Sacked and aggrieved teachers travelling to Delhi on a bus stopped at different places to sensitise people about what they were going through and build public opinion against what they said was an “unjust termination”.They will hold a sit-in ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphA Poila Baisakh like no other.Many of the 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools who had lost their jobs after a Supreme Court verdict on April 3 were sitting at Esplanade’s Y-channel on Tuesday, continuing their protest.While ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe anger against the new waqf law singed Calcutta’s neighbourhood on Monday with Indian Secular Front supporters stoning police and torching their vehicles in Bhangar, South 24-Parganas.Five police motorbikes and a prison van were destroyed and seven policemen were ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphVehicles bound for Science City from Chingrighata along the EM Bypass will find additional road space near the Metropolitan crossing.The vehicular movement will be faster if the steel bridge that has been installed is made functional as soon as ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphReligion teaches people to love one another, then why is there violence, asked chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the inauguration of the Kalighat skywalk on Monday evening.There will be “many attempts to provoke people into violence”, Mamata said, appealing ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police on Monday said the situation in Bhangar was “completely under control” following fresh violence linked to protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act earlier in the day, during which supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) clashed with ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThree sacked teachers who were holding an indefinite fast outside the school service commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake to protest the termination of jobs, ended their fast on Sunday afternoon.Suman Biswas, Pankaj Roy and Pratap Kumar Saha had ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphShopping hubs of the city, from north to south, bustled on the last Sunday before Poila Boishakh and the crowd swelled as the sun went down.There was hardly any space on the pavements of Gariahat and Hatibagan. The hawkers’ ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government has cancelled its decision to transfer teachers in government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools because the en masse termination of teachers’ jobs by the Supreme Court has plunged many institutes into crisis. An order ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s experience with Banglar Rasogolla has shown that a geographical indication (GI) tag doesn’t mean better business.On April 4, Bengal bagged the GI tag for four different types of sweets — Murshidabad Chhanabora, Kamarpukur Sada Bode, Bishnupurer Motichur Laddu ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court has restrained the powerful technicians’ federation in Tollygunge from interfering with the independent functioning of a director.“The respondent no. 5 (Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) is restrained from interfering with the ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphAn alumni association that has demonstrated over the years how former students can contribute to the growth of an institution turns 40 on Sunday. St Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association (SXCCAA) was among the first to show that help ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's oldest Metro tunnel will undergo a "complete overhaul", 40 years after it opened.Overhauling Calcutta Metro Rail's tunnel between Tollygunge and Dum Dum, part of the north-south or Blue Line, could take three to four years, and the job ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has invalidated 25,753 teaching and non-teaching jobs in Bengal because it couldn’t reliably distinguish between legitimate appointments and those obtained through manipulation. This sweeping decision came despite the School Service Commission (SSC)’s attempts to identify “tainted” ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe railways need a slice of land — measuring 837sq m — inside the police lines in Alipore to build the Kidderpore station, projected to be one of the busiest in the upcoming Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor (Purple Line).Railway officials ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphA 31-year-old man was arrested in Kolkata's Survey Park area after he was caught while allegedly attempting to rob a bank using a toy gun, police said on Saturday.Dalim Basu, an employee of the Department of Post, went to ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police have arrested a couple and unveiled a dating app racket operating in the city and surrounding areas.One of the accused is a restaurant manager and his accomplice, a young woman, created fake profiles on popular dating sites ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA massive fire broke out at a slum in east Kolkata's Metropolitan area in the early hours of Saturday, police said.At least 10 shanties were gutted in the fire, they said.Four fire tenders doused the blaze in two hours, ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay was booed and told to “go back” on Friday by teachers and school staff on a sit-in outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Friday.Gangopadhyay arrived outside the SSC office at 5.30pm ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday denied permission to an outfit to block Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti on Saturday and recalled the historic Khilafat Movement to explain the Eid prayers there.An outfit that calls itself the Viswa Hindu Sevadal ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA housing complex in Rajarhat has opened a shooting range where a tournament was held last Sunday.Siddha Town, at Beraberi near Narayanpur, has a four-lane 10m air rifle range where training is provided by certified coaches from Joydeep Karmakar ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government wants to run more buses on EM Byass and has sought the Kolkata Police’s opinion on whether it will pose challenges in traffic management. On Friday, senior transport department officials and city police officers discussed the challenges that may ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe manager of a cafe on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly being part of a racket that engaged women to open fake accounts on dating apps, lure men to the cafe where they would be forced to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA man, who had his face covered with a mask and "armed" himself with a plastic gun, tried to rob a bank in Santoshpur on Friday. He got caught after those around him recognised the fake gun as a ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphSeven young athletes from Bengal are gearing up for a never-seen-before spectacle of the sport that has changed their lives.They will play in the world’s first franchise-based Rugby league, which will be held in Mumbai from June 1 to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA sub-inspector caught on camera kicking an aggrieved protester at the office of the district inspector (DI) of schools on Wednesday was given charge of investigating the same case by his superiors.The decision raises questions on how seriously Kolkata ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphPaying EMIs, ailing parents, children’s education, worrying about how students will complete their syllabus and uncertainty.Thousands of teachers and school staff whose jobs were terminated by a Supreme Court order last week assembled outside the school service commission office ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAlternating between rage and despair, aggrieved teachers and staff of government-aided schools continued to sit outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Thursday.When the sun became too scorching, they shifted to the other side of the ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphResidents may be happy shopping round the year these days, but come spring and they still await Chaitra sale.“Chaitra sale isn’t as significant in Salt Lake as it is in Hatibagan or Gariahat, but since customers know this is ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA formal inquiry has been initiated into alleged police excesses in the compound of the district school inspector's office in Kasba. Officers at the Kolkata Police headquarters said all the allegations and electronic evidence that emerged were being probed.An ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe termination of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal — following the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process — has unleashed more than just administrative and political chaos. It ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAnnapurna puja may be popular in homes, but BC Block now celebrates it at the community level. Since last year they have started performing the puja at their community hall and this probably makes them the first block in ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe SojournWhen: April 15 to 19,12.30pm to 4.30pmPocket pinch: Rs 1,200What: The lunch at the Broadway hotel starts with a choice between Aam Pora Sherbet and fruit punch, which works well in this heat. But be careful to have ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn outfit called Anjani Putra Sena, accused of violating norms in a Ram Navami procession in Howrah, on Thursday challenged the legality of the criminal proceedings initiated against its leaders by police.Appearing for the organisation, advocate Subir Sanyal appealed ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn advocate has served a legal notice on chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleging contempt of the Supreme Court’s order invalidating over 25,000 school jobs in Bengal.Advocate Siddharth Dutta has said the notice was sent on behalf of an NGO ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphA string of rallies in Calcutta, protesting the scrapping of school jobs and the new Waqf law, crippled traffic on Thursday, tormenting motorists and pedestrians alike.At least six processions crisscrossed the city between 7am and 4pm, bringing traffic to ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphMore than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff lost their jobs last week following a Supreme Court order. Hundreds of them walked from Sealdah to Esplanade on Thursday afternoon to register their protest and anger against Wednesday’s police lathicharge on ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission has recommended the appointments of 1,240 candidates as physical education and work education teachers in supernumerary posts in government-aided schools.The recommendation came a day after the Supreme Court set aside Calcutta High Court’s direction for ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe acting principal of La Martiniere for Boys, John Stephen, resigned on Tuesday.Sydney Francis Menezes has taken over from Stephen.The 189-year-old institution has been without a principal since July 2021.“The boys’ school principal submitted his resignation on Tuesday, and ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe presence of two upper air cyclonic circulations has urged the Regional Meteorological Centre to issue a significant weather alert for several districts of West Bengal from April 10 to April 14.The cyclonic circulations are over northeast Bihar between ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Wednesday told a group of dismissed school employees not to “ask such foolish questions” and to “ask the Supreme Court” when they sought a solution to the impasse.Gangopadhyay had gone to meet the school ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphCBI officers have resumed talking to officials and postgraduate trainees of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as part of its investigation to find out whether there was any attempt to cover up the rape and murder of a ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe state administration on Wednesday submitted a report in the high court on a Ram Navami procession in Howrah organised by an outfit that calls itself the Anjani Putra Sena and mentioned that it violated court guidelines on multiple ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal governor must abide by what the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, setting a timeline for all governors to act on bills, said Bengal education minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday.“I hope that our governor, who is a learned ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday that teachers and school staff who have lost their jobs must realise they cannot conduct disruptive protests and call for help from the government at the same time.“What has happened (the lathi ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe draft amendments to the existing Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) building rules propose a mandatory parking space for visitors in housing complexes above a certain size and a reduction of the open space for buildings coming up on smaller ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's largest single-site electric vehicle (EV) charging hub is set to come up in south Kolkata's Thakurpukur area, claimed Ashhok Kapoor, the MD of EzUrja, which is building it.It will be the second-largest EV charging hub in the world ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has predicted light to moderate rains to hit a few parts of the city from Wednesday onwards, with a favourable wind and moisture incursions over the Bay of Bengal. The twin natural phenomenon has made the ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: An outfit that calls itself the Hanuman Seva Dal moved an application before Calcutta High Court on Tuesday seeking permission to hold a procession on Red Road for six hours on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.The appeal, before ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission is “going ahead” with its preparations for a fresh recruitment process to fill the posts that have fallen vacant after the Supreme Court last week scrapped the jobs of 25,773 teaching and non-teaching staff in ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphOne of the two persons, arrested from Haryana in connection with a cyber fraud allegedly headed by a bank manager, used to work in an Aadhaar Seva Kendra, CID sleuths said.He had access to the database of thousands of ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphSquall season is here, but Calcutta has yet to experience one. The Met office has predicted that the wait might be over before the end of this week.According to the weather office, a system on the Bay of Bengal ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Tuesday prescribed a way to differentiate the “deserving candidates” from the “undeserving” in the school recruitment case.Gangopadhyay’s comments drew a retort from state education minister Bratya Basu, who said he spoke like a politician ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe minimum visibility required for a flight to land has been increased from 1,500m to 5,000m in one of Calcutta airport’s four landing points because of a building in Kaikhali jutting out 11m more than the permissible limit, officials ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe family of the man who was run over by a car being driven by an allegedly intoxicated filmmaker in Thakurpukur on Sunday, alleged that they were offered money to “settle the matter”.Aminul Rahman and at least five others ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe demolition of a building will mean smashing its ceilings, floors, beams and columns and not merely drilling holes that can be repaired easily, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has said in a notification.Mayor Firhad Hakim had earlier asked ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled for April 17 a hearing on the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s (WBBSE) plea seeking permission to retain untainted teachers until a fresh recruitment process is completed.This follows the apex court’s April 3 ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe senior judge on a Calcutta High Court division bench on Monday refused to hear the state’s appeal against an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in May 2023, cancelling the appointments of over 36,000 primary school teachers based on ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThousands of aggrieved teachers and school staff had arrived outside Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday morning.Only a section of them made it in. The others did not have a pass that proclaimed “we are deserving”.Protests followed, guardrail barricades were ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address was peppered with assurances but did not cut much ice with several teachers who have lost their jobs.They had come to Netaji Indoor Stadium hoping Mamata would explain how she planned to save their ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s secondary education board has appealed to the Supreme Court that teachers and school staff whose services have been terminated though they are “not specifically tainted” be allowed to continue until fresh recruitments are made.The board said if over ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday promised to protect the jobs of all those the Supreme Court had deemed “not specifically tainted” while scrapping their appointments because of a “vitiated” school recruitment process.Addressing over 10,000 sacked and aggrieved teachers ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphTill August 21 last year, Saroj Bhunya, a Kharagpur resident, would take his bike to a state-run school where he was employed as a group-D staff. That morning he collapsed following a brain haemorrhage.The semi-paralysed Bhunya with the support ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said during Monday’s meeting that she would examine what evidence has been submitted against those terminated teachers who have been identified as “tainted” and then decide on their cases.“First, let me resolve the cases of ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA hospital off DL Khan Road in Bhowanipore that was non-functional since 2012 has been revamped. A multi-speciality OPD will start running from the healthcare facility from Tuesday. The hospital was started in 1975, and it shut down around ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe person who was driving the car that entered a crowded marketplace in Thakurpukur and hit several pedestrians, killing one on Sunday morning, was remanded to police custody on Monday.Police said Siddhanta Das, 35, a resident of Kankulia Road ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a racket that used to create fake companies and subsequent mule accounts for the transaction of money earned through fraudulent means, police said.The racket was headed by the branch ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA 65-year-old man was crushed under the wheels of a government run bus after it hit a two-wheeler near the Chingrighata intersection on EM Bypass on Monday afternoon, police said.The accident happened around 1.15pm after the rider of the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphSome key takeaways from chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address at Netaji Indoor Stadium on MondayTop priority: Save jobs “As long as I live, I will not let a single deserving teacher lose his or her job. Neither me nor you ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has finalised a standard operating procedure on statues, making it mandatory that new statues are vetted by a civic committee.The committee will examine whether a pavement in question will become too narrow for pedestrians ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphBJP strongman and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee government with allegations of 'targeted violence' on Hindu devotees involved in a Ram Navami procession near Kolkata’s Park Circus Seven Point area."Where was the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphOne set of nurses round the clock to treat children with autism when they are hospitalised for other diseases. Provision for speech and occupational therapists to visit the ward to avoid regression in a child with autism without therapy. ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphMembers of the Jadavpur University unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, performed a puja on the campus on Ram Navami on Sunday, despite being denied permission by the university authorities.The students wearing saffron ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphCombine sections in Classes IX and X, engage part-time teachers, or request teachers from neighbouring schools to take classes.These are some of the ways government-aided schools are planning to tide over the shortage of teachers.The Supreme Court order on ...
7 April 2025 Telegraph“I will prove to everyone I’m not mad.”“In the past 25 years, I have heard many promises to take me back home.”“I wish to return home, too, but where is my home?”“Once upon a time, I chose my clothes; ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphA car travelling along Diamond Harbour Road entered a busy road in Thakurpukur that was dug up for laying a pipeline, and hit six pedestrians on Sunday morning, one of whom died later in the day. The deceased was ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe city celebrated Ram Navami like never before. The event was peaceful.Thousands of processions — big and small rolled out across the state on Sunday. In Calcutta, Salt Lake and Howrah, police ensured that all the norms laid down ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe build-up began at noon. By early evening, several pockets of Calcutta were painted in saffron. Ram Navami celebrations were marked by a string of processions, some drawing a crowd of a few thousand. DJ consoles mounted on trucks ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe education department has asked district school inspectors to report how schools are coping after the Supreme Court terminated nearly 17,000 teaching positions.“We’re collecting data on the extent of disruption to gauge the full scale of the crisis,” said ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphWork on the Mukundapur campus of South Point school that was stalled for more than a year is expected to resume soon, a school official said.Students will be shifted to the new campus in the 2026-27 academic session, but ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphA Ram Navami like never before means business like never before for some.In Bengal’s chock-a-block festive calendar, Ram Navami is a relatively new addition.A festival restricted to small pockets five years ago now has traders across the city stocking ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphCelebrate Ram Navami but do not inconvenience others, Calcutta’s police commissioner Manoj Verma appealed on Saturday.Verma, who visited many central Calcutta locations to scan the routes of Sunday’s Ram Navami processions, said Kolkata Police had received 80 applications for ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphAn alumnus of Jadavpur University, who is based in the US now, inaugurated a laboratory of the chemical engineering department on Friday. The lab was renovated with his contribution of ₹1 crore. Part of the amount went into setting ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphBollywood and its beautiful European locales have attracted tourists for decades. But a contender has arrived.Locations in the UK where some standout OTT series were recently shot have emerged as bigger tourist draws.Tens of thousands want to experience in ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Medical Council has made it mandatory for all doctors to obtain a score, which has to be earned by attending conferences and seminars, to be able to renew their registration every five years.The council took the ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphSeveral rounds of bullets were allegedly fired when two groups of Trinamul Congress supporters clashed in Rajarhat’s Narayanpur on Friday afternoon.Police sources said the groups claiming allegiance to Tapas Chatterjee, Trinamool MLA from Rajarhat, allegedly clashed with the supporters ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) assessment records were “tampered with” to get permission to construct a five-storey building off Creek Row, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.The tampering came to light after a Creek Row resident filed an ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphBeing a schoolteacher in Bengal was a matter of pride. Not anymore, for many.The controversy around the recruitment of teachers appears to have robbed the profession of some of its sheen.The Supreme Court order not only scrapped nearly 26,000 ...
6 April 2025 TelegraphTwo men, accused of allegedly beating an app cab driver to death in Bijoygarh, were arrested on Friday.Police said Sunny Kumar Roy and Bicky Shaw, from Roy Bahadur Road in Behala, were among the group of five allegedly involved ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphPolice should “suo motu” evict any new encroachment by hawkers because it was their responsibility to ensure that government land was not taken over, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.Hakim was responding to a complaint from a Kasba resident ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphStung by a shortage of teachers following Thursday’s Supreme Court order, schools will struggle to conduct classes, the state higher secondary council has warned.“Around 16,000 teachers have lost their jobs. The schools will struggle to conduct classes, both in ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA schoolteacher who lost her job on Thursday attempted suicide in South 24-Parganas’ Canning, police sources said.A history teacher in a government-aided school, she wrote in a note that she was unemployed after the Supreme Court invalidated over 25,000 ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphFish prices have increased across markets in Calcutta, and traders blamed a dip in supply for the price hike.The price of rohu and katla, the most commonly purchased Indian major carps, has shot up by nearly ₹100 per kg. ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday granted the Vishva Hindu Parishad and an outfit called Anjani Putra Sena permission to hold Ram Navami processions on Sunday on the condition that they will not display any metal weapons in the rallies ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphA 39-year-old filmmaker from Bengal has done what her seniors in the industry have been trying for years — she has managed to put a check on the alleged interference of film technicians federation in directors’ work on Tollywood ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro withdrew the suspension of services on the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Green Line on Ram Navami.Services were being intermittently suspended on the Green Line on Sundays since February to check the efficacy of the computerised automated ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphThe police finally have a solution to the parking problem in Salt Lake. They have started fining any car they see parked on the main roads – be it a resident’s, visitor’s, or shopper’s. But while some have welcomed ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphBozo has been lucky for Diya Das. Of course, she has become a great companion and loyal friend but the Labrador’s entry to the house, quite literally, saved Diya’s life.“Bozo was a birthday gift for me from my friends,” ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphDF Park, New TownFor the first time this year, New Town’s Id-ul-Fitr namaz was held at DF Park, near Biswa Bangla Gate.This is the latest venue after the NKDA community hall in 2023 and the fair ground in 2024. ...
5 April 2025 TelegraphLivelihoods lost. Lives damaged beyond repair. Despair, hopelessness and dismay were writ large on the faces of the teachers who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court judgement on Thursday. Metro spoke to some of them: Sangeeta Sinha, 40 Sangeeta Sinha ...
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