The clubs in and around Rabindra Sarobar will remain shut on Monday and partially on Tuesday to ensure no one enters south Calcutta’s largest park with a water body and performs Chhath rituals.This year, Chhath Puja will be celebrated ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphTwo persons have been arrested in connection with the incident of dousing a man with petrol and setting him ablaze at Nagerbazar.Ranjit Karmakar, a resident of Nagerbazar Bediapara, was allegedly doused with petrol and then was set ablaze with ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphMore than three weeks have passed since Durga Puja concluded, yet almost a third of Deshapriya Park remains occupied by the pandal. According to the puja organisers, dismantling the entire structure will take another fortnight. While the pandal stands ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphMisconceptions like children cannot have kidney diseases or a child will have kidney ailments only if the parents have it are barriers that delay treatment, doctors said at a meet on rare kidney diseases in the city on Saturday. ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA man who had picked up a fight with some of his friends died after being hit with a shovel on his neck in Chetla late on Saturday. Two people have been arrested. Ashok Paswan, 42, a mechanic ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphGovernment-run hospital authorities will start meeting the agencies that deploy contractual employees in hospitals from Monday to pass on directives issued to the hospitals in a meeting with senior state government officials on Saturday. At the meeting held on ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA GST and customs department officer was allegedly attacked inside his flat by a group of men who intruded into the apartment situated in a gated community in Rajpur on the southern edge of the city on Thursday night, ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe vandalism within the gated community at Rajpur on Thursday night has instilled feelings of insecurity among the residents of the housing complex to such an extent that they have decided to increase the height of the campus’s boundary ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAll the remaining gaps in the much-anticipated Orange Line, connecting New Garia and Calcutta airport, will be bridged by next year with the state government’s help, said Metro officials. Traffic blocks will be enforced at Chingrighata on EM Bypass ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe cyclone brewing on the Bay will have more impact in Bengal after landfall in Andhra Pradesh than when it is on the sea, said Met officials.The system, around 1,200km away from the Bengal coast on Sunday morning, is ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has requested ₹9 lakh per month from the state government to appoint 30 security personnel and two security supervisors for the campus. A JU official said that apart from setting up CCTV cameras, for which the state ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA man died after being allegedly attacked with an iron rod by miscreants following an altercation in the southern part of the city's Chetla area, police said on Sunday.The incident took place near the Chetla bus stand on Saturday ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe transfer of ownership of “non-transport vehicles”, like private cars, can be endorsed and recorded by any registering authority, irrespective of the address of the purchaser, the state’s transport department has decided. “The vehicle’s purchaser may be allowed to ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe man riding a two-wheeler was stopped near the New Alipore bridge on Friday night by a group of men and allegedly robbed of valuables after he refused to pay ₹5,000 as a subscription for Kali Puja.Police arrested two ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAn interim order from a division bench of the high court has authorised the conduct of Chhath rituals at a private ghat in Bally, Howrah, during the hearing of an appeal challenging a single bench decision that restricted public ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphChhath Puja will be celebrated on Monday evening and Tuesday morning.Nearly 140 ghats, makeshift and permanent, in Calcutta, 51 ghats in Howrah, and one in New Town have been prepared for the occasion. Metro provides detailed information regarding the ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued notices to nearly 20 companies whose advertisements remained on billboards after the deadline for removal, set seven days after Bijoya Dashami, a civic official said on Friday.The letters sent to these companies ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe cyclone brewing in the Bay is set to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night, the Met office has said.Bengal might escape with heavy rain in some coastal pockets and thunderstorms in other areas, including Calcutta, between ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe killers of a 26-year-old man, found dead in a hotel room on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, had executed a carefully planned murder, police said on Saturday.The victim, identified as Rahul Lal of Collin Lane in Taltala, was discovered ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral women of a family were allegedly molested, and the male members assaulted, when a group of men allegedly broke down their door, barged into their home, and ransacked the house after one of the family members protested against ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAmit Mallick, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in a washroom at SSKM Hospital on Wednesday, obtained a doctor’s uniform either from NRS Medical College and Hospital — where he worked as a Group D staffer — or from ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAssociate professor of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Dibyendu Das, has been selected for the prestigious ‘Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award’ under the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) 2025, officials said on Saturday.Das, an associate professor ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will run 236 services on the Blue Line and 226 on the Green Line on 'Chhath Puja' on October 27, authorities said in a statement.On the Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram), Metro will run 236 services (118 UP ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphThe family of Ranjit Karmakar, who was allegedly doused with petrol and set ablaze in front of his house at Nagerbazar on Wednesday night after a Kali Puja immersion, has accused local Trinamool Congress councillor Mrinmoy Das of trying ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphPolice have filed charges of penetrative sexual assault and rape against a man who allegedly wore a uniform and posed as a child specialist to sexually assault a 13-year-old girl inside a toilet at SSKM Hospital on Wednesday.Investigators on ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphThe repair job at Kavi Subhash (New Garia) Metro station of the Blue Line will be taken up “as soon as possible” once Chhath Puja celebrations are over, Subhransu Sekhar Mishra, the new general manager of Metro Railway, said ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a man, who had checked into a hotel on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road on Wednesday, was found hidden inside the storage of the bed in the room on Friday morning after the next guest who ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA constable and a sub-inspector at Uttar Kashipur police station in Bhangar were allegedly attacked when a team from the police station arrived at Dakshin Bamunia to stop an illegal construction on Thursday afternoon.Three people have been arrested for ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe 38-year-old woman who was allegedly attacked, dragged, and molested for protesting against a group bursting loud firecrackers and throwing them towards her compound recounted the horror to Metro.My family and I went downstairs to the ground floor of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA 38-year-old teacher was allegedly dragged out of her home, beaten, and molested on the road by a group of men participating in a Kali Puja immersion procession in Garia late on Thursday night. The men allegedly threatened to ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area near the Andaman coast is expected to intensify into this year’s first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal next week, the Met office has said.“Under the influence of Thursday’s upper-air cyclonic circulation over the southeast Bay ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphFrom doctors to Group D staff, almost no one wears an identity card in government hospitals. There is hardly any quality control of security personnel selected for hospitals, and supervision of security staff on duty is minimal.The rape of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphBe prepared for a hattrick,” the words appeared on the backlit screen, followed by the name and picture of Anirban Das as the organisers broke into applause.The man of the moment stepped up on Sunday to take charge of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a youth, suspected to have been murdered, was found in a room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Friday, police said.The body of the unidentified youth was stacked in the locked wardrobe of a ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphWatching a procession for Kali Puja immersion pass by the street turned into a harrowing, night-long ordeal for a Kolkata family on Saturday, the incident coming to light on Friday against the backdrop of multiple such acts of hooliganism ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphHalf. That’s the portion of Haraprosad Bhattacharyya’s AE Block plot on which he has built his garden. So his garden is as big as his house, and if he’s not resting in the house, he’s surely working in the ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe block also staged a second fashion show, titled Epar Bangla, Opar Bangla, and explored the oft-debated theme of Bangal (with origins in pre-Partition east Bengal, now Bangladesh) and Ghoti (rooted in West Bengal) lifestyles, food habits, customs and ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphIn an age when kids spend their free time on phones, DL Block organised a fashion show to remind them all the other constructive activities they could indulge in, in a fashion show titled Amar Shaishob.The show opened with ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThis is a science that is going to change the way we look at medicine,” Dr Somnath Chatterjee, chairman and joint managing director, Suraksha Clinic and Diagnostics, told The Telegraph Salt Lake minutes before taking the stage to inaugurate ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe Mussaenda is a spectacular bloomer. The ornamental shrub is highly prized for its dazzling, long-lasting display that gives the plant an exotic appeal and if some simple steps are taken, they could soon be growing abundantly in your ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe drumroll for next year’s Durga puja has already started at Dum Dum Park where the area’s oldest puja is set to turn 75. On Sunday, at a musical soiree held on the road facing their pandal site, adjacent ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe one occasion of the year when residents of New Town are reminded that Akankha More is officially Mangaldeep crossing, because of the imposing installation of the lamp on a stand on the central island, was back in its ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphAnd just like that, it’s all over! Durga puja starting in September, and then Kali puja, Diwali, Bhai Phonta in October; why, even Jagaddhatri puja will be done and dusted by the end of next week. All major autumn ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphNew Town is set to be helmed by new administrative leadership. While the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) got a chairperson in Chandrima Bhattacharya by an order from Nabanna dated September 9, ahead of Diwali, the New Town ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphGC Block’s Kali Puja paid tribute to the timeless blockbuster Sholay, marking its 50th anniversary. The pandal was decorated with iconic images and dialogues from the film, and life-sized cutouts of the characters were placed around the park for ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly attacking Nirmal Dutta, a former Trinamool councillor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. On Monday, a gunman attempted to open fire at Dutta, but the weapon failed. The assailant instead struck ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has resolved to close the procedure regarding show-cause notices and to initiate disciplinary measures against four office-bearers of the teachers’ association that were taken last year during the administration of V.K. Tewari, the previous director.An IIT official ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA man accused of molesting and assaulting a woman on a road outside Dakshineswar Metro station on Tuesday evening was arrested on Thursday.In a complaint filed at Dakshineswar police station the same day, the woman alleged that the incident ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA rainy spell is headed Bengal’s way, the Met office has said.The coastal districts of south Bengal are likely to get rain between October 25 (Saturday) and 29. In the districts of north Bengal, rain is likely between October ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) wants teachers across its institutions to act as first-level counsellors to students, recognise children’s mental health problems and be aware of the effects they may have on them.Last week, the ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA drive through the rugged ravines of Chambal and hours of patient waiting by the riverbank culminated in a rare moment — a giant gharial carrying its hatchlings on its head and body. The image, captured by a 60-year-old ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphPolice started a case against residents of South City Residency on Thursday after banned firecrackers were seized from the housing complex on Diwali night.According to the police, Jadavpur police station received information around 9pm on Monday regarding the use ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphFestivals in the city always call for mishti, but none more than Bhai Phota.Mishti traders across the city said this is one occasion when even those who have cut down on sweets make an exception for their brothers and ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA couple were allegedly heckled, and their son assaulted in front of their home after they protested against a loud immersion procession playing DJ music past midnight on Wednesday.The incident occurred near the Parnasree Central Government Quarters on Lake ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA 45-year-old man suffered burn injuries after allegedly being set ablaze during a brawl among participants of a Kali Puja immersion procession at Bediapara in South Dumdum area on Thursday, police said.Ranjit Karmakar was returning home after the idol ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA woman was allegedly molested near Dakshineswar Metro Station while returning from her office around 7.30pm on October 21, according to media reports. The victim, an employee of a private organisation, filed a complaint with Dakshineswar Police Station, and ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in a building housing a printing press and several shops in central Kolkata on Thursday morning, causing extensive damage and panic in the congested area, fire department officials said.The blaze, which started in the two-storey ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA teenager was molested at Bengal’s premier state-run hospital SSKM in Kolkata, frequented by ministers and government officials for treatment and surgeries.Cops from the Bhowanipore police station have arrested the accused, who is a former ward boy at the ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphHospitals across Kolkata have reported a significant rise in respiratory illnesses among people and complications among pregnant women and IVF patients after Diwali and Kali Puja celebrations, with doctors attributing the surge to heightened air and noise pollution caused ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA resident of Maheshtala was allegedly lynched when he got into an altercation with a group of neighbours who were dancing outside a Kali Puja pandal on Tuesday night. Police said the incident happened around 10.45pm when Barun Mandal ...
24 October 2025 TelegraphA bus heading to the city from Howrah with many passengers caught fire on Vidyasagar Setu on Wednesday morning. Police said no one was trapped or injured, but the bus was gutted before the flames could be doused. The ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphGovernment and aided colleges that are holding independent counselling to fill the seats that have remained vacant after the centralised counselling by the education department will hold either tutorials or additional classes so that students do not suffer due ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphPolice on Wednesday arrested Sheikh Samrat, 24, in connection with the alleged assault on a junior doctor at Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Medical College and Hospital in Uluberia, Howrah, on Monday evening. This is the third arrest in the case.A ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphA neurodivergent individual can crack a joke, be in a relationship, and teach important life lessons.The Aamir Khan-starrer Sitaare Zameen Par, released earlier this year, struck a chord with parents, educators, and disability rights activists and continues to spark ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphAir quality readings in only one monitoring station — Rabindra Bharati University’s BT Road campus — improved to the “satisfactory” category on Wednesday morning.At 11am, the Jadavpur station reported “poor” air quality, while four others — Ballygunge, Bidhannagar, Fort ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphA north Calcutta resident who was returning home around 1am on Tuesday after meeting his friends for Diwali was allegedly pushed around and beaten up on the road when he protested against men bursting firecrackers.Dhiraj Chowdhury, 37, who suffered ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphAn IndiGo flight from Calcutta to Srinagar made a precautionary landing at the Varanasi airport on Tuesday afternoon after a “suspected fuel leak” mid-air, according to airport officials.The flight, numbered 6E 6961 and carrying 166 passengers, had departed from ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphA 15-year-old girl raised by her elder brother without parental support has emerged as the best female participant in the Tour De Bengal, a 450km cycle race inspired by the Tour de France, the world’s most renowned cycling event.Manju ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphPolice entered South City Residency on Diwali night and seized firecrackers they claimed were “banned”, triggering protests from residents, who alleged police “excesses” and forced the release of a resident being taken away in a police van.A purported video ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphSince late 2023, firecracker manufacturing units in Bengal producing “green crackers” were only required to inform the state pollution control board (PCB) before beginning production, with no inspections conducted by the board — a move that environment activists and ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphAs the noise meter soared on Diwali night and the day after, many residents across the city reached out to police for help. But the barrage of phone calls seemed to make little difference, according to more than one ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphCity residents, exhausted by the deafening noise of firecrackers throughout Monday, had hoped Tuesday morning would bring some relief. They were mistaken. The relentless noise continued well into the early hours of Wednesday, disturbing sleep and peace across Calcutta.The ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police arrested 316 people for violating the law, including disorderly conduct and bursting banned fireworks on Tuesday, a day after Diwali, an official said.Over 180 kg of banned fireworks and more than 30 litres of illicit liquor ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphSovan Chatterjee, the former mayor of Calcutta, is unsinkable.After nearly eight years in the political wilderness, Chatterjee was last week appointed chairperson of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), a comeback that stunned most in Bengal’s ruling Trinamool.A ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphThe indiscriminate bursting of firecrackers during Diwali left countless pets and street animals across Calcutta distressed and traumatised, animal lovers said.This year’s celebrations were markedly noisier than in recent years, and the torment lasted longer, they said, pointing out ...
23 October 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College authorities have written to the education department seeking funds to install 70 CCTV cameras on the college campus, where a first-year student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25.According to a member of the governing body, ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphFirecrackers echoed across the city and its neighbouring areas until early Tuesday morning, hours past the 8pm-10pm window set by Calcutta High Court. The noise resumed Tuesday afternoon and intensified in the evening.Despite police seizing more fireworks than last ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphAt the far end of Rajat Jubilee village in the Sundarbans lies a tribal pocket called Tripligheri, home to 100 to 120 Munda families. Tripligheri begins where the concrete road running through the village ends.Deepali Sardar, 32, belongs to ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure zone in the southwest Bay was steadily strengthening on Tuesday while shifting northwest.The system turned into a well-marked low-pressure area by 8.30am on Tuesday, the Met office said.“It is likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman on Diwali night at Garfa in the southeastern fringes of the city, police said. In her complaint, the woman alleged that the man molested her while she was bursting firecrackers ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphAbout 250 idols of Goddess Kali were immersed at ghats along the Hooghly till 7.30pm on Tuesday, the first of the three-day window for idol immersions, a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) official said.The official noted that 2,300 idols were ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphThe city’s air quality worsened significantly on Tuesday, the morning after Diwali, with experts attributing the drop to the rampant use of firecrackers.At 7am, the air quality at the Victoria Memorial monitoring station was categorised as “poor” while six ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral people, including babies and elderly, were admitted to hospitals across the city with respiratory distress on Diwali night and Tuesday morning.Doctors said that in most cases, the patients’ conditions worsened because of increased air pollution caused by firecrackers.Anubha ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader in Salt Lake’s Duttabad was attacked on Monday morning when a gunman attempted to open fire, but the weapon failed. The assailant instead struck the leader with the butt of the pistol before fleeing the ...
22 October 2025 TelegraphExtensive violations of court mandates that allow firecrackers to be used for only two hours on Diwali night were reported across the city on Sunday, notwithstanding a complete ban on the ignition of any firecrackers.Residents from Ballygunge, Salt Lake, ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphOn Saturday, more than 4,000 people from Santigachi village gathered on the banks of the Datta river to witness a boat race that had been discontinued sometime in the late 1990s.The race was organised by not-for-profit organisation Anandapur Swami ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphAn 11-year-old girl was found hanging inside a wall almirah at her house in Vidyasagar Colony in Alipore on Sunday evening, police said.A police team has sent the body for a post-mortem, and a case of unnatural death has ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphAn artisan in his sixties was allegedly attacked on Sunday night at Muraripukur in Maniktala over a subscription for Kali Puja that was demanded by some members of a local club.Four men were arrested on Monday in connection with ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThe coming weekend is likely to be rainy in Calcutta. How rainy it will be depends on how an imminent Bay system shapes up.In Calcutta, the Celsius rose marginally on Monday. The maximum temperature was 34.2 degrees, almost two ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThere is supposed to be a ban on illegal fireworks emitting sound above 125 decibels and a Calcutta High Court-determined two-hour window between 8pm and 10pm on Diwali evening for crackers. In reality, the deafening noise of crackers bursting ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphStreets aglitter, tall edifices and tiny homes resplendent with lights, sweets flying fast off the shelves, a sky shimmering with fireworks — and a lot of unwanted noise from crackers that should not have been allowed.A variety of lights ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphAn idol maker in north Kolkata was allegedly assaulted by a group of local youths after an argument over Kali Puja contributions turned violent on Sunday night. The incident took place around 11.30pm in Muraripukur, Maniktala. The victim, identified ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThe season of autumn emerges resplendent following the monsoon showers. Mother Earth, with its storehouse of seuli and kaash flowers, initiates the interplay of light and darkness.This is the season that celebrates the triumph of light of goodness over ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphMore than 6,000 kg of banned firecrackers have been seized from across Calcutta, Salt Lake and Howrah in around a week before Diwali. Police said 56 persons were arrested during the period for illegal sale, transportation and possession of ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThe morning was bright and sunny on Sunday but as the day progressed, clouds pushed the sun back.Diwali was also likely to be cloudy in the coastal areas of south Bengal, including Calcutta. “Rain is not completely ruled out ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphMore than two weeks have passed since Durga Puja, yet several grounds in the city are still occupied by pandals, covering large portions of the ground and making it difficult or, in some cases, impossible for people to go ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphA man linked to a non-government organisation, who was accustomed to feeding stray dogs, was purportedly beaten by the driver of his employer in Salt Lake over a week ago, which ultimately caused his death on Saturday night.Gautam Pramanik, ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphDiwali means an extended weekend this year, but only green fireworks may be burst in a two-hour window on Monday, the day of the actual festival (both Diwali and Kali Puja).The permissible noise level of firecrackers is 125 decibels ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThe sound of firecrackers was audible from several neighbourhoods on Sunday evening, in defiance of a directive issued by the high court and reiterated by the police, which stated that only green crackers are permitted to be ignited between ...
21 October 2025 TelegraphThe central business district of Calcutta turned into a sea of lights and colours on Diwali eve.Last-minute shoppers thronged the markets throughout the day.A variety of lights, mostly of Chinese make, sold briskly throughout the day at Chandni Chowk, ...
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