A 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 ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphViolence broke out at two clubs in southern parts of Calcutta on Saturday night and Sunday morning. A couple returning home to Haltu in Kasba on Saturday night were allegedly beaten up for protesting the ransacking of a Kali ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphPalliative care, which oncologists say is one of the most crucial parts of the treatment for many cancer patients, is yet to take off in Calcutta properly.Palliative care often remains ignored, thus depriving terminally ill patients of the dignity ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphPhysical violence at the workplace is a worldwide concern. It is a punishable offence. However, psychological and verbal violence at offices or hospitals seldom gets proven. Thus punishment is rare.The popular Albanian proverbs that “words kill more than bullets” ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphA resource centre for mothers has started a platform allowing them to vent their emotions and resolve conflicts without being judged. Sharing problems like the aggressive behaviour of their children and their screen dependence are some of the problems ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphThe fourth edition of The City as a Museum, a 10-day festival of art, culture, and history held across various sites and neighbourhoods, will begin on November 16.This year the festival will be held at state archives, colonial houses, ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphA two-storey building in Howrah’s Uluberia was rocked by an explosion Sunday morning. Police said illegal firecrackers stockpiled inside the house had exploded. No one was trapped or injured. The landlord has been detained by the police. ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphThe post-mortem report of the woman, whose body was found in the apartment of her friend in Garfa on Friday, has revealed that there was no foul play, police saidon Sunday. “The post-mortem report says she suffered a cardiac ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphA 69-year-old woman from Rajarhat who had tested positive for dengue died on Saturday.Shivani Das, a resident of Rajarhat’s Narayanpur, died at a private hospital near Chinar Park owing to “sepsis caused by dengue haemorrhagic fever”, an official at ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphTaxi touts are back at the city airport roaming freely in front of the terminal. And in keeping with the return of the illegal operatives, the old menace of illegal parking of taxis in the lanes meant for the ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphAt least three monitoring stations in Calcutta recorded “poor” air at 10pm on Saturday, after reporting “moderate” air the previous day and “satisfactory” air on Thursday, according to data published by the Central Pollution Control Board.The three stations that ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Scottish physicist and astronomer, James Dinwiddle, began to keep a journal that he wrote till December 15 that year. He was then a resident of Calcutta.Dinwiddle studied at Edinburgh University. In 1792, he was asked to ...
4 November 2024 TelegraphThe Met office is spying cooler nights and days over the next day or two as the mercury is likely to drop by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius, a weather scientist said on Saturday.There is a possibility of rain ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA clash between two groups over a parking dispute broke out at Narkeldanga on Friday night, resulting in the pelting of bricks and crude bombs.A civic volunteer attached to Maniktala police station was injured after shots were fired. More ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA team from the fire and emergency services department went to Natural View housing complex in Ultadanga and collected samples from the 12th-floor apartment where a fire broke out late on Thursday leaving its owner with severe injuries.“We collected ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA committee that Jadavpur University set up to probe if the varsity’s medical superintendent who went to rescue a first-year MTech student in late July was hindered by students and told to write an undertaking has found the allegations ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA woman was found dead in the apartment of her friend at Garfa where she stayed after a party on Diwali night. Madhurima Roy, 32, was found lying lifeless on the bed on Friday night. Her friend, Bikas Mandal, ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphDurga Puja sales were below par.Bijoya Dashami was no better.Diwali and Bhai Phonta, or Bhai Dooj, however, have emerged as a potential game changer for most mishti sellers across the city.Almost all big sweet shops had to ramp up ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe city's air quality dropped to "very poor" in at least one location on Friday night after a relatively cleaner Diwali on Thursday.A stronger-than-usual wind speed on Thursday evening had ensured the dispersion of the pollutants, experts had said.On ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe number of passengers has increased but so has the number of flights.Result: Post-Diwali airfares from Calcutta on the popular routes do not have exaggerated fares this year.Airline officials and tour operators said the fares from Calcutta to cities ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe patient referral system for government hospitals that the Bengal government plans to launch across the state in the next few weeks will make doctors accountable for all their referrals as the medics have to cite reasons for not ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Elijah Impey, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, introduced the first set of articles of the Civil Procedure Code that he had put together.Governor-General Warren Hastings had ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA woman doctor of a private hospital in Kolkata lodged a police complaint on Saturday accusing an app biker of sending her pornographic videos after she cancelled the booking since he was getting too late, an officer said.The accused ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe body of a woman was on Saturday recovered from the staircase of a building in the Garfa area of the city, police said.The live-in partner of the woman and her elder sister have been detained after family members ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court has quashed the life sentence of a man, observing that he was not the perpetrator of the murder of his elder brother, after he spent more than nine years in custody.A division bench of the ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphThe air quality index (AQI) in Kolkata was in the 'poor' category on Saturday following Diwali celebrations, a West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official said.AQI in terms of PM 2.5 was 288 in Ballygunge, 210 in Jadavpur, 211 ...
3 November 2024 TelegraphA fire in a residential apartment that is suspected to have started from crackers after midnight on Thursday led to an explosion and left its chartered accountant owner severely injured. Many residents of Ultadanga’s Natural View housing complex were ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to initiate a probe against the examiners of three colleges, who have allegedly lost the Bengali MA first-semester examination’s answer sheets, a lapse that has come in the way of the publication of the results ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA teenager has been detained in connection with the murder of 57-year-old insurance agent Abhijit Banerjee who was found dead at his rented place in Jorabagan on Thursday morning. Police said the youth suspected that his mother had a ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA teenager playing cricket in Patuli was injured while fiddling with a suspected crude bomb that he mistook for a ball on Friday morning. Firecrackers had been burst on the same ground on Thursday night.Police said Dhoni Sarkar, 15, ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphFewer people were prosecuted in Calcutta on Diwali night for bursting crackers compared to last year although many felt the city on Thursday witnessed one of the noisiest Diwalis in recent years.Kolkata Police on Thursday arrested 265 persons for ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThree children, who were lighting fireworks on the ground floor of a two-storey house in Howrah’s Uluberia, died after the room they were in caught fire on Friday evening.A teenager who tried to douse the flames has been admitted ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe Barrackpore Mutiny, the precursor of the Uprising of 1857, took place on this day.During the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), Indian soldiers from the 47th Regiment were ordered to march to Chittagong by land because religious customs forbade Hindu ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphAnish Sarkar can reach the chess board in a tournament only when he sits on top of four piled-up chairs.He is still in his “diapers” but the three-year-eight-month-old boy has a Fide rating of 1555. Fide is the “world ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe city on Thursday suffered the longest and noisiest Diwali night in recent memory and even hospitals were not spared, said an environmental platform that criss-crossed the city through the night.Data from the state pollution control board corroborates the ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA pilot project of a patient referral system for government hospitals in Bengal has shown that once patients are referred to a healthcare facility away from home, many do not go there, state health department officials said.Most patients are ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphAn early Diwali, relatively higher temperatures and stronger-than-usual winds ensured Calcutta’s air quality on Diwali night remained “satisfactory” and “good”, way better than last year.At 10pm on Thursday, the air quality monitoring station of the Central Pollution Control Board ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta's air quality index (AQI) was 'poor' across different pockets on Friday morning, a day after Kali Puja and Diwali, an official said.A West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official told PTI, that AQI levels in terms of PM ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA boy was seriously injured when an object he was playing with exploded in the southern part of Kolkata's Patuli area on Friday, police said.The class 9 boy found the object in a playground and thought it was a ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphDivinity descended in human forms on the stage at Central Park where over 4,000 people had gathered to offer arati to goddess Mahalaxmi on Monday night. Deepavali Mahotsav, organised by Marwari Sanskriti Manch, is in its 12th year and ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police arrested 601 people for bursting banned firecrackers and disorderly conduct in the last 24 hours till Friday morning, an officer said.The police also seized over 700 kg of banned firecrackers, 79.4 litre of liquor and prosecuted over ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphGold prices have been steadily climbing for years, but this year, even a kilogram of silver has breached the Rs 1 lakh mark. Despite the rising costs, Dhanteras saw robust footfall at jewellery stores, where some shoppers had to ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe builders of Greenwood Nest, in New Town, have finally begun construction of a water treatment plant (WTP), months after more than 150 residents started falling sick and some 50 of them got hospitalised from water-borne diseases. Greenwood Nest ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphMore than 7,000 people living in pockets of south Bengal and are vulnerable to human-wildlife conflict received new sets of clothes this festive season. The drive, which began in August this year, has covered pockets such as Dayapur, Pakhiralaya ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA village in Birbhum that lacked access to education now has a primary school, thanks to two former students of Bengal Engineering College (now IIEST) and Banaras Hindu University who have joined hands with an NGO to develop the ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA woman sub-inspector of police held a sit-in at Nadial police station on Thursday afternoon alleging that the officer-in-charge had misbehaved with her and removed her items from the police barracks attached to the station. Soma Tarafdar alleged that ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA madrasa in Murshidabad has been conducting science seminars and fairs to encourage more of its girls to take up science or sustain the interest of those who have chosen the stream. Of the 216 girls in Class XI, ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA man who lived alone in a room on the terrace of a five-storey building was found dead in north Calcutta’s Jorabagan on Thursday morning. The main entrance to the room in which he was found and the terrace ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphSeveral schools are revisiting their anti-bullying policies and speaking to children about values in light of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.One school has put up, in ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphMocha scurried under the dining table. Martini would not be left alone for a minute. Pogo was extremely restless until all the windows were shut.What was Diwali revelry for humans was a traumatic experience for dogs, cats and other ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA quiet start to Diwali on Thursday gradually crescendoed to the usual noisy night.Residents across the city said they heard firecrackers go off from around 6pm, long before the two-hour window to burst green crackers.Calcutta High Court allowed only ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphScottish clergyman and abolitionist William Adam was born on this day. He arrived in Calcutta in 1818, he was in Serampore as a Baptist missionary. He learnt Sanskrit and Bengali and worked on a translation of the New Testament.Meeting ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA strong bond with pets, especially dogs, could help relieve anxiety and depression in women, especially those who had experienced childhood trauma, according to an American research.Researchers said that while previous studies have looked at depression and anxiety among ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphMylo is one strong dog. Prabal De takes him for walks and knows how hard he can pull at his leash. Mylo is also a possessive dog and won’t tolerate strangers approaching his loved ones. The combination of these ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphThe body of a middle-aged man, with injury marks, was found in his residence at Jorabagan in north Kolkata on Thursday, a senior police officer said.The body of 58-year-old Abhijit Bandyopadhyay was found lying in a room on the ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphThailand has extended its visa-free entry facility for Indians “until further notice”.“Visa extensions for Indian travellers have been extended until further notice,” the Toursm Authority of Thailand announced on Wednesday.The visa-free entry, implemented on November 10, 2023, was extended ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphOne person was killed and several others injured when a fire broke out at a chemical factory in Kanchantala in Badu, Madhyamgram, about 21 kilometres north of Calcutta on Wednesday.A dozen fire tenders brought the blaze under control after ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphPolice teams visited several schools on Wednesday to make the students aware of the rules of green Diwali.The students were also told about what constitutes violations and the penalties they carry.The campaign was focused primarily on the city’s southeast, ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphThe five-year-old boy who fell into a lift shaft in a Topsia building on Tuesday evening died in hospital early on Wednesday. An elevator is yet to be installed in the shaft, which police said had around 5ft water ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphChhath Puja can be performed at more than 150 ghats in the Calcutta municipal area, sources in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Wednesday after a meeting at the civic headquarters where officials of various agencies discussed preparations ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphTwo members of Jadavpur University’s executive council told the vice-chancellor on Wednesday to approach a division bench of Calcutta High Court so the students implicated in the varsity’s probe into the ragging of a first-year student can be penalised.In ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphSuspended CPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya was summoned to Baranagar police station for the second time on Wednesday and questioned for around four hours in connection with a complaint of molestation against him.Bhattacharya has been summoned to the police station ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphA section of junior doctors and many Calcuttans walked in a rally from the office of the West Bengal Medical Council in Salt Lake to the CBI office in the township, several of them with flaming torches in hand.Although ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Bengal was struck by a devastating cyclone, referred to as the Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876.The cyclone formed over the Bay of Bengal and hit land at Backerganj near the Meghna estuary, now in Barisal district ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOnly green fireworks can be burst during a two-hour window each on Thursday and Friday, when Diwali revellers are allowed to light firecrackers. The permissible noise level of firecrackers is 125 decibel at 4m from the source, said an ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphAs the great visionary poet William Blake had observed in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “Without contraries is no progression.”Contraries are an integral part of our existence, as we journey through the ups and downs of our lives.Similarly, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Tuesday said special instructions had been given to officers to maintain vigil on highrise buildings and the outskirts, from where the maximum number of violation of the firecracker ban is usually reported on ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA team of around 100 guards will be deployed around the entry points, in the courtyard and near the Panchavati garden of the Dakshineswar temple, as well as along the banks of the Hooghly, on Kali Puja (Thursday), the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA realtor, who also trades in garments, was attacked with choppers and other sharp weapons on Kaiser Street in Narkeldanga early on Tuesday.Abdul Abid, 33, suffered multiple injuries on his hands and shoulders. His family alleged that multiple bullets ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphAutomobile sales slowed down in Calcutta during Dhanteras while the districts fared slightly better. Conversations with dealers and sales personnel suggested a rural-urban divide in festive sales this year.In Calcutta, the mood in dealerships was muted. In places like ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA Durga idol was paraded on the Thames in London on a boat. The iconic Tower Bridge opened up to make way for the passage of the idol. Water collected from seven oceans and 13 rivers around the world ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA child, visiting his grandmother with his mother, fell into the empty lift shaft of the five-storey building in Topsia on Tuesday afternoon.He has been admitted to hospital. The child’s condition is critical, police said.The grandmother lives on the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) has called for a march to the CBI office in Salt Lake on Wednesday to demand "a proper charge-sheet” and the “swift arrest” of all culprits in the RG Kar rape and ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphIIEST Shibpur had its students’ senate elections on Tuesday.The system followed at the central academic institute stands in contrast to the kind of campus elections witnessed at most state universities and colleges in Bengal.At Shibpur, political parties had no ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphiPhone 16 Pro, check. Crossover SUV, check. A pair of kitchen tongs, check.Many Calcuttans brought home something new on Dhanteras, depending on their buying power.Stores were decked out with promotional offers. The sales staff hardly had any time off.Jewellers, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphSamuel Bourne, a British photographer who established the Bourne & Shepherd studio in Calcutta, was born on this day in England. He began his career as a bank clerk but left his job to become a photographer.In 1863, Bourne ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement appeared in the newspaper Bengal Hurkaru, brought out from Calcutta:HORSES AND CARRIAGESFOR PRIVATE SALEA neat fashionable light POST CHAISE, with a pair of strong serviceable grey Horses, perfectly sound & quiet, Postillion Harness, ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphPolice have busted a racket involved in the illegal sale of blood at the Malda Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) and arrested eight persons in the past one month.According to police sources, five persons were arrested between August 22 ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA packed audience of students and teachers at Rotary Sadan listened and learned how to be peer buddies to children with learning and writing difficulties on Monday.Often termed dyslexia, the neuro-biological condition can afflict one in five children in ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s Collegiate School has started the practice of students writing only roll numbers and not their names on answer scripts in the school exams for a “fair evaluation,” and to cut down on the possibility of teachers’ bias ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to people on Monday to ensure that fireworks did not inconvenience others and to “abide by rules set by the administration”.Mamata spoke about using discretion while using fireworks at the inauguration of the Janbazar ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSuspended CPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya was summoned to Baranagar police station on Monday in connection with a complaint of outraging the modesty of a woman. Bhattacharya was examined at the police station for several hours before he was allowed ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphIncome insecurity; Irregular working hours; Unsanitary workplace conditions; Discrimination. A report that underscores the multifaceted challenges faced by migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath was released on October 18.The report, titled “A Study of the Housing ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out in a congested slum off Prince Anwar Shah Road allegedly after the battery of an electric scooter exploded. The fire led to multiple LPG cylinder explosions.At least one person was injured.Fire department officials said a ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA new junior doctors’ outfit has now sent to Bengal’s chief secretary a set of demands, including their representation in the state-level task force and a probe into the funds of the platform of junior doctors protesting the RG ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphThe option to hire a driver home at the fingertip. Waiters trained to keep an eye on inebriated guests without being impolite. Posters of responsible drinking all around.A campaign launched by an association of restaurant owners on Monday aims ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphCity police commissioner Manoj Verma has appealed to people to cross-check and verify several times while making online payments to prevent cyber fraud during festive buying this season.“Around this time many criminals might get active. I will request that ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSprucing up stinking and stained washrooms, adding lights worth ₹3 crore for better illumination and polishing marble floors to clean the dirt accumulated over the years — the Calcutta airport authorities are finally bringing small changes to make its ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA youth was injured and a few shanties near Anwar Shah Road in the southern part of the city were gutted in a fire that broke out on Monday, police said.The fire broke out in a shanty when a ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA conference-cum-workshop on advancements in onco-pathology was held in the city recently.One of the organisers of the two-day event said tumour samples from most hospitals in the city have to be sent to Delhi, Bangalore, or another city for ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe state government has sought reports from the district inspectors of schools in nine districts, including Calcutta, about the extent of damage caused by Cyclone Dana to school infrastructure and students’ textbooks. The commissioner of school education, Arup Sengupta, ...
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