Kolkata, Oct. 30: The Additional District and Sessions Judge’s court in Kolkata would announce its verdict on the alleged dacoity and gangrape case on November 7 that occurred in Ranaghat’s Convent of Jesus Marry on wee hours of March 14 night in 2015. At least seven miscreants had brutalized a…
New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct. 30: A little after the Supreme Court today flayed the Bengal Government for challenging the Narendra Modi Government’s decision to make the Aadhar a mandatory proof for availing benefits of different social welfare schemes, its chief minister Mamata Banerjee bounced back by putting party MLA from Nadia’s…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 30: The immersion of holy ‘Mangal Ghat’ of Goddess Jagadhatri begins today in Krishnanagar on Monday morning with pomp and color. As per the tradition followed by people in the town, the ‘Mangal Ghat’ is immersed in the river Jalangi prior to the immersion of the Devi’s image later in…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 30: A 43-year-old woman, who was riding the pillion of a motorbike with her husband without helmet, was crushed under wheels of a truck when she fell on the road being hit by it at a crossing during the early hours Monday morning in Nadia’s Krishnanagar. Police said,…
Phulia, Oct. 29: Residents of Nadia’s Phulia on Sunday morning woke up to a spectacular view as they found that 3km stretch in their locality turned into a canvas of colors with ‘street alpana’ drawn by about 875 artistes and general people responding to a request by a social organization….
The Jagadhatri idol of Krishnanagar Bowbazar Barowari Puja Committee being decorated with the gold made ornaments weighing over 10kg on Friday night. The festivities resumed in Nadia again with the Jagadhatri puja. the maximum number of pujas are held in Krishnanagar, where it is traditionally celebrated for two days –…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 26: Senior journalist Dipankar Bhattacharya, working as a Nadia district correspondent with Bengali daily ‘Dainik Sambad”, passed away on Thursday afternoon at Saktinagar district hospital in Krishnanagar. He was 52 and is survived by his wife and a daughter. His last rites were done late in the evening at…
Taherpur, Oct. 26: Family members and relatives of a Tumpa Biswas, a homemaker, who was found hanging under mysterious circumstances in last week at her in-laws house in Barasat village of Taherpur, today blocked Ranaghat-Krishnanagar state highway in front of Taherpur police station accusing the police of inaction on their…