Kalyani, April 23: In a bizarre incident a second year student of a private optometry college in Kalyani had died after one of his batch mates accidentally hit a cricket bat on his head. The incident occurred on Sunday evening when the bat apparently slipped off the batsman’s hand and…
Majhdia, : Three members of a family in Nadia’s Majhdia are all set to fight against each other making the ensuing gram panchayat poll a family affair. At a time when political enmity soured the personal relationship, Laxman Roy, Bablu Roy and Aduri Roy of Adityapur-Roypara have preferred to make…
Santipur, April 22: Fed up with several ditches on a large stretch of NH34 and with the apathy of the National Highway authorities to repair it, a team of Santipur police in a rare incident took the tasks of repairing it by themselves without waiting more. On Sunday evening a…
Santipur, April 20: Police have rescued a 13 year old Bangladeshi boy from Kalnaghat area of Santipur town late on Thursday night. Police sources said that the boy who has identified himself as Mohammed Ashiq, son of Mohammed Saiful, a resident of Kamalpur in Dhaka, was handed over to “Child Line”,…
Nabadweep, April 19: A 70 year old Sannyasi (hermit) was arrested on Thursday morning allegedly for sexually harassing two class seven boys in Nadia’s Mayapur. Padmanabha Maharaj, whose earlier name was Madhusudan Kundu, was arrested from his ashram on the basis of a complaint lodged by mother of one of…
Kaliganj, April 18: Block Development Officer of Nadia’s Kaliganj Nazir Hossain today rescued a girl, after she rushed in to her school seeking shelter and refused to return home knowing that her father has fixed her marriage to a Doha based youth ignoring her desire wish to ready further. The…
Mayapur, April 18: Braving the heat a large number of devotees of Iskcon have been attending the Samadhi temple regularly to render their devotional services to Lord Jagannath on the occasion of holy “Chandana Yatra” festival that has begun from Wednesday in Mayapur. The occasion also known as the “Boat…
Chakdah: An elderly farmer had died when he was hit by a bamboo pole amidst a clash between two groups of youths that broke out over teasing some school girls in Nadia’s Chakdah on Tuesday evening. The victim, Taher Biswas, a resident of Sahispur-Gohora village was rushed to Jawaharlal Nehru…
Krishnanagar, April 16: Sunil Pal (alias Kesto), a Nadia Zilla Parishad member elected on Trinamul ticket, who joined BJP on April 8, returned to Trinamul Congress on Monday appearing at the party’s head office in Kolkata. Pal, who was disgruntled with the Trinamul’s Nadia leadership received BJP’s party flag from…