The city is set to get a new crematorium by the Hooghly, a first in several decades, with the financial heft of some of the prominent business families here.The facility will come up next to Dahi Ghat near Hastings ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphComputers used by students in Classes III, V, and VIII for upcoming pilot assessments do not require Internet access, but schools must ensure a LAN (local area network) connection, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) told ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Tuesday told the high court that it was up to the vice-chancellors to decide whether student elections would be held in universities and affiliated colleges — a shift from the state’s earlier stance.Campus elections have ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphDeclaring Dalhousie Square and Bow Barracks as heritage precincts would face the least resistance and help revive public interest in these historic neighbourhoods, said a group of Calcuttans at a heritage-themed adda on Saturday.The gathering, held at Calcutta Bungalow ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphVibration-mitigating track cushions, laser-based monitoring for subsidence, and grouting teams on standby — East-West Metro’s Bowbazar stretch is equipped with a range of protective measures to prevent further trouble in the once-unstable zone, officials said.The 16.6km corridor from Howrah ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphThe mayor of Calcutta has set a one-year deadline to reconstruct the residences in Bowbazar that were destroyed because of subsidence resulting from underground tunnel excavation for the East-West Metro. At a meeting on Monday, mayor Firhad Hakim asked ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board has filed an FIR against unknown persons or organisations for allegedly collecting details from candidates who cleared TET (Teachers’ Eligibility Test) in 2022 and posting the data on a website, raising questions about ...
28 August 2025 TelegraphNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose is now part of the anime world. The trailer of an AI-powered anime series titled DQN offered glimpses of Bose earlier this month, sparking buzz among anime lovers in India. The video shows Bose commanding his troops, ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Railway Kolkata authorities have short-terminated the journey of several trains from Dakshineswar in the extreme north up to Tollygunje station in the south to ensure the frequency of train services.A Metro spokesperson said on Tuesday, the steps ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphThree mysterious deaths were reported from Anandapur area in South Kolkata, police said on Tuesday.In the first incident, a bar dancer was found unconscious in a guesthouse near the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and was rushed to a private hospital ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday sought a report from the detective department of Bidhannagar police in connection with an assault allegedly by a policeman on a lawyer and his son in Salt Lake’s AA Block on Wednesday. Justice Tirthankar ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Bengal government, the school service commission, and others in response to a petition filed by a group of "untainted teachers" challenging the state’s recruitment rules as “whimsical, arbitrary, ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphTwo accidents were reported in Calcutta on Monday — one involving a bus that resulted in injuries to at least three individuals, and the other concerning a car that was left abandoned at the scene near the Webel crossing ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday demanded clarification from the Bengal government about Durga Puja committees that have failed to submit utilisation certificates for government grants, despite a standing court directive.“How many committees are yet to file their utilisation certificates? ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphThe airport Metro service was hailed as a godsend by passengers on its very first day.Aashish Kumar Bharadwaj, a chartered accountant, was among the early users of the service. He took the Metro from Jai Hind Bimanbandar (airport) to ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the Calcutta High Court asked the Bengal government to submit an affidavit on Durga Puja organisers who haven’t submitted expense reports to the state on the grants provided.“Are the organisers submitting records on how the ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphKolkata is likely to experience cloudy conditions with spells of rain and thundershowers this week, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its forecast on Monday.For August 25, the city is expected to witness a cloudy sky with rain ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphA shop owner in Rajarhat who runs an outlet from where SIM cards are being issued, was arrested last week for allegedly selling pre-activated SIM cards without valid documents. Officers of Rajarhat police station, who made the arrest on ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphA fresh system is likely to bring in more rain this week, said Met officials. A low-pressure area that was over Gangetic Bengal on Saturday morning moved northwest to Jharkhand by Sunday morning. It was tipped to move west-northwest ...
27 August 2025 TelegraphIn 2011, the Class IX students of a Kidderpore school were handed an unusual art project. It was called broken glass painting. It was not just painting on glass, but on pieces of broken glass glued onto their work. ...
26 August 2025 TelegraphA virtual exhibition of the art of the three Tagores at Konnagar Baganbari on the banks of the Hooghly was launched on August 9, breathing new life into the heritage property where Abanindranath Tagore spent a magical summer with ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphSeventeen-year-old Prem Singh had “a lot of free time” to study as he battled with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.Confined to his home for six months during treatment, with weekly hospital visits for chemotherapy, Prem channelled his isolation into academic excellence — ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphTrinamool student leader Monojit Mishra, now suspended by the party, and three others had abducted and confined a 24-year-old student of South Calcutta Law College, and gang-raped her on June 25, police said in the chargesheet submitted on Saturday.Besides ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphAn ayah, appointed to care for an elderly couple, was arrested on Saturday along with a male accomplice for the murder of 82-year-old Bijaya Das and the assault of her husband, 87-year-old Prasanta Das, at their New Garia home.The ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphThe city’s transport system hit a new milestone on Friday with the entire 16.6km stretch between Howrah Maidan and Salt Lake Sector V bridged by the Metro network, a project come to fruition despite several hurdles.A six-coach rake left ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a factory in Anandapur’s Gulshan Colony on Saturday afternoon.Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot, but could make it to the affected area through the narrow bylanes, local sources said. However, locals swung ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphA 2.45 km stretch of the East-West Metro was inaugurated on Friday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, making the entire 16.6km — from Howrah to Sector V — finally operational 16 years after the construction began.Metro gives a lowdown ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphNobel laureate Amartya Sen on Friday playfully asked if it was safe for him to speak in Bengali, before reminding a young audience in the city that he was originally from Dhaka.“I am from Dhaka and I do not ...
24 August 2025 TelegraphBijaya Das, 82, and her husband Prasanta Das, 87, could barely walk, even with sticks, and became easy targets for the killer who raided their home. Their daughter, who is settled in Germany and last spoke to her mother ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe admission process for MBBS and dental courses resumed on Friday, within hours of the Supreme Court issuing a stay on Calcutta High Court’s conditions for the publication of the state JEE results. The counselling and admission process for ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked heads of schools to administer a national sports day pledge to students and staff during the morning assembly on August 29. August 29 is celebrated as National Sports ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphTraffic was disrupted for almost four hours across parts of south Kolkata on Friday after several hundred Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha) blocked the Rashbehari intersection during their march to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat, demanding higher ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe Metro network expanded by 14km on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three new sections, marking multiple milestones for the city’s public transport system.At 4.45pm, Modi waved a green flag at Jessore Road Metro station, officially opening ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe results of the Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) were finally published on Friday — over two-and-a-half months later than scheduled — following a timely intervention by the Supreme Court.Originally set for publication on June 5, the results were ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphAn 82-year-old woman was found murdered under the staircase of her two-storey home in New Garia Cooperative Housing early on Friday morning, with her hands tied.The woman’s 87-year-old husband was found on the floor beside his bed with his ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphAdmission to undergraduate courses in government and aided colleges began on Friday at last, over a month-and-a-half behind schedule.The process resumed after the Supreme Court stayed a Calcutta High Court order on OBC reservations, clearing the legal block on ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphBengal Library Association (BLA) recently hosted an evening celebrating three of Bengal’s most beloved literary figures — Tagore, Nazrul and Sukanta — at its FD Block premises. Incidentally, one of the founding fathers of BLA was none other than ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphA sniffer dog belonging to a security agency allegedly bit a four-year-old boy in the Kolkata airport, forcing his family to cancel a trip to Malaysia, a police officer said on Friday.The child was attacked by the animal between ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphOver 200 residents of Bowbazar in north Kolkata, whose houses were damaged in repeated subsidence incidents during East-West Metro tunnelling since 2019, on Friday staged a sit-in alleging neglect by the authorities.Local Trinamool Congress councillor Biswarup Dey said several ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe expansion of Kolkata's metro network is set to give a major fillip to connectivity, spur housing demand, and boost office leasing activity, industry leaders said on Friday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will later on Friday inaugurate three new stretches ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe year was 1988. Rajib De was then a first-class cricketer recovering from an injury. “I was visiting a friend’s house who, for some reason, was hidden in a dark room. When I asked what he was up to, ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphOn August 15, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education observed a triple celebration by hoisting three flags — the Indian National Flag to mark Independence Day, the Mother’s Flag to commemorate Sri Aurobindo’s birth anniversary, and the school flag as ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphSome came in all whites and were given tricolour sashes by the school, while others came in elaborate lehengas and dhotis.With Independence Day and Janmashtami falling one after the other last week, the tots of Nurturing Minds preschool held ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake Point School turned 50 this year and marked its jubilee with a grand celebration on August 15 and 16 at EZCC. They brought alive India’s rich history and heritage through music, dance, drama, visuals, and narration. The ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphNot just flag hoisting, the children of Sri Chaitanya Techno School, New Town 2, took part in a number of performances on August 15.This branch of the school is for primary and pre-primary classes, from nursery to Class IV, ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphA n e-commerce platform was launched on August 15 whereby NGOs can sell their products and bag the entire sale proceeds without paying any commission to the site.“Usually, any concern selling through an e-commerce site has been the hefty ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphYou’ve booked totos and e-rickshaws over app cabs, now you shall also get to pay rickshaw drivers directly through your phone’s online wallet.“We have been accepting online payments through GPay, PhonePe, and other platforms for almost seven months now,” ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphA Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara turned turtle at Lansdowne Road on Thursday evening, disrupting evening traffic on the Minto-Park bound flank for some time. The driver of the vehicle managed to come out of the car unhurt, police said. ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphIn a relief to “untainted teachers,” the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Bengal government to allow all such candidates to participate in the ongoing fresh selection process without requiring the newly introduced minimum 50 per cent marks in ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway is bracing for a massive jump in footfall with three new corridors set to open on Friday. The Metro network’s total carrying capacity will more than double as new stretches on the Green, Orange, and Yellow Lines ...
23 August 2025 TelegraphThe sacked school teachers, who are scheduled to write the fresh recruitment tests in September to retain their jobs, have been given the maximum possible relaxations in the screening process and no further advantages would be provided to them, ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the north-south corridor (Blue Line) were disrupted for almost an hour on Wednesday because of waterlogging in the tunnel between Kalighat and Jatin Das Park stations.“An overflowing drain was spotted along the tracks between Jatin Das ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) has identified 552 roads across Bengal where urgent repairs are needed, a senior official told Metro on Thursday.The department has received over 1,100 complaints from residents about poor road conditions since the onset ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphThe joy of an occasion lies not just in receiving an award, but in giving from whatever little one has — often anonymously.Over the next two Saturdays, close to 550 students will receive awards or scholarships, while an equal ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphThe East-West Metro is ready to run its full course from Howrah Maidan to Sector V.While the city cheers, some 80 families in Bowbazar who were rendered homeless because of subsidence in the Metro tunnel six years ago do ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphA proposal to merge the tiger habitats of the South 24-Parganas forest division with the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) was approved at a meeting of the National Board for Wildlife on Tuesday, said sources in the Union ministry of ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphLarge parts of West Bengal are set to receive heavy rainfall over the next few days due to strong moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal and an anticipated eastward shift of the monsoon trough, the India Meteorological Department ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss the petitions seeking a review of its April 3 order sacking teachers and staff in Bengal’s state-aided secondary and higher secondary schools has left thousands of “hopeful” teachers “shocked and disappointed”. The petitions ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphA ride between Salt Lake Sector V and the airport will cost ₹70, once the new Metro links are operational. The ride between New Garia (Kavi Subhash) and airport will be ₹45.A fare chart has been prepared for display ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphA woman who pioneered a creche, a concept that let women go out to work back in the 1970s while their children were cared for and attended to, is no more. Madhusree Dasgupta — fondly called Aunty Mashi ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphDecomposed bodies of puppies and kittens and their body parts wrapped in polythene bags were found in an animal shelter at Parnasree on Tuesday. People in the neighbourhood had been complaining about the stench from the shelter on Sagar ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphAll undergraduate admissions in Bengal have been stalled with the latest directive issued by the state health department on Monday, putting the MBBS and dental admission process “in abeyance till further order”.Admissions to general degree courses in state-aided colleges ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphA fresh wet spell is headed to south Bengal, the Met office has said.Calcutta has been getting occasional showers in between hot spells. The intensity and spread of the rain are likely to rise in the coming days.A bulletin ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphSaradha group chief Sudipta Sen and his aide Debjani Mukherjee were acquitted on Tuesday in three cases of cheating and criminal breach of trust registered under Kolkata Police.The Bankshall court gave the judgment, freeing them of charges in the ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphA young man and woman who were last heard having what sounded like a tiff on the banks of a canal at Nonadanga in Anandapur on Monday night disappeared minutes later, leaving the scooter they had come on by ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphTensions flared outside Bikash Bhavan, the West Bengal education department headquarters, in Salt Lake near here on Tuesday as a Students' Federation of India (SFI) protest demanding clarity on college admissions and Joint Entrance Examination results turned chaotic, prompting ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal is set to experience heavy rainfall till August 25 due to strong moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal and a monsoon trough shifting towards the state, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.The system, which ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur will open an outreach centre in Houston, USA, with a $10 million donation from the family of a former student. The centre will foster alumni collaboration, director Suman Chakraborty said on the occasion of the platinum jubilee ...
21 August 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will conduct online assessments for Classes III, V and VIII in September, the council’s chief executive and secretary said on Monday.The pilot project will be held in 300 schools across ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has identified over 50 roads in 11 wards as vulnerable to malaria after surveillance teams found mosquito breeding sites along these roads. Several cases were also reported from these neighbourhoods. Some of the vulnerable ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphUnesco wants to make Durga puja of Calcutta, which it has inscribed in 2021 on its representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity, accessible to senior citizens and the challenged. In response to an appeal from the NGO ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA pedestrian was injured after being hit by a Mercedes-Benz on Park Street on Sunday night, police said.The pedestrian has been admitted to a hospital with multiple blood clots in his brain, police said. The person at the wheel ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University will install more CCTV cameras in the ladies’ hostel on Mahatma Gandhi Road, where an outsider entered the room of a girl student and stole her mobile phone, said a CU official.The university’s registrar will write to ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphRain or shine, the surfaces of the city’s busiest flyovers remain in a perpetually “distressed” condition. Undulated and bumpy, with worn-off bitumen layers and uneven repair patches, these critical transport arteries have become hazardous for commuters.The AJC Bose Road ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphThe estimated population of the saltwater crocodile in the Sundarbans is between 220 and 242, according to the 2025 census.This is an assessment of the population trend, not the exact number, a forest department official said.The 2024 count had ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA 25-year-old man died after an explosion near Madhyamgram railway station early on Monday in what police describe as a low-intensity blast possibly caused by the mishandling of an electronic device.Sachchindra Mishra, who was from Uttar Pradesh and worked ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphFormer Jadavpur University student Hindol Mazumdar, who was earlier identified by police as the main conspirator in the March attack on education minister Bratya Basu on campus, was granted bail on Monday.Mazumdar, who currently lives in Spain, was arrested ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University (JU) alumnus Hindol Majumdar, accused of conspiring to attack West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s convoy on the varsity campus in March this year, was granted bail by a Kolkata court on Monday, five days after his ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphRailway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has formally invited chief minister Mamata Banerjee to attend the August 22 inauguration of three Metro corridors in the city by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The August 14 letter invites Mamata to “grace the occasion at ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphA family ritual going back three decades. A father-son first. Die-hard fans from across Bengal.The Calcutta derby lived up to its legend on Sunday evening, as more than 80,000 fans turned Salt Lake Stadium into a sea of chants, ...
19 August 2025 TelegraphKolkata biker Subrata Boral has once again pushed the limits. He has conquered Umling La Pass at over 19,000 feet altitude — this time aboard a humble 100cc, 4-horsepower moped. Starting from Gulmarg’s Khyber Himalayan Resort on July 15, the ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphBoal, ilish, pabda, chitol and katla — these five fish are what Goddess Manasa receives as bhog at the Baikunthapur Rajbari in Jalpaiguri. The offering is a tradition that has been observed, without interruption, for the past 516 years. The ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA Thakurpukur resident allegedly lost ₹64.62 lakh on an investment scheme she stumbled upon on social media in the hope of earning large returns. One person was arrested early on Sunday in this connection.According to police, the complainant ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA woman who was trying to take her car out on the road from her garage, accompanied by her mother, was allegedly sexually assaulted by men who first blocked her way with their motorbikes and then refused to move ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal government has issued an appeal to buyers of used vehicles: always verify that third-party dealers have valid licences before making any purchase.The advisory follows the transport department’s receipt of multiple complaints from individuals who sold their vehicles ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe civic body has identified seven wards as dengue-vulnerable based on the number of cases reported since January, an official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said.The wards include neighbourhoods such as Sunny Park and Queens Park in Ballygunge, ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphThe trailer launch of Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Bengal Files was abruptly halted at a city hotel on Saturday after police said the director did not have the required permission to host the event.The trailer of the film, based ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA former Jadavpur University student, arrested on Wednesday, orchestrated the campus attack on education minister Bratya Basu from Spain, police told the Alipore court on Friday.Hindol Majumdar, a former pharmaceutical technology student currently pursuing a PhD in biomedicine at ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA sacked schoolteacher who was preparing for the selection exams to get back his job died in Calcutta early on Friday, and his family alleged that stress over the job caused his death.Subal Soren, who used to teach at ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee attended the parade to mark the 79th Independence Day on Red Road on Friday. Mamata hoisted the Tricolour and received a guard of honour ahead of the event, which included a parade and cultural presentations ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphRajat entered Presidency College in 1963 to do his BA and on finishing his degree continued his further studies at the University of Cambridge where he did a Tripos followed by a Ph.D. He was four years my junior. ...
18 August 2025 TelegraphA south Calcutta Durga puja has promised something that possibly no other has in the past: to beautify and maintain a key road in its backyard — its cleanliness, heritage and aesthetics — not just during Puja but round ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man in his mid-30s was allegedly attacked with a chopper in Beleghata on Friday night. Tapas Banerjee was admitted to NRS Medical College and Hospital with multiple injuries on his head, face and stomach. His family said that ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphMandatory visitor parking in large residential complexes, reduced open space requirements for small plots, and additional construction allowances in hospitals for Swasthya Sathi beds — these are among the key amendments to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Building Rules ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man in his mid-20s, who works as a delivery partner, was allegedly beaten up by the driver of a car that hit the two-wheeler near Salt Lake City Centre on Friday night.Police said the driver was drunk. Bystanders ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphDeep recline seats, six-way adjustable headrest, more luggage, priority check-in — passengers flying from Calcutta to Delhi will soon experience business class comfort in a low-cost airline flight.IndiGo is set to introduce IndiGoStretch, the airline’s business cabin from Calcutta.The ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphJuly ended with 70 per cent surplus rainfall but August so far has recorded a 25 per cent deficit in the city.Between August 1 and 16, the city received 151.6mm of rain, according to the Met office. The usual ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled the hearing regarding the Bengal government’s notification of 140 new OBC sub-castes on September 9, raising alarm over delays in undergraduate admissions to government and aided institutions.The case was listed for hearing on August ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead in the Metro tunnel between Park Street and Esplanade in the north-south corridor (Blue Line) in the early hours of Friday.The man was declared “brought dead” at Medical College Kolkata, police said. Metro sources ...
17 August 2025 TelegraphAt the stroke of midnight, as the country prepared to celebrate its 79th Independence Day, a unified voice raised a cry for justice in several pockets of Calcutta.Outside the Academy of Fine Arts, a theatre group performed a skit ...
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