The terminated schoolteachers who have been protesting outside Bikash Bhavan since May 7 on Tuesday wrote to the education minister’s office seeking a dialogue with Bratya Basu on ending the impasse.A copy of the letter was sent to chief ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphA former employee was arrested on Sunday in connection with a ₹20-lakh burglary at a Gariahat boutique that was reported a few weeks ago.The former employee — identified as Rahul Seal — had allegedly entered the boutique through an ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of teachers who have lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order submitted a prayer before the high court on Monday, seeking action against officers of Bidhannagar (North) police station for alleged excesses on protesting teachers at ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA three-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday issued contempt rules against Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh and eight others in connection with an alleged attack on lawyers on April 25. The accused will have to explain ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA Bengal police constable made it to the top of Mount Everest on Monday morning. Lakshmikanta Mandal, a constable of the 3rd battalion of the State Armed Police and personal security guard of Calcutta police commissioner Manoj Verma, summited ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBuses on several routes, as well as heavy and medium-sized vehicles, will be rerouted after Moti Lal Gupta Road, which links Tollygunge and Diamond Harbour Road on the city’s southern fringes, is closed for KEIP’s sewerage pipeline work.A traffic ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphProtesting teachers whom Mamata Banerjee told not to block roads or confine others in the name of protests said uncertainty over their future had forced them to stage an indefinite sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat.They also reminded ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphTwo snatching cases were reported in the city on Friday night and Saturday morning. Both cases involve bike-borne criminals.According to officers at Lake Town police station, an elderly woman was walking along the service road near the Lake Town ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSome of the city's majestic buildings, inheritances from its colonial past, are illuminated in the evenings, transforming the face of the place where they stand.A group of Calcuttans keen to preserve and showcase the city's heritage has illuminated 78 ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSaroj Ghose, a pioneering science communicator and instrumental behind the science museum movement in India, breathed his last on Saturday. He was 89.“It is with profound sorrow that the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) announces the sad demise ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphOffices in the 10-storey Krishna building, where a fire broke out on the fifth floor on Saturday afternoon, are likely to remain closed till the forensic examination of the affected area is completed, said sources in Kolkata Police. According ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of parents still insist that their children pursue science in Classes XI and XII despite them having no interest, inclination or the required marks.The pressure mostly stems from a closed mindset of parents who want their children ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe prime suspect in the murder of a 36-year old waiter has been arrested by the Kolkata Leather Complex police. Around 8am on Saturday, the police station received a call of an unconscious body lying on the banks of ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphAn association of orthopaedic doctors discussed advances in orthopaedic surgeries and treatment during a conference in the city on Sunday. Shoulder replacement surgeries, knee surgeries, managing old injuries neglected for years and fractures in elderly people were among the ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBimla Poddar, social worker, philanthropist and matriarch of the Poddar-Neotia family, passed away in Varanasi on May 14. She would have turned 89 this August.She is the founder of Jnana Pravaha, a Varanasi-based centre for cultural studies engaged in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe city spent a reasonably pleasant Sunday, thanks to light spells of rain and overcast conditions.The Met office recorded close to 25mm of rain in Alipore between Saturday night and Sunday night. Light to moderate rain is still in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state commission for protection of child rights has taken “suo motu cognisance” of children participating in a rally by aggrieved teachers outside Bikash Bhavan on Saturday.The panel has written to the Bidhannagar commissionerate seeking a report.“West Bengal Commission ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe number of hoardings on Calcutta’s roads will be reduced to 250 from over 400, the mayoral council member heading the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s advertisement department said on Sunday.Reducing the number of billboards will make the city look cleaner, ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA partially burnt body of an unidentified person was found in an under-construction building on Nivedita Lane in Bagbazar on Saturday morning.Eyewitnesses said the building’s caretaker was the first to spot the deceased, lying face down, near the garage ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state-run centralised undergraduate admission portal will open by the end of May or early June, an official of the higher education department said on Saturday. Minority, autonomous and private colleges have already begun their admission season from early ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will serve notices to three rooftop establishments in the city by Monday, asking them to attend hearings into alleged fire safety lapses and other violations recorded during inspections by the civic body, a senior KMC ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers allowed to return to school until December 31 because they have been identified as “not specifically found tainted”, urged the state government to argue before the Supreme Court that this categorisation suggested segregating the untainted teachers from the ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe eldest of the two brothers of the Tangra family, Pranay Dey, was arrested on Saturday, after he was released from NRS Medical College Hospital, for allegedly killing three members of his family in February.Pranay, 40, was undergoing treatment ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphA school in the city celebrated even a 50 per cent in the board exams.Not just that. A Class XII girl who will appear for a supplementary exam was told she is a champion.And why not?Rupashi Das comes from ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphIn a landmark step for neurodevelopmental care in eastern India, Desun Hospital, Kolkata, is launching the region’s first hospital-based Autism & Neurodevelopment Support Centre, in collaboration with Behaviour Momentum India (BMI) — India’s foremost institute for Applied Behaviour Analysis ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital claimed in Calcutta High Court on Friday through their lawyer that a report submitted by the Central Forensic Laboratory, Delhi, was contradicting another ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphAround 900 women were trapped inside Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat, till late on Thursday. More than one of them was pregnant, and they urged their bosses to find a way to get them out of confinement, officials said ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission is going ahead with its preparations to publish a recruitment notification for the appointment of teachers and non-teaching staff in secondary and higher secondary schools by May 29, in compliance with what the Supreme Court ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphThe front wall of his house has beautiful Lilies and Adeniums and the terrace has Starfruits and Blackberries. If that was not enough, Gopinath Sarkar has also adopted the empty plot next door and keeps it clean and green. ...
18 May 2025 TelegraphShowers are likely over the next few days in Calcutta, according to the Met forecast. The rain is unlikely to be heavy, but it will prevent the maximum temperature from shooting up, said a Met official.“An upper-air cyclonic circulation ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari visited the sacked school employees on a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan on Friday evening and was invited to speak on the dais erected by the protesters, who were no longer averse to being seen with ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphTensions between India and Pakistan have scaled down, but air travel has not picked up even a week after the neighbours announced an understanding to hold fire, officials at the Calcutta airport and airlines said on Friday.Airlines and tour ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphSomewhere on a 40-ft vertical rock-face at 8,790m on the southeast ridge of Mt Everest, a dream lies buried in snow along with the 42-year-old dreamer from Ranaghat.Subrata Ghosh, a schoolteacher, had reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphThe brush that one inserts inside bottles to clean them. Yes, this plant is named after something rather prosaic but its beautiful flowers can evoke poetry.The Bottle Brush Plant, also known as Callistemon, is a tree with bright flowers ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphIt may be one of the most awaited occasions in our cultural calendar but this year Rabindrajayanti was celebrated in the backdrop of military strife. Visitors approached venues unsure if the event had been cancelled, others listened to the ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphRabindrajayanti celebrations at Central Park were slightly toned down this year, especially in the morning. Though some 100 people turned up for the inauguration at 6am, the enthusiasm waned as the sun glared its way to noon. So much ...
17 May 2025 TelegraphThree fresh arrests have been made in connection with a robbery on May 5, where two employees of a forex company were robbed of ₹2.66 crore that they were going to deposit in a bank. The arrests were made ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphRegional transport offices (RTOs) must ensure that those who have not received their smart cards or driving licences by post should collect them from the offices in person, the state government has decided.A notification issued by the transport department ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphStretches of the EM Bypass-Prince Anwar Shah Road connector that don’t have footpaths and iron guardrails need overhaul, police have written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).Missing pavements and guardrails need to be put in place to avert accidents ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA hospital on the southern fringes of Calcutta has recently started a palliative care programme for patients with end-stage liver disease.A team of doctors, nurses, and counsellors will visit the patient’s home to deliver the services.The Indian Institute of ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAfter a lull, the angst of former school staff came to the fore on Thursday.By afternoon, images of hordes of protesting teachers breaching the gates of Bikash Bhavan were beamed across television channels. Metro spoke to some of the ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphBengal’s education secretariat has again become a hub of protests.Metro compiles some of the key demands of the sacked teachers and school staff and what the Supreme Court and the state government have said about them.No examWe will not ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe coolers are out, the training hours have been tweaked, and bathing has become a daily exercise.Members of Kolkata Police’s dog squad have been obliged to stay indoors unless called for duty because of the recent rise in temperature ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area is expected to take shape over the north Bay of Bengal in the third week of May, heralding the monsoon into parts of northeastern India, the Met office has said.Usually, the monsoon reaches Bengal four to ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAn assistant professor of mathematics who came to Bikash Bhavan for official work, leaving his two-year-old son in a crèche in Jadavpur, and a 71-year-old woman who stamps official documents were among hundreds trapped inside the Salt Lake address ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers and non-teaching staff left jobless by a Supreme Court verdict tore through guardrail cordons and broke open iron gates to lay siege to the state education department’s headquarters in Salt Lake on Thursday.They kept hundreds of Bikash ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries in most of her organs after a truck hit her near her school in Howrah’s Andul on February 10 and had to undergo eight surgeries is now slowly able to sit up ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA coach of the Sealdah-bound Bongaon local jumped the rails at Dum Dum station on Wednesday afternoon. There was no loss to life or property, said railway officials. The incident happened near platform number 4 of Dum Dum station ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral colleges and universities are introducing new-age courses like data science and artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level to attract students who aspire to pursue courses that promise better jobs. Many have blamed the absence of such courses for ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAutonomous and minority colleges that do not come under the purview of the state-run centralised admission system have started their undergraduate admissions even as government and government-aided colleges have yet to open their portal. Colleges like St Xavier’s, Scottish ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of men, who took automobile loans against five cars using fake documents from a private bank, allegedly cheated the bank by neither repaying the loan nor returning the vehicles. Five persons were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA group of cyber cheats, who are wanted in credit card fraud in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, were arrested from Anandapur along EM Bypass on Tuesday.The four were hiding there for the last two days, police said. The men allegedly ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA woman whose father was reported missing on March 14 had to wait for a DNA test to find out that a decomposed body lying in the morgue for two months was that of her father. A decomposed body ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 25-year-old man who was declared brain-dead at a private hospital in the city on Tuesday afternoon agreed to donate his organs after the doctors and hospital officials counselled them. Jayesh Laxmishankar Jaiswal, who was a ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphFormer state BJP president Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday that his wife’s son from her earlier marriage, Srinjoy Dasgupta, was a victim of drug abuse and was under treatment.Srinjoy, 27, an IT professional, was found unconscious with froth oozing ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphFormal “hearings” into alleged lapses in rooftop bars and restaurants will begin next week, following the preparation of a set of norms for the segment, the city’s mayor said on Wednesday.“The state government will form a committee that will ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphA constable of the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the robbery of ₹2.66 crore while the money was being transported from a forex company’s office to a bank.Mintu Sarkar, who ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphAt least two schools cancelled student trips scheduled in May because of India-Pakistan tensions.A third school will decide in a few days.Mahadevi Birla World Academy had two trips scheduled in May — one to Isro around May 13, and ...
16 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police arrested a STF constable in connection with the dacoity of Rs. 2.66 crore from an Entally-based forex company, taking the total arrests to seven in the case. Investigation revealed the 43-year old constable Mintu Sarkar ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphA suburban train derailed while entering Dum Dum railway station here on Wednesday, an Eastern Railway official said.Two wheels of the rear coach of Bongaon-Sealdah EMU train jumped the tracks at 12.11 pm while entering platform 4, he said.No ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphLast night’s thunderstorm dragged the Celsius several degrees down in the city. From 39.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the maximum temperature dropped to 35.2 degrees on Tuesday.The morning was pleasant after a spell of powerful gusts of wind followed ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphThe CBSE Class XII results were published on Tuesday, and in several schools in the city 30 to 50 per cent of the students who wrote the school-leaving examinations scored 90 per cent and above. At Birla High School ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphThirty-two airports shut down in India’s north and northwest because of the flare-up along the Pakistan border have reopened, but most airlines had yet to resume normal operations to these destinations till late Tuesday.Domestic sector airfares continued to be ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata, May 13 (PTI) A plane of a private airline was taken to the isolation bay at the Kolkata airport on Tuesday afternoon for a thorough security check after a passenger was suspected of carrying a bomb, officials said.The ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphAn animal lover’s association rescued a young mare found abandoned and ill on the Maidan, but it did not survived.The organisation has lodged a formal complaint against the horse’s unknown owner. An FIR has been drawn up against the ...
15 May 2025 TelegraphSrinjoy Dasgupta, the only son of former state BJP president Dilip Ghosh’s newly wedded wife Rinku Majumdar, was found dead in his New Town apartment on Tuesday morning.Srinjoy, 27, was found unconscious in his bed, frothing at the mouth, ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team will visit Lansdowne Market on Wednesday to see if they can find a suitable place for some traders who have refused to be rehabilitated.The civic body plans to renovate a portion of the ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway has increased the number of trains and extended the timings between Joka and Majerhat on the Purple Line.The corridor, which aims to connect Joka and Esplanade, is now functional on an 8km stretch between Joka and Majerhat.Of ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe marks they scored are not stellar, but their steadfastness is exceptional.The Telegraph narrates the stories of two teenagers who stand out from thousand others who cleared the CBSE examinations on Tuesday.Mehjabeen Nesha Future Hope (90.4 %)A room by ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe sacked non-teaching staff who had been barred from returning to school and promised an allowance by the state government resumed their protests on Tuesday. They alleged that the government had yet to clarify when they would start getting ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA Pakistani national who had entered India and obtained fake identity documents to assume Indian nationality, and was allegedly involved in a fake passport racket, also allegedly helped many get fake visas for multiple countries, the Enforcement Directorate submitted ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphFourteen medical colleges in Bengal have applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) for an increase of over 600 MBBS seats from the 2025-26 academic year.All the colleges that have applied for the uptick in seats were set up ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA man who was about to board a Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from the Calcutta airport on Tuesday told an airline personnel that he was carrying a bomb. What followed was the evacuation of 179 passengers, who had already boarded, ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphTennis legend Leander Paes was conferred the 32nd P.C. Chandra Puraskaar on Sunday at the Science City Auditorium, in Kolkata. The award, instituted by the P.C. Chandra Group in 1993, is presented annually on the birth anniversary of its ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe southwest monsoon has made its onset over parts of the south Bay of Bengal, the south Andaman Sea, the Nicobar Islands, and some areas of the north Andaman Sea, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Tuesday.According to ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral children across the city are down with fever caused by the twin factors of heat and frequent temperature fluctuations, doctors said. Doctors said the exposure to heat was causing some of these fevers as children have an “immature ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphBengal government’s petition to the Supreme Court for a review of its April 3 order that en masse terminated school staff says the court failed to appreciate that over 18,000 candidates “not specifically found tainted” have also been made ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphIndividuals with disabilities should be allowed to do the daily chores they learn at special schools or institutes at home, said those who work in the disability sector.Parents have to be patient with them and allow them to do ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphAn on-duty app-based bike taxi driver has claimed that he heard a woman screaming from an under-construction building after seeing her enter it with two men a few minutes earlier. Acting on instinct to help, he went inside, but ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphA chit with the word “bomb” written on it, found on an IndiGo flight from Silchar to Calcutta minutes before it landed, triggered a mid-air scare on Sunday afternoon.The matter has been reported to police.The cabin crew of flight ...
14 May 2025 TelegraphThe city is expected to witness a hot and humid day with partly cloudy skies dominating the next 24 hours, according to the local weather forecast issued on Monday afternoon. A heatwave warning remains in effect for several districts ...
13 May 2025 TelegraphMore students from Calcutta studying in different cities in northern India continue to return home, while some who got their flight tickets later in the week are leaving cities closer to the Pakistan border. The agreement between India and ...
13 May 2025 TelegraphThree women from different parts of the city who were swindled out of ₹5.6 crore in separate attacks by cyber cheats have lodged police complaints. The three are residents of Haridevpur, Baguiati and New Town, the police said. Bidhannagar ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphParents of children with disabilities tend to prioritise their children’s needs and end up making adjustments and compromises in their work life or personal space, and that impacts their mental well-being.Mothers giving up careers or fathers not taking up ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe IIT Kharagpur authorities have reopened a pedestrian passage adjoining its Prembazar gate that connects the campus with the neighbourhood.The acting director, Amit Patra, reopened a portion of the gate after the teachers protested former director V.K Tewari’s decision ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is going through its own inspection reports and some submissions by restaurant owners to conduct hearings on rooftop bars, cafes and restaurants, a senior official said on Sunday. The hearings are likely to begin ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphHawkers were back on the roads around the New Market area on Sunday afternoon, playing cat and mouse with police.Every time a police team arrived, the hawkers fled and were back as soon as the cops left. Setting up ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral such misinformation has been spotted in cyberspace, which the cyber crime cell of Bengal police is trying to verify and publish a rectification to curb the spread of false news. Officers of the Bengal police said, given the ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe heightened tensions between India and Pakistan have led to an amplification of security checks across airports in the country, passengers who landed in Calcutta said.Amidst the ongoing border tensions, the directorate general of civil aviation has suspended civilian ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphMany students have returned home from their colleges in north India in the wake of the flare-up between India and Pakistan.At least one university has announced online exams, giving students the option to appear for the tests from their ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe Celsius breached the 40-degree mark in the northern tip of Calcutta on Saturday.The Met office recorded maximum temperatures of 40.5 degrees Celsius in Salt Lake and 40.2 degrees in Dum Dum.Alipore, the official record keeper for Calcutta, saw ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphNineteen restaurants, bars and cafes running from rooftops or fire refuges in New Town and Sector V have been served “stop operation” notices, a senior state government official said on Saturday.The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) served notices ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur on Saturday constituted a 10-member committee comprising psychologists, legal professionals, police officers, educationists and alumni to assess factors affecting the mental health and well-being of students, faculty and staff.The committee was announced days after the family members ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphThe popular excitement about a raging war, often without comprehending the pain it carries, was evident in Calcutta even 54 years ago when the city witnessed a war close to it, veteran author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay said.Many Calcuttans wanted to ...
12 May 2025 TelegraphStudents of IIM Calcutta — past and present — have accused the institute of “inflicting cruelty” on “community dogs” and relocating them from the campus.A former student, representing the concerns of the students, both past and present, has written ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral places in southern India offer students a new world of opportunities and a “better atmosphere and ecosystem” that enhances chances of success, former MP and retired IAS officer Jawhar Sircar said at the inauguration of a two-day education ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphHis family lives in a part of Jammu where sirens blared incessantly for two days and explosions were frequent.The BTech student in Calcutta is scheduled to write his final semester exams next week. But concerns about his parents and ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphAirfares to several domestic destinations dropped sharply as passengers became wary of travel in the past few days.Tour operators and airlines had begun to hope the demand would go up after Saturday evening’s ceasefire announcement, but this was short-lived ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphThe police commissioner of Calcutta visited a hotel and a shopping mall in central Calcutta on Friday afternoon, not far from Rituraj Hotel where a fire on the night of April 29 killed 14 people.The top cop’s visit was ...
11 May 2025 TelegraphAn art enthusiast, a history buff and a man who doesn’t tire of talking about the Maidan — the country’s chief of defence staff, currently leading India’s charge on Pakistan, is a Calcutta boy who remains so. Lt General ...
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