An elderly man, who introduced himself as an advocate at the gate of the Sales Tax Building in Beleghata, fell from the seventh floor a few minutes later on Tuesday morning. Police suspect that the man jumped through an ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphOwners of three rooftop bars and restaurants who attended a hearing at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Tuesday have to submit their written submissions by June 11, civic body officials said.Owners of at least two of the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers protesting outside Bikash Bhavan, who were advised by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday to participate in a fresh recruitment exercise so they could retain their jobs beyond December, are still firm in their opposition to writing the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court came down heavily on a trial court judge for ex parte dismissal of a suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion sought by the appellant-husband.The bench comprising Justice Sabyasachi ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe cloud cover isn’t leaving Kolkata anytime soon.The city is expected to face light to moderate rain and thundershowers over the next 24 hours.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Kolkata has received 35.1mm of rain over the past ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThree persons were killed and eight injured in three different accidents across the city between Sunday and Monday.Early on Monday, an accident involving three vehicles happened in front of the Tea Board in central Calcutta.Police said a car hit ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe joint convener of the Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum, Chinmoy Mondal, and another protesting teacher on Monday responded to Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate’s summons in connection with the violence at Bikash Bhavan on May 15.The duo was interrogated at the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to clear the sewer channels underneath several key thoroughfares in the city to ensure that traffic is not affected by waterlogging during the monsoon.The police have listed roads that witness waterlogging with ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to put on hold its admission process for in-house undergraduate courses as it is awaiting an order from the state government, which has yet to receive legal opinion on OBC reservations, CU’s registrar said.On May ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphPlastic, solid waste and other discarded objects that float to the drainage pumping stations at the end of canals are a cause of concern with the monsoon just around the corner, officials of the state irrigation department and the ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphOwners of three rooftop bars and restaurants who had petitioned Calcutta High Court against the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision asking them to stop operations will go to the civic body’s headquarters for a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.“The hearing will ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphThe protesting schoolteachers are still firm on not participating in a fresh recruitment exercise, but the Bengal government told them on Monday that there was no other way than to comply with the direction of the Supreme Court.At a ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphIt just took ₹15,000 for a Bangladeshi national who had infiltrated Indian territory to pass for a genuine Indian citizen and work as a driver in Calcutta.According to police, it costs anything between ₹500 and ₹15,000 to generate a ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA passport applicant from Ekbalpore was caught submitting an alleged fake birth certificate with the application. He was arrested on Saturday. According to police, Badal Sahani had applied for a passport and submitted his identity documents for police verification. ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA sudden burst of smoke at Kolkata’s busy Esplanade Metro station sent office-goers and daily commuters into panic mode on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred around 3.30pm, causing alarm among passengers on the down line platform.According to reports in ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu has said an official of the education department will “get in touch” with the protesting school teachers who have been found “not specifically tainted” and allowed to return to schools temporarily. The official will contact ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphThe British Council Library was a little noisy and vibrant this Saturday. Reason: There were children who listened to stories of Baloo striking a friendship with Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and of the elephant from David ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA man who was at the wheel of a car that hit an on-duty policeman riding a motorcycle near Kalighat last week is a Bangladeshi staying in India without valid documents, police said.On May 18, Azad Sheikh, 41, was ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu on Sunday said full-term vice-chancellors have not been appointed in many state-aided universities despite a directive from the Supreme Court. The minister was speaking at a programme of the All Bengal Principals’ Council where he ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphBreast cancer is the most common cancer among females worldwide. However, this disease does not discriminate between genders.At least one per cent of breast cancers occur in males. Male breasts have less tissue and do not have the functions ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphChildren whose struggles encompass finding a quiet corner in their house to study or having a proper roof that doesn’t leak when it rains will get to attend a three-day summer camp from Monday.The camp, for a few hours, ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe city police issued an advisory regarding insurance scams recently, warning people that scammers may call or send messages posing as employees or representatives from reputed insurance companies in a bid to steal data. The advisory comprises three sections — stop, drop, ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested after 100 rounds of live cartridges were seized from him at the Esplanade bus terminus on Sunday, police said. Ramakrishna Maji, a resident of Ketugran in Burdwan, was caught with the cartridges by the Special ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe sky remained overcast for most of Sunday with drizzles in some parts of the city, turning the weather pleasant and bringing down the maximum temperature to less than three degrees below normal. The Alipore Met Office forecast “generally ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Sunday a notification on the start of undergraduate admission at the government and aided colleges through the centralised admission portal would be issued by the end of May. Although the private and autonomous ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government has started sending notices to nearly 150 landowners who have agreed to part with their land for the construction of a bridge that will directly take pilgrims from Calcutta to Gangasagar, instead of having to wait ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe merest slivers of green have sprouted on the three biggish crochet letters of the English alphabet that together form the word VOW.One has to look really hard at the letters to realise that the green speckles on the ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphTwo years since its inauguration, the construction-and-demolition-waste plant of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is still struggling to get enough waste to process.Inaugurated in 2023, the plant that has the capacity to process 500 tonnes of waste every day ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphWholesale drug sellers must check the validity of the sellers’ licence while purchasing medicine and submit it to the state drug control department for verification.The state health department has mentioned this in an advisory issued recently to drug wholesalers ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) plans to dedicate the Currency Building in Dalhousie to exhibitions of contemporary art, and has sent a proposal to the ministry of culture to turn Metcalfe Hall on Strand Road into a ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe drone-like objects spotted in Calcutta’s night sky on Monday had not flown over military installations at Fort William, now known as Vijay Durg, officials of the army’s Eastern Command said on Wednesday.All of them were spotted in civilian ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphPrincipals of government and aided colleges will apprise education minister Bratya Basu on Sunday about the crisis they are facing because of the delay in starting the state-run centralised undergraduate admission portal.Basu is scheduled to attend the annual conference ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphDismissed teachers, barred from returning to school, assembled around education minister Bratya Basu’s house in Dum Dum on Thursday, demanding they be allowed to work till the end of the year.The sit-in started at 1pm and continued till 4pm.United ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphProtesting schoolteachers in a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan distanced themselves from the two school staff who were asked by Calcutta High Court to go to Bidhannagar (North) police station on Thursday to identify those who allegedly incited violence at ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA teacher and a sacked Group D staff member went to Bidhannagar (North) police station on Thursday, a day after the high court asked them to go to the police station and name those among the protesters who allegedly ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA 7mm pistol and a country-made single-barrel gun were recovered during two raids in the city early on Wednesday. Police arrested three men, including one from the approach to the AJC Bose Road flyover, for possessing firearms.Senior officers said ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphAn officer of Baranagar police station was “closed” on Wednesday and a civic volunteer of the same police station was sent on leave over allegations that the duo were extorting truck drivers on the Belgharia Expressway.In police parlance, “closing ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA hospital chain specialising in women’s and children’s healthcare with over 20 hospitals across India has started its first Calcutta unit near Acropolis Mall in Kasba.Hospital administrators said Calcutta’s healthcare market was still underserved and there was scope for ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphHordes of passengers were left waiting long hours for trains at the New Complex of Howrah station on Wednesday, the third straight day of disruptions of services triggered by a signal glitch.Many trains to and from Howrah have been ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe construction of houses in Bowbazar that were damaged beyond repair by the August 2019 East-West Metro tunnel subsidence has been delayed by at least two more months, said officials overseeing the project.A representation of displaced residents, led by ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked three rooftop bars and restaurants that challenged the civic body’s notice asking them to stop work to come for a hearing on May 27.On May 6, Calcutta High Court ordered the KMC ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe crumbling New Market clock tower is finally set to be restored with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) granting permission to a citizens’ initiative to do the job. The clock tower was commissioned together with New Market in 1874. ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board has show-caused at least a dozen schoolteachers for attempting to storm Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat, on May 15 and “wrongfully confining” members of the staff and visitors for several hours. The board said ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral drone-like objects were recently spotted hovering over the night sky in Kolkata, prompting the police to investigate the matter from all angles, including the possibility of espionage, officials said on Wednesday. At least 8-10 such objects were ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphA team of officers from the detective department and another from Entally police station visited the Presidency correctional home on Tuesday to examine Pranay Dey, one of the two brothers arrested for the murder of two women and a ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphTrain services at Howrah and adjoining stations were affected on Tuesday because of glitch in a signalling system near Santragachhi station.It was the second day of the disruptions, which disrupted the schedule of several long-distance trains as well.The Howrah-Mumbai ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe terminated schoolteachers who have been protesting outside Bikash Bhavan since May 7 on Tuesday wrote to the education minister’s office seeking a dialogue with Bratya Basu on ending the impasse.A copy of the letter was sent to chief ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphA former employee was arrested on Sunday in connection with a ₹20-lakh burglary at a Gariahat boutique that was reported a few weeks ago.The former employee — identified as Rahul Seal — had allegedly entered the boutique through an ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of teachers who have lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order submitted a prayer before the high court on Monday, seeking action against officers of Bidhannagar (North) police station for alleged excesses on protesting teachers at ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA three-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday issued contempt rules against Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh and eight others in connection with an alleged attack on lawyers on April 25. The accused will have to explain ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA Bengal police constable made it to the top of Mount Everest on Monday morning. Lakshmikanta Mandal, a constable of the 3rd battalion of the State Armed Police and personal security guard of Calcutta police commissioner Manoj Verma, summited ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBuses on several routes, as well as heavy and medium-sized vehicles, will be rerouted after Moti Lal Gupta Road, which links Tollygunge and Diamond Harbour Road on the city’s southern fringes, is closed for KEIP’s sewerage pipeline work.A traffic ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphProtesting teachers whom Mamata Banerjee told not to block roads or confine others in the name of protests said uncertainty over their future had forced them to stage an indefinite sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat.They also reminded ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphTwo snatching cases were reported in the city on Friday night and Saturday morning. Both cases involve bike-borne criminals.According to officers at Lake Town police station, an elderly woman was walking along the service road near the Lake Town ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSome of the city's majestic buildings, inheritances from its colonial past, are illuminated in the evenings, transforming the face of the place where they stand.A group of Calcuttans keen to preserve and showcase the city's heritage has illuminated 78 ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSaroj Ghose, a pioneering science communicator and instrumental behind the science museum movement in India, breathed his last on Saturday. He was 89.“It is with profound sorrow that the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) announces the sad demise ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphOffices in the 10-storey Krishna building, where a fire broke out on the fifth floor on Saturday afternoon, are likely to remain closed till the forensic examination of the affected area is completed, said sources in Kolkata Police. According ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of parents still insist that their children pursue science in Classes XI and XII despite them having no interest, inclination or the required marks.The pressure mostly stems from a closed mindset of parents who want their children ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe prime suspect in the murder of a 36-year old waiter has been arrested by the Kolkata Leather Complex police. Around 8am on Saturday, the police station received a call of an unconscious body lying on the banks of ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphAn association of orthopaedic doctors discussed advances in orthopaedic surgeries and treatment during a conference in the city on Sunday. Shoulder replacement surgeries, knee surgeries, managing old injuries neglected for years and fractures in elderly people were among the ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBimla Poddar, social worker, philanthropist and matriarch of the Poddar-Neotia family, passed away in Varanasi on May 14. She would have turned 89 this August.She is the founder of Jnana Pravaha, a Varanasi-based centre for cultural studies engaged in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe city spent a reasonably pleasant Sunday, thanks to light spells of rain and overcast conditions.The Met office recorded close to 25mm of rain in Alipore between Saturday night and Sunday night. Light to moderate rain is still in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state commission for protection of child rights has taken “suo motu cognisance” of children participating in a rally by aggrieved teachers outside Bikash Bhavan on Saturday.The panel has written to the Bidhannagar commissionerate seeking a report.“West Bengal Commission ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe number of hoardings on Calcutta’s roads will be reduced to 250 from over 400, the mayoral council member heading the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s advertisement department said on Sunday.Reducing the number of billboards will make the city look cleaner, ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA partially burnt body of an unidentified person was found in an under-construction building on Nivedita Lane in Bagbazar on Saturday morning.Eyewitnesses said the building’s caretaker was the first to spot the deceased, lying face down, near the garage ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state-run centralised undergraduate admission portal will open by the end of May or early June, an official of the higher education department said on Saturday. Minority, autonomous and private colleges have already begun their admission season from early ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will serve notices to three rooftop establishments in the city by Monday, asking them to attend hearings into alleged fire safety lapses and other violations recorded during inspections by the civic body, a senior KMC ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers allowed to return to school until December 31 because they have been identified as “not specifically found tainted”, urged the state government to argue before the Supreme Court that this categorisation suggested segregating the untainted teachers from the ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe eldest of the two brothers of the Tangra family, Pranay Dey, was arrested on Saturday, after he was released from NRS Medical College Hospital, for allegedly killing three members of his family in February.Pranay, 40, was undergoing treatment ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphA school in the city celebrated even a 50 per cent in the board exams.Not just that. A Class XII girl who will appear for a supplementary exam was told she is a champion.And why not?Rupashi Das comes from ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphIn a landmark step for neurodevelopmental care in eastern India, Desun Hospital, Kolkata, is launching the region’s first hospital-based Autism & Neurodevelopment Support Centre, in collaboration with Behaviour Momentum India (BMI) — India’s foremost institute for Applied Behaviour Analysis ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital claimed in Calcutta High Court on Friday through their lawyer that a report submitted by the Central Forensic Laboratory, Delhi, was contradicting another ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphAround 900 women were trapped inside Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat, till late on Thursday. More than one of them was pregnant, and they urged their bosses to find a way to get them out of confinement, officials said ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission is going ahead with its preparations to publish a recruitment notification for the appointment of teachers and non-teaching staff in secondary and higher secondary schools by May 29, in compliance with what the Supreme Court ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe front wall of his house has beautiful Lilies and Adeniums and the terrace has Starfruits and Blackberries. If that was not enough, Gopinath Sarkar has also adopted the empty plot next door and keeps it clean and green. ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphShowers are likely over the next few days in Calcutta, according to the Met forecast. The rain is unlikely to be heavy, but it will prevent the maximum temperature from shooting up, said a Met official.“An upper-air cyclonic circulation ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari visited the sacked school employees on a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan on Friday evening and was invited to speak on the dais erected by the protesters, who were no longer averse to being seen with ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphTensions between India and Pakistan have scaled down, but air travel has not picked up even a week after the neighbours announced an understanding to hold fire, officials at the Calcutta airport and airlines said on Friday.Airlines and tour ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphSomewhere on a 40-ft vertical rock-face at 8,790m on the southeast ridge of Mt Everest, a dream lies buried in snow along with the 42-year-old dreamer from Ranaghat.Subrata Ghosh, a schoolteacher, had reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphThe brush that one inserts inside bottles to clean them. Yes, this plant is named after something rather prosaic but its beautiful flowers can evoke poetry.The Bottle Brush Plant, also known as Callistemon, is a tree with bright flowers ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphIt may be one of the most awaited occasions in our cultural calendar but this year Rabindrajayanti was celebrated in the backdrop of military strife. Visitors approached venues unsure if the event had been cancelled, others listened to the ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphRabindrajayanti celebrations at Central Park were slightly toned down this year, especially in the morning. Though some 100 people turned up for the inauguration at 6am, the enthusiasm waned as the sun glared its way to noon. So much ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphThree fresh arrests have been made in connection with a robbery on May 5, where two employees of a forex company were robbed of ₹2.66 crore that they were going to deposit in a bank. The arrests were made ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphRegional transport offices (RTOs) must ensure that those who have not received their smart cards or driving licences by post should collect them from the offices in person, the state government has decided.A notification issued by the transport department ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphStretches of the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector that don’t have footpaths and iron guardrails need overhaul, police have written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).Missing pavements and guardrails need to be put in place to avert accidents ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA hospital on the southern fringes of Calcutta has recently started a palliative care programme for patients with end-stage liver disease.A team of doctors, nurses, and counsellors will visit the patient’s home to deliver the services.The Indian Institute of ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAfter a lull, the angst of former school staff came to the fore on Thursday.By afternoon, images of hordes of protesting teachers breaching the gates of Bikash Bhavan were beamed across television channels. Metro spoke to some of the ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphBengal’s education secretariat has again become a hub of protests.Metro compiles some of the key demands of the sacked teachers and school staff and what the Supreme Court and the state government have said about them.No examWe will not ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe coolers are out, the training hours have been tweaked, and bathing has become a daily exercise.Members of Kolkata Police’s dog squad have been obliged to stay indoors unless called for duty because of the recent rise in temperature ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area is expected to take shape over the north Bay of Bengal in the third week of May, heralding the monsoon into parts of northeastern India, the Met office has said.Usually, the monsoon reaches Bengal four to ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAn assistant professor of mathematics who came to Bikash Bhavan for official work, leaving his two-year-old son in a crèche in Jadavpur, and a 71-year-old woman who stamps official documents were among hundreds trapped inside the Salt Lake address ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers and non-teaching staff left jobless by a Supreme Court verdict tore through guardrail cordons and broke open iron gates to lay siege to the state education department’s headquarters in Salt Lake on Thursday.They kept hundreds of Bikash ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries in most of her organs after a truck hit her near her school in Howrah’s Andul on February 10 and had to undergo eight surgeries is now slowly able to sit up ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA coach of the Sealdah-bound Bongaon local jumped the rails at Dum Dum station on Wednesday afternoon. There was no loss to life or property, said railway officials. The incident happened near platform number 4 of Dum Dum station ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral colleges and universities are introducing new-age courses like data science and artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level to attract students who aspire to pursue courses that promise better jobs. Many have blamed the absence of such courses for ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAutonomous and minority colleges that do not come under the purview of the state-run centralised admission system have started their undergraduate admissions even as government and government-aided colleges have yet to open their portal. Colleges like St Xavier’s, Scottish ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of men, who took automobile loans against five cars using fake documents from a private bank, allegedly cheated the bank by neither repaying the loan nor returning the vehicles. Five persons were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of cyber cheats, who are wanted in credit card fraud in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, were arrested from Anandapur along EM Bypass on Tuesday.The four were hiding there for the last two days, police said. The men allegedly ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA woman whose father was reported missing on March 14 had to wait for a DNA test to find out that a decomposed body lying in the morgue for two months was that of her father. A decomposed body ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 25-year-old man who was declared brain-dead at a private hospital in the city on Tuesday afternoon agreed to donate his organs after the doctors and hospital officials counselled them. Jayesh Laxmishankar Jaiswal, who was a ...
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