Stretches of the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector that don’t have footpaths and iron guardrails need overhaul, police have written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).Missing pavements and guardrails need to be put in place to avert accidents ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA hospital on the southern fringes of Calcutta has recently started a palliative care programme for patients with end-stage liver disease.A team of doctors, nurses, and counsellors will visit the patient’s home to deliver the services.The Indian Institute of ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAfter a lull, the angst of former school staff came to the fore on Thursday.By afternoon, images of hordes of protesting teachers breaching the gates of Bikash Bhavan were beamed across television channels. Metro spoke to some of the ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphBengal’s education secretariat has again become a hub of protests.Metro compiles some of the key demands of the sacked teachers and school staff and what the Supreme Court and the state government have said about them.No examWe will not ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe coolers are out, the training hours have been tweaked, and bathing has become a daily exercise.Members of Kolkata Police’s dog squad have been obliged to stay indoors unless called for duty because of the recent rise in temperature ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area is expected to take shape over the north Bay of Bengal in the third week of May, heralding the monsoon into parts of northeastern India, the Met office has said.Usually, the monsoon reaches Bengal four to ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAn assistant professor of mathematics who came to Bikash Bhavan for official work, leaving his two-year-old son in a crèche in Jadavpur, and a 71-year-old woman who stamps official documents were among hundreds trapped inside the Salt Lake address ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers and non-teaching staff left jobless by a Supreme Court verdict tore through guardrail cordons and broke open iron gates to lay siege to the state education department’s headquarters in Salt Lake on Thursday.They kept hundreds of Bikash ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries in most of her organs after a truck hit her near her school in Howrah’s Andul on February 10 and had to undergo eight surgeries is now slowly able to sit up ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA coach of the Sealdah-bound Bongaon local jumped the rails at Dum Dum station on Wednesday afternoon. There was no loss to life or property, said railway officials. The incident happened near platform number 4 of Dum Dum station ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral colleges and universities are introducing new-age courses like data science and artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level to attract students who aspire to pursue courses that promise better jobs. Many have blamed the absence of such courses for ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAutonomous and minority colleges that do not come under the purview of the state-run centralised admission system have started their undergraduate admissions even as government and government-aided colleges have yet to open their portal. Colleges like St Xavier’s, Scottish ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of men, who took automobile loans against five cars using fake documents from a private bank, allegedly cheated the bank by neither repaying the loan nor returning the vehicles. Five persons were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of cyber cheats, who are wanted in credit card fraud in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, were arrested from Anandapur along EM Bypass on Tuesday.The four were hiding there for the last two days, police said. The men allegedly ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA woman whose father was reported missing on March 14 had to wait for a DNA test to find out that a decomposed body lying in the morgue for two months was that of her father. A decomposed body ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 25-year-old man who was declared brain-dead at a private hospital in the city on Tuesday afternoon agreed to donate his organs after the doctors and hospital officials counselled them. Jayesh Laxmishankar Jaiswal, who was a ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphFormer state BJP president Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday that his wife’s son from her earlier marriage, Srinjoy Dasgupta, was a victim of drug abuse and was under treatment.Srinjoy, 27, an IT professional, was found unconscious with froth oozing ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphFormal “hearings” into alleged lapses in rooftop bars and restaurants will begin next week, following the preparation of a set of norms for the segment, the city’s mayor said on Wednesday.“The state government will form a committee that will ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA constable of the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the robbery of ₹2.66 crore while the money was being transported from a forex company’s office to a bank.Mintu Sarkar, who ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAt least two schools cancelled student trips scheduled in May because of India-Pakistan tensions.A third school will decide in a few days.Mahadevi Birla World Academy had two trips scheduled in May — one to Isro around May 13, and ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police arrested a STF constable in connection with the dacoity of Rs. 2.66 crore from an Entally-based forex company, taking the total arrests to seven in the case. Investigation revealed the 43-year old constable Mintu Sarkar ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphA suburban train derailed while entering Dum Dum railway station here on Wednesday, an Eastern Railway official said.Two wheels of the rear coach of Bongaon-Sealdah EMU train jumped the tracks at 12.11 pm while entering platform 4, he said.No ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphLast night’s thunderstorm dragged the Celsius several degrees down in the city. From 39.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the maximum temperature dropped to 35.2 degrees on Tuesday.The morning was pleasant after a spell of powerful gusts of wind followed ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE Class XII results were published on Tuesday, and in several schools in the city 30 to 50 per cent of the students who wrote the school-leaving examinations scored 90 per cent and above. At Birla High School ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphThirty-two airports shut down in India’s north and northwest because of the flare-up along the Pakistan border have reopened, but most airlines had yet to resume normal operations to these destinations till late Tuesday.Domestic sector airfares continued to be ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata, May 13 (PTI) A plane of a private airline was taken to the isolation bay at the Kolkata airport on Tuesday afternoon for a thorough security check after a passenger was suspected of carrying a bomb, officials said.The ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphAn animal lover’s association rescued a young mare found abandoned and ill on the Maidan, but it did not survived.The organisation has lodged a formal complaint against the horse’s unknown owner. An FIR has been drawn up against the ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphSrinjoy Dasgupta, the only son of former state BJP president Dilip Ghosh’s newly wedded wife Rinku Majumdar, was found dead in his New Town apartment on Tuesday morning.Srinjoy, 27, was found unconscious in his bed, frothing at the mouth, ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team will visit Lansdowne Market on Wednesday to see if they can find a suitable place for some traders who have refused to be rehabilitated.The civic body plans to renovate a portion of the ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway has increased the number of trains and extended the timings between Joka and Majerhat on the Purple Line.The corridor, which aims to connect Joka and Esplanade, is now functional on an 8km stretch between Joka and Majerhat.Of ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe marks they scored are not stellar, but their steadfastness is exceptional.The Telegraph narrates the stories of two teenagers who stand out from thousand others who cleared the CBSE examinations on Tuesday.Mehjabeen Nesha Future Hope (90.4 %)A room by ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe sacked non-teaching staff who had been barred from returning to school and promised an allowance by the state government resumed their protests on Tuesday. They alleged that the government had yet to clarify when they would start getting ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA Pakistani national who had entered India and obtained fake identity documents to assume Indian nationality, and was allegedly involved in a fake passport racket, also allegedly helped many get fake visas for multiple countries, the Enforcement Directorate submitted ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphFourteen medical colleges in Bengal have applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) for an increase of over 600 MBBS seats from the 2025-26 academic year.All the colleges that have applied for the uptick in seats were set up ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA man who was about to board a Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from the Calcutta airport on Tuesday told an airline personnel that he was carrying a bomb. What followed was the evacuation of 179 passengers, who had already boarded, ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphTennis legend Leander Paes was conferred the 32nd P.C. Chandra Puraskaar on Sunday at the Science City Auditorium, in Kolkata. The award, instituted by the P.C. Chandra Group in 1993, is presented annually on the birth anniversary of its ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe southwest monsoon has made its onset over parts of the south Bay of Bengal, the south Andaman Sea, the Nicobar Islands, and some areas of the north Andaman Sea, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Tuesday.According to ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral children across the city are down with fever caused by the twin factors of heat and frequent temperature fluctuations, doctors said. Doctors said the exposure to heat was causing some of these fevers as children have an “immature ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphBengal government’s petition to the Supreme Court for a review of its April 3 order that en masse terminated school staff says the court failed to appreciate that over 18,000 candidates “not specifically found tainted” have also been made ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphIndividuals with disabilities should be allowed to do the daily chores they learn at special schools or institutes at home, said those who work in the disability sector.Parents have to be patient with them and allow them to do ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphAn on-duty app-based bike taxi driver has claimed that he heard a woman screaming from an under-construction building after seeing her enter it with two men a few minutes earlier. Acting on instinct to help, he went inside, but ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA chit with the word “bomb” written on it, found on an IndiGo flight from Silchar to Calcutta minutes before it landed, triggered a mid-air scare on Sunday afternoon.The matter has been reported to police.The cabin crew of flight ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe city is expected to witness a hot and humid day with partly cloudy skies dominating the next 24 hours, according to the local weather forecast issued on Monday afternoon. A heatwave warning remains in effect for several districts ...
13 May 2025 TelegraphMore students from Calcutta studying in different cities in northern India continue to return home, while some who got their flight tickets later in the week are leaving cities closer to the Pakistan border. The agreement between India and ...
13 May 2025 TelegraphThree women from different parts of the city who were swindled out of ₹5.6 crore in separate attacks by cyber cheats have lodged police complaints. The three are residents of Haridevpur, Baguiati and New Town, the police said. Bidhannagar ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphParents of children with disabilities tend to prioritise their children’s needs and end up making adjustments and compromises in their work life or personal space, and that impacts their mental well-being.Mothers giving up careers or fathers not taking up ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur authorities have reopened a pedestrian passage adjoining its Prembazar gate that connects the campus with the neighbourhood.The acting director, Amit Patra, reopened a portion of the gate after the teachers protested former director V.K Tewari’s decision ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is going through its own inspection reports and some submissions by restaurant owners to conduct hearings on rooftop bars, cafes and restaurants, a senior official said on Sunday. The hearings are likely to begin ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphHawkers were back on the roads around the New Market area on Sunday afternoon, playing cat and mouse with police.Every time a police team arrived, the hawkers fled and were back as soon as the cops left. Setting up ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral such misinformation has been spotted in cyberspace, which the cyber crime cell of Bengal police is trying to verify and publish a rectification to curb the spread of false news. Officers of the Bengal police said, given the ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe heightened tensions between India and Pakistan have led to an amplification of security checks across airports in the country, passengers who landed in Calcutta said.Amidst the ongoing border tensions, the directorate general of civil aviation has suspended civilian ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphMany students have returned home from their colleges in north India in the wake of the flare-up between India and Pakistan.At least one university has announced online exams, giving students the option to appear for the tests from their ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius breached the 40-degree mark in the northern tip of Calcutta on Saturday.The Met office recorded maximum temperatures of 40.5 degrees Celsius in Salt Lake and 40.2 degrees in Dum Dum.Alipore, the official record keeper for Calcutta, saw ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphNineteen restaurants, bars and cafes running from rooftops or fire refuges in New Town and Sector V have been served “stop operation” notices, a senior state government official said on Saturday.The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) served notices ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur on Saturday constituted a 10-member committee comprising psychologists, legal professionals, police officers, educationists and alumni to assess factors affecting the mental health and well-being of students, faculty and staff.The committee was announced days after the family members ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe popular excitement about a raging war, often without comprehending the pain it carries, was evident in Calcutta even 54 years ago when the city witnessed a war close to it, veteran author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay said.Many Calcuttans wanted to ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphStudents of IIM Calcutta — past and present — have accused the institute of “inflicting cruelty” on “community dogs” and relocating them from the campus.A former student, representing the concerns of the students, both past and present, has written ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral places in southern India offer students a new world of opportunities and a “better atmosphere and ecosystem” that enhances chances of success, former MP and retired IAS officer Jawhar Sircar said at the inauguration of a two-day education ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphHis family lives in a part of Jammu where sirens blared incessantly for two days and explosions were frequent.The BTech student in Calcutta is scheduled to write his final semester exams next week. But concerns about his parents and ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphAirfares to several domestic destinations dropped sharply as passengers became wary of travel in the past few days.Tour operators and airlines had begun to hope the demand would go up after Saturday evening’s ceasefire announcement, but this was short-lived ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe police commissioner of Calcutta visited a hotel and a shopping mall in central Calcutta on Friday afternoon, not far from Rituraj Hotel where a fire on the night of April 29 killed 14 people.The top cop’s visit was ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphAn art enthusiast, a history buff and a man who doesn’t tire of talking about the Maidan — the country’s chief of defence staff, currently leading India’s charge on Pakistan, is a Calcutta boy who remains so. Lt General ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphOne in four bus accidents in the city happen because drivers fail to see people or objects in their blind spots, police officers said on Friday.Areas around the vehicle that the driver cannot easily see are called blind spots.On ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphSecurity has been beefed up further at all airports across the country, including Calcutta. In the air, pilots of civilian planes are on heightened alert and relying more on a conventional navigational system.Pilots normally rely on the satellite-based global ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe BD Block-based club, Balaka Salt Lake City, recently hosted a month-long carrom tournament. Now in its third year, the Dr Nilakshi Jana Memorial Carrom Tournament attracted over 150 members across age groups, with matches held in both league ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government has directed that all buses, especially those carrying school kids, must be fitted with grab rails at the doors and that the steps should be built at a fixed height, making it easier to get on ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have recovered ₹48 lakh of the ₹2.66 crore robbed from two employees of a forex company in Entally earlier this week. Investigators said on Thursday, ₹26 lakh was recovered from a hideout in Baruipur, South 24-Parganas, and ₹3 ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal Special Task Force arrested four men from the interiors of Rajarhat and seized a cache of arms and ammunition, police said. According to officers, the STF stopped a vehicle based on specific input that the four were ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has decided to lodge FIRs in connection with the deaths of two students — Shaon Malik from Calcutta and Aniket Walkar from Maharashtra — and a junior lab technician, Sakir Ali Mollah, after a prod from the ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe city’s civic body has completed at least one inspection of all rooftop bars and restaurants on a list prepared by police as part of an administrative swoop on the segment.Following a blanket ban on rooftop restaurants announced a ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe mercury almost touched 40 degrees Celsius in the northern tip of Calcutta on Friday, and the Met office warned of hotter days ahead.The maximum temperature at Dum Dum was 39.4 degrees on Friday, the Met reading said. In ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have started monitoring social media posts related to information on the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan.A few that originated from the districts, and could have hurt national sovereignty, were pulled down, and cases were started, said sources ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphResidents at Diamond City South, a south Kolkata high-rise, have been standing on duty guarding the gates to the complex as the security company engaged has withdrawn services for over five days.The agency engaged to provide security personnel has ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphMayor Krishna Chakraborty organised a Jagannath puja on the tithi of Akshay Tritiya in a corner of CJ Park on April 30. The puja was held on the same day when chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a newly built ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe World of Children, a free English-medium school for the needy in New Town, held its fifth annual day, recognising the efforts and achievements of its students. Nearly 40 children were awarded for academic excellence, attendance, discipline, neatness, and ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe annual day of Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 was an occasion for the school to showcase all that it had achieved over the past year.The function at EZCC commenced with the mantra Deep jyoti namaste in the presence of chief ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphA team of students from the Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM) will be headed to Australia next month to participate in conferences and a preview to the same was held at their Sector V campus recently.The conference will ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal administration has initiated a drive against rumour mongering and spreading fake news related to the ongoing cross-border tension between India and Pakistan, sources in the state home department said.Police and intelligence agencies have been asked to keep ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools on Thursday decided to close for summer or switch to online classes from next week.The decision followed an appeal to private schools by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday to start summer vacation from Friday.The La Martiniere ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphOver one thousand teachers “not found specifically tainted” and allowed to return to schools till December have been staging a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the education department headquarters in Salt Lake, since Wednesday afternoon.They are protesting the school education ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe family of Aniket Walkar, a fourth-year BTech student found dead on the IIT Kharagpur campus last month, wondered why the IIT authorities had not lodged an FIR after the Supreme Court, in an order on March 24, said ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphYoung adults, diagnosed with asthma and who have long working hours, tend to miss their inhalers more than children or older people, said doctors.When it comes to children, parents administer the inhalers twice a day or as prescribed, and ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphA mandatory safety clearance for the commissioning of the full stretch of East-West Metro (Green Line) arrived last week, but with a rider.When trains run on the full corridor between Howrah Maidan and Sector V, they will run on ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphAt a time the spectre of war looms on the subcontinent, an “institute of peace studies” was unveiled in Calcutta. The Tagore Institute of Peace Studies (TIPS) is an initiative of the West Bengal Federation of United Nations Associations. ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphWomen are mentally tougher, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh told a city audience last month.“We are tougher mentally. I am mentally stronger... the consistency in us is more than anything because we are trained. The mental structure is such. So, ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphThe runway was pitch dark and the airport closed, but the Prime Minister’s aircraft was on the taxiway, ready for take-off.A small vehicle guided the Prime Minister’s aircraft through the dark taxiway towards the runway. The man at the ...
10 May 2025 TelegraphWork on a drainage pumping station at Gulshan Colony in Anandapur along EM Bypass was stalled by a group of men who allegedly attacked Kolkata Municipal Corporation workers at the site and damaged a KMC vehicle.Calcutta Mayor Firhad Hakim ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe desilting of the Beleghata Circular Canal will be done by May end, a state irrigation department engineer said at a monsoon preparedness meeting chaired by mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday. The Beleghata canal, which runs from Kolkata station ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphAt least three prominent city bars and restaurants have moved Calcutta High Court against the administration’s clampdown on rooftop establishments.According to sources, the petition filed by the three establishments, likely to be heard on Tuesday, is backed by the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphTwo employees of a money changer company who were going to deposit ₹2.66 crore to a bank were allegedly robbed of the cash on Monday, police said.The employees themselves reported the incident to the police. The police said they ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities on Monday asked hostel wardens to interact more with students to gauge if any of them is facing mental health issues and needs counselling.The move came a day after a third-year student, Md Asif Quamar, allegedly ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is investigating whether rooftop restaurants, cafes, and bars in the city have sanctioned building plans, civic officials said on Monday.Without these plans, the officials warned, such establishments are illegal and subject to demolition.The officials emphasised ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphPopular Park Street rooftop hangout LMNOQ moved the high court on Monday, alleging that a demolition job carried out on its premises by the Calcutta civic body was illegal.Justice Gaurang Kanth wanted to know the legal basis of the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphBJP supporters on Monday staged a protest outside the South 24 Parganas district magistrate’s office here demanding the identification, arrest and deportation of Pakistani citizens living in India, following the recent terror attack in Pahalgam.Around 200 BJP members led ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Monday granted interim protection to the owner of an upmarket rooftop restaurant here, halting further demolition activities initiated by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).The demolition followed a devastating fire at a city hotel that ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphRestaurant owners are likely to move court against the directive to shut down all rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns. Sources in the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) said a writ petition will be filed in ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to revoke the permissions it had given to the city’s rooftop establishments, said a senior official on Sunday.The KMC official said the civic body is well within its rights to withdraw the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run in their Indian Premier League match here on Sunday to keep their play-off qualification hopes alive.Chasing 207 for a win, RR could manage 205 for 8 in 20 overs to ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal is set to experience moderate to severe thunderstorm activity over the next four days due to a combination of upper air circulations over the region.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), an upper air cyclonic circulation persists ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphWith Kolkata’s thriving rooftop dining scene facing sudden turbulence, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has stepped in to support restaurateurs grappling with uncertainty, business losses, and the looming threat of closure. The move comes in response to ...
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