Mayapur, Nov. 1: The state BJP today alleged that the state government has unleashed a terror among the doctors on the Dengue issue. Party’s Bengal president Dilip Ghosh said: “The doctors at private and government hospitals as well as those involved with the pathological test centres are being threatened so…
Oct. 31: Maya Mir (46), a snatcher today paid back in own coin when she was caught by some daily passengers in a Krishnanagar bound train when she was travelling with a leather bag she snatched from a woman from the same train yesterday. Some woman travelling in the train…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 30: The immersion of holy ‘Mangal Ghat’ of Goddess Jagadhatri begins today in Krishnanagar on Monday morning with pomp and color. As per the tradition followed by people in the town, the ‘Mangal Ghat’ is immersed in the river Jalangi prior to the immersion of the Devi’s image later in…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 26: Senior journalist Dipankar Bhattacharya, working as a Nadia district correspondent with Bengali daily ‘Dainik Sambad”, passed away on Thursday afternoon at Saktinagar district hospital in Krishnanagar. He was 52 and is survived by his wife and a daughter. His last rites were done late in the evening at…
Taherpur, Oct. 26: Family members and relatives of a Tumpa Biswas, a homemaker, who was found hanging under mysterious circumstances in last week at her in-laws house in Barasat village of Taherpur, today blocked Ranaghat-Krishnanagar state highway in front of Taherpur police station accusing the police of inaction on their…
Chakdaha, Oct. 26: At least ten houses and over 2 Bigha agricultural lands lost over past 24 hours in Sannyalchar village of Chakdaha due to severe erosion of embankment of Hooghly River. The district administration has urged the local people to shift to safer places and sent relief materials for…
Char Meghna, Oct. 22: Community Human Welfare Organization (CHWO), a Kolkata based voluntary organization working for the poor, destitute and lunatics, today distributed cloth and winter garments among 600 financially weaker villagers living in Hobolberia’s Char Meghna village in collaboration with Sanlaap, a non-governmental organization developing awareness among people living…
Ranaghat, Oct. 17: A youth died after being stung by a swarm of bees when he climbed a coconut tree to collect green coconut in Coopers’ Camp area of Ranaghat this afternoon. The incident occurred in Ward-11 of the town. Police said Mangal Gyen (23), a daily wage earner and…
Santipur, Oct. 15: Police have seized a huge cache of banned fire crackers from a shot and arrested the trader selling it illegally. The trader, identified as Dilip Biswas (40), a resident of Baigachipara in Santipur was arrested after police recovered about 50kgs of banned crackers stocked in his shop…
Karimpur, Oct. 15: Zafar Ali Mandal (51), a grocer was mowed down by a speeding truck at Goas Madhya Bazar on Mahishbathan-Amtala Ghat road on Sunday morning. The victim, who was returning home from market was hit from behind by the truck and crushed him under the wheels leaving him…