A city-based management institute recently hosted a conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The theme was cross-border collaboration — in trade, commerce, academic research, philosophy and other fields — in a unified Asia. The sixth edition of the Asian ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to reduce the number of holidays in its affiliated colleges because too many breaks were hindering completion of the syllabus for the four-year undergraduate programmes. The university’s highest decision-making body, the syndicate, has empowered the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe 52-year-old GD Birla Centre for Education has refurbished its Garia campus.The two buildings — junior and senior — across the road also have a STEM lab, a library with 20,000 books, Wi-Fi-enabled classrooms, and a larger auditorium, as ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTwo tropical cyclones have been reported from the north Indian Ocean in quick succession.One had no effect whatsoever in Bengal. The other is likely to cause only a marginal rise in the night temperature over the next couple of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTwo young men who had offered two teenage girls a ride on their bikes and later allegedly forced them into a flat in Narendrapur where one was gang-raped and the other stripped and videographed, were the girls’ seniors in ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe city needs more direct international flights, travel agents told the new director of the Calcutta airport during an informal meeting on Thursday.The Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) has already put in a verbal request for a direct ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s Sonagachi area may soon host a special assistance camp for sex workers, as the Election Commission prepares to address unique documentation challenges arising from the ongoing Special Summary Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A senior official in the Chief ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphTen people were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly running a call centre in Kasba where they were allegedly impersonating representatives of lottery organisers.They duped people by convincing them that they had won a lottery, which they would be able ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphLess than a month remains for eastern India’s marquee road race, which turns 10 this year. The Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, partnered by The Telegraph, will be held on December 21.More than 17,000 people have already registered for ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA resident of Entally was allegedly promised the job of a civic volunteer in Kolkata Police by a man who impersonated an officer and claimed he had sufficient access to recruit people into the police force. The complainant, Sachin ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Metro Railway has lined up a series of infrastructure upgrades to improve the frequency of trains on the Blue Line, the oldest Metro link now plagued by snags and delays.Now, the Blue Line has a peak-hour frequency of ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has published the final answer key based on which the scripts of the teacher selection test for the secondary level (Classes IX and X) were assessed late on Tuesday. The results were announced on ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphArabic words in daily speech, microplastics clinging to mangrove roots, and gaps in last-mile weather warnings — these layers of culture, ecology and vulnerability were explored at a seminar on the Sundarbans held at Aliah University on Wednesday.The university’s ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA caregiver hired to look after an 85-year-old resident with dementia in New Alipore was arrested for allegedly siphoning money the elderly man received after selling his house.Champa Purkait was arrested in Kultali on Tuesday for allegedly diverting ₹25 ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphPolice personnel will again be posted at South Calcutta Law College, where a first-year student was gang-raped on June 25.Vice-principal Naina Chatterji wrote to the additional commissioner of police seeking deployment to reinforce security on the Kasba campus.A police ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA leading private hospital has been found guilty of “very unethical” billing practices and ordered to refund all charges collected over the past year for washing bed linen and disposing of biomedical waste.The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday remitted to Calcutta High Court a batch of petitions challenging the Bengal government’s fresh recruitment rules for the appointment of teachers in the state.The new selection process began in May this year, following the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA teenage school student was allegedly gang-raped and her friend allegedly stripped and videographed by young men, some of whom they knew.The incident, another shocking instance of crime against women in the city, was reported in Narendrapur, on the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA 25-year-old woman who was flung off a bike after her bag became entangled with a passing bus has lost her right arm from elbow to palm. Doctors treating her said she will need an artificial limb in the ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphA son’s delay in making his daily phone call to his elderly parents cost him his mother’s life in a cruel twist of fate that played out at a busy intersection in Salt Lake’s Sector V. ...
28 November 2025 TelegraphSix men were arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting a minor girl, stripping her friend and recording the act on a mobile phone in a place near Kolkata, a senior police officer said on Wednesday."Two class 8 girls ...
27 November 2025 TelegraphThree students died in a vehicle that should have been scrapped in a junkyard, not ferrying schoolchildren on Monday afternoon. Yet the state transport department’s immediate response was a familiar one: to convene a meeting with pool car operators, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA Rajarhat resident was cheated of ₹1.04 crore after fraudsters threatened to arrest him for sending obscene text messages to a woman — messages he never sent. Police have arrested three men from Karnataka in connection with the case ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe performance of councillors during the current special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will be taken into account while distributing tickets for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections scheduled for next year, said senior leaders of the Trinamool ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe right hand of a young woman riding pillion with her friend on a motorcycle was severed when she fell under a moving bus in New Town on Tuesday afternoon.Police said Pratisruti Roy Chowdhury, 25, was riding with her ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe abuse may be “virtual,” but its impact is real and far-reaching for women because it leaves a “footprint” that cannot be erased, experts said at a programme on Tuesday focused on gender-based online violence.While mobile phones have made ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to appoint an officer on special duty (OSD) to look after the “issue of security, especially at night”. A notice signed by the university’s acting registrar, Indrajit Banerjee, says the contractual officer will be appointed ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe Calcutta University syndicate will meet on Thursday to initiate the long-stalled teacher recruitment process at a time when nearly 60 per cent of its teaching posts are vacant.CU has a sanctioned faculty strength of 835.This will be the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in the city dropped to 16.4 degrees on Tuesday, the lowest so far this season.Wednesday could be colder, according to the Met forecast.Met officials linked the slide to the free flow of dry and cold northwesterly ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA day after a pool car plunged into a pond in Howrah’s Uluberia, killing three children, 11-year-old Arka Mondal described the terror of being “in the water and swallowing it”.One of the two survivors, the Class IV student of ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphAmerican sprinter and Olympic medallist Kenny Bednarek will flag off eastern India’s marquee road race from the Red Road on December 21.Bednarek, who won silver medals in the 200m at both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics, was ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Biswajit Basu of Calcutta High Court has struck down a petition seeking age relaxation for participating in the recruitment process for primary teacher jobs in government-aided schools.The petitioners argued that when the state primary education board published the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphLeaders from different communities were present at a remembrance of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of the ten gurus of Sikhism, at the auditorium of a school in Alipore on Tuesday.Guru Tegh Bahadur was “executed on the orders of ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) published the results of the selection test to shortlist candidates for 23,212 teaching jobs at the secondary level late on Monday. The results can be viewed on the commission’s website (https://westbengalssc.com) and www.wbsschelpdesk.com.“The preliminary ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA two-and-a-half-year-old pet Persian cat died during a grooming session in a pet salon at Jodhpur Park on Sunday evening.The family claimed that they have informed the police, alleging that the salon staff used a hairdryer for 20 minutes, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe chartered accountant who was found murdered in a hotel in Kasba on Saturday had met his alleged killers through a dating app just the day before, police said.According to officers, the accused couple had inserted the phone’s SIM ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphTeachers of ISI, Calcutta — past and present — along with students and research scholars, said at a news conference on Monday that the draft ISI Bill, 2025, smacked of an attempt by the Union government to push the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA lack of awareness among doctors as well as the general public, out-of-pocket expenses, vaccine hesitancy and complacency are the barriers plaguing adult vaccination in India, a doctor said on Sunday.While the universal immunisation programme has covered the vaccination ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta airport has finally bid goodbye to an unwanted guest, a hulking Boeing B737-200 that its owner Air India had forgotten for 13 years.Sources said the airline only recently realised that one of its aircraft had been lying abandoned ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board told Calcutta High Court on Monday that an expert committee appointed by the court had found only one erroneous question in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) 2017 paper.Delivering his order based on the committee’s ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphThe low-pressure area over the Strait of Malacca, expected to intensify into a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, is strengthening slowly, and Met officials said it may take a couple of more days before its potential path near ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphWindows rolled up, three children sitting in the rear seat of a pool car drowned after the vehicle fell into a roadside pond in Howrah’s Uluberia on Monday.One of them, 11-year-old Souvik Das, lived barely 200m from the pond, ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphFive rallies that criss-crossed central Calcutta during peak hours on Monday left thousands of commuters stranded and brought traffic to a standstill.The processions, starting from different locations with varied demands, ranged from teacher job aspirants seeking changes in the ...
26 November 2025 TelegraphA 56-year-old resident of Baguiati who met a woman through a dating app was duped out of ₹64.6 lakh after the woman convinced him to invest in stock trading with the promise of high returns. Police said the man, ...
25 November 2025 TelegraphSeveral ICSE schools have adopted robotics and artificial intelligence as a subject for the board, and many others have incorporated it into their curriculum up to Class VIII, so they can eventually offer it in the board classes.Some schools ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphA combination of viruses, deteriorating air quality, seasonal shifts, and diseases transmitted by mosquitoes has laid many Calcuttans low.People are experiencing symptoms such as fever, runny nose, coughing, sore throat, and nasal and throat irritation, which doctors attribute to ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphAnother cyclone is brewing in the Bay.A well-marked low-pressure area over the Strait of Malacca is likely to intensify into a cyclone on the Bay of Bengal by Wednesday, the Met office has said.The Strait of Malacca is a ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphA courier delivery person and a woman serving as the content writer for a dating app were arrested on Sunday for their alleged connection with the murder of Adarsh Losalka, a 33-year-old chartered accountant whose body was found in ...
24 November 2025 TelegraphThe 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 ...
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