A division bench of the Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered immediate release of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Rakhal Bera. He was granted bail on Monday by a single bench but was shown as arrested ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphWith reports of people getting infected even after being administered two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the West Bengal Health Department has decided to strengthen the surveillance throughout the state and to prepare a chart of such individuals, an ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi telephoned Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday and took stock of the flood situation in the state."PM @narendramodi spoke to WB CM @MamataOfficial on the flood situation caused by water discharge from dams in parts ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after taking stock of the flood situation in six districts of the state, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday seeking his intervention for drafting a plan to upgrade dams in the region.Describing ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphA national multiplex chain on Wednesday announced that it will release a new Hollywood film in six of its facilities in and around Calcutta on August 6, when the theatres will open after three months abiding by all Covid-19 ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphThe flood situation in West Bengal worsened on Wednesday claiming eight more lives taking the toll to 23 as fresh areas went under water, with Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee complaining to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Damodar Valley ...
5 August 2021 TelegraphOn the ground floor of a house on the southern fringes of Calcutta, a group of people has been making tote bags, doormats and cushion covers for sale for the past four months.Women from economically impoverished families, trained in ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphThe excise department on Tuesday extended the liquor ban at The Park till September 9.The ban was imposed last month after a number of people were arrested at the Park Street hospitality address for allegedly partying on a corridor ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphCalcutta is not among the 11 cities chosen for funding under a programme to promote cycling in urban India, though neighbouring New Town has made it to the list.Officials of the state government who were involved in the process ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphNurses in government hospitals are set to organise a rally on Friday to demand an end to an alleged pay disparity and have threatened to cease work if police use force to stop them from joining the march.Thousands of ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphEconomist Kaushik Basu spoke about India's tradition of “openness, tolerance and compassion” that Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna embodied and stressed the need to say no to hatred, while addressing students and teachers of Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA fresh cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal triggered a sharp spell of rain in Calcutta on Monday night and early on Tuesday.The system is likely to bring more rain to Calcutta over the next three days, the ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphThe eastern zone bench of national green tribunal (NGT) has passed several directives on Howrah and Sealdah stations regarding maintenance of environmental norms and bio toilets on long-distance trains.It has asked the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to monitor ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA man who was allegedly impersonating an officer of the anti-rowdy squad of the detective department at Lalbazar has allegedly duped several people with false promises of getting them jobs with the police.The man who lived at a Behala ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA 45-year-old man was arrested on Monday night for allegedly posing as a central government official and as the chairman of “International Human Rights Commission”, a fictitious organisation.Tarak Mondal used to introduce himself as a human rights official of ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphPolice officers probing the ATM fraud that left a 74-year-old woman’s son poorer by Rs 90,000 have written to the bank where the victim has an account to know about the locations of the ATMs from where the money ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphPublic libraries sponsored and aided by the state government have been allowed to resume transactions of books and other services to readers from Wednesday.The directive to open the libraries comes with the rider that the service would be restricted ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphBengal on Tuesday recorded 729 new infections, 756 recoveries and nine deaths.The state reported 44 consecutive days of a drop in the total number of active cases. On Tuesday, active cases fell by 36 to 10,767.Calcutta reported 59 new ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphThe Centre has apparently rejected 9.5 lakh Bengal farmers’ applications for the PM-Kisan scheme, prompting the state government to write to Delhi asking for the reasons for their exclusion.Sources said the Mamata Banerjee dispensation had verified the farmers’ claims ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Tuesday concluded hearing in public interest litigations seeking its intervention in incidents of violence which had occurred after the counting of Assembly election votes on August 2.A five-judge bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphAt least 72 per cent of healthcare workers and 54 per cent of the general population in five Bengal districts have developed antibodies against Covid-19, a recent serosurvey report, prepared by the Centre’s Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphTwo undertrials escaped from police custody in East Midnapore’s Tamluk on Tuesday morning while they were being shifted from a West Midnapore prison to the court here.The incident occurred around 11am at a busy intersection in the town during ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy was found hanging from a tree in North Dinajpur district on Tuesday.Family members of the Class XII student said he had been missing since Monday evening. They have alleged that two persons in their neighbourhood killed ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphHundreds of Aadhaar cards were found dumped on a vacant land adjacent to Eastern Bypass in Siliguri on Tuesday.Police said the Aadhaar cards, wrapped in white envelopes, were strewn on the plot near Kankata More and they were trying ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA 17-year-old girl in a locality of Murshidabad’s Dhulian, found seemingly drugged near her home, died late on Monday night on way to the hospital.The girl’s father complained to the police that she was poisoned by her boyfriend, whose ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA two-storey house, which went under water at the flooded-Bandar village near Khanakul in Hooghly district three days ago, completely collapsed on early Tuesday morning.Sources said Bandar and several other nearby villages were inundated as the Rupnarayan river spilled ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to conduct an aerial survey of two of the six flood-affected districts of the state on Wednesday to take stock of the situation, a source in the state secretariat said.At least 14 ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday reserved order on a set of PILs seeking impartial probe into alleged post-poll violence in Bengal, following conclusion of arguments by all parties in the matter.A seven-member enquiry committee set up by the ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphPresidency University will admit students to its undergraduate courses based on board marks as entrance tests could not be held, an official of the institute said on Tuesday.An admission notice issued on Monday said the merit lists for subjects ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphAt least 15 people have died, and lakhs of people were rendered homeless or marooned, as the flood situation in six districts of West Bengal aggravated on Tuesday, triggering a slugfest between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition ...
4 August 2021 TelegraphA book written by a cardiac surgeon-debater traces the journey of healthcare in India.A discussion between Kunal Sarkar, the author of The Sickness of Health, and neurosurgeon and fellow debater Sandip Chatterjee at Calcutta Club on Friday offered insights ...
3 August 2021 Telegraph“Almost 100 per cent” candidates have crossed the higher secondary barrier this year, the state HS council announced on Friday following a review of the marks of the 18,000 students who were initially declared unsuccessful.The council had announced on ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphThe Bengal government on Monday issued a circular allowing trucks to carry more load than what was permissible, in compliance with a notification by the Centre that is in force in most states.The increase in load will be proportional ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphA women’s college in Behala has reduced the fees for the July-to-December semester this year.Vivekananda College for Women in Barisha in a meeting on Friday decided to charge a subsidised fee as many of its students come from financially-disadvantaged ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphAbout 3,000 nurses from state government hospitals marched in the SSKM Hospital compound on Monday demanding an end to an alleged disparity between their pay and that of other government employees with similar qualifications.The nurses have been holding a ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphBike-borne youths gunned down Sumana Dhar, a transgender person, when she was about to step into her house in Sabitri Pally in Nimta, about 16km north from the heart of Calcutta, on Sunday evening.Sumana was a prominent voice within ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphAn 18-year-old girl who scored 99.5 per cent in ISC (Class XII) wants to be a pastry chef and has chosen to pursue a course in hospitality.Sameeksha S. Kumar of Delhi Public School New Town said “not marks but ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphPresidency University will admit students to its undergraduate courses this year solely based on board marks as admission tests could not be held following an objection from the state government.An admissions notification issued on Monday says the merit lists ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphScores of special trains and long-distance trains were delayed on Monday morning after a section of passengers staged a blockade at Pandua station in the Howrah-Burdwan section, said an official of the Eastern Railway.Local train services are suspended as ...
3 August 2021 TelegraphA 74-year-old woman from Golf Green who had gone to withdraw money from an ATM with her son’s debit card met a man in the queue outside the kiosk who offered her his place and allowed her to withdraw ...
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