Basirhat/Kolkata: Border Security Force for the first time has deployed a platoon of women commandos for surveillance on the difficult riverine terrain of the Indo-Bangla border in the Sundarbans delta spanned over the North 24 Parganas district providing them with a dedicated floating Border outpost (BOP) that is equipped with…
Gede (Nadia), Dec. 02: A stretch of 800 meters of an existing concrete road is to be widened soon in Nadia’s Gede as a route for cargo movement to carry out export and import activities with Bangladesh. The said road connects Darshana on the other side of the border in…
– পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায় বাংলার চাষিদের কাছে জমি হলেন “মা”। “মেয়ে”। মেয়ের কন্যা ধান। ধানে যখন দুধ আসে তখন তারও “সাধ ভক্ষণ” দেওয়া হয় আজকের দিনটিতে। এই উৎসবকে বলে “ডাক সাকরাণ”। দুটি বা একগুচ্ছ ধানের গাছের কাছে কলার ফাতনা দিয়ে পাঁকাটির তিনটি কাঠিকে যুক্ত করে কচু পাতার ওপর দেওয়া হয় ফল…
Kolkata/Krishnanagar, Oct. 14: Overwhelmed by the huge amount of sale of books at the book stalls set up near the Durga puja pandals across the state, the Bengal CPM leadership has decided to put similar stalls during the ensuing Kali puja and other festivals like Raasa Leela, Jagaddhatri puja as…
Gede, Oct. 13: The suspension of the issue of tourist visas for over the last two years to the Bangladeshi Nationals who like to make walk-in access to India through the Darshana-Gede check post has put a few thousand people in Gede in a survival crisis. Employees of money exchanging…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 11: A patrolling team of Border Security Force (BSF) attached to the 82-Battalion rescued nine exotic birds while being smuggled to India from Bangladesh through a porous point of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Nadia’s Hridaypur on Monday night. The rescued birds include 4 Toucans, 4 Black Cactus wrens, and…
Krishnaganj, Oct. 10: A young couple and their minor son from Habra of North 24 Parganas, who were arrested by Border Guard Bangladesh for illegally sneaking into Bangladesh territory to meet a relative, were repatriated on Monday after a year. Suman De (32), Sujata De (30), and their son Subhajit…
Kolkata, Oct. 09: A hike of 9.6% in the material cost of the mid-day meal for students up to class VIII, announced by the centre on Friday, which in real term amounts to less than Rupee 1, has angered many teachers in the state who implement the scheme at ground…
Krishnaganj, Oct. 09: A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by a patrolling team of Border Security Force (BSF) in Nadia’s Krishnaganj under Krisnanagar sector during the early hours of Sunday morning while trying to foil a cattle smuggling bid by a group of armed miscreants. The BSF sources claimed that…
Karimpur, Oct. 08: A young couple riding a motorcycle along with their three-year son was killed as they suffered fatal head injuries due to hitting a roadside tree while trying to avert a head-on collision with a lorry that was desperately trying to overtake another one on Krishnnaangar-Karimpur state highway…