The police have written to the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) that CCTVs must be installed at the public swimming pool at Rabindra Sarobar. Lifeguards must be present while the pool is open, said the police.The KMDA, custodian of ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphThe 24-year-old law student who was allegedly gang-raped inside the premises of South Calcutta Law College has provided police with a detailed account of her over-three-hour ordeal at the hands of three men, describing hours of torture that lasted ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphTraffic on the EM Bypass-Rashbehari Avenue Connector was disrupted for several hours from Friday afternoon till late evening as various groups and political parties staged protests and road blockades outside South Calcutta Law College and Kasba police station.They were ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphSouth Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old woman student was allegedly gang-raped on Wednesday, has only one permanent security guard — who reported sick on June 25, the day of the alleged crime. The college also employs two private ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphVegetable prices have soared across city markets.The prices of cucumber, ridge gourd and brinjal have doubled.Brinjal now costs ₹120 per kg, up from ₹60 about two weeks back. Cucumber sold for ₹80 per kg on Friday, up from ₹40 ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphMonojit Mishra, the main accused in the alleged gang-rape of the South Calcutta Law College student, is a former unit president of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) at the college but, according to teachers and students, continues to ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday refused to stay the ongoing undergraduate admission process in colleges and the submission of online applications for the appointment of schoolteachers over the OBC reservation issue.A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice ...
29 June 2025 TelegraphA post in the college’s union and a proposal for marriage. The main accused in the gang-rape of a student on the South Calcutta Law College’s Kasba campus had reportedly offered both the choices to the survivor before allegedly ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphAway from the din of the Hudco crossing, a lush green, walled compound in an Ultadanga lane is where an Olympic sport is being practised round the year in silence. This is the Kolkata Police ground where the KP ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphThree persons have been arrested after a law student in alleged she was gang-raped in the guard room of her college in south Kolkata’s Kasba, it was revealed on Friday morning sending shockwaves through a city that was wracked ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphLeader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has moved a petition before Calcutta High Court Justice Amrita Sinha, seeking an order directing Speaker Biman Banerjee to allow central forces deployed for the safety of some BJP MLAs to enter the ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday asked the parents of the slain RG Kar doctor to submit their petition to visit the crime scene — in the hospital’s emergency building — before the Sealdah court, where the trial was held.Justice ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphnThe doctor had been showing a video of himself performing robotic knee surgery for several minutes before a voice from the audience cried out: “But where is the robot?”“Robotic surgery doesn’t mean a robot will walk up on two ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphOn the day of Rathyatra, New Town will get another space for community activities. The space under the Kestopur flyover, near Balaka Abasan, will now be used as community zone 2. The first event, fittingly a mela, will be ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphThe New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is trying to put a leash on prices of essentials in its community markets but shopkeepers have found a way to wriggle free.Last week, on June 19, CB Market, the most popular ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphA man, who entered a jewellery shop in Jodhpur Park, posing as a customer fled with one of the finger rings he had taken for trying. The incident occurred on Monday evening, just before the store was going to ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphTrees lining the route of the Rathyatra to be organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), in Calcutta, should be properly trimmed, and potholes on the roads should be repaired to ensure the chariots don’t get stuck, ...
28 June 2025 TelegraphThe proposed Kidderpore Metro station has finally received clearance from the state government.The government’s alleged refusal to allow construction at Alipore’s Bodyguard Lines had stalled the construction of the station. After a series of negotiations and a revised station ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThursday was marked by intermittent but uniform rain across the city and most of south Bengal, under the influence of a low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha coastline.The Met office recorded just under 10mm ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA government teacher recruitment test scheduled for later this year — the first in nine years — has triggered a surge in demand for study materials, with booksellers on College Street scrambling to meet unprecedented demand.Multiple traders at the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties worth over ₹27 crore of Prasanna Roy, who was allegedly involved in irregularities in recruitment in the school service commission selection tests in 2016 and acted as a middleman, allegedly collecting money ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphAn old and dilapidated paddock inside the Bodyguard Lines in Alipore has been rebuilt after decades of neglect, and Kolkata Police have decided to install lighting to enable evening horse training for the first time in the force’s history.For ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA day after two premier schools in Kolkata received bomb threats that turned out to be hoaxes, one of the two institutes got a similar mail again on Thursday, a police official said.The Calcutta International School in the southern ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe real estate market in Kolkata has shrunk in the first half of 2025.A report released by real estate consultant Anarock, which was the transactional adviser in the US major Blackrock’s acquisition of the South City Mall recently, stated ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the state fire services directorate to conduct fire audits of markets and also identify challenges faced by fire tenders to access the markets, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday. Hakim said the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA section of the sacked non-teaching employees of government-aided schools marched to the school service commission (SSC) headquarters in Salt Lake on Wednesday, demanding that the state government take steps to reinstate them.They claimed that their recruitment was fair.The ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur will begin a year-long celebration of its platinum jubilee on the institute’s Foundation Day scheduled for August 18 and its new director wants to use the occasion to “shore up” the institute’s perception. Suman Chakraborty, who attended ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphTwo plants, one of which will process plastic waste and the other thermocol, were inaugurated at the Dhapa waste disposal site of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Tuesday. Besides the two plants, a material recovery facility, where the ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe state is not legally bound to solve a dispute between a section of filmmakers and a federation of technicians that has allegedly stalled several projects in Tollygunge, the government told Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.“The petitioner has no ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe family of one of the men arrested for allegedly attacking two traders from Rajasthan at Behala's Parnasree and fatally injuring one of them last week has lodged a complaint against the traders for cheating them by mortgaging fake ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started desilting and strengthening the banks of Bikramgarh Jheel beside South City, which was in a state of neglect for years, the mayoral council member heading the civic body’s environment department said on ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA man turned up at Baranagar police station on Wednesday morning and claimed to have killed his 73-year-old father, who, he said, was "disturbing him due to age-related ailments."Police rushed to his Baranagar home and found the body of ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA fresh system is tipped to make the next few days rainier in Calcutta, the Met office has said.Some districts are likely to get heavy rain. “An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over the northwest Bay of Bengal and ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphDozens of city residents returning from abroad remain stranded at Gulf airports following Iran’s missile attack on a US air base in Qatar on Monday evening, which triggered widespread flight disruptions across the region.The crisis has also caused airfares ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphThe former secretary to an ex-Union minister died in a fire at his Keshtopur home early on Tuesday.Sabyasachi Chakraborty, 42, lived alone. He was found in the bedroom on the ground floor of the building at AF-65 Rabindra Pally ...
27 June 2025 TelegraphA school in New Town will train its students in rock climbing, paving the way for adventure sports among the young. The Newtown School has set up a 36x24 ft artificial wall on one of its facades, that was ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphFormer state secondary education board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, who was arrested by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in September 2022 in connection with the alleged irregularities in recruitment to Group C posts in government-aided schools, got ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphLord Jagannath’s chariot will roll on Sukhoi-30 fighter jet tyres this year, which have replaced the Boeing 747 tyres used since 1977.The 54th edition of the Rathyatra, organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), will have another ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has submitted a detailed project report to the state finance department for the construction of a culvert on EM Bypass near the Chingrighata intersection, adjoining Captain Bheri, to widen the carriageway.The estimated cost ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphThe missile attack by Iran on the US airbase of Al Udeid in Qatar on Monday evening forced Gulf countries to close their airspace, causing major delays for flights to and from Calcutta and leaving numerous passengers stranded.The international ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has sent a list of books for 2,026 government and aided schools to select from for their libraries. The list includes books authored by chief minister Mamata Banerjee.A notice issued to the district inspectors of ...
26 June 2025 TelegraphRegimes of free speech are, at their core, regimes of trust — trust between the State and its citizens, and trust among people themselves. Before protesting any attack on free speech, one must first ask: why has this trust ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphA man who was beaten up by a group of men last week on suspicion of being a mobile phone thief, died from his injuries in a city hospital on Tuesday.Police had arrested four men for the assault. They ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphTwo city residents found themselves in the middle of a dangerous international crisis on Monday night when Iran launched a missile attack on a US airbase outside Doha in Qatar.One witnessed the barrage lighting up the night sky from ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphEnsuring the well-being of students, improving the perception of the institute, and enhancing infrastructure are the priorities of Suman Chakraborty, the new full-term director of IIT Kharagpur.Chakraborty formally took over as director of the IIT on Monday afternoon, succeeding ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan, who had hired a driver through an app, lost his new Mahindra Scorpio which was allegedly stolen by the driver and sold outside Bengal, police said on Sunday. The vehicle was resold at least thrice and its ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphThe arrival of the monsoon and the death of a 13-year-old girl from dengue should ring the alarm bells for municipal bodies that need to intensify vector-control drives, and communities should ensure the neighbourhoods are clean and devoid of ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphThe sociology department at Jadavpur University, which had announced it would admit undergraduate students solely on the basis of their Plus-II board marks, has decided to reinstate its admission test.The decision came after protests by students who argued that ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphWith a vision to promote science education among young girls, an organisation has undertaken an initiative to set up Stem labs in two schools. The Inner Wheel Club of Calcutta Mahanagar will set up these Stem labs that will ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphA schoolteacher who provided a scholarship to one student six years back in memory of her brother has this year handed over the same to as many as 24 students. Joeeta Basu’s brother, Joydeep Roy, passed away in April ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphA captive-breeding programme in the Sunderbans has brought back from the brink of extinction a rare turtle species.Now, the challenge is to ensure that the animals thrive in the wild, said foresters associated with the project.More than 200 hatchlings ...
25 June 2025 TelegraphAn underprivileged girl and two visually impaired boys fought the barriers of life to emerge successful in school-leaving exams. On Monday, their battles were acknowledged on a stage that felicitated toppers of various schools.The three teenagers are toppers in ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphA women’s network has started approaching people and corporations to take a pledge to act more responsibly towards nature, reduce waste, reuse old furniture and replenish natural resources. The Bengal chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry — Indian ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphAbout 350 traders of Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore, where a massive fire broke out on June 16, have submitted applications to the traders’ association seeking compensation for their shops that were destroyed or damaged by the blaze.The president of ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphA city-based businessman who collected ₹40 lakh as payments from his clients last week and kept it in his car in the custody of his driver for the past 20 years, and stepped out to visit a temple in ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphThe group that allegedly beat up two businessmen from Rajasthan in Behala for selling fake gold to them, resulting in the death of one of the traders, had been on the lookout for the pair for months, police said.The ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphAround 30 hawkers have been relocated from the pavement outside the historic Chartered Bank Building as part of preparations to illuminate the Grade I heritage structure’s façade.The building, constructed in 1908 and located just north of Writers’ Buildings at ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphTwo businessmen from Rajasthan were allegedly beaten up by a mob in Behala’s Parnasree for selling them fake gold, resulting in the death of one of them, police said. The other victim is being treated at a hospital for ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphCartoonist Manjul received a second intimation from social media platform X on Sunday on one of his six-year-old cartoons on chief minister Mamata Banerjee, citing an objection, this time from Kolkata Police. The intimation came within four days of ...
24 June 2025 TelegraphThe open areas under flyovers and bridges will be cleared of settlements and stalls, and fences will be built around them to prevent further attempts to “encroach” these spaces, said a state government official. Stalls or settlements of people ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA day after a 13-year-old girl died of dengue, neighbours in the Dum Dum Cantonment area said they had not seen any vector control team working in the area even on Sunday. Saroni Banerjee, a Class VII student in ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe city woke up to a cloudy sky and a persistent drizzle on Sunday.It looked like the day was going to get rainier. But eventually, the rain was negligible. The cloud cover was consistent, barring a brief spell of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphSymptoms such as facial drooping, blurred vision, loss of balance, slurred speech, or arm numbness — even if brief and followed by recovery — should not be ignored as they may be warning signs of a stroke, doctors said ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to shift 75 students of a girls’ hostel on Beadon Row in the north of the city after an iron beam came off the ceiling and crashed in a room early on Friday. Many of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThree persons from Zimbabwe were arrested from Mohali in Punjab on Saturday for allegedly duping a Tollygunge resident out of over ₹1 crore in an investment fraud.A team of officers from Kolkata Police arrested Tinashe Gadzikkwa Praise, 22, Malvern ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphFrom beautification and busts, to CCTVs — what councillors choose to do for their wards is changing.A councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in central Calcutta has installed over 160 CCTVs in her ward using the Members of Parliament ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has asked the district inspectors (DIs) of schools to verify the credentials of sacked schoolteachers and non-teaching staff seeking to return to their former government jobs.The commissioner of the department, in a notice issued on ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA 13-year-old girl from Dum Dum Cantonment, who had been hospitalised for 10 days, died of dengue on Saturday morning.Saroni Banerjee’s death certificate from the private hospital listed “septic shock and dengue shock syndrome” as the immediate cause of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA 13-year-old girl, who was admitted to a private hospital here due to dengue, died on Saturday, a senior official of the West Bengal Health Department said The girl, identified as Sarani Bandopadhyay, was a resident of Monjendra Dutta ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s suburban train network started a new chapter on Wednesday with the arrival of its first air-conditioned local train in the Sealdah division. The 12-coach rake, which is set to run on the crowded Sealdah-Ranaghat section, promises respite from ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe ceiling of a room of the women's PG hostel of Calcutta University collapsed early on Saturday, and no one was injured in the incident, an official said.The 150-year-old hostel, located in north Kolkata's Beadon Row street, houses students ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphHe had aimed for a spot in the top 100 of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). When the NEET (UG) results came out on Saturday, the entire Sinha Chaudhuri family was delighted. “My father and I were checking the results. ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIf the son was busy winning medals in his first World Cup, the father was focused on putting finishing touches to the shooting range that was set to be opened within a fortnight. This was an overview of the ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe CBI arrested two men in the city, including a senior manager of a nationalised bank, on Thursday, in connection with a ₹183-crore fraud reported in Madhya Pradesh.CBI officers said three cases were lodged involving a financial fraud over ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA Kharagpur resident was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posing as a government official and using a blue beacon-fitted vehicle in Behala.A traffic sergeant spotted a Maruti Suzuki Ertiga with a blue beacon at the crossing of Diamond Harbour ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government has approved the proposed advertisement policy for the city, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.In the new policy, one agency will be given advertisement rights for a particular road or street, he said.A Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphTwo former Group C employees of government-aided schools were summoned to the office of Bidhannagar Police’s detective department on Friday, in connection with the violent protests on the Bikash Bhavan compound on May 15.Police said Sujoy Sardar and Pralay ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA city girl has got the gold medal in the Dreampitch section of the Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lion for her film pitch.Cannes Lion 2025, which took place from June 16 to 20 on the French Riviera, ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphPolice have launched an investigation against a Dhakuria resident who allegedly entered India from Bangladesh without valid documents over 30 years ago, only to be discovered when he applied for an Indian passport.The Kolkata Police’s Security Control Organisation (SCO) ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University started undergraduate admissions on Friday, two days after the process began at the 461 government and aided colleges through the state-run centralised admission portal.Notifications uploaded to JU’s website at 5pm for admissions to the science and arts ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThousands of sacked Group C and Group D staff from government and aided schools in Bengal are facing financial ruin after the high court stayed the state government’s decision to provide them monthly allowances.Justice Amrita Sinha issued the interim ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA statue of Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled on June 15 at the edge of Salt Lake, in AA Block. The lifesize statue has been installed in a newly developed patch of greenery.“This space used to be dirty, but ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe city’s second mall turned 17 on Sunday and the celebration weighed 190lbs. That was the weight of the birthday cake that the bakery team at JW Marriott had baked for Mani Square.“It’s a chocolate and caramel cake with ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIn continuation of its recent drive against unauthorised use of residential property, the Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has directed three nursing homes operating from residential premises in New Town to immediately stop operation.“During inspections, these establishments failed to ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe civic body will assess firefighting preparedness in markets under it.In a letter to the chief manager of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s market department, the mayoral council member in charge of markets, Amiruddin (Bobby), has instructed that separate teams ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe year was 1996. The Kankurgachhi-Salt Lake stretch was a far cry from the hep hub it is now and folks wanting to dine out had no option but to head to Park Street. Subrata Das’s family owned a ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday allowed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to stick to the pre-2010 OBC reservation norms while recruiting sub-assistants.The high court had on Tuesday ordered an interim stay on the Bengal government’s June 8 notification classifying 140 ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA city businessman has been cheated out of ₹1.71 crore after he was lured into an investment scheme that promised lucrative returns.Initially, businessman Vivekananda Ghosh, a resident of Siddha Pines on Rajarhat Main Road, made a profit of around ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA mine owner from Bankura has filed a complaint of extortion of ₹1.5 crore against two men who claimed to be officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and were allegedly threatening to arrest him under a false case, police ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphAn election scheduled for Thursday at Rani Birla Girls’ College to choose teachers’ representatives to the governing body was cancelled after some government-nominated governing body members allegedly threatened the principal for attempting to go ahead with the vote, several ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIn a bid to reduce sugar consumption among children, La Martiniere for Girls will no longer allow students to distribute chocolates, candies or cakes on birthdays.The decision follows a June 9 circular from the Council for the Indian School ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe lack of baby strollers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is causing significant inconvenience to travelling parents, highlighting a service gap compared to other major airports both in India and abroad that have long provided this basic ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphSuman Chakraborty, a professor at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Kharagpur and an alumnus of Jadavpur University, has been appointed as the full-term director of IIT Kharagpur.The post of a full-term director at IIT Kharagpur was vacant after ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Police have issued a takedown notice to social media platform X, claiming that two posts by cartoonist Manjul from six years ago violate Indian law.Both cartoons featured Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.X has informed Manjul of ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphA group which is active across the state has been passing on credentials of unsuspecting low-income group individuals, mostly from remote corners, to individuals who would allegedly use the data in setting up shell companies to evade tax, including ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to hand over an initial payment of ₹10,000 to the affected traders of Kidderpore’s Orphangunge Market. The civic body will also survey to segregate the shops that were fully gutted from the ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphA constable of Odisha Police, who came to the city with a group of police personnel for a training in disaster management, was found hanging in the house that the group rented in Hindustan Park on Tuesday evening.A purported ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphOrganisers have been asked not to hold any light and sound show, laser display or any other event inside or outside the Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal, police have said in a letter sent on Tuesday.The number of ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphCataract is fully curable and almost everyone gets it as they age, an ophthalmologist said during an awareness campaign on cataract surgeries. Early intervention has multiple benefits, it can prevent complications and make surgery easier.An early surgery means one ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday directed passport authorities to consider a trans woman’s transgender identity card as a valid document while processing her passport application.The Calcutta-based trans woman has allegedly been denied a passport for over a year despite ...
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