Hundreds of people, homeless after a fire ravaged rows of shanties in Topsia on Friday, spent Saturday scouring through ashes looking for whatever they could retrieve.Men in groups returned to the charred remains of their houses and ran fingers ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA fire gutted rows of shanties beneath Durgapur bridge in New Alipore on Saturday evening.The leaping flames next to a busy thoroughfare forced the army — which has a camp nearby on New Alipore Road — to join hands ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA forum of senior doctors began its sit-in at Esplanade late on Friday night, hours after Calcutta High Court conditionally allowed its plea for permission.On an overcast and, often wet, Saturday, the number of people at the Joint Platform ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe centenary celebrations of Calcutta airport were marked by the pressing need for more international flights.A veteran member of Parliament who represents the constituency that includes the airport was among the speakers at the celebrations of Netaji Subhas Chandra ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe La Martiniere schools wanted their buildings removed from the list of Calcutta’s Grade I heritage edifices.The state heritage commission rejected the demand at a meeting on Friday.A letter from the La Martieniere schools, dated December 20, urged the ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA Brahmo leader, nationalist and poet Ananda Chandra Mitra passed away on this date. He taught in Mymensingh for several years and worked for the Calcutta municipality in his later life. He came under the influence of Shivanath Shashtri ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe three men have not just overcome their disability and financial constraints but also pursued their passion, cricket.The three, and some others, are members of the West Bengal Cricket Association for the Differently Abled team. Most have locomotor disability. ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphISKCON Kolkata on Saturday condemned the 'murder' of a Hindu priest allegedly by Bangladeshi extremists at a cremation ground temple in Natore and accused the neighbouring country's interim government of failing to protect religious minorities, who continue to face ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphAn exhibition on the legacy of woodcut prints is underway at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, titled Tribute to Bat-tala: The Tradition of Bat-tala & Other Practices by the Printmakers.It focuses on a tradition originating in the ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe secretary of the West Bengal Pradesh Trinamool Youth Congress, Tarun Tiwary, was arrested on Friday in connection with a complaint of extortion and kidnap filed against him.On Friday, the party suspended him for his “anti-party activities” and barred ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphPrinsep Ghat, a Palladian porch on the east bank of the Hooghly erected to commemorate the English polymath James Prinsep, served as the gateway to the city from the time it was constructed in 1843 till about the 1920s.Visitors ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA set of bones and a skull were found in a portion of an old mortuary at Beleghata Infectious Diseases (ID) Hospital by a group of workers engaged in demolishing the structure on Friday afternoon, police said.Workers who found ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University met the Bengal governor on Friday and explained to him that the university held the meeting of its executive council sufficiently in advance to hold the convocation.VC Bhaskar Gupta met governor C.V. Ananda Bose, ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphEminent writer, critic and philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayyub passed away on this day.He was born in an Urdu-speaking family in Calcutta. As a teenager, he read Tagore’s Gitanjali prose in Urdu and was inspired to learn Bengali. He studied ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe family of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital wants the high court to “expand the scope of the investigation” and include the “other accused” within the purview of the case. “We ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Friday imposed multiple restrictions on the sit-in demonstration by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) at Esplanade, including those related to the strength of the assembly, size of the zone to be cordoned off and ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA major fire, which broke out in a slum at Topsia area in east Kolkata on Friday afternoon, reduced a significant portion of the shanty town, comprising nearly 150 dwellings, to ashes, an official said.Fifteen fire tenders were pressed ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphTwo alleged arms dealers were arrested in West Bengal's Kolkata after two 9 mm automatic pistols and ammunition were seized from their possession, police said on Friday.The two, identified as Rahish Kumar and Meeraj Mallik, both hailing from Bihar's ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday gave a verbal nod to a plea by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) for a sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue on “Chowringhee Road” till December 26.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, who passed the ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said a country like India, which has so many states and languages, cannot follow the doctrine of “ek mat, ek path (one faith, one path)”.Rather, the principle India should follow is “jato mat, ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphSanta Claus brought festive joy to a group of children undergoing cancer treatment in New Town, visiting them with music, gifts, and good wishes.On Wednesday, a Christmas carnival was organised at Premashraya, a residential facility for cancer patients undergoing ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe chancellor and founder of IEM-UEM Group, Satyajit Chakrabarti, passed away at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 77.Born on July 12, 1947, in Calcutta, Chakrabarti earned his BTech in mechanical engineering from the Regional Engineering College (now ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA woman filed a complaint of extortion and kidnapping against three men, including a Trinamool Congress youth leader, on Thursday. The woman, is a resident of Howrah and her family runs a business in Posta, the police said. According ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA doctor from north Calcutta discovered that a namesake had used his medical registration number to get a government job and was practising in at least four hospitals using his identity.Based on a complaint from the doctor, Sunil Shaw, ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced the renaming of the British-era 'Short Street' in central Kolkata after the 16th-century Catholic missionary St Francis Xavier.Banerjee made the announcement to rechristen the street to 'St Francis Xavier Sarani' ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal governor, who is the chancellor of state-aided universities, including Jadavpur University, has sought an explanation from the JU vice-chancellor for holding a meeting of the university’s executive council to discuss the annual convocation on December 24.The council ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA system from Pakistan moving towards the Northeast and another over the Bay of Bengal will work together to make the next two days cloudy and rainy in Calcutta and other parts of south Bengal, the Met office has ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphTwo persons from Murshidabad who were allegedly part of a terror module spread across the country and involved in a plot to kill leaders in Bengal have been arrested, police said.The men, who the police said were operating at ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphPark Street will be closed to vehicles on Christmas Eve and Christmas, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at the inauguration of Kolkata Christmas Festival 2024 at Allen Park on Thursday evening. “On (December) 24 and 25, no cars will ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim moved Calcutta High Court on Thursday expressing “dissatisfaction” at the CBI probe and seeking a re-investigation of the case. “We are not satisfied with the way the CBI is ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a detailed report on a devastating cyclone that had hit Bengal appeared in The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times. The cyclone hit the state on November 1, a reminder of another devastating cyclone on October ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA newly formed residents’ body has sent a mail to the chief minister asking for Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to be split, such that Salt Lake once again has a civic body entirely to itself instead of sharing one with ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe fair season is well and truly upon us. While Bidhannagar Mela has started earlier in the week in Salt Lake, Saras Mela will be inaugurated today in New Town.The New Town fair ground will host around 300 stalls, ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe year’s second Bidhannagar Mela (Utsav) started on Tuesday. With less than 500 stalls, 60 kiosks and 88 dalas, the fair will continue till January 6. The earlier edition had taken place from February 20 to March 12 and ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThis year North Calcutta Kennel Club conducted what was perhaps their most successful show in their 28-year-old history.“We set a record of sorts,” said secretary Pallab Saha. “We usually get between 250 and 300 registrations but this time we ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphAgniswar Misra Ganguli was once working on his science project when his cat Putkuli came and sat on it. “It’s no big deal. We have four cats and they often do such things out of affection,” says the sixth ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Airports Authority of India (AAI) has lined up a series of initiatives, including release of a commemorative stamp, a coin and memorabilia to celebrate 100 years of Kolkata's NSCBI Airport. A pocket-friendly eatery, named “UDAN Yatri Cafe” ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA team of bikers and support staff from the Tibetan Youth Congress, an organisation of Tibetans in exile, is touring India to raise awareness about Tibet’s plight. Calcutta was the fifth stop for the 15-member team, which will be ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA section of tram enthusiasts will gather at Esplanade on Christmas Eve to invite Calcuttans to come together and demand the restoration of tram services — and tramlines.The four-hour event, beginning around noon, has been named Save Our Trams.It ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA residential facility for individuals with autism has launched a livelihood project to make young adults employable.They are trained to make such items that can be sold commercially, making them financially independent.The objective of the skill training project is ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case on Thursday that might determine whether the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal’s government-aided schools was valid.On April 22, a Calcutta High Court division bench cancelled the ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe port trust has agreed to start shore protection work along the Hooghly, mayor Firhad Hakim said after a meeting with the port authorities on Wednesday that discussed the erosion of the riverbank in Calcutta. The bank of ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphJohn Lang, an Australian lawyer, editor and writer, who had appeared for the Rani of Jhansi against the British East India Company, was born on this day. Born in Sydney, he qualified as a barrister from England. He returned ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe city police on Wednesday allowed an association of doctors and others a two-hour window to protest on the RK Kar issue in Y-channel in Esplanade.A petition by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) challenging the police’s decision to ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA man who allegedly forged identity documents that were used to obtain passports was arrested on Wednesday as part of a racket busted recently. With the arrest of Dipankar Das, a resident of Haridevpur, the arrest figure in the ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe theory of majority and minority communities based on religion is a colonial construct that is antithetical to real democracy, historian Sugata Bose said on Wednesday.“The British imperialists had taught us to think of majority and minority by privileging ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphRelations between the two countries may be on the edge but that did not come in the way of a one-year-old child from Bangladesh, in a life-threatening condition, getting treated in Calcutta and going back.The parents of the boy, ...
19 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD), an organisation of senior doctors, has filed a petition at the high court challenging Kolkata Police’s decision to not allow a sit-in at the Dorina crossing, members of the organisation and the counsel ...
19 December 2024 TelegraphDon’t panic if someone calls saying a consignment booked in your name contains illegal items, Kolkata Police have said in an advisory following reports of a “parcel scam” that duped many people over the last few months.The advisory on ...
19 December 2024 TelegraphMost under-construction buildings, structures being demolished and materials heaped at construction sites remain uncovered, allowing the dust to spread in the neighbourhood, at a time when the city’s pollution index is sliding down with the advancing winter.The Kolkata Municipal ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThe furore over the whitewashing of the floral motifs of the beautiful Jaipuri murals that covered the walls of the Government College of Art & Craft in Calcutta shows no signs of abatement.The murals gave the walls a rich ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThe hearing of the bail pleas of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former government officials in connection with the alleged irregularities in school recruitments ended in the court of Justice Tapabrata Chakrabarty of the high court on ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphScottish Church College on Tuesday opened a centre equipped with advanced research instruments that will be used by science students pursuing a four-year undergraduate programme.The centre has been developed by the department of science and technology (DST) under the ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThe Baguiati police issued a summons to Samaresh Chakraborty, the councillor of Ward 9 of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, in connection with the alleged attack on and extortion of money from promoter Kishor Halder. The police pasted the notice ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphRace, done; cakes, done; sweets, next year.The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, had 20,537 registrations, the highest ever. Of them, 6,978 were from outside Bengal, a testament to the run’s popularity.Many runners from other states ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphMore than 240 passports have been issued in Bengal apparently without proper verification by police, sources in the passport office said.The identity documents filed with these applications have turned out to be fake, the sources said. In another 160-odd ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphCalcutta Gazette reported on this day the appearance of an actress on the Calcutta stage. The theatre, then restricted to Europeans, usually featured men impersonating women on stage. An actress was a novelty. The report in Calcutta Gazette commented ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThe City of Joy waits with bated breath all year for Park Street to be lit up in festive cheer. For Kolkata, Christmas truly is Bodo Din, translates into the ‘Big Day’, as the happy notes of carols and whiff of freshly ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a key accused in the school recruitment irregularities case, who had already secured bail in the ED case but feared arrest ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphAn app-based bike rider has been arrested for allegedly molesting a woman from Thailand in the landing area of her rented flat on the fringes of Salt Lake late on Sunday, police said.The biker was arrested after the woman ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have denied a doctors’ association permission for a sit-in protest at Esplanade on the grounds that the congregation of “large numbers of people” in the New Market-Park Street area before Christmas and New Year could create problems. An ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphTwo men from Jharkhand were arrested on Monday for allegedly posing as bank officials and stealing money from the accounts of two elderly residents of Dum Dum, police said.The accused called up their victims and convinced them that they ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphJustice Biswajit Basu of Calcutta High Court directed the state education department on Monday to consider creating a portal outlining the rules for confirming the service of primary teachers on probation for over six months. The judge expressed surprise ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphSundari Mohan Das, the founder-principal of the Calcutta National Medical College, was born on this day in Sylhet.He obtained his medical degree from Calcutta Medical College and had a private practice in his early years in Sylhet, where he ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphFive kids from Jhargram ran in eastern India’s biggest road race on Sunday morning to raise awareness on and funds for the conservation of elephants. Their home is infamous for human-elephant conflict, triggering deaths on both sides. Wearing identical ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThe relationship between India and Bangladesh continues to remain strong and what is being said by a section of people and leaders across the border doesn’t reflect the opinion of the majority in the country, several Mukti Yoddhas from ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to keep on hold its decision to shift staff and infrastructure from Bidhan Chandra Roy Technology Hospital on the campus to the new Syama Prasad Mookerjee Superspeciality Hospital 4km away after the announcement drew fire ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphHundreds of people participated in a rally in the heart of the city on Monday under the banner of 'Bengali Hindu Suraksha Samiti' to protest attacks on minorities in Bangladesh and continued incarceration of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphEthiopian Sutume Kebede retained the women’s crown in the ninth edition of the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, on Sunday. Ugandan Stephen Kissa triumphed over defending champion, Daniel Ebenyo from Kenya, in the men’s category.The ...
18 December 2024 TelegraphThree persons, including two college students, have been arrested for allegedly arranging passports with forged documents. Acting on a complaint from the security control office, which verifies documents related to passport applications, Kolkata Police started a case at Bhowanipore ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphMany vegetables have become cheaper but the price of potatoes is still quite high across Calcutta. People across the city said the price of the Chandramukhi variety of potatoes was still around Rs 40 a kilo in most markets. ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphA promoter was allegedly beaten up and hit with the butt of a pistol on Sunday by a group led by a Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) councillor near the site in Baguiati where he is constructing a multi-storey building.The ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphHigher chances of winning a medal compared with other sports have led to an increased interest in rifle shooting among school students, said officials in schools that offer the sport.Several schools that have introduced sessions in rifle shooting are ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphPeople with respiratory problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are experiencing a flare-up of the conditions as a steady slide in mercury is matched by an unrelenting rise in air pollution. In some cases the ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphSupply from the Palta water treatment plant and the Tallah water reservoir will remain suspended from 9am on Monday to 6am on Tuesday because of maintenance work at the two facilities, a senior official in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD), an organisation of senior doctors, on Sunday wrote to the commissioner of Kolkata Police seeking permission to set up a dais at the Dorina crossing in Esplanade for a “sit-in demonstration” between December ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphA small delegation of Mukti Jodhas from Bangladesh will arrive here on Sunday evening for the Vijay Diwas celebrations on Monday, which will be attended by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphParents of children with autism are often reluctant to take their children to public gatherings fearing embarrassment, said those working with individuals with autism.“There is a general sense of disbelief about children with autism or those with special needs ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA group of tram enthusiasts has decided to organise a transport festival in January to celebrate trams as a clean and green mode of transportation and revive the memories associated with tramcars in the city.Trams in Calcutta celebrated 150 ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to regularly clean the Parama flyover of dust and items like nails, plastics and sharp objects so vehicles don’t develop snags and bring traffic to a halt.The 7.5km stretch between ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA 28-year-old man from Baranagar in north Calcutta has been arrested for allegedly killing a woman he met on a social networking platform at her Kestopur home.According to a senior officer from the Bidhannagar commissionerate, Kaushik Saha had befriended ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphClosed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) have become vital “sources of evidence” for schools to withstand the onslaught of allegations or doubts raised by parents, several school principals said. The third eye was installed primarily for safety and surveillance in the ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe rape and murder of the trainee doctor at her workplace triggered an unprecedented larger movement for gender equity.Down the line, that cry for equity is getting drowned by the high-decibel protests and politics around the RG Kar case, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA house painter has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of a woman whose severed head was found in a garbage dump in a residential neighbourhood near Tollygunge on Friday morning.The remaining body parts were found ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA section of doctors on Saturday said they would scale up protests in the coming days against the CBI’s inability to submit a chargesheet against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphMany old buildings of Jadavpur University have become so worn out that chunks of concrete are coming off frequently, posing a risk to students and others, the university has said. A JU notice says no further false ceilings should ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, at a meeting in Town Hall, Raja Rammohun Roy had stated that “the greater our intercourse with the European gentlemen, the greater will be our improvement in literary, social and political affairs”.This statement and a few ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe woman, whose severed head was found at a garbage dump in south Kolkata's Tollygunge area, was allegedly killed by her brother-in-law as she had snubbed his advances, police said on Saturday.Cracking the case within 24 hours, Kolkata Police ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA Jadavpur University (JU) panel has recommended that the answer scripts of the journalism and mass communication department’s semester and internal examinations be re-evaluated by external experts, following protests by students over alleged evaluation flaws.The decision to recommend re-evaluation ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphRabindra Bharati University (RBU) has terminated its registrar’s service despite the state higher education department’s request to refrain from taking action because the matter related to suspension is “under judicial scrutiny”.In a communication to the suspended registrar on Thursday, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe severed head of a woman wrapped in a transparent polythene packet was found on a deserted stretch of Graham Road, near Tollygunge, littered with garbage on Friday morning.Blood oozing out of the part from where the head had ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA water treatment plant will be functional before the summer of 2026 near the Dhalai Bridge in Garia, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday. The construction of the plant is on.Residents of large parts of southeast Calcutta like Garia, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe ship Calcutta, launched in July 1852 and registered in London, made several voyages between England and Bengal. On one of these voyages, it left on December 14, 1853, from Southampton for Calcutta, with Captain John Goodall at the ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphNovember 1924: A KLM flight landed at the Calcutta airport at night assisted by kerosene-powered gooseneck lights fixed along the edges of the runway.December 2024: Planes land at the airport at night with the help of electric lights fixed ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphAgropoli, a coastal town in Italy, and Khardah, on the northern fringes of Calcutta, are more than 7,000km apart.Eastern India’s biggest road race has linked them.On Friday, a woman from Agropoli and a man from Khardah were at Netaji ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphCalcutta: The countdown has begun. Before daybreak on Sunday, notwithstanding the chill, the Maidan will be packed with runners — professional and amateur, young and old, from near and far. The first race of the Tata Steel World 25K ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphFormer Bengal advocate-general Anindya Mitra, an alumnus of the erstwhile Presidency College, said on Friday that the institution’s standard has declined in recent years and has to improve.Mitra, who has funded a computer centre with 25 desktops and a ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front on Friday asked why the CBI arrested former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal if it could not even file a chargesheet against them.The Sealdah court ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe CBI has not yet been able to collate enough evidence against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal to be able to file a chargesheet, officers in ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphIskcon Kolkata vice-president Radharamn Das on Friday said that the organisation has its back to the wall in Bangladesh due to the ongoing attacks against minorities there.Speaking to reporters here, Das voiced concern over no abatement in atrocities on ...
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