A young woman who was “critical” because of complications in the post-partum phase at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital and was later brought to SSKM Hospital, was shifted to the female nephrology ward from the critical care unit of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA couple was found dead at their residence in Garia’s Adarshanagar on Wednesday night.Police suspect the husband Tarun Das, 45, had murdered his wife Asha (35) before dying by suicide. The police found strangulation marks around Asha’s neck and ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphAn independent film festival will screen 38 documentary and fiction films from India and South Asia. The films explore common themes of migration, caste, gender and ethnic struggles, and the ongoing fight against authoritarian regimes.Films from a subcontinent hurting ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA man and his wife were found dead at their rented home in Garia’s Adarshpally on Thursday morning, police said.The body of the man was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his wife’s body was on the bed ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe foreign and European affairs minister of Slovakia offered to host peace talks between Ukraine, the country’s eastern neighbour, and Russia, at the inauguration of Slovakia’s honorary consulate in Calcutta on Thursday.“We support the (peace) efforts of the new ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a letter to Mamata Banerjee appreciated the chief minister’s efforts to “alleviate poverty” and supported her “secularism”.In the letter, Chakravorty Spivak thanked Mamata for the congratulatory message she posted on X following the ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral cricket fans who failed to obtain IPL tickets online but desperately wanted to see defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders take on Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens on Saturday, have fallen prey to cheats through social ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday allowed the parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to move a petition seeking a fresh CBI probe into the case.The Supreme Court on Monday had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphIPL returns to Eden Gardens on Saturday. The spectre of thunderstorms, a familiar foe for the tourney, also looms over the city for the next few days.Defending champions KKR play RCB at the Eden in the IPL opener. The ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA group of men has been arrested for allegedly running a fraudulent call centre at a residential apartment in Kasba, police said.According to the police, the group used to target people staying abroad by posing as service providers of ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA swimming instructor was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly trying to kill his former student, a teenager, by strangulating her and then slitting her throat after he managed to convince her to hand over her mother’s jewellery on Tuesday.Police ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday stopped the felling of a tree on a private plot on Kankulia Road near Golpark that was being cleared for construction of a new building.The neem tree has stood on the plot for ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA tram decorated with images and models of Sunderbans’ flora and fauna will travel between Shyambazar and Ballygunge from March 28 to 30 to highlight how climate change can equally impact the mangrove haven and Calcutta.The focus will also ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court headed by Justice Debangshu Basak on Wednesday turned down the bail plea of Ayan Sil, the prime accused in the alleged scam in appointments of staff in 17 municipalities across Bengal since ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphNineteen people have died by suicide in the north-south Metro corridor (Blue Line) in the past five years, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Parliament on Wednesday.Vaishnaw was replying to a question from Mala Roy, Trinamool MP from South Kolkata, ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphEight health workers of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation have accused a doctor they had been assisting of sexual harassment.Based on their complaint, the civic body has suspended the 62-year-old doctor, BMC sources said.Police said a separate criminal case had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphState health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam visited the parents of the young doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, ostensibly to hand over her death certificate.She was raped and killed more than seven ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA Jadavpur University student arrested on March 12 for allegedly setting fire to the office of a non-teaching employees’ union on the campus and later named in a case involving objectionable graffiti got interim bail from the Alipore court ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphWater connection cannot be discontinued without approval from the chief engineer of the water supply department, the commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation said (KMC) in a written order on Tuesday. The municipal commissioner’s directive came a day after ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law Kalyanmay Bhattacharya, a co-accused in the alleged teacher recruitment scam in government-aided schools, recorded his statement before a magistrate last week.Bhattacharya had earlier wanted to be an approver in the case and ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has put on hold its plans to erect a wall around a government plot on Prince Anwar Shah Road after around 100 shop owners who have “encroached” the land declined to vacate it.Last week, ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA second-year student of Jadavpur University’s civil engineering department was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the arson on the campus hours after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1.Police identified the arrested student as Souptik Chanda. They ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphCongress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday demanded the Narendra Modi government increase the minimum wages under the rural job guarantee scheme, MGNREGA, to Rs 400 and up the maximum work days to 150 from the present 100.Accusing ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata recorded a marginal decrease in air pollution level during 2024 compared to 2023, but still stands as the second most polluted metro city in the country after Delhi and within the 2 per cent most polluted cities of ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA break-in has been reported at a government-aided school in Behala, the second school in the area to have been targeted within 24 hours.The schools are around 3km apart.Jagatpur Rukmini Vidyamandir on Satyen Roy Road in Behala reported the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor said on Monday that it was “essential” to install more CCTV cameras to ascertain in the future whether students were putting up “anti-national posters” on the campus. “We want to strengthen the security on the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe board of councillors of Panihati Municipality accepted the resignation of its chairperson on Monday.Malay Roy was asked to step down on March 11 by the state urban development and municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim.There are 35 councillors in ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA teacher of Jadavpur University’s history department held a class in an open space — near Milanda’s canteen — on Monday as a mark of protest against alleged police atrocities on students.Classes were held outside Subarna Jayanti Bhavan, which ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA hailstorm struck parts of South 24-Parganas, West Midnapore, Bankura and Hooghly on Sunday evening. The storm left some of the areas covered in a thick white sheet. Crops were damaged in parts of South 24-Parganas, residents said. Some ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPassport applicants in Bengal will have ePassports in two to three months, a senior official of the regional passport office, Calcutta, said on Monday. However, the existing passports will continue to remain valid till their expiry.An ePassport is a ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has won the 2025 Holberg Prize of Norway, often billed as the Nobel for humanities.The Calcutta-born Chakravorty Spivak — known for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology); ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA cache of arms was found under clothes in a passenger’s bag at Sealdah station on Monday morning.The special task force of Kolkata Police picked up the man as he stepped out of the Hate Bazare Express and was ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday allowed the parents of the doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to pursue in Calcutta High Court their plea for further CBI investigation into the alleged larger conspiracy.A bench ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPolice have sought information from the Jadavpur University registrar about a students’ group that has been running a school for the underprivileged on the campus in connection with the alleged attack on education minister Bratya Basu and his car ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the postgraduate trainee raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will approach Calcutta High Court for an early hearing of their plea seeking further investigation by the CBI into the alleged larger conspiracy.The ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested a man on Monday morning from Sealdah railway station after six improvised guns and eight cartridges and firearms were seized from his possession.The accused, Hasan Sheikh from Malda, had allegedly ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA tiger died at a rescue centre in Jharkhali in South 24-Parganas, a gateway to the Sunderbans, on Saturday.The big cat, a male aged approximately 21, died of old age. But it was the end of a second life ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphChildren can also be vulnerable to kidney diseases and early onset of treatment can avoid dialysis or kidney transplant, or can at least delay them by many years, a group of paediatricians said.Those who arrive late and need kidney ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has written to Kolkata Police highlighting illegal parking on several roads in Bhowanipore.Ramesh Mitra Street, Chakraberia Road, Townsend Road and Puddapukur Road were among the roads where teams from the civic body found cars ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral parts of the city got light showers on Sunday evening that brought relief from the hot and humid conditions that prevailed during the day.The rain was accompanied by streaks of lightning and rumblings of thunder. Several districts in ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA man and an 11-year-old boy were injured after portions of a five-storey building on Muktaram Babu Street in central Calcutta collapsed on Sunday afternoon, police said. An official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said the old building ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe teacher-in-charge of a secondary school for girls in Behala has alleged that the institute was broken into and around ₹10,000 was stolen from an almirah. Behala Banitirtha Girls High School had been shut since Friday for Holi celebrations. ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The duty-free area of the Calcutta airport’s international section, usually sleepy because of a lack of flights and passengers, is looking busy because of a tweak in the floor plan.Calcutta airport officials said the security-hold area of the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe authorities at Jadavpur University are planning to install CCTVs at Aurobindo Bhavan, the varsity’s administrative headquarters, to strengthen internal security on the campus amid student unrest, an official said.The university will again approach the state government so 35 ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old Trinamool student leader was murdered in Khardah, North 24-Parganas, during Holi celebrations on Friday, police said.Amar Chaudhury was called out of his home and asked to join the Holi celebrations by a group of men and was ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphIndal Yadav, accused in the shooting of Trinamool Congress worker Bikas Singh in Kamarhati on March 8, was arrested in Asansol on Friday morning.A team of officers from Barrackpore Police Commissionerate was on the hunt for Indal since his ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphA 36-year-old man has been arrested in Anandapur, in the southeast of the city, for allegedly sticking a machine to ATMs in unguarded kiosks to trap users’ cards to trick them into dialling a “helpline” number. Once the users ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphA number of shows were cancelled at PVR cinemas in Mani Square on Friday and Saturday due to the air-conditioning malfunctioning.Most members of the audience had to walk out of the auditoriums screening Chhava and Interstellar on Friday. On ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphThey started as a WhatsApp group to stand by each other when business was low in the pandemic years.Having bonded virtually, the entrepreneurs and independent professionals, all former students of South Point, have now formed a not-for-profit company — ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA trafficking survivor had in March 2020 challenged an order of the district legal services authority granting her an interim compensation of ₹3 lakh as “insufficient”.Last month, finding merit in her challenge, the state legal services authority (SLSA) increased ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphSaturday showed a glimpse of the twin assaults of heat and humidity that Calcuttans will be subjected to in the coming days, the Met office has warned.The Met office has already sounded a heatwave alert for the western districts ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA domestic help who stayed at late footballer Pradip Kumar (PK) Banerjee’s house in Salt Lake’s GB block was murdered on Friday night.Police said Gopinath Muhuri, in his late thirties, succumbed to multiple stab injuries in his abdomen and ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will write to the Union education ministry to return 75 per cent of the ₹1 crore application fee the varsity gave the UGC because the regulatory body has since denied JU the status of an Institute of ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphThe 151-year-old New Market is crumbling. Fragments from the wooden spire of its clock tower are breaking apart, the roof leaks and the electrical wiring is crying out for an immediate overhaul.A renovation project for which the state government ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA male domestic help employed in the household of the late Indian football legend PK Banerjee was murdered on Friday night. The Bidhannagar South police station have arrested one Barun Ghosh, who was employed at the Padma Shri awardee’s ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) on Saturday expressed concern over a recent report that claimed that the varsity lost its ‘Institute of Eminence’ (IoE) tag and shot off a letter to officiating vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, urging him to ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old Trinamul student leader was murdered at Khardah in North 24-Parganas during Holi celebrations on Friday, police said.Amar Chaudhury was called from his home and asked to join the Holi celebrations by a group of men and was ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphThe city’s air quality has marginally improved with a rise in the temperatures, but there was yet to be a single day when the air quality was “good”.An analysis of the air quality report of the 14 days of ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphMore than 160 persons were arrested for “disorderly conduct” from different parts of the city during Holi on Friday, police said. There were few complaints of forcible splashing of colours, but the majority of the arrests were related ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphAn association of environment activists wrote to chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday against the decision of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to allow three clubs inside the Rabindra Sarobar premises to remain open on Holi, while the ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphIndal Yadav, the man accused in the shooting of Trinamul Congress worker Bikas Singh at Kamarhati on March 8, was arrested in Asansol on Friday morning.A team of officers from the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate was on the hunt for ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphBidhan Sishu Udyan was a cauldron of cacophony as close to 600 students gathered near its main gate, dressed in basanti yellow. Close by, were their guardians as well. Senior women members, with their hair tied in a bun ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphNature is a master artist, painting the skies, waters, and landscapes with mesmerising hues. From celestial wonders to terrestrial marvels, the Earth offers breathtaking displays of colour. Here are some of the most stunning natural phenomena that captivate the ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphEducation and courage are the keys to women’s emancipation. This was the lesson learnt from the speakers on Women’s Day at SOS Children’s Village in BK Bock.Durga Khaitan, District Judge, chairperson, appellate authority, state board of primary education, asked ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor will go to the campus on Monday to decide JU’s response to the Kolkata Police proposal seeking space on the campus to set up an outpost and barracks to “maintain a safe and secure environment”.The ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphMarried off at 16, widowed at 19, and thrown out of her in-laws’ home with a two-month-old in her arms. Even after such dead ends, Vibha Singh would one day become a major in the Indian army.On the eve ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphThe two brothers arrested for the murder of Burrabazar businessman Bhagaram Debasi had meticulously planned the killing after they learnt the trader would return just a fraction of the amount he had borrowed from them, police sources said on ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphA 15-year old girl pushed from the second floor of a balcony has accused her father of serial abuse, in a statement given to the police investigating the case.“The girl’s mother had left home more than 13 years ago. ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphA man who allegedly forged identity documents to obtain passports for foreigner nationals was arrested in Sealdah on Thursday.The accused, Tridip Mondal, was detained by a team from Bhadreswar police station in Hooghly.Mondal, a resident of Jyangra in Baguiati, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphJogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College will ensure only bona fide students enter the campus through a biometric attendance facility, a lawyer appearing for the college told Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The lawyer said this during the hearing of ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided that officers will visit auto emission testing centres, observe vehicles undergoing pollution tests, and submit reports that include the centre’s latitude and longitude on a mobile application specifically designed for this purpose.The decision to ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphWhat better gift on Women’s Day than the promise of safe transport round the year? On March 8, a group of women launched a company whose first project will be providing women drivers with a bike taxi service exclusively ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphHoli will be celebrated on Friday, beginning a long weekend. At the Holi market in Burrabazar, masks and headgear flew off the shelves on Thursday. As did barfis, gujiyas, laddus and savouries.On Friday, indulge in the festival of colours, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will ask developers for undertakings that they will clear their property tax while a building is under construction. The civic body will stop the construction if the tax is not paid for four quarters.The decisions ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphA first-year Jadavpur University student who was arrested on Wednesday night was allegedly part of a students’ group that had a well-laid out plan about what to do when education minister Bratya Basu arrived on the campus on March ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata police will deploy about 4000 officers in the city to maintain law and order during Holi celebrations, said a senior officer in Lalbazar on Thursday.Police have already been working on sensitising areas like Maniktala, Beleghata, Kankurgachi, Baghajatin, Narkeldanga ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested a Jadavpur University (JU) student in connection with the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two.A leader of the JU SFI unit told PTI on ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphA state report on what transpired at Jadavpur University when education minister Bratya Basu visited the campus on March 1 and violence erupted was not submitted in Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.The court rose at 3.30pm because of a ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphAcid attack survivors face isolation and alienation, sometimes even from family members who get scared and try to shirk responsibilities, said those who work with survivors.They need support to fight back because the pain is both physical and mental, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphAn alert app cab driver who was aware of the Madhyamgram trolley bag murder case has exposed a similar attempt by two businessmen to dispose of the body of a trader they had killed on Tuesday. The body ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphBengal is cosmopolitan by nature and people setting off flames of division will flee when the fire burns, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a pre-Holi programme with people from various communities on Wednesday.Mamata reminded the audience that Bengal ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe cost of 10 plates of biryani is a cracked head in Kolkata.Ajoy Sardar, who allegedly has ties with Bengal’s ruling party, arrived at a biryani joint in the Kolkata suburb of New Town Rajarahat around 10pm on Tuesday ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will run fewer services on Holi on Friday, an official statement said.A total of 60 services (30 each on up and down lines) will be run from 2.30 pm along the Dakshineswar-New Garia stretch or the North-South ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe former Jadavpur University student who was arrested on March 2 in connection with the arson and violence on the JU campus on March 1 got conditional bail from Alipore court on Wednesday.Mohammad Sahil Ali, 25, who works for ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has warned of a heatwave in south Bengal from March 16 for two to three days.“Mainly dry westerly wind is likely to prevail over the region and consequently heat wave conditions are very likely to occur ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphA biryani seller in New Town was on Tuesday assaulted, allegedly by a local man who was refused 10 plates that he wanted to take without payment.Ajay Sardar is accused of hitting the trader in the head with a ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe unavailability of land and other issues that stalled work on a large stretch of the New Garia-Airport Metro project have now been reduced to a mere 366m on EM Bypass, which, the authorities said, was the only remaining ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphFirst-year Jadavpur University student Saumyadip Mahato, 19, was arrested on Wednesday night for allegedly being one of those who set fire to the office of the Trinamool-backed non-teaching employees’ union on the university campus on March 1.“There are reasons ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe city police have sought space from Jadavpur University to set up a police outpost and barracks on the campus to “maintain a safe and secure environment... for smooth academic activities”.The Jadavpur police station officer-in-charge sent an email to ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphTwo young men from north Kolkata’s Girish Park were arrested late on Tuesday night from the Kalyani Expressway while trying to dump the corpse of a garment trader who owed them over Rs 8 lakh.The accused, Karan Singh and ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe state’s urban development and municipal affairs minister has asked the chairperson of Panihati Municipality to step down over allegations of a plan to set up a real estate project on a popular playground in Panihati that came to ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphA businessman in Behala was allegedly held hostage by a cyber gang over the phone for 12 days and was forced to transfer ₹75 lakh to multiple bank accounts with threats to arrest him.From February 23 to March 7, ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA student from a reputable south Calcutta school was barred from the rest of her higher secondary examinations after it was found that she had hidden a mobile inside her shoe while writing the chemistry paper on Tuesday. She ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA man riding a motorbike died after a pick-up truck hit the two-wheeler in Park Circus on Tuesday afternoon, police said.Both the pick-up truck and the motorbike were moving towards the Park Circus seven-point crossing from the direction of ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe state health department has instructed drug dealers and hospitals to withdraw a particular batch of medicines found to be spurious.The drug is used to treat hypertension.In a notification issued on Monday, the health department instructed wholesalers, retailers and ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has appealed to the state government to expedite the process of sanctioning 35 posts for contractual security personnel to strengthen security on the campus where education minister Bratya Basu was allegedly heckled by some students earlier this ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe state government has to submit a report before Calcutta High Court on Wednesday on what transpired at Jadavpur University when education minister Bratya Basu visited the campus on March 1 and the corrective steps taken by police.The report ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta and its adjoining areas are set to experience a sharp rise in temperature, with weather experts predicting extreme heat throughout the week. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the city’s temperature is expected to exceed 35°C and ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe man whose motorcycle was allegedly used by the three men to open fire on Trinamul Congress worker Bikas Singh at a Kamarhati tea stall on Saturday evening was arrested late on Sunday. Police said Vicky Yadav was ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA 59-year-old man was arrested on Sunday on charges of raping a 21-year-old woman by making false promises of getting her a job.Police identified the accused as Kirti Mehta, a resident of Elgin Road who runs a business of ...
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