Education minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday wondered why the authorised vice-chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University approached the high court instead of talking to those staging protests outside the university campus.“Why did he have to go to court? He could ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe state’s home secretary met with airport and airline executives on Wednesday to press for Calcutta’s demand for more international flights and direct connectivity to Europe.Calcutta airport authorities would write to international airlines that earlier operated from Calcutta but ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphA chip for prompt detection of a wide range of diseases. An X-ray technology aimed at reducing radiation exposure in medical imaging. An AI-powered system to help farmers with loans.An entrepreneurial summit at a research institute last week saw ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphFive CISF personnel, among them a senior inspector and a woman constable earlier posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, have been arrested for allegedly posing as Income Tax officials and “raiding” a house at Chinar Park and ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphPolice discovered the charred remains of a 72-year-old woman at her Vidyasagar Colony residence Wednesday morning. Police have started a case of unnatural death and are searching for the victim’s son, who is allegedly absconding.Calls from the neighbours alerted ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphHowrah's solid waste will now be dumped in Calcutta's Dhapa and in Hooghly's Baidyabati to stop the piling at the saturated Belgachhia waste disposal ground, which needs to be cleared immediately. During a meeting on Tuesday, chaired by urban ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court issued an interim order on Tuesday asking the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to take steps so the authorised vice-chancellor and registrar of Rabindra Bharati University can enter the varsity campus without any resistance.Justice Biswajit ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University student Souptik Chanda, who was arrested last week in connection with arson and vandalism on the campus hours after education minis-ter Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1, was granted interim bail by the Alipore court on Wednesday.The ...
27 March 2025 TelegraphP. Uday Kumar Reddy, General Manager of Metro Railway, conducted an inspection of the Jai Hind Bimanbandar to Biswa Bangla Convention Centre stretch of the Orange Line on Tuesday.He was accompanied by senior officials from Metro Railway and Rail ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphSome of the questions Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of Calcutta High Court asked the CBI at Monday’s hearing of the RG Kar case and what the central agency had earlier said and submitted:Judge: “You must tell me whether at any ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has started whitewashing the slogans and graffiti on its walls.Many of them came up after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit to the campus on March 1, which led to student violence and allegations that his car hit ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Monday told the CBI to clarify if the agency had at any point in its probe into the RG Kar rape and murder considered the possibility of gang rape.The bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked hospitals to be “transparent and reasonable” in their billing to avoid patients leaving hospitals without clearing the bills.At a meeting with private hospitals in Bengal on Monday, the commission’s chairperson, ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe 18-year-old Virat Kohli fan arrested for breaching Eden’s security ring during the inaugural IPL match on Saturday was granted bail on Monday, but asked not to be at Eden Gardens or its adjoining areas during the remaining matches.Rhituparno ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA city businessman went missing during a business trip to Koderma in Jharkhand earlier last week.Sumit Dahima, a resident of Kestopur, left for Jharkhand on March 16.“The last time family members spoke to the 39-year-old businessman was on March ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphThe overcast conditions that prevailed for a couple of days kept the Celsius under check on Sunday.The Celsius, however, is expected to rise from Monday. The Met office has warned of a sharp spike in the day temperature by ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA youth was arrested for scaling the iron fence at Eden Gardens, jumping into the field and diving at Virat Kohli’s feet during the IPL inaugural match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Saturday. Rhituparno Pakhira ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphNew Town is fast emerging as Calcutta’s new health hub, riding the same advantages that put EM Bypass in a similar spot two decades ago.The availability of encroachment and encumbrance-free, regular-shaped land and the promise of easy connectivity are ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA member of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family has clarified that the leader was never held in Fort William.In Saturday’s edition, The Telegraph carried a report headlined “Fort William now Vijay Durg, ‘tribute’ to 1971 feat”.The report said that ...
26 March 2025 TelegraphA man, who recently called up a senior government official impersonating a judge of Calcutta High Court and asking him to award a tender to a particular company, has been arrested.Police identified the accused as Pawan Pan.The police said ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphA new pipeline to supply potable water to north Howrah was completed on Sunday morning and normal supply will be restored across Howrah from Monday, the chairperson of the board of administrators of Howrah Municipal Corporation said on Sunday. ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphTrap cameras placed inside the Sunderbans to estimate the number and assess the habitat of tigers have suggested a change in the behaviour of another apex predator in the mangroves.The images show crocodiles are nesting in seemingly new areas ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphWhy should I go for coffee with you always and not my friends? A 30-year-old woman with Down syndrome asked her mother. Individuals with Down syndrome, their families and doctors participated in a walk ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphBengali is the fifth most spoken language in the world but there is no sustainable market for Bengali films, a leading film producer told a media and entertainment conclave on Saturday.“Bengali is the fifth most spoken language in the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphThe city’s markets are flooded with single-use plastics that were formally banned in July 2022 and government agencies continue to squabble over who should take the lead to enforce the ban.Calcutta’s mayor Firhad Hakim on Saturday said that the ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta’s map has seen Clive make way for Netaji and Harrington for Ho Chi Minh, with successive governments leaving the imprint of national pride and ideology on the city’s streets and buildings.The latest act of renaming, however, involves one ...
24 March 2025 TelegraphHundred-day workers with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) have not received their remunerations for more than two months, mayor Firhad Hakim said at the civic body’s monthly session on Saturday. He apologised for the delay.Hundred-day workers are people employed ...
23 March 2025 Telegraph• Conducting a water quality test in the Sunderbans to find its oxygen content and levels of salinity and acidity.• Observing the biodiversity of the mangroves and wondering at mudskippers, fish that walk on land but when the water ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA first-day-first-show at the cinema has become a thing of the past. Now Eden Gardens, too, has its first day’s first show. And when Shah Rukh Khan is the star, everyone wants a ticket.Some who got one wanted to ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphOver 65,000 people dared the looming threat of rain and they had their money’s worth even before the first ball was bowled at Eden Gardens.Shah Rukh Khan, the emcee, shakes a leg with Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh. A ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s much-anticipated metro connectivity from Joka to Majerhat on the Purple Line has moved a step closer to operational readiness. Sumit Singhal, Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) for Metro & NF Circle, conducted a crucial inspection of the Communication-Based ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of light to moderate showers with gusty winds in Kolkata until March 23 morning, casting a shadow over the IPL 2025 opener between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphWater supply to large parts of Howrah was severely affected from Thursday morning till Friday evening after a supply line from the Puddapukur water treatment plant was damaged. Almost all the 50 wards under the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThe city police iterated on Friday that its proposal to reschedule an IPL match at Eden Gardens on April 6 was taken keeping “public safety as the top priority”.Kolkata Knight Riders’ match with Lucknow Super Giants has now been ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphFour security personnel, including two woman guards, who were posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the night of August 8 were questioned at the CBI office on Friday.On Thursday, four nurses posted at the nursing station ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphTrinamul councillor Somnath Dey was elected the new chairman of Panihati Municipality on Friday.Parents of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 last year had alleged that Dey ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national arrested in January for fraudulently obtaining an Indian passport had been posing as a Buddhist monk to run a racket that helped foreigners obtain Indian passports and “prepare fake documents required for obtaining visa of European ...
23 March 2025 TelegraphThere are schools, and then there are schools for special children. But since the special children are also a part of society, should they not go to the same school as others?This is the thought behind Newtown Daycare, an ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphSPK Jain Futuristic Academy held an inter-school science fest named Prithvi that brought together students from various institutes to showcase innovative projects addressing sustainability, safety, and environmental conservation.The fest was inaugurated by Abhinav Chandra, director of the Institute of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWithin a year of the doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, within a month of the 14-year-old’s rape and murder in Action Area 1, within a week of Women’s Day 2025, a stretch in ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphWomen, who have made food their business, sat down for a conversation in course of which they shared their experiences and, in the process, toasted each other’s successes.The chat was occasioned by a Women’s Day programme organised by Ibis ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe women were beauty and grace personified as they walked the ramp at Bidyut Bhavan. So what if they could not hear?On International Women’s Day, 13 hearing and speech-impaired women took part in Miss Deaf Bengal, a beauty pageant ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday ordered the demolition of three floors of a five-storeyed building in the Watgunge area that were constructed illegally.The division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee was hearing a PIL that ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA young woman who was “critical” because of complications in the post-partum phase at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital and was later brought to SSKM Hospital, was shifted to the female nephrology ward from the critical care unit of ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA couple was found dead at their residence in Garia’s Adarshanagar on Wednesday night.Police suspect the husband Tarun Das, 45, had murdered his wife Asha (35) before dying by suicide. The police found strangulation marks around Asha’s neck and ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphAn independent film festival will screen 38 documentary and fiction films from India and South Asia. The films explore common themes of migration, caste, gender and ethnic struggles, and the ongoing fight against authoritarian regimes.Films from a subcontinent hurting ...
22 March 2025 TelegraphA man and his wife were found dead at their rented home in Garia’s Adarshpally on Thursday morning, police said.The body of the man was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his wife’s body was on the bed ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe foreign and European affairs minister of Slovakia offered to host peace talks between Ukraine, the country’s eastern neighbour, and Russia, at the inauguration of Slovakia’s honorary consulate in Calcutta on Thursday.“We support the (peace) efforts of the new ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a letter to Mamata Banerjee appreciated the chief minister’s efforts to “alleviate poverty” and supported her “secularism”.In the letter, Chakravorty Spivak thanked Mamata for the congratulatory message she posted on X following the ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral cricket fans who failed to obtain IPL tickets online but desperately wanted to see defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders take on Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens on Saturday, have fallen prey to cheats through social ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday allowed the parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to move a petition seeking a fresh CBI probe into the case.The Supreme Court on Monday had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphIPL returns to Eden Gardens on Saturday. The spectre of thunderstorms, a familiar foe for the tourney, also looms over the city for the next few days.Defending champions KKR play RCB at the Eden in the IPL opener. The ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA group of men has been arrested for allegedly running a fraudulent call centre at a residential apartment in Kasba, police said.According to the police, the group used to target people staying abroad by posing as service providers of ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA swimming instructor was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly trying to kill his former student, a teenager, by strangulating her and then slitting her throat after he managed to convince her to hand over her mother’s jewellery on Tuesday.Police ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday stopped the felling of a tree on a private plot on Kankulia Road near Golpark that was being cleared for construction of a new building.The neem tree has stood on the plot for ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA tram decorated with images and models of Sunderbans’ flora and fauna will travel between Shyambazar and Ballygunge from March 28 to 30 to highlight how climate change can equally impact the mangrove haven and Calcutta.The focus will also ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court headed by Justice Debangshu Basak on Wednesday turned down the bail plea of Ayan Sil, the prime accused in the alleged scam in appointments of staff in 17 municipalities across Bengal since ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphNineteen people have died by suicide in the north-south Metro corridor (Blue Line) in the past five years, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Parliament on Wednesday.Vaishnaw was replying to a question from Mala Roy, Trinamool MP from South Kolkata, ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphEight health workers of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation have accused a doctor they had been assisting of sexual harassment.Based on their complaint, the civic body has suspended the 62-year-old doctor, BMC sources said.Police said a separate criminal case had ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphState health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam visited the parents of the young doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, ostensibly to hand over her death certificate.She was raped and killed more than seven ...
21 March 2025 TelegraphA Jadavpur University student arrested on March 12 for allegedly setting fire to the office of a non-teaching employees’ union on the campus and later named in a case involving objectionable graffiti got interim bail from the Alipore court ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphWater connection cannot be discontinued without approval from the chief engineer of the water supply department, the commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation said (KMC) in a written order on Tuesday. The municipal commissioner’s directive came a day after ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphFormer state education minister Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law Kalyanmay Bhattacharya, a co-accused in the alleged teacher recruitment scam in government-aided schools, recorded his statement before a magistrate last week.Bhattacharya had earlier wanted to be an approver in the case and ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has put on hold its plans to erect a wall around a government plot on Prince Anwar Shah Road after around 100 shop owners who have “encroached” the land declined to vacate it.Last week, ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA second-year student of Jadavpur University’s civil engineering department was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the arson on the campus hours after education minister Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1.Police identified the arrested student as Souptik Chanda. They ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphCongress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday demanded the Narendra Modi government increase the minimum wages under the rural job guarantee scheme, MGNREGA, to Rs 400 and up the maximum work days to 150 from the present 100.Accusing ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata recorded a marginal decrease in air pollution level during 2024 compared to 2023, but still stands as the second most polluted metro city in the country after Delhi and within the 2 per cent most polluted cities of ...
19 March 2025 TelegraphA break-in has been reported at a government-aided school in Behala, the second school in the area to have been targeted within 24 hours.The schools are around 3km apart.Jagatpur Rukmini Vidyamandir on Satyen Roy Road in Behala reported the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor said on Monday that it was “essential” to install more CCTV cameras to ascertain in the future whether students were putting up “anti-national posters” on the campus. “We want to strengthen the security on the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe board of councillors of Panihati Municipality accepted the resignation of its chairperson on Monday.Malay Roy was asked to step down on March 11 by the state urban development and municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim.There are 35 councillors in ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA teacher of Jadavpur University’s history department held a class in an open space — near Milanda’s canteen — on Monday as a mark of protest against alleged police atrocities on students.Classes were held outside Subarna Jayanti Bhavan, which ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA hailstorm struck parts of South 24-Parganas, West Midnapore, Bankura and Hooghly on Sunday evening. The storm left some of the areas covered in a thick white sheet. Crops were damaged in parts of South 24-Parganas, residents said. Some ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPassport applicants in Bengal will have ePassports in two to three months, a senior official of the regional passport office, Calcutta, said on Monday. However, the existing passports will continue to remain valid till their expiry.An ePassport is a ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphLiterary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has won the 2025 Holberg Prize of Norway, often billed as the Nobel for humanities.The Calcutta-born Chakravorty Spivak — known for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology); ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA cache of arms was found under clothes in a passenger’s bag at Sealdah station on Monday morning.The special task force of Kolkata Police picked up the man as he stepped out of the Hate Bazare Express and was ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday allowed the parents of the doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to pursue in Calcutta High Court their plea for further CBI investigation into the alleged larger conspiracy.A bench ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphPolice have sought information from the Jadavpur University registrar about a students’ group that has been running a school for the underprivileged on the campus in connection with the alleged attack on education minister Bratya Basu and his car ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe parents of the postgraduate trainee raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will approach Calcutta High Court for an early hearing of their plea seeking further investigation by the CBI into the alleged larger conspiracy.The ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested a man on Monday morning from Sealdah railway station after six improvised guns and eight cartridges and firearms were seized from his possession.The accused, Hasan Sheikh from Malda, had allegedly ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA tiger died at a rescue centre in Jharkhali in South 24-Parganas, a gateway to the Sunderbans, on Saturday.The big cat, a male aged approximately 21, died of old age. But it was the end of a second life ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphChildren can also be vulnerable to kidney diseases and early onset of treatment can avoid dialysis or kidney transplant, or can at least delay them by many years, a group of paediatricians said.Those who arrive late and need kidney ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has written to Kolkata Police highlighting illegal parking on several roads in Bhowanipore.Ramesh Mitra Street, Chakraberia Road, Townsend Road and Puddapukur Road were among the roads where teams from the civic body found cars ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphSeveral parts of the city got light showers on Sunday evening that brought relief from the hot and humid conditions that prevailed during the day.The rain was accompanied by streaks of lightning and rumblings of thunder. Several districts in ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA man and an 11-year-old boy were injured after portions of a five-storey building on Muktaram Babu Street in central Calcutta collapsed on Sunday afternoon, police said. An official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said the old building ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe teacher-in-charge of a secondary school for girls in Behala has alleged that the institute was broken into and around ₹10,000 was stolen from an almirah. Behala Banitirtha Girls High School had been shut since Friday for Holi celebrations. ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: The duty-free area of the Calcutta airport’s international section, usually sleepy because of a lack of flights and passengers, is looking busy because of a tweak in the floor plan.Calcutta airport officials said the security-hold area of the ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphThe authorities at Jadavpur University are planning to install CCTVs at Aurobindo Bhavan, the varsity’s administrative headquarters, to strengthen internal security on the campus amid student unrest, an official said.The university will again approach the state government so 35 ...
18 March 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old Trinamool student leader was murdered in Khardah, North 24-Parganas, during Holi celebrations on Friday, police said.Amar Chaudhury was called out of his home and asked to join the Holi celebrations by a group of men and was ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphIndal Yadav, accused in the shooting of Trinamool Congress worker Bikas Singh in Kamarhati on March 8, was arrested in Asansol on Friday morning.A team of officers from Barrackpore Police Commissionerate was on the hunt for Indal since his ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphA 36-year-old man has been arrested in Anandapur, in the southeast of the city, for allegedly sticking a machine to ATMs in unguarded kiosks to trap users’ cards to trick them into dialling a “helpline” number. Once the users ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphA number of shows were cancelled at PVR cinemas in Mani Square on Friday and Saturday due to the air-conditioning malfunctioning.Most members of the audience had to walk out of the auditoriums screening Chhava and Interstellar on Friday. On ...
17 March 2025 TelegraphThey started as a WhatsApp group to stand by each other when business was low in the pandemic years.Having bonded virtually, the entrepreneurs and independent professionals, all former students of South Point, have now formed a not-for-profit company — ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA trafficking survivor had in March 2020 challenged an order of the district legal services authority granting her an interim compensation of ₹3 lakh as “insufficient”.Last month, finding merit in her challenge, the state legal services authority (SLSA) increased ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphSaturday showed a glimpse of the twin assaults of heat and humidity that Calcuttans will be subjected to in the coming days, the Met office has warned.The Met office has already sounded a heatwave alert for the western districts ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA domestic help who stayed at late footballer Pradip Kumar (PK) Banerjee’s house in Salt Lake’s GB block was murdered on Friday night.Police said Gopinath Muhuri, in his late thirties, succumbed to multiple stab injuries in his abdomen and ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University will write to the Union education ministry to return 75 per cent of the ₹1 crore application fee the varsity gave the UGC because the regulatory body has since denied JU the status of an Institute of ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphThe 151-year-old New Market is crumbling. Fragments from the wooden spire of its clock tower are breaking apart, the roof leaks and the electrical wiring is crying out for an immediate overhaul.A renovation project for which the state government ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA male domestic help employed in the household of the late Indian football legend PK Banerjee was murdered on Friday night. The Bidhannagar South police station have arrested one Barun Ghosh, who was employed at the Padma Shri awardee’s ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) on Saturday expressed concern over a recent report that claimed that the varsity lost its ‘Institute of Eminence’ (IoE) tag and shot off a letter to officiating vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta, urging him to ...
16 March 2025 TelegraphA 24-year-old Trinamul student leader was murdered at Khardah in North 24-Parganas during Holi celebrations on Friday, police said.Amar Chaudhury was called from his home and asked to join the Holi celebrations by a group of men and was ...
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