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No roads, craters greet Chinatown diners, Firhad Hakim promises fix in '20 to 25 days'
A road in Tangra, bustling every evening with people heading to popular restaurants and bars, has been in a terrible state for months, a resident of the area complained to mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday.Hakim, responding to the complaint ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphTight security plan for campus: Crime scene at Law College to be guarded by 11 cops
The crime scene at South Calcutta Law College will be guarded by eight constables, two officers, and an officer-in-charge, a senior police officer at Lalbazar said on Saturday.Just a year earlier, the crime scene at RG Kar Medical College ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphSSC form submission deadline to be extended by a week, OBC reservation row prompts move
The school service commission (SSC) will extend the last date for submission of online forms for the appointment of schoolteachers at least by a week, said an official.The online submission of applications started on June 16 and was scheduled ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphKids caught in frenzied race for online followers, a status symbol, source of self-worth
For today’s teenagers, a massive follower count is more than a number — it’s a status symbol, a source of self-worth, and a digital badge of honour.But principals and psychiatrists are sounding the alarm: behind the selfies and likes ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphLens on phone of day guard: Cops keen to know if securityman intended to inform colleague
Police sleuths on Saturday seized the mobile phone of the security guard whose duty hours just preceded that of his arrested colleague Pinaki Banerjee on the evening of the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata weather: Brace for rainy weekend, monsoon trough over Calcutta, says Met
The Met has forecast a wet weekend.Friday was consistently overcast in Calcutta. The rain was far from heavy in most places, but it was persistent. "If anything, the rain is likely to be heavier on Saturday and Sunday," said ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThai Lion Air flight to Bangkok returns to parking bay in Kolkata after 'technical snag'
A Thai Lion Air flight with 130 passengers and seven crew on board returned to the parking bay at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport shortly after push back on Saturday due to a "technical snag", officials said.Later, ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim orders audit: KMC and KMDA to inspect trees across Calcutta
The mayor on Friday announced a health check-up of the city’s trees.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will check trees along city roads, while the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) will inspect trees at Rabindra Sarobar and Subhas Sarobar, said ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphMeeting on Metro Pink Line impasse: KMC, Metro Railway officials to chalk out road map
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Metro Railway officials met on Friday to chalk out a road map for the Baranagar-Barrackpore Metro project that was announced in 2010.It was decided that the engineers of the two organisations would draw up ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphInconsistencies in statement, police; court extends guard's custody till July 8
The Alipore court on Friday extended the police custody of Pinaki Banerjee, 55, the arrested security guard of South Calcutta Law College, till July 8.Banerjee had allegedly allowed the guard’s room on the Kasba campus to be used during ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphInadequate faculty strength of CU’s BTech programmes stalls NBA accreditation
Inadequate faculty strength of Calcutta University’s BTech programmes is not allowing most of the departments to get accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), said the university’s secretary of science and technology.NBA assesses whether the departments are ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphOBC reservation dispute, now under legal scrutiny delaying JEE results, says board head
The state JEE board chairperson said on Friday that they could not publish the results of the JEE examination last month because of the OBC reservation dispute, now under legal scrutiny.Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee said they are awaiting directives from ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphHC division bench backs order on directors, restrains technicians from creating hurdles
A high court division bench has refused to interfere with an earlier single judge’s order restraining a federation of technicians from creating hurdles in the independent functioning of directors.The case pertains to a long-standing tussle between a section of ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphFocus on active ageing, bridging gaps and empathy at elderly well-being conference
The effect of loneliness on health is akin to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A state-level conference titled United for Elderly: Promoting Well-being, Dignity and Rights in Ageing against Loneliness and Isolation highlighted several such observations on what the ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphBehala College gets autonomy, free from Calcutta University’s administrative control
Behala College, a state-aided college that received the highest possible rating from the national assessment council has been granted autonomy, freeing it from Calcutta University’s administrative control and allowing it to make independent academic decisions.The University Grants Commission (UGC) ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphFour accused taken to South Calcutta Law College for crime scene reconstruction
Four men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student were taken to the campus early on Friday for a “reconstruction” of the crime scene.The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, 31, his associates Pramit ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College to reopen on Monday, ID cards must to enter premises
South Calcutta Law College, closed since June 30 following the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old student on campus, will reopen on July 7.A notice issued by the college on Friday stated that LLM classes will resume that day. ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphDubai to New Jersey, via VIP Road
SreebhumiSreebhumi’s pandal this year will be modelled on the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in New Jersey.The crowd-pulling puja, patronised by Sreebhumi Sporting Club president Sujit Bose, held its khuti puja on Sunday morning when the fire and emergency services ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphMy pet
Madhumanti Banerjee has eight cats —Nadush, Kutum, Tukun, Bhuto, Bukun, Phuchka, Jahanara, Roshanara. If you stumbled over the last two names, it’s because she ran out of pet names! “At one point we had 20 cats and I could ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphLike owner, like dog: Study
Many dog owners wonder whether they share similarities with their dogs, including characteristics like a calm temperament, a sociable personality or even a bit of stubbornness. The idea that people and dogs resemble each other is not just a ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphCity school takes science to rural girls, outreach programme part of platinum jubilee
A school has decided to reach out to underprivileged girls in the districts by offering them exposure to Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education through scientific experiments. The outreach programme announced on Thursday is part of the platinum ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphClose all student union rooms of all state-aided colleges and universities: High Court
A division bench of the high court on Thursday ordered the closure of union rooms across all state-aided colleges and universities in Bengal.The bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De passed the order on a PIL filed ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphDelhi man held for GST fraud
A man has been arrested for allegedly setting up a shell company to evade ₹7 crore in goods and services tax (GST) using documents of a Howrah resident. The documents were also used to open a bank account at ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphYoung minds pitch tech fixes for eco crisis: Hackathon for habitat, save ecosystem
A battle of ideas featured hundreds of young minds with one goal — to provide a technology-based solution to address some pressing biodiversity challenges that India faces.The Zoological Survey of India organised a 110-hour hackathon in the run-up to ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphHC seeks govt affidavit on stalled student union elections in colleges, universities
A division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the state government to file an affidavit explaining the state’s role in conducting student union elections in state-aided colleges and universities, which have been stalled for many years now.The ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphGun-threat happy, how prime accused Monojit Mishra thrived with no fear on campus
A governing body member of South Calcutta Law College has revealed that Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old woman student on June 25, had threatened to shoot teachers who questioned his conduct ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphKasba rape: Court asks govt to file affidavit of cops investigation status by July 10
A division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the state government to file by July 10 an affidavit on the status of the police investigation into the alleged gang rape of the South Calcutta Law College student ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphUrban expansion devours Calcutta wetlands: Flood and heat risks surge in Rajarhat, New Town
Urban expansion across Rajarhat, New Town and the nearby wetlands on Calcutta’s eastern flank has outpaced planning limits, with the built-up area increasing 11-fold over 30 years in some localities and projected to grow, researchers have found.Geographers from Presidency ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphClasses should go on in South Calcutta Law College: Bratya Basu questions campus closure
Education minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday that it was not clear to him why the authorities of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, decided to close the college.The minister ...
4 July 2025 TelegraphCBI names TMC MLA, 17 others in death of a man during post-poll violence in 2021
Trinamool Congress MLA Paresh Paul, two councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, a former officer-in-charge of Narkeldanga police station, an officer and a home guard then posted at the same police station have been chargesheeted by the CBI in ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphHigh Court asks tenants to vacate building for Joka-BBD Bagh Metro construction
A division bench of the high court on Wednesday asked tenants of a dilapidated building at Ekbalpore to vacate the premises within two weeks so that Metro Railway can demolish the structure for the construction of the Joka-BBD Bagh ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphFirhad Hakim to chair meet on Barrackpore Metro stalemate over water line relocation
Mayor Firhad Hakim will chair a meeting of senior officials from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the Metro Railway on Friday to discuss challenges facing the construction of the Barrackpore Metro, where construction is yet to start. One of ...
3 July 2025 Telegraph'Go beyond smartphones': Snapchat director Saket Jha Saurabh bonds with creators
The future of digital is beyond the smartphone, said a man at the helm of content at multimedia messaging app Snapchat.“Our focus is on looking beyond smartphones. We believe the future of content consumption and experiencing digital is not ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphSealdah court sentences man to death for murder of professors at Chitpore 10 years ago
A man accused of killing two elderly professors at their Chitpore home 10 years ago has been found guilty. A Sealdah court on Wednesday sentenced Sanjay Sen to death.The judge who gave the verdict had sentenced Sanjay Roy to ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphCU glare on hiring: Team visits law college, seeks Monojit Mishra’s appointment records
A five-member fact-finding team from Calcutta University visited South Calcutta Law College on Wednesday morning and sought details of the governing body meeting that approved the appointment of Monojit Mishra as a casual employee.Mishra — the prime accused in ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, Zaib Ahmed on Fern Road to meet someone just before arrest: Police
Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student on June 25, and his associate Zaib Ahmed were on Fern Road the evening of June 26, about an hour before ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphProtesters blame college authorities, cops
A law student, who participated in a gathering outside South Calcutta Law College on Tuesday to protest the alleged gang-rape of the 24-year-old student on the campus on June 25, said the administration was taking a knee-jerk action only ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College students upset over suspension of academic activities
Many students of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, were concerned about their future because it is not clear when the classes will resume.A meeting of the college’s governing body ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway gets batteries for back-up during a power failure inside the tunnel
Metro Railway has started installing a set of batteries that can chug a train stranded inside a tunnel on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) to the nearest station during a power failure.The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is being ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphTraffic crawls on flyovers, dual blow prevails on road; it’s common, say commuters
Dual blow of a vehicle getting stalled on AJC Bose Road flyover and a collision involving three vehicles on the link between Parama and AJC Bose Road flyovers accompanied by high volume of school traffic on the roads below, ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphSchools explore artificial intelligence as subject, teaching tool; stress on integrity
Several schools are incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into their curricula and academic calendars. Physics lessons in Class V of an international school are being conducted using AI-generated text. Two more schools — one ICSE and the other CBSE — ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphAir India international aircraft stranded at Calcutta Airport due to technical snags
Two Boeing aircraft, operated by Air India, are stranded at Calcutta Airport because of technical snags.One of them, a San Francisco-Mumbai flight that had developed a technical snag before takeoff, has been stranded since June 17.The other on, a ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphMonojit felt he had the right to impose, student shares past misbehaviour of accused
In January this year, Monojit Mishra, 31, the arrested main accused in last Wednesday’s gang-rape of a woman student of South Calcutta Law College, allegedly targeted a fourth-year student of the same institution, insisting she join him for a ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphCollege axes gang rape accused Monojit, silent on classes amid outrage over his hiring
The governing body of South Calcutta Law College on Tuesday announced that Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the gang rape of a 24-year-old student last week, had been terminated as a casual staffer. However, the college failed ...
3 July 2025 TelegraphCan those ‘tainted’ write test: HC; court seeks explanation from SSC, government
The high court on Tuesday directed the school service commission (SSC) and the state government to explain by next Monday the need for a tweak in the format of the upcoming recruitment test for assistant teachers at government-aided schools.Justice ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphMain accused of the gangrape case at law college called vice-principal, say police
Call records of Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape at South Calcutta Law College in Kasba on June 25, has revealed that he had called the college’s vice-principal Nayna Chatterji on June 26, a day ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphBengal records discovery of 25 new species in Zoological Survey of India survey
More than 650 animals were discovered in India in 2024, most of them from Kerala, said a report published in Calcutta on Monday.The report, published by Zoological Survey of India, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest, and ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphScratch marks found on Kasba gang rape accused Monojit Mishra’s body: Police source
Doctors found scratch marks on the body of Monojit Mishra, the arrested prime accused in the gang rape of a student at a Kolkata law college, a well-placed police source said on Tuesday.The injury marks from nails are indicative ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThree Sandeshkhali cases handed over to CBI after orders from Calcutta High Court
Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered a CBI probe into the alleged murder of two BJP activists and the disappearance of another party worker from Sandeshkhali in South 24-Parganas after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll results were declared. Sheikh ...
2 July 2025 Telegraph2nd incident report also shoddy, says CU VC, college shut ‘indefinitely’: Teachers
The South Calcutta Law College authorities held a five-minute online meeting with teachers and staff members on Sunday, where the alleged gang rape of the 24-year-old student on the campus on June 25 was not discussed.The vice-principal, Nayna Chatterji, ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphShoot of music video by Anirban Bhattacharya halted after technicians ‘skip work’
The shooting of a music video by actor-director Anirban Bhattacharya scheduled for Monday had to be cancelled as the technicians allegedly stayed away from work.“This is the second time in a fortnight that the shooting was stalled for technicians ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphCouncil for the Indian School Certificate Examinations to review students’ fitness
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked its affiliated schools to register all students from Classes I to XII for the council’s “physical health and fitness assessment” programme.Under Active CISCE programme, the council plans to ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphClogged drains behind flooded streets of central Calcutta, says senior KMC official
Parts of central Calcutta were waterlogged on Monday following overnight rain and another sharp spell in the morning. A senior official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation blamed the waterlogging on the “heavily silted” drainage network under BB Ganguly Street. ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphAttack ‘pre-planned’, accused tell cops; more charges added under BNS based on crime
Police have added six additional sections under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against Monojit Mishra and his associates in the alleged gang rape case, including charges of watching, capturing, or disseminating images of a woman engaged in a private act ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphAs students, we are scared for our safety and security on the campus
Students of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped on June 25, demanded the end of political influence on the campus and the installation of CCTV cameras to ensure their safety.The students went to their ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro blames rain for tunnel flooding as commuters face major disruption
Kolkata Metro authorities on Monday blamed sudden water ingress caused by heavy downpour for the morning suspension of services between key stations on the North-South corridor — throwing thousands of commuters off track at the start of the workweek.“Due ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphThree petitions in high court, BJP probe team add to heat on Trinamool over college rape
The pressure is building on Bengal’s ruling party over the gang-rape of a law student on the South Calcutta Law College campus. .Three separate PILs were admitted in the Calcutta High Court on Monday demanding a court-monitored Central Bureau ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphCops obstructed visit to meet victim, says member of National Commission for Women
A National Commission for Women member alleged that police did not let her meet the 24-year-old law college student on Sunday.Archana Majumdar said she was scheduled to meet the woman at her residence."I could not meet her because the ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphTwo dead as speeding bike hits Parama divider, helmetless riders pay heavy price
A young man and a woman riding a motorcycle without helmets died after the two-wheeler crashed into a divider on the Parama flyover on Sunday morning.The accident occurred around 11am on the ramp connecting the Parama flyover to the ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphMalfunction of air conditioning system forces an Air India flight to land in city
An Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Tokyo to Delhi carrying 243 passengers was diverted to the Calcutta airport on Sunday afternoon after the air conditioning system malfunctioned.Passengers were stranded at the Calcutta airport for over eight ...
2 July 2025 TelegraphFour youths arrested for murder of 45-year-old property dealer in Bihar's Nalanda
Four youths in their early 20s who had allegedly murdered a 45-year-old property dealer in Bihar’s Nalanda on June 19 were arrested from a hideout in Narendrapur, on the city’s southern fringes, late Friday following a coordinated raid by ...
30 June 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College's report on incident of gangrape ‘shoddy’: CU
The authorities of South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on the evening of June 25, sent a report on the incident to Calcutta University on Saturday — a report CU officials described as “shoddy”.Nayna ...
30 June 2025 TelegraphLaw student of South Calcutta Law College beats social taboo fears to report ordeal
The 24-year-old law student who was allegedly gang-raped at South Calcutta Law College had to overcome deep-seated fears about social stigma before she could file a police complaint against her attackers, the West Bengal Commission for Women said on ...
30 June 2025 Telegraph'Nothing has changed since RG Kar': TMCP ex-leader held for gang-rape of law student
A 24-year-old law student was allegedly gang-raped inside the South Calcutta Law College by a former student on Wednesday evening while two other students watched, suggesting women’s safety had not improved since the RG Kar rape-murder last August.The woman ...
30 June 2025 TelegraphAnandabazar Patrika Tourist Spot 2025: Domestic destinations steal the show
The forests of Jharkhand. Caravan tours in Maharashtra. Premium properties at the picturesque hill stations of Kerala. Adrenaline rush in Himachal Pradesh.Foreign locales are always much coveted at the biggest travel fest in eastern India. But Indian destinations are ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphMetro services on north-south corridor (Blue Line) disrupted for over an hour
Metro services on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) were disrupted for over an hour on Saturday afternoon, causing trouble for several commuters.The disruption was attributed to a problem in the underground tunnel between JD Park and Netaji Bhavan. A ...
29 June 2025 Telegraph‘Blackmail videos’ on Monojit Mishra’s phone, CCTV shows her escape attempt: Police
Police said they found videos of the 24-year-old woman — allegedly gang-raped at South Calcutta Law College on June 25 — on the phone of Monojit Mishra, the prime accused. The videos were allegedly used to blackmail her.The footage, ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphHarassment, assault, theft: ‘History-sheeter’ Monojit Mishra’s record of offences
Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the alleged gang-rape of the 24-year-old student of South Calcutta Law College on June 25, has been chargesheeted in several earlier cases, including for harassing women, assault, damaging property, and theft, police said.“Monojit ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphAnandabazar Patrika Tourist Spot 2025: One-stop travel solution for tourists, agents
A family from Behala booked a trip to Europe in October.A retired couple from New Town were enquiring about Vietnam in winter. Another couple from Bansdroni were torn between Kerala and Madhya Pradesh for an October trip.A travel fest ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphCCTVs at Sarobar to prevent accidents: KMDA mulls floating barriers in the water
The police have written to the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) that CCTVs must be installed at the public swimming pool at Rabindra Sarobar. Lifeguards must be present while the pool is open, said the police.The KMDA, custodian of ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphThree hours of brutality, rape and torture: Ordeal at hands of former TMCP boss
The 24-year-old law student who was allegedly gang-raped inside the premises of South Calcutta Law College has provided police with a detailed account of her over-three-hour ordeal at the hands of three men, describing hours of torture that lasted ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphProtests outside South Calcutta Law College stall traffic on Bypass connector
Traffic on the EM Bypass-Rashbehari Avenue Connector was disrupted for several hours from Friday afternoon till late evening as various groups and political parties staged protests and road blockades outside South Calcutta Law College and Kasba police station.They were ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphSecurity shortage, one permanent guard: Vice-principal of South Calcutta Law College
South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on Wednesday, has only one permanent security guard — who reported sick on June 25, the day of the alleged crime. The college also employs two private ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphVegetable prices skyrocket: Short supply, flooding of agricultural land blamed
Vegetable prices have soared across city markets.The prices of cucumber, ridge gourd and brinjal have doubled.Brinjal now costs ₹120 per kg, up from ₹60 about two weeks back. Cucumber sold for ₹80 per kg on Friday, up from ₹40 ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphEx-student Mishra’s grip on campus: Allegations of sway over activities, admissions
Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the alleged gang-rape of the South Calcutta Law College student, is a former unit president of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) at the college but, according to teachers and students, continues to ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphOBC row: HC refuses to intervene, UG admissions & teacher hiring process to go on
The high court on Thursday refused to stay the ongoing undergraduate admission process in colleges and the submission of online applications for the appointment of schoolteachers over the OBC reservation issue.A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata student was threatened with video of rape in three-hour ordeal on college campus
A post in the college’s union and a proposal for marriage. The main accused in the gang-rape of a student on the South Calcutta Law College’s Kasba campus had reportedly offered both the choices to the survivor before allegedly ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphTarget medal glory
Away from the din of the Hudco crossing, a lush green, walled compound in an Ultadanga lane is where an Olympic sport is being practised round the year in silence. This is the Kolkata Police ground where the KP ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphTMCP ex-leader, two students held for ‘gang-rape’ of student in south Kolkata college
Three persons have been arrested after a law student in alleged she was gang-raped in the guard room of her college in south Kolkata’s Kasba, it was revealed on Friday morning sending shockwaves through a city that was wracked ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphHC hears case of safety of BJP MLAs
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has moved a petition before Calcutta High Court Justice Amrita Sinha, seeking an order directing Speaker Biman Banerjee to allow central forces deployed for the safety of some BJP MLAs to enter the ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphParents sent to trial court for RG Kar hall visit plea
The high court on Thursday asked the parents of the slain RG Kar doctor to submit their petition to visit the crime scene — in the hospital’s emergency building — before the Sealdah court, where the trial was held.Justice ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphHands that guide the robot
nThe doctor had been showing a video of himself performing robotic knee surgery for several minutes before a voice from the audience cried out: “But where is the robot?”“Robotic surgery doesn’t mean a robot will walk up on two ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphSecond community zone under canal flyover
On the day of Rathyatra, New Town will get another space for community activities. The space under the Kestopur flyover, near Balaka Abasan, will now be used as community zone 2. The first event, fittingly a mela, will be ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphFair price rate chart at CB Market
The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is trying to put a leash on prices of essentials in its community markets but shopkeepers have found a way to wriggle free.Last week, on June 19, CB Market, the most popular ...
28 June 2025 Telegraph‘Customer’ tries on gold ring at a Jodhpur Park jewellery shop and flees with it
A man, who entered a jewellery shop in Jodhpur Park, posing as a customer fled with one of the finger rings he had taken for trying. The incident occurred on Monday evening, just before the store was going to ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphTrim trees & repair roads on Rath route: KMC; cops write to civic body ahead of yatra
Trees lining the route of the Rathyatra to be organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), in Calcutta, should be properly trimmed, and potholes on the roads should be repaired to ensure the chariots don’t get stuck, ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphGreen light from state government for construction of Kidderpore metro station
The proposed Kidderpore Metro station has finally received clearance from the state government.The government’s alleged refusal to allow construction at Alipore’s Bodyguard Lines had stalled the construction of the station. After a series of negotiations and a revised station ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphDip in rain before pick up next week, city witnesses uniformed shower, says Met
Thursday was marked by intermittent but uniform rain across the city and most of south Bengal, under the influence of a low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha coastline.The Met office recorded just under 10mm ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphAfter nine-year gap, government teacher recruitment test book boom at College Street
A government teacher recruitment test scheduled for later this year — the first in nine years — has triggered a surge in demand for study materials, with booksellers on College Street scrambling to meet unprecedented demand.Multiple traders at the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphSSC probe: ED attaches Rs 27cr assets of middleman Prasanna Roy, including tea estates
Calcutta: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties worth over ₹27 crore of Prasanna Roy, who was allegedly involved in irregularities in recruitment in the school service commission selection tests in 2016 and acted as a middleman, allegedly collecting money ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphEvening training for legacy force horses: Rundown facility revamped
An old and dilapidated paddock inside the Bodyguard Lines in Alipore has been rebuilt after decades of neglect, and Kolkata Police have decided to install lighting to enable evening horse training for the first time in the force’s history.For ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta International School gets another bomb threat a day after hoax mail
A day after two premier schools in Kolkata received bomb threats that turned out to be hoaxes, one of the two institutes got a similar mail again on Thursday, a police official said.The Calcutta International School in the southern ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphAnarock report flags 10% dip in Kolkata housing sales, market 'expected to rebound' next year
The real estate market in Kolkata has shrunk in the first half of 2025.A report released by real estate consultant Anarock, which was the transactional adviser in the US major Blackrock’s acquisition of the South City Mall recently, stated ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphKMC asks fire services directorate to conduct fire audits of markets, identify challenges
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the state fire services directorate to conduct fire audits of markets and also identify challenges faced by fire tenders to access the markets, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday. Hakim said the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphSacked school staff march to SSC office, seek old jobs after allowance stay order
A section of the sacked non-teaching employees of government-aided schools marched to the school service commission (SSC) headquarters in Salt Lake on Wednesday, demanding that the state government take steps to reinstate them.They claimed that their recruitment was fair.The ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphChance to enhance IIT Kharagpur’s perception on platinum jubilee: Chief Suman Chakraborty
IIT Kharagpur will begin a year-long celebration of its platinum jubilee on the institute’s Foundation Day scheduled for August 18 and its new director wants to use the occasion to “shore up” the institute’s perception. Suman Chakraborty, who attended ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphKMC takes steps to turn ‘waste to wealth’: Segregation at source, recycling in charts
Two plants, one of which will process plastic waste and the other thermocol, were inaugurated at the Dhapa waste disposal site of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Tuesday. Besides the two plants, a material recovery facility, where the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphNot bound to solve Tolly feuds, says government as federation-filmmakers row intensifies
The state is not legally bound to solve a dispute between a section of filmmakers and a federation of technicians that has allegedly stalled several projects in Tollygunge, the government told Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.“The petitioner has no ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphLynch accused alleges traders duped him by mortgaging fake gold for a loan of Rs 11 lakh
The family of one of the men arrested for allegedly attacking two traders from Rajasthan at Behala's Parnasree and fatally injuring one of them last week has lodged a complaint against the traders for cheating them by mortgaging fake ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphKMC starts desilting and strengthening Bikramgarh Jheel restoration beside South City
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started desilting and strengthening the banks of Bikramgarh Jheel beside South City, which was in a state of neglect for years, the mayoral council member heading the civic body’s environment department said on ...
27 June 2025 Telegraph