They are trumpet-shaped; they smell sweet and intoxicating; they come in a large palate of colours and above all their huge size adds to their dramatic beauty. Meet Angel’s Trumpet, that is a favourite of growers and admirers alike.Angel’s ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphEast-West Metro services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade stretch (Green Line-2) will be revised from December 14 because of ongoing work between Esplanade and Sealdah stations, Kolkata Metro said in a statement on Thursday.Beginning Saturday, 114 services will run instead ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladesh delegation is likely to attend the Vijay Diwas celebrations in Kolkata on December 16, which marks the Indian Armed Forces' historic victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, Defence sources said on Thursday.'Mukti Jodhas' may also take ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh has adversely impacted the inflow of patients from the neighbouring country to Kolkata hospitals primarily due to delays in issuance of visas and fear psychosis among them, officials said."The Peerless Hospital has seen ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Bimal Mukherjee, Ashok Mukherjee, Ananda Mukherjee and Manindra Ghosh began their journey from the city as the first Indians to circumnavigate the globe on bicycles.Bimal, who wrote about his experiences in his book Du chakaye duniya, ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA dancer was called to a hotel room off Sarat Bose Road for a meeting, where she was allegedly sedated and robbed of her jewellery and phones, which she discovered the next morning. Police arrested three persons on Tuesday ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA concert featuring two music maestros from different continents will celebrate 210 years of India’s oldest museum. Italian saxophonist Gianni Denitto and Indian percussionist Bickram Ghosh will perform at the central courtyard of the majestic Indian Museum on Friday.One ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe film was crowdfunded. The cast and crew comprised villagers whose only idea of cinema was dancing and fighting. The sole technician on location, the cinematographer, was bent on leaving that day. Yet there was no sign of rain ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphEastern India’s biggest road race is back in a bigger avatar.The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will see over 20,500 people — top international and Indian athletes among them — at the starting blocks on ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe Salt Lake civic body on Wednesday pulled down 10 illegal billboards, along with their lighting systems, and dismantled the metal frames that held them.A team of 20 workers, accompanied by sub-assistant engineers and officials of the Bidhannagar Municipal ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill paving the way for the setting up of the first private university in the Calcutta municipal area.The Bhawanipur Global University Bill envisages a campus on a three-acre plot in Tollygunge that will ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe state government confirmed on Wednesday that it had received a CBI application seeking sanction to prosecute government officials Sandip Ghosh and Asish Pandey for alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. A senior official at ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphTwo men from Mumbai, who were staying at a hotel in Sealdah, have been arrested for allegedly posing as officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and cheating a woman out of ₹66 lakh by threatening to ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphFlight operations at NSCBI airport in Kolkata were disrupted for sometime on Wednesday morning as visibility turned low due to dense fog, officials said.West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose’s visit to Farakka in Murshidabad district in a BSF ...
12 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, John Eliot, magistrate of the suburbs of Calcutta, who contributed in a major way towards establishing the city’s drainage, wrote in a minute that in the sketch of the drain submitted to the Lottery Committee, certain ...
12 December 2024 TelegraphLawyers representing former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former state government officials accused of being part of a school recruitment racket submitted in court on Tuesday that Chatterjee was no longer a member of any political party and ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe transport department will launch a project enabling commuters to book tickets and track the movement of private buses on 10 city routes through the Yatri Sathi mobile app.So far, the state government app has been restricted to state-run ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphNineteen people have been arrested for allegedly making fraudulent calls to people in the US posing as employees of a reputable antivirus company and cheating them on the pretext of upgrading the software. The group operated out of an ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal Assembly on Tuesday approved two bills to establish private universities: Rabindranath Tagore University in Dhaniakhali, Hooghly, and Ramakrishna Paramhansa University in Agarpara, North 24-Parganas.Once the two are set up, Bengal will have 44 state-aided and private universities.The ...
11 December 2024 Telegraph• If you see or sense a victim of domestic violence, don’t rush into intervening in an over-aggressive manner. A better option is to try and give the victim an agency to seek justice and report the crime.• Gender-based ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital expressed disappointment on Tuesday after the Supreme Court scheduled the next hearing “four months” later.They also questioned why the CBI had ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has awarded Basanti Devi College in Gariahat an A+ grade in its fourth accreditation cycle. The college, which in the last cycle got a B+, improved its rank by two notches in ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday recorded the CBI’s statement that trial proceedings in the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital would be concluded within one month and gave liberty to the litigants ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphA doctor who was conferred with the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ on Tuesday alleged that she received ill treatment from the employees of a low-cost carrier at the Kolkata airport after her flight to Bagdogra was cancelled due to "bad ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphA spate of launches at the premium end of the residential segment from the heart of south Calcutta to the fringes of the north is perking up the real estate market in a city better associated with affordable housing.A ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphTens of thousands of people are staring at loss of livelihood because of the Bangladesh crisis, traders in central Calcutta have warned.Worst hit are the small players who have taken steep loans or mortgaged assets to lease an establishment ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe state legislative assembly on Monday passed The West Bengal Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 and The West Bengal Municipal (Amendment) Bill, 2024, mandating a 10% increase in the annual valuation of lands and buildings in municipal and corporation ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper brought out from Calcutta, published this advertisement.It said:“SUDHACHURNA IS THE BEST REMEDY FOR•Acidity, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Colic, “either acute or chronic”. One dose will give immediate relief and if continued regularly ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphA doctors’ association on Monday expressed its “concern” over a recent government order that slapped fines on 31 senior resident doctors of government medical colleges of ₹20 lakh each for not serving in rural and semi-urban areas.A health department ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphExquisite craftsmanship and intricate details of Japanese dolls are on display at the Indian Museum in an exhibition titled Ningyuo: Art and beauty of Japanese dolls. The Japanese word Ningyo means human shape. The exhibition explores the Japanese doll ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to begin signing individual agreements with shop owners of the dilapidated Park Circus market by year-end.Following the signing of the pacts, the stalls will be relocated to Park Circus Maidan early next ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphSouth City International School gave students of Kindergarten, Classes I and II problems like these and encouraged them to come up with solutions by recycling materials around them.The idea is to help them think, innovate and simultaneously become more ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, will start BCom in accountancy honours from the 2025-26 academic year.The academic council of the college approved the decision to offer BCom on Friday. It will be the first among RKM colleges to ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphThe city spent another almost sunless and cloudy day that was marked by a drizzle in some areas of Calcutta.The cloud cover pushed the minimum temperature up. But the day felt cold because the sun stayed hidden, which resulted ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphNations and people are worried about being left behind as artificial intelligence (AI) is improving quickly and has the potential to reshape the global economy and turbocharge scientific research.Where does a 22-year-old fit in, someone whose career is about ...
10 December 2024 Telegraph(From left) Raju Bharat, the warden of the Greek Orthodox Church; Tsilis Konstantinos, the bishop of Singapore and South Asia and exarch of India; Aliki Koutsomitopoulou, the ambassador of Greece in India; and Sister Nektaria Paridisi, a Greek nun ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphKolkata's iconic Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is all set to celebrate a century of flight operations, marking an incredible milestone in connecting the 'City of Joy' to the world.On Sunday, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphTram services between Tollygunge and Ballygunge, one of the three surviving tram routes in Calcutta, have remained stalled for more than three months now and the government might be planning to scrap the route, a group of tram lovers ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 9mm pistol and two magazines with 12 cartridges were dug out of a vacant plot in Kasba on Saturday evening.Police said the arms and ammunition were linked to the plot to gun down Trinamul Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 20-metre bridge is being built over a feeder canal near Eco Park to connect New Town with Hatiara near Baguiati. Hidco, which is in charge of setting up infrastructure in New Town, is building the bridge. The agency ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 24-year-old youth, who had problems in urinating owing to complications in the lower urinary tract, was injected a medicine around the urinary bladder neck at a hospital in Howrah to avoid a surgery that could have compromised his ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphAn employee of a jewellery workshop in Muchipara who allegedly stole gold from his workplace and put his mobile phone in a bucket of water to wipe his electronic trail was arrested from outside a cinema in Nadia where ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphThe reigning champions will return to eastern India's marquee road race to defend their titles. Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will see an impressive line-up of international runners at the starting line on December 15.The ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphMany private hospitals in Calcutta are rescheduling the dates for surgery or other procedures of patients from Bangladesh if they fail to turn up on the scheduled day because of the trouble across the border, officials at the healthcare ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphISKCON Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das on Sunday alleged that fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh are openly delivering sermons calling for the extermination of ISKCON devotees and their supporters.In a post on X, Das claimed, "In the past few days, fundamentalists ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphProtests were held in various parts of West Bengal on Sunday over the alleged atrocities on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.Hundreds of people joined the protest rallies organised by Hindutva groups in Kolkata, Kanthi, Kakdwip, Sandeshkhali and Purulia, calling for ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has told 85 teachers who had been showcaused last week for “being a signatory” to a mass representation seeking revocation of disciplinary proceedings against four office-bearers of the IIT teachers’ association that “no further action” will be ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphBritish army officer in India, Orientalist and lexicographer Thomas Roebuck passed away on this day in Calcutta.Born in Scotland, Roebuck left for India in 1801 to join the army as an infantry cadet. He learned Hindustani. He was attached ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphThe appointment of full-term vice-chancellors in six state-aided universities on Friday will end the practice of running institutions with stop-gap personnel lacking the authority to make crucial decisions or provide academic leadership. The higher education department has notified that ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA church that was apocryphally pledged by a Greek man caught in a storm in the high sea of Bay of Bengal is recording a milestone on Sunday.Alexias Argyree did keep his word after a safe landing and ₹30,000 ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphTrap cameras have recently captured pictures of a juvenile Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) in the forests of West Burdwan. Wildlife enthusiasts are agog because rarely has such a young wolf been documented by trap cameras in south Bengal. ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphTraders in central Calcutta, bearing the brunt of the crisis in Bangladesh, met on Saturday evening to discuss the road ahead.The meeting included hoteliers, currency exchangers, garment traders, travel operators and restaurateurs from Free School Street, Marquis Street, Sudder ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThe number of passengers from Calcutta to Europe and the US is more than what it used to be a few years ago but there are still no direct flights to these destinations from the city.Aviation industry experts said ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA group of men from Maharashtra and Karnataka has allegedly robbed several jewellery stores in central and south Calcutta posing as CBI officers, police said on Friday.The police said six persons have been arrested, three in Maharashtra and Karnataka ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThree young men and a woman were arrested by the Salt Lake police for allegedly posing as shoppers at a mall and swapping the tags on high-value garments with those on less expensive ones so they could buy the ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA handwritten bill of lading, a legal document issued by a carrier to a shipper detailing the goods being shipped, mentions articles being carried from Calcutta on this day on the ship Alexander Hodgdon, bound for Boston.They are “three ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA 35-year-old man was killed on Friday after sparks from a welding machine ignited a fuel tank, causing an explosion at a vehicle workshop in Sinthi in the northern fringes of Kolkata, police said.The incident happened around 8 am ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Friday granted bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also referred to as “Kalighat-er Kaku”, in connection with the Enforcement Directorate probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment for government-aided schools.The CBI immediately moved a prayer before a ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe principal of Scottish Church College said on Friday they did not initiate action against a contractual teacher despite coming to know about allegations of lewd text messages to a second-year student because the student did not want to ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphBus drivers and conductors will have to shift victims of a road accident “to the nearest emergency medical/trauma care facility” and make arrangements to save lives “through immediate triage” of passengers “who are in imminent danger”, guidelines issued by ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe governor on Friday appointed full-term vice-chancellors for six universities.Nirmalya Narayan Chak-raborty has been appointed VC of Presidency University, Pabitra Kumar Chakraborti will head Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University and Amiya Kumar Panda will helm Rani Rashmoni Green University.Kallol Paul, Rup Kumar ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal in Calcutta has directed the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) to submit an affidavit within 10 days on complaints that garbage was not removed from the city’s roads.The tribunal, in its ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have initiated a study to find out if the existing timings of traffic signals at the Chingrighata intersection on EM Bypass can be tweaked to better manage the flow of vehicles, particularly during the morning and evening rush ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe CBSE will conduct competency-based assessments in Classes V and VIII in all its affiliated schools next year, the chairman of the board said on Friday.The assessments were conducted in around 9,000 schools in 2024-25.In 2025-26, it will be ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphJunior doctors marched from the state medical council office to Swasthya Bhavan on Friday raising questions about why the state health department has yet to give its nod to prosecute former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphWater supply to the entire north Calcutta, large parts of central Calcutta and some parts of south Calcutta will be stopped at 9am on December 14 to carry out “maintenance work” at the Tallah reservoir, mayor Firhad Hakim and ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe CBSE will introduce two levels of science and social science in Classes IX and X, the board chairman told principals at a national conference on Friday.The change will be introduced from 2026-27, he said.“We have already been offering ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphIf your food is right, you don’t need medicine. And if your food is wrong, no medicine is sufficient. The “Millet Man of India,” Khader Vali, recently visited Salt Lake and educated the audience on how they would be ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphTeachers at IIT Kharagpur said the authorities’ decision to replace the heads of three departments was a “vindictive action and shameful act of the administration”. The three — Adritji Goswami, Niloy Ganguly and Nihar Ranjan Jana — were among ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe long-awaited moment finally arrived. After a year of tireless effort, students of St. Francis Xavier School gathered at EZCC for their annual prize distribution ceremony, ready to be recognised for their achievements.Reverend Paritosh Canning, Bishop of Calcutta, Church ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphGames, gifts, activities...students of the play school Nurturing Minds gathered for a fun-filled Children’s Day on their BB Block campus and that too with their guardians.The teachers had transformed the classrooms into different zones — one was a gym ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University has constituted a committee to recruit contractual teachers for its four-year BTech programme.The university’s syndicate, which met on Wednesday, decided to constitute the committee after teachers in the engineering and technology departments accused the authorities of a ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphScottish Church College suspended one of its contractual teachers from service on Thursday after a second-year student accused him of harassment.On Thursday, a group of students gathered in front of the college, demanding justice for the complainant.Principal Madhumanjari Mandal ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphThe bail petitions of former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former officials accused of being part of a school recruitment racket came up for hearing on Thursday before a “third judge” of Calcutta High Court, Justice Tapabrata ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the young doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have opened a Facebook page and posted in faltering Hindi a video appealing for justice.Earlier, the parents had been heard speaking ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphA chartered accountant (CA) from Siliguri who had recently shifted to Dubai and was allegedly running an investment fraud from there has been arrested with 16 others, police said.The accused include a private bank official in the Nagerbazar branch ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphThe violence in Bangladesh is hitting traders on both sides of the border.Trade bodies in Calcutta, representing garment dealers, travel operators, hotel owners, money changers and many others, are planning to hold meetings over the next few days to ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphI felt enlightened to read the account of Arun Kumar Gupta, the senior-most member of our block who turned 100 on November 10 ("Father's bike ride with Nehru in side car", published on November 15). It is great that ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphAmidst ongoing unrest and reports of attacks on minorities in Bangladesh, traders from the neighbouring country were absent from a Kolkata trade fair, but local businessmen stepped in to manage their stalls and sell their products," stakeholders said on ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphA six-year-old boy was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his home in Hooghly district with family members on Friday claiming that he was throttled by a gang of burglars before decamping with valuables.Nabo Biswas the father of Nikhil ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphIn a significant milestone for Indian academia, Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury, Founder and Managing Director of Techno India Group (TIG) and Chancellor of Sister Nivedita University, has been conferred with the prestigious title of Honorary Academician of 2024 by the ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphBritish and Indian experts, along with Kolkata port officials, on Wednesday reviewed the progress of the ongoing health check-up of Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge).A statement from Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP) said experts from Rendel, London, and RITES Ltd., ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphThe seven-month-old baby of a homeless couple was allegedly raped in Kolkata, police said on Wednesday.A person spotted the baby on the footpath near a public toilet at Beadon Street on Friday. He approached police, who took the baby ...
6 December 2024 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation team demolished some of the illegal portions of a building in Jadavpur over two days, despite facing resistance.Portions of the building had been pulled down twice earlier but were rebuilt in no time. Sources in ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe school education department said that candidates recommended by the school service commission to join as assistant teachers in government-aided upper primary schools cannot be asked to produce TET admit cards by the district inspectors of schools at the ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphA 20-year-old student who was heading to college in an autorickshaw died in a crash as the vehicle keeled over while taking a sharp turn in Sinthi on Wednesday morning.Police said Sayan Bhattacharya, who was a resident of Bhatpara ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe 30th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) was flagged off at a new venue on Wednesday afternoon.Instead of the usual Netaji Indoor Stadium, with a 15,000 capacity, the film festival was declared open at the Dhana ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front on Wednesday called for a rally from the West Bengal Medical Council office to the state health department headquarters, both in Salt Lake, on Friday afternoon. The rally will raise questions on the state medical ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphFour air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta and Bidhannagar recorded “poor” air on Wednesday.Three stations in Howrah recorded “very poor” air.The residents of the twin cities separated by the Hooghly continue to breathe foul air with the advancing winter.The ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphSad but inevitable.Yellow taxis have long stopped being useful and have to fade into history sooner than later, multiple Calcuttans said on Wednesday.Several factors — impolite drivers, refusals and the vehicle’s contribution to air pollution — have contributed to ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThree professors at IIT Kharagpur, who were among the 85 who signed a letter protesting the showcause notice served on four office-bearers of the institute’s teachers’ association, have been replaced as the heads of their departments and research facilities.The ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, on the eve of departing for Madras (now Chennai) to start a campaign against the ruler of Mysore Tipu Sultan, Governor-General Lord Cornwallis wrote a letter to his son Charles.“My Dear Charles,I enclose a duplicate of ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government on Wednesday transferred the state’s detective chief to a relatively minor post amid allegations that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has failed to probe several cases.R. Rajasekaran, who was the additional director-general in charge of the ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphAt least two Indian healthcare chains have folded up business in Bangladesh over the past few years because of the preference for Indian doctors among many Bangladeshi patients and a system there that makes hiring medics from other countries ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe 30th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) was inaugurated on Wednesday, with France as the theme country, showcasing several films that highlight the European nation's rich cultural and cinematic heritage.The grand event will continue till December ...
5 December 2024 TelegraphThe body of a teenage girl, whose father is in jail on charges of allegedly molesting her friend on November 2, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in the bedroom of her home in Dakshindari, near Lake Town, ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe man who police said was riding a scooter ferrying a youth who allegedly tried to gun down Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh in Kasba was arrested in Bihar on Tuesday morning.Lakshman Sharma, alias Chotu, was arrested by the ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphA mobile therapy service on a bus, which will make various therapies accessible to individuals with disabilities who cannot afford them, was launched on Tuesday. A mobile therapy bus, equipped with a wheelchair ramp, will visit neighbourhoods in Calcutta, ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe suspected serial killer from Haryana, accused of killing five persons, including a tabla player from Bengal last month, had allegedly killed another man in June, the Gujarat police said on Tuesday.His sixth victim was a visually impaired man ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur on Tuesday accused a section of teachers of propagating a "collective hateful purpose" and "disrupting the normal academic workflow of the institution" in the name of protest.The institute, which had earlier showcaused the office-bearers of the teachers' ...
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