The high court has clubbed a PIL on Saturday’s violence at Jadavpur University with an ongoing case demanding students’ union elections in colleges and universities, stalled for at least five years.Saturday’s violence at JU left education minister Bratya Basu ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA huge portion of the content we encounter on social media could be fake or AI-generated (Artificial Intelligence), cops specialising in cyber crime told participants of a workshop on Monday.The above-mentioned links, photographs and videos are fake, the officers ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the two brothers who survived a car crash on EM Bypass on February 19 and whose statements led to the discovery of three dead women at their Tangra home was discharged from NRS Medical College and Hospital ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphActivists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and Students Federation of India on Monday organised rallies in Kolkata over the March 1 incident in Jadavpur University in which Education Minister Bratya Basu was heckled during a protest and two ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government has spent Rs 12,000 crore for the Swasthya Sathi scheme and that it has brought a revolution in the health sector, but the reality at private hospitals in Kolkata ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA conference on urological cancers, where experts from India and Europe discussed advancements in treatment, was held in the city last month. The European Association of Urology and the Urological Society of India held the conference in association with ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe traders of New Market have written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) requesting the authorities to keep the roads around the market, now heavily encroached by hawkers, free ahead of Eid, a time of the year when a ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphWater meters were installed in many parts of Calcutta; they served important lessons but were not of much benefit beyond that.Civic engineers told Metro the meters showed that many households were wasting water. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) could ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphActivists of the CPI(M)'s student wing SFI gathered on university campuses across West Bengal on Monday morning to enforce a strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Bratya Basu.Two students were injured when a car in the convoy of ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA recent study has offered a “breakthrough” in the fight against fruit flies, formidable pests considered among the biggest threats to fruits and vegetables.Researchers have, for the first time, sequenced specific gene regions from a set of fruit fly ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA 1951 purple Hillman Minx turned heads at the Victoria Memorial. A classic black 1968 Mercedes Benz 230S zipped past Birla Temple in Ballygunge.Twenty vintage vehicles charmed motorists and pedestrians on the city's roads on Sunday. Guiding the men ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphCharred objects lay strewn on Sunday inside and outside the office of the Trinamool-backed non-teaching employees’ union at Jadavpur University, following alleged vandalism and arson by students the evening before.Members of the ultra-left Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) are accused ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphSocial media is abuzz with calls for protests lined up on Monday in connection with the alleged violence at Jadavpur University on Saturday.Monday is the first day of the Higher Secondary exams this year.On eve of the exam, Kolkata ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphTwo students of Jadavpur University who were injured in Saturday’s commotion on the campus were “stable” on Sunday and one of them was discharged, said an official of KPC Medical College and Hospital, where they were admitted.Indranuj Roy, the ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphFive large water bodies, portions of which have been encroached, are being cleaned up.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken up the project to demarcate the water bodies, dredge them, increase their capacity and clean them.A tree-lined embankment will ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphLoreto House was being painted when a teacher stopped the work on one wall of a Class IV classroom. Uma Ahmad wanted her students to paint the wall, and they did so with scenes from Indian and world history. ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA 53-year-old man and his 22-year-old daughter who had autism were found hanging from an iron hook of a ceiling fan in Parnasree on the city’s southern fringes on Friday evening.Sajan Das and Srija had left their home in ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur will review the decision to show-cause 85 teachers who had been served notices in late November last year for being signatories to a representation seeking revocation of disciplinary proceedings against four office-bearers of the teachers’ association. IIT ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphCommuters caught in a blockade for nearly two hours around Jadavpur police station on Saturday evening challenged some Left supporters who had taken over the arterial thoroughfare as if it was their right.“Eta ki hochchhey (What’s this?) Why are ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphStudents, teachers and ordinary citizens expressed anguish at how a minister’s car ignored students who could be under its wheels and drove through.One of the students clinging to state education minister Bratya Basu’s car in protest at Jadavpur University ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphA forest patch in Bankura that developed over the years has emerged as a sanctuary for elephants and a model that forest officials want to replicate across south Bengal to mitigate the human-jumbo conflict.A herd of 68 elephants has ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu, who went to Jadavpur University to attend a programme conducted by Trinamool Congress-backed teachers on Saturday, was mobbed and barracked and allegedly assaulted by Left-leaning students upset with the state for not allowing campus elections.The ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the two brothers who survived a car crash on EM Bypass early on February 19 has admitted to having killed his wife and sister-in-law, police sources said on Friday.A senior Kolkata Police officer said Prasun Dey, the ...
3 March 2025 TelegraphPresident Dorupadi Murmu has declined their request for a meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not responded. But the parents of the doctor raped and murdered while on duty at the state-run RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata last ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphBodies of a businessman and his 22-year-old daughter were found hanging inside his shop in south Kolkata’s Behala area, police said on Saturday.The businessman, a resident of Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district, had been suffering from mental distress ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday asked the Bengal government to file an affidavit on a public interest litigation that has objected to the use of blue and white colours on kerbstones and guard rails on the city’s roads.The bench ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start repairing battered roads in 14 of its 41 wards from March 3Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose said the work “will be completed in a month or a maximum of 10 more days”. The ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphA man riding a scooter was crushed to death on Vidyasagar Setu by a rogue truck that came from behind, hit him and fled, leaving the man to die, early on Friday.Manoj Shaw, 46, was riding pillion on his ...
2 March 2025 TelegraphA group of young men broke into a sought-after wealth adviser’s client list and offered advice to them using his investment tips otherwise meant for paying subscribers.Three men have been arrested from Pilani in Rajasthan, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. At ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA Kathmandu-bound Qatar Airways flight carrying Nepal Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba was diverted to Kolkata on Friday after failing to land at the Tribhuvan International Airport due to bad weather.Deuba, 63, was returning home on a regular flight ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphMousumi Chakravarty is one busy lady. She is a music teacher, social worker, runs an activity centre, a boutique, and still finds time to grow a stellar garden. She has seasonal flowers like Dahlias and Petunias, vegetables like Cabbage ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur Research Park in New Town has just opened a studio in its lobby. Besides being equipped to record videos and podcasts, it is a sight to behold, having come up inside an indoor garden of sorts.The ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe festival is called Magic of Chopsticks but spoon and fork will work just fine to savour the Oriental dishes that are being served at Pride Plaza in New Town till March 9.Chef Harish Chandra, an Asian cuisine specialist, ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe head of a government-aided school in Behala and several teachers were detained on Thursday night by students who would not be allowed to write their Class XI second semester examination for not reaching the required attendance mark.The protests ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA call centre that was allegedly selling household articles, making them look like antiques using a chemical coating, was busted in Bidhannagar on Wednesday, police said. One person, identified the arrested person as Hemanta Sarkar, has been arrested. An ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) submitted to the Supreme Court in mid-February that 5,303 candidates were allegedly appointed illegally as teaching and non-teaching staff in secondary and higher secondary sections of government-aided schools, the commission chief said on Thursday.The ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA car turned turtle near Nicco Park on Thursday morning after the owner driving the Mahindra XUV 400 dozed off for a few seconds, police said.The 28-year-old young businessman, who was at the wheel, escaped unhurt, the police said. ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday imposed an interim stay on a drive by the railways to demolish “unauthorised structures” at Serampore railway station.The structures are a series of stalls on both sides of the approach road to the station. ...
1 March 2025 TelegraphA ticket counter at Bandel station of Howrah division was allegedly vandalised by a group of men on Thursday afternoon. The men also allegedly assaulted a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable. Two men have been arrested so far, said ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe rape and murder of a 14-year-old has triggered the Bidhannagar Commissionerate into bolstering the CCTV coverage of three zones under its purview. As part of the initiative, over 100 cameras are being installed at strategic areas across Salt ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe two women who were caught carrying a body in a trolley bag at the Ahiritola Ghat on Tuesday claimed innocence at the Barasat court on Thursday.Their lawyers told the court that the women were innocent and there was ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe gold chain snatched from a homemaker in Dhakuria was recovered from a goldsmith in Netajinagar on Thursday.Police said the chain had been sold to a small jewellery store in Naktala after being stolen. The shop owner has also ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphAn elderly woman who needed cash to buy medicines was allegedly deceived at an ATM by a fellow user who managed to replace her debit card with another one.Alakananda Sengupta, a retired schoolteacher, lost ₹1,51,000.The 62-year-old went to withdraw ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old man has been arrested in Gujarat for allegedly duping a 76-year-old retired Air Force officer in New Town of ₹1.7 crore by placing him under the fear of a “digital arrest”.The septuagenarian was detained over a video ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital met CBI director Praveen Sood in New Delhi on Thursday afternoon and they were told to “have patience”.Stepping out of the CBI headquarters, ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphPranay Dey’s 14-year-old son has claimed his uncle Prasun tried to smother him with a pillow at their Tangra home on February 18 but he survived by holding his breath and playing dead, a child rights body has said.Officials ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphDid you know that common ailments like frozen shoulder, headache, gastric, period pain, cramps, migraines, and sciatica can be healed with needles? Acupuncture, the ancient Chinese healing method is now practised at CA Block’s Healing Touch, and the institute ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council will deploy secondary school teachers to evaluate Higher Secondary answer scripts because schools do not have enough Plus II teachers to be appointed as examiners.At present, there is a recruitment freeze in schools.Earlier, teachers ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphCommuters were inconvenienced on Thursday as around 7,000 app cabs and a few thousand app bikes went off city roads in the morning to press for their demand of hiking fares by the aggregators concerned.The 12-hour shutdown called by ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar police have arrested one person running a fake call centre that sold fake antiques to gullible customers.This is the second illegal call centre to have been found operational in and around Kolkata in three days.Hemanta Sarkar, the ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year are travelling to Delhi to meet CBI director Praveen Sood. The parents said they were expecting to meet ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE’s plan to conduct board exams twice a year could prolong the stress for students and eat into the schools’ teaching time, several principals said. The Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) has proposed two Class X board exams ...
28 February 2025 TelegraphWhile the city basks in the afterglow of hosting its first Comic Con last weekend, a city comics fan has paid tribute to a 99-year-old Marathi cartoonist who has achieved a unique feat.The Pune-based Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, who is ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphStudents appearing for the state Higher Secondary examinations must enter their centres an hour before the start.The examinations start at 10am. The Class XII school leaving examinations start on March 3 and will continue till March 18.The early-arrival notice ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday show-caused a chief manager who scrapped a holiday earmarked for Viswakarma Puja and extended the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays in schools run by the civic body.The civic body cancelled the “memorandum” issued by the official ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphA man was found unconscious on the road near Technicians’ Studio in Tollygunge in the early hours of Wednesday. He was bleeding from the head and a helmet lay nearby.He was declared dead on arrival at MR Bangur Hospital, ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThirteen girls and a woman, all of them from Bengal, were rescued from West Champaran district in Bihar between the night of February 20 and the morning of February 21, police said.The 13 girls, who should have been in ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphChildren should be encouraged to be active smartphone or device users instead of passive consumers, said an associate professor of Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway.The professor, who is an early childhood education and care mentor, while speaking at a ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphA group that allegedly activated SIM cards in the names of real people without their knowledge or consent and sold them to cyber fraudsters has been identified and arrested.Kolkata Police have arrested eight people so far in connection with ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphPolice have revealed that Arati Ghosh and her daughter Falguni, who were caught carrying a dead body in a trolley bag at Ahiritola Ghat on Tuesday, purchased the suitcase from Burrabazar specifically for disposing of the victim’s remains.Contrary to ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been forced to stop some services in its health centres because the Centre has stopped providing funds, Atin Ghosh, the deputy mayor of Calcutta who heads the civic body’s health department, said on Tuesday. ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphAn ailing 10-month-old doberman’s road to a new life came from the blood of a 10-year-old Golden Retriever in a Kolkata animal hospital.The doberman named Leo has been suffering from a blood disease and his haemoglobin level had dropped ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThree men were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with the daylight snatching of a gold chain off the neck of a Dhakuria resident a few metres from her home.Police said the men picked up in the case are ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe Dey brothers, who had survived the crash on EM Bypass last week, were involved in the murder of their family members whose bodies were found in their Tangra residence, police said on Tuesday.Pranay Dey, 44, and Prasun Dey, ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women were caught in north Kolkata's Ahiritola on Tuesday while allegedly dumping human body parts into the Hooghly river in a suitcase, police said.These two women, who arrived at the Ahiritola Ghat in a taxi, were caught by ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphTurkey recorded a 20 per cent growth in the number of Indian tourists in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, an official of the country’s tourism authority said on Monday.The Turkish authorities also said they were looking at the ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphThe authorities of a north Calcutta school have decided to suspend a contractual teacher who some students and parents have accused of molestation.The decision to suspend the teacher, who gave computer training, was taken after the guardians and students ...
27 February 2025 TelegraphVery mild tremors were felt in Calcutta on Tuesday morning, as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck deep inside the Bay of Bengal seabed.The quake occurred at a depth of 91km in the Bay, said an ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA police inspector who suffered a gunshot injury on his left arm in Howrah’s Shibpur close to midnight on February 19 was suspended on Tuesday.An order issued by the state police said inspector Jayanata Pal has been suspended “pending ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphAn association that runs most of the school buses in the city has decided to hold a session for its members next month to address the tendency of a section of drivers to speed after dropping children at school.While ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided not to allow students’ fests on campus during school board examinations. Residents staying on the campus had alleged that fests with blaring noise hampered preparations for their sons and daughters writing the board examinations, usually ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has rejected a demand from students that the university authorities not verify the credentials they submitted while applying for a state government scholarship. First and second-year engineering students gheraoed the officiating VC overnight, for 24 hours from ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphBus drivers have to be trained to follow rules and police should more actively discipline these rogue buses to make the city’s roads safer, said the grandson of a 77-year-old woman who was crushed to death near her home ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA Hyundai Creta that was moving along a bridge in Alipore following all traffic rules was crushed from its front as a truck from the opposite direction suddenly changed lanes and hit it head-on early on Tuesday.Airbags, seat belts ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphTwo women who were seen dragging a visibly heavy trolley bag along a crowded ghat of the Hooghly in north Calcutta around 7.30am on Tuesday were stopped by passers-by and asked what was inside.They said a laptop. But out ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphThe maximum permissible speed for vehicles on 26 roads in the city will vary between 25km and 50km per hour, Kolkata Police said in a notification on Monday.The restrictions on vehicular speed were “necessary for preventing danger, obstruction or ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphThe 14-year-old boy of the Dey family has told police that his uncle slashed his wrist after the boy saw his cousin lifeless on her bed at their Tangra home, sources said on Monday. His wound was superficial and ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday spoke out against VIP culture and thundered that no car should be stopped to let a VIP pass. Mamata said she did not like being treated as a VIP.“Why a VIP will not ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Police on Monday submitted a chargesheet against an e-rickshaw driver accused of rape and murder of a child in New Town earlier this month.The chargesheet came 17 days after the 14-year-old girl was found dead on a deserted ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA supplementary chargesheet will be submitted soon in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-and-murder case, the CBI told Sealdah court on Monday while submitting a status report.The supplementary chargesheet is likely to contain charges of destruction of ...
26 February 2025 TelegraphA real estate developer with an alleged criminal background was shot at in Howrah’s Liluah on Friday night outside a multi-storeyed building on Netaji Subhas Road moments after he stepped out of a birthday party.Rajesh Singh fell after being ...
25 February 2025 TelegraphStudents and aspiring young entrepreneurs pitched business ideas at a contest held at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Calcutta, recently.The competition started on February 12 with more than 60 teams. Only 30 qualified for the next rounds.After the semi-finals on ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: An association that honoured a woman, who had worked to empower women at the grassroots level more than 100 years back, celebrated its centennial anniversary in the city on Sunday. Saroj Nalini Dutt’s work lives through the Saroj ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphA school asked parents to collaborate with their children for a theatre project — a break from their routine life of going to a mall or a multiplex.Calcutta International School invited parents of Classes I to V on Thursday ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe warden of the two Jadavpur University hostels, where a section of first-year students allegedly smashed the gates and CCTV cameras to protest the tweak in timings last week, said on Sunday that they took the measure drawing lessons ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will address a doctors’ convention on Monday, her first such face-to-face meeting with senior as well as junior doctors from across the state since the RG Kar protests.Mamata will interact with the medical fraternity for ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphTwo young business leaders from Calcutta were on the eclectic speakers’ list of the two-day ABP Network’s Ideas of India Summit 2025.Times have changed but boardroom bias against women is still a reality, Rochita Dey, director of Sreeleathers, told ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan now based in Canada, who was at Dubai International Cricket Stadium with his wife and another couple to watch Sunday’s match, said being at the stadium for an India-Pakistan match is the most exciting experience for him.It ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphBike-borne men snatched a gold chain from the neck of a 57-year-old woman who was going to a relative’s house a few hundred metres from her Dhakuria home on Saturday afternoon.Piyali De Ray, a resident of 76/7 Selimpur Road, ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphIt was a Sunday that does not come often.From residential complexes to malls and electronic goods stores, the fever of the India-Pakistan face-off in the Champions Trophy cricket match gripped the city.Fans went over to each other’s apartments to ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the Dey brothers, Prasun, and his nephew are likely to be discharged on Monday from the Ruby General Hospital, where they had been admitted since surviving a car crash on EM Bypass early on Wednesday morning.Police will ...
24 February 2025 Telegraph“Please do not litter, use the dustbin,” tea seller Pradip Das tells visitors to the Champatala Ghat, near Sovabazar. Fifty-year-old Das is a “river ambassador”. Sixteen people, including Das, who earn their livelihood selling tea and snacks or ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe portico of Chandernagore station, among the first four railway stations in eastern India dating back to 1854, is being pulled down, triggering protests and allegations that a piece of heritage is lost forever.Residents of Chandernagore noticed on Saturday ...
24 February 2025 TelegraphThe Union health ministry has asked states and medical colleges across the country to discourage unnecessary use of earphones and headphones, citing studies implicating prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds in irreversible hearing loss.A February 20 letter from ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe state higher secondary council has instructed examination centre supervisors to “make strict usage” of metal detectors for “frisking purposes” to prevent examinees from carrying mobile phones and electronic devices into the centres.Council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya has asked the ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has asked schools to have fully functional computer labs with internet facilities so that the students are able to access online learning platforms and participate in the council’s online activities.The ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the two Dey brothers who survived Wednesday morning’s car crash was discharged from the Ruby General Hospital and shifted to the NRS Medical College and Hospital on Saturday evening.Although Pranay Dey’s 14-year-old son was also to be ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphBrace for travel woes next week as app cab drivers have threatened to go off the road if their demands for fair revision are not met with soon.On February 27, drivers and bike riders will go offline for 12 ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphMore than 5.5 lakh eggs of Olive Ridley turtles have been “safely laid” at the mouths of two rivers in Odisha since November, Indian Coast Guard officials said on Friday.The Olive Ridley sea turtle has been listed on Schedule ...
23 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the CBI on former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.“Issue notice… list the matter on March 20, 2025,” a ...
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