The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to pass any direction to the trial court in Sealdah to frame additional conspiracy charges in the RG Kar rape and murder case or transfer the trial.The apex court also asked all states ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the imaginatively named ship Lady Lushington arrived at Calcutta after sailing from England. This was the second of its four voyages for the East India Company. It reached Saugor (Sagar) on February 26, 1812, and the ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphEven Jagaddhatri puja has caught the khuti puja fever. Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Kishore Sangha held a khuti puja recently to herald this weekend’s rituals.“This is the 36th year of our puja although we’ve begun khuti puja in a big ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphChildren of Panache, in Mahishbathan, performed a skit for Diwali sharing the history of Char Dham, the set of four Hindu pilgrimage sites around the country. The skit was divided into four sections, where a narrator explained the context ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphPopular Indian Idol contestants Arunita Kanjilal and Pawandeep Rajan, along with the timeless Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay, headlined the cultural fare at Salt Lake Maitri Sangha’s Kali puja this year, held near the BF Block swimming pool.Posters around the township had ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphFive armed men robbed a truck driver at gunpoint and then fled with the vehicle, a senior police officer said on Thursday.The incident took place on Kakurgachi Main Road near Manicktala area here around 2am on Wednesday, he said.Driver ...
8 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly spreading misinformation on social media regarding the desecration of an idol inside a Kali Puja pandal near Lake Town on Diwali, police said.A senior officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said a ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly misbehaving and pushing a girl who was chatting with a friend in Dum Dum Park.The duo allegedly beat up the friend after he protested, police said.An officer of the Bidhannagar ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphPolice on Wednesday conducted a drive in parts of the New Market area where hawkers have again started occupying roads and putting up tarpaulin sheets over their stalls. The police team pulled down tarpaulin sheets with sticks that had ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front e-mailed Bengal’s chief secretary Manoj Pant on Tuesday saying some of the points discussed at the meeting with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on October 21 were not mentioned in a memorandum of the meeting that ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department has sought a report from Calcutta University about the actions taken against “erring officials” over the loss of answer sheets from three of its affiliated colleges.The examiners lost the answer sheets of the Bengali postgraduate ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Strait Times, published from Singapore, carried the following advertisements on this day.The first one was about a ship bound for Calcutta.“FOR CALCUTTA. (Touching at Pinang.) The Fire Queen to leave immediately after the 1st. Sales of Opium may ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphChhath Puja rituals will be performed on Thursday evening and Friday morning.Over 150 ghats have been prepared with makeshift steps, additional lights and changing rooms, among other facilities. Many temporary ghats are ready for the Chhath rituals. Rabindra Sarobar ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphOn a day the world was tracking the presidential election in the world’s oldest democracy, the US consul general in Calcutta, Kathy Giles-Diaz, told an audience of school students that getting to vote was a “powerful thing” and voting ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphAs Donald Trump roared back to power trouncing Kamala Harris, a clutch of home-buyers in an under-construction luxury realty estate in Calcutta named after the former and would-be US President was keeping a close tab on the race for ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe city police and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have started monitoring the feed from more than 500 CCTV cameras from the command control room that was set up at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital a few ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court will examine on Thursday a plea for a directive to frame additional charges for “larger conspiracy” against the RG Kar rape-and-murder accused other than Sanjay Roy, the lone accused to have been chargesheeted for the August ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphA bank employee who had stepped out of his office in Lake Gardens and was having tea at a roadside shop with a colleague was attacked by a man who allegedly used a blade to slash the banker’s neck.The ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphAltogether 80 ghats along various waterbodies have been earmarked by the authorities in Calcutta for the Chhath festival to be observed between November 7 afternoon and November 8 morning."The KMC has made arrangements in 40 ghats, while the Kolkata ...
7 November 2024 TelegraphEvery girl should be trained in self defence and be able to protect herself and lead a life of dignity — that was the message from a group of girls from a home through a dance recital on Monday.Most ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphFor the first time this festival season, the number of people flying out of Calcutta was more than those coming in.On Monday, 29,514 passengers took off from Calcutta on domestic flights, airport officials said. The number of arrival passengers ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphAn elderly couple and their son were allegedly beaten up in Ariadaha, on the northern fringes of the city, early on Tuesday when they protested the bursting of loud firecrackers by members of a Kali Puja committee who were ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has decided to merge data science and artificial intelligence within a year of introducing the two subjects amid reports that subject-specific teachers could not be appointed and data science did not find enough takers. ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA young man riding a motorcycle crashed into the median divider of Raja SC Mullick Road near Baghajatin on Tuesday morning.He succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Police said Vishal Thakur, 27, a resident of Naktala, was riding his ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphPolice have proposed to the urban development department that the footpaths on either side of Bridge No. 4 in Park Circus be blocked permanently with iron guard rails to prevent pedestrians from landing on the carriageway meant for vehicles.In ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA woman has alleged that four men raped her after she went to meet a man she had befriended on social media. She alleged that she went to meet her social media friend on Kali Puja and was taken ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA six-member committee set up to review how examinations of medical students are conducted in the state held its first meeting on the campus of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences on Tuesday.A committee member said the committee’s ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA group of men and women returning from an RG Kar protest gathering at the Rashbehari crossing were allegedly chased and attacked on Monday night.Their car was intercepted by a few motorcycles near the Exide crossing and the windscreen ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphA 48-year-old man, who was allegedly refused treatment at three government medical colleges in the city, passed away on Tuesday when the family again returned to the first hospital after spending nearly 24 hours looking for a bed.Police sources ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo declared at the Assembly of Greater East Asiatic Nations, in Tokyo, that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands would be handed over to the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, formed by Netaji ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphAn investigation was started after a group of persons demonstrating over the rape and murder of the RG Kar hospital doctor alleged that they were chased by 70-80 people on two-wheelers for kilometres in the heart of Kolkata in ...
6 November 2024 TelegraphSandip Ghosh, during whose tenure as the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital a young doctor was raped and murdered, was produced in the Alipore court on Monday in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the hospital. ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphStop open burning of waste, water dusty roads and cover construction sites so dust particles do not spread — these are among the mitigation measures that can offset the impact of worsening air quality. A drop in air quality ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphParents of children with autism have come together to discuss and seek solutions to the challenges that they face while raising their children. What after them — it is a concern that haunts most parents who have children with ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department has decided to seek a report from Calcutta University about the loss of some of the answer sheets of the Bengali MA first-semester exam from three affiliated colleges, education minister Bratya Basu said on Monday.The ...
5 November 2024 TelegraphA 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 ...
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