Calcutta, the convict ship named after the city, arrived at Plymouth in England on this day. It was to sail to Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia, to establish a settlement.The ship was expecting convicts from prisons of Bodmin, Exeter ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphNinety-one-year-old Dulal Chandra Dalui has rarely missed his college reunions. Friday was no different. In 1994, Dalui retired as the head of the surgery department of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, also his alma mater. Many of his ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThere were lights, there was the camera but there was hardly any action.The crew turned up at several Tollygunge studios on Friday but missing in action were the directors.The directors’ guild, protesting the alleged high-handedness of the powerful technicians’ ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphIndia’s appetite for Apple products continues to grow and is accompanied by the Cupertino headquartered company’s effort to manufacture more iPhones in India.A new address — Imagine’s Apple Premium Partner Store — for all things Apple opened at South ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped five degrees to settle at 17.3 degrees Celsius on Friday in what the Met office said was the last lap of winter.Saturday is likely to see the Celsius drop further to around 15 degrees, according ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday rejected the Bengal government’s appeal seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and accepted the CBI’s prayer stating that ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found on an isolated stretch in New Town on Friday are checking all the CCTV cameras installed along the routes between her home and the ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA major fire broke out in a slum in the Narkeldanga area of the city in which one person was killed, a Fire Brigade official said on Sunday.At least 30 shanties were gutted in the fire, the official said.The ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWHEN : Sister Nivedita University presents and Jac Olivol co-presents Calcutta Club The Telegraph National Debate 2025WHERE: The Calcutta Club Lawns MOTION: T20 is the real test of cricketVERDICT: The motion was defeatedFORJoy BhattacharjyaQuizzer, quizmaster, raconteur, cricket analyst, former ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe body of a 14-year-old girl, suspected to have been raped and murdered, was found on a deserted stretch of New Town on Friday morning. Police said according to the preliminary inquiry, the girl had left her home in ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphTwo students of Jadavpur University, who had allegedly been molested outside the campus by another student, staged a sit-in inside the university’s administrative headquarters on Thursday evening demanding justice. The two students also accused the university authorities of sitting ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday said former principal Sandip Ghosh and four others accused of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital should be granted time so they get the opportunity to know the charges imposed on ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA hub of culture has turned into “a hub of criminals, a hub of hooligans” under the “inefficient” Muhammad Yunus government, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday when asked about the fresh flare-up in neighbouring Bangladesh.The state of ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA minor girl was raped and murdered in New Town, Kolkata, within hours of leaving her home after a dispute with her mother, police confirmed on Friday. Locals discovered the victim’s half-naked body inside a fenced-off, secluded area near ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar AikyaOver a journey of 15 years, the Saraswati puja at Bidhannagar Aikya has arguably become the biggest in the township. “Our attempt is to keep innovating,” said president and councillor Tulsi Sinha Roy. “We try to introduce something ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWith the tithi for Saraswati puja stretching over two days this year, schools had a choice of when to celebrate. While most schools chose Monday, there were blocks and individuals which offered puja the day before, preferring the convenience ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphNew Town is set to have a new functionary who will take charge of providing civic services in the township. An order has been issued by the state personnel and administrative reforms department, dated January 30, appointing Mohd. Abdul ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphSrabani Maitra is so modest speaking about her plants that one is rather taken aback on seeing her terrace garden. Not only does she grow all categories of plants — flowers, fruits, vegetables and cacti — but she has ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphI had a harrowing experience on January 10 that I want to share with residents so they can be careful and with the authorities so they can take action and save lives before it’s too late.I was crossing the ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe venue was new and the dates coincided with Saraswati puja, but it all worked out in favour of Bidhannagar Horticultural Society that held its flower show last weekend. Held in association with the state forest development corporation, the ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphTwo police personnel, including a woman civic volunteer, deployed at a Saraswati Puja immersion procession in the Port division, were allegedly heckled by a few club members on Wednesday night, injuring them while on duty. The accused youths fled ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphA 55-year-old man attacked four of his colleagues with a knife at the Karigari Bhavan in New Town on Thursday after the authorities allegedly declined his leave plea, police said.The Karigari Bhavan is the headquarters of the technical education, ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe charge framing against former principal Sandip Ghosh and others accused of corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will be delayed by at least two weeks after a Calcutta High Court division bench took cognisance of Ghosh’s ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe only hope to transform India’s health care is a wider and more evolved insurance mechanism to make quality health care accessible to a larger population, feted cardiac surgeon and entrepreneur Devi Shetty said on Thursday.Shetty, the chairman of ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday told the state secondary education to take immediate steps to ensure pending admit cards for students set to write their Madhyamik examinations are issued. Madhyamik is scheduled to begin on February 10. ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphTheir guile, gumption and game plans are well documented. Whether they bring the same skills into play on a different Calcutta pitch will be known on Saturday evening.On the lawns of Calcutta Club, some of the finest cricketers of ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphModernise old studios; set up new VFX and animation hubs; incentivise film-making in Bengal; ensure that films are a thriving career option for the youth.At the Bengal Global Business Summit on Thursday, the president of the Film Federation of ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphDutch merchant William Bolts, who came to India and worked for the British East India Company, was born on this day. His career would be various and as full of successes as failures. He is remembered for a book ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA constable of Kolkata Police who was posted as the personal security officer of a judge of the 8th Bench of the city civil court, was found dead on the ground floor of the court building early on Wednesday, ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe students of IIT Kharagpur have written to the authorities urging them to reintroduce the assimilation programme to improve bonding between students on the campus.The IIT authorities stopped the programme in June 2023 after the family of Faizan Ahmed, ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the raped and murdered junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College have urged people to take to the streets on February 9, the birthday of their daughter. The mother of the junior doctor told TV channel ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe recent wildfire in Los Angeles made foresters of the Gorumara wildlife division in Jalpaiguri take proactive measures to prevent forest fires in reserve forests.Dwijapratim Sen, the divisional forest officer of the division, said on Wednesday that they had ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe impasse at a Tollygunge studio, where set construction for an upcoming serial was stopped midway, continued on Wednesday.The incomplete set at Dassani Studio on Moore Avenue looked like it had on Tuesday, empty.“I went to the studio in ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphOne of the men who was allegedly part of the three-member gang that barged into a film production company’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and took away ₹7.3 lakh, has been arrested from Odisha, police said. Two other ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphJustice Jay Sengupta of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the authorities of Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College to take all possible steps so no outsider could enter the college premises without prior permission.The judge disposed of a petition ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA CISF constable was found hanging at the barrack of the force at N S C Bose International Airport here on Wednesday, an airport official said.The body of the constable was found at the barrack in the International cargo ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphFire at Kolkata airport during construction work, according to several media reports. According to airport sources, the fire broke out near the conveyor belt. During the welding process flakes from the torch caught fire. Panic spread throughout the airport ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphRasikbil, a lake in Cooch Behar district in north Bengal, has been nominated by the state government for the consideration of the Union environment, forests and climate change ministry as a potential Ramsar site (wetland of international importance). If ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphA 19-year-old youth was allegedly kidnapped for ransom from his home after his father failed to repay a loan he had taken from the alleged kidnapper, police said.The youth was rescued and the kidnapper and 3 others were arrested. ...
7 February 2025 TelegraphThe framing of charges against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and others accused of corruption is likely to start on Wednesday.Ghosh’s lawyer submitted a “discharge application” before the special CBI court on Tuesday seeking ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe developer of a building on Christopher Road in Tangra that tilted towards its adjoining building was arrested on Tuesday morning.Rajat Lee, 68, a resident of Christopher Road, has been charged with construction of a building that is dangerous ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has decided to use experts to re-evaluate answer scripts of its journalism and mass communication department’s semester and internal examinations following protests over alleged lapses. The decision was taken at a meeting of the JU executive council ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphPolice have found the details of at least 40 US nationals who have been duped by a group of men in Sonarpur who impersonated officials of the United States’ department of homeland security (DHS) and threatened them that evidence ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe spectre of a shutdown has returned to haunt the Tollygunge studios with directors and the technicians’ guild at loggerheads again.Set construction for an upcoming serial up at Dassani Studio on Moore Avenue has been stalled midway. The technicians ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphA woman who used to work in the retail marketing division of a beauty products company was benched for three months by her workplace when her cancer treatment required a long leave.At a cancer awareness programme organised by Medica ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphCancer drugs whose price reduction was announced in the Union budget are used in a minority of cases while many other chemotherapy drugs used more commonly still remain expensive, doctors said at a cancer awareness meet on Tuesday.They called ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphIn the early hours of this day, Robert Clive led a British army attack on the forces of Nawab Siraj-ud- Daulah in Calcutta, which the Nawab had captured from the British in 1756. Clive had marched to Calcutta and ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphServices will be suspended along the entire East-West corridor of Kolkata Metro in two spells this month to test the Communication-based Train Control (CBTC) system, an official said on Tuesday.The Kolkata Metro Railway spokesperson said there will be a ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphGerman Indologist, linguist and missionary Hermann Gundert was born on this day in Stuttgart. He was the maternal grandfather of novelist Herman Hesse.Gundert studied Hebrew, Latin, English and French and later Sanskrit, in Germany. At 22, he left for ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphYoung chefs from 50 countries will throw culinary challenges at one another for a week.The 11th edition of IIHM’s Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) took off along the banks of the Mandovi in Goa on Sunday with the promise of ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government has allowed Jadavpur University to hold a meeting of its executive council on Tuesday because the topics for discussion are related to students' interests.JU had sought permission from the higher education department for the meeting and ...
5 February 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal government has announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh each for the next of kin of the three labourers who died after falling into a drain while manually cleaning a manhole at Kolkata Leather Complex.Municipal ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphA tram that used to ferry staff to different locations and one running along Manohar Das Tarag in Esplanade, from where the tracks were removed years ago, feature in a calendar dedicated to the trams of Calcutta.Two calendars — ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphThree workers died inside an underground sewer at the Kolkata Leather Complex on Sunday morning, four days after the Supreme Court prohibited manual scavenging and manual sewer-cleaning in six metros including Calcutta.A preliminary inquiry suggests a contractor engaged the ...
4 February 2025 TelegraphTo encourage children to read at a time when schools are struggling to cultivate their interest in reading, a Calcutta school hosted a literary festival where the first step was to read a book, followed by activities centred around ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphA girl was dressed as a mangrove tree. A boy was dressed as a tiger. The tree sheltered the tiger.A short play featuring two students showed the interaction between a mangrove delta and its apex predator. It was part ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThrust on Gen Z. Cultural connect with the audience. A veteran marketer prescribed effective marketing tools at a programme in Calcutta earlier this month."Thirty-two per cent of the country's audience are Gen Z (the generation of people born between ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphA breathtaking view of the Milky Way from Zanskar in Ladakh on a new moon night. The evolution of Sandakphu, the highest point in Bengal, over the past 50 years. Lively watercolours of Kashmir. Shots of faces that say ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphFlight services in Calcutta were disrupted on Sunday morning for more than two hours because of dense fog.Airport officials said 11 flights were delayed because of low visibility. Although flight operations were not stalled completely, but “low visibility procedure” ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe unusually warm spell is set to end with the Met office spying a drop in the Celsius from Monday.The sky, which has been consistently cloudy for the past two days, is also set to start clearing from Monday, ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe city did not have a single day in January when the air quality was “good” or “satisfactory”, the air quality report of Calcutta shows.The report is available on the website of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board.Ballygunge, the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphHowrah bridge was inaugurated on this day, quietly because of the ongoing World War II.Earlier a pontoon bridge connected Howrah and Calcutta, but a need had been felt for long to build a sturdy permanent structure across the Hooghly. ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe arrival and departure of a total of 13 flights were delayed at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Sunday due to poor visibility caused by fog in the eastern metropolis, a senior official said.Airport Director Pravat ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe 24-year-old woman who was murdered along EM Bypass on Thursday night suffered five stab injuries, a preliminary post-mortem report has revealed, police said.“The post-mortem was carried out on Saturday. A preliminary report revealed that the death of the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The cancer hospital in Thakurpukur has inaugurated a cancer genetic clinic, offering testing and counselling services to individuals with a high risk of developing hereditary cancers.The clinic was inaugurated at the Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation is willing to declare certain neighbourhoods in Calcutta heritage precincts but it does not want to rush through the process and roll out a plan that fails eventually.How to compensate the owners of the properties ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government named Ajay Kumar Thakur the new police commissioner of Barrackpore replacing Alok Rajoria on Saturday.In September 2022, Rajoria had replaced Thakur as the commissioner of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate. Thakur had then been transferred to the ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThree labourers were missing after falling deep inside a drain while clearing the manhole at the Kolkata Leather complex on Sunday, police said.A police officer said one labourer tripped and fell over 20 feet down while clearing the manhole ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe 48th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee has the highest number of stalls till now, a little above 1,000.The fair organisers — Publishers and Booksellers Guild — say it is the highest they ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe mayor of Calcutta on Saturday identified two boroughs as “sensitive” that had many illegal buildings and engineers frequently faced resistance in acting on them.The two boroughs are XV (Garden Reach) and VII (Park Street-Topsia-Tiljala).The municipal commissioner, who was ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was captured in the siege of Serampore by the British but was released, wrote a letter to the council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal that led to the foundation of ...
3 February 2025 TelegraphThe registrar of the West Bengal Medical Council put in his papers on Fri-day following an order by Calcutta High Court that had set him a deadline of 5pm on Friday.A division bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday rejected a plea by Sandip Ghosh, the arrested former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, for more time before charges are framed against him in a case of alleged financial irregularities at ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday intervened in a Saraswati Puja celebration at a south Calcutta college and ordered that the puja be held under the supervision of a joint commissioner of police.The order came on a petition filed by ...
2 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at an eatery in central Kolkata's Esplanade area on Saturday morning, an official said.The blaze, which was reported at 8.26 am, was brought under control at 9.55 am, the Fire Brigade official said.Five fire tenders ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal Club in Calcutta, one of the oldest clubs set up by Europeans in India, was established on this day. According to the club website, the event was recorded in the Government Gazette on February 5 and February ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphRegular interaction between children with and without disabilities would help create more sensitivity and train them in how to behave with each other, said heads of organisations working with those with disabilities.Children or individuals with disabilities will learn social ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe aroma of pithe and puli wafted across a church in Boston in the US on January 18 and 19.An association of NRIs who trace their roots to Bengal organised Poush Utsav 2025 at Boston Framingham Church on January ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA film conclave on Friday stood out for reaching out to students aspiring for a career in the entertainment industry.Over 300 students from different institutions, many pursuing a course in subject/s aligned to filmmaking, were in the audience at ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Friday started pulling down a tilted, under-construction structure in Tangra from where a demolition squad of the civic body had to retreat a day before in the face of resistance from those who had ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA 23-year-old who saw the fatal attack on a young woman in front of a popular eatery on EM Bypass on Thursday night volunteered to share her phone number with the police so officers could contact her if needed.She ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA woman died after she was chased and allegedly stabbed multiple times outside a popular eatery in full public view in the eastern fringes of Kolkata by three people, including a minor, police said on Friday. ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThere has been a sudden surge in stomach infection cases in Kolkata, multiple doctors said. Many patients are complaining of severe stomach pain, nausea, diarrhoea and even fever. Severe cases require hospitalisation. The bad stomach bug – or gastrointestinal ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA Calcutta High Court division bench headed by the chief justice on Thursday directed the registrar of the West Bengal Medical Council to resign by 5pm on Friday.The registrar’s term had ended in 2019, still, he continued in that ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has taken exception to the practice of division benches of Calcutta High Court hearing anticipatory bail and regular bail applications instead of single-judge benches, as is the norm.The apex court has sought an explanation from the ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA stampede that killed at least 30 pilgrims and a fire that gutted around 15 tents at the Mahakumbh could not dampen the spirit of Calcuttans who have planned to take the holy dip in the next few weeks.Several ...
1 February 2025 TelegraphA CBI special court in Alipore has showcaused the CBI for its delay in informing the court about the sanction it received from the Bengal government to prosecute Sandip Ghosh and Ashish Pandey in connection with alleged financial irregularities ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe venue is new and space is a constraint but the skill of the artisans is still shining through at Hastashilpa Mela.There fair has moved from its last location opposite Eco Park and is now stationed at City Square, ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA man who borrowed money to pay his child’s school fees and home’s electricity bill has been arrested for allegedly robbing his creditor’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road. Two men have been arrested in connection with the Tuesday ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA resident of the Lake area who had gone to Puri was allegedly kidnapped for ransom by a group of men and kept in a hideout in Habra, North 24-Parganas. The group demanded ₹14 lakh ransom from the family, ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphKolkata Municipal Corporation officials on Thursday failed to start demolition work on an under-construction building on Christopher Road in Tangra that has tilted as residents of the neighbourhood resisted the drive.Hundreds of people gathered around the six-storeyed building, some ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphAway from the din of Kidderpore, on waterfront land owned by the port trust, is a memorial to thousands of indentured labourers who had set sail from Calcutta between 1834 and 1920. They were requisitioned mostly to work in ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphState BJP president Sukanta Majumdar met the parents of the junior doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital at their home and advised them on their next steps.During the hour-long meeting, the parents handed a ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA young woman stepped out of a car screaming and running. Moments later, a man and a woman chased her and one of them stabbed her multiple times.The brutal attack in the Metropolitan area along EM Bypass at 8.30pm ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphA long-cherished holy trip turned into tragedy for a family in south Calcutta.One of the victims of the pre-dawn stampede at the Mahakumbh was Basanti Poddar, 63, a resident of Bijoygarh.She was one of the two elderly victims from ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe Book Fair has got mascots in its 48th year. “Better late than never,” said Tridib Chatterjee, the guild president. “We thought of it last year itself but there was no time. This year, with Saraswati puja happening within ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf you want to reach a particular stall at the Book Fair in haste or by walking the least distance, download the International Kolkata Book Fair app from Play Store before you reach the Central Park fair ground. ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe day after the assassination of M.K. Gandhi, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, carried this report dated January 30 and headlined “Gandhiji shot dead” across the front page, which read:“Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated this evening by ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf the sight of children walking with sticks on the playground startled visitors to the New Town campus of St. Joan’s School on a recent Saturday morning, the explanation was at hand. It was the school’s sports day and ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphFiery exchanges marked the Model United Nations (MUN) 2024 at the Institute of Engineering and Management in Salt Lake. This was the 11th edition of IEM MUN, which aims to make participants aware of social policies, global issues and ...
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