Chief 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, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphMenswear designer Ratul Sood passed away in Calcutta on Sunday. He was 58.He collapsed while playing golf at a south Calcutta club around noon. Sources at the club said Sood was rushed to MR Bangur Hospital, where he was ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphCPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya, a former MLA, has been accused of outraging the modesty of a woman. The CPM has suspended him. Bhattacharya, who was the CPM candidate from Baranagar in an Assemby bypoll this year, has denied the ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA two-tier subway system for vehicles and pedestrians will come up at the intersection near Tata Medical Center in New Town’s Action Area I and a pedestrian underpass will be built near the campus of St Xavier’s University in ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA couple were found dead at home in Bhangar’s Chandaneswar, in South 24-Parganas, on Sunday morning.Police suspect the man was murdered but are in the dark about the circumstances leading to the woman’s death. Mosharraf Piyada, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphFancy candles, LED chains, sky lanterns and traditional diyas have lit up Burrabazar and Chandni Chowk in the run-up to Diwali.The central business district was buzzing with Diwali shoppers for most of Sunday. The heavy rain triggered by Cyclone ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphOn the last Sunday before Dhanteras (Tuesday) and Diwali (Thursday), all that glittered in Calcutta was not gold. From phones and TVs to cars and traditional sweets, Calcuttans took home various types of “dhan”. The torrential rain triggered by ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Swami Vivekananda wrote a letter to The Indian Mirror from London introducing John Henry Barrows, an American clergyman and one of the main organisers of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Vivekananda made his famous ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA group of breast cancer survivors met at a private hospital recently to celebrate Bijoya Dashami. Some of the women present at the event were still undergoing treatment, while others had completed it. They shared their stories and experiences, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe state primary education board has decided against holding the recruitment tests this year to appoint teachers at the government-aided primary schools (Class I to V).The decision comes after the board could not recruit teachers based on the tests ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has “provisionally” attached properties worth ₹163.20 crore belonging to Prasanna Roy, an alleged middleman in the irregularities in recruitment in state-aided schools under the school service commission (SSC), the central agency said on Saturday.The ED ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphRainwater receded from most parts of the city but some pockets remained inundated till late on Saturday in the aftermath of Friday’s rain that accompanied Cyclone Dana.Parts of Paharpur Road in the city’s Port area, Baghajatin Station Road in ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphBrahmabandhab Upadhyay, theologian and freedom fighter, passed away on this day. He was born Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay in Khanyan, Hooghly, in a Hindu household.He joined the Brahma Samaj under the influence of Keshabchandra Sen and later converted to Catholicism.He also ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe production of several winter vegetables, like cauliflower and cabbage, will continue to suffer, and brinjal is likely to be dearer in the months to come, senior officials of the state agriculture department said.Reason — inundation caused by the ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe death of a young man on a waterlogged Bhowanipore road on Friday night has again shown how grave the problem of unregulated and unmonitored electrical connections is in this city.A glow sign board on the metal fencing of ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphA new platform for junior doctors emerged on Saturday. One made up primarily of people accused of running a culture of threat and intimidation in Bengal’s government medical colleges — its formation coinciding with a mass convention held by ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphA clear sky marked Calcutta's weather on Saturday, a day after heavy rains lashed the city due to cyclone Dana.Water receded from many areas as the rains stopped in much respite for the people of the city, officials said.Calcutta ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe city’s airport resumed operations on Friday morning, 13 hours after flight movements were suspended on Thursday evening as a precaution against Cyclone Dana.The airport reopened at 8am on Friday and IndiGo’s flight to Imphal was the first to ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphSuburban train service on the Sealdah South suburban section resumed around 10am on Friday after remaining suspended for 14 hours.The first train to chug out of platform number 5 was the Sealdah-Sonarpur local. Train services on the Sealdah South ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday "dismissed" a special leave petition (SLP) that sought to stall the recruitment of 14,052 assistant teachers at the upper primary section (Classes VI to VIII) in Bengal's government-aided schools.The SLP had sought a stay ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphMaster shipbuilder James Kyd passed away on this day in the city. He was 50.He was born to Major Alexander Kyd, army officer and surveyor-general of Bengal. He was the nephew of Robert Kyd, founder of the Botanical Gardens ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front that spearheaded the protests against deficiencies in Bengal’s healthcare system in the wake of a doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital wrote to the state chief secretary on Friday their ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphA 25-year-old man was electrocuted when he took the support of an iron fencing on the ground floor of a building while trying to negotiate a waterlogged stretch off Elgin Road on Friday evening.Sourav Prasad Gupta, who was originally ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphJust as Calcuttans thought the tryst with Cyclone Dana was past, it was hit by a fresh spell of formidable rain on Friday evening.By 8pm, Thanthania, MG Road, Bidhan Sarani and the Patipukur underpass in the north and Elgin ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana triggered close to 200mm of rain in Calcutta in a few hours on Friday, after it started making landfall near the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha.Data from over 30 years say the average rainfall Calcutta receives in ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphEleven flights to and from Calcutta received false security threats through social media on Thursday, which delayed the planned shutdown of the airport, as a precaution against Cyclone Dana, by an hour.Across the country, more than 90 flights were ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphA man who was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as part of its probe into a communal flare-up in Howrah in 2023 was gunned down near his house in Shibpur on Wednesday night.Abdul Qadir, also known as ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphFlight operations resumed at Calcutta airport in West Bengal from 8 am on Friday after cyclone Dana made landfall on the coast of neighbouring Odisha, officials said.Train services on the south section of the Sealdah Division under the Eastern ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphChildren should play with toys, dismantle them to understand how they are made, and learn to use the motors in them elsewhere, tooIn class, children should share notes with friends for peer learning and peer review ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThemes for pandals there were many, but when it came to cultural programmes on the Durga puja stage, there was a single stream of thought overshadowing all else this year — the RG Kar incident. The rape and murder ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal school service commission will start the second phase of counselling to appoint teachers in government-aided upper primary schools (Classes VI to VIII) on November 11, after the publication of a revised vacancy list.The second phase of counselling, ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThree of the seven protesting junior doctors who were admitted to hospital hours after they called off their fast on Monday were discharged on Thursday. The three were admitted to Medical College Hospital.The two who had been admitted to ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Thursday that the Supreme Court has “recognised the chief minister’s authority” in appointing full-term vice-chancellors in state-aided universities. Basu, who cited an October 21 order of the Supreme Court, said the apex ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphColesworthey (or Colesworthy) Grant, one of the first activists who addressed cruelty against animals in India, was born on this day. He was also an artist and a writer.Born in London, he came to India early. A fall impaired ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThe rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Delhi gang rape in December 2012, the Mumbai terror attack and the Paris Olympics were some of the many incidents that school students ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphFlight operations at the Calcutta airport were suspended from 7pm on Thursday because of Cyclone Dana. Flights are scheduled to operate again from 9am on Friday.The prediction of strong crosswinds up to 80km an hour led to the shutdown.As ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana and Diwali have pushed airfares to and from Calcutta through the roof.Calcutta airport decided to shut down for 15 hours, from 6pm on Thursday till 9am on Friday, because the cyclone can trigger crosswinds of up to ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphDana intensified into a severe cyclonic storm around Wednesday midnight and was at its strongest form on Thursday evening, when it unleashed a peak wind speed of 125kmph.Around 12.15am on Friday, the landfall process had started, a Met bulletin ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThere are so many pujas happening in Salt Lake that it's difficult to keep a track of them all. This is when we turn to The Telegraph Salt Lake for help.The Puja guide, published on October 4 shared the ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThis puja, DL Block conjured up a fictional zamindar family, the Chowdhurys, and presented a fashion show depicting the lifestyles of all its family members.The show began with a conversation between a mother and her daughter, Priyadarshini (played ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphA graceful dancer, a dapper zamindar, and even mischievous ghosts appeared in BA Block on Sashthi. But they all moved with the help of rods.The theme of the puja this year was puppets, and they had invited Baruipur Gangadiri ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphEvery year, we para friends of DA Block stage a performance during Durga Puja. It not only gives us the opportunity to work together towards a common goal, but also rejuvenates our souls.The performers are primarily ladies who are ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThere are few actors, too few even for finger count, who have worked with four stalwarts of Bengali cinema — Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Tarun Majumdar. One of them lived — and died — in Salt ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata airport suspended flight operations for 15 hours from Thursday evening in the wake of Cyclone Dana, a senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said.Though the flight operations at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport were ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphRain in parts of Kolkata on October 23 evening signalled the approach of Cyclone Dana as shops shut down and people rushed home early. Latest reports indicate a marginal westward shift of the cyclone path, which could mean that ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphAs the time of suspending flight operations gradually approaches in the wake of cyclone Dana, the Calcutta airport authorities started making arrangements to ensure safety of people and planes and infrastructure at the facility.Flight operations at the airport will ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out in a godown, off Ezra Street in the central business district, stacked with wooden boxes around 8.30pm on Wednesday.Fifteen fire tenders were sent to the spot to control the blaze. Fire and emergency services minister ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the authorities from felling any further trees for a Metro Railway project in Calcutta without the consent of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) under the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change.A ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA college student from Asansol allegedly masterminded a bank fraud and duped a private company in Bowbazar by making unauthorised transactions and transferring the money to multiple mule accounts.Police said they traced the student, Abhishek Shaw, 24, through a ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA 15-year-old girl with visual impairment read out the caption outside Jawaharlal Nehru’s cell at Alipore Museum, where the country’s first Prime Minister spent four months in 1934. A Braille signage made that possible for Madhurima Naskar. The ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphGardens in and around the city are preparing for Cyclone Dana.After having borne the brunt of Cyclone Amphan in 2020, the authorities of gardens with huge trees and sizeable canopy covers such as the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphResidents of high-rises have been advised to remove all potted plants, tubs and loose items from balconies and window ledges so nothing can fly off and act as missiles when hit by gusty winds triggered by Cyclone Dana.They have ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphUprooted trees and lamp posts will have to be cleared and loose wires, including electric cables, removed at the earliest, police officers have been told as part of the briefing to prepare the force for Cyclone Dana."Restoring traffic at ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi left for a trip to Europe and the US to talk about West Pakistan’s aggressive policies in East Pakistan and the problem of a huge number of refugees fleeing from East ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphAn outfit that works with children has started training them in how not to use expletives laced with threats or insinuations of gender-based violations. At a time crime against women is under the spotlight, the school realised that the ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe state power department has set up a control room and announced multiple helplines apprehending power disruptions because of Cyclone Dana.The state-run WBSEDCL and the private utility CESC have rolled out helplines as part of their preparations for the ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral private schools have decided to conduct online classes on Thursday and Friday so students don’t have to step out amid rough winds and rain that Cyclone Dana is expected to trigger in the city.A government circular to suspend ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport will remain closed from 6pm on Thursday till 9am on Friday because Cyclone Dana is likely to trigger strong crosswinds, which are dangerous for flights during take-offand landing.Airport officials said more than 200 flights will be ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphDana is set to make landfall between Dhamra port and Bhitarkanika in Odisha between Thursday night and Friday morning as a severe cyclonic storm, the Met office said on Wednesday, triggering the closure of Calcutta airport for 15 hours ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA major fire broke out at a commercial building in the Terreti Bazar area in central Kolkata on Monday evening, officials said.Fifteen fire engines were working to douse the blaze that was first spotted around 8 pm, they said.The ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro railway services in the north-south corridor were affected for nearly an hour on Wednesday as a woman allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Normal train services were resumed at 11.50 am after ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro rail services in the north-south corridor were affected on Wednesday as a person allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Operations were on to recover the injured person from under the train, he ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport could be shut down for several hours even if Cyclone Dana spares Calcutta.In a meeting with the airport authorities on Tuesday, the Met department predicted crosswinds at 50-70kmph and rainfall between 70mm and 200mm in Dum ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphFive flights, to and from the Calcutta airport, received hoax bomb threats on Tuesday, while more than 50 domestic and international flights operated by Indian airlines received similar threats across the country.In the past week, more than 150 flights ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMany roads in Salt Lake are dimly lit and crater-ridden, making them dangerous for pedestrians and motorists.Residents as well as those who have their workplaces in Salt Lake allege there have been no major repairs for several months. Residents ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA high court vacation bench on Tuesday issued an interim stay on the “punitive” action announced by the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital authorities against 51 junior doctors and students because of their alleged involvement in a “threat ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe seat of the junior doctors’ protest at Esplanade for the past 17 days was back to being a road on Tuesday.Vehicles were plying through the stretch of the Dorina Crossing that had cots and beddings and hundreds of ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphPolice and CISF personnel stationed at the main entrance and the gates of various buildings; heaps of sand and bricks dumped all around — that was how RG Kar Medical College and Hospital looked like on Tuesday.There is a ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe severe cyclonic storm that is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast on Thursday night or early on Friday has put the city’s guardians on high alert.The government-run schools in nine south Bengal districts, including Calcutta, will remain closed ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal chief secretary sent an email to the junior doctors around 3pm on Tuesday, as promised, informing them that the state-level task force to ensure their security at workplaces and improvement of the healthcare system has been set ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe father of the young doctor who was found raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 sent an email to Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday seeking a meeting with him for ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA four-year-old child and her father died after being run over by a taxi with an allegedly dozing driver while they were walking to board a bus for school near Chiria More in north Calcutta on Tuesday morning. The ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphFreedom fighter Nellie Sengupta passed away on this day. Born to British parents, she had come to India and joined the Independence movement. Her original name was Edith Ellen Gray. She met freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta in England. ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana’s precursor curled up in the form of a depression over the Bay of Bengal around 750km from the Bengal coast on Tuesday morning.It is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coastline as a severe cyclonic storm between Thursday ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphJudges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, established by the Regulating Act of 1773, were appointed on this day.The Supreme Court replaced the Mayor’s Court of Calcutta and was the highest court in colonial India till ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University will screen students from other universities for admission to its postgraduate programmes through a computer-based test (CBT), replacing the pen-and-paper OMR screening, to make the selection process more transparent. At CU, 20 per cent of all postgraduate ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphTwo phone calls were received at the Calcutta airport in quick succession on Monday morning — one said an airborne flight was about to be hijacked and the other warned that the aircraft would be blown up with a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA “severe cyclonic storm” that is expected to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast later this week is taking shape over the Bay of Bengal.The precursor to the system, a low-pressure area on the east-central Bay, has started gaining momentum.Aided by ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled up principals and medical superintendent-cum-vice-principals (MSVPs) of government medical colleges during her meeting with representatives of the protesting junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday. “The junior doctors pointed out that if there is ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA state-level task force comprising four junior doctors, a female medical student and senior government officials will be set up to look into all complaints regarding government medical colleges and district hospitals, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphThe demands accepted by the state government and the decisions taken during the meeting between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and a team of 17 junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday
22 October 2024 TelegraphA government school in Murshidabad, located far away from the nearest hospital, has set up a medical unit on its premises for its students. The two-bed medical unit at Laskarpur High School, about 50km from Behrampore, has an oxygen ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphMore than a week has passed since Dashami but the remains of many Durga Puja pandals still stand on roads and pavements, making them narrower.The pandals are not alone. The bamboo scaffolding on which temporary banners were put up ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphIn early September, when idol-makers in Kumartuli were busy finishing their creations, an artist in Mexico was trying to create an idol with only a photograph for reference. And a Mexican percussionist was picking up dhak beats from a ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphPolice are planning to seize documents related to the private agency that had been engaged for the installation of a fire-fighting system at the ESI Hospital in Sealdah, where a fire broke out on Friday morning.The medical superintendent of ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAnother cyclone is brewing over the Bay of Bengal. What was a cyclonic circulation over the north Andaman Sea on Sunday morning is tipped to intensify into a cyclonic storm that is to barrel towards the Odisha-Bengal coastline by ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors on Sunday repeated their 10-point charter of demands from their protest site at Esplanade to clear the air about their stand.The demands were spelled out at a rally which they called Chitkar Samabesh (rally for ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a multi-national gang, comprising Italians, Portuguese, Frenchmen, Germans and Bengalis, attacked the house of Chaitanya Datta in Colootolla in the city.The gang members stole Rs 6,000 and escaped, after having beaten up Dutta mercilessly. He barely ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAn Alliance Air flight from Lilabari in Assam made an emergency landing at Calcutta airport on Sunday afternoon — one of nearly 25 flights that fell victim to bomb hoaxes through the day.Close to 100 flights of Indian carriers ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday spoke with the protesting junior doctors over the phone and agreed to all the demands placed before her barring one, the removal of the state’s health secretary.Mamata requested the medics to end their ...
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