Jadavpur University students have painted graffiti and written slogans on the walls of the university’s administrative headquarters within days of the walls being rid of them as part of an ostensible beautification drive.The students wrote “authorized graffiti area” on ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphHundreds of passengers, including many from Calcutta, were stuck in Srinagar after several flights were cancelled because of strong surface winds that prevented aircraft operations for more than seven hours on Friday. Nine flights operating out of Sheikh-ul-Alam International ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphTwenty-three cars took part in a rally off the beaten track.The participants had to negotiate jungle roads, moram tracks, hilly roads and a riverbed in Purulia. The rally began from the Ayodhya Hilltop ground at 10am on March 23. ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphSanjay Chaubey and his wife Sulochana were walking on a bridge in Bangkok’s Pratunam on Friday afternoon when it started to shake.Initially, Sulochana thought she was unwell and asked her husband to take her to a hospital. But then, ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphNext week, Id namaz will be read at the BF Block football ground in New Town. The news was shared by members of Secular Forum of New Town. The newly formed trust had organised an iftar recently at the ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro has introduced two new Dalian rakes on the Blue Line, enhancing passenger comfort and operational efficiency.With this addition, the number of Dalian rakes operating in the Kolkata Metro network has now increased to five. Before being ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA single-storyed room with a fibre glass roof in FD Park is in the eye of a storm with the bone of contention being the usage and maintenance rights to the room, being claimed by both the local councillor and the block ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThere’s a storm brewing over IEM Public School, where parents claim the upcoming session’s fees have been hiked irrationally.The school has classes from pre-primary to Class V in Salt Lake’s GE Block, near GD Market, while the senior section, ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThree Salt Lake residents filed a public interest litigation (PIL) last week asking for Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to be split. They want Salt Lake to once again have a civic body entirely to itself.The three petitioners have done so ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has asked the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to ensure that no outsiders enter the Rabindra Bharati University campus at Jorasanko.Justice Jay Sengupta gave the order on Thursday while hearing a petition by the university’s ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe CBI is scheduled to submit the case diary of the RG Kar rape and murder case before Calcutta High Court on Friday as well as clarify before the court if the agency had ever considered this a case ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe differences failed to divide; they only united people from different faiths and beliefs a little more.An Iftar in the city where Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and many others broke fast together with their Muslim friends was a reaffirmation of ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA tunnel that connects Calcutta airport with the airport Metro station is almost ready and will become operational when the trains start running from Noapara.The 80-metre tunnel will give passengers easy access to the terminal building from the station ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has directed Jadavpur University not to allow any programme involving “political functionaries” on the campus.A division bench passed the order on Thursday while hearing a PIL that sought “urgent intervention of the court in addressing the ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench on Thursday told the Bengal government to file “within two weeks” an affidavit stating its “clear stand” on how it proposes to conduct students’ union elections in state-aided colleges and universities.“On date, the rule ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphAn associate of gangster Aftab Ansari serving a life sentence in connection with the 2001 kidnapping of the owner of the Khadim shoe chain was acquitted by Calcutta High Court on Thursday.Shoe baron Parthapratim Roy Burman was kidnapped from ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThere’s nothing quite like a hanging garden. Petunias, Dianthus, Hibiscus all thrive on Kalpana Mukherjee’s balcony, which, by the way, is on the 17th floor of New Town Heights. Mukherjee has made optimum use of her space, creating a ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphIt’s the flower with the frilly edges and clove-like fragrance, but touch its leaves and you may just get mild irritation.The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Jadavpur University not to invite any political functionary to programmes organised by the institution.It stated that functions should be held with the participation of academicians only.Noting that West Bengal Education Minister ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphTwo fraudulent call centres allegedly duping people in the US and Australia have been busted in Lake Town and Salt Lake.In total, 24 persons have been arrested, police said.The one at Lake Town was allegedly duping people in Australia.“The ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral roadside shops were gutted in a fire that broke out late Wednesday afternoon in Beleghata.At least 15 fire tenders responded and brought the fire under control after almost two hours. Traffic was disrupted for around three hours as ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday wondered why the authorised vice-chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University approached the high court instead of talking to those staging protests outside the university campus.“Why did he have to go to court? He could ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe state’s home secretary met with airport and airline executives on Wednesday to press for Calcutta’s demand for more international flights and direct connectivity to Europe.Calcutta airport authorities would write to international airlines that earlier operated from Calcutta but ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphA chip for prompt detection of a wide range of diseases. An X-ray technology aimed at reducing radiation exposure in medical imaging. An AI-powered system to help farmers with loans.An entrepreneurial summit at a research institute last week saw ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphFive CISF personnel, among them a senior inspector and a woman constable earlier posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, have been arrested for allegedly posing as Income Tax officials and “raiding” a house at Chinar Park and ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphPolice discovered the charred remains of a 72-year-old woman at her Vidyasagar Colony residence Wednesday morning. Police have started a case of unnatural death and are searching for the victim’s son, who is allegedly absconding.Calls from the neighbours alerted ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphHowrah's solid waste will now be dumped in Calcutta's Dhapa and in Hooghly's Baidyabati to stop the piling at the saturated Belgachhia waste disposal ground, which needs to be cleared immediately. During a meeting on Tuesday, chaired by urban ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court issued an interim order on Tuesday asking the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to take steps so the authorised vice-chancellor and registrar of Rabindra Bharati University can enter the varsity campus without any resistance.Justice Biswajit ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University student Souptik Chanda, who was arrested last week in connection with arson and vandalism on the campus hours after education minis-ter Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1, was granted interim bail by the Alipore court on Wednesday.The ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphP. Uday Kumar Reddy, General Manager of Metro Railway, conducted an inspection of the Jai Hind Bimanbandar to Biswa Bangla Convention Centre stretch of the Orange Line on Tuesday.He was accompanied by senior officials from Metro Railway and Rail ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphSome of the questions Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of Calcutta High Court asked the CBI at Monday’s hearing of the RG Kar case and what the central agency had earlier said and submitted:Judge: “You must tell me whether at any ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has started whitewashing the slogans and graffiti on its walls.Many of them came up after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit to the campus on March 1, which led to student violence and allegations that his car hit ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday told the CBI to clarify if the agency had at any point in its probe into the RG Kar rape and murder considered the possibility of gang rape.The bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked hospitals to be “transparent and reasonable” in their billing to avoid patients leaving hospitals without clearing the bills.At a meeting with private hospitals in Bengal on Monday, the commission’s chairperson, ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe 18-year-old Virat Kohli fan arrested for breaching Eden’s security ring during the inaugural IPL match on Saturday was granted bail on Monday, but asked not to be at Eden Gardens or its adjoining areas during the remaining matches.Rhituparno ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA city businessman went missing during a business trip to Koderma in Jharkhand earlier last week.Sumit Dahima, a resident of Kestopur, left for Jharkhand on March 16.“The last time family members spoke to the 39-year-old businessman was on March ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe overcast conditions that prevailed for a couple of days kept the Celsius under check on Sunday.The Celsius, however, is expected to rise from Monday. The Met office has warned of a sharp spike in the day temperature by ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA youth was arrested for scaling the iron fence at Eden Gardens, jumping into the field and diving at Virat Kohli’s feet during the IPL inaugural match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Saturday. Rhituparno Pakhira ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphNew Town is fast emerging as Calcutta’s new health hub, riding the same advantages that put EM Bypass in a similar spot two decades ago.The availability of encroachment and encumbrance-free, regular-shaped land and the promise of easy connectivity are ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA member of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family has clarified that the leader was never held in Fort William.In Saturday’s edition, The Telegraph carried a report headlined “Fort William now Vijay Durg, ‘tribute’ to 1971 feat”.The report said that ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA man, who recently called up a senior government official impersonating a judge of Calcutta High Court and asking him to award a tender to a particular company, has been arrested.Police identified the accused as Pawan Pan.The police said ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphA new pipeline to supply potable water to north Howrah was completed on Sunday morning and normal supply will be restored across Howrah from Monday, the chairperson of the board of administrators of Howrah Municipal Corporation said on Sunday. ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras placed inside the Sunderbans to estimate the number and assess the habitat of tigers have suggested a change in the behaviour of another apex predator in the mangroves.The images show crocodiles are nesting in seemingly new areas ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphWhy should I go for coffee with you always and not my friends? A 30-year-old woman with Down syndrome asked her mother. Individuals with Down syndrome, their families and doctors participated in a walk ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphBengali is the fifth most spoken language in the world but there is no sustainable market for Bengali films, a leading film producer told a media and entertainment conclave on Saturday.“Bengali is the fifth most spoken language in the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphThe city’s markets are flooded with single-use plastics that were formally banned in July 2022 and government agencies continue to squabble over who should take the lead to enforce the ban.Calcutta’s mayor Firhad Hakim on Saturday said that the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s map has seen Clive make way for Netaji and Harrington for Ho Chi Minh, with successive governments leaving the imprint of national pride and ideology on the city’s streets and buildings.The latest act of renaming, however, involves one ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphHundred-day workers with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) have not received their remunerations for more than two months, mayor Firhad Hakim said at the civic body’s monthly session on Saturday. He apologised for the delay.Hundred-day workers are people employed ...
23 March 2025 Telegraph• Conducting a water quality test in the Sunderbans to find its oxygen content and levels of salinity and acidity.• Observing the biodiversity of the mangroves and wondering at mudskippers, fish that walk on land but when the water ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA first-day-first-show at the cinema has become a thing of the past. Now Eden Gardens, too, has its first day’s first show. And when Shah Rukh Khan is the star, everyone wants a ticket.Some who got one wanted to ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphOver 65,000 people dared the looming threat of rain and they had their money’s worth even before the first ball was bowled at Eden Gardens.Shah Rukh Khan, the emcee, shakes a leg with Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh. A ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s much-anticipated metro connectivity from Joka to Majerhat on the Purple Line has moved a step closer to operational readiness. Sumit Singhal, Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) for Metro & NF Circle, conducted a crucial inspection of the Communication-Based ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of light to moderate showers with gusty winds in Kolkata until March 23 morning, casting a shadow over the IPL 2025 opener between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphWater supply to large parts of Howrah was severely affected from Thursday morning till Friday evening after a supply line from the Puddapukur water treatment plant was damaged. Almost all the 50 wards under the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe city police iterated on Friday that its proposal to reschedule an IPL match at Eden Gardens on April 6 was taken keeping “public safety as the top priority”.Kolkata Knight Riders’ match with Lucknow Super Giants has now been ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphFour security personnel, including two woman guards, who were posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the night of August 8 were questioned at the CBI office on Friday.On Thursday, four nurses posted at the nursing station ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphTrinamul councillor Somnath Dey was elected the new chairman of Panihati Municipality on Friday.Parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 last year had alleged that Dey ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national arrested in January for fraudulently obtaining an Indian passport had been posing as a Buddhist monk to run a racket that helped foreigners obtain Indian passports and “prepare fake documents required for obtaining visa of European ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThere are schools, and then there are schools for special children. But since the special children are also a part of society, should they not go to the same school as others?This is the thought behind Newtown Daycare, an ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphSPK Jain Futuristic Academy held an inter-school science fest named Prithvi that brought together students from various institutes to showcase innovative projects addressing sustainability, safety, and environmental conservation.The fest was inaugurated by Abhinav Chandra, director of the Institute of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWithin a year of the doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, within a month of the 14-year-old’s rape and murder in Action Area 1, within a week of Women’s Day 2025, a stretch in ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWomen, who have made food their business, sat down for a conversation in course of which they shared their experiences and, in the process, toasted each other’s successes.The chat was occasioned by a Women’s Day programme organised by Ibis ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe women were beauty and grace personified as they walked the ramp at Bidyut Bhavan. So what if they could not hear?On International Women’s Day, 13 hearing and speech-impaired women took part in Miss Deaf Bengal, a beauty pageant ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday ordered the demolition of three floors of a five-storeyed building in the Watgunge area that were constructed illegally.The division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee was hearing a PIL that ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA young woman who was “critical” because of complications in the post-partum phase at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital and was later brought to SSKM Hospital, was shifted to the female nephrology ward from the critical care unit of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA couple was found dead at their residence in Garia’s Adarshanagar on Wednesday night.Police suspect the husband Tarun Das, 45, had murdered his wife Asha (35) before dying by suicide. The police found strangulation marks around Asha’s neck and ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphAn independent film festival will screen 38 documentary and fiction films from India and South Asia. The films explore common themes of migration, caste, gender and ethnic struggles, and the ongoing fight against authoritarian regimes.Films from a subcontinent hurting ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA man and his wife were found dead at their rented home in Garia’s Adarshpally on Thursday morning, police said.The body of the man was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his wife’s body was on the bed ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe foreign and European affairs minister of Slovakia offered to host peace talks between Ukraine, the country’s eastern neighbour, and Russia, at the inauguration of Slovakia’s honorary consulate in Calcutta on Thursday.“We support the (peace) efforts of the new ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a letter to Mamata Banerjee appreciated the chief minister’s efforts to “alleviate poverty” and supported her “secularism”.In the letter, Chakravorty Spivak thanked Mamata for the congratulatory message she posted on X following the ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral cricket fans who failed to obtain IPL tickets online but desperately wanted to see defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders take on Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens on Saturday, have fallen prey to cheats through social ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday allowed the parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to move a petition seeking a fresh CBI probe into the case.The Supreme Court on Monday had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphIPL returns to Eden Gardens on Saturday. The spectre of thunderstorms, a familiar foe for the tourney, also looms over the city for the next few days.Defending champions KKR play RCB at the Eden in the IPL opener. The ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA group of men has been arrested for allegedly running a fraudulent call centre at a residential apartment in Kasba, police said.According to the police, the group used to target people staying abroad by posing as service providers of ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA swimming instructor was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly trying to kill his former student, a teenager, by strangulating her and then slitting her throat after he managed to convince her to hand over her mother’s jewellery on Tuesday.Police ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday stopped the felling of a tree on a private plot on Kankulia Road near Golpark that was being cleared for construction of a new building.The neem tree has stood on the plot for ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA tram decorated with images and models of Sunderbans’ flora and fauna will travel between Shyambazar and Ballygunge from March 28 to 30 to highlight how climate change can equally impact the mangrove haven and Calcutta.The focus will also ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court headed by Justice Debangshu Basak on Wednesday turned down the bail plea of Ayan Sil, the prime accused in the alleged scam in appointments of staff in 17 municipalities across Bengal since ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphNineteen people have died by suicide in the north-south Metro corridor (Blue Line) in the past five years, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Parliament on Wednesday.Vaishnaw was replying to a question from Mala Roy, Trinamool MP from South Kolkata, ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphEight health workers of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation have accused a doctor they had been assisting of sexual harassment.Based on their complaint, the civic body has suspended the 62-year-old doctor, BMC sources said.Police said a separate criminal case had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphState health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam visited the parents of the young doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, ostensibly to hand over her death certificate.She was raped and killed more than seven ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA Jadavpur University student arrested on March 12 for allegedly setting fire to the office of a non-teaching employees’ union on the campus and later named in a case involving objectionable graffiti got interim bail from the Alipore court ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphWater connection cannot be discontinued without approval from the chief engineer of the water supply department, the commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation said (KMC) in a written order on Tuesday. The municipal commissioner’s directive came a day after ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law Kalyanmay Bhattacharya, a co-accused in the alleged teacher recruitment scam in government-aided schools, recorded his statement before a magistrate last week.Bhattacharya had earlier wanted to be an approver in the case and ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has put on hold its plans to erect a wall around a government plot on Prince Anwar Shah Road after around 100 shop owners who have “encroached” the land declined to vacate it.Last week, ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA second-year student of Jadavpur University’s civil engineering department was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the arson on the campus hours after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1.Police identified the arrested student as Souptik Chanda. They ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphCongress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday demanded the Narendra Modi government increase the minimum wages under the rural job guarantee scheme, MGNREGA, to Rs 400 and up the maximum work days to 150 from the present 100.Accusing ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata recorded a marginal decrease in air pollution level during 2024 compared to 2023, but still stands as the second most polluted metro city in the country after Delhi and within the 2 per cent most polluted cities of ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA break-in has been reported at a government-aided school in Behala, the second school in the area to have been targeted within 24 hours.The schools are around 3km apart.Jagatpur Rukmini Vidyamandir on Satyen Roy Road in Behala reported the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor said on Monday that it was “essential” to install more CCTV cameras to ascertain in the future whether students were putting up “anti-national posters” on the campus. “We want to strengthen the security on the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe board of councillors of Panihati Municipality accepted the resignation of its chairperson on Monday.Malay Roy was asked to step down on March 11 by the state urban development and municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim.There are 35 councillors in ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA teacher of Jadavpur University’s history department held a class in an open space — near Milanda’s canteen — on Monday as a mark of protest against alleged police atrocities on students.Classes were held outside Subarna Jayanti Bhavan, which ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA hailstorm struck parts of South 24-Parganas, West Midnapore, Bankura and Hooghly on Sunday evening. The storm left some of the areas covered in a thick white sheet. Crops were damaged in parts of South 24-Parganas, residents said. Some ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPassport applicants in Bengal will have ePassports in two to three months, a senior official of the regional passport office, Calcutta, said on Monday. However, the existing passports will continue to remain valid till their expiry.An ePassport is a ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has won the 2025 Holberg Prize of Norway, often billed as the Nobel for humanities.The Calcutta-born Chakravorty Spivak — known for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology); ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA cache of arms was found under clothes in a passenger’s bag at Sealdah station on Monday morning.The special task force of Kolkata Police picked up the man as he stepped out of the Hate Bazare Express and was ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday allowed the parents of the doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to pursue in Calcutta High Court their plea for further CBI investigation into the alleged larger conspiracy.A bench ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPolice have sought information from the Jadavpur University registrar about a students’ group that has been running a school for the underprivileged on the campus in connection with the alleged attack on education minister Bratya Basu and his car ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the postgraduate trainee raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will approach Calcutta High Court for an early hearing of their plea seeking further investigation by the CBI into the alleged larger conspiracy.The ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested a man on Monday morning from Sealdah railway station after six improvised guns and eight cartridges and firearms were seized from his possession.The accused, Hasan Sheikh from Malda, had allegedly ...
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