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…
Krishnanagar, July 7: Principal of Krishnagar Women’s College professor Manabi Bandopadhyay unlocked the staff room of the college at about 8pm on Saturday night, 30 hours after she locked it finding no teacher inside on Friday afternoon. The 20 teachers of the college was absent at the college on Friday…
Krishnanagar, July 6: 19 teachers of Krishnanagar Women’s College sat on dharna since Friday afternoon in college campus after they found that the staff room has been allegedly locked by principal Manabi Bandopadhyay when they went to meet District Magistrate Sumit Gupta to submit a deputation against her. The teachers…
Krishnaganj, July 5: Fishermen and nature care activists on Thursday collected water samples from over 30km stretch Mathabhanga and Churni rivers to get it tested and to submit the report to the centre so that it could take up the issue of its pollution allegedly done by a Bangladeshi sugar…
Karimpur, July 4: The REC Power Distribution Company Limited, a ‘Navratna’ Central Public Sector Enterprises under its community social responsibility initiative paid a compensation of Rupees eighty thousand to slain CRPF constable Arup Karmakar, 74-battalion who was killed during indiscriminate firing by Maoist rebels along with 24 other jawans in Sukmadistrict of Chhattisgarh on April 24,…