Calcutta University has asked the students who allegedly locked up teachers and students of the geography department on July 8 at Ballygunge Science College under the pretext of a protest to meet the registrar next month and explain their ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphA theft of bathroom fittings and ceiling fans worth ₹35 lakh has been reported from The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata. The hotel has remained closed to guests since last August because of restoration. On June 21, around 5pm, a shift ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is planning to start motivational lectures to reduce mental stress of students, the institute's director said on Sunday. The move follows the death of Ritam Mondal, 21, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, was found hanging in his ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphTauseef, the prime accused in gangster Chandan Mishra’s murder at Paras Hospital in Patna, calls himself Badshah, “king of Patna” and posts pictures with cars on social media. Tauseef, who loves to flaunt his cars on social media, was ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur is working on teaching students how to manage academic demands alongside the growing pressure of internships — drawing lessons from a spate of student suicides on campus.A senior official acknowledged that students were becoming increasingly focused on ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphEleven of the 12 Kingfisher species found in the Indian subcontinent are also found in Bengal, a birdwatchers’ group pointed out during a conference on Saturday.At the two-day conference, a proposal was made to declare a Sunday in July ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphFriday began with a hot and sunny morning before dark clouds took over the city skyline and triggered a sharp spell of rain in the afternoon.After the clouds passed, the sky cleared again.Similar conditions are likely to play out ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) on Friday said that it might hold the selection test to appoint teachers at the secondary and higher secondary levels of the government-aided schools on September 7 and 14. The commission wrote to the ...
21 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta has requested Haridevpur police station to consider reopening Gate 1 — the institute’s main gate — which has been barricaded by police since the alleged rape on campus on July 11.Teachers and staff are currently entering through ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphPouring rain and waterlogged streets were no deterrents for a group of tram enthusiasts who gathered at the Rabindra Sarani–Mahatma Gandhi Road crossing on Saturday to protest the pouring of bitumen over tram tracks there.Although the bitumen has since ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools will close or switch to online classes on Monday, anticipating traffic disruptions due to the Martyrs’ Day rally.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to address the Trinamool Congress gathering at Esplanade around 1pm.The timing coincides with dispersal ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police will implement stringent traffic management measures on Monday to comply with a Calcutta High Court order restricting political processions during peak morning hours on the day of the ruling party’s showpiece annual rally in front of the ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphThe additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Alipore on Saturday granted bail to the IIM Calcutta student accused of rape.The court cited the complainant’s failure to appear for a medico-legal examination, said public prosecutor Sourin Ghosal.“Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar will ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphA torrential two-hour downpour from Saturday noon inundated large parts of the city, uprooted trees and slowed down traffic on waterlogged roads that were already pockmarked with potholes.Vehicles crawled along many roads that remained underwater till at least the ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphA court on Saturday granted interim bail to a student of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta accused of raping a woman on the campus.The accused was arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the woman at Haridevpur ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police would do everything possible to comply with the high court directives on the TMC's rally on July 21, commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday after reviewing the arrangements.He also launched three helplines -- 1073, 9830811111 and 9830010000, ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphThe statement of a 24-year-old woman who was allegedly raped in a hostel at IIM Calcutta last week could not be recorded before a magistrate on Friday as she did not come to court.The complainant, who alleged she was ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphThree elephants, a mother and two calves, were crushed by an express train moving at over 100kmph in a pocket of Jhargram early on Friday.The accident happened just before 1am as the Jan Shatabdi Express was headed to Howrah ...
20 July 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim faced numerous complaints about poor roads and waterlogging during the weekly phone-in programme, Talk to Mayor, on Friday. Hakim said the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will need four to five days without rain to fix the ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphTwo men — one from Kanpur and another from Delhi — were recently arrested in separate cases of online fraud by a team from Howrah City Police’s cyber wing.The total amount duped out of the two victims is close ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police on Friday announced a slew of traffic restrictions for the Martyrs’ Day rally of the Trinamool Congress at Esplanade on Monday. Traffic restrictions Movement of vehicles will be regulated along the following ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphA retired assistant commissioner of Kolkata Police, a serving inspector, and a home guard — named in a CBI supplementary chargesheet in the 2021 post-poll murder of BJP worker Avijit Sarkar — were sent to jail on Friday.They were ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphRally participants on July 21 must reach Esplanade before 8am or after 11am, the high court said on Friday.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed police to ensure smooth traffic between 9am and 11am so employees of offices within a 5km radius ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphThe boy who was found hanging in the IIT Kharagpur hostel on Friday had scored 97.2 per cent in his ISC exams and was pursuing a dual degree programme. He would have graduated with an MTech after a five-year ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphThe presence of forensic nurses — trained in procedures such as the collection and preservation of samples for medico-legal cases or counselling of sexual assault victims — would benefit hospitals in many such cases, doctors said.“In any kind of ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphThis Forest Week, thousands of saplings will get planted across the city. Pictures of the drives will get taken and shared enthusiastically on social media. But in most cases, once the moment is over, the planters will become oblivious ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphIn what appears to be a first for Salt Lake, a mortuary freezer was inaugurated at DB community hall on July 13 and will be available free of cost for residents of Ward 39.A mortuary freezer, also known as ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphTwo tableaux were flagged off on Saturday morning from Aranya Bhavan, the state headquarters of the forest department. The tableaux are aimed to spread messages of awareness to save greenery and distribute seedlings in Salt Lake, New Town and ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphA woman was allegedly molested near Karunamoyee when she was returning home in FD Block from her Sector V office on Wednesday morning.Police arrested a person from Lake Town on Thursday. He was identified as Raja Mandal, a flower ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphA woman in her 30s was allegedly assaulted, molested and threatened at a tea stall at the Sulekha crossing in Jadavpur early on Thursday.The woman said she was returning home from Garia with her friends after a shoot for ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday asked the state administration to ensure traffic movement was not “disturbed” because of the Trinamool Congress’s Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21.During the hearing, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh said a political party should not select ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday acquitted a husband and his alleged accomplices, sentenced to death for the murder of his wife 11 years ago. The woman's dismembered body was found in a trolley bag at Sealdah station.The division bench ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a slew of projects, including homes for the less privileged, in New Town on Thursday.Two housing projects in Action Area 2C have come up on seven acres of land. There are more than 1,200 ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphAn extensive part of the added areas in the vicinity of Sector V will get filtered potable water once a project undertaken by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is completed.The project had hit a hurdle with the national wetland authority. ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphA lawyer for South Calcutta Law College told the high court on Thursday that the college had decided not to allow programmes with the student union banner until campus elections are held.Somnath Mukherjee told a bench of Justices Soumen ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the state government to file an affidavit within two weeks stating its position on holding student union elections in colleges and universities.The bench, comprising Justices Soumen Sen and Smita ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphFor more than six months, Ehsaan Habib has been trying to secure a medical visa for his son’s critical follow-up surgery. The one-year-nine-month-old boy from Bangladesh underwent life-saving surgery for a congenital skull disorder in Calcutta and desperately needs ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphFormer Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal submitted an “unconditional apology” before the high court on Thursday for inadvertently naming the slain RG Kar doctor.A PIL had been filed against Goyal, now additional director-general of Bengal Police’s Special Task Force, ...
19 July 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police have denied that any restrictions are being imposed on any Durga Puja pandal or that any of the pandals are being stopped.“Kolkata Police would like to clarify that no directive has been issued to halt or restrict ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MLA from Beleghata Paresh Paul and two party councillors — Swapan Samaddar and Papiya Ghosh — made anticipatory bail prayers before Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. Their names have been added by CBI in Abhijit Sarkar murder ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur will introduce courses in advanced disciplines like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning which, the institute thinks, will help it attract bright students and shore up its image. On the 71st convocation of IIT Kharagpur on Tuesday, ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphA CBI team on Tuesday met the parents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee who was raped and murdered inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.The team informed the parents that unlike their claims about multiple people being involved, only ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata Municipal Corporation staff member was arrested on Monday for allegedly cheating at least two women who are beneficiaries of a government scheme.Umesh Kumar Das, an employee of the Borough V, was manipulating the bank account details of ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphRice Education director Arati Roy passed away on Monday evening. She would have turned 88 on Friday. Arati Roy played a pivotal role in the establishment and growth of the 40-year-old Rice-Adamas Group. “As chairman and a first-generation entrepreneur, ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphIn a bid to bolster the road transport network (RTN), a Calcutta-Delhi direct route for the delivery of postal mail was inaugurated at Nabadiganta sub-post office in Sector V on July 1. Ashok Kumar, the chief post master general ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University’s inspection team, set up to probe the alleged illegalities in the appointment of casual staff and admission of students at the South Calcutta Law College, spoke to the vice-principal on Monday about the complaints. Nayna Chatterji, the ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphThe countdown began when the parachutes were visible.It culminated in a loud roar when the Dragon Grace dipped into the calm waters of the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.At the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, more than 100 ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphSuccessive weather systems and the position of the monsoon trough have delivered surplus rainfall to south Bengal in June and July, with some districts receiving more than double their usual precipitation.North Bengal, meanwhile, has received significantly less rain due ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphThe statement of the woman who was allegedly raped in a hostel at IIM Calcutta last week could not be recorded before the magistrate for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, after she failed to turn up. The court ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphOnly two government hospitals in the state — both of them in the city — conduct the test that determines what type of haemophilia a patient is suffering from and advocacy groups want more hospitals in districts to do ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area over south Bengal intensified into a depression on Monday, triggering rain across south Bengal.Calcutta spent another sunless day that saw persistent rain.Tuesday is also likely to remain overcast and rainy, the sky is expected to get ...
17 July 2025 TelegraphA division bench of the high court on Monday reserved its judgment on a petition challenging the state government’s decision to hold the teacher selection tests based on rules drafted this year. The petitioners comprise candidates who had cracked ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta’s director-in-charge and members of the institute’s internal complaints committee (ICC) addressed students in a general assembly on campus on Monday evening, following the alleged gang-rape in a hostel last week.The officials assured students of the steps the ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphThe trial of the case related to alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will commence on July 22, a court ordered on Monday.The court framed charges on Monday against the prime accused, Sandip Ghosh, former ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphSchools are worried as many children are missing classes and sometimes exams because they are down with fever.Doctors said that at least 30 per cent of the children coming to their clinics are suffering from viral fever. Children are ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphThe mother of Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, the second-year student of IIM Calcutta, arrested for allegedly raping a woman, said that her son was innocent and had come all the way from Karnataka to study here."We received a call from ...
16 July 2025 TelegraphAlok Kumar Rai, vice-chancellor of the University of Lucknow, will be the next director of IIM Calcutta.President Droupadi Murmu, Visitor of the IIMs, approved Rai’s name for director of the B-school, two officials of IIM-C told this newspaper.Rai comes ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphHundreds of dismissed schoolteachers, marching to Nabanna on Monday, were stopped by police several kilometres ahead of the state secretariat.The march to Nabanna, which started a little after noon from Howrah station, was stopped within a couple of kilometres, ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta has convened a meeting of its academic council this week to decide what steps to take following the arrest of a second-year student for allegedly raping a woman in a hostel room on the campus.An official of ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphSchools and education consultants are urging students aspiring to pursue higher education in the United States to remove political content from their social media accounts ahead of visa applications.The guidance comes as the Donald Trump administration resumed student visa ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphThe chairperson of the state women’s commission said on Sunday that officials are attempting to speak with the woman who was allegedly raped by a second-year student of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in the boys’ hostel on ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphParamanand, a 26-year-old student in the 2024–26 batch at IIM Calcutta, is originally from Karnataka and holds a BTech in mechanical engineering.Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar — referred to by some as Paramanand Jain — was arrested from the Joka campus ...
15 July 2025 TelegraphOncopathology has emerged as one of the most important aspects of cancer treatment, doctors and experts said.Oncopathology or cancer pathology is a specialised branch of pathology focused on diagnosing and characterising tumours. It involves examining tissue samples, cells, and ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has reached out to students with assurances of support following the arrest of a second-year student on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman inside a hostel room.The incident occurred on Friday at the ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphA hot and humid Sunday morning led to multiple sharp spells of rain in and around the city as another low-pressure system brewed over the Bay of Bengal.The official forecast for Calcutta for the next couple of days is ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphThe IIM Calcutta student arrested on rape charges had known the complainant for the past three months and not for a week as he has claimed, police sources said on Sunday citing his call details.Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, 26, a ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphDevi Shetty’s Narayana Health has launched its health insurance products in Calcutta, promising to eliminate the mistrust between insurers, hospitals and patients while reducing lengthy wait times for claim settlements after discharge.The Bengaluru-based healthcare chain, which runs three hospitals ...
14 July 2025 TelegraphForty-eight shops that were occupying government land at the Lord’s crossing on Prince Anwar Shah Road were demolished on Saturday in a drive by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and police. The plot on 355 Prince Anwar Shah Road — ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphA teacher at a north Calcutta college was accused of giving rape threats to students on his Facebook page. Students gheraoed him outside campus on Saturday evening. The students, most of them supporters of the SFI, asked him why ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphTwo teams of forest guards, each credited with capturing a tiger that had strayed near human habitation, were felicitated in the city on Friday.As their stories were shared from the dais, the audience responded with applause. These are the ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphMetro services were disrupted for an hour on Saturday after a suicide bid at Central station.A man jumped in front of a Dakshineswar-bound train just as it chugged into Central around 11.55am, said a Metro official. A power block ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe damaged roads of the city will be fixed by Tuesday, a senior engineer of the civic body said on Saturday.A senior official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said they had already started fixing roads.The ongoing work is ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe assassins of Trinamool leader of Bhangar, Rajjak Khan, chose a spot they knew was not covered by CCTV and had information about the leader’s schedule, investigators said on Saturday.Khan, in his late 30s, was first shot and then ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe Lake View Hostel at IIM Calcutta, where a second-year student allegedly raped a woman on Friday, was constructed in 2014 as part of the institute’s expansion to accommodate growing student enrolment.Named for its view of a large water ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta student Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, also referred to as Paramanand Jain by some, was arrested from the hostel around 12.15am on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman after luring her for a “counselling session”. The following is a ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphServices were disrupted along a stretch of Metro Railway Kolkata for an hour after a person "accidentally fell on the tracks" at Central Station on Saturday, an official said.The incident took place around 11.50 am.A Metro Railway spokesperson said ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphNext time you are in Sikkim, choose quality over quantity.The state, known for stunning Himalayan landscapes and warm hospitality and one of the most popular holiday destinations for people of Bengal, is now encouraging “slow tourism”.Slow tourism prioritises meaningful, ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphIndia Meteorological Department has forecast consistent presence of rain and thundershowers across the city and its surrounding areas, including Dumdum, Salt Lake, and Howrah next week.Beginning today, July 12, the city can expect a cloudy sky with a high ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College handed over documents relating to its governing body meetings in the past two years to Calcutta University on Thursday.Last Wednesday, a CU team visited the law college, where a student was gang-raped on June 25.The ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe CID arrested an employee of a private bank on Thursday for allegedly being part of a group that duped a man out of ₹36 lakh by luring him to invest in the stock market. Amit Ghosh, 34, was ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has received around 5,000 applications from school staff dismissed by the Supreme Court in April, seeking to return to their previous government jobs.An official said they were contacting departments where these applicants worked before joining ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphYa poyu na bengal’skom yazyke… It might read like gibberish in English script but sung aloud, this is the Russian translation of Pratul Mukhopadhyay’s ode to Bengali, Ami Banglay gaan gai.Students from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations ...
13 July 2025 TelegraphA student of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta was allegedly raped by a second year student inside the boys’ hostel. The Haridevpur police arrested the second-year student after the survivor lodged a complaint on Friday.The incident at ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThe high court division bench that struck down the state’s appeal to allow tainted teaching job aspirants to write fresh selection tests said in its written order that it had observed a “detailed and elaborate recording of the nature ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThe city’s undulating roads, pockmarked with craters, are unable to withstand the usual monsoon downpour. After rain over the past week, several roads have broken surfaces, potholes or worn-off top layers.Residents complained that commuting is risky. For pedestrians, especially ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA Trinamool leader of Bhangar, on the city’s southeastern fringe, was shot and then hacked to death on Thursday night. Rajjak Khan, in his late 30s, was on his way home on a motorcycle after a party meeting when ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA yawning mismatch between demand and resources, delaying diagnosis, and high treatment costs are the two main challenges in cancer care in India, said a visiting expert from Singapore on Friday.Ang Peng Tiam, medical director and senior consultant at ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphTo meet the demand of commuters, Metro Railway Kolkata authorities will be running a total of 72 services every day from July 14 on Joka-Majerhat stretch of the Purple Line.The Metro authorities said in a statement on Friday that ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphWith hectic work schedules keeping professionals tied to their desks, the lunch or dinner outing is now getting usurped by an earlier affair: breakfast. A growing number of cafes have started opening before 10am, giving residents the option of ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphWhat do phrases like “love is blind,” “to break the ice,” “up in arms,” and “a wild goose chase” have in common? Add to that words like swagger, lonely, excitement, and downstairs. The answer is William Shakespeare. “Shakespeare, 400 ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphAn inter-school quiz on the life and works of William Shakespeare, held in association with Oxford University Press, marked both the Bard’s birthday and the founder’s day of the host, Delhi Public School (DPS) Megacity.“We organise dictionary quizzes across ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA 26-year-old youth from Picnic Garden has tested positive for cholera, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said on Tuesday. A team from the civic body collected water samples from the flat where the youth, Afroze Ahmed Khan, ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA section of postgraduate students at Ballygunge Science College allegedly led by a research scholar, affiliated to the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad locked up another group of students who were filling out final semester examination forms in the geography department ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphThere will be no public transactions at post offices in the Salt Lake-New Town-Rajarhat area on Monday. The department of posts will be rolling out the next-generation of its Advanced Postal Technology application and the Beleghata head post office ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA protest meet took place in front of Swapnabhor, New Town’s only park for the 50-plus, last Saturday. The agitators want the park to be stripped of the seniors-only status.The park shares its premises with a club by the ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of rain struck Calcutta on Thursday afternoon in between occasional drizzles throughout the day. The sun also came out in the afternoon — the first bright stint the city had in nearly three days. The afternoon ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphTruck owners whose vehicles were allegedly smashed by police in New Alipore early on Wednesday met senior officers at the New Alipore police station on Thursday and demanded compensation.The truckers had on Wednesday alleged that the police had broken ...
12 July 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed concern over the disruption power and water supply at the Jai Hind camp in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, comprising mostly Bengali speaking migrants. “There are over 1.5 crore migrant workers in Bengal who are earning their ...
10 July 2025 TelegraphMetro Railway on Thursday started tunnelling work in Khidderpore on the long-delayed Purple Line.The drilling work kicked off on a formal note inside the grounds of St. Thomas School, where one of Kolkata’s largest underground shafts have been dug ...
11 July 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has asked South Calcutta Law College — where a 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 — to submit its governing body resolutions and admission-related documents on Thursday.CU’s vice-chancellor said the documents must be submitted to ...
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