AbovahikaAbovahika, the New Town CD Block-based dance institute, presented the dance drama Shyama for Rabindrajayanti at Rabindra Tirtha.The event began with the vocal renditions of Tagore songs like Charana dharite, Kolahol to baron holo and Godhuli gagane by Tapas ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphStanding atop slender with upright stems, these cheerful bright blooms sway gently in the breeze, adding a playful touch to gardens and floral arrangements alike. The Globe Amaranth is an instantly recognisable flower for its perfectly rounded, clover-like blooms.Globe ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphOver three days in the last week of May, 57 children from afar had their cleft lips or palates repaired at a Mission Smile camp held at Techno India Dama Hospital on the Bypass. They came from the Sunderbans ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphSixty-six seats were arranged on the top floor of the Anima Hore memorial building in BE Park, and not a single one was empty. A tournament of contract bridge was underway, drawing enthusiasts from across town.The event was organised ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphAre you worried about your child’s poor grades? Is he insolent? Is she spending too much time on the phone? The audience at a session on “reducing parental anxiety” at Nurturing Minds may have arrived with a myriad of ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA man who allegedly hung a teenage boy upside down in his jeans factory and tortured him with electric shocks was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday along with two of his associates.The boy is still missing, police said. Shahenshah, ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA resident of Baguiati, who had come across an advertisement for an investment scheme on social media, was cheated out of ₹8.3 lakh after he invested in the fraudulent scheme. Minhajuddin Mandal reported the fraud at Baguiati police station ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphDismissed non- teaching employees of government-aided schools led a march to Bikash Bhavan on Thursday, demanding that the state government come up with a notification on their recruitment.They said chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on May 27 that a ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday granted interim bail to Sharmistha Panoli, the 22-year-old law student arrested for posting allegedly offensive content on social media.A single-judge vacation bench of Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury asked Panoli to furnish a bail bond ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court is set to hear a petition on June 9 challenging new recruitment rules for appointing schoolteachers at secondary and higher secondary levels in government-aided schools.Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, who accepted the petition on June 3, was ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Thursday that passport verification procedures have been significantly strengthened following the exposure of widespread document forgery operations in the city.Speaking at the Alipore Bodyguard Lines on World Environment Day, Verma said field ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA 33-year-old woman and her brother were allegedly assaulted by a drunk gatekeeper and his accomplice at Shashi Bhushan Dey locality of Kolkata for attempting to rescue a dog trapped inside a municipal ground on Wednesday. The incident ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for Kolkata as thunderstorms with lightning, light to moderate rain and gusty winds are likely to affect parts of the city for the next three hours. Wind speeds are ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe boulders that function as borders along roads had vanished. The width of the road was reduced to half along several stretches.For a group from Calcutta on holiday in Sikkim, the return journey from Lachung turned into a nightmare. ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA week-long special drive in Calcutta and New Town to spot vulnerable garbage accumulation points concluded on Tuesday.Citizens were asked to WhatsApp their complaints about garbage to a number provided by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the New ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe fire department on Tuesday sent a notice to the owner of Hotel Mangalam seeking documents related to the permissions it has.The move came after a fire in a room on the hotel’s fourth floor necessitated the evacuation of ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphFour improvised country-made pipe guns and several rounds of ammunition were recovered from a house in Khardah following a raid by officers from Kamarhati and Khardah police stations on Monday night.The house belongs to Nayem Ansari who was arrested ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe higher education department has empowered the pro-vice chancellor of Jadavpur University to hold a meeting of the university’s working committee — a meeting usually chaired by the vice-chancellor. Following the governor’s removal of the officiating VC in March ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA cloud has been cast on the school recruitment process, days after an attempt to make a fresh start.A candidate who had written the school service commission’s 2016 selection tests but failed to get the job filed a petition ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA single-judge vacation bench of the high court on Tuesday refused bail to Sharmistha Panoli, the 22-year-old law student arrested for posting allegedly offensive content on social media.Rejecting the plea, Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee said: “We are a remarkable ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA 43-year-old woman from Howrah who was hospitalised with pneumonia and also tested positive for Covid after admission passed away late on Saturday.A doctor who treated her said she was admitted with pneumonia on the right side of the ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, brought relief from the sultry conditions that prevailed for most of Tuesday.The Celsius almost touched 40 degrees at Calcutta’s doorstep as swathes of south Bengal were scalded by an ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphEden Gardens was robbed of the IPL final but Calcutta will not let anyone take away its ability to soak in the excitement, even if the real action is hundreds of miles away.Drawing rooms, pubs, clubs and lounges were ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe JN.1 variant of the novel Coronavirus claimed its first victim in Kolkata on Tuesday.The Union health ministry’s dashboard on Covid-19 states, a 43-year old female died with acute coronary syndrome, septic shock and acute kidney injury.The patient in ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe city police have asked the public works department (PWD) to reduce the size of the island in front of the Swarnim Vijay Dwar gate of Fort William — now known as Vijay Durg — to tackle worsening traffic ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police has registered an FIR against Wazahat Khan Qadri Rashid, the man whose organisation’s complaint led to the arrest of Pune law student Sharmistha Panoli.Rashid, who heads the Rashidi Foundation and resides in Kolkata’s Garden Reach, now ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe iconic La Martiniere schools are set to receive permission for urgent safety repairs after chunks of ceiling began falling in their heritage buildings, posing serious risks to 6,000 students.Following a joint inspection with the state heritage commission on ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government, which had extended the summer vacation in schools for the last three years, did not do so this year.An education department official said the decision was driven by the need to complete the syllabus on time ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe Army authorities here have decided to alter its training schedule a little bit to accommodate Eid ul Adha prayers at Red Road later this week, sources said on Monday.West Bengal Minister Javed Ahmed Khan said that though there ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphAwareness about spine surgeries is still very low and early intervention can cure functional disabilities and difficulties, a surgeon from Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, said last week.According to S. Vidyadhara, the chairman and head of spine surgery at Manipal Hospitals, ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphA group of officials from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) found multiple instances of unlawful parking in and around Burrabazar on Monday.Among these were cars parked in two lines, trucks parked on either side of a road, walkways brimming ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA woman tripped while getting off a bus and came under its rear wheels in Behala on Monday morning.The deceased worked as a domestic help at a Behala residence and was on her way to work when the accident ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: While purchasing drugs from medicine shops, customers should insist on a cash memo and check if it includes the name of the particular medicine, batch number, and expiry date, the health department said in a recent advisory for ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphMedical College Kolkata held a “vote to select” a students’ council on Monday, the first in a medical college in Bengal since the junior doctors’ protests in August 2024 following the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphTwo halves of Bengal will experience contrasting weather over the next few days.The hills are likely to keep getting drenched though the intensity of the showers will go down from Tuesday, according to the Met forecast.The occasional shower is ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers on Monday questioned the owner of a Mominpore shop from where multiple transactions were allegedly made to Moti Ram Jat, a CRPF personnel arrested for his alleged involvement in espionage activities.The NIA officers ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the fourth floor of a Sarat Bose Road hotel early on Monday, and more than 50 guests and employees had to be evacuated in a hurry.The blaze rekindled memories of the deadly fire in ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphSleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday questioned the owner of a Kolkata-based travel agency in connection with a Pakistan espionage case, an official said.Mohammed Masood Alam, owner of the travel agency, was questioned by the NIA ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national who met a man from the city on social media has alleged that he drugged her and became intimate with her during her visit to Calcutta, making false promises of marriage. The man allegedly forced her ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 23-year-old man who suffered injuries in a road accident on Thursday and was declared brain-dead on Saturday decided to donate his organs on Sunday.Puskar Pal’s kidneys and liver were retrieved at SSKM Hospital, where he ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTattered nylon nets bordering forests in Kultali in the Sunderbans will soon be replaced, forest officials said.Tigers from the forests strayed near villages on the other side more than 15 times between September last year and April this year. ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA woman has filed a complaint alleging a man posed as a major of the Indian Army to win her trust and fraudulently obtain her ancestral jewellery to get a gold loan, police said. The man neither returned the ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA centre for autism has started training individuals with autism on home management and community-based skills.Each chore, such as peeling a cucumber, making a bed or knowing how to use a washroom, make them more confident, help them to ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTwo allegedly fake ticket examiners have been arrested from the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway, said a railway official. The arrests follow a drive to provide unique identity badges to ticket examiners to distinguish them from imposters who extort ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTwo groups of tourists from the city who recently visited Srinagar found the heart of the Valley slowly returning to what it was a few months ago. They were among the first to visit Kashmir after the Pahalgam attack ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe viability of the much-anticipated Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor will be jeopardised if Kidderpore station does not come up, said railway officials.Residents of Kidderpore and surrounding areas like Garden Reach and Metiabruz — the slice of Calcutta has thriving ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphIllegal parking and fleecing by a section of parking attendants are growing across the city, several opposition councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) alleged at the monthly meeting of councillors last week.At the meeting, BJP councillors Sajal Ghosh ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata police on Sunday issued a detailed defence of its decision to arrest 22-year-old law student and influencer Sharmishtha Panoli, who has been accused of stoking communal hatred through a social media video. Facing flak from several quarters ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata is set to witness a smoother and stronger Rath Yatra this year, thanks to a unique upgrade to Lord Jagannath’s iconic chariot.After two decades of searching, Iskcon Kolkata has finally replaced the old wheels, once sourced from a ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata-based thespian was on Thursday denied entry into the GD Birla Sabhagar during the screening of Koushik Sen's ‘Marx in Kolkata'. His only mistake was that he wore a lungi.Joyraj Bhattacharjee shared his experience on Facebook, describing how ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA 51-year-old man, allegedly abducted from a spot near Netaji Bhavan Metro station in Bhowanipore on Wednesday, was rescued from an apartment in Jadavpur on Friday.Timir Kanti Majumder, a resident of Kulpi in South 24-Parganas, was waiting to meet ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA man who was allegedly dragged out of his home and kidnapped in an autorickshaw in Thakurpukur was rescued on Friday. Five people have been arrested in this connection.According to officers, the kidnappers had demanded ₹10 lakh for the ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTeams from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted search operations here to find alleged links to Moti Ram Jat, a Central Reserve Police Force assistant sub-inspector, with Pakistan intelligence officers.Jat was arrested last week in Delhi for allegedly sharing ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe parents of a 12-year-old boy who passed away earlier this month following a kidney transplant for which he had to wait for a year, organised a cadaveric organ donation pledge on Saturday evening.About 50 participants of IIM Bangalore ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe provision to award up to 10 marks for “prior teaching experience” in the screening process for teachers at the secondary and higher secondary levels has been framed in a way that does not conflict with what the Supreme ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe proposed Kidderpore station of the upcoming Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor has been all but nixed.The state government’s alleged refusal to allow construction inside the Kolkata Armed Police compound at Alipore’s Bodyguard Lines had long stalled the construction of ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphStudents aspiring to study in the United States and many who have already received offers from American universities are growing anxious as new restrictions threaten their academic plans.The US has halted new student visa interviews while it develops social ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Sacked schoolteachers have to compete with fresh aspirants to continue their jobs beyond December 31, but they will be given up to 20 additional marks based on their period of service and classroom demonstration.The school service commission issued ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe lush, mysterious terrain of the Sunderbans is set to get a new museum nestled in the heart of the world’s largest mangrove delta. The Sunderban Museum, to be inaugurated in the next three months, will be a cultural and ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphFor generations, Sonar Kella has evoked nostalgia in Bengalis through its desert adventure featuring Feluda, Topshe, and Jatayu. The latest offering from the Jawker Dhan franchise, Sayantan Ghosal’s Sonar Kellay Jawker Dhan, released on May 31, leans into this ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata: An online transaction for paying ransom helped the Kolkata Police trace a trader two days after he was abducted.Timir Kanti Mazumdar (50), a resident of South-24 Parganas was rescued from a flat on the 11th floor of a ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphCity-based NGOs Concern for Calcutta and Calcutta Citizens’ Initiative have jointly appealed to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting stricter enforcement and regulation of operating hours for bars and restaurants serving alcohol in Calcutta.The NGOs have urged that no bar, ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), custodian of Rabindra Sarobar, has instructed clubs that use the lake for rowing activities to adhere to the standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure the safety of rowers during this monsoon. The ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral flights between Calcutta and Guwahati were cancelled on Friday because of heavy rain and waterlogging in the Assam capital.Some flights to Guwahati were diverted to Calcutta because of the weather, said airport officials.Four flights from Calcutta to Guwahati ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphMany schoolteachers alleged on Friday that they were being forced to write a fresh selection test to retain their jobs even though, individually, they have not been found guilty of any malpractice.A cat-and-mouse game between police and the protesters ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe high court has ordered an emergency inspection of the La Martiniere schools after a large chunk of ceiling in a building with heritage status crashed to the floor from a 40-foot height, raising serious safety concerns for the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTwo of the three junior doctors who have alleged vindictive postings by the state government for their leading role in the RG Kar protests last year, approached the high court on Friday, challenging the decision.Asfakulla Naiya, who was a ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe fifth All Bengal Cultural Festival for Deaf Children was held at Bidyut Bhavan auditorium recently, with students competing in a number of events. Organised by the Society for the Deaf, it featured six special schools from across the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have started a case against a man who was allegedly found chopping a Mahua tree at Patuli’s Birji Purba Para on Wednesday afternoon. Police identified the man as Subal Sardar, 60. “The man was found chopping the tree ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar cops have started a crackdown in New Town and Salt Lake and have issued a notification saying that without a police clearance, no flats can be rented in their jurisdiction. The notification, issued by the Commissioner of ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphIn a world growing more connected each day, unity among nations is not just a hope, but a necessity. With this thought, St Joan’s School presented its annual concert Myriad 2025.“True peace begins with understanding, and harmony thrives where ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphStudents and teachers returned to Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education in the middle of their vacation, to celebrate Rabindrajayanti this year. The junior section performed the song Aaye tobe shohochori, with more than 15 students dressed in white singing ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTeach me about the types of cheese and what it can be paired with,” was the query that was typed in. And within a moment, came the answer on the screen — fresh, hard, blue and soft, with the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphBJ Block’s loss turned out to be AK Block’s gain as Iman Chakraborty rocked AK Park on Saturday night. The singer, who was supposed to perform at Banglar Sanskriti o Prakriti Utsab 2025 but could not, came back to ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphCorporate games may be popular in business circles, but at Busy Bee, the AB Block-based multi-activity centre, it was teenagers who got to try their hand at some.“The new National Education Policy (NEP) wants to move away from rote ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe southwest monsoon has entered parts of north Bengal, the Met office said on Thursday. An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the monsoon is likely to enter deeper into Bengal in the next one or two ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to extend a concrete culvert on the eastern flank of EM Bypass near the Chingrighata crossing so that Science City-bound vehicles get extra road space.Vehicles from Sector V move slowly ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly cheating several people with false promises of getting them jobs either in the state health department or in private hospitals. Officers of Sonarpur police station, who made the arrests, said they ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe city and the state police, along with the transport department, have recently launched a unified e-challan portal to facilitate the collection of fines from vehicles violating traffic rules.Developed jointly by the departments of transport and information technology and ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphA woman, who was doing her morning workout at a public ground in Haltu early on Sunday morning, was allegedly verbally abused and videographed by some men.Police said the woman, a resident of Jogendra Gardens at Haltu in Kasba, ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe district administrations have been asked to be alert and evacuate residents to safer places if needed, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday afternoon.The chief minister added that there was a forecast for heavy rain in 48 hours, ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphA sombre grey sky hung heavy on the city through Thursday, but the rain was light.The Met office on Wednesday predicted heavy to very heavy rain from Thursday afternoon. But as a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphNinety-one complaints were received on Wednesday, the first day of the week-long campaign by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to spot vulnerable garbage accumulation points across the city.Sources said civic teams worked till 8pm on Wednesday to resolve as ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday refused to hear a petition seeking a stay on the fresh school recruitment process initiated by the state government.Some of the teachers who lost their jobs for OMR manipulation and rank jumping had petitioned ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has advised its affiliated colleges to hold classes during the summer recess — online or in-person.A notice was issued as the university felt that adequate number of classes could not be held following a delayed start to ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphOne of Bengal’s leading entrepreneurs is starting a centre for science research and education at the highest level in Salt Lake’s Sector V.Technocrat-turned-entrepreneur Purnendu Chatterjee has come up with TCG CREST (The Chatterjee Group Centres for Research and Education ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA committee set up to review the effectiveness of existing fire safety systems in restaurants, hotels, factories and buildings will prepare a draft policy and submit it to the state cabinet within 30 days, urban development minister Firhad Hakim ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government is expected to issue a gazette notification on Thursday announcing the rules, vacancy positions and reservations for the recruitment of school staff at the secondary and higher secondary levels.Once the gazette notification is issued, the school ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA depression along Bengal’s coast is expected to bring “heavy to very heavy rain” in the city and its neighbourhoods on Thursday and Friday, the Alipore Met office warned on Wednesday.Winds clocking up to 50km an hour will likely ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old graduate applicant from Kolkata stares at the loss of an academic year amid an indefinite halt in student visa interviews by the US government. Now, her dream to pursue MBA at UVA Darden School of Business hangs ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphA committee headed by the city’s mayor to review the “effectiveness” of existing fire safety systems in restaurants, hotels, factories and buildings will hold its first meeting on Wednesday.The meeting will be held at the headquarters of the Kolkata ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphWhat do we do with a severe burn injury? If anyone is electrocuted, what should others around the person do? Acid attack survivors posed these questions at a session on handling medical emergencies for ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphAn elderly man, who introduced himself as an advocate at the gate of the Sales Tax Building in Beleghata, fell from the seventh floor a few minutes later on Tuesday morning. Police suspect that the man jumped through an ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphOwners of three rooftop bars and restaurants who attended a hearing at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Tuesday have to submit their written submissions by June 11, civic body officials said.Owners of at least two of the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers protesting outside Bikash Bhavan, who were advised by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday to participate in a fresh recruitment exercise so they could retain their jobs beyond December, are still firm in their opposition to writing the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court came down heavily on a trial court judge for ex parte dismissal of a suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion sought by the appellant-husband.The bench comprising Justice Sabyasachi ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe cloud cover isn’t leaving Kolkata anytime soon.The city is expected to face light to moderate rain and thundershowers over the next 24 hours.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Kolkata has received 35.1mm of rain over the past ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThree persons were killed and eight injured in three different accidents across the city between Sunday and Monday.Early on Monday, an accident involving three vehicles happened in front of the Tea Board in central Calcutta.Police said a car hit ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe joint convener of the Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum, Chinmoy Mondal, and another protesting teacher on Monday responded to Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate’s summons in connection with the violence at Bikash Bhavan on May 15.The duo was interrogated at the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to clear the sewer channels underneath several key thoroughfares in the city to ensure that traffic is not affected by waterlogging during the monsoon.The police have listed roads that witness waterlogging with ...
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