The New Town administrative authorities are gearing up to address a long-standing demand of residents to boost the public health infrastructure in the township. Two projects have been taken up, one by Hidco and another by NKDA. The tender processes ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe CC Block post office in Salt Lake has become a nodal delivery hub for parcels. It will handle parcels not only for Salt Lake but also New Town. “Parcel is a new trend of mail that is developing for ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphOn Wednesday, environmentalist Subhas Datta filed a public interest litigation before the eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal, alleging large scale crop residue cum stubble burning in various parts of the state, including New Town, triggering significant ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphAt a time when unemployment is on the rise due to the pandemic, Rotary Club of Salt Lake Central has certified 19 young girls in physiotherapy in the hope that they be self-employed.The classes were held over four months ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphBack in the 80s, before scientists had come up with a name for it, AIDS was casually referred to as Grid (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) or even gay cancer. “Such terms were inaccurate and insensitive,” said Anindya Kar, a doctor ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe air quality in most parts of Calcutta deteriorated to 'very poor', while it turned 'severe' in the northern parts of the metropolis on Friday, a West Bengal Pollution Control Board (PCB) official said.The automated air monitoring station at ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphThey had wanted to celebrate Halloween in October, by sending the kids ‘trick or treating’ but obviously that had to be cancelled. Then they realised that Diwali would be devoid of crackers, another favourite of kids.“So I came up ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress on Friday expressed its ire against the "draconian" farm bills, which it alleged were passed without consultation with stakeholders and accused the BJP of selling farmers' rights to corporate houses.A TMC delegation will soon meet the ...
05 Dec 2020 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday revived hopes for the construction of two flyovers in Calcutta which appeared to have been shelved — one between Park Circus and Ballygunge and the other between Ganesh Chandra Avenue and New Market.“We ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphA parallel system of education exists along with the conventional school-college-university system, which Sugata Mitra, professor emeritus of NIIT University, calls the “street smart education system”.In the new normal, post-pandemic, the street smart education system needs to integrate with ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphA cardiac unit in Bangladesh’s Chittagong, which runs in collaboration with a Calcutta hospital and was shut down in March as the Indian workforce returned home amid the Covid pandemic, is back in action again.The outpatients department of the ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphFour Toco Toucans that were allegedly being smuggled from Bangladesh were rescued early on Thursday by a team of BSF personnel, an officer said.Toco Toucans are also called Giant Toucans because they are the largest among their species. The ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphSouth Point school sent a notice to parents on Thursday telling them that those who had not cleared their fee dues by the November 30 deadline set by Calcutta High Court cannot avail of the waivers offered by the ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe state clinical establishment regulatory commission on Thursday directed Desun Hospital and Woodlands Hospital to refund various sums to the families of three persons treated there.The family of a 61-year-old man, who was admitted to Desun on July 22 ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphAn employee of a spa-cum-grooming centre has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing the owner and posting her objectionable photographs on social media when she refused to pay him.Bidhannagar police said the accused, identified as Shahnawaz Hossain, in his 30s, ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphSeveral parks in Salt Lake have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves with defunct lights, broken down walls, damaged playground furniture and tall weeds.The parks were once popular hang-out zones for residents as well as visitors ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphAre you tired of working from home? And yet not feeling confident enough to travel all the way to office daily? A solution will soon be on offer in every extended New Town locality which will allow people to ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe principal of the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Hashi Dasgupta, died on Thursday after a heart attack. A test revealed she had Covid.Dasgupta was 57.Officials at the hospital said Dasgupta had attended office on Wednesday. She ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphA couple of party offices of the Trinamul Congress and the CPM were ransacked in Hooghly’s Arambagh late on Wednesday night, bringing rivals on the same page with leaders of both accusing the BJP of the attacks.Along with the ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphLeaders of the two factions of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, both allies of the ruling Trinamul, will hold two separate show-of-strength rallies on Sunday.The twin rallies to be held at venues 80km from each other have suddenly raised the ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphAn old primary school building in Malda town has reduced to rubble overnight, much to the concern of residents and officials of the district education department.The Chhatra Bondhu Primary School in Kalitala under ward 10 of the town is ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday capped the cost of RT-PCR testing for Covid-19 at Rs 950 in Bengal’s private facilities, down from the existing Rs 1,500.“The state now has 95 laboratories approved by the Centre for Covid-19 testing, ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday said land documents would no longer be required to apply for financial assistance under the state government-run Krishak Bandhu scheme and the dole could be given based on farmer’s self-declaration of the plot’s ownership.Under the ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced a 3 per cent dearness allowance for nearly 8 lakh government employees and staff of government-aided institutions like schools, panchayats and municipalities from January 1, next year.“Despite the fact that we are ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that her government would distribute tablets to nearly 9.5 lakh Class XII students studying at 14,000-odd government or government-aided schools and 636 madrasas to enable them to attend online classes.“We will give tablets to ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphMamata Banerjee, known for her plainspeak, surprised Bengal’s political circles with cryptic avian comments on Thursday, which sources close to her interpreted as an indirect jibe at former minister Suvendu Adhikari’s potential flight from Trinamul’s nest.Asked on the eleventh-hour ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphBengal is hoping to create at least 40,000 jobs in the technology sector as it tries to crank up investments in the pandemic-hit year.The state expects to receive investments worth Rs 3,000 crore from 20 technology ventures in Rajarhat, chief ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated the four-lane Majerhat bridge, which had collapsed over two years ago, and claimed that the project got delayed by nine months as the railways took time to grant requisite permission.Banerjee ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphDisgruntled TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari Thursday said he will continue to serve the people of the state as a "son of Bengal and India."His comment came amidst speculations over his next political move following the impasse in the dialogue ...
04 Dec 2020 TelegraphFrancis Xavier had planned to devote himself to a prestigious intellectual life, but at a strategic moment he surrendered to God, who had long and patiently pursued him. That surrender changed the course of his life — and the ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphMetro Railway is inching towards its pre-pandemic timings.Starting Monday, the first trains will leave the terminal stations at 7am, instead of 8am, the carrier said in a slew of announcements made on Wednesday.The last trains will leave Dum Dum ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe heads of the science departments at Jadavpur University have written to the vice-chancellor saying “there is no scope to increase the intake of students for postgraduate courses without enhancing the infrastructural facilities” of the institute.The teachers have pointed ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday took a written undertaking from the state health secretary that all steps would be taken to ensure that Shyamapada Ghorai, a former director of the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences (BIN), got all his dues ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphNaser Khan, who was convicted in the gang rape of a woman in a moving car along with friends more than eight years ago, has completed his prison term and stepped out of jail.On the intervening night of February ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphA house on Rowland Road in Ballygunge, some apartments in a building near Ballygunge Phari and some flats in another building in Ekbalpore were declared as Covid containment zones on Monday.Following the additions, there are now five containment zones ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphMany doctors and private hospitals are doing more CT scans on Covid patients than necessary, insurance companies and agencies that process hospital bills for insurance companies have said.The agencies said they were often coming across cases where treatment sheets ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphGrass and waste are being set on fire regularly on empty plots in New Town, forcing residents to stay indoors and keep their doors and windows shut as dense smoke engulfs entire blocks.On Wednesday, residents of DF Block in ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphAir quality in the city has remained “poor” or “very poor” in many instances in the past several days, according to the National Air Quality Index, raising concerns that the situation would further worsen as temperatures fall.At 4pm on ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphSomaiya, the five-year-old daughter of a brick kiln owner, inaugurated a primary school for children of labourers working in brick kilns at Sarberia village in South 24-Parganas’s Sandeshkhali on Wednesday.Class VIII dropout and Somaiya’s father Seikh Sahajahan, 39, set ...
03 Dec 2020 TelegraphTrinamul Congress vice-president Saugata Roy appeared grim on Wednesday as he issued a statement suggesting a shift in former minister Suvendu Adhikari’s stand on a truce, barely 18 hours after the 73-year-old MP had said the rebellious East Midnapore ...
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