On this day the ship Phoenix, records show, reached Kedgeree (Khejuri in East Midnapore) on an East India Company chartered voyage.It had sailed from England, bound for Madras (Chennai) and Bengal.In 1822, it sailed from Portsmouth in England carrying ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Publishers and Booksellers Guild is a private organisation entitled to decide the allocation of stalls at the Kolkata Book Fair, a lawyer for the guild told Calcutta High Court on Monday.Justice Amrita Sinha was hearing a petition filed ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Dakshineswar-Ballyghat flank of Vivekananda Setu, or Bally bridge, will remain closed for 100 hours (around four days) from midnight on January 23 until 4am on January 27 for the dismantling of some girders, the state government said in ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphIf the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at a hospital cannot qualify as “a rarest of rare crime”, what else can, junior doctors asked on Monday, vowing to continue with their protests and the legal fight till ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphHe turned left to his lawyer and right to the judge. That movement continued for 25 minutes as the lawyer argued why he should not be hanged and the judge peppered her with questions.At the Sealdah court, Sanjay Roy ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphArguments and counter-arguments at the Sealdah court that preceded the sentencing of Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case on Monday.Rarest of rare, say CBI lawyersIn their final submission, the CBI lawyers called the rape and ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police civic volunteer convicted of raping and killing a junior doctor on duty at the RG Kar hospital in August last year was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment till death by a Calcutta court on Monday. Sanjay ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphOnce Chhot, a sleek, V-shaped boat, cut through the waters of the Rupnarayan river and would go bravely forward to meet the choppy waters of the sea. Then one day the Damodar Valley Project happened and dams were built ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphA city hospital has installed an advanced system of interventional therapy that doctors said offers superior precision, better access and reduced radiation exposure.Interventional therapy is a minimally invasive treatment that delivers a therapeutic agent directly to the site of ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphThey lack resources. They lack the comforts of life. But they do not lack dreams.A school where most children come from downtrodden families celebrated its annual day concert at Mahajati Sadan on Sunday. On its sidelines, several students, some ...
21 January 2025 TelegraphFinally, we have a verdict in the case of the rape and murder of the RG Kar doctor. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer of Kolkata Police who the city force had arrested on August 10, a day after the ...
20 January 2025 TelegraphThe verdict in the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, an atrocity that had churned Bengal society and politics and grabbed national spotlight, was delivered on Saturday with the ...
20 January 2025 TelegraphThe father of the slain medic said on Saturday they were happy that the Sealdah court had flagged the lapses of police and those at the helm at RG Kar hospital when the heinous crime took place on August ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphSaturday’s verdict in the RG Kar case did not mean closure, junior doctors said outside the Sealdah court on Saturday. They would still want to know about the “larger conspiracy” and “destruction of evidence” that the CBI had earlier ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThis was the second and final day of the “Grand Match of Cricket” held in the city between Old Etonians and the Rest of Calcutta.The Old Etonians defeated the Calcuttans convincingly, by an innings and 80 runs. The Old ...
19 January 2025 Telegraph‘Do not cross the line’, said a yellow tape slung across the door to the seminar hall in the Emergency building where the young doctor was found raped and killed on August 9 last year.At 2.30pm on Saturday, a ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA packed Sealdah courtroom presented scenes rare in the city’s recent criminal records. Metro chronicles what we saw and heard.Fans, pleaseThe verdict was due at 2.30pm. The court of the additional district and sessions judge was packed by noon.The ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe trial concluded in less than two months and in that time, 50 witnesses deposed against the lone accused in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, Sanjay Roy.The CBI said it was confident about Saturday’s outcome. Their confidence, more than ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court judge on Friday asked the Publishers and Booksellers Guild to submit an affidavit by Monday stating whether it was ready to allot a stall to the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) in the Calcutta Book Fair ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphPolice have submitted a “split” chargesheet before the Alipore court against six people accused in the attempted shooting on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh.They have been charged under several sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, including attempt to ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphWater supply in large swathes of south Calcutta that get their daily quota from the Garden Reach treatment plant will be suspended after 9am on Saturday for repairs.Normal supply will resume at 6am on Sunday.Kalighat, Kasba, Tollygunge, Chetla, Golf ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the terrace of a six-storeyed building on Hungerford Street on Friday afternoon, sparking panic among residents who rushed out of their apartments.Police had to divert traffic to facilitate fire fighting in a pocket of ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphGovernment medical colleges have seen several changes since the RG Kar rape and murder on August 9 but promises of many more are yet to be fulfilled. Hospitals are still refusing patients and a central referral system, which junior ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA Malaysian melting pot, which is a popular holiday destination, is now looking to welcome more Indians.Penang, located around 300km north of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, is wooing Indians with direct air connectivity and visa exemption, besides ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphAn advertisement printed on this day on the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, was a passionate appeal.“CLOTH. CLOTH. More CLOTH,” it began.“That India needs more cloth than she produces, is an indisputable fact. ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphProtests that shook a city. Protests that united chalk and cheese. Protests that resonated everywhere, from the major thoroughfares and housing complexes to mofussil neighbourhoods. The rape and murder of a woman at her workplace triggered an outpouring of ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe crackdown on allegedly errant doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital for the death of a young woman and the complications suffered by three others after childbirth has triggered allegations that the government is not addressing its lapses ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court will pronounce its verdict in the RG Kar rape and murder case at 2.30pm on Saturday, court sources said.If Sanjay Roy, the lone accused, is found guilty, the quantum of punishment is likely to be declared ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe two-day Kolkata MSME and Startup Conclave 2025, organised by IDEAS-ISI, the Technology Innovation Hub at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), and its incubated startup Zuxtra Network, concluded successfully, highlighting funding opportunities and challenges for MSMEs and startups.The event ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on Friday in a rooftop room of a five-storey building in south Kolkata's Hungerford Street, an official said.Five fire tenders were pressed into service to bring the blaze under control, she said.The blaze in a ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphThe UGC chairman on Thursday said it was “very unfortunate” that students were dying on IIT campuses. M. Jagadesh Kumar was asked about the recent deaths in IIT Kharagpur. He said the IITs should launch programmes to help students ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphUGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said on Thursday that state governments must accept the recent draft notification, which gives the governor, who is the ex-officio chancellor of state-aided universities, a greater role in appointing vice-chancellors.The draft notification, released by ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA report on this day issued by the British government in Calcutta said new commercial regulations had been laid down about trade with Burma. This was following Captain Michael Symes’s negotiations with the Burmese court at Ava for which ...
19 January 2025 TelegraphA court in Kolkata on Saturday found Sanjay Roy, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, guilty in the rape and murder of a 31-yea-old postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. On a ...
18 January 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College, Calcutta, is consulting corporates to develop its syllabi to enhance students’ employability, principal Father Dominic Savio said in his convocation address on Thursday.“In line with current trends in higher education, St Xavier’s is focused on developing ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe developer of the four-storey building in Tollygunge’s Vidyasagar Colony that crumbled on Tuesday was arrested from a hotel at Bakkhali in South 24-Parganas on Thursday, police said. Subhas Roy was hiding in a hotel around 121 km from ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake may be a saturated market for cafés but New Town still lacks places that serve a sumptuous Continental spread alongside a cuppa. So sayeth Atreyi Mukherjee, who has started Crackpot Cafe and Bistro in DD Block behind ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphFormer cricketer Yusuf Pathan delighted the audience at BJ Park on January 11 when he came as chief guest of the Banglar Sanskriti o Prakriti Utsab 2025.No sooner did Pathan, who is also a Trinamul MP from Berhampore, step ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake Theatre held its first programme since the pandemic at Rabindra Okakura Bhavan.“We were born in 2003, inspired by BD Block resident Pannalal Mitra of the group Souvanik. We used to hold an annual theatre festival but after ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe body of a woman with her throat slit was found under a bed in her own house in a colony area near the Lords Bakery crossing on Wednesday evening, police said. Nafisa Khatoon, in her early 40s, worked ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphMost houses in colony areas, where refugees from what is now Bangladesh set up homes on arrival, have been built without any permission from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday.He added that it had ...
17 January 2025 TelegraphThe trial in the case of alleged recruitment irregularities in state-aided schools, in which former education minister Partha Chatterjee is the prime accused, commenced on Tuesday with the deposition of the first “vulnerable witness” before the court.The in-camera deposition ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphTiger pugmarks were spotted near a village in the Sunderbans on Tuesday, just a day after a tiger caged near another village in the same block was released into the wild.By the evening, forest officials claimed the tiger had ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered the “restoration” of tram tracks on two stretches that had allegedly been bituminised in violation of an earlier order.Hearing a contempt petition, the bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA CID team on Tuesday questioned two junior doctors, four nurses and some senior doctors at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital as part of its investigation into the death of a 30-year-old woman after childbirth.They also spoke to ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThe construction of the four-storey building in Vidyasagar Colony that is now leaning dangerously started around 2009-10.The recent repairs and “lifting” with the help of joists started a couple of months ago, said Mitali Banerjee, the local councillor (Ward ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThe Los Angeles wildfire has gutted some invaluable specimens of Bengal’s art and cultural heritage.The blaze that has burned 40,300 acres and destroyed more than 12,300 structures, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also claimed ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphObserving that trams are a part of the cultural ethos of Kolkata, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed that tram tracks which were illegally bituminised in the city be restored. No other city in India operates these ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphBritish East India Company official and writer George Augustus Addison died on this day. He was in his early twenties. Addison was born in Calcutta. His father was also a British East India Company official. Addison was sent to ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed the filing of three PILs seeking judicial intervention in the case related to the alleged supply of a batch of saline — embroiled in controversy following the death of ...
15 January 2025 TelegraphThree private cars were damaged after a portion of the parapet of the seven-storey Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) building on Chowringhee Road crashed on Sunday night.A man who was inside one of the three cars was injured.Police ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphCash collected by a security agency from a store inside Quest Mall was snatched by bike-borne people while the money was being transported into the cash van on Monday afternoon, police said.No one was arrested till late on Monday. ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police will check documents of all cars fitted with beacons to verify whether the users are entitled to the privilege.The police headquarters at Lalbazar sent a message to all 25 traffic guards in thecity directing officers to conduct ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to set up a committee to investigate the death of a third-year BTech student who was found hanging in his hostel room on Sunday afternoon when his parents came to meet him.Amit Patra, the director ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphTwo Metro rakes from China reached the city port on Saturday.“The coaches were unloaded from a vessel at the port on Sunday. They will be assembled near a railway yard at the port and taken to the Noapara maintenance ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphThe condition of the three women who were shifted to SSKM Hospital on Sunday after they turned critical following a C-section at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital was still “critical” on Monday, an official at the city hospital ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphA fifth-floor glass window of Nava Nalanda school crashed on two students just when they were gathering for the morning assembly on the first day of the new session on Monday. One of the students was critically injured and ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphIDEAS-ISI, the Tech Innovation Hub at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, in collaboration with its incubated startup, Zuxtra Network, is set to organize the first-ever Kolkata MSME and Startup Conclave 2025 on January 15 and 16. The event ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphThree students of a school in south Kolkata were injured on Monday morning as glass shards fell on them while they were entering the premises.The incident happened around 7am, as the Nava Nalanda school was preparing for the morning ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphLawyer and nationalist Bhupendra Nath Bose was born on this day. He studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, and later obtained his law degree. He became a very successful lawyer. He was a follower of Surendranath Banerjea’s political views.Protesting against ...
14 January 2025 TelegraphEvery patient is entitled to a second opinion before or during treatment. An independent opinion from another doctor or team about diagnosis and treatment is welcome. In a landmark study patient-initiated second opinion recommended changes in diagnosis in 15 ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA fresh Western Disturbance has cut short the spell of chill, feeding moisture into Bengal, Met officials said.The minimum temperature was 14.2 degrees Celsius in Calcutta on Sunday. Monday is expected to be warmer, according to the forecast. On ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA trial of the automatic signalling system on the full stretch of East-West Metro (Green Line) began on Sunday, in what Metro engineers claimed was a “significant step” towards linking Sector V and Howrah Maidan, the two terminal points ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA group of men has been arrested for posing as BSNL employees and stealing underground cables pretending to be doing repair work, police said. According to the police, they received a complaint from an official of the rank of ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphDo not let the stress you are feeling for the board exams of your children reach them, several schools are telling parents in the run-up to the examinations.The Class X and XII board examinations for both ICSE (Class X) ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, has asked all police stations to review the security of the public representatives living in their respective areas and asked the divisional commissioners to submit a report, sources in the police said. ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphThe air quality in the Maidan area sunk to “very poor” on Sunday morning and remained so for much of the daytime forcing morning walkers and hundreds of others enjoying the winter afternoon on the greens to breathe in ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA man from Bihar’s Jamui district who police said had fled to Dubai on a fake passport after masterminding the murder attempt on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh was arrested at the Calcutta airport on Sunday morning. Mohammad Adil ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA third-year BTech student at IIT Kharagpur was found hanging in his hostel room on Sunday afternoon when his parents came to meet him, said an officer at Kharagpur Town police station.Police said Shaon Malik, from Kasba’s Rajdanga, was ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphFollowing the death of a woman and four others falling ill after childbirth due to the alleged administration of expired intravenous (IV) fluid at a state-run hospital in Paschim Medinipur district, the state Congress held the West Bengal government ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA locker in-charge of a nationalised bank on Park Street and her brother were arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing gold and diamond jewellery worth around ₹1.25 crore from a locker.Moumita Si, 30, and her brother Mithun Si, 42, ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphAugustus Cleveland, a British East India Company administrator in Bengal, was killed by Santhal leader Tilka Manjhi on this day. According to other accounts, Cleveland was killed on January 13.Cleveland was a collector of revenues and a judge of ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a food stall near the busy Sealdah station in Kolkata on Saturday afternoon, a fire official said.However, no casualty was reported in the incident.Four fire tenders were deployed to douse the blaze which erupted ...
13 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are conducting improvement tests on select topics to help students who have performed poorly in the pre-board exams improve their performance in the boards. School heads believe that a second round of tests helps students improve their ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphA fire at a shop in Sealdah Food Express, the food court adjoining Sealdah station, prompted police to divert station-bound traffic for some time and barricade the area to facilitate fire fighting on Saturday afternoon, police said.The fire broke ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphSome former students at Jadavpur University joined hands to raise funds to upgrade the university’s accessible library used by visually impaired students.The alumni who have so far extended help to renovate and upgrade the university’s laboratories have now stepped ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphAfter a long period of torpidity and vacuity when it practically disappeared from the national art scene, Calcutta is suddenly experiencing an outburst of creativity that is bound to give contemporary art the push that was long overdue.Just as ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe family and acquaintances of a person who is affected demand justice but there is rarely a demand for justice for the victim from the larger society, said satirist, political commentator and former journalist Akash Bannerjee and other speakers ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphA fisherman from the Sunderbans who escaped from the jaws of a Bengal tiger, went home on Saturday after spending several months at SSKM Hospital.The painful bite of everyday reality awaits Haripada Das in his village in Kultali, South ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe CBI will wait for the verdict in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case before deciding to file a supplementary chargesheet.But it will continue with its investigation in the case, sources in the central investigating agency said.“We will wait the ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphDissent can never be curbed in a diverse country like India where the seeds of dissent have flourished in various forms, social scientist Ashis Nandy said on Friday.He was speaking on “The past and future of dissent in India” ...
12 January 2025 TelegraphThe alumni cell of Jadavpur University on Friday constituted a committee which will seek suggestions on how the cell can be run professionally to network with former students around the year.The university plans to recruit dedicated staff for the ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphTeachers at IIT Kharagpur have opposed the institution’s decision to erect a brick wall to permanently block the gate that connects the campus with Prembazar and Hijli Co-operative Society.The institute’s board of governors had last year passed a resolution ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphMany parts of south Calcutta, including Golf Green, Tollygunge, Chetla, Jadavpur, Behala and Kasba, will not get water between 9am on January 18 and 6am on January 19 because of a shutdown at the Garden Reach water treatment plant, ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old boy has just started to hear after a cochlear implant at a government hospital in the city last month.Saheb Adak was born with “congenital deafness”. He came to the outdoor clinic of NRS Medical College and Hospital’s ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, as its premiere was being held across India, the Hindi film Takrar was released at Jyoti cinema in Calcutta. Titled “Takrar (All for a son)”, the film was advertised as “Your heart will beat with this ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided that the speed limit on Calcutta’s roads will vary between 25 and 50km per hour for all vehicles.A notification issued by the transport department on Friday — it came into “immediate effect” — states ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA 60-year-old woman walking down Mahatma Gandhi Road on Friday morning was killed and three other women were injured after being hit by a minibus on the Sealdah-Malipachghora (Howrah) route.Eyewitnesses said the minibus was moving at a high ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe outgoing US ambassador to India on Friday allayed fears of a reduction in visas at a time when assertions by US President-elect Donald Trump have sparked fears among Indian students and others looking for an opportunity to study ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphHouseholds in seven blocks in Salt Lake — CD, CC, AC, AD, BC, BD and DD — will have to do with a reduced supply of water till January 11 because of the repair and maintenance of tank number ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of a racket that collected details of bank accounts, changed the passwords and email IDs and sold the new passwords and mail IDs to swindlers was arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday.Chirag Kapoor was picked up from ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphWomen want safe workplaces, women want safe public transport, women want an empathetic police force, women want gender-sensitisation campaigns in schools.A charter of demands seeking systemic changes to make Bengal a safe place for women was unveiled by a ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, missionaries William Carey and his associates formed a Baptist Mission station in Serampore and set up the Serampore press.Carey had seen the advertisement of a printing press in a Calcutta paper and bought it for ₹400. ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphFilmmaker to corporate honcho, monk to air force officer.A recent two-day conference saw speakers from different walks of life share their experiences.The Rotary International District 3291 had its annual conference on January 4 and 5 at Nicco Park, East ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphScientists of the Calcutta-headquartered Zoological Survey of India have identified a new pangolin species.“The discovery of the Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica) sheds light on the evolutionary diversity of pangolins, revealing that this species diverged from the Chinese pangolin (Manis ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA school conducted a session for grandparents of children studying in Classes I to V to convey the message that their “overpowering love” should not come in the way of disciplining children and “there should not be any conflict ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphShe had a double Masters degree under her belt, and work experience in India and abroad. But when her heart pined for more Sunanda Mazumdar didn’t let age get in the way. At 75, she enrolled for a diploma ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphA passionate football lover with no initial interest in music transformed into a versatile artist, whose voice infused life into numerous Tagore compositions and a composer.This remarkable journey was unveiled when students of Uttarayani hosted a cultural show paying ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe representative body of Jadavpur University teachers on Thursday urged the institute’s management to mobilise resources to address the alleged ongoing financial crisis and called upon all stakeholders to take note of the situation.In a statement, the Jadavpur University ...
11 January 2025 TelegraphThe city was shaken by the demand for justice for much of the year that went by, ever since a young doctor was found raped and murdered at her workplace, a government hospital nonetheless, on August 9.On Saturday, an ...
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