Curiosity is where learning begins, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to travel to the International Space Station, told 50,000 students across the country and abroad on Friday. He was in an online session connected to almost 1,000 classrooms. ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has said that it would protect the interests of students while evaluating the answer scripts of mathematics, following complaints that examinees struggled to answer “tough questions” within the stipulated one hour and 15 minutes. ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphRegistered Post, one of the oldest services in India’s postal history, has been discontinued.Offered as a standalone service since the British era and valued for secure and accountable delivery, Registered Post has now been merged with Speed Post, a ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphA man carrying a “gun” had sneaked close to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence on Thursday. Later, it was found to be an air gun.Police said the 51-year-old man, who had a bag in one hand and a ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphThe first pandal that students of DPS Megacity visited this year was their own. The school hosted a full-fledged Durga Puja with decorations elaborate enough to rival any neighbourhood pandal.The theme of the puja was “hands”. A huge 3D ...
12 October 2025 TelegraphPresidency University authorities have called a meeting of the review committee next month to decide on the process of screening students at the undergraduate level next year. The university, which outsourced the assignment of screening prospective students to the ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA 20-year-old woman, a second-year student at a private engineering college along EM Bypass, has alleged that she was raped by a classmate at her rented apartment in the city.The alleged incident occurred on September 26 but was reported ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphUnauthorised e-rickshaws — popularly known as totos — will have to register with the transport government and collect a temporary toto enrolment number (TTEN), the state government has decided.Moreover, the old vehicles will have to be replaced with new ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe deadline to remove all temporary hoardings put up before Durga Puja ended on Thursday, but many banners and bamboo frames from which they were hung still line the city’s roads.They are everywhere. Even right in front of the ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphLaszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian writer who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, has a unique connection to Calcutta through publisher Seagull Books.The Calcutta-based publishing house, founded in the early 1980s and known for bringing a wide range of ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA family from Rajarhat’s Block B has alleged that they were cheated out of ₹14.33 lakh by a travel agency they had hired to organise a trip to Europe.One of the accused was arrested on Thursday in East Midnapore’s ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphA heavy spell of rain, accompanied by bolts of lightning, lashed the city and its fringes on Friday afternoon, flooding roads and forcing people indoors or under shelter. It marked the third consecutive day when a bright, sunny morning ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided multiple premises linked to state fire and emergency services minister and Trinamool Congress MLA Sujit Bose, as well as a bar and restaurant owned by his son, in connection with alleged recruitment ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe director of an admission consultancy on Rashbehari Avenue was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking ₹11.47 lakh from a guardian with a false promise of securing a BTech seat in a private engineering college in Salt Lake.According to ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphStudents at IEM Public School, New Town, sang and danced to agomoni songs at their Puja carnival, but their experience began with the rhythmic beats of the dhaak.“We could have played the beats on the music system, but a ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphBH Block hosted a fashion show on Panchami, but with a delightful twist. Primary school kids donned bell-bottoms and polka-dotted hairbands, and strutted to ABBA hits from the 70s while their grandmas sported sneakers and walked to Korean pop ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphThe opening of the GD Block puja turned out to be quite a diplomatic tightrope walk for the organisers. The residents’ association had invited the US consul general alongside the Russian consulate general, which was represented by their vice-consul.When ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphIEM Public School held a colourful puja carnival shortly before the vacations, offering students the chance to shop, play games, and perform.“Durga puja marks the beginning of the festive season, followed by Kali puja, Chhat puja, and, finally, Christmas. ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphNewtown SarbojaninThe New Town puja has done it again — it has drawn the largest crowd across the twin townships, and crowd and traffic management have also improved since the puja began four years ago.The puja’s vice-president, Anupam Jana, ...
11 October 2025 TelegraphLegendary actress Sabitri Chatterjee was the star of the inauguration at FE Block. Also felicitated with her were President’s Award-winning patachitra artist Manimala Chitrakar, from Nayagram in West Midnapore, and Bharati Mudi, a women’s football coach from Bankura. Swami ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA foot overbridge (FOB) was opened on Monday at the Sector V Metro station to allow passengers to cross the road from the Eastern Drainage Canal side to the software hub side or vice versa without having to negotiate ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphFollowing the dengue death of a 15-year-old girl from ESI housing complex, a medical camp conducted there days later has found at least one more resident testing positive.ESI complex is situated in Sector III, near Purbachal, and is occupied ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA teenage boy missing since Tuesday was found lifeless under a heap of trash in the Dum Dum dumping yard off Belgharia Expressway on Thursday, police said.According to officers, the body of 17-year-old Ganesh Samaddar was found under a ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will be closed to traffic from 5am to 9am on Saturday and from 3pm to 8pm on Sunday to allow for the repair and replacement of cables and bearings of the 33-year-old structure, police said.The closure of ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly cheating a resident of Kalyani in Nadia. The duo convinced the victim to invest in their company but failed to return the sum when the complainant asked for it, police said. ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphAstronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to journey to the International Space Station, will participate in a virtual interactive session on Friday. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is organising the event.“The Council for the Indian ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphWith less than two weeks remaining until the festival of lights, prohibited firecrackers were found in various areas of Maheshtala and Nungi, which are well-known firecracker centres in South 24-Parganas.While most traders were reluctant to discuss their stock of ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA new pacemaker, free from wires and offering fewer complications, was launched in Calcutta and implanted in patients for the first time in the city on Wednesday.The leadless dual-chamber pacemaker is a one-piece device inserted into the heart to ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA team of mental health professionals engaged with commuters at Sealdah railway station to discuss the topic of “mental health”. The travellers received a card featuring a mirror along with a message that stated: “Take care of the mind ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphThe GST on medicines came down from September 22, but prices haven’t followed suit in many cases, almost three weeks later.Most small medicine shops in Calcutta and adjoining areas — the neighbourhood pharmacies people regularly visit — are yet ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA bright and sunny Thursday morning in Calcutta hinted at change, but the clear skies didn’t last.By 1pm, dark clouds took over, and rain followed soon after. The first spell was brief but sharp, followed by intermittent showers under ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA bright and colourful fish with long fins and a large mouth, coveted by aquarists abroad but recently accorded protection under India’s wildlife laws, has whipped up a controversy.The Barca snakehead (Channa barca) — a rare and ornamental species ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old doctor from Salt Lake was allegedly cheated out of more than ₹21 lakh after being duped by two separate online investment scams. Both schemes promised high returns in stock trading but turned out to be fraudulent.The fraud ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA New Town resident was allegedly cheated out of ₹3.8 lakh by fraudsters who offered him a ₹20 lakh loan and then demanded a processing fee.Golak Mondal, the complainant, told Bidhannagar City Police that he first received a call ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphThe state pollution control board (PCB) will meet residents of large housing complexes ahead of Diwali to urge them not to throw firecrackers from terraces, a practice that remains common despite repeated awareness drives.PCB officials said only certified green ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in the Jodhpur Park market in south Calcutta on Wednesday afternoon, damaging two shops.A firefighter, aged 50, suffered from suffocation during the rescue operation. Anil Pal, who is from the Tollygunge fire brigade, was admitted ...
10 October 2025 TelegraphTwo children playing near Bagjola Canal fell into the water on Wednesday morning. One of them died.A four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy were playing along the canal at Kestopur, near VIP Road, when both slipped into the water, ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA police case has been initiated against a group of students at a private university in New Town for allegedly making racist remarks and assaulting another group of students on campus.According to police, a student lodged a complaint with ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphThe Railway Board has sanctioned the final location survey (FLS) for two major double-line projects in Bengal under the suburban sections of the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway.The approved FLS covers a 16.54km stretch between Champapukur and Hasnabad — ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphEducational institutions are making efforts to assure their students and their parents that the evaluations conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) for Classes III, V, and VIII will not influence the overall academic performance ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphOctober has entered its second week, but the city is still seeing monsoon-like conditions, with persistent showers and overcast skies making it feel more like peak monsoon in July or August.On Wednesday, a brief spell of morning sunshine gave ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA 74-year-old retired central government officer from Rajarhat was digitally “arrested” and held captive for nearly three weeks by cyber fraudsters who convinced him that he was wanted in a human trafficking case, before duping him out of ₹1.04 ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphIf one were to list the worst roads in Calcutta, Taratala Road would easily rank near the top. Stretching 6km between Taratala and Ramnagar, the road is riddled with craters, potholes, and broken surfaces, turning daily commutes into nightmarish ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA resident of Haridevpur was arrested on Sunday for allegedly selling Durga Puja carnival passes held on Red Road. The carnival on Red Road is a free event for the common populace. A few VIP passes are set aside ...
9 October 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old man was allegedly beaten up by a group of men near his home on Kankulia Road when he raised his voice against another two-wheeler crashing into his bike and injuring him on Sunday. According to police, Jayanta ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA resident of Rajarhat was cheated out of ₹4.5 lakh by a man who initiated contact with the victim through a WhatsApp call on Tritiya, masquerading as a bank representative and acquiring his personal details, which ultimately facilitated the ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will begin taking action against companies that fail to remove the hoardings installed before Durga Puja by Thursday, which marks the end of the deadline for their removal, an official said.The temporary hoardings, put ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral city schools are going the extra mile to ensure diversity in their classrooms, believing that its absence could hinder students’ ability to think critically, learn from each other, adapt to different environments, and grow socially.By welcoming children from ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA fresh weather system is likely to form over the north Bay of Bengal on October 10, the date when the monsoon usually retreats from south Bengal, indicating a delayed withdrawal this year, Met officials said."An upper air cyclonic ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphTwo defunct water conduits under EM Bypass are being converted into pedestrian underpasses — one near Science City and another near the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute.Both are expected to be ready by February 2026 or ahead of ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA jeweller was allegedly tricked into believing he had received a payment of around ₹1 lakh for the sale of a gold wristlet that a man purchased from his store on Sunday, only to later realise that the payment ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has cleared the appointment of vice-chancellors for six state universities in Bengal, contrary to earlier indications that eight institutions would get approval, according to the order uploaded on Tuesday.During oral arguments on Monday, the bench of ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphThree persons have been arrested in connection with the robbery and murder at a jewellery shop in Baranagar in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, a senior officer of the detective department of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate said ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA 15-year-old schoolgirl has died due to dengue in Salt Lake area, a health department official said on Tuesday.The deceased, identified as Rupsi Jana, was a resident of the ESI Housing Complex in Salt Lake's Ward 33 and a ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphAs Saturday ticked into Sunday, the picturesque hill town of Mirik transformed into a scene of devastation as relentless rains triggered catastrophic landslides, burying vehicles, destroying homes, and claiming at least 11 lives across the subdivision.South Calcutta resident Kanishka ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphForest department officials will begin field visits on elephant back from Tuesday to assess the extent of damage caused by Sunday’s floods in the forests of Jaldapara and Gorumara in north Bengal’s Dooars region.“The water levels are still quite ...
8 October 2025 TelegraphA businessman from New Town allegedly fell victim to an investment scam, losing ₹21.6 crore to fraudsters who impersonated representatives of a well-known foreign investment firm. According to the complaint filed by Nirmalya Saha, he was first added to ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphStudents from a regular school and a special education institution are interacting with one another, thereby paving the way for increased collaborative initiatives.Students from Class V of Calcutta International School have been visiting Manovikas Kendra for several weeks leading ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphThe assessments for Classes III, VI, and IX are centred on the application of knowledge, fostering critical thinking and communication skills, and emphasising real-world problem-solving capabilities, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has informed educational institutions.The ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission (SSC) will start accepting online applications for non-teaching posts in government-aided schools by the end of October, an education department official said on Monday.The process, initially scheduled to begin on September 16, was stalled as ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphAn employee at Ganguram Great Grandson sweet shop on Burrabazar’s Kali Krishna Tagore Street was found unconscious in the staff quarters early on Monday, his throat partly slit, police said.The shop is located on the ground floor of a ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphThe accessibility guidelines launched by Unesco for Durga Puja carry far-reaching global implications, Shombi Sharp, the United Nations (UN) resident coordinator for India, told Metro last week.Sharp was in the city to monitor the practical implementation of the standard ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday cleared the appointment of eight vice-chancellors to various state universities in Bengal after it was informed that both Governor C.V. Ananda Bose and the Mamata Banerjee government had no objections to these names.Attorney-General R. ...
7 October 2025 TelegraphA 66-year-old individual, who has been a chronic smoker, is suffering from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The healthcare team has indicated that he has merely a few months remaining. Nevertheless, he wishes for all family members to ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE’s tentative timetable for Classes X and XII, released in September, is reportedly helping schools enhance their academic planning, said principals from various institutions.Since the two-board exams for Class X will commence in 2026, the provisional date sheet ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of an IT professional was found inside a guest house at New Town on Saturday night. Police said multiple strips of sleeping pills were found near the body. Thirty-four-year-old Chandranath Mukherjee, who was from North 24-Parganas, ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the murder of jeweller Sankar Jana at his store in Baranagar on Saturday said CCTV footage had been found that showed at least one person standing outside with his face covered with a mask, while a group ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphRobotic and conventional knee replacement surgeries lead to a similar degree of recovery and functionality in patients after a year or more, doctors said.However, the corrections in robotic surgery are more precise, and it is also better for patients ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphAround 6,000 students from 72 schools across Bengal took part in an English language competition that tested their knowledge of vocabulary and its usage. Students from Kindergarten to Class XII participated in the Spell-A-Thon Olympiads held under the mentorship ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) is likely to publish the results of the selection tests (State-Level-Selection-Test) held to shortlist candidates for the appointment of teachers in the first week of November, said the commission’s chairperson. The commission may upload ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphTemporary hoardings that were installed before Puja, including the overhead gates across roads, continue to dominate many of the key thoroughfares in Calcutta.A drive through the city on Sunday revealed a multitude of hoardings situated along Central Avenue, APC ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphHeavy rain, accompanied by incessant bolts of lightning, lashed Calcutta between Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday.The streaks, one after another, jolted many Calcuttans out of bed. Almost every bolt seemed to strike at a touching distance. ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphA bird hailing from Eastern Europe, with just a single recorded sighting in Bengal, was spotted at Baruipur, situated in the southern periphery of the city, last week.Two juvenile ortolan buntings were found in a grassland near the new ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata will operate 236 (118 UP and DN each) services on the Blue Line on Laxmi Puja (Monday) instead of the normal 272, officials said.Laxmi Puja, celebrated on a full moon night, is a major festival in ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphA little more than 100 tonnes of hilsa have reached Calcutta from Bangladesh in the last fortnight, hilsa importers said. Last year, more than 570 tonnes of hilsa were imported from Bangladesh, they said.The first consignment arrived in Bengal ...
6 October 2025 TelegraphMore than 80 accredited social health activists (ASHA) in the Sundarbans were part of a training session to mitigate snakebite deaths in the mangrove delta.The session — held recently at the Kultali BDO office in Jamtala, South 24-Parganas — ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphA 32-year-old man who was found dead at his Puddapukur home on Thursday night died “due to the effects of ante mortem hanging”, police said on Saturday, quoting preliminary post-mortem findings. Forensic experts explained that ante-mortem hanging refers to ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphDurga Puja made its return to a village in the Sundarbans after a hiatus of over 15 years, following the erosion of the local bazaar by the nearby river, which led to the relocation of the traders who previously ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphOver 100 Durga idols will roll down Red Road on Sunday evening as part of the Puja carnival, featuring tableaux, processions, and cultural performances.The carnival, first held in 2016, is scheduled to begin around 4pm on Sunday and continue ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphWith schools across the city set to reopen next week after the Puja vacation, several institutions are racing against time to restore campuses battered by the torrential rainfall on September 23.From deep-cleaning classrooms and sanitising campuses to replacing damaged ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphA jeweller was found dead with his hands and feet tied, and visible injury marks on his body, inside his store in Baranagar on Saturday afternoon.The victim, Sankar Jana, owned the shop on Shambhu Nath Das Lane, less than ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphThe city’s grand celebration of Durga Puja, renowned for its artistic display and creativity, also leaves behind piles of waste — a stark reminder of poor civic sense.During the Puja days, Calcutta generates around 1,000 tonnes of additional solid ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is set to take its first formal step into medical education by introducing a postgraduate MD (Doctor of Medicine) programme, shelving for now its earlier plan to launch an MBBS course due to inadequate infrastructure.The institute will ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal health department has begun a search to determine whether a brand of cough syrup allegedly linked to multiple child deaths in Madhya Pradesh is being sold or used in the state.A senior official from the department said ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphTwo reports from two national bodies monitoring crimes against women have come up with two opposite ratings for Kolkata. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report published in October 2025 has for the fourth straight year announced Kolkata as ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphThe resumption of direct flight services between Calcutta and Guangzhou in China would ease travelling for a large number of businessmen from the city, said traders and tour operators. IndiGo has announced the resumption of Calcutta-Guangzhou daily services ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphThe authorities of IIT Kharagpur have reopened the Prembazar gate for two-wheelers, which will help parents to ferry their children to the schools inside the campus.There are four schools on the campus, and the gate will remain open during ...
5 October 2025 TelegraphTwo-wheeler traffic violations in the city during Puja were fewer this year compared to the festival days in 2024.According to the records of Kolkata Police, the number of two-wheeler riders prosecuted for helmet-less riding and riding with more than ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphA 32-year-old man was found dead at his Puddapukur home in Ballygunge on Thursday night (Dashami).The family of Viki Mullick, a resident of 44/D Puddapukur Road, lodged a murder complaint at Ballygunge police station, alleging that his wife and ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphA powerful weather system over the Bay of Bengal that made landfall in Odisha on Dashami (Thursday) evening has stalled the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from mainland India, the Met office said.Calcutta received widespread rainfall on Dashami but ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphAn early start to celebrations and a late rain spell marked Durga Puja this year. Despite fears of a washout, pandal hoppers, traffic cops, and civic workers ensured the city’s biggest festival went largely uninterrupted. Metro takes stock of ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphStudents from a city school made a pre-Durga Puja trip to a Sundarbans village to share festive gifts with local children.The visit turned into a lesson in empathy and gratitude for Class XI and XII students of Birla Bharati, ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphBy Friday evening, over 2,500 Durga idols had been immersed in Calcutta, with around 2,200 going into the Hooghly and the remainder at ponds in Tollygunge, Jadavpur, and Behala.Environment activists who visited several immersion ghats along the Hooghly praised ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphA 32-year-old man died after his head struck an overhead height bar while sitting atop a truck during a Durga idol immersion procession at Zeerut Bridge, Alipore, on Thursday night.Utsav Chatterjee, a drummer and member of the Behala Senhati ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphAn occasional rain and rumble of thunder marked Dashami, the Durga Puja finale, but most Calcuttans did not mind. The spells of rain were brief and not very sharp. Last-day plans remained in place for most.Calcutta has been spared ...
4 October 2025 TelegraphSome government and government-aided colleges have decided to hold classes during the Puja break for students who will write their first-semester examinations in January.On September 26, the higher education department instructed colleges to independently fill vacant undergraduate seats by ...
3 October 2025 TelegraphNon-resident Bengalis partake in the celebration of Durga Puja with equal fervor as their counterparts at home, but it is rare for one among them to sculpt the idol intended for worship.Warwickshire Sarbojonin is a new puja that started ...
3 October 2025 TelegraphSome of the Puja pandals across the city set up women-only entrances to the pandal for the safety and security of visitors, as many tend to avoid visiting pandals due to overcrowding. The initiative named “Shurokkha Dwar” was introduced ...
3 October 2025 TelegraphRiding two-wheelers without helmets turned out to be the biggest traffic menace this Durga Puja. Out of over 8,000 traffic violation cases reported in the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police from Chaturthi (Friday) to Navami (Wednesday), over half were related ...
3 October 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has sought an explanation from a judicial magistrate in Alipore, Calcutta, after the judge refused to proceed with a property dispute case on the grounds that he had “lost jurisdiction” once he failed to comply with ...
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