December began on a cloudy note in Calcutta, but the winter chill is expected to set in before the week ends.The day temperature stayed lower than usual on Monday because of the cloud cover. The minimum was, however, marginally ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police are set to phase out their decades-old .303 guns and replace them with modern assault rifles developed by the Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli.The new Trichy Assault Rifles (TAR), modelled on the Bulgarian AR-M1 and described as an indigenous ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphIn the area surrounding Cossipore, where a 15-year-old boy was fatally hit by a bus while on his way to school on his bicycle, schools are cautioning students not to pass a bus on the right, regardless of whether ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the school service commission (SSC) to publish a detailed list of “tainted” candidates among the sacked Group C and Group D employees who have been barred from participating in ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will not admit students this year through the Joint Entrance Lateral Entry Test (JELET), which is a common examination conducted by the JEE board for admission to the second year (third semester) of the four-year bachelor’s programme ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphLoreto South Asia, long known for educating and empowering thousands of girls, has called for “cerebral equality”, stressing that every individual, regardless of gender, deserves to feel worthy and to be judged on merit.Sister Monica Suchiang, South Asia province ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphThe Election Commission has directed all district magistrates in Bengal to identify multi-storey residential buildings and housing societies where polling stations could be set up, moving forward with the initiative despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent objections.The poll panel’s ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will not hold its “special convocation” this year because India’s women’s cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who had been selected for an honorary DLitt, will not be available on December 24.Harmanpreet’s squad had led India to a historic ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphAn inter-school quiz based on built and cultural heritage was held in the city November 21. In its sixth year, the Calcutta Heritage Collective (CHC) Quiz saw 20 teams from 14 schools participate at Vidya Mandir. Students from ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphOnce known for clockwork precision, the Metro Blue Line schedule has gone off the track.Trains in the New Garia-Dakshineswar line are running behind schedule and are frequently getting cancelled. Passengers alleged that some trains are so crowded, even in ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphOne person was arrested on Sunday in connection with the alleged molestation of the woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted in a moving car and dropped off in the Maidan area, police said. According to officers, the accused is ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphFilms that highlighted women’s voices and their rights, contesting patriarchal norms, as well as those that aimed to repress their desires through societal impositions, were presented at a day-long festival co-hosted by a feminist organisation and a film institute ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe combination of air pollution and heat is “deadlier” than the impact of either alone and increases the risks of death, the former chief scientist of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan, said at a lecture at the ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old motorcyclist died in a road crash at New Alipore early on Sunday morning. Police said Swarup Ghosh, a resident of Bombai Bagan Road in Sarsuna, was riding a motorcycle with an 18-year-old pillion rider when an unidentified ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphState minister Javed Khan recently received a call from a person impersonating a Mumbai Police officer and saying there was a case against him in Maharashtra. Suspecting this to be a fraud, Khan asked the man to alert Kolkata ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphHeritage must not be seen as an albatross around the neck, but a potential money-maker, the chairman of the state heritage commission said on Saturday.In a city like Calcutta, dotted with old and majestic but crumbling colonial buildings, the ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe Railway Board is planning to involve local stakeholders and representatives from state government departments in its efforts to conserve railway heritage across the country, a senior official of the board said on Sunday.“We have started a joint consultative ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will flatten several undulated roads in the city and install paver blocks on stretches of some other roads over the winter, officials of the civic body said. At least two stretches of Central Avenue ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphSixty-three-year-old Rashmoni Mondal managed to steal a rare hour from her workday to visit her granddaughter’s school. She earns a living by picking up waste from the roadside and separating the recyclable scraps she can sell.Earlier this week, Rashmoni ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has approved a proposal to convert Jamini Roy’s Ballygunge Place home into a museum dedicated to the painter.The civic body’s mayoral council cleared the “adaptive reuse’’ plan on Wednesday, a KMC official said.Roy moved ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA revised draft of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) bill, 2025, uploaded late on Friday by the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation, makes only “cosmetic changes”, several ISI professors alleged on Saturday.The ministry’s new draft proposes that ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphTwo teenagers, one of them a former student of Delhi Public School Ruby Park, have been selected for the Y Combinator’s incubator programme, a start-up accelerator that counts Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, as its supporter.OpenAI, the research ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA woman in her mid-20s was allegedly assaulted and molested in a moving car and dropped off near the Maidan on Friday night. She lodged a complaint with police.The woman has been admitted to a hospital. Police have launched ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe attack on Trinamool panchayat pradhan Debabrata Mondal on Thursday night was premeditated, and the assailant was possibly looking to settle old scores, police said on Saturday. No one was arrested in this case till late on Saturday.The prime ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe bus that killed 15-year-old schoolboy Aranya Chakraborty on BT Road on Friday morning was being driven by a 20-year-old, police said.Rumed Alam was arrested on Saturday in the Cossipore area and booked for rash and negligent driving causing ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA woman was allegedly molested by three persons in a moving car on EM Bypass in the city, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, which took place on ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphBengali actor couple Sayantani Mullick and Indranil Mullick were allegedly attacked by locals in Kasba locality of Kolkata for feeding stray dogs on Friday night.The couple were interrupted by locals for littering the area in their attempt to feed ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA Bengal tiger that strayed into a Sundarbans village on Thursday morning returned to the forest on Friday, forest department officers and villagers said.Villagers said crackers were burst late on Thursday night, which drove the tiger back into its ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader and his aide were shot at in a pocket of Howrah close to Bally while they were returning home from a wedding around 10.40pm on Thursday.CCTV footage of the attack that emerged on Friday shows ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphTeachers, past and present, students, research scholars and staff of ISI, Calcutta, formed a human chain outside the campus on BT Road on Friday, demanding the scrapping of the draft ISI Bill, 2025. They said that the Union government’s ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday ordered the school service commission (SSC) to upload OMR sheets of candidates who secured teaching positions after the 2016 recruitment panel had expired — one of the key irregularities identified in a scandal that ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will begin accepting more applications for birth and death certificates from Monday, anticipating a surge in demand as residents prepare for upcoming voter list verification hearings.Mayor Firhad Hakim announced the expansion on Friday, directing officials ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphAnanya, the new facility at SSKM Hospital, has started admitting patients following the hospital’s tie-up with four public sector insurance companies, officials said.SSKM plans to soon collaborate with private insurers as well, ensuring that patients with private health coverage ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University will spend ₹35 crore, received from the Union and state governments, on instruments and research.“The university has ranked poorly in this year’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Research is among the parameters where there is room for ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphDanseuse Dona Ganguly has lodged a police complaint alleging body shaming by a particular page on Facebook. She also accused it of repeatedly posting “obscene” remarks on her since her troupe’s performance at the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphQ: The notorious “thugs” of the Thuggee cult used to strangle and rob travellers on the roads of Hindustan. Why would they strangle their victims and not kill them by other means?A: Spilling blood was punishable by death, while ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphOne more person was arrested on Thursday from Assam in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla in New Town. Bidhannagar police identified the man as Govinda Sarkar, whose alleged involvement has been found in the incident, police ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) said late on Friday that it had “weeded out” 269 tainted candidates, including physically challenged applicants, from the fresh assistant teachers’ recruitment process at the secondary and higher secondary levels.In a notice, the SSC ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA 15-year-old boy cycling to his school died when a bus hit him from behind on BT Road on Friday morning. Aranya Chakraborty, a student of Class IX, was rushed to a nearby hospital and then to RG Kar ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA section of students, faculty members, and staff of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata gathered near the campus on Friday, voicing concern over a draft bill that proposes to turn the institute from an “autonomous society to ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA routine cycle ride to school turned tragic on Friday morning after a 14-year-old boy was run over by a speeding private bus in Kolkata’s Kashipur area. The victim, Aranya Chakraborty, was a Class 9 student of Kashipur Kendriya ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphIshan Ghosh’s family has always had multiple dogs, and female ones at that. “The girls simply have better temperament; plus, once the tradition began, we had to stick to a single-sex household to prevent accidental breeding,” he says.But a ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphStall: Rupnarayan 39 A visit to this stall is a delightful guessing game and you’ll smile as you recognise among the dolls Santa Claus, the Air India Maharaja, a Japanese girl in kimono, and even Tagore’s Kabuliwala with Mini. ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have published timetables for Class X and XII board examinations early. This allows schools to finalise the pre-board examination dates, while students ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA 20-year-old man suffered a bullet injury on his left palm while handling a 9mm pistol at a drinking session with two of his friends in Kasba on Wednesday night. The gun went off along the canal at Pratik ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphHastashilpa Mela has started at New Town’s City Square, outside Central Mall, for the second time in a row.Before that, the fair was held for several years at the Eco Park parking lot, and vendors had complained when the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Mela Utsav is starting on December 1. Salt Lake’s favourite fair will be back at Central Park this winter and continue till December 21. The fair will be opened by Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim in the presence of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA couple of Salt Lake residents have returned from an international bridge tournament with the runners-up trophy. Suvankar Basu of BJ Block and Sudip Pandit of CG Block were partners, and part of the six-member KKK Bridge Lovers team ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphEvery time residents of Alaktika Housing Complex and Greenwood Sonata in Action Area IID drive out of their premises, they do so with a prayer on their lips for the well-being of both themselves and their vehicles. Every road ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphIt is easy to locate Kalyan Sen Barat’s house in the Metropolitan lane beside Byepass Dhaba. If the tabla and the tanpura in relief on the garage door are not enough indicators, a signboard declares the name — Aikatan, ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old college student has been arrested for allegedly photographing and recording another student through a window while she was changing clothes.Both students attend different colleges in the area. The woman was changing in her paying guest accommodation when ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has instructed Calcutta High Court to ensure that no “tainted” candidates are allowed to pass through in the new selections under any circumstances. Additionally, the high court has been directed to make the list of disqualified ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Thursday issued an interim order directing the school service commission (SSC) to upload, at the earliest, the OMR (optical mark recorder) sheets of all candidates who wrote the teacher selection tests ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Thursday published a list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates barred from the teachers’ recruitment process, complying with a high court order.Justice Amrita Sinha had issued an interim order on November 19 directing the SSC ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphMotherhood is a “role” and not a gender identity, said a mental health activist and a psychologist during a discussion in the city, challenging the traditional mindset that assigns the role exclusively to women.A man, a queer person, or ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphResidents of a Sundarbans village spotted pugmarks of a Bengal tiger early on Thursday and, after a search lasting more than two hours, saw the animal resting beside a creek before it went into a nearby forest.The first pugmarks ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA city-based management institute recently hosted a conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The theme was cross-border collaboration — in trade, commerce, academic research, philosophy and other fields — in a unified Asia. The sixth edition of the Asian ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to reduce the number of holidays in its affiliated colleges because too many breaks were hindering completion of the syllabus for the four-year undergraduate programmes. The university’s highest decision-making body, the syndicate, has empowered the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe 52-year-old GD Birla Centre for Education has refurbished its Garia campus.The two buildings — junior and senior — across the road also have a STEM lab, a library with 20,000 books, Wi-Fi-enabled classrooms, and a larger auditorium, as ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTwo tropical cyclones have been reported from the north Indian Ocean in quick succession.One had no effect whatsoever in Bengal. The other is likely to cause only a marginal rise in the night temperature over the next couple of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTwo young men who had offered two teenage girls a ride on their bikes and later allegedly forced them into a flat in Narendrapur where one was gang-raped and the other stripped and videographed, were the girls’ seniors in ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe city needs more direct international flights, travel agents told the new director of the Calcutta airport during an informal meeting on Thursday.The Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) has already put in a verbal request for a direct ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s Sonagachi area may soon host a special assistance camp for sex workers, as the Election Commission prepares to address unique documentation challenges arising from the ongoing Special Summary Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A senior official in the Chief ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTen people were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly running a call centre in Kasba where they were allegedly impersonating representatives of lottery organisers.They duped people by convincing them that they had won a lottery, which they would be able ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphLess than a month remains for eastern India’s marquee road race, which turns 10 this year. The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will be held on December 21.More than 17,000 people have already registered for ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA resident of Entally was allegedly promised the job of a civic volunteer in Kolkata Police by a man who impersonated an officer and claimed he had sufficient access to recruit people into the police force. The complainant, Sachin ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Metro Railway has lined up a series of infrastructure upgrades to improve the frequency of trains on the Blue Line, the oldest Metro link now plagued by snags and delays.Now, the Blue Line has a peak-hour frequency of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has published the final answer key based on which the scripts of the teacher selection test for the secondary level (Classes IX and X) were assessed late on Tuesday. The results were announced on ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphArabic words in daily speech, microplastics clinging to mangrove roots, and gaps in last-mile weather warnings — these layers of culture, ecology and vulnerability were explored at a seminar on the Sundarbans held at Aliah University on Wednesday.The university’s ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA caregiver hired to look after an 85-year-old resident with dementia in New Alipore was arrested for allegedly siphoning money the elderly man received after selling his house.Champa Purkait was arrested in Kultali on Tuesday for allegedly diverting ₹25 ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphPolice personnel will again be posted at South Calcutta Law College, where a first-year student was gang-raped on June 25.Vice-principal Naina Chatterji wrote to the additional commissioner of police seeking deployment to reinforce security on the Kasba campus.A police ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA leading private hospital has been found guilty of “very unethical” billing practices and ordered to refund all charges collected over the past year for washing bed linen and disposing of biomedical waste.The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday remitted to Calcutta High Court a batch of petitions challenging the Bengal government’s fresh recruitment rules for the appointment of teachers in the state.The new selection process began in May this year, following the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA teenage school student was allegedly gang-raped and her friend allegedly stripped and videographed by young men, some of whom they knew.The incident, another shocking instance of crime against women in the city, was reported in Narendrapur, on the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA 25-year-old woman who was flung off a bike after her bag became entangled with a passing bus has lost her right arm from elbow to palm. Doctors treating her said she will need an artificial limb in the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA son’s delay in making his daily phone call to his elderly parents cost him his mother’s life in a cruel twist of fate that played out at a busy intersection in Salt Lake’s Sector V. ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphSix men were arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting a minor girl, stripping her friend and recording the act on a mobile phone in a place near Kolkata, a senior police officer said on Wednesday."Two class 8 girls ...
27 November 2025 TelegraphThree students died in a vehicle that should have been scrapped in a junkyard, not ferrying schoolchildren on Monday afternoon. Yet the state transport department’s immediate response was a familiar one: to convene a meeting with pool car operators, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA Rajarhat resident was cheated of ₹1.04 crore after fraudsters threatened to arrest him for sending obscene text messages to a woman — messages he never sent. Police have arrested three men from Karnataka in connection with the case ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe performance of councillors during the current special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will be taken into account while distributing tickets for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections scheduled for next year, said senior leaders of the Trinamool ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe right hand of a young woman riding pillion with her friend on a motorcycle was severed when she fell under a moving bus in New Town on Tuesday afternoon.Police said Pratisruti Roy Chowdhury, 25, was riding with her ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe abuse may be “virtual,” but its impact is real and far-reaching for women because it leaves a “footprint” that cannot be erased, experts said at a programme on Tuesday focused on gender-based online violence.While mobile phones have made ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to appoint an officer on special duty (OSD) to look after the “issue of security, especially at night”. A notice signed by the university’s acting registrar, Indrajit Banerjee, says the contractual officer will be appointed ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta University syndicate will meet on Thursday to initiate the long-stalled teacher recruitment process at a time when nearly 60 per cent of its teaching posts are vacant.CU has a sanctioned faculty strength of 835.This will be the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in the city dropped to 16.4 degrees on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.Wednesday could be colder, according to the Met forecast.Met officials linked the slide to the free flow of dry and cold northwesterly ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA day after a pool car plunged into a pond in Howrah’s Uluberia, killing three children, 11-year-old Arka Mondal described the terror of being “in the water and swallowing it”.One of the two survivors, the Class IV student of ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphAmerican sprinter and Olympic medallist Kenny Bednarek will flag off eastern India’s marquee road race from the Red Road on December 21.Bednarek, who won silver medals in the 200m at both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics, was ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Biswajit Basu of Calcutta High Court has struck down a petition seeking age relaxation for participating in the recruitment process for primary teacher jobs in government-aided schools.The petitioners argued that when the state primary education board published the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphLeaders from different communities were present at a remembrance of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of the ten gurus of Sikhism, at the auditorium of a school in Alipore on Tuesday.Guru Tegh Bahadur was “executed on the orders of ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) published the results of the selection test to shortlist candidates for 23,212 teaching jobs at the secondary level late on Monday. The results can be viewed on the commission’s website (https://westbengalssc.com) and www.wbsschelpdesk.com.“The preliminary ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA two-and-a-half-year-old pet Persian cat died during a grooming session in a pet salon at Jodhpur Park on Sunday evening.The family claimed that they have informed the police, alleging that the salon staff used a hairdryer for 20 minutes, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe chartered accountant who was found murdered in a hotel in Kasba on Saturday had met his alleged killers through a dating app just the day before, police said.According to officers, the accused couple had inserted the phone’s SIM ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphTeachers of ISI, Calcutta — past and present — along with students and research scholars, said at a news conference on Monday that the draft ISI Bill, 2025, smacked of an attempt by the Union government to push the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA lack of awareness among doctors as well as the general public, out-of-pocket expenses, vaccine hesitancy and complacency are the barriers plaguing adult vaccination in India, a doctor said on Sunday.While the universal immunisation programme has covered the vaccination ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta airport has finally bid goodbye to an unwanted guest, a hulking Boeing B737-200 that its owner Air India had forgotten for 13 years.Sources said the airline only recently realised that one of its aircraft had been lying abandoned ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board told Calcutta High Court on Monday that an expert committee appointed by the court had found only one erroneous question in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) 2017 paper.Delivering his order based on the committee’s ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe low-pressure area over the Strait of Malacca, expected to intensify into a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, is strengthening slowly, and Met officials said it may take a couple of more days before its potential path near ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphWindows rolled up, three children sitting in the rear seat of a pool car drowned after the vehicle fell into a roadside pond in Howrah’s Uluberia on Monday.One of them, 11-year-old Souvik Das, lived barely 200m from the pond, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphFive rallies that criss-crossed central Calcutta during peak hours on Monday left thousands of commuters stranded and brought traffic to a standstill.The processions, starting from different locations with varied demands, ranged from teacher job aspirants seeking changes in the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA 56-year-old resident of Baguiati who met a woman through a dating app was duped out of ₹64.6 lakh after the woman convinced him to invest in stock trading with the promise of high returns. Police said the man, ...
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