A formal inquiry has been initiated into alleged police excesses in the compound of the district school inspector's office in Kasba. Officers at the Kolkata Police headquarters said all the allegations and electronic evidence that emerged were being probed.An ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe termination of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal — following the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process — has unleashed more than just administrative and political chaos. It ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAnnapurna puja may be popular in homes, but BC Block now celebrates it at the community level. Since last year they have started performing the puja at their community hall and this probably makes them the first block in ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe SojournWhen: April 15 to 19,12.30pm to 4.30pmPocket pinch: Rs 1,200What: The lunch at the Broadway hotel starts with a choice between Aam Pora Sherbet and fruit punch, which works well in this heat. But be careful to have ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn outfit called Anjani Putra Sena, accused of violating norms in a Ram Navami procession in Howrah, on Thursday challenged the legality of the criminal proceedings initiated against its leaders by police.Appearing for the organisation, advocate Subir Sanyal appealed ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn advocate has served a legal notice on chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleging contempt of the Supreme Court’s order invalidating over 25,000 school jobs in Bengal.Advocate Siddharth Dutta has said the notice was sent on behalf of an NGO ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphA string of rallies in Calcutta, protesting the scrapping of school jobs and the new Waqf law, crippled traffic on Thursday, tormenting motorists and pedestrians alike.At least six processions crisscrossed the city between 7am and 4pm, bringing traffic to ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphMore than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff lost their jobs last week following a Supreme Court order. Hundreds of them walked from Sealdah to Esplanade on Thursday afternoon to register their protest and anger against Wednesday’s police lathicharge on ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission has recommended the appointments of 1,240 candidates as physical education and work education teachers in supernumerary posts in government-aided schools.The recommendation came a day after the Supreme Court set aside Calcutta High Court’s direction for ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe acting principal of La Martiniere for Boys, John Stephen, resigned on Tuesday.Sydney Francis Menezes has taken over from Stephen.The 189-year-old institution has been without a principal since July 2021.“The boys’ school principal submitted his resignation on Tuesday, and ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe presence of two upper air cyclonic circulations has urged the Regional Meteorological Centre to issue a significant weather alert for several districts of West Bengal from April 10 to April 14.The cyclonic circulations are over northeast Bihar between ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Wednesday told a group of dismissed school employees not to “ask such foolish questions” and to “ask the Supreme Court” when they sought a solution to the impasse.Gangopadhyay had gone to meet the school ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphCBI officers have resumed talking to officials and postgraduate trainees of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as part of its investigation to find out whether there was any attempt to cover up the rape and murder of a ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe state administration on Wednesday submitted a report in the high court on a Ram Navami procession in Howrah organised by an outfit that calls itself the Anjani Putra Sena and mentioned that it violated court guidelines on multiple ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal governor must abide by what the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, setting a timeline for all governors to act on bills, said Bengal education minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday.“I hope that our governor, who is a learned ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday that teachers and school staff who have lost their jobs must realise they cannot conduct disruptive protests and call for help from the government at the same time.“What has happened (the lathi ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe draft amendments to the existing Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) building rules propose a mandatory parking space for visitors in housing complexes above a certain size and a reduction of the open space for buildings coming up on smaller ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's largest single-site electric vehicle (EV) charging hub is set to come up in south Kolkata's Thakurpukur area, claimed Ashhok Kapoor, the MD of EzUrja, which is building it.It will be the second-largest EV charging hub in the world ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has predicted light to moderate rains to hit a few parts of the city from Wednesday onwards, with a favourable wind and moisture incursions over the Bay of Bengal. The twin natural phenomenon has made the ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: An outfit that calls itself the Hanuman Seva Dal moved an application before Calcutta High Court on Tuesday seeking permission to hold a procession on Red Road for six hours on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.The appeal, before ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission is “going ahead” with its preparations for a fresh recruitment process to fill the posts that have fallen vacant after the Supreme Court last week scrapped the jobs of 25,773 teaching and non-teaching staff in ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphOne of the two persons, arrested from Haryana in connection with a cyber fraud allegedly headed by a bank manager, used to work in an Aadhaar Seva Kendra, CID sleuths said.He had access to the database of thousands of ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphSquall season is here, but Calcutta has yet to experience one. The Met office has predicted that the wait might be over before the end of this week.According to the weather office, a system on the Bay of Bengal ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Tuesday prescribed a way to differentiate the “deserving candidates” from the “undeserving” in the school recruitment case.Gangopadhyay’s comments drew a retort from state education minister Bratya Basu, who said he spoke like a politician ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe minimum visibility required for a flight to land has been increased from 1,500m to 5,000m in one of Calcutta airport’s four landing points because of a building in Kaikhali jutting out 11m more than the permissible limit, officials ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe family of the man who was run over by a car being driven by an allegedly intoxicated filmmaker in Thakurpukur on Sunday, alleged that they were offered money to “settle the matter”.Aminul Rahman and at least five others ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe demolition of a building will mean smashing its ceilings, floors, beams and columns and not merely drilling holes that can be repaired easily, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has said in a notification.Mayor Firhad Hakim had earlier asked ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled for April 17 a hearing on the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s (WBBSE) plea seeking permission to retain untainted teachers until a fresh recruitment process is completed.This follows the apex court’s April 3 ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe senior judge on a Calcutta High Court division bench on Monday refused to hear the state’s appeal against an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in May 2023, cancelling the appointments of over 36,000 primary school teachers based on ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThousands of aggrieved teachers and school staff had arrived outside Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday morning.Only a section of them made it in. The others did not have a pass that proclaimed “we are deserving”.Protests followed, guardrail barricades were ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address was peppered with assurances but did not cut much ice with several teachers who have lost their jobs.They had come to Netaji Indoor Stadium hoping Mamata would explain how she planned to save their ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s secondary education board has appealed to the Supreme Court that teachers and school staff whose services have been terminated though they are “not specifically tainted” be allowed to continue until fresh recruitments are made.The board said if over ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday promised to protect the jobs of all those the Supreme Court had deemed “not specifically tainted” while scrapping their appointments because of a “vitiated” school recruitment process.Addressing over 10,000 sacked and aggrieved teachers ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphTill August 21 last year, Saroj Bhunya, a Kharagpur resident, would take his bike to a state-run school where he was employed as a group-D staff. That morning he collapsed following a brain haemorrhage.The semi-paralysed Bhunya with the support ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said during Monday’s meeting that she would examine what evidence has been submitted against those terminated teachers who have been identified as “tainted” and then decide on their cases.“First, let me resolve the cases of ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA hospital off DL Khan Road in Bhowanipore that was non-functional since 2012 has been revamped. A multi-speciality OPD will start running from the healthcare facility from Tuesday. The hospital was started in 1975, and it shut down around ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe person who was driving the car that entered a crowded marketplace in Thakurpukur and hit several pedestrians, killing one on Sunday morning, was remanded to police custody on Monday.Police said Siddhanta Das, 35, a resident of Kankulia Road ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a racket that used to create fake companies and subsequent mule accounts for the transaction of money earned through fraudulent means, police said.The racket was headed by the branch ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA 65-year-old man was crushed under the wheels of a government run bus after it hit a two-wheeler near the Chingrighata intersection on EM Bypass on Monday afternoon, police said.The accident happened around 1.15pm after the rider of the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphSome key takeaways from chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address at Netaji Indoor Stadium on MondayTop priority: Save jobs “As long as I live, I will not let a single deserving teacher lose his or her job. Neither me nor you ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has finalised a standard operating procedure on statues, making it mandatory that new statues are vetted by a civic committee.The committee will examine whether a pavement in question will become too narrow for pedestrians ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphBJP strongman and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee government with allegations of 'targeted violence' on Hindu devotees involved in a Ram Navami procession near Kolkata’s Park Circus Seven Point area."Where was the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphOne set of nurses round the clock to treat children with autism when they are hospitalised for other diseases. Provision for speech and occupational therapists to visit the ward to avoid regression in a child with autism without therapy. ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphMembers of the Jadavpur University unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, performed a puja on the campus on Ram Navami on Sunday, despite being denied permission by the university authorities.The students wearing saffron ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphCombine sections in Classes IX and X, engage part-time teachers, or request teachers from neighbouring schools to take classes.These are some of the ways government-aided schools are planning to tide over the shortage of teachers.The Supreme Court order on ...
7 April 2025 Telegraph“I will prove to everyone I’m not mad.”“In the past 25 years, I have heard many promises to take me back home.”“I wish to return home, too, but where is my home?”“Once upon a time, I chose my clothes; ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphA car travelling along Diamond Harbour Road entered a busy road in Thakurpukur that was dug up for laying a pipeline, and hit six pedestrians on Sunday morning, one of whom died later in the day. The deceased was ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe city celebrated Ram Navami like never before. The event was peaceful.Thousands of processions — big and small rolled out across the state on Sunday. In Calcutta, Salt Lake and Howrah, police ensured that all the norms laid down ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe build-up began at noon. By early evening, several pockets of Calcutta were painted in saffron. Ram Navami celebrations were marked by a string of processions, some drawing a crowd of a few thousand. DJ consoles mounted on trucks ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe education department has asked district school inspectors to report how schools are coping after the Supreme Court terminated nearly 17,000 teaching positions.“We’re collecting data on the extent of disruption to gauge the full scale of the crisis,” said ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphWork on the Mukundapur campus of South Point school that was stalled for more than a year is expected to resume soon, a school official said.Students will be shifted to the new campus in the 2026-27 academic session, but ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphA Ram Navami like never before means business like never before for some.In Bengal’s chock-a-block festive calendar, Ram Navami is a relatively new addition.A festival restricted to small pockets five years ago now has traders across the city stocking ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphCelebrate Ram Navami but do not inconvenience others, Calcutta’s police commissioner Manoj Verma appealed on Saturday.Verma, who visited many central Calcutta locations to scan the routes of Sunday’s Ram Navami processions, said Kolkata Police had received 80 applications for ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphAn alumnus of Jadavpur University, who is based in the US now, inaugurated a laboratory of the chemical engineering department on Friday. The lab was renovated with his contribution of ₹1 crore. Part of the amount went into setting ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphBollywood and its beautiful European locales have attracted tourists for decades. But a contender has arrived.Locations in the UK where some standout OTT series were recently shot have emerged as bigger tourist draws.Tens of thousands want to experience in ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Medical Council has made it mandatory for all doctors to obtain a score, which has to be earned by attending conferences and seminars, to be able to renew their registration every five years.The council took the ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphSeveral rounds of bullets were allegedly fired when two groups of Trinamul Congress supporters clashed in Rajarhat’s Narayanpur on Friday afternoon.Police sources said the groups claiming allegiance to Tapas Chatterjee, Trinamool MLA from Rajarhat, allegedly clashed with the supporters ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) assessment records were “tampered with” to get permission to construct a five-storey building off Creek Row, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.The tampering came to light after a Creek Row resident filed an ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphBeing a schoolteacher in Bengal was a matter of pride. Not anymore, for many.The controversy around the recruitment of teachers appears to have robbed the profession of some of its sheen.The Supreme Court order not only scrapped nearly 26,000 ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphTwo men, accused of allegedly beating an app cab driver to death in Bijoygarh, were arrested on Friday.Police said Sunny Kumar Roy and Bicky Shaw, from Roy Bahadur Road in Behala, were among the group of five allegedly involved ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphPolice should “suo motu” evict any new encroachment by hawkers because it was their responsibility to ensure that government land was not taken over, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.Hakim was responding to a complaint from a Kasba resident ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphStung by a shortage of teachers following Thursday’s Supreme Court order, schools will struggle to conduct classes, the state higher secondary council has warned.“Around 16,000 teachers have lost their jobs. The schools will struggle to conduct classes, both in ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA schoolteacher who lost her job on Thursday attempted suicide in South 24-Parganas’ Canning, police sources said.A history teacher in a government-aided school, she wrote in a note that she was unemployed after the Supreme Court invalidated over 25,000 ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphFish prices have increased across markets in Calcutta, and traders blamed a dip in supply for the price hike.The price of rohu and katla, the most commonly purchased Indian major carps, has shot up by nearly ₹100 per kg. ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday granted the Vishva Hindu Parishad and an outfit called Anjani Putra Sena permission to hold Ram Navami processions on Sunday on the condition that they will not display any metal weapons in the rallies ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA 39-year-old filmmaker from Bengal has done what her seniors in the industry have been trying for years — she has managed to put a check on the alleged interference of film technicians federation in directors’ work on Tollywood ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro withdrew the suspension of services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Green Line on Ram Navami.Services were being intermittently suspended on the Green Line on Sundays since February to check the efficacy of the computerised automated ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe police finally have a solution to the parking problem in Salt Lake. They have started fining any car they see parked on the main roads – be it a resident’s, visitor’s, or shopper’s. But while some have welcomed ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphBozo has been lucky for Diya Das. Of course, she has become a great companion and loyal friend but the Labrador’s entry to the house, quite literally, saved Diya’s life.“Bozo was a birthday gift for me from my friends,” ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphDF Park, New TownFor the first time this year, New Town’s Id-ul-Fitr namaz was held at DF Park, near Biswa Bangla Gate.This is the latest venue after the NKDA community hall in 2023 and the fair ground in 2024. ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphLivelihoods lost. Lives damaged beyond repair. Despair, hopelessness and dismay were writ large on the faces of the teachers who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court judgement on Thursday. Metro spoke to some of them: Sangeeta Sinha, 40 Sangeeta Sinha ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has upheld Calcutta High Court's order on the termination of teaching and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools but modified the order to offer some relief to those counted among the "untainted". Age relaxation The written order says ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA man from Burtolla has been arrested for allegedly writing street graffiti encouraging armed rebellion during one of the “Reclaim the Night” programmes at Jadavpur in September last year.Police said Chayan Sen, 40, was arrested from north Calcutta on ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA car with nine occupants lost balance and fell on its side on the Parama flyover as some of the young men and women stuck portions of their torsos outside the moving vehicle to make a video, police said ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphBengal has had a great run at motor sports lately, with Raunak Jana of AD Block winning the Indian National Autocross Championship in Chennai. This is the first time a driver from eastern India has won this premium high-speed ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA breakthrough has been reached in the fee hike tussle at IEM Public School, but parents are pushing for some more.IEM Public School has branches in Salt Lake’s GE Block, Sector V’s Ashram Building, and New Town near Biswa ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court judgment caused despair in many but also instilled hope in some. The candidates who petitioned Calcutta High Court, alleging illegalities in the recruitment process, stood vindicated on Thursday. The court’s directive to the state government to ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA Ghaziabad-based motivational speaker who visits Calcutta regularly to attend programmes with his followers has been arrested on the charge of raping one of them.The woman’s complaint with Bidhannagar South police station said she met the motivational speaker in ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphAn elderly couple was found hanging in their Mukundapur apartment while their son and daughter-in-law were in office on Tuesday, police said.Dulal Paul, 66, a driver by profession, and his wife Rekha, 58, allegedly left a note blaming their ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphThe body of a youth in his 30s was found with bullet injuries near a Trinamul office in Belgharia on Wednesday morning.Rehan Khan was declared dead at College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital.He was found near Rajivnagar, off ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphAwareness about autism should go beyond just recognising that it exists. It is about understanding individuals with autism and their parents, their needs and promoting inclusion and acceptance.On World Autism Awareness Day (April 2), parents and those working with ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphPolice have arrested a man who targeted homes in Salt Lake while residents were out for morning walks, putting an end to a string of thefts that had alarmed the community.Dilshad Shah, known by his nickname “Tere Naam” after ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphA Hanuman Chalisa, a pouch of rice grain and a small flag featuring Ram or Hanuman.These are some of the ingredients being distributed among Salt Lake residents in a door-to-door campaign asking them to celebrate Ram Navami on Sunday.Banners ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphThe army and police have resolved their differences over parking vehicles outside Eden Gardens.On Wednesday, a senior Kolkata Police officer said that parking of vehicles for the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday will be ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphThe ongoing debate regarding optimal working hours in corporate offices is yet to conclude. Standardised working hours are not fixed in most countries. Various corporate icons have suggested a 70 or 90-hour weekly work schedule. However, the medical implications ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has asked the principals of its affiliated colleges to take action against students accused of humiliating and threatening invigilators for trying to prevent the use of unfair means during examinations. The university's syndicate, which met last week, ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in the basement of a building adjoining a private hospital in Salt Lake on Tuesday morning, police said. Thick black smoke coming out of the basement of KB-25, Salt Lake, which is next to a ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphWaste segregation was launched in 14 wards of the Howrah Municipal Corporation on Tuesday, adding to the existing 11 wards where segregation had started in mid-2022.The Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) has 50 wards under it, and “waste segregation at ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphThe driver of an autorickshaw and his octogenarian passenger were injured after an app cab hit the three-wheeler on the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector on Tuesday morning, police said.The app cab hit a vehicle, damaging its front, ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphA 22-year-old woman was found hanging in her rented apartment in Baguiati on Tuesday morning, the police said.Manisha Roy, also known as Pramila, worked as a bar singer. She was found hanging from the ceiling of her room on ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphGift books on birthdays, weddings, when invited to an occasion, or just like that.Writers on stage at the inauguration of a book fest in College Square on Tuesday evening appealed to the audience to buy and gift books.“In the ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal director-general of police spoke to commissioners and district police chiefs on Tuesday afternoon to underscore the importance of monitoring social media posts with the potential to incite passions ahead of Ram Navami and a quick and effective ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphIn a tribute to their counterparts in Myanmar, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport, Kolkata, observed a two-minute silence today in memory of the Air Traffic Controllers of Naypyidaw ATC Control Tower who ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe students of IIT Kharagpur have urged the authorities to take steps against reckless driving on the campus.The campus’s student media body, IIT Kharagpur Awaaz, alleged in a Facebook post that a rise in the number of delivery personnel ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphA 30-year-old man who works as a waiter for various catering services has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 22-year-old man whose body was found in the empty flat of his employer at Charu Market last week. Police said ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal government is working on a plan to begin waste processing in all municipal areas of the state and has invited agencies interested in the work for a pre-tender conference in April.The move comes close on the heels ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphDeposed Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta retired as a JU professor on Monday and said his “unceremonious termination” by the Bengal governor days before his retirement was a price he had to pay for working in the interest of ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphA boat kept tossing up and down before overturning amid tall waves in the Hooghly near Uluberia on Monday morning.According to police, a mechanised trawler with four men on board had overturned. All four were rescued by other boats ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government has launched a #CleanCabPromise drive through its Yatri Sathi platform to ensure that taxis, particularly those picking up passengers at key transit hubs in the city, are cleaned before every ride.Commuters have often complained that they ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphThe body of an e-rickshaw driver was found in a deserted stretch close to Eco Park early on Monday, police said. Two minors who were the last to hire the vehicle have been detained. They were spotted riding the ...
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