The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to relax the mandatory open space requirement for buildings coming up on thika, bustee and colony land of plot sizes of no more than 3 cottahs in the hope that it will ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphStudents of Jadavpur University marched with a fresh set of demands on Friday. These included the release of a former JU student arrested on charges of arson on the campus and the appointment of a full-term vice-chancellor.The protesters, who ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphJamini Roy was once most famous for creating portraits. Life-like portraits, very unlike the almond-shaped eyed faces we are used to. He also was penniless for several years of his career and refused to meet Mahatma Gandhi when he ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphPrasun Dey, arrested for killing three of his family members at his Tangra home, told the court on Thursday that he wanted to admit his crime before a magistrate. Prasun, the younger of the two brothers who survived a ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA Kenyan black panther, whose local name means “beautiful darkness”, was clicked by a Calcuttan in the dead of the night a year ago.The big cat had just climbed a tree to defend a fresh kill from a leopard, ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA storm is brewing once again over New Town’s Greenwood Nest. The complex was in the news last year when more than 150 residents fell ill and some 50 of them got hospitalised with water-borne diseases. Residents fought tooth-and-nail ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe Babu Culture chain of Bengali restaurants turns three on March 15 and the celebrations begin from Salt Lake. The CF Block outlet will be the first to launch a new menu on March 10, followed by the other ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA spate of suicides in New Town has triggered a group of residents to come together to help those in need of a hand or a shoulder. Last Sunday, 18 of them met at a CD Block residence to ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphAn agent who helped Somnath Roy, who along with his family was found dead in their Kasba home, secure a loan from a nationalised bank for a commission and was allegedly demanding more money, has been arrested for abetting ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA man who worked in the back office of a south Calcutta jewellery store has been arrested for allegedly stealing gold ornaments worth ₹1.5 crore, police said.The accused, Sashibhushan Shah, had left his rented home and gone to his ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphJust when March was giving summer vibes, the Celsius is in reverse gear in Calcutta.The Met office recorded a maximum temperature of 28.8 degrees Celsius in Alipore on Thursday. It was almost four notches below normal. The last time ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Left-backed Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) has opposed a call by a section of students to “boycott” pro-Trinamul teachers.The Left and ultra-Left students decided to boycott classes of Om Prakash Mishra and Manojit Mandal, two prominent pro-Trinamul figures ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA criminal case has been lodged against education minister Bratya Basu and others based on a complaint lodged by Jadavpur University student Indranuj Roy, who was allegedly hit by the minister’s car during unrest on the campus on March ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphVehicles headed for EM Bypass and taking the Parama flyover at night will have to use the Park Circus Connector from midnight till 5am as the Parama-bound flank of the flyover will be closed for repair and replacement of ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphAt least three reported incidents have sent shockwaves through Kolkata and swivelled the spotlight on suicide prevention. In east-central Kolkata’s Tangra, two women and a teenage girl were found dead at their home on February 19. The accounts of ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe murder of vice-chancellor Gopal Chandra Sen on the Jadavpur University campus by suspected Naxalites is haunting the family of the incumbent acting vice-chancellor of the varsity, the VC’s wife said on Wednesday.Sen was beaten and stabbed to death ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA 76-year-old resident of Lake Town was held hostage by a cyber gang over the phone for two days and was forced to transfer ₹11 lakh to their bank accounts with threats to arrest her.The gang members claimed that ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphUS investment giant Blackstone is close to clinching a deal to purchase Calcutta's iconic South City Mall, for as much as $400 million (Rs 3,480 crore), marking one of the biggest Indian mall acquisitions.Citing people with knowledge of the ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor was admitted to hospital on a day students had set a 4pm deadline for him to come to the campus and accept their demands, which included filing an FIR against the education minister whose car ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphPradip Ghoshal and his wife Nilima were arrested by the Kasba police on Wednesday in the mysterious deaths of a family of three.The three, auto-rickshaw driver Somnath Roy, his wife, Sumitra, and their toddler, Rudranil, were found hanging ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphCommercial services of East-West Metro (Green Line) will be suspended on March 8 and 9 (Saturday and Sunday) to expedite the trial of the signalling system, the carrier said on Tuesday. The services will close earlier than usual on ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at the city airport’s security check-in counters, would earlier ask passengers to put objectionable items on the tray before they were scanned. Now, they name specific items like knives and lighters to ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphEleven assistant commissioners of police who have risen through the ranks of Kolkata Police have been elevated to the rank of deputy commissioner as part of a recent state government policy to promote seasoned investigating officers to assist the ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThe preliminary post-mortem of Somnath Roy and his family revealed that he and his wife Sumitra committed suicide while their two-and-a-half-year-old son was smothered to death. The couple was found hanging at their Kasba home on Tuesday. The child ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThree men robbed ₹15 lakh from an office on the fourth floor of a multi-storey building in a congested Burrabazar locality on Monday evening, police said.A scan of the footage from CCTV cameras in front of the robbed office ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphProtests at Jadavpur University continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, with students demanding action against alleged assaults on their peers and set a 4 pm deadline for vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta to address their grievances.The agitating students warned ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphA national enumeration has found that Bengal is home to 815 river dolphins.The Population of River Dolphins in India 2024 estimated India's dolphin population at 6,327, spread across eight states and three riverine ecosystems — the Ganga, the Brahmaputra, ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThe “long overdue” repairs of the battered and broken roads of Bidhannagar started on Monday. The repairs must be completed within a little over a month. On Monday, work started on a stretch near Nayapatti in Ward 28. It ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the three members of the family from Tangra who was arrested on Monday has told police he killed his only daughter before killing his wife and attempting suicide.Prasun Dey, 43, who was produced before a court on ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe mother and daughter who were caught trying to dispose of a body in a trolley bag at the Ahiritola Ghat last week were taken to their Madhyamgram home for reconstruction of the crime.A bonti, a fish knife, suspected ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphSome Jadavpur University teachers in a meeting with the vice-chancellor on Tuesday proposed that the varsity authorities file an FIR asking police to probe how a student got hit by the education minister’s car on March 1.Several teachers’ associations ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA couple struggling to pay off their debts and their little child were found hanging at their Kasba home on Tuesday morning, police said.Preliminary police inquiry suggests that they killed their two-and-a-half-year-old son and hanged themselves. The father was ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphBengal education minister Bratya Basu, whose car allegedly hit a Jadavpur University student who is now in hospital, called the parents of the boy on Monday evening and expressed his regret at the turn of events.Basu told Indranuj Roy’s ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphFinding a cab Kolkata on weekday mornings can be a bit like the Indian share markets in the time of Donald Trump. On some days, there’s a cab two minutes from your location, and on others it is like ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe first paper of the state higher secondary examinations was conducted without “any disruption” across 2,100 centres, the higher secondary council said on Monday. At least three students’ organisations had called for a students’ strike on Monday in the ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA family of three, including a three-and-half-year-old boy, were found hanging at their home in Haltu’s Purbapally on Tuesday morning.The Kasba police suspect the 40-year old Somnath Roy, an auto-rickshaw driver, had killed the child, Rudranil, before ending his ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Railway announced a complete traffic block on the East West Metro Corridor (Green Line) on March 8 and 9 for the testing of the Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) System. The East West Metro Corridor runs from ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Monday summoned 11 police personnel who were posted at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital outpost on August 9 last year in connection with the rape and murder of the third-year postgraduate trainee in the ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA section of hawkers from the New Market area will gherao the New Market police station on Friday to exert pressure on the police to act against hawkers setting up stalls on roads. Two hawker leaders, also members of ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphSome of the teachers who were a part of the convention that education minister Bratya Basu went to attend at Jadavpur University on March 1 told a news conference on Monday that the assault on the minister was a ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has clubbed a PIL on Saturday’s violence at Jadavpur University with an ongoing case demanding students’ union elections in colleges and universities, stalled for at least five years.Saturday’s violence at JU left education minister Bratya Basu ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA huge portion of the content we encounter on social media could be fake or AI-generated (Artificial Intelligence), cops specialising in cyber crime told participants of a workshop on Monday.The above-mentioned links, photographs and videos are fake, the officers ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the two brothers who survived a car crash on EM Bypass on February 19 and whose statements led to the discovery of three dead women at their Tangra home was discharged from NRS Medical College and Hospital ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphActivists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and Students Federation of India on Monday organised rallies in Kolkata over the March 1 incident in Jadavpur University in which Education Minister Bratya Basu was heckled during a protest and two ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government has spent Rs 12,000 crore for the Swasthya Sathi scheme and that it has brought a revolution in the health sector, but the reality at private hospitals in Kolkata ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA conference on urological cancers, where experts from India and Europe discussed advancements in treatment, was held in the city last month. The European Association of Urology and the Urological Society of India held the conference in association with ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe traders of New Market have written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) requesting the authorities to keep the roads around the market, now heavily encroached by hawkers, free ahead of Eid, a time of the year when a ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphWater meters were installed in many parts of Calcutta; they served important lessons but were not of much benefit beyond that.Civic engineers told Metro the meters showed that many households were wasting water. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) could ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphActivists of the CPI(M)'s student wing SFI gathered on university campuses across West Bengal on Monday morning to enforce a strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Bratya Basu.Two students were injured when a car in the convoy of ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA recent study has offered a “breakthrough” in the fight against fruit flies, formidable pests considered among the biggest threats to fruits and vegetables.Researchers have, for the first time, sequenced specific gene regions from a set of fruit fly ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA 1951 purple Hillman Minx turned heads at the Victoria Memorial. A classic black 1968 Mercedes Benz 230S zipped past Birla Temple in Ballygunge.Twenty vintage vehicles charmed motorists and pedestrians on the city's roads on Sunday. Guiding the men ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphCharred objects lay strewn on Sunday inside and outside the office of the Trinamool-backed non-teaching employees’ union at Jadavpur University, following alleged vandalism and arson by students the evening before.Members of the ultra-left Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) are accused ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphSocial media is abuzz with calls for protests lined up on Monday in connection with the alleged violence at Jadavpur University on Saturday.Monday is the first day of the Higher Secondary exams this year.On eve of the exam, Kolkata ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphTwo students of Jadavpur University who were injured in Saturday’s commotion on the campus were “stable” on Sunday and one of them was discharged, said an official of KPC Medical College and Hospital, where they were admitted.Indranuj Roy, the ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphFive large water bodies, portions of which have been encroached, are being cleaned up.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken up the project to demarcate the water bodies, dredge them, increase their capacity and clean them.A tree-lined embankment will ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphLoreto House was being painted when a teacher stopped the work on one wall of a Class IV classroom. Uma Ahmad wanted her students to paint the wall, and they did so with scenes from Indian and world history. ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA 53-year-old man and his 22-year-old daughter who had autism were found hanging from an iron hook of a ceiling fan in Parnasree on the city’s southern fringes on Friday evening.Sajan Das and Srija had left their home in ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur will review the decision to show-cause 85 teachers who had been served notices in late November last year for being signatories to a representation seeking revocation of disciplinary proceedings against four office-bearers of the teachers’ association. IIT ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphCommuters caught in a blockade for nearly two hours around Jadavpur police station on Saturday evening challenged some Left supporters who had taken over the arterial thoroughfare as if it was their right.“Eta ki hochchhey (What’s this?) Why are ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphStudents, teachers and ordinary citizens expressed anguish at how a minister’s car ignored students who could be under its wheels and drove through.One of the students clinging to state education minister Bratya Basu’s car in protest at Jadavpur University ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA forest patch in Bankura that developed over the years has emerged as a sanctuary for elephants and a model that forest officials want to replicate across south Bengal to mitigate the human-jumbo conflict.A herd of 68 elephants has ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu, who went to Jadavpur University to attend a programme conducted by Trinamool Congress-backed teachers on Saturday, was mobbed and barracked and allegedly assaulted by Left-leaning students upset with the state for not allowing campus elections.The ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the two brothers who survived a car crash on EM Bypass early on February 19 has admitted to having killed his wife and sister-in-law, police sources said on Friday.A senior Kolkata Police officer said Prasun Dey, the ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphPresident Dorupadi Murmu has declined their request for a meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not responded. But the parents of the doctor raped and murdered while on duty at the state-run RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata last ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphBodies of a businessman and his 22-year-old daughter were found hanging inside his shop in south Kolkata’s Behala area, police said on Saturday.The businessman, a resident of Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district, had been suffering from mental distress ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday asked the Bengal government to file an affidavit on a public interest litigation that has objected to the use of blue and white colours on kerbstones and guard rails on the city’s roads.The bench ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start repairing battered roads in 14 of its 41 wards from March 3Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose said the work “will be completed in a month or a maximum of 10 more days”. The ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphA man riding a scooter was crushed to death on Vidyasagar Setu by a rogue truck that came from behind, hit him and fled, leaving the man to die, early on Friday.Manoj Shaw, 46, was riding pillion on his ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphA group of young men broke into a sought-after wealth adviser’s client list and offered advice to them using his investment tips otherwise meant for paying subscribers.Three men have been arrested from Pilani in Rajasthan, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. At ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA Kathmandu-bound Qatar Airways flight carrying Nepal Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba was diverted to Kolkata on Friday after failing to land at the Tribhuvan International Airport due to bad weather.Deuba, 63, was returning home on a regular flight ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphMousumi Chakravarty is one busy lady. She is a music teacher, social worker, runs an activity centre, a boutique, and still finds time to grow a stellar garden. She has seasonal flowers like Dahlias and Petunias, vegetables like Cabbage ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur Research Park in New Town has just opened a studio in its lobby. Besides being equipped to record videos and podcasts, it is a sight to behold, having come up inside an indoor garden of sorts.The ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe festival is called Magic of Chopsticks but spoon and fork will work just fine to savour the Oriental dishes that are being served at Pride Plaza in New Town till March 9.Chef Harish Chandra, an Asian cuisine specialist, ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe head of a government-aided school in Behala and several teachers were detained on Thursday night by students who would not be allowed to write their Class XI second semester examination for not reaching the required attendance mark.The protests ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA call centre that was allegedly selling household articles, making them look like antiques using a chemical coating, was busted in Bidhannagar on Wednesday, police said. One person, identified the arrested person as Hemanta Sarkar, has been arrested. An ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) submitted to the Supreme Court in mid-February that 5,303 candidates were allegedly appointed illegally as teaching and non-teaching staff in secondary and higher secondary sections of government-aided schools, the commission chief said on Thursday.The ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA car turned turtle near Nicco Park on Thursday morning after the owner driving the Mahindra XUV 400 dozed off for a few seconds, police said.The 28-year-old young businessman, who was at the wheel, escaped unhurt, the police said. ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday imposed an interim stay on a drive by the railways to demolish “unauthorised structures” at Serampore railway station.The structures are a series of stalls on both sides of the approach road to the station. ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA ticket counter at Bandel station of Howrah division was allegedly vandalised by a group of men on Thursday afternoon. The men also allegedly assaulted a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable. Two men have been arrested so far, said ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe rape and murder of a 14-year-old has triggered the Bidhannagar Commissionerate into bolstering the CCTV coverage of three zones under its purview. As part of the initiative, over 100 cameras are being installed at strategic areas across Salt ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe two women who were caught carrying a body in a trolley bag at the Ahiritola Ghat on Tuesday claimed innocence at the Barasat court on Thursday.Their lawyers told the court that the women were innocent and there was ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe gold chain snatched from a homemaker in Dhakuria was recovered from a goldsmith in Netajinagar on Thursday.Police said the chain had been sold to a small jewellery store in Naktala after being stolen. The shop owner has also ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphAn elderly woman who needed cash to buy medicines was allegedly deceived at an ATM by a fellow user who managed to replace her debit card with another one.Alakananda Sengupta, a retired schoolteacher, lost ₹1,51,000.The 62-year-old went to withdraw ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old man has been arrested in Gujarat for allegedly duping a 76-year-old retired Air Force officer in New Town of ₹1.7 crore by placing him under the fear of a “digital arrest”.The septuagenarian was detained over a video ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital met CBI director Praveen Sood in New Delhi on Thursday afternoon and they were told to “have patience”.Stepping out of the CBI headquarters, ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphPranay Dey’s 14-year-old son has claimed his uncle Prasun tried to smother him with a pillow at their Tangra home on February 18 but he survived by holding his breath and playing dead, a child rights body has said.Officials ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphDid you know that common ailments like frozen shoulder, headache, gastric, period pain, cramps, migraines, and sciatica can be healed with needles? Acupuncture, the ancient Chinese healing method is now practised at CA Block’s Healing Touch, and the institute ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council will deploy secondary school teachers to evaluate Higher Secondary answer scripts because schools do not have enough Plus II teachers to be appointed as examiners.At present, there is a recruitment freeze in schools.Earlier, teachers ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphCommuters were inconvenienced on Thursday as around 7,000 app cabs and a few thousand app bikes went off city roads in the morning to press for their demand of hiking fares by the aggregators concerned.The 12-hour shutdown called by ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar police have arrested one person running a fake call centre that sold fake antiques to gullible customers.This is the second illegal call centre to have been found operational in and around Kolkata in three days.Hemanta Sarkar, the ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year are travelling to Delhi to meet CBI director Praveen Sood. The parents said they were expecting to meet ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE’s plan to conduct board exams twice a year could prolong the stress for students and eat into the schools’ teaching time, several principals said. The Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) has proposed two Class X board exams ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphWhile the city basks in the afterglow of hosting its first Comic Con last weekend, a city comics fan has paid tribute to a 99-year-old Marathi cartoonist who has achieved a unique feat.The Pune-based Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, who is ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphStudents appearing for the state Higher Secondary examinations must enter their centres an hour before the start.The examinations start at 10am. The Class XII school leaving examinations start on March 3 and will continue till March 18.The early-arrival notice ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday show-caused a chief manager who scrapped a holiday earmarked for Viswakarma Puja and extended the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays in schools run by the civic body.The civic body cancelled the “memorandum” issued by the official ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphA man was found unconscious on the road near Technicians’ Studio in Tollygunge in the early hours of Wednesday. He was bleeding from the head and a helmet lay nearby.He was declared dead on arrival at MR Bangur Hospital, ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThirteen girls and a woman, all of them from Bengal, were rescued from West Champaran district in Bihar between the night of February 20 and the morning of February 21, police said.The 13 girls, who should have been in ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphChildren should be encouraged to be active smartphone or device users instead of passive consumers, said an associate professor of Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway.The professor, who is an early childhood education and care mentor, while speaking at a ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphA group that allegedly activated SIM cards in the names of real people without their knowledge or consent and sold them to cyber fraudsters has been identified and arrested.Kolkata Police have arrested eight people so far in connection with ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphPolice have revealed that Arati Ghosh and her daughter Falguni, who were caught carrying a dead body in a trolley bag at Ahiritola Ghat on Tuesday, purchased the suitcase from Burrabazar specifically for disposing of the victim’s remains.Contrary to ...
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