An oar as her only weapon, Sunderbans resident Rina Sarkar fought the magnificent yellow-and-black striped beast to save her husband from its jaws, and lost. Rina, now 46, recounted how she helplessly watched the Royal Bengal Tiger drag her husband ...
24 April 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has appointed senior professor Bhaskar Gupta as the new Vice Chancellor of the prestigious state-run Jadavpur University. Gupta's appointment as VC was recommended by the state government which had submitted a list of ...
23 April 2024 TelegraphPushed to a corner after the damning declaration of the Calcutta High Court that ruled as "null and void" appointments of over 25,000 teachers in Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee tried her best to put up a brave front ...
22 April 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday welcomed the Calcutta High Court order cancelling all appointments made through a 2016 recruitment process for West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools, and said the verdict proves that the "TMC government was ...
22 April 2024 TelegraphChar hath-roti dena. Garam, garam. A woman’s shrill voice cuts sharply through the surroundings. “I bring along the tarkari from home but I buy the rotis from here,” says Soma Mondal, who works in a shop on Ezra Street ...
TelegraphIf you grew up in the 1980s Calcutta like me, you would be quite familiar with the slogan – “Cholchhe Cholbe” (It is running, it will run – rough translation). No rally by the Left parties was complete without ...
20 April 2024 TelegraphActor Ankush Hazra shares with us the challenges of becoming a film producer and choosing a gangster action drama, Mirza, as the maiden project. You have turned film producer for Mirza. What has been the experience like? Ankush Hazra: The experience ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphA TMC councillor, who had been on a hunger strike for six days alleging that a local leader was not allowing her to work freely, ended her stir on Saturday following assurances from the party leadership. Monalisa Banerjee, the Kolkata ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphFormer Indian cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan, the TMC’s face against Congress heavyweight Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Baharampur, says he is here to stay in politics and remain connected to people of the city, who have already “accepted him as one ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee both endorsed on Saturday that the party would win all three seats in north Bengal where elections were held on Friday, the approach making it clear that ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphDynastic politics has been a prominent feature of Indian democracy, but its increased presence in Bengal this Lok Sabha election marks a significant departure from the state's tradition of cultivating leaders from grassroots politics. Out of the 42 Lok Sabha ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphA mango lover in Calcutta is spoilt for choice these days. He or she gets to savour the king of fruits — apart from its pristine form – in a hundred assortments of experiments. Be it mango puddings, mango ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphAwestruck, I enter the hallowed precincts of New Theatres in Tollygunge, set up in 1930 by B.N. Sircar, a qualified civil engineer. I can’t take my eyes off the tall, barn-like structures where iconic films such as Devdas, Chandidas, Desher ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP is targeting her and her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and they do not feel safe. Her allegation came a day after the Leader of ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphKarn Sharma's scarcely believable last-over assault on Mitchell Starc gave Royal Challengers Bengaluru a glimmer of hope but the Kolkata Knight Riders kept their nerves to eke out a dramatic one-run win off the last ball in their IPL ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphStudents with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly appear for NET and pursue PhD, according to University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar. To pursue a PhD with or without a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), the candidates will require a ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphHeatwave conditions will continue to prevail over many parts of Gangetic West Bengal, with severe heatwave in isolated pockets, the Meteorological department said in its five-day forecast as large areas in the region sizzled under the scorching sun on ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphThe eldest CPM leader and the most important Congress leader in Bengal together made a public appearance on Sunday afternoon but not amidst voters. The joint appearance, at a press conference, of Left Front chairman Biman Bose and Pradesh Congress ...
21 April 2024 TelegraphThe Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday condemned an incident of violence during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal and demanded a probe into it by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to the West Bengal Police, a woman was ...
19 April 2024 TelegraphAmid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe death of five persons in the collapse of an under-construction building here has triggered a political duel between the TMC and the opposition in poll-bound Bengal with the saffron camp dubbing it as a "TMC-made disaster" and the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphCriticising the removal of West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, the Trinamul Congress on Monday claimed it was a glaring example of BJP's "control" over the Election Commission (EC).Addressing a press conference, TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh claimed that BJP ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphClaiming that the collapsed under-construction building at Garden Reach was coming up during the last couple of years only, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member and former Calcutta mayor Bikash Bhattacharya on Monday accused the ruling Trinamul Congress of blaming the ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphFollowing the instruction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the West Bengal government on Monday appointed Vivek Sahay as the new DGP of the state, according to sources.The appointment was made within hours after the poll panel removed ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress MP Saket Gokhale on Monday filed a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he violated the poll code by using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in Andhra Pradesh. ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress on Sunday strongly criticised veteran BJP leader and former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy for his controversial remarks about determining one's religion and grant citizenship accordingly.In a post on X, the party condemned Roy's remarks, stating that he ...
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19 March 2024 TelegraphAmid allegations of rampant illegal constructions in Calcutta's Garden Reach area, where a tragic under-construction building collapse claimed at least four lives and left several injured, the Calcutta High Court is set to hear two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphAt least seven people, including two women, were killed and several others injured after an under-construction five-storey building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, police said on Monday.The toll could go up since at least four people ...
19 March 2024 TelegraphWithin 24 hours of the announcement of poll dates for general elections, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday launched a portal 'Log Sabha' to listen to the grievances of voters and directly connect with them during the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe CPM conceded to ally RSP’s demand for the Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday, for which the name of Mili Oraon was announced, after hectic parleys through the day.At the bipartite meetings between the CPM and the other ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphRehena Bewa of Subhrajpur village in Thanarpara, Nadia, broke down on Friday morning when she heard that her “sister” Manjushree Mandal had died at a hospital.The 61-year-old Bewa rushed to the Mandal home — the lone Hindu household in ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe All India Matua Mahasangha has decided to advise community members not to submit citizenship applications till a new government is formed and simplifies the process.The decision by the community’s apex organisation comes at a time many Matuas’ attempts ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphTwo persons died and seven others were injured as an under-construction five-storeyed building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata, city mayor Firhad Hakim said on Monday.Hakim apprehended that some more people might still be trapped under the ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphThe state government has released funds worth Rs 29 crore, sent by the Centre, to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) for hill panchayats.A letter dated March 12 from the office of the special secretary of the panchayat and rural ...
18 March 2024 TelegraphVisva-Bharati’s festival of colours, Basanta Utsav, which coincides with Holi, is not likely to take place this month for the fifth consecutive year as varsity authorities are wary of any damage to the campus, which is a Unesco-recognised world ...
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