Breather for some. Uncertainty for many. Lingering doubts for all.Even after Thursday’s Supreme Court clarification, questions swirled among the school employees robbed of their jobs.The secondary education board had pleaded in court that all the teaching and non-teaching employees ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: Hundreds of men are up in arms so that women do not get a comfortable commute between home and work.Ever since the railways introduced an extra coach reserved for women on local trains in the Sealdah division, a ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA spell of thunderstorm on Thursday evening brought relief from the hot and humid conditions. A tree was uprooted on Bentinck Street near Lalbazar, disrupting traffic. The Met office has not ruled out another thunderstorm on Friday.The day was ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphJadavpur: An autorickshaw driver, who had left home on the night of Bengali New Year (Poila Baisakh) on Tuesday to attend a feast with friends, was found dead near his home at Rabindrapally in Patuli the next morning. Toton ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA man from Visakhapatnam has been arrested in Calcutta for allegedly running a fake job racket and supplying counterfeit visas. Police said Rohan Agarwal, 47, ran a call centre Garden Reach for fake recruitments. Agarwal was arrested at Garden ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphEaster — a time of renewal, hope and joy. As the world awakens from its winter, the Easter story reminds us that there is a chance for new life and transformation even in darkness.All over the world, people will ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThey have not been directly affected by the Supreme Court’s recent sacking of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools.But the plight of their colleagues brought them to Calcutta on Wednesday.Many teachers who still have their jobs spent ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphWork on yet another Bengali film has been stalled after technicians allegedly refused to turn up for their work.One of the directors of the upcoming film is Sudeshna Roy, secretary of the Directors Association of Eastern India, which has ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphAn elderly resident of Salt Lake was allegedly forced to pay a ransom of ₹25 lakh to get herself “released” after a caller threatened her with digital arrest. She could not disconnect the phone call for several days, fearing ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA private hospital on Shakespeare Sarani on Wednesday inaugurated a robot to assist in joint replacement surgeries. Robot-aided surgeries are more precise and the duration of surgeries lesser than conventional surgeries. An official of The Nightingale Hospital, where the ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphA Calcuttan who saw a video of a man resembling industrialist Mukesh Ambani on social media claiming anyone investing ₹22,000 in his company will get a minimum return of ₹50,000 per day, was cheated after he clicked on a ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThe city loves its tradition and Easter eggs.Ahead of Easter on Sunday, bakeries and confectioneries are bustling with people and energy.The simnel cake, marzipan Easter eggs, bunny eggs, chick-iced cookies and hot cross buns — available only at this ...
18 April 2025 TelegraphThe dismissed school staff walked from Wellington Square to Esplanade’s Y-channel on Tuesday evening, holding aloft their mobile phones with flashlights switched on as a mark of protest.The protesters carried posters that said: “Shubha? Nababarsha.”Mehboob Mandal, a spokesperson for ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s two biggest political rivals came out with Bengali New Year processions on Tuesday, both claiming to uphold the state’s culture and accusing the other of insulting it.The Trinamul Congress organised a rally from Girish Park to Jorasanko. The ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphVaccines offer hope against several deadly diseases, and this should be said out loud so anti-vaccine campaigns are drowned out, a scientist said on Tuesday at the inauguration of an exhibition on vaccines at Science City.Besides communicable diseases, vaccines ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA melting pot of cultures, the city geared up to celebrate diverse festivals.The Sikh and Punjabi communities celebrated Baisakhi on Sunday. The Assamese community prepared for Rongali Bihu, on Tuesday. The festival marks the beginning of the New Year ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA government bus headed to Jadavpur from Howrah climbed the median on Chowringhee Road, ploughing through the iron railings near Ispat Bhavan on Monday morning.At least five passengers were injured and taken to SSKM Hospital, about 1km away. They ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphThe fight is for life and livelihood, which have been violated, a teacher wrote on a poster sitting at Esplanade’s Y-channel on Monday afternoon.While she wrote, another teacher held an umbrella to shield her from the scorching sun.Teachers and ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphA bus with 60 dismissed and aggrieved teachers on board set off for Delhi on Monday to protest against their termination at Jantar Mantar on April 16.The teachers, many of them holding posters that read “CBI has certified us ...
17 April 2025 TelegraphPrayers, food, music and festivities marked the beginning of the Bengali New Year.Tens of thousands started their day by offering prayers at Kalighat and Dakshineswar temples. One of them was Amlan Baidya, who lives in Nagerbazar. “I try to ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphSeparate teams of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search and seizure operations at multiple locations in Calcutta and its adjoining districts on Tuesday in connection with the probe into an alleged racket where forged identity documents were used to ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphSacked and aggrieved teachers travelling to Delhi on a bus stopped at different places to sensitise people about what they were going through and build public opinion against what they said was an “unjust termination”.They will hold a sit-in ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphA Poila Baisakh like no other.Many of the 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools who had lost their jobs after a Supreme Court verdict on April 3 were sitting at Esplanade’s Y-channel on Tuesday, continuing their protest.While ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe anger against the new waqf law singed Calcutta’s neighbourhood on Monday with Indian Secular Front supporters stoning police and torching their vehicles in Bhangar, South 24-Parganas.Five police motorbikes and a prison van were destroyed and seven policemen were ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphVehicles bound for Science City from Chingrighata along the EM Bypass will find additional road space near the Metropolitan crossing.The vehicular movement will be faster if the steel bridge that has been installed is made functional as soon as ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphReligion teaches people to love one another, then why is there violence, asked chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the inauguration of the Kalighat skywalk on Monday evening.There will be “many attempts to provoke people into violence”, Mamata said, appealing ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police on Monday said the situation in Bhangar was “completely under control” following fresh violence linked to protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act earlier in the day, during which supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) clashed with ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThree sacked teachers who were holding an indefinite fast outside the school service commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake to protest the termination of jobs, ended their fast on Sunday afternoon.Suman Biswas, Pankaj Roy and Pratap Kumar Saha had ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphShopping hubs of the city, from north to south, bustled on the last Sunday before Poila Boishakh and the crowd swelled as the sun went down.There was hardly any space on the pavements of Gariahat and Hatibagan. The hawkers’ ...
16 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government has cancelled its decision to transfer teachers in government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools because the en masse termination of teachers’ jobs by the Supreme Court has plunged many institutes into crisis. An order ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s experience with Banglar Rasogolla has shown that a geographical indication (GI) tag doesn’t mean better business.On April 4, Bengal bagged the GI tag for four different types of sweets — Murshidabad Chhanabora, Kamarpukur Sada Bode, Bishnupurer Motichur Laddu ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court has restrained the powerful technicians’ federation in Tollygunge from interfering with the independent functioning of a director.“The respondent no. 5 (Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) is restrained from interfering with the ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphAn alumni association that has demonstrated over the years how former students can contribute to the growth of an institution turns 40 on Sunday. St Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association (SXCCAA) was among the first to show that help ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's oldest Metro tunnel will undergo a "complete overhaul", 40 years after it opened.Overhauling Calcutta Metro Rail's tunnel between Tollygunge and Dum Dum, part of the north-south or Blue Line, could take three to four years, and the job ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has invalidated 25,753 teaching and non-teaching jobs in Bengal because it couldn’t reliably distinguish between legitimate appointments and those obtained through manipulation. This sweeping decision came despite the School Service Commission (SSC)’s attempts to identify “tainted” ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphThe railways need a slice of land — measuring 837sq m — inside the police lines in Alipore to build the Kidderpore station, projected to be one of the busiest in the upcoming Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor (Purple Line).Railway officials ...
14 April 2025 TelegraphA 31-year-old man was arrested in Kolkata's Survey Park area after he was caught while allegedly attempting to rob a bank using a toy gun, police said on Saturday.Dalim Basu, an employee of the Department of Post, went to ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphKolkata Police have arrested a couple and unveiled a dating app racket operating in the city and surrounding areas.One of the accused is a restaurant manager and his accomplice, a young woman, created fake profiles on popular dating sites ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA massive fire broke out at a slum in east Kolkata's Metropolitan area in the early hours of Saturday, police said.At least 10 shanties were gutted in the fire, they said.Four fire tenders doused the blaze in two hours, ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay was booed and told to “go back” on Friday by teachers and school staff on a sit-in outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Friday.Gangopadhyay arrived outside the SSC office at 5.30pm ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday denied permission to an outfit to block Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti on Saturday and recalled the historic Khilafat Movement to explain the Eid prayers there.An outfit that calls itself the Viswa Hindu Sevadal ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphA housing complex in Rajarhat has opened a shooting range where a tournament was held last Sunday.Siddha Town, at Beraberi near Narayanpur, has a four-lane 10m air rifle range where training is provided by certified coaches from Joydeep Karmakar ...
13 April 2025 TelegraphThe state government wants to run more buses on EM Byass and has sought the Kolkata Police’s opinion on whether it will pose challenges in traffic management. On Friday, senior transport department officials and city police officers discussed the challenges that may ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe manager of a cafe on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly being part of a racket that engaged women to open fake accounts on dating apps, lure men to the cafe where they would be forced to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA man, who had his face covered with a mask and "armed" himself with a plastic gun, tried to rob a bank in Santoshpur on Friday. He got caught after those around him recognised the fake gun as a ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphSeven young athletes from Bengal are gearing up for a never-seen-before spectacle of the sport that has changed their lives.They will play in the world’s first franchise-based Rugby league, which will be held in Mumbai from June 1 to ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA sub-inspector caught on camera kicking an aggrieved protester at the office of the district inspector (DI) of schools on Wednesday was given charge of investigating the same case by his superiors.The decision raises questions on how seriously Kolkata ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphPaying EMIs, ailing parents, children’s education, worrying about how students will complete their syllabus and uncertainty.Thousands of teachers and school staff whose jobs were terminated by a Supreme Court order last week assembled outside the school service commission office ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAlternating between rage and despair, aggrieved teachers and staff of government-aided schools continued to sit outside the school service commission office in Salt Lake on Thursday.When the sun became too scorching, they shifted to the other side of the ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphResidents may be happy shopping round the year these days, but come spring and they still await Chaitra sale.“Chaitra sale isn’t as significant in Salt Lake as it is in Hatibagan or Gariahat, but since customers know this is ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphA formal inquiry has been initiated into alleged police excesses in the compound of the district school inspector's office in Kasba. Officers at the Kolkata Police headquarters said all the allegations and electronic evidence that emerged were being probed.An ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphThe termination of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal — following the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process — has unleashed more than just administrative and political chaos. It ...
12 April 2025 TelegraphAnnapurna puja may be popular in homes, but BC Block now celebrates it at the community level. Since last year they have started performing the puja at their community hall and this probably makes them the first block in ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe SojournWhen: April 15 to 19,12.30pm to 4.30pmPocket pinch: Rs 1,200What: The lunch at the Broadway hotel starts with a choice between Aam Pora Sherbet and fruit punch, which works well in this heat. But be careful to have ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn outfit called Anjani Putra Sena, accused of violating norms in a Ram Navami procession in Howrah, on Thursday challenged the legality of the criminal proceedings initiated against its leaders by police.Appearing for the organisation, advocate Subir Sanyal appealed ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphAn advocate has served a legal notice on chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleging contempt of the Supreme Court’s order invalidating over 25,000 school jobs in Bengal.Advocate Siddharth Dutta has said the notice was sent on behalf of an NGO ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphA string of rallies in Calcutta, protesting the scrapping of school jobs and the new Waqf law, crippled traffic on Thursday, tormenting motorists and pedestrians alike.At least six processions crisscrossed the city between 7am and 4pm, bringing traffic to ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphMore than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff lost their jobs last week following a Supreme Court order. Hundreds of them walked from Sealdah to Esplanade on Thursday afternoon to register their protest and anger against Wednesday’s police lathicharge on ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission has recommended the appointments of 1,240 candidates as physical education and work education teachers in supernumerary posts in government-aided schools.The recommendation came a day after the Supreme Court set aside Calcutta High Court’s direction for ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe acting principal of La Martiniere for Boys, John Stephen, resigned on Tuesday.Sydney Francis Menezes has taken over from Stephen.The 189-year-old institution has been without a principal since July 2021.“The boys’ school principal submitted his resignation on Tuesday, and ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphThe presence of two upper air cyclonic circulations has urged the Regional Meteorological Centre to issue a significant weather alert for several districts of West Bengal from April 10 to April 14.The cyclonic circulations are over northeast Bihar between ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Wednesday told a group of dismissed school employees not to “ask such foolish questions” and to “ask the Supreme Court” when they sought a solution to the impasse.Gangopadhyay had gone to meet the school ...
11 April 2025 TelegraphCBI officers have resumed talking to officials and postgraduate trainees of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as part of its investigation to find out whether there was any attempt to cover up the rape and murder of a ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe state administration on Wednesday submitted a report in the high court on a Ram Navami procession in Howrah organised by an outfit that calls itself the Anjani Putra Sena and mentioned that it violated court guidelines on multiple ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal governor must abide by what the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, setting a timeline for all governors to act on bills, said Bengal education minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday.“I hope that our governor, who is a learned ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphEducation minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday that teachers and school staff who have lost their jobs must realise they cannot conduct disruptive protests and call for help from the government at the same time.“What has happened (the lathi ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe draft amendments to the existing Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) building rules propose a mandatory parking space for visitors in housing complexes above a certain size and a reduction of the open space for buildings coming up on smaller ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphIndia's largest single-site electric vehicle (EV) charging hub is set to come up in south Kolkata's Thakurpukur area, claimed Ashhok Kapoor, the MD of EzUrja, which is building it.It will be the second-largest EV charging hub in the world ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has predicted light to moderate rains to hit a few parts of the city from Wednesday onwards, with a favourable wind and moisture incursions over the Bay of Bengal. The twin natural phenomenon has made the ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: An outfit that calls itself the Hanuman Seva Dal moved an application before Calcutta High Court on Tuesday seeking permission to hold a procession on Red Road for six hours on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.The appeal, before ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission is “going ahead” with its preparations for a fresh recruitment process to fill the posts that have fallen vacant after the Supreme Court last week scrapped the jobs of 25,773 teaching and non-teaching staff in ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphOne of the two persons, arrested from Haryana in connection with a cyber fraud allegedly headed by a bank manager, used to work in an Aadhaar Seva Kendra, CID sleuths said.He had access to the database of thousands of ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphSquall season is here, but Calcutta has yet to experience one. The Met office has predicted that the wait might be over before the end of this week.According to the weather office, a system on the Bay of Bengal ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphJudge-turned-BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Tuesday prescribed a way to differentiate the “deserving candidates” from the “undeserving” in the school recruitment case.Gangopadhyay’s comments drew a retort from state education minister Bratya Basu, who said he spoke like a politician ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe minimum visibility required for a flight to land has been increased from 1,500m to 5,000m in one of Calcutta airport’s four landing points because of a building in Kaikhali jutting out 11m more than the permissible limit, officials ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe family of the man who was run over by a car being driven by an allegedly intoxicated filmmaker in Thakurpukur on Sunday, alleged that they were offered money to “settle the matter”.Aminul Rahman and at least five others ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe demolition of a building will mean smashing its ceilings, floors, beams and columns and not merely drilling holes that can be repaired easily, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has said in a notification.Mayor Firhad Hakim had earlier asked ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court has scheduled for April 17 a hearing on the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s (WBBSE) plea seeking permission to retain untainted teachers until a fresh recruitment process is completed.This follows the apex court’s April 3 ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThe senior judge on a Calcutta High Court division bench on Monday refused to hear the state’s appeal against an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in May 2023, cancelling the appointments of over 36,000 primary school teachers based on ...
10 April 2025 TelegraphThousands of aggrieved teachers and school staff had arrived outside Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday morning.Only a section of them made it in. The others did not have a pass that proclaimed “we are deserving”.Protests followed, guardrail barricades were ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address was peppered with assurances but did not cut much ice with several teachers who have lost their jobs.They had come to Netaji Indoor Stadium hoping Mamata would explain how she planned to save their ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphBengal’s secondary education board has appealed to the Supreme Court that teachers and school staff whose services have been terminated though they are “not specifically tainted” be allowed to continue until fresh recruitments are made.The board said if over ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday promised to protect the jobs of all those the Supreme Court had deemed “not specifically tainted” while scrapping their appointments because of a “vitiated” school recruitment process.Addressing over 10,000 sacked and aggrieved teachers ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphTill August 21 last year, Saroj Bhunya, a Kharagpur resident, would take his bike to a state-run school where he was employed as a group-D staff. That morning he collapsed following a brain haemorrhage.The semi-paralysed Bhunya with the support ...
9 April 2025 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee said during Monday’s meeting that she would examine what evidence has been submitted against those terminated teachers who have been identified as “tainted” and then decide on their cases.“First, let me resolve the cases of ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA hospital off DL Khan Road in Bhowanipore that was non-functional since 2012 has been revamped. A multi-speciality OPD will start running from the healthcare facility from Tuesday. The hospital was started in 1975, and it shut down around ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe person who was driving the car that entered a crowded marketplace in Thakurpukur and hit several pedestrians, killing one on Sunday morning, was remanded to police custody on Monday.Police said Siddhanta Das, 35, a resident of Kankulia Road ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphTwo persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a racket that used to create fake companies and subsequent mule accounts for the transaction of money earned through fraudulent means, police said.The racket was headed by the branch ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphA 65-year-old man was crushed under the wheels of a government run bus after it hit a two-wheeler near the Chingrighata intersection on EM Bypass on Monday afternoon, police said.The accident happened around 1.15pm after the rider of the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphSome key takeaways from chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s address at Netaji Indoor Stadium on MondayTop priority: Save jobs “As long as I live, I will not let a single deserving teacher lose his or her job. Neither me nor you ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has finalised a standard operating procedure on statues, making it mandatory that new statues are vetted by a civic committee.The committee will examine whether a pavement in question will become too narrow for pedestrians ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphBJP strongman and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee government with allegations of 'targeted violence' on Hindu devotees involved in a Ram Navami procession near Kolkata’s Park Circus Seven Point area."Where was the ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphOne set of nurses round the clock to treat children with autism when they are hospitalised for other diseases. Provision for speech and occupational therapists to visit the ward to avoid regression in a child with autism without therapy. ...
8 April 2025 TelegraphMembers of the Jadavpur University unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, performed a puja on the campus on Ram Navami on Sunday, despite being denied permission by the university authorities.The students wearing saffron ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphCombine sections in Classes IX and X, engage part-time teachers, or request teachers from neighbouring schools to take classes.These are some of the ways government-aided schools are planning to tide over the shortage of teachers.The Supreme Court order on ...
7 April 2025 Telegraph“I will prove to everyone I’m not mad.”“In the past 25 years, I have heard many promises to take me back home.”“I wish to return home, too, but where is my home?”“Once upon a time, I chose my clothes; ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphA car travelling along Diamond Harbour Road entered a busy road in Thakurpukur that was dug up for laying a pipeline, and hit six pedestrians on Sunday morning, one of whom died later in the day. The deceased was ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe city celebrated Ram Navami like never before. The event was peaceful.Thousands of processions — big and small rolled out across the state on Sunday. In Calcutta, Salt Lake and Howrah, police ensured that all the norms laid down ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe build-up began at noon. By early evening, several pockets of Calcutta were painted in saffron. Ram Navami celebrations were marked by a string of processions, some drawing a crowd of a few thousand. DJ consoles mounted on trucks ...
7 April 2025 TelegraphThe education department has asked district school inspectors to report how schools are coping after the Supreme Court terminated nearly 17,000 teaching positions.“We’re collecting data on the extent of disruption to gauge the full scale of the crisis,” said ...
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