An oncology centre with 170 beds will be commissioned at the Peerless Hospital by mid-April, Jayanta Roy, the managing director of Peerless Group, said on Tuesday. The 11-storey building will have about three floors dedicated to cancer treatment, while ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA man died after a major fire broke out at a bike garage in Maurigram, Andul, in Howrah on Tuesday, triggering panic in the locality. The blaze, which residents described as sudden and intense, spread rapidly before fire tenders ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA vehicle carrying ₹5 crore packed in small bags was intercepted at New Town, and two men who allegedly could not explain the source of the money were arrested on Sunday night.The special task force (STF) of Bengal Police ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe Nepalese consulate general in Calcutta has agreed to part with a slice of land inside its Ekbalpore compound for the construction of the underground section of the Purple Line, the upcoming Joka-BBD Bag corridor.The consulate stands at the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA theft was reported at the state-level philatelic exhibition being held at Science City over the last four days. Items from two collections being exhibited in the competitive section were sneaked out of frames with glass covers during the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA key obstacle in advancing the Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) project has been cleared following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal for a ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphBesides serving countless people in its hospital, the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan offers educational opportunities and women’s empowerment programmes, Swami Goutamanandaji Maharaj, the president of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, said at Matri Bhavan’s platinum jubilee celebrations on ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA petition moved before Calcutta High Court has alleged that several “tainted” candidates feature on the school service commission’s (SSC) interview shortlist. The case has been admitted, and Justice Amrita Sinha is expected to hear it on Wednesday.The Supreme ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Monday that he had held a “preliminary discussion” with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on the possibility of increasing the number of vacancies in teaching posts at the secondary and higher secondary levels of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has informed Baranagar police about the hate-filled graffiti that appeared in one of its hostels on November 11.Deputy director Dipti Prasad Mukherjee said on Monday that the institute had submitted a written ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA new private medical college with 250 MBBS seats is set to come up on the fringes of Calcutta.Desun Hospital will set up the college near Dankuni along the Durgapur Expressway (National Highway 19). The medical college will be ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA shot at electoral inclusion is taking a heavy toll on Bengal’s migrant workers. Hundreds of thousands have returned to their hometowns from workplaces across India in the past month, worried that missing the special intensive revision (SIR) of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphAn infant who came to BC Roy Hospital for treatment in his mother’s arms on Monday morning was allegedly kidnapped by a woman who befriended the young mother posing as a nurse and tricked her into handing the baby ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the alleged irregularities in appointments in municipalities, questioned Rahul Singh, the son-in-law of state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose, for over an hour and a half on Monday.Singh and ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA city-based charity took twelve children and several youths suffering from Type 1 diabetes to an old-age home in Joka on Sunday.Some of the residents of the Joka home are also diabetes patients.Debasis Basu, a diabetologist and chairman of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has instructed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials to inspect Ezra Street, where countless overhead cables are present, and to submit a detailed report.Several shops have also sprung up around the Parsi fire temple in the ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo persons died in the city, and the families of the deceased alleged that the deaths were related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Baidyanath Hazra, 46, a driver by profession who had been reported missing from ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA key hurdle in the construction of Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) moved closer to closure on Monday with Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested for allegedly snatching a woman’s chain while she was taking a morning walk near Science City on Sunday.The men were arrested on Sunday evening, within a few hours after the snatching, police said.The police identified ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphThree persons were arrested on Saturday inside Eden Gardens for suspected cricket betting conducted through online apps on their phones, police said. The persons were arrested from the F1 Block of Eden Gardens during the India-South Africa Test match. ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphNearly 100 shops dealing in electrical lights were damaged in the fire that occurred at 26 Ezra Street on Saturday, traders said on Sunday. Shop owners said lights worth nearly ₹100 crore were destroyed.A forensic examination of the market ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA volleyball court in a North 24-Parganas village is doubling as a help centre for residents navigating the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal. Volunteers from a political party without any elected representatives in the state ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA Salt Lake resident bought a new SUV a couple of months ago, selling his old car to the showroom from where he got the new car. Over the past week, he has been frantically calling up the car ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA Salt Lake resident has been allegedly cheated out of ₹1.79 crore in an investment fraud. Sajan Kumar Agarwal, 57, a resident of Sector-I of the township, has told police that he had received a link through WhatsApp which ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphThe six clubs along Rabindra Sarobar signed a rent agreement with the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority last week.This was the first such agreement between the KMDA, the custodians of the water body, and the clubs — Calcutta Rowing Club, ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphAn association of outdoor advertisers has moved Calcutta High Court, challenging the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's decision to remove all private hoardings that hang from buildings or any private premises on Park Street, Camac Street and Shakespeare Sarani. Hoardings and ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s University will start BTech courses in four disciplines, offering a total of 240 seats, from next year. Xavier School of Engineering will offer programmes in computer science and engineering, information technology, electronics and communication engineering and computer ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA couple of exhibits at Bongopex, the ongoing philatelic exhibition at Science City, are so precious that the organisers, the West Bengal circle of India Post, have arranged for a vehicle for the collector to carry them home at ...
17 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has appealed for ₹1.02 crore from the education department to build fences around the five water bodies on the campus, two months after a third-year student drowned in one of them.The public works department (PWD) drew up ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphA fire that broke out early on Saturday morning at a godown on Ezra Street left Calcutta’s first Parsi fire temple — the 186-year-old Rustomjee Cowasjee Church — severely damaged, along with more than a hundred shops selling electrical ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMany voters in the city have made mistakes while filling out their enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls, and are unsure whom to approach for guidance. Others have yet to start filling ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphTest cricket’s comeback to Eden Gardens will be short-lived, Day 2 all but ensured.A flurry of 15 wickets, most of them to spinners, meant the day was never short of action — a feast for spectators who came from ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Saturday evening released a list of over 20,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for the posts of assistant teachers at the higher secondary level in government-aided schools.The list was prepared based ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court has granted permission for buses that are 15 years old or older to operate in the Kolkata Municipal Area (KMA), encompassing the cities of Kolkata and Howrah, as well as in portions of neighbouring districts, provided ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphScreening and counselling patients diagnosed with breast cancer are crucial to effective treatment, oncologists said at a conference in the city on Saturday. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women, and proper guidance can significantly influence treatment ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway on Saturday said it recorded the highest-ever number of mobile QR tickets booked on a normal day since the digital facilities were introduced, officials said on Saturday.In a statement, the authorities said over 53,000 Mobile QR ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Subhra Ghosh of Calcutta High Court on Friday directed police to produce the case diary in the alleged attempted murder case against Trinamool Congress South Dum Dum councillor Mrinmoy Das. The judge also asked the police to provide ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe directors of the companies allegedly involved in laundering proceeds from cybercrime were summoned by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Bengal Police on Friday. They have been asked to appear within 72 hours.Sources said that in the preliminary ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway on Saturday announced a partial suspension of services on the Blue Line, citing “unavoidable circumstances.”According to an official update, trains are currently operating only between Baranagar and Sahid Khudiram stations, leaving the remaining stretch temporarily without service.Authorities ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA fire in an electrical goods shop at the crack of dawn on Saturday in Burrabazar’s Ezra Street has taken a devastating form with the flames spreading to adjacent buildings.The congested building blocks, narrow lanes and large stacks of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphAn absorbing contest. A wave of nostalgia. Love and longing for a legend. And the stubborn eyesores that refuse to leave. As Test cricket returned to Eden Gardens after six years, the stadium turned into a vivid montage of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has formed a 10-member fact-finding committee to investigate the communal graffiti that appeared on the walls and staircases of one of its hostels, C.V. Raman Hall. The committee includes four student representatives.The writings, ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphOf Bengal’s 7.66 crore voters, around 25 lakh were not found at their registered addresses, leaving their enumeration forms undelivered in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Election Commission officials said.Most of these voters are in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA healthy and balanced diet can be as effective as medicine in managing and controlling diabetes, doctors said at an awareness meet on Friday. Reducing stress, having adequate sleep and exercising are the other factors that are important in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBengal’s first private veterinary college is coming up at Hooghly’s Mogra, 65km from the heart of Calcutta. The college will start classes before the year ends, said an official. The JIS College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (JISCOVAS), for ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday submitted its seventh status report on its probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year.The CBI’s counsel told the Sealdah court that ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) seeking the right to collect advertisement tax from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for in-stadia advertisements at Eden Gardens, bringing an end to a ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA platform of former Jadavpur University students based in California has decided to provide funds for the chair of a professor of practice — a new position approved by the UGC — to bring real-world experience into the classroom.At ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose has instituted the Padmavati Award in memory of his mother, who was a postmistress. The award, a part of the Governor’s Award for Excellence initiative, will be conferred on three eminent philatelists in recognition of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBushes outside burst with Bougainvillea in so many colours that you can barely see the leaves. A lush lawn lies within, with pink blooms cascading from the terrace, and an overhead canopy of orange Allamandas. Retired teacher Lily Datta ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphIt has colourful flowers, attractive leaves, and with some care, the Balsam, or Dopati, will grow readily in your front yard.Balsam is an ornamental plant. It produces lovely colourful flowers and is popular for garden beds, borders, and containers. ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphYour bank calls and says a credit card has arrived in your name, and that you are to get your Pan and Aadhaar cards to claim it. You pick it up, but since you didn’t really ask for one, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA grand chariot rolled into Aikatan carrying the message of Sathya Sai Baba. It had been travelling for months from Puttaparthi, the headquarters of Sri Sathya Sai district in Andhra Pradesh.The chariot was part of the centenary celebrations of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSharmishta Mukherjee was in the ICU a couple of months ago on account of anxiety. The cause was not anything to do with her own affairs. The doctors told her sternly to stay away from social work during the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSabyasachi Dutta, chairman of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, has claimed that his name is missing in the 2002 voter list. His wife Indrani Dutta’s name is missing as well.The 2002 information is vital to fill up the Election Commission of ...
14 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphRitwik Ghatak was not interested in the historical details of the Partition but rather in its aftermath. Prof Anindya Sengupta of the department of film studies, Jadavpur University, made the comment as part of his opening remarks in a ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFor several years, AJ Block has hosted a popular event in which children set up stalls to sell home-made food. This year, the organisers recognised that not everyone enjoys cooking and so opened doors for them to sell anything ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphIf you love sports and have the afternoon free, take a stroll towards Hyatt Regency from Broadway and walk into Gate 5A, opposite St. Francis Xavier School. The newly carved out gate leads into Salt Lake’s latest sports utility, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSloth bears (Melursus ursinus) have been captured on trap cameras in the forests of Purulia for the first time, forest officials said.Although anecdotal reports of their presence have circulated for years, officials said this is likely the first photographic ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday announced the schedule for the 2026 board exams. The ICSE (Class X) exams will begin on February 17, while the ISC (Class XII) exams will commence on February ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFeeling isolated because of mental health struggles does not mean one is alone, and seeking professional help is perfectly acceptable, was the message conveyed by students of South City International School through a thoughtfully prepared school board.Students from Classes ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphWritings laced with communal hatred have appeared on the walls and doors of a hostel at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, sparking outrage among students, teachers, and alumni of an institution long regarded as a cradle of liberal, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the death of jeweller Swapan Kamilla in New Town have reportedly found a purported video on the phone of one of the accused, Raju Dhali, which confirms the presence of Sajal Sarkar at the scene of the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing alleged fund transfers in the multicrore irregularities in municipal appointments across the state, has summoned the wife, son, and daughter of Sujit Bose, Trinamool Congress leader and minister for fire and emergency services.Sources in ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphMake way for the whites.Test cricket returns to Eden Gardens after six years on Friday. If the snaking queues outside the ticket counters on the eve of the match were anything to go by, the stadium should be buzzing ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA man who earlier worked at a jewellery workshop in Sinthi was arrested on Thursday for allegedly carrying out an armed robbery at his former workplace in October. Police said Sahidul Mandal, who was earlier working at a jewellery ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 5am to 9pm on Sunday. “During the replacement of stay and down cables and bearings of the second Hooghly bridge (Vidyasagar Setu), the movement of all types of vehicles shall be ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe inaugural edition of an awards ceremony that aims to give voice to the voiceless in cinema will be held in the city on December 20.The CineKind Awards is a collaboration between the Film Federation of India (FFI) and ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe curtain came down on the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival with a concluding ceremony where the flow of events was turned upside down by a “surprise visit”.Even as Jaydeep Banerjee’s name was announced as the winner in the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested a man from Siliguri on Wednesday in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla, whose body was found in New Town on October 29, taking the total number of arrests to three in this case. The ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 67-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke on Sunday night and was declared “brain dead” on Tuesday, volunteered to donate her organs. Her organs were retrieved on Wednesday. Chandana Sengupta’s son said his mother “will be ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphStudents and research scholars of ISI Calcutta organised an assembly at the campus gate on Wednesday evening to protest the draft ISI Bill, 2025, which they alleged was the Union government’s attempt to rob the institute of its autonomy. ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphMultiple police teams visited hotels, lodges and guesthouses across Calcutta on Wednesday, enquiring about whether the establishments were maintaining proper records of visitors and checking if their CCTV cameras were functioning.The move followed a virtual meeting of the Kolkata ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe mercury is going downward.On Wednesday, the Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 17.2 degrees in Alipore, three degrees colder than the normal temperature for the second week of November.The forecast is for a marginally colder Thursday. A ...
13 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government’s lawyers told Calcutta High Court on Wednesday that the school service commission (SSC) had the prerogative to decide at what stage of screening teacher job aspirants it would award marks for teaching experience.The state’s advocate-general, Kishore ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphToys from Finland, representing four of the “cherished characters” from the Nordic country’s Moomin stories, will now be up for some adventure at the Nehru Children’s Museum. On Tuesday, the ambassador of Finland handed over toys to the museum, ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is advising parents not to ask their children about their CGPA scores or internship plans too hastily when they call them. Such queries exacerbate parental pressure and could potentially trigger mental health issues, the IIT's dean of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police carried out a search and seizure operation at an office of industrialist Pawan Ruia near Park Circus for the second time on Wednesday in connection with two cybercrime cases.Apart from the investigation ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIn a patch of land where Calcutta once dumped its waste, thousands of families now live in unorganised settlements. Fires are common here, and when houses burn, identity papers are destroyed too.Many residents of Dhapa Dhipi are now worried ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphAmid the fierce political controversy over potential voter disenfranchisement, 46 lakh deceased individuals in Bengal have been identified whose names may or may not have been on the electoral rolls.The deaths occurred over the past five to seven years.Of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has acknowledged errors in the final answer keys for two subjects, which were used to evaluate the scripts of the tests designed to shortlist higher secondary teachers.In a notice late on Monday, the commission ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday directed senior officials of the state health department to create direct links between two buildings in government-run medical colleges so that women do not have to use dark stretches while moving from one ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphConducting vehicle checks, removing vehicles parked illegally, and providing immediate response if an abandoned vehicle is detected in a public space — the focus areas of Kolkata Police following the blast in Delhi on Monday were apparent. On Tuesday, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dipped to 18.2 degrees Celsius in Calcutta on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.Sightings of an additional layer of clothing were reported from across the city after sundown, especially on those riding two-wheelers. The minimum ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police, probing charges of crime and money laundering against industrialist Pawan Kumar Ruia and some of his family members, has found several cybercrime cases registered in the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police, Bidhannagar Police, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee, who also held the industry, commerce and enterprise portfolio at one point, has been accused of masterminding a cash-for-jobs racket in the recruitment of teachers and staff for schools. The charges against Chatterjee ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee left a hospital on bail on Tuesday, with tears in his eyes, having regained his freedom after spending more than three years in custody.The suspended Trinamool Congress leader, arrested on July 23, 2022, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphWith just days left before the collection of enumeration forms begins, the Trinamool Congress is training its booth-level agents (BLAs) to use a mobile application called Didir Doot that aims to record data on all voters across Bengal.The BLAs ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphNumerous schools that tried to start a girls’ cricket team in the past said they struggled to find enough candidates to form a squad. Some schools offer cricket coaching to boys but have failed to extend it to girls, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA Delhi resident already in Bengal police custody has emerged as a key figure in a ₹315-crore cyber fraud case in which industrialist Pawan Ruia and his family have emerged as suspects.Police said Rahul Verma, 27, is "very close" ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) is in full swing, but new doubts continue to emerge, and people are unsure who has the answers.In many cases, the voters alleged that the booth-level officers (BLOs) did not have answers for their ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMany Calcuttans who have yet to receive the enumeration forms are anxious about when they will arrive and are calling up booth-level officers (BLOs) or asking local political workers to know more.As many of their neighbours have already received ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphGenesis Hospital in Kasba has been asked to stop admission of new patients by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission over non-payment of compensation to a patient. The commission, chaired by retired judge Ashim Banerjee, said on Monday ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled December 3 for the hearing regarding the appointment of vice-chancellors at Bengal universities.This matter has sparked intense disputes between the state government and governor C.V. Ananda Bose, the chancellor of these universities.The next date ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Monday decided to allot funds to Jadavpur University to appoint 30 security personnel and two security supervisors for the campus.A higher education department official said they would provide the university with ₹7.6 lakh per month, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA direct flight to Cambodia from Calcutta, scheduled to start on Wednesday, has few takers so far, while the one to Guangzhou in China, which had huge demand until last week, is seeing a drop after the Delhi-Guangzhou flight ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state-level philatelic show, organised by the West Bengal circle of India Post, returns after a gap of six years.From November 14, Science City will host Bongopex, an exhibition of 401 frames, over four days, from noon to 7pm, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA special CBI court on Monday granted bail to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, clearing the last hurdle that the former Trinamool leader had to walk out.The Supreme Court granted him bail in the ED case in December 2024. ...
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