The Bengal director-general of police spoke to commissioners and district police chiefs on Tuesday afternoon to underscore the importance of monitoring social media posts with the potential to incite passions ahead of Ram Navami and a quick and effective ...
3 April 2025 TelegraphIn a tribute to their counterparts in Myanmar, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport, Kolkata, observed a two-minute silence today in memory of the Air Traffic Controllers of Naypyidaw ATC Control Tower who ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe students of IIT Kharagpur have urged the authorities to take steps against reckless driving on the campus.The campus’s student media body, IIT Kharagpur Awaaz, alleged in a Facebook post that a rise in the number of delivery personnel ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphA 30-year-old man who works as a waiter for various catering services has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 22-year-old man whose body was found in the empty flat of his employer at Charu Market last week. Police said ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal government is working on a plan to begin waste processing in all municipal areas of the state and has invited agencies interested in the work for a pre-tender conference in April.The move comes close on the heels ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphDeposed Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta retired as a JU professor on Monday and said his “unceremonious termination” by the Bengal governor days before his retirement was a price he had to pay for working in the interest of ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphA boat kept tossing up and down before overturning amid tall waves in the Hooghly near Uluberia on Monday morning.According to police, a mechanised trawler with four men on board had overturned. All four were rescued by other boats ...
2 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government has launched a #CleanCabPromise drive through its Yatri Sathi platform to ensure that taxis, particularly those picking up passengers at key transit hubs in the city, are cleaned before every ride.Commuters have often complained that they ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphThe body of an e-rickshaw driver was found in a deserted stretch close to Eco Park early on Monday, police said. Two minors who were the last to hire the vehicle have been detained. They were spotted riding the ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA 200-metre stretch of Jadavpur University will have a tactile surface, marking its first step towards being an inclusive campus. Tactile paving is a system of textured ground-surface indicators laid to assist the visually impaired. The university is laying ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphOwners of 12 residential properties in New Town that were being used as ceremonial houses without authorisation have been issued notices to stop taking fresh bookings by the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), an official said. All the ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA woman travelling by bus on Sunday night helped police identify a man they had been trying to trace for the past few months for allegedly murdering his wife in Haridevpur in January.Kartik Das was arrested on Monday morning.He ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA man and a woman were arrested with improvised guns on Nonadanga Road in the Anandapur area on Sunday, police said.Officers of the Special Task Force of the city police said based on specific information, they had intercepted the ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphTwo men have been arrested in two murder cases, police said.In the first case, the brother of a man whose body was found in a Beleghata apartment on Friday night was charged with his younger brother’s murder.Officers of Beleghata ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA group of men allegedly posing as CBI officers robbed a man who was carrying gold jewellery to a store after they were hallmarked.The fake CBI officers took away some gold ornaments on the pretext of checking his bag ...
1 April 2025 Telegraph“There is no compulsion in religion.”Verse 2:256 of the Holy Quran encourages engagement in respectful dialogue with people from different faiths and recognises shared beliefs and tolerance.Ramzan is a month of exercising self-discipline, of abstaining from creature comforts and ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphThe Metro link between New Garia and the airport has yet again encountered a wall of uncertainty.The agency constructing the corridor has started pulling out workers and removing machines from a construction site at the Chingrighata crossing on EM ...
1 April 2025 Telegraph“Tin Man” stands like Patience on the pavement, smiling at impending grief, near Gate C of Calcutta High Court. Empty bottles, polystyrene cups, plastic bags and whatnot are strewn around it every day.Yet, nobody gives a hoot about what ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphPolice have added several layers of checks to the passport verification process for both new and re-issue cases, increasing the time for such clearance.Sources said the added security measures taken by Kolkata Police include sending all the applicants’ identity ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has predicted a marginal drop in the Celsius but little relief from the scorching conditions.“The Celsius is likely to drop by a couple of degrees over the next day or two. But it will still be ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA group of women from the slums of Calcutta have learnt to make cakes the way they are made in Wales.The women did not learn from social media. A group of young people who came from Wales taught them ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University’s deposed vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta said on Sunday it was not clear to him why the governor accused him of holding an illegal convocation when JU followed all the due procedures to hold the event on December 24 ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphA resident of Kaikhali came to buy sewai(vermicelli). A banker from Garden Reach came for kurtas. A student from Budge Budge came to buy a prayer mat.City markets teemed with last-minute shoppers on the eve of Eid on Sunday.If ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphBangkok started limping back to normal life a day after an earthquake jolted Thailand and Myanmar, but its streets and shopping malls had few people, said those visiting the city from Calcutta.The Tourism Authority of Thailand said things had ...
1 April 2025 TelegraphBengal police on Saturday cautioned people against rumour-mongering and attempts to create communal discord ahead of the festival week.They urged everyone to stay alert and inform the police if they came across such activities.Eid will be celebrated on Monday ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphThe higher education department will mention before the Supreme Court on April 2 that the Bengal governor has created a deadlock at Jadavpur University by removing an authorised vice-chancellor four days before his retirement and not appointing a full-term ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphEid shoppers braved sweltering conditions to flock to markets on Saturday. The crowd peaked when the sun went down.By late evening, space came at a premium on Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani.People bought everything from kurta-pyjamas and abayas to ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphBreaking bread together after a day’s fast is not just a Muslim ritual in Calcutta.Many Hindus who have or have not fasted take part in Iftar. So do members of other communities.The togetherness sends a message loud and clear. ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphAn Iftar was organised on the premises of a church on Thursday to uphold the spirit of togetherness that Calcutta embodies. On the premises of the Church of Christ the King in Park Circus, participants from different ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphBustees will be declared thika land to stop the eviction of dwellers for real estate projects, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.The legal formalities needed for that conversion will be followed, he said.Slums have come up on lands ...
31 March 2025 TelegraphIn view of Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations on March 31, 2025 (Monday), the Kolkata Metro Railway has announced a revised service schedule for the day.A total of 326 metro services will be operated across different lines, with special night services in ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu alleged on Friday that Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose was trying to enforce a “shutdown” at Jadavpur University.“What amount of bankruptcy of ideas could have prompted one to remove a vice-chancellor three days before his ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University students have painted graffiti and written slogans on the walls of the university’s administrative headquarters within days of the walls being rid of them as part of an ostensible beautification drive.The students wrote “authorized graffiti area” on ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphHundreds of passengers, including many from Calcutta, were stuck in Srinagar after several flights were cancelled because of strong surface winds that prevented aircraft operations for more than seven hours on Friday. Nine flights operating out of Sheikh-ul-Alam International ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphTwenty-three cars took part in a rally off the beaten track.The participants had to negotiate jungle roads, moram tracks, hilly roads and a riverbed in Purulia. The rally began from the Ayodhya Hilltop ground at 10am on March 23. ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphSanjay Chaubey and his wife Sulochana were walking on a bridge in Bangkok’s Pratunam on Friday afternoon when it started to shake.Initially, Sulochana thought she was unwell and asked her husband to take her to a hospital. But then, ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphNext week, Id namaz will be read at the BF Block football ground in New Town. The news was shared by members of Secular Forum of New Town. The newly formed trust had organised an iftar recently at the ...
30 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro has introduced two new Dalian rakes on the Blue Line, enhancing passenger comfort and operational efficiency.With this addition, the number of Dalian rakes operating in the Kolkata Metro network has now increased to five. Before being ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA single-storyed room with a fibre glass roof in FD Park is in the eye of a storm with the bone of contention being the usage and maintenance rights to the room, being claimed by both the local councillor and the block ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThere’s a storm brewing over IEM Public School, where parents claim the upcoming session’s fees have been hiked irrationally.The school has classes from pre-primary to Class V in Salt Lake’s GE Block, near GD Market, while the senior section, ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThree Salt Lake residents filed a public interest litigation (PIL) last week asking for Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to be split. They want Salt Lake to once again have a civic body entirely to itself.The three petitioners have done so ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has asked the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to ensure that no outsiders enter the Rabindra Bharati University campus at Jorasanko.Justice Jay Sengupta gave the order on Thursday while hearing a petition by the university’s ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe CBI is scheduled to submit the case diary of the RG Kar rape and murder case before Calcutta High Court on Friday as well as clarify before the court if the agency had ever considered this a case ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe differences failed to divide; they only united people from different faiths and beliefs a little more.An Iftar in the city where Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and many others broke fast together with their Muslim friends was a reaffirmation of ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA tunnel that connects Calcutta airport with the airport Metro station is almost ready and will become operational when the trains start running from Noapara.The 80-metre tunnel will give passengers easy access to the terminal building from the station ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has directed Jadavpur University not to allow any programme involving “political functionaries” on the campus.A division bench passed the order on Thursday while hearing a PIL that sought “urgent intervention of the court in addressing the ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench on Thursday told the Bengal government to file “within two weeks” an affidavit stating its “clear stand” on how it proposes to conduct students’ union elections in state-aided colleges and universities.“On date, the rule ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphAn associate of gangster Aftab Ansari serving a life sentence in connection with the 2001 kidnapping of the owner of the Khadim shoe chain was acquitted by Calcutta High Court on Thursday.Shoe baron Parthapratim Roy Burman was kidnapped from ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThere’s nothing quite like a hanging garden. Petunias, Dianthus, Hibiscus all thrive on Kalpana Mukherjee’s balcony, which, by the way, is on the 17th floor of New Town Heights. Mukherjee has made optimum use of her space, creating a ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphIt’s the flower with the frilly edges and clove-like fragrance, but touch its leaves and you may just get mild irritation.The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Jadavpur University not to invite any political functionary to programmes organised by the institution.It stated that functions should be held with the participation of academicians only.Noting that West Bengal Education Minister ...
29 March 2025 TelegraphTwo fraudulent call centres allegedly duping people in the US and Australia have been busted in Lake Town and Salt Lake.In total, 24 persons have been arrested, police said.The one at Lake Town was allegedly duping people in Australia.“The ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral roadside shops were gutted in a fire that broke out late Wednesday afternoon in Beleghata.At least 15 fire tenders responded and brought the fire under control after almost two hours. Traffic was disrupted for around three hours as ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday wondered why the authorised vice-chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University approached the high court instead of talking to those staging protests outside the university campus.“Why did he have to go to court? He could ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe state’s home secretary met with airport and airline executives on Wednesday to press for Calcutta’s demand for more international flights and direct connectivity to Europe.Calcutta airport authorities would write to international airlines that earlier operated from Calcutta but ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphA chip for prompt detection of a wide range of diseases. An X-ray technology aimed at reducing radiation exposure in medical imaging. An AI-powered system to help farmers with loans.An entrepreneurial summit at a research institute last week saw ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphFive CISF personnel, among them a senior inspector and a woman constable earlier posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, have been arrested for allegedly posing as Income Tax officials and “raiding” a house at Chinar Park and ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphPolice discovered the charred remains of a 72-year-old woman at her Vidyasagar Colony residence Wednesday morning. Police have started a case of unnatural death and are searching for the victim’s son, who is allegedly absconding.Calls from the neighbours alerted ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphHowrah's solid waste will now be dumped in Calcutta's Dhapa and in Hooghly's Baidyabati to stop the piling at the saturated Belgachhia waste disposal ground, which needs to be cleared immediately. During a meeting on Tuesday, chaired by urban ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court issued an interim order on Tuesday asking the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to take steps so the authorised vice-chancellor and registrar of Rabindra Bharati University can enter the varsity campus without any resistance.Justice Biswajit ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University student Souptik Chanda, who was arrested last week in connection with arson and vandalism on the campus hours after education minis-ter Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1, was granted interim bail by the Alipore court on Wednesday.The ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphP. Uday Kumar Reddy, General Manager of Metro Railway, conducted an inspection of the Jai Hind Bimanbandar to Biswa Bangla Convention Centre stretch of the Orange Line on Tuesday.He was accompanied by senior officials from Metro Railway and Rail ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphSome of the questions Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of Calcutta High Court asked the CBI at Monday’s hearing of the RG Kar case and what the central agency had earlier said and submitted:Judge: “You must tell me whether at any ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has started whitewashing the slogans and graffiti on its walls.Many of them came up after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit to the campus on March 1, which led to student violence and allegations that his car hit ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday told the CBI to clarify if the agency had at any point in its probe into the RG Kar rape and murder considered the possibility of gang rape.The bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked hospitals to be “transparent and reasonable” in their billing to avoid patients leaving hospitals without clearing the bills.At a meeting with private hospitals in Bengal on Monday, the commission’s chairperson, ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe 18-year-old Virat Kohli fan arrested for breaching Eden’s security ring during the inaugural IPL match on Saturday was granted bail on Monday, but asked not to be at Eden Gardens or its adjoining areas during the remaining matches.Rhituparno ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA city businessman went missing during a business trip to Koderma in Jharkhand earlier last week.Sumit Dahima, a resident of Kestopur, left for Jharkhand on March 16.“The last time family members spoke to the 39-year-old businessman was on March ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe overcast conditions that prevailed for a couple of days kept the Celsius under check on Sunday.The Celsius, however, is expected to rise from Monday. The Met office has warned of a sharp spike in the day temperature by ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA youth was arrested for scaling the iron fence at Eden Gardens, jumping into the field and diving at Virat Kohli’s feet during the IPL inaugural match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Saturday. Rhituparno Pakhira ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphNew Town is fast emerging as Calcutta’s new health hub, riding the same advantages that put EM Bypass in a similar spot two decades ago.The availability of encroachment and encumbrance-free, regular-shaped land and the promise of easy connectivity are ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA member of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family has clarified that the leader was never held in Fort William.In Saturday’s edition, The Telegraph carried a report headlined “Fort William now Vijay Durg, ‘tribute’ to 1971 feat”.The report said that ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA man, who recently called up a senior government official impersonating a judge of Calcutta High Court and asking him to award a tender to a particular company, has been arrested.Police identified the accused as Pawan Pan.The police said ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphA new pipeline to supply potable water to north Howrah was completed on Sunday morning and normal supply will be restored across Howrah from Monday, the chairperson of the board of administrators of Howrah Municipal Corporation said on Sunday. ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras placed inside the Sunderbans to estimate the number and assess the habitat of tigers have suggested a change in the behaviour of another apex predator in the mangroves.The images show crocodiles are nesting in seemingly new areas ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphWhy should I go for coffee with you always and not my friends? A 30-year-old woman with Down syndrome asked her mother. Individuals with Down syndrome, their families and doctors participated in a walk ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphBengali is the fifth most spoken language in the world but there is no sustainable market for Bengali films, a leading film producer told a media and entertainment conclave on Saturday.“Bengali is the fifth most spoken language in the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphThe city’s markets are flooded with single-use plastics that were formally banned in July 2022 and government agencies continue to squabble over who should take the lead to enforce the ban.Calcutta’s mayor Firhad Hakim on Saturday said that the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s map has seen Clive make way for Netaji and Harrington for Ho Chi Minh, with successive governments leaving the imprint of national pride and ideology on the city’s streets and buildings.The latest act of renaming, however, involves one ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphHundred-day workers with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) have not received their remunerations for more than two months, mayor Firhad Hakim said at the civic body’s monthly session on Saturday. He apologised for the delay.Hundred-day workers are people employed ...
23 March 2025 Telegraph• Conducting a water quality test in the Sunderbans to find its oxygen content and levels of salinity and acidity.• Observing the biodiversity of the mangroves and wondering at mudskippers, fish that walk on land but when the water ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA first-day-first-show at the cinema has become a thing of the past. Now Eden Gardens, too, has its first day’s first show. And when Shah Rukh Khan is the star, everyone wants a ticket.Some who got one wanted to ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphOver 65,000 people dared the looming threat of rain and they had their money’s worth even before the first ball was bowled at Eden Gardens.Shah Rukh Khan, the emcee, shakes a leg with Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh. A ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s much-anticipated metro connectivity from Joka to Majerhat on the Purple Line has moved a step closer to operational readiness. Sumit Singhal, Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) for Metro & NF Circle, conducted a crucial inspection of the Communication-Based ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of light to moderate showers with gusty winds in Kolkata until March 23 morning, casting a shadow over the IPL 2025 opener between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphWater supply to large parts of Howrah was severely affected from Thursday morning till Friday evening after a supply line from the Puddapukur water treatment plant was damaged. Almost all the 50 wards under the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe city police iterated on Friday that its proposal to reschedule an IPL match at Eden Gardens on April 6 was taken keeping “public safety as the top priority”.Kolkata Knight Riders’ match with Lucknow Super Giants has now been ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphFour security personnel, including two woman guards, who were posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the night of August 8 were questioned at the CBI office on Friday.On Thursday, four nurses posted at the nursing station ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphTrinamul councillor Somnath Dey was elected the new chairman of Panihati Municipality on Friday.Parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 last year had alleged that Dey ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national arrested in January for fraudulently obtaining an Indian passport had been posing as a Buddhist monk to run a racket that helped foreigners obtain Indian passports and “prepare fake documents required for obtaining visa of European ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThere are schools, and then there are schools for special children. But since the special children are also a part of society, should they not go to the same school as others?This is the thought behind Newtown Daycare, an ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphSPK Jain Futuristic Academy held an inter-school science fest named Prithvi that brought together students from various institutes to showcase innovative projects addressing sustainability, safety, and environmental conservation.The fest was inaugurated by Abhinav Chandra, director of the Institute of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWithin a year of the doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, within a month of the 14-year-old’s rape and murder in Action Area 1, within a week of Women’s Day 2025, a stretch in ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWomen, who have made food their business, sat down for a conversation in course of which they shared their experiences and, in the process, toasted each other’s successes.The chat was occasioned by a Women’s Day programme organised by Ibis ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe women were beauty and grace personified as they walked the ramp at Bidyut Bhavan. So what if they could not hear?On International Women’s Day, 13 hearing and speech-impaired women took part in Miss Deaf Bengal, a beauty pageant ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday ordered the demolition of three floors of a five-storeyed building in the Watgunge area that were constructed illegally.The division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee was hearing a PIL that ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA young woman who was “critical” because of complications in the post-partum phase at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital and was later brought to SSKM Hospital, was shifted to the female nephrology ward from the critical care unit of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA couple was found dead at their residence in Garia’s Adarshanagar on Wednesday night.Police suspect the husband Tarun Das, 45, had murdered his wife Asha (35) before dying by suicide. The police found strangulation marks around Asha’s neck and ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphAn independent film festival will screen 38 documentary and fiction films from India and South Asia. The films explore common themes of migration, caste, gender and ethnic struggles, and the ongoing fight against authoritarian regimes.Films from a subcontinent hurting ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA man and his wife were found dead at their rented home in Garia’s Adarshpally on Thursday morning, police said.The body of the man was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his wife’s body was on the bed ...
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