Krishnanagar, Dec. 1: A four months old female child born to an abandoned and mentally unstable woman, who was being raised by the staff and nurses attached to the sick newborn care unit (SNCU) of Krishnanagar Sadar Hospital was given her first rice today – an annaprashan in a formal…
Around 1000 students of ‘Convent of Jesus and Mary’ performed in a musical play based on life of Saint Claudine Thevet, mother foundress of their congregation on the occasion of the bicentenary of foundation of the congregation at the school campus Ranaghat town on Thursday night. The celebration was concluded…
Mayapur, Dec. 1: Bhakti Vedanta National School of ISKCON in Mayapur organised a Science and Crafts fair on Friday at school campus where more than 200 students of different classes took part actively. Around 50 projects on various fields of science focussing the traditional means of agriculture, earthquake, solar panels,…
Nov. 29: The Calcutta High Court today asked the Ministry of External Affairs to submit a report about the steps it has taken so far to locate and to repatriate a 19 year college going girl from Nadia’s Tehatta who has been allegedly abducted and kept captive in Bangladesh. Justice Debangsu…
Mohonpur, Nov. 29: Rahul Banerjee, an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata has been nominated for the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2016-2017 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The Swarnajayanti Fellowships are bestowed upon only a few young scientists…
Mayapur, Nov. 28: The 3-day long Gita Jayanti festival organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) begins at its main hub in Mayapur this evening. The festival aims to promote the understanding of “Bhagawad Gita” among all sections of the society. The Iskcon aims to expand the knowledge…
Dhantala, Nov. 28: Dhiraj Mistry (33), a lottery ticket vendor was arrested by Nadia police from his home in Dhantala’s Barbaria colony today morning as he was accused of sharing a cartoon on his Facebook timeline allegedly abusing chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Dhiraj was produced before the additional chief judicial…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 27: Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today said that some party MLAs and councilors have left party to join the ruling Trinamul Congress, but the people who elected them are still with Congress. “The supporters remained loyal to the party and they still support it”, said the…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 26: An amusement park proposed to be constructed by Krishnanagar Municipality in front of 171 year old Krishnanagar Government College on a piece of 3-acre land owned by it, under Atal Mission For Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) project has created a major controversy as its alumnus body…
Ranaghat, Nov. 23: A lorry laden with cotton bales was gutted on NH34 in Ranaghat during the early hours of Thursday morning. It took three hours by two fire tenders to douse the fire. The sudden inferno suspended traffic movement on the NH34 for about three hours. Normal traffic movement…