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Chief Justice Urges Lawyers To Keep Calm, Cooperate Judges

Tehatta, Sept. 1: Chief justice of Calcutta High Court Jyotirmay Bhattacharya on Saturday appealed the lawyers in the state to ‘cooperate’ with the judges at different courts and not to be ‘hot tempered’ considering that the judges are overburdened. Inaugurating the new building of the Tehatta sub divisional court in Nadia…


Street Play To Raise Money For Cancer Victim Theatre Artiste

Santipur, Sept. 1:  Members of a threatre group from Nadia’s Ranaghat have started performing street play with the support of some students in Santipur to raise money for an elderly threatre worker who has been suffering from cancer and lost one of his legs around ten days ago due to…


2 Arrested For Illegal Sale of Train eTickets

Ranaghat, Sept. 1: The intelligence wing of Railway Protection Force has arrested two officials of two separate travel agencies in Ranaghat on Saturday morning following a raid at their offices as they were allegedly black marketing e-tickets of long distance trains after purchasing them by using personal IDs generated thorough Indian…


Youth Caught Playing Momo Challenge; Quizzed By Police

Bhimpur, Aug. 28: Police have detained a youth from Nadia’s Bhimpur on Tuesday evening allegedly for playing Momo challenge, an online game that indulges player to involve into violent acts but eventually abets to commit suicide. Acting on a tip off by a villager, Police detained the youth, a motor…


BJP Tie Up ‘Atal Bandhan’ Rakhi To Reach Out Rural People

Krishnanagar, Aug. 26: Members of the peasant’s wing of Bharatiya Janata Party in Nadia on Sunday tied Rakhis pasted with thumbnail picture of Atal Behari Vajpayee as a tribute to him and to woo the rural people belong to farming community who had a special respect for the departed leader….


BJP Shocker! Trinamul Lost 2 Boards Despite Majority

Krishnanagar: Trinamul Congress failed to form board in at least two gram panchayats in Nadia on Saturday due factional feud despite winning by a clear margin as a section of the winning party candidates openly joined hands with BJP and helped it to form the board voting in its favour…


Cousin’s Husband Killed The Class XII Girl In Chakdah

Chakdah, Aug. 23: Police have arrested the husband of a cousin of the 17-year-old class twelve girl, whose mutilated body was found in a pond stuffed in a sack, allegedly for kidnapping and murdering her, as she apparently wanted to come out of an illicit affair that developed with him. Prime…


School Girl Killed, Body Stuffed In Sack Dumped In Pond

Chakdah, Aug. 20: Police have started a murder case after mutilated decomposed body of a class twelve girl, stuffed in a sack, was recovered from a pond adjacent to Chakdah-Bangaon Expressway in Dhanicha village of Chakdah on Monday evening, around 21km away from her home in Alaipur village. The victim…


Flood Trapped Nadia Youth Died Of Fever In Kerala

Nakashipara, Aug. 19: A construction labour from Nadia’s Nakashipara died in Kerala due to high fever on Saturday evening as he could not be treated in time being trapped in a house in Karakunnu village near Manjeri town due to flood. Dilwar Hossain Mollick, 19, could only be taken to the local…


Vajpayee ‘Enjoyed’ Food, Stay At Krishnangar Circuit House

Krishnanagar, Aug. 17: 59 year’s Majid Seikh, head cook at Krishnagar Circuit house in Nadia can still recollects how he felt a dilemma to plan food for Atal Behari Vajpayee for his one night stay in the town during a poll campaign in September 1999 when he was the caretaker…