Several schools are seeing a rise in the number of children with symptoms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and some of the institutions are trying to introduce tools in classrooms to address the issue.Principals said children in pre-primary ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphFirst came a monitor lizard that ran for its life. Seconds later, a deer mom and her fawn did an encore. Cue enough for a forest guide on a watchtower to alert a group of visitors. For the next ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphMany people are down with fever, cold and cough and other respiratory ailments, doctors said.A large number of people are suffering from upper respiratory tract congestion caused by air pollution, which increases during winter. A spike in air pollution ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA hint of chill and the mild winter sun on Sunday together provided the ideal condition for outdoor activities.The result — weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta were teeming with visitors.Around 2pm, traffic policemen near Science City were having ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphEvery year on January 6, the Armenian church in Calcutta has been celebrating Christmas. In the year 336, the church in Rome began to celebrate Christmas on December 25 during the reign of Emperor Constantine. Till then, Christmas would ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, a meeting of the residents of Calcutta was held at the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Governor-General in Council or the Legislative Council of India, to repeal the press regulation passed in ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day Samir Uddin and Shivram Majhi of Talpukur village in Dinajpur district were gunned down by the police. They are believed to be the first martyrs of the Tebhaga movement. Samir Uddin was a Muslim and Shivram ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphAn artist and a research scholar from Nadia will receive an award instituted to honour individuals who bridge the worlds of art and journalism.Labani Jangi, who hails from Dhubulia in Nadia district, will receive the TM Krishna-PARI Award 2024.The ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphSaturday is likely to be the last day of the trial in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case and the verdict may be announced on the next date, which has yet to be announced. In its final submission on Thursday, ...
6 January 2025 TelegraphA bishop gobbled up a pawn. A queen lunged at a horse. Two kings crossed swords.The generals marshalling the troops were short of eyesight but not of smart moves. On Saturday, several visually impaired chess players took part in ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphVehicles heading to EM Bypass along the AJC Bose Road flyover between 10pm and 6am will be diverted to the Park Circus seven-point crossing instead of being allowed onto the Parama flyover for 15 days beginning Sunday.The diversion will ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA free clinic for marginalised people was inaugurated in Mullick Bazar on Saturday. It operates out of the ground floor of a building on North Range Road.On day one, around 50 people, mostly from the slums of Ward 61 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has to “reach out” to its former students in a “sincere and structured way” if it intends to scale up the quantum of cooperation from former students, many said on the occasion of JU’s first-ever Alumni Day. ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA retired Kolkata Police sub-inspector, Abdul Hai, was arrested late on Friday for allegedly clearing passport applications without proper enquiry and adequate verification.The 61-year-old officer retired a year ago and was attached to the passport section of the police’s ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool minister and a BJP MP exchanged verbal volleys stalling traffic on the Vidyasagar Setu around 9pm on Friday and accusing each other of throwing their weight around and misbehaviour.The altercation between the BJP’s Tamluk MP, former Calcutta ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe air quality turned “poor” in four out of seven monitoring stations in Calcutta and “very poor” in four out of five stations in Howrah on Saturday as temperatures dipped.A scientist with the state pollution control board (PCB) said ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim submitted a petition before the Sealdah court on Saturday demanding “highest punishment” for the accused and sought “further investigation” to punish others who may be involved in the crime.The closing arguments ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphIn a groundbreaking achievement, Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC), Kolkata, has successfully performed a Robotic Radical Nephrectomy on a 66-year-old male patient with a rare congenital anomaly known as "Crossed Fused Ectopic Kidney." The condition, documented in fewer than 10 ...
5 January 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan, lured by cheats into investing in what he thought were stocks, was duped out of ₹1.78 crore, police said.Three persons have been arrested in this connection, the police said.The cheats allegedly pretended to be providing him guidance ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) on Friday evening decided to retain all the contractual employees who had been laid off on December 31, bringing the three-day agitation against the lay-offs to an end, an official of the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA whale found on a beach near the southernmost tip of Bengal on Thursday morning was released into the Bay of Bengal early on Friday, said forest officials.Shifting the 15ft whale, weighing at least several hundred kilos, involved over ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphAsutosh College has appealed to Calcutta University to defer the first-semester internal examination because students who got admitted late did not have enough time to prepare.Some other colleges have also expressed concern about the lack of preparation time because ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA city with a glorious past is now in decay.A short walk around what used to be Calcutta’s most spectacular pocket, Dalhousie Square, reveals a sad story of neglect, lawlessness and lack of love for the rich legacy the ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphBangladeshis who have come to Calcutta for treatment said they had not faced any problem finding accommodation or receiving treatment in the city.A Hindu family from Bangladesh said they counted on their Muslim neighbours who promised to protect them ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphWestern Carriers India Ltd (WCIL), a Kolkata-based logistics firm, has secured a material handling order worth Rs 139 crore from Vedanta Ltd, the company said on Friday.The order entails an import, finished goods domestic and export material handling contract ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSushanta Ghosh, Trinamul councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s ward 108 and chairman of borough XII, survived three attempts on his life between July and November last year.Dulal Sarkar, Trinamul councillor from Malda’s Englishbazar Municipality, fell to bullets of bike-borne ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphA government-sponsored Bengali-medium school in Santoshpur has been training its students to communicate in English which would help them in the future.Communicative English classes are held twice weekly for Classes V to IX and XI at Santoshpur Rishi Aurobindo ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked police to find out the reason for the frequent traffic snarls on Vidyasagar Setu and come up with a solution.“Second Hooghly Bridge-e (Vidyasagar Setu) ghontar por ghonta lokey dnariye thaakey (commuters are ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius plunged to 13.2 degrees on Thursday from 17.6 on Monday, as cold northwesterly winds tightened their grip on the city.The minimum temperature was a notch below normal. At 21.6 degrees, the maximum was almost four notches below ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the state transport minister on Thursday for not having enough buses on the roads and said the department had turned “silent”, suggesting that it had stopped doing its job.She instructed the minister, Snehasis Chakraborty, ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday scrapped the state primary education board’s decision to introduce a semester system in government-aided schools (Classes I to V) this year because it would increase the study load.The chief minister slammed the education ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphSir Proby Thomas Cautley, who had planned and supervised the construction of the Ganges Canal, was born on this day. The Ganges Canal is the canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers.He ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphHere is news that is sure to bring some respite to residents who are fretting over the increasing commercialisation of their neighbourhood.The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to come down heavily upon illegal commercial use of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphOne of the most common ways to celebrate the festive season is by putting up lights. The Corporation, however, is sending out a message that this cannot be done at the cost of harming trees.Lights that were entwined around ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphRobotics has entered the orthopedic surgery operation theatre at Techno India Dama Hospital on the Bypass on the back of a digital surgery platform developed by Johnson & Johnson MedTech. The hospital has acquired a VELYS robotic surgery unit ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants and cafes witnessed more than 20 per cent increase in table occupancy during the Christmas-New Year week compared to the corresponding period last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of ...
4 January 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will observe its first Alumni Day on January 4 to foster its bond with former students so the fundraising drive, which has been modest so far, can be scaled up.The university, encountering a funds crunch, has invited ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphContractual workers of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) in Jadavpur started an indefinite demonstration on Wednesday to protest against the institute’s decision to lay off 51 of them.The protesters, many of whom have been working as lab ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA 64-year-old man was allegedly assaulted after he protested felling of trees at a park in Kasba on Wednesday morning, police said. The complainant has alleged that it was an attempt by local Trinamool Congress activists to occupy the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA bronze statue of a girl child clutching a notebook was unveiled at The BSS School on Wednesday.As it stepped into its 75th year on January 1, the school in Gariahat installed the statue to highlight the transformative “power ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA college student has been arrested for the alleged rape of a former classmate in another friend’s house. The alleged incident is said to have happened on December 21 and was reported to police on December 31. Police arrested ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA will written on this day by an affluent Jewish merchant residing in the city indicates some presence of the community in Calcutta. The merchant, Joseph Israil Levy, left to his daughter Abigail 1,000 pounds in the custody of ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphBiryani evokes varied reactions among people. Some love it, some could “die for it”, some debate and some research.It is not enough just to partake of the delicately flavoured rice and meat but to understand its origins and etymology, ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphA trader from North 24-Parganas brought his family to Eco Park.A couple in New Alipore who could not spend New Year’s Eve with their son took him out for shopping and dinner on Wednesday. New Year revelry had many ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphAnother new year has come but many things in Calcutta have not changed in many years. On Day I of 2025, many Calcuttans listed for this newspaper things they would want to change in the city they call home.They ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRabindra Ghosh, the lawyer for Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, will miss Thursday’s court appearance due to hospitalisation, and instead, two of his junior lawyers along with 18 other legal representatives will handle the case.Ghosh, who has been ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) ended its sit-in protest on the RG Kar issue at Esplanade on Tuesday. JPD members, who had earlier spoken about extending their sit-in beyond December 31, said they would intensify their protests and ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphThe temperature of the concrete under the Durgapur Bridge in Chetla had gone up significantly on December 21 when a fire gutted shanties under the bridge, sources in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said. The heat damaged the ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphIt’s one-legged and carries the children it steals to treetops, from where it drops them. Another is diminutive and is the harbinger of wealth if it lingers in a house. Yet another appears as a phosphoric glow over a ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphRevellers flooded streets and trooped into pubs and restaurants as the city bade farewell to 2024 and welcomed the New Year.Since afternoon, Park Street and its adjoining roads had been teeming with year-end revellers.The weather — a drop in ...
3 January 2025 TelegraphMore than 7,000 motorists were prosecuted across Calcutta for violating traffic signals and over 4,500 were penalised for driving two-wheelers without wearing a helmet between December 27 and 30, figures released by Kolkata Police showed.The figures showed that prosecutions ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTwo buses racing along a busy road in Ultadanga left a pedestrian critically injured and triggered a mob fury on Tuesday morning, police said.The accident happened at the crossing of Muraripukur Road and Ultadanga Main Road, near Telengabagan, around ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphAny ride on the last Metro between Kavi Subhash (New Garia) and Dum Dum in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) will cost an extra ₹10 from New Year’s Day.From January 1, a passenger must pay a fixed “surcharge” of ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphTigress Zeenat left the Alipore zoo on Tuesday night for Similipal in Odisha, the same forest she had escaped on December 5 and went on a month-long odyssey covering three states before being captured in Bankura on Sunday.She was ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphDrug regulatory authorities have seized from a wholesale premises facility in Calcutta large quantities of suspected spurious medicines, including purported anti-cancer and anti-diabetes drugs labelled as manufactured in other countries, the health ministry said on Tuesday.A joint investigation by ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphWalter Savage Landor Dickens, the fourth child of British novelist Charles Dickens, died on this day in Calcutta. He was in the British Indian army.Walter had shown an inclination towards writing early in life, but his father did not ...
2 January 2025 TelegraphA group of women from Hooghly district was arrested on Sunday for allegedly running a racket that targeted people on buses and in autorickshaws by posing as fellow passengers and robbing them. Being women, police said they would attract ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, who Kolkata Police have summoned in connection with the case of extortion calls made from the MLA hostel on Kyd Street, has sought “a little more time” to appear before the cops. Nikhil ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphA combination of climatic changes and a lack of sediment flow is playing havoc with the ecology of the Sunderbans, experts said during a meeting at Jadavpur University recently.They said the region needs innovative funding support to sustain its ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe process of framing charges in connection with the alleged government school jobs scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was stalled on Monday as one of the accused, Sujay Krishna Bhadra, lost consciousness inside the jail before ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral CBSE schools are in the process of finalising the dates of the Class XII practical examination in consultation with teachers of other schools who would be their external examiners. Some schools have already fixed the schedule.CBSE (Central Board ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphStar Theatre in Hatibagan will be renamed Binodini Theatre after Binodini Dasi, the first celebrated actress of Bengali theatre who quit acting in her early 20s but had earned enormous popularity by then, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe outgoing director of IIT Kharagpur said on Monday that he had failed to execute some projects during his tenure.“I would like to speak about my failures. We wanted to open a campus in Malaysia but we failed for ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphThe city's fine dining restaurants witnessed around 10-15 per cent increase in table occupancy during the December 24-30 period compared to last year, a top official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Eastern India said on Monday, adding ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphSeveral changes are being brought in the police verification process for issuing passports to ensure no illegal immigrants can obtain an Indian passport, Rajeev Kumar, Bengal’s director general of police, said on Sunday.Kumar said the passport application-verification process would ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is about bonhomie, camaraderie, and inclusiveness, said officials of several organisations who tried to make the festival special and engaging. Before the school closed for the winter, Mahadevi Birla World Academy students went to a home run by ...
31 December 2024 TelegraphIn Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Jibito O Mrito (The living and the dead), a woman presumed dead comes back, but no one, including herself at times, believes that she is alive. In the end, she jumps into a pond ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe All-India Muslim League was founded on this day in Dhaka to protect the interests of Indian Muslims.Following the opposition to the Partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a Hindu protest in a major way, the Nawab of ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe diversity in the Indian kitchen, made up of influences from all over the world, is the subject of a 2025 calendar made by three Calcuttans.An introductory note to the monthly pages says the Indian kitchen is a “diverse ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe alleged kingpin of the racket that used to produce fake identity documents to get Indian passports for foreigners was arrested from Gaighata in North 24-Parganas early on Sunday, police said. Manoj Gupta, a resident of Thakurpukur, was wanted ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe last Sunday of 2024 had the weekend hotspots in and around Calcutta teeming with visitors.The chill was missing but the clear sky played a near-perfect ally to Sunday revelry.The traffic on New Town’s Major Arterial Road was clogged ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA charity organisation, promoting awareness against non-communicable diseases (NCD), has released a slogan that screening of blood pressure and blood sugar should start from the 20s.The slogan: “Screen for NCD by Twenty/Add healthy years, a plenty” was released at ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo bridges in the city that the authorities had initially planned to dismantle because of safety concerns are now being retrofitted with steel support and given a fresh lease of life.The Baghajatin Railway overbridge, from which chunks of concrete ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphSecurity was strengthened in Kolkata ahead of New Year's Day following the arrest of two Bangladeshi infiltrators from the heart of the city, Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma said.Addressing a press conference, Verma said the police were surveilling the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national was arrested from Park Street area of the metropolis for allegedly residing in the country illegally, procuring fake identity cards, police said.The person, a native of Narail in Bangladesh, was apprehended from Collins Lane on Thursday ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has asked the state primary education board to oversee the task of reviewing if some of the questions set in the (teachers’ eligibility test) TET 2021 and 2022 were wrong. The president of the state primary ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have summoned BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, Nikhil Ranjan Dey, in connection with the alleged extortion call made by men who were lodged inside a guest room of the MLA hostel on Kyd Street which was allegedly booked ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphFormer students of Jadavpur University’s two departments — civil and electrical engineering — collaborated to set up two state-of-the-art labs that the university could not afford on its own. The 1999 batch of JU’s civil engineering department raised ₹23.15 ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas is a time to exchange greetings of peace, joy, love and hope, said the archbishop of Calcutta, Reverend Thomas D’Souza, on Saturday evening.Christmas is not just an external celebration but about coming together and creating an inclusive society ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphTwo-wheelers will be allowed to ply on the Parama flyover throughout the day and the restrictions at night that were earlier in place have been withdrawn, police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday.The decision was taken to ease the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe city police on Friday announced restrictions on the movement of vehicles on some of the major thoroughfares of the city on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year.Vehicles will be allowed to head towards ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Calcutta Trades Association, which would later become Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, was granted recognition as the first public body with powers to address the government directly, says the chamber of commerce website.On January 18, 1883, the ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati mourned the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, crediting him with paving the way for Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan to receive the Unesco World Heritage tag in September last year.Visva-Bharati authorities —past and present — said Singh, during ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has asked the lighting department officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to prepare a roster of engineers who will go around the city after sundown to spot stretches without lights or adequate illumination.Hakim asked the mayoral ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe 12th session of the Indian National Congress began on this day and continued till December 31.The session was presided over by Rahimtulla M. Sayani, who was from Bombay (Mumbai). His presidential address was praised by a contemporary journal, ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphManmohan Singh was the chief guest at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence in 2003, nine months before he became Prime Minister.Singh had arrived 45 minutes before the event was scheduled to start and was apologetic for having landed ...
30 December 2024 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) partly cleaned up the Maidan on Thursday after hundreds of revellers spent Christmas Day there and it was full of litter.While the stretch of the Maidan along Casuarina Avenue was cleared of filth, ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe fire that gutted rows of shanties under Durgapur bridge in New Alipore last Saturday also damaged the bridge’s health, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday.The state government has barred the movement of heavy vehicles on the bridge ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphAn elusive tigress that has been on a multiple-district expedition in Bengal after an Odyssean trail through Odisha and Jharkhand has had this state riveted for over a week.Away from the spotlight, two fishermen from the Sunderbans have been ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphThe portraits are among those displayed at an exhibition that was inaugurated at Netaji Bhavan on Thursday. The exhibition was opened on the 94th birth anniversary of Krishna Bose, academic, social worker and three-time parliamentarian and wife of Sisir ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOver 11,000 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for various traffic violations.Among them, 100 motorists were prosecuted for drink driving, police said.Last year 103 motorists were prosecuted on Christmas night for drink driving.On Christmas Eve this year, 62 motorists ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) to continue their sit-in at Esplanade till December 31 after the doctors’ body petitioned the court seeking an extension of the December ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from the city, carried this advertisement, along with news of World War II. The advertisement said:MISS SULEKHA RAY M.A., B.T., Ex-EXAMINER & LADY PRINCIPAL (Assisted by Other M.A.s ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphSmaller fair, fewer stalls but Bidhannagar Mela (Utsav), at Central Park, is worth a visit.The last edition featured 620 stalls, but this time there are fewer than 500, with several of even these lying vacant. A notable absence is ...
27 December 2024 TelegraphA resident of Duttapukur in North 24-Parganas has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the racket that obtained passports for ineligible candidates using forged documents. Moktar Alam, 42, a resident of Chhoto Jagulia in Duttapukur, was arrested from ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphWater wastage goes unchecked because of the lack of public conversation around it, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee said at the culmination of the Santiniketan chapter of the Bengal Biennale on Sunday. “I think we need to have many ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) has written to Kolkata Police for permission to continue their ongoing sit-in at Esplanade beyond Thursday, the last day of the protest as mentioned in Calcutta High Court’s orders.The police have turned down ...
26 December 2024 Telegraph5.25pm: The crowd bursts onto Park Street as police stop vehicles from entering the road.Since early afternoon on Wednesday, the pavements had been teeming with people.By 5.25pm, the numbers had swelled so much that it had become impossible to ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphChristmas revellers painted the city red on Wednesday, thronging parks, museums and eateries.The weather was not ideal for outdoor activities. The sky was gloomy and some pockets received a drizzle or two. But the revellers, many of them with ...
26 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court has sought an explanation from the state government about why a committee set up to work towards the conservation of trams has not met since January.The bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya ...
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