At 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' ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphRabindra Bharati University will hold its executive council meeting on Wednesday despite being asked to cancel it by the state higher education department.On Friday, the department asked the university not to hold the meeting scheduled for December 4 as ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe unrest across the border has taken a toll on the export of books to Bangladesh with importers pressing a pause button and some of the publishers in Calcutta reporting a slide in demand for their titles among book ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphSanjay Roy, the lone accused chargesheeted for the RG Kar rape and murder, was brought to the Sealdah court on Tuesday for identification by witnesses, including a civic volunteer who prosecutors said accompanied him to the hospital on the ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphSome of the biggest names in Bengali films came together on Tuesday to allege that a technicians’ federation owing allegiance to an influential Trinamool Congress leader was “ruining” their work environment and threatening the future of the industry by ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphCalcutta Metro will levy a surcharge of Rs 10 on every ticket for its night service train on the Dum Dum-New Garia corridor, an official said.The night service train operates in both directions at 10.40 pm, he said.The decision ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphISKCON Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das on Tuesday said he has urged its monks and followers from Bangladesh to avoid wearing saffron robes and 'tilak' in public, advising them to practice their faith discreetly amid safety concerns following targeted attacks ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphA young man pursuing a degree in political science had not read the Preamble to the Constitution. Another student was surprised to see a bustling Durga Puja on a Mominpore road named Meherali Mondal Street. Both teenagers are now ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphHara Chandra Ghosh, a Derozian who became a distinguished judge, passed away on this day.He belonged to Young Bengal, a group of young men who were followers of the radical thinker Derozio. Ghosh caught the eye of Governor-General Lord ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe Celsius can slide to 15 degrees in Calcutta by this weekend, the Met office has said.Sunday was mostly cloudy and some parts of the city got light rain early on Monday.A Met official attributed the clouds to a ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe state medical council brought forward its scheduled meeting on Monday, the first one since the junior doctors’ protests began in August, apparently to avoid a section of senior doctors who had planned to gherao the council’s members. Avik ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphThe chairman of IIT Kharagpur's board of governors has told the teachers' association that the board takes its role of "supervising the affairs of the institute seriously" and will "diligently" deal with all matters.Tata Steel CEO and MD T.V. ...
4 December 2024 TelegraphCancer is curable if detected early. However, prevention is always better than early detection of the disease. Some cancers run in families and have a genetic trait. At least 5 to 10 per cent of all cancers have inherited ...
3 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued a notice to all advertising agencies and individuals responsible for erecting around 2,500 illegal billboards to dismantle them. If the agencies and individuals don’t remove the billboards, the Salt Lake civic body ...
3 December 2024 TelegraphA kids’ clothing brand that started during the Covid-19 pandemic, employing women with no source of income and featuring their children as models, has grown over the past few years and had consistent sales in the lead-up to this ...
3 December 2024 TelegraphJN Ray Hospital in Maniktala, which has announced its decision not to treat any Bangladeshi patients, turned down admission queries from four patients from the neighbouring country on Sunday, a director of the hospital said. The hospital on Raja ...
3 December 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has made it mandatory for every commercial establishment in the metropolis to put up signboards in Bengali along with other languages, an official said.The civic body is determined to enforce the usage of Bengali ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphLong-term measures like increased use of public transport and reduced dependence on private cars, forcing industrial units to shift to cleaner fuel and proper disposal of solid waste can help lower air pollution during winter, scientists said.Calcutta’s average air ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphA civic volunteer attached to Bansdroni police station was injured when a man allegedly attacked him with a sharp weapon after police went to rescue his father early on Sunday.Officers said the father had made a distress call to ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphA student of Class VII stopped a fellow student who had bought potato fritters from the canteen and threw some of them into the dustbin, unable to finish them all.The student is a food monitor whose responsibility is to ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphA youth from Belgharia, on the northern fringes of the city, alleged that he was beaten up by a group in Dhaka on November 26 allegedly because he was a Hindu from India.Sayan Ghosh, 25, said on Sunday that ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphGurudas Bandyopadhyay, a judge and the first Indian vice-chancellor of Calcutta University, passed away on this day.After attaining the first position in the MA examination from Calcutta University, he studied law.He began his career as a teacher of mathematics ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphThe movement of flights and trucks between Bengal and Bangladesh has been severely impacted by the unrest in the neighbouring country.The number of flights between Calcutta and Dhaka in November was less than half of the number in July, ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral organisations took out rallies in different parts of West Bengal on Sunday to protest against atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh and demanded the immediate release of Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in the neighbouring country.During the day, BJP ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphFor many Calcuttans, Saturday seemed like the coldest day of this season though the minimum was higher than usual.A sunless sky and on-and-off drizzles dragged the day temperature down so much that there was very little difference between the ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national who had allegedly sneaked into India and was staying in Calcutta with a fake name and documents has been arrested from the Park Street area on Saturday, police said.Salim Matabbar, who the police said is originally ...
2 December 2024 TelegraphMovement of vehicles headed towards the city will be diverted from the bifurcation of the Hastings ramp of Vidyasagar Setu from 7pm on Sunday till 6am on Monday to facilitate movement of devotees for the Urs festival — popularly ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Medical Council will meet on Monday and Tuesday for the first time since the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 triggered statewide protests by doctors, ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has showcaused 86 teachers for “being a signatory” to a mass representation in which they told the registrar not to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the four office-bearers of the IIT teachers’ association.The registrar said in a notice ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will introduce a school improvement plan in the next academic session to assess the quality of schools, the council chief said. The assessment parameters will include inclusive practices, the satisfaction ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphA hospital in Maniktala, one of whose owners is BJP councillor Sajal Ghosh, has announced that it will not treat any Bangladeshi patient for an indefinite period protesting “disrespect to the Indian flag” in Bangladesh.A director of JN Ray ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphHowrah Zilla School was established on this day.It had a British headmaster at the beginning. Educationist Bhagabati Charan Basu was a teacher in the early years. Bhudev Mukhopadhyay was appointed the first Indian headmaster of this school.In the beginning, ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphOne grand celebration; two cities; 25 venues and more than 100 artistes.An arts festival that seeks to celebrate the “spirited” connection between art and life in Bengal kicked off at Santiniketan on Friday.The inaugural edition of Bengal Biennale is ...
1 December 2024 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has convened a meeting with the municipal corporations of Calcutta and Howrah on Monday to implement “restrictive measures” necessary for arresting the falling air quality in the city. Hakim told Metro on Friday that officials of ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) turns 30 this year with Goutam Ghose back as chairman and with Tapan Sinha’s 1966 film Galpo Holeo Satti as the inaugural film to be screened at Dhana Dhanyo auditorium on December 4.The ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphTickets for 12 bus routes run by the West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC), and connecting the airport, will now be available online through the Yatri Sathi mobile app of the state government.Commuters will be able to track the location ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphA batch of students who graduated from Jadavpur University’s civil engineering department in 1999 has raised ₹23 lakh to buy the latest software for the department’s geotech laboratory.Cash-strapped JU could not afford the technology on its own.The former students ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement on study materials on English literature, science and mathematics was published in Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper brought out from the city.“HELP BOOKS1901-1902,F.A.Note on Black’s Life of Goldsmith — with a life summary, ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphA palm-sized bird with a jewel-like bright red patch on its throat, which has flown thousands of kilometres across continents, was spotted at a New Town grassland on Friday.Birdwatchers identified it as a Siberian Ruby Throat, native to the ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphIn the 1990s, the Met office would issue a cyclone alert only 24 hours in advance, when the storm would rage not far from land.Now the IMD predicts a cyclone’s path days in advance, even when the precursor to ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday submitted a chargesheet against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the hospital. Among those named in the chargesheet is Asish Pandey, ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphAs winter sets in, the Kolkata airport authorities are busy preparing to tackle the issue of low visibility. Like many other places, Kolkata’s visibility drops due to heavy fog during the winter months, causing an impact on flight ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphA vector-borne disease, which can turn fatal if not treated, had over 77,000 reported cases in India in 1992. In 2023, the number of reported cases came down to 595. A symposium of doctors, scientists, policymakersand philanthropic organisations on ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphStudents should concentrate more on boards now instead of getting worked up about competitive exams, several school principals have been telling students.ICSE (Class X), ISC (Class XII) and CBSE (Class X and XII) timetables have been published and this ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphA decade ago, proposals for “catch-and-release” angling would provoke abuse from enthusiasts. But now, anglers race to buy tickets for such events. Eco Park recently hosted the 10th catch-and-release angling carnival by the Bengal Angler’s Forum (BAF), and excitement ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphEven as over 100 days have passed since the heinous rape and murder of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital junior doctor, violence against women has continued unabated and civic society continues to grapple with the question of ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphRhiju Bose does not know how to swim, but on a vacation in Krabi, he caught a glimpse of the underwater world. “It was like nothing I’d seen before,” he recalls. “It was calm and colourful; the most beautiful ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphA 17m box bridge might reduce the daily traffic congestion at the Chinar Park crossing in the evening. Or so the authorities hope.Construction has just started on the box bridge for which an inauguration ceremony was held on November ...
30 November 2024 TelegraphKuruni, a type of scraper used to remove the flesh from a coconut, different types of kerosene lanterns and bells tied around domesticated cows are some of the exhibits at Fields to Folk, an exhibition on rural heritage being ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council wants to provide hand-held metal detectors at every examination centre next year to prevent students from entering exam halls with mobile phones or other electronic communication devices. This year, out of the 2,341 exam ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphAn alleged serial killer who usually targeted women on trains killed a male tabla player from Howrah apparently because he protested him smoking in the coach, police officers who have spoken to the accused said.Rahul Karamveer Jat was on ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court order issued on November 21 and uploaded on its website early on Thursday directs the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to issue notices to all advertising agencies and individuals responsible for erecting around 2,500 illegal billboards. ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told the Assembly that the state government was investigating a suspicious and sharp rise in spending under Swasthya Sathi during the doctors’ protests over the RG Kar rape and murder and promised stern ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphA teacher who spent 31 years in La Martiniere for Boys and was responsible for some of the spectacular productions staged by the school’s students said a teacher’s biggest duty is to inculcate the values of tolerance and harmony ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphThey are famous for their Jagadhatri puja as well as other cultural and social events but last Sunday Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Kishore Sangha held their first-ever pet show too.“This event was a chance for our club to spread wings ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphYes, that’s yet another new cafe in an already saturated township. But this one claims to set itself apart with a personal touch and crowd-sourced ideas and suggestions.The founder of Aldo, in CD Block, hails from a remote village ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphA 68-year-old man was arrested from Calcutta on Thursday morning after fake Indian currency notes (FICN) with a face value of Rs 2.99 lakh were seized from his possession, police said.Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force (STF) ...
29 November 2024 TelegraphJadavpur University decided on Wednesday that it will not allow students to lock the doors of the rooms allotted to teachers across departments in the name of agitation anymore.The university issued a statement signed by registrar Snehamanu Basu after ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphA recent study by the Zoological Survey of India focused on earthworms, which play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems.The aim was to assess the spatial distribution of earthworm species across several wildlife sanctuaries in Bengal.The sanctuaries studied ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphAnother cyclone is brewing on the Bay but too far from Bengal to have any direct impact.At most, the coastal pockets of South 24-Parganas, North 24-Parganas and East Midnapore may get some clouds and light rain in the weekend, ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphThe city’s biggest road race will have more than 20,000 runners at its start line this year, the most it hasever had.The inaugural race in 2014 saw the organisers struggling to fill the running slots. Now, it is a ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate arrested two directors of Prayag Group on Wednesday for allegedly running deposit mobilising schemes without the necessary clearances from the concerned bodies, including the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).Basudev Bagchi was arrested from his ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphJohn Peter Grant, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from 1859 to 1862, was born on this day. His name is linked with the controversial publication of the English translation of Dinabandhu Mitra’s play Nil Darpan, which was a scathing ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphA Trinamool councillor was purportedly caught on camera hurling expletives at a team of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) engineers trying to stop the demolition of an illegal building in Metiabruz on Wednesday. The engineers went to demolish a six-storey ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphAn 83-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were robbed allegedly after being fed medicine and food laced with sedatives by a former help who came on a courtesy call and offered a hand, police said. Sanju Sarkar and her husband ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphAn everyday sight for Calcuttans wowed athletes who have sailed some of the mighty water bodies of the world.Rarely have they rowed past bustling city traffic or heard the whistle of slow-chugging passenger trains while on a boat.On the ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphA much-loved La Martiniere for Boys teacher resigned on Wednesday after 31 years of service, triggering dismay among legions of former students and allegations of humiliation by the management.Susmita Chakraborty, an English teacher at the school since 1993, told ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphThe land of the tiger and the crocodile is also a haven for birds, some of them on an intercontinental journey. The third edition of the Sundarban Bird Festival, to be held from January 22 to 26, offers bird ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphInfluenza and pneumonia vaccines have become more popular than before but doctors and health experts said there is a need to incentivise the vaccination so more people from the vulnerable population get covered.Many in Calcutta are down with fever, ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphThe building of the Holy Rosary Cathedral was completed on this day. Also known as the Portuguese church or Murgihata church, it is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta and is located in Burrabazar.It was originally ...
28 November 2024 TelegraphThe state higher education department has sought a report from Jadavpur University over the alleged lapses in evaluating the answer scripts of journalism and mass communication students, said an official of the department. The JU teachers who met the ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe deposition of the senior doctor from the department of forensic medicine and toxicology at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who with other doctors conducted the post-mortem of the postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered, was completed ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 met BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday and later said they wanted the street protests seeking justice for ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphA 29-year-old truck driver, now an alleged serial killer wanted for rape and murder and robbery on trains and railway stations across India, has been accused by police of killing the Bally resident who was found dead in Howrah ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe board of residence of Calcutta University inspected Carmichael Hostel on Monday to probe a complaint of “unauthorised” residents staying there.The board of residence manages the university’s halls and hostels.The vice-chancellor had asked the board of residence to inspect ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphA cricket fan from Western Australia, who was in Calcutta this summer to witness the IPL at the Eden Gardens, watched the first Test between India and Australia at Perth Stadium.Stuart Pether was hoping to see the Aussies batter ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphA student of the state-run Aliah University in New Town near Calcutta was found dead in his hostel room, police said on Tuesday.The body of Abdul Rahman (24), a resident of Malda, was found hanging from the ceiling in ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphOfficer in Bengal Civil Service Steuart Bayley was born on this day. He joined the service in 1856.He became commissioner of the Patna division in 1873. He was appointed chief commissioner of Assam in 1878. In 1881, he was ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday constituted a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe the allegations of custodial torture of two women who were arrested during protests over the RG Kar rape and murder. The SIT, made up of ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphA doctor from the department of forensic medicine and toxicology at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who with other doctors conducted the post-mortem of the postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered, deposed before the Sealdah court on ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe students of the journalism and mass communication department at Jadavpur University on Monday afternoon put a lock on the door of a former head of the department, alleging lapses in the evaluation of answer scripts.The former head of ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphAn alleged associate of former education minister Partha Chatterjee from whose houses investigators had seized ₹49.8 crore and gold jewellery worth ₹5.08 crore obtained bail on Monday after two years and four months in custody.Actress Arpita Mukherjee, 40, had ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has designed a score sheet to grade heritage buildings based on select parameters to make the gradation system “more scientific” and less “subjective”.The decision to have a more precise and “mathematical” approach to grade ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe sharp plunge in the number of Bangladeshi visitors has dealt a knockout punch to a trade hub in the heart of Calcutta.Marquis Street, Free School Street, Kyd Street, Sudder Street, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and neighbouring areas are ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphThe number of Bangladeshi patients and their relatives coming to Calcutta’s hospitals has gone down significantly again over the past few weeks because of visa issues and many expressed concerns that the count could drop further.Several airlines have reduced ...
27 November 2024 TelegraphAn elderly woman who stays alone in her Salt Lake apartment was made unconscious by two men who administered her an injection and robbed her valuables and cash on Saturday morning.Police said the two men had gone to her ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphHer first client was a 58-year-old woman. In 2022, when the Covid pandemic had begun to recede, Puja Srivastava was approached by the woman, who wanted to be taught how to ride a scooty. The senior woman just wanted ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphA school has advised parents to spend more time with their children instead of “compensating” them with gifts.Calcutta International School asked parents during a recent “coffee meet” on the campus to give kids their “undivided time and attention”. “We ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphVeteran runners to newbies, fitness freaks to the differently abled and senior citizens to teenagers, the starting block at eastern India’s premier road race will be an eclectic mix. The booking slots for The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphMany Calcuttans are down with fever, cough and sore throat and doctors are blaming air pollution, along with viruses, for the spurt in ailments.Hospitals said many patients are admitted with fever and respiratory distress and the demand for critical ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphA call from the “RBI” saying all bank cards will be blocked in two hours or an alert call from a telecom operator that a SIM card is about to be blocked can leave one poorer by several lakhs ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped to 17.6 degrees in Calcutta on Sunday, the first time the Celsius went under 18 degrees this season. The Met office said northwesterly winds were dominant in the atmosphere. The minimum temperature predicted for Monday ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphFour of the city’s seven air quality monitoring stations recorded “poor” air on Sunday, exposing people out to enjoy a nippy weekend to foul air. The stations that recorded poor air at 10am, 1pm and 4pm are at Ballygunge, ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day Paul Goethals, a Jesuit priest from Belgium, became the first archbishop of Calcutta. Goethals arrived in Calcutta as the Vicar Apostolic in 1878. After the Catholic hierarchy was established in India in September 1886, Goethals was ...
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