Several private schools have decided to conduct online classes on Thursday and Friday so students don’t have to step out amid rough winds and rain that Cyclone Dana is expected to trigger in the city.A government circular to suspend ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport will remain closed from 6pm on Thursday till 9am on Friday because Cyclone Dana is likely to trigger strong crosswinds, which are dangerous for flights during take-offand landing.Airport officials said more than 200 flights will be ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphDana is set to make landfall between Dhamra port and Bhitarkanika in Odisha between Thursday night and Friday morning as a severe cyclonic storm, the Met office said on Wednesday, triggering the closure of Calcutta airport for 15 hours ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA major fire broke out at a commercial building in the Terreti Bazar area in central Kolkata on Monday evening, officials said.Fifteen fire engines were working to douse the blaze that was first spotted around 8 pm, they said.The ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro railway services in the north-south corridor were affected for nearly an hour on Wednesday as a woman allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Normal train services were resumed at 11.50 am after ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro rail services in the north-south corridor were affected on Wednesday as a person allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Operations were on to recover the injured person from under the train, he ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport could be shut down for several hours even if Cyclone Dana spares Calcutta.In a meeting with the airport authorities on Tuesday, the Met department predicted crosswinds at 50-70kmph and rainfall between 70mm and 200mm in Dum ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphFive flights, to and from the Calcutta airport, received hoax bomb threats on Tuesday, while more than 50 domestic and international flights operated by Indian airlines received similar threats across the country.In the past week, more than 150 flights ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMany roads in Salt Lake are dimly lit and crater-ridden, making them dangerous for pedestrians and motorists.Residents as well as those who have their workplaces in Salt Lake allege there have been no major repairs for several months. Residents ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA high court vacation bench on Tuesday issued an interim stay on the “punitive” action announced by the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital authorities against 51 junior doctors and students because of their alleged involvement in a “threat ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe seat of the junior doctors’ protest at Esplanade for the past 17 days was back to being a road on Tuesday.Vehicles were plying through the stretch of the Dorina Crossing that had cots and beddings and hundreds of ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphPolice and CISF personnel stationed at the main entrance and the gates of various buildings; heaps of sand and bricks dumped all around — that was how RG Kar Medical College and Hospital looked like on Tuesday.There is a ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe severe cyclonic storm that is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast on Thursday night or early on Friday has put the city’s guardians on high alert.The government-run schools in nine south Bengal districts, including Calcutta, will remain closed ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal chief secretary sent an email to the junior doctors around 3pm on Tuesday, as promised, informing them that the state-level task force to ensure their security at workplaces and improvement of the healthcare system has been set ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe father of the young doctor who was found raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 sent an email to Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday seeking a meeting with him for ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA four-year-old child and her father died after being run over by a taxi with an allegedly dozing driver while they were walking to board a bus for school near Chiria More in north Calcutta on Tuesday morning. The ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphFreedom fighter Nellie Sengupta passed away on this day. Born to British parents, she had come to India and joined the Independence movement. Her original name was Edith Ellen Gray. She met freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta in England. ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana’s precursor curled up in the form of a depression over the Bay of Bengal around 750km from the Bengal coast on Tuesday morning.It is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coastline as a severe cyclonic storm between Thursday ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphJudges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, established by the Regulating Act of 1773, were appointed on this day.The Supreme Court replaced the Mayor’s Court of Calcutta and was the highest court in colonial India till ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University will screen students from other universities for admission to its postgraduate programmes through a computer-based test (CBT), replacing the pen-and-paper OMR screening, to make the selection process more transparent. At CU, 20 per cent of all postgraduate ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphTwo phone calls were received at the Calcutta airport in quick succession on Monday morning — one said an airborne flight was about to be hijacked and the other warned that the aircraft would be blown up with a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA “severe cyclonic storm” that is expected to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast later this week is taking shape over the Bay of Bengal.The precursor to the system, a low-pressure area on the east-central Bay, has started gaining momentum.Aided by ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled up principals and medical superintendent-cum-vice-principals (MSVPs) of government medical colleges during her meeting with representatives of the protesting junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday. “The junior doctors pointed out that if there is ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA state-level task force comprising four junior doctors, a female medical student and senior government officials will be set up to look into all complaints regarding government medical colleges and district hospitals, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphThe demands accepted by the state government and the decisions taken during the meeting between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and a team of 17 junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday
22 October 2024 TelegraphA government school in Murshidabad, located far away from the nearest hospital, has set up a medical unit on its premises for its students. The two-bed medical unit at Laskarpur High School, about 50km from Behrampore, has an oxygen ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphMore than a week has passed since Dashami but the remains of many Durga Puja pandals still stand on roads and pavements, making them narrower.The pandals are not alone. The bamboo scaffolding on which temporary banners were put up ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphIn early September, when idol-makers in Kumartuli were busy finishing their creations, an artist in Mexico was trying to create an idol with only a photograph for reference. And a Mexican percussionist was picking up dhak beats from a ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphPolice are planning to seize documents related to the private agency that had been engaged for the installation of a fire-fighting system at the ESI Hospital in Sealdah, where a fire broke out on Friday morning.The medical superintendent of ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAnother cyclone is brewing over the Bay of Bengal. What was a cyclonic circulation over the north Andaman Sea on Sunday morning is tipped to intensify into a cyclonic storm that is to barrel towards the Odisha-Bengal coastline by ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors on Sunday repeated their 10-point charter of demands from their protest site at Esplanade to clear the air about their stand.The demands were spelled out at a rally which they called Chitkar Samabesh (rally for ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a multi-national gang, comprising Italians, Portuguese, Frenchmen, Germans and Bengalis, attacked the house of Chaitanya Datta in Colootolla in the city.The gang members stole Rs 6,000 and escaped, after having beaten up Dutta mercilessly. He barely ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAn Alliance Air flight from Lilabari in Assam made an emergency landing at Calcutta airport on Sunday afternoon — one of nearly 25 flights that fell victim to bomb hoaxes through the day.Close to 100 flights of Indian carriers ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday spoke with the protesting junior doctors over the phone and agreed to all the demands placed before her barring one, the removal of the state’s health secretary.Mamata requested the medics to end their ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphAn exhibition of models based on skill subjects and a career guidance festival were hosted by a school where students were guided to career prospects beyond the conventional route.Mahadevi Birla World Academy hosted the CBSE Skill Expo & Guidance ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphHundreds of people walked from Sodepur, on the northern fringes of Calcutta, to Esplanade on Saturday seeking “justice” for the postgraduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Sodepur, where the slain ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphThe frequency of tiger cub sightings by tourists in the Sunderbans has gone up, said foresters.Their internal surveys, too, point to a similar trend. The increased sightings suggest the apex predator and the ecosystem it lords over both are ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphPatients who turned up at the fire-hit ESI Hospital in Sealdah on Saturday had to leave without treatment as the authorities decided to keep the outpatient department (OPD) shut to facilitate sample collection by a visiting team of forensic ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA number of former Jadavpur University students in the US who have been raising funds to support their cash-strapped alma mater used Durga Puja in two places of that country to raise resources for the institution.The California-based Global Jadavpur ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement for a diabetes syrup appeared on the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika. “No Case Hopeless! OUR CELEBRATED SPECIFIC FOR DIABETES is guaranteed to cure this almost incurable disease even in its ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked the junior doctors to spell out their demands over the phone and said she would respond with the measures taken by the government.Metro lists the demands that the junior doctors mentioned and ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphCalcutta wades into another weekend of protests with a junior doctors’ march and multiple protests planned across the city on Saturday over the rape and murder of the posgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral parts of the city were lashed by a strong spell of rain on Friday evening, hours after the Met office issued a warning of another system brewing over the Bay of Bengal in the cyclone season.Around 3pm, the ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphAn officer of Kolkata Police addressed adolescent boys at St Xavier’s Collegiate School on the dangers of cyberspace, which can make them both a victim and a perpetrator.The officers cited examples, some of which were real and the others ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA school assembly countered ideas of gender bias and bullying and opened up channels of communication between students and the school so that they could report instances of bullying without hesitation. Students of Classes III, IV, and V of ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphThe leakage inside East-West Metro’s under-construction tunnel in Bowbazar last September has again indefinitely delayed the completion of the corridor, said a senior official of Metro Railway. For much of last year, Metro officials had been saying that trains ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral senior doctors of the city feel talks are the only way to break the deadlock between the protesting junior doctors and the Bengal government.Narayan Banerjee, a senior doctor who has stood by the junior doctors publicly in multiple ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA central public sector undertaking has given an endowment of Rs 20 lakh to the chemistry department of Presidency University, now in the middle of a crippling funds crunch.The department will purchase infrared spectrometers with the contribution.The university, which ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA French company plans to set up simulators in Calcutta to train pilots, a facility now lacking in this part of the country.Simaero, headquartered in Paris, will set up its first pilot training centre in Delhi-NCR and the facility ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the Adelaide Times reported on the death of Captain Corigalton, “a veteran of the Bengal steam service, who had been many years in the Straits, with every nook and corner of which he was familiar. “He ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphFormer RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, who had earlier undergone a polygraph test, has refused to take a narco-analysis test, CBI sources said.Ghosh conveyed his reluctance to a judge at the Sealdah court, where the ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphJunior doctors on Friday issued a threat: Either the state government accepts all their demands by Monday or they would shut down Bengal’s healthcare system, both government and private, on Tuesday.The doctors also put the ball in the chief ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA blaze that started on the first-floor balcony of the ESI Hospital in Sealdah around 5.30am on Friday allegedly caused a patient’s death and forced the evacuation of 90 others.Uttam Bardhan, 54, who may have been suffocated to death ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphWork in progressThe AG Block puja was inaugurated on Mahalaya but even on Sashthi, two people could be spotted painting sculptures inside the pandal. “The pandal still isn’t ready?” asked a woman out loud. “It’s ready! These artisans are ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphThis year, an idol crafted by students of the Techno India Group was featured in the Thames Durga Parade in London. And it was made out of tissue paper.Following their vision of creating sustainable Durga idols over the past ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphOn the eve of the Pujas, students of NIFD Global Salt Lake set the stage for the festival with a fashion show featuring the latest trends woven with the wealth of our heritage.Agomoni 2024 began at the institute’s DD ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphSix hundred sunflowers were suspended from strings above, a massive lotus served as the centrepiece before the idol, and floral chandeliers adorned the edges of the quadrangle — all uniting to pay homage to women.Students and teachers of DPS ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA resident of Haridevpur was found lying in a pool of blood behind an under-construction building on Banamali Banerjee Road in Haridevpur on Thursday morning.Police suspect the man died after falling from the building. The victim has been identified ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with chief secretary Manoj Pant and health secretary N.S. Nigam at her residence on Thursday evening.Sources said the bureaucrats presented before the chief minister a detailed report on the progress of the ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA suicide bid at Kalighat station disrupted Metro services on the north-south route (Blue Line) for close to an hour amid the evening rush on Thursday.A man jumped in front of a New Garia-bound train around 6.20pm, said Metro ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphSandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on whose watch a junior doctor was raped and murdered on August 9, has moved the high court seeking to know the procedure on how to liquidate ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphGovernment and government-aided colleges that have earned admission fees while admitting undergraduate students have yet to get the money due to them from the state government. The higher education department, which held the centralised admission process this year, collected ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphMetro Railway, India’s first such carrier and often billed as Calcutta’s transport lifeline, is turning 40 later this month. On October 24, 1984, Metro’s first commercial run was between Esplanade and Bhowanipore. The distance was 3.4km.Bhowanipore has since been ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphThe railways has reduced the advanced ticket booking period from 120 days to 60 days, it announced on Thursday.Passengers will now be able to book train tickets up to 60 days in advance, instead of the previous 120 days.The ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA group of women marched from the Karunamoyee intersection to the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Thursday afternoon to press for a speedy investigation into the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA man who was allegedly kidnapped from the compound of a city hospital was rescued by police a few hours later from a hotel in West Midnapore around 100km away.The suspected kidnappers told the police that Nitai Dey, 46, ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphAniket Mahata, a prominent face of the junior doctors’ protest who had to be rushed to hospital on October 10 while on a fast unto death, was discharged from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday evening.In the ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphEditor, biographer and historian Biharilal Sarkar was born on this day in Andul in Howrah district.He got his FA degree from General Assembly’s Institution (now Scottish Church College). He worked in the editorial department of Bangavasi newspaper for three ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at Sealdah ESI Hospital here on Friday morning, a fire official said.Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was brought under control after two hours, the official said.There was no report ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphThree pujas were selected from Salt Lake — FD Block, AK Block and IB Block to the state government’s immersion carnival. But idols of only two blocks drove down Red Road on Tuesday. This is because AK Block did ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphIB Block Olympic medallist boxer Mary Kom couldn’t make it to the opening, actor Dev arrived hours late, and it started pouring minutes after a cultural group took to the stage to perform agomoni ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA school, through a play, appealed to grandparents and parents to bond withchildren over books and not to remain surrounded bydevices.The children of Mahadevi Birla World Academy presented a play that discussed how digital distractions build communication barriers, making ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOver 7,000 bikers were prosecuted for riding without a helmet and 733 motorists for drink driving in the Kolkata Police area between October 7 (Chaturthi) and October 13 (Dashami), police said on Monday.The special police deployment for Puja, which ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphProhibitory orders banning the assembly of more than five persons have been imposed in areas adjacent to Red Road, where state-organised 'Puja Carnival' will be held on Tuesday, amid calls for 'Droha' (protest) Carnival on nearby Rani Rashmoni Avenue ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOver 90 award-winning Durga Puja committees displayed idols of the goddess on decorated tableaux, which moved in a procession on Red Road here in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several envoys on Tuesday evening.The ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday recorded an undertaking from Bengal doctors that barring eight of them, all the others who had been on cease-work had resumed their duties in the aftermath of the protests launched for ensuring security and ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe state government on Tuesday launched the central referral system — one of the demands of the protesting junior doctors — that will ensure that a government hospital refers a patient to another state-run facility only if the latter ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe heart of Calcutta was brought to a grinding halt by protestors for hours on Tuesday evening.A “carnival of protest (Droher Carnival)” that was supposed to have been confined to Rani Rashmoni Avenue spilled out into multiple adjoining thoroughfares. ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a heavy cyclone from the Bay of Bengal passed through several districts of Bengal. Midnapore was among the worst-affected.The cyclone struck early in the morning and continued till early next morning. On October 16 afternoon, a ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe city police recruit civic volunteers based on an order issued by the state home and hill affairs department and an “enrolment notice” from the office of the police commissioner, senior officers said.The applicant should “preferably” be a resident ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphPatient services continued to be hit at private hospitals across the city for the second day in a row on Tuesday as doctors stayed away from non-emergency work.Officials at the hospitals said services are likely to be normal from ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral puja organisers acknowledged the craftsmanship of the artisans and the toil of workers by displaying their names and photographs in the pandals. The idea was to recognise their months of hard work and give them their share of ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphMetro services were disrupted during the peak morning rush on Tuesday because of a snag at Dum Dum station.“Trains could not ply between Girish Park and Dakshineswar from 9.20pm because of a signal problem at Dum Dum station. Trains ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphGrade I heritage buildings on Ballygunge Circular Road now have the blue heritage plaque of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on their gates.The plaques were putup in the first week of October. Among the buildings sporting the tag are Thapar ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA doctor with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) medical team deployed at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road was detained by police and questioned for several hours on Tuesday allegedly because he was sporting a badge that identified ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphSeven hundred women working in the unorganised sector got a new cotton sari each this Puja.The saris were given by Rokeya Shikhsa Kendra, a learning centre for children of marginalised families who live in Patuli, Briji, News Garia, on ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors will approach Calcutta High Court seeking elections to student unions and resident doctors’ associations in medical colleges, one of the doctors on a fast unto death said on Wednesday. Rumelika Kumar, a postgraduate trainee at ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe monsoon has left Calcutta for this year but the rain has not. The city was lashed by a spell of thunderstorm on Wednesday evening after intermittent showers since early afternoon.Around 5.45pm, the rain was almost blinding in pockets ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphBritish East India Company administrator, antiquarian and editor Edward Clive Bayley was born in St Petersburg on this day.He held high administrative posts in north India. In 1849, he was appointed undersecretary to the government of India in the ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphDoctors at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) demanded on Wednesday that the civic body seek an apology from Kolkata Police for detaining a colleague who was on duty at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road on Tuesday wearing ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphPartha Chatterjee, the former state education minister who is now in custody, had allegedly recommended that the names of some “undeserving” candidates be included in the merit list of the 2014 Teacher Eligibility Test for primary schools, the CBI ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA group of individuals with autism heralded Durga Puja this year by slaying the demon, a role-play meant to prepare them for the festive days ahead. The sudden change in the environment with loud music, lights and crowds — ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital who has been in the eye of the rape-murder storm, in a corruption case. Ghosh was taken to Nizam Palace, which ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphMore old skeletons from the time Sandip Ghosh was principal are tumbling out of the cupboards of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The latest revelation comes in the form of a video from a convention held on August 29 ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of the gruesome rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital On Monday, amid the continuing nationwide protests. On Tuesday, a three judge ...
20 August 2024 Telegraph"Please trust us," the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while requesting the doctors protesting across the country over a Kolkata doctor's alleged rape and killing to call off the strike and resume work. The court said abstention from the work ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Bengal government on the delay in registering an FIR in the RG Kar rape-and-murder and the immediate reappointment of the medical college’s principal Sandip Ghosh, after his controversy-fuelled resignation, as principal of ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphRumours and a malicious media and social media campaign have resulted in the Calcutta police losing the trust of the people, an angry police commissioner Vineet Goyal said on Thursday as his men fought pitched battles with mobs at ...
14 August 2024 TelegraphA mob of men with sticks broke police barricades, entered the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital premises, overturned a police vehicle and smashed up things in front of TV cameras even as thousands of women marched peacefully in ...
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