Santipur, Sept. 2: Irate residents of Govindapur in Nadia’s Santipur blocked NH12 near a railway crossing for about one hour to protest the shocking condition of the road, while accusing the authorities of negligence in maintaining the road. The villagers alleged that a stretch of about 200 metres of NH12…
Ranaghat, Aug. 31: Police investigating the Senco Gold robbery in Ranaghat said that one of the five robbers arrested is Kundan Singh Yadav, a Vaishali-based professional shooter, who is suspected to be involved in the murder of businessman Rajesh Jha that occurred in Shaktigarh on April 1. Jha joined the…
Ranaghat, Aug. 30: Even after 24 hours of the desperate daylight robbery at the Senco Gold’s Ranaghat branch, at least three gang members, who are suspected to have fled with the major part of the booty remained elusive. The gross amount of jewelry items that the Bihar-based gang had decamped…
Ranaghat, Aug. 29: A Bihar-based gang entered the Senco Gold’s showroom located on Mission Road in disguise of customers and decamped with cash and jewelry worth about Rupees ten crore in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon. However, some brave police officers chased the gang and exchanged fire before they managed…
Madanpur, Aug. 22: Dhaka bound Maitree express had to be stranded for about three and half hours at Kalyani station on Tuesday morning as train services in the Sealdah North section remained suspended for over four hours due to a blockade on railway tracks put by a section of daily…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 17: Three friends were crushed to death on NH12 as the Maruti Wagonr in which they were traveling rammed into a stationary lorry near in Bahadurpur forest area of Dhubulia in Nadia district during the late hours of Wednesday night. The driver of the car, a friend of…
Ranaghat, Aug. 13: Two persons were crushed to death and four others including a child and woman were critically injured when the Mahindra Scorpio they were traveling with had a head-on collision with a bus near Phulia on NH12 in Nadia on Sunday afternoon. Police said that the Calcutta-bound private…
Ranaghat, Aug. 13: The first-year Bengali honors student of Jadavpur University who was suspected of having jumped to death late on Wednesday night from the second floor of the hostel was a “minor” and he was “sexually assaulted” before the death. This was claimed by the West Bengal Commission of…
Kolkata/Bogula, Aug. 9 Swapnadip Kundu, 18, resident of Nadia’s Bogula – a BA (Honours) first-year student of Jadavpur University, suspected to have jumped to death late on Wednesday night from the second floor of Jadavpur University’s main hostel on Prince Gulam Hussain Shah Road, barely within three days he joined…
Ranaghat, Aug. 9: Senior journalist Biplab Dutta, 52, a former staff reporter with the Bengali daily Sangbad Pratidin, was found dead at his home in Ranaghat Nasrapara during the early hours of Wednesday morning. Some local civic workers first noticed him lying unconscious in the courtyard of his home, where…