A Jadavpur University alumnus, now based in the US, gifted the institute laboratory equipment worth ₹30 lakh.Dipak Ghosh, who graduated from the chemical engineering department in 1987, came from New Jersey to hand over the equipment on Friday.“In the ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphPark Street’s reputation as a weekend lunch favourite survived the mayhem unfolding just a few hundred metres away on Saturday.Inside the restaurants, it was business as usual. Most popular eateries had queues outside — a familiar Saturday scene — ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphThe mother of the slain junior doctor was injured in an alleged police lathi-charge near the Park Street crossing on Saturday afternoon and taken to hospital with head injuries.Television images showed swelling on the right side of her forehead.“Many ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s veteran motorists, people working at petrol pumps and workshops have said that ethanol-blended petrol comes with performance compromises, especially for vehicles manufactured before 2023.Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday dismissed concerns about ethanol-blended petrol, ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphSanjay Roy, convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been picking fights in jail and is routinely rude to staff, jail officials said.Roy frequently quarrels over food, demanding ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphMovement of heavy and medium goods vehicles will be restricted along Vidyasagar Setu, including its ramps, Circular Garden Reach Road, Garden Reach Road and all feeder roads connecting these thoroughfares from August 10 to facilitate the construction of the ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphChemotherapy, surgery prep, intravenous channels, and the pain of cancer leave little room for anything else in the lives of children undergoing treatment.Yet, they find time — and hope.At Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute, children aged between ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphEngineer, innovator and founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives in Ladakh, Sonam Wangchuk, was in Kolkata as the chief guest at Made in JIS Celeb Edition, hosted by JIS Group Educational Initiatives at the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium. My ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will file FIRs against owners of “dangerous buildings” who do not repair the structures even after they are served notices, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.“Three buildings collapsed in the past few days. People ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphThe husband of the 29-year-old homemaker who was found dead at her in-laws’ home in Beleghata on Wednesday was arrested on Friday on charges of murder, mental and physical torture, and dowry demand.The family of the deceased has accused ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphThe state government has moved the Supreme Court challenging Calcutta High Court’s order halting the publication of the state JEE results, education minister Bratya Basu said on Friday.Justice Kaushik Chanda on Thursday directed the JEE board to rework the ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national was arrested at the airport on Friday morning for allegedly posing as an Indian and trying to fly to Germany.Airport officials said Saumik Barua from Chittagong was allegedly using an Indian passport issued in the name ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphShop owners, hotels and other establishments in the city must display their names in Bengali alongside other languages of their choice, or face having their signboards removed by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Mayor Firhad Hakim announced on Friday.Business ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphPolice on Friday said no organisation or individual has sought formal permission for the Nabanna march on Saturday, but adequate arrangements have been made to prevent any breach of security at the state secretariat.August 9 marks one year since ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphRage, grief, hope and a steely resolve echoed through a rally on Friday night marking a year since the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024.Metro spoke to ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphMath and astronomyVigesimal: Several ancient civilisations, such as the Mayans and Celtics, used the vigesimal numeral system. So, instead of the modern system of using base-10 (where we group in tens), they grouped things in sets of 20. The ...
10 August 2025 TelegraphTurning 20 for a community newspaper, covering the two townships, New Town and Salt Lake — the first of which got peopled over the last two decades and the second gained its unique identity —means being there for every ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphLocalPuja at Animikha: Durga puja at New Town’s Animikha Abasan began in 2005. The Animikha Sanjari Welfare Association, comprising about 30 families settled in the C and D high-income blocks, held their first puja in the garage of D ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphPan-Seared SausageIngredientsBell pepper - 100gOnion - 1 smallGarlic - 3 clovesSausage - 5Chilli flakes - 1tspOregano - 1tspRosemary - 1tspButter - 1tbspMozzarella cheese - 10g Methodl Cut the bell pepper and onion into thin ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday refused to disallow a march to the state secretariat on Saturday but said the government was free to implement a prohibitory order, already issued by police.Should the rally take place, it must be peaceful ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday stayed the publication of the JEE results, directing the board to rework the merit list using pre-2010 OBC reservation norms.Justice Kaushik Chanda passed the order on the day the board was to publish results ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphA 29-year-old woman was found dead at her in-laws’ home in Beleghata on Thursday. Her parents alleged she was tortured by her husband and his family for giving birth to daughters and protesting his alleged extramarital affair.Shweta Prasad Shaw ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released a handbook on inclusive education to help teachers identify and support children with special needs and address diversity in their classrooms.The handbook aims to assist schools in “strengthening ...
9 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police have contacted the state election commission to verify the details of the 13 voter cards seized from Soumik Dutta, who was arrested for allegedly helping Bangladeshi model Shanta Paul obtain fake Indian identity documents. Dutta, 36, ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphA minimum 75 per cent attendance is mandatory for Class X and XII students to be eligible for appearing in the board exams, the CBSE said in a circular sent to principals on Monday.The board said that it may ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphBengali films will have primacy in Bengal, Aroop Biswas, minister and senior Trinamool leader, said on Thursday after a meeting between some of Calcutta’s leading actors, filmmakers, producers, distributors and exhibitors.Biswas, the MLA from Tollygunge, linked the resolution to ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphShe was equally passionate about pulmonary medicine and music, and often hummed while working, a colleague of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year said on Thursday — two ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphA year after the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital sparked statewide protests by junior doctors and the public, several demands of the protesting doctors remain unfulfilled.The central referral system for ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphThe teachers of IIEST Shibpur will meet with the institute’s director to request that he take steps to complete the pending renovation work in the hostels, many of which have been in a state of disrepair for years. The ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphThe man arrested for illegal possession of a cache of arms and ammunition in Khardah is suspected to be in touch with several criminals in Hooghly, South and North 24-Parganas, and police suspect he was supplying arms to criminals ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress trade union leader was caught on CCTV slapping a petrol pump owner in Phoolbagan on Tuesday afternoon.The leader, Kabita Gupta, admitted to slapping the owner, Sumona Das Roy, 52, alleging that Das Roy had abused her ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphThe perilous stretch of EM Bypass between Science City and the Briji Metro station in Garia was repaired between Monday night and Wednesday afternoon. However, engineers stated that it remains to be observed how long the repairs will last ...
8 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University on Monday appointed two new nominees to the governing body of South Calcutta Law College, where a 24-year-old student was gang-raped on June 25.The university has appointed Tanupa Chakraborty, the head of the commerce department at CU, ...
7 August 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing the Bengal government’s appeal that challenged the initiation of contempt proceedings in Calcutta High Court by state employees challenging the delay or denial in payment of the dearness allowance (DA).A bench of ...
7 August 2025 TelegraphThe man arrested for illegal possession of a cache of arms and ammunition in Khardah is suspected to be in touch with several criminals in Hooghly, South and North 24-Parganas, and police suspect he was supplying arms to criminals ...
7 August 2025 TelegraphA newborn girl was rescued by an e-rickshaw driver from a garbage dump in Howrah on Wednesday morning, officials said.Chandan Mallick, the driver, was passing through Panchanantala in Bally when he noticed something unusual near the garbage dump, located ...
7 August 2025 TelegraphNot just the cracking New Garia station — Metro Rail authorities are equally concerned about the old and decaying underground structure of the north-south corridor. Tracks have subsided in stretches, water is seeping from walls, platforms are damaged, and ...
7 August 2025 TelegraphCar repair workshops across the city have witnessed a surge in vehicles queuing up for service, with most owners complaining that poor road conditions have taken a toll on their vehicles. Automobile engineers heading teams at repair workshops said ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphThe investigating officer of the Kankurgachi BJP activist murder case in 2021, and a home guard of Kolkata Police who had been chargesheeted by CBI and were sent to judicial remand, were granted bail by the high court on ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, the prime accused in the gang-rape of a student at South Calcutta Law College in Kasba, and his three co-accused were sent to police remand late on Tuesday.Mishra, along with Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed, and security ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphA fresh system is likely to trigger more rain in Calcutta from Wednesday.“An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over north Bangladesh and neighbourhood. It is likely to descend in a day or two. A fresh rainy spell is likely ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphBarely 7km from the heart of Calcutta, on the western bank of the Hooghly, large parts of Howrah’s Salkia have been underwater for nearly a month.The heavy showers may have stopped — but in Salkia, that means little.Lanes and ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphA riveting series that saved its best for the final hour has sparked fresh interest in Test cricket among a generation obsessed with the slam-bang thrill of the Indian Premier League.The rubber, shared 2-2 by England and India, has ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released a handbook on inclusive education to help teachers identify and support children with special needs and address diversity in their classrooms.The handbook aims to assist schools in “strengthening ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphTwo men who allegedly helped Bangladeshi national Shanta Paul — a model and actress — obtain forged Indian documents have been arrested.Soumik Dutta, 36, was arrested from his home in Naihati, North 24-Parganas, on Monday. Sheikh Momtajuddin, 38, was ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphA cache of arms and ammunition was seized from an apartment in a residential neighbourhood of Khardah in North 24-Parganas on Monday. A 66-year-old man who stayed alone in the flat, and told neighbours that he was a supplier ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphAn elderly Calcuttan was kept under “digital arrest” for more than a week and forced to transfer ₹1.09 crore from his retirement funds, police said. Two teenagers and a youth were arrested from Odisha by Bidhannagar police on Sunday ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday agreed to list for urgent hearing a petition filed by a section of dismissed teachers seeking a review of the court’s April 3 judgment that sacked around 25,000 teaching and non-teaching employees of Bengal’s ...
6 August 2025 TelegraphA team of mountaineers from the city will embark on an expedition to the Yunam Peak after celebrating the 78th Independence Day at the base camp of the 6,111m summit in Himachal Pradesh. A team of 25, comprising 12 ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has rejected the higher education department’s request to reschedule the undergraduate examinations on August 28. The department appealed to the university as that date coincides with the foundation day of the Trinamool Congress’s student wing.BCom fourth-semester as ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphSporadic rain with hot and humid conditions in between — that is the forecast for Calcutta for the next couple of days.The monsoon trough, which had been passing through south Bengal for a long time, moved north on Monday. ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphA four-year-old girl from Behala was diagnosed with cholera, as doctors across the city reported a sharp rise in gastrointestinal infections. Hundreds of patients were turning up at clinics and hospital OPDs with symptoms like vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, and ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphA portion of Ballygunge Circular Road, near the army’s Maidan Camp, caved in on Monday evening, forming a large crater about 7 feet deep and 2.5 feet wide.Police cordoned off the area, and civic officials began repair work late ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphWhen Mohammed Siraj stepped on the boundary cushion while catching a Harry Brook shot at deep fine leg on Sunday, Abhishek Gon was seated right above, in the stands.“Our seats were under the Indian dressing room. The guy had ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphWhen the Nasa-Isro space collaboration went aloft from Sriharikota on Wednesday evening, echoes of celebration were heard in Calcutta as well.Calcutta-based chemical engineer Subhradip Ghosh, 30, played a key role in the launch of the earth observation satellite, Nasa-Isro ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Traffic Police has issued a detailed traffic advisory in view of rehearsals for the upcoming Independence Day Parade on Red Road. The rehearsals are scheduled to be held on August 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphA 38-year-old man who has spent the better part of his life in Gurgaon is facing fears he has never known.The man hails from a village in North Dinajpur. Panic has gripped the working-class Bengali-speaking population in the city ...
5 August 2025 TelegraphAround 50 women living on the fringes of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) were given two mango saplings each on July 29, the International Tiger Day.Each woman also received a gachher khata or a tree journal. Written in simple ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphThe steady rise in tiger numbers is one of India’s greatest global achievements, but the conservation of the apex predator is still fraught with challenges, two veteran foresters said. A balance between infrastructure development and preserving the sanctity of ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphBehala College, which is now autonomous, will receive postgraduate applications starting August 6, two days before the start of the admission process in colleges affiliated to state-aided universities. The form-filling exercise will continue till August 20. On Friday, the ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphOvarian and endometrial cancers are still detected very late when the disease has progressed, doctors said at an awareness-building meet.Early detection is possible, which can avoid pain, suffering and financial burden, they said. “A majority of non-specific symptoms are ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphSeveral private bus owners have withdrawn some of their vehicles from multiple routes because potholed roads have caused damage, and the buses now require thorough maintenance.The bus owners said many of the city’s roads, including the arterial Belgharia Expressway, ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphSeveral employees of Dey’s Medical Stores (Manufacturing) Ltd expressed concerns about their future on Sunday as the pharma manufacturing unit will remain shut till it receives clearance from the fire department and police.A blaze broke out on its premises ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphChildren aged five and above are being taught about traffic signals and how to cross the road.However, they are not being taught about the harmful effects of excessive mobile phone use, said Swati Popat Vats, head of an association ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphThe sky was cloudy and sunny in phases on Sunday, with more than one spell of light rain.Similar conditions are expected to play out in Calcutta over the next few days, said a Met official. The intensity of the ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphRoad repairs ahead of Puja are scheduled to start in a few weeks in Calcutta, and engineers anticipate that they may have to undertake several rounds of repairs this year because of an early Durga Puja, when rain is ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA 63-year-old man was found hanging in his residence in Kolkata on Sunday morning, with his family claiming that he had been living in fear that he would be sent to Bangladesh if the National Register of Citizens (NRC) ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA six-month-old infant died after falling from a bed into stagnant water inside her waterlogged home at Debinagar in Birati on Saturday morning.Some neighbours said that the mother, Puja Ghorui, was busy cooking after putting her infant daughter, Rishika, ...
4 August 2025 Telegraph“Father of Indian Chemistry, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who founded modern chemistry teaching and research in India,” reads a plaque installed by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, at Presidency College (now University) in Calcutta, honouring Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray.“He ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA portion of a two-storeyed house on Maniktala Main Road collapsed on another neighbouring house on Saturday morning, injuring five persons of a family, including two children. The family lived in the neighbouring single-storeyed home, which received significant damage, ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided against using South Calcutta Law College as an examination centre for the fourth, sixth and eighth semester examinations of the LLB programme.It cited as reason the heavy police deployment on the campus in the wake ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA small, fun-loving but “resilient” community, the Anglo-Indians, met on Saturday to reaffirm their position in society and spelt the importance of staying “united”.The community celebrated World Anglo-Indian Day at home and in public programmes with prayers, food, music, ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphTwo men from Bengal, who had been driving autos in Gurgaon to earn a living, returned home traumatised after being detained by police. Until a month ago, they lived with their families in a slum in Chakkarpur, Sector 28, ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphPolice have urged the civic body to immediately repair stretches of key roads to prevent accidents and ease traffic. Among the roads mentioned are EM Bypass, Prince Anwar Shah Road, Raja SC Mullick Road, and Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue. Calcuttans, ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA baby girl, just a few months old, died after reportedly falling from a bed into stagnant water inside her waterlogged home at Birati near here, officials said on Saturday.According to locals, the infant was alone on the bed ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphThe historic Netaji Bhavan used to be the most significant landmark on Elgin Road. That iconic building is now almost difficult to spot from the road because of a clutter of banners and hoardings.The mayor of Calcutta expressed anguish ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphThe higher education department has written to Calcutta University, requesting it to reschedule the examinations on August 28, as that date coincides with the foundation day of Trinamool Congress’s student wing. A BCom fourth semester examination and a BA ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphPolice sought the remand of Monojit Mishra — the prime accused in the June 25 South Calcutta Law College gang-rape — on Friday, citing discrepancies found in his gait pattern analysis.Mishra, co-accused students Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed, and ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphPresidency University teachers have written to the vice-chancellor voicing concern over the delay in the publication of undergraduate admission test results. The tests were conducted by the state JEE board.“Presidency, which has always attracted among the best minds in ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphA woman arrested last week for allegedly duping a man she had met on a matrimony site had sold his mobile phone to a Bangladeshi national through an online trading portal. The phone has been smuggled to Bangladesh, police ...
4 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday ordered that the sacked school teachers at the secondary and higher secondary levels of the government-aided schools be permitted to participate in the counselling process for the upper primary level (Classes VI to VIII) ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphAn inspection team constituted by Calcutta University to probe alleged irregularities at South Calcutta Law College questioned a CU nominee on the college’s governing body regarding the appointment of Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang-rape on ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged Durga Puja organisers and the local administration to provide new clothes to migrant labourers returning to Bengal because of the alleged oppression of Bengali-speaking people in some states.“Puja shabar jonnyo bhalo hoye ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphThe director of IIEST Shibpur called Metro on Thursday and said the hostels that are in deplorable condition on campus will be repaired soon. The director also said that the repairs got delayed because the students were not on ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA system that was over Bangladesh at the start of the week is now refusing to leave south Bengal, triggering incessant rain in and around Calcutta throughout the week since Monday.More than one spell of rain and a “generally ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphAt least 40 snakes, most of them venomous, have been rescued from a pocket of Howrah in July.The rescued reptiles include 12 monocled cobras, 20 Russell’s vipers and one common krait. The non-venomous snakes include rat snake and common ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA toddler who was playing on the dining table of her north Calcutta home died after an accidental fall on Wednesday evening. Her mother and another relative were sitting on chairs at the table.Pranshi Saraf, a year and 10 ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced a grant of ₹1.1 lakh for every Durga Puja organiser in Bengal and reminded her audience of the jobs the festival generates.The dole was not limited to the cash grant. They included ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA team of railway officials, including two members of the Railway Board, visited Kavi Subhash (New Garia) Metro station of the north-south corridor (Blue Line) on Thursday.Passenger services to Kavi Subhash were indefinitely suspended on Monday afternoon after cracks ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphBangladeshi national Shanta Paul, who was allegedly found in possession of fake Indian identity documents and multiple Bangladeshi passports, has two Aadhaar cards with addresses in the city and East Burdwan.Police are probing where she got the fake cards.Officers ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphWhen the call for sacred service comes, Lord Almighty has his unique way of stirring a dormant soul. Even if the person pays no heed, ultimately God will have his way to engage the person for his service, especially ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA 73-year-old man who had been attached to a sub-post office in East Burdwan was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly duping a person out of ₹12 lakh.Surajit Pal, a resident of Jamalpur Hattala in East Burdwan, invested in a ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA Howrah resident was allegedly duped out of ₹2 lakh by a group of men who promised to provide him with a personal loan. Sayan Adhikary, a resident of Bally, needed a loan of ₹8 lakh. The group collected ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphThe government sent a directive to the Bengal joint entrance examinations (JEE) board on the publication of the JEE results on Wednesday.The details of the directive would be known only from a news conference on Thursday, the board chief ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphThe persecution of the working class for speaking their mother tongue and the ongoing revision of electoral rolls in Bihar are among the biggest assaults on the Constitution, rights activist Harsh Mander said in the city on Tuesday."There have ...
1 August 2025 TelegraphA man who bought ornaments from a jewellery store’s outlet in Bowbazar and paid by a cheque that was later dishonoured has been arrested after being tracked through electronic surveillance.The arrested man was identified as Vijayant Kumar Singh, 29. ...
31 July 2025 TelegraphRepairs on the Science City-bound flank of Bridge No. 4 started from Monday night and will take more than a month, an official of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), the custodian of the bridge, said.The flank will remain ...
31 July 2025 TelegraphA bold experiment to create a newspaper for children took a leap of faith — and became a newspaper by children.That bold experiment turned 25 on July 26.When The Telegraph in Schools (TTIS) started 25 years ago, its “brand ...
31 July 2025 TelegraphA major fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon at a plastic warehouse near the EM Bypass in the city’s Metropolitan area, close to a five-star hotel. The fire was reportedly triggered by highly flammable materials stored inside the godown, ...
31 July 2025 TelegraphThe first day of the indefinite closure of Kavi Subhash (New Garia) Metro station of the north-south corridor (Blue Line) led to a torrid time for many passengers.Unaware of the closure, many of them turned up at the station ...
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