The open areas under flyovers and bridges will be cleared of settlements and stalls, and fences will be built around them to prevent further attempts to “encroach” these spaces, said a state government official. Stalls or settlements of people ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA day after a 13-year-old girl died of dengue, neighbours in the Dum Dum Cantonment area said they had not seen any vector control team working in the area even on Sunday. Saroni Banerjee, a Class VII student in ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe city woke up to a cloudy sky and a persistent drizzle on Sunday.It looked like the day was going to get rainier. But eventually, the rain was negligible. The cloud cover was consistent, barring a brief spell of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphSymptoms such as facial drooping, blurred vision, loss of balance, slurred speech, or arm numbness — even if brief and followed by recovery — should not be ignored as they may be warning signs of a stroke, doctors said ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to shift 75 students of a girls’ hostel on Beadon Row in the north of the city after an iron beam came off the ceiling and crashed in a room early on Friday. Many of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThree persons from Zimbabwe were arrested from Mohali in Punjab on Saturday for allegedly duping a Tollygunge resident out of over ₹1 crore in an investment fraud.A team of officers from Kolkata Police arrested Tinashe Gadzikkwa Praise, 22, Malvern ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphFrom beautification and busts, to CCTVs — what councillors choose to do for their wards is changing.A councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in central Calcutta has installed over 160 CCTVs in her ward using the Members of Parliament ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has asked the district inspectors (DIs) of schools to verify the credentials of sacked schoolteachers and non-teaching staff seeking to return to their former government jobs.The commissioner of the department, in a notice issued on ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA 13-year-old girl from Dum Dum Cantonment, who had been hospitalised for 10 days, died of dengue on Saturday morning.Saroni Banerjee’s death certificate from the private hospital listed “septic shock and dengue shock syndrome” as the immediate cause of ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphA 13-year-old girl, who was admitted to a private hospital here due to dengue, died on Saturday, a senior official of the West Bengal Health Department said The girl, identified as Sarani Bandopadhyay, was a resident of Monjendra Dutta ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphKolkata’s suburban train network started a new chapter on Wednesday with the arrival of its first air-conditioned local train in the Sealdah division. The 12-coach rake, which is set to run on the crowded Sealdah-Ranaghat section, promises respite from ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphThe ceiling of a room of the women's PG hostel of Calcutta University collapsed early on Saturday, and no one was injured in the incident, an official said.The 150-year-old hostel, located in north Kolkata's Beadon Row street, houses students ...
23 June 2025 TelegraphHe had aimed for a spot in the top 100 of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). When the NEET (UG) results came out on Saturday, the entire Sinha Chaudhuri family was delighted. “My father and I were checking the results. ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIf the son was busy winning medals in his first World Cup, the father was focused on putting finishing touches to the shooting range that was set to be opened within a fortnight. This was an overview of the ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe CBI arrested two men in the city, including a senior manager of a nationalised bank, on Thursday, in connection with a ₹183-crore fraud reported in Madhya Pradesh.CBI officers said three cases were lodged involving a financial fraud over ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA Kharagpur resident was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posing as a government official and using a blue beacon-fitted vehicle in Behala.A traffic sergeant spotted a Maruti Suzuki Ertiga with a blue beacon at the crossing of Diamond Harbour ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe state government has approved the proposed advertisement policy for the city, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.In the new policy, one agency will be given advertisement rights for a particular road or street, he said.A Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphTwo former Group C employees of government-aided schools were summoned to the office of Bidhannagar Police’s detective department on Friday, in connection with the violent protests on the Bikash Bhavan compound on May 15.Police said Sujoy Sardar and Pralay ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA city girl has got the gold medal in the Dreampitch section of the Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lion for her film pitch.Cannes Lion 2025, which took place from June 16 to 20 on the French Riviera, ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphPolice have launched an investigation against a Dhakuria resident who allegedly entered India from Bangladesh without valid documents over 30 years ago, only to be discovered when he applied for an Indian passport.The Kolkata Police’s Security Control Organisation (SCO) ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University started undergraduate admissions on Friday, two days after the process began at the 461 government and aided colleges through the state-run centralised admission portal.Notifications uploaded to JU’s website at 5pm for admissions to the science and arts ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThousands of sacked Group C and Group D staff from government and aided schools in Bengal are facing financial ruin after the high court stayed the state government’s decision to provide them monthly allowances.Justice Amrita Sinha issued the interim ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA statue of Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled on June 15 at the edge of Salt Lake, in AA Block. The lifesize statue has been installed in a newly developed patch of greenery.“This space used to be dirty, but ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe city’s second mall turned 17 on Sunday and the celebration weighed 190lbs. That was the weight of the birthday cake that the bakery team at JW Marriott had baked for Mani Square.“It’s a chocolate and caramel cake with ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIn continuation of its recent drive against unauthorised use of residential property, the Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has directed three nursing homes operating from residential premises in New Town to immediately stop operation.“During inspections, these establishments failed to ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe civic body will assess firefighting preparedness in markets under it.In a letter to the chief manager of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s market department, the mayoral council member in charge of markets, Amiruddin (Bobby), has instructed that separate teams ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe year was 1996. The Kankurgachhi-Salt Lake stretch was a far cry from the hep hub it is now and folks wanting to dine out had no option but to head to Park Street. Subrata Das’s family owned a ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Thursday allowed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to stick to the pre-2010 OBC reservation norms while recruiting sub-assistants.The high court had on Tuesday ordered an interim stay on the Bengal government’s June 8 notification classifying 140 ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA city businessman has been cheated out of ₹1.71 crore after he was lured into an investment scheme that promised lucrative returns.Initially, businessman Vivekananda Ghosh, a resident of Siddha Pines on Rajarhat Main Road, made a profit of around ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphA mine owner from Bankura has filed a complaint of extortion of ₹1.5 crore against two men who claimed to be officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and were allegedly threatening to arrest him under a false case, police ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphAn election scheduled for Thursday at Rani Birla Girls’ College to choose teachers’ representatives to the governing body was cancelled after some government-nominated governing body members allegedly threatened the principal for attempting to go ahead with the vote, several ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphIn a bid to reduce sugar consumption among children, La Martiniere for Girls will no longer allow students to distribute chocolates, candies or cakes on birthdays.The decision follows a June 9 circular from the Council for the Indian School ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphThe lack of baby strollers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is causing significant inconvenience to travelling parents, highlighting a service gap compared to other major airports both in India and abroad that have long provided this basic ...
21 June 2025 TelegraphSuman Chakraborty, a professor at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Kharagpur and an alumnus of Jadavpur University, has been appointed as the full-term director of IIT Kharagpur.The post of a full-term director at IIT Kharagpur was vacant after ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphThe West Bengal Police have issued a takedown notice to social media platform X, claiming that two posts by cartoonist Manjul from six years ago violate Indian law.Both cartoons featured Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.X has informed Manjul of ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphA group which is active across the state has been passing on credentials of unsuspecting low-income group individuals, mostly from remote corners, to individuals who would allegedly use the data in setting up shell companies to evade tax, including ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to hand over an initial payment of ₹10,000 to the affected traders of Kidderpore’s Orphangunge Market. The civic body will also survey to segregate the shops that were fully gutted from the ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphA constable of Odisha Police, who came to the city with a group of police personnel for a training in disaster management, was found hanging in the house that the group rented in Hindustan Park on Tuesday evening.A purported ...
20 June 2025 TelegraphOrganisers have been asked not to hold any light and sound show, laser display or any other event inside or outside the Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja pandal, police have said in a letter sent on Tuesday.The number of ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphCataract is fully curable and almost everyone gets it as they age, an ophthalmologist said during an awareness campaign on cataract surgeries. Early intervention has multiple benefits, it can prevent complications and make surgery easier.An early surgery means one ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday directed passport authorities to consider a trans woman’s transgender identity card as a valid document while processing her passport application.The Calcutta-based trans woman has allegedly been denied a passport for over a year despite ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphAs many as 2,000 dismissed secondary and higher secondary teachers applied to the state education department by Wednesday evening, seeking reinstatement in their former government posts.The Supreme Court’s April 3 order, which scrapped 25,753 teacher and non-teaching jobs in ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphA 16-month-old girl with a rare genetic disorder received a ₹16-crore medicine at a city hospital on Tuesday.The child’s parents raised ₹9 crore through crowdfunding, following which the US-based manufacturer of the medicine shipped it to the city. A ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area became stronger as it moved from Bengal to Jharkhand on Wednesday, triggering persistent showers across the state.The Met office recorded around 12mm of rain in Alipore between 5.30pm on Tuesday and 5.30pm on Wednesday. The consistent ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphSeveral markets run by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) lack fire safety measures, risking the lives of the shop owners there as well as thousands of people who visit these markets every day. Dangerously hanging wires, often intertwined with ...
19 June 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal Assembly on Tuesday amended the Clinical Establishment Act with the aim to bring in more transparency in billing by private hospitals and also making it mandatory for hospitals to display the package rates on their premises as ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphA trans woman based in Calcutta has allegedly been denied a passport for over a year despite holding a transgender certificate and identity card. Anuprabha Das Mazumder was allegedly told by the regional passport office in Calcutta that the ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphAn elderly couple and their son were found dead in their rented apartment in Kasba on Tuesday evening. Police identified the couple as Sarajit Bhattacharya, 70, his wife Gargi, 68, and their son Ayushman, 38.Sarajit was a real estate ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphMonsoon set foot in Calcutta on Tuesday, a week behind schedule and was accompanied by uniform rainfall and consistent overcast conditions. “The Southwest Monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of north Bengal, and it has advanced over ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) handed over compensation forms to the traders of fire-ravaged Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore on Tuesday.A fire broke out at the market in Kidderpore early on Monday, gutting hundreds of shops. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphOrphangunge Market in Kidderpore where a fire broke out early on Monday, reducing hundreds of shops to ashes, did not have any firefighting mechanism in place.The market has been under the custody of the state government and the Kolkata ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphDesun Hospital has partnered with Bengaluru-based Behaviour Momentum India (BMI) to launch Eastern India’s first hospital-integrated autism care centre based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), a globally recognised standard in autism intervention.Announced on World Autistic Pride Day 2025, the ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphA Kalighat resident, accused of allegedly stabbing a man to death during an argument over dumping construction waste at Beninandan Street last week, was arrested on Monday. The accused, Ashesh Sarkar alias Piklu, had been on the run since ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphThe city spent another overcast day with a few spells of rain.The Met office stuck to its earlier forecast of the likely onset of the monsoon later this week, accompanied by uniform and widespread rain.“The monsoon is likely to ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at Orphangunge Market in Kidderpore early on Monday, gutting hundreds of shops and reducing the market to ashes.There were no reports of anyone being trapped or injured, but hundreds of traders lost their shops and ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphThe Public Swimming Pool at Rabindra Sarobar will remain closed for at least seven days following the drowning death of a 16-year-old boy on Sunday, officials said on Monday.Kolkata Police ordered the closure after Shivam Kumar Singh, a teenager ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphThree departments in Jadavpur University’s arts faculty have made a shift in their admission process. The sociology, philosophy, and Sanskrit departments will now admit students based entirely on Class XII board marks, abandoning the entrance tests they previously used.Until ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphA single-judge bench of the high court on Monday directed the state government to inform the court the criteria used for posting junior doctors in hospitals. The order came while hearing a petition filed by three junior doctors challenging ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphMany people in and around the city are suffering from fever and related symptoms, such as body ache and throat and chest congestion.A doctor at Medical College Kolkata said around 12 to 13 per cent of patients coming to ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphWhen a 14-year-old girl says she doesn’t focus on the target but on “a good shot”, most people would assume she is talking about exam scores and grades.But across schools, a growing number of students are taking a shot ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphEvery swimming pool should have lifeguards stationed along the edges to monitor swimmers and respond if anyone is in distress. There should also be life belts at hand to throw into the water during emergencies, experts said.The Public Swimming ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphA teenager from Burdwan, who was visiting a relative at Ballygunge Place, drowned in a pool at Rabindra Sarobar on Sunday morning, police said.Shivam Kumar Singh, 16, was pulled out of the water around 45 minutes after he went ...
18 June 2025 TelegraphThe hearings on alleged lapses of rooftop restaurants, pubs and lounges will resume after the state government approves a draft SOP that a committee formed to review the fire safety mechanisms in hotels, restaurants and public places will prepare, ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA passenger had his right leg severed and an RPF constable was injured in the head after being hit by a train at Dum Dum on Friday morning.Jagadish Chandra Sarkar and constable Karuna Kumari were taken to RG Kar ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphMonsoon is likely to set foot in south Bengal between June 16 and 18, said Met officials.“Latest meteorological analysis indicates that conditions are favourable for further advancement of Southwest monsoon over some more parts of Odisha during the next ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA row over clearing construction waste from a building undergoing repairs took an ugly turn when a man overseeing the repairs was allegedly stabbed to death in Kalighat on Friday. The alleged killer is missing.The victim, Soumen Ghara, 35, ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphEarly morning traffic bound for Howrah bridge crawled along Strand Road on the first day of traffic diversion put in place for repairs of Vidyasagar Setu.A section of motorists who drove down Strand Road on Friday complained of congestion ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphFive sacked schoolteachers started a hunger strike late on Thursday, demanding that the process of submitting applications for a fresh hiring process for teachers be put on hold.The application window opens on June 16 and closes on July 14.The ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphIncreased scrutiny of visa applications by the Donald Trump administration has led to a decline in leisure and student travel from India to the US, a representative of the global airline body IATA said in the city on Friday.“The ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphHow can adolescents be kept away from drugs? The answer lies not in scare tactics but in sensitive handling — and in equipping those closest to them with the right tools. With this in mind, The Newtown School hosted ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphBiswajiban Majumdar was always a consensus candidate — universally respected and hence acceptable to all quarters.As the former chairman of Bidhannagar Municipality lay in everlasting repose in his BJ Block house on June 5, visitors cutting across party lines ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe Eid-ul-Zoha congregational prayers were held on Saturday morning at the DF Block NKDA playground in Action Area 1, near the New Town police station. The open-air venue, which had earlier hosted Eid-ul-Fitr prayers this year, witnessed approximately 1,050 ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe youngsters on stage were Indians but their chatter was entirely in Chinese. The finals of Chinese Bridge, a Chinese proficiency competition for foreign college and school students, was under way at The Stadel last Sunday.It was the 24th ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA delegation of sacked school teachers met the school service commission chairperson on Thursday, demanding that the process of submitting applications for the fresh hiring process be put on hold.The SSC, which has scheduled the online application process to ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphBattery-operated three-wheelers, like totos and e-rickshaws, have been banned on the Major Arterial Road (MAR) in New Town.The 10.5km-long, six-lane artery with service lanes on both flanks that connects New Town with Salt Lake and Sector V on one ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe Bengal advocate-general told a division bench of the high court on Thursday that it was not clear how the court decided to cancel an entire panel recruiting 36,000 primary schoolteachers based on the contention that the aspirants had ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphA piece of land, slightly smaller than a standard football ground, outside Bansdroni Metro station has been encroached upon illegally, said Metro officials.A bus stand, a parking for two-wheelers, a series of shanties and some makeshift shops now stand ...
14 June 2025 TelegraphThe state-run centralised undergraduate portal for admission to government and government-aided colleges and universities will open on June 17, a little over a month after the publication of plus-II board results.The education department issued a notification on Thursday, announcing ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphTwo prime suspects in the alleged five-month confinement and torture of a young woman will be interrogated in police custody as investigators probe their so-called event management company and uncover their motives, police said on Thursday.Sweta Khan and her ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe brother of IIT Kharagpur student Aniket Walkar, who was found dead on the campus in April, went to the town on Thursday to ask police about the progress of their investigation into his brother’s death.Sudeep Walkar’s stinging letter ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA former security staff of a popular homoeopathy clinic on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly using its name to run clinics with false claims that doctors from the original clinic were treating the patients. Police said they ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphSome parts of Calcutta received light rain on Wednesday. The spread and intensity of the showers are likely to go up from Thursday, according to the Met forecast. “Conditions are becoming favourable for the advancement of southwest monsoon into ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has entirely stopped admission to its four-year BTech programme for graduates based on their BSc results from this year. The university will discontinue its previous practice of admitting graduates to the second year of the BTech programme ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe school education department has asked district inspectors of schools to take steps so that school buildings are available to the district administration for being used as “flood shelters during natural calamities”. The department issued the notice on Wednesday. ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe shelters for the homeless in Calcutta have only about 200 vacancies, while a 2018 survey found 7,000 homeless people living on the city’s pavements or under flyovers.Another 360 beds are likely to be added by the end of ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphVidyasagar Setu will be closed to vehicles on both flanks for three hours between 4.30am and 7.30am on three days from June 13 to 15.The closure is to facilitate repairs of the structure, Kolkata Police said on Wednesday.A notification ...
13 June 2025 Telegraph• Go for a night stroll with your child and see the lit-up buildings• Read a story with your child• Watch a movie with your child and make a scrapbook togetherThis summer, holiday homework is not just for students, ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA violent attempt to pull down a wall in Maheshtala, South 24-Parganas, led to clashes between two groups that escalated into stone pelting on police and retaliation with tear gas on Wednesday afternoon.At least 19 police personnel were injured, ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThousands of terminated school teachers are urging the Bengal government to push back the application window for a fresh recruitment drive, citing concerns over the timing of Supreme Court review petitions.The school service commission (SSC) has scheduled the online ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe main suspects in the alleged five-month confinement and torture of a young woman, Aryan Khan and his mother Sweta, were arrested on Wednesday.While Aryan was arrested in Golf Green on Wednesday morning, Sweta was rounded up near the ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphThe Alipore court on Tuesday remanded Wajahat Khan, whose complaint led to the arrest of law student Sharmistha Panoli, in police custody.The court turned down Khan’s bail plea and granted police custody till June 16, four days less than ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA woman who urgently needed money was allegedly advised to take a fake loan for an iPhone purchase and promised to be given the money from the showroom once the loan was sanctioned in her name and the money ...
13 June 2025 TelegraphA tuft of hair, allegedly cut from the head of a young woman from Sodepur during torture, was found in a heap of garbage on a plot adjacent to Sweta Khan’s house in Howrah’s Domjur on Tuesday.Police said forensic ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe civic body on Tuesday conducted drives in four places in an attempt to move street dwellers from footpaths and under flyovers to homeless shelters.Such drives have been conducted earlier as well. But the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has rarely ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphTrack the number of SIM cards issued in your name. Lock Aadhaar biometrics. Do not blindly trust Google. Two police officers and a cybersecurity expert shared tips to prevent online fraud on Tuesday. They were hosted by the women’s ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphValuables worth around ₹1 crore were stolen from an apartment in Ultadanga while the occupants were sleeping on Sunday night, police said. The theft came to light on Monday morning when one of the family members woke up and ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe Heritage School has started displaying the sugar content in all food that it serves to students at its canteen.The decision comes a day after the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) sent a circular asking schools to ...
12 June 2025 Telegraph• How concerned are you about the amount of sugar your child consumes? • How often does your child consume sugary drinks like soda and sweetened juices• Do you limit your child’s intake of sugary snacks or drinks? A survey ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphBe prepared to endure pain if you want to become a champion. Games on the mobile phone will not prepare you for that, Saina Nehwal, the trailblazing shuttler, told a bunch of young badminton players.The Olympian was at The ...
12 June 2025 TelegraphThe CBI submitted its fourth status report in the RG Kar rape and murder probe to the Sealdah court on Tuesday. The central agency said it was waiting for final reports on CCTV footage analysis from external agencies, without ...
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