Kolkata/Haringhata, Oct. 10: Online retail giant Flipkart would set up a logistic hub in Nadia’s Haringhata hopefully by the beginning of 2021, through one of its subsidiary Instakart Services Private Limited, Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra told reporters on Wednesday. Mitra said that the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC)…
Chapra, Oct. 4: A homemaker was allegedly shot dead in Nadia’s Chapra on Thursday afternoon by a group of five armed miscreants having allegiance with a faction of Trinamul Congress because her husband had provided shelter to the members of a rival gang after a clash in last month. Deceased…
Chakdah, Oct. 2: Satish Chandra Memorial School in Nadia’s Chakdah, a CBSE affiliated higher secondary school, has been chosen as one of the ‘Test Practice Centre’ (TPC) in the state by the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) National Testing Agency (NTA) for aspiring candidates who would appear in higher…
Kalyani, Sept. 26: Two scientists from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata’s (IISER-K) Chemical Science department – Swadhin K Mandal and Rahul Banerjee – have been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest science award in the country annually given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial…
Shimurali, Sept. 25: A class six boy of a Kendriya Vidyalaya from North 24-Pargana’s Kanchrapara who was allegedly kidnapped on Monday afternoon from close to his house, had escaped from the clutches of his kidnappers by jumping off a Santipur bound running train at Shimurali rail station in Nadia around…
Chakdaha, Sept. 26: Over a dozen Trinamul Congress activists were injured in a clash between two factions of the party in Nadia’s Chakdah on Sunday night after a party councilor was allegedly threatened and beaten up at gun point by rival activists, bringing to the fore the violent internal bickering…
Krishnanagar, Sept. 22: Senior Trinamul Congress women’s wing leader Rikta Kundu was unanimously chosen as the new chief of Nadia Zilla Parishad on Saturday. Party’s Secretary general Partha Chatterjee, who is also party observer of Nadia district, announced her name after 45 elected representatives given their nods for the elderly…
Gangnapur, Sept. 17: A day after the massive explosion at a firework manufacturing unit in Nadia’s Gangnapur that claimed two lives and rocked the adjacent area developing cracks on several buildings, the district administration to its sheer embarrassment found that only about twenty factories have valid licence to manufacture fireworks….
Gangnapur, Sept.16: Two persons were died and at least three others were injured in an explosion at a firework manufacturing unit located on station approach road in Nadia’s Gangnapur on Sunday afternoon. At least three houses and a car were gutted in a fire that followed the blast unleashing a panic…
Kalyani, Sept. 15: Education minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday apparently resolved the impasse at the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) campus and categorically condemned the hostel evacuation notice issued by vice chancellor Professor Dharanidhar Patra terming it as ‘inhuman act’. In an attempt to restore normalcy at the campus the…