A teenager has been detained in connection with the murder of 57-year-old insurance agent Abhijit Banerjee who was found dead at his rented place in Jorabagan on Thursday morning. Police said the youth suspected that his mother had a ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA teenager playing cricket in Patuli was injured while fiddling with a suspected crude bomb that he mistook for a ball on Friday morning. Firecrackers had been burst on the same ground on Thursday night.Police said Dhoni Sarkar, 15, ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphFewer people were prosecuted in Calcutta on Diwali night for bursting crackers compared to last year although many felt the city on Thursday witnessed one of the noisiest Diwalis in recent years.Kolkata Police on Thursday arrested 265 persons for ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThree children, who were lighting fireworks on the ground floor of a two-storey house in Howrah’s Uluberia, died after the room they were in caught fire on Friday evening.A teenager who tried to douse the flames has been admitted ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe Barrackpore Mutiny, the precursor of the Uprising of 1857, took place on this day.During the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), Indian soldiers from the 47th Regiment were ordered to march to Chittagong by land because religious customs forbade Hindu ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphAnish Sarkar can reach the chess board in a tournament only when he sits on top of four piled-up chairs.He is still in his “diapers” but the three-year-eight-month-old boy has a Fide rating of 1555. Fide is the “world ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe city on Thursday suffered the longest and noisiest Diwali night in recent memory and even hospitals were not spared, said an environmental platform that criss-crossed the city through the night.Data from the state pollution control board corroborates the ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA pilot project of a patient referral system for government hospitals in Bengal has shown that once patients are referred to a healthcare facility away from home, many do not go there, state health department officials said.Most patients are ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphAn early Diwali, relatively higher temperatures and stronger-than-usual winds ensured Calcutta’s air quality on Diwali night remained “satisfactory” and “good”, way better than last year.At 10pm on Thursday, the air quality monitoring station of the Central Pollution Control Board ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphCalcutta's air quality index (AQI) was 'poor' across different pockets on Friday morning, a day after Kali Puja and Diwali, an official said.A West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official told PTI, that AQI levels in terms of PM ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphA boy was seriously injured when an object he was playing with exploded in the southern part of Kolkata's Patuli area on Friday, police said.The class 9 boy found the object in a playground and thought it was a ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphDivinity descended in human forms on the stage at Central Park where over 4,000 people had gathered to offer arati to goddess Mahalaxmi on Monday night. Deepavali Mahotsav, organised by Marwari Sanskriti Manch, is in its 12th year and ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police arrested 601 people for bursting banned firecrackers and disorderly conduct in the last 24 hours till Friday morning, an officer said.The police also seized over 700 kg of banned firecrackers, 79.4 litre of liquor and prosecuted over ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphGold prices have been steadily climbing for years, but this year, even a kilogram of silver has breached the Rs 1 lakh mark. Despite the rising costs, Dhanteras saw robust footfall at jewellery stores, where some shoppers had to ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphThe builders of Greenwood Nest, in New Town, have finally begun construction of a water treatment plant (WTP), months after more than 150 residents started falling sick and some 50 of them got hospitalised from water-borne diseases. Greenwood Nest ...
2 November 2024 TelegraphMore than 7,000 people living in pockets of south Bengal and are vulnerable to human-wildlife conflict received new sets of clothes this festive season. The drive, which began in August this year, has covered pockets such as Dayapur, Pakhiralaya ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA village in Birbhum that lacked access to education now has a primary school, thanks to two former students of Bengal Engineering College (now IIEST) and Banaras Hindu University who have joined hands with an NGO to develop the ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA woman sub-inspector of police held a sit-in at Nadial police station on Thursday afternoon alleging that the officer-in-charge had misbehaved with her and removed her items from the police barracks attached to the station. Soma Tarafdar alleged that ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA madrasa in Murshidabad has been conducting science seminars and fairs to encourage more of its girls to take up science or sustain the interest of those who have chosen the stream. Of the 216 girls in Class XI, ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA man who lived alone in a room on the terrace of a five-storey building was found dead in north Calcutta’s Jorabagan on Thursday morning. The main entrance to the room in which he was found and the terrace ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphSeveral schools are revisiting their anti-bullying policies and speaking to children about values in light of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.One school has put up, in ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphMocha scurried under the dining table. Martini would not be left alone for a minute. Pogo was extremely restless until all the windows were shut.What was Diwali revelry for humans was a traumatic experience for dogs, cats and other ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA quiet start to Diwali on Thursday gradually crescendoed to the usual noisy night.Residents across the city said they heard firecrackers go off from around 6pm, long before the two-hour window to burst green crackers.Calcutta High Court allowed only ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphScottish clergyman and abolitionist William Adam was born on this day. He arrived in Calcutta in 1818, he was in Serampore as a Baptist missionary. He learnt Sanskrit and Bengali and worked on a translation of the New Testament.Meeting ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphA strong bond with pets, especially dogs, could help relieve anxiety and depression in women, especially those who had experienced childhood trauma, according to an American research.Researchers said that while previous studies have looked at depression and anxiety among ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphMylo is one strong dog. Prabal De takes him for walks and knows how hard he can pull at his leash. Mylo is also a possessive dog and won’t tolerate strangers approaching his loved ones. The combination of these ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphThe body of a middle-aged man, with injury marks, was found in his residence at Jorabagan in north Kolkata on Thursday, a senior police officer said.The body of 58-year-old Abhijit Bandyopadhyay was found lying in a room on the ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphThailand has extended its visa-free entry facility for Indians “until further notice”.“Visa extensions for Indian travellers have been extended until further notice,” the Toursm Authority of Thailand announced on Wednesday.The visa-free entry, implemented on November 10, 2023, was extended ...
1 November 2024 TelegraphOne person was killed and several others injured when a fire broke out at a chemical factory in Kanchantala in Badu, Madhyamgram, about 21 kilometres north of Calcutta on Wednesday.A dozen fire tenders brought the blaze under control after ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphPolice teams visited several schools on Wednesday to make the students aware of the rules of green Diwali.The students were also told about what constitutes violations and the penalties they carry.The campaign was focused primarily on the city’s southeast, ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphThe five-year-old boy who fell into a lift shaft in a Topsia building on Tuesday evening died in hospital early on Wednesday. An elevator is yet to be installed in the shaft, which police said had around 5ft water ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphChhath Puja can be performed at more than 150 ghats in the Calcutta municipal area, sources in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Wednesday after a meeting at the civic headquarters where officials of various agencies discussed preparations ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphTwo members of Jadavpur University’s executive council told the vice-chancellor on Wednesday to approach a division bench of Calcutta High Court so the students implicated in the varsity’s probe into the ragging of a first-year student can be penalised.In ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphSuspended CPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya was summoned to Baranagar police station for the second time on Wednesday and questioned for around four hours in connection with a complaint of molestation against him.Bhattacharya has been summoned to the police station ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphA section of junior doctors and many Calcuttans walked in a rally from the office of the West Bengal Medical Council in Salt Lake to the CBI office in the township, several of them with flaming torches in hand.Although ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Bengal was struck by a devastating cyclone, referred to as the Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876.The cyclone formed over the Bay of Bengal and hit land at Backerganj near the Meghna estuary, now in Barisal district ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphOnly green fireworks can be burst during a two-hour window each on Thursday and Friday, when Diwali revellers are allowed to light firecrackers. The permissible noise level of firecrackers is 125 decibel at 4m from the source, said an ...
31 October 2024 TelegraphAs the great visionary poet William Blake had observed in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “Without contraries is no progression.”Contraries are an integral part of our existence, as we journey through the ups and downs of our lives.Similarly, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma on Tuesday said special instructions had been given to officers to maintain vigil on highrise buildings and the outskirts, from where the maximum number of violation of the firecracker ban is usually reported on ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA team of around 100 guards will be deployed around the entry points, in the courtyard and near the Panchavati garden of the Dakshineswar temple, as well as along the banks of the Hooghly, on Kali Puja (Thursday), the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA realtor, who also trades in garments, was attacked with choppers and other sharp weapons on Kaiser Street in Narkeldanga early on Tuesday.Abdul Abid, 33, suffered multiple injuries on his hands and shoulders. His family alleged that multiple bullets ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphAutomobile sales slowed down in Calcutta during Dhanteras while the districts fared slightly better. Conversations with dealers and sales personnel suggested a rural-urban divide in festive sales this year.In Calcutta, the mood in dealerships was muted. In places like ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA Durga idol was paraded on the Thames in London on a boat. The iconic Tower Bridge opened up to make way for the passage of the idol. Water collected from seven oceans and 13 rivers around the world ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphA child, visiting his grandmother with his mother, fell into the empty lift shaft of the five-storey building in Topsia on Tuesday afternoon.He has been admitted to hospital. The child’s condition is critical, police said.The grandmother lives on the ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) has called for a march to the CBI office in Salt Lake on Wednesday to demand "a proper charge-sheet” and the “swift arrest” of all culprits in the RG Kar rape and ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphIIEST Shibpur had its students’ senate elections on Tuesday.The system followed at the central academic institute stands in contrast to the kind of campus elections witnessed at most state universities and colleges in Bengal.At Shibpur, political parties had no ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphiPhone 16 Pro, check. Crossover SUV, check. A pair of kitchen tongs, check.Many Calcuttans brought home something new on Dhanteras, depending on their buying power.Stores were decked out with promotional offers. The sales staff hardly had any time off.Jewellers, ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphSamuel Bourne, a British photographer who established the Bourne & Shepherd studio in Calcutta, was born on this day in England. He began his career as a bank clerk but left his job to become a photographer.In 1863, Bourne ...
30 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement appeared in the newspaper Bengal Hurkaru, brought out from Calcutta:HORSES AND CARRIAGESFOR PRIVATE SALEA neat fashionable light POST CHAISE, with a pair of strong serviceable grey Horses, perfectly sound & quiet, Postillion Harness, ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphPolice have busted a racket involved in the illegal sale of blood at the Malda Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) and arrested eight persons in the past one month.According to police sources, five persons were arrested between August 22 ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA packed audience of students and teachers at Rotary Sadan listened and learned how to be peer buddies to children with learning and writing difficulties on Monday.Often termed dyslexia, the neuro-biological condition can afflict one in five children in ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSt Xavier’s Collegiate School has started the practice of students writing only roll numbers and not their names on answer scripts in the school exams for a “fair evaluation,” and to cut down on the possibility of teachers’ bias ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to people on Monday to ensure that fireworks did not inconvenience others and to “abide by rules set by the administration”.Mamata spoke about using discretion while using fireworks at the inauguration of the Janbazar ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSuspended CPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya was summoned to Baranagar police station on Monday in connection with a complaint of outraging the modesty of a woman. Bhattacharya was examined at the police station for several hours before he was allowed ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphIncome insecurity; Irregular working hours; Unsanitary workplace conditions; Discrimination. A report that underscores the multifaceted challenges faced by migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath was released on October 18.The report, titled “A Study of the Housing ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out in a congested slum off Prince Anwar Shah Road allegedly after the battery of an electric scooter exploded. The fire led to multiple LPG cylinder explosions.At least one person was injured.Fire department officials said a ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA new junior doctors’ outfit has now sent to Bengal’s chief secretary a set of demands, including their representation in the state-level task force and a probe into the funds of the platform of junior doctors protesting the RG ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphThe option to hire a driver home at the fingertip. Waiters trained to keep an eye on inebriated guests without being impolite. Posters of responsible drinking all around.A campaign launched by an association of restaurant owners on Monday aims ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphCity police commissioner Manoj Verma has appealed to people to cross-check and verify several times while making online payments to prevent cyber fraud during festive buying this season.“Around this time many criminals might get active. I will request that ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphSprucing up stinking and stained washrooms, adding lights worth ₹3 crore for better illumination and polishing marble floors to clean the dirt accumulated over the years — the Calcutta airport authorities are finally bringing small changes to make its ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA youth was injured and a few shanties near Anwar Shah Road in the southern part of the city were gutted in a fire that broke out on Monday, police said.The fire broke out in a shanty when a ...
29 October 2024 TelegraphA conference-cum-workshop on advancements in onco-pathology was held in the city recently.One of the organisers of the two-day event said tumour samples from most hospitals in the city have to be sent to Delhi, Bangalore, or another city for ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe state government has sought reports from the district inspectors of schools in nine districts, including Calcutta, about the extent of damage caused by Cyclone Dana to school infrastructure and students’ textbooks. The commissioner of school education, Arup Sengupta, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphMenswear designer Ratul Sood passed away in Calcutta on Sunday. He was 58.He collapsed while playing golf at a south Calcutta club around noon. Sources at the club said Sood was rushed to MR Bangur Hospital, where he was ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphCPM leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya, a former MLA, has been accused of outraging the modesty of a woman. The CPM has suspended him. Bhattacharya, who was the CPM candidate from Baranagar in an Assemby bypoll this year, has denied the ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA two-tier subway system for vehicles and pedestrians will come up at the intersection near Tata Medical Center in New Town’s Action Area I and a pedestrian underpass will be built near the campus of St Xavier’s University in ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA couple were found dead at home in Bhangar’s Chandaneswar, in South 24-Parganas, on Sunday morning.Police suspect the man was murdered but are in the dark about the circumstances leading to the woman’s death. Mosharraf Piyada, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphFancy candles, LED chains, sky lanterns and traditional diyas have lit up Burrabazar and Chandni Chowk in the run-up to Diwali.The central business district was buzzing with Diwali shoppers for most of Sunday. The heavy rain triggered by Cyclone ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphOn the last Sunday before Dhanteras (Tuesday) and Diwali (Thursday), all that glittered in Calcutta was not gold. From phones and TVs to cars and traditional sweets, Calcuttans took home various types of “dhan”. The torrential rain triggered by ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, Swami Vivekananda wrote a letter to The Indian Mirror from London introducing John Henry Barrows, an American clergyman and one of the main organisers of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Vivekananda made his famous ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphA group of breast cancer survivors met at a private hospital recently to celebrate Bijoya Dashami. Some of the women present at the event were still undergoing treatment, while others had completed it. They shared their stories and experiences, ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe state primary education board has decided against holding the recruitment tests this year to appoint teachers at the government-aided primary schools (Class I to V).The decision comes after the board could not recruit teachers based on the tests ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has “provisionally” attached properties worth ₹163.20 crore belonging to Prasanna Roy, an alleged middleman in the irregularities in recruitment in state-aided schools under the school service commission (SSC), the central agency said on Saturday.The ED ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphRainwater receded from most parts of the city but some pockets remained inundated till late on Saturday in the aftermath of Friday’s rain that accompanied Cyclone Dana.Parts of Paharpur Road in the city’s Port area, Baghajatin Station Road in ...
28 October 2024 TelegraphBrahmabandhab Upadhyay, theologian and freedom fighter, passed away on this day. He was born Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay in Khanyan, Hooghly, in a Hindu household.He joined the Brahma Samaj under the influence of Keshabchandra Sen and later converted to Catholicism.He also ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe production of several winter vegetables, like cauliflower and cabbage, will continue to suffer, and brinjal is likely to be dearer in the months to come, senior officials of the state agriculture department said.Reason — inundation caused by the ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe death of a young man on a waterlogged Bhowanipore road on Friday night has again shown how grave the problem of unregulated and unmonitored electrical connections is in this city.A glow sign board on the metal fencing of ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphA new platform for junior doctors emerged on Saturday. One made up primarily of people accused of running a culture of threat and intimidation in Bengal’s government medical colleges — its formation coinciding with a mass convention held by ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphA clear sky marked Calcutta's weather on Saturday, a day after heavy rains lashed the city due to cyclone Dana.Water receded from many areas as the rains stopped in much respite for the people of the city, officials said.Calcutta ...
27 October 2024 TelegraphThe city’s airport resumed operations on Friday morning, 13 hours after flight movements were suspended on Thursday evening as a precaution against Cyclone Dana.The airport reopened at 8am on Friday and IndiGo’s flight to Imphal was the first to ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphSuburban train service on the Sealdah South suburban section resumed around 10am on Friday after remaining suspended for 14 hours.The first train to chug out of platform number 5 was the Sealdah-Sonarpur local. Train services on the Sealdah South ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday "dismissed" a special leave petition (SLP) that sought to stall the recruitment of 14,052 assistant teachers at the upper primary section (Classes VI to VIII) in Bengal's government-aided schools.The SLP had sought a stay ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphMaster shipbuilder James Kyd passed away on this day in the city. He was 50.He was born to Major Alexander Kyd, army officer and surveyor-general of Bengal. He was the nephew of Robert Kyd, founder of the Botanical Gardens ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Junior Doctors’ Front that spearheaded the protests against deficiencies in Bengal’s healthcare system in the wake of a doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital wrote to the state chief secretary on Friday their ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphA 25-year-old man was electrocuted when he took the support of an iron fencing on the ground floor of a building while trying to negotiate a waterlogged stretch off Elgin Road on Friday evening.Sourav Prasad Gupta, who was originally ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphJust as Calcuttans thought the tryst with Cyclone Dana was past, it was hit by a fresh spell of formidable rain on Friday evening.By 8pm, Thanthania, MG Road, Bidhan Sarani and the Patipukur underpass in the north and Elgin ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana triggered close to 200mm of rain in Calcutta in a few hours on Friday, after it started making landfall near the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha.Data from over 30 years say the average rainfall Calcutta receives in ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphEleven flights to and from Calcutta received false security threats through social media on Thursday, which delayed the planned shutdown of the airport, as a precaution against Cyclone Dana, by an hour.Across the country, more than 90 flights were ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphA man who was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as part of its probe into a communal flare-up in Howrah in 2023 was gunned down near his house in Shibpur on Wednesday night.Abdul Qadir, also known as ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphFlight operations resumed at Calcutta airport in West Bengal from 8 am on Friday after cyclone Dana made landfall on the coast of neighbouring Odisha, officials said.Train services on the south section of the Sealdah Division under the Eastern ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphChildren should play with toys, dismantle them to understand how they are made, and learn to use the motors in them elsewhere, tooIn class, children should share notes with friends for peer learning and peer review ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThemes for pandals there were many, but when it came to cultural programmes on the Durga puja stage, there was a single stream of thought overshadowing all else this year — the RG Kar incident. The rape and murder ...
26 October 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal school service commission will start the second phase of counselling to appoint teachers in government-aided upper primary schools (Classes VI to VIII) on November 11, after the publication of a revised vacancy list.The second phase of counselling, ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThree of the seven protesting junior doctors who were admitted to hospital hours after they called off their fast on Monday were discharged on Thursday. The three were admitted to Medical College Hospital.The two who had been admitted to ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Thursday that the Supreme Court has “recognised the chief minister’s authority” in appointing full-term vice-chancellors in state-aided universities. Basu, who cited an October 21 order of the Supreme Court, said the apex ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphColesworthey (or Colesworthy) Grant, one of the first activists who addressed cruelty against animals in India, was born on this day. He was also an artist and a writer.Born in London, he came to India early. A fall impaired ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThe rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Delhi gang rape in December 2012, the Mumbai terror attack and the Paris Olympics were some of the many incidents that school students ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphFlight operations at the Calcutta airport were suspended from 7pm on Thursday because of Cyclone Dana. Flights are scheduled to operate again from 9am on Friday.The prediction of strong crosswinds up to 80km an hour led to the shutdown.As ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana and Diwali have pushed airfares to and from Calcutta through the roof.Calcutta airport decided to shut down for 15 hours, from 6pm on Thursday till 9am on Friday, because the cyclone can trigger crosswinds of up to ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphDana intensified into a severe cyclonic storm around Wednesday midnight and was at its strongest form on Thursday evening, when it unleashed a peak wind speed of 125kmph.Around 12.15am on Friday, the landfall process had started, a Met bulletin ...
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