Metro Railway has promised additional trains connecting Howrah with Salt Lake for the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair. Around 20 nations are set to take part in the fair, which commences on January 22. The fairground located at Karunamoyee in Salt ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphA platform of former Presidency students wrote to the vice-chancellor on Monday, requesting him to “advise” the physics department to screen undergraduate students through an admission test conducted by the department. The department last week resolved to admit students based ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThousands of devotees and schoolchildren gathered at Belur Math, the global headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, on Monday to pay tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 164th birth anniversary, which is also celebrated as National Youth ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphKolkata is a city that survives on conversation. But the question that now hovers over every conversation about the city is, will Kolkata's youth stay in Kolkata long enough to keep the conversation alive? At the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFree public entry will be permitted at the Taj Mahal for three days from January 15 to 17 on the occasion of the 371st Urs (death anniversary) of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, officials said on Monday. During this period, visitors ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphLocal train services were disrupted on Monday morning after a stall on the platform at Baghajatin station in south Kolkata caught fire, officials said. The fire broke out around 6 am and quickly spread, engulfing the area in thick smoke, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphHawkers at the Oberoi Grand Arcade in Esplanade are again occupying more than one-third of the width of the pavement, defying a court order and street vending rules. In an order issued in November 2023, Justice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has instructed school principals to preserve CCTV recordings of the ICSE and ISC examinations for 60 days after the declaration of results. The deputy secretary (ISC), Sangeeta Bhatia, told principals at ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphStudents should be taught to report bullying to a trusted adult or to distract the bully without putting themselves at risk, said an association of early childhood and primary education. A 24-page document, published recently, contains directions for students, schools, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphIt was a Saturday but the ground-floor classrooms at South Point High School were brimming. The reunion of the Association of South Point Ex Students (Aspexs), in association with The Telegraph, was underway and to mark the 30th anniversary, ...
12 January 2026 Telegraph- A Class VIII girl was treated as an outcast in school because she did not have enough followers on her social media account. Her friends refused to have “tiffin” with her. - Another Class IX girl kept sending her ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphIn the fall of 2010, I was a visiting student at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as it was known back in the day, when I became embroiled in an argument on whether infertility treatment should be offered ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA city-based trader, who sought to open a grocery store in New Town, was purportedly swindled by a wholesale vendor whose phone number was sourced through an online app. Last week, the complainant, Debaditya Pathak, reported to the New Town ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee had sent a letter to Shakespeare Sarani police station last Thursday informing them about her impending visit to the apartment of Pratik Jain, a few minutes before she herself reached the Loudon Street address where ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Sunday asked why Bengal’s top bureaucracy was at Mamata Banerjee’s side during the “file heist” from the sites of Thursday’s ED raids on I-PAC, questioning her argument that she had acted as Trinamool Congress chief and ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has stated that official records of workers at tea gardens and cinchona plantations in north Bengal would be counted as a valid document to prove the identity and the place of residence of a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Sikkim government has discontinued physical permits issued to foreign nationals visiting protected and restricted areas of the mountain state and instead made online clearance mandatory for them. A source in the state’s tourism and civil aviation department stated that ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) posted at the India-Nepal border and the Darjeeling district police acted on a tip-off to foil a cattle smuggling bid early on Sunday and recovered 19 buffaloes. Three persons, including a suspected smuggler, were arrested ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFormer militants and linkmen of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) began a relay hunger strike in front of the Cooch Behar municipal office on Monday, demanding their recruitment as special home guards. The protesters alleged that the identity verification of ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA leopard was captured in a cage at a village in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday morning, becoming the third leopard that has been rescued from the area within one week. The leopard was trapped at Kuthabari vilage under Angrabhasa-II panchayat ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphTwo persons died in different parts of West Bengal on Monday, with the families of both claiming that anxiety related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was the reason for their deaths. A middle-aged man collapsed ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFormer India cricketer and Bengal team coach Laxmi Ratan Shukla could not appear for SIR hearing as he is currently in Rajkot for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, officials said on Monday. Shukla was scheduled to attend the hearing on January ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphTwo nurses suspected of being infected by the Nipah virus are on life support at a private hospital in North 24 Parganas’ Barasat, around 26 km from Kolkata. The blood samples collected from both the nurses, a man and a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA section of BLOs on Monday staged a protest in front of the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, alleging that the EC has remained indifferent to the deaths of several BLOs during the ongoing SIR of ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe mortal remains of singer-actor Prashant Tamang were brought to his home in Darjeeling on Monday amid an outpouring of grief and reverence, marking the return of a cultural icon whose rise from a Kolkata Police personnel to a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday hinted at a deliberate attempt by the Election Commission to remove the names of voters caught in the “logical discrepancy” net. This is the ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphPurulia in West Bengal witnessed an unusual winter spectacle as frost appeared across parts of the district amid record low temperatures over the past few days, officials said. Frost covered farmlands and vegetation, and was seen on grassy fields, haystacks, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has sought the Supreme Court’s direction in filing an FIR against Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. In two petitions filed before the apex court on Monday, the agency has also asked for FIRs to be filed against ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has indicated possible action against Mousam Sarkar, Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) of Bagnan Assembly constituency, for publicly questioning alleged logical discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, an official said on Monday. Sarkar, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in Calcutta dropped to 11.5° Celsius on Saturday from 12.1° the day before. Saturday morning was 2.5° colder than normal, based on a 30-year average. The maximum temperature of 22° was also a couple of notches below ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphA booth level officer (BLO) was found hanging inside a primary school in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, with his family alleging that excessive SIR work pressure led him to take his own life, police said on Sunday. The death of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday demanded imprisonment of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, DGP Rajeev Kumar and senior police officer Manoj Verma, accusing them of obstructing an ED raid at premises linked to political consultancy firm I-PAC, and violating ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphFormer students and teachers of Presidency University’s celebrated physics department have expressed opposition to the department’s decision to admit undergraduate students based on Plus-II board scores. Many said that the move could dilute the quality of student selection, and that ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphA festival to celebrate the Hooghly, which aims to draw more people towards the river, was held at the Prinsep Ghat on Saturday. Despite the Hooghly flowing by Calcutta’s western boundary, both authorities and citizens have neglected the river for ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe parents of Abhaya, the junior doctor who was raped and killed inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, on Saturday announced their decision to set up a non-profit, semi-charitable hospital at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress–run civic board of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will unveil a statue of Swami Vivekananda at Jhankar More, a prominent intersection in the city, on January 12 to mark the birth anniversary of the revered monk. “₹ ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has appointed four senior IAS officers to the Bengal CEO’s office as “special roll observers” ahead of the hearings of voters whose filled-in enumeration forms show “logical discrepancies”. These hearings, of about 40 lakh voters in the ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate and the Bengal government on Saturday simultaneously approached the Supreme Court over the central agency’s raid on I-PAC and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged interference, which have electrified the poll-bound state. In its plea, the ED has ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday, said asking Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to appear before poll officials to establish his credentials as part of the ongoing special intensive revision ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling district CPM launched its “Adhikar Raksha Abhiyan (campaign to protect rights)” in the hills on Saturday. Saman Pathak, the secretary of the party’s Darjeeling district committee, said the campaign was a part of the CPM’s broader “Bangla Bachao ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphResidents of Malda district's Narayanpur, Kismatpur and some other villages in Mojampur panchayat under Kaliachak police station limits have decided to form surveillance teams to curb the activities of narcotics peddling rackets and assist police in their fight against ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee said on Saturday that 70 people had died in Bengal because of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list, which, according to him, was a part of the BJP’s attempt to harass the people of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAmyt Datta has never been one to dramatise his presence. At 65, with over five decades of playing behind him, Kolkata’s resident guitar god continues to perform regularly, staying rooted in a sound shaped by the rock music of ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphBangla ZEE5 Friday launched the title track of its upcoming web series Kaalipotka, offering a glimpse into the dark and unapologetically bold world of the show directed by Abhirup Ghosh. The track, titled Kaalipotka, features singer Jojo Mukherjee on vocals, ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphData from a desktop computer was midway through a transfer when Mamata Banerjee walked into I-PAC’s Salt Lake office on Thursday morning, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sources said. The chief minister was cordial in her interaction, while ED personnel present at ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA zoology student who would have quit midway had it not been for an organisation that supported her education, went back to her alma mater to volunteer for them. Nahid Jawed, 20, helped other parents from backgrounds similar to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphSeveral thoroughfares in Calcutta that were disturbed to lay underground utility lines, some of which are being laid for the first time, are now either filled with the soil that was removed or with crushed bricks. The roads continue to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has to intensify its efforts to reach out to former students to attract significant funds, the varsity’s vice-chancellor said at a meeting with an alumni platform on Friday. At a meeting organised by a US-based alumni foundation on ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA rally by members of the BJP Yuva Morcha protesting chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged snatching of files during Enforcement Directorate raids and a supposed attempt to stonewall a corruption probe brought traffic along Chowringhee and Esplanade to a ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphAs Mamata Banerjee led a protest rally on Friday, many bystanders stood on the pavement for a glimpse or were stranded as public transport ground to a halt. They were not Trinamool rallyists, but common people. Some felt Mamata ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Friday cited the right to self-defence to justify her actions from the day before when she barged in during Enforcement Directorate raids on I-PAC, her party’s poll strategist, and walked away with “sensitive” documents. The BJP was ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department will conduct a tiger census in the Gorumara National Park and the Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary in Jalpaiguri district simultaneously for the first time from January 18 to 20. The tiger will be counted in the Neora ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA person died and two were injured after a wild boar attacked them on a tea plantation at Phulatipara in the Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri on Thursday. The deceased is Ratia Oraon, 48. Bablu Oraon was discharged after receiving basic ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari said on Friday that a Sandeshkhali-kind of incident would have happened if Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials had attempted to stop chief minister Mamata Banerjee from taking away files from the residence and office of I-PAC chief Pratik ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of weaponising central investigation agencies to intimidate political opponents and force them into submission ahead of the elections in his first reaction to the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s raids on I-PAC, ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphBJP MP Manoj Tigga has sought the direct transfer of over ₹300 crore, which was allocated by the Centre for the socio-economic uplift of tea garden workers in Bengal and remains unutilised because of the Mamata Banerjee government’s alleged ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphThe twin Shiva temples in Boral on the outskirts of Kolkata, briefly seen in Satyajit Ray’s iconic film Pather Panchali, have been restored following a conservation initiative focused on Bengal’s terracotta temple tradition. Situated in Paschim Nischintapur in Rajpur ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe quarter-finals line-up of the Vijay Hazare Trophy has been completed. While Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have qualified for the last-eight stage from Group A, Group B saw Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha make it to the next stage. Punjab and ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate and I-PAC both approached Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The ED alleged that the state government, led by the chief minister, was hampering an ongoing investigation by the agency. I-PAC accused the central agency of exceeding its mandate ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphAn IIT Bombay alumnus who once worked with Deloitte emerged as a central figure on Thursday, just months ahead of the Assembly elections. Until Thursday morning, Pratik Jain was largely known only to those closely tracking Bengal’s political machinery. That ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphHomes reduced to cinders, the residents of a colony in Anandapur spent a significant portion of Thursday sifting through the ruins for anything that endured the inferno that ravaged over 50 houses the night before. They did not have much ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe city had a nearly perfect January day on Thursday, marred only by the polluted air. The morning was warm and pleasant, while the night was cold. The minimum temperature at Alipore was 11.6 degrees, up from 10.3 degrees the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has pushed back the counselling process for candidates recommended for teaching positions at the higher secondary level (Classes XI and XII) in government-aided schools. The counselling, which was earlier scheduled to begin in mid-January, has ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced a counselling and resilience education fellowship programme for school counsellors. The program aims to enhance the council's helpline service, scheduled to be launched during the ICSE (Class X) and ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has repaired the battered roads on the campus after students raised concerns about their condition. A student body that surveyed the roads across the campus and posted pictures of the battered roads on its Facebook page in late ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphStudents of the CL Block-based music school Medhabi hosted a cultural evening to commemorate the 80th birthday of their teacher, Rabindrasangeet exponent Ashis Bhattacharya. The chief guest at the show was Sudin Chattopadhyay, former president of the state council of ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphA fire broke out in the subdivisional officer’s (SDO) office at Hill Cart Road in Siliguri on Wednesday night, prompting the Darjeeling district administration to clarify that documents and other items related to the special intensive revision of the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking a CBI investigation into the role of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, senior police officials and others for allegedly obstructing its raids in Kolkata against political consultancy ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe CBI on Thursday filed an appeal before a division bench of Calcutta High Court, challenging an order passed by a single bench which had directed the transfer of the probe in four cases against Suvendu Adhikari to a ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphMithun Bhagat, a fertiliser trader in the Chopra block of North Dinajpur district, was arrested by officers of the Siliguri commissionerate of the CGST and central excise early on Thursday for allegedly evading GST to the tune of ₹5.5 ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday tore into the saffron ecosystem's alleged “anti-Bengali” narrative while stressing the harassment and torture faced by Bengal's migrant workers in BJP-ruled states to drum up support in Malda. On ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphA 65-year-old resident of Raiganj, North Dinajpur district, was found hanging from a tree near his house on Thursday morning. His family members called it suicide, blaming his mental stress because of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphResidents of Natunpara, a village in the Alipurduar 1 block, were caught by surprise early on Thursday morning after a one-horned rhino from the Jaldapara National Park strayed into the locality. A forest department source said the rhino lost its ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the premises linked to I-PAC betrayed the BJP’s desperation to wrest Bengal, but sources in her party said the Centre had actually handed the chief ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe organisers of the International Kolkata Book Fair have sought an increased police presence at the event, anticipating potential disturbances due to the unrest in neighbouring Bangladesh. They have requested the state’s home department to deploy plainclothes police at the ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in the city was 10.3° Celsius on Wednesday, almost identical to the previous day’s 10.2°, and still well below normal. Dum Dum recorded a minimum of 9.8°, while Barrackpore was colder at 9°. Yet many Calcuttans felt that ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAnother new year has arrived, but Calcutta airport’s long-standing problems show no sign of easing. Beacon-fitted cars continue to be parked along the kerbside outside the terminal’s arrival gates, forcing passengers — many of them elderly, carrying luggage or using ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday rejected a list of 1,806 candidates classified as “tainted” for schoolteacher roles, released by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC). Justice Amrita Sinha instructed the SSC to compile a new list that must contain ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College on Park Street plans to introduce an MSc in artificial intelligence in 2028, said Father Dominic Savio, the principal of the college, on Wednesday. He said that the emphasis is on innovative courses, particularly AI, for their ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAir quality deteriorated further on Wednesday as cold weather continued to grip the city, with most monitoring stations reporting “poor” or “very poor” air through the day. Of the seven air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta, one reported “very poor”, ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphPresidency University will conduct its undergraduate admissions independently, ending its decade-old arrangement with the state JEE board. All 16 departments told the admissions committee on Wednesday that they want to either admit students through department-led tests or based on (Plus-II) ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphRent for top grade office in Calcutta went up by 16 per cent in 2025, highest in percentage terms among the leading cities in the country, as occupancy levels rose amidst a lack of fresh supply of office properties. A ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAround 11.30am, tennis players warmed up for a veterans’ tournament at South Club on Woodburn Park Road. Several wore full-length track pants instead of shorts. At a PSU bank in Behala, long queues usually form at the counters as soon ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA fire ripped through a slum settlement in eastern Kolkata’s Nonadanga area on Wednesday evening, leaving several families without shelter, officials said. The blaze broke out at the Matangini Colony slum under Anandapur police station around 6.20 pm. Within minutes, ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Bengal government to address a long-standing pay parity dispute involving part-time higher secondary school teachers. The state government now has four months to issue a “detailed reasoned order” regarding the teachers’ claims for ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to extend the ongoing SIR process in Bengal beyond January 15, alleging that the drive would lead to massive disenfranchisement as the Election Commission has purportedly found “logical ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday flew in from Calcutta to Rampurhat on a helicopter sent by Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren from Ranchi after clearance had been delayed for the chopper that was to have ferried him ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Tuesday held a video conference with district election officers (DEOs) to discuss arrangements made for serving hearing notices on 95 lakh voters whose enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) had “logical discrepancies”. Sources said ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphDomicile certificates submitted as documentary evidence during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings in West Bengal will not be considered valid at present, a senior poll official said on Wednesday. Voters who have already submitted the domicile certificates may be ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday moved to calm a growing political storm after hearing summonses were issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami and Bengali actor-turned-TMC MP Dev as part of the ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphWith just three months to go for the assembly polls, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday constituted its long-delayed state committee, a carefully weighted organisational reset that seeks to balance old loyalties, contain internal rivalries and ring-fence key electoral ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP, met the families of two BJP workers who were arrested in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi as alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators at their residence in South Dinajpur’s Tapan on Wednesday. “They were branded as ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA booth-level officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Malda district died on Wednesday, triggering a political exchange over the workload linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The deceased, Samprita Choudhury Sanyal, was serving as the BLO ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday served a notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in connection with the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, seeking a hearing of the 92-year-old economist on January 16 at ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA tea worker was attacked by a leopard on a plantation in the Khasbusty area of Jalpaiguri’s Nagrakata block on Tuesday. A source reported that around 10.30am, Chaiti Oraon was plucking tea leaves when a leopard pounced on her and ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA platform of state university teachers’ association on Tuesday alleged that the absence of full-term vice-chancellors in 11 state-aided universities has triggered an academic and administrative stalemate on those campuses. The teachers said that implementing the four-year undergraduate programmes under ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has asked the head of its English department to go on leave until the end of January while investigations into the allegations of harassment of two students during exam invigilation are underway. Vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee took the decision ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, council has appointed another officiating director after a search-and-selection committee failed to select a full-term director, despite initiating the process in May 2025. After the tenure of officiating director Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay expired on December ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphGeriatricians are recommending that the elderly population of the city avoid outdoor activities in the early morning and late evening. It is also suggested that they perform free-hand exercises to prevent muscle stiffness and remain vigilant to avoid falling ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphCalcutta Boys’ School has decided to start classes an hour later from Wednesday due to the cold. In many schools, a significant number of students, particularly in primary classes, were absent on Tuesday because of the chill. Starting Wednesday, Calcutta ...
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