A 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 ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphOne person was killed and several others injured when a fire broke out at a chemical factory in Kanchantala in Badu, Madhyamgram, about 21 kilometres north of Calcutta on Wednesday.A dozen fire tenders brought the blaze under control after ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphPolice teams visited several schools on Wednesday to make the students aware of the rules of green Diwali.The students were also told about what constitutes violations and the penalties they carry.The campaign was focused primarily on the city’s southeast, ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphThe five-year-old boy who fell into a lift shaft in a Topsia building on Tuesday evening died in hospital early on Wednesday. An elevator is yet to be installed in the shaft, which police said had around 5ft water ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphChhath Puja can be performed at more than 150 ghats in the Calcutta municipal area, sources in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Wednesday after a meeting at the civic headquarters where officials of various agencies discussed preparations ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphTwo members of Jadavpur University’s executive council told the vice-chancellor on Wednesday to approach a division bench of Calcutta High Court so the students implicated in the varsity’s probe into the ragging of a first-year student can be penalised.In ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphSuspended CPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya was summoned to Baranagar police station for the second time on Wednesday and questioned for around four hours in connection with a complaint of molestation against him.Bhattacharya has been summoned to the police station ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphA section of junior doctors and many Calcuttans walked in a rally from the office of the West Bengal Medical Council in Salt Lake to the CBI office in the township, several of them with flaming torches in hand.Although ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Bengal was struck by a devastating cyclone, referred to as the Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876.The cyclone formed over the Bay of Bengal and hit land at Backerganj near the Meghna estuary, now in Barisal district ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOnly green fireworks can be burst during a two-hour window each on Thursday and Friday, when Diwali revellers are allowed to light firecrackers. The permissible noise level of firecrackers is 125 decibel at 4m from the source, said an ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphAs the great visionary poet William Blake had observed in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “Without contraries is no progression.”Contraries are an integral part of our existence, as we journey through the ups and downs of our lives.Similarly, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Tuesday said special instructions had been given to officers to maintain vigil on highrise buildings and the outskirts, from where the maximum number of violation of the firecracker ban is usually reported on ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA team of around 100 guards will be deployed around the entry points, in the courtyard and near the Panchavati garden of the Dakshineswar temple, as well as along the banks of the Hooghly, on Kali Puja (Thursday), the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA realtor, who also trades in garments, was attacked with choppers and other sharp weapons on Kaiser Street in Narkeldanga early on Tuesday.Abdul Abid, 33, suffered multiple injuries on his hands and shoulders. His family alleged that multiple bullets ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphAutomobile sales slowed down in Calcutta during Dhanteras while the districts fared slightly better. Conversations with dealers and sales personnel suggested a rural-urban divide in festive sales this year.In Calcutta, the mood in dealerships was muted. In places like ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA Durga idol was paraded on the Thames in London on a boat. The iconic Tower Bridge opened up to make way for the passage of the idol. Water collected from seven oceans and 13 rivers around the world ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA child, visiting his grandmother with his mother, fell into the empty lift shaft of the five-storey building in Topsia on Tuesday afternoon.He has been admitted to hospital. The child’s condition is critical, police said.The grandmother lives on the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) has called for a march to the CBI office in Salt Lake on Wednesday to demand "a proper charge-sheet” and the “swift arrest” of all culprits in the RG Kar rape and ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphIIEST Shibpur had its students’ senate elections on Tuesday.The system followed at the central academic institute stands in contrast to the kind of campus elections witnessed at most state universities and colleges in Bengal.At Shibpur, political parties had no ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphiPhone 16 Pro, check. Crossover SUV, check. A pair of kitchen tongs, check.Many Calcuttans brought home something new on Dhanteras, depending on their buying power.Stores were decked out with promotional offers. The sales staff hardly had any time off.Jewellers, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphSamuel Bourne, a British photographer who established the Bourne & Shepherd studio in Calcutta, was born on this day in England. He began his career as a bank clerk but left his job to become a photographer.In 1863, Bourne ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement appeared in the newspaper Bengal Hurkaru, brought out from Calcutta:HORSES AND CARRIAGESFOR PRIVATE SALEA neat fashionable light POST CHAISE, with a pair of strong serviceable grey Horses, perfectly sound & quiet, Postillion Harness, ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphPolice have busted a racket involved in the illegal sale of blood at the Malda Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) and arrested eight persons in the past one month.According to police sources, five persons were arrested between August 22 ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA packed audience of students and teachers at Rotary Sadan listened and learned how to be peer buddies to children with learning and writing difficulties on Monday.Often termed dyslexia, the neuro-biological condition can afflict one in five children in ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s Collegiate School has started the practice of students writing only roll numbers and not their names on answer scripts in the school exams for a “fair evaluation,” and to cut down on the possibility of teachers’ bias ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphChief 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 ...
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