Children should be encouraged to be active smartphone or device users instead of passive consumers, said an associate professor of Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway.The professor, who is an early childhood education and care mentor, while speaking at a ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphA group that allegedly activated SIM cards in the names of real people without their knowledge or consent and sold them to cyber fraudsters has been identified and arrested.Kolkata Police have arrested eight people so far in connection with ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphPolice have revealed that Arati Ghosh and her daughter Falguni, who were caught carrying a dead body in a trolley bag at Ahiritola Ghat on Tuesday, purchased the suitcase from Burrabazar specifically for disposing of the victim’s remains.Contrary to ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been forced to stop some services in its health centres because the Centre has stopped providing funds, Atin Ghosh, the deputy mayor of Calcutta who heads the civic body’s health department, said on Tuesday. ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphAn ailing 10-month-old doberman’s road to a new life came from the blood of a 10-year-old Golden Retriever in a Kolkata animal hospital.The doberman named Leo has been suffering from a blood disease and his haemoglobin level had dropped ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThree men were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with the daylight snatching of a gold chain off the neck of a Dhakuria resident a few metres from her home.Police said the men picked up in the case are ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Dey brothers, who had survived the crash on EM Bypass last week, were involved in the murder of their family members whose bodies were found in their Tangra residence, police said on Tuesday.Pranay Dey, 44, and Prasun Dey, ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women were caught in north Kolkata's Ahiritola on Tuesday while allegedly dumping human body parts into the Hooghly river in a suitcase, police said.These two women, who arrived at the Ahiritola Ghat in a taxi, were caught by ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphTurkey recorded a 20 per cent growth in the number of Indian tourists in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, an official of the country’s tourism authority said on Monday.The Turkish authorities also said they were looking at the ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe authorities of a north Calcutta school have decided to suspend a contractual teacher who some students and parents have accused of molestation.The decision to suspend the teacher, who gave computer training, was taken after the guardians and students ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphVery mild tremors were felt in Calcutta on Tuesday morning, as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck deep inside the Bay of Bengal seabed.The quake occurred at a depth of 91km in the Bay, said an ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA police inspector who suffered a gunshot injury on his left arm in Howrah’s Shibpur close to midnight on February 19 was suspended on Tuesday.An order issued by the state police said inspector Jayanata Pal has been suspended “pending ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphAn association that runs most of the school buses in the city has decided to hold a session for its members next month to address the tendency of a section of drivers to speed after dropping children at school.While ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided not to allow students’ fests on campus during school board examinations. Residents staying on the campus had alleged that fests with blaring noise hampered preparations for their sons and daughters writing the board examinations, usually ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has rejected a demand from students that the university authorities not verify the credentials they submitted while applying for a state government scholarship. First and second-year engineering students gheraoed the officiating VC overnight, for 24 hours from ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphBus drivers have to be trained to follow rules and police should more actively discipline these rogue buses to make the city’s roads safer, said the grandson of a 77-year-old woman who was crushed to death near her home ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA Hyundai Creta that was moving along a bridge in Alipore following all traffic rules was crushed from its front as a truck from the opposite direction suddenly changed lanes and hit it head-on early on Tuesday.Airbags, seat belts ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women who were seen dragging a visibly heavy trolley bag along a crowded ghat of the Hooghly in north Calcutta around 7.30am on Tuesday were stopped by passers-by and asked what was inside.They said a laptop. But out ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphThe maximum permissible speed for vehicles on 26 roads in the city will vary between 25km and 50km per hour, Kolkata Police said in a notification on Monday.The restrictions on vehicular speed were “necessary for preventing danger, obstruction or ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphThe 14-year-old boy of the Dey family has told police that his uncle slashed his wrist after the boy saw his cousin lifeless on her bed at their Tangra home, sources said on Monday. His wound was superficial and ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday spoke out against VIP culture and thundered that no car should be stopped to let a VIP pass. Mamata said she did not like being treated as a VIP.“Why a VIP will not ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Police on Monday submitted a chargesheet against an e-rickshaw driver accused of rape and murder of a child in New Town earlier this month.The chargesheet came 17 days after the 14-year-old girl was found dead on a deserted ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA supplementary chargesheet will be submitted soon in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-and-murder case, the CBI told Sealdah court on Monday while submitting a status report.The supplementary chargesheet is likely to contain charges of destruction of ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA real estate developer with an alleged criminal background was shot at in Howrah’s Liluah on Friday night outside a multi-storeyed building on Netaji Subhas Road moments after he stepped out of a birthday party.Rajesh Singh fell after being ...
25 February 2025 TelegraphStudents and aspiring young entrepreneurs pitched business ideas at a contest held at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Calcutta, recently.The competition started on February 12 with more than 60 teams. Only 30 qualified for the next rounds.After the semi-finals on ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: An association that honoured a woman, who had worked to empower women at the grassroots level more than 100 years back, celebrated its centennial anniversary in the city on Sunday. Saroj Nalini Dutt’s work lives through the Saroj ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphA school asked parents to collaborate with their children for a theatre project — a break from their routine life of going to a mall or a multiplex.Calcutta International School invited parents of Classes I to V on Thursday ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe warden of the two Jadavpur University hostels, where a section of first-year students allegedly smashed the gates and CCTV cameras to protest the tweak in timings last week, said on Sunday that they took the measure drawing lessons ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will address a doctors’ convention on Monday, her first such face-to-face meeting with senior as well as junior doctors from across the state since the RG Kar protests.Mamata will interact with the medical fraternity for ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphTwo young business leaders from Calcutta were on the eclectic speakers’ list of the two-day ABP Network’s Ideas of India Summit 2025.Times have changed but boardroom bias against women is still a reality, Rochita Dey, director of Sreeleathers, told ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan now based in Canada, who was at Dubai International Cricket Stadium with his wife and another couple to watch Sunday’s match, said being at the stadium for an India-Pakistan match is the most exciting experience for him.It ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphBike-borne men snatched a gold chain from the neck of a 57-year-old woman who was going to a relative’s house a few hundred metres from her Dhakuria home on Saturday afternoon.Piyali De Ray, a resident of 76/7 Selimpur Road, ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphIt was a Sunday that does not come often.From residential complexes to malls and electronic goods stores, the fever of the India-Pakistan face-off in the Champions Trophy cricket match gripped the city.Fans went over to each other’s apartments to ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the Dey brothers, Prasun, and his nephew are likely to be discharged on Monday from the Ruby General Hospital, where they had been admitted since surviving a car crash on EM Bypass early on Wednesday morning.Police will ...
24 February 2025 Telegraph“Please do not litter, use the dustbin,” tea seller Pradip Das tells visitors to the Champatala Ghat, near Sovabazar. Fifty-year-old Das is a “river ambassador”. Sixteen people, including Das, who earn their livelihood selling tea and snacks or ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe portico of Chandernagore station, among the first four railway stations in eastern India dating back to 1854, is being pulled down, triggering protests and allegations that a piece of heritage is lost forever.Residents of Chandernagore noticed on Saturday ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe Union health ministry has asked states and medical colleges across the country to discourage unnecessary use of earphones and headphones, citing studies implicating prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds in irreversible hearing loss.A February 20 letter from ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has instructed examination centre supervisors to “make strict usage” of metal detectors for “frisking purposes” to prevent examinees from carrying mobile phones and electronic devices into the centres.Council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya has asked the ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked schools to have fully functional computer labs with internet facilities so that the students are able to access online learning platforms and participate in the council’s online activities.The ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the two Dey brothers who survived Wednesday morning’s car crash was discharged from the Ruby General Hospital and shifted to the NRS Medical College and Hospital on Saturday evening.Although Pranay Dey’s 14-year-old son was also to be ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphBrace for travel woes next week as app cab drivers have threatened to go off the road if their demands for fair revision are not met with soon.On February 27, drivers and bike riders will go offline for 12 ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMore than 5.5 lakh eggs of Olive Ridley turtles have been “safely laid” at the mouths of two rivers in Odisha since November, Indian Coast Guard officials said on Friday.The Olive Ridley sea turtle has been listed on Schedule ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the CBI on former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.“Issue notice… list the matter on March 20, 2025,” a ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphOfficers on night duty have been instructed to focus on speeding or racing on flyovers by bikers now that the state government has removed the night restrictions on two-wheelers accessing flyovers, senior officers overseeing traffic said.Sergeants from traffic guards ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe police inspector who was shot in the arm is said to have told police investigators that his revolver went off accidentally during a tiff with his friends at Ghoshpara in Howrah’s Shibpur on Wednesday night.Officers from the Howrah ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMany questions remain unanswered three days after a car crash on EM Bypass led to the discovery of three dead and bloodied women in their four-storey home in Tangra.Police, who say the women were murdered, are yet to piece ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphTwo among the four men who allegedly jumped out of a cab and fled after the driver raised the alarm about them on Wednesday night have been arrested.These two men, police said, had taken shelter inside the Salt Lake ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphTwo members of the Dey family who survived the car crash, Pranay Dey, 44, and his 14-year-old son, are likely to be discharged from hospital on Saturday, police sources said.Pranay, his son, and his brother Prasun, who are recuperating ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata has said certain bottlenecks in Chingrighata stretch along EM Bypass are hampering the progress of the Orange Line, which will connect the southern part of the city with the airport.The stretch, extending from Ruby Crossing (Hemanta ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe City of Joy’s streets hide many surprises; some roofs do too. Like Karnani Estate, the storied five-storey building at 209, AJC Bose Road in the heart of Kolkata. Residential quarters and offices dot the dense block of concrete ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphAbout 50 schools in five districts gave Madhyamik examinees additional time because of a power outage at those venues triggered by heavy rain on Thursday afternoon.The state’s Class X board examinations, which began on February 10, start at 10.45am ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphChunks of the ceiling of a room at Eden Hindu Hostel on College Street fell on a resident’s bed on Wednesday night. Fortunately, the resident was not there.Room No. 101 is located in a block that underwent renovation and ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphA spell of heavy rain around the time many schools give over stranded children and parents on Thursday.Dispersal got delayed and in some schools, there were reports of waterlogging inside and outside the campus.In most schools, pre-primary and primary ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s budget for 2025-26 presented on Thursday emphasised on avoiding “unnecessary expenses” and “unplanned expenditure” with a thrust on “day-to-day operation”. The allocation for solid waste management, roads, drainage and water supply departments — which form ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphA cab driver who overheard a conversation among a group of men he was ferrying on Wednesday night suspected they had committed a crime somewhere beyond Bengal and were trying to take shelter in the city.The driver slowed down ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe inspector in charge of a police station in Hooghly was found with a bullet injury on his left arm in Howrah’s Ghoshpara in Shibpur close to midnight on Wednesday.The officer has been identified as Jayanta Pal, the inspector ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphDoctor-entrepreneur Devi Shetty on Thursday lauded Bengal’s "ease of doing business" at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a 1,100-bed hospital in New Town.Once ready, the hospital would be the largest private hospital in eastern India.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee laid ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe four-storey building with dark windows at 21C Atal Sur Road in Tangra is the only impartial witness to what transpired inside.No one has switched on the lights in the building after Monday evening.With the help of accounts from ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphHarinalaya Mini Zoo was inaugurated by the chief minister in February 2023 but not enough has been done there in these two years.The mini zoo was opened to allow, particularly residents of New Town, easy and more frequent visits ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphDo not call 101. Call your neighbouring fire station on its landline number instead. That is the plea being sent out to the populace at large from the firemen at Bidhannagar fire station that responded to the rescue call ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe two women and the teenage girl found dead at their four-storey Tangra home on Wednesday had been murdered, police said on Thursday.However, the accounts of the two women’s husbands — who have suggested a family “suicide pact” gone ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphCarpets were laid out in BB-BC Park, chairs were arranged for parents to watch and students were ready to hop, skip, and jump. But the rain gods had other plans.No sooner did the tots complete their march-past than it ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphSaltlake Point School in CD Block hosted its annual exhibition showcasing projects from students in lower nursery to Class XII, with enthusiastic participation from teachers, students, and parents.The event was inaugurated by founder-principal Madhushree Sengupta, who also opened a ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphPost-mortem examination conducted on two women and a teenage girl, whose bodies were found inside their house in Kolkata, on Thursday found that they were murdered, is missing speculations that the three died by suicide, a police officer ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA paid concierge service for all domestic and international passengers was launched at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday, an official said.The service will be helpful for passengers not conversant with the systems in the airport or those who are ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA ceiling fan came crashing down, injuring a Madhyamik examinee who was writing her life science paper in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, on Wednesday.The fan did not land on the student, but the blades grazed past the left side of ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA car crash on EM Bypass early on Wednesday morning in which two men and a teenage boy were injured led to the discovery of three dead women at their home in Tangra.Pranay Kumar Dey, 44, who was in ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphThe city police commissioner on Wednesday urged the elderly who live alone to register with Pronam — a police initiative to address concerns about their security and provide them help with their daily needs as well as on legal ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphDo not keep bank details on your mobile phones and do not allow the “criminal” calling you to link his phone or call to your account to get access to your bank, the commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA Tollygunge resident was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly faking a robbery at her house.Sonali Biswas, 43, a homemaker had alleged that two men attacked her when she was entering her Moore Avenue apartment around 6.45pm on Monday.She had ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA hailstorm so “severe” that residents could not recall a parallel in decades struck Kharagpur, a town known for extreme heat, on Tuesday evening.The storm left the town covered in a thick white sheet.Social media was abuzz with pictures ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA car crash on EM Bypass and the subsequent recovery of three dead women from a house in Tangra has left a trail of unanswered questions.Here is what the investigation has revealed so far and a list of questions ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphThe police and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Tuesday removed temporary shelters and stacked up materials from a stretch of pavement along CR Avenue, while hawkers were back on roads in New Market.Police and KMC officials said Tuesday’s ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women and a teenage girl of the same family were found dead inside their house, while three other members were injured as their car rammed into a metro pillar in Kolkata on Wednesday, police said.The three bodies were ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphOn her way to the Assembly on Tuesday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee stopped outside United Missionary Girls’ High School in Bhowanipore where guardians were waiting anxiously as their children wrote their state secondary examinations (Madhyamik) inside.She reached the school ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA special Pocso court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a man guilty of rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old child in north Kolkata to death by hanging.The protection of children from sexual offences act (Pocso) court at Bankshall ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to a renowned school in south Kolkata and wished good luck to the students appearing for this year's Madhyamik (class 10 state board) examination.Banerjee, who stopped outside ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench headed by Justice Joymalya Bagchi on Tuesday expressed “hope” that a lower court would start the trial process in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital by early ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday asked the state government how it could build a booster pumping station on a plot of land in South 24-Parganas’ Mathurapur that its owner had donated to the state for a hospital.A primary health ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA city Pocso court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a 34-year-old man for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a seven-month-old baby girl who lived with her parents on a footpath in north Calcutta. The child is still in hospital ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA 47-year-old man was charred to death at home in Salt Lake’s DA Block while his elderly mother, wife and daughter, who were on another floor, had a narrow escape on Monday night, police said. Debarshi Ganguly, a railway ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday granted bail to one of the key accused in the alleged school jobs scam case. Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also referred to as “Kalighat-er Kaku” (uncle from Kalighat), was granted bail till March 31 on ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA Class X boy who underwent surgery on Monday evening wrote his ICSE board exam at 11am on Tuesday.Sk Sagar, 17, appeared for his English language paper from the hospital with the intravenous (IV) cannula on his left hand. ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThree robberies within five days across the city and no arrests yet.Between the first incident in the early hours of Thursday and the third one on Monday evening, the common thread, police suspect, was a person known to the ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe city has failed its elderly, yet again.A break-in at an elderly couple’s house in Dum Dum at 2am on Monday.Five days earlier, on February 13, a 68-year-old woman with a broken femur was robbed of valuables in her ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphSmashed plates lay strewn on the drawing room floor on Tuesday afternoon.They bore telltale signs of the brief resistance that Sonali Biswas, 43, had put up before being overpowered by two men who robbed her Moore Avenue home in ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old man was killed when a fire broke out in a residential building in West Bengal's Salt Lake area, the satellite township on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred late Monday night at ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe ship Clyde, launched at Calcutta on January 26, 1802, sailed from the city on this day, bound for London, on a voyage for the British East India Company.It had cost sicca ₹76,000 to build.It was listed as belonging ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: A man who has been working at a licensed arms shop in Dalhousie over the last two decades was arrested in Baruipur, South 24-Parganas, on Monday for allegedly selling ammunition illegally to unlicensed buyers.The Special Task Force (STF) ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe hawkers who have set up their stalls on roads in the New Market area have to approach the town vending committee for a space to open their stalls and cannot sit on the road on their own, Debashis ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA celebrated German filmmaker known for his poignant depiction of loneliness spoke of a different kind of loneliness on Monday.“Today, there is a whole new form of loneliness, a very sick form. Even if instruments tell us they provide ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphGarbage dumped on pavements or along roads, bins overflowing with no one to clear them and heaps of waste being set on fire — once a showpiece township, Salt Lake is now a picture of complete neglect in waste ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphRobbers cut through an iron grille on a window, entered a two-storey house in the Dum Dum Cantonment area in north Calcutta and robbed an elderly couple holding a knife against them.The heist at 2am on Monday once again ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphChildren with pre-existing conditions like ADHD, autism or any other intellectual disabilities are more susceptible to stress during the board exams, said psychiatrists.The stress manifests through anxiety, aggression, lack of concentration and panic attacks. A deviation from the routine ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphThe Chhot boat that was made at Dihimondal ghat in Howrah’s Shyampur in October 2022 might not have yet reached its final destination at the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, but the process of its construction is ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphTwo brothers were allegedly attacked with a knife by a group on Harish Mukherjee Road, near SSKM Hospital, when they were returning home after closing their roadside stall in the New Market area late on Saturday. Two men have ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphA copy of your Aadhaar card shared as identity proof while checking into a hotel. A credit card handed to a waiter ata restaurant to settle the bill. Charging the phone at the airport.Such seemingly innocuous activities can offer ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphAt least three people have lost money over the past few days in an alleged fraud while trying to withdraw money from an ATM of a nationalised bank near Kishore Bharati stadium in Jadavpur.The victims told police their cards ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day a school was started for the education of Indian-Armenian girls in the city. Armenian writer and educationist Mesrop Taghiadian opened a girls’ school. It was named Saint Sandught. A boys section was added to it.It closed ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphPre-Independence, unified Bengal’s textile legacy included not just the muslin or the jamdani patronised by the royalty but also the everyday cotton sari and gamchha from Santipur and the kantha of folk tradition.Chikankari, a handiwork from Awadh, was also ...
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