Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to address a doctors’ convention in February where principals, medical superintendents and faculty members at government medical colleges, junior doctors and those from private hospitals will be invited.About 2,000 doctors are likely to ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court will pronounce on January 18 its verdict on the rape and murder of a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, lawyers present during Thursday’s hearing said.The additional district and sessions judge ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThis frail little lady, who is wheelchair-bound, once crossed the border carrying her paralysed mother-in-law and four young children in tow. Usharani Banerjee turned 100 on January 1, and although she is now just a shadow of her once ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphHis classmates thought he was the professor. And why not? It’s not everyday that one has a 62-year-old studying with them.DL Block’s Ranjan Kumar Mandal enrolled for his Masters degree at Jadavpur University (JU) post-retirement and graduated this winter, ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphHe had obtained his law degree in 1976 but began practice almost 50 years later, after retirement. Today BL Block’s Gopinath Sarkar, 77, dresses in a black coat and helps clients get justice.Sarkar was born in Arambagh in 1945 ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphDo not drive and come for an eye check-up. This was a simple message that Dr Purnenu Bikash Sarkar delivered to those attending the 31st anniversary celebration of Salt Lake Eye Foundation.The eye specialist, who has shifted base from ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphJudgement in the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year will be delivered on January 18 by the designated judge of Sealdah court here. The Central ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphFour reservoirs with booster pumping stations will come up over the next two years in south and southeast Calcutta, officials in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said. Mayor Firhad Hakim laid the foundation stone of two stations — in ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Sunderbans tiger that strayed near human habitat and eluded forest guards for two days seems to have returned to the forest it had sneaked out of, forest officials said on Wednesday.Pugmarks found on the bank of the creek ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three more weeks to Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose to fill the remaining 17 posts of vice-chancellors in the state.The appointment process had been stalled for over a year amid a tussle between ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA self-claimed Trinamool Congress leader from Beleghata was arrested for allegedly extorting money from a resident of Madhyamgram and assaulting him, police said.Sushanta Saha, alias Habu, was arrested based on a complaint lodged by Kajal Mondal, the police said.“According ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThose involved in the racket that helped people obtain passports with forged documents allegedly devised a structured mechanism for paying their associates, Kolkata Police officers said.Depending on the work, the amount would vary between ₹2,000 and ₹25,000.The racket was ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, East India Company official Samuel Turner was appointed chief of a Tibet mission with another company employee Samuel Davis. This was following the news in 1782 of the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. Governor-General Warren Hastings ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA private hospital chain in the city has started training ambulance drivers about how to deal with trauma injuries while transporting a patient to a hospital and identify the symptoms of stroke and cardiac arrest so they know what ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphThe high court has allowed a BJP rally on Thursday afternoon from Rabindra Sadan to National Library protesting the Bengal government’s decision to sell prime land opposite the Alipore zoo where a quarantine centre for animals was to come ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral sports coaching clubs inside Vivekananda Park, off Southern Avenue, have been renting out space to third parties for money.The practice has been going on for years but the Kolkata Municipal Corporation wants that to stop now.The civic body ...
10 January 2025 TelegraphA man who claimed to be a law clerk at the Barasat court was arrested early on Wednesday for allegedly helping a section of Bangladeshi nationals get fake Aadhaar cards and other identity documents.Samir Das was arrested after police ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee told university vice-chancellors and college principals to “focus on” introducing subjects like artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science considering the demand of the time. Mamata was speaking at the closing ceremony of Students ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphA woman assistant sub-inspector of police died after the motorcycle she was riding skidded on a tram track and she was hit and dragged by an oil tanker near Tollygunge Metro station on Monday night, police said.Rituparna Dey, who ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University (CU) has struck down the appeal that the first-semester internal examination be deferred and said it would start on January 15 as scheduled.Asutosh College had recently appealed to the university to defer the exam because the students ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Ride Kolkata mobile app created a milestone on Wednesday with 50,000 iOS users and 9.6 lakh android phone users downloading the mobile application.The app was launched on March 3, 2022 for android phones and on March 22, 2024 for Apple ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata authorities have decided to step up the 'anti-suicide' campaign urging passengers not to take any extreme and drastic step to end their lives by putting up posters and asking commuters not to move perilously close to ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphAbout 450 people, gathered from across three continents, basked in the winter sun and nostalgia over rice and sheetal shutki on Sunday. The South Kolkata Sylhet Association was holding its two-day annual meet at a Jodhpur Park venue.“Sheetal shutki ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphMild tremors were felt in Calcutta on Tuesday morning as a powerful earthquake hit a remote region of Tibet and parts of Nepal, causing deaths and damage.Tremors were felt across south and north Bengal but no casualties were reported ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphThe ship Lady Castlereagh was launched on this day. In its first six voyages, which it made for the British East India Company, it sailed between the Downs in England and Saugor (Sagar), Bengal.On its seventh voyage, which was ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphA tiger is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in the Sunderbans and reached the threshold of a human habitat.Pugmarks of what looked like a big cat were spotted on a muddy road that leads to Kishorimohanpur ...
9 January 2025 TelegraphCharges were framed on Tuesday against 47 people and companies accused of irregularities in recruitment for state-aided schools. The trial in the case, which has been investigated by the Enforcement Directorate, is likely to start on January 14, the ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphBus drivers, who are responsible for over 35 per cent of road accidents, should be sent to attend short courses on traffic awareness at regular intervals, police told a group of bus and minibus owners on Tuesday.The police had ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe tiger that is suspected to have sneaked out of a forest in the Sunderbans and reached the doorstep of a village continued to elude foresters on Tuesday.The big cat was pitted against a team of over 70 forest ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphCharges were framed on Monday against former education minister Partha Chatterjee and several other accused in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment in government-aided schools.They have been charged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The Enforcement Directorate has ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Monday that several governments and aided schools did not have enough students, so the government planned to merge some of them.“There are several schools that don’t have students. We are conducting a PTR ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA man has been arrested for allegedly cheating and blackmailing another man posing as a woman on a dating app, police said. The accused allegedly used cosmetics and wigs to look like a woman while talking to his victim ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA US-based charity has announced a donation of $34,000 (around ₹29 lakh) to its sister organisation in India to sponsor a nursing student’s studies, build outreach centres and establish a distress fund for patients. The founder and president of ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided to recruit over 450 drivers and 350 conductors to address the shortage of personnel to run government buses.These recruitments will be contractual and the candidates will be paid a consolidated amount after their selection ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphGovernment buses awaiting maintenance and lying in garages will be made roadworthy at the earliest to boost the city’s public transport, officials said. The move comes within four days of chief minister Mamata Banerjee slamming the transport department for ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA 65-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in her room on the first floor of a two-storey residential building in Garfa early on Monday, police said. Wrapped in a blanket, Baby Mandal was asleep when the fire ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Robert Kiernander, son of John Zachariah Kiernander, Swedish Lutheran missionary in Bengal, wrote a letter to his missionary friends in Halle, Germany.It said he had just printed an English almanac at a small English press that ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphA 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, one of Indian Museum’s major attractions, has been temporarily shifted from its usual display space in the first-floor Egyptian gallery.The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) is renovating the Egyptian gallery. Work is expected to be ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphThe Technology Students’ Gymkhana (TSG), the official students’ body at IIT Kharagpur, has said many students have expressed concern that BC Roy Technology Hospital on the campus is “ill-equipped to handle trauma cases”.Among the respondents in a survey conducted ...
8 January 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College will introduce a multi-disciplinary course for undergraduate students in wetlands ecology and conservation.Principal Father Dominic Savio said the one-semester course — aimed at protecting the wetlands to the east of Calcutta, the Sunderbans and the lower ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphAround 60 flights were delayed at the Kolkata airport on Monday due to poor visibility, an official said.Due to dense fog, low visibility procedures (LVP) had to be implemented at the airport from 7 am, the official said.According to ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphIndia’s growth rate makes good headlines but the fine print throws up several concerns, said economist Kaushik Basu. “The overall growth picture, the headline, it is fine. But once you go below the headline, there are many, many worries ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are seeing a rise in the number of children with symptoms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and some of the institutions are trying to introduce tools in classrooms to address the issue.Principals said children in pre-primary ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphFirst came a monitor lizard that ran for its life. Seconds later, a deer mom and her fawn did an encore. Cue enough for a forest guide on a watchtower to alert a group of visitors. For the next ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphMany people are down with fever, cold and cough and other respiratory ailments, doctors said.A large number of people are suffering from upper respiratory tract congestion caused by air pollution, which increases during winter. A spike in air pollution ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA hint of chill and the mild winter sun on Sunday together provided the ideal condition for outdoor activities.The result — weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta were teeming with visitors.Around 2pm, traffic policemen near Science City were having ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphEvery year on January 6, the Armenian church in Calcutta has been celebrating Christmas. In the year 336, the church in Rome began to celebrate Christmas on December 25 during the reign of Emperor Constantine. Till then, Christmas would ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, a meeting of the residents of Calcutta was held at the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Governor-General in Council or the Legislative Council of India, to repeal the press regulation passed in ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day Samir Uddin and Shivram Majhi of Talpukur village in Dinajpur district were gunned down by the police. They are believed to be the first martyrs of the Tebhaga movement. Samir Uddin was a Muslim and Shivram ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphAn artist and a research scholar from Nadia will receive an award instituted to honour individuals who bridge the worlds of art and journalism.Labani Jangi, who hails from Dhubulia in Nadia district, will receive the TM Krishna-PARI Award 2024.The ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphSaturday is likely to be the last day of the trial in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case and the verdict may be announced on the next date, which has yet to be announced. In its final submission on Thursday, ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA bishop gobbled up a pawn. A queen lunged at a horse. Two kings crossed swords.The generals marshalling the troops were short of eyesight but not of smart moves. On Saturday, several visually impaired chess players took part in ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphVehicles heading to EM Bypass along the AJC Bose Road flyover between 10pm and 6am will be diverted to the Park Circus seven-point crossing instead of being allowed onto the Parama flyover for 15 days beginning Sunday.The diversion will ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA free clinic for marginalised people was inaugurated in Mullick Bazar on Saturday. It operates out of the ground floor of a building on North Range Road.On day one, around 50 people, mostly from the slums of Ward 61 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has to “reach out” to its former students in a “sincere and structured way” if it intends to scale up the quantum of cooperation from former students, many said on the occasion of JU’s first-ever Alumni Day. ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA retired Kolkata Police sub-inspector, Abdul Hai, was arrested late on Friday for allegedly clearing passport applications without proper enquiry and adequate verification.The 61-year-old officer retired a year ago and was attached to the passport section of the police’s ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool minister and a BJP MP exchanged verbal volleys stalling traffic on the Vidyasagar Setu around 9pm on Friday and accusing each other of throwing their weight around and misbehaviour.The altercation between the BJP’s Tamluk MP, former Calcutta ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe air quality turned “poor” in four out of seven monitoring stations in Calcutta and “very poor” in four out of five stations in Howrah on Saturday as temperatures dipped.A scientist with the state pollution control board (PCB) said ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim submitted a petition before the Sealdah court on Saturday demanding “highest punishment” for the accused and sought “further investigation” to punish others who may be involved in the crime.The closing arguments ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphIn a groundbreaking achievement, Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC), Kolkata, has successfully performed a Robotic Radical Nephrectomy on a 66-year-old male patient with a rare congenital anomaly known as "Crossed Fused Ectopic Kidney." The condition, documented in fewer than 10 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan, lured by cheats into investing in what he thought were stocks, was duped out of ₹1.78 crore, police said.Three persons have been arrested in this connection, the police said.The cheats allegedly pretended to be providing him guidance ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) on Friday evening decided to retain all the contractual employees who had been laid off on December 31, bringing the three-day agitation against the lay-offs to an end, an official of the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA whale found on a beach near the southernmost tip of Bengal on Thursday morning was released into the Bay of Bengal early on Friday, said forest officials.Shifting the 15ft whale, weighing at least several hundred kilos, involved over ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphAsutosh College has appealed to Calcutta University to defer the first-semester internal examination because students who got admitted late did not have enough time to prepare.Some other colleges have also expressed concern about the lack of preparation time because ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA city with a glorious past is now in decay.A short walk around what used to be Calcutta’s most spectacular pocket, Dalhousie Square, reveals a sad story of neglect, lawlessness and lack of love for the rich legacy the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphBangladeshis who have come to Calcutta for treatment said they had not faced any problem finding accommodation or receiving treatment in the city.A Hindu family from Bangladesh said they counted on their Muslim neighbours who promised to protect them ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphWestern Carriers India Ltd (WCIL), a Kolkata-based logistics firm, has secured a material handling order worth Rs 139 crore from Vedanta Ltd, the company said on Friday.The order entails an import, finished goods domestic and export material handling contract ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSushanta Ghosh, Trinamul councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s ward 108 and chairman of borough XII, survived three attempts on his life between July and November last year.Dulal Sarkar, Trinamul councillor from Malda’s Englishbazar Municipality, fell to bullets of bike-borne ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA government-sponsored Bengali-medium school in Santoshpur has been training its students to communicate in English which would help them in the future.Communicative English classes are held twice weekly for Classes V to IX and XI at Santoshpur Rishi Aurobindo ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked police to find out the reason for the frequent traffic snarls on Vidyasagar Setu and come up with a solution.“Second Hooghly Bridge-e (Vidyasagar Setu) ghontar por ghonta lokey dnariye thaakey (commuters are ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius plunged to 13.2 degrees on Thursday from 17.6 on Monday, as cold northwesterly winds tightened their grip on the city.The minimum temperature was a notch below normal. At 21.6 degrees, the maximum was almost four notches below ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the state transport minister on Thursday for not having enough buses on the roads and said the department had turned “silent”, suggesting that it had stopped doing its job.She instructed the minister, Snehasis Chakraborty, ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday scrapped the state primary education board’s decision to introduce a semester system in government-aided schools (Classes I to V) this year because it would increase the study load.The chief minister slammed the education ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSir Proby Thomas Cautley, who had planned and supervised the construction of the Ganges Canal, was born on this day. The Ganges Canal is the canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers.He ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphHere is news that is sure to bring some respite to residents who are fretting over the increasing commercialisation of their neighbourhood.The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to come down heavily upon illegal commercial use of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphOne of the most common ways to celebrate the festive season is by putting up lights. The Corporation, however, is sending out a message that this cannot be done at the cost of harming trees.Lights that were entwined around ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphRobotics has entered the orthopedic surgery operation theatre at Techno India Dama Hospital on the Bypass on the back of a digital surgery platform developed by Johnson & Johnson MedTech. The hospital has acquired a VELYS robotic surgery unit ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants and cafes witnessed more than 20 per cent increase in table occupancy during the Christmas-New Year week compared to the corresponding period last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will observe its first Alumni Day on January 4 to foster its bond with former students so the fundraising drive, which has been modest so far, can be scaled up.The university, encountering a funds crunch, has invited ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphContractual workers of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) in Jadavpur started an indefinite demonstration on Wednesday to protest against the institute’s decision to lay off 51 of them.The protesters, many of whom have been working as lab ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA 64-year-old man was allegedly assaulted after he protested felling of trees at a park in Kasba on Wednesday morning, police said. The complainant has alleged that it was an attempt by local Trinamool Congress activists to occupy the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA bronze statue of a girl child clutching a notebook was unveiled at The BSS School on Wednesday.As it stepped into its 75th year on January 1, the school in Gariahat installed the statue to highlight the transformative “power ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA college student has been arrested for the alleged rape of a former classmate in another friend’s house. The alleged incident is said to have happened on December 21 and was reported to police on December 31. Police arrested ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA will written on this day by an affluent Jewish merchant residing in the city indicates some presence of the community in Calcutta. The merchant, Joseph Israil Levy, left to his daughter Abigail 1,000 pounds in the custody of ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphBiryani evokes varied reactions among people. Some love it, some could “die for it”, some debate and some research.It is not enough just to partake of the delicately flavoured rice and meat but to understand its origins and etymology, ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA trader from North 24-Parganas brought his family to Eco Park.A couple in New Alipore who could not spend New Year’s Eve with their son took him out for shopping and dinner on Wednesday. New Year revelry had many ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphAnother new year has come but many things in Calcutta have not changed in many years. On Day I of 2025, many Calcuttans listed for this newspaper things they would want to change in the city they call home.They ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRabindra Ghosh, the lawyer for Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, will miss Thursday’s court appearance due to hospitalisation, and instead, two of his junior lawyers along with 18 other legal representatives will handle the case.Ghosh, who has been ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) ended its sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue at Esplanade on Tuesday. JPD members, who had earlier spoken about extending their sit-in beyond December 31, said they would intensify their protests and ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe temperature of the concrete under the Durgapur Bridge in Chetla had gone up significantly on December 21 when a fire gutted shanties under the bridge, sources in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said. The heat damaged the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphIt’s one-legged and carries the children it steals to treetops, from where it drops them. Another is diminutive and is the harbinger of wealth if it lingers in a house. Yet another appears as a phosphoric glow over a ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRevellers flooded streets and trooped into pubs and restaurants as the city bade farewell to 2024 and welcomed the New Year.Since afternoon, Park Street and its adjoining roads had been teeming with year-end revellers.The weather — a drop in ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphMore than 7,000 motorists were prosecuted across Calcutta for violating traffic signals and over 4,500 were penalised for driving two-wheelers without wearing a helmet between December 27 and 30, figures released by Kolkata Police showed.The figures showed that prosecutions ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTwo buses racing along a busy road in Ultadanga left a pedestrian critically injured and triggered a mob fury on Tuesday morning, police said.The accident happened at the crossing of Muraripukur Road and Ultadanga Main Road, near Telengabagan, around ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphAny ride on the last Metro between Kavi Subhash (New Garia) and Dum Dum in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) will cost an extra ₹10 from New Year’s Day.From January 1, a passenger must pay a fixed “surcharge” of ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTigress Zeenat left the Alipore zoo on Tuesday night for Similipal in Odisha, the same forest she had escaped on December 5 and went on a month-long odyssey covering three states before being captured in Bankura on Sunday.She was ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphDrug regulatory authorities have seized from a wholesale premises facility in Calcutta large quantities of suspected spurious medicines, including purported anti-cancer and anti-diabetes drugs labelled as manufactured in other countries, the health ministry said on Tuesday.A joint investigation by ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphWalter Savage Landor Dickens, the fourth child of British novelist Charles Dickens, died on this day in Calcutta. He was in the British Indian army.Walter had shown an inclination towards writing early in life, but his father did not ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphA group of women from Hooghly district was arrested on Sunday for allegedly running a racket that targeted people on buses and in autorickshaws by posing as fellow passengers and robbing them. Being women, police said they would attract ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, who Kolkata Police have summoned in connection with the case of extortion calls made from the MLA hostel on Kyd Street, has sought “a little more time” to appear before the cops. Nikhil ...
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