The high court in an interim order on Monday asked the school service commission to allow a sacked higher secondary schoolteacher who had not participated in counselling for recruitment at the upper primary level (Classes VI to VIII) to ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu told the Assembly on Tuesday he was “hopeful” of starting undergraduate admissions in government and government-aided colleges and universities before June 19.Even if the state-run centralised portal is launched before June 19, it would be ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphPolice have started tracking a call that the uncle of the Maheshtala boy, missing for the last 10 days, received last week, with the caller asking him for money to “settle” the case.The boy’s uncle told the police that ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a septuagenarian was found at his four-storey Netaji Nagar home on Monday.The man was identified as Ashutosh Das, 78. He lived alone in the house on Raja SC Mullick Road, police said.Das’s wife died a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphA section of doctors and citizens protested outside Tala police station in north Calcutta on Monday to mark 10 months since the rape and murder of the junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.The protesters led a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government replaced the commissioner of Barrackpore police, Ajay Kumar Thakur, with Murli Dhar, the former detective chief of Calcutta, on Monday.Thakur, who took charge of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate four months ago, was posted to the Criminal ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphShooting for yet another Bengali film has been stalled because technicians allegedly refused to show up for work.Filmmakers and technicians, owing allegiance to a federation presided over by a powerful Trinamool Congress leader, have been at loggerheads over the ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday allayed concerns about the rise in Covid infections and said there was no reason to panic yet.Later in the evening, it emerged that a 48-year-old resident of Madhab Das Lane near the Khanna ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police on Monday evening arrested Wazahat Khan, who had lodged a complaint against social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli for allegedly uploading a video with communal comments, in the city, a senior officer said.Khan was hiding in a ...
11 June 2025 TelegraphA mother and son accused of mentally torturing and physically abusing a young woman from Sodepur had posted 11 music videos since they launched their entertainment channel on social media in March 2021, which is less than three a ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThree junior doctors who have alleged vindictive postings because of their leading role in the RG Kar protests approached Calcutta High Court on Monday, the first day after the summer recess of the court, challenging their posting. Two of ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to start a series of actions against "vagabonds" and other street dwellers who are taking away space from the pavements and roads, a senior official said on Monday."We plan to shift them ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of the high court reserved her verdict on a petition challenging the state government’s decision to give an allowance to sacked Group C and D employees.Representing the petitioners who challenged the decision, advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court has declined to urgently hear a petition challenging the West Bengal School Service Commission’s latest recruitment notification, scheduling the matter for July despite the imminent start of the application process.Justice Saugata Bhattacharya listed the hearing for ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University’s English department expressed “extreme concern” on Monday about the possibility of losing bright students as the university has yet to start undergraduate admissions, a full month after Class XII results were published.The uncertainty surrounding OBC reservation in ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe man whose complaint led to the arrest of law student Sharmistha Panoli was himself arrested on Monday, a week after Kolkata Police lodged an FIR against him at Golf Green police station over allegedly communal social media posts.“Wajahat ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphAn under-construction flyover over the Kona Expressway has been forced to go slow because permissions to cordon off portions of the road for its construction have not arrived, officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have told ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphAn elderly man was found dead near the ground floor staircase of his multi-storey residence in south Kolkata's Netajinagar area on Monday morning, police said.The deceased, believed to be over 75 years old, was reportedly living alone, according to ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe huge stock of standalone buildings in the city, which are three, four or five-storey tall, has yet to warm up to green building norms. A green building's design reduces the AC use, and its sanitary fittings are designed ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe chemical engineering department of Jadavpur University has installed a ceramic-based low-cost arsenic removal kit on the campus of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur.The system promises to remove heavy metals like arsenic and iron from the groundwater. The water system ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA man was found hanging on the ground floor of the undergraduate hostel at SSKM Hospital on Sunday morning.The man, identified as Shantanu Roy, was declared dead at the emergency wing of the hospital, police said. No note was ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe Sikh community marked 40 years of Operation Blue Star with a blood donation camp on Sunday.More than 100 people donated blood at the camp, organised by the Gurdwara Behala Prabandhak Committee on Diamond Harbour Road.“A lot of blood ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA police team that has been trying to trace the boy who was tortured with electric shocks at Maheshtala for allegedly stealing a mobile phone has sought the help of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to locate him, a ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe La Martiniere schools require a complete structural assessment for two of its oldest buildings to find long-term remedial measures for the 189-year-old structures, an inspection committee comprising officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the state heritage commission ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA mason working in a three-storey building on Srinath Das Lane in Bowbazar died after portions of two balconies collapsed on Sunday morning, police said. Ashutosh Adhikary, 37, a resident of Banshra in South 24-Parganas, was taken to ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe design and planning of Indian cities have become car-centric, intending to enable automobiles to move more quickly, even at the price of pedestrian mobility, the executive director of the Centre for Science and Environment said during a discussion ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe prime accused in the alleged torture of a young woman from Sodepur, Aryan Khan and his mother, Sweta, ran a channel on social media in the name of Isara Entertainment where girls were made to dance in music ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphRamakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, has opened a commerce section in Class XI because “commerce has job prospects” and the stream is sought-after among students, the principal said. The school, which so far had only science and humanities sections, opened ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphSeveral schools are encouraging free play among children — a time slot when they can play on their own without any adult interference.Children are enrolled on a number of activities after school but most of them are "structured and ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has decided to award marks for work experience to sacked Group C school employees who take fresh selection tests to be recruited to state government departments, an official said.The department is seeking legal opinion on ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphA young woman escaped the alleged captivity of a social media acquaintance in Howrah on Friday and returned to her home in Sodepur, on the city’s northern outskirts, with a fractured arm and severe injuries to her teeth.The woman, ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphIt’s only been a week, but this June has already scored high in pre-monsoon rainfall.Week 1 has seen more than 80mm of rain in Alipore, which serves as the official record-keeper for Calcutta.The usual arrival date for the southwest ...
10 June 2025 TelegraphPool car owners have requested the city police to assign specific pick-up and drop-off zones outside schools.In a letter to Snehasis Chakraborty, the state transport minister, the Pool Car Owners’ Welfare Association has sought a meeting with officials from ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphA nine-year-old girl was allegedly lured inside a house with chocolates and then allegedly sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old man in central Calcutta on Wednesday.The accused has been arrested.The girl was playing outside her home when one of her ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphShort and intense rainfall that increase flood risks and bring a lot of damage have become more frequent, said Kalyan Rudra, the state pollution control board chief.Rudra said that a study of rainfall patterns in Bengal had shown a ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphA school of Jadavpur University that works to empower visually impaired students has got a ₹44 lakh grant.The School of Cognitive Science plans to spend the fund on a project to develop English language proficiency among visually challenged students ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphPrivate and autonomous colleges and universities have either stopped receiving the application forms or are about to close the exercise they had started since the publication of the Plus-II board results in early May. Government-aided colleges and universities that ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphA day after the arrest of the owner of a factory in Rabindranagar, accused of hanging a minor boy upside down and giving him electric shocks, police were yet to trace the young victim. Officers of Diamond Harbour police ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphClass XII students under the state higher secondary board who appear for their third-semester exams in September will be allowed to either keep copies of their OMR answer sheets or access them on the higher secondary council website.In a ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphA 33-year-old woman was allegedly molested while trying to rescue a stray dog stuck in a locked playground near Santosh Mitra Square on Wednesday evening. Her brother was allegedly assaulted when he tried to protect her.The incident took place ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police arrested two persons, including a post-graduate trainee (PGT), in connection with separate incidents of rapes in the city, an officer said on Friday.The first arrest was made in Muchipara area when police picked up a 22-year-old man ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphThe front of her house boasts towering Mango, Jackfruit, and Arjun trees. At the rear are Karamcha, Neem, and Coconut trees. Part of her terrace is shaded for solar panels, but the rest flourishes with even more varieties of ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphAbovahikaAbovahika, the New Town CD Block-based dance institute, presented the dance drama Shyama for Rabindrajayanti at Rabindra Tirtha.The event began with the vocal renditions of Tagore songs like Charana dharite, Kolahol to baron holo and Godhuli gagane by Tapas ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphStanding atop slender with upright stems, these cheerful bright blooms sway gently in the breeze, adding a playful touch to gardens and floral arrangements alike. The Globe Amaranth is an instantly recognisable flower for its perfectly rounded, clover-like blooms.Globe ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphOver three days in the last week of May, 57 children from afar had their cleft lips or palates repaired at a Mission Smile camp held at Techno India Dama Hospital on the Bypass. They came from the Sunderbans ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphSixty-six seats were arranged on the top floor of the Anima Hore memorial building in BE Park, and not a single one was empty. A tournament of contract bridge was underway, drawing enthusiasts from across town.The event was organised ...
8 June 2025 TelegraphAre you worried about your child’s poor grades? Is he insolent? Is she spending too much time on the phone? The audience at a session on “reducing parental anxiety” at Nurturing Minds may have arrived with a myriad of ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA man who allegedly hung a teenage boy upside down in his jeans factory and tortured him with electric shocks was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday along with two of his associates.The boy is still missing, police said. Shahenshah, ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA resident of Baguiati, who had come across an advertisement for an investment scheme on social media, was cheated out of ₹8.3 lakh after he invested in the fraudulent scheme. Minhajuddin Mandal reported the fraud at Baguiati police station ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphDismissed non- teaching employees of government-aided schools led a march to Bikash Bhavan on Thursday, demanding that the state government come up with a notification on their recruitment.They said chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on May 27 that a ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday granted interim bail to Sharmistha Panoli, the 22-year-old law student arrested for posting allegedly offensive content on social media.A single-judge vacation bench of Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury asked Panoli to furnish a bail bond ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court is set to hear a petition on June 9 challenging new recruitment rules for appointing schoolteachers at secondary and higher secondary levels in government-aided schools.Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, who accepted the petition on June 3, was ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Thursday that passport verification procedures have been significantly strengthened following the exposure of widespread document forgery operations in the city.Speaking at the Alipore Bodyguard Lines on World Environment Day, Verma said field ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA 33-year-old woman and her brother were allegedly assaulted by a drunk gatekeeper and his accomplice at Shashi Bhushan Dey locality of Kolkata for attempting to rescue a dog trapped inside a municipal ground on Wednesday. The incident ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for Kolkata as thunderstorms with lightning, light to moderate rain and gusty winds are likely to affect parts of the city for the next three hours. Wind speeds are ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe boulders that function as borders along roads had vanished. The width of the road was reduced to half along several stretches.For a group from Calcutta on holiday in Sikkim, the return journey from Lachung turned into a nightmare. ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphA week-long special drive in Calcutta and New Town to spot vulnerable garbage accumulation points concluded on Tuesday.Citizens were asked to WhatsApp their complaints about garbage to a number provided by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the New ...
6 June 2025 TelegraphThe fire department on Tuesday sent a notice to the owner of Hotel Mangalam seeking documents related to the permissions it has.The move came after a fire in a room on the hotel’s fourth floor necessitated the evacuation of ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphFour improvised country-made pipe guns and several rounds of ammunition were recovered from a house in Khardah following a raid by officers from Kamarhati and Khardah police stations on Monday night.The house belongs to Nayem Ansari who was arrested ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe higher education department has empowered the pro-vice chancellor of Jadavpur University to hold a meeting of the university’s working committee — a meeting usually chaired by the vice-chancellor. Following the governor’s removal of the officiating VC in March ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA cloud has been cast on the school recruitment process, days after an attempt to make a fresh start.A candidate who had written the school service commission’s 2016 selection tests but failed to get the job filed a petition ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA single-judge vacation bench of the high court on Tuesday refused bail to Sharmistha Panoli, the 22-year-old law student arrested for posting allegedly offensive content on social media.Rejecting the plea, Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee said: “We are a remarkable ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA 43-year-old woman from Howrah who was hospitalised with pneumonia and also tested positive for Covid after admission passed away late on Saturday.A doctor who treated her said she was admitted with pneumonia on the right side of the ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphA sharp spell of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, brought relief from the sultry conditions that prevailed for most of Tuesday.The Celsius almost touched 40 degrees at Calcutta’s doorstep as swathes of south Bengal were scalded by an ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphEden Gardens was robbed of the IPL final but Calcutta will not let anyone take away its ability to soak in the excitement, even if the real action is hundreds of miles away.Drawing rooms, pubs, clubs and lounges were ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe JN.1 variant of the novel Coronavirus claimed its first victim in Kolkata on Tuesday.The Union health ministry’s dashboard on Covid-19 states, a 43-year old female died with acute coronary syndrome, septic shock and acute kidney injury.The patient in ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe city police have asked the public works department (PWD) to reduce the size of the island in front of the Swarnim Vijay Dwar gate of Fort William — now known as Vijay Durg — to tackle worsening traffic ...
5 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Police has registered an FIR against Wazahat Khan Qadri Rashid, the man whose organisation’s complaint led to the arrest of Pune law student Sharmistha Panoli.Rashid, who heads the Rashidi Foundation and resides in Kolkata’s Garden Reach, now ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe iconic La Martiniere schools are set to receive permission for urgent safety repairs after chunks of ceiling began falling in their heritage buildings, posing serious risks to 6,000 students.Following a joint inspection with the state heritage commission on ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government, which had extended the summer vacation in schools for the last three years, did not do so this year.An education department official said the decision was driven by the need to complete the syllabus on time ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphThe Army authorities here have decided to alter its training schedule a little bit to accommodate Eid ul Adha prayers at Red Road later this week, sources said on Monday.West Bengal Minister Javed Ahmed Khan said that though there ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphAwareness about spine surgeries is still very low and early intervention can cure functional disabilities and difficulties, a surgeon from Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, said last week.According to S. Vidyadhara, the chairman and head of spine surgery at Manipal Hospitals, ...
4 June 2025 TelegraphA group of officials from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) found multiple instances of unlawful parking in and around Burrabazar on Monday.Among these were cars parked in two lines, trucks parked on either side of a road, walkways brimming ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA woman tripped while getting off a bus and came under its rear wheels in Behala on Monday morning.The deceased worked as a domestic help at a Behala residence and was on her way to work when the accident ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: While purchasing drugs from medicine shops, customers should insist on a cash memo and check if it includes the name of the particular medicine, batch number, and expiry date, the health department said in a recent advisory for ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphMedical College Kolkata held a “vote to select” a students’ council on Monday, the first in a medical college in Bengal since the junior doctors’ protests in August 2024 following the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphTwo halves of Bengal will experience contrasting weather over the next few days.The hills are likely to keep getting drenched though the intensity of the showers will go down from Tuesday, according to the Met forecast.The occasional shower is ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers on Monday questioned the owner of a Mominpore shop from where multiple transactions were allegedly made to Moti Ram Jat, a CRPF personnel arrested for his alleged involvement in espionage activities.The NIA officers ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the fourth floor of a Sarat Bose Road hotel early on Monday, and more than 50 guests and employees had to be evacuated in a hurry.The blaze rekindled memories of the deadly fire in ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphSleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday questioned the owner of a Kolkata-based travel agency in connection with a Pakistan espionage case, an official said.Mohammed Masood Alam, owner of the travel agency, was questioned by the NIA ...
3 June 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national who met a man from the city on social media has alleged that he drugged her and became intimate with her during her visit to Calcutta, making false promises of marriage. The man allegedly forced her ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 23-year-old man who suffered injuries in a road accident on Thursday and was declared brain-dead on Saturday decided to donate his organs on Sunday.Puskar Pal’s kidneys and liver were retrieved at SSKM Hospital, where he ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTattered nylon nets bordering forests in Kultali in the Sunderbans will soon be replaced, forest officials said.Tigers from the forests strayed near villages on the other side more than 15 times between September last year and April this year. ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA woman has filed a complaint alleging a man posed as a major of the Indian Army to win her trust and fraudulently obtain her ancestral jewellery to get a gold loan, police said. The man neither returned the ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA centre for autism has started training individuals with autism on home management and community-based skills.Each chore, such as peeling a cucumber, making a bed or knowing how to use a washroom, make them more confident, help them to ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTwo allegedly fake ticket examiners have been arrested from the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway, said a railway official. The arrests follow a drive to provide unique identity badges to ticket examiners to distinguish them from imposters who extort ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTwo groups of tourists from the city who recently visited Srinagar found the heart of the Valley slowly returning to what it was a few months ago. They were among the first to visit Kashmir after the Pahalgam attack ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe viability of the much-anticipated Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor will be jeopardised if Kidderpore station does not come up, said railway officials.Residents of Kidderpore and surrounding areas like Garden Reach and Metiabruz — the slice of Calcutta has thriving ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphIllegal parking and fleecing by a section of parking attendants are growing across the city, several opposition councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) alleged at the monthly meeting of councillors last week.At the meeting, BJP councillors Sajal Ghosh ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata police on Sunday issued a detailed defence of its decision to arrest 22-year-old law student and influencer Sharmishtha Panoli, who has been accused of stoking communal hatred through a social media video. Facing flak from several quarters ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata is set to witness a smoother and stronger Rath Yatra this year, thanks to a unique upgrade to Lord Jagannath’s iconic chariot.After two decades of searching, Iskcon Kolkata has finally replaced the old wheels, once sourced from a ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA Kolkata-based thespian was on Thursday denied entry into the GD Birla Sabhagar during the screening of Koushik Sen's ‘Marx in Kolkata'. His only mistake was that he wore a lungi.Joyraj Bhattacharjee shared his experience on Facebook, describing how ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA 51-year-old man, allegedly abducted from a spot near Netaji Bhavan Metro station in Bhowanipore on Wednesday, was rescued from an apartment in Jadavpur on Friday.Timir Kanti Majumder, a resident of Kulpi in South 24-Parganas, was waiting to meet ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphA man who was allegedly dragged out of his home and kidnapped in an autorickshaw in Thakurpukur was rescued on Friday. Five people have been arrested in this connection.According to officers, the kidnappers had demanded ₹10 lakh for the ...
2 June 2025 TelegraphTeams from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted search operations here to find alleged links to Moti Ram Jat, a Central Reserve Police Force assistant sub-inspector, with Pakistan intelligence officers.Jat was arrested last week in Delhi for allegedly sharing ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe parents of a 12-year-old boy who passed away earlier this month following a kidney transplant for which he had to wait for a year, organised a cadaveric organ donation pledge on Saturday evening.About 50 participants of IIM Bangalore ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe provision to award up to 10 marks for “prior teaching experience” in the screening process for teachers at the secondary and higher secondary levels has been framed in a way that does not conflict with what the Supreme ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe proposed Kidderpore station of the upcoming Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor has been all but nixed.The state government’s alleged refusal to allow construction inside the Kolkata Armed Police compound at Alipore’s Bodyguard Lines had long stalled the construction of ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphStudents aspiring to study in the United States and many who have already received offers from American universities are growing anxious as new restrictions threaten their academic plans.The US has halted new student visa interviews while it develops social ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Sacked schoolteachers have to compete with fresh aspirants to continue their jobs beyond December 31, but they will be given up to 20 additional marks based on their period of service and classroom demonstration.The school service commission issued ...
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