Jadavpur University has appealed for ₹1.02 crore from the education department to build fences around the five water bodies on the campus, two months after a third-year student drowned in one of them.The public works department (PWD) drew up ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphA fire that broke out early on Saturday morning at a godown on Ezra Street left Calcutta’s first Parsi fire temple — the 186-year-old Rustomjee Cowasjee Church — severely damaged, along with more than a hundred shops selling electrical ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMany voters in the city have made mistakes while filling out their enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls, and are unsure whom to approach for guidance. Others have yet to start filling ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphTest cricket’s comeback to Eden Gardens will be short-lived, Day 2 all but ensured.A flurry of 15 wickets, most of them to spinners, meant the day was never short of action — a feast for spectators who came from ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Saturday evening released a list of over 20,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for the posts of assistant teachers at the higher secondary level in government-aided schools.The list was prepared based ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court has granted permission for buses that are 15 years old or older to operate in the Kolkata Municipal Area (KMA), encompassing the cities of Kolkata and Howrah, as well as in portions of neighbouring districts, provided ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphScreening and counselling patients diagnosed with breast cancer are crucial to effective treatment, oncologists said at a conference in the city on Saturday. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women, and proper guidance can significantly influence treatment ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway on Saturday said it recorded the highest-ever number of mobile QR tickets booked on a normal day since the digital facilities were introduced, officials said on Saturday.In a statement, the authorities said over 53,000 Mobile QR ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Subhra Ghosh of Calcutta High Court on Friday directed police to produce the case diary in the alleged attempted murder case against Trinamool Congress South Dum Dum councillor Mrinmoy Das. The judge also asked the police to provide ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe directors of the companies allegedly involved in laundering proceeds from cybercrime were summoned by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Bengal Police on Friday. They have been asked to appear within 72 hours.Sources said that in the preliminary ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway on Saturday announced a partial suspension of services on the Blue Line, citing “unavoidable circumstances.”According to an official update, trains are currently operating only between Baranagar and Sahid Khudiram stations, leaving the remaining stretch temporarily without service.Authorities ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA fire in an electrical goods shop at the crack of dawn on Saturday in Burrabazar’s Ezra Street has taken a devastating form with the flames spreading to adjacent buildings.The congested building blocks, narrow lanes and large stacks of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphAn absorbing contest. A wave of nostalgia. Love and longing for a legend. And the stubborn eyesores that refuse to leave. As Test cricket returned to Eden Gardens after six years, the stadium turned into a vivid montage of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has formed a 10-member fact-finding committee to investigate the communal graffiti that appeared on the walls and staircases of one of its hostels, C.V. Raman Hall. The committee includes four student representatives.The writings, ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphOf Bengal’s 7.66 crore voters, around 25 lakh were not found at their registered addresses, leaving their enumeration forms undelivered in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Election Commission officials said.Most of these voters are in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA healthy and balanced diet can be as effective as medicine in managing and controlling diabetes, doctors said at an awareness meet on Friday. Reducing stress, having adequate sleep and exercising are the other factors that are important in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBengal’s first private veterinary college is coming up at Hooghly’s Mogra, 65km from the heart of Calcutta. The college will start classes before the year ends, said an official. The JIS College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (JISCOVAS), for ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday submitted its seventh status report on its probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year.The CBI’s counsel told the Sealdah court that ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) seeking the right to collect advertisement tax from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for in-stadia advertisements at Eden Gardens, bringing an end to a ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA platform of former Jadavpur University students based in California has decided to provide funds for the chair of a professor of practice — a new position approved by the UGC — to bring real-world experience into the classroom.At ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose has instituted the Padmavati Award in memory of his mother, who was a postmistress. The award, a part of the Governor’s Award for Excellence initiative, will be conferred on three eminent philatelists in recognition of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBushes outside burst with Bougainvillea in so many colours that you can barely see the leaves. A lush lawn lies within, with pink blooms cascading from the terrace, and an overhead canopy of orange Allamandas. Retired teacher Lily Datta ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphIt has colourful flowers, attractive leaves, and with some care, the Balsam, or Dopati, will grow readily in your front yard.Balsam is an ornamental plant. It produces lovely colourful flowers and is popular for garden beds, borders, and containers. ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphYour bank calls and says a credit card has arrived in your name, and that you are to get your Pan and Aadhaar cards to claim it. You pick it up, but since you didn’t really ask for one, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA grand chariot rolled into Aikatan carrying the message of Sathya Sai Baba. It had been travelling for months from Puttaparthi, the headquarters of Sri Sathya Sai district in Andhra Pradesh.The chariot was part of the centenary celebrations of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSharmishta Mukherjee was in the ICU a couple of months ago on account of anxiety. The cause was not anything to do with her own affairs. The doctors told her sternly to stay away from social work during the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSabyasachi Dutta, chairman of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, has claimed that his name is missing in the 2002 voter list. His wife Indrani Dutta’s name is missing as well.The 2002 information is vital to fill up the Election Commission of ...
14 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphRitwik Ghatak was not interested in the historical details of the Partition but rather in its aftermath. Prof Anindya Sengupta of the department of film studies, Jadavpur University, made the comment as part of his opening remarks in a ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFor several years, AJ Block has hosted a popular event in which children set up stalls to sell home-made food. This year, the organisers recognised that not everyone enjoys cooking and so opened doors for them to sell anything ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphIf you love sports and have the afternoon free, take a stroll towards Hyatt Regency from Broadway and walk into Gate 5A, opposite St. Francis Xavier School. The newly carved out gate leads into Salt Lake’s latest sports utility, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSloth bears (Melursus ursinus) have been captured on trap cameras in the forests of Purulia for the first time, forest officials said.Although anecdotal reports of their presence have circulated for years, officials said this is likely the first photographic ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday announced the schedule for the 2026 board exams. The ICSE (Class X) exams will begin on February 17, while the ISC (Class XII) exams will commence on February ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFeeling isolated because of mental health struggles does not mean one is alone, and seeking professional help is perfectly acceptable, was the message conveyed by students of South City International School through a thoughtfully prepared school board.Students from Classes ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphWritings laced with communal hatred have appeared on the walls and doors of a hostel at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, sparking outrage among students, teachers, and alumni of an institution long regarded as a cradle of liberal, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the death of jeweller Swapan Kamilla in New Town have reportedly found a purported video on the phone of one of the accused, Raju Dhali, which confirms the presence of Sajal Sarkar at the scene of the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing alleged fund transfers in the multicrore irregularities in municipal appointments across the state, has summoned the wife, son, and daughter of Sujit Bose, Trinamool Congress leader and minister for fire and emergency services.Sources in ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphMake way for the whites.Test cricket returns to Eden Gardens after six years on Friday. If the snaking queues outside the ticket counters on the eve of the match were anything to go by, the stadium should be buzzing ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA man who earlier worked at a jewellery workshop in Sinthi was arrested on Thursday for allegedly carrying out an armed robbery at his former workplace in October. Police said Sahidul Mandal, who was earlier working at a jewellery ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 5am to 9pm on Sunday. “During the replacement of stay and down cables and bearings of the second Hooghly bridge (Vidyasagar Setu), the movement of all types of vehicles shall be ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe inaugural edition of an awards ceremony that aims to give voice to the voiceless in cinema will be held in the city on December 20.The CineKind Awards is a collaboration between the Film Federation of India (FFI) and ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe curtain came down on the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival with a concluding ceremony where the flow of events was turned upside down by a “surprise visit”.Even as Jaydeep Banerjee’s name was announced as the winner in the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested a man from Siliguri on Wednesday in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla, whose body was found in New Town on October 29, taking the total number of arrests to three in this case. The ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 67-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke on Sunday night and was declared “brain dead” on Tuesday, volunteered to donate her organs. Her organs were retrieved on Wednesday. Chandana Sengupta’s son said his mother “will be ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphStudents and research scholars of ISI Calcutta organised an assembly at the campus gate on Wednesday evening to protest the draft ISI Bill, 2025, which they alleged was the Union government’s attempt to rob the institute of its autonomy. ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphMultiple police teams visited hotels, lodges and guesthouses across Calcutta on Wednesday, enquiring about whether the establishments were maintaining proper records of visitors and checking if their CCTV cameras were functioning.The move followed a virtual meeting of the Kolkata ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe mercury is going downward.On Wednesday, the Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 17.2 degrees in Alipore, three degrees colder than the normal temperature for the second week of November.The forecast is for a marginally colder Thursday. A ...
13 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government’s lawyers told Calcutta High Court on Wednesday that the school service commission (SSC) had the prerogative to decide at what stage of screening teacher job aspirants it would award marks for teaching experience.The state’s advocate-general, Kishore ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphToys from Finland, representing four of the “cherished characters” from the Nordic country’s Moomin stories, will now be up for some adventure at the Nehru Children’s Museum. On Tuesday, the ambassador of Finland handed over toys to the museum, ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is advising parents not to ask their children about their CGPA scores or internship plans too hastily when they call them. Such queries exacerbate parental pressure and could potentially trigger mental health issues, the IIT's dean of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police carried out a search and seizure operation at an office of industrialist Pawan Ruia near Park Circus for the second time on Wednesday in connection with two cybercrime cases.Apart from the investigation ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphIn a patch of land where Calcutta once dumped its waste, thousands of families now live in unorganised settlements. Fires are common here, and when houses burn, identity papers are destroyed too.Many residents of Dhapa Dhipi are now worried ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphAmid the fierce political controversy over potential voter disenfranchisement, 46 lakh deceased individuals in Bengal have been identified whose names may or may not have been on the electoral rolls.The deaths occurred over the past five to seven years.Of ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has acknowledged errors in the final answer keys for two subjects, which were used to evaluate the scripts of the tests designed to shortlist higher secondary teachers.In a notice late on Monday, the commission ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday directed senior officials of the state health department to create direct links between two buildings in government-run medical colleges so that women do not have to use dark stretches while moving from one ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphConducting vehicle checks, removing vehicles parked illegally, and providing immediate response if an abandoned vehicle is detected in a public space — the focus areas of Kolkata Police following the blast in Delhi on Monday were apparent. On Tuesday, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dipped to 18.2 degrees Celsius in Calcutta on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.Sightings of an additional layer of clothing were reported from across the city after sundown, especially on those riding two-wheelers. The minimum ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphThe Cyber Crime Wing of Bengal Police, probing charges of crime and money laundering against industrialist Pawan Kumar Ruia and some of his family members, has found several cybercrime cases registered in the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police, Bidhannagar Police, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee, who also held the industry, commerce and enterprise portfolio at one point, has been accused of masterminding a cash-for-jobs racket in the recruitment of teachers and staff for schools. The charges against Chatterjee ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee left a hospital on bail on Tuesday, with tears in his eyes, having regained his freedom after spending more than three years in custody.The suspended Trinamool Congress leader, arrested on July 23, 2022, ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphWith just days left before the collection of enumeration forms begins, the Trinamool Congress is training its booth-level agents (BLAs) to use a mobile application called Didir Doot that aims to record data on all voters across Bengal.The BLAs ...
12 November 2025 TelegraphNumerous schools that tried to start a girls’ cricket team in the past said they struggled to find enough candidates to form a squad. Some schools offer cricket coaching to boys but have failed to extend it to girls, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA Delhi resident already in Bengal police custody has emerged as a key figure in a ₹315-crore cyber fraud case in which industrialist Pawan Ruia and his family have emerged as suspects.Police said Rahul Verma, 27, is "very close" ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) is in full swing, but new doubts continue to emerge, and people are unsure who has the answers.In many cases, the voters alleged that the booth-level officers (BLOs) did not have answers for their ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMany Calcuttans who have yet to receive the enumeration forms are anxious about when they will arrive and are calling up booth-level officers (BLOs) or asking local political workers to know more.As many of their neighbours have already received ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphGenesis Hospital in Kasba has been asked to stop admission of new patients by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission over non-payment of compensation to a patient. The commission, chaired by retired judge Ashim Banerjee, said on Monday ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled December 3 for the hearing regarding the appointment of vice-chancellors at Bengal universities.This matter has sparked intense disputes between the state government and governor C.V. Ananda Bose, the chancellor of these universities.The next date ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Monday decided to allot funds to Jadavpur University to appoint 30 security personnel and two security supervisors for the campus.A higher education department official said they would provide the university with ₹7.6 lakh per month, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA direct flight to Cambodia from Calcutta, scheduled to start on Wednesday, has few takers so far, while the one to Guangzhou in China, which had huge demand until last week, is seeing a drop after the Delhi-Guangzhou flight ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe state-level philatelic show, organised by the West Bengal circle of India Post, returns after a gap of six years.From November 14, Science City will host Bongopex, an exhibition of 401 frames, over four days, from noon to 7pm, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA special CBI court on Monday granted bail to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, clearing the last hurdle that the former Trinamool leader had to walk out.The Supreme Court granted him bail in the ED case in December 2024. ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphAn alert was sounded across city police stations following the deadly blast in Delhi on Monday evening.In the city, vehicles were being checked randomly, and in many cases, the passengers were being asked to step out.Metro saw the checks ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bengal has rendered marginalised women more susceptible due to a deficiency of resources and a prevailing societal bias.A women’s organisation has been organising camps in Calcutta slums and in villages ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA man in his 50s, whose name has been deleted from the voters’ list but was there in 2002, walked to the “camp” in front of his apartment and asked the booth-level officer (BLO) about the procedure to get ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMinimum temperatures across most parts of West Bengal will remain largely unchanged over the next five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. Dry weather is expected to prevail across the state for the next seven days.The ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata witnessed two separate aircraft incidents within 24 hours, as a private jet reported smoke from its engine on Monday morning—just hours after a SpiceJet flight made an emergency landing due to an engine malfunction.According to officials, smoke was ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is paying a company to operate its construction and demolition waste plant for processing nearly 400 tonnes of waste each day, but on average, only about 200 tonnes of waste are reaching the plant ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphMenstrual health and hygiene continue to be a taboo topic.Girls squirm, schoolboys sometimes make fun of peers, and parents try to “hush up.” The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR), in association with The Bengal Obstetric ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Metro Railway is set to introduce a new technology in the doors of all trains in its existing fleet, one that will prevent a person from getting trapped and being dragged by the closing doors.An accident like this ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphOut of the 1,128 cadaveric donations in the country in 2024, only 14 were from Bengal, a talk by the head of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) at an awareness meet in the city on Friday ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the death of jeweller Swapan Kamilla are said to have found that at least six persons, including Prasanta Barman, the block development officer, Raigunj, were involved in his murder. Police said the two persons — Raju Dhali, ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius slid below 20° in Calcutta, for the first time this season, on Sunday as cold and dry northwesterly winds prevailed in the atmosphere.The Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 19.2° in Alipore on Sunday. It was ...
11 November 2025 TelegraphA four-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from a railway shed and “sexually assaulted” at Tarakeshwar in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, officials said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday when the child was asleep beside her grandmother under a ...
10 November 2025 TelegraphObtaining a duplicate driving licence, renewing a licence, or updating the address on the card can now be accomplished online.The transport department has decided to introduce a series of online or “faceless” services, where vehicle owners will no longer ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu, commonly referred to as the Second Hooghly Bridge, will be closed to traffic from 5am to 9pm on Sunday to allow for the repair and replacement of cables and bearings of the 33-year-old structure.“During the replacement of ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is scheduled to host the second phase of an induction programme for the parents of first-year students on November 11, amidst increasing anxiety over student deaths occurring on the campus.Five students, four BTech students and a research ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has uploaded the final answer keys on its website, allowing teaching job aspirants at the higher secondary level (Class XI and XII) to see how they were evaluated. The results were declared late on ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphNearly a week after the initiation of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bengal, numerous questions remain unresolved, and a pervasive anxiety about being excluded persists.A 65-year-old army officer and his wife were waiting for ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphIndia Post has joined the nation in celebrating the Indian women’s cricket team’s historic victory in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025. The West Bengal circle has released a special cover saluting the success.The cancellation has a graphic design ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will suspend the assistant engineer who was arrested on Friday for amassing assets disproportionate to his income.The action was taken after the civic body received a letter from the state’s anti-corruption branch on Saturday ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphA group of men allegedly broke into a three-storey house situated on Paharpur Road in Garden Reach on Friday night, absconding with ₹70,000 in cash and jewellery after allegedly spraying a sleep-inducing agent on the lone elderly woman who ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men, including the driver of Rajganj BDO Prasanta Barman and a contractor known as his acquaintance, have been arrested in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla, whose body was found in New Town last month. Police ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s Metro Railway has announced that the last train on the Green Line will run an hour earlier on November 9 to allow testing of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system, a crucial step toward ensuring safer and smoother ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphAn assistant engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who earned a little over ₹1 lakh a month had allegedly amassed wealth and assets worth nearly ₹6 crore. The state police’s anti-corruption branch arrested Partha Chongdar on Friday under ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphA green diary with a purported list of financial transactions has been found in the possession of Akash Das, the prime accused in the match-fixing scandal at the Calcutta Football League, police sources said. Sources said investigators have begun ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphAn exhibition of epigraphs dating as far back as 5,000 years began at the Indian Museum on Friday.Otherwise kept in reserve, they have been displayed for a conference. Only a fraction of the museum’s collections are on public display, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphSatyajit Ray had cast Amjad Khan on the strength of his performance in Sholay. The legendary filmmaker, in a 1983 interview, had said that he had seen the film in Bombay in the first week of its release.“Very able, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe school education department announced on Friday the transfer of 23,145 primary school teachers from government-aided primary schools, as the existing vacancies in teacher positions required a “rationalisation process”.The order issued by the department states that the rationalisation will ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim on Friday questioned how an engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who had initiated proceedings against an illegal structure later regularised the same structure after a court asked the KMC to conduct another hearing.Hakim said ...
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