The 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 ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphMaulana Azad College launched the last segment of its centenary celebrations on Tuesday (December 9), the day it was founded.The college, founded as Islamia College in 1924 by then-governor Lord Lytton, was renamed Central Calcutta College after Independence. In ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphDomestic air travellers filed more insurance claims in the wake of massive flight cancellations and delays, with IndiGo cancelling more than 2,500 flights across the country in the past week. Tens of thousands of passengers faced hours-long delays, prompting ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway engineers on Tuesday assessed the condition of an old building in Bowbazar, part of which collapsed on December 7, even as the authorities maintained that the Metro is not responsible for any recent damage to the ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphA woman is climbing a mountain in her quest for the peak — equality.A mural, symbolic of the journey of thousands of women and of the organisation that has supported them in their fight for equality over the last ...
10 December 2025 TelegraphWaste left behind by attendees of a Sunday rally at Brigade Parade Ground remained uncleaned even late on Monday. With temperatures dropping, the Maidan draws daily visitors for walks and sports, but on Monday they were met with green ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will launch a special drive from Tuesday to inspect rooftop restaurants, bars and lounges and check whether they have complied with fire-safety norms they had pledged to follow.These establishments were shut after a fire ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphTwo Gopal idols that were stolen from a woman visiting the Iskcon temple on Albert Road last month were recovered from a house in Bowbazar, police said on Monday. Two women were allegedly seen lifting the basket containing the ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphThe struggle to trace missing registered luggage continued for IndiGo passengers on Monday. Many vented their ire on social media, which was flooded with pictures of bags piled up at airports across the country, following the large-scale disruptions to ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphResidents of a Bowbazar building from which a chunk fell and injured a man on Sunday will appeal to the city's mayor for a reassessment of the building's condition, the local councillor said after a meeting on Monday. Biswarup ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo on Monday said it had refunded ₹827 crore so far to passengers whose flights were cancelled in recent days, but many travellers are still awaiting their money. The airline has contacted some passengers over the past few days ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo’s cancellations have come down, but many passengers are still not trusting the airline, tour operators said on Monday.They said that despite the government’s price cap, fares in some sectors were high, and only a few seats were available.Sources ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo disruptions continued on Monday, though the scale of the problem shrank compared to previous days. At the Calcutta airport, officials said cancellations still occurred, but far fewer than on Sunday.Many passengers arrived hoping to reach their destinations after ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphAn IIT Kharagpur research scholar who was found unconscious with multiple injuries near railway tracks close to Kharagpur station early on Sunday died later in the evening.The scholar, Shravan Kumar, was pursuing a PhD with the Centre for Ocean, ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphThe directorate general of civil aviation on Saturday issued an advisory capping air fares amid large-scale disruptions, but travel agents said on Sunday that fares on some flights and sectors were still very high.Seats on flights to other metros ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphMissing luggage continued to haunt many IndiGo passengers at the Calcutta airport on Sunday.From expensive sherwanis meant for wedding ceremonies to rare medicines, the contents of the untraceable bags were varied. But the owners were united in frustration, helplessness ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphA wildlife conservationist couple from Calcutta took pictures of elusive red pandas in a community forest in Nepal last week. Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens), naturally shy and reclusive, are mainly found in the high-altitude forests along the eastern Himalayan ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphA 59-year-old woman who was in Goa with friends on holiday was stuck at the airport after her IndiGo flight to Calcutta was cancelled.She finally took a bus, travelled overnight to Mumbai, and boarded a flight to Calcutta the ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphDecember 5: Flight cancelled. Handed boarding passes for the next day’s flight. December 6: Flight cancelled. Allotted seats on a flight to Delhi the same day, but the connecting flight is on December 8. ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphNew research and advancement of technology should focus on bringing down the cost of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles so that the process is more accessible to couples with fertility issues, an expert said on the sidelines of an ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphViolence against women and one that is perpetuated by the natal family begins even before her birth, said the founder of a feminist organisation.From being sex-selective about abortions to failing to raise a girl in a way that allows ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has begun a restoration drive of nine arterial roads in Howrah. Portions of these roads are being rebuilt with concrete, while others are being resurfaced with paver blocks. The work is likely to ...
9 December 2025 TelegraphAround 12.45pm on Sunday, a group of enraged passengers started banging on the glass partition at the IndiGo counter at the Calcutta airport.The number of cancellations and delays on IndiGo flights reduced on Sunday, but there was no sign ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphA woman who went to Calcutta’s Iskcon temple near Minto Park on the evening of Rash Purnima last month lost her Gopal idols there.The CCTV footage obtained from the temple showed two women lifting the idols that were kept ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphA hospital in central Calcutta just turned more inclusive.A Braille accessibility project has taken off at Islamia Hospital in Colootola, on Central Avenue. The hospital now has Braille script embossed boards outside every section of the hospital — wards, ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphA chunk from the roof of a three-storey building in Bowbazar that had earlier developed cracks allegedly because of tunnelling work underground for the East-West Metro collapsed on Sunday afternoon and injured a 59-year-old man. Pappu Singh, a resident ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphA portion of an old building in Kolkata Bowbazar area collapsed on Sunday, leaving one person seriously injured, police said."Around noon today, part of the roof of the house located in Madan Dutta Lane collapsed, injuring a person. He ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphPopular singer Nachiketa Chakraborty, who was admitted to a private hospital in the city with chest pain, underwent an emergency cardiac procedure on Sunday, hospital sources said.The singer, who is in his early 60s, is reported to be stable, ...
8 December 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dipped to 14.5° Celsius on Friday as cold northwesterly winds tightened their grip on Bengal. It was the coldest day of the season so far, with the minimum two notches below normal. According to the Met ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphActor Anirban Chakraborty’s car was hit by an air-conditioned government bus near Charu Market on Saturday morning.The actor, popular for his screen portrayal of the sleuth Eken Babu, escaped unhurt. But the rear windshield of his car was smashed, ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will desilt and strengthen the century-old brick sewer lines under Elliot Road, Royd Street, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and Nirmal Chunder Street — a corridor where several stretches are notorious for waterlogging.A civic official ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to drop its MSc in electronics science course and introduce a four-year BTech in electronics from the next academic year. CU’s secretary of engineering and technology faculty said they decided to introduce the BTech in ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission will publish a preliminary list of candidates to be called for document verification before their interviews for secondary-level teaching jobs next week. The preliminary list is drawn up based on performance in the written test, ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphMany IndiGo passengers are receiving only partial refunds, and most are still waiting to get them.Thousands whose flights were cancelled, or who cancelled their own tickets due to uncertainty, are now struggling to reclaim their money, adding to the ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has informed Calcutta High Court that 70 CCTV cameras, for which the state has allotted ₹68 lakh, will be installed within 45 days of the work order to Webel Technology. The work order was issued on November ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphThe unprecedented scale of IndiGo flight cancellations has pushed travellers into taking unprecedented routes — even flying abroad to reach another Indian city — as they scramble to reach weddings, business meetings and international connections on time.Some passengers are ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphCancellations and delays may have eased, but IndiGo passengers at the Calcutta airport are still facing a mounting problem: missing luggage.On Saturday, many passengers gathered outside the IndiGo ticket counter, seeking updates on their luggage. Several approached central industrial ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphSaturday witnessed fewer cancellations and delays of IndiGo flights than Friday, but there was no let-up in the passengers’ troubles.Bags still went or remained missing, refunds were delayed and many were stranded midway in their journeys. Some passengers alleged ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphIndiGo’s flight cancellations in and out of the city peaked on Friday, similar to trends at airports across the country.Out of 248 daily IndiGo flights scheduled to arrive at or depart from Calcutta, 171 were cancelled, while 77 faced ...
7 December 2025 TelegraphResidents of Kolkata on Saturday woke up to the coldest morning this season as the mercury plumetted to 14.5 degrees Celsius.Temperatures also decreased in other parts of Gangetic West Bengal, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting a further ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphConferences, weddings and other events across the city are seeing fewer guests as IndiGo flight cancellations and delays leave attendees stranded. Many who had travelled to other cities for weddings or other events are struggling to find alternative transport ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphA family from Rahara in North 24-Parganas, headed for a holiday in Arunachal Pradesh via an IndiGo flight to Guwahati, found themselves stranded for hours at the airport on Friday morning. With no clarity from the airline and mounting ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphThe common complaint that doctors in Calcutta do not give enough time to a patient can be blamed on the state not producing enough specialists, senior managers of several private hospitals said on Friday.Gastroenterology, oncology, and high-end cardiology are ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphAmid the chaos of IndiGo flight cancellations and delays, many passengers who managed to reach their destinations found themselves without their luggage.Calcutta airport sources said the main reason for missing luggage was confusion over which flights would operate and ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphThe state’s urban development minister, Firhad Hakim, on Friday said that he will instruct all municipal bodies across Bengal to create facilities ensuring people can obtain birth and death certificates efficiently.The move follows Hakim’s earlier instruction, as Calcutta mayor, ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphAdvocate Anindya Mitra on Friday told the high court, “there was nothing wrong” if the school service commission (SSC) honoured teaching experience for in-service teachers in a fresh recruitment process.He was representing the SSC at the court of Justice ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board on Friday filed a caveat before the Supreme Court, expecting a challenge to a high court division bench’s order refusing to uphold a single bench’s decision to terminate the jobs of 32,000 primary school ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphFire broke out at a paint godown located at the congested Gulshan Colony, a residential area in Anandapur along EM Bypass, on Friday morning. Seven fire tenders doused the fire in two-and a half hours.Fire department officials said no ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphMany passengers are reluctant to book IndiGo flights despite fares for the next few days being significantly lower than the steep prices of competing airlines, travel agents said.Tour operators said that IndiGo closed new bookings for the coming three ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphThe uncertainty surrounding IndiGo flights has pushed hundreds of stranded passengers into an unplanned scramble for accommodation near the city airport, sending hotel demand soaring. Many travellers, suddenly left without flights, told Metro they were forced to arrange overnight ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphChaos at Kolkata Airport intensified on Friday as stranded passengers—foreign tourists, domestic travellers and families—scrambled for alternatives amid widespread IndiGo cancellations and delays.Hung, a traveller from Vietnam on a pilgrimage across India with 13 others, had his IndiGo flight ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Mela (Utsav) has begun. The township’s favourite fair is on at Central Park from 2pm to 10pm, till December 21. The fair, that is organised by Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, was inaugurated on December 1. The date also happened ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphIt’s fragrant, especially at night. It’s got glossy leaves and is evergreen. But the easiest way to describe this flower is through its white flowers, which are star or pinwheel-shaped. And this is why the Tagar is known as ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSitting in her living room and looking out towards the balcony, you could almost believe you were at a resort deep in the jungle. A glass door opens to a large balcony with potted plants, and beyond it rise ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphMoumita Saha was in an AE Block voter’s house distributing enumeration forms for the special intensive revision when a frantic call came from her mother in Lake Town. Her ailing father had fallen and needed immediate hospitalisation. The booth-level ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe cosmetic surgeon began his presentation with an apology: “I could have used pictures to explain my point better, but I cannot share pictures of my patients. I did so once, showing pre-operative photos of a patient who had ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphPradip Kumar Banerjee Krirangan, the flood-lit ground in GD Block, is the seat of footballing action this winter. In a development that would surely have delighted the football icon, whose house overlooks the park and in whose memory the ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphTwo women who came for checkups at a breast cancer screening camp in DA Block recently were detected with possible lumps.This was at a mega health camp held for women aged between 16 and 55. Organsied by Rotary Club ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphFlower pots in the New Town parks are being discarded. Instead, saplings are being planted directly in flower beds. The step is being taken as a preventive measure against dengue. From January 1, New Town has registered around 95 ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA family stuck at home in 1985 had lots for entertainment – chess, carrom, ludo, cards…. A family stuck at home in 2025 still has those options, but chances are that every member will pick something else – the ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe division bench of the high court that restored the jobs of 32,000 primary teachers on Wednesday explained why it struck down all seven findings on which their 2023 dismissal had been based.In a signed order, the division bench ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe Park Hotels will start construction of a new “trendy and sexy” property in Calcutta in 2026, targeting a March 2029 commissioning, the group announced.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) approved the construction plan last month.The project will span about ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSome passengers had been sitting inside the aircraft for hours, waiting for take-off. Others moved helplessly from one counter to another, trying to figure out what to do after their flights were suddenly cancelled.At the Calcutta airport on Thursday, ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped to 15.6° Celsius in the city on Thursday, making it the coldest day of the season so far. Cold and dry northwesterly winds swept into south Bengal, keeping the maximum at 25.7° — nearly two-and-a-half ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphCancellations, delays, missing luggage, arguments and passengers desperately seeking to know whether their flights would take off: Calcutta airport was a picture of chaos on Thursday.Similar bedlam afflicted many other airports, with IndiGo’s flight schedule going haywire.Eleven arriving and ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead with stab wounds on his chest at his home in central Calcutta on Tuesday night.A day after his wife and their only son completed his last rites, his wife was arrested for the alleged ...
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