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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphOrganisers 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 TelegraphCataract 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphAs 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphSeveral 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphAn 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 TelegraphMonsoon 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphOrphangunge 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 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphThree 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphMany 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 TelegraphWhen 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 TelegraphEvery 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphThe 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphMonsoon 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 TelegraphA 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 TelegraphEarly 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 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 TelegraphIncreased 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 TelegraphHow 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 TelegraphBiswajiban 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 TelegraphThe 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 ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe youngsters on stage were Indians but their chatter was entirely in Chinese. The finals of Chinese Bridge, a Chinese proficiency competition for foreign college and school students, was under way at The Stadel last Sunday.It was the 24th ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA delegation of sacked school teachers met the school service commission chairperson on Thursday, demanding that the process of submitting applications for the fresh hiring process be put on hold.The SSC, which has scheduled the online application process to ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphBattery-operated three-wheelers, like totos and e-rickshaws, have been banned on the Major Arterial Road (MAR) in New Town.The 10.5km-long, six-lane artery with service lanes on both flanks that connects New Town with Salt Lake and Sector V on one ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal advocate-general told a division bench of the high court on Thursday that it was not clear how the court decided to cancel an entire panel recruiting 36,000 primary schoolteachers based on the contention that the aspirants had ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA piece of land, slightly smaller than a standard football ground, outside Bansdroni Metro station has been encroached upon illegally, said Metro officials.A bus stand, a parking for two-wheelers, a series of shanties and some makeshift shops now stand ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe state-run centralised undergraduate portal for admission to government and government-aided colleges and universities will open on June 17, a little over a month after the publication of plus-II board results.The education department issued a notification on Thursday, announcing ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphTwo prime suspects in the alleged five-month confinement and torture of a young woman will be interrogated in police custody as investigators probe their so-called event management company and uncover their motives, police said on Thursday.Sweta Khan and her ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe brother of IIT Kharagpur student Aniket Walkar, who was found dead on the campus in April, went to the town on Thursday to ask police about the progress of their investigation into his brother’s death.Sudeep Walkar’s stinging letter ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA former security staff of a popular homoeopathy clinic on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly using its name to run clinics with false claims that doctors from the original clinic were treating the patients. Police said they ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphSome parts of Calcutta received light rain on Wednesday. The spread and intensity of the showers are likely to go up from Thursday, according to the Met forecast. “Conditions are becoming favourable for the advancement of southwest monsoon into ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has entirely stopped admission to its four-year BTech programme for graduates based on their BSc results from this year. The university will discontinue its previous practice of admitting graduates to the second year of the BTech programme ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has asked district inspectors of schools to take steps so that school buildings are available to the district administration for being used as “flood shelters during natural calamities”. The department issued the notice on Wednesday. ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe shelters for the homeless in Calcutta have only about 200 vacancies, while a 2018 survey found 7,000 homeless people living on the city’s pavements or under flyovers.Another 360 beds are likely to be added by the end of ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will be closed to vehicles on both flanks for three hours between 4.30am and 7.30am on three days from June 13 to 15.The closure is to facilitate repairs of the structure, Kolkata Police said on Wednesday.A notification ...
13 June 2025 Telegraph• Go for a night stroll with your child and see the lit-up buildings• Read a story with your child• Watch a movie with your child and make a scrapbook togetherThis summer, holiday homework is not just for students, ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA violent attempt to pull down a wall in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, led to clashes between two groups that escalated into stone pelting on police and retaliation with tear gas on Wednesday afternoon.At least 19 police personnel were injured, ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThousands of terminated school teachers are urging the Bengal government to push back the application window for a fresh recruitment drive, citing concerns over the timing of Supreme Court review petitions.The school service commission (SSC) has scheduled the online ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe main suspects in the alleged five-month confinement and torture of a young woman, Aryan Khan and his mother Sweta, were arrested on Wednesday.While Aryan was arrested in Golf Green on Wednesday morning, Sweta was rounded up near the ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Tuesday remanded Wajahat Khan, whose complaint led to the arrest of law student Sharmistha Panoli, in police custody.The court turned down Khan’s bail plea and granted police custody till June 16, four days less than ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA woman who urgently needed money was allegedly advised to take a fake loan for an iPhone purchase and promised to be given the money from the showroom once the loan was sanctioned in her name and the money ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA tuft of hair, allegedly cut from the head of a young woman from Sodepur during torture, was found in a heap of garbage on a plot adjacent to Sweta Khan’s house in Howrah’s Domjur on Tuesday.Police said forensic ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe civic body on Tuesday conducted drives in four places in an attempt to move street dwellers from footpaths and under flyovers to homeless shelters.Such drives have been conducted earlier as well. But the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has rarely ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphTrack the number of SIM cards issued in your name. Lock Aadhaar biometrics. Do not blindly trust Google. Two police officers and a cybersecurity expert shared tips to prevent online fraud on Tuesday. They were hosted by the women’s ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphValuables worth around ₹1 crore were stolen from an apartment in Ultadanga while the occupants were sleeping on Sunday night, police said. The theft came to light on Monday morning when one of the family members woke up and ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe Heritage School has started displaying the sugar content in all food that it serves to students at its canteen.The decision comes a day after the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) sent a circular asking schools to ...
12 June 2025 Telegraph• How concerned are you about the amount of sugar your child consumes? • How often does your child consume sugary drinks like soda and sweetened juices• Do you limit your child’s intake of sugary snacks or drinks? A survey ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphBe prepared to endure pain if you want to become a champion. Games on the mobile phone will not prepare you for that, Saina Nehwal, the trailblazing shuttler, told a bunch of young badminton players.The Olympian was at The ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe CBI submitted its fourth status report in the RG Kar rape and murder probe to the Sealdah court on Tuesday. The central agency said it was waiting for final reports on CCTV footage analysis from external agencies, without ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court in an interim order on Monday asked the school service commission to allow a sacked higher secondary schoolteacher who had not participated in counselling for recruitment at the upper primary level (Classes VI to VIII) to ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu told the Assembly on Tuesday he was “hopeful” of starting undergraduate admissions in government and government-aided colleges and universities before June 19.Even if the state-run centralised portal is launched before June 19, it would be ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphPolice have started tracking a call that the uncle of the Maheshtala boy, missing for the last 10 days, received last week, with the caller asking him for money to “settle” the case.The boy’s uncle told the police that ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a septuagenarian was found at his four-storey Netaji Nagar home on Monday.The man was identified as Ashutosh Das, 78. He lived alone in the house on Raja SC Mullick Road, police said.Das’s wife died a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphA section of doctors and citizens protested outside Tala police station in north Calcutta on Monday to mark 10 months since the rape and murder of the junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.The protesters led a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government replaced the commissioner of Barrackpore police, Ajay Kumar Thakur, with Murli Dhar, the former detective chief of Calcutta, on Monday.Thakur, who took charge of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate four months ago, was posted to the Criminal ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphShooting for yet another Bengali film has been stalled because technicians allegedly refused to show up for work.Filmmakers and technicians, owing allegiance to a federation presided over by a powerful Trinamool Congress leader, have been at loggerheads over the ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday allayed concerns about the rise in Covid infections and said there was no reason to panic yet.Later in the evening, it emerged that a 48-year-old resident of Madhab Das Lane near the Khanna ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police on Monday evening arrested Wazahat Khan, who had lodged a complaint against social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli for allegedly uploading a video with communal comments, in the city, a senior officer said.Khan was hiding in a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphA mother and son accused of mentally torturing and physically abusing a young woman from Sodepur had posted 11 music videos since they launched their entertainment channel on social media in March 2021, which is less than three a ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThree junior doctors who have alleged vindictive postings because of their leading role in the RG Kar protests approached Calcutta High Court on Monday, the first day after the summer recess of the court, challenging their posting. Two of ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to start a series of actions against "vagabonds" and other street dwellers who are taking away space from the pavements and roads, a senior official said on Monday."We plan to shift them ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of the high court reserved her verdict on a petition challenging the state government’s decision to give an allowance to sacked Group C and D employees.Representing the petitioners who challenged the decision, advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court has declined to urgently hear a petition challenging the West Bengal School Service Commission’s latest recruitment notification, scheduling the matter for July despite the imminent start of the application process.Justice Saugata Bhattacharya listed the hearing for ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University’s English department expressed “extreme concern” on Monday about the possibility of losing bright students as the university has yet to start undergraduate admissions, a full month after Class XII results were published.The uncertainty surrounding OBC reservation in ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe man whose complaint led to the arrest of law student Sharmistha Panoli was himself arrested on Monday, a week after Kolkata Police lodged an FIR against him at Golf Green police station over allegedly communal social media posts.“Wajahat ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphAn under-construction flyover over the Kona Expressway has been forced to go slow because permissions to cordon off portions of the road for its construction have not arrived, officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have told ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphAn elderly man was found dead near the ground floor staircase of his multi-storey residence in south Kolkata's Netajinagar area on Monday morning, police said.The deceased, believed to be over 75 years old, was reportedly living alone, according to ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe huge stock of standalone buildings in the city, which are three, four or five-storey tall, has yet to warm up to green building norms. A green building's design reduces the AC use, and its sanitary fittings are designed ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe chemical engineering department of Jadavpur University has installed a ceramic-based low-cost arsenic removal kit on the campus of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur.The system promises to remove heavy metals like arsenic and iron from the groundwater. The water system ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA man was found hanging on the ground floor of the undergraduate hostel at SSKM Hospital on Sunday morning.The man, identified as Shantanu Roy, was declared dead at the emergency wing of the hospital, police said. No note was ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe Sikh community marked 40 years of Operation Blue Star with a blood donation camp on Sunday.More than 100 people donated blood at the camp, organised by the Gurdwara Behala Prabandhak Committee on Diamond Harbour Road.“A lot of blood ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA police team that has been trying to trace the boy who was tortured with electric shocks at Maheshtala for allegedly stealing a mobile phone has sought the help of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to locate him, a ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe La Martiniere schools require a complete structural assessment for two of its oldest buildings to find long-term remedial measures for the 189-year-old structures, an inspection committee comprising officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the state heritage commission ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA mason working in a three-storey building on Srinath Das Lane in Bowbazar died after portions of two balconies collapsed on Sunday morning, police said. Ashutosh Adhikary, 37, a resident of Banshra in South 24-Parganas, was taken to ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe design and planning of Indian cities have become car-centric, intending to enable automobiles to move more quickly, even at the price of pedestrian mobility, the executive director of the Centre for Science and Environment said during a discussion ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe prime accused in the alleged torture of a young woman from Sodepur, Aryan Khan and his mother, Sweta, ran a channel on social media in the name of Isara Entertainment where girls were made to dance in music ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, has opened a commerce section in Class XI because “commerce has job prospects” and the stream is sought-after among students, the principal said. The school, which so far had only science and humanities sections, opened ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are encouraging free play among children — a time slot when they can play on their own without any adult interference.Children are enrolled on a number of activities after school but most of them are "structured and ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has decided to award marks for work experience to sacked Group C school employees who take fresh selection tests to be recruited to state government departments, an official said.The department is seeking legal opinion on ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA young woman escaped the alleged captivity of a social media acquaintance in Howrah on Friday and returned to her home in Sodepur, on the city’s northern outskirts, with a fractured arm and severe injuries to her teeth.The woman, ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphIt’s only been a week, but this June has already scored high in pre-monsoon rainfall.Week 1 has seen more than 80mm of rain in Alipore, which serves as the official record-keeper for Calcutta.The usual arrival date for the southwest ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphPool car owners have requested the city police to assign specific pick-up and drop-off zones outside schools.In a letter to Snehasis Chakraborty, the state transport minister, the Pool Car Owners’ Welfare Association has sought a meeting with officials from ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphA nine-year-old girl was allegedly lured inside a house with chocolates and then allegedly sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old man in central Calcutta on Wednesday.The accused has been arrested.The girl was playing outside her home when one of her ...
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