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Man turns up at Baranagar police station, admits to killing father for 'disturbing him'
A man turned up at Baranagar police station on Wednesday morning and claimed to have killed his 73-year-old father, who, he said, was "disturbing him due to age-related ailments."Police rushed to his Baranagar home and found the body of ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata weather: Fresh system to make next few days rainier in Calcutta, says Met
A fresh system is tipped to make the next few days rainier in Calcutta, the Met office has said.Some districts are likely to get heavy rain. “An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over the northwest Bay of Bengal and ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphTravellers stuck in Gulf amid chaos following Iran’s attack on US air base in Qatar
Dozens of city residents returning from abroad remain stranded at Gulf airports following Iran’s missile attack on a US air base in Qatar on Monday evening, which triggered widespread flight disruptions across the region.The crisis has also caused airfares ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphOne dead in fire at flat in Keshtopur
The former secretary to an ex-Union minister died in a fire at his Keshtopur home early on Tuesday.Sabyasachi Chakraborty, 42, lived alone. He was found in the bedroom on the ground floor of the building at AF-65 Rabindra Pally ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphRock climbing makes its way to New Town school: 30 students enroll for training
A school in New Town will train its students in rock climbing, paving the way for adventure sports among the young. The Newtown School has set up a 36x24 ft artificial wall on one of its facades, that was ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphBail for Kalyanmoy in one job scam case
Former state secondary education board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, who was arrested by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in September 2022 in connection with the alleged irregularities in recruitment to Group C posts in government-aided schools, got ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphLord Jagannath’s chariot to roll on Sukhoi-30 fighter jet tyres replacing Boeing 747
Lord Jagannath’s chariot will roll on Sukhoi-30 fighter jet tyres this year, which have replaced the Boeing 747 tyres used since 1977.The 54th edition of the Rathyatra, organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), will have another ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphCulvert plan to ease Bypass bottleneck, KMDA submits report to finance department
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has submitted a detailed project report to the state finance department for the construction of a culvert on EM Bypass near the Chingrighata intersection, adjoining Captain Bheri, to widen the carriageway.The estimated cost ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphTense hours for fliers as airlines ground planes, Iran missile attack turns horrific
The missile attack by Iran on the US airbase of Al Udeid in Qatar on Monday evening forced Gulf countries to close their airspace, causing major delays for flights to and from Calcutta and leaving numerous passengers stranded.The international ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphMamata Banerjee's books along with Rabindranath Tagore on govt's library list for schools
The school education department has sent a list of books for 2,026 government and aided schools to select from for their libraries. The list includes books authored by chief minister Mamata Banerjee.A notice issued to the district inspectors of ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphFree speech built on trust: Mehta opens talk series; conversations at a city bar
Regimes of free speech are, at their core, regimes of trust — trust between the State and its citizens, and trust among people themselves. Before protesting any attack on free speech, one must first ask: why has this trust ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphMan held captive and beaten on suspicion for ‘phone theft’ dies from his injuries
A man who was beaten up by a group of men last week on suspicion of being a mobile phone thief, died from his injuries in a city hospital on Tuesday.Police had arrested four men for the assault. They ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphCity duo recall Iran attack on US airbase: Scary night with fireballs in the Doha sky
Two city residents found themselves in the middle of a dangerous international crisis on Monday night when Iran launched a missile attack on a US airbase outside Doha in Qatar.One witnessed the barrage lighting up the night sky from ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphIIT head takes charge, charts vision: Focus on student welfare and institute image
Ensuring the well-being of students, improving the perception of the institute, and enhancing infrastructure are the priorities of Suman Chakraborty, the new full-term director of IIT Kharagpur.Chakraborty formally took over as director of the IIT on Monday afternoon, succeeding ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphDriver hired through an app flees with owner's new vehicle and sells out of state
A Calcuttan, who had hired a driver through an app, lost his new Mahindra Scorpio which was allegedly stolen by the driver and sold outside Bengal, police said on Sunday. The vehicle was resold at least thrice and its ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphTake the sting out of dengue: Stress early intervention and awareness campaigns
The arrival of the monsoon and the death of a 13-year-old girl from dengue should ring the alarm bells for municipal bodies that need to intensify vector-control drives, and communities should ensure the neighbourhoods are clean and devoid of ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphSociology department at Jadavpur University brings back entry test after protests
The sociology department at Jadavpur University, which had announced it would admit undergraduate students solely on the basis of their Plus-II board marks, has decided to reinstate its admission test.The decision came after protests by students who argued that ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphTwo schools to be equipped with Stem laboratories: Initiative to take up science
With a vision to promote science education among young girls, an organisation has undertaken an initiative to set up Stem labs in two schools. The Inner Wheel Club of Calcutta Mahanagar will set up these Stem labs that will ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphScholarship in kin’s memory reaches to as many as 24 students, a rare sight humanity
A schoolteacher who provided a scholarship to one student six years back in memory of her brother has this year handed over the same to as many as 24 students. Joeeta Basu’s brother, Joydeep Roy, passed away in April ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphTurtle species back from extinction: Captive-breeding programme in Sunderbans saves it
A captive-breeding programme in the Sunderbans has brought back from the brink of extinction a rare turtle species.Now, the challenge is to ensure that the animals thrive in the wild, said foresters associated with the project.More than 200 hatchlings ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphReach Out Star Foundation facilitates students for resilience to triumph over odds
An underprivileged girl and two visually impaired boys fought the barriers of life to emerge successful in school-leaving exams. On Monday, their battles were acknowledged on a stage that felicitated toppers of various schools.The three teenagers are toppers in ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphGroup advocates green policies, encourages individuals to act ethically with nature
A women’s network has started approaching people and corporations to take a pledge to act more responsibly towards nature, reduce waste, reuse old furniture and replenish natural resources. The Bengal chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry — Indian ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphAbout 350 traders of Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore apply for blaze compensation
About 350 traders of Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore, where a massive fire broke out on June 16, have submitted applications to the traders’ association seeking compensation for their shops that were destroyed or damaged by the blaze.The president of ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphDriver of businessman for 20 years flees with Rs 40 lakh, arrested from Bhubaneswar
A city-based businessman who collected ₹40 lakh as payments from his clients last week and kept it in his car in the custody of his driver for the past 20 years, and stepped out to visit a temple in ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphCheating racket grudge behind lynching of Behala duo, say cops, eight arrested
The group that allegedly beat up two businessmen from Rajasthan in Behala for selling fake gold to them, resulting in the death of one of the traders, had been on the lookout for the pair for months, police said.The ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphHawkers shifted from Chartered Bank Building where Amitabh Bachchan once worked
Around 30 hawkers have been relocated from the pavement outside the historic Chartered Bank Building as part of preparations to illuminate the Grade I heritage structure’s façade.The building, constructed in 1908 and located just north of Writers’ Buildings at ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphLynched over ‘fake gold’ in Behala: Businessmen from Rajasthan assaulted, one dead
Two businessmen from Rajasthan were allegedly beaten up by a mob in Behala’s Parnasree for selling them fake gold, resulting in the death of one of them, police said. The other victim is being treated at a hospital for ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphCartoonist gets second intimation from X for making objectional cartoon of Mamata
Cartoonist Manjul received a second intimation from social media platform X on Sunday on one of his six-year-old cartoons on chief minister Mamata Banerjee, citing an objection, this time from Kolkata Police. The intimation came within four days of ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphEfforts to improve lifespan of overhead structures; open spaces to be cleared of shops
The open areas under flyovers and bridges will be cleared of settlements and stalls, and fences will be built around them to prevent further attempts to “encroach” these spaces, said a state government official. Stalls or settlements of people ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphCivic teams not sighted even after death of 13-year-old girl in dengue: Residents
A day after a 13-year-old girl died of dengue, neighbours in the Dum Dum Cantonment area said they had not seen any vector control team working in the area even on Sunday. Saroni Banerjee, a Class VII student in ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphMore rain to take shape over Gangetic Bengal by middle of the week, predicts Met
The city woke up to a cloudy sky and a persistent drizzle on Sunday.It looked like the day was going to get rainier. But eventually, the rain was negligible. The cloud cover was consistent, barring a brief spell of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphBlurred vision, balance loss, slurred speech: Docs flag early stroke signs to watch for
Symptoms such as facial drooping, blurred vision, loss of balance, slurred speech, or arm numbness — even if brief and followed by recovery — should not be ignored as they may be warning signs of a stroke, doctors said ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphHostel beam crashes, close shave for two: CU to shift 75 boarders from rented unit
Calcutta University has decided to shift 75 students of a girls’ hostel on Beadon Row in the north of the city after an iron beam came off the ceiling and crashed in a room early on Friday. Many of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThree persons from Zimbabwe arrested from Mohali in Rs 1 crore investment fraud
Three persons from Zimbabwe were arrested from Mohali in Punjab on Saturday for allegedly duping a Tollygunge resident out of over ₹1 crore in an investment fraud.A team of officers from Kolkata Police arrested Tinashe Gadzikkwa Praise, 22, Malvern ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphPush for more CCTVs: Councillors use MPLADS funds routed through KMC to secure wards
From beautification and busts, to CCTVs — what councillors choose to do for their wards is changing.A councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in central Calcutta has installed over 160 CCTVs in her ward using the Members of Parliament ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphSchool education department begins vetting axed school staff seeking to return to old jobs
The school education department has asked the district inspectors (DIs) of schools to verify the credentials of sacked schoolteachers and non-teaching staff seeking to return to their former government jobs.The commissioner of the department, in a notice issued on ...
23 June 2025 Telegraph13-year-old girl from Dum Dum Cantonment, hospitalised for 10 days, dies of dengue
A 13-year-old girl from Dum Dum Cantonment, who had been hospitalised for 10 days, died of dengue on Saturday morning.Saroni Banerjee’s death certificate from the private hospital listed “septic shock and dengue shock syndrome” as the immediate cause of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata: 13-year-old girl from Dum Dum dies of dengue in private hospital
A 13-year-old girl, who was admitted to a private hospital here due to dengue, died on Saturday, a senior official of the West Bengal Health Department said The girl, identified as Sarani Bandopadhyay, was a resident of Monjendra Dutta ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphCool ride, crowded realities: Sealdah gets first AC local, commuters ask for basics first
Kolkata’s suburban train network started a new chapter on Wednesday with the arrival of its first air-conditioned local train in the Sealdah division. The 12-coach rake, which is set to run on the crowded Sealdah-Ranaghat section, promises respite from ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphCeiling collapses in Calcutta University PG hostel, no injuries reported
The ceiling of a room of the women's PG hostel of Calcutta University collapsed early on Saturday, and no one was injured in the incident, an official said.The 150-year-old hostel, located in north Kolkata's Beadon Row street, houses students ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphRajarhat lad tops state in medical entrance
He had aimed for a spot in the top 100 of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). When the NEET (UG) results came out on Saturday, the entire Sinha Chaudhuri family was delighted. “My father and I were checking the results. ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphWorld Cup glory for son, shooting range for father
If the son was busy winning medals in his first World Cup, the father was focused on putting finishing touches to the shooting range that was set to be opened within a fortnight. This was an overview of the ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphCBI arrests two men in city in connection with Rs 183-crore fraud reported in MP
The CBI arrested two men in the city, including a senior manager of a nationalised bank, on Thursday, in connection with a ₹183-crore fraud reported in Madhya Pradesh.CBI officers said three cases were lodged involving a financial fraud over ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphKharagpur man arrested for posing as govt official, using vehicle with blue beacon light
A Kharagpur resident was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posing as a government official and using a blue beacon-fitted vehicle in Behala.A traffic sergeant spotted a Maruti Suzuki Ertiga with a blue beacon at the crossing of Diamond Harbour ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphGovt nod to advertisement policy: One agency to get rights for a particular road, street
The state government has approved the proposed advertisement policy for the city, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.In the new policy, one agency will be given advertisement rights for a particular road or street, he said.A Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphCops quiz two Group C employees over May 15 violent protests on Bikash Bhavan compound
Two former Group C employees of government-aided schools were summoned to the office of Bidhannagar Police’s detective department on Friday, in connection with the violent protests on the Bikash Bhavan compound on May 15.Police said Sujoy Sardar and Pralay ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphCity girl’s pitch wins gold at Cannes Lion: 2d Animation on dying Bengaluru market
A city girl has got the gold medal in the Dreampitch section of the Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lion for her film pitch.Cannes Lion 2025, which took place from June 16 to 20 on the French Riviera, ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIllegal stay scanner on Dhakuria resident of 34 years who entered India from Bangladesh
Police have launched an investigation against a Dhakuria resident who allegedly entered India from Bangladesh without valid documents over 30 years ago, only to be discovered when he applied for an Indian passport.The Kolkata Police’s Security Control Organisation (SCO) ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphJU begins undergraduate admissions to science and arts programmes with old OBC rules
Jadavpur University started undergraduate admissions on Friday, two days after the process began at the 461 government and aided colleges through the state-run centralised admission portal.Notifications uploaded to JU’s website at 5pm for admissions to the science and arts ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphSurvival at stake after Calcutta HC stays monthly allowances to sacked school staff
Thousands of sacked Group C and Group D staff from government and aided schools in Bengal are facing financial ruin after the high court stayed the state government’s decision to provide them monthly allowances.Justice Amrita Sinha issued the interim ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphRammohun statue, park for AA Block
A statue of Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled on June 15 at the edge of Salt Lake, in AA Block. The lifesize statue has been installed in a newly developed patch of greenery.“This space used to be dirty, but ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphMani Square turns 17 with cake for all; actor Sean Banerjee is star guest
The city’s second mall turned 17 on Sunday and the celebration weighed 190lbs. That was the weight of the birthday cake that the bakery team at JW Marriott had baked for Mani Square.“It’s a chocolate and caramel cake with ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphNKDA slaps notice on 3 New Town nursing homes
In continuation of its recent drive against unauthorised use of residential property, the Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has directed three nursing homes operating from residential premises in New Town to immediately stop operation.“During inspections, these establishments failed to ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphFire audits at KMC-run markets, teams to file status reports
The civic body will assess firefighting preparedness in markets under it.In a letter to the chief manager of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s market department, the mayoral council member in charge of markets, Amiruddin (Bobby), has instructed that separate teams ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThree decades of flavour
The year was 1996. The Kankurgachhi-Salt Lake stretch was a far cry from the hep hub it is now and folks wanting to dine out had no option but to head to Park Street. Subrata Das’s family owned a ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphUse old OBC reservation norms, HC tells Kolkata Municipal Corporation
The high court on Thursday allowed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to stick to the pre-2010 OBC reservation norms while recruiting sub-assistants.The high court had on Tuesday ordered an interim stay on the Bengal government’s June 8 notification classifying 140 ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphRs 1.71 crore lost in fraud scheme: City businessman falls prey to profit promise
A city businessman has been cheated out of ₹1.71 crore after he was lured into an investment scheme that promised lucrative returns.Initially, businessman Vivekananda Ghosh, a resident of Siddha Pines on Rajarhat Main Road, made a profit of around ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphMine owner from Bankura cheated out of Rs 1.5 crore by two ED imposters
A mine owner from Bankura has filed a complaint of extortion of ₹1.5 crore against two men who claimed to be officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and were allegedly threatening to arrest him under a false case, police ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphPolls for teachers’ representatives at Rani Birla Girls’ College stalled amid ‘threats’
An election scheduled for Thursday at Rani Birla Girls’ College to choose teachers’ representatives to the governing body was cancelled after some government-nominated governing body members allegedly threatened the principal for attempting to go ahead with the vote, several ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphNo more birthday candy, school cuts kids’ sugar intake: ICSE council health push
In a bid to reduce sugar consumption among children, La Martiniere for Girls will no longer allow students to distribute chocolates, candies or cakes on birthdays.The decision follows a June 9 circular from the Council for the Indian School ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphParents in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport rue lack of baby strollers
The lack of baby strollers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is causing significant inconvenience to travelling parents, highlighting a service gap compared to other major airports both in India and abroad that have long provided this basic ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University alumnus appointed as the full-term director at IIT Kharagpur
Suman Chakraborty, a professor at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Kharagpur and an alumnus of Jadavpur University, has been appointed as the full-term director of IIT Kharagpur.The post of a full-term director at IIT Kharagpur was vacant after ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphSocial media platform X asked by West Bengal Police to take down old cartoons with CM
The West Bengal Police have issued a takedown notice to social media platform X, claiming that two posts by cartoonist Manjul from six years ago violate Indian law.Both cartoons featured Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.X has informed Manjul of ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphGST fraud: Identity thieves on the prowl, poor duped into setting up shell companies
A group which is active across the state has been passing on credentials of unsuspecting low-income group individuals, mostly from remote corners, to individuals who would allegedly use the data in setting up shell companies to evade tax, including ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphKidderpore fire: KMC hands over an initial payment of Rs 10,000 now, rest post survey
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to hand over an initial payment of ₹10,000 to the affected traders of Kidderpore’s Orphangunge Market. The civic body will also survey to segregate the shops that were fully gutted from the ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphOdisha cop training in disaster management found dead in Hindustan Park rented house
A constable of Odisha Police, who came to the city with a group of police personnel for a training in disaster management, was found hanging in the house that the group rented in Hindustan Park on Tuesday evening.A purported ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphCurbs on Santosh Mitra Square puja: No light and sound show, laser display outside pandal
Organisers have been asked not to hold any light and sound show, laser display or any other event inside or outside the Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal, police have said in a letter sent on Tuesday.The number of ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphAwareness drive on cataract surgeries: Doctors say it's curable, urge timely intervention
Cataract is fully curable and almost everyone gets it as they age, an ophthalmologist said during an awareness campaign on cataract surgeries. Early intervention has multiple benefits, it can prevent complications and make surgery easier.An early surgery means one ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta HC: Transgender ID valid document for passport, says ruling in landmark case
The high court on Wednesday directed passport authorities to consider a trans woman’s transgender identity card as a valid document while processing her passport application.The Calcutta-based trans woman has allegedly been denied a passport for over a year despite ...
19 June 2025 Telegraph2,000 axed teachers want old jobs back, fresh SSC tests scheduled for September
As many as 2,000 dismissed secondary and higher secondary teachers applied to the state education department by Wednesday evening, seeking reinstatement in their former government posts.The Supreme Court’s April 3 order, which scrapped 25,753 teacher and non-teaching jobs in ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphRs 16cr gene therapy hope for 16-month-old: Parents raise Rs 9cr for rare disease
A 16-month-old girl with a rare genetic disorder received a ₹16-crore medicine at a city hospital on Tuesday.The child’s parents raised ₹9 crore through crowdfunding, following which the US-based manufacturer of the medicine shipped it to the city. A ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata weather: Rainy days ahead, rise in intensity next week, says Met office
A low-pressure area became stronger as it moved from Bengal to Jharkhand on Wednesday, triggering persistent showers across the state.The Met office recorded around 12mm of rain in Alipore between 5.30pm on Tuesday and 5.30pm on Wednesday. The consistent ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphScanner on KMC markets after Orphangunge fire exposes poor safety in crowded city hubs
Several markets run by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) lack fire safety measures, risking the lives of the shop owners there as well as thousands of people who visit these markets every day. Dangerously hanging wires, often intertwined with ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphBengal Assembly amends Clinical Establishment Act, aims for transparent hospital bills
The Bengal Assembly on Tuesday amended the Clinical Establishment Act with the aim to bring in more transparency in billing by private hospitals and also making it mandatory for hospitals to display the package rates on their premises as ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta-based trans woman in high court over passport denial despite certificate and ID
A trans woman based in Calcutta has allegedly been denied a passport for over a year despite holding a transgender certificate and identity card. Anuprabha Das Mazumder was allegedly told by the regional passport office in Calcutta that the ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphElderly couple and their son found dead in rented apartment in Kasba, police begin probe
An elderly couple and their son were found dead in their rented apartment in Kasba on Tuesday evening. Police identified the couple as Sarajit Bhattacharya, 70, his wife Gargi, 68, and their son Ayushman, 38.Sarajit was a real estate ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata weather: Monsoon finally reaches city after a week's delay with uniform rainfall
Monsoon set foot in Calcutta on Tuesday, a week behind schedule and was accompanied by uniform rainfall and consistent overcast conditions. “The Southwest Monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of north Bengal, and it has advanced over ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphKMC hands over compensation forms to traders of fire-ravaged Kidderpore Market
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) handed over compensation forms to the traders of fire-ravaged Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore on Tuesday.A fire broke out at the market in Kidderpore early on Monday, gutting hundreds of shops. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphKidderpore Market blaze: Lack of fire safety tools exposes violations
Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore where a fire broke out early on Monday, reducing hundreds of shops to ashes, did not have any firefighting mechanism in place.The market has been under the custody of the state government and the Kolkata ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphDesun Hospital partners with autism therapy pioneer to launch ABA-based care in Kolkata
Desun Hospital has partnered with Bengaluru-based Behaviour Momentum India (BMI) to launch Eastern India’s first hospital-integrated autism care centre based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), a globally recognised standard in autism intervention.Announced on World Autistic Pride Day 2025, the ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphKalighat stabbing: Accused arrested
A Kalighat resident, accused of allegedly stabbing a man to death during an argument over dumping construction waste at Beninandan Street last week, was arrested on Monday. The accused, Ashesh Sarkar alias Piklu, had been on the run since ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphMet predicts more rain ahead of monsoon, city to witness a good amount of shower
The city spent another overcast day with a few spells of rain.The Met office stuck to its earlier forecast of the likely onset of the monsoon later this week, accompanied by uniform and widespread rain.“The monsoon is likely to ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphKidderpore fire: Hundreds of shops gutted in Orphangunge, market reduced to ashes
A fire broke out at Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore early on Monday, gutting hundreds of shops and reducing the market to ashes.There were no reports of anyone being trapped or injured, but hundreds of traders lost their shops and ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphTragedy prompts Public Swimming Pool closure: Drowning death exposes deficiencies
The Public Swimming Pool at Rabindra Sarobar will remain closed for at least seven days following the drowning death of a 16-year-old boy on Sunday, officials said on Monday.Kolkata Police ordered the closure after Shivam Kumar Singh, a teenager ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphJU arts trio drop entry exams, class 12 results to be in focus for admission process
Three departments in Jadavpur University’s arts faculty have made a shift in their admission process. The sociology, philosophy, and Sanskrit departments will now admit students based entirely on Class XII board marks, abandoning the entrance tests they previously used.Until ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphExplain doctor posting policy, HC tells state; medics' call out against 'vindictiveness'
A single-judge bench of the high court on Monday directed the state government to inform the court the criteria used for posting junior doctors in hospitals. The order came while hearing a petition filed by three junior doctors challenging ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphCough, cold, fever spell sweeps city, doctors warn elderly, vulnerable to stay cautious
Many people in and around the city are suffering from fever and related symptoms, such as body ache and throat and chest congestion.A doctor at Medical College Kolkata said around 12 to 13 per cent of patients coming to ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphYoung shooters aim beyond bullseye at 10th West Bengal Inter School Shooting Championship
When a 14-year-old girl says she doesn’t focus on the target but on “a good shot”, most people would assume she is talking about exam scores and grades.But across schools, a growing number of students are taking a shot ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphNo lifeguards, no life belts at Public Swimming Pool at Rabindra Sarobar: KMDA admits
Every swimming pool should have lifeguards stationed along the edges to monitor swimmers and respond if anyone is in distress. There should also be life belts at hand to throw into the water during emergencies, experts said.The Public Swimming ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphHe couldn’t swim: Kin files case against staff as boy from Burdwan drowns at Sarobar
A teenager from Burdwan, who was visiting a relative at Ballygunge Place, drowned in a pool at Rabindra Sarobar on Sunday morning, police said.Shivam Kumar Singh, 16, was pulled out of the water around 45 minutes after he went ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphRooftop hearings to resume after the state government approves a draft SOP: Firhad Hakim
The hearings on alleged lapses of rooftop restaurants, pubs and lounges will resume after the state government approves a draft SOP that a committee formed to review the fire safety mechanisms in hotels, restaurants and public places will prepare, ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphPassenger loses right leg after being hit by a train at Dum Dum on Friday morning
A passenger had his right leg severed and an RPF constable was injured in the head after being hit by a train at Dum Dum on Friday morning.Jagadish Chandra Sarkar and constable Karuna Kumari were taken to RG Kar ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata weather: Monsoon to enter south Bengal between June 16 and 18, says Met
Monsoon is likely to set foot in south Bengal between June 16 and 18, said Met officials.“Latest meteorological analysis indicates that conditions are favourable for further advancement of Southwest monsoon over some more parts of Odisha during the next ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphStabbed to death in Kalighat over dispute on clearing construction waste from building
A row over clearing construction waste from a building undergoing repairs took an ugly turn when a man overseeing the repairs was allegedly stabbed to death in Kalighat on Friday. The alleged killer is missing.The victim, Soumen Ghara, 35, ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu shut: Early morning traffic bound for Howrah bridge takes the hit
Early morning traffic bound for Howrah bridge crawled along Strand Road on the first day of traffic diversion put in place for repairs of Vidyasagar Setu.A section of motorists who drove down Strand Road on Friday complained of congestion ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphFive teachers on hunger strike to demand fresh hiring process to be put on hold
Five sacked schoolteachers started a hunger strike late on Thursday, demanding that the process of submitting applications for a fresh hiring process for teachers be put on hold.The application window opens on June 16 and closes on July 14.The ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphDip in travel to US amid increased scrutiny of visa applications by Trump administration
Increased scrutiny of visa applications by the Donald Trump administration has led to a decline in leisure and student travel from India to the US, a representative of the global airline body IATA said in the city on Friday.“The ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA costly high
How can adolescents be kept away from drugs? The answer lies not in scare tactics but in sensitive handling — and in equipping those closest to them with the right tools. With this in mind, The Newtown School hosted ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphScholar-turned-administrator, with Tagore as life support
Biswajiban Majumdar was always a consensus candidate — universally respected and hence acceptable to all quarters.As the former chairman of Bidhannagar Municipality lay in everlasting repose in his BJ Block house on June 5, visitors cutting across party lines ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphEid prayers return to NKDA playground
The Eid-ul-Zoha congregational prayers were held on Saturday morning at the DF Block NKDA playground in Action Area 1, near the New Town police station. The open-air venue, which had earlier hosted Eid-ul-Fitr prayers this year, witnessed approximately 1,050 ...
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