A 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. ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe arrival and departure of a total of 13 flights were delayed at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Sunday due to poor visibility caused by fog in the eastern metropolis, a senior official said.Airport Director Pravat ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe 24-year-old woman who was murdered along EM Bypass on Thursday night suffered five stab injuries, a preliminary post-mortem report has revealed, police said.“The post-mortem was carried out on Saturday. A preliminary report revealed that the death of the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The cancer hospital in Thakurpukur has inaugurated a cancer genetic clinic, offering testing and counselling services to individuals with a high risk of developing hereditary cancers.The clinic was inaugurated at the Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation is willing to declare certain neighbourhoods in Calcutta heritage precincts but it does not want to rush through the process and roll out a plan that fails eventually.How to compensate the owners of the properties ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government named Ajay Kumar Thakur the new police commissioner of Barrackpore replacing Alok Rajoria on Saturday.In September 2022, Rajoria had replaced Thakur as the commissioner of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate. Thakur had then been transferred to the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThree labourers were missing after falling deep inside a drain while clearing the manhole at the Kolkata Leather complex on Sunday, police said.A police officer said one labourer tripped and fell over 20 feet down while clearing the manhole ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe 48th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee has the highest number of stalls till now, a little above 1,000.The fair organisers — Publishers and Booksellers Guild — say it is the highest they ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe mayor of Calcutta on Saturday identified two boroughs as “sensitive” that had many illegal buildings and engineers frequently faced resistance in acting on them.The two boroughs are XV (Garden Reach) and VII (Park Street-Topsia-Tiljala).The municipal commissioner, who was ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was captured in the siege of Serampore by the British but was released, wrote a letter to the council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal that led to the foundation of ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe registrar of the West Bengal Medical Council put in his papers on Fri-day following an order by Calcutta High Court that had set him a deadline of 5pm on Friday.A division bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday rejected a plea by Sandip Ghosh, the arrested former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, for more time before charges are framed against him in a case of alleged financial irregularities at ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday intervened in a Saraswati Puja celebration at a south Calcutta college and ordered that the puja be held under the supervision of a joint commissioner of police.The order came on a petition filed by ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at an eatery in central Kolkata's Esplanade area on Saturday morning, an official said.The blaze, which was reported at 8.26 am, was brought under control at 9.55 am, the Fire Brigade official said.Five fire tenders ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal Club in Calcutta, one of the oldest clubs set up by Europeans in India, was established on this day. According to the club website, the event was recorded in the Government Gazette on February 5 and February ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphRegular interaction between children with and without disabilities would help create more sensitivity and train them in how to behave with each other, said heads of organisations working with those with disabilities.Children or individuals with disabilities will learn social ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe aroma of pithe and puli wafted across a church in Boston in the US on January 18 and 19.An association of NRIs who trace their roots to Bengal organised Poush Utsav 2025 at Boston Framingham Church on January ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA film conclave on Friday stood out for reaching out to students aspiring for a career in the entertainment industry.Over 300 students from different institutions, many pursuing a course in subject/s aligned to filmmaking, were in the audience at ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Friday started pulling down a tilted, under-construction structure in Tangra from where a demolition squad of the civic body had to retreat a day before in the face of resistance from those who had ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA 23-year-old who saw the fatal attack on a young woman in front of a popular eatery on EM Bypass on Thursday night volunteered to share her phone number with the police so officers could contact her if needed.She ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA woman died after she was chased and allegedly stabbed multiple times outside a popular eatery in full public view in the eastern fringes of Kolkata by three people, including a minor, police said on Friday. ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThere has been a sudden surge in stomach infection cases in Kolkata, multiple doctors said. Many patients are complaining of severe stomach pain, nausea, diarrhoea and even fever. Severe cases require hospitalisation. The bad stomach bug – or gastrointestinal ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court division bench headed by the chief justice on Thursday directed the registrar of the West Bengal Medical Council to resign by 5pm on Friday.The registrar’s term had ended in 2019, still, he continued in that ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has taken exception to the practice of division benches of Calcutta High Court hearing anticipatory bail and regular bail applications instead of single-judge benches, as is the norm.The apex court has sought an explanation from the ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA stampede that killed at least 30 pilgrims and a fire that gutted around 15 tents at the Mahakumbh could not dampen the spirit of Calcuttans who have planned to take the holy dip in the next few weeks.Several ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA CBI special court in Alipore has showcaused the CBI for its delay in informing the court about the sanction it received from the Bengal government to prosecute Sandip Ghosh and Ashish Pandey in connection with alleged financial irregularities ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe venue is new and space is a constraint but the skill of the artisans is still shining through at Hastashilpa Mela.There fair has moved from its last location opposite Eco Park and is now stationed at City Square, ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA man who borrowed money to pay his child’s school fees and home’s electricity bill has been arrested for allegedly robbing his creditor’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road. Two men have been arrested in connection with the Tuesday ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA resident of the Lake area who had gone to Puri was allegedly kidnapped for ransom by a group of men and kept in a hideout in Habra, North 24-Parganas. The group demanded ₹14 lakh ransom from the family, ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation officials on Thursday failed to start demolition work on an under-construction building on Christopher Road in Tangra that has tilted as residents of the neighbourhood resisted the drive.Hundreds of people gathered around the six-storeyed building, some ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphAway from the din of Kidderpore, on waterfront land owned by the port trust, is a memorial to thousands of indentured labourers who had set sail from Calcutta between 1834 and 1920. They were requisitioned mostly to work in ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphState BJP president Sukanta Majumdar met the parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital at their home and advised them on their next steps.During the hour-long meeting, the parents handed a ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA young woman stepped out of a car screaming and running. Moments later, a man and a woman chased her and one of them stabbed her multiple times.The brutal attack in the Metropolitan area along EM Bypass at 8.30pm ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA long-cherished holy trip turned into tragedy for a family in south Calcutta.One of the victims of the pre-dawn stampede at the Mahakumbh was Basanti Poddar, 63, a resident of Bijoygarh.She was one of the two elderly victims from ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe Book Fair has got mascots in its 48th year. “Better late than never,” said Tridib Chatterjee, the guild president. “We thought of it last year itself but there was no time. This year, with Saraswati puja happening within ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf you want to reach a particular stall at the Book Fair in haste or by walking the least distance, download the International Kolkata Book Fair app from Play Store before you reach the Central Park fair ground. ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe day after the assassination of M.K. Gandhi, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, carried this report dated January 30 and headlined “Gandhiji shot dead” across the front page, which read:“Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated this evening by ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf the sight of children walking with sticks on the playground startled visitors to the New Town campus of St. Joan’s School on a recent Saturday morning, the explanation was at hand. It was the school’s sports day and ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphFiery exchanges marked the Model United Nations (MUN) 2024 at the Institute of Engineering and Management in Salt Lake. This was the 11th edition of IEM MUN, which aims to make participants aware of social policies, global issues and ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf you eat right, you won’t need medicines; if you eat wrong, no medicine will be enough,” said Dr G. Babu, director of the Central Ayurveda Research Institute (CARI) in Sector V.“Every kitchen has turmeric (holud), cardamom (elach), and ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphAnjan Dutt and Aparna Sen play a married couple for the first time on the big screen in Ei Raat Tomar Amaar, director Parambrata Chattopadhyay’s intimate portrayal of the complexities of a five-decade-old marriage. A chamber drama set in a ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThree men who had their faces covered with helmets barged into a film production company’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and took away ₹7.3 lakh brandishing a knife and threatening to kill.Only one staff member and a guest ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar victim on Wednesday withdrew their application from the Supreme Court for a fresh probe into the rape and murder of their daughter, which they had sought citing that “more than one person” was ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphCharles T. Metcalfe, who as acting Governor-Gen- eral had introduced major reforms in India that included an Act on the freedom of press, was born on this day in Calcutta. His father had been a director of the British ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphPeople should maintain hand hygiene, and should not eat stale food or drink water that could be contaminated, although no unexpected spike in the number of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) cases has been noticed in the state so far, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of the popular biryani chain D Bapi was arrested in Madhyamgram for allegedly threatening a person with arms and assaulting him during talks about a rented property. Anirban Das was arrested on Tuesday under the Arms Act ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state forest department and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are considering a proposal that a building’s completion certificate be issued only if the owner plants a certain number of saplings, as promised before getting the building permit, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphFor around a thousand years in the ancient period, India’s influence extended far beyond its borders.One of the leading historians in the world, who also happens to be a best-selling author, turned the pages back on the lawns of ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe teacher-in-charge of a government-aided school in North Dinajpur who is suspected to have masterminded the racket that duped over 2,000 students by transferring a government grant for buying tablets or smartphones to others’ accounts was arrested on Wednesday.Police ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphShoes, shawls, mufflers and many other personal items lay strewn on the road in the stampede zone of Mahakumbh when two lawyers from Calcutta reached there around noon on Wednesday.Hours before that, when they were taking a dip at ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of a popular biryani joint in Barrackpore near Kolkata who is also a local Trinamul leader was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly threatening and assaulting a godown owner.The owner, Anirban Das, is an elected gram panchayat member ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOld manuscripts, black-and-white photographs, lithographs, woodcuts, needlework, porcelain figurines, matchbox labels and furniture — all from the early 19th to 20th century — give us an essence of what Calcutta used to be.Calcutta Memorabilia, an exhibition presented by Intach, ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state health department has given its nod to the CBI to “prosecute” former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in a financial irregularity case for which he has been arrested.The central agency has also got ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, on Tuesday said the seizure of arms from the heart of the city does not indicate criminals are getting easy shelter in Bengal.Verma was speaking on the arrest of five men from ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, M.K. Gandhi wrote a letter to C.F. Andrews, a missionary who participated in India’s freedom movement.In the letter, Gandhi addresses Andrews as “My dearest Charlie” and speaks about untouchability. It reads:“…I look at the problem as ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital do not want the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, their lawyer submitted before Calcutta High Court on Monday. The Bengal government and the ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe small and dwindling Chinese population in the city is all set to celebrate the New Year on Wednesday.Houses and streets in Tangra and Tiretta Bazaar, two neighbourhoods in the city with a sizeable Chinese population, were decorated with ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphSomething seems amiss in a house without books, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said inaugurating the 48th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boi Mela Prangan in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee on Tuesday.“Je baritey boi thaakey na, kirokom ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphFreedom of press was always elusive.On this day, 245 years ago, the first Indian newspaper was born when James Augustus Hicky printed Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. Its brief, brilliant, outrageous and checkered career illustrates, quite spectacularly, what can happen when ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boimela Prangan in Central Park in Salt Lake on Tuesday afternoon.Germany is the focal theme country for this year’s fair, which will continue till February ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphHP Ghosh Hospital marked an important milestone today with the launch of Bhalo Thakar Prescription, a book aimed at making healthcare more accessible and understandable. The event was attended by prominent figures, including Dr Narayan Banerjee, who underscored the ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphJan 28 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair and expressed hope that one day it would emerge as the “best of the best” in the world.Despite the surge in ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Police team arrested a gang of five men from Uttar Pradesh led by a BTech degree holder in a raid near Surendranath College in central Kolkata’s Sealdah area late on Monday, but the cops are yet to ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the British forces captured the Danish colony of Serampore for the second time.In 1801, the British and the Danes extended their conflict in Europe to the Indian territories they controlled. In May that year, the British ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday set February 10 for further hearing a batch of petitions related to Calcutta High Court’s April 2024 judgment quashing the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal because of alleged illegalities following ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphGandhigiri makes more sense than Gandhivaad or Gandhism because it means trying to implement Gandhi’s ideas in the altered circumstances of our lives, a scholar who has extensively studied the Mahatma told a Calcutta audience. “Gandhism means nothing. Gandhigiri ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA structural engineer hired by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to assess the two tilted buildings on Tangra’s Christopher Road has suggested that the one under construction be pulled down first to determine if the other, where families have ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was arrested for allegedly causing a road accident that killed a rickshaw-puller on BT Road on Saturday evening was granted bail on Sunday.His lawyer told the Sealdah court ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphChunks from the second floor of Esplanade Mansions, a Grade I heritage building opposite the southeast gate of Raj Bhavan, crashed on the footpath below on Sunday and at least one pedestrian was injured.The "poorly maintained" building has many ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe chill will be back but only for a couple of days, after which the mercury will rise again, the Alipore Met Office said on Sunday.The minimum temperature went up in the last few days, resulting in warm nights ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphTwo coaches of the Santragachhi-Tirupati Superfast Express were derailed after a collision with a parcel van near Shalimar station on Sunday morning. There was no casualty because the train, which was headed towards Shalimar from Santragachhi, did not have ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThree air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta reported “poor” air on the Republic Day morning and three others reported “moderate” air.In the twin city Howrah, one station recorded “very poor” air quality, two recorded “poor” air quality and two ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the Bank of Calcutta and the two other Presidency banks, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras, were merged to form the Imperial Bank of India, an all-India bank. The new bank performed like a regular ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Medical Council has written to the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital asking whether Kinjal Nanda, a postgraduate trainee and one of the popular faces of the junior doctors’ protests, took permission from the ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe president of the Bengal Christian Council — a religious body — urged its affiliated schools, colleges, and organisations to appeal to the heritage commission to remove their buildings from the heritage list during a rally held earlier this ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphA new edition of Netaji’s Collected Works Volume 9, titled Congress President, which includes his speeches and writings from January 1938 to April 1939, was ceremonially released at Netaji Bhavan on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 128th ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphAnother spell of chill is on its way to the city, the Met office said on Saturday.The conditions had been unusually warm for the past few days but the comeback of northerly and northwesterly winds will bring back the ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe mauled street furniture of Dalhousie Square, stolen cast iron fencings and streetlights that were installed to create a look of the place as it was in the late 18th century when the square was the nerve centre of ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe republic turns 75 on Sunday. The nation will rejoice.Some will also worry about changes that they fear do not bode well for the nation’s future.Cultural differences have found their way into tiffin boxes and classroom conversations that are ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphBritish army officer in India Richard James Holwell Birch was born on this day. He was a descendant of John Zephaniah Holwell, who wrote the famous account of the torture of British prisoners by Bengal Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula’s soldiers. His ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphAmid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding capital punishment to anyone.The Sealdah sessions court had ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphJohn Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day.Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company. He was employed in Dacca (Dhaka), from where he was expelled.He joined Robert Clive in recapturing Calcutta, after ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe CID on Friday questioned two senior doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital who are among the dozen suspended for alleged negligence resulting in the death of a young woman and serious complications suffered by four others after ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphMetro connectivity to the airport got a boost on Friday with the “first full-fledged trial run” on the Noapara-Jai Hind Bimanbandar section of the Yellow Line.The Yellow Line refers to the Noapara-Barasat section which is under construction. The first ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphA businessman from Manipur was allegedly cheated out of ₹35 lakh by a group of tricksters who posed as customs officers, police said.Three persons, including the alleged kingpin, have been arrested and a part of the stolen amount has ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphThe deep-rooted fear of death is ingrained in human nature, without which we would be at an evolutionary disadvantage, Nobel laureate Venky Ramakrishnan told a Calcutta audience earlier this week.He was in conversation with physicist Somak Raychaudhury on Wednesday, ...
27 January 2025 TelegraphSanjay Roy, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer convicted for the horrific rape and murder of a trainee doctor while on duty, at her workplace, Calcutta's state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment till ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway Kolkata will operate additional trains on the Sealdah to Salt Lake Sector V route of Green Line from January 28 to February 9 for the convenience of people visiting the Kolkata Book Fair, an official statement said ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court dismissed a petition filed by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) against the Publishers and Booksellers Guild for not allowing it to set up a stall at the Calcutta Book Fair this year.The order passed by Justice ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe state higher education department has told Jadavpur University that the students’ union election has to wait till an ongoing process to amend rules governing campus polls is complete.An official in the department said they have proposed that 55 ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphFlights to and from Calcutta were disrupted for the second consecutive day on Friday because of fog.More than 25 flights were delayed and seven inbound flights were diverted, said an official at the airport. A few flights were also ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday filed a petition before Calcutta High Court seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, who has been awarded life imprisonment by the Sealdah court for the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe imposing Hongkong House at BBD Bag, a telling image of a Calcutta that was, celebrated its 100 years on Friday.HSBC India, which has its oldest branch in the four-storey building, has unveiled a “history wall” featuring images with ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphIn a heartfelt effort to preserve the diminishing art forms of West Bengal, Senco Gold & Diamonds, one of India’s leading jewellery retailers, unveiled the third chapter of its annual CSR initiative, ‘Attitude of Gratitude’, at Gallery Gold on ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphFour couples decked up in wedding gear and exchanged garlands once again in the autumn of their lives. There was neither priest nor any paraphernalia. And instead of doing the seven rounds of the open fire as in a ...
26 January 2025 TelegraphThe action was not just on the stage.Two friends, Bhumika Debnath and Sakshi Debnath, set to write their board exams in three weeks, convinced their parents to allow them a three-day break, and spontaneously danced off-stage while waiting for ...
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