The user ID for each school to log into a government portal to upload students’ data contains its DISE (District Information System for Education) code followed by the digits “32”. All the schools were given a common, easy-to-guess password ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Calcutta Gazette published an advertisement about two “drummer boys” who were runaway slaves. The two boys bore the last name De Rozario and had run away from Fort St George in Madras (now Chennai) and it ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphThe 48th International Kolkata Book Fair will kick off on January 28 and continue until February 9, 2025, organisers Publishers and Booksellers Guild said here on Friday.The fair will feature Germany as the focal theme country, showcasing its rich ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police arrested a renowned musician from Mumbai for allegedly molesting a student at his institute here, an officer said on Friday.Renowned singer and composer Sanjay Chakraborty, brother of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, was arrested by a Charu Market police ...
16 November 2024 TelegraphManoj Mitra did not live in his Salt Lake para as a celebrity. He believed in simple living and lived as one of them, his neighbours say. The thespian, who called AG Block home, passed away on Tuesday at ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA fortnight ago, residents of several highrises in New Town were upset at the disruption of the daily process of garbage collection from their complexes.Social media groups were agog with outraged comments on garbage bins overflowing and overbearing stench. ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA hint of chill, missing altogether in November so far, is on its way, the Met office has said.After consistently staying several notches above normal for half of the month, the minimum temperature is set to slide from Saturday, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe school education department has started transferring money afresh to students who did not receive it earlier under a scheme to help them buy smartphones or tabs because of defalcation of funds. An official in the department said on ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe number of students falling victim to the “tab funds scam” crossed 100 on Thursday, police said.A special investigation team has been formed to probe cheat complaints where students, eligible to receive the government grant to buy smartphones or ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphA pool car ferrying school students crashed into a stationary truck on Dhapa Road, near the Science City crossing of EM Bypass, on Thursday morning and one of the students and the driver were injured, police said. Ankita Malick, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee government proposed on Thursday a monthly salary for drivers and conductors of private buses, which will replace the existing commission-based remuneration system that makes them take undue risks, to make Calcutta’s roads safer.Such a proposal is ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphPeople on two-wheelers without helmets, many of whom were stopped by police near Salt Lake’s gate number II, where a child suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Tuesday, gave several excuses for not wearing helmets or letting pillion ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphTwo students of Classes III and IV and a woman attendant had a close shave after the school bus they were travelling in hit a cyclist and then rammed into the wall of a park in Survey Park around ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash was published first on this day by Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan.Dwarakanath, who taught at Sanskrit College, Calcutta, was inspired by Ishwar Chandra Vidya-sagar’s idea. Vidyasagar, who continued to advise him on editorial matters.A resident of Chang-ripota, ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphHe has seen Mahatma Gandhi face-to-face. Jawaharlal Nehru would hop into the sidecar of his father’s motorbike, and he owns an autograph book containing the signatures of Netaji, Tagore, C.V. Raman and others.Arun Kumar Gupta of GC Block celebrated ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphDid you know that authentic pizzas aren’t perfectly round? “In Italy, pizza is a staple. Much like how our mothers make luchi at home without worrying about perfect shapes, it is the same with pizza. The bread must be ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphKB Block last week organised what was perhaps the only community Chhath puja in Salt Lake this year.The festival, which is most celebrated in and around Bihar, requires a water body for devotees to enter and worship the sun ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphFormer English Premier League star footballer Sol Campbell on Thursday was announced as the international event ambassador of the Tata Steel World 25K, the world’s first World Athletic Gold Label Race, to be held here on December 15. At ...
15 November 2024 TelegraphThe school education department has stated in a report that funds to buy tabs or smartphones could not be transferred to 484 students at government and aided schools in Calcutta because of incorrect data provided by the institutions.The office ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal School Service Commission has mentioned in the recommendation letters issued to the candidates appointed as upper primary school teachers that they have “graduated with a BEd degree”, a mandatory qualification for the post.The commission said the qualification ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men have been arrested in North Dinajpur’s Chopra in connection with the alleged defalcation of funds meant to buy tabs or smartphones for students in Classes XI and XII at a government-aided school in Sarsuna in Behala. A ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe state government will tell owners of buses and minibuses at a meeting scheduled for Thursday that they will be held accountable for rash driving by drivers hired by them and booked for negligence, sources in the government said. ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphMetro Railway has expedited the construction of the Esplanade-Sealdah stretch, the only unfinished section of the East-West corridor (Green Line).The carrier wants to finish civil engineering work in the west-bound (Howrah-bound) tunnel by this year-end and in the east-bound ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA government-sponsored school in Behala will start an English medium section in January.Children's Welfare Association High School for Girls felt there was a demand for an English medium school in the area. Many of the existing students, some of ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fire gutted a series of stalls and shanties at the Lord's intersection on Prince Anwar Shah Road on Wednesday afternoon.There were no casualties, police said. The blaze was reported around 3.10pm from an area locally known as Sandhyabazar, ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphNine minor girls and a woman from Bengal were rescued in a police crackdown on a clutch of “orchestras” in Bihar on Tuesday.They were forced to dance to sleazy numbers at social gatherings, said police and rights activists.The swoop ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser published a report headlined “Calcutta News”. It was about the battle at Ashteen (or Ashta) between Peshwa Baji Rao II and the British. The report said: “The following ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe mother of the 11-year-old boy who was killed in Tuesday’s accident in Salt Lake alleged that police did not come to her help while her son lay bleeding on the road.Nur Jahan Paik, whose son Ayush was killed ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphTwo doctors — an associate professor and a junior medic — deposed before the Sealdah court on the third day of the trial in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The associate professor, according to the CBI chargesheet, had ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphThe repair and renovation work that slapped marble slabs on a much-loved stone stairway of the 188-year-old La Martiniere for Boys did not have the permission that a “Grade I heritage” structure needs for such work. On Wednesday, the ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out on Wednesday in a market near Anwar Shah Road in south Calcutta, a Fire Brigade official said.He said that 16 fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the blaze.No one was reported to ...
14 November 2024 TelegraphA fortnight from now, more than 1,400 cameras will be installed at strategic locations across the Sunderbans forest to capture images of its apex predator.The trap cameras will be in place for around 45 days as part of the ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA few months ago, hawkers in the New Market area were forced to vacate roads and shift to pavements, and stay within a third of the width of the sidewalks. They are now back to flouting rules, a two-day ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe duo arrested for allegedly trafficking a two-day-old baby last Sunday had recently visited Maldives and Congo raising suspicion about whether the racket was an overseas one.The state CID probing the human trafficking case has found links between this ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University on Tuesday published the results of the Bengali MA first-semester examination.Following the publication of the results, the 104 students whose answer scripts in one of the four papers had been misplaced by examiners would be able to ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphPrivate hospitals across the city have been packed with patients over the past few days and many are having to wait for hours in the emergency room at some of the facilities before being allotted a bed.Many patients are ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphTwo government-aided schools in Calcutta have lodged complaints alleging cash irregularities in the Taruner Swapna Scheme for students of Classes XI and XII.According to the complaints, the money earmarked by the state government for students to buy smartphone or ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe following advertisement appeared in Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from Calcutta, on this day.Birkmyre brosPaulinsWaterproof and durable No Oil nor tarLight and easily Handled And last double the timesOf tar and oil paulin.Made up into any size complete on ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA La Martiniere stairway that has been an indelible part of its history of over 180 years has been changed forever after a round of repair work.The “original steps” on the southern side of La Martiniere for Boys that ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphThe renovation of the old complex of the 150-year-old New Market will require some shops to be shifted to strengthen the building, senior officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Tuesday. Senior engineers of the civic body ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA Class IV student returning home from school on his mother’s scooter was killed on Tuesday morning after a bus that was allegedly trying to overtake another hit the two-wheeler’s handlebar.Ayush Paik, 11, slammed into the running bus before ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphManoj Mitra, a doyen of the stage and the screen, passed away on Tuesday morning. He was 85.Mitra was hospitalised on September 20 with breathing difficulties, sodium-potassium imbalance and other health complications. He was discharged in end-September but his ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphTwo junior doctors who were on the night shift with the postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 deposed before the Sealdah court on the second day of the ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphSeveral shanties were gutted in a massive blaze in Kalikapur area of Kolkata on Tuesday evening, a fire official said.Four fire tenders were deployed to douse the blaze that erupted around 5.15 pm, he said.The fire also spread to ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphTwo witnesses were examined on Tuesday before the trial court here in the rape and murder case of a doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, sources said. The in-camera trial, which began on Monday, is being ...
13 November 2024 TelegraphA 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 ...
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