The high court has asked the state primary education board to file an affidavit stating the reason behind the delay in publishing the TET 2023 (Teachers’ Eligibility Test) results. The report must be filed within three weeks.Justice Biswajit Basu ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe National Council Science Museum’s wall calendar for 2025 introduces phantasmagorical creatures that would give a good run for money to JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.The Technocoleus artificialis (a representation of the beetle) with ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphInnovations in biomedicine have the potential to make the world a much better place for future generations, a British science communicator said in Calcutta last month. “Innovation is what drives the world’s progress. We have lived through 50 years ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation has set up 22 urban health and wellness centres in the city in addition to the existing primary health centres to create more facilities for people to receive treatment. The health and wellness centres provide ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Sunderbans tiger that had strayed into a village and attacked forest personnel was captured in a trap cage early on Tuesday, forest officials said.The tiger, an adult male, was released back into the wild on Tuesday afternoon.The tiger ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphServices along the East-West corridor of Metro Railway, Kolkata, will remain suspended for four days from Thursday, for communication trial, the Metro said in a statement on Wednesday.The trial will be held as the tunnelling work between Esplanade and ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphAn aerial circular pathway around 18ft above the ground, just below the Metro viaduct, with five entry-exit points.That is the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA)’s plan to address pedestrian crossover woes at the busy Ruby rotary on EM Bypass.The ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphThese were among the issues flagged on Tuesday before the State Level Grievance Redressal Committee, which has been set up to hear doctors’ suggestions and complaints. The committee members visited two medical colleges in Calcutta during the day. They ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, printed an advertisement of “IELPS to English Composition” on its front page. This advertisement was in English, even as the rest of the matter on the page, mostly ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphA platform of schoolteachers who had been holding an indefinite sit-in at Esplanade since December 27, 2024, demanding that the Supreme Court clear the air on who was fairly recruited based on the evidence provided by the school service ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA call centre in Dum Dum that police raided on Monday night was involved in cheating people and had been operating from an apartment rented out by a policeman, officers said.A man was arrested at the spot and 17 ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board barred six students from writing Madhyamik on Tuesday.Among the six, three students of a school in North Dinajpur allegedly entered the exam hall with mobile phones, took photographs of the second language question paper ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday asked all lower courts to transfer case documents within 14 days of the high court taking up the matters to avoid delays in the judicial process.The division bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the Palm Avenue campus of Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School on Tuesday afternoon, police said.The school building was shut because of renovation, the police said.The classes have been shifted to two other buildings ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe first matchbox factory of Bengal opened at 30 Russa Road in 1892, decades after their invention in Europe. But Calcuttans were using matchsticks years before.A collection of imported matchboxes is on display as part of the History and ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphSenior BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato has raised concerns about the security of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, who is currently in judicial custody in connection with a recruitment scam involving the School Service Commission (SSC).Mahato also ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday said the trial in cases related to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital should be expedited to maintain people’s faith and confidence in the judiciary.Justice Joymalya Bagchi said this while hearing a plea by ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe foundation stone of Sacred Heart Church in Dharmatala, a Catholic church built by the Portuguese in Calcutta, was laid on this day.Apparently a brawl led to the founding of the church. Pascoa Barretto De Souza, the mother of ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out inside the premises of a private English medium girls' school in the Ballygune area of the city on Tuesday, police said.No one was injured in the fire as the school was closed due to some ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe 73rd reunion of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, in association with The Telegraph, wound up on Sunday with the annual reunion debate, a much-awaited event on the college calendar.The motion — this House believes that medicine is ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict on a batch of nearly 125 appeals and cross-appeals, including one by the Bengal government relating to Calcutta High Court’s April 2024 judgment quashing the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphStudios in Tollygunge were back to their usual bustling self on Monday.Lights and props were set up and cameras rolled again. Actors were back in business and directors called the shots. A stand-off between directors and technicians had crippled ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Monday announced its plan to launch two mobile apps, one to crack down on rash driving of buses and the other to inform commuters about the current location of a bus and when the next ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA passenger jumped off a plane’s ladder and started running in the apron area after being told by the pilot that he would be deplaned for his alleged misbehaviour on Sunday morning.Airport officials said the 24-year-old man was chased ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe electric wave has reached Calcutta, and the city is slowly but surely adopting battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) as a mode of transport.In the first month of the new year, 530 units of four-wheeler EVs were registered in Bengal, most ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA first year MTech student was found dead on the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) campus in Nadia’s Haringhata on Monday night.Sayani Das, 23, a resident of Durgapur, allegedly fell from the fifth floor of the ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe Sonarpur-based group that allegedly duped Americans posing as officials of the US department of homeland security had agents in the US working for them and accepted payments in gold, silver, cash and gift cards of Apple and Sephora, ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA young chef from England whose blender broke down in the middle of a fish preparation for the final round of a culinary contest was still able to work his way around and emerge the winner among participants from ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA tiger strayed into a Sunderbans village and attacked forest personnel trying to rescue a villager who had climbed a tree to escape the claws on Monday.Ganesh Shyamal, 36, a member of a quick response team, comprising villagers trained ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board barred three Madhyamik examinees from writing this year’s papers on the first day of the Class X boards on Monday.One of them had her elder sister write the first language paper on her behalf ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphKolkata: You will see Babul Supriyo riding a Harley-Davidson someday.On February 1, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a cut in the import duty on heavyweight bikes with engines above 1,600cc from 50 per cent to 30 per cent ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphTwenty-seven lakh people visited the International Kolkata Book Fair 2025, an official of Publishers and Booksellers Guild said on Monday.The 12-day book fair was held from January 28 to February 9.Till Sunday (February 9) morning, the last day of ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphChildren designed their sunglasses and played with colours while some others chose to jump on the trampoline during a day-long carnival curated for them. While the children played, parents shared their experiences. Baby’s Day Out, an initiative of Neotia ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphAn e-rickshaw driver has been arrested for allegedly raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a bushy area near Loha Bridge in New Town's Action Area I on Friday morning.Police said the accused, Soumitra Roy, ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphRussia has recently announced that a cancer vaccine is being developed. It will be available this year. This has created tremendous enthusiasm all over the world. Will cancer now be curable or become a chronic disease like diabetes and ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphHowrah’s air quality was “very poor” for nearly half of January, the state pollution control board’s air quality report has shown. Howrah had 13 days of “very poor” air in January. There were 14 days of “poor” air and ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe first birthday of the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder victim since her death last year was marked by a silent rally in Kolkata in which doctors and people from all walks of life took part on Sunday.The rally, ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe deadlock at the Tollygunge studio para has been broken, at least for now.The directors’ guild said its members would resume work. The announcement came after a meeting between directors and technicians at loggerheads and representatives of production houses ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta, the convict ship named after the city, arrived at Plymouth in England on this day. It was to sail to Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia, to establish a settlement.The ship was expecting convicts from prisons of Bodmin, Exeter ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphNinety-one-year-old Dulal Chandra Dalui has rarely missed his college reunions. Friday was no different. In 1994, Dalui retired as the head of the surgery department of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, also his alma mater. Many of his ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThere were lights, there was the camera but there was hardly any action.The crew turned up at several Tollygunge studios on Friday but missing in action were the directors.The directors’ guild, protesting the alleged high-handedness of the powerful technicians’ ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphIndia’s appetite for Apple products continues to grow and is accompanied by the Cupertino headquartered company’s effort to manufacture more iPhones in India.A new address — Imagine’s Apple Premium Partner Store — for all things Apple opened at South ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped five degrees to settle at 17.3 degrees Celsius on Friday in what the Met office said was the last lap of winter.Saturday is likely to see the Celsius drop further to around 15 degrees, according ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday rejected the Bengal government’s appeal seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and accepted the CBI’s prayer stating that ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found on an isolated stretch in New Town on Friday are checking all the CCTV cameras installed along the routes between her home and the ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA major fire broke out in a slum in the Narkeldanga area of the city in which one person was killed, a Fire Brigade official said on Sunday.At least 30 shanties were gutted in the fire, the official said.The ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWHEN : Sister Nivedita University presents and Jac Olivol co-presents Calcutta Club The Telegraph National Debate 2025WHERE: The Calcutta Club Lawns MOTION: T20 is the real test of cricketVERDICT: The motion was defeatedFORJoy BhattacharjyaQuizzer, quizmaster, raconteur, cricket analyst, former ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe body of a 14-year-old girl, suspected to have been raped and murdered, was found on a deserted stretch of New Town on Friday morning. Police said according to the preliminary inquiry, the girl had left her home in ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphTwo students of Jadavpur University, who had allegedly been molested outside the campus by another student, staged a sit-in inside the university’s administrative headquarters on Thursday evening demanding justice. The two students also accused the university authorities of sitting ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday said former principal Sandip Ghosh and four others accused of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital should be granted time so they get the opportunity to know the charges imposed on ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA hub of culture has turned into “a hub of criminals, a hub of hooligans” under the “inefficient” Muhammad Yunus government, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday when asked about the fresh flare-up in neighbouring Bangladesh.The state of ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA minor girl was raped and murdered in New Town, Kolkata, within hours of leaving her home after a dispute with her mother, police confirmed on Friday. Locals discovered the victim’s half-naked body inside a fenced-off, secluded area near ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar AikyaOver a journey of 15 years, the Saraswati puja at Bidhannagar Aikya has arguably become the biggest in the township. “Our attempt is to keep innovating,” said president and councillor Tulsi Sinha Roy. “We try to introduce something ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWith the tithi for Saraswati puja stretching over two days this year, schools had a choice of when to celebrate. While most schools chose Monday, there were blocks and individuals which offered puja the day before, preferring the convenience ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphNew Town is set to have a new functionary who will take charge of providing civic services in the township. An order has been issued by the state personnel and administrative reforms department, dated January 30, appointing Mohd. Abdul ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphSrabani Maitra is so modest speaking about her plants that one is rather taken aback on seeing her terrace garden. Not only does she grow all categories of plants — flowers, fruits, vegetables and cacti — but she has ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphI had a harrowing experience on January 10 that I want to share with residents so they can be careful and with the authorities so they can take action and save lives before it’s too late.I was crossing the ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe venue was new and the dates coincided with Saraswati puja, but it all worked out in favour of Bidhannagar Horticultural Society that held its flower show last weekend. Held in association with the state forest development corporation, the ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphTwo police personnel, including a woman civic volunteer, deployed at a Saraswati Puja immersion procession in the Port division, were allegedly heckled by a few club members on Wednesday night, injuring them while on duty. The accused youths fled ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphA 55-year-old man attacked four of his colleagues with a knife at the Karigari Bhavan in New Town on Thursday after the authorities allegedly declined his leave plea, police said.The Karigari Bhavan is the headquarters of the technical education, ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe charge framing against former principal Sandip Ghosh and others accused of corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will be delayed by at least two weeks after a Calcutta High Court division bench took cognisance of Ghosh’s ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe only hope to transform India’s health care is a wider and more evolved insurance mechanism to make quality health care accessible to a larger population, feted cardiac surgeon and entrepreneur Devi Shetty said on Thursday.Shetty, the chairman of ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday told the state secondary education to take immediate steps to ensure pending admit cards for students set to write their Madhyamik examinations are issued. Madhyamik is scheduled to begin on February 10. ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphTheir guile, gumption and game plans are well documented. Whether they bring the same skills into play on a different Calcutta pitch will be known on Saturday evening.On the lawns of Calcutta Club, some of the finest cricketers of ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphModernise old studios; set up new VFX and animation hubs; incentivise film-making in Bengal; ensure that films are a thriving career option for the youth.At the Bengal Global Business Summit on Thursday, the president of the Film Federation of ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphDutch merchant William Bolts, who came to India and worked for the British East India Company, was born on this day. His career would be various and as full of successes as failures. He is remembered for a book ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA constable of Kolkata Police who was posted as the personal security officer of a judge of the 8th Bench of the city civil court, was found dead on the ground floor of the court building early on Wednesday, ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe students of IIT Kharagpur have written to the authorities urging them to reintroduce the assimilation programme to improve bonding between students on the campus.The IIT authorities stopped the programme in June 2023 after the family of Faizan Ahmed, ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the raped and murdered junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College have urged people to take to the streets on February 9, the birthday of their daughter. The mother of the junior doctor told TV channel ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe recent wildfire in Los Angeles made foresters of the Gorumara wildlife division in Jalpaiguri take proactive measures to prevent forest fires in reserve forests.Dwijapratim Sen, the divisional forest officer of the division, said on Wednesday that they had ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe impasse at a Tollygunge studio, where set construction for an upcoming serial was stopped midway, continued on Wednesday.The incomplete set at Dassani Studio on Moore Avenue looked like it had on Tuesday, empty.“I went to the studio in ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the men who was allegedly part of the three-member gang that barged into a film production company’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and took away ₹7.3 lakh, has been arrested from Odisha, police said. Two other ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphJustice Jay Sengupta of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the authorities of Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College to take all possible steps so no outsider could enter the college premises without prior permission.The judge disposed of a petition ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA CISF constable was found hanging at the barrack of the force at N S C Bose International Airport here on Wednesday, an airport official said.The body of the constable was found at the barrack in the International cargo ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphFire at Kolkata airport during construction work, according to several media reports. According to airport sources, the fire broke out near the conveyor belt. During the welding process flakes from the torch caught fire. Panic spread throughout the airport ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphRasikbil, a lake in Cooch Behar district in north Bengal, has been nominated by the state government for the consideration of the Union environment, forests and climate change ministry as a potential Ramsar site (wetland of international importance). If ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA 19-year-old youth was allegedly kidnapped for ransom from his home after his father failed to repay a loan he had taken from the alleged kidnapper, police said.The youth was rescued and the kidnapper and 3 others were arrested. ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe framing of charges against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and others accused of corruption is likely to start on Wednesday.Ghosh’s lawyer submitted a “discharge application” before the special CBI court on Tuesday seeking ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe developer of a building on Christopher Road in Tangra that tilted towards its adjoining building was arrested on Tuesday morning.Rajat Lee, 68, a resident of Christopher Road, has been charged with construction of a building that is dangerous ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to use experts to re-evaluate answer scripts of its journalism and mass communication department’s semester and internal examinations following protests over alleged lapses. The decision was taken at a meeting of the JU executive council ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphPolice have found the details of at least 40 US nationals who have been duped by a group of men in Sonarpur who impersonated officials of the United States’ department of homeland security (DHS) and threatened them that evidence ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe spectre of a shutdown has returned to haunt the Tollygunge studios with directors and the technicians’ guild at loggerheads again.Set construction for an upcoming serial up at Dassani Studio on Moore Avenue has been stalled midway. The technicians ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphA woman who used to work in the retail marketing division of a beauty products company was benched for three months by her workplace when her cancer treatment required a long leave.At a cancer awareness programme organised by Medica ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphCancer drugs whose price reduction was announced in the Union budget are used in a minority of cases while many other chemotherapy drugs used more commonly still remain expensive, doctors said at a cancer awareness meet on Tuesday.They called ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphIn the early hours of this day, Robert Clive led a British army attack on the forces of Nawab Siraj-ud- Daulah in Calcutta, which the Nawab had captured from the British in 1756. Clive had marched to Calcutta and ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphServices will be suspended along the entire East-West corridor of Kolkata Metro in two spells this month to test the Communication-based Train Control (CBTC) system, an official said on Tuesday.The Kolkata Metro Railway spokesperson said there will be a ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphGerman Indologist, linguist and missionary Hermann Gundert was born on this day in Stuttgart. He was the maternal grandfather of novelist Herman Hesse.Gundert studied Hebrew, Latin, English and French and later Sanskrit, in Germany. At 22, he left for ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphYoung chefs from 50 countries will throw culinary challenges at one another for a week.The 11th edition of IIHM’s Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) took off along the banks of the Mandovi in Goa on Sunday with the promise of ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government has allowed Jadavpur University to hold a meeting of its executive council on Tuesday because the topics for discussion are related to students' interests.JU had sought permission from the higher education department for the meeting and ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh each for the next of kin of the three labourers who died after falling into a drain while manually cleaning a manhole at Kolkata Leather Complex.Municipal ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphA tram that used to ferry staff to different locations and one running along Manohar Das Tarag in Esplanade, from where the tracks were removed years ago, feature in a calendar dedicated to the trams of Calcutta.Two calendars — ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphThree workers died inside an underground sewer at the Kolkata Leather Complex on Sunday morning, four days after the Supreme Court prohibited manual scavenging and manual sewer-cleaning in six metros including Calcutta.A preliminary inquiry suggests a contractor engaged the ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphTo encourage children to read at a time when schools are struggling to cultivate their interest in reading, a Calcutta school hosted a literary festival where the first step was to read a book, followed by activities centred around ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphA girl was dressed as a mangrove tree. A boy was dressed as a tiger. The tree sheltered the tiger.A short play featuring two students showed the interaction between a mangrove delta and its apex predator. It was part ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThrust on Gen Z. Cultural connect with the audience. A veteran marketer prescribed effective marketing tools at a programme in Calcutta earlier this month."Thirty-two per cent of the country's audience are Gen Z (the generation of people born between ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphA breathtaking view of the Milky Way from Zanskar in Ladakh on a new moon night. The evolution of Sandakphu, the highest point in Bengal, over the past 50 years. Lively watercolours of Kashmir. Shots of faces that say ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphFlight services in Calcutta were disrupted on Sunday morning for more than two hours because of dense fog.Airport officials said 11 flights were delayed because of low visibility. Although flight operations were not stalled completely, but “low visibility procedure” ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe unusually warm spell is set to end with the Met office spying a drop in the Celsius from Monday.The sky, which has been consistently cloudy for the past two days, is also set to start clearing from Monday, ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe city did not have a single day in January when the air quality was “good” or “satisfactory”, the air quality report of Calcutta shows.The report is available on the website of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board.Ballygunge, the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphHowrah bridge was inaugurated on this day, quietly because of the ongoing World War II.Earlier a pontoon bridge connected Howrah and Calcutta, but a need had been felt for long to build a sturdy permanent structure across the Hooghly. ...
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