Many passengers are reluctant to book IndiGo flights despite fares for the next few days being significantly lower than the steep prices of competing airlines, travel agents said.Tour operators said that IndiGo closed new bookings for the coming three ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphThe uncertainty surrounding IndiGo flights has pushed hundreds of stranded passengers into an unplanned scramble for accommodation near the city airport, sending hotel demand soaring. Many travellers, suddenly left without flights, told Metro they were forced to arrange overnight ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphChaos at Kolkata Airport intensified on Friday as stranded passengers—foreign tourists, domestic travellers and families—scrambled for alternatives amid widespread IndiGo cancellations and delays.Hung, a traveller from Vietnam on a pilgrimage across India with 13 others, had his IndiGo flight ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Mela (Utsav) has begun. The township’s favourite fair is on at Central Park from 2pm to 10pm, till December 21. The fair, that is organised by Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, was inaugurated on December 1. The date also happened ...
6 December 2025 TelegraphIt’s fragrant, especially at night. It’s got glossy leaves and is evergreen. But the easiest way to describe this flower is through its white flowers, which are star or pinwheel-shaped. And this is why the Tagar is known as ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSitting in her living room and looking out towards the balcony, you could almost believe you were at a resort deep in the jungle. A glass door opens to a large balcony with potted plants, and beyond it rise ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphMoumita Saha was in an AE Block voter’s house distributing enumeration forms for the special intensive revision when a frantic call came from her mother in Lake Town. Her ailing father had fallen and needed immediate hospitalisation. The booth-level ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe cosmetic surgeon began his presentation with an apology: “I could have used pictures to explain my point better, but I cannot share pictures of my patients. I did so once, showing pre-operative photos of a patient who had ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphPradip Kumar Banerjee Krirangan, the flood-lit ground in GD Block, is the seat of footballing action this winter. In a development that would surely have delighted the football icon, whose house overlooks the park and in whose memory the ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphTwo women who came for checkups at a breast cancer screening camp in DA Block recently were detected with possible lumps.This was at a mega health camp held for women aged between 16 and 55. Organsied by Rotary Club ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphFlower pots in the New Town parks are being discarded. Instead, saplings are being planted directly in flower beds. The step is being taken as a preventive measure against dengue. From January 1, New Town has registered around 95 ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA family stuck at home in 1985 had lots for entertainment – chess, carrom, ludo, cards…. A family stuck at home in 2025 still has those options, but chances are that every member will pick something else – the ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe division bench of the high court that restored the jobs of 32,000 primary teachers on Wednesday explained why it struck down all seven findings on which their 2023 dismissal had been based.In a signed order, the division bench ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe Park Hotels will start construction of a new “trendy and sexy” property in Calcutta in 2026, targeting a March 2029 commissioning, the group announced.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) approved the construction plan last month.The project will span about ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSome passengers had been sitting inside the aircraft for hours, waiting for take-off. Others moved helplessly from one counter to another, trying to figure out what to do after their flights were suddenly cancelled.At the Calcutta airport on Thursday, ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped to 15.6° Celsius in the city on Thursday, making it the coldest day of the season so far. Cold and dry northwesterly winds swept into south Bengal, keeping the maximum at 25.7° — nearly two-and-a-half ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphCancellations, delays, missing luggage, arguments and passengers desperately seeking to know whether their flights would take off: Calcutta airport was a picture of chaos on Thursday.Similar bedlam afflicted many other airports, with IndiGo’s flight schedule going haywire.Eleven arriving and ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead with stab wounds on his chest at his home in central Calcutta on Tuesday night.A day after his wife and their only son completed his last rites, his wife was arrested for the alleged ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA young man from north Calcutta who was training to be a pilot in South Africa and would have graduated in February, was found hanging in a relative’s unoccupied flat in Girish Park on Wednesday night, police said. Soumyaditya ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA woman in Howrah's Shibpur allegedly bit off the right thumb of her landlady, being furious over the latter's daughter having abused her on Tuesday.Kainat Jan, the woman who lost her thumb, lodged an FIR against Raziya Khatoon on ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday struck down a school education department decision to create 1,600 supernumerary posts for work education and physical education at the upper primary level (Classes VI to VIII) of government-aided schools.Justice Biswajit Basu said such ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Thursday announced a rider to its recruitment exercise: the fate of the process will ultimately depend on the outcome of the writ petitions in court. A slew of court cases challenging various aspects ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA day-long festival, celebrated the talent and skills of people with disabilities and upheld their dignity and empowerment, at Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy, Narendrapur, on Wednesday.On the occasion of International Day for Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday, the ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe cancellations and delays of IndiGo flights across its network have not only stranded tens of thousands of passengers nationwide but also sent airfares soaring to abnormal levels.In sectors like Mumbai and Delhi, fares booked a day in advance ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphTransport department officials and police will meet pool car and school bus operators on December 8 to address concerns about a section flouting norms and remind them of the penal provisions.“The state government has drawn up specific guidelines for ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA 53-year-old man heading to his office on a bike lost his right foot after being hit by a bus near Behala around 9am on Wednesday, police said.The long-distance bus was on a hitting spree, and damaged a car ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee, currently in Murshidabad, addressed representatives of over 50 high-rise buildings in Calcutta via phone on Wednesday evening during a meeting at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra. She urged residents to “remain united” despite attempts by certain forces ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThousands of IndiGo passengers flying in and out of the city were stranded on Wednesday as the airline’s operations collapsed across its network because of a pilot shortage.Civil aviation ministry sources said IndiGo operates over 2,200 flights a day. ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSome teachers who had gathered outside the high court on Wednesday were whooping in delight. Others smeared each other with Holi colours. Many more walked away quietly, relieved that they could return to school “with our heads held high”.Primary ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphThe Centre on Wednesday said that the Bengal government is responsible for more than two decades of delays to Kolkata metro’s expansion.Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Parliament that repeated non-cooperation from the state has stalled key corridors. The assertion ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphA 12-year-old schoolboy was critically injured in a road accident near Manicktala on Wednesday morning, adding to a string of recent incidents involving minors on Kolkata’s roads. Police said the boy, identified as Srijan Dutta, a student of Bidhannagar ...
5 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral housing complexes in the city have expressed reluctance about allowing polling booths on their premises, citing privacy concerns and security risks.The Election Commission has instructed district magistrates across the state to identify complexes where polling stations can be ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphFour migrant workers from Murshidabad left their workplace of many years in an Odisha town on Tuesday, forced to return to their village in Bengal after local police allegedly labelled them “Bangladeshis” and “Rohingya”.The men, all Muslims, were given ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral principals of government and government-aided colleges have urged the new Calcutta University vice-chancellor, Ashutosh Ghosh, to restore their autonomy in running postgraduate programmes.Among the colleges making this demand are Lady Brabourne College and Asutosh College. Ghosh has said ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphA diagnostic clinic in New Town has been directed by the state health regulatory commission to apologise and refund a patient after she was made to wait long beyond the time allotted for her ultrasonography (USG) appointment, rendering the ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphWhat does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. As a student, St Ignatius asked this question to the learned student and most ambitious companion, St Francis ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphAt 29, Yudhajeet De has already lived a life shaped by quiet resilience and extraordinary vision — despite being born without sight.From a modest home in Uttarpara, Hooghly, the visually impaired chess player who first learnt the game at ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphA group of 32 ex-army men took charge of security on the Jadavpur University campus on Tuesday. Among them, 30 will function as guards and two as supervisors. One of their assignments would be to patrol the campus around ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphSome members of Jadavpur University’s executive council have written to the vice-chancellor alleging that the new acting registrar was appointed illegally, bypassing the council.They alleged that such unilateral appointments were not allowed under the JU Act 1981, which they ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphMotorists heading towards the Parama flyover from the AJC Bose Road flyover between midnight and 5.30am will be diverted towards the Seven Point at Park Circus to facilitate repairs on the stretch, police said. The block will last a ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphA committee formed by Medical College Kolkata to inquire into complaints of molestation and misconduct against a departmental head has recommended a further inquiry by the college’s internal complaints committee after reviewing the evidence presented and the gravity of ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphThe new director of NSCBI Airport has outlined an ambitious plan to tackle the terminal’s chronic cleanliness problems, expand passenger capacity, and attract direct flights to Europe and the US.Vikram Singh shared his priorities with Metro, from overhauling maintenance ...
3 December 2025 TelegraphSeveral ISC (Class XII) schools are instructing Class XI students to give equal attention to all five subjects instead of emphasising only four.The Class XI students who will write their boards in 2027 will be the first batch that ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphIIHM, a hospitality institution, is set to educate high school students in artificial intelligence from 50 government and government-supported schools.The 12-hour course for students from Classes XI and XII aims to make them AI-literate and teach them to use ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphDecember began on a cloudy note in Calcutta, but the winter chill is expected to set in before the week ends.The day temperature stayed lower than usual on Monday because of the cloud cover. The minimum was, however, marginally ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police are set to phase out their decades-old .303 guns and replace them with modern assault rifles developed by the Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli.The new Trichy Assault Rifles (TAR), modelled on the Bulgarian AR-M1 and described as an indigenous ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphIn the area surrounding Cossipore, where a 15-year-old boy was fatally hit by a bus while on his way to school on his bicycle, schools are cautioning students not to pass a bus on the right, regardless of whether ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the school service commission (SSC) to publish a detailed list of “tainted” candidates among the sacked Group C and Group D employees who have been barred from participating in ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will not admit students this year through the Joint Entrance Lateral Entry Test (JELET), which is a common examination conducted by the JEE board for admission to the second year (third semester) of the four-year bachelor’s programme ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphLoreto South Asia, long known for educating and empowering thousands of girls, has called for “cerebral equality”, stressing that every individual, regardless of gender, deserves to feel worthy and to be judged on merit.Sister Monica Suchiang, South Asia province ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphThe Election Commission has directed all district magistrates in Bengal to identify multi-storey residential buildings and housing societies where polling stations could be set up, moving forward with the initiative despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent objections.The poll panel’s ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will not hold its “special convocation” this year because India’s women’s cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who had been selected for an honorary DLitt, will not be available on December 24.Harmanpreet’s squad had led India to a historic ...
2 December 2025 TelegraphAn inter-school quiz based on built and cultural heritage was held in the city November 21. In its sixth year, the Calcutta Heritage Collective (CHC) Quiz saw 20 teams from 14 schools participate at Vidya Mandir. Students from ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphOnce known for clockwork precision, the Metro Blue Line schedule has gone off the track.Trains in the New Garia-Dakshineswar line are running behind schedule and are frequently getting cancelled. Passengers alleged that some trains are so crowded, even in ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphOne person was arrested on Sunday in connection with the alleged molestation of the woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted in a moving car and dropped off in the Maidan area, police said. According to officers, the accused is ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphFilms that highlighted women’s voices and their rights, contesting patriarchal norms, as well as those that aimed to repress their desires through societal impositions, were presented at a day-long festival co-hosted by a feminist organisation and a film institute ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe combination of air pollution and heat is “deadlier” than the impact of either alone and increases the risks of death, the former chief scientist of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan, said at a lecture at the ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old motorcyclist died in a road crash at New Alipore early on Sunday morning. Police said Swarup Ghosh, a resident of Bombai Bagan Road in Sarsuna, was riding a motorcycle with an 18-year-old pillion rider when an unidentified ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphState minister Javed Khan recently received a call from a person impersonating a Mumbai Police officer and saying there was a case against him in Maharashtra. Suspecting this to be a fraud, Khan asked the man to alert Kolkata ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphHeritage must not be seen as an albatross around the neck, but a potential money-maker, the chairman of the state heritage commission said on Saturday.In a city like Calcutta, dotted with old and majestic but crumbling colonial buildings, the ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe Railway Board is planning to involve local stakeholders and representatives from state government departments in its efforts to conserve railway heritage across the country, a senior official of the board said on Sunday.“We have started a joint consultative ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will flatten several undulated roads in the city and install paver blocks on stretches of some other roads over the winter, officials of the civic body said. At least two stretches of Central Avenue ...
1 December 2025 TelegraphSixty-three-year-old Rashmoni Mondal managed to steal a rare hour from her workday to visit her granddaughter’s school. She earns a living by picking up waste from the roadside and separating the recyclable scraps she can sell.Earlier this week, Rashmoni ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has approved a proposal to convert Jamini Roy’s Ballygunge Place home into a museum dedicated to the painter.The civic body’s mayoral council cleared the “adaptive reuse’’ plan on Wednesday, a KMC official said.Roy moved ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA revised draft of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) bill, 2025, uploaded late on Friday by the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation, makes only “cosmetic changes”, several ISI professors alleged on Saturday.The ministry’s new draft proposes that ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphTwo teenagers, one of them a former student of Delhi Public School Ruby Park, have been selected for the Y Combinator’s incubator programme, a start-up accelerator that counts Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, as its supporter.OpenAI, the research ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA woman in her mid-20s was allegedly assaulted and molested in a moving car and dropped off near the Maidan on Friday night. She lodged a complaint with police.The woman has been admitted to a hospital. Police have launched ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe attack on Trinamool panchayat pradhan Debabrata Mondal on Thursday night was premeditated, and the assailant was possibly looking to settle old scores, police said on Saturday. No one was arrested in this case till late on Saturday.The prime ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphThe bus that killed 15-year-old schoolboy Aranya Chakraborty on BT Road on Friday morning was being driven by a 20-year-old, police said.Rumed Alam was arrested on Saturday in the Cossipore area and booked for rash and negligent driving causing ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA woman was allegedly molested by three persons in a moving car on EM Bypass in the city, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, which took place on ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphBengali actor couple Sayantani Mullick and Indranil Mullick were allegedly attacked by locals in Kasba locality of Kolkata for feeding stray dogs on Friday night.The couple were interrupted by locals for littering the area in their attempt to feed ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA Bengal tiger that strayed into a Sundarbans village on Thursday morning returned to the forest on Friday, forest department officers and villagers said.Villagers said crackers were burst late on Thursday night, which drove the tiger back into its ...
30 November 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress leader and his aide were shot at in a pocket of Howrah close to Bally while they were returning home from a wedding around 10.40pm on Thursday.CCTV footage of the attack that emerged on Friday shows ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphTeachers, past and present, students, research scholars and staff of ISI, Calcutta, formed a human chain outside the campus on BT Road on Friday, demanding the scrapping of the draft ISI Bill, 2025. They said that the Union government’s ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday ordered the school service commission (SSC) to upload OMR sheets of candidates who secured teaching positions after the 2016 recruitment panel had expired — one of the key irregularities identified in a scandal that ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will begin accepting more applications for birth and death certificates from Monday, anticipating a surge in demand as residents prepare for upcoming voter list verification hearings.Mayor Firhad Hakim announced the expansion on Friday, directing officials ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphAnanya, the new facility at SSKM Hospital, has started admitting patients following the hospital’s tie-up with four public sector insurance companies, officials said.SSKM plans to soon collaborate with private insurers as well, ensuring that patients with private health coverage ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University will spend ₹35 crore, received from the Union and state governments, on instruments and research.“The university has ranked poorly in this year’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Research is among the parameters where there is room for ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphDanseuse Dona Ganguly has lodged a police complaint alleging body shaming by a particular page on Facebook. She also accused it of repeatedly posting “obscene” remarks on her since her troupe’s performance at the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphQ: The notorious “thugs” of the Thuggee cult used to strangle and rob travellers on the roads of Hindustan. Why would they strangle their victims and not kill them by other means?A: Spilling blood was punishable by death, while ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphOne more person was arrested on Thursday from Assam in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla in New Town. Bidhannagar police identified the man as Govinda Sarkar, whose alleged involvement has been found in the incident, police ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) said late on Friday that it had “weeded out” 269 tainted candidates, including physically challenged applicants, from the fresh assistant teachers’ recruitment process at the secondary and higher secondary levels.In a notice, the SSC ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA 15-year-old boy cycling to his school died when a bus hit him from behind on BT Road on Friday morning. Aranya Chakraborty, a student of Class IX, was rushed to a nearby hospital and then to RG Kar ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA section of students, faculty members, and staff of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata gathered near the campus on Friday, voicing concern over a draft bill that proposes to turn the institute from an “autonomous society to ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA routine cycle ride to school turned tragic on Friday morning after a 14-year-old boy was run over by a speeding private bus in Kolkata’s Kashipur area. The victim, Aranya Chakraborty, was a Class 9 student of Kashipur Kendriya ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphIshan Ghosh’s family has always had multiple dogs, and female ones at that. “The girls simply have better temperament; plus, once the tradition began, we had to stick to a single-sex household to prevent accidental breeding,” he says.But a ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphStall: Rupnarayan 39 A visit to this stall is a delightful guessing game and you’ll smile as you recognise among the dolls Santa Claus, the Air India Maharaja, a Japanese girl in kimono, and even Tagore’s Kabuliwala with Mini. ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have published timetables for Class X and XII board examinations early. This allows schools to finalise the pre-board examination dates, while students ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphA 20-year-old man suffered a bullet injury on his left palm while handling a 9mm pistol at a drinking session with two of his friends in Kasba on Wednesday night. The gun went off along the canal at Pratik ...
29 November 2025 TelegraphHastashilpa Mela has started at New Town’s City Square, outside Central Mall, for the second time in a row.Before that, the fair was held for several years at the Eco Park parking lot, and vendors had complained when the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar Mela Utsav is starting on December 1. Salt Lake’s favourite fair will be back at Central Park this winter and continue till December 21. The fair will be opened by Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim in the presence of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA couple of Salt Lake residents have returned from an international bridge tournament with the runners-up trophy. Suvankar Basu of BJ Block and Sudip Pandit of CG Block were partners, and part of the six-member KKK Bridge Lovers team ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphEvery time residents of Alaktika Housing Complex and Greenwood Sonata in Action Area IID drive out of their premises, they do so with a prayer on their lips for the well-being of both themselves and their vehicles. Every road ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphIt is easy to locate Kalyan Sen Barat’s house in the Metropolitan lane beside Byepass Dhaba. If the tabla and the tanpura in relief on the garage door are not enough indicators, a signboard declares the name — Aikatan, ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA 21-year-old college student has been arrested for allegedly photographing and recording another student through a window while she was changing clothes.Both students attend different colleges in the area. The woman was changing in her paying guest accommodation when ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has instructed Calcutta High Court to ensure that no “tainted” candidates are allowed to pass through in the new selections under any circumstances. Additionally, the high court has been directed to make the list of disqualified ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Thursday issued an interim order directing the school service commission (SSC) to upload, at the earliest, the OMR (optical mark recorder) sheets of all candidates who wrote the teacher selection tests ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Thursday published a list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates barred from the teachers’ recruitment process, complying with a high court order.Justice Amrita Sinha had issued an interim order on November 19 directing the SSC ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphMotherhood is a “role” and not a gender identity, said a mental health activist and a psychologist during a discussion in the city, challenging the traditional mindset that assigns the role exclusively to women.A man, a queer person, or ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphResidents of a Sundarbans village spotted pugmarks of a Bengal tiger early on Thursday and, after a search lasting more than two hours, saw the animal resting beside a creek before it went into a nearby forest.The first pugmarks ...
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