A central public sector undertaking has given an endowment of Rs 20 lakh to the chemistry department of Presidency University, now in the middle of a crippling funds crunch.The department will purchase infrared spectrometers with the contribution.The university, which ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA French company plans to set up simulators in Calcutta to train pilots, a facility now lacking in this part of the country.Simaero, headquartered in Paris, will set up its first pilot training centre in Delhi-NCR and the facility ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the Adelaide Times reported on the death of Captain Corigalton, “a veteran of the Bengal steam service, who had been many years in the Straits, with every nook and corner of which he was familiar. “He ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphFormer RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, who had earlier undergone a polygraph test, has refused to take a narco-analysis test, CBI sources said.Ghosh conveyed his reluctance to a judge at the Sealdah court, where the ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphJunior doctors on Friday issued a threat: Either the state government accepts all their demands by Monday or they would shut down Bengal’s healthcare system, both government and private, on Tuesday.The doctors also put the ball in the chief ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA blaze that started on the first-floor balcony of the ESI Hospital in Sealdah around 5.30am on Friday allegedly caused a patient’s death and forced the evacuation of 90 others.Uttam Bardhan, 54, who may have been suffocated to death ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphWork in progressThe AG Block puja was inaugurated on Mahalaya but even on Sashthi, two people could be spotted painting sculptures inside the pandal. “The pandal still isn’t ready?” asked a woman out loud. “It’s ready! These artisans are ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphThis year, an idol crafted by students of the Techno India Group was featured in the Thames Durga Parade in London. And it was made out of tissue paper.Following their vision of creating sustainable Durga idols over the past ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphOn the eve of the Pujas, students of NIFD Global Salt Lake set the stage for the festival with a fashion show featuring the latest trends woven with the wealth of our heritage.Agomoni 2024 began at the institute’s DD ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphSix hundred sunflowers were suspended from strings above, a massive lotus served as the centrepiece before the idol, and floral chandeliers adorned the edges of the quadrangle — all uniting to pay homage to women.Students and teachers of DPS ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA resident of Haridevpur was found lying in a pool of blood behind an under-construction building on Banamali Banerjee Road in Haridevpur on Thursday morning.Police suspect the man died after falling from the building. The victim has been identified ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with chief secretary Manoj Pant and health secretary N.S. Nigam at her residence on Thursday evening.Sources said the bureaucrats presented before the chief minister a detailed report on the progress of the ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphA suicide bid at Kalighat station disrupted Metro services on the north-south route (Blue Line) for close to an hour amid the evening rush on Thursday.A man jumped in front of a New Garia-bound train around 6.20pm, said Metro ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphSandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on whose watch a junior doctor was raped and murdered on August 9, has moved the high court seeking to know the procedure on how to liquidate ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphGovernment and government-aided colleges that have earned admission fees while admitting undergraduate students have yet to get the money due to them from the state government. The higher education department, which held the centralised admission process this year, collected ...
19 October 2024 TelegraphMetro Railway, India’s first such carrier and often billed as Calcutta’s transport lifeline, is turning 40 later this month. On October 24, 1984, Metro’s first commercial run was between Esplanade and Bhowanipore. The distance was 3.4km.Bhowanipore has since been ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphThe railways has reduced the advanced ticket booking period from 120 days to 60 days, it announced on Thursday.Passengers will now be able to book train tickets up to 60 days in advance, instead of the previous 120 days.The ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA group of women marched from the Karunamoyee intersection to the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Thursday afternoon to press for a speedy investigation into the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA man who was allegedly kidnapped from the compound of a city hospital was rescued by police a few hours later from a hotel in West Midnapore around 100km away.The suspected kidnappers told the police that Nitai Dey, 46, ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphAniket Mahata, a prominent face of the junior doctors’ protest who had to be rushed to hospital on October 10 while on a fast unto death, was discharged from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday evening.In the ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphEditor, biographer and historian Biharilal Sarkar was born on this day in Andul in Howrah district.He got his FA degree from General Assembly’s Institution (now Scottish Church College). He worked in the editorial department of Bangavasi newspaper for three ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out at Sealdah ESI Hospital here on Friday morning, a fire official said.Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was brought under control after two hours, the official said.There was no report ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphThree pujas were selected from Salt Lake — FD Block, AK Block and IB Block to the state government’s immersion carnival. But idols of only two blocks drove down Red Road on Tuesday. This is because AK Block did ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphIB Block Olympic medallist boxer Mary Kom couldn’t make it to the opening, actor Dev arrived hours late, and it started pouring minutes after a cultural group took to the stage to perform agomoni ...
18 October 2024 TelegraphA school, through a play, appealed to grandparents and parents to bond withchildren over books and not to remain surrounded bydevices.The children of Mahadevi Birla World Academy presented a play that discussed how digital distractions build communication barriers, making ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOver 7,000 bikers were prosecuted for riding without a helmet and 733 motorists for drink driving in the Kolkata Police area between October 7 (Chaturthi) and October 13 (Dashami), police said on Monday.The special police deployment for Puja, which ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphProhibitory orders banning the assembly of more than five persons have been imposed in areas adjacent to Red Road, where state-organised 'Puja Carnival' will be held on Tuesday, amid calls for 'Droha' (protest) Carnival on nearby Rani Rashmoni Avenue ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOver 90 award-winning Durga Puja committees displayed idols of the goddess on decorated tableaux, which moved in a procession on Red Road here in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several envoys on Tuesday evening.The ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday recorded an undertaking from Bengal doctors that barring eight of them, all the others who had been on cease-work had resumed their duties in the aftermath of the protests launched for ensuring security and ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe state government on Tuesday launched the central referral system — one of the demands of the protesting junior doctors — that will ensure that a government hospital refers a patient to another state-run facility only if the latter ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe heart of Calcutta was brought to a grinding halt by protestors for hours on Tuesday evening.A “carnival of protest (Droher Carnival)” that was supposed to have been confined to Rani Rashmoni Avenue spilled out into multiple adjoining thoroughfares. ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a heavy cyclone from the Bay of Bengal passed through several districts of Bengal. Midnapore was among the worst-affected.The cyclone struck early in the morning and continued till early next morning. On October 16 afternoon, a ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe city police recruit civic volunteers based on an order issued by the state home and hill affairs department and an “enrolment notice” from the office of the police commissioner, senior officers said.The applicant should “preferably” be a resident ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphPatient services continued to be hit at private hospitals across the city for the second day in a row on Tuesday as doctors stayed away from non-emergency work.Officials at the hospitals said services are likely to be normal from ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral puja organisers acknowledged the craftsmanship of the artisans and the toil of workers by displaying their names and photographs in the pandals. The idea was to recognise their months of hard work and give them their share of ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphMetro services were disrupted during the peak morning rush on Tuesday because of a snag at Dum Dum station.“Trains could not ply between Girish Park and Dakshineswar from 9.20pm because of a signal problem at Dum Dum station. Trains ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphGrade I heritage buildings on Ballygunge Circular Road now have the blue heritage plaque of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on their gates.The plaques were putup in the first week of October. Among the buildings sporting the tag are Thapar ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA doctor with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) medical team deployed at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road was detained by police and questioned for several hours on Tuesday allegedly because he was sporting a badge that identified ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphSeven hundred women working in the unorganised sector got a new cotton sari each this Puja.The saris were given by Rokeya Shikhsa Kendra, a learning centre for children of marginalised families who live in Patuli, Briji, News Garia, on ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors will approach Calcutta High Court seeking elections to student unions and resident doctors’ associations in medical colleges, one of the doctors on a fast unto death said on Wednesday. Rumelika Kumar, a postgraduate trainee at ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe monsoon has left Calcutta for this year but the rain has not. The city was lashed by a spell of thunderstorm on Wednesday evening after intermittent showers since early afternoon.Around 5.45pm, the rain was almost blinding in pockets ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphBritish East India Company administrator, antiquarian and editor Edward Clive Bayley was born in St Petersburg on this day.He held high administrative posts in north India. In 1849, he was appointed undersecretary to the government of India in the ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphDoctors at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) demanded on Wednesday that the civic body seek an apology from Kolkata Police for detaining a colleague who was on duty at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road on Tuesday wearing ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphPartha Chatterjee, the former state education minister who is now in custody, had allegedly recommended that the names of some “undeserving” candidates be included in the merit list of the 2014 Teacher Eligibility Test for primary schools, the CBI ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA group of individuals with autism heralded Durga Puja this year by slaying the demon, a role-play meant to prepare them for the festive days ahead. The sudden change in the environment with loud music, lights and crowds — ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital who has been in the eye of the rape-murder storm, in a corruption case. Ghosh was taken to Nizam Palace, which ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphMore old skeletons from the time Sandip Ghosh was principal are tumbling out of the cupboards of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The latest revelation comes in the form of a video from a convention held on August 29 ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of the gruesome rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital On Monday, amid the continuing nationwide protests. On Tuesday, a three judge ...
20 August 2024 Telegraph"Please trust us," the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while requesting the doctors protesting across the country over a Kolkata doctor's alleged rape and killing to call off the strike and resume work. The court said abstention from the work ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Bengal government on the delay in registering an FIR in the RG Kar rape-and-murder and the immediate reappointment of the medical college’s principal Sandip Ghosh, after his controversy-fuelled resignation, as principal of ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphRumours and a malicious media and social media campaign have resulted in the Calcutta police losing the trust of the people, an angry police commissioner Vineet Goyal said on Thursday as his men fought pitched battles with mobs at ...
14 August 2024 TelegraphA mob of men with sticks broke police barricades, entered the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital premises, overturned a police vehicle and smashed up things in front of TV cameras even as thousands of women marched peacefully in ...
14 August 2024 TelegraphA dusty bust of an elderly bespectacled person welcomed this correspondent to Sagar Kutir — a shabby tin-roofed hut surrounded by a weedy courtyard in Baradongal village, located 13km north of Hooghly’s Arambagh town. “He is our Gandhi... Arambagh’s Gandhi,” ...
21 May 2024 TelegraphAn oar as her only weapon, Sunderbans resident Rina Sarkar fought the magnificent yellow-and-black striped beast to save her husband from its jaws, and lost. Rina, now 46, recounted how she helplessly watched the Royal Bengal Tiger drag her husband ...
24 April 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has appointed senior professor Bhaskar Gupta as the new Vice Chancellor of the prestigious state-run Jadavpur University. Gupta's appointment as VC was recommended by the state government which had submitted a list of ...
23 April 2024 TelegraphPushed to a corner after the damning declaration of the Calcutta High Court that ruled as "null and void" appointments of over 25,000 teachers in Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee tried her best to put up a brave front ...
22 April 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday welcomed the Calcutta High Court order cancelling all appointments made through a 2016 recruitment process for West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools, and said the verdict proves that the "TMC government was ...
22 April 2024 TelegraphIf you grew up in the 1980s Calcutta like me, you would be quite familiar with the slogan – “Cholchhe Cholbe” (It is running, it will run – rough translation). No rally by the Left parties was complete without ...
20 April 2024 TelegraphActor Ankush Hazra shares with us the challenges of becoming a film producer and choosing a gangster action drama, Mirza, as the maiden project. You have turned film producer for Mirza. What has been the experience like? Ankush Hazra: The experience ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphA TMC councillor, who had been on a hunger strike for six days alleging that a local leader was not allowing her to work freely, ended her stir on Saturday following assurances from the party leadership. Monalisa Banerjee, the Kolkata ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphFormer Indian cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan, the TMC’s face against Congress heavyweight Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Baharampur, says he is here to stay in politics and remain connected to people of the city, who have already “accepted him as one ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee both endorsed on Saturday that the party would win all three seats in north Bengal where elections were held on Friday, the approach making it clear that ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphDynastic politics has been a prominent feature of Indian democracy, but its increased presence in Bengal this Lok Sabha election marks a significant departure from the state's tradition of cultivating leaders from grassroots politics. Out of the 42 Lok Sabha ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphA mango lover in Calcutta is spoilt for choice these days. He or she gets to savour the king of fruits — apart from its pristine form – in a hundred assortments of experiments. Be it mango puddings, mango ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphAwestruck, I enter the hallowed precincts of New Theatres in Tollygunge, set up in 1930 by B.N. Sircar, a qualified civil engineer. I can’t take my eyes off the tall, barn-like structures where iconic films such as Devdas, Chandidas, Desher ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP is targeting her and her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and they do not feel safe. Her allegation came a day after the Leader of ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphKarn Sharma's scarcely believable last-over assault on Mitchell Starc gave Royal Challengers Bengaluru a glimmer of hope but the Kolkata Knight Riders kept their nerves to eke out a dramatic one-run win off the last ball in their IPL ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphStudents with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly appear for NET and pursue PhD, according to University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar. To pursue a PhD with or without a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), the candidates will require a ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphHeatwave conditions will continue to prevail over many parts of Gangetic West Bengal, with severe heatwave in isolated pockets, the Meteorological department said in its five-day forecast as large areas in the region sizzled under the scorching sun on ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphThe eldest CPM leader and the most important Congress leader in Bengal together made a public appearance on Sunday afternoon but not amidst voters. The joint appearance, at a press conference, of Left Front chairman Biman Bose and Pradesh Congress ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphThe Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday condemned an incident of violence during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal and demanded a probe into it by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to the West Bengal Police, a woman was ...
19 April 2024 TelegraphAmid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe death of five persons in the collapse of an under-construction building here has triggered a political duel between the TMC and the opposition in poll-bound Bengal with the saffron camp dubbing it as a "TMC-made disaster" and the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphCriticising the removal of West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, the Trinamul Congress on Monday claimed it was a glaring example of BJP's "control" over the Election Commission (EC).Addressing a press conference, TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh claimed that BJP ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphClaiming that the collapsed under-construction building at Garden Reach was coming up during the last couple of years only, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member and former Calcutta mayor Bikash Bhattacharya on Monday accused the ruling Trinamul Congress of blaming the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphFollowing the instruction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the West Bengal government on Monday appointed Vivek Sahay as the new DGP of the state, according to sources.The appointment was made within hours after the poll panel removed ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress MP Saket Gokhale on Monday filed a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he violated the poll code by using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in Andhra Pradesh. ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress on Sunday strongly criticised veteran BJP leader and former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy for his controversial remarks about determining one's religion and grant citizenship accordingly.In a post on X, the party condemned Roy's remarks, stating that he ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAmid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphWithin 24 hours of the announcement of poll dates for general elections, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday launched a portal 'Log Sabha' to listen to the grievances of voters and directly connect with them during the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CPM conceded to ally RSP’s demand for the Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday, for which the name of Mili Oraon was announced, after hectic parleys through the day.At the bipartite meetings between the CPM and the other ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphRehena Bewa of Subhrajpur village in Thanarpara, Nadia, broke down on Friday morning when she heard that her “sister” Manjushree Mandal had died at a hospital.The 61-year-old Bewa rushed to the Mandal home — the lone Hindu household in ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe All India Matua Mahasangha has decided to advise community members not to submit citizenship applications till a new government is formed and simplifies the process.The decision by the community’s apex organisation comes at a time many Matuas’ attempts ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphTwo persons died and seven others were injured as an under-construction five-storeyed building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, city mayor Firhad Hakim said on Monday.Hakim apprehended that some more people might still be trapped under the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBimal Gurung, who once lorded over Darjeeling hills, has started an outreach ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after lying low for years.Gurung's outreach comes at a time when the United Front for Smaller States (UFSS) — a forum ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBengal, along with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, will vote in every leg of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls that will begin on April 19 and continue till June 1, the longest stretch of parliamentary polls that the state has ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has constituted a team of experts to conduct a study of the lands in Sandeshkhali that were illegally grabbed from villagers and turned into fish farms, and suggest ways to utilise them, an ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphBimal Gurung, who once lorded over Darjeeling hills, has started an outreach ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after lying low for years.Gurung's outreach comes at a time when the United Front for Smaller States (UFSS) — a forum ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CBI on Saturday arrested Sheikh Alamgir, brother of recently arrested Sandehskhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, and two others for allegedly spearheading an attack on the visiting ED team on January 5.Alamgir evaded questions and tried to mislead investigators, central ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphElections to the Sikkim Assembly and Lok Sabha will be held on April 19, the first of the seven phases of the 2024 general elections."The president of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and also the chief minister of Sikkim is ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphGopal Lama, the Darjeeling Trinamul Congress candidate from its hill ally, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), kick-started his campaign from the Terai region of the constituency with “development” on his lips. Trinamul has never won the Darjeeling Lok ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has constituted a team of experts to conduct a study of the lands in Sandeshkhali that were illegally grabbed from villagers and turned into fish farms, and suggest ways to utilise them, an ...
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