Two voters from Kalikapur off EM Bypass found their names on the list of dead voters in the draft electoral roll published last Tuesday as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR). The two have been voting for ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar police arrested three more persons on Thursday night in connection with the vandalism at Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit to Calcutta last Saturday, taking the total arrest count to nine. The three accused have been identified ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has deferred the selection tests to shortlist candidates for the appointment of non-teaching staff at government-aided schools to February.In an advertisement seeking online applications for Group C and Group D staff at the secondary ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre has launched a fundraising drive to raise ₹10 crore — an amount which will help the centre to acquire new properties in the surrounding areas.The centre — on Vivekananda Road ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphTen years ago, doctors feared that a woman with brittle bones would not be able to walk again.On Sunday, the 55-year-old will be running the full stretch of the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph.On Friday, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphFlights are once again nearly at full capacity, and the number of patients visiting private hospitals in the city is on the rise. However, there are concerns that this appearance of normalcy may be temporary. The recent outbreak of ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphHave fun. Enjoy every step of the run.That was the message a champion sprinter had for tens of thousands who have signed up for eastern India’s biggest road race, slated this Sunday.Double Olympic silver medallist and World Championships gold ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphHuge swathes of areas in Action Area II of New Town are turning into wasteland because of dumping of piling waste by construction companies. And the matter has taken such a serious turn that a housing complex that is ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphAll these years Indrila Das’s husband would go fishing on weekends while she stayed back at home. “At most, I would prepare the ‘pulao’ – food that would be the bait - but I had no interest in this ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sent a team of its officials to the oxygen cylinder godown at Kankurgachi, where a fire broke out, triggering explosions early on Thursday, to inspect and find out if the facility had the necessary ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday highlighted Bengal’s humanity and geographical diversity while speaking at the inauguration of the 15th edition of the Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park.She said the state has everything — from the deep sea ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphTwo persons were killed in two accidents in the city on Thursday, the first claiming a 78-year-old pedestrian and the second an 18-year-old. Septuagenarian Suvendu Hazra was hit by an allegedly speeding private car at the intersection of Kings ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphThe message of Christmas is to reach out to the poor, marginalised and the outcasts, said Father Dominic Savio, the principal of St Xavier’s College, at a pre-Christmas gathering at the college on Thursday. “Christmas inspires us to do ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphA tigress died in the Alipore zoo in the early hours of Wednesday, the third such death in three months.The tigress, which would have turned three in a couple of months, was brought from Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphPower supply to eight plastic warehouses and processing units built illegally inside the East Kolkata Wetlands were cut off by the authorities on Thursday. There are hundreds of cases of unauthorised construction and illegal conversion of the nature of ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphLocal1986: A seven-hour concert titled Hope ’86 is held at the Salt Lake Stadium on December 29. One of the biggest concerts ever staged in the country, the state-organised event features the who’s who of Bollywood like Amitabh Bachchan, ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphLast year, Aratrika Chakraborty visited a pet shelter, played with a Spitz-Pomeranian mix, fell in love, and couldn’t leave without him. “So I bundled him up, took him home, and approached my grandma, who was in the prayer room,” ...
20 December 2025 TelegraphA 29-year-old man rose early on Thursday at his Kankurgachi residence, disturbed by the loud explosion and alarmed by the sight of flames.Arnav Das, a software professional who resides in a building next to the oxygen cylinder warehouse that ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA blaze at an oxygen cylinder warehouse triggered multiple explosions in a crowded residential zone in Kankurgachi early on Thursday.As the fire escalated, several cylinders burst one after another, with some launching like missiles, landing on the terraces of ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit have started to scan through nearly 1,000 reels and videos on social media, apart from the CCTV footage available, to piece together ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphFormer Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has filed a complaint against a man who claimed to be the secretary of the “Argentina Football Fan Club, Kolkata” for allegedly maligning him with reference to the fiasco during Lionel Messi’s visit ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for the schoolteacher recruitment process in Bengal from December 31 to August 31 next year, paving the way for the thousands of “untainted” to continue in service for another eight months.Bengal ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta airport official wrote an email to superiors earlier this week, alleging that a supervisor of a private agency contracted for housekeeping and cleaning had left the terminal several hours before her duty hours were over.A few weeks ...
19 December 2025 TelegraphA court in Barrackpore sentenced three people to life imprisonment on Wednesday for the murder of a Trinamool Congress councillor of Panihati Municipality in March 2022.On December 15, additional district judge Ayan Kumar Banerjee of the Barrackpore sub-divisional court ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday briefly adjourned to January 2026, without specifying a date, the hearing on the row over the appointment of vice-chancellors of various state universities in Bengal, following differences between governor C.V. Ananda Bose and chief ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe state government sought more time to discuss the impasse over Metro work at the Chingrighata crossing.At a meeting on Wednesday with representatives from the Metro railway and officials from the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), implementing agency of ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphScores of new voters are approaching booth-level officers (BLOs) to enlist themselves in the revised voter list. The BLOs, who are camping in polling stations, are supposed to carry with them forms for corrections, additions of names and deletions. ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court, on Wednesday, shifted the “suo motu” case it had filed regarding the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to the Calcutta High Court, which will now handle all related ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphTeachers — past and present — of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, reiterated that the institute should remain “autonomous” and not have a “top-down” administrative structure, which the ISI bill drafted by the Centre seeks to impose, at ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphA chief minister’s wife looks for the best backdrop while clicking selfies with one of football’s greatest. Bollywood stars behave as if the Messi show belongs to them, not the wizard. A chief minister chooses to play football with ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphAn idea that was “alien” to the city has grown both in numbers and spirit in the last 10 years. Over 23,000 runners have registered for the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata 2025 partnered by The Telegraph.Scheduled on Sunday, ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe trial in the alleged gang-rape of a law student inside South Calcutta Law College is likely to start in the last week of December.The Alipore court, where the case is being heard, ordered the commencement of framing charges ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe increasing use of abbreviations by children in both casual and official settings has raised concerns among parents and teachers.The adoption of such brief forms starts in the formative years. Despite their prevalent use in messaging and social media, ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe first half of December 2025 has been the coolest in at least a decade, suggest Met readings at Alipore.The average daily minimum temperature from December 1 to 17 is 16 degrees Celsius (see chart). For a good part ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphA new special investigation team (SIT) began their examination of the Salt Lake Stadium debacle that took place on Saturday by conducting a visit to the location on Wednesday morning.The four-member SIT, led by director of security Peeyush Pandey, ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal government on Tuesday launched a coordinated damage-control drive with chief minister Mamata Banerjee accepting Aroop Biswas’s offer to quit as sports minister “for the sake of an impartial probe” into the mismanagement at the Salt Lake Stadium ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphFirst turning back midway to the venue of a marquee event, then the apology, and now the action on her “favourites”.Within three days, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has found herself on unfamiliar terrain as the Messi disaster at the ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphBooth-level officers (BLOs) were missing from many polling stations across the city on Tuesday, the first day of a month-long exercise during which they are expected to show electors the draft list and also accept applications for corrections, additions ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphBooth-level officers will be present in all polling stations for the next one month and schools — many of which serve as polling stations during elections — are worried how to manage entry of outsiders and safety of students. ...
18 December 2025 TelegraphA 10-member Bangladeshi team comprising eight Mukti Joddhas and two serving officers of the Bangladesh Armed Forces was among those present at Fort William on Tuesday to mark the 54th anniversary of India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will get ₹47 crore under the Rashtriya Uchchatara Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA 2.0), under one condition — that the university utilises the amount by March 31, an education department official said on Tuesday. Sixty per cent of the ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe cleaning crew at the departure level of the Calcutta airport protested by refusing to work for about 40 minutes on Tuesday morning when one of them was told to either wear his uniform or go on leave.A new ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe inquiry commission on Tuesday showcaused two senior police officers, and suspended another for the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit.The commission also showcaused an officer of the rank of principal secretary and removed another ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphFour out of the six members of Satadru Dutta’s team summoned by the Bidhannagar police in connection with Lionel Messi’s event at the Salt Lake Stadium turned up before the police on Tuesday. The remaining two have sought time ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphThe Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Monday extended the deadline for public opinion on a revised Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, which has stoked controversy over the alleged erosion of its autonomy.Opinions can now be submitted ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphSix persons, directly or indirectly attached to Satadru Dutta’s company and allegedly involved in organising Lionel Messi’s visit to Calcutta, have been summoned by Bidhannagar city police on Tuesday. Police said their names emerged during Dutta’s interrogation, the proprietor ...
17 December 2025 TelegraphFive men were taken into custody on Monday for their alleged role in the vandalism at the Salt Lake Stadium during Lionel Messi’s visit on Saturday. One of them has been identified as someone who allegedly took a flower ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphThe 10th edition of eastern India’s most renowned road race is set to be its largest to date.More than 23,000 have registered for the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata 2025, partnered by The Telegraph, slated for this Sunday, marking ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphFor the second consecutive day on Monday, the Salt Lake Stadium was secured and appeared akin to a crime scene.The gates to the galleries were locked. So were the gates that led directly to the ground, accessible to players, ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to discontinue its self-financed mass communication programme, citing an alleged lack of sufficient applicants, even though it had accepted applications until early December.The one-year diploma in mass communication had 50 seats, and 60 students had ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphA Barrackpore court on Monday held three persons guilty of murdering Anupam Dutta, a Trinamool Congress councillor of Panihati Municipality in North 24-Parganas, in March 2022.Additional district judge of Barrackpore sub-divisional court, Ayan Kumar Banerjee, found Sanjib Pandit alias ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphThe agency that brought Lionel Messi to India and organised the event that descended into chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium had obtained all necessary permissions from government agencies, sources said. Probing questions are now being asked about the ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphPresident Droupadi Murmu has declined to give her ascent to a bill passed in the Bengal Assembly that proposes to make the chief minister the chancellor of state-aided universities, replacing the governor, an education department official said on Monday. ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphTwo separate petitions, on the mayhem that abruptly ended the Lionel Messi spectacle at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, were filed in Calcutta High Court on Monday.The petitions, one of them a public interest litigation, were filed before ...
16 December 2025 TelegraphA woman put her foot down, literally, between closing Metro doors to keep them open so her companion could board the train at Dum Dum Cantonment station on Saturday.The Noapara-bound train entered Dum Dum Cantonment around 1.10pm, said a ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphPast and present teachers of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, along with academics, on Sunday said that the revised ISI Bill, 2025, drafted by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, seeks to decimate the institute’s democratic and federal ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphThe concrete benches in the galleries of the Salt Lake Stadium were replaced with comfortable bucket seats as part of a massive facelift in the run-up to the Fifa Under-17 World Cup in 2017.On Sunday, thousands of such chairs, ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphSatadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s tour in India, was sent to 14 days of police remand by a Bidhannagar court on Sunday. His defence lawyers claimed that Dutta had been “framed” and that he could not ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphA network of corporates that promotes and supports the industry in adopting more climate and environment-friendly approaches has urged more corporates to join it. The UN Global Compact Network India (UN GCNI) has about 450 corporate houses as its ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday will summon some members of the event management team, led by Satadru Dutta, that had organised Lionel Messi’s tour to India. Police said the team members, who were ...
15 December 2025 TelegraphThe clock had just struck 9am when we reached our seats at Salt Lake Stadium. The crowd was still sparse, and my daughter — a die-hard follower of Lionel Messi —looked around carefully before choosing two spots that would ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe city’s galleries have always been volatile, and December 13 adds to a long list of black days in our sporting history.As a regular at Eden Gardens since 1983, one can vouch for emotional reactions in the past to ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSome 65,000 fans came to roar for Lionel Messi on Saturday morning. By afternoon, they were heading home cursing the organisers and the state government.What unfolded in between at the Salt Lake Stadium was hard to believe, evoking memories ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s dream date with Lionel Messi turned a horror show featuring a visibly annoyed legend, ringed by a swarm of officials and half-celebrities, and angry spectators who, denied even a glimpse of their icon, erupted in vandalism that added ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, urging that “untainted” teachers be allowed to continue working in schools with their salaries until August 2026, as the commission will need more time to complete ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will seek an explanation from a teacher of international relations on whether he had denigrated B.R. Ambedkar and the Constitution.JU vice-chancellor said this on Saturday after a student of the department accused the associate professor of the ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphOne name was on everyone’s lips on Saturday.It should have been Lionel Messi’s. Instead, it was Satadru Dutta’s.All of India was asking: “Who is Satadru Dutta?”On Facebook, Dutta introduces himself as a “Sports entrepreneur/influencer/wannabe.” His profile also notes: “Family ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphThe man who prominently claimed that bringing G.O.A.T Lionel Messi to India was his initiative was in a police lockup on Saturday evening.Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Messi’s India tour, was arrested while attempting to board the chartered ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphA meeting was held at the Calcutta airport on Saturday to assess the preparedness for the "fog season".Flight disruptions due to fog usually peak between late December and late January."The comprehensive review meeting on fog preparedness was held in ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Police on Saturday detained Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of the event featuring Argentine football icon Lionel Messi, after chaos and vandalism broke out at Salt Lake Stadium, forcing the superstar to leave the venue earlier than scheduled.The ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphBengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee apologised to Lionel Messi, his fans, sports lovers and announced an inquiry committee to probe into the mismanagement at the Salt Lake stadium on Saturday during an event attended by the Argentinian legend.“I am ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSneakers screeched against the court, racquets smashed the shuttlecock, players jumped, threw their fists in the air and yelped in triumph! Last weekend was action-packed at Siddha Town Rajarhat where Shuttle Mania was held, in association with The Telegraph ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools have started conducting their ISC (Class XII) practical examinations from the first week of December.Most of the institutions hope to complete the exams by the first week of January, which will give students about a month before ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphUnclaimed, untagged and wrongly tagged bags belonging to IndiGo passengers continue to pile up across airports — the biggest lingering fallout of the airline’s crisis.Passengers whose bags still have tags are getting them delivered home, but those with missing ...
14 December 2025 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has written to the state government, seeking an elaborate report on the arrangements for Argentine superstar footballer Lionel Messi's programme in Kolkata on Saturday, a Lok Bhavan official said.The governor sought the report ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA book of photographs documenting the city’s street life was launched on Wednesday. Alexandre de Mortemart, 64, took the pictures between 2017 and 2024. Mortemart said he did not dive into the lives of people he photographed but captured ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA public interest litigation challenging the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision to allow a circus at Park Circus Maidan was moved in Calcutta High Court on Friday. The division bench headed by acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul asked the petitioners, ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphIAM Institute of Hotel Management in Sector V turned the yearly routine of cake-mixing into a chance to deck up the front courtyard in festive decor. Streamers, string lights, stars, candy canes, pine cones, Christmas stockings etc. hung overhead ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA police constable posted outside the Narkeldanga home of slain BJP leader Avijit Sarkar’s family to protect his brother, a key witness in the murder case, has been suspended after allegedly leaving his service revolver, body camera and uniform ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphPolice officers and representatives of multiple state government agencies will meet railway officials at Metro Bhavan on December 17 to find a way out of the Chingrighata impasse that has stalled construction on the New Garia-airport Metro corridor (Orange ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Taratala flyover on Diamond Harbour Road will remain closed to traffic from 3.30pm on Saturday to 11.59pm on Tuesday — nearly four days — to facilitate a load test of the structure.A notification issued by Kolkata Police and ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA student of international relations at Jadavpur University has accused a teacher of “attacking” the Constitution and B.R. Ambedkar.The second-year undergraduate student lodged a complaint with the vice-chancellor, demanding the immediate suspension of the associate professor. In her emailed ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) has begun a preliminary survey to determine how the width of Basanti Highway can be increased to make space for a median divider.The nearly 100km road is part of State Highway 3, connecting ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Friday released a list of close to 40,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for teacher posts in the secondary level of government-aided schools.A notice uploaded on the commission’s website on Friday ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe reigning monarch of world football lands in the Mecca of Indian football early Saturday.His stay will last just over 12 hours, but the itinerary is crammed with events: from the virtual unveiling of a 70-foot statue in Lake ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphFor the next three months, a corner of Kerala will give art aficionados a taste of Durga Puja art. The coastal city of Kochi is hosting the Kochi Muziris Biennale from Friday and MassArt, the Calcutta non-profit that introduced ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metro will extend its operating hours on the Green Line with an increase in the number of daily services, according to a statement issued on Friday. Trains on the route will now run till around 10 pm.A ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s 70-foot statue of Lionel Messi, set to be virtually inaugurated by the football star on Saturday, has become a subject of intense online chatter. The jokes started the moment the first images surfaced, and they have shown no ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphFor Ichhapur tea-seller Shib Shankar Patra, Argentine superstar Lionel Messi's arrival in Kolkata on Saturday will be more than a dream fulfilled. It will be a moment he believes he "survived to see".Patra, 56, is one of two diehard ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphThe Neotia Bhagirathi Woman and Child Care Centre in New Town inaugurated a new paediatric multispeciality wing on Thursday, thereby enhancing the hospital’s capacity to 220 beds.Built as an expansion of the existing facility, the new ₹85-crore facility integrates ...
13 December 2025 TelegraphA fire swept through south Kolkata’s Ramgarh market in the early hours of Friday, destroying nearly 40 shops, officials said.According to officials, the blaze started around 1.30 am in a tightly packed cluster of shops within the densely populated ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe biggest talking point among teenagers this week is the under-16 social media ban in Australia. From December 10, the southern continent has banned those aged under 16 years from using major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThree men with avowed saffron links who allegedly assaulted Muslim vendors for selling non-vegetarian food during a mass Gita recital at the Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday were arrested early on Thursday.A few hours later, a city court granted ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will inform the Supreme Court that it cannot complete the ongoing teacher recruitment process by the court-mandated deadline of December 31. A wave of fresh legal challenges has slowed interviews and document verification, making ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphA delegation of Indian Statistical Institute students and research scholars met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday at his office on the Parliament premises, urging him to oppose the revised ISI Bill, 2025, which they say would curb the institute’s autonomy.The ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphSome government-aided schools are asking for “caution money” from Madhyamik examinees.Reason — the money will be used to compensate for any damage to furniture if they vandalise other institutions while writing their examinations in 2026. A school in Murshidabad ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphCrochet mufflers, embroidered shirts, hot chocolate.Familiar festive favourites flew off the shelves at a Christmas market in Southern Avenue last Sunday. But unlike most Christmas sales, this one showcased products crafted entirely by street children.For three months, the budding ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphAustralia’s recent ban on social media for children below 16 has sparked conversations in Calcutta, raising questions about digital habits, maturity and the mental health of teenagers.While many adolescents view the ban with apprehension, adults believe it recognises the ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphMany of IndiGo’s passengers are still struggling to trace their missing luggage. Several unclaimed bags at airports across the country do not have identifying tags, making it difficult to match them to their owners, said Calcutta airport officials.While IndiGo’s ...
12 December 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday directed the state government and the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) to mutually decide on when the Metro work at Chingrighata on EM Bypass can begin after resolving differences.Police have allegedly been sitting over ...
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