The lush, mysterious terrain of the Sunderbans is set to get a new museum nestled in the heart of the world’s largest mangrove delta. The Sunderban Museum, to be inaugurated in the next three months, will be a cultural and ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphFor generations, Sonar Kella has evoked nostalgia in Bengalis through its desert adventure featuring Feluda, Topshe, and Jatayu. The latest offering from the Jawker Dhan franchise, Sayantan Ghosal’s Sonar Kellay Jawker Dhan, released on May 31, leans into this ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphKolkata: An online transaction for paying ransom helped the Kolkata Police trace a trader two days after he was abducted.Timir Kanti Mazumdar (50), a resident of South-24 Parganas was rescued from a flat on the 11th floor of a ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphCity-based NGOs Concern for Calcutta and Calcutta Citizens’ Initiative have jointly appealed to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting stricter enforcement and regulation of operating hours for bars and restaurants serving alcohol in Calcutta.The NGOs have urged that no bar, ...
1 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), custodian of Rabindra Sarobar, has instructed clubs that use the lake for rowing activities to adhere to the standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure the safety of rowers during this monsoon. The ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral flights between Calcutta and Guwahati were cancelled on Friday because of heavy rain and waterlogging in the Assam capital.Some flights to Guwahati were diverted to Calcutta because of the weather, said airport officials.Four flights from Calcutta to Guwahati ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphMany schoolteachers alleged on Friday that they were being forced to write a fresh selection test to retain their jobs even though, individually, they have not been found guilty of any malpractice.A cat-and-mouse game between police and the protesters ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe high court has ordered an emergency inspection of the La Martiniere schools after a large chunk of ceiling in a building with heritage status crashed to the floor from a 40-foot height, raising serious safety concerns for the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTwo of the three junior doctors who have alleged vindictive postings by the state government for their leading role in the RG Kar protests last year, approached the high court on Friday, challenging the decision.Asfakulla Naiya, who was a ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe fifth All Bengal Cultural Festival for Deaf Children was held at Bidyut Bhavan auditorium recently, with students competing in a number of events. Organised by the Society for the Deaf, it featured six special schools from across the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have started a case against a man who was allegedly found chopping a Mahua tree at Patuli’s Birji Purba Para on Wednesday afternoon. Police identified the man as Subal Sardar, 60. “The man was found chopping the tree ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar cops have started a crackdown in New Town and Salt Lake and have issued a notification saying that without a police clearance, no flats can be rented in their jurisdiction. The notification, issued by the Commissioner of ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphIn a world growing more connected each day, unity among nations is not just a hope, but a necessity. With this thought, St Joan’s School presented its annual concert Myriad 2025.“True peace begins with understanding, and harmony thrives where ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphStudents and teachers returned to Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education in the middle of their vacation, to celebrate Rabindrajayanti this year. The junior section performed the song Aaye tobe shohochori, with more than 15 students dressed in white singing ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTeach me about the types of cheese and what it can be paired with,” was the query that was typed in. And within a moment, came the answer on the screen — fresh, hard, blue and soft, with the ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphBJ Block’s loss turned out to be AK Block’s gain as Iman Chakraborty rocked AK Park on Saturday night. The singer, who was supposed to perform at Banglar Sanskriti o Prakriti Utsab 2025 but could not, came back to ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphCorporate games may be popular in business circles, but at Busy Bee, the AB Block-based multi-activity centre, it was teenagers who got to try their hand at some.“The new National Education Policy (NEP) wants to move away from rote ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe southwest monsoon has entered parts of north Bengal, the Met office said on Thursday. An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the monsoon is likely to enter deeper into Bengal in the next one or two ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to extend a concrete culvert on the eastern flank of EM Bypass near the Chingrighata crossing so that Science City-bound vehicles get extra road space.Vehicles from Sector V move slowly ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly cheating several people with false promises of getting them jobs either in the state health department or in private hospitals. Officers of Sonarpur police station, who made the arrests, said they ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe city and the state police, along with the transport department, have recently launched a unified e-challan portal to facilitate the collection of fines from vehicles violating traffic rules.Developed jointly by the departments of transport and information technology and ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphA woman, who was doing her morning workout at a public ground in Haltu early on Sunday morning, was allegedly verbally abused and videographed by some men.Police said the woman, a resident of Jogendra Gardens at Haltu in Kasba, ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphThe district administrations have been asked to be alert and evacuate residents to safer places if needed, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday afternoon.The chief minister added that there was a forecast for heavy rain in 48 hours, ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphA sombre grey sky hung heavy on the city through Thursday, but the rain was light.The Met office on Wednesday predicted heavy to very heavy rain from Thursday afternoon. But as a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal ...
31 May 2025 TelegraphNinety-one complaints were received on Wednesday, the first day of the week-long campaign by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to spot vulnerable garbage accumulation points across the city.Sources said civic teams worked till 8pm on Wednesday to resolve as ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday refused to hear a petition seeking a stay on the fresh school recruitment process initiated by the state government.Some of the teachers who lost their jobs for OMR manipulation and rank jumping had petitioned ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has advised its affiliated colleges to hold classes during the summer recess — online or in-person.A notice was issued as the university felt that adequate number of classes could not be held following a delayed start to ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphOne of Bengal’s leading entrepreneurs is starting a centre for science research and education at the highest level in Salt Lake’s Sector V.Technocrat-turned-entrepreneur Purnendu Chatterjee has come up with TCG CREST (The Chatterjee Group Centres for Research and Education ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA committee set up to review the effectiveness of existing fire safety systems in restaurants, hotels, factories and buildings will prepare a draft policy and submit it to the state cabinet within 30 days, urban development minister Firhad Hakim ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government is expected to issue a gazette notification on Thursday announcing the rules, vacancy positions and reservations for the recruitment of school staff at the secondary and higher secondary levels.Once the gazette notification is issued, the school ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA depression along Bengal’s coast is expected to bring “heavy to very heavy rain” in the city and its neighbourhoods on Thursday and Friday, the Alipore Met office warned on Wednesday.Winds clocking up to 50km an hour will likely ...
30 May 2025 TelegraphA 27-year-old graduate applicant from Kolkata stares at the loss of an academic year amid an indefinite halt in student visa interviews by the US government. Now, her dream to pursue MBA at UVA Darden School of Business hangs ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphA committee headed by the city’s mayor to review the “effectiveness” of existing fire safety systems in restaurants, hotels, factories and buildings will hold its first meeting on Wednesday.The meeting will be held at the headquarters of the Kolkata ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphWhat do we do with a severe burn injury? If anyone is electrocuted, what should others around the person do? Acid attack survivors posed these questions at a session on handling medical emergencies for ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphAn elderly man, who introduced himself as an advocate at the gate of the Sales Tax Building in Beleghata, fell from the seventh floor a few minutes later on Tuesday morning. Police suspect that the man jumped through an ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphOwners of three rooftop bars and restaurants who attended a hearing at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Tuesday have to submit their written submissions by June 11, civic body officials said.Owners of at least two of the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphTeachers protesting outside Bikash Bhavan, who were advised by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday to participate in a fresh recruitment exercise so they could retain their jobs beyond December, are still firm in their opposition to writing the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court came down heavily on a trial court judge for ex parte dismissal of a suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion sought by the appellant-husband.The bench comprising Justice Sabyasachi ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe cloud cover isn’t leaving Kolkata anytime soon.The city is expected to face light to moderate rain and thundershowers over the next 24 hours.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Kolkata has received 35.1mm of rain over the past ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThree persons were killed and eight injured in three different accidents across the city between Sunday and Monday.Early on Monday, an accident involving three vehicles happened in front of the Tea Board in central Calcutta.Police said a car hit ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphThe joint convener of the Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum, Chinmoy Mondal, and another protesting teacher on Monday responded to Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate’s summons in connection with the violence at Bikash Bhavan on May 15.The duo was interrogated at the ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphPolice have asked the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to clear the sewer channels underneath several key thoroughfares in the city to ensure that traffic is not affected by waterlogging during the monsoon.The police have listed roads that witness waterlogging with ...
29 May 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to put on hold its admission process for in-house undergraduate courses as it is awaiting an order from the state government, which has yet to receive legal opinion on OBC reservations, CU’s registrar said.On May ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphPlastic, solid waste and other discarded objects that float to the drainage pumping stations at the end of canals are a cause of concern with the monsoon just around the corner, officials of the state irrigation department and the ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphOwners of three rooftop bars and restaurants who had petitioned Calcutta High Court against the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s decision asking them to stop operations will go to the civic body’s headquarters for a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.“The hearing will ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphThe protesting schoolteachers are still firm on not participating in a fresh recruitment exercise, but the Bengal government told them on Monday that there was no other way than to comply with the direction of the Supreme Court.At a ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphIt just took ₹15,000 for a Bangladeshi national who had infiltrated Indian territory to pass for a genuine Indian citizen and work as a driver in Calcutta.According to police, it costs anything between ₹500 and ₹15,000 to generate a ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA passport applicant from Ekbalpore was caught submitting an alleged fake birth certificate with the application. He was arrested on Saturday. According to police, Badal Sahani had applied for a passport and submitted his identity documents for police verification. ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA sudden burst of smoke at Kolkata’s busy Esplanade Metro station sent office-goers and daily commuters into panic mode on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred around 3.30pm, causing alarm among passengers on the down line platform.According to reports in ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu has said an official of the education department will “get in touch” with the protesting school teachers who have been found “not specifically tainted” and allowed to return to schools temporarily. The official will contact ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphThe British Council Library was a little noisy and vibrant this Saturday. Reason: There were children who listened to stories of Baloo striking a friendship with Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and of the elephant from David ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphA man who was at the wheel of a car that hit an on-duty policeman riding a motorcycle near Kalighat last week is a Bangladeshi staying in India without valid documents, police said.On May 18, Azad Sheikh, 41, was ...
27 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu on Sunday said full-term vice-chancellors have not been appointed in many state-aided universities despite a directive from the Supreme Court. The minister was speaking at a programme of the All Bengal Principals’ Council where he ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphBreast cancer is the most common cancer among females worldwide. However, this disease does not discriminate between genders.At least one per cent of breast cancers occur in males. Male breasts have less tissue and do not have the functions ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphChildren whose struggles encompass finding a quiet corner in their house to study or having a proper roof that doesn’t leak when it rains will get to attend a three-day summer camp from Monday.The camp, for a few hours, ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe city police issued an advisory regarding insurance scams recently, warning people that scammers may call or send messages posing as employees or representatives from reputed insurance companies in a bid to steal data. The advisory comprises three sections — stop, drop, ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested after 100 rounds of live cartridges were seized from him at the Esplanade bus terminus on Sunday, police said. Ramakrishna Maji, a resident of Ketugran in Burdwan, was caught with the cartridges by the Special ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe sky remained overcast for most of Sunday with drizzles in some parts of the city, turning the weather pleasant and bringing down the maximum temperature to less than three degrees below normal. The Alipore Met Office forecast “generally ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Sunday a notification on the start of undergraduate admission at the government and aided colleges through the centralised admission portal would be issued by the end of May. Although the private and autonomous ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe state government has started sending notices to nearly 150 landowners who have agreed to part with their land for the construction of a bridge that will directly take pilgrims from Calcutta to Gangasagar, instead of having to wait ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe merest slivers of green have sprouted on the three biggish crochet letters of the English alphabet that together form the word VOW.One has to look really hard at the letters to realise that the green speckles on the ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphTwo years since its inauguration, the construction-and-demolition-waste plant of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is still struggling to get enough waste to process.Inaugurated in 2023, the plant that has the capacity to process 500 tonnes of waste every day ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphWholesale drug sellers must check the validity of the sellers’ licence while purchasing medicine and submit it to the state drug control department for verification.The state health department has mentioned this in an advisory issued recently to drug wholesalers ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) plans to dedicate the Currency Building in Dalhousie to exhibitions of contemporary art, and has sent a proposal to the ministry of culture to turn Metcalfe Hall on Strand Road into a ...
26 May 2025 TelegraphThe drone-like objects spotted in Calcutta’s night sky on Monday had not flown over military installations at Fort William, now known as Vijay Durg, officials of the army’s Eastern Command said on Wednesday.All of them were spotted in civilian ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphPrincipals of government and aided colleges will apprise education minister Bratya Basu on Sunday about the crisis they are facing because of the delay in starting the state-run centralised undergraduate admission portal.Basu is scheduled to attend the annual conference ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphDismissed teachers, barred from returning to school, assembled around education minister Bratya Basu’s house in Dum Dum on Thursday, demanding they be allowed to work till the end of the year.The sit-in started at 1pm and continued till 4pm.United ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphProtesting schoolteachers in a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan distanced themselves from the two school staff who were asked by Calcutta High Court to go to Bidhannagar (North) police station on Thursday to identify those who allegedly incited violence at ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA teacher and a sacked Group D staff member went to Bidhannagar (North) police station on Thursday, a day after the high court asked them to go to the police station and name those among the protesters who allegedly ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA 7mm pistol and a country-made single-barrel gun were recovered during two raids in the city early on Wednesday. Police arrested three men, including one from the approach to the AJC Bose Road flyover, for possessing firearms.Senior officers said ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphAn officer of Baranagar police station was “closed” on Wednesday and a civic volunteer of the same police station was sent on leave over allegations that the duo were extorting truck drivers on the Belgharia Expressway.In police parlance, “closing ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphA hospital chain specialising in women’s and children’s healthcare with over 20 hospitals across India has started its first Calcutta unit near Acropolis Mall in Kasba.Hospital administrators said Calcutta’s healthcare market was still underserved and there was scope for ...
23 May 2025 TelegraphHordes of passengers were left waiting long hours for trains at the New Complex of Howrah station on Wednesday, the third straight day of disruptions of services triggered by a signal glitch.Many trains to and from Howrah have been ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe construction of houses in Bowbazar that were damaged beyond repair by the August 2019 East-West Metro tunnel subsidence has been delayed by at least two more months, said officials overseeing the project.A representation of displaced residents, led by ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked three rooftop bars and restaurants that challenged the civic body’s notice asking them to stop work to come for a hearing on May 27.On May 6, Calcutta High Court ordered the KMC ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe crumbling New Market clock tower is finally set to be restored with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) granting permission to a citizens’ initiative to do the job. The clock tower was commissioned together with New Market in 1874. ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board has show-caused at least a dozen schoolteachers for attempting to storm Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat, on May 15 and “wrongfully confining” members of the staff and visitors for several hours. The board said ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphSeveral drone-like objects were recently spotted hovering over the night sky in Kolkata, prompting the police to investigate the matter from all angles, including the possibility of espionage, officials said on Wednesday. At least 8-10 such objects were ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphA team of officers from the detective department and another from Entally police station visited the Presidency correctional home on Tuesday to examine Pranay Dey, one of the two brothers arrested for the murder of two women and a ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphTrain services at Howrah and adjoining stations were affected on Tuesday because of glitch in a signalling system near Santragachhi station.It was the second day of the disruptions, which disrupted the schedule of several long-distance trains as well.The Howrah-Mumbai ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphThe terminated schoolteachers who have been protesting outside Bikash Bhavan since May 7 on Tuesday wrote to the education minister’s office seeking a dialogue with Bratya Basu on ending the impasse.A copy of the letter was sent to chief ...
22 May 2025 TelegraphA former employee was arrested on Sunday in connection with a ₹20-lakh burglary at a Gariahat boutique that was reported a few weeks ago.The former employee — identified as Rahul Seal — had allegedly entered the boutique through an ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of teachers who have lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order submitted a prayer before the high court on Monday, seeking action against officers of Bidhannagar (North) police station for alleged excesses on protesting teachers at ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA three-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday issued contempt rules against Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh and eight others in connection with an alleged attack on lawyers on April 25. The accused will have to explain ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA Bengal police constable made it to the top of Mount Everest on Monday morning. Lakshmikanta Mandal, a constable of the 3rd battalion of the State Armed Police and personal security guard of Calcutta police commissioner Manoj Verma, summited ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBuses on several routes, as well as heavy and medium-sized vehicles, will be rerouted after Moti Lal Gupta Road, which links Tollygunge and Diamond Harbour Road on the city’s southern fringes, is closed for KEIP’s sewerage pipeline work.A traffic ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphProtesting teachers whom Mamata Banerjee told not to block roads or confine others in the name of protests said uncertainty over their future had forced them to stage an indefinite sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the education secretariat.They also reminded ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphTwo snatching cases were reported in the city on Friday night and Saturday morning. Both cases involve bike-borne criminals.According to officers at Lake Town police station, an elderly woman was walking along the service road near the Lake Town ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSome of the city's majestic buildings, inheritances from its colonial past, are illuminated in the evenings, transforming the face of the place where they stand.A group of Calcuttans keen to preserve and showcase the city's heritage has illuminated 78 ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphSaroj Ghose, a pioneering science communicator and instrumental behind the science museum movement in India, breathed his last on Saturday. He was 89.“It is with profound sorrow that the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) announces the sad demise ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphOffices in the 10-storey Krishna building, where a fire broke out on the fifth floor on Saturday afternoon, are likely to remain closed till the forensic examination of the affected area is completed, said sources in Kolkata Police. According ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA section of parents still insist that their children pursue science in Classes XI and XII despite them having no interest, inclination or the required marks.The pressure mostly stems from a closed mindset of parents who want their children ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe prime suspect in the murder of a 36-year old waiter has been arrested by the Kolkata Leather Complex police. Around 8am on Saturday, the police station received a call of an unconscious body lying on the banks of ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphAn association of orthopaedic doctors discussed advances in orthopaedic surgeries and treatment during a conference in the city on Sunday. Shoulder replacement surgeries, knee surgeries, managing old injuries neglected for years and fractures in elderly people were among the ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphBimla Poddar, social worker, philanthropist and matriarch of the Poddar-Neotia family, passed away in Varanasi on May 14. She would have turned 89 this August.She is the founder of Jnana Pravaha, a Varanasi-based centre for cultural studies engaged in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe city spent a reasonably pleasant Sunday, thanks to light spells of rain and overcast conditions.The Met office recorded close to 25mm of rain in Alipore between Saturday night and Sunday night. Light to moderate rain is still in ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state commission for protection of child rights has taken “suo motu cognisance” of children participating in a rally by aggrieved teachers outside Bikash Bhavan on Saturday.The panel has written to the Bidhannagar commissionerate seeking a report.“West Bengal Commission ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe number of hoardings on Calcutta’s roads will be reduced to 250 from over 400, the mayoral council member heading the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s advertisement department said on Sunday.Reducing the number of billboards will make the city look cleaner, ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphA partially burnt body of an unidentified person was found in an under-construction building on Nivedita Lane in Bagbazar on Saturday morning.Eyewitnesses said the building’s caretaker was the first to spot the deceased, lying face down, near the garage ...
20 May 2025 TelegraphThe state-run centralised undergraduate admission portal will open by the end of May or early June, an official of the higher education department said on Saturday. Minority, autonomous and private colleges have already begun their admission season from early ...
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