Monsoon gone, the signs of the onset of winter are visible in Calcutta. A significant dip in the Celsius is, however, still some time away, said Met officials. Clear skies and bright sunshine greeted Calcuttans for the fifth consecutive ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphWork on a water reservoir and pumping station at Marcus Square, which is being planned as a substitute for the reservoir under Mohammad Ali Park that needs immediate shutdown and repairs, could not be started because of “political trouble,” ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphA man and 16 women were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly operating a fake call centre at Minto Park, through which they reportedly cheated Indian and Bangladeshi nationals with false promises of marriage.Police said they had received information that ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphThe state government has instructed transport department officials to work from home during the Diwali holidays from October 18 to 28 to facilitate registration of vehicles purchased during this period.The GST rate cuts that came into effect on September ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Wednesday alerted Calcuttans about online frauds through social media that appear to be Diwali offers or promise a chance to offer Kali Puja online. The top cop was speaking at a Kali Puja ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphIndia Post on Wednesday resumed postal services to the US, ending a 54-day suspension triggered by a change in American import policy.All categories of international mail — including EMS, air parcels, registered letters/packets, and tracked packets — can now ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line came to a halt for over an hour on Wednesday afternoon, marking yet another disruption on the often snag-ridden corridor.The timing could not have been worse. The outage coincided with a BJP rally ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphAirfares to Calcutta have more than doubled from some cities this weekend, as many Calcuttans are flying home for a long Diwali break.On Wednesday afternoon, a one-way economy class ticket from Mumbai to Calcutta for a Thursday evening flight ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphA last-minute attempt by Kolkata Police to conduct noise-level checks on Diwali firecrackers to be sold at official Bazi Bazars had to be called off on Wednesday after none of the invited pollution-monitoring agencies turned up for the tests.The ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro services on the Blue Line returned to normal around 2.25 pm on Wednesday, nearly two hours after a crack was detected on the track near MG Road station, bringing a brief period of chaos and inconvenience for ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphA second-year student of a private engineering college in Kolkata was allegedly raped by her classmate, and the accused was arrested from the Anandapur area in the southern part of the city, police said.The woman, who came to West ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line were partially disrupted on Wednesday afternoon after a crack was detected on the track near MG Road station.The glitch was reported around 12:45 pm. Maidan to Dumdum services remain cancelled.Around 12.40 pm, a ...
16 October 2025 TelegraphAn engineering student who was wanted in connection with the alleged rape of a classmate was arrested on Tuesday.Police said Rajdeep Roy was arrested from his relative’s home at Sarsuna, on the south-western fringes of the city. “He had ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral CBSE schools are telling Class X students and their parents to focus on their first board exam instead of banking on the cushion of the second to improve their scores. Starting 2026, students appearing for the CBSE Class ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphClear sky and bright sunshine greeted Calcuttans for the fourth straight day on Tuesday with a drop in the moisture level.On Monday, southwest monsoon retreated from Bengal. The minimum relative humidity — a measure of the humidity in the ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphMore international flights from Calcutta and Bengal’s projection as one of the best tourist destinations are on the wish list of the first woman to lead a 125-year-old business chamber.“A lot of infrastructure development is taking place in the ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphA legal case has been initiated against an undertrial prisoner lodged in Presidency jail for allegedly smuggling in and retaining a mobile phone in his possession, which was said to have been used by another undertrial prisoner who successfully ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphOne of the 14 stay cables marked for replacement in the first phase of Vidyasagar Setu’s overhaul was replaced during last weekend’s nine-hour traffic closure. The full overhaul of the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge, which connects Calcutta and Howrah, ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphDoing away with the annual sound test for firecrackers will take the city back to a time when there were no restrictions on the noise limit for sound crackers, environment activists have warned.Metro reported on Tuesday that the sound ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphAs part of its centenary celebrations, Maulana Azad College is setting up an archival gallery and museum to showcase a collection of old manuscripts, journals, scientific instruments, and historic documents — many of which have never been on public ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) plans to introduce a new school assessment framework aimed at fostering continuous improvement in education quality, inclusivity, leadership, and parent engagement.The pilot phase of the initiative, named Rise (Review for ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphStudents, parents, and teachers from the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy (IICP) blocked Taratala Road on Tuesday morning in a bid to draw the administration’s attention to its crumbling condition. The protest highlighted a stretch riddled with potholes, craters ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphA city court on Monday granted bail to Pinaki Banerjee, the 55-year-old security guard of South Calcutta Law College and a co-accused in the gang rape of a 24-year-old student inside the college premises in June.Banerjee is the first ...
15 October 2025 TelegraphThe civic body will level the undulated portions of EM Bypass between the Ruby crossing and Dhalai bridge this winter. However, experts have warned that this will only be a stopgap measure, not a long-term solution.The stretch, which suffers ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphA nine-year-old girl who was sent to deliver embroidered garments at a zari embroidery unit was allegedly sexually harassed by the manager of the unit on Saturday evening, police said. The accused, identified as Imtiaz Alam, was arrested on ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphA sound test meant to measure the decibel levels of firecrackers has not been conducted this year, even as Bazi Bazars are set to open from Tuesday, prompting concerns that the authorities may have skipped the mandatory check.In 2023, ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphThe alleged gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s advice that women should not be allowed to leave campus at night have triggered outrage. While many working in the field of gender rights ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphThe monsoon has officially departed from Bengal on Monday, the Met office confirmed.The city got its third straight bright and sunny day on Monday, while most of Bengal was bone dry.As the dry northwesterly winds tighten their grip on ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphQR codes, previously the only way to verify green crackers, have been discontinued, even though the rule mandates using only green crackers this Diwali. Environment activists fear that reduced vigilance could worsen pollution levels. Unaware of what is legal, ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphA 19-year-old boy was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl multiple times and leaving her pregnant, police said.Officers of South Port police station received an email from the father of the girl complaining that she had ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphAn elderly retired bank official was duped out of ₹28 lakh by placing him under digital arrest, police said.Alleged fraudsters claimed that a package — booked in his name — had been found containing narcotics and it had been ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphOne school has deferred its post-Puja sports activities by a week, while another one, which was scheduled to host an inter-school sports event last month, had to postpone because of the heavy rain this year. The brunt of the ...
14 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral roads in Salt Lake continue to remain broken and battered, with residents complaining that some of them were damaged even after repairs only a few months ago. Motorists complain of frequent damage to their vehicles because of the ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphA family that went out of the city during Durga Puja, leaving their pet — a Persian cat — at a creche in their neighbourhood, discovered upon their return that the cat had allegedly been exchanged.Based on the family’s ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphMore than 250 dengue cases were reported in the city in the last 30 days, according to data shared by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials.A KMC official said on Sunday that 791 cases were reported till October 5.An official ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphAn elderly woman in south Calcutta was defrauded on Saturday after she received a package from an app delivery platform. The delivery person claimed the parcel contained sunscreen lotion ordered by her daughter. The woman paid ₹1,500 for the ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphThe last weekend before Dhanteras and Diwali saw a surge in festive shopping across Calcutta.Cars, jewellery, phones, consumer durables and decorative lights — there was a robust demand across segments. Stores decorated with promotional offers were crowded throughout the ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphAn adjustment in operations to alleviate delays and interruptions on the Metro Blue Line has been effective, though only to some degree.There was a another disruption on the Blue Line on Sunday night, the latest in a series of ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphAn elderly woman who manages a book reading shop near Shakespeare Sarani was allegedly cheated out of ₹1.2 lakh by an unknown caller.The caller, who presented himself as the branch manager of a bank, convinced her to install an ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphMonsoon is set to start retreating from Bengal from Monday, the Met office has said.Calcutta, and much of south Bengal, have been dry for the past two days after a long and incessant period of rain.“Conditions are favourable for ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphA fresh technical glitch crippled services on the Blue Line Metro for three hours on Saturday, disrupting commutes across the north-south corridor.The glitch was reported around 12.50pm, when a fault was detected in the automated display panel at Dum ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphLucrative “Diwali Bonanza” offers flooding social media have become one of the biggest concerns for police this festive season, as fraudsters increasingly use such advertisements as bait to trap unsuspecting shoppers.Most of these offers that look “too good to ...
13 October 2025 TelegraphOnly a handful of tea gardens will achieve a positive EBIDTA (earnings before interest, depreciation, taxes, and amortisation) this year, Hemant Bangur, chairman of the India Tea Association (ITA), has warned, citing lower market price of tea on the ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphA tunnel boring machine (TBM) began digging the second tunnel from Kidderpore on Saturday evening, speeding up work on the underground section of the long-delayed Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor (Purple Line).Two TBMs had earlier been lowered into a launching ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphCivic teams conducted an overnight operation on Friday to clear around 300 hoardings that had been erected for Durga Puja.The drive was launched after the seven-day deadline for removing the hoardings expired on Thursday.Two teams visited EM Bypass and ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission (SSC) is set to begin accepting online applications for non-teaching positions in government-aided schools starting November 3.The commission, which issued a notification on Thursday, stated that the month-long exercise will continue until December 3.Metro reported ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphA 20-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman with a disability in Nadial, in Calcutta’s port area, in the early hours of Saturday.Mohammad Yeasin, a resident of Bagdi Para Road in Nadial’s Ayub Nagar, was ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphAn 88-year-old resident of Rashbehari Avenue was “digitally arrested” for a day and coerced into paying ₹33 lakh by fraudsters who pretended to be CBI officers, police said.The elderly man was told that unless he paid up, he would ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphStudents in Classes X and XII should be encouraged to take internships and relate classroom learning to real-life experience, the chief executive and secretary of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) told school principals on Saturday.The ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphAfter eight long, sleepless nights inside a sunken hideout in a forest in Kenya, 60-year-old Calcutta-based wildlife photographer and businessman Rajarshi Banerji finally got the shot he had been waiting for: a pride of lionesses and their cubs drinking ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphAbout 1.5 lakh of the 2.5 lakh students studying under the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) switch to other boards after Class X, the council’s chief executive and secretary, Joseph Emmanuel, told Metro on Saturday.During a ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata General Manager Subhransu Mishra on Saturday inaugurated the Purple Line tunnelling work by the second TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine), an official statement said.A launching shaft measuring 37 m in length, 22 m in width, and 17 ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphCuriosity is where learning begins, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to travel to the International Space Station, told 50,000 students across the country and abroad on Friday. He was in an online session connected to almost 1,000 classrooms. ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has said that it would protect the interests of students while evaluating the answer scripts of mathematics, following complaints that examinees struggled to answer “tough questions” within the stipulated one hour and 15 minutes. ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphRegistered Post, one of the oldest services in India’s postal history, has been discontinued.Offered as a standalone service since the British era and valued for secure and accountable delivery, Registered Post has now been merged with Speed Post, a ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphA man carrying a “gun” had sneaked close to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence on Thursday. Later, it was found to be an air gun.Police said the 51-year-old man, who had a bag in one hand and a ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphThe first pandal that students of DPS Megacity visited this year was their own. The school hosted a full-fledged Durga Puja with decorations elaborate enough to rival any neighbourhood pandal.The theme of the puja was “hands”. A huge 3D ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphPresidency University authorities have called a meeting of the review committee next month to decide on the process of screening students at the undergraduate level next year. The university, which outsourced the assignment of screening prospective students to the ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA 20-year-old woman, a second-year student at a private engineering college along EM Bypass, has alleged that she was raped by a classmate at her rented apartment in the city.The alleged incident occurred on September 26 but was reported ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphUnauthorised e-rickshaws — popularly known as totos — will have to register with the transport government and collect a temporary toto enrolment number (TTEN), the state government has decided.Moreover, the old vehicles will have to be replaced with new ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe deadline to remove all temporary hoardings put up before Durga Puja ended on Thursday, but many banners and bamboo frames from which they were hung still line the city’s roads.They are everywhere. Even right in front of the ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphLaszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian writer who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, has a unique connection to Calcutta through publisher Seagull Books.The Calcutta-based publishing house, founded in the early 1980s and known for bringing a wide range of ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA family from Rajarhat’s Block B has alleged that they were cheated out of ₹14.33 lakh by a travel agency they had hired to organise a trip to Europe.One of the accused was arrested on Thursday in East Midnapore’s ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA heavy spell of rain, accompanied by bolts of lightning, lashed the city and its fringes on Friday afternoon, flooding roads and forcing people indoors or under shelter. It marked the third consecutive day when a bright, sunny morning ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided multiple premises linked to state fire and emergency services minister and Trinamool Congress MLA Sujit Bose, as well as a bar and restaurant owned by his son, in connection with alleged recruitment ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe director of an admission consultancy on Rashbehari Avenue was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking ₹11.47 lakh from a guardian with a false promise of securing a BTech seat in a private engineering college in Salt Lake.According to ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphStudents at IEM Public School, New Town, sang and danced to agomoni songs at their Puja carnival, but their experience began with the rhythmic beats of the dhaak.“We could have played the beats on the music system, but a ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphBH Block hosted a fashion show on Panchami, but with a delightful twist. Primary school kids donned bell-bottoms and polka-dotted hairbands, and strutted to ABBA hits from the 70s while their grandmas sported sneakers and walked to Korean pop ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe opening of the GD Block puja turned out to be quite a diplomatic tightrope walk for the organisers. The residents’ association had invited the US consul general alongside the Russian consulate general, which was represented by their vice-consul.When ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphIEM Public School held a colourful puja carnival shortly before the vacations, offering students the chance to shop, play games, and perform.“Durga puja marks the beginning of the festive season, followed by Kali puja, Chhat puja, and, finally, Christmas. ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphNewtown SarbojaninThe New Town puja has done it again — it has drawn the largest crowd across the twin townships, and crowd and traffic management have also improved since the puja began four years ago.The puja’s vice-president, Anupam Jana, ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphLegendary actress Sabitri Chatterjee was the star of the inauguration at FE Block. Also felicitated with her were President’s Award-winning patachitra artist Manimala Chitrakar, from Nayagram in West Midnapore, and Bharati Mudi, a women’s football coach from Bankura. Swami ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA foot overbridge (FOB) was opened on Monday at the Sector V Metro station to allow passengers to cross the road from the Eastern Drainage Canal side to the software hub side or vice versa without having to negotiate ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphFollowing the dengue death of a 15-year-old girl from ESI housing complex, a medical camp conducted there days later has found at least one more resident testing positive.ESI complex is situated in Sector III, near Purbachal, and is occupied ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA teenage boy missing since Tuesday was found lifeless under a heap of trash in the Dum Dum dumping yard off Belgharia Expressway on Thursday, police said.According to officers, the body of 17-year-old Ganesh Samaddar was found under a ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will be closed to traffic from 5am to 9am on Saturday and from 3pm to 8pm on Sunday to allow for the repair and replacement of cables and bearings of the 33-year-old structure, police said.The closure of ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly cheating a resident of Kalyani in Nadia. The duo convinced the victim to invest in their company but failed to return the sum when the complainant asked for it, police said. ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphAstronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to journey to the International Space Station, will participate in a virtual interactive session on Friday. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is organising the event.“The Council for the Indian ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphWith less than two weeks remaining until the festival of lights, prohibited firecrackers were found in various areas of Maheshtala and Nungi, which are well-known firecracker centres in South 24-Parganas.While most traders were reluctant to discuss their stock of ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA new pacemaker, free from wires and offering fewer complications, was launched in Calcutta and implanted in patients for the first time in the city on Wednesday.The leadless dual-chamber pacemaker is a one-piece device inserted into the heart to ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA team of mental health professionals engaged with commuters at Sealdah railway station to discuss the topic of “mental health”. The travellers received a card featuring a mirror along with a message that stated: “Take care of the mind ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphThe GST on medicines came down from September 22, but prices haven’t followed suit in many cases, almost three weeks later.Most small medicine shops in Calcutta and adjoining areas — the neighbourhood pharmacies people regularly visit — are yet ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA bright and sunny Thursday morning in Calcutta hinted at change, but the clear skies didn’t last.By 1pm, dark clouds took over, and rain followed soon after. The first spell was brief but sharp, followed by intermittent showers under ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA bright and colourful fish with long fins and a large mouth, coveted by aquarists abroad but recently accorded protection under India’s wildlife laws, has whipped up a controversy.The Barca snakehead (Channa barca) — a rare and ornamental species ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old doctor from Salt Lake was allegedly cheated out of more than ₹21 lakh after being duped by two separate online investment scams. Both schemes promised high returns in stock trading but turned out to be fraudulent.The fraud ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA New Town resident was allegedly cheated out of ₹3.8 lakh by fraudsters who offered him a ₹20 lakh loan and then demanded a processing fee.Golak Mondal, the complainant, told Bidhannagar City Police that he first received a call ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphThe state pollution control board (PCB) will meet residents of large housing complexes ahead of Diwali to urge them not to throw firecrackers from terraces, a practice that remains common despite repeated awareness drives.PCB officials said only certified green ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in the Jodhpur Park market in south Calcutta on Wednesday afternoon, damaging two shops.A firefighter, aged 50, suffered from suffocation during the rescue operation. Anil Pal, who is from the Tollygunge fire brigade, was admitted ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphTwo children playing near Bagjola Canal fell into the water on Wednesday morning. One of them died.A four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy were playing along the canal at Kestopur, near VIP Road, when both slipped into the water, ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA police case has been initiated against a group of students at a private university in New Town for allegedly making racist remarks and assaulting another group of students on campus.According to police, a student lodged a complaint with ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphThe Railway Board has sanctioned the final location survey (FLS) for two major double-line projects in Bengal under the suburban sections of the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway.The approved FLS covers a 16.54km stretch between Champapukur and Hasnabad — ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphEducational institutions are making efforts to assure their students and their parents that the evaluations conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) for Classes III, V, and VIII will not influence the overall academic performance ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphOctober has entered its second week, but the city is still seeing monsoon-like conditions, with persistent showers and overcast skies making it feel more like peak monsoon in July or August.On Wednesday, a brief spell of morning sunshine gave ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA 74-year-old retired central government officer from Rajarhat was digitally “arrested” and held captive for nearly three weeks by cyber fraudsters who convinced him that he was wanted in a human trafficking case, before duping him out of ₹1.04 ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphIf one were to list the worst roads in Calcutta, Taratala Road would easily rank near the top. Stretching 6km between Taratala and Ramnagar, the road is riddled with craters, potholes, and broken surfaces, turning daily commutes into nightmarish ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA resident of Haridevpur was arrested on Sunday for allegedly selling Durga Puja carnival passes held on Red Road. The carnival on Red Road is a free event for the common populace. A few VIP passes are set aside ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old man was allegedly beaten up by a group of men near his home on Kankulia Road when he raised his voice against another two-wheeler crashing into his bike and injuring him on Sunday. According to police, Jayanta ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA resident of Rajarhat was cheated out of ₹4.5 lakh by a man who initiated contact with the victim through a WhatsApp call on Tritiya, masquerading as a bank representative and acquiring his personal details, which ultimately facilitated the ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will begin taking action against companies that fail to remove the hoardings installed before Durga Puja by Thursday, which marks the end of the deadline for their removal, an official said.The temporary hoardings, put ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral city schools are going the extra mile to ensure diversity in their classrooms, believing that its absence could hinder students’ ability to think critically, learn from each other, adapt to different environments, and grow socially.By welcoming children from ...
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