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…
Krishnaganj: BJP leader and union minster Giriraj Sing has demanded that centre should consider introducing an uniform law to stop people having more than two children irrespective of their religious faith and identity, it should rob their voting rights and initiate legal actions for punishment. While speaking at a religious…
Ranaghat, Oct. 27: An inquiry by state government has revealed that at least ten Kanyashree beneficiaries of Ranaghat College in Nadia during 2016-17 financial year were actually middle aged married women from South 24 Pargana’s Basanti who never been to schools in their life. Police have arrested Debajyoti Sarkar, a young…
Krishnagar, Oct. 26: The Nadia District Primary School Council has scripted an audio drama and advised all the 2643 primary schools in the district to perform it to create awareness among parents to resist them to build pressure on their children to match their expectations. The council thinks that it…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 26: Veteran journalist and author Narugopal Ghosh (83) has passed away on Friday afternoon at Saktingar district hospital in Krishnanagar. Born on June 1, 1935, the elderly author and former CPI leader, was suffering from sodium deficiency apart from old age ailments. He was admitted to the hospital…
Majhdia, Oct. 24: He works on daily wage for Rs.120 at a sweet shop in Nadia’s Majhdia and his monthly income seldom crosses Rupees 3200 due to weekly off. Nevertheless, a diamond studded gold ring which he found on the floor of the shop could not lure him for lucre….
Karimpur, Oct. 18: 280 years old Durga puja of Bagchi family in Nadia’s Jamsherpur got a patriotic fervor during the early part of 19th century when the swadeshi movement had began. Poet Jatindramohan Bagchi was the driving spirit behind this fervor, who being one of the young members of the family,…