Two Bangladeshis, a Muslim and a Hindu, who are in Calcutta to get their relatives treated at a hospital, are gripped by anxiety — about their family back home and their own safety here.One is scared to step out ...
27 December 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line (Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash) were disrupted on Friday evening after a 17-year-old girl jumped onto the tracks at Netaji Bhavan station, officials said.The girl was rescued from the tracks and rushed to a ...
27 December 2025 TelegraphJanurary The IIT Kharagpur Research Park in New Town inaugurated an open-to-all biophilic studio in its lobby, on January 16. Equipped to record videos and podcasts, it emphasises interviewing its alumni to share their journey and inspire other IIT ...
27 December 2025 TelegraphPark Street on Thursday evening turned into a sea of people, with revellers arriving from across the city and beyond to celebrate Christmas — not just as a religious occasion, but as a festival of love, warmth and togetherness.The ...
27 December 2025 TelegraphAdriyan Karmakar Of: Rishi Eco View, New TownAchievement: In 2025, the 20-year-old shooter had a breakthrough year, winning multiple medals. In his World Cup debut in May 2025 at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, he won ...
27 December 2025 TelegraphVocalist Arman Khan, son of Ustad Rashid Khan, on Thursday cancelled his trip to Bangladesh for a classical music event that was set to take place at a club in Dhaka. Arman, 21, expressed that his planned first solo ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphA new railway bridge is being constructed over the Rupnarayan river in the Howrah-Kharagpur section.The bridge will replace the old Kolaghat bridge No. 57, which has the middle and down main lines between Deulti and Kolaghat stations.The bridge is ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphOver five lakh cases were disposed of in the year’s last National Lok Adalat held on December 13.Non-payment of loan dues, pending utility service bills, compoundable criminal cases that are considered to be of a petty nature, traffic challans ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphAs temperatures are set to drop, the Met office has issued a fog warning for Calcutta and several surrounding districts. In response, Kolkata Police released a “Fog Safety Alert” on Thursday, urging motorists to be cautious while driving in ...
26 December 2025 Telegraph“If you want to become a problem solver and an innovator, choose science — not just to clear competitive exams,” The Heritage School has told its students. Those who understand the logic and principles behind financial transactions, ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphThe city prayed for peace and a more humane world before diving into Christmas celebrations with friends, family and neighbours, reaffirming its long tradition of harmony and inclusiveness.For many Christian households, Christmas Day began with a visit to church. ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphThe refurbished Debi Ghat in Dakshindari is expected be inaugurated in the first week of January while work on the second bailey bridge connecting Salt Lake to VIP Road will be over early next month. The announcement was made ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphA season’s special carnival began on Tuesday and will continue in BA-CA Park till January 4. Bidhannagar Christmas Carnival and Fair has stalls selling miscellaneous items, a stage that hosts cultural shows and Nativity decorations that are drawing selfie-seekers.“After ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphThe holiday season doesn’t quite feel festive without turkey, does it? So Abcos Food Plaza in IB Block has laid out a hearty winter spread, with the majestic bird taking centre stage.“There is always assured demand for turkey during ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has invited the IIT Kharagpur director — an alumnus — to speak on ways to scale up the university’s fundraising efforts through its alumni network, on the lines of the IITs. IIT Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty, who ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphThe city woke up to the coldest Christmas in five years on Thursday, with the mercury dipping to 13.7° Celsius, matching the minimum temperature recorded on December 25 in 2020, the year the Covid pandemic struck.The Met office has ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphThe main organiser of Lionel Messi’s tour to India, Satadru Dutta, has told police that he would be able to refund the money of the ticket buyers only after the company handling the sale of tickets transfers the funds ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphSupporters of the CPM students’ wing at Jadavpur University requested the governor’s intervention on Wednesday to reinstate campus elections, which have been suspended in universities since 2020.The SFI supporters staged demonstrations when governor C.V. Ananda Bose, the chancellor of ...
26 December 2025 TelegraphEleven people have been arrested for allegedly running an investment racket and duping a Salt Lake businessman out of ₹3.8 crore. The businessman was trapped into the racket through social media, police said.A woman allegedly sent the complainant a ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphFor it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child Himself — Charles DickensEvery year, Christmas is celebrated by all sections of society. Many celebrate this sacred occasion, ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphThe 19 people who were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged role in the violent demonstration outside the Bangladesh deputy high commission were produced in court on Wednesday. They were protesting the gruesome murder of a Hindu man in ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphChristmas is set to be chilly, the Met office said on Christmas Eve.The Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 14.9° Celsius at Alipore on Wednesday. On Thursday, the minimum temperature is likely to drop to around 14°. The ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphCalcutta has always known how to celebrate festivals.A visitor from France summed it up neatly as he walked through a glittering Park Street on Christmas Eve. “I have witnessed Christmas in many places around the world, but none so ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphA family from south Calcutta, set to travel to Varanasi for a holiday on a 10am IndiGo flight on Wednesday, was informed at 9pm the previous night that their flight had been cancelled because of “bad weather”.The only alternative ...
25 December 2025 TelegraphWhile protesters carrying saffron flags were engaged in a pitched battle with police in a busy commercial pocket on Tuesday afternoon, traders in the area feared that the clash could spiral into a larger melee and hurt business during ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphRefusing to be silenced by violence, Dhaka-based cultural organisation Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi has resumed work from the pavement outside its torched office, not waiting for repairs and reconstruction.The cultural group’s office on the first floor of a building on ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphErection of concrete blocks between piers for Metro work at the Chingrighata crossing has to be completed before February 15, a division bench of the high court directed the state on Tuesday.The bench, comprising Justice Sujoy Paul, the acting ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphPeace and acceptance will be the message on Christmas in times of conflict and anxiety, said priests across city churches. Churches are preparing for the midnight prayer on Wednesday. On Thursday, services in most churches will be both in ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday directed the state nursing council to probe the alleged misappropriation of funds by nursing schools and colleges. It has directed the council to file FIRs against the offenders.Justice Biswajit Basu also asked the trustee ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphVehicles will not be allowed on Park Street “as and when required” on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, police said in a traffic advisory issued on Tuesday.On Christmas Eve (Wednesday), several curbs will be in place, and two-way traffic ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphThe suspension of visa and consular services by Bangladesh at its high commission in New Delhi and its mission in Agartala has raised concerns among exporters and importers in Calcutta about the viability of their business with the neighbouring ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphWhat was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime musical tribute to football legend Lionel Messi turned into a harrowing ordeal for London-based Indian singer Charles Antony, who had flown to Kolkata specifically to perform at the event at Salt Lake ...
24 December 2025 TelegraphIt’s that time of year when you can have your cake and eat it too… and then grab a cookie on the way out. This festive season, flavours that are flying off shelves include chocolate streusel popsicles, rose cookies, ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphYet, the flavour of the season did not elude these young cancer warriors, and many others battling the disease.A Christmas carnival with games, dance, song, a photo booth and a candy corner was organised for them on Monday. Adding ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphOrganisers of 24 pujas from across the globe and 10 from the city shared the stage on Monday to discuss ways to globalise Durga puja and their own initiatives to popularise Durga puja in their respective areas. The programme ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe IndiGo fiasco earlier this month, coupled with other factors, has contributed to reduced demand for domestic travel this holiday season, tour operators and airline officials said.Ticket prices for December 24 across various sectors, which typically experience high demand, ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe state fire and emergency services minister, Sujit Bose, announced on Monday that on December 24, 25, 30 and 31, fire tenders will be kept on stand-by mode at nine strategic sites across the city to facilitate a swift ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA spectre of fear and uncertainty looms over the trickle of Bangladeshis who have come to India. Most of them are on medical visas. Some of them don't know when to return. Dabir Hussain, 45, a supplier of ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe unrest in Bangladesh has left several hundred in Bongaon, a small town in North 24-Parganas, more than 100km north of Calcutta, wondering about their survival.Money changers, hoteliers, godown owners, car rental agencies, transporters, drivers and labourers — almost ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old man was found dead inside his apartment in Howrah’s Salkia on Monday morning, with police detaining two minors who were found inside the flat for questioning.The deceased, Debabrata Pal, lived in an apartment on Kaibartapara Lane. Police ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA fruit seller was hacked to death at a crowded marketplace in Rajabazar on Monday morning. Police said Mehboob Alam, 41, was selling fruits along the road like any other day when suddenly a man came riding a motorcycle ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to intervene — at this stage — into a police probe related to the December 13 Lionel Messi fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium.The order by a bench of ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphRahul Gandhi told a delegation from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, that “RSS is capturing the organisation” through the revised ISI bill.On Monday, those present at the meeting said that the students of the institute met the leader ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphMany voters who are alive have been mistakenly marked as deceased in the draft rolls. Ongoing problems with spelling inconsistencies and faulty ancestry mapping persist, despite numerous checks and balances.Glaring mistakes in the draft rolls have multiplied the trauma ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Monday raised questions over the legality of Lionel Messi’s statue installed in Lake Town, as it continued to hear matters linked to the Salt Lake stadium chaos during the Argentine football star’s visit.Hearing the ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe Tata Steel World 25K, partnered by The Telegraph, delivered a riveting spectacle as international champions asserted their dominance and Indian distance running announced another leap forward.While Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei underlined his mastery of the distance in the international ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe right to dignity, livelihood, and the need to create a more empathetic society brought many people with disability onto the running track. Neither a wheelchair nor a crutch could pose a hurdle. Some ran for themselves, and some ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphHundreds of passengers flying out of the city on Saturday and Sunday did not receive their checked-in luggage at their destinations owing to glitches in the conveyor belts at the domestic terminal of the airport, sources said.The problem was ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphOral Rehydration Solution or Salts (ORS) has revolutionised the treatment of dehydration and electrolyte imbalance caused by diarrhoea.It is considered the most important medical advance of the 20th century. ORS has been approved by the WHO and UNICEF.According to ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead in his rented apartment in Salt Lake a month ago.On Saturday, his father lodged a murder complaint against a woman and her alleged boyfriend.However, police said they earlier found it to be a case ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThree senior officials of the online ticket reselling company through which the tickets for the December 13 event hosting Lionel Messi at the Salt Lake Stadium were sold were examined at Salt Lake on Sunday. The officials of the ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature slid to 14.4° Celsius in Calcutta on Sunday, the lowest so far this season. The Met office said the slide was not because of northwesterly winds but because the day temperature was abnormally low the day ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphA 60-year-old man from Asansol, who had a leak in the heart’s mitral valve that reduced its pumping capacity, recently underwent a clip implant at a city hospital. Ramswaroop could not undergo a conventional open-heart surgery to replace the ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphVeteran runners to newbies with a baby in a pram, eastern India’s biggest road race had an eclectic mix of participants. Metro interacted with some of them:Dipanwita Bhattacharya, with husband Abhishek Banerjee and daughter Aarshia (4.5km Ananda Run) ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphThe city has found a firm footing in the running map, the 10th edition of eastern India’s marquee road race showed on Sunday.The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, saw around 23,000 participants, the highest ever. ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral medical students from Bengal are at present keeping within the medical college campuses in Bangladesh and have received directives from the authorities to stay indoors unless there is a pressing need to venture outside.Due to the continuous violence ...
23 December 2025 TelegraphSaturday felt like the coldest day of this winter for many Calcuttans, despite the minimum temperature staying above normal.Met officials linked the feeling to the day temperature, which was way below normal, and a steady breeze. A persistent blanket ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphThe unrest in Bangladesh has left a section of exporters, truck owners and goods handlers anxious, with many fearing that the violence across the border will push them further into uncertainty.There was no movement of trucks across the Petrapole ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphBefore daybreak on Sunday, thousands are going to turn up on Red Road, the starting point of eastern India’s marquee road race, which turns 10 this year. The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu has criticised the Election Commission’s decision to keep teachers engaged as booth-level officers (BLOs) for the special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls during Madhyamik. “This is likely to come in the way of ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphA Class XI girl has raised ₹49,872 so far, and a 20-year-old with intellectual disability has added ₹19,000 to a corpus that will create more opportunities for people with disabilities to earn a livelihood. The 10th edition of Tata ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphA meeting of the admission committee at Presidency University held on Thursday decided that each department would inform the university authorities on the methodology to screen undergraduate students next year, said an official. Each department has been asked to ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphLionel Messi left the Salt Lake Stadium after he was upset that a section of those surrounding him on the field started touching him on December 13, violating the protocol his private security guards had drawn up, Satadru Dutta ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphThe turmoil in Bangladesh has caused a sharp rise in airfares for flights from Calcutta to Dhaka, with a considerable number of people seeking to return home. According to officials at the airport and tour operators, flights between these ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphChhayanot, the cultural centre in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi, that was ransacked by a mob early on Friday, wants to resume its music and dance classes in two weeks after undertaking some repairs, the president of the centre told this newspaper. ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphPolice investigating the fire at the oxygen cylinder godown in Kankurgachi, which caused multiple blasts early on Thursday, have sought details from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the state fire and emergency services regarding the godown's licenses and permissions. ...
21 December 2025 TelegraphA railway man has authored two books on the Raj. The second one, titled Imperial Bureaucracy, is due to hit the stands before the end of this year.Set in the twilight of the Raj, it tells the story of ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphAt a time business usually soars, Calcutta’s mini Bangladesh is struggling to stay afloat. The streets are deserted, traders are sitting idle, and tables are half empty at restaurants. The latest flare-up in Bangladesh has piled more concern on ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe day after oxygen cylinders exploded and rained down on a Kankurgachi neighbourhood like missiles during a fire — damaging buildings and shattering windows — families in the community took stock of their losses on Friday and began repairing ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphA 12-foot saltwater crocodile strayed into a village in the Sundarbans on Thursday morning, villagers said on Friday.Sanjib Dalapati, 19, a resident of Purba Sripatinagar Hazar Bigha village in Patharpratima block, South 24-Parganas, was strolling near the Thakuran ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphTwo voters from Kalikapur off EM Bypass found their names on the list of dead voters in the draft electoral roll published last Tuesday as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR). The two have been voting for ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar police arrested three more persons on Thursday night in connection with the vandalism at Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit to Calcutta last Saturday, taking the total arrest count to nine. The three accused have been identified ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has deferred the selection tests to shortlist candidates for the appointment of non-teaching staff at government-aided schools to February.In an advertisement seeking online applications for Group C and Group D staff at the secondary ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre has launched a fundraising drive to raise ₹10 crore — an amount which will help the centre to acquire new properties in the surrounding areas.The centre — on Vivekananda Road ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphTen years ago, doctors feared that a woman with brittle bones would not be able to walk again.On Sunday, the 55-year-old will be running the full stretch of the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph.On Friday, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphFlights are once again nearly at full capacity, and the number of patients visiting private hospitals in the city is on the rise. However, there are concerns that this appearance of normalcy may be temporary. The recent outbreak of ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphHave fun. Enjoy every step of the run.That was the message a champion sprinter had for tens of thousands who have signed up for eastern India’s biggest road race, slated this Sunday.Double Olympic silver medallist and World Championships gold ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphHuge swathes of areas in Action Area II of New Town are turning into wasteland because of dumping of piling waste by construction companies. And the matter has taken such a serious turn that a housing complex that is ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphAll these years Indrila Das’s husband would go fishing on weekends while she stayed back at home. “At most, I would prepare the ‘pulao’ – food that would be the bait - but I had no interest in this ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sent a team of its officials to the oxygen cylinder godown at Kankurgachi, where a fire broke out, triggering explosions early on Thursday, to inspect and find out if the facility had the necessary ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday highlighted Bengal’s humanity and geographical diversity while speaking at the inauguration of the 15th edition of the Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park.She said the state has everything — from the deep sea ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were killed in two accidents in the city on Thursday, the first claiming a 78-year-old pedestrian and the second an 18-year-old. Septuagenarian Suvendu Hazra was hit by an allegedly speeding private car at the intersection of Kings ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe message of Christmas is to reach out to the poor, marginalised and the outcasts, said Father Dominic Savio, the principal of St Xavier’s College, at a pre-Christmas gathering at the college on Thursday. “Christmas inspires us to do ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphA tigress died in the Alipore zoo in the early hours of Wednesday, the third such death in three months.The tigress, which would have turned three in a couple of months, was brought from Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphPower supply to eight plastic warehouses and processing units built illegally inside the East Kolkata Wetlands were cut off by the authorities on Thursday. There are hundreds of cases of unauthorised construction and illegal conversion of the nature of ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphLocal1986: A seven-hour concert titled Hope ’86 is held at the Salt Lake Stadium on December 29. One of the biggest concerts ever staged in the country, the state-organised event features the who’s who of Bollywood like Amitabh Bachchan, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphLast year, Aratrika Chakraborty visited a pet shelter, played with a Spitz-Pomeranian mix, fell in love, and couldn’t leave without him. “So I bundled him up, took him home, and approached my grandma, who was in the prayer room,” ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphA 29-year-old man rose early on Thursday at his Kankurgachi residence, disturbed by the loud explosion and alarmed by the sight of flames.Arnav Das, a software professional who resides in a building next to the oxygen cylinder warehouse that ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA blaze at an oxygen cylinder warehouse triggered multiple explosions in a crowded residential zone in Kankurgachi early on Thursday.As the fire escalated, several cylinders burst one after another, with some launching like missiles, landing on the terraces of ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit have started to scan through nearly 1,000 reels and videos on social media, apart from the CCTV footage available, to piece together ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphFormer Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has filed a complaint against a man who claimed to be the secretary of the “Argentina Football Fan Club, Kolkata” for allegedly maligning him with reference to the fiasco during Lionel Messi’s visit ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for the schoolteacher recruitment process in Bengal from December 31 to August 31 next year, paving the way for the thousands of “untainted” to continue in service for another eight months.Bengal ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta airport official wrote an email to superiors earlier this week, alleging that a supervisor of a private agency contracted for housekeeping and cleaning had left the terminal several hours before her duty hours were over.A few weeks ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA court in Barrackpore sentenced three people to life imprisonment on Wednesday for the murder of a Trinamool Congress councillor of Panihati Municipality in March 2022.On December 15, additional district judge Ayan Kumar Banerjee of the Barrackpore sub-divisional court ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday briefly adjourned to January 2026, without specifying a date, the hearing on the row over the appointment of vice-chancellors of various state universities in Bengal, following differences between governor C.V. Ananda Bose and chief ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe state government sought more time to discuss the impasse over Metro work at the Chingrighata crossing.At a meeting on Wednesday with representatives from the Metro railway and officials from the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), implementing agency of ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphScores of new voters are approaching booth-level officers (BLOs) to enlist themselves in the revised voter list. The BLOs, who are camping in polling stations, are supposed to carry with them forms for corrections, additions of names and deletions. ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court, on Wednesday, shifted the “suo motu” case it had filed regarding the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to the Calcutta High Court, which will now handle all related ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphTeachers — past and present — of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, reiterated that the institute should remain “autonomous” and not have a “top-down” administrative structure, which the ISI bill drafted by the Centre seeks to impose, at ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphA chief minister’s wife looks for the best backdrop while clicking selfies with one of football’s greatest. Bollywood stars behave as if the Messi show belongs to them, not the wizard. A chief minister chooses to play football with ...
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