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…
Dhantala, Oct. 8: BJP’s Ranaghat south MLA Mukutmani Adhikari was allegedly heckled and his car was vandalized by a group of suspected Trinamul supporters in Nadia’s Dattapulia on Friday evening while he was trying to pass through along the other side of the road that was crowded due to ongoing…
Palashipara, Oct. 07: A telephone call from U.P’s Jhansi changed the mood of Nadia’s Hanspukuria Refugee Para overnight. A pall of gloom has descended in this nondescriptive village on Thursday night ever since the news of local youth Sukanta Mandal’s death was conveyed by the Indian Army to the family….
Aranghata, Oct. 3: The Aranghata Upendra Memorial Institution, a higher secondary school in Nadia, stands as a unique exception being the only school in the state that officially organizes Durga puja at its campus located in the School para area of the township. The puja that was started in 1948…
Krishnanagar, Sept. 27: Bengal government would confer ‘Swasthya Bandhab Sharad Sanman’ to the puja committees in the rural areas who would take a proactive role to ensure cleanliness and create awareness in the locality so as to prevent dengue and other vector-borne diseases during the ensuing festive season. The public health wing…