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Retired Nadia Headmaster In Untiring Cleanliness Mission

Aranghata (Nadia): An unusual daily cleanliness habit being maintained by a retired head master for over two decades has made him a role model of sort in Nadia’s Aranghata.  At 82, Rajkumar Pal, a resident of Anandanagar village spends over four hours every day to clean and wash the 185…


Father Run Over In Khardah, Daughter’s Body Found In Ranaghat

Khardah, Dec. 3: Body of a six months old female child got entangled to the cow-catcher of the engine of a Lalgola bound EMU train and could be recovered around 54km away in Ranaghat after it hit her and her father while he was crossing railway tracks near Khardah railway…


Mysterious Death Of Nadia Labourer In Salem On Way To Tirur

Karimpur, Nov. 27: Narayan Jha (46), a construction labour from Baliadanga-Thakurpar area of Nadia’s Murutia died as he was run over by a speeding train at Salem railway station in Tamil Nadu under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased labourer was going to Tirur in Kerala where he was…


জগদ্ধাত্রী পূজা: কৃষ্ণনগরে “বইঘর” মন্ডপ ও থিমের বিবর্তন

– সঞ্জিত দত্ত   এবার কৃষ্ণনগরে গ্রন্থাগার কক্ষে বা লাইব্রেরী রুমে ‘জগদ্ধাত্রী’ মা পূজিতা হচ্ছেন। সরস্বতীর বদলে জগদ্ধাত্রী! চমকে  যাওয়ার মত ব্যাপার। দেখা গেল কড়ি বরগার ছাদের নিচে থাকে থাকে বই সাজানো কাঠের আলমারি বা স্টিলের খোলা মঞ্চে। আছে মনীষীদের মূর্তি। দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল, বিদ্যাসাগর, রবীন্দ্রনাথ সহ আরো অনেকে।  জগদ্ধাত্রী পুজো মানেই…


Birds Die Trapped In Fishing Nets In Nadia

Krishnanagar, Nov. 1: Over hundreds fish-eating birds of different species are regularly trapped and killed being entangled in nets laid over ponds and wetlands by the fishermen to protect fish in several places in Nadia regularly. While farmers claimed that they are compelled to use the net to protect the…


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…


2 Students Escaped School, Drowned In Hooghly River

Chakdaha, July 17: Bodies of two class twelve students, who drowned in the Hooghly river on Monday afternoon, were recovered on Tuesday evening from two different locations near Sannyalchar area of Chakdaha. Jyotirmoy Ghosh and Utpalentdu Singha, both aged about 18, drowned in Hooghly when they were taking bath at…


Australian Tarantula Found In Kaliganj

Kaliganj, May 28:A 2.5 inch long spider found at Gobindapur village in Nadia’s Kaliganj on Monday morning. Kalu Seikh, a local resident caught the spider when he was cleaning jungles at his home. He said, the giant spider was hidden inside roots of some wild plants, which came outside when…