A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday recorded the statement of the family members of Bitan Adhikary, one of the three Calcuttans to have been killed in the Pahalgam terror attack last week. The three-member team, ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe non-teaching employees sacked by the Supreme Court early in April have rejected the state government’s proposal to provide them a monthly allowance.They alleged that the government has not committed to publishing a segregated list and is not ready ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe season’s first Nor’wester stuck Calcutta at 62kmph on Saturday.At least one more squall is due in Calcutta in a day or two, said a Met official.Saturday’s storm, which brought relief to a parched city, began around 9.30pm. The ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government is struggling to find drivers and conductors for its buses. A first tender, which was floated recently, saw only one agency responding. The transport department has decided to give it a second try.Many buses now lie ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphA youth from Haryana has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a fraud where he threatened a resident of Salt Lake with digital arrest and duped him out of ₹45 lakh.Police identified the accused by his first name, ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphSome schools have reduced the number of hours and are giving off early because of the heat and discomfort, and some others have drawn up a summer timetable that they will follow from next week.Most schools have suspended outdoor ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphTwo godowns stacked with rubber and plastic items and a truck were gutted after a fire broke out in an electrical transformer in Dhapa, adjoining Basanti Highway, on Saturday afternoon.Eight fire tenders battled strong winds to bring the flames ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA team from the national investigation agency visited the home of Sameer Guha, one of the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack, on Saturday.A three-member team of the agency, led by a woman of the rank of deputy superintendent ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of school education has sent the district inspectors of schools in six districts more names of sacked teachers who cannot return to school.The names had been “inadvertently” included in the list drawn up by the school service ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphCancer treatment has changed by leaps and bounds over the past decade.Advanced technology, greater attention to well-being during treatment and quality of life after treatment have made a disease whose outcome was a foregone conclusion not so long ago, ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Saturday that the Bengal government would provide monthly allowances to sacked non-teaching school employees until the Supreme Court rules on a review petition the state plans to file.Under this relief measure, Group C ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old pregnant Muslim woman in Calcutta was allegedly refused treatment by a doctor who told her she would not treat “Mohammedan” patients in the wake of the terror attack on tourists in Kashmir.The doctor allegedly said people from ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA Punjab-born businessman settled in Dubai has been helping Indians stuck there return home.Surinder Pal Singh Oberoi, 69, has varied business interests. He has helped people languishing in prisons despite completing their terms because they did not have the ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphFresh applications to be enlisted as thika tenants, a process that was not being allowed since 2014, will be opened for a six-month window from May 1, mayor Firhad Hakim announced on Friday. All registered slums — which the ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphPeople who have led their businesses from the front and scripted unique success stories were felicitated at an awards show in Calcutta on Thursday evening.The Calcutta Management Association (CMA) Management Excellence Awards 2025 in association with The Telegraph, had ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA biomining project to clear legacy waste from Dhapa that started in 2019 has stopped midway, leaving incomplete the task of chipping tall hillocks of waste that have accumulated over decades. Only about 30 per cent of legacy waste ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphJustice Biswajit Basu of Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the school education department to file an affidavit stating what prompted the state cabinet to create supernumerary posts for physical education and work education teachers.The department will have to ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphCadaveric organ donations had picked up pace in 2018. But the number of donations per year has shown a marginal rise between then and now, the director of the regional organ and tissue transplant organisation (ROTTO) said on Friday.There ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTwo men who had allegedly conned a Dum Dum resident last month by posing as police and making him part with his valuables have been arrested in Maharashtra. Officers of Baguiati police station arrested the duo on April 21. ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe woman whose body was found stuffed in a trolley bag in Baguiati two days ago was identified as a mother of two from Murshidabad.Police have arrested a man whom the woman had “met” on Facebook a few months ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphA university had to reaffirm its commitment to fostering inclusivity on campus after a poster that spews communal hatred appeared on the university’s official notice board and was lapped up by social media in no time.Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTwo contrasting demonstrations, both condemning the Pahalgam terror attack, played out at Esplanade on Friday evening.While both called for swift action against the perpetrators, one meeting blamed Muslims for the carnage. The other urged Indians to stay united in ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTeachers deemed eligible to take classes until December 31 and draw their salaries shifted their protest to Shahid Minar after the other group allegedly beat them up in front of the school service commission’s office in Salt Lake on ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphBA BlockWhat does the next generation think about our mother tongue? BA Block held a panel discussion on Poila Baisakh where residents were invited to speak on this topic.“My mother, though educated in a missionary school with Irish teachers, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police on Friday announced the westbound flank of the MAA Flyover will be closed to traffic during night hours for an entire month from Monday onwards. The closure, aimed at facilitating the replacement of an expansion joint, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphSajid Hussain, a resident of Sanjeeva Gardens on the outskirts of Action Area 1D, was coming home with his children on the evening of April 5 when his car started crawling in front of the Sector V housing complex ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphMeghna Chakravorty had shut out the world for the last year and half. She had attended just one invitation in December, that too after her Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Mains examination got over. “But once my Mains results ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius dropped on Thursday but the city still felt like a pressure cooker because of high humidity.The Met office offered hope. A wet spell is expected to bring relief from the sultry conditions over the weekend.Thunderstorms are expected ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphA 29-year-old man, who tried to protect his woman friend from harassment by three men in a deserted neighbourhood in New Town early on Thursday, was beaten to death.Sanket Chatterjee, who received multiple stitches on his head after being ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphLocal2024: The first open-air Id-ul-Fitr namaz in New Town takes place at the fairground near Biswa Bangla Gate on April 11. Public namaz had started in the township previous year at Action Area 1 community hall but space was ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphSizzler isn’t just food, it’s an experience,” says Saswati Barik. Indeed, from the moment it leaves the kitchen and makes its way to the table, the sizzling sound turns heads. Faces break into smiles, space is cleared for the ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphHundreds of girls have used kabaddi to reclaim their space in the community, defy patriarchy, fight gender bias, change their own mindset and that of those around them.The sports-based intervention that has helped adolescents and teenage girls find a ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA gang allegedly broke into an office on the ground floor of a residential building in Salt Lake’s GC Block and fled with around ₹15-20 lakh cash on Wednesday night, police said.A senior officer of Bidhannagar commissionerate said two ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu has accused the Centre of discrimination for excluding state-aided universities from the list of “Hub and Spoke” institutions under the Partnership for Accelerated Innovation and Research (PAIR) programme, despite several of them meeting eligibility criteria.The ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA high court judge on Wednesday asked the lawyer representing the parents of the junior doctor raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to share fresh leads so the probe could be taken forward.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA 19-year-old died in the early hours of Thursday after one of his friends allegedly stabbed him with a broken glass bottle following an altercation in Jorasanko, central Calcutta. One person has been arrested for the death of teenager ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphSohini Adhikary, whose husband Bitan was one of the three from Bengal shot dead in the terror attack in Pahalgam on Tuesday, saw at least three deaths in less than five minutes.One of them was her husband, who she ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphAround 14,000 of the 15,403 eligible teachers returned to school and took classes on Thursday, the first working day since the education department handed a segregated list to institution heads.A large number of the teachers protesting in front of ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA man allegedly stabbed his wife in Kasba on Thursday afternoon suspecting her involvement in an illicit relationship, police said. The woman died from the injuries.Rina Mandal, 33, who worked as a domestic help, was allegedly attacked off RK ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphEach time her little boy wakes up from sleep, his voice trembles with the same haunting questions—"Where is Papa? Did he go somewhere?" His mother has no answers. All she can offer are tears as her son's words slice ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA high court judge on Wednesday asked the lawyer representing the parents of the junior doctor raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to share fresh leads so the probe could be taken forward.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphAn IT professional died after being allegedly beaten by anti-social elements in Kolkata's New Town when he confronted them for molesting his live-in partner, police said on Thursday.Two persons have been arrested for their alleged assault that led to ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphRuby General Hospital, Eastern India’s first NRI hospital, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary on 25th April. The hospital, inaugurated in 1995, by the then Hon’ble chief minister Jyoti Basu, has grown into one of the region’s premier healthcare ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA group of men, who allegedly posed as employees of a US-based company and duped American citizens by claiming that wrong transactions had occurred in their crypto wallets, were arrested on Wednesday.Police raided a call centre on Roy Bahadur ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has instructed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s assessment department officials that mutation files should not remain pending with them for more than 15 days.The mayor also asked the officials to see that more people could complete their ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe counsel for the state and the school service commission asked a high court division bench on Wednesday whether it had the jurisdiction to hear a contempt petition against the state education department.Partha Sarathi Sengupta, the counsel appearing for ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphBitan Adhikary and Sameer Guha, who had left the city on vacations with their families, returned to Calcutta on Wednesday evening in sealed coffins. Their wives and children accompanied them.Many family members and friends who were waiting outside the ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphFormer army chief Shankar Roychowdhury on Wednesday questioned the role of military intelligence and said India must strike back in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack because the wrong must be righted.At least 26 people, most of them tourists, ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Pahalgam attack is “unIslamic and against humanity”, Nakhoda Masjid said on Wednesday.“We denounce in the strongest terms the ghastly, ghoulish and cowardly terrorist attacks in Pahalgam, that have claimed precious innocent lives, especially the lives of our brothers ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Pahalgam terror attack has triggered a landslide of cancellations by those who had been planning vacations in Kashmir this summer.The Valley became the most sought-after destination among Calcuttans in the past few years, but Tuesday’s bloodbath might once ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphA section of protesting teachers, who have laid siege to the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) headquarters here, on Wednesday allowed its chairman Siddhartha Majumdar to leave his office after 40 hours but continued their sit-in for the ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the entire Green Line—from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector V—will remain suspended for three days, from Saturday, April 26, to Monday, April 28, 2025, due to the testing of the Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police Detective Department (DD) arrested seven persons running a crypto fraud racket from a Behala address.A raid was carried out by the sleuths on the wee hours of Wednesday at the first floor of a building on ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal education department on Tuesday shared with the district inspectors of schools lists of sacked teachers “not specifically found to be tainted”.An official said the inspectors were supposed to forward the names to the school headmasters in their ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has warned of a heatwave spell in south Bengal starting Wednesday. An alert has not been issued for the city.“Mainly dry westerly to north westerly wind is likely to prevail over the region and consequently heatwave ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphDelay in patient discharge because of pending insurance approval and daycare procedures and consumables still remaining outside the ambit of insurance claims were issues highlighted by the state clinical establishment regulatory commission in a meeting with representatives of insurance ...
23 April 2025 TelegraphThe Roman Catholic churches will conduct prayers and a mass will be held for the repose of the Holy Father, Pope Francis, every day till his funeral, the archbishop of Calcutta, Reverend Thomas D’Souza, said on Monday evening.“There will ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphA man who had allegedly set fire to a 19-year-old pregnant woman at her Netaji Nagar home, killing her, was recently arrested from Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur.Namita Basak died of burns within hours of Swapan Basak allegedly setting her ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons died in a fire that broke out at a garments godown-cum-wholesale store on the fourth floor of a five-storey building on Pathuriaghata Street in north Calcutta. Three people were injured in the fire, police said.The deceased were ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphHundreds of sacked schoolteachers and staff said on Monday they could not be faulted for the school service commission (SSC)’s inability to conduct all the counselling rounds within a year, before the expiry of the panel.“Is it our fault ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphThousands of sacked schoolteachers laid siege to the school service commission’s office in Salt Lake till late into Monday night, protesting the government’s failure to come out with a list segregating the tainted from those not “specifically tainted”.They pledged ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphAround 2,000 agitating teachers decided to launch an indefinite sit-in outside the West Bengal School Service Commission headquarters on Monday night, after it failed to release, by the 6 pm deadline, the list of 2016 SSC qualifiers whose jobs ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were injured in a fire that broke out on the top floor of a four-storeyed building in north Kolkata in the early hours of Monday, an official said.The incident happened on Pathuriaghata Street in the Jorabagan police ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphTwo stumbling blocks for the New Garia-Airport Metro project are scheduled to be discussed this week at a meeting of a group that functions under the Prime Minister’s Office. The construction of the 366-metre viaduct at the Chingrighata crossing ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphA team from Hyderabad police arrested a Howrah resident from a hotel on Camac Street in Calcutta on Thursday and took him to Golconda, allegedly without informing the local Shakespeare Sarani police station.Kolkata Police have written to their counterparts ...
22 April 2025 TelegraphThe presence of Christians in the city is significant and this must be carried forward, said the archbishop of Calcutta, Thomas D’Souza, at the end of the Easter rally on Sunday.“Calcutta is a big city, and the presence of ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphFour persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with a robbery attempt on a garage of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in Dhapa on Saturday morning.A security guard of the garage was attacked after he tried to resist the robbers.The ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphThe town vending committee of Calcutta has decided to start drives in the New Market area to remove hawkers who have set up stalls on roads.The street vending rules, notified by the state government in 2018, prohibited hawkers from ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphBrace for scorching days and sweaty nights. The Met office has warned that the day temperature in Calcutta is likely to reach 37 degrees by the middle of this week. In some western districts, the Celsius is likely to ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphThe teaching and non-teaching staff of the government-aided schools whose jobs were terminated by the Supreme Court on April 3 would march to the school service commission’s office on Monday, demanding publication of a segregated list containing the names ...
21 April 2025 Telegraph“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said”— Matthew 28:6 “The earth laughs in flowers”, proclaimed Ralph Emerson, and perhaps his observation is most relevant in the context of the season of spring, which unleashes ...
21 April 2025 TelegraphCity police commissioner Manoj Verma urged officers to be alert, have their ears to the ground and be properly equipped and armed with adequate intelligence while covering rallies and meetings, sources privy to what happened at a meeting said.On ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked hawkers at Jatin Das Park, who were relocated from Kalighat to make space for the construction of the Kalighat skywalk, to vacate by the end of April.A new hawkers’ corner has been ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras have captured tiger images on two Sunderbans islands, which mark the end of land and open into the vast expanse of the Bay of Bengal.A senior forest official requested that the islands not be named for the ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphSix down. One to go. Sayani Das of Kalna, East Burdwan, has crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, ticking off the sixth ocean channel in her long-distance swimming career.Starting with the English Channel in 2017, the 27-year-old has already crossed ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who wrote his secondary exams in February died after a Honda City he was riding with five others hit the guard wall of the Garden Reach flyover at high speed and overturned on Friday night.Subham Das ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphElectricity had still not been restored to a section of Queens Mansion on Saturday evening, forcing some shops to close early.A fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion on Friday afternoon. The Gupta Brothers and Giggles ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe old domestic terminal of the Calcutta airport will be pulled down. It is almost defunct now except for handling a few special flights.The building became operational in 1995 and remained the hub of Calcutta airport’s domestic flight operations ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway’s bridge players have once again brought laurels to the Metro fraternity, with two of its employees—Sumit Mukherjee and Sagnik Roy—qualifying for the 47th World Bridge Team Championships scheduled to be held in Denmark in August 2025.Mukherjee ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata: Six persons were arrested by Kolkata Police on Saturday morning around 11 am and seized approximately 36 kgs of cannabis.The Narcotics Cell, Detective Department acted upon credible sources to nab the six at the road instruction of Khidirpore ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphPrivate and commercial vehicle owners have started receiving text alerts and letters from the transport department reminding them of their road tax dues.Sources in the transport department said the primary targets are those who have not paid their dues ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA youth’s desperate bid to gift an iPhone to his girlfriend landed him in jail, police said. Chanchal Bhuniya, 22, allegedly used a duplicate key to sneak into a Ballygunge cafe where he worked and stole ₹2.5 lakh from ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government will seek legal opinion on the future of the sacked non-teaching (Group C and D) school staff, education minister Bratya Basu said on Friday.A delegation of the dismissed non-teaching staff met Basu at Trinamool Bhavan, alleging ...
20 April 2025 TelegraphA website and an app celebrating the culture and heritage of Nagaland were unveiled at a symposium cum exhibition at Asiatic Society recently.The portal is the result of a year-long initiative that aims to document living traditions, lifestyle, crafts, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe Union ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has proposed to the Bengal government that vehicles should not be inspected for pollution unless their owners submit Aadhaar-linked mobile numbers to the testing centre.In a letter to the state’s ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphGood Friday prayers were held at churches across the city.Jesus Christ’s message of forgiveness, selflessness and acceptance formed the essence of the prayers at the churches.Around 1,500 devotees attended the Good Friday service at St Thomas’ Church on Middleton ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphAn iconic address on arguably Calcutta’s most popular stretch, but Queens Mansion lacks basic fire preparedness. A fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion on Friday afternoon. The fire brigade could not find a source to ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphQuestions based on real-life situations were included in ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) papers in this year’s board exams.Current affairs and events from daily life that students can relate to were used to test their understanding of ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a sweet shop at Queens Mansion, the magnificent Park Street landmark that houses popular commercial establishments and residential apartments.The Gupta Brothers and Giggles stores were gutted.Although no one was trapped or injured, pockets of ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu announced on Friday that the school service commission will likely upload a list on April 21 (Monday), identifying terminated teaching and non-teaching staff as either “tainted” or “not specifically tainted”.“We had said earlier that we ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphBuses registered in Bengal and ferrying passengers to Sikkim will now be able to reach Gangtok and won’t have to drop people off at a point from where they need to hire a local vehicle to the hill state’s ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out from a kitchen of a sweet shop on the ground floor of Queens’ Mansion on Friday afternoon. “The fire broke out from an air-conditioner. One of the doors has been sealed,” said an employee at ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe Coleus is a plant whose foliage alone can give the most beautiful of flowers tough competition. Indeed, unlike most annuals, Coleus cultivars are grown for their foliage, and not for their flowers.The Coleus has attractive foliage, succulent stems, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphWhen GD Block invoked goddess Saraswati in its community hall this year, it did so with a floral welcome. That was the day when the block’s rose garden was inaugurated.A patch of land next to the community hall has ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphNext time you take the Metro into Salt Lake, look down to your left just seconds before City Centre, and you’ll see a lovely landscaped garden. That garden would be Ranjana Deb’s. This is a lady who hasn’t stopped ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphA dilapidated structure that stood witness to the rich history of Salt Lake well before the wetlands were filled and the township was born has been unwittingly razed to the ground.The structure stood on the campus of Bidyadhari Vidayalay, ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphBhorer Nil AkashPoila Baisakh may be a day of celebration, but it’s no excuse to skip your workout! So members of the EE Park-based laughing club Bhorer Nil Akash began the day as they do every morning — with ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Bengal education minister Bratya Basu said he would advise the sacked and aggrieved teachers to return to their schools and start taking classes as the Supreme Court wants them to.“Today’s order has offered a glimmer of positivity, however ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring the appointment of around 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run and state-aided schools as “vitiated and tainted” was immediate and far-reaching.Piyas Mukherjee, an English teacher at M.P. Birla Foundation ...
19 April 2025 TelegraphThe teachers have been asked to return to school, but they still have to prove their merit.Teachers at Esplanade’s Y-channel who were demanding their jobs back said they were against writing an exam all over again because that questions ...
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