Portions of a house in Eliot Lane near Ripon Street in Calcutta collapsed on Tuesday morning, though no injuries were reported. The two-storey building is home to 13 residents. According to an engineer from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), an extension ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphTwo persons were arrested in Patuli on Monday night for allegedly hitting two riders and a pedestrian while driving recklessly in a car bearing a government sticker, police said. The arrested duo, who were allegedly drunk, have been identified as ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphMany passengers who were stranded in several countries of the war-ravaged West Asia returned to India on Tuesday after a few national and international carriers carried out some special flights to bring them back. Passengers arriving in Delhi recounted moments ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphLimited flight operations between India and some cities of West Asia resumed on Tuesday but thousands remain stranded as the airspace disruptions continued, as the US and Israel’s conflict with Iran entered the fourth day. Evacuation flights operated between cities ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphA portion of an old building collapsed in central Kolkata's Park Street area on Tuesday morning, police said. The incident happened around 6.30 am. As the occupants were outside the house at the time, they narrowly escaped the accident. Residents said ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphConcrete chunks fell off the exterior of the elevated Central Park Metro station on the Green line on Monday, exposing steel beams and instigating panic among commuters. Witnesses reported seeing chunks fall off the belly of the overhead station around ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphJadavpur: Installation of CCTV cameras began at Jadavpur University after several proddings from the high court. The university’s registrar said the education department sanctioned ₹68 lakh for the project in November. “Cameras have been installed in different parts of Aurobindo Bhavan, ...
4 March 2026 TelegraphFlight disruptions continued at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Tuesday as 10 more international services to and from Gulf destinations were cancelled amid the ongoing crisis in West Asia. According to airport officials, a total of five ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphThe rewaj of savouring rewaji mutton or kochi patha on Dol was a non-negotiable deal for many Kolkatans this year, with high demand leading to queues outside meat shops and pushing the price to Rs 1,000 per kg in ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphA 21-year-old Calcuttan, now in Dubai, narrated his experience and anxieties to Metro. The man, whom this newspaper is not identifying, lives in the Jebel Ali area with about 1,000 others. The Jebel Ali port, which is nearby, has been ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphPanic buying and rising food prices continued in Dubai on Monday, though the roads had a few more vehicles and pedestrians compared with the deserted streets of Sunday. Life is far from normal, but some people are venturing out despite ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphEmirates, Etihad Airways and flydubai announced on Monday that they would resume a limited number of flights from their West Asian hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to repatriate stranded travellers. Two Etihad flights from Abu Dhabi landed in Delhi ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphA Calcuttan who travelled to Dubai for business 10 days ago is among many stranded there, uncertain when he will be able to return home. Md Asif Sadique, 42, a resident of Beck Bagan and a businessman dealing in electronic ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphUnion home minister Amit Shah on Monday promised abundant "corruption-free" government jobs and implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission for state government employees, in an apparent bid to counter Mamata Banerjee's Yuva Sathi scheme for unemployed youths and other ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has finalised the deployment plan for another 240 companies of central forces to reach Bengal on March 10, continuing its focus on the bordering districts as it did during the first phase of deployment. In the first ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphThe full bench of the Election Commission of India, led by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, is set to visit Bengal on March 9 and 10 to review the state’s preparedness to conduct the Assembly polls after the contentious ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphThe Union Home Ministry has set up two additional empowered committees in West Bengal to handle the growing number of applications for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), officials said on Monday. "The state already has two such ...
3 March 2026 TelegraphOn a street in Kolkata’s Patuli locality, a school teacher’s crusade to ensure education for all began with a defunct refrigerator and children’s books he could manage to buy on his personal income. But when Kalidas Haldar, a 51-year-old ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphIn a country where millions lack proper documents, the burden of proving identity cannot be shifted onto the people, senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan said at a talk on “Safeguarding Electoral Integrity in the Context of SIR” on Saturday. “In ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphMany Calcuttans scheduled to fly home on Saturday night or Sunday morning faced uncertainty after large parts of West Asian airspace were closed following US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation. Abesh Chandra Sinha Choudhury was one such ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Sunday called a two-day emergency meeting from March 2 to review preparations for the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections, with political circles closely watching for clues on the poll schedule. The meetings will be held in ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphFour women workers of a tea garden died and three others suffered grievous injuries as a car rammed into their cycles on Saturday morning near Bharnobari in Alipurduar. Police said that as the Bharnobari tea estate had been closed since ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphThe publication of the preliminary final electoral roll on Saturday triggered political unrest in several Matua-dominated Assembly segments in south Bengal and parts of north Bengal amid indications that a substantial number of voters from the community were excluded. Although ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphThe preliminary “final” list of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the poll rolls, published by the Election Commission on Saturday, revealed that nearly one-third of 60 lakh-plus voters pending adjudication are from two Bangladesh-bordering, minority-dominated districts — Murshidabad ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Saturday published a preliminary “final” post-SIR list for Bengal, which included 60 lakh “under adjudication” and over 5 lakh “deleted” voters, leaving people, parties and officials still confused about who and how many would be ...
1 March 2026 TelegraphThe dates for the West Bengal Assembly elections are likely to be announced in the second week of March, an official in the state CEO office said on Saturday. There has been sustained speculation over the number of phases in ...
28 February 2026 TelegraphThe 196-year-old Scottish Church College has decided to apply for autonomous status to step out of the control of Calcutta University and introduce courses “going beyond the confines of what is traditionally offered”. The governing board, the highest decision-making body ...
28 February 2026 TelegraphSwapna Barman — an Arjuna awardee heptathlete and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist based in Jalpaiguri — joined the Trinamool Congress in Calcutta on Friday. Her move led to speculations that Mamata Banerjee’s party will field her in one of ...
28 February 2026 TelegraphAn earthquake was felt across Kolkata and several districts of Bengal at 1.22pm, which was the result of a temblor epicentered in Bangladesh that measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The quake was at a depth of 35 km, according ...
27 February 2026 TelegraphA final-year MBBS student of College of Medicine and JNM Hospital in Kalyani was found dead in a decomposed state inside his hostel room on Thursday afternoon. Pulok Halder, 24, was a resident of Dhamua in Mograhat, South 24-Parganas district. ...
27 February 2026 TelegraphA five-member team from the Calcutta branch office of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) conducted a search and seizure operation in two private firms of Siliguri on Tuesday in association with Bhaktinagar police and seized dubious plywood products. Sources ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphProtesters clashed with police in northern West Bengal’s Siliguri city on Thursday during a demonstration over the assault of a pregnant tribal woman. Members of the RSS-backed Janjati Suraksha Manch were on the way to gherao Uttarkanya, the branch secretariat ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphA section of West Bengal government employees on Thursday took to the streets and blocked the important Dorina crossing at Esplanade here, demanding that dearness allowance be paid to them as per a Supreme Court order. The employees, under the ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asserted that the BJP would win the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections and prioritise expelling “every single infiltrator” from the state, which he described as among those “worst affected by demographic change”. Addressing ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphThe carcass of an adult female one-horned rhinoceros was recovered from the Ramsai forest area on the fringes of the Gorumara National Park in Jalpaiguri on Tuesday evening. The death, possibly from infighting, sparked renewed concern across the Dooars region ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphA cache of crude bombs was discovered in a bamboo grove at Anantapur village under Baishnabnagar police station limits of Malda on Wednesday morning. Grasscutters noticed 20-odd crude bombs hidden in three plastic jars in the grove and alerted other ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphThe “blood tea” campaign reached Calcutta on Wednesday, with supporters of the Ajoy Edwards-led Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front (IGJF) drawing blood from their veins and splattering it on banners demanding that minimum wages be fixed for tea garden workers. “We ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphThe examiners who will check the Higher Secondary language papers (English and Bengali) have been urged “not to be overtly conservative” while awarding marks. “Examiners are requested not to be overtly conservative in awarding marks. Award full marks to all ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphPiles of waste continue to remain scattered across portions of Subhas Sarobar, including in the water body in the park, highlighting the poor upkeep of one of the city’s largest green spaces. About 20 days ago, a group of schoolchildren ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphTwo men, including the prime accused, who allegedly shot at a youth in Park Circus over a petty dispute on Tuesday, were arrested on Wednesday morning. Police identified the accused as Mohammad Arshad, alias Salman, and Mohammad Anwar. Both are ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphThe Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) in Kolkata and several post offices across West Bengal received bomb threats on Thursday, prompting authorities to immediately evacuate the premises and launch extensive search operations, officials said. A bomb threat at the PSK in ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphThe secondary education board has asked examiners to maintain “highest standards of security, confidentiality and professional discipline” while evaluating Madhyamik answer scripts. On Wednesday, the board said in a notification that the written answer scripts of the Class X board ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphAround a week ago, Calcutta-based content creator Shalini Mukherjee Banerjee – with 43,000-plus combined followers on Facebook and Instagram – received an email from an agency claiming to represent the BJP. The email said the agency was scouting for paid ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphBengal IT minister Babul Supriyo on Wednesday reviewed the progress of semiconductor firm GlobalFoundries' fabless design and testing centre in Calcutta, which began operations last year at the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) incubation hub in Sector V, ...
26 February 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday vowed to continue her fight against the omission of citizens' names in the ongoing SIR, saying she apprehended that there is a conspiracy to delete over 80 lakh names, citing logical ...
25 February 2026 TelegraphA breathtaking Jacquard tapestry depicting one of Calcutta’s architectural jewels is on display at the Alliance Française in the national capital this week as part of the France-India Year of Innovation. The standout 200 x 700 cm gold-thread tapestry, called ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphThe faint whirr of sewing machines inside neighbourhood tailoring shops, workers bent over fabric with chalk in hand and others looping measuring tapes around customers. These form a distinct childhood memory for many Kolkatans. Those cramped rooms, which once throbbed ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphArtificial Intelligence can be used to generate ideas, but not to complete a child’s work. Children must be helped to understand both its real-life applications and its limitations, said new guidance documents released by two associations focused on early ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphOne arm of the state government on Monday accused another of failing to take adequate action to remove unauthorised constructions in the East Kolkata Wetlands during a hearing in the high court. The counsel for the East Kolkata Wetlands Management ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphA man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly running a cricket betting racket during the India-South Africa match of the ICC Men’s T-20 World Cup Cricket through multiple online apps. Police said Pratik Pincha, 32, a resident of Ganges Garden ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphThe number of individuals attending the Yuva Sathi camps has not decreased, despite an online alternative being offered On Monday, 22,899 people visited the camps in Calcutta, the third-highest footfall in the camps since they started on February 15, according ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College, Burdwan, has been granted autonomous status by the University Grants Commission. The college, established in 2014 and affiliated with Burdwan University, will be the first college under the university to get autonomy. The Jesuit college had applied to ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphThe vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University has said that the university will take "strong disciplinary action" against those who assaulted two teachers on the campus on Friday. "I shall take strong disciplinary action. A committee will be formed to prosecute the ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphThe Ajoy Edwards-led Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front (IGJF) has announced protests in Siliguri and Calcutta on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, demanding minimum wages for tea garden workers. Edwards candidly stated that the agitation is meant to exert political pressure ahead ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphHoteliers in Siliguri on Monday lifted a 13-month ban on Bangladeshi guests, citing recent political developments in the neighbouring country and a perceived decline in the anti-India rhetoric among leaders in the newly elected BNP government there. Members of the ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphCalcutta: The state higher education department has indicated that it will not be able to release salaries of officers and non-teaching staff of the University of Burdwan in March because of an acute funds crunch, even as teachers’ salaries ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphChief Justice of India Surya Kant, during the recent hearing of a case from Tamil Nadu, asked why should people work if they are provided everything for free. The bench questioned state governments’ tendency to dole out across-the-board “freebies” such ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphStarting with “Jai Maa Kali” instead of the usual “Jai Shri Ram”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a missive in Bengali urging the people of Bengal to vote for change in the coming Assembly polls. “Jai Maa Kali. In ...
24 February 2026 TelegraphThe news that Mani Shankar Mukherjee had breathed his last did not strike Sanjib Chattopadhyay as a sharp stab. It arrived as a mild pause, almost like a held breath. At the other end of the phone, Chattopadhyay, Sankar’s contemporary ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphA society as “plural” as India cannot be sustained by uniformity of opinion, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said in his convocation address at St Xavier’s University on Saturday. “A society as plural as ours cannot be sustained by uniformity of ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphThe nearly century-old Zeerut bridge over Tolly’s Nullah, which connects Alipore with the Maidan, requires urgent repairs and, if necessary, replacement, Kolkata Police have written to the state government. The bridge has been bearing heavy traffic loads for decades, the ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University will allow its affiliated colleges to conduct exams for minor papers at their respective institutions starting with the undergraduate examinations in June, vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh said last week. Earlier minor papers that an honours student has to pursue ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphBengal’s chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty has written to the Union home secretary requesting the inclusion of Rajbanshi and Kurmali languages in the Eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution. “It is pertinent to mention that a significant segment of the state’s ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphA race that has put Calcutta on the international running map is also changing the lives of some people in dire need. The 10th edition of Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, raised ₹45.68 lakh in charity. Fundraising ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphLoreto College has introduced Braille signs outside classrooms, washrooms, offices and elevators to improve accessibility for those with disabilities. The college also plans to make its website accessible to persons with visual challenges and build tactile paths across campus to ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphThe BJP fielded its only female chief minister, Delhi’s Rekha Gupta, to energise its women’s wing in poll-bound Bengal in an attempt to make inroads into Mamata Banerjee’s arguably most loyal vote bank. At her maiden meeting with BJP women ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphKalyani University has developed herbal abir aimed at promoting a safer and environmentally friendly Holi. A joint initiative by the university’s botany department and Institution Innovation Council and its incubation cell, with active participation from students, the herbal colour has ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress and CPM workers clashed over graffiti space at a village in Tapan block of South Dinajpur late on Saturday. Each group claimed assault by the other. Three persons, including Dilip Biswas, the CPM's Tapan area committee secretary, were ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphDescendants of Baboo Unnoda Persaud Banerjee (1818–1902), the eminent 19th-century Bengali lawyer of Calcutta, have donated his private papers, certificates, will and court-related legal documents to the National Archives of India (NAI) in New Delhi. Following the signing of a ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphThe Tea Board of India has mandated that all imported tea would be tested for quality from May 1. C. Murugan, the Tea Board deputy chairman, in a directive dated February 10 stated: “…in exercise of the power under paragraph ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphThe Bengal government is all set to sign a memorandum of understanding with German federal enterprise GIZ and the state mission for clean Ganga (SMCG) to develop a master plan for the Ichamati and Jalangi river basins. The Ichamati and ...
23 February 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s tribute to Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa on his birth anniversary triggered a fresh political debate after he prefixed “Swami” to the 19th-century spiritual icon, prompting Mamata Banerjee to criticise the Prime Minister’s “cultural insensitivity” towards Bengal’s ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphAn anxious Supreme Court on Friday roped in the Calcutta High Court to ensure publication of poll-bound Bengal’s electoral rolls post the special intensive revision (SIR) within the deadline. “We are left with hardly any other option but to request ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphThe West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) has directed candidates appearing for the upcoming Group C and Group D recruitment examinations to wear slippers or sandals instead of covered shoes like boots inside test centres. The written examinations will be ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphMani Shankar Mukherjee, known in Bengali literature by his pen name Sankar, passed away on Friday at a private hospital in Calcutta. Born in Howrah in December 7, 1933, Sankar, still in his teens, served as a clerk to the ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphThe city’s small Chinese community is ushering in the New Year with colour, music and culinary celebrations. Their numbers may have dwindled to around 2,000, but they have embraced Calcutta, and the city has embraced them in return. For Calcutta, ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council said it will award full marks to the examinees who attempted the three “out of syllabus” questions in the mathematics paper of the ongoing higher secondary exams. The council president said in a signed statement ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphSenior officers of Kolkata Police on Thursday visited the Behala Chowrasta intersection and stretches of Diamond Harbour Road and James Long Sarani in Thakurpukur, where at least five road deaths have been reported in the last 10 days, to ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphCamps set up across the city to enroll unemployed young people for the state government’s ₹1,500 monthly assistance scheme have also become hubs of voter outreach, particularly for the Trinamool. Thousands of jobless youth are queueing up at the Yuva ...
20 February 2026 TelegraphIn a move that could alter political equations in the Darjeeling Hills, BJP MLA Bishnu Prasad Sharma joined the All India Trinamool Congress on Thursday, months before West Bengal heads into assembly elections. A first-time MLA from Kurseong, Sharma joined ...
19 February 2026 TelegraphWith the West Bengal assembly elections drawing closer, the state government has asked district administrations to provide additional eggs to students under the mid-day meal scheme, setting off a fresh political exchange between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the ...
19 February 2026 TelegraphThe ongoing dry spell of winter has prompted the Bengal forest department and the Sikkim government to suggest preventive measures to avoid sudden wildfires. Officers of all forest divisions in Bengal were asked to keep a close watch in their ...
19 February 2026 TelegraphOn erstwhile Calcutta’s Bentinck Street, shoe shops once stood shoulder to shoulder, their wooden shelves stacked with polished leather brogues and lace-ups, drawing thousands of customers from the city and outside. The Chinese ran the show then, creating sturdy ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphAdditional space for vehicles heading to Science City during the evening peak hours has been carved out of EM Bypass between the Chingrighata and the Metropolitan intersections. Furthermore, police have decided to relocate two existing bus stops situated on the ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphInvestigators probing the Salt Lake Stadium debacle during football star Lionel Messi’s visit last December appealed to the Bidhannagar court on Tuesday to cancel the bail of Satadru Dutta, the primary organiser. The prosecution stated that if Dutta could influence ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphParents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee who was raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024 submitted a fresh petition before the Sealdah court on Tuesday, saying they were still of the opinion that Sanjay ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphCoronavirus, responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, transcended all religious, political, and ethnic boundaries, said P. Balaram, former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, during his address at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta on Tuesday. “This fact ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphThe Bengal government has lodged FIRs against four officers — two former electoral registration officers (EROs) of Baruipur East and Moyna and two former assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) of these two Assembly segments — following an Election Commission ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphDarjeeling’s famous winter bite went missing this season, with temperatures hovering around 3 degrees Celsius above average. Gopi Nath Raha, the head of the India Meteorological Department (Gangtok), said that temperatures remained higher in Darjeeling this winter. “The average minimum and ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphTwo senior professors of Gour Banga University (GBU), who are also members of the university’s executive council — the highest decision-making body of the varsity — were issued show cause notices on Tuesday over alleged “inappropriate” activities. Sanatan Das, a ...
18 February 2026 TelegraphThe Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission have established a self-financed primary school in Jhargram district, which follows the CBSE curriculum. The general secretary of the Math and Mission, Swami Suvirananda, inaugurated the new school building on Sunday. The school will offer ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University finds itself in a quandary over the degree to be awarded to students enrolled in its four-year undergraduate programme who opt to exit after successfully completing three years with the requisite credits. The first batch admitted to the ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphAround 15 to 20 per cent of enumeration forms were uploaded in five districts in Bengal with "strange documents" after the hearings of unmapped voters and those with logical discrepancies in their forms, said sources on the Election Commission. The ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphStakeholders of the tea sector believe the export of the beverage will increase in the coming days following on India’s trade deals with the European Union (EU) and the United States. The recent data published by the Tea Board of ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has set February 17 as a deadline for the West Bengal government to ensure that FIRs are registered against four officers over the alleged inclusion of 'ghost' voters in the electoral rolls in two districts, an ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphSenior foresters and the state police held a coordination meeting regarding the protection of one-horned rhinos at the district police lines in Jalpaiguri on Friday. Senior officials from both departments reviewed the current security arrangements to strengthen joint conservation strategies ...
15 February 2026 TelegraphThe Heritage School on Monday urged parents to be alert to changes in their children’s behaviour and to regulate their screen time. The advisory follows the death of three sisters in Ghaziabad who were reportedly deeply immersed in the virtual ...
11 February 2026 TelegraphA 42-metre Bailey bridge connecting Dakshindari on VIP Road and Salt Lake’s AA Block is ready to be opened to traffic, an official of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said. Officials said they have written to Bidhannagar police to ...
11 February 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee visited United Missionary Girls’ High School in Bhowanipore and spoke to the guardians of children writing their Madhyamik exams on Tuesday. Around 11, she stopped at the school on her way to Nabanna, the state secretariat ...
11 February 2026 TelegraphKolkata Police on Tuesday launched a cybercrime helpline to assist residents with queries related to cybercrime and guide them on the steps to follow if they fall victim to cyber fraud. The helpline was inaugurated by Kolkata Police commissioner Supratim ...
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