Restaurant owners are likely to move court against the directive to shut down all rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns. Sources in the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) said a writ petition will be filed in ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to revoke the permissions it had given to the city’s rooftop establishments, said a senior official on Sunday.The KMC official said the civic body is well within its rights to withdraw the ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run in their Indian Premier League match here on Sunday to keep their play-off qualification hopes alive.Chasing 207 for a win, RR could manage 205 for 8 in 20 overs to ...
6 May 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal is set to experience moderate to severe thunderstorm activity over the next four days due to a combination of upper air circulations over the region.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), an upper air cyclonic circulation persists ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphWith Kolkata’s thriving rooftop dining scene facing sudden turbulence, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has stepped in to support restaurateurs grappling with uncertainty, business losses, and the looming threat of closure. The move comes in response to ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Saturday began sending notices to rooftop restaurants across the city, directing them to pull down illegally built portions or face legal action.A team from the fire services department and the KMC visited What’s ...
5 May 2025 TelegraphOver 96 per cent of the 3,250 students of Jadavpur University in the arts and science faculties said in a referendum that they wanted campus elections.On Wednesday and Thursday, a student referendum was held, seeking to know if they ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, has decided against opening a commerce section this year as the college does not have enough hostel facilities to accommodate the additional students.The college initially thought about starting a commerce section for day ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphSt James’ School held a special assembly on Friday to condemn the terror attack in Pahalgam and also to reinforce the ideals of brotherhood, unity and amity among the students.“We stand here today as Indians united in grief, cutting ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphBengal’s rugby team knocked powerhouse Haryana off its perch in the just-concluded national championships in Guwahati.In a thrilling final at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium on April 28, Bengal beat Haryana, which had been winning the tournament for eight ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphResidential buildings in New Town, which have been partly converted into commercial spaces, are being inspected over the weekend to check for fire safety compliance.The two-day drive will be held on 227 premises in the township that are used ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphPolice teams will start visiting hotels, restaurants and pubs in the jurisdiction of their police stations to check for fire preparedness, senior officers said on Saturday.Officers will check a list of things mandatory for the fire safety of visitors ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphDemolition work at LMNOQ Skybar, a popular rooftop establishment on Park Street, continued through Saturday following Thursday’s surprise inspection by the chief minister who voiced fire safety concerns.The rooftop venue, located on the 12th floor of Celica House within ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphA night navigation system that will allow ships to move into the city even during the high tide at night was launched at the Calcutta port on Saturday.The move promises to enhance the port’s capacity to handle ships.The Calcutta ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphHospitals in Calcutta should have preventive oncology departments which could help in early detection of cancer cases, several experts said on Friday.“There are many who don’t have cancer but who fall in the high-risk category because of family history ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s rooftop cafés, lounges, bars and restaurants will be shut down, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday, confounding a segment that has been booming since the pandemic and boasts of some of the city’s most popular hangouts.A building’s terrace ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphA contractor engaged for interior work on the first floor of Rituraj Hotel, where a fire killed 14 people, has been arrested.Khurshid Alam, 42, is a resident of Rifle Range Road in Karaya. He was arrested on Thursday evening.Police ...
4 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will operate more trains on the Purple Line, bringing down the interval between two services from 50 minutes to 22 minutes, officials said on Saturday.The isolated Purple Line is at present operational between Joka and Majerhat in ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers barred from returning to school met education minister Bratya Basu at Bikash Bhavan on Friday. The teachers demanded they be allowed to go to school and draw salaries till December 31, along the lines of the temporary relief extended to those ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphThree teenagers overcame tough obstacles and passed this year’s Madhyamik exams on Friday.The marks scored by the trio not only narrate stories of achievements but also bear proof of their resilience and spirit to not give up in the ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a flex and hologram manufacturing unit in Sector V on Friday afternoon, police said.Thick smoke covered Salt Lake’s eastern skyline. Eleven fire tenders took around two hours to bring the blaze under control. An ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphSome former students of Jadavpur University, with support from Rotary International, have raised funds to upgrade the university’s accessible library used by visually impaired students.The library, upgraded at a cost of ₹38.5 lakh, was thrown open to the students ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities have decided to constitute a committee to look into the reasons behind the spate of student suicides on the campus and suggest if there is a need to improve the system, the institute’s acting director said ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphA pandemic fuelled their stupendous growth. Now, a devastating fire has cast a cloud of uncertainty over their future.Like other metros, Calcutta witnessed a steep rise in the number of al fresco food and beverage outlets in the wake ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphParts of a popular rooftop hangout on Park Street were demolished on Friday for alleged violation of the civic body’s building rules on terraces.LMNOQ Skybar was one of the six restaurants at Celica Park on Park Street which were ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a directive shutting down all rooftop restaurants across the city, citing safety concerns, reported ABP Ananda on Friday.The decision comes a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited Celica Park, Park Street on ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphFire broke out at a chemical factory in Sector V Salt Lake on Friday afternoon. Multiple fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. Second major fire in three days after 14 people died of suffocation in a Burrabazar ...
3 May 2025 Telegraph“I studied at Presidency from 1936 to 1940. I didn’t start in arts. I began with science.” The words are Satyajit Ray’s. In a 1993 interview for ‘Nostalgia’, a commemorative illustrated history of Presidency College (now Presidency University), Ray ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have come out with a list of the victims of the fire at Rituraj Hotel, which claimed 14 lives. The deceased include 11 men, one woman and two children.Two of the deceased have yet to be identified, the ...
3 May 2025 TelegraphThe marks they scored in the board exams are not a testament of what they wrote in their answer scripts alone, but of their grit, patience and resilience.Metro spoke to two boys who braved the odds and emerged successful.Sk ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphRain lashed the city after a round of powerful gusts of wind on Thursday evening, the third thunderstorm in five days.A woman who took shelter under a tree in Behala died after the tree got uprooted during Thursday’s squall. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sent the city’s business community a tough message: Follow fire safety norms or face government action.Mamata, who was visiting Rituraj Hotel where a fire had killed 14 people on Tuesday night, said the ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphSix bars and restaurants in Celica Park, formerly known as Magma House, on Park Street were shut down on Thursday after chief minister Mamata Banerjee made a surprise visit on her way from the fire-ravaged Rituraj Hotel and flagged ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphSacked teachers allowed to return to schools until the end of the year, organised a drive to speed up their preparations to file a review petition against the Supreme Court order terminating their jobs.The Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum held ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphA 61-year-old from Tamil Nadu and his two grandchildren stayed back in the hotel while his son and daughter-in-law went out to get dinner. All three at the hotel are now dead. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphOn Tuesday night, T. Prabhu climbed up a fire rescue ladder, smashed one of the windowpanes of Rituraj Hotel and tried to look in, searching for his two kids and father-in-law.A thick layer of smoke hung inside Room No. ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphFirefighters and police broke open at least 10 doors bolted from inside at Rituraj Hotel on Wednesday morning and found people hiding in washrooms or lying on beds. All of them were dead by then.Some of them would have ...
2 May 2025 TelegraphFrom the ashes and tears of Tuesday night’s fire emerged the story of a family that braved the flames and stood on a fourth-floor cornice of Rituraj Hotel for nearly an hour, patiently waiting to be rescued.A couple and ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphA brother and sister, who had come from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Calcutta to buy rakhis for an exhibition, were among those who died in Tuesday night’s fire at Rituraj Hotel.Akriti Navalgarhia, 22, and her brother Kamal, 36, ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphOver 250 teenage rowers, gearing up for a tournament in the Rabindra Sarobar slated next month, will have to learn how to cling to a boat in the event of a capsize, remain calm, not panic and wait for ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphAlmost 24-hours after a fire in a city hotel claimed the lives of 14 people, including two children, the Kolkata Police registered a case against authorities of the Rituraj Hotel.The Jorasanko police station, under whose jurisdiction the hotel at ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphPolice on Wednesday afternoon demolished a shanty at the rooftop slum in central Kolkata’s Karnani Estate that started as the servant quarters for the cooks, khansamas and drivers employed by American and British officers who lived in the building ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphThe Rituraj hotel at Burrabazar’s Mechhuapatty turned into a gas chamber on Tuesday night with no outlet for the thick smoke sparked by a fire that claimed at least 14 lives.The fire broke out around 7.30pm on Tuesday and ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur authorities will decide this week whether they will form a committee to probe the death of a fourth-year student who was found hanging on the campus on April 20, said the institute’s acting director.The mother and brother ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphJadavpur: Authorities of Jadavpur University on Tuesday whitewashed graffiti that said “Azad Kashmir”, a day after a section of students wrote to the pro-vice chancellor demanding it be erased.At a time when 26 people were killed by militants in ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphMathematics is not just for textbooks, it can also effectively address real-world issues — even those faced by supply chains in bustling cities worldwide. A notable contribution to this direction was presented by professor Leopoldo Eduardo Cardenas-Barrón, a faculty ...
1 May 2025 TelegraphThe tragedy at Pahalgam is a stark reminder of the “fragility of peace” and the memories of those who died in Kashmir should inspire others to work harder for “a world free from hatred and violence”, the principal of ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphBidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya has decided to bring the entire campus under CCTV surveillance by May 15 after an offensive poster was pasted on the university’s notice board in the wake of the Pahalgam tragedy. Ashok Kumar Patra, vice-chancellor of the ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphThe chief justice of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday set up a special bench of three judges to probe the alleged attack on the chamber of senior advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya last week.The panel set up by Chief Justice ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA domestic help suspected of stealing gold jewellery at her employer’s home allegedly kept changing location to avert arrest.The woman was arrested recently from Regent Park, which police said was the third house she had shifted to in the ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphSacked teachers barred from returning to school met the school service commission chairperson on Tuesday evening to demand that they be allowed to work until December and draw their salaries.The sacked teachers identified as tainted met SSC chairperson Siddhartha ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphAt least 14 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in central Calcutta on Tuesday night, a senior police officer said.The fire erupted at Rituraj Hotel in Jorasanko’s Mechua area around 8.15pm on Tuesday."Fourteen bodies have been ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of overnight rain dragged the Celsius down by several notches in Calcutta on Tuesday, making an end-April afternoon far more bearable than it usually is.The Met office recorded around 23mm of rain in Alipore between 8.30pm ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphBoxes, each the size of three train coaches, are being pushed through the soil to create a Metro Rail tunnel at the city airport.The 14 boxes constructed of concrete and reinforced cement are being used to build the 135-metre ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA hotel in central Calcutta caught fire on Tuesday night, trapping several and prompting at least two people inside to panic and jump from the third floor.One of those who jumped died from his injuries. The other was admitted ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a guesthouse at Gol Park by men aged 20 or less whom she had befriended on Instagram and later subdued into silence with the threat of posting a video of the crime ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata: Three persons have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor at a guest house in south Kolkata’s Golpark area, while the fourth accused is absconding.The accused- all teenagers- had met the victim through social media and invited ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphA stretch of Camac Street has been cordoned off to repair a cave-in that followed the collapse of an underground brick sewer.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has dug a 6ft-wide and 20ft-long trench to repair the cave-in. Police cordoned off ...
30 April 2025 TelegraphThe names of some of the protest leaders among sacked teachers who did not feature among those being allowed to work till December have been included in an updated list.The district inspectors of schools (DIs) on Monday started sending ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphSalt Lake’s roads remain a shame. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority — both involved in road repair works — say they have repaired half the roads allotted to them. Township residents, however, complained ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphA man jumped in front of the rear wheels of a goods vehicle on Diamond Harbour Road in Thakurpukur on Monday morning and ended his life.Police said the identity of the person could not be established till Monday evening.The ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe CBI has examined 12 new witnesses in the last month in connection with their probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024, the central agency ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court will hear from May 7 the state’s appeal against an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in May 2023 cancelling the appointments of over 36,000 primary school teachers based on the 2014 teachers’ eligibility test.On Monday, the ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphDismissed teachers who have been barred from returning to school assembled near the Hazra crossing on Monday afternoon, demanding that they be allowed to work till December 31 like the rest or be given a monthly allowance until their ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta high court on Monday instructed the Kolkata Police to identify those involved in the heckling of lawyers inside the court premises.On Friday lawyers Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and Firdous Shamim, representing those qualified in the school service commission ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphAn elderly city businessman, who lost his wife a month ago, was found dead in a pool of blood with a gunshot to his head and his licensed gun lying near him on the terrace of his CIT Road ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphA doctor refusing to treat a patient because of her religion would be violating the ethics of the profession and the oath taken by doctors, several senior doctors said on Sunday.A public health expert said that the refusal by ...
29 April 2025 TelegraphAnger is a normal and fundamental human emotion. According to a study, healthy individuals get angry once or twice a week. However, excessive anger is abnormal and considered an unacceptable social behaviour.Anger exists as a spectrum from normal emotion ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphA team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday recorded the statement of the family members of Bitan Adhikary, one of the three Calcuttans to have been killed in the Pahalgam terror attack last week. The three-member team, ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe non-teaching employees sacked by the Supreme Court early in April have rejected the state government’s proposal to provide them a monthly allowance.They alleged that the government has not committed to publishing a segregated list and is not ready ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe season’s first Nor’wester stuck Calcutta at 62kmph on Saturday.At least one more squall is due in Calcutta in a day or two, said a Met official.Saturday’s storm, which brought relief to a parched city, began around 9.30pm. The ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government is struggling to find drivers and conductors for its buses. A first tender, which was floated recently, saw only one agency responding. The transport department has decided to give it a second try.Many buses now lie ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphA youth from Haryana has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a fraud where he threatened a resident of Salt Lake with digital arrest and duped him out of ₹45 lakh.Police identified the accused by his first name, ...
28 April 2025 TelegraphSome schools have reduced the number of hours and are giving off early because of the heat and discomfort, and some others have drawn up a summer timetable that they will follow from next week.Most schools have suspended outdoor ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphTwo godowns stacked with rubber and plastic items and a truck were gutted after a fire broke out in an electrical transformer in Dhapa, adjoining Basanti Highway, on Saturday afternoon.Eight fire tenders battled strong winds to bring the flames ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA team from the national investigation agency visited the home of Sameer Guha, one of the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack, on Saturday.A three-member team of the agency, led by a woman of the rank of deputy superintendent ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of school education has sent the district inspectors of schools in six districts more names of sacked teachers who cannot return to school.The names had been “inadvertently” included in the list drawn up by the school service ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphCancer treatment has changed by leaps and bounds over the past decade.Advanced technology, greater attention to well-being during treatment and quality of life after treatment have made a disease whose outcome was a foregone conclusion not so long ago, ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Saturday that the Bengal government would provide monthly allowances to sacked non-teaching school employees until the Supreme Court rules on a review petition the state plans to file.Under this relief measure, Group C ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old pregnant Muslim woman in Calcutta was allegedly refused treatment by a doctor who told her she would not treat “Mohammedan” patients in the wake of the terror attack on tourists in Kashmir.The doctor allegedly said people from ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA Punjab-born businessman settled in Dubai has been helping Indians stuck there return home.Surinder Pal Singh Oberoi, 69, has varied business interests. He has helped people languishing in prisons despite completing their terms because they did not have the ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphFresh applications to be enlisted as thika tenants, a process that was not being allowed since 2014, will be opened for a six-month window from May 1, mayor Firhad Hakim announced on Friday. All registered slums — which the ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphPeople who have led their businesses from the front and scripted unique success stories were felicitated at an awards show in Calcutta on Thursday evening.The Calcutta Management Association (CMA) Management Excellence Awards 2025 in association with The Telegraph, had ...
27 April 2025 TelegraphA biomining project to clear legacy waste from Dhapa that started in 2019 has stopped midway, leaving incomplete the task of chipping tall hillocks of waste that have accumulated over decades. Only about 30 per cent of legacy waste ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphJustice Biswajit Basu of Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the school education department to file an affidavit stating what prompted the state cabinet to create supernumerary posts for physical education and work education teachers.The department will have to ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphCadaveric organ donations had picked up pace in 2018. But the number of donations per year has shown a marginal rise between then and now, the director of the regional organ and tissue transplant organisation (ROTTO) said on Friday.There ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTwo men who had allegedly conned a Dum Dum resident last month by posing as police and making him part with his valuables have been arrested in Maharashtra. Officers of Baguiati police station arrested the duo on April 21. ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe woman whose body was found stuffed in a trolley bag in Baguiati two days ago was identified as a mother of two from Murshidabad.Police have arrested a man whom the woman had “met” on Facebook a few months ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphA university had to reaffirm its commitment to fostering inclusivity on campus after a poster that spews communal hatred appeared on the university’s official notice board and was lapped up by social media in no time.Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTwo contrasting demonstrations, both condemning the Pahalgam terror attack, played out at Esplanade on Friday evening.While both called for swift action against the perpetrators, one meeting blamed Muslims for the carnage. The other urged Indians to stay united in ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphTeachers deemed eligible to take classes until December 31 and draw their salaries shifted their protest to Shahid Minar after the other group allegedly beat them up in front of the school service commission’s office in Salt Lake on ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphBA BlockWhat does the next generation think about our mother tongue? BA Block held a panel discussion on Poila Baisakh where residents were invited to speak on this topic.“My mother, though educated in a missionary school with Irish teachers, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police on Friday announced the westbound flank of the MAA Flyover will be closed to traffic during night hours for an entire month from Monday onwards. The closure, aimed at facilitating the replacement of an expansion joint, ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphSajid Hussain, a resident of Sanjeeva Gardens on the outskirts of Action Area 1D, was coming home with his children on the evening of April 5 when his car started crawling in front of the Sector V housing complex ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphMeghna Chakravorty had shut out the world for the last year and half. She had attended just one invitation in December, that too after her Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Mains examination got over. “But once my Mains results ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius dropped on Thursday but the city still felt like a pressure cooker because of high humidity.The Met office offered hope. A wet spell is expected to bring relief from the sultry conditions over the weekend.Thunderstorms are expected ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphA 29-year-old man, who tried to protect his woman friend from harassment by three men in a deserted neighbourhood in New Town early on Thursday, was beaten to death.Sanket Chatterjee, who received multiple stitches on his head after being ...
26 April 2025 TelegraphLocal2024: The first open-air Id-ul-Fitr namaz in New Town takes place at the fairground near Biswa Bangla Gate on April 11. Public namaz had started in the township previous year at Action Area 1 community hall but space was ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphSizzler isn’t just food, it’s an experience,” says Saswati Barik. Indeed, from the moment it leaves the kitchen and makes its way to the table, the sizzling sound turns heads. Faces break into smiles, space is cleared for the ...
25 April 2025 TelegraphHundreds of girls have used kabaddi to reclaim their space in the community, defy patriarchy, fight gender bias, change their own mindset and that of those around them.The sports-based intervention that has helped adolescents and teenage girls find a ...
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