vehicle is detected in a public space — the focus areas of Kolkata Police following the blast in Delhi on Monday were apparent. On Tuesday, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dipped to 18.2 degrees Celsius in Calcutta on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.Sightings of an additional layer of clothing were reported from across the city after sundown, especially on those riding two-wheelers. The minimum ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police, probing charges of crime and money laundering against industrialist Pawan Kumar Ruia and some of his family members, has found several cybercrime cases registered in the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police, Bidhannagar Police, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee, who also held the industry, commerce and enterprise portfolio at one point, has been accused of masterminding a cash-for-jobs racket in the recruitment of teachers and staff for schools. The charges against Chatterjee ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee left a hospital on bail on Tuesday, with tears in his eyes, having regained his freedom after spending more than three years in custody.The suspended Trinamool Congress leader, arrested on July 23, 2022, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphWith just days left before the collection of enumeration forms begins, the Trinamool Congress is training its booth-level agents (BLAs) to use a mobile application called Didir Doot that aims to record data on all voters across Bengal.The BLAs ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphNumerous schools that tried to start a girls’ cricket team in the past said they struggled to find enough candidates to form a squad. Some schools offer cricket coaching to boys but have failed to extend it to girls, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA Delhi resident already in Bengal police custody has emerged as a key figure in a ₹315-crore cyber fraud case in which industrialist Pawan Ruia and his family have emerged as suspects.Police said Rahul Verma, 27, is "very close" ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) is in full swing, but new doubts continue to emerge, and people are unsure who has the answers.In many cases, the voters alleged that the booth-level officers (BLOs) did not have answers for their ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMany Calcuttans who have yet to receive the enumeration forms are anxious about when they will arrive and are calling up booth-level officers (BLOs) or asking local political workers to know more.As many of their neighbours have already received ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphGenesis Hospital in Kasba has been asked to stop admission of new patients by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission over non-payment of compensation to a patient. The commission, chaired by retired judge Ashim Banerjee, said on Monday ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled December 3 for the hearing regarding the appointment of vice-chancellors at Bengal universities.This matter has sparked intense disputes between the state government and governor C.V. Ananda Bose, the chancellor of these universities.The next date ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Monday decided to allot funds to Jadavpur University to appoint 30 security personnel and two security supervisors for the campus.A higher education department official said they would provide the university with ₹7.6 lakh per month, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA direct flight to Cambodia from Calcutta, scheduled to start on Wednesday, has few takers so far, while the one to Guangzhou in China, which had huge demand until last week, is seeing a drop after the Delhi-Guangzhou flight ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state-level philatelic show, organised by the West Bengal circle of India Post, returns after a gap of six years.From November 14, Science City will host Bongopex, an exhibition of 401 frames, over four days, from noon to 7pm, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA special CBI court on Monday granted bail to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, clearing the last hurdle that the former Trinamool leader had to walk out.The Supreme Court granted him bail in the ED case in December 2024. ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphAn alert was sounded across city police stations following the deadly blast in Delhi on Monday evening.In the city, vehicles were being checked randomly, and in many cases, the passengers were being asked to step out.Metro saw the checks ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bengal has rendered marginalised women more susceptible due to a deficiency of resources and a prevailing societal bias.A women’s organisation has been organising camps in Calcutta slums and in villages ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA man in his 50s, whose name has been deleted from the voters’ list but was there in 2002, walked to the “camp” in front of his apartment and asked the booth-level officer (BLO) about the procedure to get ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMinimum temperatures across most parts of West Bengal will remain largely unchanged over the next five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. Dry weather is expected to prevail across the state for the next seven days.The ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata witnessed two separate aircraft incidents within 24 hours, as a private jet reported smoke from its engine on Monday morning—just hours after a SpiceJet flight made an emergency landing due to an engine malfunction.According to officials, smoke was ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is paying a company to operate its construction and demolition waste plant for processing nearly 400 tonnes of waste each day, but on average, only about 200 tonnes of waste are reaching the plant ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMenstrual health and hygiene continue to be a taboo topic.Girls squirm, schoolboys sometimes make fun of peers, and parents try to “hush up.” The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR), in association with The Bengal Obstetric ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Railway is set to introduce a new technology in the doors of all trains in its existing fleet, one that will prevent a person from getting trapped and being dragged by the closing doors.An accident like this ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphOut of the 1,128 cadaveric donations in the country in 2024, only 14 were from Bengal, a talk by the head of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) at an awareness meet in the city on Friday ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the death of jeweller Swapan Kamilla are said to have found that at least six persons, including Prasanta Barman, the block development officer, Raigunj, were involved in his murder. Police said the two persons — Raju Dhali, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius slid below 20° in Calcutta, for the first time this season, on Sunday as cold and dry northwesterly winds prevailed in the atmosphere.The Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 19.2° in Alipore on Sunday. It was ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA four-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from a railway shed and “sexually assaulted” at Tarakeshwar in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, officials said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday when the child was asleep beside her grandmother under a ...
10 November 2025 TelegraphObtaining a duplicate driving licence, renewing a licence, or updating the address on the card can now be accomplished online.The transport department has decided to introduce a series of online or “faceless” services, where vehicle owners will no longer ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu, commonly referred to as the Second Hooghly Bridge, will be closed to traffic from 5am to 9pm on Sunday to allow for the repair and replacement of cables and bearings of the 33-year-old structure.“During the replacement of ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is scheduled to host the second phase of an induction programme for the parents of first-year students on November 11, amidst increasing anxiety over student deaths occurring on the campus.Five students, four BTech students and a research ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has uploaded the final answer keys on its website, allowing teaching job aspirants at the higher secondary level (Class XI and XII) to see how they were evaluated. The results were declared late on ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphNearly a week after the initiation of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bengal, numerous questions remain unresolved, and a pervasive anxiety about being excluded persists.A 65-year-old army officer and his wife were waiting for ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphIndia Post has joined the nation in celebrating the Indian women’s cricket team’s historic victory in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025. The West Bengal circle has released a special cover saluting the success.The cancellation has a graphic design ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will suspend the assistant engineer who was arrested on Friday for amassing assets disproportionate to his income.The action was taken after the civic body received a letter from the state’s anti-corruption branch on Saturday ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphA group of men allegedly broke into a three-storey house situated on Paharpur Road in Garden Reach on Friday night, absconding with ₹70,000 in cash and jewellery after allegedly spraying a sleep-inducing agent on the lone elderly woman who ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men, including the driver of Rajganj BDO Prasanta Barman and a contractor known as his acquaintance, have been arrested in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla, whose body was found in New Town last month. Police ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s Metro Railway has announced that the last train on the Green Line will run an hour earlier on November 9 to allow testing of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system, a crucial step toward ensuring safer and smoother ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphAn assistant engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who earned a little over ₹1 lakh a month had allegedly amassed wealth and assets worth nearly ₹6 crore. The state police’s anti-corruption branch arrested Partha Chongdar on Friday under ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphA green diary with a purported list of financial transactions has been found in the possession of Akash Das, the prime accused in the match-fixing scandal at the Calcutta Football League, police sources said. Sources said investigators have begun ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphAn exhibition of epigraphs dating as far back as 5,000 years began at the Indian Museum on Friday.Otherwise kept in reserve, they have been displayed for a conference. Only a fraction of the museum’s collections are on public display, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphSatyajit Ray had cast Amjad Khan on the strength of his performance in Sholay. The legendary filmmaker, in a 1983 interview, had said that he had seen the film in Bombay in the first week of its release.“Very able, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe school education department announced on Friday the transfer of 23,145 primary school teachers from government-aided primary schools, as the existing vacancies in teacher positions required a “rationalisation process”.The order issued by the department states that the rationalisation will ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim on Friday questioned how an engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who had initiated proceedings against an illegal structure later regularised the same structure after a court asked the KMC to conduct another hearing.Hakim said ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested for trying to enter the female medicine ward at SSKM Hospital after the visiting hours on Thursday.This incident once again lays bare the security lapses in the state’s premier government-run hospital, where a minor girl ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe first hint of winter will be felt after sundown from the weekend, the Met office has said.The minimum temperature rose on Friday because of increased moisture incursion between Thursday night and Friday morning. Dry northerly and northwesterly winds ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe Election Commission has placed the onus of proof on the citizen, conflating the processes of updating the voter list and verifying citizenship validity, resulting in fear and anxiety stemming from an abject lack of communication.Two senior bureaucrats, who ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Friday instructed police not to take any coercive action against customs officer Pradeep Kumar till November 20. Kumar was attacked inside his house in Sonarpur, but later he was accused of molesting a woman in ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Friday issued an interim order saying that the fate of the tests conducted to appoint teachers for Classes IX and X and XI and XII in government-aided schools would depend on ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) published the results of the selection tests to shortlist candidates for teaching jobs at the higher secondary level late on Friday. The commission said in a press release: “The results of the written examinations ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphAmid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know what official documents they possess to ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThere was a time when Dalia Biswas would go for a wash and change her clothes if she was touched by a dog. But now that she is the “grandmother” of a Spitz, she has no qualms petting her, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphDomestic cats have been living alongside humans for an estimated 10,000 years, first as rodent control and then as the couch-warmers we know and love. A far cry from the lone predator lifestyle of their ancestors, today millions of ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphPolice returned the items that had been seized from Hindol Mazumdar, a Jadavpur University (JU) alumnus, on Wednesday. He was arrested at the Delhi airport in August after arriving from Spain, facing allegations of plotting to attack education minister ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphIf your name is there in the 2025 electoral rolls, the booth level officer (BLO), accompanied in most cases by booth level agents (BLA) of political parties, will visit you at home.You will be handed two enumeration forms, which ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphAt least 40 passengers were injured when a passenger bus travelling from Berachampa to Karunamoyee in the Kolkata suburb of Bidhannagar fell into a canal in Rajarhat on Friday morning. Panic-stricken passengers screamed for help and local residents rushed ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphKids of AJ Block formed a band and presented music for the goddess at AJ Block on Saptami in a show called Ailo Uma Barite.The newly-formed musical band, Ho Jo Bo Ro Lo, comprised 10 members — all below ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphSpectrum, the cultural fiesta by BL Block committee youth wing, hosted a variety of cultural and sporting events over the Kali puja weekend.The opening ceremony was followed by a talent hunt, divided into three age categories, and events like ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphBesides a slew of cultural programmes for Kali puja, Maitri Sangha had organised a show to felicitate institutions that have crossed the 100-year milestone and stood the test of time. The felicitation took place during the opening of the ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA game of wit and knowledge commenced at BL Park on Dashami as residents gathered to take part in Chaturanga, the 36th edition of their annual quiz.“Chaturanga has become a legacy of BL Block now. Our seniors used to ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe Telegraph Salt Lake took questions from readers on the ongoing special intensive revision of rolls to a senior election official. Here are the answers.I have a voter ID card. Why do I still need to fill up the ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe city’s air quality has deteriorated since the barrage of firecrackers during Diwali, but did you know that fumes from paint, smoke from dhuno, and even the aerosol perfume you spray on your clothes can harm your health?These insights ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe Akhtar Ali Foundation Super Series Junior Tennis Tournament was held over six days last week at the Bengal Tennis Academy.The event was being resurrected after a gap of four years. “It used to be an annual affair. After ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphAround 1.15pm on Thursday, the office of a Trinamool Congress councillor in Behala had more than a dozen visitors. Most of them had queries related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The office doubled as ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has recommended that Harmanpreet Kaur, the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team who directed India to an unprecedented first World Cup triumph on Sunday, be honoured with the DLitt (Honoris Causa) during its annual convocation, traditionally ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe distribution of enumeration forms remains uninitiated in several condominiums within the city, three days after the special intensive revision (SIR) commenced in Bengal. Residents of the few residential complexes where the process has started said that there has ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA specific match of the Calcutta Premier Division played in Calcutta on July 22 has caught the attention of investigators who suspect it was a “classical case” of match-fixing for gains through betting syndicates. According to sources, the match ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) has set monsoon 2026 as the deadline to build a permanent bridge across the Balason in Mirik, now under construction, which will serve as a crucial link between Siliguri and Mirik.A temporary bridge, ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court, headed by Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty, on Thursday upheld an order passed by a single bench that set aside the health department’s decision to send RG Kar doctor Aniket Mahata to a Raiganj ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in a godown on the ground floor of a three-storeyed building a few metres away from Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar on Thursday. Thick smoke enveloped the stretch on RN Mukherjee Road around 10.50am when ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe maker of Sholay, one of the most influential Hindi films of all time, said films from Bengal were a major influence on his craft.The curtain went up on the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival on Thursday, with Ramesh ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a godown in central Kolkata's R N Mukherjee Road on Thursday, an official said.Five fire tenders have been pressed into service to bring the blaze under control, she said.The blaze erupted around 10.45 am, ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphStudents from IIT Kharagpur have voiced their concerns about the condition of the campus roads and the risk of accidents.The students surveyed the damaged roads and posted their pictures on the Facebook page of The Scholars’ Avenue, the student-run ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphPolice have collected CCTV footage around a New Town building where jewellery workshop owner Swapan Kamilla was last seen on October 28.Kamilla, who ran a jewellery workshop in Salt Lake’s Duttabad, was found dead in New Town amid allegations ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak was celebrated on Wednesday with devotees thronging gurdwaras for prayers, blessings, and a shared meal. In attendance were not only Sikhs but people from different communities and religions, blurring the lines ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old child, reported missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found lifeless in a pond in Uluberia, Howrah, on Wednesday, police said.The child has been identified as Riya Pramanik, a resident of Banitala in Uluberia.The girl’s family said she went ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has created various committees to secure accreditation for its four-year BTech courses through the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).The dean of the engineering and technology faculty chairs all the committees assigned to the task. The committees have ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphSome schools have changed the evaluation pattern in exams to make it more analytical, impartial and transparent. In one school, the answer scripts are evaluated by teachers who do not teach that particular class, and in another, teachers do ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe tiled walkway around the water body at Rabindra Sarobar will be repaired along with the benches, an official of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), custodian of the lake, said.Hundreds of people run, jog, or walk on the ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has finalised a contractor to widen a stretch of EM Bypass near Chingrighata. But there has been no progress on the demolition of some of the buildings standing in the way at the ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphPolice made their third arrest in an alleged match-fixing case and revealed foreign connections linked to the man — Sujoy Bhowmik, 37, alias Mon — who was allegedly receiving funds from abroad for fixing matches during the Calcutta Football ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphA Wednesday drive for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in a small pocket of Behala revealed how tricky the process can be.Soumi Saha Barua, a schoolteacher and BLO for Ward 126 in Behala Bakultala, encountered multiple ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphIn the city’s Muslim-majority neighbourhoods, a quiet anxiety runs through the lanes. A misspelt name on the voter list or a small error while filling out the new enumeration form has become a source of deep fear. “Could this ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal is proving to be a great social leveller.From the wealthy to the poor, the powerful to the hapless, and the educated to the unlettered, households across Calcutta are bound ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphAt least three MLAs belonging to the Trinamool Congress have alleged that they have been contacted multiple times by unknown callers seeking to extort money, citing criminal cases against them that they assert are fabricated.Two of the MLAs have ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will publish the results of the written tests held to shortlist candidates for teaching jobs at the higher secondary level of government-aided schools on November 7, a commission official said.The final answer keys, based ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphTwo congregations of religious Sisters — the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM-Loreto) — merged on Tuesday at a ceremony held in Loyola, Spain.“The merged Congregation of Jesus, approximately 1,800 sisters worldwide, ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphA leaking water pipe inside the underground tunnel disrupted Metro services on the Blue Line for close to an hour on Tuesday. Train services were suspended between Central and Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) from 3.19pm to 4pm, the Metro ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphPolice suspect the involvement of multiple international match-fixing syndicates in the Kolkata Premier League. Investigators have identified the alleged engagement of at least one Chinese national, who is said to have been crucial in the match-fixing. He reportedly outsmarted ...
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