The Union health ministry has asked states and medical colleges across the country to discourage unnecessary use of earphones and headphones, citing studies implicating prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds in irreversible hearing loss.A February 20 letter from ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has instructed examination centre supervisors to “make strict usage” of metal detectors for “frisking purposes” to prevent examinees from carrying mobile phones and electronic devices into the centres.Council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya has asked the ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked schools to have fully functional computer labs with internet facilities so that the students are able to access online learning platforms and participate in the council’s online activities.The ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the two Dey brothers who survived Wednesday morning’s car crash was discharged from the Ruby General Hospital and shifted to the NRS Medical College and Hospital on Saturday evening.Although Pranay Dey’s 14-year-old son was also to be ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphBrace for travel woes next week as app cab drivers have threatened to go off the road if their demands for fair revision are not met with soon.On February 27, drivers and bike riders will go offline for 12 ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMore than 5.5 lakh eggs of Olive Ridley turtles have been “safely laid” at the mouths of two rivers in Odisha since November, Indian Coast Guard officials said on Friday.The Olive Ridley sea turtle has been listed on Schedule ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the CBI on former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.“Issue notice… list the matter on March 20, 2025,” a ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphOfficers on night duty have been instructed to focus on speeding or racing on flyovers by bikers now that the state government has removed the night restrictions on two-wheelers accessing flyovers, senior officers overseeing traffic said.Sergeants from traffic guards ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe police inspector who was shot in the arm is said to have told police investigators that his revolver went off accidentally during a tiff with his friends at Ghoshpara in Howrah’s Shibpur on Wednesday night.Officers from the Howrah ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMany questions remain unanswered three days after a car crash on EM Bypass led to the discovery of three dead and bloodied women in their four-storey home in Tangra.Police, who say the women were murdered, are yet to piece ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphTwo among the four men who allegedly jumped out of a cab and fled after the driver raised the alarm about them on Wednesday night have been arrested.These two men, police said, had taken shelter inside the Salt Lake ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphTwo members of the Dey family who survived the car crash, Pranay Dey, 44, and his 14-year-old son, are likely to be discharged from hospital on Saturday, police sources said.Pranay, his son, and his brother Prasun, who are recuperating ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata has said certain bottlenecks in Chingrighata stretch along EM Bypass are hampering the progress of the Orange Line, which will connect the southern part of the city with the airport.The stretch, extending from Ruby Crossing (Hemanta ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe City of Joy’s streets hide many surprises; some roofs do too. Like Karnani Estate, the storied five-storey building at 209, AJC Bose Road in the heart of Kolkata. Residential quarters and offices dot the dense block of concrete ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphAbout 50 schools in five districts gave Madhyamik examinees additional time because of a power outage at those venues triggered by heavy rain on Thursday afternoon.The state’s Class X board examinations, which began on February 10, start at 10.45am ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphChunks of the ceiling of a room at Eden Hindu Hostel on College Street fell on a resident’s bed on Wednesday night. Fortunately, the resident was not there.Room No. 101 is located in a block that underwent renovation and ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphA spell of heavy rain around the time many schools give over stranded children and parents on Thursday.Dispersal got delayed and in some schools, there were reports of waterlogging inside and outside the campus.In most schools, pre-primary and primary ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s budget for 2025-26 presented on Thursday emphasised on avoiding “unnecessary expenses” and “unplanned expenditure” with a thrust on “day-to-day operation”. The allocation for solid waste management, roads, drainage and water supply departments — which form ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphA cab driver who overheard a conversation among a group of men he was ferrying on Wednesday night suspected they had committed a crime somewhere beyond Bengal and were trying to take shelter in the city.The driver slowed down ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe inspector in charge of a police station in Hooghly was found with a bullet injury on his left arm in Howrah’s Ghoshpara in Shibpur close to midnight on Wednesday.The officer has been identified as Jayanta Pal, the inspector ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphDoctor-entrepreneur Devi Shetty on Thursday lauded Bengal’s "ease of doing business" at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a 1,100-bed hospital in New Town.Once ready, the hospital would be the largest private hospital in eastern India.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee laid ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe four-storey building with dark windows at 21C Atal Sur Road in Tangra is the only impartial witness to what transpired inside.No one has switched on the lights in the building after Monday evening.With the help of accounts from ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphHarinalaya Mini Zoo was inaugurated by the chief minister in February 2023 but not enough has been done there in these two years.The mini zoo was opened to allow, particularly residents of New Town, easy and more frequent visits ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphDo not call 101. Call your neighbouring fire station on its landline number instead. That is the plea being sent out to the populace at large from the firemen at Bidhannagar fire station that responded to the rescue call ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphThe two women and the teenage girl found dead at their four-storey Tangra home on Wednesday had been murdered, police said on Thursday.However, the accounts of the two women’s husbands — who have suggested a family “suicide pact” gone ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphCarpets were laid out in BB-BC Park, chairs were arranged for parents to watch and students were ready to hop, skip, and jump. But the rain gods had other plans.No sooner did the tots complete their march-past than it ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphSaltlake Point School in CD Block hosted its annual exhibition showcasing projects from students in lower nursery to Class XII, with enthusiastic participation from teachers, students, and parents.The event was inaugurated by founder-principal Madhushree Sengupta, who also opened a ...
22 February 2025 TelegraphPost-mortem examination conducted on two women and a teenage girl, whose bodies were found inside their house in Kolkata, on Thursday found that they were murdered, is missing speculations that the three died by suicide, a police officer ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA paid concierge service for all domestic and international passengers was launched at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday, an official said.The service will be helpful for passengers not conversant with the systems in the airport or those who are ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA ceiling fan came crashing down, injuring a Madhyamik examinee who was writing her life science paper in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, on Wednesday.The fan did not land on the student, but the blades grazed past the left side of ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphA car crash on EM Bypass early on Wednesday morning in which two men and a teenage boy were injured led to the discovery of three dead women at their home in Tangra.Pranay Kumar Dey, 44, who was in ...
21 February 2025 TelegraphThe city police commissioner on Wednesday urged the elderly who live alone to register with Pronam — a police initiative to address concerns about their security and provide them help with their daily needs as well as on legal ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphDo not keep bank details on your mobile phones and do not allow the “criminal” calling you to link his phone or call to your account to get access to your bank, the commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA Tollygunge resident was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly faking a robbery at her house.Sonali Biswas, 43, a homemaker had alleged that two men attacked her when she was entering her Moore Avenue apartment around 6.45pm on Monday.She had ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA hailstorm so “severe” that residents could not recall a parallel in decades struck Kharagpur, a town known for extreme heat, on Tuesday evening.The storm left the town covered in a thick white sheet.Social media was abuzz with pictures ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA car crash on EM Bypass and the subsequent recovery of three dead women from a house in Tangra has left a trail of unanswered questions.Here is what the investigation has revealed so far and a list of questions ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphThe police and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Tuesday removed temporary shelters and stacked up materials from a stretch of pavement along CR Avenue, while hawkers were back on roads in New Market.Police and KMC officials said Tuesday’s ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women and a teenage girl of the same family were found dead inside their house, while three other members were injured as their car rammed into a metro pillar in Kolkata on Wednesday, police said.The three bodies were ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphOn her way to the Assembly on Tuesday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee stopped outside United Missionary Girls’ High School in Bhowanipore where guardians were waiting anxiously as their children wrote their state secondary examinations (Madhyamik) inside.She reached the school ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA special Pocso court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a man guilty of rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old child in north Kolkata to death by hanging.The protection of children from sexual offences act (Pocso) court at Bankshall ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to a renowned school in south Kolkata and wished good luck to the students appearing for this year's Madhyamik (class 10 state board) examination.Banerjee, who stopped outside ...
20 February 2025 TelegraphA high court division bench headed by Justice Joymalya Bagchi on Tuesday expressed “hope” that a lower court would start the trial process in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital by early ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday asked the state government how it could build a booster pumping station on a plot of land in South 24-Parganas’ Mathurapur that its owner had donated to the state for a hospital.A primary health ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA city Pocso court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a 34-year-old man for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a seven-month-old baby girl who lived with her parents on a footpath in north Calcutta. The child is still in hospital ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA 47-year-old man was charred to death at home in Salt Lake’s DA Block while his elderly mother, wife and daughter, who were on another floor, had a narrow escape on Monday night, police said. Debarshi Ganguly, a railway ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday granted bail to one of the key accused in the alleged school jobs scam case. Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also referred to as “Kalighat-er Kaku” (uncle from Kalighat), was granted bail till March 31 on ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA Class X boy who underwent surgery on Monday evening wrote his ICSE board exam at 11am on Tuesday.Sk Sagar, 17, appeared for his English language paper from the hospital with the intravenous (IV) cannula on his left hand. ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThree robberies within five days across the city and no arrests yet.Between the first incident in the early hours of Thursday and the third one on Monday evening, the common thread, police suspect, was a person known to the ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe city has failed its elderly, yet again.A break-in at an elderly couple’s house in Dum Dum at 2am on Monday.Five days earlier, on February 13, a 68-year-old woman with a broken femur was robbed of valuables in her ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphSmashed plates lay strewn on the drawing room floor on Tuesday afternoon.They bore telltale signs of the brief resistance that Sonali Biswas, 43, had put up before being overpowered by two men who robbed her Moore Avenue home in ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old man was killed when a fire broke out in a residential building in West Bengal's Salt Lake area, the satellite township on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred late Monday night at ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe ship Clyde, launched at Calcutta on January 26, 1802, sailed from the city on this day, bound for London, on a voyage for the British East India Company.It had cost sicca ₹76,000 to build.It was listed as belonging ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: A man who has been working at a licensed arms shop in Dalhousie over the last two decades was arrested in Baruipur, South 24-Parganas, on Monday for allegedly selling ammunition illegally to unlicensed buyers.The Special Task Force (STF) ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe hawkers who have set up their stalls on roads in the New Market area have to approach the town vending committee for a space to open their stalls and cannot sit on the road on their own, Debashis ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA celebrated German filmmaker known for his poignant depiction of loneliness spoke of a different kind of loneliness on Monday.“Today, there is a whole new form of loneliness, a very sick form. Even if instruments tell us they provide ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphGarbage dumped on pavements or along roads, bins overflowing with no one to clear them and heaps of waste being set on fire — once a showpiece township, Salt Lake is now a picture of complete neglect in waste ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphRobbers cut through an iron grille on a window, entered a two-storey house in the Dum Dum Cantonment area in north Calcutta and robbed an elderly couple holding a knife against them.The heist at 2am on Monday once again ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphChildren with pre-existing conditions like ADHD, autism or any other intellectual disabilities are more susceptible to stress during the board exams, said psychiatrists.The stress manifests through anxiety, aggression, lack of concentration and panic attacks. A deviation from the routine ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphThe Chhot boat that was made at Dihimondal ghat in Howrah’s Shyampur in October 2022 might not have yet reached its final destination at the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, but the process of its construction is ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphTwo brothers were allegedly attacked with a knife by a group on Harish Mukherjee Road, near SSKM Hospital, when they were returning home after closing their roadside stall in the New Market area late on Saturday. Two men have ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphA copy of your Aadhaar card shared as identity proof while checking into a hotel. A credit card handed to a waiter ata restaurant to settle the bill. Charging the phone at the airport.Such seemingly innocuous activities can offer ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphAt least three people have lost money over the past few days in an alleged fraud while trying to withdraw money from an ATM of a nationalised bank near Kishore Bharati stadium in Jadavpur.The victims told police their cards ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day a school was started for the education of Indian-Armenian girls in the city. Armenian writer and educationist Mesrop Taghiadian opened a girls’ school. It was named Saint Sandught. A boys section was added to it.It closed ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphPre-Independence, unified Bengal’s textile legacy included not just the muslin or the jamdani patronised by the royalty but also the everyday cotton sari and gamchha from Santipur and the kantha of folk tradition.Chikankari, a handiwork from Awadh, was also ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphRobot-assisted paediatric surgeries have better outcomes and require a shorter hospital stay than conventional surgeries, doctors said.Such surgeries cause minimal blood loss and ensure a faster return to normality, a paediatric robotic surgeon said. “Laparoscopic surgery is akin to ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphIndividuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be made to self-advocate their rights and simultaneously be trained for independent living, experts said at a national-level parents’ meet this weekend.The 30th National Parents Meet was organised by the National Institute ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphHawkers across Calcutta are back to their old ways, encroaching on roads, putting up tarpaulin sheets and occupying more than the stipulated space on footpaths, The Telegraph saw on Sunday. At the Oberoi Grand arcade, the hawkers kept the ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe frequent change in the wind pattern is behind the seesaw mode of the Celsius in Calcutta, Met officials said.The Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 19.8 degrees, a notch above normal, in Calcutta on Sunday. Three days ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphAn "epidemic" of cold, cough and fever is sweeping across the city aided by frequent temperature fluctuations, doctors said.A doctor at a government medical college in Calcutta said about 20 per cent of the patients visiting OPDs (outpatient departments) ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphScottish missionary John MacDonald, who came to work in Calcutta, was born on this day. He was pastor at the Scotch Church in Islington, London.In 1837, at the suggestion of Reverend Alexander Duff, he was asked to come to ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe man who entered the three-storeyed house of Madhumita Mitra on Central Avenue on Wednesday night with a machete and robbed her of valuables and cash, had a clear idea of the building’s layout, including the room where the ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe singer-composer whose musical proclamation Ami Banglay gaan gai / Ami Banglar gaan gai (I sing in Bengali / I sing about Bengal) resonated among Bengalis far beyond the state, passed away on Saturday.Pratul Mukhopadhyay was 83.Mukhopadhyay was admitted ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphMobile phones are one of the most “severe distractions on the road” and “please don’t use” them while driving or walking on roads, Calcutta police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday. He was speaking at a programme to mark ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphSeveral cars were damaged when a fire broke out in a garage near Aman Motors in Arupota near Dhapa, off EM Bypass, on Saturday morning.It took three fire tenders nearly two hours to bring the flames under control. Police ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphTraders in and around New Market are struggling for survival in the run-up to Ramazan, supposed to be the best time for business, because Bangladeshi customers have still not returned in big numbers.Some traders have already been put out ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, liberal politician William Ewart raised in the British Parliament the matter of local legislative councils in India.According to UK Parliament papers, “Mr Ewart rose to put a Question to the Secretary of State for India as ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphSetting aside objections of the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted conditional permission to RSS to hold a rally in Burdwan district on February 16.Organisers of the rally, which RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is scheduled ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphThe creation of Bangladesh has been of no use to India. On the contrary, it has done us harm. We created a monster that is now trying to eat us,” said former Member of Parliament Bikram Sarkar.He was speaking ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphIIEST Shibpur will have a new hostel that will accommodate around 1,000 students ready by May, said officials.Accommodation woes have plagued the residential campus for several years now. Many deserving students have chosen other institutes in the absence of ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphGovernment buses have started operating on 16 routes covering parts of Calcutta and adjoining areas like Dunlop, Salt Lake, New Town, Garia, Patuli, Behala and Jadavpur till 11pm.The routes have been selected so that the buses travel long distances ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphBengal police on Thursday said the so-called Jamtara gang is now branching out to different parts of the country, including Bengal, to avoid detection. Bengal police have arrested as many as 46 people accused of cyber fraud in the ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphA second-year college student was allegedly threatened with an acid attack and told she would be ripped apart after she slapped a man who is said to have teased her for feeding stray dogs.The woman, who lives with her ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphThe estimated population of the saltwater crocodile in the Sunderbans is between 204 and 234, according to the 2024 census.The saltwater or estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), the largest living reptile in the world, is the apex predator in the ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphFE Block is set to go under electronic vigilance, joining a limited number of blocks in Salt Lake.A ceremonial demonstration was given on the day of Saraswati puja when residents were shown the feed from two temporarily installed cameras ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphSince classical music conferences are rare in the Salt Lake-New Town region, nine music enthusiasts of Uttara Housing Complex - Dwitiya have come together to establish the Uttara Newtown Cultural Society. Their mission is to organise an annual Indian ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA Government Railway Police officer was killed early on Thursday after a goods vehicle hit the two-wheeler he was riding on Kali Krishna Tagore Street in Burrabazar. Sandip Das, 38, was flung off his motorcycle under the impact of ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the ship, Lord Macartney, launched as an East Indiaman, arrived in Calcutta on its sixth and last voyage for the British East India Company.It had sailed from Portsmouth in England.It was then chartered by the British ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA branch manager of a nationalised bank has been arrested by the Bengal CID for allegedly creating mule accounts used to siphon funds of people duped into an investment racket.Police identified the accused as Sourav Mandal, who was in ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA planned screening of Ritwik Ghatak's Amar Lenin documentary and his seminal feature Komal Gandhar at a state-run school in Kolkata on February 10 was allegedly canceled due to objections from local ruling party supporters, citing the films' political ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphApollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, has introduced paediatric robotic surgery, bringing advanced technology to complex procedures for children. With robotic-assisted techniques, the hospital is reducing recovery time and improving surgical precision.At a news conference, Dr Debasish Mitra, Paediatric Robotic Surgeon ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress-backed junior doctors’ forum announced on Wednesday that they would work under the guidance of the association of senior doctors loyal to the ruling party and led by minister Shashi Panja.The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Association (WBJDA), ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court has asked the state primary education board to file an affidavit stating the reason behind the delay in publishing the TET 2023 (Teachers’ Eligibility Test) results. The report must be filed within three weeks.Justice Biswajit Basu ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe National Council Science Museum’s wall calendar for 2025 introduces phantasmagorical creatures that would give a good run for money to JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.The Technocoleus artificialis (a representation of the beetle) with ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphInnovations in biomedicine have the potential to make the world a much better place for future generations, a British science communicator said in Calcutta last month. “Innovation is what drives the world’s progress. We have lived through 50 years ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation has set up 22 urban health and wellness centres in the city in addition to the existing primary health centres to create more facilities for people to receive treatment. The health and wellness centres provide ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Sunderbans tiger that had strayed into a village and attacked forest personnel was captured in a trap cage early on Tuesday, forest officials said.The tiger, an adult male, was released back into the wild on Tuesday afternoon.The tiger ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphServices along the East-West corridor of Metro Railway, Kolkata, will remain suspended for four days from Thursday, for communication trial, the Metro said in a statement on Wednesday.The trial will be held as the tunnelling work between Esplanade and ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphAn aerial circular pathway around 18ft above the ground, just below the Metro viaduct, with five entry-exit points.That is the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA)’s plan to address pedestrian crossover woes at the busy Ruby rotary on EM Bypass.The ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphThese were among the issues flagged on Tuesday before the State Level Grievance Redressal Committee, which has been set up to hear doctors’ suggestions and complaints. The committee members visited two medical colleges in Calcutta during the day. They ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, printed an advertisement of “IELPS to English Composition” on its front page. This advertisement was in English, even as the rest of the matter on the page, mostly ...
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