The Bengal government on Tuesday launched a coordinated damage-control drive with chief minister Mamata Banerjee accepting Aroop Biswas’s offer to quit as sports minister “for the sake of an impartial probe” into the mismanagement at the Salt Lake Stadium ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphFirst turning back midway to the venue of a marquee event, then the apology, and now the action on her “favourites”.Within three days, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has found herself on unfamiliar terrain as the Messi disaster at the ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphBooth-level officers (BLOs) were missing from many polling stations across the city on Tuesday, the first day of a month-long exercise during which they are expected to show electors the draft list and also accept applications for corrections, additions ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphBooth-level officers will be present in all polling stations for the next one month and schools — many of which serve as polling stations during elections — are worried how to manage entry of outsiders and safety of students. ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphA 10-member Bangladeshi team comprising eight Mukti Joddhas and two serving officers of the Bangladesh Armed Forces was among those present at Fort William on Tuesday to mark the 54th anniversary of India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will get ₹47 crore under the Rashtriya Uchchatara Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA 2.0), under one condition — that the university utilises the amount by March 31, an education department official said on Tuesday. Sixty per cent of the ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe cleaning crew at the departure level of the Calcutta airport protested by refusing to work for about 40 minutes on Tuesday morning when one of them was told to either wear his uniform or go on leave.A new ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe inquiry commission on Tuesday showcaused two senior police officers, and suspended another for the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit.The commission also showcaused an officer of the rank of principal secretary and removed another ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphFour out of the six members of Satadru Dutta’s team summoned by the Bidhannagar police in connection with Lionel Messi’s event at the Salt Lake Stadium turned up before the police on Tuesday. The remaining two have sought time ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Monday extended the deadline for public opinion on a revised Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, which has stoked controversy over the alleged erosion of its autonomy.Opinions can now be submitted ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphSix persons, directly or indirectly attached to Satadru Dutta’s company and allegedly involved in organising Lionel Messi’s visit to Calcutta, have been summoned by Bidhannagar city police on Tuesday. Police said their names emerged during Dutta’s interrogation, the proprietor ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphFive men were taken into custody on Monday for their alleged role in the vandalism at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit on Saturday. One of them has been identified as someone who allegedly took a flower ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphThe 10th edition of eastern India’s most renowned road race is set to be its largest to date.More than 23,000 have registered for the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata 2025, partnered by The Telegraph, slated for this Sunday, marking ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphFor the second consecutive day on Monday, the Salt Lake Stadium was secured and appeared akin to a crime scene.The gates to the galleries were locked. So were the gates that led directly to the ground, accessible to players, ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to discontinue its self-financed mass communication programme, citing an alleged lack of sufficient applicants, even though it had accepted applications until early December.The one-year diploma in mass communication had 50 seats, and 60 students had ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphA Barrackpore court on Monday held three persons guilty of murdering Anupam Dutta, a Trinamool Congress councillor of Panihati Municipality in North 24-Parganas, in March 2022.Additional district judge of Barrackpore sub-divisional court, Ayan Kumar Banerjee, found Sanjib Pandit alias ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphThe agency that brought Lionel Messi to India and organised the event that descended into chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium had obtained all necessary permissions from government agencies, sources said. Probing questions are now being asked about the ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphPresident Droupadi Murmu has declined to give her ascent to a bill passed in the Bengal Assembly that proposes to make the chief minister the chancellor of state-aided universities, replacing the governor, an education department official said on Monday. ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphTwo separate petitions, on the mayhem that abruptly ended the Lionel Messi spectacle at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, were filed in Calcutta High Court on Monday.The petitions, one of them a public interest litigation, were filed before ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphA woman put her foot down, literally, between closing Metro doors to keep them open so her companion could board the train at Dum Dum Cantonment station on Saturday.The Noapara-bound train entered Dum Dum Cantonment around 1.10pm, said a ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphPast and present teachers of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, along with academics, on Sunday said that the revised ISI Bill, 2025, drafted by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, seeks to decimate the institute’s democratic and federal ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphThe concrete benches in the galleries of the Salt Lake Stadium were replaced with comfortable bucket seats as part of a massive facelift in the run-up to the Fifa Under-17 World Cup in 2017.On Sunday, thousands of such chairs, ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphSatadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s tour in India, was sent to 14 days of police remand by a Bidhannagar court on Sunday. His defence lawyers claimed that Dutta had been “framed” and that he could not ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphA network of corporates that promotes and supports the industry in adopting more climate and environment-friendly approaches has urged more corporates to join it. The UN Global Compact Network India (UN GCNI) has about 450 corporate houses as its ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday will summon some members of the event management team, led by Satadru Dutta, that had organised Lionel Messi’s tour to India. Police said the team members, who were ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphThe clock had just struck 9am when we reached our seats at Salt Lake Stadium. The crowd was still sparse, and my daughter — a die-hard follower of Lionel Messi —looked around carefully before choosing two spots that would ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe city’s galleries have always been volatile, and December 13 adds to a long list of black days in our sporting history.As a regular at Eden Gardens since 1983, one can vouch for emotional reactions in the past to ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSome 65,000 fans came to roar for Lionel Messi on Saturday morning. By afternoon, they were heading home cursing the organisers and the state government.What unfolded in between at the Salt Lake Stadium was hard to believe, evoking memories ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s dream date with Lionel Messi turned a horror show featuring a visibly annoyed legend, ringed by a swarm of officials and half-celebrities, and angry spectators who, denied even a glimpse of their icon, erupted in vandalism that added ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, urging that “untainted” teachers be allowed to continue working in schools with their salaries until August 2026, as the commission will need more time to complete ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will seek an explanation from a teacher of international relations on whether he had denigrated B.R. Ambedkar and the Constitution.JU vice-chancellor said this on Saturday after a student of the department accused the associate professor of the ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphOne name was on everyone’s lips on Saturday.It should have been Lionel Messi’s. Instead, it was Satadru Dutta’s.All of India was asking: “Who is Satadru Dutta?”On Facebook, Dutta introduces himself as a “Sports entrepreneur/influencer/wannabe.” His profile also notes: “Family ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe man who prominently claimed that bringing G.O.A.T Lionel Messi to India was his initiative was in a police lockup on Saturday evening.Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Messi’s India tour, was arrested while attempting to board the chartered ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphA meeting was held at the Calcutta airport on Saturday to assess the preparedness for the "fog season".Flight disruptions due to fog usually peak between late December and late January."The comprehensive review meeting on fog preparedness was held in ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Police on Saturday detained Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of the event featuring Argentine football icon Lionel Messi, after chaos and vandalism broke out at Salt Lake Stadium, forcing the superstar to leave the venue earlier than scheduled.The ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee apologised to Lionel Messi, his fans, sports lovers and announced an inquiry committee to probe into the mismanagement at the Salt Lake stadium on Saturday during an event attended by the Argentinian legend.“I am ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSneakers screeched against the court, racquets smashed the shuttlecock, players jumped, threw their fists in the air and yelped in triumph! Last weekend was action-packed at Siddha Town Rajarhat where Shuttle Mania was held, in association with The Telegraph ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools have started conducting their ISC (Class XII) practical examinations from the first week of December.Most of the institutions hope to complete the exams by the first week of January, which will give students about a month before ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphUnclaimed, untagged and wrongly tagged bags belonging to IndiGo passengers continue to pile up across airports — the biggest lingering fallout of the airline’s crisis.Passengers whose bags still have tags are getting them delivered home, but those with missing ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has written to the state government, seeking an elaborate report on the arrangements for Argentine superstar footballer Lionel Messi's programme in Kolkata on Saturday, a Lok Bhavan official said.The governor sought the report ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA book of photographs documenting the city’s street life was launched on Wednesday. Alexandre de Mortemart, 64, took the pictures between 2017 and 2024. Mortemart said he did not dive into the lives of people he photographed but captured ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA public interest litigation challenging the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision to allow a circus at Park Circus Maidan was moved in Calcutta High Court on Friday. The division bench headed by acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul asked the petitioners, ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphIAM Institute of Hotel Management in Sector V turned the yearly routine of cake-mixing into a chance to deck up the front courtyard in festive decor. Streamers, string lights, stars, candy canes, pine cones, Christmas stockings etc. hung overhead ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA police constable posted outside the Narkeldanga home of slain BJP leader Avijit Sarkar’s family to protect his brother, a key witness in the murder case, has been suspended after allegedly leaving his service revolver, body camera and uniform ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphPolice officers and representatives of multiple state government agencies will meet railway officials at Metro Bhavan on December 17 to find a way out of the Chingrighata impasse that has stalled construction on the New Garia-airport Metro corridor (Orange ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Taratala flyover on Diamond Harbour Road will remain closed to traffic from 3.30pm on Saturday to 11.59pm on Tuesday — nearly four days — to facilitate a load test of the structure.A notification issued by Kolkata Police and ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA student of international relations at Jadavpur University has accused a teacher of “attacking” the Constitution and B.R. Ambedkar.The second-year undergraduate student lodged a complaint with the vice-chancellor, demanding the immediate suspension of the associate professor. In her emailed ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) has begun a preliminary survey to determine how the width of Basanti Highway can be increased to make space for a median divider.The nearly 100km road is part of State Highway 3, connecting ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Friday released a list of close to 40,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for teacher posts in the secondary level of government-aided schools.A notice uploaded on the commission’s website on Friday ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe reigning monarch of world football lands in the Mecca of Indian football early Saturday.His stay will last just over 12 hours, but the itinerary is crammed with events: from the virtual unveiling of a 70-foot statue in Lake ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphFor the next three months, a corner of Kerala will give art aficionados a taste of Durga Puja art. The coastal city of Kochi is hosting the Kochi Muziris Biennale from Friday and MassArt, the Calcutta non-profit that introduced ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metro will extend its operating hours on the Green Line with an increase in the number of daily services, according to a statement issued on Friday. Trains on the route will now run till around 10 pm.A ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s 70-foot statue of Lionel Messi, set to be virtually inaugurated by the football star on Saturday, has become a subject of intense online chatter. The jokes started the moment the first images surfaced, and they have shown no ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphFor Ichhapur tea-seller Shib Shankar Patra, Argentine superstar Lionel Messi's arrival in Kolkata on Saturday will be more than a dream fulfilled. It will be a moment he believes he "survived to see".Patra, 56, is one of two diehard ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Neotia Bhagirathi Woman and Child Care Centre in New Town inaugurated a new paediatric multispeciality wing on Thursday, thereby enhancing the hospital’s capacity to 220 beds.Built as an expansion of the existing facility, the new ₹85-crore facility integrates ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA fire swept through south Kolkata’s Ramgarh market in the early hours of Friday, destroying nearly 40 shops, officials said.According to officials, the blaze started around 1.30 am in a tightly packed cluster of shops within the densely populated ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe biggest talking point among teenagers this week is the under-16 social media ban in Australia. From December 10, the southern continent has banned those aged under 16 years from using major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThree men with avowed saffron links who allegedly assaulted Muslim vendors for selling non-vegetarian food during a mass Gita recital at the Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday were arrested early on Thursday.A few hours later, a city court granted ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will inform the Supreme Court that it cannot complete the ongoing teacher recruitment process by the court-mandated deadline of December 31. A wave of fresh legal challenges has slowed interviews and document verification, making ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA delegation of Indian Statistical Institute students and research scholars met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday at his office on the Parliament premises, urging him to oppose the revised ISI Bill, 2025, which they say would curb the institute’s autonomy.The ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphSome government-aided schools are asking for “caution money” from Madhyamik examinees.Reason — the money will be used to compensate for any damage to furniture if they vandalise other institutions while writing their examinations in 2026. A school in Murshidabad ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphCrochet mufflers, embroidered shirts, hot chocolate.Familiar festive favourites flew off the shelves at a Christmas market in Southern Avenue last Sunday. But unlike most Christmas sales, this one showcased products crafted entirely by street children.For three months, the budding ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphAustralia’s recent ban on social media for children below 16 has sparked conversations in Calcutta, raising questions about digital habits, maturity and the mental health of teenagers.While many adolescents view the ban with apprehension, adults believe it recognises the ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphMany of IndiGo’s passengers are still struggling to trace their missing luggage. Several unclaimed bags at airports across the country do not have identifying tags, making it difficult to match them to their owners, said Calcutta airport officials.While IndiGo’s ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday directed the state government and the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) to mutually decide on when the Metro work at Chingrighata on EM Bypass can begin after resolving differences.Police have allegedly been sitting over ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE has said it decided to hold two Class X board examinations to "eliminate the high-stakes aspect of board exams" and allow students to take them like any school examination.Students can take the second examination for improvement only ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA truck full of clay went into the making of the cast of the gigantic Lionel Messi statue installed on VIP Road for the football legend to unveil during his Calcutta visit on Saturday. Twenty tonnes of iron rod ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo said on Thursday that its operations were improving day by day, but passengers are still facing disruptions, with some avoiding the airline.A group of 30 travellers booked a 10-day trip to Kerala and were scheduled to fly to ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Bengal government to post “within two weeks” Aniket Mahata at RG Kar Medical College Hospital as senior resident in anaesthesiology.A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi passed the order while ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphIn 2017, Debraj Banerjee was run over by an SUV. Bedridden for over a year, he had lost all hope. “But what I missed most was cricket,” he recalled. “I had played all my life, and now suddenly I ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThis Children’s Day, students of Indismart Wings got a tour of the world right from their AE Block campus. Each classroom was transformed into a different country, complete with themed decor, music, and hands-on activities that had the little ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphEighty-four years have passed since his death, but there are still ample photographs of Rabindranath Tagore that are not in the public domain.A wall calendar has been published, sourcing a dozen such pictures for its theme “Rabindranath and his ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police have arrested three men for allegedly assaulting two food vendors at a recent Gita recital in the city, a senior police officer said on Thursday.The arrests were made on Wednesday night on the basis of two complaints ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphSarbartho Mani, the Class III student of South Point School who started playing chess with his father when he was less than three years old, became a world champion (Under-10 category) at the Fide World Cup 2025, in Batumi, ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe recent incident of voyeurism involving a youngster has brought mobile phone etiquette into sharp focus, prompting schools to rethink how they prepare students for the responsibilities that come with the device.Last month, a 21-year-old college student was arrested ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphTeachers and staff of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, voiced deep concern that the proposed ISI Bill could pave the way for the “abolition” of hundreds of vacant teaching and non-teaching posts.Under the revised draft bill, the board of ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has reversed its initial decision to bar engineering diploma holders from BTech admissions via the lateral entrance test (JELET).The university will now accept these students but requires them to attend supplementary online classes to compensate for coursework ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council on Wednesday announced the guidelines for the fourth semester examinations to be held in February next year. For this exam, the Class XII students will attempt short and descriptive questions on answer scripts. ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA man was cheated out of more than ₹4 lakh with false promises of a job in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Two men, including one who had claimed to be a government official and was using a beacon-fitted car, ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe chaos of flight cancellations is precipitating, but the trouble with missing luggage persists.Officials at the Calcutta airport said the number of unclaimed bags of IndiGo passengers came down on Tuesday night. However, another 25 pieces of unclaimed registered ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe three-month-long Asian Waterbird Census, which aims to count waterbirds and get a picture of the health of the wetlands, has started. It will continue through February. Participants can register through the eBird website. They can also download the ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphPolice submitted a charge sheet on Tuesday in connection with the alleged rape of a 13-year-old at SSKM Hospital by a former Group D staffer of a hospital who had allegedly posed as a child specialist.Amit Mallick, who was ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA 23-year-old man riding a two-wheeler without a helmet died after a high-speed collision with a car on the Ruby-bound section of EM Bypass early on Wednesday.Alokesh Halder was driving from Dhalai Bridge in Garia towards Ruby on his ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA Ferrari valued at over ₹5.4 crore crashed into a lamp post off the race course around 7.40am on Wednesday, uprooting a tree before slamming into the race course perimeter wall. A father and son inside the vehicle escaped ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe administrative crisis at IIM Calcutta deepened with chairperson Shrikrishna G. Kulkarni stepping down after reported differences with director Alok Rai on several issues. His resignation came days after the institute’s chief administrative officer, Alok Chandra, opted for voluntary ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphScottish Church College has written to Calcutta University vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh, seeking the reinstatement of the autonomous status previously granted to the college’s postgraduate department.The letter, dated December 4, was also copied to CU registrar Debasish Das, who is ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe city’s connectivity with major cities has been significantly impacted after IndiGo curtailed daily flights, airport sources said on Wednesday.According to airport officials, the airline operated 202 flights in and out of Calcutta on Wednesday, down from an average ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA frequent flier from the city found the airport strikingly different on Wednesday morning.The long queues and chaos were absent. Instead, the domestic departure area of the terminal was almost deserted around 7am. Businessman Gaurav Agarwal, who took an ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphFour people were injured on Wednesday morning after a high-end car crashed into a lamp post and subsequently ran into two sanitation workers near Mayo Road, according to police.Authorities said the vehicle’s two occupants, along with the two injured ...
11 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has notified Calcutta High Court of its opposition to the establishment of a police outpost on its campus.While updating the high court on December 2 about steps like installing more CCTV cameras and engaging additional security personnel, ...
11 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo flight operations improved further on Tuesday, but several passengers were still waiting to find their missing luggage, a visit to the Calcutta airport suggested.The lack of clear communication from IndiGo staff compounded their misery, passengers alleged. “Most of ...
11 December 2025 TelegraphA 64-year-old retired private firm employee was found dead in his flat in Kasba’s Bosepukur on Monday evening. Neighbours reported a stench coming from the house.On reaching, the police found the decomposed body of Sumit Sen, 64, on a ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s University, New Town, plans to set up a medical college and will seek land from the state government for the project, vice-chancellor Father Felix Raj announced on Tuesday. The private university also intends to start a nursing ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphSpend less time on devices and explore new hobbies and interests: a group of Class V students tell their juniors at Calcutta International School. The age to own a device is increasingly going down.About 50 per cent of Class ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphTwenty pubs, lounges and rooftop restaurants were inspected on Monday by a joint team of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials, fire directorate officers, and Kolkata Police, revealing that many establishments have yet to implement the safety measures they had ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphIn November 2022, a Lake Town homemaker was in the operating theatre, undergoing surgery to remove a malignant breast tumour. On December 21, 2025, Kavita Gupta will run 10km in eastern India’s marquee road race.Gupta embodies the indomitable spirit ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphAt least three hawkers from the minority community have alleged that they were assaulted by participants of a Gita chanting event at the Brigade on Sunday for selling non-veg items, with the attackers throwing away the foodstuff after asking ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphA preliminary post-mortem of IIT Kharagpur research scholar Bhattaram Shravan Kumar, who died in a city hospital on Sunday, revealed “crash injuries” on his right side and a “deep injury on the right side of his head”.The post-mortem at ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphThe UK trade commissioner for South Asia, Harjinder Kang, will be on a tour of Calcutta on December 10 and 11 to engage with "leading industry stakeholders" and "reinforce the United Kingdom’s commitment to deepening trade and investment ties" ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo’s flight disruptions eased further on Tuesday, but passengers continued to face cancellations, delayed refunds, and missing luggage at the Calcutta airport, keeping the terminal busy with concerned fliers.Officials at the airport said IndiGo operated 180 flights on Tuesday ...
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