Visva-Bharati mourned the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, crediting him with paving the way for Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan to receive the Unesco World Heritage tag in September last year.Visva-Bharati authorities —past and present — said Singh, during ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has asked the lighting department officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to prepare a roster of engineers who will go around the city after sundown to spot stretches without lights or adequate illumination.Hakim asked the mayoral ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe 12th session of the Indian National Congress began on this day and continued till December 31.The session was presided over by Rahimtulla M. Sayani, who was from Bombay (Mumbai). His presidential address was praised by a contemporary journal, ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphManmohan Singh was the chief guest at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence in 2003, nine months before he became Prime Minister.Singh had arrived 45 minutes before the event was scheduled to start and was apologetic for having landed ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) partly cleaned up the Maidan on Thursday after hundreds of revellers spent Christmas Day there and it was full of litter.While the stretch of the Maidan along Casuarina Avenue was cleared of filth, ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe fire that gutted rows of shanties under Durgapur bridge in New Alipore last Saturday also damaged the bridge’s health, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday.The state government has barred the movement of heavy vehicles on the bridge ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphAn elusive tigress that has been on a multiple-district expedition in Bengal after an Odyssean trail through Odisha and Jharkhand has had this state riveted for over a week.Away from the spotlight, two fishermen from the Sunderbans have been ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe portraits are among those displayed at an exhibition that was inaugurated at Netaji Bhavan on Thursday. The exhibition was opened on the 94th birth anniversary of Krishna Bose, academic, social worker and three-time parliamentarian and wife of Sisir ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOver 11,000 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for various traffic violations.Among them, 100 motorists were prosecuted for drink driving, police said.Last year 103 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for drink driving.On Christmas Eve this year, 62 motorists ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) to continue their sit-in at Esplanade till December 31 after the doctors’ body petitioned the court seeking an extension of the December ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from the city, carried this advertisement, along with news of World War II. The advertisement said:MISS SULEKHA RAY M.A., B.T., Ex-EXAMINER & LADY PRINCIPAL (Assisted by Other M.A.s ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphSmaller fair, fewer stalls but Bidhannagar Mela (Utsav), at Central Park, is worth a visit.The last edition featured 620 stalls, but this time there are fewer than 500, with several of even these lying vacant. A notable absence is ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA resident of Duttapukur in North 24-Parganas has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the racket that obtained passports for ineligible candidates using forged documents. Moktar Alam, 42, a resident of Chhoto Jagulia in Duttapukur, was arrested from ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphWater wastage goes unchecked because of the lack of public conversation around it, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee said at the culmination of the Santiniketan chapter of the Bengal Biennale on Sunday. “I think we need to have many ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) has written to Kolkata Police for permission to continue their ongoing sit-in at Esplanade beyond Thursday, the last day of the protest as mentioned in Calcutta High Court’s orders.The police have turned down ...
26 December 2024 Telegraph5.25pm: The crowd bursts onto Park Street as police stop vehicles from entering the road.Since early afternoon on Wednesday, the pavements had been teeming with people.By 5.25pm, the numbers had swelled so much that it had become impossible to ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas revellers painted the city red on Wednesday, thronging parks, museums and eateries.The weather was not ideal for outdoor activities. The sky was gloomy and some pockets received a drizzle or two. But the revellers, many of them with ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has sought an explanation from the state government about why a committee set up to work towards the conservation of trams has not met since January.The bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphMost of these and several other photographs, some taken nearly 100 years ago, of heads of states, Nobel laureates and politicians, which were in the archives of the Calcutta airport, are now on display at the terminal.The exhibition of ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court rejected the bail petition of former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former officials in connection with the alleged irregularities in recruitments in state-aided schools on the ground that the allegations are “very serious”.Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphA group of college students played Santa Claus to underprivileged children.Besides handing out gifts, the students from the department of journalism and mass communication of Women’s College, Calcutta, in Bagbazar, also shared valuable lessons with the children, stressing the ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphMore than 54,000 motorists have been prosecuted for traffic violations in the city in the past five days, police said on Tuesday. Around 5,000 of them were motorcyclists riding without helmets and more than 8,000 were fined for violating ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe track-laying work in the Bowbazar section of East-West Metro has been completed, the agency building the corridor said on Tuesday. The two-kilometre stretch between Esplanade and Sealdah stations is the only unfinished part of East-West Metro (Blue Line), ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphPark Street was bustling with people out to soak in the spirit of Christmas Eve. With the footpaths already taken over, a pedestrian channel carved out of the road was teeming with revellers.A drizzle from around 8.15pm was a ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court judge on Tuesday advised the parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim to seek a clarification from the division bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam on whether the single-judge bench could hear their plea ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphJadavpur University (JU) went ahead with its convocation and held the ceremony on Tuesday, braving alleged last-minute attempts by the governor to slam the brakes on the proceedings. A senior teacher at the university said governor C.V. Ananda Bose, ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphBritish administrator and historian Robert Orme was born on this day in Travancore state. His father was a physician in India.Orme was a member of the Council at Fort St George, Madras (now Chennai), in the 1750s. He suggested ...
26 December 2024 Telegraph“Christmas is for giving/And for showing that we care,/For honouring the Christ Child/With the loving gifts we share./The wise men gave of riches;/The shepherds, faith and love./Each gift, in its own measure,/Was smiled on from above.”Parade by Iris W. ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose wrote to the Jadavpur University vice-chancellor on Monday that the explanation he gave for going ahead with the annual convocation, scheduled for December 24, “is unacceptable”. Bhaskar Gupta, JU’s “authorised” (interim) VC, went to Raj ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphKolkata Metro General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy on Tuesday conducted a trolley inspection of the Esplanade-Sealdah section of the East-West corridor, which was nearing completion after multiple incidents of subsidence.The East-West corridor or the Green Line will connect ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphA single bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed parents of the RG Kar hospital victim to seek clarification from the bench of the Chief Justice whether it can hear their petition seeking further probe in the ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphFour law students were allegedly caught cheating during the All India Bar Council Examination at a centre in Narkeldanga on Sunday.Police said they had smuggled their mobile phones into the examination hall.All four are students of law. They would ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphA report related to the RG Kar rape and murder and attributed to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, which was in circulation among doctors on Monday, mentioned the detailed findings of the forensic examination on the victim. The report ...
25 December 2024 TelegraphSuspected terrorist Javed Munshi, who is wanted in Jammu and Kashmir, had planned to sneak into Bangladesh through the Sunderbans, sources in the Bengal police said on Monday. Munshi, who was arrested in Canning on Saturday night and is ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphThe state fire and emergency services department has requested police to cordon off a sizeable area around a blaze site so firefighters can work without getting attacked by large groups of people, officials said.The fire department and the police ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphChurches in the city are decked out with Christmas lights and trees. Many churches will have a midnight mass, followed by the service on December 25.Some churches are making arrangements to accommodate large crowds that visit on Christmas Eve ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday demolished over 30 temporary shelters that were allegedly occupying a portion of Ramesh Dutta Street in the Beadon Street area.The drive triggered protests. Those whose homes were demolished went to the home ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA BCom third-year student at a city college died after his motorcycle rammed into a footpath railing in Beleghata on Sunday night.Roshan Singh, a resident of 44A/H/1 Chaulpatty Road, was riding his two-wheeler at a high speed when he ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the number of people allowed at the sit-in by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) be reduced to 100 from the earlier limit of 250 set by a ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the ship Hindostan, which had sailed from Liverpool to Bengal several times, was wrecked near Omoa in Honduras. The ship, launched in Liverpool in 1817, made its first trips under a British East India Company licence. ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA car rammed into a bus that braked suddenly in front of it to avoid hitting another bus it was racing on the airport-bound flank of VIP Road near the Haldirams’ intersection on Monday afternoon, police said.The two buses ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphVehicles will not be allowed on Park Street “as and when required” on Christmas (Wednesday), police have said in a traffic advisory. On Christmas Eve (Tuesday), several curbs will be in place and two-way traffic will not be allowed ...
24 December 2024 TelegraphA minimally invasive surgical procedure to replace the heart’s aortic valve is becoming popular among elderly patients at private hospitals, cardiologists said.The high-cost factor, however, has stalled its large-scale implementation in government hospitals, doctors pointed out.The procedure, called transcatheter ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe future will need more job creators and, for that, one has to create an entrepreneurial mindset, said the South Asia head of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. His advice was against depending entirely on the government to create ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphTwo youths died after the motorcycle they were riding crashed into the parapet of the Parama flyover and they were flung on the road below on Sunday morning. Police said it appeared the motorcycle was moving at a high ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphStudents at a government-sponsored school in Santoshpur are making jewellery from waste materials. The idea is to creatively engage the students and keep them away from browsing mobile phones at all times, said Sarbani Sen, the headmistress of the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphA college student wants to visit Metiabruz to witness first-hand the legacy of a king hitherto confined to a few passages in a history textbook.A visit to a jail museum made another student indebted to freedom fighters who did ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThere is a pressing need to increase the number of cadaveric organ donations in Bengal, doctors said at a conference in the city on Sunday. Cadaveric donations or deceased donations in Bengal are lagging behind many other states in ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) will light candles at their sit-in protest in Esplanade on Christmas Eve and call the day “Droher Borodin” (Christmas of Protest), a member of the platform said on Sunday. The doctors’ platform will ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphCalcuttans breathed a bit cleaner air on Sunday compared with other winter days as rain on Saturday resulted in a “satisfactory” pollution index at all seven air quality monitoring stations in the city.A state pollution control board (PCB) scientist ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe clouds are gone and Christmas revelry has set in.As the sky cleared on Sunday, people flocked to parks and museums across the city. The eateries and watering holes, on Park Street and elsewhere, did brisk business.Places like the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a group of revolutionaries from Bengal and Punjab, led by Rash Behari Bose, attempted to assassinate Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, in Delhi.A homemade bomb was hurled at Lord Hardinge and his wife, Lady Hardinge, ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphTwo persons were killed on Sunday after they fell from a flyover when their motorcycle rammed into its guard wall in the metropolis, police said. The duo was heading to Park Circus from Chingrighata area at high speed when the ...
23 December 2024 TelegraphThe 210-year-old Indian Museum’s administrative building has suffered “significant structural damage to the roof slab on its second floor, rendering the area unsafe for occupants”, according to a report by IIT Madras.Other portions of the heritage structure, according to ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphWhen the Tirupati temple administration, the Tirupati Tirumalai Devasthanams (TTD), decided to sort the ancient coins from its collection because of lack of storage space in the treasury in 2011, one of the numismatic experts who were consulted was ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphHundreds of people, homeless after a fire ravaged rows of shanties in Topsia on Friday, spent Saturday scouring through ashes looking for whatever they could retrieve.Men in groups returned to the charred remains of their houses and ran fingers ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA fire gutted rows of shanties beneath Durgapur bridge in New Alipore on Saturday evening.The leaping flames next to a busy thoroughfare forced the army — which has a camp nearby on New Alipore Road — to join hands ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA forum of senior doctors began its sit-in at Esplanade late on Friday night, hours after Calcutta High Court conditionally allowed its plea for permission.On an overcast and, often wet, Saturday, the number of people at the Joint Platform ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe centenary celebrations of Calcutta airport were marked by the pressing need for more international flights.A veteran member of Parliament who represents the constituency that includes the airport was among the speakers at the celebrations of Netaji Subhas Chandra ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe La Martiniere schools wanted their buildings removed from the list of Calcutta’s Grade I heritage edifices.The state heritage commission rejected the demand at a meeting on Friday.A letter from the La Martieniere schools, dated December 20, urged the ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA Brahmo leader, nationalist and poet Ananda Chandra Mitra passed away on this date. He taught in Mymensingh for several years and worked for the Calcutta municipality in his later life. He came under the influence of Shivanath Shashtri ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe three men have not just overcome their disability and financial constraints but also pursued their passion, cricket.The three, and some others, are members of the West Bengal Cricket Association for the Differently Abled team. Most have locomotor disability. ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphISKCON Kolkata on Saturday condemned the 'murder' of a Hindu priest allegedly by Bangladeshi extremists at a cremation ground temple in Natore and accused the neighbouring country's interim government of failing to protect religious minorities, who continue to face ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphAn exhibition on the legacy of woodcut prints is underway at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, titled Tribute to Bat-tala: The Tradition of Bat-tala & Other Practices by the Printmakers.It focuses on a tradition originating in the ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe secretary of the West Bengal Pradesh Trinamool Youth Congress, Tarun Tiwary, was arrested on Friday in connection with a complaint of extortion and kidnap filed against him.On Friday, the party suspended him for his “anti-party activities” and barred ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphPrinsep Ghat, a Palladian porch on the east bank of the Hooghly erected to commemorate the English polymath James Prinsep, served as the gateway to the city from the time it was constructed in 1843 till about the 1920s.Visitors ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA set of bones and a skull were found in a portion of an old mortuary at Beleghata Infectious Diseases (ID) Hospital by a group of workers engaged in demolishing the structure on Friday afternoon, police said.Workers who found ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University met the Bengal governor on Friday and explained to him that the university held the meeting of its executive council sufficiently in advance to hold the convocation.VC Bhaskar Gupta met governor C.V. Ananda Bose, ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphEminent writer, critic and philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayyub passed away on this day.He was born in an Urdu-speaking family in Calcutta. As a teenager, he read Tagore’s Gitanjali prose in Urdu and was inspired to learn Bengali. He studied ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe family of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital wants the high court to “expand the scope of the investigation” and include the “other accused” within the purview of the case. “We ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Friday imposed multiple restrictions on the sit-in demonstration by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) at Esplanade, including those related to the strength of the assembly, size of the zone to be cordoned off and ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphA major fire, which broke out in a slum at Topsia area in east Kolkata on Friday afternoon, reduced a significant portion of the shanty town, comprising nearly 150 dwellings, to ashes, an official said.Fifteen fire tenders were pressed ...
22 December 2024 TelegraphTwo alleged arms dealers were arrested in West Bengal's Kolkata after two 9 mm automatic pistols and ammunition were seized from their possession, police said on Friday.The two, identified as Rahish Kumar and Meeraj Mallik, both hailing from Bihar's ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday gave a verbal nod to a plea by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) for a sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue on “Chowringhee Road” till December 26.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, who passed the ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said a country like India, which has so many states and languages, cannot follow the doctrine of “ek mat, ek path (one faith, one path)”.Rather, the principle India should follow is “jato mat, ...
21 December 2024 TelegraphSanta Claus brought festive joy to a group of children undergoing cancer treatment in New Town, visiting them with music, gifts, and good wishes.On Wednesday, a Christmas carnival was organised at Premashraya, a residential facility for cancer patients undergoing ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe chancellor and founder of IEM-UEM Group, Satyajit Chakrabarti, passed away at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 77.Born on July 12, 1947, in Calcutta, Chakrabarti earned his BTech in mechanical engineering from the Regional Engineering College (now ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA woman filed a complaint of extortion and kidnapping against three men, including a Trinamool Congress youth leader, on Thursday. The woman, is a resident of Howrah and her family runs a business in Posta, the police said. According ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA doctor from north Calcutta discovered that a namesake had used his medical registration number to get a government job and was practising in at least four hospitals using his identity.Based on a complaint from the doctor, Sunil Shaw, ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced the renaming of the British-era 'Short Street' in central Kolkata after the 16th-century Catholic missionary St Francis Xavier.Banerjee made the announcement to rechristen the street to 'St Francis Xavier Sarani' ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal governor, who is the chancellor of state-aided universities, including Jadavpur University, has sought an explanation from the JU vice-chancellor for holding a meeting of the university’s executive council to discuss the annual convocation on December 24.The council ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA system from Pakistan moving towards the Northeast and another over the Bay of Bengal will work together to make the next two days cloudy and rainy in Calcutta and other parts of south Bengal, the Met office has ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphTwo persons from Murshidabad who were allegedly part of a terror module spread across the country and involved in a plot to kill leaders in Bengal have been arrested, police said.The men, who the police said were operating at ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphPark Street will be closed to vehicles on Christmas Eve and Christmas, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at the inauguration of Kolkata Christmas Festival 2024 at Allen Park on Thursday evening. “On (December) 24 and 25, no cars will ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim moved Calcutta High Court on Thursday expressing “dissatisfaction” at the CBI probe and seeking a re-investigation of the case. “We are not satisfied with the way the CBI is ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a detailed report on a devastating cyclone that had hit Bengal appeared in The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times. The cyclone hit the state on November 1, a reminder of another devastating cyclone on October ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA newly formed residents’ body has sent a mail to the chief minister asking for Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to be split, such that Salt Lake once again has a civic body entirely to itself instead of sharing one with ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe fair season is well and truly upon us. While Bidhannagar Mela has started earlier in the week in Salt Lake, Saras Mela will be inaugurated today in New Town.The New Town fair ground will host around 300 stalls, ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe year’s second Bidhannagar Mela (Utsav) started on Tuesday. With less than 500 stalls, 60 kiosks and 88 dalas, the fair will continue till January 6. The earlier edition had taken place from February 20 to March 12 and ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThis year North Calcutta Kennel Club conducted what was perhaps their most successful show in their 28-year-old history.“We set a record of sorts,” said secretary Pallab Saha. “We usually get between 250 and 300 registrations but this time we ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphAgniswar Misra Ganguli was once working on his science project when his cat Putkuli came and sat on it. “It’s no big deal. We have four cats and they often do such things out of affection,” says the sixth ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Airports Authority of India (AAI) has lined up a series of initiatives, including release of a commemorative stamp, a coin and memorabilia to celebrate 100 years of Kolkata's NSCBI Airport. A pocket-friendly eatery, named “UDAN Yatri Cafe” ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA team of bikers and support staff from the Tibetan Youth Congress, an organisation of Tibetans in exile, is touring India to raise awareness about Tibet’s plight. Calcutta was the fifth stop for the 15-member team, which will be ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA section of tram enthusiasts will gather at Esplanade on Christmas Eve to invite Calcuttans to come together and demand the restoration of tram services — and tramlines.The four-hour event, beginning around noon, has been named Save Our Trams.It ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA residential facility for individuals with autism has launched a livelihood project to make young adults employable.They are trained to make such items that can be sold commercially, making them financially independent.The objective of the skill training project is ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case on Thursday that might determine whether the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal’s government-aided schools was valid.On April 22, a Calcutta High Court division bench cancelled the ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe port trust has agreed to start shore protection work along the Hooghly, mayor Firhad Hakim said after a meeting with the port authorities on Wednesday that discussed the erosion of the riverbank in Calcutta. The bank of ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphJohn Lang, an Australian lawyer, editor and writer, who had appeared for the Rani of Jhansi against the British East India Company, was born on this day. Born in Sydney, he qualified as a barrister from England. He returned ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphThe city police on Wednesday allowed an association of doctors and others a two-hour window to protest on the RK Kar issue in Y-channel in Esplanade.A petition by the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) challenging the police’s decision to ...
20 December 2024 TelegraphA man who allegedly forged identity documents that were used to obtain passports was arrested on Wednesday as part of a racket busted recently. With the arrest of Dipankar Das, a resident of Haridevpur, the arrest figure in the ...
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