A class 3 student was killed and two others were injured as the scooter they were riding was hit by a speeding bus in Salt Lake area on Tuesday, police said.The accident which happened at around 11.30 am sparked ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe couple from Thakurpukur who were arrested on Sunday on charges of trafficking a two-day-old baby had used social media to lure childless couples into “adoption” and offered them babies in return for money, state CID officers said. The ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphA tweak in services on the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section of East-West Metro (Green Line) led to overcrowded trains and platforms on Monday.The Esplanade-Mahakaran stretch of the west-bound (Howrah-bound) tunnel is off limits for commercial runs from Monday because the ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphA bunch of nature lovers and amateur photographers on Sunday toured a slice of a Calcutta suburb known for its lush greenery.They captured images of nature at its full bloom. They clicked flowers, insects and butterflies. But the highlight ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University has written to the higher education department about its recommendation to colleges for disciplinary action against three examiners who lost the Bengali first-year postgraduate answer scripts of 120 students.The university’s letter comes days after the department sought ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphA nondescript wall near Gariahat is being transformed into a colourful canvas by a group of students.On table tops, carrying brushes and paint, students of The BSS School, are working on a 10ft-high and 100ft-long wall of the Ballygunge ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Cornwallis, a snow that the British East India Company had built in Bombay for the Bengal Pilot Service, left Calcutta for the Andaman islands. With three other company ships, Juno, Union and Seahorse, it was transporting ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphThe festive season is over, but the “quirky” haircuts remain.Senior students in several schools have been reminded of the guidelines and asked to keep their hair trimmed and colour it black.Some schools have sent messages to parents to ensure ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphThe price of onions has gone up from ₹60 a kilo almost 10 days back to ₹75, with retailers warning that a kilo of the bulb could cost ₹80 later this week.On Monday, onions sold for ₹75 a kilo ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department will publish a fresh advertisement seeking applications for the post of vice-chancellor in two state-aided universities, an official said.The state government had in July issued an advertisement inviting applications for the post of VC in ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court order for a CBI probe into allegations of custodial torture made by two women who were arrested during the protests over the RG Kar rape and murder in September. ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphThe trial to find the guilty in the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital started at the Sealdah court on Monday afternoon. Two persons deposed in the court on ...
12 November 2024 TelegraphA two-day-old baby was rescued from a couple who had allegedly trafficked her from Patna. The anti-human trafficking unit of the state CID conducted a raid outside Shalimar railway station in Howrah early on Sunday and rescued the baby ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has set a target to remove within a week all bamboo frames and temporary hoardings that were put up before Durga Puja, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Sunday. The KMC commissioner issued a “communiqué” ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the Treaty of Sinchula was signed between Bhutan and the British government in India. Bhutan had to cede some of its territory to the British, including the Assam Dooars and Bengal Dooars. It also had to ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphA young man who traces his roots to Tamil Nadu came to Calcutta in June 1973 with “a lot of eagerness”.He was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and considered Swami Vivekananda his “guru”.In June this year, he completed 50 years ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphLack of enough doctors, reluctance among a section of doctors to take responsibility and the state government’s inability to create a strong emergency care system are some of the major problems that have come to light in the first ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphA civic volunteer of Kolkata Police was arrested after he allegedly trespassed into a house in Entally in an intoxicated state and harassed women early on Saturday. Police said a drunk Santosh Lal Prasad, a resident of Sambhu Babu ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphVector-control drives were conducted over the weekend in Jorabagan after a 36-year-old man from the north Calcutta neighbourhood died of "dengue fever" at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital early on Saturday. Though the death certificate issued by RG ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphThe online patient referral system was rolled out 10 days ago, but patients are still being referred with handwritten instructions on the "patient card" and without booking a bed through the online system.MR Bangur Hospital referred a patient to ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphSecurity personnel at Kolkata airport were placed on high alert on Sunday after they received information from a passenger who suspected that a bomb could be planted on a private airline plane.According to sources at the airport, the passenger ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphMetro Railways Kolkata on Sunday said services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade stretch will be "rescheduled and revised" from November 11 to facilitate ongoing construction work in the tunnel between Esplanade and Sealdah.Metro Railways in a statement said services between ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphSenior Trinamul Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee has been invited to Norway by the country's government to take part in a knowledge exchange programme on gender equality and women empowerment.In a letter to the TMC national general secretary and Diamond ...
11 November 2024 TelegraphJustice is being delayed and it’s disappointing that the CBI has formally named only one accused in the three months since the RG Kar rape and murder, many among the thousands who participated in a march from College Square ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphThe state government has asked five municipal bodies around Calcutta airport to improve their cleanliness and garbage management to address the problem of bird hits on aircraft while landing or taking off.Nandini Chakravarti, Bengal’s home secretary, who chaired the ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphThree coaches of an express train got derailed in Howrah district early on Saturday.Railway officials said one parcel van and two coaches of the Secunderabad-Shalimar Weekly Express jumped tracks while passing through Nalpur station of Kharagpur division around 5.31am ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, carried this advertisement on its front page:DelicatePERFUME OF THE DAYOTTO DILBAHAR (Regd.)It is the Romantic Oriental Perfume known well for its enchantIng fragrance. It is the concentration of ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphThe beer and accompanying free cocktail sausages made Firpo’s most endearing to those who can still recall their time at one of the most hip and happening places in this part of the world in the early 40s and ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphA north Calcutta resident who died in hospital early on Saturday had “dengue fever” written on his death certificate.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation, however, contested that the man had dengue, pointing to a negative test report.Bittu Singh, 36, a resident ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphA “people’s chargesheet” put up by a forum comprising senior doctors and citizens’ groups blames the state’s health minister, Mamata Banerjee, for the unrestricted access that a civic volunteer like the one accused of the rape and murder at ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday claimed that crimes like the rape and murder of the woman medic of R G Kar hospital can be effectively stopped only when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ceases to be ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy on Saturday inspected the Bowbazar site of East-West Metro Railway to monitor the progress of work of the Sealdah-Esplanade stretch.Leakage occurred inside E W Metro's under-construction tunnel in Bowbazar on ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) published a fresh list of vacant posts on Friday to appoint teachers at the upper primary level (classes VI to VIII) in government-aided schools, as the previous list published last month contained ...
10 November 2024 TelegraphA private tutor has been arrested for allegedly molesting a girl who had gone to his home for tuition classes on Dakshinpara Road in Nagerbazar, police said.The private tutor had to be rescued by a police team from the ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphA gardener who was watering plants inside a nursery in Rajarhat died after he touched a live wire wrapped around its fence on Thursday night, police said.An officer of Bidhannagar commissionerate said Subho Sardar, who hails from the Gazipur ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphA lawyer for Sanjay Roy, the lone accused chargesheeted in connection with the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has appealed for permission to visit the place of occurrence of the crime before the trial ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphThousands of residents from parts of Bansdroni, Bramhapur, Garia, Boral, Roynagar and Sonarpur on Calcutta’s south-eastern fringes will be relieved of their waterlogging woes once a drainage pumping station in Bansdroni’s Sitala Park becomes operational by March next year, ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphBamboo frames and iron poles set up on pavements and along roads ahead of Durga Puja to hang advertisement banners are still standing precariously in many places across the city.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the custodian of the city’s ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphBengal’s government-run medical college hospitals are still not treating as many patients as they did before the junior doctors’ protests, the state told the Supreme Court on Thursday.In the affidavit filed before the apex court during the hearing of ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphNovember is in its second week but the chill of the northwesterly winds eludes the city.The Met office has ruled out any significant slide in the Celsius for the next five to six days. There will be a gradual ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started watering roads and asked under-construction sites to keep construction material and waste covered, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.The twin actions will prevent the re-suspension of dust, a major source of pollutants ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphJohn Spencer Login, a Scottish surgeon who was appointed guardian of Maharajah Duleep Singh and also of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, was born on this day.Login arrived in Calcutta in 1832 and worked in several high administrative positions in north ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metro will start services on the Blue Line at 7 am this Sunday, for which it will run eight additional services, to help candidates appearing for a recruitment test being conducted by the West Bengal Public Service ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphMetro services on the Dakshineswar-New Garia corridor in Calcutta were disrupted for over 40 minutes on Friday after a man jumped before a train that was approaching the Sovabazar-Sutanuti station on the down line, a spokesperson said.The 30-year-old man ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphThe weather god kept the organisers on the tenterhooks as a rangoli contest got underway under an overcast sky at the Mangaldeep island in Action Area II on Diwali-eve. The installation called Mangaldeep, created by architect Prabir Mitra, formed ...
9 November 2024 TelegraphIndia’s first renewable energy museum officially opened its doors on Tuesday. The dome-shaped structure has come up beside the herbal garden, next to Gate 6 of Eco Park.A joint initiative undertaken by the Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) ...
9 November 2024 Telegraph14 overhead cables of Vidyasagar Setu will be replaced in January, the first such initiative since the bridge was inaugurated in 1992 to change the cables visible from outside.“A health audit of the bridge revealed that the innermost core ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphA group of men have been arrested for allegedly running a fraudulent call centre in Behala posing as the support team of a software company.The men would target people in the UK and Australia. They would convince them that ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphThe city celebrated the first day of Chhath Puja on Thursday largely abiding by the norms. The rituals were performed at sunset on Thursday and will again be performed at sunrise on Friday.Bursting of crackers was not allowed on ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal University of Health Sciences has issued a list of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for conducting examinations of medical students, which include mandatory frisking of all examinees and frequent visits to washrooms by the invigilators to prevent ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphThe state primary education board has sought a list of vacant teaching posts from the school education department so they can fill them before the next round of recruitment tests.Board president Goutam Paul said they have approached the commissioner ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphCancer patients from economically weaker backgrounds are often forced to stop the treatment midway because of hidden costs, said a doctor and representatives of NGOs who work with cancer patients.The hidden costs include travelling to the city where the ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphA committee that is investigating allegations that patients have to pay to get a bed at Medical College Kolkata has recommended that all inpatients be asked whether anyone approached them for money to get them admitted to the government-run ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphThe school education department has written to the heads of all institutions to remain vigilant about any alleged irregularities in a scheme to transfer money to the accounts of all plus-II students so they can buy smartphones or tablets.The ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphJunior doctors have called for a “people’s march” on Saturday, November 9, asking citizens to take to the streets again to seek justice for the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim.It will be three months since the rape and murder of ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday declined to pass any direction to the trial court in Sealdah to frame additional conspiracy charges in the RG Kar rape and murder case or transfer the trial.The apex court also asked all states ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the imaginatively named ship Lady Lushington arrived at Calcutta after sailing from England. This was the second of its four voyages for the East India Company. It reached Saugor (Sagar) on February 26, 1812, and the ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphEven Jagaddhatri puja has caught the khuti puja fever. Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Kishore Sangha held a khuti puja recently to herald this weekend’s rituals.“This is the 36th year of our puja although we’ve begun khuti puja in a big ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphChildren of Panache, in Mahishbathan, performed a skit for Diwali sharing the history of Char Dham, the set of four Hindu pilgrimage sites around the country. The skit was divided into four sections, where a narrator explained the context ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphPopular Indian Idol contestants Arunita Kanjilal and Pawandeep Rajan, along with the timeless Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay, headlined the cultural fare at Salt Lake Maitri Sangha’s Kali puja this year, held near the BF Block swimming pool.Posters around the township had ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphFive armed men robbed a truck driver at gunpoint and then fled with the vehicle, a senior police officer said on Thursday.The incident took place on Kakurgachi Main Road near Manicktala area here around 2am on Wednesday, he said.Driver ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly spreading misinformation on social media regarding the desecration of an idol inside a Kali Puja pandal near Lake Town on Diwali, police said.A senior officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said a ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly misbehaving and pushing a girl who was chatting with a friend in Dum Dum Park.The duo allegedly beat up the friend after he protested, police said.An officer of the Bidhannagar ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphPolice on Wednesday conducted a drive in parts of the New Market area where hawkers have again started occupying roads and putting up tarpaulin sheets over their stalls. The police team pulled down tarpaulin sheets with sticks that had ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front e-mailed Bengal’s chief secretary Manoj Pant on Tuesday saying some of the points discussed at the meeting with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on October 21 were not mentioned in a memorandum of the meeting that ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department has sought a report from Calcutta University about the actions taken against “erring officials” over the loss of answer sheets from three of its affiliated colleges.The examiners lost the answer sheets of the Bengali postgraduate ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Strait Times, published from Singapore, carried the following advertisements on this day.The first one was about a ship bound for Calcutta.“FOR CALCUTTA. (Touching at Pinang.) The Fire Queen to leave immediately after the 1st. Sales of Opium may ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphChhath Puja rituals will be performed on Thursday evening and Friday morning.Over 150 ghats have been prepared with makeshift steps, additional lights and changing rooms, among other facilities. Many temporary ghats are ready for the Chhath rituals. Rabindra Sarobar ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphOn a day the world was tracking the presidential election in the world’s oldest democracy, the US consul general in Calcutta, Kathy Giles-Diaz, told an audience of school students that getting to vote was a “powerful thing” and voting ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphAs Donald Trump roared back to power trouncing Kamala Harris, a clutch of home-buyers in an under-construction luxury realty estate in Calcutta named after the former and would-be US President was keeping a close tab on the race for ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe city police and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have started monitoring the feed from more than 500 CCTV cameras from the command control room that was set up at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital a few ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court will examine on Thursday a plea for a directive to frame additional charges for “larger conspiracy” against the RG Kar rape-and-murder accused other than Sanjay Roy, the lone accused to have been chargesheeted for the August ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphA bank employee who had stepped out of his office in Lake Gardens and was having tea at a roadside shop with a colleague was attacked by a man who allegedly used a blade to slash the banker’s neck.The ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphAltogether 80 ghats along various waterbodies have been earmarked by the authorities in Calcutta for the Chhath festival to be observed between November 7 afternoon and November 8 morning."The KMC has made arrangements in 40 ghats, while the Kolkata ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphEvery girl should be trained in self defence and be able to protect herself and lead a life of dignity — that was the message from a group of girls from a home through a dance recital on Monday.Most ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphFor the first time this festival season, the number of people flying out of Calcutta was more than those coming in.On Monday, 29,514 passengers took off from Calcutta on domestic flights, airport officials said. The number of arrival passengers ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphAn elderly couple and their son were allegedly beaten up in Ariadaha, on the northern fringes of the city, early on Tuesday when they protested the bursting of loud firecrackers by members of a Kali Puja committee who were ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has decided to merge data science and artificial intelligence within a year of introducing the two subjects amid reports that subject-specific teachers could not be appointed and data science did not find enough takers. ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA young man riding a motorcycle crashed into the median divider of Raja SC Mullick Road near Baghajatin on Tuesday morning.He succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Police said Vishal Thakur, 27, a resident of Naktala, was riding his ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphPolice have proposed to the urban development department that the footpaths on either side of Bridge No. 4 in Park Circus be blocked permanently with iron guard rails to prevent pedestrians from landing on the carriageway meant for vehicles.In ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA woman has alleged that four men raped her after she went to meet a man she had befriended on social media. She alleged that she went to meet her social media friend on Kali Puja and was taken ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA six-member committee set up to review how examinations of medical students are conducted in the state held its first meeting on the campus of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences on Tuesday.A committee member said the committee’s ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA group of men and women returning from an RG Kar protest gathering at the Rashbehari crossing were allegedly chased and attacked on Monday night.Their car was intercepted by a few motorcycles near the Exide crossing and the windscreen ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA 48-year-old man, who was allegedly refused treatment at three government medical colleges in the city, passed away on Tuesday when the family again returned to the first hospital after spending nearly 24 hours looking for a bed.Police sources ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo declared at the Assembly of Greater East Asiatic Nations, in Tokyo, that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands would be handed over to the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, formed by Netaji ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphAn investigation was started after a group of persons demonstrating over the rape and murder of the RG Kar hospital doctor alleged that they were chased by 70-80 people on two-wheelers for kilometres in the heart of Kolkata in ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphSandip Ghosh, during whose tenure as the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital a young doctor was raped and murdered, was produced in the Alipore court on Monday in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the hospital. ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphStop open burning of waste, water dusty roads and cover construction sites so dust particles do not spread — these are among the mitigation measures that can offset the impact of worsening air quality. A drop in air quality ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphParents of children with autism have come together to discuss and seek solutions to the challenges that they face while raising their children. What after them — it is a concern that haunts most parents who have children with ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department has decided to seek a report from Calcutta University about the loss of some of the answer sheets of the Bengali MA first-semester exam from three affiliated colleges, education minister Bratya Basu said on Monday.The ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphA drive against dengue, involving vector-control teams, health workers and solid waste management workers, was launched in Rajarhat on Monday.Shibani Das, a 69-year-old woman from Rajarhat’s Narayanpur, who had tested positive for dengue died on Saturday.The drive was launched ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphSix clubs in and around Rabindra Sarobar will remain shut from 9pm on Wednesday to noon on Friday to ensure no one enters south Calcutta’s largest park with a water body and performs Chhath rituals.This year, the Chhath rituals ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphBritish geneticist and biometrician J.B.S. Haldane, one of the world’s leading scientists who did pioneering work in human cloning and evolution, was born on this day. In 1957, he moved to India and later became a citizen of this ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphThree men were arrested after a woman filed a complaint alleging that the men had passed lewdremarks at her and beat up her husband after he protested late on Sunday.The incident allegedly happened when the couple were walking past ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphFourteen persons, from two immersion processions, were arrested for allegedly beating up policemen in Mahishbathan, on the fringes of Salt Lake, and Lake Town early on Monday.In Mahishbathan, 11 persons, including a civic police volunteer, were arrested for allegedly ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphA man, who requested a group of men not to burst firecrackers as the sound was disturbing his ailing mother, was allegedly attacked with a brick and an iron rod on Ananda Palit Road in Entally on Sunday night. ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphGovernment hospitals in districts are still referring patients to medical colleges in Calcutta by issuing referral cards with handwritten instructions, and not through the online referral system, Metro came to know during visits to three medical colleges on Monday. ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphThe trial in the RG Kar rape and murder case will start on November 11. The Sealdah court on Monday framed charges against Sanjay Roy, the lone accused so far who has been charged with the rape and murder ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphWhile most children of his age are absorbed in cartoons like Peppa Pig or Chhota Bheem, or simply playing with toys, young Anish Sarkar found his fascination in the quiet strategy of chess pieces, sparking a journey few could ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphEarly diagnosis and onset of treatment can cure breast cancer and the survivors can also have a good quality of life, doctors said at an awareness programme in a city hospital last week.The prevalence of breast cancer is increasing ...
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