There are so many pujas happening in Salt Lake that it's difficult to keep a track of them all. This is when we turn to The Telegraph Salt Lake for help.The Puja guide, published on October 4 shared the ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThis puja, DL Block conjured up a fictional zamindar family, the Chowdhurys, and presented a fashion show depicting the lifestyles of all its family members.The show began with a conversation between a mother and her daughter, Priyadarshini (played ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphA graceful dancer, a dapper zamindar, and even mischievous ghosts appeared in BA Block on Sashthi. But they all moved with the help of rods.The theme of the puja this year was puppets, and they had invited Baruipur Gangadiri ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphEvery year, we para friends of DA Block stage a performance during Durga Puja. It not only gives us the opportunity to work together towards a common goal, but also rejuvenates our souls.The performers are primarily ladies who are ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThere are few actors, too few even for finger count, who have worked with four stalwarts of Bengali cinema — Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Tarun Majumdar. One of them lived — and died — in Salt ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphThe Kolkata airport suspended flight operations for 15 hours from Thursday evening in the wake of Cyclone Dana, a senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said.Though the flight operations at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport were ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphRain in parts of Kolkata on October 23 evening signalled the approach of Cyclone Dana as shops shut down and people rushed home early. Latest reports indicate a marginal westward shift of the cyclone path, which could mean that ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphAs the time of suspending flight operations gradually approaches in the wake of cyclone Dana, the Calcutta airport authorities started making arrangements to ensure safety of people and planes and infrastructure at the facility.Flight operations at the airport will ...
25 October 2024 TelegraphA fire broke out in a godown, off Ezra Street in the central business district, stacked with wooden boxes around 8.30pm on Wednesday.Fifteen fire tenders were sent to the spot to control the blaze. Fire and emergency services minister ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the authorities from felling any further trees for a Metro Railway project in Calcutta without the consent of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) under the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change.A ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA college student from Asansol allegedly masterminded a bank fraud and duped a private company in Bowbazar by making unauthorised transactions and transferring the money to multiple mule accounts.Police said they traced the student, Abhishek Shaw, 24, through a ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA 15-year-old girl with visual impairment read out the caption outside Jawaharlal Nehru’s cell at Alipore Museum, where the country’s first Prime Minister spent four months in 1934. A Braille signage made that possible for Madhurima Naskar. The ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphGardens in and around the city are preparing for Cyclone Dana.After having borne the brunt of Cyclone Amphan in 2020, the authorities of gardens with huge trees and sizeable canopy covers such as the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphResidents of high-rises have been advised to remove all potted plants, tubs and loose items from balconies and window ledges so nothing can fly off and act as missiles when hit by gusty winds triggered by Cyclone Dana.They have ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphUprooted trees and lamp posts will have to be cleared and loose wires, including electric cables, removed at the earliest, police officers have been told as part of the briefing to prepare the force for Cyclone Dana."Restoring traffic at ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi left for a trip to Europe and the US to talk about West Pakistan’s aggressive policies in East Pakistan and the problem of a huge number of refugees fleeing from East ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphAn outfit that works with children has started training them in how not to use expletives laced with threats or insinuations of gender-based violations. At a time crime against women is under the spotlight, the school realised that the ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe state power department has set up a control room and announced multiple helplines apprehending power disruptions because of Cyclone Dana.The state-run WBSEDCL and the private utility CESC have rolled out helplines as part of their preparations for the ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral private schools have decided to conduct online classes on Thursday and Friday so students don’t have to step out amid rough winds and rain that Cyclone Dana is expected to trigger in the city.A government circular to suspend ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport will remain closed from 6pm on Thursday till 9am on Friday because Cyclone Dana is likely to trigger strong crosswinds, which are dangerous for flights during take-offand landing.Airport officials said more than 200 flights will be ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphDana is set to make landfall between Dhamra port and Bhitarkanika in Odisha between Thursday night and Friday morning as a severe cyclonic storm, the Met office said on Wednesday, triggering the closure of Calcutta airport for 15 hours ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphA major fire broke out at a commercial building in the Terreti Bazar area in central Kolkata on Monday evening, officials said.Fifteen fire engines were working to douse the blaze that was first spotted around 8 pm, they said.The ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro railway services in the north-south corridor were affected for nearly an hour on Wednesday as a woman allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Normal train services were resumed at 11.50 am after ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMetro rail services in the north-south corridor were affected on Wednesday as a person allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station, an official said.Operations were on to recover the injured person from under the train, he ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphThe city airport could be shut down for several hours even if Cyclone Dana spares Calcutta.In a meeting with the airport authorities on Tuesday, the Met department predicted crosswinds at 50-70kmph and rainfall between 70mm and 200mm in Dum ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphFive flights, to and from the Calcutta airport, received hoax bomb threats on Tuesday, while more than 50 domestic and international flights operated by Indian airlines received similar threats across the country.In the past week, more than 150 flights ...
24 October 2024 TelegraphMany roads in Salt Lake are dimly lit and crater-ridden, making them dangerous for pedestrians and motorists.Residents as well as those who have their workplaces in Salt Lake allege there have been no major repairs for several months. Residents ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA high court vacation bench on Tuesday issued an interim stay on the “punitive” action announced by the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital authorities against 51 junior doctors and students because of their alleged involvement in a “threat ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe seat of the junior doctors’ protest at Esplanade for the past 17 days was back to being a road on Tuesday.Vehicles were plying through the stretch of the Dorina Crossing that had cots and beddings and hundreds of ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphPolice and CISF personnel stationed at the main entrance and the gates of various buildings; heaps of sand and bricks dumped all around — that was how RG Kar Medical College and Hospital looked like on Tuesday.There is a ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe severe cyclonic storm that is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast on Thursday night or early on Friday has put the city’s guardians on high alert.The government-run schools in nine south Bengal districts, including Calcutta, will remain closed ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal chief secretary sent an email to the junior doctors around 3pm on Tuesday, as promised, informing them that the state-level task force to ensure their security at workplaces and improvement of the healthcare system has been set ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphThe father of the young doctor who was found raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 sent an email to Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday seeking a meeting with him for ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphA four-year-old child and her father died after being run over by a taxi with an allegedly dozing driver while they were walking to board a bus for school near Chiria More in north Calcutta on Tuesday morning. The ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphFreedom fighter Nellie Sengupta passed away on this day. Born to British parents, she had come to India and joined the Independence movement. Her original name was Edith Ellen Gray. She met freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta in England. ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphCyclone Dana’s precursor curled up in the form of a depression over the Bay of Bengal around 750km from the Bengal coast on Tuesday morning.It is set to hit the Odisha-Bengal coastline as a severe cyclonic storm between Thursday ...
23 October 2024 TelegraphJudges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, established by the Regulating Act of 1773, were appointed on this day.The Supreme Court replaced the Mayor’s Court of Calcutta and was the highest court in colonial India till ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphCalcutta University will screen students from other universities for admission to its postgraduate programmes through a computer-based test (CBT), replacing the pen-and-paper OMR screening, to make the selection process more transparent. At CU, 20 per cent of all postgraduate ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphTwo phone calls were received at the Calcutta airport in quick succession on Monday morning — one said an airborne flight was about to be hijacked and the other warned that the aircraft would be blown up with a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA “severe cyclonic storm” that is expected to hit the Odisha-Bengal coast later this week is taking shape over the Bay of Bengal.The precursor to the system, a low-pressure area on the east-central Bay, has started gaining momentum.Aided by ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled up principals and medical superintendent-cum-vice-principals (MSVPs) of government medical colleges during her meeting with representatives of the protesting junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday. “The junior doctors pointed out that if there is ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphA state-level task force comprising four junior doctors, a female medical student and senior government officials will be set up to look into all complaints regarding government medical colleges and district hospitals, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphThe demands accepted by the state government and the decisions taken during the meeting between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and a team of 17 junior doctors at Nabanna on Monday
22 October 2024 TelegraphA government school in Murshidabad, located far away from the nearest hospital, has set up a medical unit on its premises for its students. The two-bed medical unit at Laskarpur High School, about 50km from Behrampore, has an oxygen ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphMore than a week has passed since Dashami but the remains of many Durga Puja pandals still stand on roads and pavements, making them narrower.The pandals are not alone. The bamboo scaffolding on which temporary banners were put up ...
22 October 2024 TelegraphIn early September, when idol-makers in Kumartuli were busy finishing their creations, an artist in Mexico was trying to create an idol with only a photograph for reference. And a Mexican percussionist was picking up dhak beats from a ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphPolice are planning to seize documents related to the private agency that had been engaged for the installation of a fire-fighting system at the ESI Hospital in Sealdah, where a fire broke out on Friday morning.The medical superintendent of ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAnother cyclone is brewing over the Bay of Bengal. What was a cyclonic circulation over the north Andaman Sea on Sunday morning is tipped to intensify into a cyclonic storm that is to barrel towards the Odisha-Bengal coastline by ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors on Sunday repeated their 10-point charter of demands from their protest site at Esplanade to clear the air about their stand.The demands were spelled out at a rally which they called Chitkar Samabesh (rally for ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, a multi-national gang, comprising Italians, Portuguese, Frenchmen, Germans and Bengalis, attacked the house of Chaitanya Datta in Colootolla in the city.The gang members stole Rs 6,000 and escaped, after having beaten up Dutta mercilessly. He barely ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphAn Alliance Air flight from Lilabari in Assam made an emergency landing at Calcutta airport on Sunday afternoon — one of nearly 25 flights that fell victim to bomb hoaxes through the day.Close to 100 flights of Indian carriers ...
21 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday spoke with the protesting junior doctors over the phone and agreed to all the demands placed before her barring one, the removal of the state’s health secretary.Mamata requested the medics to end their ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphAn exhibition of models based on skill subjects and a career guidance festival were hosted by a school where students were guided to career prospects beyond the conventional route.Mahadevi Birla World Academy hosted the CBSE Skill Expo & Guidance ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphHundreds of people walked from Sodepur, on the northern fringes of Calcutta, to Esplanade on Saturday seeking “justice” for the postgraduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Sodepur, where the slain ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphThe frequency of tiger cub sightings by tourists in the Sunderbans has gone up, said foresters.Their internal surveys, too, point to a similar trend. The increased sightings suggest the apex predator and the ecosystem it lords over both are ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphPatients who turned up at the fire-hit ESI Hospital in Sealdah on Saturday had to leave without treatment as the authorities decided to keep the outpatient department (OPD) shut to facilitate sample collection by a visiting team of forensic ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA number of former Jadavpur University students in the US who have been raising funds to support their cash-strapped alma mater used Durga Puja in two places of that country to raise resources for the institution.The California-based Global Jadavpur ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphOn this day, the following advertisement for a diabetes syrup appeared on the front page of Amrita Bazar Patrika. “No Case Hopeless! OUR CELEBRATED SPECIFIC FOR DIABETES is guaranteed to cure this almost incurable disease even in its ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked the junior doctors to spell out their demands over the phone and said she would respond with the measures taken by the government.Metro lists the demands that the junior doctors mentioned and ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphCalcutta wades into another weekend of protests with a junior doctors’ march and multiple protests planned across the city on Saturday over the rape and murder of the posgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral parts of the city were lashed by a strong spell of rain on Friday evening, hours after the Met office issued a warning of another system brewing over the Bay of Bengal in the cyclone season.Around 3pm, the ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphAn officer of Kolkata Police addressed adolescent boys at St Xavier’s Collegiate School on the dangers of cyberspace, which can make them both a victim and a perpetrator.The officers cited examples, some of which were real and the others ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA school assembly countered ideas of gender bias and bullying and opened up channels of communication between students and the school so that they could report instances of bullying without hesitation. Students of Classes III, IV, and V of ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphThe leakage inside East-West Metro’s under-construction tunnel in Bowbazar last September has again indefinitely delayed the completion of the corridor, said a senior official of Metro Railway. For much of last year, Metro officials had been saying that trains ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphSeveral senior doctors of the city feel talks are the only way to break the deadlock between the protesting junior doctors and the Bengal government.Narayan Banerjee, a senior doctor who has stood by the junior doctors publicly in multiple ...
20 October 2024 TelegraphA 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 ...
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