The city’s air quality has marginally improved with a rise in the temperatures, but there was yet to be a single day when the air quality was “good”.An analysis of the air quality report of the 14 days of ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphMore than 160 persons were arrested for “disorderly conduct” from different parts of the city during Holi on Friday, police said. There were few complaints of forcible splashing of colours, but the majority of the arrests were related ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphAn association of environment activists wrote to chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday against the decision of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to allow three clubs inside the Rabindra Sarobar premises to remain open on Holi, while the ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphIndal Yadav, the man accused in the shooting of Trinamul Congress worker Bikas Singh at Kamarhati on March 8, was arrested in Asansol on Friday morning.A team of officers from the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate was on the hunt for ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphBidhan Sishu Udyan was a cauldron of cacophony as close to 600 students gathered near its main gate, dressed in basanti yellow. Close by, were their guardians as well. Senior women members, with their hair tied in a bun ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphNature is a master artist, painting the skies, waters, and landscapes with mesmerising hues. From celestial wonders to terrestrial marvels, the Earth offers breathtaking displays of colour. Here are some of the most stunning natural phenomena that captivate the ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphEducation and courage are the keys to women’s emancipation. This was the lesson learnt from the speakers on Women’s Day at SOS Children’s Village in BK Bock.Durga Khaitan, District Judge, chairperson, appellate authority, state board of primary education, asked ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor will go to the campus on Monday to decide JU’s response to the Kolkata Police proposal seeking space on the campus to set up an outpost and barracks to “maintain a safe and secure environment”.The ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphMarried off at 16, widowed at 19, and thrown out of her in-laws’ home with a two-month-old in her arms. Even after such dead ends, Vibha Singh would one day become a major in the Indian army.On the eve ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphThe two brothers arrested for the murder of Burrabazar businessman Bhagaram Debasi had meticulously planned the killing after they learnt the trader would return just a fraction of the amount he had borrowed from them, police sources said on ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphA 15-year old girl pushed from the second floor of a balcony has accused her father of serial abuse, in a statement given to the police investigating the case.“The girl’s mother had left home more than 13 years ago. ...
15 March 2025 TelegraphA man who allegedly forged identity documents to obtain passports for foreigner nationals was arrested in Sealdah on Thursday.The accused, Tridip Mondal, was detained by a team from Bhadreswar police station in Hooghly.Mondal, a resident of Jyangra in Baguiati, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphJogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College will ensure only bona fide students enter the campus through a biometric attendance facility, a lawyer appearing for the college told Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The lawyer said this during the hearing of ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe state government has decided that officers will visit auto emission testing centres, observe vehicles undergoing pollution tests, and submit reports that include the centre’s latitude and longitude on a mobile application specifically designed for this purpose.The decision to ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphWhat better gift on Women’s Day than the promise of safe transport round the year? On March 8, a group of women launched a company whose first project will be providing women drivers with a bike taxi service exclusively ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphHoli will be celebrated on Friday, beginning a long weekend. At the Holi market in Burrabazar, masks and headgear flew off the shelves on Thursday. As did barfis, gujiyas, laddus and savouries.On Friday, indulge in the festival of colours, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will ask developers for undertakings that they will clear their property tax while a building is under construction. The civic body will stop the construction if the tax is not paid for four quarters.The decisions ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphA first-year Jadavpur University student who was arrested on Wednesday night was allegedly part of a students’ group that had a well-laid out plan about what to do when education minister Bratya Basu arrived on the campus on March ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata police will deploy about 4000 officers in the city to maintain law and order during Holi celebrations, said a senior officer in Lalbazar on Thursday.Police have already been working on sensitising areas like Maniktala, Beleghata, Kankurgachi, Baghajatin, Narkeldanga ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested a Jadavpur University (JU) student in connection with the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two.A leader of the JU SFI unit told PTI on ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphA state report on what transpired at Jadavpur University when education minister Bratya Basu visited the campus on March 1 and violence erupted was not submitted in Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.The court rose at 3.30pm because of a ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphAcid attack survivors face isolation and alienation, sometimes even from family members who get scared and try to shirk responsibilities, said those who work with survivors.They need support to fight back because the pain is both physical and mental, ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphAn alert app cab driver who was aware of the Madhyamgram trolley bag murder case has exposed a similar attempt by two businessmen to dispose of the body of a trader they had killed on Tuesday. The body ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphBengal is cosmopolitan by nature and people setting off flames of division will flee when the fire burns, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at a pre-Holi programme with people from various communities on Wednesday.Mamata reminded the audience that Bengal ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe cost of 10 plates of biryani is a cracked head in Kolkata.Ajoy Sardar, who allegedly has ties with Bengal’s ruling party, arrived at a biryani joint in the Kolkata suburb of New Town Rajarahat around 10pm on Tuesday ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will run fewer services on Holi on Friday, an official statement said.A total of 60 services (30 each on up and down lines) will be run from 2.30 pm along the Dakshineswar-New Garia stretch or the North-South ...
14 March 2025 TelegraphThe former Jadavpur University student who was arrested on March 2 in connection with the arson and violence on the JU campus on March 1 got conditional bail from Alipore court on Wednesday.Mohammad Sahil Ali, 25, who works for ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe Met office has warned of a heatwave in south Bengal from March 16 for two to three days.“Mainly dry westerly wind is likely to prevail over the region and consequently heat wave conditions are very likely to occur ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphA biryani seller in New Town was on Tuesday assaulted, allegedly by a local man who was refused 10 plates that he wanted to take without payment.Ajay Sardar is accused of hitting the trader in the head with a ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe unavailability of land and other issues that stalled work on a large stretch of the New Garia-Airport Metro project have now been reduced to a mere 366m on EM Bypass, which, the authorities said, was the only remaining ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphFirst-year Jadavpur University student Saumyadip Mahato, 19, was arrested on Wednesday night for allegedly being one of those who set fire to the office of the Trinamool-backed non-teaching employees’ union on the university campus on March 1.“There are reasons ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe city police have sought space from Jadavpur University to set up a police outpost and barracks on the campus to “maintain a safe and secure environment... for smooth academic activities”.The Jadavpur police station officer-in-charge sent an email to ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphTwo young men from north Kolkata’s Girish Park were arrested late on Tuesday night from the Kalyani Expressway while trying to dump the corpse of a garment trader who owed them over Rs 8 lakh.The accused, Karan Singh and ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphThe state’s urban development and municipal affairs minister has asked the chairperson of Panihati Municipality to step down over allegations of a plan to set up a real estate project on a popular playground in Panihati that came to ...
13 March 2025 TelegraphA businessman in Behala was allegedly held hostage by a cyber gang over the phone for 12 days and was forced to transfer ₹75 lakh to multiple bank accounts with threats to arrest him.From February 23 to March 7, ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA student from a reputable south Calcutta school was barred from the rest of her higher secondary examinations after it was found that she had hidden a mobile inside her shoe while writing the chemistry paper on Tuesday. She ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA man riding a motorbike died after a pick-up truck hit the two-wheeler in Park Circus on Tuesday afternoon, police said.Both the pick-up truck and the motorbike were moving towards the Park Circus seven-point crossing from the direction of ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe state health department has instructed drug dealers and hospitals to withdraw a particular batch of medicines found to be spurious.The drug is used to treat hypertension.In a notification issued on Monday, the health department instructed wholesalers, retailers and ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has appealed to the state government to expedite the process of sanctioning 35 posts for contractual security personnel to strengthen security on the campus where education minister Bratya Basu was allegedly heckled by some students earlier this ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe state government has to submit a report before Calcutta High Court on Wednesday on what transpired at Jadavpur University when education minister Bratya Basu visited the campus on March 1 and the corrective steps taken by police.The report ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphCalcutta and its adjoining areas are set to experience a sharp rise in temperature, with weather experts predicting extreme heat throughout the week. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the city’s temperature is expected to exceed 35°C and ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe man whose motorcycle was allegedly used by the three men to open fire on Trinamul Congress worker Bikas Singh at a Kamarhati tea stall on Saturday evening was arrested late on Sunday. Police said Vicky Yadav was ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA 59-year-old man was arrested on Sunday on charges of raping a 21-year-old woman by making false promises of getting her a job.Police identified the accused as Kirti Mehta, a resident of Elgin Road who runs a business of ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar police on Monday launched a cell for recovering money siphoned off in cyber crimes and returning it to victims.The police said the main idea behind setting up the recovery cell was to analyse the modus operandi of such ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University student who was injured trying to stop state education minister Bratya Basu’s car from leaving the campus on March 1, was discharged from the hospital on Monday and doctors have advised him “complete bed rest” for ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphSajni Mukherji, a revered professor and much loved “Sajnidi” to generations of Jadavpur University students, breathed her last early on Monday. Sajni, who would have turned 80 this June, battled a protracted illness with unsurprising bravery.She is survived by ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphPolice entered the Jadavpur University campus on Monday. But not for the first time.A throwback to some of the earlier instances When: 2005What happened: The police moved into JU in the dead of night ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphSenior Jadavpur University officials and students’ representatives were locked in a meeting till past 10pm on Monday to find ways to resolve the impasse on the campus.The meeting ended at 11.30pm. It resolved that JU would stick to its ...
12 March 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly pushing his teenage daughter from the second-floor balcony of their house in Jadavpur.The 15-year-old girl has been admitted to MR Bangur Hospital with injuries on her hip, legs and neck.Doctors said ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphA second loan agent has been arrested in connection with the deaths of Somnath Roy and his wife in Kasba.Roy and his wife, Sumitra, were found hanging at their Kasba home. The body of their two-and-a-half-year-old child was found ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphAbout 100 women in the Sagar Islands who have been trained in stitching and tailoring are creating clothing items, quilts and bags that have found takers both locally and globally.For most of these women who are homemakers, the money ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphAn app cab driver succumbed to injuries two days after a group of men allegedly beat him up for hitting a two-wheeler while parking his car in Bijoygarh on the southern fringes of the city.Jayanta Sen, 38, died early ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphJadavpur: The Left-dominated Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) on Saturday appealed to students “not to harass, assault and attack teachers”.Hours later, the interim JU vice-chancellor urged the students from his hospital bed “to restore normalcy in the greater interest ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has sent invitation cards to all its councillors asking them to bring people of all communities, with a stress on non-Bengali speakers, for a Holi/Dol celebration on March 12.This is the first time the ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphMembers of CPI(M)'s frontal organisation, Students Federation of India (SFI), on Saturday evening briefly blocked busy thoroughfares in different parts of the city, alleging that false cases had been slapped against leaders and members of the outfit.They also demanded ...
10 March 2025 TelegraphAn app-cab driver, who was allegedly assaulted by locals in the city's Bijoygarh area over a parking dispute, succumbed to injuries at a hospital on Saturday morning, police said.In this connection, police have started an investigation against unidentified people ...
9 March 2025 TelegraphJammu & Kashmir, 14 years ago: Indian Army soldiers were relaxing in a camp one night when some militants prepared to ambush them. Just when they were about launch attack, three street dogs started barked incessantly and chased away ...
9 March 2025 TelegraphThe champion of champions at the Calcutta Canine Club show this winter won not just trophies but also gold. “There was 5g gold for the winning dog and 2g for the handler,” said club secretary Shib Sankar Chatterjee. “We ...
9 March 2025 TelegraphThe Bidhannagar East police have nabbed one person impersonating as an Indian Police Service officer who made friends on social media sites and pushed sale of sundry items to those who were taken in by his fake uniform. The ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe state government would firmly deal with the “anarchy” that is prevailing on the Jadavpur University campus after the higher secondary exams, education minister Bratya Basu said on Friday.“We will end this anarchy prevailing at Jadavpur University. The administration ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphPolice are yet to make any visible move in connection with the FIR against state education minister Bratya Basu and others charged with attempt to murder of a Jadavpur University student.Many among the students alleged that the same police ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe high court has barred any political programme “around the vicinity” of Jadavpur University till March 13, when it hears the matter next.On Friday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also directed that a proposed Sunday rally led by Suvendu Adhikari, the ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe largest body of chemists and druggists in Bengal on Friday said the pressure to offer large discounts pushes many smaller retailers to procure drugs from dubious sources that offer popular medicines at a rate lower than prevailing market ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe last Delhi Metro chugs out close to midnight. In Calcutta, the usual last trains leave at 9.40pm.Not that Calcutta sleeps earlier. But its Metro winds up early, even when thousands are out on the road, looking for a ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to relax the mandatory open space requirement for buildings coming up on thika, bustee and colony land of plot sizes of no more than 3 cottahs in the hope that it will ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphStudents of Jadavpur University marched with a fresh set of demands on Friday. These included the release of a former JU student arrested on charges of arson on the campus and the appointment of a full-term vice-chancellor.The protesters, who ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphJamini Roy was once most famous for creating portraits. Life-like portraits, very unlike the almond-shaped eyed faces we are used to. He also was penniless for several years of his career and refused to meet Mahatma Gandhi when he ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphPrasun Dey, arrested for killing three of his family members at his Tangra home, told the court on Thursday that he wanted to admit his crime before a magistrate. Prasun, the younger of the two brothers who survived a ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA Kenyan black panther, whose local name means “beautiful darkness”, was clicked by a Calcuttan in the dead of the night a year ago.The big cat had just climbed a tree to defend a fresh kill from a leopard, ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA storm is brewing once again over New Town’s Greenwood Nest. The complex was in the news last year when more than 150 residents fell ill and some 50 of them got hospitalised with water-borne diseases. Residents fought tooth-and-nail ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphThe Babu Culture chain of Bengali restaurants turns three on March 15 and the celebrations begin from Salt Lake. The CF Block outlet will be the first to launch a new menu on March 10, followed by the other ...
8 March 2025 TelegraphA spate of suicides in New Town has triggered a group of residents to come together to help those in need of a hand or a shoulder. Last Sunday, 18 of them met at a CD Block residence to ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphAn agent who helped Somnath Roy, who along with his family was found dead in their Kasba home, secure a loan from a nationalised bank for a commission and was allegedly demanding more money, has been arrested for abetting ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA man who worked in the back office of a south Calcutta jewellery store has been arrested for allegedly stealing gold ornaments worth ₹1.5 crore, police said.The accused, Sashibhushan Shah, had left his rented home and gone to his ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphJust when March was giving summer vibes, the Celsius is in reverse gear in Calcutta.The Met office recorded a maximum temperature of 28.8 degrees Celsius in Alipore on Thursday. It was almost four notches below normal. The last time ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Left-backed Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) has opposed a call by a section of students to “boycott” pro-Trinamul teachers.The Left and ultra-Left students decided to boycott classes of Om Prakash Mishra and Manojit Mandal, two prominent pro-Trinamul figures ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA criminal case has been lodged against education minister Bratya Basu and others based on a complaint lodged by Jadavpur University student Indranuj Roy, who was allegedly hit by the minister’s car during unrest on the campus on March ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphVehicles headed for EM Bypass and taking the Parama flyover at night will have to use the Park Circus Connector from midnight till 5am as the Parama-bound flank of the flyover will be closed for repair and replacement of ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphAt least three reported incidents have sent shockwaves through Kolkata and swivelled the spotlight on suicide prevention. In east-central Kolkata’s Tangra, two women and a teenage girl were found dead at their home on February 19. The accounts of ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe murder of vice-chancellor Gopal Chandra Sen on the Jadavpur University campus by suspected Naxalites is haunting the family of the incumbent acting vice-chancellor of the varsity, the VC’s wife said on Wednesday.Sen was beaten and stabbed to death ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphA 76-year-old resident of Lake Town was held hostage by a cyber gang over the phone for two days and was forced to transfer ₹11 lakh to their bank accounts with threats to arrest her.The gang members claimed that ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphUS investment giant Blackstone is close to clinching a deal to purchase Calcutta's iconic South City Mall, for as much as $400 million (Rs 3,480 crore), marking one of the biggest Indian mall acquisitions.Citing people with knowledge of the ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Jadavpur University vice-chancellor was admitted to hospital on a day students had set a 4pm deadline for him to come to the campus and accept their demands, which included filing an FIR against the education minister whose car ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphPradip Ghoshal and his wife Nilima were arrested by the Kasba police on Wednesday in the mysterious deaths of a family of three.The three, auto-rickshaw driver Somnath Roy, his wife, Sumitra, and their toddler, Rudranil, were found hanging ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphCommercial services of East-West Metro (Green Line) will be suspended on March 8 and 9 (Saturday and Sunday) to expedite the trial of the signalling system, the carrier said on Tuesday. The services will close earlier than usual on ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphThe Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at the city airport’s security check-in counters, would earlier ask passengers to put objectionable items on the tray before they were scanned. Now, they name specific items like knives and lighters to ...
7 March 2025 TelegraphEleven assistant commissioners of police who have risen through the ranks of Kolkata Police have been elevated to the rank of deputy commissioner as part of a recent state government policy to promote seasoned investigating officers to assist the ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThe preliminary post-mortem of Somnath Roy and his family revealed that he and his wife Sumitra committed suicide while their two-and-a-half-year-old son was smothered to death. The couple was found hanging at their Kasba home on Tuesday. The child ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThree men robbed ₹15 lakh from an office on the fourth floor of a multi-storey building in a congested Burrabazar locality on Monday evening, police said.A scan of the footage from CCTV cameras in front of the robbed office ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphProtests at Jadavpur University continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, with students demanding action against alleged assaults on their peers and set a 4 pm deadline for vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta to address their grievances.The agitating students warned ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphA national enumeration has found that Bengal is home to 815 river dolphins.The Population of River Dolphins in India 2024 estimated India's dolphin population at 6,327, spread across eight states and three riverine ecosystems — the Ganga, the Brahmaputra, ...
6 March 2025 TelegraphThe “long overdue” repairs of the battered and broken roads of Bidhannagar started on Monday. The repairs must be completed within a little over a month. On Monday, work started on a stretch near Nayapatti in Ward 28. It ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphOne of the three members of the family from Tangra who was arrested on Monday has told police he killed his only daughter before killing his wife and attempting suicide.Prasun Dey, 43, who was produced before a court on ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe mother and daughter who were caught trying to dispose of a body in a trolley bag at the Ahiritola Ghat last week were taken to their Madhyamgram home for reconstruction of the crime.A bonti, a fish knife, suspected ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphSome Jadavpur University teachers in a meeting with the vice-chancellor on Tuesday proposed that the varsity authorities file an FIR asking police to probe how a student got hit by the education minister’s car on March 1.Several teachers’ associations ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA couple struggling to pay off their debts and their little child were found hanging at their Kasba home on Tuesday morning, police said.Preliminary police inquiry suggests that they killed their two-and-a-half-year-old son and hanged themselves. The father was ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphBengal education minister Bratya Basu, whose car allegedly hit a Jadavpur University student who is now in hospital, called the parents of the boy on Monday evening and expressed his regret at the turn of events.Basu told Indranuj Roy’s ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphFinding a cab Kolkata on weekday mornings can be a bit like the Indian share markets in the time of Donald Trump. On some days, there’s a cab two minutes from your location, and on others it is like ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphThe first paper of the state higher secondary examinations was conducted without “any disruption” across 2,100 centres, the higher secondary council said on Monday. At least three students’ organisations had called for a students’ strike on Monday in the ...
5 March 2025 TelegraphA family of three, including a three-and-half-year-old boy, were found hanging at their home in Haltu’s Purbapally on Tuesday morning.The Kasba police suspect the 40-year old Somnath Roy, an auto-rickshaw driver, had killed the child, Rudranil, before ending his ...
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