The 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 ...
26 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out on Sunday morning in a slum in the Ultadanga area of the city, Fire Brigade officials said.The fire broke out at 7.22 am. Six fire engines were rushed to the spot which extinguished the blaze ...
25 November 2024 TelegraphTwo more people have been arrested from Chopra in north Bengal in connection with the defalcation of funds meant for students to buy tablets or smartphones.Officers of Kolkata Police said Manirul Islam and Mansur Islam — both from Chopra ...
25 November 2024 TelegraphThe Association of La Martiniere Alumni (Alma) on Saturday appealed to fellow former students to connect and collectively uphold the legacy of the 188-year-old institution.The thought reverberated several times during a two-hour panel discussion organised by Alma on “The ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphFormer Bengal advocate-general Anindya Mitra, an alumnus of the erstwhile Presidency College, has contributed ₹60 lakh to develop a computer centre on the university’s campus, which will be equipped with 25 state-of-the-art computers. Mitra, a former president of the ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphA mob went on a rampage at Vidyasagar State General Hospital in Behala late on Friday night, following the death of a man because of alleged medical negligence.At least three nurses of the hospital were allegedly assaulted, said an ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphAcross the Atlantic, many hope Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric was just that. Like a jumla maybe?Overseas education counsellors are hoping that Trump’s hard stance on illegal immigration turns out to be campaign rhetoric when it comes to Indian students ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim on Saturday came down on the civic body’s engineers when callers to the weekly phone-in programme — Talk to Mayor — complained about illegal constructions continuing despite the Kolkata Municipal Corporation having served notices on them.Hakim ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphWaterlogged and dimly lit roads, disappearing playgrounds, indiscriminate use of plastic or the difficulty for a deaf-mute child to communicate in a government office — a group of school students told mayor Firhad Hakim their concerns about the city ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphGovernor-General Lord Auckland wrote his minute on education on this day.This followed the previous Governor-General Lord Bentinck’s Act on education that had endorsed and implemented the recommendations of Thomas Babington Macaulay on a new education policy, which would introduce ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a news-paper published from Calcutta, carried this advertisement on the front page:Over One Million and Eight Thousand Sterling new Life Assurances were granted last year, thus placing the Company in the front rank ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphThirty-five students from diverse backgrounds completed a one-year diploma course in psychological counselling from Carring Minds International and were conferred their certificates at the institute in Paddapukur.Some of them enrolled themselves to be able to cope with personal crises ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphA man who allegedly arranged accommodation for the gang hired for the murder attempt on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh and facilitated payment for the operation has been arrested in Bihar’s Samastipur.Mohammad Phoolbabu, 45, the accused, is originally from ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphBJP councillors on Friday demanded a discussion on the murder attempt on Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s monthly session and accused the TMC board of turning down the proposal.Sajal Ghosh, the BJP councillor of ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphImplants that are the size of a spaghetti strand, when put inside the human head, help in the treatment of advanced-stage Parkinson’s disease and other degenerative neurological disorders, doctors said on Friday.Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the procedure in ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphAt least seven homes were gutted in a fire at a slum on Kankulia Road, near Golpark, on Friday evening, an official of the fire directorate said.The fire broke out around 7pm in the slum adjacent to Ballygunge Gardens.Seven ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s University will start a school of engineering in 2026 and introduce BTech programmes in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science. Vice-chancellor Father Felix Raj said they were focussing on AI because it was an emerging field with ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, has bagged an A++, the highest grade in the seven-point evaluation scale of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).A NAAC peer team visited the campus on November 8 and 9.A notice put out ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur authorities have initiated “disciplinary proceedings” against the four officer-bearers of the teachers’ association because they did not respond to the show-cause notice asking them to substantiate the allegations the group had mentioned in a letter to ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphPre-arranged” accommodation and transportation for crew members so they are available as soon as the condition improvesAirlines are planning several measures to reduce delays during winter when fog plays havoc with flight schedules across India.The Calcutta airport authorities said ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphThe ninth day of the trial for the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital concluded at the Sealdah court on Friday with the deposition of three persons, including two cops.One ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphThe water tanks in Salt Lake, the oldest landmarks in the township still used by many to find their way around, are being repaired and revamped.Most of these tanks are now in disrepair. Paint peeling off, their numbers barely ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphSince all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the authorities have now introduced play at work to make school fun. Art Integrated Learning (AIL) has been made compulsory by CBSE schools since 2018-19. This requires teachers ...
24 November 2024 TelegraphThe Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Australia’s third oldest newspaper, carried the following report on this day.“The railway in Calcutta was opened on the 15th August. From that day trains commenced to run between Howrah and Hooghly. ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphTrees have been cut and tombstones painted black at the South Park Street Cemetery.Several freshly cut tree stumps along with logs and wood were seen strewn across the cemetery on two visits last week.The southwest corner of the cemetery ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphArpita Mukherjee, an alleged associate of former minister Partha Chatterjee and in custody on the charge of money laundering in connection with alleged irregularities in school recruitments, came out of jail on Thursday on a five-day parole following the ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the college service commission to award marks for three history questions to a teaching job aspirant after it was found that the commission had provided incorrect options for some of the answers and made ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphOnly 130 students can be admitted to PhD programmes at IIT Kharagpur for the spring semester because of a shortage of hostel accommodation on the campus, the institute has announced.The institute usually admits 300 students to its PhD programmes ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphA Montessori school has introduced a project to teach children how to “make plants their pets”.Children, aged one and a half years to five years and six months at Mongrace Montessori House, have been planting a sapling, learning to ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday appealed to shopping mall owners and operators to remain cautious while speaking about the recent fire outbreak at one of them.“...I will appeal to malls to remain cautious. There was an incident of ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphAn exercise to estimate the number of tigers in the Sunderbans started on Thursday.Installing trap cameras across the mangrove delta marked the beginning of the census. In total, 1,444 cameras will be placed in 722 grids. Each 2sqkm grid ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday the supply of vegetables like potatoes and onions to other states when Bengal’s produce can’t meet the state’s demand has sent vegetable prices on an upward spiral.The state government, she said, will ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to remove around 2,500 illegal billboards within 48 hours.The division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya also came down on the Salt Lake civic ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphChildren were given bravery awards on Thursday at the annual programme of the state commission for protection of child rights to celebrate International Child Rights Day on November 20.As many as 31 children were awarded for upholding child rights, ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphLost between tales of World War II and its aftermath were the efforts Teddy Weatherford made to popularise jazz in India in the 1930s and 40s.One moment he was making music with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and another, ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphThe residents of FE Block gathered for a contributory breakfast meet on a recent Sunday, but among them some were being treated as special invitees. Some teach in or have retired from school or college. Some teach alternative therapy. ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphSudipto Roy, the president of the state medical council and a Trinamool MLA, has written to the Bengal health secretary requesting that the government nominate a new member to the council to replace Santanu Sen, a former Rajya Sabha ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphA traffic police kiosk on Beleghata Road near Sealdah station was damaged after a group of men came in support of a person whom police had taken off a private bus to question following an allegation of misbehaving with ...
22 November 2024 TelegraphSparks flew and punches were traded, albeit verbal. A debate at the American Center in Chowringhee saw college and university students lock horns in an engaging contest on Monday.The topic of the Jefferson Debates 2024, hosted by the US ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphVoices of children and those with disabilities should be included in decision-making processes, a student urged Unicef after taking over as its chief for a day.Riya Sardar, 16, who uses calipers to walk and sometimes a wheelchair because of ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA son of a Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was arrested early on Wednesday for allegedly knocking down a 70-year-old woman on Southern Avenue while driving his mayoral council member mother’s car.Suddhasatwa Banerjee, the younger ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe following notice was published in the daily Bengal Hurkaru, brought out from Calcutta, on this day:ESTATES OF DECEASED INDIVIDUALS.—Notice is hereby given, that on the 15th instant, was published at the Military Orphan Press, and circulated with the ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphCouncillor Sushanta Ghosh, who escaped a murder bid last week, met mayor Firhad Hakim at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Wednesday afternoon. This was the first time Ghosh, who represents Ward 108 in the civic house and ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThree persons were arrested early on Wednesday on charges of abetting the suicide of Satyajit Banerjee, the vice-chairman of the Trinamool Congress-run North Barrackpore Municipality, police said.Banerjee, 66, was found hanging in the bedroom of his rented accommodation in ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe city, thankfully, has avoided the dreaded “dark red zone” on Google’s timely offering, Air View+, at least for the day while Delhi continues to trudge through an air pollution nightmare and so do many other parts of the ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe city’s detective chief, Murli Dhar, was transferred to a relatively minor posting on Wednesday, at a time when Calcutta has seen a spate of daring crimes and police have been unpopular among many.Murli Dhar, who supervised the functioning ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphAs many as 40 persons were arrested for allegedly possessing illegal arms and around 50 arms and 20 bullets were seized following coordinated raids by the state police and the CID in districts, including a few adjoining Calcutta, on ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court will approach the chief justice “for appropriate direction” after the two judges on the bench differed on Wednesday over granting bail to former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four others in a ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur authorities have sent a show-cause notice to the teachers’ association of the institute over its letter to the Union education ministry about alleged nepotism, arbitrary faculty recruitment and other issues.The association, in its September 20 letter, ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphProtests to raise voices against atrocities on women are needed but sex education at a young age and teaching children about equality, the right to consent and the need to understand boundaries will address the problem at its root, ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphOnly one construction company, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), has submitted a bid for a proposed flyover between the Metropolitan crossing on EM Bypass and Mahisbathan near New Town, sources in the state government said. The company was the lone ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphCanals will be desilted, drainage pipes cleaned and high-power drainage pumping stations installed to resolve the problem of waterlogging in and around the airport, a meeting decided on Tuesday.For many years now parts of the airport have been flooded ...
21 November 2024 TelegraphA senior US official on Tuesday paid homage to the victims of the January 22, 2002, attack on the American Center in Calcutta that left five policemen dead and a city stunned.Gentry Smith, the assistant secretary of state for ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the school service commission to file an affidavit while hearing a petition which said the commission has failed to conduct the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) each year to appoint upper primary teachers despite a ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphA fish that eats mosquito larvae and is released by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in canals, ponds and pools of water at construction sites to prevent the spread of dengue is now much in demand among Calcuttans. KMC ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe scooter that Sushanta Ghosh’s attackers had used was found on Tuesday on Dharmatala Road in Picnic Garden, barely 1.5km from Kasba’s Rajdanga where the Trinamool councillor survived an attempt on his life on Friday night.Police seized the vehicle ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday allowed five undergraduate students at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital to write their exams and attend classes, turning down a decision by the college barring the five from academic activities following allegations that ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphBlinking amber lights have been installed at two busy intersections on the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector and several gaps in the divider blocked with guard rails after a recent traffic survey revealed a sharp rise in the ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the new officers of the Militia, put together from Calcutta inhabitants and under the command of Colonel Cruttenden, were ordered to “attend on the Parade on Monday, 20th November, at six of the clock, in the ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphThe mercury dipped below the normal in several places of West Bengal on Tuesday, the IMD said.Mostly dry weather will prevail across the Gangetic plains and in the sub-Himalayan region of the state over the next few days, it ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphBharat Deb Burman, a member of the former ruling family of the princely state of Tripura, passed away at his residence in Calcutta on Tuesday morning.According to sources, an ambulance service from a private hospital in south Calcutta was ...
20 November 2024 TelegraphA fire destroyed at least seven shacks and fast food stalls on a pavement stretch adjacent to the main gate of TCS Gitanjali Park in New Town late on Sunday.The stalls on the pavement were shut when the fire ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar police on Monday prevented a doctors’ rally from entering the Swasthya Bhavan premises citing an order prohibiting the assembly of five or more people inside and outside the headquarters of the state health department.Swasthya Bhavan, in Salt ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphTwenty-four cars that run on CNG produced from cow dung left Eco Park in New Town on Monday morning for an interstate journey that will culminate in Delhi on November 26.The participants will drive through Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphFormer England defender and Premier League star Sol Campbell will flag off eastern India’s biggest road race from Red Road in the early hours of December 15. Campbell was named the international event ambassador of Tata Steel World 25K ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA nod from the defence ministry to shift a market in the heart of the city has come as a shot in the arm for the Joka-Esplanade Metro project (Purple Line).The project, already plagued by several delays, is still ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphIn the aftermath of the Great Bengal Famine of 1770, the textile-makers were among the most affected. Figures available for this date suggest how severely the famine affected the rearers of silkworms, which grew on mulberry plants. The famine ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe man who allegedly hatched the plot to kill Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh in Kasba had swapped the number plate of the scooter the attackers used with a fake one, police said.Gulzar Khan, the alleged mastermind, had even ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphHer filmography contains only one film but it is one that shook the world. Uma Sen, née Dasgupta, who is known to legions of Pather Panchali devotees as Satyajit Ray’s Durga, passed away at a private hospital on Monday ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at an outlet of Wow! Momo in the food court of Acropolis Mall in Kasba on Monday morning, triggering panic among employees in the offices and shops in the building where a blaze in June ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphThe magistrate who performed the inquest on the 31-year-old doctor who was raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 was among the three persons who deposed before the Sealdah court on Monday.The other ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA teacher at a primary school in Chopra, North Dinajpur, was among the three men arrested by Kolkata Police on Sunday for their alleged role in the defalcation of funds meant for plus-II students at government and government-aided schools ...
19 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at the food court of Acropolis mall on Monday morning around 10.45 am.Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot, which was shut down earlier after a blaze in June this year.The blaze was spotted ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University will hold a second independent counselling this month, two months after the first counselling, to fill vacant BTech seats.The university held its first independent counselling in late September as many seats remained vacant after the centralised counselling ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphAn inter-school fest was organised to raise awareness about mental health and help students identify “invisible signs” that might suggest one needs help. The Heritage School organised the psychology fest in an attempt to dispel the stigma attached to ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphA 20-year-old man from Jharkhand's Dumka who was stabbed multiple times in a fair near his home earlier this month underwent surgery at a Calcutta hospital and is recovering well, doctors said. Anand Kumar, an undergraduate student of history, ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphJewellery worth several lakhs of rupees was stolen from a house in Baguiati’s Hatiara, police said. The house was empty as owner Sandeep Kumar Gupta, his wife and two children had gone to Kankinara in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday, ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphThree air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta recorded “poor” air and four recorded “moderate air” on Sunday morning.With winter approaching, scientists feared the city’s average air quality would only worsen.Doctors said the worsening air quality means people with lung ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphThe owner of a jewellery store in Mukundapur was stabbed in his neck when he tried to resist a robbery and held on to the man who allegedly tried to loot ornaments on Sunday morning. The owner, despite his ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphGulzar Khan, who police said had hatched the failed plot to kill Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh, reportedly told officers that he wanted to take revenge because the leader had allegedly grabbed a 2,000-sqft godown that he owned in ...
18 November 2024 TelegraphA cycle rally of 100 people, 100 seconds of silence and a protest gathering by junior doctors on Sunday marked the passing of 100 days since the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College ...
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