The man-wild conflict in the Sundarbans will not subside unless people who depend on the forest for sustenance get an alternate source of livelihood, said veteran forest officials and social activists.“The situation has improved a lot. The scale of ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has started accepting applications from high school students for its Young Innovators Program (YIP) 2025–26.The contest is open to students in Classes VIII to XII, studying anywhere across the world.This is the seventh edition of the programme. ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphOverhead plastic sheets continue to hang above hawkers’ stalls across several parts of the city — violating rules framed by the state government that have been in effect for seven years. In many areas, vendors have also occupied more ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphAcademicians and industry experts exchanged ideas on drone technology and computational techniques that can be applied in agriculture. A two-day bilingual workshop titled — Drone-driven smart agriculture practices for precision crop disease detection — was hosted by the department ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphTwo persons, a teenage girl and a cinematographer from south Calcutta, allegedly committed suicide at their homes on Sunday, police said. Soumyadipta Guin, 40, a cinematographer by profession, was found hanging in a room of his Bosepukur Road home ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphThe healthcare industry does not include only doctors and patients. The hospital employs a large number of employees who are integral to the delivery of healthcare.The doctors provide medical services and are individually accountable.However, the non-medical hospital employees are ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphFour persons, including the wife of Calcutta Tramways Company employee Bikash Majumder, who was shot at allegedly with pellets fired from a pipe gun on Friday morning, were arrested on Sunday. Police said they have arrested Majumder’s wife Rekha, ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphBengali film cinematographer Soumyadeep Guin, popularly known as Vicky, was found hanging at his home in south Kolkata on Sunday, a Kolkata Police officer said.He was 40 years old.Guin's body was recovered from his room by his family around ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphMorning walkers in Salt Lake, Kolkata, stumbled upon an unusual discovery on Sunday, a set of Aadhaar cards scattered on a footpath. The cards, some bearing addresses from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, were found near a field between ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphA fisherman was killed in a tiger attack in the Sundarbans on Friday afternoon, and his body was found on Saturday morning around 35 metres from the attack site after a search that ended when forest personnel drove the ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphAt a recent 400-metre race in a city school, the gap between the first and second runners stretched to almost 100m, a stark contrast to the close finishes seen just a few years ago. Such wide margins have become ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men who allegedly fired at a 53-year-old man when he stepped out of his apartment to dump garbage in Baranagar's Northern Park early on Friday, wore masks and had helmets covering their heads to hide their identities, police ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphParents of children with autism, representing a range of fields, united to conceptualise and address the challenges they face, either together or separately, in a society that still tends to alienate or disregard autism and other forms of disability.The ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphA man was found dead inside his room in a hotel in Kasba on Saturday.According to police, the initial investigation revealed that three men checked into Hotel Consulate in the Rajdanga area of Kasba on Friday.Late in the night, ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphThe city celebrated a historic moment on Saturday as two congregations of religious Sisters — the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM-Loreto) — formally merged in Calcutta.The unification, marked by a four-hour ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphMetro services on the Blue Line (north-south corridor) were disrupted by a suicide, yet again, on Saturday.A man jumped in front of a train at MG Road station around 3.30pm, said an official. The train was headed to Shahid ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University does not want a police outpost on the campus, the vice-chancellor said.“We don’t want a police outpost on the campus. We have some principal objections to the proposal. The university will definitely install more CCTV cameras on ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphA young Manipuri, some of whose friends are still living in relief camps and do not know when they can return home, is cycling across India with a message of peace.Malem Thongam, 27, was in Calcutta on Saturday. Thongam ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras will be placed across the Sundarbans next week as part of the national tiger census, a quadrennial exercise aimed at estimating the count and health of the apex predator. Between November 25 and 30, as many as ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested for allegedly trying to dupe patients and their families at Medical College Kolkata and SSKM Hospital. Police said the accused took money from patients’ families under the promise of arranging beds for them at government ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata metro railway has initiated a major upgrade of its systems on the Blue Line, aiming to enhance passenger amenities, operational efficiency and overall safety across the 41 year old corridor that runs between Dakshineswar and Sahid Khudiram.A Metro ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphA 33-year-old man was discovered dead inside a hotel room in south Kolkata’s Kasba area on Saturday, prompting police to begin a probe into the circumstances surrounding his death.Police identified the deceased as Adarsh Losalalka, a resident of Birbhum.Officers ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro services were disrupted for the second time in three days after a reported suicide attempt on the DN line at MG Road station on Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred around 3.30pm, prompting authorities to cut power to ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphAt least seven people were injured in a road accident in the New Town area on Saturday, police said.The accident happened when a speeding car hit a motorcyclist and several pedestrians before crashing into a road divider, a senior ...
23 November 2025 TelegraphPowerful tremors from a 5.5-magnitude earthquake in Bangladesh jolted Calcutta on Friday morning, prompting several residents to rush out of highrises and scurry for cover.In seismic parlance, a quake of magnitude 5 qualifies as “strong”. Several social media ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphThe head of a department at Medical College Kolkata stepped down on Friday after students accused him of “inappropriate touch, physical harassment and misconduct” involving female students.The college authorities have set up a seven-member inquiry committee that will submit ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will hold a special convocation on December 24 to confer an honorary DLitt on Harmanpreet Kaur, captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, who led India to a historic World Cup victory on November 2.The decision was ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 6am till 2pm on Sunday to facilitate the ongoing repair and replacement of cables and bearings of the 33-year-old structure.The Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners (HRBC), which maintain the bridge, is conducting ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphA 53-year-old man was shot at with pellets fired from a pipe gun early on Friday morning when he stepped out of his apartment to dump garbage near his house in Northern Park in Baranagar.Police said the incident occurred ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Narendrapur Residential College (Autonomous) on Friday inaugurated an undergraduate science laboratory for its new life science department.The research lab, developed at a cost of ₹75 lakh, was thrown open to the 11 students enrolled in the course ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Friday set a week’s deadline for Jadavpur University and the state government to inform the court by when the CCTV cameras will be installed on the campus and security guards appointed.Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphNearly three years after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) rolled out its plan to collect segregated waste from households across the city, the initiative is still struggling to gain momentum.Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim admitted on Friday that mixed waste ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphA young man from Darjeeling, promised a hotel job in Myanmar by an agent, was instead taken to the notorious cyber fraud hub KK Park and allegedly forced to pose as a woman to lure men into cryptocurrency scams.The ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor who runs an orphanage asked deputy mayor Atin Ghosh about ways an orphan found abandoned on the street can get a birth certificate.Biswarup De, the councillor from Ward 48, informed the deputy mayor ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) is likely to publish a list of “tainted” candidates, including names, addresses and other details, by the end of November, a commission official said on Thursday.Justice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ...
22 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata and several adjoining districts were jolted by strong earthquake tremors on Friday, causing panic among residents who rushed out of homes and offices. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the quake originated in Bangladesh. A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphnSOS Children’s Village in BK Block celebrated its founder’s day with a colourful cultural show. The village is part of an international organisation for orphaned and neglected children where the kids live in several “homes” on campus and are ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphWhat happens when poetry is not just read, but heard line by line, heart to heart, and interpreted in a room that listens?The boardroom at Sister Nivedita University turned into just such a space for Quill, a poetry workshop ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphMusic, dance, drama, art and even carpentry — the National Unity Festival held at Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 saw students express their pride in being Indian in every which way.The festival is held at several levels over several months. Contests ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphBengal Angler’s Forum (BAF) recently held its 11th catch-and-release event at Eco Park but some participants have been casting their lines in the lake there decades before the park even existed.“I used to come here as a child with ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThey’re coming to your house, handing out forms and explaining how to fill them up. But for all you know, your house could be their hundredth today. They could have been on the streets from 6.30am, won’t reach home ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will introduce a 15-hour module on “climate change and sustainability” for students of Classes VI to VIII from the 2026-27 academic year.The council aims to build early awareness among children ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA young cyclist from London has pedalled over 11,500km in the past six months to raise money for a school for street children in Calcutta. His journey, which has taken him through 22 countries, will continue for another six ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar police reconstructed the crime scene related to the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla late on Thursday to ascertain the sequence of events that led to his death. As of Thursday, four persons have been arrested in this case. ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe man who fired at his wife inside his 15th-floor apartment in Howrah Shibpur on Wednesday morning had used an unlicensed 9mm pistol, police said on Thursday.Gopal Yadav, the accused, had fired a single shot at his wife, Poonam. ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway will install artificial intelligence-enabled CCTV cameras across stations for better surveillance.“An artificial intelligence-based system is being planned to strengthen the security and surveillance system in Metro Railway as part of Indian Railways’ system for the security surveillance,” ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphFire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose’s son Samudra has sought time from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to appear for questioning related to the probe into alleged irregularities in municipal recruitments, sources said on Thursday. Earlier, the ED, probing ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphFrom uneven roads to sagging cable wires to pavements lost to encroachment, a recent gathering held at the National Mime Institute in CK Block saw residents express concern over the steady deterioration of infrastructure.A citizens’ meet had been organised ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has, in an order on November 17, expunged a portion of its September 12 order against the then vice-chancellor of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. In its September 12 order, the apex court said: ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe victorious captain of the 1990 Fifa World Cup and the most capped German player of all time walked into the Yuvabharati Krirangan complex on Sunday afternoon. But he was not there for any football event. Lothar Matthaus was ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA racket of “cyber slavery,” where young unemployed men and women from Bengal are allegedly transported abroad with the promise of jobs and then forced to commit cyber crimes as part of an organised international operation, has been unearthed.At ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphGD Block wrapped up the festive season on a melodious high as residents came together for a vibrant Vijaya and Diwali musical evening, in association with The Telegraph Salt Lake, that felt nothing short of a neighbourhood carnival. The ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line is set to undergo a major security overhaul, with a new AI-enabled, IP-based CCTV surveillance network expected to be operational by March 2026, an official said.The upgrade, costing Rs 25.34 crore, includes the installation ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Traffic Police on Thursday said the ‘Vidyasagar Setu’ will remain fully closed for vehicular traffic from 6 am to 2 pm on Sunday for “critical repair and rehabilitation work”.All traffic moving towards and across the bridge will ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has proposed conferring an Honorary D Litt on ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup–winning captain Harmanpreet Kaur at its annual convocation on December 24, a senior university official said on Thursday.The recommendation was put forward at a recent ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA resident of Kankurgachi was allegedly cheated out of ₹78.3 lakh after a group of callers made her believe that a courier booked in her name was found to be containing drugs. Three men have been arrested in Gujarat ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor who runs an orphanage asked deputy mayor Atin Ghosh about ways an orphan found abandoned on the street can get a birth certificate.Biswarup De, the councillor from Ward 48, informed the deputy mayor ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA fisherman who escaped the jaws of a tiger but was left with a paralysed hand now runs a small tea stall. A widow, who lost her husband to a tiger attack, has pulled her eldest son out of ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe state education department has informed the high court that the city police's south suburban division will undertake a "comprehensive security audit" of both campuses of Jadavpur University in Jadavpur and Salt Lake.The department informed the court on November ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphA 23-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday from Kali Temple Road in Kalighat for allegedly stealing at least three yellow taxis from Bhowanipore last week, police said.The first of the three was stolen on November 10, and the last, ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court granted bail to former state secondary education board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly on Wednesday in the last CBI case that was preventing his release from jail. Ganguly, arrested in 2022 in connection with alleged irregularities in the ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to establish a new dog pound as the two existing ones are grossly inadequate, deputy mayor Atin Ghosh said on Wednesday.The existing dog pounds at Dhapa and Entally have space for 280 dogs. ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphA homemaker in her early 30s was allegedly shot at by her husband in their 15th-floor apartment in Howrah’s Shibpur on Wednesday morning, police said. A bullet grazed the right side of the woman’s head and she slumped on ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphEvery year, more than 50,000 mongooses are killed in India to meet the demand for paintbrushes made from their hair, despite the species enjoying Schedule 1 protection under the Wildlife Protection Act, the same level as tigers and elephants.Now, ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday issued an interim order asking the school service commission (SSC) to publish the complete list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates, including their addresses and other details, at the earliest.The order came ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has begun releasing interview and lecture demonstration schedules for teacher aspirants after the document verification process started on Tuesday.By Tuesday evening, the SSC announced dates for candidates applying for assistant teacher posts for Bengali ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphSheikh Mujibur Rahman’s room at Baker Hostel, where the founding father of Bangladesh spent his student days in the city, has been locked and largely forgotten for over a year. Once a frequent stop for visitors recommended by the ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to issue "blanket orders" shielding doctors participating in protests following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.A bench comprising Justices MM Sundresh and Satish ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh has asked teachers to take steps to improve the varsity’s standing in the annual ranking exercise conducted by the Union education ministry.Ghosh asked faculty members to analyse the possible reasons for the dip in ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned Mohini Bose, the daughter of state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose, on Tuesday in connection with its investigation into the alleged municipal recruitment scam.Mohini reached the ED’s office in the CGO ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphLarge parts of Deshapriya Park, a favourite playground for countless morning walkers and the training venue for several cricket clubs, continue to remain off-limits because litter and remnants of the Durga Puja pandal are still lying across the northern ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) began verifying documents on Tuesday to ensure that only eligible candidates are called for interviews for teacher posts in government-aided higher secondary schools.On Day 1, 706 candidates were called to Acharya Sadan, the SSC ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA person was arrested from Madhya Pradesh on Monday for his alleged involvement in an investment fraud of ₹72 lakh reported in New Town this February. Complainant Deep Kumar Nath, a resident of Narayanpur near New Town, had come ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA man from Afghanistan was arrested at the Calcutta airport with an Indian passport on Monday. A lookout notice was reportedly issued against him by the Afghan government. Police said the man, who was allegedly found to have multiple ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA petition was moved before Justice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday by a group of private school teachers seeking 10 marks for “teaching experience” in the ongoing recruitment for Class XI-XII teachers in government-aided schools.The petition ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA gallery on climate change at Science City has won a global award in Dubai. “The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has been honoured with the prestigious CIMUSET Award for its ground-breaking climate change gallery 'On The Edge?' ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA gangster from Uttar Pradesh was arrested near Park Street on Tuesday.Mohammad Sohrab had previously been imprisoned in Tihar jail and had violated his parole in June. He was living in the city as an app bike driver for ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphPolice have launched an investigation into the fire that broke out early on Saturday morning at 26 Ezra Street, damaging an 186-year-old Parsi fire temple — the city’s first — along with over a hundred shops selling electrical goods ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board will start receiving online application forms for the recruitment of primary school teachers in government-aided schools from Wednesday. Education minister Bratya Basu said 13,421 teachers will be appointed in this round. Candidates who have ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphAn oncology centre with 170 beds will be commissioned at the Peerless Hospital by mid-April, Jayanta Roy, the managing director of Peerless Group, said on Tuesday. The 11-storey building will have about three floors dedicated to cancer treatment, while ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA man died after a major fire broke out at a bike garage in Maurigram, Andul, in Howrah on Tuesday, triggering panic in the locality. The blaze, which residents described as sudden and intense, spread rapidly before fire tenders ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA vehicle carrying ₹5 crore packed in small bags was intercepted at New Town, and two men who allegedly could not explain the source of the money were arrested on Sunday night.The special task force (STF) of Bengal Police ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe Nepalese consulate general in Calcutta has agreed to part with a slice of land inside its Ekbalpore compound for the construction of the underground section of the Purple Line, the upcoming Joka-BBD Bag corridor.The consulate stands at the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA theft was reported at the state-level philatelic exhibition being held at Science City over the last four days. Items from two collections being exhibited in the competitive section were sneaked out of frames with glass covers during the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA key obstacle in advancing the Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) project has been cleared following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal for a ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphBesides serving countless people in its hospital, the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan offers educational opportunities and women’s empowerment programmes, Swami Goutamanandaji Maharaj, the president of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, said at Matri Bhavan’s platinum jubilee celebrations on ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA petition moved before Calcutta High Court has alleged that several “tainted” candidates feature on the school service commission’s (SSC) interview shortlist. The case has been admitted, and Justice Amrita Sinha is expected to hear it on Wednesday.The Supreme ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Monday that he had held a “preliminary discussion” with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on the possibility of increasing the number of vacancies in teaching posts at the secondary and higher secondary levels of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has informed Baranagar police about the hate-filled graffiti that appeared in one of its hostels on November 11.Deputy director Dipti Prasad Mukherjee said on Monday that the institute had submitted a written ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA new private medical college with 250 MBBS seats is set to come up on the fringes of Calcutta.Desun Hospital will set up the college near Dankuni along the Durgapur Expressway (National Highway 19). The medical college will be ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA shot at electoral inclusion is taking a heavy toll on Bengal’s migrant workers. Hundreds of thousands have returned to their hometowns from workplaces across India in the past month, worried that missing the special intensive revision (SIR) of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphAn infant who came to BC Roy Hospital for treatment in his mother’s arms on Monday morning was allegedly kidnapped by a woman who befriended the young mother posing as a nurse and tricked her into handing the baby ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the alleged irregularities in appointments in municipalities, questioned Rahul Singh, the son-in-law of state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose, for over an hour and a half on Monday.Singh and ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA city-based charity took twelve children and several youths suffering from Type 1 diabetes to an old-age home in Joka on Sunday.Some of the residents of the Joka home are also diabetes patients.Debasis Basu, a diabetologist and chairman of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has instructed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials to inspect Ezra Street, where countless overhead cables are present, and to submit a detailed report.Several shops have also sprung up around the Parsi fire temple in the ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo persons died in the city, and the families of the deceased alleged that the deaths were related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Baidyanath Hazra, 46, a driver by profession who had been reported missing from ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA key hurdle in the construction of Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) moved closer to closure on Monday with Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested for allegedly snatching a woman’s chain while she was taking a morning walk near Science City on Sunday.The men were arrested on Sunday evening, within a few hours after the snatching, police said.The police identified ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphThree persons were arrested on Saturday inside Eden Gardens for suspected cricket betting conducted through online apps on their phones, police said. The persons were arrested from the F1 Block of Eden Gardens during the India-South Africa Test match. ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphNearly 100 shops dealing in electrical lights were damaged in the fire that occurred at 26 Ezra Street on Saturday, traders said on Sunday. Shop owners said lights worth nearly ₹100 crore were destroyed.A forensic examination of the market ...
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