The Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD), an organisation of senior doctors, on Sunday wrote to the commissioner of Kolkata Police seeking permission to set up a dais at the Dorina crossing in Esplanade for a “sit-in demonstration” between December ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphA small delegation of Mukti Jodhas from Bangladesh will arrive here on Sunday evening for the Vijay Diwas celebrations on Monday, which will be attended by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a ...
16 December 2024 TelegraphParents of children with autism are often reluctant to take their children to public gatherings fearing embarrassment, said those working with individuals with autism.“There is a general sense of disbelief about children with autism or those with special needs ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA group of tram enthusiasts has decided to organise a transport festival in January to celebrate trams as a clean and green mode of transportation and revive the memories associated with tramcars in the city.Trams in Calcutta celebrated 150 ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to regularly clean the Parama flyover of dust and items like nails, plastics and sharp objects so vehicles don’t develop snags and bring traffic to a halt.The 7.5km stretch between ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA 28-year-old man from Baranagar in north Calcutta has been arrested for allegedly killing a woman he met on a social networking platform at her Kestopur home.According to a senior officer from the Bidhannagar commissionerate, Kaushik Saha had befriended ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphClosed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) have become vital “sources of evidence” for schools to withstand the onslaught of allegations or doubts raised by parents, several school principals said. The third eye was installed primarily for safety and surveillance in the ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe rape and murder of the trainee doctor at her workplace triggered an unprecedented larger movement for gender equity.Down the line, that cry for equity is getting drowned by the high-decibel protests and politics around the RG Kar case, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA house painter has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of a woman whose severed head was found in a garbage dump in a residential neighbourhood near Tollygunge on Friday morning.The remaining body parts were found ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA section of doctors on Saturday said they would scale up protests in the coming days against the CBI’s inability to submit a chargesheet against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphMany old buildings of Jadavpur University have become so worn out that chunks of concrete are coming off frequently, posing a risk to students and others, the university has said. A JU notice says no further false ceilings should ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, at a meeting in Town Hall, Raja Rammohun Roy had stated that “the greater our intercourse with the European gentlemen, the greater will be our improvement in literary, social and political affairs”.This statement and a few ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe woman, whose severed head was found at a garbage dump in south Kolkata's Tollygunge area, was allegedly killed by her brother-in-law as she had snubbed his advances, police said on Saturday.Cracking the case within 24 hours, Kolkata Police ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA Jadavpur University (JU) panel has recommended that the answer scripts of the journalism and mass communication department’s semester and internal examinations be re-evaluated by external experts, following protests by students over alleged evaluation flaws.The decision to recommend re-evaluation ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphRabindra Bharati University (RBU) has terminated its registrar’s service despite the state higher education department’s request to refrain from taking action because the matter related to suspension is “under judicial scrutiny”.In a communication to the suspended registrar on Thursday, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe severed head of a woman wrapped in a transparent polythene packet was found on a deserted stretch of Graham Road, near Tollygunge, littered with garbage on Friday morning.Blood oozing out of the part from where the head had ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA water treatment plant will be functional before the summer of 2026 near the Dhalai Bridge in Garia, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday. The construction of the plant is on.Residents of large parts of southeast Calcutta like Garia, ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe ship Calcutta, launched in July 1852 and registered in London, made several voyages between England and Bengal. On one of these voyages, it left on December 14, 1853, from Southampton for Calcutta, with Captain John Goodall at the ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphNovember 1924: A KLM flight landed at the Calcutta airport at night assisted by kerosene-powered gooseneck lights fixed along the edges of the runway.December 2024: Planes land at the airport at night with the help of electric lights fixed ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphAgropoli, a coastal town in Italy, and Khardah, on the northern fringes of Calcutta, are more than 7,000km apart.Eastern India’s biggest road race has linked them.On Friday, a woman from Agropoli and a man from Khardah were at Netaji ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphCalcutta: The countdown has begun. Before daybreak on Sunday, notwithstanding the chill, the Maidan will be packed with runners — professional and amateur, young and old, from near and far. The first race of the Tata Steel World 25K ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphFormer Bengal advocate-general Anindya Mitra, an alumnus of the erstwhile Presidency College, said on Friday that the institution’s standard has declined in recent years and has to improve.Mitra, who has funded a computer centre with 25 desktops and a ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front on Friday asked why the CBI arrested former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal if it could not even file a chargesheet against them.The Sealdah court ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphThe CBI has not yet been able to collate enough evidence against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal to be able to file a chargesheet, officers in ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphIskcon Kolkata vice-president Radharamn Das on Friday said that the organisation has its back to the wall in Bangladesh due to the ongoing attacks against minorities there.Speaking to reporters here, Das voiced concern over no abatement in atrocities on ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphOn International Day for Senior Citizens this year, a Salt Lake-based charitable trust announced an initiative to train unemployed youths to become geriatric caregivers.Naba Bangla Parishad made the announcements at an AC Block cafe, along with an adda on ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphA four-star hotel officially opened in a lane opposite Eco Park Gate no. 1 on Wednesday. Sarovar Portico Kolkata Rajarhat is the first footprint of Sarovar Hotels in Calcutta.The property is a mixed development with residential towers with 400 ...
15 December 2024 TelegraphIn the shadows of a semi-lit room on the first floor of Arts Acre are snatches of a saga of displacement told through objects, voices and family photographs.Hridaypur (Heartland) is one of the exhibitions at the Action Area III ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphAn organisation that runs a hospital for liver diseases launched a programme on Thursday for palliative care for those suffering from critical liver diseases.Sparsh, launched by the Liver Foundation, will provide medical guidance and emotional support to patients in ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out on a patch of grassland near the Owl More in New Town on Thursday afternoon. Many winged residents of the grassland and winter migrants lost their nests and food, birdwatchers said.The cloud of dense white ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe higher education department has permitted Jadavpur University to hold a meeting of its executive council on December 17 to complete the formalities for the annual convocation to be held on December 24.The council is the highest decision-making body ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphSalt Lake: Road repairs across Salt Lake and its adjoining areas will be overseen by engineers sent by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC).The decision to send KMDA engineers to the BMC was ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s University will start BTech in artificial intelligence and machine learning and BSc in statistics with data science so students do not have to leave the state to study new-age courses. Father Felix Raj, the vice-chancellor of the ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphWhen Ajit Kumar Mukherjee was born, George V was the emperor of India and Lord Irwin was the viceroy.Mukherjee was born on June 1, 1929. That makes him 95. He is the oldest participant in The Tata Steel World ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe winter chill is here at long last. Better, it is likely to stay.The mercury plunged to 13.8 degrees Celsius in the city on Thursday, the coldest day of the season so far, riding strong north-westerly winds. Dum Dum ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphLawyer Vrinda Grover who had been representing the family of the doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has withdrawn her firm from the case citing “intervening factors and circumstances”.The firm issued a written statement ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphShe’s had both her knees replaced and suffers from backache. She’s deeply engrossed in theatre. Yet, this 76-year-old musters the strength to find time for her plants. Monika Mukherjee does not hesitate to climb the stairs to tend to ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThey are trumpet-shaped; they smell sweet and intoxicating; they come in a large palate of colours and above all their huge size adds to their dramatic beauty. Meet Angel’s Trumpet, that is a favourite of growers and admirers alike.Angel’s ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphEast-West Metro services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade stretch (Green Line-2) will be revised from December 14 because of ongoing work between Esplanade and Sealdah stations, Kolkata Metro said in a statement on Thursday.Beginning Saturday, 114 services will run instead ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA Bangladesh delegation is likely to attend the Vijay Diwas celebrations in Kolkata on December 16, which marks the Indian Armed Forces' historic victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, Defence sources said on Thursday.'Mukti Jodhas' may also take ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh has adversely impacted the inflow of patients from the neighbouring country to Kolkata hospitals primarily due to delays in issuance of visas and fear psychosis among them, officials said."The Peerless Hospital has seen ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Bimal Mukherjee, Ashok Mukherjee, Ananda Mukherjee and Manindra Ghosh began their journey from the city as the first Indians to circumnavigate the globe on bicycles.Bimal, who wrote about his experiences in his book Du chakaye duniya, ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA dancer was called to a hotel room off Sarat Bose Road for a meeting, where she was allegedly sedated and robbed of her jewellery and phones, which she discovered the next morning. Police arrested three persons on Tuesday ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphA concert featuring two music maestros from different continents will celebrate 210 years of India’s oldest museum. Italian saxophonist Gianni Denitto and Indian percussionist Bickram Ghosh will perform at the central courtyard of the majestic Indian Museum on Friday.One ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe film was crowdfunded. The cast and crew comprised villagers whose only idea of cinema was dancing and fighting. The sole technician on location, the cinematographer, was bent on leaving that day. Yet there was no sign of rain ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphEastern India’s biggest road race is back in a bigger avatar.The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will see over 20,500 people — top international and Indian athletes among them — at the starting blocks on ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe Salt Lake civic body on Wednesday pulled down 10 illegal billboards, along with their lighting systems, and dismantled the metal frames that held them.A team of 20 workers, accompanied by sub-assistant engineers and officials of the Bidhannagar Municipal ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill paving the way for the setting up of the first private university in the Calcutta municipal area.The Bhawanipur Global University Bill envisages a campus on a three-acre plot in Tollygunge that will ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphThe state government confirmed on Wednesday that it had received a CBI application seeking sanction to prosecute government officials Sandip Ghosh and Asish Pandey for alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. A senior official at ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphTwo men from Mumbai, who were staying at a hotel in Sealdah, have been arrested for allegedly posing as officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and cheating a woman out of ₹66 lakh by threatening to ...
13 December 2024 TelegraphFlight operations at NSCBI airport in Kolkata were disrupted for sometime on Wednesday morning as visibility turned low due to dense fog, officials said.West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose’s visit to Farakka in Murshidabad district in a BSF ...
12 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, John Eliot, magistrate of the suburbs of Calcutta, who contributed in a major way towards establishing the city’s drainage, wrote in a minute that in the sketch of the drain submitted to the Lottery Committee, certain ...
12 December 2024 TelegraphLawyers representing former education minister Partha Chatterjee and four former state government officials accused of being part of a school recruitment racket submitted in court on Tuesday that Chatterjee was no longer a member of any political party and ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe transport department will launch a project enabling commuters to book tickets and track the movement of private buses on 10 city routes through the Yatri Sathi mobile app.So far, the state government app has been restricted to state-run ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphNineteen people have been arrested for allegedly making fraudulent calls to people in the US posing as employees of a reputable antivirus company and cheating them on the pretext of upgrading the software. The group operated out of an ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal Assembly on Tuesday approved two bills to establish private universities: Rabindranath Tagore University in Dhaniakhali, Hooghly, and Ramakrishna Paramhansa University in Agarpara, North 24-Parganas.Once the two are set up, Bengal will have 44 state-aided and private universities.The ...
11 December 2024 Telegraph• If you see or sense a victim of domestic violence, don’t rush into intervening in an over-aggressive manner. A better option is to try and give the victim an agency to seek justice and report the crime.• Gender-based ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital expressed disappointment on Tuesday after the Supreme Court scheduled the next hearing “four months” later.They also questioned why the CBI had ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has awarded Basanti Devi College in Gariahat an A+ grade in its fourth accreditation cycle. The college, which in the last cycle got a B+, improved its rank by two notches in ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday recorded the CBI’s statement that trial proceedings in the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital would be concluded within one month and gave liberty to the litigants ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphA doctor who was conferred with the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ on Tuesday alleged that she received ill treatment from the employees of a low-cost carrier at the Kolkata airport after her flight to Bagdogra was cancelled due to "bad ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphA spate of launches at the premium end of the residential segment from the heart of south Calcutta to the fringes of the north is perking up the real estate market in a city better associated with affordable housing.A ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphTens of thousands of people are staring at loss of livelihood because of the Bangladesh crisis, traders in central Calcutta have warned.Worst hit are the small players who have taken steep loans or mortgaged assets to lease an establishment ...
11 December 2024 TelegraphThe state legislative assembly on Monday passed The West Bengal Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 and The West Bengal Municipal (Amendment) Bill, 2024, mandating a 10% increase in the annual valuation of lands and buildings in municipal and corporation ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper brought out from Calcutta, published this advertisement.It said:“SUDHACHURNA IS THE BEST REMEDY FOR•Acidity, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Colic, “either acute or chronic”. One dose will give immediate relief and if continued regularly ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphA doctors’ association on Monday expressed its “concern” over a recent government order that slapped fines on 31 senior resident doctors of government medical colleges of ₹20 lakh each for not serving in rural and semi-urban areas.A health department ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphExquisite craftsmanship and intricate details of Japanese dolls are on display at the Indian Museum in an exhibition titled Ningyuo: Art and beauty of Japanese dolls. The Japanese word Ningyo means human shape. The exhibition explores the Japanese doll ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to begin signing individual agreements with shop owners of the dilapidated Park Circus market by year-end.Following the signing of the pacts, the stalls will be relocated to Park Circus Maidan early next ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphSouth City International School gave students of Kindergarten, Classes I and II problems like these and encouraged them to come up with solutions by recycling materials around them.The idea is to help them think, innovate and simultaneously become more ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, will start BCom in accountancy honours from the 2025-26 academic year.The academic council of the college approved the decision to offer BCom on Friday. It will be the first among RKM colleges to ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphThe city spent another almost sunless and cloudy day that was marked by a drizzle in some areas of Calcutta.The cloud cover pushed the minimum temperature up. But the day felt cold because the sun stayed hidden, which resulted ...
10 December 2024 TelegraphNations and people are worried about being left behind as artificial intelligence (AI) is improving quickly and has the potential to reshape the global economy and turbocharge scientific research.Where does a 22-year-old fit in, someone whose career is about ...
10 December 2024 Telegraph(From left) Raju Bharat, the warden of the Greek Orthodox Church; Tsilis Konstantinos, the bishop of Singapore and South Asia and exarch of India; Aliki Koutsomitopoulou, the ambassador of Greece in India; and Sister Nektaria Paridisi, a Greek nun ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphKolkata's iconic Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is all set to celebrate a century of flight operations, marking an incredible milestone in connecting the 'City of Joy' to the world.On Sunday, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphTram services between Tollygunge and Ballygunge, one of the three surviving tram routes in Calcutta, have remained stalled for more than three months now and the government might be planning to scrap the route, a group of tram lovers ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 9mm pistol and two magazines with 12 cartridges were dug out of a vacant plot in Kasba on Saturday evening.Police said the arms and ammunition were linked to the plot to gun down Trinamul Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 20-metre bridge is being built over a feeder canal near Eco Park to connect New Town with Hatiara near Baguiati. Hidco, which is in charge of setting up infrastructure in New Town, is building the bridge. The agency ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphA 24-year-old youth, who had problems in urinating owing to complications in the lower urinary tract, was injected a medicine around the urinary bladder neck at a hospital in Howrah to avoid a surgery that could have compromised his ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphAn employee of a jewellery workshop in Muchipara who allegedly stole gold from his workplace and put his mobile phone in a bucket of water to wipe his electronic trail was arrested from outside a cinema in Nadia where ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphThe reigning champions will return to eastern India's marquee road race to defend their titles. Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will see an impressive line-up of international runners at the starting line on December 15.The ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphMany private hospitals in Calcutta are rescheduling the dates for surgery or other procedures of patients from Bangladesh if they fail to turn up on the scheduled day because of the trouble across the border, officials at the healthcare ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphISKCON Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das on Sunday alleged that fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh are openly delivering sermons calling for the extermination of ISKCON devotees and their supporters.In a post on X, Das claimed, "In the past few days, fundamentalists ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphProtests were held in various parts of West Bengal on Sunday over the alleged atrocities on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.Hundreds of people joined the protest rallies organised by Hindutva groups in Kolkata, Kanthi, Kakdwip, Sandeshkhali and Purulia, calling for ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has told 85 teachers who had been showcaused last week for “being a signatory” to a mass representation seeking revocation of disciplinary proceedings against four office-bearers of the IIT teachers’ association that “no further action” will be ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphBritish army officer in India, Orientalist and lexicographer Thomas Roebuck passed away on this day in Calcutta.Born in Scotland, Roebuck left for India in 1801 to join the army as an infantry cadet. He learned Hindustani. He was attached ...
9 December 2024 TelegraphThe appointment of full-term vice-chancellors in six state-aided universities on Friday will end the practice of running institutions with stop-gap personnel lacking the authority to make crucial decisions or provide academic leadership. The higher education department has notified that ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA church that was apocryphally pledged by a Greek man caught in a storm in the high sea of Bay of Bengal is recording a milestone on Sunday.Alexias Argyree did keep his word after a safe landing and ₹30,000 ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphTrap cameras have recently captured pictures of a juvenile Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) in the forests of West Burdwan. Wildlife enthusiasts are agog because rarely has such a young wolf been documented by trap cameras in south Bengal. ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphTraders in central Calcutta, bearing the brunt of the crisis in Bangladesh, met on Saturday evening to discuss the road ahead.The meeting included hoteliers, currency exchangers, garment traders, travel operators and restaurateurs from Free School Street, Marquis Street, Sudder ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThe number of passengers from Calcutta to Europe and the US is more than what it used to be a few years ago but there are still no direct flights to these destinations from the city.Aviation industry experts said ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA group of men from Maharashtra and Karnataka has allegedly robbed several jewellery stores in central and south Calcutta posing as CBI officers, police said on Friday.The police said six persons have been arrested, three in Maharashtra and Karnataka ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThree young men and a woman were arrested by the Salt Lake police for allegedly posing as shoppers at a mall and swapping the tags on high-value garments with those on less expensive ones so they could buy the ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA handwritten bill of lading, a legal document issued by a carrier to a shipper detailing the goods being shipped, mentions articles being carried from Calcutta on this day on the ship Alexander Hodgdon, bound for Boston.They are “three ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphA 35-year-old man was killed on Friday after sparks from a welding machine ignited a fuel tank, causing an explosion at a vehicle workshop in Sinthi in the northern fringes of Kolkata, police said.The incident happened around 8 am ...
8 December 2024 TelegraphThe high court on Friday granted bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also referred to as “Kalighat-er Kaku”, in connection with the Enforcement Directorate probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment for government-aided schools.The CBI immediately moved a prayer before a ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe principal of Scottish Church College said on Friday they did not initiate action against a contractual teacher despite coming to know about allegations of lewd text messages to a second-year student because the student did not want to ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphBus drivers and conductors will have to shift victims of a road accident “to the nearest emergency medical/trauma care facility” and make arrangements to save lives “through immediate triage” of passengers “who are in imminent danger”, guidelines issued by ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe governor on Friday appointed full-term vice-chancellors for six universities.Nirmalya Narayan Chak-raborty has been appointed VC of Presidency University, Pabitra Kumar Chakraborti will head Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University and Amiya Kumar Panda will helm Rani Rashmoni Green University.Kallol Paul, Rup Kumar ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphThe eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal in Calcutta has directed the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) to submit an affidavit within 10 days on complaints that garbage was not removed from the city’s roads.The tribunal, in its ...
7 December 2024 TelegraphPolice have initiated a study to find out if the existing timings of traffic signals at the Chingrighata intersection on EM Bypass can be tweaked to better manage the flow of vehicles, particularly during the morning and evening rush ...
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