Ranaghat, July 23: The fishermen and the nature care activists fighting for a solution of Mathabhanga and Churni river’s pollution caused by a Bangladeshi sugar mill at bilateral level between India and Bangladesh, have decided to file a petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the centre as it allegedly so far…
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Krishnanagar, July 20: Mountaineer Basanta Sinha Roy on Friday accused Indo-Tibetan Border Police authorities of ‘non cooperation’ to rescue climber Pemba Sherpa, who fell into a icy dark crevasse while descending with Krishnagar based climbers’ team after summiting Saser Kangri IV peak on July 13 morning. Sinha Roy, a passionate…
Chakdaha, July 19: At a time when Mamata Banerjee on repeated occasions conveying stern message to her party workers asking them to desist from infighting, instead work unitedly respecting the old workers, a section of party workers in Nadia, nevertheless, apparently feel isolated and put up many banners for the…
Santipur, July 19: Mani Sarkar, a prominent Trinamul Congress Chatra Parishad (TMCP) and former general secretary of Santipur College students’ union was arrested on Thursday for his alleged involvement into murder of a BJP leader in Santipur after panchayat poll. The accused a BA final year student of Santipur College…
Chakdaha, July 17: Bodies of two class twelve students, who drowned in the Hooghly river on Monday afternoon, were recovered on Tuesday evening from two different locations near Sannyalchar area of Chakdaha. Jyotirmoy Ghosh and Utpalentdu Singha, both aged about 18, drowned in Hooghly when they were taking bath at…
Mayapur, July 14: Justice Sambuddha Chakraborty of Calcutta High Court flagged off the Rath Yatra festival of Lord Jagannath at the Iskcon hub in Mayapur on Saturday afternoon. Flagging off the festival, the senior judge said that Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra signifies the progress of life and humanity. Nearly one lakh…
Nabadwip, July 11: The Nadia district police have busted a racket trading human skeletons illegally after raiding an isolated “char” land that recently surfaced up over river Bhagirathi on Tuesday night. So far two persons involved in the racket have been arrested. As many as 3 skulls, 38 ribs, 4…
Mayapur, July 9: The Iskcon authorities in Mayapur would organise a carnival on the occasion of Rath Yatra festival during July 14 to 22. The carnival will be organised close to the ground of Sri Prabhupad ghat in Mayapur where the Iskcon authority would construct a grand ‘Gundicha’ temple that…
Bethuadahari, July 9: A sub inspector and a constable of North Dinajpur district police were killed and another constable was critically injured when the Mahindra Bolero they were travelling in had hit a stationary truck laden with stone on NH-34 in Nadia’s Nakashipara on Monday morning after the driver had…