The CBI on Saturday submitted a status report at the Sealdah court on its probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year. The young doctor was found ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe additional chief judicial magistrate court in Alipore granted permission on Friday to Hindol Mazumdar, a PhD candidate and former student of Jadavpur University, to skip his physical appearance at the hearings. A lawyer representing Mazumdar, who was arrested at ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe chairman of the council of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has convened a meeting of the institute’s highest administrative body on January 24 to “discuss the ISI bill”. The bill seeks to replace the council with a board ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought to reinforce the BJP's narrative that it could win elections anywhere in India, citing the party’s recent victories in municipal polls in Maharashtra and at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Addressing a public meeting in ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphSurajit Saha, the Trinamool councillor of ward 8 of Balurghat town in South Dinajpur, was unanimously elected as the new chairman of Balurghat municipality on Saturday. Munmun Kar, the councillor of ward 21, was nominated by Saha as the new ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Alipurduar — the lone tiger reserve in north Bengal — clicked an adult male Bengal tiger on Thursday during an ongoing camera trapping exercise. The development has reinforced evidence of continued presence and movement ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Shukla, the subdivisional officer of Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district, received a notice for a verification hearing of the ongoing SIR (special intensive revision) of electoral roll due to a discrepancy in the spelling of his name in ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphHundreds of voters held demonstrations in front of the residences of three booth-level officers (BLOs) in Cooch Behar district on Saturday in protest against the notices for hearing issued to them in connection with the ongoing special intensive revision ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday urged the judiciary to safeguard the country’s Constitution and democracy, speaking in the presence of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and other senior judges. “The judiciary is the custodian of the Indian Constitution,” the chief ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lambasted a “stone-hearted” Trinamool Congress on Bengal’s soil but caused surprise with his silence on Mamata Banerjee’s storming of Enforcement Directorate raid sites, the biggest flashpoint between their parties in the run-up to ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMurtaj Sheikh, a 60-year-old resident of Farakka, had to walk nearly 3km on Saturday afternoon with his fractured arm in a sling to catch a bus after a medical review at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in Behrampore. The ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphTough conditions mandated by the Centre and the delay in the processing of formalities by the Bengal government are acting as major stumbling blocks for workers looking for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). A ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission will conduct nearly seven lakh hearings per day from Monday to complete the hearings of 95 lakh voters flagged with logical discrepancies in their enumeration forms by February 7, the last date of the hearing and ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMob violence over the alleged assault of a migrant worker in Bihar erupted at Beldanga in Murshidabad on Saturday, forcing police to resort to lathicharge and burst tear gas shells to clear a blockade on National Highway 12 and ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphFor the first time in the 49-year history of the International Kolkata Book Fair, there is a slim possibility of an official US pavilion coming up at the event this year, the organisers said on Saturday. The fair will be ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday trained guns at the BJP for the recent incidents of attack and torture on Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in BJP-ruled states, while she tried to consolidate Hindu votes by laying the foundation stone ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday stayed the operation of the Calcutta High Court judgment that had disqualified Trinamool Congress leader and former BJP MLA Mukul Roy from the Assembly under the anti-defection law, as the country's top court prima ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphThe protests by residents against the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll continued even on Friday in multiple locations of the state, right from north to south of Bengal. In Cooch Behar, even a section of booth-level ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi came to Malda with the “infiltrator" stick to hit the ruling Trinamool in Bengal ahead of the state Assembly polls. In a public meeting in Sahapur on Saturday, Modi referred to the BJP-ruled states surrounding Bengal ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphIndian author-activist Arundhati Roy spoke about her memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, at St Xavier’s College in Kolkata on Wednesday. This was the first public event for her book outside Kerala. Organised by the Kalam Club, the ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA booth-level officer (BLO) was found dead in Mukundapur on Thursday morning. A BJP leader from the locality has claimed that the local Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation exerted mental stress on him, which led to ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphLoud cheers. A carnival mood. The roar of challenge. Nicco Park burst into energy as it came alive with music, colour and competition at TTIS Challenge 2026. Presented by Narayana International School and Credmont International School and powered by J.D. ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphOne of the two nurses who tested positive for the Nipah virus regained consciousness on Thursday. The other remains in a coma but is responding to “painful stimulation”, state health officials said. Both nurses are admitted at a private hospital ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphLady Brabourne College has informed Calcutta University that it wishes to admit students to its master’s programmes either through admission tests or interviews this year. The government college offers postgraduate programmes in 10 subjects: physics, chemistry, mathematics, botany, zoology, microbiology, ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Belgharia railway overbridge, which connects parts of Dunlop, Kamarhati, and its adjoining areas with Nimta and Birati on the city’s northern fringes, will remain closed from Saturday for repair and maintenance work. The project to enhance the stability of ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA fire broke out in a chemical godown in a congested locality off Burrabazar on Thursday afternoon. The flames threatened to leap across to the other shops and residential buildings, but were contained in time. Police said there were no reports ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphJustice Suvra Ghosh of the high court on Thursday refused to allow the BJP to proceed with its proposed dharna near the main gate of the state secretariat Nabanna. The judge said that the party may organise its event from ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphYou know the visually impaired “read” by touching and identifying a system of raised dots called Braille, but do you know how Braille is written? January 4 was World Braille Day, and the Workshop for the Blind in LB Block ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphOver the past month, a Sector III mom in her 30s shared six separate social media posts of her eight-year-old son. In the snaps, the child plays cricket, sings, makes a greeting card and enjoys a family picnic. A ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphUniworld City began the 11th edition of its gala cricket tournament — Uniworld Premiere League, being held in association with The Telegraph Salt Lake — last Friday. The opening ceremony of the UPL was a heady mix of music, ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA new website has catalogued the complete repository of republic India’s online coins and notes, and also provides monetary evaluation of individual items from a collector’s perspective. The website, www.numiscape.com, was launched last month on the concluding evening of Mudra ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphRabindra Tirtha was packed to capacity on a Sunday afternoon for a film screening. The film had an unusual title — Dear Secretary Sir. It was centred on an unusual man — Md. Nurul Islam — and his equally ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphTensions spiralled into violence on Thursday when residents of several areas of Goalpokher-II block in Chakulia, North Dinajpur, attacked the office of the block development officer (BDO), accusing a section of officials of harassment on the pretext of "hearings ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe death of a 30-year-old hawker from Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand sparked protests on the highway and rail tracks in Murshidabad’s Beldanga on Friday. The family members of the hawker, Mohammad Alauddin Sheikh, brought his corpse back home and sat ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court’s verdict disqualifying senior leader Mukul Roy as a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly following his defection from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress. A bench comprising Chief Justice ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphWith West Bengal assembly elections just months away, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee sharpened the political contest in Nandigram by announcing that Sebashray health camps would be held in the constituency every year, issuing a direct challenge to BJP ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the chief executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), has urged the state government to introduce a pension scheme for tea workers aged 58 and above who have reached the age of retirement in closed tea estates. In ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphGunshots were fired by unknown persons late on Wednesday night at Samajpara in Jalpaiguri town. At least two bullet marks were found — one on a car parked by the road and another on the window of a residential building. ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Thursday issued a notice to former foreign secretary Krishnan Srinivasan, who turns 89 next month, to attend a hearing as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list. Srinivasan, a retired Indian Foreign ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphAlipurduar district police on Wednesday recovered stolen gold and arrested the accused in connection with a November 2025 theft case reported from Subhashpally under the Jaigaon police station limits of the district. Police sources said that on November 26, Joydeep ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Bengal Business Council (BBC), a state-level trade body, opened its north Bengal chapter in Siliguri on Thursday, aiming to empower Bengali entrepreneurs in the region. According to council members, the new chapter is an extension of BBC’s flagship initiative, ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA couple were hacked to death by their relative over a family dispute in the Mathabhanga subdivision of Cooch Behar on Wednesday. The accused, Narayan Barman, was arrested. A source said Dilip Barman, 40 — of Bhogmara-Dakuatari village under the ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday took up the task to try and make a dent in the BJP’s support base in Cooch Behar with a three-fold strategy. Abhishek walked on the dais with 10 ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThe CPM on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of turning the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls into a process to exclude voters and determine the outcome of the 2026 Assembly polls. "We have been in the grip ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee and Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday attacked the Election Commission over Form 7, used to delete names from the voter list or object to the addition of names, in the middle of the special intensive revision (SIR) of ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThe hills bade farewell to noted singer-actor Prashant Tamang on Tuesday. Tamang, who was 43, died of sudden cardiac arrest in Delhi on Sunday. On Tuesday afternoon, Tamang's last rites were performed at Alubari-Murdahati, a hamlet on the outskirts of Darjeeling ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool–run civic board of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to ban the movement of goods-carrying and dump trucks in the municipal area from 8am to 9pm, mayor Gautam Deb said here on Tuesday. “We will not allow ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphA herd of 17 wild elephants entered Cooch Behar district's Balasundar village in the Mathabhanga subdivision, about 10km south of the Jaldapara National Park in Alipurduar district, on Tuesday morning. The herd mostly stayed on the bank of the Dudua ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphBengal INTTUC president Ritabrata Banerjee said on Monday that provident fund (PF) dues in the north Bengal tea industry reached around ₹100 crore after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister because of non-payment by a section of companies to ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphTwo nurses at a private hospital in Barasat, North 24-Parganas, are suspected to be infected with the Nipah virus, the state government said on Monday. Both patients were unconscious and on ventilator support on Monday evening and are being treated ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphPower supply affected Metro services early on Tuesday morning as a train got stuck in the tunnel between Rabindra Sadan and Netaji Bhawan stations. Metro sources said the passengers were rescued and brought safely to the Netaji Bhawan station. While efforts ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThe police commissioner of Calcutta, Manoj Verma, said on Monday that the fatalities from road accidents in Calcutta declined from 191 in 2024 to 154 in 2025, the lowest figure recorded in any metro city. According to Verma, the subsequent ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphMetro Railway has promised additional trains connecting Howrah with Salt Lake for the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair. Around 20 nations are set to take part in the fair, which commences on January 22. The fairground located at Karunamoyee in Salt ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphA platform of former Presidency students wrote to the vice-chancellor on Monday, requesting him to “advise” the physics department to screen undergraduate students through an admission test conducted by the department. The department last week resolved to admit students based ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphThousands of devotees and schoolchildren gathered at Belur Math, the global headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, on Monday to pay tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 164th birth anniversary, which is also celebrated as National Youth ...
14 January 2026 TelegraphKolkata is a city that survives on conversation. But the question that now hovers over every conversation about the city is, will Kolkata's youth stay in Kolkata long enough to keep the conversation alive? At the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFree public entry will be permitted at the Taj Mahal for three days from January 15 to 17 on the occasion of the 371st Urs (death anniversary) of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, officials said on Monday. During this period, visitors ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphLocal train services were disrupted on Monday morning after a stall on the platform at Baghajatin station in south Kolkata caught fire, officials said. The fire broke out around 6 am and quickly spread, engulfing the area in thick smoke, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphHawkers at the Oberoi Grand Arcade in Esplanade are again occupying more than one-third of the width of the pavement, defying a court order and street vending rules. In an order issued in November 2023, Justice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has instructed school principals to preserve CCTV recordings of the ICSE and ISC examinations for 60 days after the declaration of results. The deputy secretary (ISC), Sangeeta Bhatia, told principals at ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphStudents should be taught to report bullying to a trusted adult or to distract the bully without putting themselves at risk, said an association of early childhood and primary education. A 24-page document, published recently, contains directions for students, schools, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphIt was a Saturday but the ground-floor classrooms at South Point High School were brimming. The reunion of the Association of South Point Ex Students (Aspexs), in association with The Telegraph, was underway and to mark the 30th anniversary, ...
12 January 2026 Telegraph- A Class VIII girl was treated as an outcast in school because she did not have enough followers on her social media account. Her friends refused to have “tiffin” with her. - Another Class IX girl kept sending her ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphIn the fall of 2010, I was a visiting student at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as it was known back in the day, when I became embroiled in an argument on whether infertility treatment should be offered ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA city-based trader, who sought to open a grocery store in New Town, was purportedly swindled by a wholesale vendor whose phone number was sourced through an online app. Last week, the complainant, Debaditya Pathak, reported to the New Town ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee had sent a letter to Shakespeare Sarani police station last Thursday informing them about her impending visit to the apartment of Pratik Jain, a few minutes before she herself reached the Loudon Street address where ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Sunday asked why Bengal’s top bureaucracy was at Mamata Banerjee’s side during the “file heist” from the sites of Thursday’s ED raids on I-PAC, questioning her argument that she had acted as Trinamool Congress chief and ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has stated that official records of workers at tea gardens and cinchona plantations in north Bengal would be counted as a valid document to prove the identity and the place of residence of a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Sikkim government has discontinued physical permits issued to foreign nationals visiting protected and restricted areas of the mountain state and instead made online clearance mandatory for them. A source in the state’s tourism and civil aviation department stated that ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) posted at the India-Nepal border and the Darjeeling district police acted on a tip-off to foil a cattle smuggling bid early on Sunday and recovered 19 buffaloes. Three persons, including a suspected smuggler, were arrested ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFormer militants and linkmen of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) began a relay hunger strike in front of the Cooch Behar municipal office on Monday, demanding their recruitment as special home guards. The protesters alleged that the identity verification of ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA leopard was captured in a cage at a village in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday morning, becoming the third leopard that has been rescued from the area within one week. The leopard was trapped at Kuthabari vilage under Angrabhasa-II panchayat ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphTwo persons died in different parts of West Bengal on Monday, with the families of both claiming that anxiety related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was the reason for their deaths. A middle-aged man collapsed ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphFormer India cricketer and Bengal team coach Laxmi Ratan Shukla could not appear for SIR hearing as he is currently in Rajkot for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, officials said on Monday. Shukla was scheduled to attend the hearing on January ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphTwo nurses suspected of being infected by the Nipah virus are on life support at a private hospital in North 24 Parganas’ Barasat, around 26 km from Kolkata. The blood samples collected from both the nurses, a man and a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphA section of BLOs on Monday staged a protest in front of the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, alleging that the EC has remained indifferent to the deaths of several BLOs during the ongoing SIR of ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe mortal remains of singer-actor Prashant Tamang were brought to his home in Darjeeling on Monday amid an outpouring of grief and reverence, marking the return of a cultural icon whose rise from a Kolkata Police personnel to a ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday hinted at a deliberate attempt by the Election Commission to remove the names of voters caught in the “logical discrepancy” net. This is the ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphPurulia in West Bengal witnessed an unusual winter spectacle as frost appeared across parts of the district amid record low temperatures over the past few days, officials said. Frost covered farmlands and vegetation, and was seen on grassy fields, haystacks, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has sought the Supreme Court’s direction in filing an FIR against Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. In two petitions filed before the apex court on Monday, the agency has also asked for FIRs to be filed against ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India has indicated possible action against Mousam Sarkar, Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) of Bagnan Assembly constituency, for publicly questioning alleged logical discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, an official said on Monday. Sarkar, ...
12 January 2026 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in Calcutta dropped to 11.5° Celsius on Saturday from 12.1° the day before. Saturday morning was 2.5° colder than normal, based on a 30-year average. The maximum temperature of 22° was also a couple of notches below ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphA booth level officer (BLO) was found hanging inside a primary school in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, with his family alleging that excessive SIR work pressure led him to take his own life, police said on Sunday. The death of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday demanded imprisonment of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, DGP Rajeev Kumar and senior police officer Manoj Verma, accusing them of obstructing an ED raid at premises linked to political consultancy firm I-PAC, and violating ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphFormer students and teachers of Presidency University’s celebrated physics department have expressed opposition to the department’s decision to admit undergraduate students based on Plus-II board scores. Many said that the move could dilute the quality of student selection, and that ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphA festival to celebrate the Hooghly, which aims to draw more people towards the river, was held at the Prinsep Ghat on Saturday. Despite the Hooghly flowing by Calcutta’s western boundary, both authorities and citizens have neglected the river for ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe parents of Abhaya, the junior doctor who was raped and killed inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, on Saturday announced their decision to set up a non-profit, semi-charitable hospital at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress–run civic board of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will unveil a statue of Swami Vivekananda at Jhankar More, a prominent intersection in the city, on January 12 to mark the birth anniversary of the revered monk. “₹ ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has appointed four senior IAS officers to the Bengal CEO’s office as “special roll observers” ahead of the hearings of voters whose filled-in enumeration forms show “logical discrepancies”. These hearings, of about 40 lakh voters in the ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate and the Bengal government on Saturday simultaneously approached the Supreme Court over the central agency’s raid on I-PAC and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged interference, which have electrified the poll-bound state. In its plea, the ED has ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday, said asking Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to appear before poll officials to establish his credentials as part of the ongoing special intensive revision ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling district CPM launched its “Adhikar Raksha Abhiyan (campaign to protect rights)” in the hills on Saturday. Saman Pathak, the secretary of the party’s Darjeeling district committee, said the campaign was a part of the CPM’s broader “Bangla Bachao ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphResidents of Malda district's Narayanpur, Kismatpur and some other villages in Mojampur panchayat under Kaliachak police station limits have decided to form surveillance teams to curb the activities of narcotics peddling rackets and assist police in their fight against ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee said on Saturday that 70 people had died in Bengal because of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list, which, according to him, was a part of the BJP’s attempt to harass the people of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAmyt Datta has never been one to dramatise his presence. At 65, with over five decades of playing behind him, Kolkata’s resident guitar god continues to perform regularly, staying rooted in a sound shaped by the rock music of ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphBangla ZEE5 Friday launched the title track of its upcoming web series Kaalipotka, offering a glimpse into the dark and unapologetically bold world of the show directed by Abhirup Ghosh. The track, titled Kaalipotka, features singer Jojo Mukherjee on vocals, ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphData from a desktop computer was midway through a transfer when Mamata Banerjee walked into I-PAC’s Salt Lake office on Thursday morning, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sources said. The chief minister was cordial in her interaction, while ED personnel present at ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA zoology student who would have quit midway had it not been for an organisation that supported her education, went back to her alma mater to volunteer for them. Nahid Jawed, 20, helped other parents from backgrounds similar to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphSeveral thoroughfares in Calcutta that were disturbed to lay underground utility lines, some of which are being laid for the first time, are now either filled with the soil that was removed or with crushed bricks. The roads continue to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has to intensify its efforts to reach out to former students to attract significant funds, the varsity’s vice-chancellor said at a meeting with an alumni platform on Friday. At a meeting organised by a US-based alumni foundation on ...
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