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Santipur Hooch Tragedy: Death Toll Reaches 12

Santipur, Nov. 29: Death toll in the Santipur hooch tragedy increased to 12 since 2 more persons died at the District hospital in Krishnagar on Thursday morning. The medical team which has camped in the tragedy stricken Nrisinhapur village has found 13 more persons writhing in pain at a brick…


Hooch Tragedy Claimed 10 Lives In Santipur, CID Probe Ordered

Santipur, Nov. 28: At least ten persons including a woman died and about twenty others fell ill as they had consumed suspected spurious liquor in Nrisinhapur Choudhury para area of Nadia’s Santipur since the early hours of Wednesday morning. Three persons died at Kalna sub divisional hospital, two at Santipur…


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…


Jhulan Goswami, Virat Kohli Gets ‘Bhagawad Gita’ From Iskcon

Mayapur, Nov. 27: International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) has launched its annual book distribution programme, titled ‘Book Distribution Marathon’  early this month. The programme is being carried away by all the major centres of the organisation across the world during November and December. Subroto Das, a spokesperson of Iskcon in…


Class 11 Girl Molested, Beaten Up For Eve Teasing Protest

Ranaghat, Nov. 26: A class eleven girl aged 17, from Nadia’s Ranaghat was allegedly molested and beaten up by three youths on Saturday night on her way back home from private tuition as she had protested against their sleazy remarks and indecent proposals. The girl, daughter of a hawker, 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…


Nobel Laureate Harold E Varmus Inaugurates Human Genome Hall At NIBMG

Kalyani, Nov. 11: Nobel laureate scientist professor Harold Eliot Varmus on sunday inaugurated “Human Genome Hall”, an archive cum exhibition centre at Kalyani based National Institute of Biomedical Genomics. The Human Genome Hall is an unique exhibition to enhance public understanding of human genome and biomedical genomics. The exhibit comprises…


Pranab Finds Research Works ‘Malnourished’, Blames Poor Funding

Kalyani, Nov. 1: Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that research works in higher educational institutions in India are still ‘malnourished’ as the country still lack the ideal infrastructure and allocations of sufficient funds in education, at least 6% of the GDP, to meet the world standard…