The Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line is set to undergo a major security overhaul, with a new AI-enabled, IP-based CCTV surveillance network expected to be operational by March 2026, an official said.The upgrade, costing Rs 25.34 crore, includes the installation ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Traffic Police on Thursday said the ‘Vidyasagar Setu’ will remain fully closed for vehicular traffic from 6 am to 2 pm on Sunday for “critical repair and rehabilitation work”.All traffic moving towards and across the bridge will ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has proposed conferring an Honorary D Litt on ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup–winning captain Harmanpreet Kaur at its annual convocation on December 24, a senior university official said on Thursday.The recommendation was put forward at a recent ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA resident of Kankurgachi was allegedly cheated out of ₹78.3 lakh after a group of callers made her believe that a courier booked in her name was found to be containing drugs. Three men have been arrested in Gujarat ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor who runs an orphanage asked deputy mayor Atin Ghosh about ways an orphan found abandoned on the street can get a birth certificate.Biswarup De, the councillor from Ward 48, informed the deputy mayor ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphA fisherman who escaped the jaws of a tiger but was left with a paralysed hand now runs a small tea stall. A widow, who lost her husband to a tiger attack, has pulled her eldest son out of ...
21 November 2025 TelegraphThe state education department has informed the high court that the city police's south suburban division will undertake a "comprehensive security audit" of both campuses of Jadavpur University in Jadavpur and Salt Lake.The department informed the court on November ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphA 23-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday from Kali Temple Road in Kalighat for allegedly stealing at least three yellow taxis from Bhowanipore last week, police said.The first of the three was stolen on November 10, and the last, ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court granted bail to former state secondary education board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly on Wednesday in the last CBI case that was preventing his release from jail. Ganguly, arrested in 2022 in connection with alleged irregularities in the ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to establish a new dog pound as the two existing ones are grossly inadequate, deputy mayor Atin Ghosh said on Wednesday.The existing dog pounds at Dhapa and Entally have space for 280 dogs. ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphA homemaker in her early 30s was allegedly shot at by her husband in their 15th-floor apartment in Howrah’s Shibpur on Wednesday morning, police said. A bullet grazed the right side of the woman’s head and she slumped on ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphEvery year, more than 50,000 mongooses are killed in India to meet the demand for paintbrushes made from their hair, despite the species enjoying Schedule 1 protection under the Wildlife Protection Act, the same level as tigers and elephants.Now, ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday issued an interim order asking the school service commission (SSC) to publish the complete list of 1,806 “tainted” candidates, including their addresses and other details, at the earliest.The order came ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has begun releasing interview and lecture demonstration schedules for teacher aspirants after the document verification process started on Tuesday.By Tuesday evening, the SSC announced dates for candidates applying for assistant teacher posts for Bengali ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphSheikh Mujibur Rahman’s room at Baker Hostel, where the founding father of Bangladesh spent his student days in the city, has been locked and largely forgotten for over a year. Once a frequent stop for visitors recommended by the ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to issue "blanket orders" shielding doctors participating in protests following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.A bench comprising Justices MM Sundresh and Satish ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh has asked teachers to take steps to improve the varsity’s standing in the annual ranking exercise conducted by the Union education ministry.Ghosh asked faculty members to analyse the possible reasons for the dip in ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned Mohini Bose, the daughter of state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose, on Tuesday in connection with its investigation into the alleged municipal recruitment scam.Mohini reached the ED’s office in the CGO ...
20 November 2025 TelegraphLarge parts of Deshapriya Park, a favourite playground for countless morning walkers and the training venue for several cricket clubs, continue to remain off-limits because litter and remnants of the Durga Puja pandal are still lying across the northern ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) began verifying documents on Tuesday to ensure that only eligible candidates are called for interviews for teacher posts in government-aided higher secondary schools.On Day 1, 706 candidates were called to Acharya Sadan, the SSC ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA person was arrested from Madhya Pradesh on Monday for his alleged involvement in an investment fraud of ₹72 lakh reported in New Town this February. Complainant Deep Kumar Nath, a resident of Narayanpur near New Town, had come ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA man from Afghanistan was arrested at the Calcutta airport with an Indian passport on Monday. A lookout notice was reportedly issued against him by the Afghan government. Police said the man, who was allegedly found to have multiple ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA petition was moved before Justice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday by a group of private school teachers seeking 10 marks for “teaching experience” in the ongoing recruitment for Class XI-XII teachers in government-aided schools.The petition ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA gallery on climate change at Science City has won a global award in Dubai. “The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has been honoured with the prestigious CIMUSET Award for its ground-breaking climate change gallery 'On The Edge?' ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA gangster from Uttar Pradesh was arrested near Park Street on Tuesday.Mohammad Sohrab had previously been imprisoned in Tihar jail and had violated his parole in June. He was living in the city as an app bike driver for ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphPolice have launched an investigation into the fire that broke out early on Saturday morning at 26 Ezra Street, damaging an 186-year-old Parsi fire temple — the city’s first — along with over a hundred shops selling electrical goods ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe state primary education board will start receiving online application forms for the recruitment of primary school teachers in government-aided schools from Wednesday. Education minister Bratya Basu said 13,421 teachers will be appointed in this round. Candidates who have ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphAn oncology centre with 170 beds will be commissioned at the Peerless Hospital by mid-April, Jayanta Roy, the managing director of Peerless Group, said on Tuesday. The 11-storey building will have about three floors dedicated to cancer treatment, while ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA man died after a major fire broke out at a bike garage in Maurigram, Andul, in Howrah on Tuesday, triggering panic in the locality. The blaze, which residents described as sudden and intense, spread rapidly before fire tenders ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA vehicle carrying ₹5 crore packed in small bags was intercepted at New Town, and two men who allegedly could not explain the source of the money were arrested on Sunday night.The special task force (STF) of Bengal Police ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphThe Nepalese consulate general in Calcutta has agreed to part with a slice of land inside its Ekbalpore compound for the construction of the underground section of the Purple Line, the upcoming Joka-BBD Bag corridor.The consulate stands at the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA theft was reported at the state-level philatelic exhibition being held at Science City over the last four days. Items from two collections being exhibited in the competitive section were sneaked out of frames with glass covers during the ...
19 November 2025 TelegraphA key obstacle in advancing the Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) project has been cleared following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal for a ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphBesides serving countless people in its hospital, the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan offers educational opportunities and women’s empowerment programmes, Swami Goutamanandaji Maharaj, the president of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, said at Matri Bhavan’s platinum jubilee celebrations on ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA petition moved before Calcutta High Court has alleged that several “tainted” candidates feature on the school service commission’s (SSC) interview shortlist. The case has been admitted, and Justice Amrita Sinha is expected to hear it on Wednesday.The Supreme ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Monday that he had held a “preliminary discussion” with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on the possibility of increasing the number of vacancies in teaching posts at the secondary and higher secondary levels of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has informed Baranagar police about the hate-filled graffiti that appeared in one of its hostels on November 11.Deputy director Dipti Prasad Mukherjee said on Monday that the institute had submitted a written ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA new private medical college with 250 MBBS seats is set to come up on the fringes of Calcutta.Desun Hospital will set up the college near Dankuni along the Durgapur Expressway (National Highway 19). The medical college will be ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA shot at electoral inclusion is taking a heavy toll on Bengal’s migrant workers. Hundreds of thousands have returned to their hometowns from workplaces across India in the past month, worried that missing the special intensive revision (SIR) of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphAn infant who came to BC Roy Hospital for treatment in his mother’s arms on Monday morning was allegedly kidnapped by a woman who befriended the young mother posing as a nurse and tricked her into handing the baby ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the alleged irregularities in appointments in municipalities, questioned Rahul Singh, the son-in-law of state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose, for over an hour and a half on Monday.Singh and ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA city-based charity took twelve children and several youths suffering from Type 1 diabetes to an old-age home in Joka on Sunday.Some of the residents of the Joka home are also diabetes patients.Debasis Basu, a diabetologist and chairman of ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim has instructed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials to inspect Ezra Street, where countless overhead cables are present, and to submit a detailed report.Several shops have also sprung up around the Parsi fire temple in the ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo persons died in the city, and the families of the deceased alleged that the deaths were related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Baidyanath Hazra, 46, a driver by profession who had been reported missing from ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA key hurdle in the construction of Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line (Joka–Park Street) moved closer to closure on Monday with Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and the Consulate General of Nepal signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested for allegedly snatching a woman’s chain while she was taking a morning walk near Science City on Sunday.The men were arrested on Sunday evening, within a few hours after the snatching, police said.The police identified ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphThree persons were arrested on Saturday inside Eden Gardens for suspected cricket betting conducted through online apps on their phones, police said. The persons were arrested from the F1 Block of Eden Gardens during the India-South Africa Test match. ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphNearly 100 shops dealing in electrical lights were damaged in the fire that occurred at 26 Ezra Street on Saturday, traders said on Sunday. Shop owners said lights worth nearly ₹100 crore were destroyed.A forensic examination of the market ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA volleyball court in a North 24-Parganas village is doubling as a help centre for residents navigating the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal. Volunteers from a political party without any elected representatives in the state ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA Salt Lake resident bought a new SUV a couple of months ago, selling his old car to the showroom from where he got the new car. Over the past week, he has been frantically calling up the car ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA Salt Lake resident has been allegedly cheated out of ₹1.79 crore in an investment fraud. Sajan Kumar Agarwal, 57, a resident of Sector-I of the township, has told police that he had received a link through WhatsApp which ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphThe six clubs along Rabindra Sarobar signed a rent agreement with the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority last week.This was the first such agreement between the KMDA, the custodians of the water body, and the clubs — Calcutta Rowing Club, ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphAn association of outdoor advertisers has moved Calcutta High Court, challenging the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's decision to remove all private hoardings that hang from buildings or any private premises on Park Street, Camac Street and Shakespeare Sarani. Hoardings and ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphSt Xavier’s University will start BTech courses in four disciplines, offering a total of 240 seats, from next year. Xavier School of Engineering will offer programmes in computer science and engineering, information technology, electronics and communication engineering and computer ...
18 November 2025 TelegraphA couple of exhibits at Bongopex, the ongoing philatelic exhibition at Science City, are so precious that the organisers, the West Bengal circle of India Post, have arranged for a vehicle for the collector to carry them home at ...
17 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has appealed for ₹1.02 crore from the education department to build fences around the five water bodies on the campus, two months after a third-year student drowned in one of them.The public works department (PWD) drew up ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphA fire that broke out early on Saturday morning at a godown on Ezra Street left Calcutta’s first Parsi fire temple — the 186-year-old Rustomjee Cowasjee Church — severely damaged, along with more than a hundred shops selling electrical ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMany voters in the city have made mistakes while filling out their enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls, and are unsure whom to approach for guidance. Others have yet to start filling ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphTest cricket’s comeback to Eden Gardens will be short-lived, Day 2 all but ensured.A flurry of 15 wickets, most of them to spinners, meant the day was never short of action — a feast for spectators who came from ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Saturday evening released a list of over 20,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for the posts of assistant teachers at the higher secondary level in government-aided schools.The list was prepared based ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe high court has granted permission for buses that are 15 years old or older to operate in the Kolkata Municipal Area (KMA), encompassing the cities of Kolkata and Howrah, as well as in portions of neighbouring districts, provided ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphScreening and counselling patients diagnosed with breast cancer are crucial to effective treatment, oncologists said at a conference in the city on Saturday. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women, and proper guidance can significantly influence treatment ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro Railway on Saturday said it recorded the highest-ever number of mobile QR tickets booked on a normal day since the digital facilities were introduced, officials said on Saturday.In a statement, the authorities said over 53,000 Mobile QR ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Subhra Ghosh of Calcutta High Court on Friday directed police to produce the case diary in the alleged attempted murder case against Trinamool Congress South Dum Dum councillor Mrinmoy Das. The judge also asked the police to provide ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphThe directors of the companies allegedly involved in laundering proceeds from cybercrime were summoned by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Bengal Police on Friday. They have been asked to appear within 72 hours.Sources said that in the preliminary ...
16 November 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway on Saturday announced a partial suspension of services on the Blue Line, citing “unavoidable circumstances.”According to an official update, trains are currently operating only between Baranagar and Sahid Khudiram stations, leaving the remaining stretch temporarily without service.Authorities ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA fire in an electrical goods shop at the crack of dawn on Saturday in Burrabazar’s Ezra Street has taken a devastating form with the flames spreading to adjacent buildings.The congested building blocks, narrow lanes and large stacks of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphAn absorbing contest. A wave of nostalgia. Love and longing for a legend. And the stubborn eyesores that refuse to leave. As Test cricket returned to Eden Gardens after six years, the stadium turned into a vivid montage of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has formed a 10-member fact-finding committee to investigate the communal graffiti that appeared on the walls and staircases of one of its hostels, C.V. Raman Hall. The committee includes four student representatives.The writings, ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphOf Bengal’s 7.66 crore voters, around 25 lakh were not found at their registered addresses, leaving their enumeration forms undelivered in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Election Commission officials said.Most of these voters are in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA healthy and balanced diet can be as effective as medicine in managing and controlling diabetes, doctors said at an awareness meet on Friday. Reducing stress, having adequate sleep and exercising are the other factors that are important in ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBengal’s first private veterinary college is coming up at Hooghly’s Mogra, 65km from the heart of Calcutta. The college will start classes before the year ends, said an official. The JIS College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (JISCOVAS), for ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe CBI on Friday submitted its seventh status report on its probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year.The CBI’s counsel told the Sealdah court that ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) seeking the right to collect advertisement tax from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for in-stadia advertisements at Eden Gardens, bringing an end to a ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphA platform of former Jadavpur University students based in California has decided to provide funds for the chair of a professor of practice — a new position approved by the UGC — to bring real-world experience into the classroom.At ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose has instituted the Padmavati Award in memory of his mother, who was a postmistress. The award, a part of the Governor’s Award for Excellence initiative, will be conferred on three eminent philatelists in recognition of ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphBushes outside burst with Bougainvillea in so many colours that you can barely see the leaves. A lush lawn lies within, with pink blooms cascading from the terrace, and an overhead canopy of orange Allamandas. Retired teacher Lily Datta ...
15 November 2025 TelegraphIt has colourful flowers, attractive leaves, and with some care, the Balsam, or Dopati, will grow readily in your front yard.Balsam is an ornamental plant. It produces lovely colourful flowers and is popular for garden beds, borders, and containers. ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphYour bank calls and says a credit card has arrived in your name, and that you are to get your Pan and Aadhaar cards to claim it. You pick it up, but since you didn’t really ask for one, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA grand chariot rolled into Aikatan carrying the message of Sathya Sai Baba. It had been travelling for months from Puttaparthi, the headquarters of Sri Sathya Sai district in Andhra Pradesh.The chariot was part of the centenary celebrations of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSharmishta Mukherjee was in the ICU a couple of months ago on account of anxiety. The cause was not anything to do with her own affairs. The doctors told her sternly to stay away from social work during the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSabyasachi Dutta, chairman of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, has claimed that his name is missing in the 2002 voter list. His wife Indrani Dutta’s name is missing as well.The 2002 information is vital to fill up the Election Commission of ...
14 November 2025 Telegraph“The unfortunate part about Ghatak’s career is his films were not shown in film festivals abroad in his lifetime; neither did he ever travel to foreign shores. After his death, he was discovered and there was a wave of ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphRitwik Ghatak was not interested in the historical details of the Partition but rather in its aftermath. Prof Anindya Sengupta of the department of film studies, Jadavpur University, made the comment as part of his opening remarks in a ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFor several years, AJ Block has hosted a popular event in which children set up stalls to sell home-made food. This year, the organisers recognised that not everyone enjoys cooking and so opened doors for them to sell anything ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphIf you love sports and have the afternoon free, take a stroll towards Hyatt Regency from Broadway and walk into Gate 5A, opposite St. Francis Xavier School. The newly carved out gate leads into Salt Lake’s latest sports utility, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphSloth bears (Melursus ursinus) have been captured on trap cameras in the forests of Purulia for the first time, forest officials said.Although anecdotal reports of their presence have circulated for years, officials said this is likely the first photographic ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday announced the schedule for the 2026 board exams. The ICSE (Class X) exams will begin on February 17, while the ISC (Class XII) exams will commence on February ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphFeeling isolated because of mental health struggles does not mean one is alone, and seeking professional help is perfectly acceptable, was the message conveyed by students of South City International School through a thoughtfully prepared school board.Students from Classes ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphWritings laced with communal hatred have appeared on the walls and doors of a hostel at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, sparking outrage among students, teachers, and alumni of an institution long regarded as a cradle of liberal, ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the death of jeweller Swapan Kamilla in New Town have reportedly found a purported video on the phone of one of the accused, Raju Dhali, which confirms the presence of Sajal Sarkar at the scene of the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing alleged fund transfers in the multicrore irregularities in municipal appointments across the state, has summoned the wife, son, and daughter of Sujit Bose, Trinamool Congress leader and minister for fire and emergency services.Sources in ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphMake way for the whites.Test cricket returns to Eden Gardens after six years on Friday. If the snaking queues outside the ticket counters on the eve of the match were anything to go by, the stadium should be buzzing ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphA man who earlier worked at a jewellery workshop in Sinthi was arrested on Thursday for allegedly carrying out an armed robbery at his former workplace in October. Police said Sahidul Mandal, who was earlier working at a jewellery ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will remain shut to traffic from 5am to 9pm on Sunday. “During the replacement of stay and down cables and bearings of the second Hooghly bridge (Vidyasagar Setu), the movement of all types of vehicles shall be ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe inaugural edition of an awards ceremony that aims to give voice to the voiceless in cinema will be held in the city on December 20.The CineKind Awards is a collaboration between the Film Federation of India (FFI) and ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphThe curtain came down on the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival with a concluding ceremony where the flow of events was turned upside down by a “surprise visit”.Even as Jaydeep Banerjee’s name was announced as the winner in the ...
14 November 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested a man from Siliguri on Wednesday in connection with the murder of jeweller Swapan Kamilla, whose body was found in New Town on October 29, taking the total number of arrests to three in this case. The ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 67-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke on Sunday night and was declared “brain dead” on Tuesday, volunteered to donate her organs. Her organs were retrieved on Wednesday. Chandana Sengupta’s son said his mother “will be ...
13 November 2025 TelegraphStudents and research scholars of ISI Calcutta organised an assembly at the campus gate on Wednesday evening to protest the draft ISI Bill, 2025, which they alleged was the Union government’s attempt to rob the institute of its autonomy. ...
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