Kalyani, April 25: The state government has ordered an internal probe following a person has lodged a complaint before the Health University that he and at least five others were transmitted HIV while taking dialysis at the Kalyani-based College of Medicine & JNM Hospital recently. Acting with alacrity the Medical…
Kolkata, April 17: The fresh revelation of the alleged security lapse has come as a shocker to the family members of the two Pulwama terror attack victims from Bengal. An allegation of denial of aircraft to ferry the CRPF jawans that surfaced four years after the deadly attack has revived…
Ranaghat, April 10: A theatre activist in Nadia’s Ranaghat was allegedly beaten up by a group of Trinamul Congress activists on Sunday night apparently for staging a play that has politically criticized the Bengal government and the centre at large. Ranaghat Srijak’s latest production “Koshai” (Butcher) based on a poem…
Nabadwip, April 5: In an attempt to conserve and restore the population of Gangetic fish, the Barrackpore-based Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) began a fish ranching programme in the Bhagirathi River on Wednesday. To begin with at least 2.5 lakhs of wild Indian major carp germplasm like Rohu, Katla,…
Krishnanagar, March 27: A farmer couple from a backward Hindu community in Nadia’s Palashipara, have been allegedly slapped with a ‘fine’ of Rupees ten lakhs and ostracized by a self-appointed so-called village committee as ‘punishment’ because their daughter eloped to marry a Muslim youth that apparently caused “shame” and sheer…
ড. বিশ্বম্ভর মন্ডল কলকাতা ছেয়ে ফেলা একটা বিজ্ঞাপন ‘গলানো সোনা ১০০ টাকা’ হৈচৈ ফেলে দিয়েছিল কয়েক বছর আগে। একইভাবে ২০২২ সালে জুলাই মাসে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বেশ কয়েকটি জেলায় ‘লাইন মারুন’ লেখা বিজ্ঞাপন হৈচৈ ফেলে দিয়েছিল। ‘লাইন মারতে শিখুন!’ বিজ্ঞাপনে ঢেকে গিয়েছিল হুগলী জেলার ব্যান্ডেল, শ্রীরামপুর, বাঁকুড়া জেলার বাঁকুড়া, বর্ধমান, বীরভূম শহরও।…
Kolkata, March 3: Former BJP MP from Nadia’s Krishnanagar and Union Minister Satyabrata Mookherjee, better known as Julu Babu, passed away at his residence in Kolkata after a prolonged illness on Friday morning. Mookherjee, 90, who originally hailed from Nadia’s Kaliganj, was also very popular as a Good Samaritan. He…
Karimpur, Feb. 28: To make the educated unemployed youths proficient and skillful enough for various competitive examinations, the BSF authorities have set up a ‘library-cum-multi facility training centre’ at the Bousmari border outpost under 141 Battalion in Nadia close to the Indo-Bangladesh border. The training centre – ‘Azad Granthagar’ –…
Krishnaganj, Feb. 23: Kitab Sing, 60, a BSF Inspector attached to the 54-Battalion and posted in Nadia’s Tungi’s border outpost was arrested on Wednesday night allegedly for raping a 34-year-old lady constable. The alleged rape occurred on the night of February 18 (Saturday). The accused officer had summoned the on-duty…
Gede/Kolkata, Feb 21: An Inspector attached to the BSF’s 54-Battalion deployed in Nadia’s Krishnaganj has been accused of raping an on-duty lady constable outside a border outpost in Tungi village close to Indo-Bangladesh on Saturday night. This is the first occasion a lady personnel has been raped by her superior…