A man named Suraj Shah, who lives close to BJP leader Rakesh Singh’s Orphangunge house, has been arrested in the cocaine case for allegedly helping an associate of Singh to flee the spot where Pamela Goswami’s car was parked ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphA 65-year-old woman who lost both her sons and is raising her grandchildren came to receive a kit of basic necessities of food, clothing and bed linen.A 57-year-old woman who lives alone and earns a living by making paper ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphBirla High School, MukundapurBirla High School, Mukundapur, celebrated Saraswati Puja online. The puja was streamed live on the school’s official Facebook page. Students and staff members, who could not be physically present, took part in the rituals online as ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphA forum of bus and lorry operators in Bengal has written to the state’s chief electoral officer telling him that they would not give their vehicles for election duty if their dues from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphA 40-year-old man riding a motorcycle died after his two-wheeler skidded on Ekbalpore Road and he came under the wheels of a truck late on Sunday night, police said.Bikramjit Kori, 40, a resident of Thakurpukur, Pashchim Barisha, was wearing ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe ICSE (Class X) exams and the ISC (Class XII) theory papers will begin on May 5, the ICSE council announced on Monday evening.The ISC computer science (Paper 2) practical-planning session is scheduled for April 8 and the ISC ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphAn engineering aspirant has to be a domicile of Bengal to enroll in Calcutta University’s BTech programme, CU officials said.Being domicile means one has to reside in Bengal continuously for at least 10 years as on 31.12.2020 or his ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphPrivate hospitals that started giving Covid jabs to people above 59 and those above 45 with comorbidities on Monday created help-desks so the elderly are spared the hassle of online registration.Others who plan to start vaccinating the general public ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe Darjeeling hills are ready to host legislators from across Himalayan states and Union territories in India later this year for the Sustainable Mountain Development Summit.The Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI), a civil society-led forum, has decided to pass on ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphPlaster from the ceiling of a government high school staff room collapsed from a height of 13ft on the heads of two students and two teachers, grievously injuring one of them, at Dhangbhara near Salboni in West Midnapore around ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphVisva-Bharati authorities framed charges against Rajesh K.V, an assistant professor of the department of drama and general secretary of Adhyapak Sabha, accusing him of visiting the academics and research section “almost every day” by neglecting his duty.There were allegations ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphMoyna Khatun, 24, a resident of Murshidabad’s Suti and an arts graduate from D.N. College in Kalyani University, has set an example in the minority-dominated area when she demanded 60 books as “mohor” (dowry that a groom needs to ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe road and rail connectivity has emerged as a major topic of election campaign in north Bengal with the central and state governments led by the BJP and the Trinamul Congress vying with each other by making major announcements ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphTollywood actress Srabanti Chatterjee, who was seen close to the Trinamul Congress, joined the BJP on Monday.She accepted BJP the flag from state party president Dilip Ghosh and the minder for Bengal Kailash Vijavargiya. “This is a new journey ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThousands of senior citizens across Bengal on Monday had to wait for hours or left without a jab from the hospital as the CoWin 2.0 app faced glitches on a day the central health ministry started vaccinating those above ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphWheels of the “rath” or the tableaux taken out by the BJP for its Parivartan Yatra in north Bengal came to a halt a day ahead of its schedule in Malda on Monday as it did not move into ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe Congress on Monday said it had reached a deal with the Left Front and would field candidates in 92 Assembly segments, but vowed that not a single seat would be left aside for the Indian Secular Front from ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphAkhilesh Yadav in the morning, Tejashwi Yadav in the evening.The Young Turks of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar politics on Monday threw their weight behind Mamata Banerjee in Bengal. The expression of solidarity is fuelling hope in the Trinamul Congress that ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphA plea challenging the Election Commission's decision to conduct assembly elections over eight phases in West Bengal was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday.The plea, filed by lawyer M L Sharma, seeks the apex court's direction to the ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphA BJP delegation on Monday wrote to Calcutta Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra alleging that an illegal exercise was being carried out in the force to "enable collection of postal ballot and effect proxy votes" during assembly elections, set to ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress is likely to axe several sitting MLAs from its candidate list for the upcoming West Bengal elections, sources said on Monday.The party is planning to nominate more youths, women, and leaders with clean image and acceptability ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphSenior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Monday slammed the party's tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui in West Bengal, saying it was against the party's core ideology and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism.He also ...
02 Mar 2021 TelegraphTwo men died in separate road accidents in the city since Saturday evening. A man riding a motorbike died after the two-wheeler was hit by a lorry on BT Road early on Sunday. Two others who were riding pillion ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphChildren in pre-primary schools are missing out on key lessons on social and conversation skills and how to share attention in the absence of in-person classes.The Covid pandemic has not only impacted the senior students but also children who ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphGovernment schools are advancing the higher secondary practical exams because of the possibility of central forces taking over the campuses in the run up to the Assembly elections, which will be held in eight phases from March 27 to ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe New Town authorities have issued an advisory to all residential and commercial buildings to set up bicycle docking stations, an officer of New Town Kolkata Development Authority said.“Hidco has constructed bicycle docking stations near the Nazrul Tirtha bus ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphA lot of heat and dust was raised over the weekend of February 21-22 at Shyam Business Park in Singur as two-wheelers and four-wheelers spun across mud tracks, raced through circuitous routes and recorded best timings, at Kolkata Moto Fest ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphCanteens and stores on the IIEST campus in Shibpur are set to reopen on Monday, said an official of the institute.The four canteens on the campus and the stores have been ordered to reopen “with immediate effect” as employees ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe Bengal health department has said Covid-19 vaccination for people above 59 and those between 45 and 59 with comorbidities is set to start across the state on Monday.The Co-Win 2 app, the digital platform for Covid vaccination across ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphA robotic arm has significantly reduced the margin of error in knee-replacement surgery, doctors at a city hospital said on Saturday.In a traditional surgery, doctors remove the damaged surface of the knee joint and replace it with an implant ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphCovid-19 vaccination will be available for two groups of civilians from at least 10 private hospitals and 15 government hospitals in Calcutta from Monday.The Cowin 2.0 app will be activated at noon on Monday in the city so that ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphBengal on Sunday witnessed the injection of a new dimension into its politics with the formal induction of Abbas Siddiqui, a Furfura Sharif pirzada, who took centre-stage at the Brigade rally of the Left and the Congress with a ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe Left Front and the Congress, along with their new partner Indian Secular Front, held their first joint public meeting at the Brigade Parade Grounds in Calcutta on Sunday, prompting the alliance to claim that the well-attended rally showed ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphThe district administration in Jalpaiguri has asked leaders of political parties to submit details of booths they feel should be identified as sensitive and information on areas where they apprehend breach of peace.In an all-party meeting at the district ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphLeaders of Mamata Banerjee’s party in the hills feel Trinamul should field candidates in all three Assembly seats — Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong — to skirt the factions of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, who despite being Trinamul allies, are ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphBengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury was speaking at the Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday when chants of “bhaijaan, bhaijaan” rent the Brigade air, forcing the veteran to pause midway, indicating that the road ahead for the Left-Congress-ISF alliance would ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphVeteran Left leaders stepped back to push the younger generation on the big stage and youths made up a bulk of the crowd at Brigade Parade Grounds, both these features standing out at the Left-Congress-ISF rally on Sunday.The “youthful” ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphFormer Bengal chief minister and CPI(M) veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharya will not be attending the party's mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground on Sunday owing to ill health, sources said.The Left-Congress-ISF alliance will kick-off its campaign for the upcoming ...
01 Mar 2021 TelegraphA visit to Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral house in north Calcutta on a tram followed by a trip to Belur Math on a launch and back — this is how you can spend your Sunday, starting February 28.“Vivek Yatra” will ...
28 Feb 2021 TelegraphFebruary is not yet over and the mercury has already breached 35 degrees. The maximum temperature on Friday and Saturday was 35 and 35.1 degrees respectively.The Met office in Alipore issued an alert on Saturday, warning of a rise in ...
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