The desperation in both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP to secure the Assembly seats of the north Bengal tea belt has prompted leaders of both camps to chant the mantra of wage hike to woo the tea population. While ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphThe state labour department introduced 11 school buses for students residing in the tea estates of Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts on Monday, within 48 hours of Trinamool’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s interaction with tea garden workers. On Saturday, while ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday said she would move the Supreme Court against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bengal. The chief minister alleged the SIR had brought fear, harassment and administrative arbitrariness that had led to ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphTwo Calcuttans lost more than ₹50 lakh after making investments through apps they encountered on social media platforms. Police said one of the victims, a resident of Urbana, lost more than ₹37 lakh, while the other, a resident of Turf ...
5 January 2026 TelegraphThe 186-year-old Parsi fire temple on Ezra Street, which was feared to have been badly damaged by a fire on its premises in November, remains “structurally stable” and can be “restored,” engineers from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said. The ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA notification issued by the state health department on December 31, posting Aniket Mahata to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, surfaced on Saturday. A senior health department official said: “We have communicated the order about his posting to the ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA former student on Saturday showed Jadavpur University exactly what is wrong with its approach toward alumni. Suman Chakraborty, a mechanical engineering alumnus from the class of 1996 and the current director of IIT Kharagpur, lamented the absence of dialogue ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphGrades are not indicative of intelligence; thus, it is essential to emphasise learning over marks, collaboration and teamwork over isolated rote learning, and creativity over the use of ChatGPT. This has been communicated to students at The Heritage School ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphMany migrant workers from Bengal have returned home after being summoned for hearings as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls. The unscheduled leave from work has meant travel expenses, loss of daily wages and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University cannot permit “hooliganism” in the name of fostering “intellectual independence”, IIT Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty, himself an alumnus of JU, said on Saturday. Chakraborty was at JU to deliver the keynote address on the occasion of its second ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphUnidentified men broke into the Hind Motor house of Padmashree Bula Chowdhury in Hooghly on Saturday, the second burglary at her residence in five months. The last incident, on August 15, saw several of the ace swimmer's medals and awards ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on Monday scheduled to lay the foundation stone for a bridge across the Muriganga River, connecting the Sagar Island, where the annual Gangasagar Mela is held, with the mainland, an official said. The ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphIllegal sand mining to the tune of nearly ₹145 crore was allegedly carried out in parts of Bengal by Arun Saraf and his company, GD Mining Private Limited, along with 14 other firms and his several associates, the Enforcement ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, urging him to immediately halt the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, and warned that it could cause "mass disenfranchisement" and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA controversial remark by a BJP leader at a public meeting in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district, suggesting husbands should restrain women beneficiaries of the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme from voting for the TMC, triggered a sharp political backlash and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphThree migrant workers from West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district were allegedly assaulted in Maharashtra after being suspected of being 'Bangladeshis' for speaking Bengali, prompting sharp political reactions in the state. The workers, identified as Dilip Bagdi and Samir Barui, along ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphProtests over alleged voter list exclusions and an assault on a Matua religious leader escalated on Sunday after a TMC-backed Matua group called for statewide road blockades across West Bengal. The bandh call was issued by the Trinamool Congress-supported faction ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphIndia's tea production has seen a steady surge over the past one-and-a-half decades, but auction prices have not kept pace, tea industry stakeholders said on Saturday. “Over the last 15 years, India’s tea production has increased by 35 per cent, ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA gram panchayat member of the BJP in Murshidabad district was arrested on charges of attempt to rape and molestation on Saturday. Dipankar Das, 32, a member of the Nayansuk gram panchayat under the jurisdiction of the Farakka police station, ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphEast Midnapore police arrested Swapan Nayak, the Trinamool Congress chairman of Egra municipality, on Saturday on charges of illegally transferring government land, sparking a political war of words between the ruling dispensation and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari over the ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has asked the director general of police, Rajeev Kumar, to send an action- taken report by January 6 on the “serious and disturbing incidents” that occurred during the visit of C. Murugan, the electoral roll observer, ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphAt least six cops were injured and their vehicle vandalised by a mob on Friday night when they unsuccessfully attempted to arrest a Trinamool Congress worker and a close aide to the party's former strongman Sheikh Shahjahan in connection ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphMausam Benazir Noor, the Malda-based Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP, rejoined the Congress on Saturday, seven years after she had left the party in favour of Bengal’s ruling dispensation in January 2019. Her departure from Trinamool appeared a manifestation of the ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphOn a winter morning at the end of December 2025, my phone rang with a call I did not expect. The booth-level officer (BLO) assigned to my area told me a hearing letter had been issued in my name for ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphRight-wing activists on Friday surveyed street vendors in Jammu to look for Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees, prompting Jammu and Kashmir police to intervene. The activists scanned several localities in Jammu, asking the vendors for their Aadhaar cards. They were seen ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphSenior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday took a sharp swipe at Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling him “Vanish Kumar” over alleged illegitimate deletions of voters during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphSix policemen were injured after a mob attacked them while they were arresting a Trinamool Congress (TMC) activist in the Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district, a police officer said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night when ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphBengali film stars Dev and Subhashree Ganguly are set to reunite on screen, putting to rest speculation that last year’s delayed release of Dhumketu would mark the end of their much-discussed pairing. Taking to social media on Friday, Dev and ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphThe average maximum temperature in the last fortnight of December was three degrees below normal in Calcutta this year. That drop made us feel the chill more than any year in recent memory. The mean maximum temperature for the month was ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphAn excess of bureaucracy coupled with a lack of empathy has rendered the special intensive revision (SIR) hearing process distressing for many, discussions with officials and politicians have indicated. Many of them spoke of “over-bureaucratisation” and the failure to engage ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphA committee appointed by the Supreme Court to recommend measures to improve India’s road safety has urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee to act immediately on five essential areas, including pedestrian safety and wrong-lane driving. In April 2014, the apex court ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphAround 10 shops were gutted in a blaze in the old market area of Mainaguri, Jalpaiguri district, on Friday morning. Police, fire brigade personnel and residents rushed to the spot and worked together to control the fire. Two fire engines ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphBJP’s Assembly election campaign for the Darjeeling hills will start from Kurseong on Sunday, and the party reaffirmed on Friday that it would fight the polls in alliance with the old allies in the region. Actor Mithun Chakraborty will attend ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphA fresh controversy has erupted in South Dinajpur district following the death of a 50-year-old woman whose family and the Trinamool Congress have alleged that panic over the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll triggered a heart ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to lay the foundation stone of the Mahakal temple near Siliguri in the second week of January, city mayor Gautam Deb said on Friday. The foundation-laying ceremony may take place during her visit to ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari, the leader of the Opposition, on Friday said that the BJP would secure 220 seats in 2026 if Hindu consolidation was optimal, as witnessed in Malda and Nandigram in the recent elections. The statement comes after Union home ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission will summon for hearings and document verification more than 24 lakh Bengal voters whose ways of linking themselves to the previous post-SIR rolls through their parents it finds suspicious. Many more voters are under the scanner for ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee on Friday set a high-stakes target for the Trinamool Congress in the Assembly polls, vowing to surpass its 2021 landslide seat-count of 214 by at least one, not long before Suvendu Adhikari's claim of a tally of ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphAn experiment by the state forest department to curb tiger attacks by increasing the height of nylon net fencing along village perimeters in vulnerable pockets of Sundarbans has led to a sharp decline in incidents of animal intrusion into ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe first Vande Bharat sleeper train of the country to run between Bengal and Assam will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at Rail Bhavan in Delhi on Thursday. “All ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphMinimum temperatures across several parts of West Bengal edged up slightly on Friday, offering residents brief relief from the prevailing cold conditions, as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast a rise of two to four degrees Celsius in the ...
2 January 2026 Telegraphn The Debi Ghat immersion site will be inaugurated in Dakshindari, post-renovation, in the first week of January. The ghat had been closed for work last year and has been renovated over four months at a cost of Rs ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphThe unveiling of the foundation stone of Durga Angan on Monday has not just created a stir in state politics but has also triggered a debate among residents of New Town about the choice of its location.The temple complex, ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphRail Vihar Phase III BFor the third time in a row, residents of Rail Vihar Phase III B celebrated a Christmas carnival that was enjoyed by kids and elders alike.The main attraction this year was the exhibition area that ...
3 January 2026 TelegraphBusy Bee Academy, the activity centre in AB Block, came alive with colours, laughter and creativity as they hosted a gingerbread house-making workshop that brought together artistes of all ages.Those above the age of seven took charge of turning ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphBan on pigeon-feedingResidents aware of the health hazards posed by pigeons wish others would stop feeding them. Pigeons spread diseases through their droppings and shed feathers. When dried droppings turn to dust and are inhaled, they can lodge in ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphPhilately: Stamps & moreGather supplies: You don’t need much to begin. A basic stamp album, a pair of stamp tongs (tweezers) to handle stamps carefully and a magnifying glass are ideal starting points.Source stamps: Even till the 90s, one ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphEighty-five-year-old Purnima Roy and 83-year-old Om Prakash Jalan are incapable of standing without assistance, but both were obligated to attend an SIR hearing in Baguiati in person on the last day of 2025.Purnima arrived in a rickshaw that drove ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphA man from Rajasthan has been arrested for allegedly creating a fake profile on a social media platform of a senior bureaucrat in Calcutta and taking money from people on the officer’s friend list by impersonating him. Kolkata Police ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphMajor General D.K. Singh took over as the new commander in charge of the Bengal Sub-Area under Eastern Command on Wednesday.The change of command took place during a formal ceremony, when Major General Rajesh A. Moghe handed over the ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphAniket Mahata, a prominent figure in the junior doctors’ protests of 2024 following the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has stepped down from the junior doctors’ organisation that was established ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe special investigation team (SIT) probing the Messi fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium is considering seeking a court order to refund ticket purchases to attendees who acquired tickets for the event on December 13. Sources in the police ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphMemories and dreams well up in Katayun Saklat’s paintings.They seem to be created in a state of quiet reverie, though Saklat is quite grounded as an artist and as a human being, now and then she doesn’t mind drifting ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe city saw a decline in the number of drink-driving cases on New Year’s Eve, with police records indicating a drop of about one-third compared to last year.According to the police, 149 motorists were prosecuted for drink-driving between December ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphRevellers rang in the New Year with more food and drink than usual, restaurateurs said, as Calcuttans took to the city’s eateries and pubs in high spirits.The surge was not just in footfall but also in spending.A popular Park ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe Alipore zoo recorded just over 52,000 visitors on January 1, down from more than 82,000 the previous year. Science City saw around 25,000 visitors, compared to 30,000 last year, while the Victoria Memorial had about 36,000, slightly lower ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India (ECI) wants people to vote in the area where they reside and is urging to get their names shifted if they do not.“We do not want situations where a person lives in Salt Lake ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to industrialist Pawan Ruia and two of his family members in connection with a case for allegedly parking proceeds of various online scams across the country in their bank accounts.The court ...
2 January 2026 TelegraphAt least two CBSE institutions are intending to push back their 2026 summer break by roughly 10 days to make room for the second phase of board exams, tentatively planned for the middle of May.According to the principal of ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphCalcutta University will now allow affiliated colleges to conduct examinations for minor papers (formerly known as pass papers) within their own campuses (home centres), said varsity registrar Debasish Das.Earlier, students had to travel to another college (away centre) to ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphThe vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University made an appeal on Wednesday for a commitment to inter-faith harmony and the respect for diversity.The signed appeal was posted on JU's website a day after a West Bengal Minority Commission team recommended that ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphA resident of Park Street has been taken into custody for allegedly causing the death of his elder brother over a property dispute. What started as a verbal dispute turned into an altercation and then snowballed into a physical ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphAlarmed by deteriorating air quality in and around the Maidan during the winter months, the state pollution control board (PCB) has written to Metro Railway, urging it to begin water sprinkling at under-construction Metro sites in the area to ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphPark Street was surprisingly visible around 8pm on New Year’s Eve, a contrast to the usual sea of heads at this hour.It was difficult to tell whether it was the chill— the mercury read 15° Celsius — or the ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in the city slid to 11° Celsius on the last day of 2025, marking the coldest year-ender in over a decade.Dum Dum recorded a low of 10° Celsius, while Sriniketan in Bolpur shivered at 6.5°. Several ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphAlive to pluralism, but found wanting in accessibility. Laid-back charm scores, but littering hurts. Eating delicious food but breathing poisonous air.Calcutta delights and disappoints at the same time.Metro spoke with a bunch of young Calcuttans who have chosen to ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphCaches of arms were found at two different locations across the city on a day when Union home minister Amit Shah was present in the city.Shah is on a three-day trip to Calcutta starting Monday.Police said one cache was ...
1 January 2026 TelegraphThe ailing and elderly continued to queue up outside SIR hearing camps across the city, walking with support or being bodily lifted into centres, even as the Election Commission said on Monday that hearings for such voters would be ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphA West Bengal Minority Commission (WBMC) team on Tuesday recommended that the head of Jadavpur University’s English department be barred from campus pending a probe into allegations that invigilators harassed two students from a particular community during an examination.The ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped to 12.6° Celsius in Calcutta on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.But the difference was made — like the day before — by the maximum temperature of 19.6°, six degrees below normal. This meant ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started receiving applications for domicile or permanent residence certificates, one of the 13 documents accepted for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Residents can submit their applications at the ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphThe education department will place a proposal before the chief minister on whether the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM) seeks to transition into a university, education minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday.The president of the ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphA fire, apparently started from an electrical room heater, gutted an apartment on the fifth floor of a building inside a housing complex at Baguiati early on Tuesday morning. Two children who were inside the apartment managed to escape, ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphMoveable guardrails and “Go Slow” boards used by police at night to curb overspeeding must be fitted with retro-reflective tape to improve visibility in foggy conditions, Kolkata Police have instructed all traffic guards across the city.Retro-reflective tape is a ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphThe city is all set to ring in 2026 in style, with winter playing the perfect party partner.Police have announced multiple traffic curbs in and around Park Street on New Year’s Eve and January 1, and promised a crackdown ...
31 December 2025 TelegraphA survey by a platform of students at IIT Kharagpur on mental health revealed “significant gaps in the emotional support available to students”.The survey was conducted by Awaaz, which identifies itself as a student media body on the campus. ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line or the north-south corridor were disrupted for close to an hour during the evening rush on Monday after a suicide bid at Maidan station.A passenger jumped in front of a Dakshineswar-bound train at ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphThe state government has extended till August 31 the deadline within which terminated teachers of government-aided schools could return to their former jobs, wherever applicable.An order issued by the education department on Monday says that as the Supreme Court ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphA man allegedly attacked his girlfriend with a knife inside a guest house in Sealdah on Sunday evening. The woman was rescued bleeding. The man, from Chennai, was arrested later the same night. Police said they received information on ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphA motorcyclist died after he lost control of his two-wheeler and fell into a drain along Paharpur Road early on Monday morning. Police said Rampada Purkait, 43, a resident of Khurigachi in Sonarpur, was heading to join the night ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphPeople in frail health, office-goers forced to take leave, and homemakers leaving unfinished work reported for hearings for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls on Monday, for reasons unknown to them or their booth-level officers.For ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphA 35-year-old Behala resident was allegedly shot at with an air rifle on Sunday night while sipping tea with friends in his neighbourhood. The suspected shooter is a 17-year-old boy.Police said Abhishek Roy, who works at a nationalised bank, ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University plans to involve colleges offering postgraduate courses, including those seeking autonomy, in framing syllabi, setting question papers, and evaluating answer scripts at the master’s level, vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh said.The university intends to group colleges that have demanded ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University on Monday constituted a three-member fact-finding committee to probe allegations that two undergraduate students from a particular community were harassed during their semester exams.A press release signed by the university’s acting registrar stated that the university had ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphHospitals across the city are witnessing a rise in patients suffering from respiratory distress and dry cough, with doctors citing air pollution as the primary factor behind the illnesses.Several patients are on ventilation or oxygen support in ICUs. With ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphThe coldest day in 13 years left Calcuttans shivering even in the afternoon.The maximum temperature plunged to 18.2° Celsius, seven degrees below what is usual for late December. It was the lowest day temperature recorded in Alipore since December ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University on Monday formed a three-member committee consisting of senior academics and the chancellor's nominee to look into the controversy surrounding a hijab-wearing student during a third-year English semester exam, and asked the panel to submit its report ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphAt least 210 cameras have been installed at the Jaldapara National Park in Alipurduar district to strengthen wildlife monitoring in the sanctuary.A source stated that the cameras cover 212 square kilometre area of the park. This is the first ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphA play on the history and evolution of Calcutta’s central business district was staged at the south gallery of the General Post Office (GPO) on Saturday evening. The play — Dastaan-e-GPO — narrates the history of the post officeAbout ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphThe last Sunday of the year was chilly, bright and sunny, drawing thousands of Calcuttans and visitors outdoors to soak in the festive mood at some of the city’s favourite spots.The Alipore zoo recorded almost double the footfall on ...
30 December 2025 TelegraphThe man who arranged Lionel Messi’s tour in India was “very influential” and could easily escape if granted bail, the prosecution lawyer said about Satadru Dutta, opposing his bail petition at the Bidhannagar district court on Sunday.The bail petition of ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphThe state higher education department will hold workshops to encourage colleges to participate in the annual ranking exercise conducted by the Union education ministry, a department official said. The official said greater participation in the ranking exercise would help ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphBengal Police have issued an advisory warning the public about fraudsters circulating fake social media advertisements in the name of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, offering instant loans.The advisory clarified that the state government has not announced any such financial ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphSeven of the 12 air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta and Howrah recorded “poor” air quality on Sunday morning and afternoon, exposing thousands of people outdoors on the last weekend of the year to unhealthy air.At 10am on Sunday, ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a fruit seller at Rajabazar last week. Police said it was suspected that the assailant’s wife allegedly had an illicit relationship with the fruit seller, which prompted ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphA centre for autism has introduced a training programme for nurses to sensitise them to autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.The programme aims to help nurses better understand the needs of individuals with disabilities when interacting with them or providing ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line (Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash) were disrupted for over an hour on Sunday afternoon after a train developed a technical glitch and got stranded on the tracks, 50 metres ahead of Tollygunge station. An ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphMany voters whose names appear on the draft electoral roll are now receiving calls from booth-level officers (BLOs) regarding discrepancies in the spelling of their parents’ or grandparents’ names compared with the 2002 electoral roll.A man from Kasba, a ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphA fresh technical glitch crippled services on the Blue Line Metro on Sunday morning, disrupting commutes across the north-south corridor.The glitch was reported around 11:30 am due to rake failure at Mahanayak Uttam Kumar station. "Normal services over the ...
29 December 2025 TelegraphCoal-fire, smoke-belching vehicles and unregulated industries are the chief contributors to Calcutta’s filthy air. But there’s another factor that is not difficult to mitigate but is rarely addressed: the burning of waste.Environment scientists say the presence of plastic in ...
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