An advertisement printed on this day on the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, was a passionate appeal.“CLOTH. CLOTH. More CLOTH,” it began.“That India needs more cloth than she produces, is an indisputable fact. ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphProtests that shook a city. Protests that united chalk and cheese. Protests that resonated everywhere, from the major thoroughfares and housing complexes to mofussil neighbourhoods. The rape and murder of a woman at her workplace triggered an outpouring of ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe crackdown on allegedly errant doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital for the death of a young woman and the complications suffered by three others after childbirth has triggered allegations that the government is not addressing its lapses ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court will pronounce its verdict in the RG Kar rape and murder case at 2.30pm on Saturday, court sources said.If Sanjay Roy, the lone accused, is found guilty, the quantum of punishment is likely to be declared ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe two-day Kolkata MSME and Startup Conclave 2025, organised by IDEAS-ISI, the Technology Innovation Hub at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), and its incubated startup Zuxtra Network, concluded successfully, highlighting funding opportunities and challenges for MSMEs and startups.The event ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on Friday in a rooftop room of a five-storey building in south Kolkata's Hungerford Street, an official said.Five fire tenders were pressed into service to bring the blaze under control, she said.The blaze in a ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe UGC chairman on Thursday said it was “very unfortunate” that students were dying on IIT campuses. M. Jagadesh Kumar was asked about the recent deaths in IIT Kharagpur. He said the IITs should launch programmes to help students ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphUGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said on Thursday that state governments must accept the recent draft notification, which gives the governor, who is the ex-officio chancellor of state-aided universities, a greater role in appointing vice-chancellors.The draft notification, released by ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA report on this day issued by the British government in Calcutta said new commercial regulations had been laid down about trade with Burma. This was following Captain Michael Symes’s negotiations with the Burmese court at Ava for which ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA court in Kolkata on Saturday found Sanjay Roy, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, guilty in the rape and murder of a 31-yea-old postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. On a ...
18 January 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College, Calcutta, is consulting corporates to develop its syllabi to enhance students’ employability, principal Father Dominic Savio said in his convocation address on Thursday.“In line with current trends in higher education, St Xavier’s is focused on developing ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe developer of the four-storey building in Tollygunge’s Vidyasagar Colony that crumbled on Tuesday was arrested from a hotel at Bakkhali in South 24-Parganas on Thursday, police said. Subhas Roy was hiding in a hotel around 121 km from ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake may be a saturated market for cafés but New Town still lacks places that serve a sumptuous Continental spread alongside a cuppa. So sayeth Atreyi Mukherjee, who has started Crackpot Cafe and Bistro in DD Block behind ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphFormer cricketer Yusuf Pathan delighted the audience at BJ Park on January 11 when he came as chief guest of the Banglar Sanskriti o Prakriti Utsab 2025.No sooner did Pathan, who is also a Trinamul MP from Berhampore, step ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake Theatre held its first programme since the pandemic at Rabindra Okakura Bhavan.“We were born in 2003, inspired by BD Block resident Pannalal Mitra of the group Souvanik. We used to hold an annual theatre festival but after ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe body of a woman with her throat slit was found under a bed in her own house in a colony area near the Lords Bakery crossing on Wednesday evening, police said. Nafisa Khatoon, in her early 40s, worked ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphMost houses in colony areas, where refugees from what is now Bangladesh set up homes on arrival, have been built without any permission from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday.He added that it had ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe trial in the case of alleged recruitment irregularities in state-aided schools, in which former education minister Partha Chatterjee is the prime accused, commenced on Tuesday with the deposition of the first “vulnerable witness” before the court.The in-camera deposition ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphTiger pugmarks were spotted near a village in the Sunderbans on Tuesday, just a day after a tiger caged near another village in the same block was released into the wild.By the evening, forest officials claimed the tiger had ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered the “restoration” of tram tracks on two stretches that had allegedly been bituminised in violation of an earlier order.Hearing a contempt petition, the bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA CID team on Tuesday questioned two junior doctors, four nurses and some senior doctors at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital as part of its investigation into the death of a 30-year-old woman after childbirth.They also spoke to ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThe construction of the four-storey building in Vidyasagar Colony that is now leaning dangerously started around 2009-10.The recent repairs and “lifting” with the help of joists started a couple of months ago, said Mitali Banerjee, the local councillor (Ward ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThe Los Angeles wildfire has gutted some invaluable specimens of Bengal’s art and cultural heritage.The blaze that has burned 40,300 acres and destroyed more than 12,300 structures, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also claimed ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphObserving that trams are a part of the cultural ethos of Kolkata, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed that tram tracks which were illegally bituminised in the city be restored. No other city in India operates these ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphBritish East India Company official and writer George Augustus Addison died on this day. He was in his early twenties. Addison was born in Calcutta. His father was also a British East India Company official. Addison was sent to ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed the filing of three PILs seeking judicial intervention in the case related to the alleged supply of a batch of saline — embroiled in controversy following the death of ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThree private cars were damaged after a portion of the parapet of the seven-storey Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) building on Chowringhee Road crashed on Sunday night.A man who was inside one of the three cars was injured.Police ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphCash collected by a security agency from a store inside Quest Mall was snatched by bike-borne people while the money was being transported into the cash van on Monday afternoon, police said.No one was arrested till late on Monday. ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police will check documents of all cars fitted with beacons to verify whether the users are entitled to the privilege.The police headquarters at Lalbazar sent a message to all 25 traffic guards in thecity directing officers to conduct ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to set up a committee to investigate the death of a third-year BTech student who was found hanging in his hostel room on Sunday afternoon when his parents came to meet him.Amit Patra, the director ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphTwo Metro rakes from China reached the city port on Saturday.“The coaches were unloaded from a vessel at the port on Sunday. They will be assembled near a railway yard at the port and taken to the Noapara maintenance ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphThe condition of the three women who were shifted to SSKM Hospital on Sunday after they turned critical following a C-section at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital was still “critical” on Monday, an official at the city hospital ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphA fifth-floor glass window of Nava Nalanda school crashed on two students just when they were gathering for the morning assembly on the first day of the new session on Monday. One of the students was critically injured and ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphIDEAS-ISI, the Tech Innovation Hub at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, in collaboration with its incubated startup, Zuxtra Network, is set to organize the first-ever Kolkata MSME and Startup Conclave 2025 on January 15 and 16. The event ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphThree students of a school in south Kolkata were injured on Monday morning as glass shards fell on them while they were entering the premises.The incident happened around 7am, as the Nava Nalanda school was preparing for the morning ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphLawyer and nationalist Bhupendra Nath Bose was born on this day. He studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, and later obtained his law degree. He became a very successful lawyer. He was a follower of Surendranath Banerjea’s political views.Protesting against ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphEvery patient is entitled to a second opinion before or during treatment. An independent opinion from another doctor or team about diagnosis and treatment is welcome. In a landmark study patient-initiated second opinion recommended changes in diagnosis in 15 ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA fresh Western Disturbance has cut short the spell of chill, feeding moisture into Bengal, Met officials said.The minimum temperature was 14.2 degrees Celsius in Calcutta on Sunday. Monday is expected to be warmer, according to the forecast. On ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA trial of the automatic signalling system on the full stretch of East-West Metro (Green Line) began on Sunday, in what Metro engineers claimed was a “significant step” towards linking Sector V and Howrah Maidan, the two terminal points ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA group of men has been arrested for posing as BSNL employees and stealing underground cables pretending to be doing repair work, police said. According to the police, they received a complaint from an official of the rank of ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphDo not let the stress you are feeling for the board exams of your children reach them, several schools are telling parents in the run-up to the examinations.The Class X and XII board examinations for both ICSE (Class X) ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, has asked all police stations to review the security of the public representatives living in their respective areas and asked the divisional commissioners to submit a report, sources in the police said. ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphThe air quality in the Maidan area sunk to “very poor” on Sunday morning and remained so for much of the daytime forcing morning walkers and hundreds of others enjoying the winter afternoon on the greens to breathe in ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA man from Bihar’s Jamui district who police said had fled to Dubai on a fake passport after masterminding the murder attempt on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh was arrested at the Calcutta airport on Sunday morning. Mohammad Adil ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA third-year BTech student at IIT Kharagpur was found hanging in his hostel room on Sunday afternoon when his parents came to meet him, said an officer at Kharagpur Town police station.Police said Shaon Malik, from Kasba’s Rajdanga, was ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphFollowing the death of a woman and four others falling ill after childbirth due to the alleged administration of expired intravenous (IV) fluid at a state-run hospital in Paschim Medinipur district, the state Congress held the West Bengal government ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA locker in-charge of a nationalised bank on Park Street and her brother were arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing gold and diamond jewellery worth around ₹1.25 crore from a locker.Moumita Si, 30, and her brother Mithun Si, 42, ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphAugustus Cleveland, a British East India Company administrator in Bengal, was killed by Santhal leader Tilka Manjhi on this day. According to other accounts, Cleveland was killed on January 13.Cleveland was a collector of revenues and a judge of ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a food stall near the busy Sealdah station in Kolkata on Saturday afternoon, a fire official said.However, no casualty was reported in the incident.Four fire tenders were deployed to douse the blaze which erupted ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are conducting improvement tests on select topics to help students who have performed poorly in the pre-board exams improve their performance in the boards. School heads believe that a second round of tests helps students improve their ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphA fire at a shop in Sealdah Food Express, the food court adjoining Sealdah station, prompted police to divert station-bound traffic for some time and barricade the area to facilitate fire fighting on Saturday afternoon, police said.The fire broke ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphSome former students at Jadavpur University joined hands to raise funds to upgrade the university’s accessible library used by visually impaired students.The alumni who have so far extended help to renovate and upgrade the university’s laboratories have now stepped ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphAfter a long period of torpidity and vacuity when it practically disappeared from the national art scene, Calcutta is suddenly experiencing an outburst of creativity that is bound to give contemporary art the push that was long overdue.Just as ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe family and acquaintances of a person who is affected demand justice but there is rarely a demand for justice for the victim from the larger society, said satirist, political commentator and former journalist Akash Bannerjee and other speakers ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphA fisherman from the Sunderbans who escaped from the jaws of a Bengal tiger, went home on Saturday after spending several months at SSKM Hospital.The painful bite of everyday reality awaits Haripada Das in his village in Kultali, South ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe CBI will wait for the verdict in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case before deciding to file a supplementary chargesheet.But it will continue with its investigation in the case, sources in the central investigating agency said.“We will wait the ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphDissent can never be curbed in a diverse country like India where the seeds of dissent have flourished in various forms, social scientist Ashis Nandy said on Friday.He was speaking on “The past and future of dissent in India” ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe alumni cell of Jadavpur University on Friday constituted a committee which will seek suggestions on how the cell can be run professionally to network with former students around the year.The university plans to recruit dedicated staff for the ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphTeachers at IIT Kharagpur have opposed the institution’s decision to erect a brick wall to permanently block the gate that connects the campus with Prembazar and Hijli Co-operative Society.The institute’s board of governors had last year passed a resolution ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphMany parts of south Calcutta, including Golf Green, Tollygunge, Chetla, Jadavpur, Behala and Kasba, will not get water between 9am on January 18 and 6am on January 19 because of a shutdown at the Garden Reach water treatment plant, ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old boy has just started to hear after a cochlear implant at a government hospital in the city last month.Saheb Adak was born with “congenital deafness”. He came to the outdoor clinic of NRS Medical College and Hospital’s ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, as its premiere was being held across India, the Hindi film Takrar was released at Jyoti cinema in Calcutta. Titled “Takrar (All for a son)”, the film was advertised as “Your heart will beat with this ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided that the speed limit on Calcutta’s roads will vary between 25 and 50km per hour for all vehicles.A notification issued by the transport department on Friday — it came into “immediate effect” — states ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA 60-year-old woman walking down Mahatma Gandhi Road on Friday morning was killed and three other women were injured after being hit by a minibus on the Sealdah-Malipachghora (Howrah) route.Eyewitnesses said the minibus was moving at a high ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe outgoing US ambassador to India on Friday allayed fears of a reduction in visas at a time when assertions by US President-elect Donald Trump have sparked fears among Indian students and others looking for an opportunity to study ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphHouseholds in seven blocks in Salt Lake — CD, CC, AC, AD, BC, BD and DD — will have to do with a reduced supply of water till January 11 because of the repair and maintenance of tank number ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of a racket that collected details of bank accounts, changed the passwords and email IDs and sold the new passwords and mail IDs to swindlers was arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday.Chirag Kapoor was picked up from ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphWomen want safe workplaces, women want safe public transport, women want an empathetic police force, women want gender-sensitisation campaigns in schools.A charter of demands seeking systemic changes to make Bengal a safe place for women was unveiled by a ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, missionaries William Carey and his associates formed a Baptist Mission station in Serampore and set up the Serampore press.Carey had seen the advertisement of a printing press in a Calcutta paper and bought it for ₹400. ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphFilmmaker to corporate honcho, monk to air force officer.A recent two-day conference saw speakers from different walks of life share their experiences.The Rotary International District 3291 had its annual conference on January 4 and 5 at Nicco Park, East ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphScientists of the Calcutta-headquartered Zoological Survey of India have identified a new pangolin species.“The discovery of the Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica) sheds light on the evolutionary diversity of pangolins, revealing that this species diverged from the Chinese pangolin (Manis ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA school conducted a session for grandparents of children studying in Classes I to V to convey the message that their “overpowering love” should not come in the way of disciplining children and “there should not be any conflict ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphShe had a double Masters degree under her belt, and work experience in India and abroad. But when her heart pined for more Sunanda Mazumdar didn’t let age get in the way. At 75, she enrolled for a diploma ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA passionate football lover with no initial interest in music transformed into a versatile artist, whose voice infused life into numerous Tagore compositions and a composer.This remarkable journey was unveiled when students of Uttarayani hosted a cultural show paying ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe representative body of Jadavpur University teachers on Thursday urged the institute’s management to mobilise resources to address the alleged ongoing financial crisis and called upon all stakeholders to take note of the situation.In a statement, the Jadavpur University ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe city was shaken by the demand for justice for much of the year that went by, ever since a young doctor was found raped and murdered at her workplace, a government hospital nonetheless, on August 9.On Saturday, an ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to address a doctors’ convention in February where principals, medical superintendents and faculty members at government medical colleges, junior doctors and those from private hospitals will be invited.About 2,000 doctors are likely to ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court will pronounce on January 18 its verdict on the rape and murder of a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, lawyers present during Thursday’s hearing said.The additional district and sessions judge ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThis frail little lady, who is wheelchair-bound, once crossed the border carrying her paralysed mother-in-law and four young children in tow. Usharani Banerjee turned 100 on January 1, and although she is now just a shadow of her once ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphHis classmates thought he was the professor. And why not? It’s not everyday that one has a 62-year-old studying with them.DL Block’s Ranjan Kumar Mandal enrolled for his Masters degree at Jadavpur University (JU) post-retirement and graduated this winter, ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphHe had obtained his law degree in 1976 but began practice almost 50 years later, after retirement. Today BL Block’s Gopinath Sarkar, 77, dresses in a black coat and helps clients get justice.Sarkar was born in Arambagh in 1945 ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphDo not drive and come for an eye check-up. This was a simple message that Dr Purnenu Bikash Sarkar delivered to those attending the 31st anniversary celebration of Salt Lake Eye Foundation.The eye specialist, who has shifted base from ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphJudgement in the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year will be delivered on January 18 by the designated judge of Sealdah court here. The Central ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphFour reservoirs with booster pumping stations will come up over the next two years in south and southeast Calcutta, officials in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said. Mayor Firhad Hakim laid the foundation stone of two stations — in ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sunderbans tiger that strayed near human habitat and eluded forest guards for two days seems to have returned to the forest it had sneaked out of, forest officials said on Wednesday.Pugmarks found on the bank of the creek ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three more weeks to Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose to fill the remaining 17 posts of vice-chancellors in the state.The appointment process had been stalled for over a year amid a tussle between ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA self-claimed Trinamool Congress leader from Beleghata was arrested for allegedly extorting money from a resident of Madhyamgram and assaulting him, police said.Sushanta Saha, alias Habu, was arrested based on a complaint lodged by Kajal Mondal, the police said.“According ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThose involved in the racket that helped people obtain passports with forged documents allegedly devised a structured mechanism for paying their associates, Kolkata Police officers said.Depending on the work, the amount would vary between ₹2,000 and ₹25,000.The racket was ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, East India Company official Samuel Turner was appointed chief of a Tibet mission with another company employee Samuel Davis. This was following the news in 1782 of the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. Governor-General Warren Hastings ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA private hospital chain in the city has started training ambulance drivers about how to deal with trauma injuries while transporting a patient to a hospital and identify the symptoms of stroke and cardiac arrest so they know what ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe high court has allowed a BJP rally on Thursday afternoon from Rabindra Sadan to National Library protesting the Bengal government’s decision to sell prime land opposite the Alipore zoo where a quarantine centre for animals was to come ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral sports coaching clubs inside Vivekananda Park, off Southern Avenue, have been renting out space to third parties for money.The practice has been going on for years but the Kolkata Municipal Corporation wants that to stop now.The civic body ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA man who claimed to be a law clerk at the Barasat court was arrested early on Wednesday for allegedly helping a section of Bangladeshi nationals get fake Aadhaar cards and other identity documents.Samir Das was arrested after police ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee told university vice-chancellors and college principals to “focus on” introducing subjects like artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science considering the demand of the time. Mamata was speaking at the closing ceremony of Students ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphA woman assistant sub-inspector of police died after the motorcycle she was riding skidded on a tram track and she was hit and dragged by an oil tanker near Tollygunge Metro station on Monday night, police said.Rituparna Dey, who ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University (CU) has struck down the appeal that the first-semester internal examination be deferred and said it would start on January 15 as scheduled.Asutosh College had recently appealed to the university to defer the exam because the students ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Ride Kolkata mobile app created a milestone on Wednesday with 50,000 iOS users and 9.6 lakh android phone users downloading the mobile application.The app was launched on March 3, 2022 for android phones and on March 22, 2024 for Apple ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata authorities have decided to step up the 'anti-suicide' campaign urging passengers not to take any extreme and drastic step to end their lives by putting up posters and asking commuters not to move perilously close to ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphAbout 450 people, gathered from across three continents, basked in the winter sun and nostalgia over rice and sheetal shutki on Sunday. The South Kolkata Sylhet Association was holding its two-day annual meet at a Jodhpur Park venue.“Sheetal shutki ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphMild tremors were felt in Calcutta on Tuesday morning as a powerful earthquake hit a remote region of Tibet and parts of Nepal, causing deaths and damage.Tremors were felt across south and north Bengal but no casualties were reported ...
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