The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will conduct online assessments for Classes III, V and VIII in September, the council’s chief executive and secretary said on Monday.The pilot project will be held in 300 schools across ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has identified over 50 roads in 11 wards as vulnerable to malaria after surveillance teams found mosquito breeding sites along these roads. Several cases were also reported from these neighbourhoods. Some of the vulnerable ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphUnesco wants to make Durga puja of Calcutta, which it has inscribed in 2021 on its representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity, accessible to senior citizens and the challenged. In response to an appeal from the NGO ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA pedestrian was injured after being hit by a Mercedes-Benz on Park Street on Sunday night, police said.The pedestrian has been admitted to a hospital with multiple blood clots in his brain, police said. The person at the wheel ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University will install more CCTV cameras in the ladies’ hostel on Mahatma Gandhi Road, where an outsider entered the room of a girl student and stole her mobile phone, said a CU official.The university’s registrar will write to ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphRain or shine, the surfaces of the city’s busiest flyovers remain in a perpetually “distressed” condition. Undulated and bumpy, with worn-off bitumen layers and uneven repair patches, these critical transport arteries have become hazardous for commuters.The AJC Bose Road ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphThe estimated population of the saltwater crocodile in the Sundarbans is between 220 and 242, according to the 2025 census.This is an assessment of the population trend, not the exact number, a forest department official said.The 2024 count had ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA 25-year-old man died after an explosion near Madhyamgram railway station early on Monday in what police describe as a low-intensity blast possibly caused by the mishandling of an electronic device.Sachchindra Mishra, who was from Uttar Pradesh and worked ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphFormer Jadavpur University student Hindol Mazumdar, who was earlier identified by police as the main conspirator in the March attack on education minister Bratya Basu on campus, was granted bail on Monday.Mazumdar, who currently lives in Spain, was arrested ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University (JU) alumnus Hindol Majumdar, accused of conspiring to attack West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s convoy on the varsity campus in March this year, was granted bail by a Kolkata court on Monday, five days after his ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphRailway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has formally invited chief minister Mamata Banerjee to attend the August 22 inauguration of three Metro corridors in the city by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The August 14 letter invites Mamata to “grace the occasion at ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA family ritual going back three decades. A father-son first. Die-hard fans from across Bengal.The Calcutta derby lived up to its legend on Sunday evening, as more than 80,000 fans turned Salt Lake Stadium into a sea of chants, ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphKolkata biker Subrata Boral has once again pushed the limits. He has conquered Umling La Pass at over 19,000 feet altitude — this time aboard a humble 100cc, 4-horsepower moped. Starting from Gulmarg’s Khyber Himalayan Resort on July 15, the ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphBoal, ilish, pabda, chitol and katla — these five fish are what Goddess Manasa receives as bhog at the Baikunthapur Rajbari in Jalpaiguri. The offering is a tradition that has been observed, without interruption, for the past 516 years. The ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA Thakurpukur resident allegedly lost ₹64.62 lakh on an investment scheme she stumbled upon on social media in the hope of earning large returns. One person was arrested early on Sunday in this connection.According to police, the complainant ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA woman who was trying to take her car out on the road from her garage, accompanied by her mother, was allegedly sexually assaulted by men who first blocked her way with their motorbikes and then refused to move ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal government has issued an appeal to buyers of used vehicles: always verify that third-party dealers have valid licences before making any purchase.The advisory follows the transport department’s receipt of multiple complaints from individuals who sold their vehicles ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe civic body has identified seven wards as dengue-vulnerable based on the number of cases reported since January, an official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said.The wards include neighbourhoods such as Sunny Park and Queens Park in Ballygunge, ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe trailer launch of Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Bengal Files was abruptly halted at a city hotel on Saturday after police said the director did not have the required permission to host the event.The trailer of the film, based ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA former Jadavpur University student, arrested on Wednesday, orchestrated the campus attack on education minister Bratya Basu from Spain, police told the Alipore court on Friday.Hindol Majumdar, a former pharmaceutical technology student currently pursuing a PhD in biomedicine at ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA sacked schoolteacher who was preparing for the selection exams to get back his job died in Calcutta early on Friday, and his family alleged that stress over the job caused his death.Subal Soren, who used to teach at ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee attended the parade to mark the 79th Independence Day on Red Road on Friday. Mamata hoisted the Tricolour and received a guard of honour ahead of the event, which included a parade and cultural presentations ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphRajat entered Presidency College in 1963 to do his BA and on finishing his degree continued his further studies at the University of Cambridge where he did a Tripos followed by a Ph.D. He was four years my junior. ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA south Calcutta Durga puja has promised something that possibly no other has in the past: to beautify and maintain a key road in its backyard — its cleanliness, heritage and aesthetics — not just during Puja but round ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man in his mid-30s was allegedly attacked with a chopper in Beleghata on Friday night. Tapas Banerjee was admitted to NRS Medical College and Hospital with multiple injuries on his head, face and stomach. His family said that ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphMandatory visitor parking in large residential complexes, reduced open space requirements for small plots, and additional construction allowances in hospitals for Swasthya Sathi beds — these are among the key amendments to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Building Rules ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man in his mid-20s, who works as a delivery partner, was allegedly beaten up by the driver of a car that hit the two-wheeler near Salt Lake City Centre on Friday night.Police said the driver was drunk. Bystanders ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphDeep recline seats, six-way adjustable headrest, more luggage, priority check-in — passengers flying from Calcutta to Delhi will soon experience business class comfort in a low-cost airline flight.IndiGo is set to introduce IndiGoStretch, the airline’s business cabin from Calcutta.The ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphJuly ended with 70 per cent surplus rainfall but August so far has recorded a 25 per cent deficit in the city.Between August 1 and 16, the city received 151.6mm of rain, according to the Met office. The usual ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled the hearing regarding the Bengal government’s notification of 140 new OBC sub-castes on September 9, raising alarm over delays in undergraduate admissions to government and aided institutions.The case was listed for hearing on August ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead in the Metro tunnel between Park Street and Esplanade in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) in the early hours of Friday.The man was declared “brought dead” at Medical College Kolkata, police said. Metro sources ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphAt the stroke of midnight, as the country prepared to celebrate its 79th Independence Day, a unified voice raised a cry for justice in several pockets of Calcutta.Outside the Academy of Fine Arts, a theatre group performed a skit ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphHigh humidity and sporadic showers marked Independence Day in Calcutta. A generally cloudy sky and light rain have been forecast for the next few days.The sun will also make its presence felt, and the discomfort index will soar when ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA resident of Khardah was arrested early on Friday for allegedly assaulting police during the Nabanna March programme on August 9.Around 4.30am, a team traced Nitish Singh, 25, to Kalagachha in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, and rounded him up from ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphThe addition of one word to the Preamble of the Constitution will be wiser than subtracting two, historian Sugata Bose said on the eve of Independence Day.The words “secular” and “socialist” have long been anathema to the Hindutva ecosystem. ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphThe body of a man was found in the tunnel of Kolkata Metro's Blue Line in the early hours of Friday, officials said.The body was found between the Park Street and Esplanade stations during the inspection of the line ...
16 August 2025 TelegraphSeveral students participating in chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Independence Day event at Red Road on Thursday afternoon fell sick while the parade was on.The students were rushed to the SSKM Hospital for treatment.Mamata, known for going out of the ...
16 August 2025 TelegraphLess than 10 km away from Salt Lake stadium, in Dum Dum, stands Calcutta’s oldest structure. It is called Clive House, by virtue of having been the country house of Robert Clive, the first British Governor of the Bengal ...
16 August 2025 TelegraphThousands joined the Reclaim the Night movement on the eve of Independence Day last year. A year later, many say they have failed to reclaim justice. They are disillusioned but not discouraged in the long wait for change.One participant, ...
16 August 2025 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate three metro projects in Kolkata on August 22, Union minister Sukanta Majumdar said on Thursday.Modi will inaugurate the Sealdah-Esplanade section of the Green Line, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (Ruby Crossing)-Beleghata section of the Orange Line, ...
16 August 2025 TelegraphYou have hoisted the Tricolour, worn clothes themed around the tricolour, but have you eaten the tricolour? Nutritionists advocate including foods in your diet that match the saffron, white, green and even blue on the Indian flag, claiming that ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe pre-Puja edition of the state Hasta Shilpa Mela is back at Aiktan. Organised by the state department of micro, small and medium enterprises and textiles, it offers a variety of handicraft, jewellery, bags and more. The IA Block ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphCrimes against women rage on. Structural reforms at the policy level remain a distant cry. But women’s safety — or the lack of it — has finally become part of mainstream public discourse.As the Reclaim the Night vigil in ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphAC Block recently felicitated two young residents who have topped public exams. One was Meghna Chakravorty, who ranked 79th in the civil service exams, and the other was Shriya Chaudhuri, who stood third in the ISC exams with a ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe introduction of “Kanyashree” scheme helped reduce the dropout rate among girl students in schools across Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday. “I can say this proudly, the dropout rate that was 4.75 per cent in 2011-12 ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe driver of a car that rammed into a two-wheeler killing the rider waiting at a red light in Salt Lake on Wednesday, has been arrested from Malipanchghora in Howrah.Vinod Roy fled after passersby rescued him on Wednesday. A ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphA resident of Naihati was arrested early on Thursday for allegedly assaulting police during the Nabanna March programme on August 9.Manas Chandra Saha, 55, is the second person to be arrested in a case of attempt to murder registered ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe city was back on the streets — in disdain, disapproval, and disillusionment with an administration and its agencies that had failed to keep their promises.On August 9, 2024, a postgraduate trainee was raped and murdered at RG Kar ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Thursday inaugurated an 'Art Gallery of Unsung Heroes' at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport here as part of the ongoing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and Har Ghar Tiranga celebrations.The gallery, ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphThe family of the food delivery agent, who died in a road accident in Salt Lake on Wednesday, has accused police of inaction in arresting the driver of the car that hit his motorcycle.They alleged that despite the vehicle’s ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphA woman has been arrested for allegedly forging admission documents of a school and cheating parents of a student out of ₹12.47 lakh for his admission in Class I.Shiela Swamy, alias Margaret Xavier, was arrested from her Kasba ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphA gap near the approach to a newly built steel bridge on the Science City-bound flank of EM Bypass near the Metropolitan crossing has to be adequately covered before the bridge is opened to vehicles, police have told the ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphEvery cinema screen in Bengal, including those in plexes, will have to show at least one Bengali film between 3pm and 9pm, “prime time” in entertainment parlance.The government on Wednesday issued a notification that said: “In every Cinema hall, ...
15 August 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools in Calcutta are facing a growing challenge: students are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to complete assignments, write essays, and even handle basic communication, leaving teachers struggling to maintain academic integrity.The extent of AI dependency has surprised ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphAcross several city schools, canteen vendors are caught in a dilemma: healthy food doesn’t sell, and junk food flies off the shelves. As a result, nutritious options like poha, idli, dosa, dhokla, boiled eggs, oats paratha, and even fruits ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphA San Francisco teenager who spent her formative years in Delhi made a film for her school project that conveys a simple message for India: Celebrate differences and be together. The film by Zara Bharadwaj, 17, is a reminder ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to rescind its earlier decision to show cause and initiate disciplinary proceedings against four office-bearers of the teachers’ association, taken last year during the tenure of the previous director, V.K. Tewari. An IIT official said ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphHindol Majumdar, a former Jadavpur University student who went to Spain to pursue higher studies, was arrested at Delhi airport on Wednesday morning while he was returning to the city for his alleged involvement in the attack on education ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will conduct anti-encroachment drives on footpaths and public spaces three times each month. Street dwellers will be shifted to shelters.Such drives conducted earlier had little impact. Long gaps between two drives or the absence ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphA 40-year-old man from Jagaddal in North 24-Parganas was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged attack on police personnel during the Nabanna march on August 9.Chandan Gupta was arrested at the Bentinck Street-BB Ganguly Street crossing for ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphA 22-year-old food delivery boy was burnt to death in Salt Lake on Wednesday evening after a car that had caught fire following a collision crashed into his two-wheeler, police said.The accident took place near a bridge connecting Salt ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Wednesday instructed officers to maintain professional conduct and exercise restraint when interacting with participants in Thursday’s Reclaim the Night movement.Verma addressed officers during a preparedness meeting for Independence Day on Friday and the ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe problems faced by migrant labourers come under the spotlight only when they are part of mainstream politics, as seen during the Covid-induced lockdown and now, when Bengali-speaking people are being branded Bangladeshis, researchers and activists said.Their plight is ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphA delivery agent was killed in a road accident in Kolkata’s Salt Lake-Keshtopur area on Wednesday, leading to violent protests by locals alleging police negligence.The accident took place near footbridge number 8 between Keshtopur and Salt Lake. According to ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe state government has allowed 20 sacked school teachers to return to their former jobs which they had quit to join as assistant teachers in the government-aided schools at the secondary and higher secondary levels, said an education department ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphEight new movable compactors to transport solid waste from Salt Lake and other parts of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area to the Dhapa dumping yard were pressed into service on Tuesday. Garbage spilling over on roads and footpaths ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphA robot went around a table, stopped when it sensed humans and distributed sweets to them. Girls at Loreto Day School, Bowbazar, demonstrated their model as the guests took turns and picked up the sweets. On Tuesday, the school ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphNearly a month after heavy rains, several pockets of Howrah remain flooded, with stagnant water turning pitch black from weeks of accumulated filth and garbage.Residents of Pilkhana, Fakir Bagan, and Kamardanga — located about 6km from central Calcutta — ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools in Calcutta are facing a growing challenge: students are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to complete assignments, write essays, and even handle basic communication, leaving teachers struggling to maintain academic integrity.The extent of AI dependency has surprised ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year alleged harassment by police on Tuesday, after they tried to lodge a complaint against cops who allegedly assaulted the mother ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe East-West Metro is finally ready to start services.It will maintain top standards of cleanliness and punctuality, comparable to other leading metros in India, said a railway ministry official after inspecting the Esplanade-Sealdah stretch, which is scheduled to be ...
14 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police on Tuesday issued summons to BJP MLA and former India cricketer Ashok Dinda to appear before it for allegedly threatening policemen during protests to mark the completion of one year of the RG Kar hospital crime ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphThe executive council of Jadavpur University decided to install 70 CCTV cameras on its two campuses, located in Jadavpur and Salt Lake, during a meeting on Monday. The meeting, held following a Calcutta High Court order, resolved that while ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphIn Howrah, it’s a tale of two floods — one of water, the other of garbage. While some neighbourhoods have remained waterlogged for weeks, those spared the flooding are drowning in heaps of rotting waste.Mounds of discarded items lie ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphAt least 10 passengers of a private bus were injured when it rammed into a divider on Diamond Harbour Road in Behala on Monday.Police said the driver hit the divider to bring the bus to a halt as the ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday restrained the CBI from taking any coercive action till August 31 against Trinamool Congress MLA Paresh Paul and two party councillors in connection with the murder of BJP worker Avijit Sarkar.Justice Jay Sengupta fixed ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphThe state cabinet on Monday approved proposed amendments to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Building Rules 2009, relaxing the mandatory open space requirements for small plots. The move aims to deter owners from building illegal structures and obtain necessary permissions ...
13 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will start building drainage lines under 137km of roads in parts of Sarsuna, Joka and along EM Bypass that lack underground drainage.It will be part of a recently sanctioned ₹2,500 crore project, a majority of ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphA senior postmaster of a Burdwan post office was arrested on Sunday for his alleged involvement in cheating depositors. The CID arrested Bidyut Sur, the senior postmaster of Burdwan post office, from his residence at Madhabdihi in East Burdwan ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphA fresh system is imminent over the Bay of Bengal, but this time, it is likely to cause more rain in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, said Met officials.Heavy rain is likely to continue in north Bengal for now. But ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphAn electrical glitch at the Noapara carshed disrupted Metro services on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) between Dakshineswar and Dum Dum for over an hour on Monday morning. Trains could not roll out of the shed at Noapara and ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphPolice have registered five criminal cases and sought court permission to initiate two more against a political leader and several supporters in connection with the violence during Saturday’s Nabanna March, led by BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari.The charges in the ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphThieves broke into a two-storey house in Salt Lake’s AH Block early on Monday morning, breaking seven locks while a family slept inside and threatening the homeowner with death when she tried to raise an alarm.The intruders entered the ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphPainter Swaroop Mukerji, 75, a resident of Sunny Park in Ballygunge, died of dengue on Saturday after a brief spell of fever, a family member said on Monday.Civic officials said that Mukerji’s death is the first reported dengue fatality ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Railway Kolkata has decided to replace the cooling system of 11 underground stations of the Blue Line.A Metro spokesperson said on Sunday that out of 15 underground stations, the cooling system of 11 underground stations of the ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphNearly 1 lakh fishermen in the Sundarbans, both within its tiger reserve and close to forest area falling within South 24-Parganas, have not been able to pursue their livelihood for more than a month as the distribution of annual boat licence certificates ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphAn air-conditioned EMU (electric multiple unit) train ran between Sealdah and Ranaghat for the first time on Sunday. The inaugural run was ceremonial. Commercial runs will start from Monday, said the spokesperson for the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway. “The train will ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphStretches of two roads — one near Howrah bridge and another near Science City — that used to get damaged frequently despite repeated repairs are now being relaid with interlocking concrete blocks to make the work more durable, an ...
12 August 2025 TelegraphA section of former Presidency students will meet education minister Bratya Basu later this month to request that the state joint entrance examination (JEE) board be asked to engage Presidency teachers while formulating question papers of its undergraduate admission ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphA 38-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly cheating a woman whom he had befriended on a train and later managed to take her ATM card and PIN to withdraw money from her account after he fraudulently secured a loan in ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphRaising children with autism and other disabilities comes with immense challenges, and it can sometimes be traumatic for both the children and their families — not because of the disabilities themselves, but because of the lack of understanding and acceptance from broader ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to hold an executive council meeting on Monday to discuss the installation of CCTV cameras on campus following a clearance from the high court. Last month, a division bench of Calcutta High Court said that though the university ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphIdentifying nearest healthcare facilities for elderly tourists, cooking classes or skydiving for women, Instaworthy spots for millennials: Thailand is now focusing on particular groups like women, “active seniors” and the Gen Z, proposing tours tailor-made for their areas of interest. “We are focusing ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphThe condition of the Kolkata Police constable admitted to SSKM Hospital on Saturday after suffering injuries during Nabanna Abhijan is “stable”, a senior hospital official said on Sunday. He had injuries in his “scalp”, the official added. Four others who were ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphPhysical pain is an unpleasant sensation which can disrupt daily activities. It accounts for one of the top five reasons for medical consultation.Relief of pain maintains the quality and dignity of life. Pain physicians are medical doctors who specialise ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has requested the state education department to take steps to ensure uninterrupted traffic and adequate police deployment so that examinees can reach the exam centres on time on August 28, which coincides with the foundation day of ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphPolice are probing how the mother of the raped and murdered RG Kar doctor suffered injuries during the clash between protesters and law-keepers on Saturday, police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Sunday.The father of the murdered junior doctor alleged ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphRabindranath Tagore’s death anniversary was commemorated by the department of post on Friday with a set of eight picture postcards.The postcards, released at the General Post Office (GPO) on Friday, are on the theme of ‘Rain and Tagore’.“This release ...
11 August 2025 TelegraphIndividuals with autism are often marginalised and become subjects of bullying because of “perceived oddities in behaviour” and “apparent naivety”, said psychiatrists. In higher education as well as among educated people, “lack of fairness and stigma is rampant”, said ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphAmid cries that justice has been denied, the parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year expressed deep frustration with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s handling of their daughter’s ...
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