A 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 ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphIf you eat right, you won’t need medicines; if you eat wrong, no medicine will be enough,” said Dr G. Babu, director of the Central Ayurveda Research Institute (CARI) in Sector V.“Every kitchen has turmeric (holud), cardamom (elach), and ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphAnjan Dutt and Aparna Sen play a married couple for the first time on the big screen in Ei Raat Tomar Amaar, director Parambrata Chattopadhyay’s intimate portrayal of the complexities of a five-decade-old marriage. A chamber drama set in a ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThree men who had their faces covered with helmets barged into a film production company’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and took away ₹7.3 lakh brandishing a knife and threatening to kill.Only one staff member and a guest ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the RG Kar victim on Wednesday withdrew their application from the Supreme Court for a fresh probe into the rape and murder of their daughter, which they had sought citing that “more than one person” was ...
31 January 2025 TelegraphCharles T. Metcalfe, who as acting Governor-Gen- eral had introduced major reforms in India that included an Act on the freedom of press, was born on this day in Calcutta. His father had been a director of the British ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphPeople should maintain hand hygiene, and should not eat stale food or drink water that could be contaminated, although no unexpected spike in the number of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) cases has been noticed in the state so far, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of the popular biryani chain D Bapi was arrested in Madhyamgram for allegedly threatening a person with arms and assaulting him during talks about a rented property. Anirban Das was arrested on Tuesday under the Arms Act ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state forest department and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are considering a proposal that a building’s completion certificate be issued only if the owner plants a certain number of saplings, as promised before getting the building permit, officials ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphFor around a thousand years in the ancient period, India’s influence extended far beyond its borders.One of the leading historians in the world, who also happens to be a best-selling author, turned the pages back on the lawns of ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe teacher-in-charge of a government-aided school in North Dinajpur who is suspected to have masterminded the racket that duped over 2,000 students by transferring a government grant for buying tablets or smartphones to others’ accounts was arrested on Wednesday.Police ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphShoes, shawls, mufflers and many other personal items lay strewn on the road in the stampede zone of Mahakumbh when two lawyers from Calcutta reached there around noon on Wednesday.Hours before that, when they were taking a dip at ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe owner of a popular biryani joint in Barrackpore near Kolkata who is also a local Trinamul leader was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly threatening and assaulting a godown owner.The owner, Anirban Das, is an elected gram panchayat member ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOld manuscripts, black-and-white photographs, lithographs, woodcuts, needlework, porcelain figurines, matchbox labels and furniture — all from the early 19th to 20th century — give us an essence of what Calcutta used to be.Calcutta Memorabilia, an exhibition presented by Intach, ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe state health department has given its nod to the CBI to “prosecute” former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in a financial irregularity case for which he has been arrested.The central agency has also got ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, on Tuesday said the seizure of arms from the heart of the city does not indicate criminals are getting easy shelter in Bengal.Verma was speaking on the arrest of five men from ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, M.K. Gandhi wrote a letter to C.F. Andrews, a missionary who participated in India’s freedom movement.In the letter, Gandhi addresses Andrews as “My dearest Charlie” and speaks about untouchability. It reads:“…I look at the problem as ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital do not want the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, their lawyer submitted before Calcutta High Court on Monday. The Bengal government and the ...
30 January 2025 TelegraphThe small and dwindling Chinese population in the city is all set to celebrate the New Year on Wednesday.Houses and streets in Tangra and Tiretta Bazaar, two neighbourhoods in the city with a sizeable Chinese population, were decorated with ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphSomething seems amiss in a house without books, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said inaugurating the 48th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boi Mela Prangan in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee on Tuesday.“Je baritey boi thaakey na, kirokom ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphFreedom of press was always elusive.On this day, 245 years ago, the first Indian newspaper was born when James Augustus Hicky printed Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. Its brief, brilliant, outrageous and checkered career illustrates, quite spectacularly, what can happen when ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair at the Boimela Prangan in Central Park in Salt Lake on Tuesday afternoon.Germany is the focal theme country for this year’s fair, which will continue till February ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphHP Ghosh Hospital marked an important milestone today with the launch of Bhalo Thakar Prescription, a book aimed at making healthcare more accessible and understandable. The event was attended by prominent figures, including Dr Narayan Banerjee, who underscored the ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphJan 28 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair and expressed hope that one day it would emerge as the “best of the best” in the world.Despite the surge in ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Police team arrested a gang of five men from Uttar Pradesh led by a BTech degree holder in a raid near Surendranath College in central Kolkata’s Sealdah area late on Monday, but the cops are yet to ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the British forces captured the Danish colony of Serampore for the second time.In 1801, the British and the Danes extended their conflict in Europe to the Indian territories they controlled. In May that year, the British ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday set February 10 for further hearing a batch of petitions related to Calcutta High Court’s April 2024 judgment quashing the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal because of alleged illegalities following ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphGandhigiri makes more sense than Gandhivaad or Gandhism because it means trying to implement Gandhi’s ideas in the altered circumstances of our lives, a scholar who has extensively studied the Mahatma told a Calcutta audience. “Gandhism means nothing. Gandhigiri ...
29 January 2025 TelegraphA structural engineer hired by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to assess the two tilted buildings on Tangra’s Christopher Road has suggested that the one under construction be pulled down first to determine if the other, where families have ...
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