The ship Lady Castlereagh was launched on this day. In its first six voyages, which it made for the British East India Company, it sailed between the Downs in England and Saugor (Sagar), Bengal.On its seventh voyage, which was ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphA tiger is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in the Sunderbans and reached the threshold of a human habitat.Pugmarks of what looked like a big cat were spotted on a muddy road that leads to Kishorimohanpur ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphCharges were framed on Tuesday against 47 people and companies accused of irregularities in recruitment for state-aided schools. The trial in the case, which has been investigated by the Enforcement Directorate, is likely to start on January 14, the ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphBus drivers, who are responsible for over 35 per cent of road accidents, should be sent to attend short courses on traffic awareness at regular intervals, police told a group of bus and minibus owners on Tuesday.The police had ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe tiger that is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in the Sunderbans and reached the doorstep of a village continued to elude foresters on Tuesday.The big cat was pitted against a team of over 70 forest ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphCharges were framed on Monday against former education minister Partha Chatterjee and several other accused in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment in government-aided schools.They have been charged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The Enforcement Directorate has ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Monday that several governments and aided schools did not have enough students, so the government planned to merge some of them.“There are several schools that don’t have students. We are conducting a PTR ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA man has been arrested for allegedly cheating and blackmailing another man posing as a woman on a dating app, police said. The accused allegedly used cosmetics and wigs to look like a woman while talking to his victim ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA US-based charity has announced a donation of $34,000 (around ₹29 lakh) to its sister organisation in India to sponsor a nursing student’s studies, build outreach centres and establish a distress fund for patients. The founder and president of ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided to recruit over 450 drivers and 350 conductors to address the shortage of personnel to run government buses.These recruitments will be contractual and the candidates will be paid a consolidated amount after their selection ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphGovernment buses awaiting maintenance and lying in garages will be made roadworthy at the earliest to boost the city’s public transport, officials said. The move comes within four days of chief minister Mamata Banerjee slamming the transport department for ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA 65-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in her room on the first floor of a two-storey residential building in Garfa early on Monday, police said. Wrapped in a blanket, Baby Mandal was asleep when the fire ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Robert Kiernander, son of John Zachariah Kiernander, Swedish Lutheran missionary in Bengal, wrote a letter to his missionary friends in Halle, Germany.It said he had just printed an English almanac at a small English press that ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, one of Indian Museum’s major attractions, has been temporarily shifted from its usual display space in the first-floor Egyptian gallery.The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) is renovating the Egyptian gallery. Work is expected to be ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe Technology Students’ Gymkhana (TSG), the official students’ body at IIT Kharagpur, has said many students have expressed concern that BC Roy Technology Hospital on the campus is “ill-equipped to handle trauma cases”.Among the respondents in a survey conducted ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College will introduce a multi-disciplinary course for undergraduate students in wetlands ecology and conservation.Principal Father Dominic Savio said the one-semester course — aimed at protecting the wetlands to the east of Calcutta, the Sunderbans and the lower ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphAround 60 flights were delayed at the Kolkata airport on Monday due to poor visibility, an official said.Due to dense fog, low visibility procedures (LVP) had to be implemented at the airport from 7 am, the official said.According to ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphIndia’s growth rate makes good headlines but the fine print throws up several concerns, said economist Kaushik Basu. “The overall growth picture, the headline, it is fine. But once you go below the headline, there are many, many worries ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are seeing a rise in the number of children with symptoms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and some of the institutions are trying to introduce tools in classrooms to address the issue.Principals said children in pre-primary ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphFirst came a monitor lizard that ran for its life. Seconds later, a deer mom and her fawn did an encore. Cue enough for a forest guide on a watchtower to alert a group of visitors. For the next ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphMany people are down with fever, cold and cough and other respiratory ailments, doctors said.A large number of people are suffering from upper respiratory tract congestion caused by air pollution, which increases during winter. A spike in air pollution ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA hint of chill and the mild winter sun on Sunday together provided the ideal condition for outdoor activities.The result — weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta were teeming with visitors.Around 2pm, traffic policemen near Science City were having ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphEvery year on January 6, the Armenian church in Calcutta has been celebrating Christmas. In the year 336, the church in Rome began to celebrate Christmas on December 25 during the reign of Emperor Constantine. Till then, Christmas would ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, a meeting of the residents of Calcutta was held at the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Governor-General in Council or the Legislative Council of India, to repeal the press regulation passed in ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day Samir Uddin and Shivram Majhi of Talpukur village in Dinajpur district were gunned down by the police. They are believed to be the first martyrs of the Tebhaga movement. Samir Uddin was a Muslim and Shivram ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphAn artist and a research scholar from Nadia will receive an award instituted to honour individuals who bridge the worlds of art and journalism.Labani Jangi, who hails from Dhubulia in Nadia district, will receive the TM Krishna-PARI Award 2024.The ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphSaturday is likely to be the last day of the trial in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case and the verdict may be announced on the next date, which has yet to be announced. In its final submission on Thursday, ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA bishop gobbled up a pawn. A queen lunged at a horse. Two kings crossed swords.The generals marshalling the troops were short of eyesight but not of smart moves. On Saturday, several visually impaired chess players took part in ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphVehicles heading to EM Bypass along the AJC Bose Road flyover between 10pm and 6am will be diverted to the Park Circus seven-point crossing instead of being allowed onto the Parama flyover for 15 days beginning Sunday.The diversion will ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA free clinic for marginalised people was inaugurated in Mullick Bazar on Saturday. It operates out of the ground floor of a building on North Range Road.On day one, around 50 people, mostly from the slums of Ward 61 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has to “reach out” to its former students in a “sincere and structured way” if it intends to scale up the quantum of cooperation from former students, many said on the occasion of JU’s first-ever Alumni Day. ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA retired Kolkata Police sub-inspector, Abdul Hai, was arrested late on Friday for allegedly clearing passport applications without proper enquiry and adequate verification.The 61-year-old officer retired a year ago and was attached to the passport section of the police’s ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool minister and a BJP MP exchanged verbal volleys stalling traffic on the Vidyasagar Setu around 9pm on Friday and accusing each other of throwing their weight around and misbehaviour.The altercation between the BJP’s Tamluk MP, former Calcutta ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe air quality turned “poor” in four out of seven monitoring stations in Calcutta and “very poor” in four out of five stations in Howrah on Saturday as temperatures dipped.A scientist with the state pollution control board (PCB) said ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim submitted a petition before the Sealdah court on Saturday demanding “highest punishment” for the accused and sought “further investigation” to punish others who may be involved in the crime.The closing arguments ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphIn a groundbreaking achievement, Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC), Kolkata, has successfully performed a Robotic Radical Nephrectomy on a 66-year-old male patient with a rare congenital anomaly known as "Crossed Fused Ectopic Kidney." The condition, documented in fewer than 10 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan, lured by cheats into investing in what he thought were stocks, was duped out of ₹1.78 crore, police said.Three persons have been arrested in this connection, the police said.The cheats allegedly pretended to be providing him guidance ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) on Friday evening decided to retain all the contractual employees who had been laid off on December 31, bringing the three-day agitation against the lay-offs to an end, an official of the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA whale found on a beach near the southernmost tip of Bengal on Thursday morning was released into the Bay of Bengal early on Friday, said forest officials.Shifting the 15ft whale, weighing at least several hundred kilos, involved over ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphAsutosh College has appealed to Calcutta University to defer the first-semester internal examination because students who got admitted late did not have enough time to prepare.Some other colleges have also expressed concern about the lack of preparation time because ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA city with a glorious past is now in decay.A short walk around what used to be Calcutta’s most spectacular pocket, Dalhousie Square, reveals a sad story of neglect, lawlessness and lack of love for the rich legacy the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphBangladeshis who have come to Calcutta for treatment said they had not faced any problem finding accommodation or receiving treatment in the city.A Hindu family from Bangladesh said they counted on their Muslim neighbours who promised to protect them ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphWestern Carriers India Ltd (WCIL), a Kolkata-based logistics firm, has secured a material handling order worth Rs 139 crore from Vedanta Ltd, the company said on Friday.The order entails an import, finished goods domestic and export material handling contract ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSushanta Ghosh, Trinamul councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s ward 108 and chairman of borough XII, survived three attempts on his life between July and November last year.Dulal Sarkar, Trinamul councillor from Malda’s Englishbazar Municipality, fell to bullets of bike-borne ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA government-sponsored Bengali-medium school in Santoshpur has been training its students to communicate in English which would help them in the future.Communicative English classes are held twice weekly for Classes V to IX and XI at Santoshpur Rishi Aurobindo ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked police to find out the reason for the frequent traffic snarls on Vidyasagar Setu and come up with a solution.“Second Hooghly Bridge-e (Vidyasagar Setu) ghontar por ghonta lokey dnariye thaakey (commuters are ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius plunged to 13.2 degrees on Thursday from 17.6 on Monday, as cold northwesterly winds tightened their grip on the city.The minimum temperature was a notch below normal. At 21.6 degrees, the maximum was almost four notches below ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the state transport minister on Thursday for not having enough buses on the roads and said the department had turned “silent”, suggesting that it had stopped doing its job.She instructed the minister, Snehasis Chakraborty, ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday scrapped the state primary education board’s decision to introduce a semester system in government-aided schools (Classes I to V) this year because it would increase the study load.The chief minister slammed the education ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSir Proby Thomas Cautley, who had planned and supervised the construction of the Ganges Canal, was born on this day. The Ganges Canal is the canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers.He ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphHere is news that is sure to bring some respite to residents who are fretting over the increasing commercialisation of their neighbourhood.The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to come down heavily upon illegal commercial use of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphOne of the most common ways to celebrate the festive season is by putting up lights. The Corporation, however, is sending out a message that this cannot be done at the cost of harming trees.Lights that were entwined around ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphRobotics has entered the orthopedic surgery operation theatre at Techno India Dama Hospital on the Bypass on the back of a digital surgery platform developed by Johnson & Johnson MedTech. The hospital has acquired a VELYS robotic surgery unit ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants and cafes witnessed more than 20 per cent increase in table occupancy during the Christmas-New Year week compared to the corresponding period last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will observe its first Alumni Day on January 4 to foster its bond with former students so the fundraising drive, which has been modest so far, can be scaled up.The university, encountering a funds crunch, has invited ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphContractual workers of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) in Jadavpur started an indefinite demonstration on Wednesday to protest against the institute’s decision to lay off 51 of them.The protesters, many of whom have been working as lab ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA 64-year-old man was allegedly assaulted after he protested felling of trees at a park in Kasba on Wednesday morning, police said. The complainant has alleged that it was an attempt by local Trinamool Congress activists to occupy the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA bronze statue of a girl child clutching a notebook was unveiled at The BSS School on Wednesday.As it stepped into its 75th year on January 1, the school in Gariahat installed the statue to highlight the transformative “power ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA college student has been arrested for the alleged rape of a former classmate in another friend’s house. The alleged incident is said to have happened on December 21 and was reported to police on December 31. Police arrested ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA will written on this day by an affluent Jewish merchant residing in the city indicates some presence of the community in Calcutta. The merchant, Joseph Israil Levy, left to his daughter Abigail 1,000 pounds in the custody of ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphBiryani evokes varied reactions among people. Some love it, some could “die for it”, some debate and some research.It is not enough just to partake of the delicately flavoured rice and meat but to understand its origins and etymology, ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA trader from North 24-Parganas brought his family to Eco Park.A couple in New Alipore who could not spend New Year’s Eve with their son took him out for shopping and dinner on Wednesday. New Year revelry had many ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphAnother new year has come but many things in Calcutta have not changed in many years. On Day I of 2025, many Calcuttans listed for this newspaper things they would want to change in the city they call home.They ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRabindra Ghosh, the lawyer for Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, will miss Thursday’s court appearance due to hospitalisation, and instead, two of his junior lawyers along with 18 other legal representatives will handle the case.Ghosh, who has been ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) ended its sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue at Esplanade on Tuesday. JPD members, who had earlier spoken about extending their sit-in beyond December 31, said they would intensify their protests and ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe temperature of the concrete under the Durgapur Bridge in Chetla had gone up significantly on December 21 when a fire gutted shanties under the bridge, sources in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said. The heat damaged the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphIt’s one-legged and carries the children it steals to treetops, from where it drops them. Another is diminutive and is the harbinger of wealth if it lingers in a house. Yet another appears as a phosphoric glow over a ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRevellers flooded streets and trooped into pubs and restaurants as the city bade farewell to 2024 and welcomed the New Year.Since afternoon, Park Street and its adjoining roads had been teeming with year-end revellers.The weather — a drop in ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphMore than 7,000 motorists were prosecuted across Calcutta for violating traffic signals and over 4,500 were penalised for driving two-wheelers without wearing a helmet between December 27 and 30, figures released by Kolkata Police showed.The figures showed that prosecutions ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTwo buses racing along a busy road in Ultadanga left a pedestrian critically injured and triggered a mob fury on Tuesday morning, police said.The accident happened at the crossing of Muraripukur Road and Ultadanga Main Road, near Telengabagan, around ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphAny ride on the last Metro between Kavi Subhash (New Garia) and Dum Dum in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) will cost an extra ₹10 from New Year’s Day.From January 1, a passenger must pay a fixed “surcharge” of ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTigress Zeenat left the Alipore zoo on Tuesday night for Similipal in Odisha, the same forest she had escaped on December 5 and went on a month-long odyssey covering three states before being captured in Bankura on Sunday.She was ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphDrug regulatory authorities have seized from a wholesale premises facility in Calcutta large quantities of suspected spurious medicines, including purported anti-cancer and anti-diabetes drugs labelled as manufactured in other countries, the health ministry said on Tuesday.A joint investigation by ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphWalter Savage Landor Dickens, the fourth child of British novelist Charles Dickens, died on this day in Calcutta. He was in the British Indian army.Walter had shown an inclination towards writing early in life, but his father did not ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphA group of women from Hooghly district was arrested on Sunday for allegedly running a racket that targeted people on buses and in autorickshaws by posing as fellow passengers and robbing them. Being women, police said they would attract ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, who Kolkata Police have summoned in connection with the case of extortion calls made from the MLA hostel on Kyd Street, has sought “a little more time” to appear before the cops. Nikhil ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphA combination of climatic changes and a lack of sediment flow is playing havoc with the ecology of the Sunderbans, experts said during a meeting at Jadavpur University recently.They said the region needs innovative funding support to sustain its ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe process of framing charges in connection with the alleged government school jobs scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was stalled on Monday as one of the accused, Sujay Krishna Bhadra, lost consciousness inside the jail before ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral CBSE schools are in the process of finalising the dates of the Class XII practical examination in consultation with teachers of other schools who would be their external examiners. Some schools have already fixed the schedule.CBSE (Central Board ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphStar Theatre in Hatibagan will be renamed Binodini Theatre after Binodini Dasi, the first celebrated actress of Bengali theatre who quit acting in her early 20s but had earned enormous popularity by then, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe outgoing director of IIT Kharagpur said on Monday that he had failed to execute some projects during his tenure.“I would like to speak about my failures. We wanted to open a campus in Malaysia but we failed for ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants witnessed around 10-15 per cent increase in table occupancy during the December 24-30 period compared to last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Eastern India said on Monday, adding ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral changes are being brought in the police verification process for issuing passports to ensure no illegal immigrants can obtain an Indian passport, Rajeev Kumar, Bengal’s director general of police, said on Sunday.Kumar said the passport application-verification process would ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is about bonhomie, camaraderie, and inclusiveness, said officials of several organisations who tried to make the festival special and engaging. Before the school closed for the winter, Mahadevi Birla World Academy students went to a home run by ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphIn Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Jibito O Mrito (The living and the dead), a woman presumed dead comes back, but no one, including herself at times, believes that she is alive. In the end, she jumps into a pond ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe All-India Muslim League was founded on this day in Dhaka to protect the interests of Indian Muslims.Following the opposition to the Partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a Hindu protest in a major way, the Nawab of ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe diversity in the Indian kitchen, made up of influences from all over the world, is the subject of a 2025 calendar made by three Calcuttans.An introductory note to the monthly pages says the Indian kitchen is a “diverse ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of the racket that used to produce fake identity documents to get Indian passports for foreigners was arrested from Gaighata in North 24-Parganas early on Sunday, police said. Manoj Gupta, a resident of Thakurpukur, was wanted ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe last Sunday of 2024 had the weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta teeming with visitors.The chill was missing but the clear sky played a near-perfect ally to Sunday revelry.The traffic on New Town’s Major Arterial Road was clogged ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA charity organisation, promoting awareness against non-communicable diseases (NCD), has released a slogan that screening of blood pressure and blood sugar should start from the 20s.The slogan: “Screen for NCD by Twenty/Add healthy years, a plenty” was released at ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo bridges in the city that the authorities had initially planned to dismantle because of safety concerns are now being retrofitted with steel support and given a fresh lease of life.The Baghajatin Railway overbridge, from which chunks of concrete ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphSecurity was strengthened in Kolkata ahead of New Year's Day following the arrest of two Bangladeshi infiltrators from the heart of the city, Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma said.Addressing a press conference, Verma said the police were surveilling the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national was arrested from Park Street area of the metropolis for allegedly residing in the country illegally, procuring fake identity cards, police said.The person, a native of Narail in Bangladesh, was apprehended from Collins Lane on Thursday ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the state primary education board to oversee the task of reviewing if some of the questions set in the (teachers’ eligibility test) TET 2021 and 2022 were wrong. The president of the state primary ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have summoned BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, Nikhil Ranjan Dey, in connection with the alleged extortion call made by men who were lodged inside a guest room of the MLA hostel on Kyd Street which was allegedly booked ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphFormer students of Jadavpur University’s two departments — civil and electrical engineering — collaborated to set up two state-of-the-art labs that the university could not afford on its own. The 1999 batch of JU’s civil engineering department raised ₹23.15 ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is a time to exchange greetings of peace, joy, love and hope, said the archbishop of Calcutta, Reverend Thomas D’Souza, on Saturday evening.Christmas is not just an external celebration but about coming together and creating an inclusive society ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo-wheelers will be allowed to ply on the Parama flyover throughout the day and the restrictions at night that were earlier in place have been withdrawn, police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday.The decision was taken to ease the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe city police on Friday announced restrictions on the movement of vehicles on some of the major thoroughfares of the city on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year.Vehicles will be allowed to head towards ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Calcutta Trades Association, which would later become Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, was granted recognition as the first public body with powers to address the government directly, says the chamber of commerce website.On January 18, 1883, the ...
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