Metro services were disrupted during the peak morning rush on Tuesday because of a snag at Dum Dum station.“Trains could not ply between Girish Park and Dakshineswar from 9.20pm because of a signal problem at Dum Dum station. Trains ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphGrade I heritage buildings on Ballygunge Circular Road now have the blue heritage plaque of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on their gates.The plaques were putup in the first week of October. Among the buildings sporting the tag are Thapar ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA doctor with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) medical team deployed at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road was detained by police and questioned for several hours on Tuesday allegedly because he was sporting a badge that identified ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphSeven hundred women working in the unorganised sector got a new cotton sari each this Puja.The saris were given by Rokeya Shikhsa Kendra, a learning centre for children of marginalised families who live in Patuli, Briji, News Garia, on ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe protesting junior doctors will approach Calcutta High Court seeking elections to student unions and resident doctors’ associations in medical colleges, one of the doctors on a fast unto death said on Wednesday. Rumelika Kumar, a postgraduate trainee at ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe monsoon has left Calcutta for this year but the rain has not. The city was lashed by a spell of thunderstorm on Wednesday evening after intermittent showers since early afternoon.Around 5.45pm, the rain was almost blinding in pockets ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphBritish East India Company administrator, antiquarian and editor Edward Clive Bayley was born in St Petersburg on this day.He held high administrative posts in north India. In 1849, he was appointed undersecretary to the government of India in the ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphDoctors at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) demanded on Wednesday that the civic body seek an apology from Kolkata Police for detaining a colleague who was on duty at the Durga Puja carnival on Red Road on Tuesday wearing ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphPartha Chatterjee, the former state education minister who is now in custody, had allegedly recommended that the names of some “undeserving” candidates be included in the merit list of the 2014 Teacher Eligibility Test for primary schools, the CBI ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphA group of individuals with autism heralded Durga Puja this year by slaying the demon, a role-play meant to prepare them for the festive days ahead. The sudden change in the environment with loud music, lights and crowds — ...
17 October 2024 TelegraphThe Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital who has been in the eye of the rape-murder storm, in a corruption case. Ghosh was taken to Nizam Palace, which ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphMore old skeletons from the time Sandip Ghosh was principal are tumbling out of the cupboards of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The latest revelation comes in the form of a video from a convention held on August 29 ...
2 September 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of the gruesome rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital On Monday, amid the continuing nationwide protests. On Tuesday, a three judge ...
20 August 2024 Telegraph"Please trust us," the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while requesting the doctors protesting across the country over a Kolkata doctor's alleged rape and killing to call off the strike and resume work. The court said abstention from the work ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Bengal government on the delay in registering an FIR in the RG Kar rape-and-murder and the immediate reappointment of the medical college’s principal Sandip Ghosh, after his controversy-fuelled resignation, as principal of ...
20 August 2024 TelegraphRumours and a malicious media and social media campaign have resulted in the Calcutta police losing the trust of the people, an angry police commissioner Vineet Goyal said on Thursday as his men fought pitched battles with mobs at ...
14 August 2024 TelegraphA mob of men with sticks broke police barricades, entered the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital premises, overturned a police vehicle and smashed up things in front of TV cameras even as thousands of women marched peacefully in ...
14 August 2024 Telegraph