Metro services on the entire Green Line—from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector V—will remain suspended for three days, from Saturday, April 26, to Monday, April 28, 2025, due to the testing of the Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police Detective Department (DD) arrested seven persons running a crypto fraud racket from a Behala address.A raid was carried out by the sleuths on the wee hours of Wednesday at the first floor of a building on ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal education department on Tuesday shared with the district inspectors of schools lists of sacked teachers “not specifically found to be tainted”.An official said the inspectors were supposed to forward the names to the school headmasters in their ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has warned of a heatwave spell in south Bengal starting Wednesday. An alert has not been issued for the city.“Mainly dry westerly to north westerly wind is likely to prevail over the region and consequently heatwave ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphDelay in patient discharge because of pending insurance approval and daycare procedures and consumables still remaining outside the ambit of insurance claims were issues highlighted by the state clinical establishment regulatory commission in a meeting with representatives of insurance ...
23 April 2025 TelegraphThe Roman Catholic churches will conduct prayers and a mass will be held for the repose of the Holy Father, Pope Francis, every day till his funeral, the archbishop of Calcutta, Reverend Thomas D’Souza, said on Monday evening.“There will ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphA man who had allegedly set fire to a 19-year-old pregnant woman at her Netaji Nagar home, killing her, was recently arrested from Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur.Namita Basak died of burns within hours of Swapan Basak allegedly setting her ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons died in a fire that broke out at a garments godown-cum-wholesale store on the fourth floor of a five-storey building on Pathuriaghata Street in north Calcutta. Three people were injured in the fire, police said.The deceased were ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphHundreds of sacked schoolteachers and staff said on Monday they could not be faulted for the school service commission (SSC)’s inability to conduct all the counselling rounds within a year, before the expiry of the panel.“Is it our fault ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphThousands of sacked schoolteachers laid siege to the school service commission’s office in Salt Lake till late into Monday night, protesting the government’s failure to come out with a list segregating the tainted from those not “specifically tainted”.They pledged ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphAround 2,000 agitating teachers decided to launch an indefinite sit-in outside the West Bengal School Service Commission headquarters on Monday night, after it failed to release, by the 6 pm deadline, the list of 2016 SSC qualifiers whose jobs ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were injured in a fire that broke out on the top floor of a four-storeyed building in north Kolkata in the early hours of Monday, an official said.The incident happened on Pathuriaghata Street in the Jorabagan police ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo stumbling blocks for the New Garia-Airport Metro project are scheduled to be discussed this week at a meeting of a group that functions under the Prime Minister’s Office. The construction of the 366-metre viaduct at the Chingrighata crossing ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphA team from Hyderabad police arrested a Howrah resident from a hotel on Camac Street in Calcutta on Thursday and took him to Golconda, allegedly without informing the local Shakespeare Sarani police station.Kolkata Police have written to their counterparts ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphThe presence of Christians in the city is significant and this must be carried forward, said the archbishop of Calcutta, Thomas D’Souza, at the end of the Easter rally on Sunday.“Calcutta is a big city, and the presence of ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphFour persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with a robbery attempt on a garage of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in Dhapa on Saturday morning.A security guard of the garage was attacked after he tried to resist the robbers.The ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphThe town vending committee of Calcutta has decided to start drives in the New Market area to remove hawkers who have set up stalls on roads.The street vending rules, notified by the state government in 2018, prohibited hawkers from ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphBrace for scorching days and sweaty nights. The Met office has warned that the day temperature in Calcutta is likely to reach 37 degrees by the middle of this week. In some western districts, the Celsius is likely to ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphThe teaching and non-teaching staff of the government-aided schools whose jobs were terminated by the Supreme Court on April 3 would march to the school service commission’s office on Monday, demanding publication of a segregated list containing the names ...
21 April 2025 Telegraph“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said”— Matthew 28:6 “The earth laughs in flowers”, proclaimed Ralph Emerson, and perhaps his observation is most relevant in the context of the season of spring, which unleashes ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphCity police commissioner Manoj Verma urged officers to be alert, have their ears to the ground and be properly equipped and armed with adequate intelligence while covering rallies and meetings, sources privy to what happened at a meeting said.On ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked hawkers at Jatin Das Park, who were relocated from Kalighat to make space for the construction of the Kalighat skywalk, to vacate by the end of April.A new hawkers’ corner has been ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras have captured tiger images on two Sunderbans islands, which mark the end of land and open into the vast expanse of the Bay of Bengal.A senior forest official requested that the islands not be named for the ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphSix down. One to go. Sayani Das of Kalna, East Burdwan, has crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, ticking off the sixth ocean channel in her long-distance swimming career.Starting with the English Channel in 2017, the 27-year-old has already crossed ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who wrote his secondary exams in February died after a Honda City he was riding with five others hit the guard wall of the Garden Reach flyover at high speed and overturned on Friday night.Subham Das ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphElectricity had still not been restored to a section of Queens Mansion on Saturday evening, forcing some shops to close early.A fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion on Friday afternoon. The Gupta Brothers and Giggles ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe old domestic terminal of the Calcutta airport will be pulled down. It is almost defunct now except for handling a few special flights.The building became operational in 1995 and remained the hub of Calcutta airport’s domestic flight operations ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway’s bridge players have once again brought laurels to the Metro fraternity, with two of its employees—Sumit Mukherjee and Sagnik Roy—qualifying for the 47th World Bridge Team Championships scheduled to be held in Denmark in August 2025.Mukherjee ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata: Six persons were arrested by Kolkata Police on Saturday morning around 11 am and seized approximately 36 kgs of cannabis.The Narcotics Cell, Detective Department acted upon credible sources to nab the six at the road instruction of Khidirpore ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphPrivate and commercial vehicle owners have started receiving text alerts and letters from the transport department reminding them of their road tax dues.Sources in the transport department said the primary targets are those who have not paid their dues ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA youth’s desperate bid to gift an iPhone to his girlfriend landed him in jail, police said. Chanchal Bhuniya, 22, allegedly used a duplicate key to sneak into a Ballygunge cafe where he worked and stole ₹2.5 lakh from ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government will seek legal opinion on the future of the sacked non-teaching (Group C and D) school staff, education minister Bratya Basu said on Friday.A delegation of the dismissed non-teaching staff met Basu at Trinamool Bhavan, alleging ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA website and an app celebrating the culture and heritage of Nagaland were unveiled at a symposium cum exhibition at Asiatic Society recently.The portal is the result of a year-long initiative that aims to document living traditions, lifestyle, crafts, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe Union ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has proposed to the Bengal government that vehicles should not be inspected for pollution unless their owners submit Aadhaar-linked mobile numbers to the testing centre.In a letter to the state’s ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphGood Friday prayers were held at churches across the city.Jesus Christ’s message of forgiveness, selflessness and acceptance formed the essence of the prayers at the churches.Around 1,500 devotees attended the Good Friday service at St Thomas’ Church on Middleton ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphAn iconic address on arguably Calcutta’s most popular stretch, but Queens Mansion lacks basic fire preparedness. A fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion on Friday afternoon. The fire brigade could not find a source to ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphQuestions based on real-life situations were included in ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) papers in this year’s board exams.Current affairs and events from daily life that students can relate to were used to test their understanding of ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion, the magnificent Park Street landmark that houses popular commercial establishments and residential apartments.The Gupta Brothers and Giggles stores were gutted.Although no one was trapped or injured, pockets of ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu announced on Friday that the school service commission will likely upload a list on April 21 (Monday), identifying terminated teaching and non-teaching staff as either “tainted” or “not specifically tainted”.“We had said earlier that we ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphBuses registered in Bengal and ferrying passengers to Sikkim will now be able to reach Gangtok and won’t have to drop people off at a point from where they need to hire a local vehicle to the hill state’s ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out from a kitchen of a sweet shop on the ground floor of Queens’ Mansion on Friday afternoon. “The fire broke out from an air-conditioner. One of the doors has been sealed,” said an employee at ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe Coleus is a plant whose foliage alone can give the most beautiful of flowers tough competition. Indeed, unlike most annuals, Coleus cultivars are grown for their foliage, and not for their flowers.The Coleus has attractive foliage, succulent stems, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphWhen GD Block invoked goddess Saraswati in its community hall this year, it did so with a floral welcome. That was the day when the block’s rose garden was inaugurated.A patch of land next to the community hall has ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphNext time you take the Metro into Salt Lake, look down to your left just seconds before City Centre, and you’ll see a lovely landscaped garden. That garden would be Ranjana Deb’s. This is a lady who hasn’t stopped ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA dilapidated structure that stood witness to the rich history of Salt Lake well before the wetlands were filled and the township was born has been unwittingly razed to the ground.The structure stood on the campus of Bidyadhari Vidayalay, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphBhorer Nil AkashPoila Baisakh may be a day of celebration, but it’s no excuse to skip your workout! So members of the EE Park-based laughing club Bhorer Nil Akash began the day as they do every morning — with ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Bengal education minister Bratya Basu said he would advise the sacked and aggrieved teachers to return to their schools and start taking classes as the Supreme Court wants them to.“Today’s order has offered a glimmer of positivity, however ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring the appointment of around 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run and state-aided schools as “vitiated and tainted” was immediate and far-reaching.Piyas Mukherjee, an English teacher at M.P. Birla Foundation ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe teachers have been asked to return to school, but they still have to prove their merit.Teachers at Esplanade’s Y-channel who were demanding their jobs back said they were against writing an exam all over again because that questions ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphTeachers will return to school but demanded that the government terminate the tainted, so their honour is no longer at stake.The return to school should be “with dignity”, something that the April 3 Supreme Court order stripped them of.“The ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphBreather for some. Uncertainty for many. Lingering doubts for all.Even after Thursday’s Supreme Court clarification, questions swirled among the school employees robbed of their jobs.The secondary education board had pleaded in court that all the teaching and non-teaching employees ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Hundreds of men are up in arms so that women do not get a comfortable commute between home and work.Ever since the railways introduced an extra coach reserved for women on local trains in the Sealdah division, a ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA spell of thunderstorm on Thursday evening brought relief from the hot and humid conditions. A tree was uprooted on Bentinck Street near Lalbazar, disrupting traffic. The Met office has not ruled out another thunderstorm on Friday.The day was ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphJadavpur: An autorickshaw driver, who had left home on the night of Bengali New Year (Poila Baisakh) on Tuesday to attend a feast with friends, was found dead near his home at Rabindrapally in Patuli the next morning. Toton ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA man from Visakhapatnam has been arrested in Calcutta for allegedly running a fake job racket and supplying counterfeit visas. Police said Rohan Agarwal, 47, ran a call centre Garden Reach for fake recruitments. Agarwal was arrested at Garden ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphEaster — a time of renewal, hope and joy. As the world awakens from its winter, the Easter story reminds us that there is a chance for new life and transformation even in darkness.All over the world, people will ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThey have not been directly affected by the Supreme Court’s recent sacking of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools.But the plight of their colleagues brought them to Calcutta on Wednesday.Many teachers who still have their jobs spent ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphWork on yet another Bengali film has been stalled after technicians allegedly refused to turn up for their work.One of the directors of the upcoming film is Sudeshna Roy, secretary of the Directors Association of Eastern India, which has ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphAn elderly resident of Salt Lake was allegedly forced to pay a ransom of ₹25 lakh to get herself “released” after a caller threatened her with digital arrest. She could not disconnect the phone call for several days, fearing ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA private hospital on Shakespeare Sarani on Wednesday inaugurated a robot to assist in joint replacement surgeries. Robot-aided surgeries are more precise and the duration of surgeries lesser than conventional surgeries. An official of The Nightingale Hospital, where the ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan who saw a video of a man resembling industrialist Mukesh Ambani on social media claiming anyone investing ₹22,000 in his company will get a minimum return of ₹50,000 per day, was cheated after he clicked on a ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThe city loves its tradition and Easter eggs.Ahead of Easter on Sunday, bakeries and confectioneries are bustling with people and energy.The simnel cake, marzipan Easter eggs, bunny eggs, chick-iced cookies and hot cross buns — available only at this ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThe dismissed school staff walked from Wellington Square to Esplanade’s Y-channel on Tuesday evening, holding aloft their mobile phones with flashlights switched on as a mark of protest.The protesters carried posters that said: “Shubha? Nababarsha.”Mehboob Mandal, a spokesperson for ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s two biggest political rivals came out with Bengali New Year processions on Tuesday, both claiming to uphold the state’s culture and accusing the other of insulting it.The Trinamul Congress organised a rally from Girish Park to Jorasanko. The ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphVaccines offer hope against several deadly diseases, and this should be said out loud so anti-vaccine campaigns are drowned out, a scientist said on Tuesday at the inauguration of an exhibition on vaccines at Science City.Besides communicable diseases, vaccines ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA melting pot of cultures, the city geared up to celebrate diverse festivals.The Sikh and Punjabi communities celebrated Baisakhi on Sunday. The Assamese community prepared for Rongali Bihu, on Tuesday. The festival marks the beginning of the New Year ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA government bus headed to Jadavpur from Howrah climbed the median on Chowringhee Road, ploughing through the iron railings near Ispat Bhavan on Monday morning.At least five passengers were injured and taken to SSKM Hospital, about 1km away. They ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphThe fight is for life and livelihood, which have been violated, a teacher wrote on a poster sitting at Esplanade’s Y-channel on Monday afternoon.While she wrote, another teacher held an umbrella to shield her from the scorching sun.Teachers and ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA bus with 60 dismissed and aggrieved teachers on board set off for Delhi on Monday to protest against their termination at Jantar Mantar on April 16.The teachers, many of them holding posters that read “CBI has certified us ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphPrayers, food, music and festivities marked the beginning of the Bengali New Year.Tens of thousands started their day by offering prayers at Kalighat and Dakshineswar temples. One of them was Amlan Baidya, who lives in Nagerbazar. “I try to ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphSeparate teams of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search and seizure operations at multiple locations in Calcutta and its adjoining districts on Tuesday in connection with the probe into an alleged racket where forged identity documents were used to ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphSacked and aggrieved teachers travelling to Delhi on a bus stopped at different places to sensitise people about what they were going through and build public opinion against what they said was an “unjust termination”.They will hold a sit-in ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphA Poila Baisakh like no other.Many of the 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools who had lost their jobs after a Supreme Court verdict on April 3 were sitting at Esplanade’s Y-channel on Tuesday, continuing their protest.While ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe anger against the new waqf law singed Calcutta’s neighbourhood on Monday with Indian Secular Front supporters stoning police and torching their vehicles in Bhangar, South 24-Parganas.Five police motorbikes and a prison van were destroyed and seven policemen were ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphVehicles bound for Science City from Chingrighata along the EM Bypass will find additional road space near the Metropolitan crossing.The vehicular movement will be faster if the steel bridge that has been installed is made functional as soon as ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphReligion teaches people to love one another, then why is there violence, asked chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the inauguration of the Kalighat skywalk on Monday evening.There will be “many attempts to provoke people into violence”, Mamata said, appealing ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police on Monday said the situation in Bhangar was “completely under control” following fresh violence linked to protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act earlier in the day, during which supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) clashed with ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThree sacked teachers who were holding an indefinite fast outside the school service commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake to protest the termination of jobs, ended their fast on Sunday afternoon.Suman Biswas, Pankaj Roy and Pratap Kumar Saha had ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphShopping hubs of the city, from north to south, bustled on the last Sunday before Poila Boishakh and the crowd swelled as the sun went down.There was hardly any space on the pavements of Gariahat and Hatibagan. The hawkers’ ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government has cancelled its decision to transfer teachers in government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools because the en masse termination of teachers’ jobs by the Supreme Court has plunged many institutes into crisis. An order ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s experience with Banglar Rasogolla has shown that a geographical indication (GI) tag doesn’t mean better business.On April 4, Bengal bagged the GI tag for four different types of sweets — Murshidabad Chhanabora, Kamarpukur Sada Bode, Bishnupurer Motichur Laddu ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court has restrained the powerful technicians’ federation in Tollygunge from interfering with the independent functioning of a director.“The respondent no. 5 (Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) is restrained from interfering with the ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphAn alumni association that has demonstrated over the years how former students can contribute to the growth of an institution turns 40 on Sunday. St Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association (SXCCAA) was among the first to show that help ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's oldest Metro tunnel will undergo a "complete overhaul", 40 years after it opened.Overhauling Calcutta Metro Rail's tunnel between Tollygunge and Dum Dum, part of the north-south or Blue Line, could take three to four years, and the job ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has invalidated 25,753 teaching and non-teaching jobs in Bengal because it couldn’t reliably distinguish between legitimate appointments and those obtained through manipulation. This sweeping decision came despite the School Service Commission (SSC)’s attempts to identify “tainted” ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe railways need a slice of land — measuring 837sq m — inside the police lines in Alipore to build the Kidderpore station, projected to be one of the busiest in the upcoming Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor (Purple Line).Railway officials ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphA 31-year-old man was arrested in Kolkata's Survey Park area after he was caught while allegedly attempting to rob a bank using a toy gun, police said on Saturday.Dalim Basu, an employee of the Department of Post, went to ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police have arrested a couple and unveiled a dating app racket operating in the city and surrounding areas.One of the accused is a restaurant manager and his accomplice, a young woman, created fake profiles on popular dating sites ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA massive fire broke out at a slum in east Kolkata's Metropolitan area in the early hours of Saturday, police said.At least 10 shanties were gutted in the fire, they said.Four fire tenders doused the blaze in two hours, ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay was booed and told to “go back” on Friday by teachers and school staff on a sit-in outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Friday.Gangopadhyay arrived outside the SSC office at 5.30pm ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday denied permission to an outfit to block Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti on Saturday and recalled the historic Khilafat Movement to explain the Eid prayers there.An outfit that calls itself the Viswa Hindu Sevadal ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA housing complex in Rajarhat has opened a shooting range where a tournament was held last Sunday.Siddha Town, at Beraberi near Narayanpur, has a four-lane 10m air rifle range where training is provided by certified coaches from Joydeep Karmakar ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government wants to run more buses on EM Byass and has sought the Kolkata Police’s opinion on whether it will pose challenges in traffic management. On Friday, senior transport department officials and city police officers discussed the challenges that may ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe manager of a cafe on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly being part of a racket that engaged women to open fake accounts on dating apps, lure men to the cafe where they would be forced to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA man, who had his face covered with a mask and "armed" himself with a plastic gun, tried to rob a bank in Santoshpur on Friday. He got caught after those around him recognised the fake gun as a ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphSeven young athletes from Bengal are gearing up for a never-seen-before spectacle of the sport that has changed their lives.They will play in the world’s first franchise-based Rugby league, which will be held in Mumbai from June 1 to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA sub-inspector caught on camera kicking an aggrieved protester at the office of the district inspector (DI) of schools on Wednesday was given charge of investigating the same case by his superiors.The decision raises questions on how seriously Kolkata ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphPaying EMIs, ailing parents, children’s education, worrying about how students will complete their syllabus and uncertainty.Thousands of teachers and school staff whose jobs were terminated by a Supreme Court order last week assembled outside the school service commission office ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAlternating between rage and despair, aggrieved teachers and staff of government-aided schools continued to sit outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Thursday.When the sun became too scorching, they shifted to the other side of the ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphResidents may be happy shopping round the year these days, but come spring and they still await Chaitra sale.“Chaitra sale isn’t as significant in Salt Lake as it is in Hatibagan or Gariahat, but since customers know this is ...
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