The mother of Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, the second-year student of IIM Calcutta, arrested for allegedly raping a woman, said that her son was innocent and had come all the way from Karnataka to study here."We received a call from ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphAlok Kumar Rai, vice-chancellor of the University of Lucknow, will be the next director of IIM Calcutta.President Droupadi Murmu, Visitor of the IIMs, approved Rai’s name for director of the B-school, two officials of IIM-C told this newspaper.Rai comes ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphHundreds of dismissed schoolteachers, marching to Nabanna on Monday, were stopped by police several kilometres ahead of the state secretariat.The march to Nabanna, which started a little after noon from Howrah station, was stopped within a couple of kilometres, ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta has convened a meeting of its academic council this week to decide what steps to take following the arrest of a second-year student for allegedly raping a woman in a hostel room on the campus.An official of ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphSchools and education consultants are urging students aspiring to pursue higher education in the United States to remove political content from their social media accounts ahead of visa applications.The guidance comes as the Donald Trump administration resumed student visa ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphThe chairperson of the state women’s commission said on Sunday that officials are attempting to speak with the woman who was allegedly raped by a second-year student of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in the boys’ hostel on ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphParamanand, a 26-year-old student in the 2024–26 batch at IIM Calcutta, is originally from Karnataka and holds a BTech in mechanical engineering.Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar — referred to by some as Paramanand Jain — was arrested from the Joka campus ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphOncopathology has emerged as one of the most important aspects of cancer treatment, doctors and experts said.Oncopathology or cancer pathology is a specialised branch of pathology focused on diagnosing and characterising tumours. It involves examining tissue samples, cells, and ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has reached out to students with assurances of support following the arrest of a second-year student on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman inside a hostel room.The incident occurred on Friday at the ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphA hot and humid Sunday morning led to multiple sharp spells of rain in and around the city as another low-pressure system brewed over the Bay of Bengal.The official forecast for Calcutta for the next couple of days is ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphThe IIM Calcutta student arrested on rape charges had known the complainant for the past three months and not for a week as he has claimed, police sources said on Sunday citing his call details.Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, 26, a ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphDevi Shetty’s Narayana Health has launched its health insurance products in Calcutta, promising to eliminate the mistrust between insurers, hospitals and patients while reducing lengthy wait times for claim settlements after discharge.The Bengaluru-based healthcare chain, which runs three hospitals ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphForty-eight shops that were occupying government land at the Lord’s crossing on Prince Anwar Shah Road were demolished on Saturday in a drive by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and police. The plot on 355 Prince Anwar Shah Road — ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphA teacher at a north Calcutta college was accused of giving rape threats to students on his Facebook page. Students gheraoed him outside campus on Saturday evening. The students, most of them supporters of the SFI, asked him why ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphTwo teams of forest guards, each credited with capturing a tiger that had strayed near human habitation, were felicitated in the city on Friday.As their stories were shared from the dais, the audience responded with applause. These are the ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphMetro services were disrupted for an hour on Saturday after a suicide bid at Central station.A man jumped in front of a Dakshineswar-bound train just as it chugged into Central around 11.55am, said a Metro official. A power block ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe damaged roads of the city will be fixed by Tuesday, a senior engineer of the civic body said on Saturday.A senior official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said they had already started fixing roads.The ongoing work is ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe assassins of Trinamool leader of Bhangar, Rajjak Khan, chose a spot they knew was not covered by CCTV and had information about the leader’s schedule, investigators said on Saturday.Khan, in his late 30s, was first shot and then ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe Lake View Hostel at IIM Calcutta, where a second-year student allegedly raped a woman on Friday, was constructed in 2014 as part of the institute’s expansion to accommodate growing student enrolment.Named for its view of a large water ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta student Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, also referred to as Paramanand Jain by some, was arrested from the hostel around 12.15am on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman after luring her for a “counselling session”. The following is a ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphServices were disrupted along a stretch of Metro Railway Kolkata for an hour after a person "accidentally fell on the tracks" at Central Station on Saturday, an official said.The incident took place around 11.50 am.A Metro Railway spokesperson said ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphNext time you are in Sikkim, choose quality over quantity.The state, known for stunning Himalayan landscapes and warm hospitality and one of the most popular holiday destinations for people of Bengal, is now encouraging “slow tourism”.Slow tourism prioritises meaningful, ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphIndia Meteorological Department has forecast consistent presence of rain and thundershowers across the city and its surrounding areas, including Dumdum, Salt Lake, and Howrah next week.Beginning today, July 12, the city can expect a cloudy sky with a high ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College handed over documents relating to its governing body meetings in the past two years to Calcutta University on Thursday.Last Wednesday, a CU team visited the law college, where a student was gang-raped on June 25.The ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe CID arrested an employee of a private bank on Thursday for allegedly being part of a group that duped a man out of ₹36 lakh by luring him to invest in the stock market. Amit Ghosh, 34, was ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has received around 5,000 applications from school staff dismissed by the Supreme Court in April, seeking to return to their previous government jobs.An official said they were contacting departments where these applicants worked before joining ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphYa poyu na bengal’skom yazyke… It might read like gibberish in English script but sung aloud, this is the Russian translation of Pratul Mukhopadhyay’s ode to Bengali, Ami Banglay gaan gai.Students from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphA student of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta was allegedly raped by a second year student inside the boys’ hostel. The Haridevpur police arrested the second-year student after the survivor lodged a complaint on Friday.The incident at ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court division bench that struck down the state’s appeal to allow tainted teaching job aspirants to write fresh selection tests said in its written order that it had observed a “detailed and elaborate recording of the nature ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThe city’s undulating roads, pockmarked with craters, are unable to withstand the usual monsoon downpour. After rain over the past week, several roads have broken surfaces, potholes or worn-off top layers.Residents complained that commuting is risky. For pedestrians, especially ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool leader of Bhangar, on the city’s southeastern fringe, was shot and then hacked to death on Thursday night. Rajjak Khan, in his late 30s, was on his way home on a motorcycle after a party meeting when ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA yawning mismatch between demand and resources, delaying diagnosis, and high treatment costs are the two main challenges in cancer care in India, said a visiting expert from Singapore on Friday.Ang Peng Tiam, medical director and senior consultant at ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphTo meet the demand of commuters, Metro Railway Kolkata authorities will be running a total of 72 services every day from July 14 on Joka-Majerhat stretch of the Purple Line.The Metro authorities said in a statement on Friday that ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphWith hectic work schedules keeping professionals tied to their desks, the lunch or dinner outing is now getting usurped by an earlier affair: breakfast. A growing number of cafes have started opening before 10am, giving residents the option of ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphWhat do phrases like “love is blind,” “to break the ice,” “up in arms,” and “a wild goose chase” have in common? Add to that words like swagger, lonely, excitement, and downstairs. The answer is William Shakespeare. “Shakespeare, 400 ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphAn inter-school quiz on the life and works of William Shakespeare, held in association with Oxford University Press, marked both the Bard’s birthday and the founder’s day of the host, Delhi Public School (DPS) Megacity.“We organise dictionary quizzes across ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA 26-year-old youth from Picnic Garden has tested positive for cholera, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Tuesday. A team from the civic body collected water samples from the flat where the youth, Afroze Ahmed Khan, ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA section of postgraduate students at Ballygunge Science College allegedly led by a research scholar, affiliated to the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad locked up another group of students who were filling out final semester examination forms in the geography department ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThere will be no public transactions at post offices in the Salt Lake-New Town-Rajarhat area on Monday. The department of posts will be rolling out the next-generation of its Advanced Postal Technology application and the Beleghata head post office ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA protest meet took place in front of Swapnabhor, New Town’s only park for the 50-plus, last Saturday. The agitators want the park to be stripped of the seniors-only status.The park shares its premises with a club by the ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of rain struck Calcutta on Thursday afternoon in between occasional drizzles throughout the day. The sun also came out in the afternoon — the first bright stint the city had in nearly three days. The afternoon ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphTruck owners whose vehicles were allegedly smashed by police in New Alipore early on Wednesday met senior officers at the New Alipore police station on Thursday and demanded compensation.The truckers had on Wednesday alleged that the police had broken ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed concern over the disruption power and water supply at the Jai Hind camp in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, comprising mostly Bengali speaking migrants. “There are over 1.5 crore migrant workers in Bengal who are earning their ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway on Thursday started tunnelling work in Khidderpore on the long-delayed Purple Line.The drilling work kicked off on a formal note inside the grounds of St. Thomas School, where one of Kolkata’s largest underground shafts have been dug ...
11 July 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has asked South Calcutta Law College — where a 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 — to submit its governing body resolutions and admission-related documents on Thursday.CU’s vice-chancellor said the documents must be submitted to ...
11 July 2025 TelegraphThe city will get light rain on Thursday as well, though the Alipore Met office ruled out an intense rain like Tuesday. The Met office also predicted a wet weekend.A low pressure that was hovering over coastal south Bengal ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe Sealdah court on Wednesday turned down an appeal from the parents of the slain RG Kar doctor to visit the hospital crime scene with their lawyers.Additional chief judicial magistrate Arijit Mandal rejected the plea, stating that since the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphPolice officers will visit colleges under their jurisdiction and speak to students, security staff, and the administration to spread awareness about crime prevention, especially crimes against women, city police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Wednesday.“The team will comprise men ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Wednesday asked the school service commission (SSC) counsel why he was arguing in favour of candidates identified as tainted by the Supreme Court.The commission’s counsel was arguing that the tainted candidates ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphHeavy rainfall on Tuesday left large parts of the city underwater, with waterlogging persisting into Wednesday afternoon in several areas.Jodhpur Park and neighbouring localities remained flooded until late Tuesday, while stretches of Sarat Ghosh Garden Road were still waterlogged ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphFour officers of New Alipore police station were suspended on Wednesday after they allegedly smashed the windshields and deflated the tyres of at least 30 trucks parked in the area because the drivers refused to pay bribes.Police sources said ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphState-aided Behala College has requested permission from Calcutta University to conduct its own postgraduate admissions this year, following the UGC’s approval of its autonomous status.Principal Sharmila Mitra wrote to university registrar Debasis Das on July 4, outlining the college’s ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphMotorists continue to make basic mistakes that children are taught in schools, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Tuesday.They continue to not wear helmets, over-speed and drink drive, he added.“When we were in school, we were taught the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA senior government official will conduct a hearing into the allegations levelled by some directors against a federation of technicians in Tollygunge, the counsel for the state informed the high court on Tuesday.Justice Amrita Sinha heard a contempt petition ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe IMD on Wednesday forecast heavy downpour in some districts of West Bengal, while other places are likely to receive light to moderate rain owing to a low pressure area.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that thunderstorms with gusty ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphTwo men, one of them from Kalighat, have been arrested for allegedly helping an NGO worker in Pakistan open a WhatsApp account against an Indian SIM card. According to Bengal Special Task Force (STF) sources, Mukesh Rajak and Rakesh ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe college in Howrah, where a Trinamool Congress student leader allegedly sexually harassed his juniors and video recorded the act last year, will discuss whether there is a need to take further actions.Soma Bandopadhyay, the principal of the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old student at South Calcutta Law College on June 25 has cast a shadow not only over the woman and the institution, but also over innocent male students who now find themselves under scrutiny.Jeet ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress student leader allegedly sexually harassed his juniors and video recorded the act in a Howrah college last year.A purported video that was originally circulated more than a year ago has re-emerged in the wake of the ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe body of a 16-year-old student of class X was found hanging at his home early on Monday, police said. The teenager, according to the cops, was undergoing treatment for depression. Sources said the incident happened hours before he ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphThe fate of restaurants, pubs, and lounges — currently shut because of fire safety concerns — will depend on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision regarding three of them, whose representatives attended a hearing at the civic headquarters in May, ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphJunior doctors from various medical colleges have planned a night vigil at Shyambazar from midnight on August 8, a year since one of their colleagues was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College Hospital. The night vigil has ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe state counsel, along with lawyers for Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mandal, on Tuesday objected to the slain RG Kar doctor’s parents’ petition seeking permission for their lawyers to visit the crime scene.The matter came up before the additional ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe government has assured sufficient state buses for commuters on Wednesday, the day a joint forum of trade unions has called a strike or Bharat Bandh.Arrangements have been made to run additional vessels on the Hooghly, transport department officials ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphIncessant rain since early Tuesday affected attendance in schools across Calcutta. While some classes saw attendance drop to 25–30 per cent, others recorded between 50 and 70 per cent. As the city’s roads were waterlogged, many students and teachers ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA group of teaching job aspirants moved a division bench of the high court on Tuesday, appealing that the new recruitment test rules for the appointment of teachers in government-aided schools be struck down.The education department issued the new ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Tuesday sent the four accused in the South Calcutta Law College gang-rape case to judicial remand till July 22.They will be lodged in the Presidency jail for at least two weeks.The defence lawyer for three ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphBetween midnight on Monday and Tuesday afternoon, Jodhpur Park received over 290mm of rain, records shared by the civic body showed.A senior engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said rain that usually pours over a month came down ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday issued an order restraining the school service commission (SSC) from allowing candidates identified by the Supreme Court as “tainted” to appear for the upcoming selection test to appoint teachers.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya asked the commission ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA 26-year-old youth from Picnic Garden has tested positive for cholera, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Tuesday. A team from the civic body collected water samples from the flat where the youth, Afroze Ahmed Khan, ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphSchools are facing a challenge of a different kind — students not signing up for sporting activities after school hours.The numbers keep dwindling more in higher classes when academics is prioritised, mainly by parents, several principals said.In Lakshmipat Singhania ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe college where a 24-year-old law student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 reopened on Monday.Such is the scar that many parents accompanied their daughters to South Calcutta Law College on the first day.First-year students came to fill out ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphEmirates airline is going to introduce premium economy service on its Calcutta-Dubai-Calcutta flights from July 18, the carrier announced on Monday.The premium economy cabin with 24 seats offers an enhanced experience, including wider cream leather seats, increased legroom, adjustable ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphJodhpur Park recorded 115mm of rain in just four hours on Monday evening, making it difficult for residents to get home.The rainy spell will continue on Tuesday, but the Met office said the spread and intensity of the rain ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphA first-year law student said she is terrified at the thought of spending four more years at South Calcutta Law College before graduating.Her will to attend classes is overshadowed by fear triggered by the alleged gang-rape on campus on ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a first-year student at South Calcutta Law College, had been arrested five times over 12 years and had 11 cases registered against him on charges including molestation, assault ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphDuring cancer treatment, a structured support system is necessary. It forms a bridge between patients and access to care.To achieve this, creating a special workforce is essential. They are patient navigators. Navigators are not oncologists, but their overall contribution ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphThe security guard of South Calcutta Law College, whose phone has been seized by police, had been assaulted by Monojit Mishra a year ago on the campus, police said.The police are trying to extract evidence against Mishra from his ...
9 July 2025 TelegraphExercise: A teacher gave out verbal instructions as to how to make a diagram. While some participants in a workshop drew a diagram of a house as the teacher instructed, there were others who struggled and came up with ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphNo one would be allowed to enter the college campus without valid identity cards, the South Calcutta Law College authorities told teaching and non-teaching employees during an online meeting on Sunday, a day before the college is set to ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by a friend and his father during a scuffle on Sunday over splitting the bill of alcohol they consumed on Saturday night, police said. The friend reportedly called his father to ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe city police want Dufferin Road, the thoroughfare that connects Outram Road with Mayo Road and RR Avenue, and cutting through the Maidan, widened by de-reserving the existing tram tracks.At a recent meeting on road safety held in Lalbazar, ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA road in Tangra, bustling every evening with people heading to popular restaurants and bars, has been in a terrible state for months, a resident of the area complained to mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday.Hakim, responding to the complaint ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe crime scene at South Calcutta Law College will be guarded by eight constables, two officers, and an officer-in-charge, a senior police officer at Lalbazar said on Saturday.Just a year earlier, the crime scene at RG Kar Medical College ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will extend the last date for submission of online forms for the appointment of schoolteachers at least by a week, said an official.The online submission of applications started on June 16 and was scheduled ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphFor today’s teenagers, a massive follower count is more than a number — it’s a status symbol, a source of self-worth, and a digital badge of honour.But principals and psychiatrists are sounding the alarm: behind the selfies and likes ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphPolice sleuths on Saturday seized the mobile phone of the security guard whose duty hours just preceded that of his arrested colleague Pinaki Banerjee on the evening of the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphThe Met has forecast a wet weekend.Friday was consistently overcast in Calcutta. The rain was far from heavy in most places, but it was persistent. "If anything, the rain is likely to be heavier on Saturday and Sunday," said ...
7 July 2025 TelegraphA Thai Lion Air flight with 130 passengers and seven crew on board returned to the parking bay at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport shortly after push back on Saturday due to a "technical snag", officials said.Later, ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe mayor on Friday announced a health check-up of the city’s trees.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will check trees along city roads, while the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) will inspect trees at Rabindra Sarobar and Subhas Sarobar, said ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Metro Railway officials met on Friday to chalk out a road map for the Baranagar-Barrackpore Metro project that was announced in 2010.It was decided that the engineers of the two organisations would draw up ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Friday extended the police custody of Pinaki Banerjee, 55, the arrested security guard of South Calcutta Law College, till July 8.Banerjee had allegedly allowed the guard’s room on the Kasba campus to be used during ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphInadequate faculty strength of Calcutta University’s BTech programmes is not allowing most of the departments to get accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), said the university’s secretary of science and technology.NBA assesses whether the departments are ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe state JEE board chairperson said on Friday that they could not publish the results of the JEE examination last month because of the OBC reservation dispute, now under legal scrutiny.Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee said they are awaiting directives from ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench has refused to interfere with an earlier single judge’s order restraining a federation of technicians from creating hurdles in the independent functioning of directors.The case pertains to a long-standing tussle between a section of ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphThe effect of loneliness on health is akin to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A state-level conference titled United for Elderly: Promoting Well-being, Dignity and Rights in Ageing against Loneliness and Isolation highlighted several such observations on what the ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphBehala College, a state-aided college that received the highest possible rating from the national assessment council has been granted autonomy, freeing it from Calcutta University’s administrative control and allowing it to make independent academic decisions.The University Grants Commission (UGC) ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphFour men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old South Calcutta Law College student were taken to the campus early on Friday for a “reconstruction” of the crime scene.The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, 31, his associates Pramit ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College, closed since June 30 following the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old student on campus, will reopen on July 7.A notice issued by the college on Friday stated that LLM classes will resume that day. ...
6 July 2025 TelegraphSreebhumiSreebhumi’s pandal this year will be modelled on the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in New Jersey.The crowd-pulling puja, patronised by Sreebhumi Sporting Club president Sujit Bose, held its khuti puja on Sunday morning when the fire and emergency services ...
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