Gede, Nov. 19: Two years ago Mohammed Mamunur Rashid (37), a farmer from Rajsahi in Bangladesh, was found loitering in Mahatpur village of Nadia’s Chapra close to Indo-Bangladesh border. His clothes tattered and his memory was lost. A patrolling team of Border Security Force caught him and handed him over to…
Nabadweep: A 52 year old woman from Nadia’s Nabadweep today killed her alcoholic husband by hitting him with a digger apparently being failed to bear the alleged torture by him. Kajal Pal of Kutirpara, a daily wage earner rushed to Nabadweep police station and surrendered before the police officials a…
Krishnaganj, Nov. 17: The traders from Nadia and adjacent Bangladeshi district Chuadanaga today demanded restoration of an abandoned stretch of 3-km road connecting Nadia’s Tungi and Chuadanaga’s Daulatganj which they claimed could come up as a viable alternative route to bring Dhaka closer to Kolkata reducing the road distance by over…
Santipur, Nov. 16: A thick cover of water hyacinth infested over a stretch of about 2-square kilometre stretch of a canal of Ganga under Baghanchra panchayat in Nadia’s Santipur has made at least four village almost inaccessible. Water hyacinth is an invasive fast growing aquatic weed that surfaces on water bodies and form…
Ranaghat, Nov. 15: People in Ranaghat today celebrated Bengal’s victory over Odhisa on Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Rasogolla. Members of Nadia Swadhinata Dibas Udjapan Committee with the support of Ranaghat Municipality today distributed more than 2000 rosogollas among people in the town. Pedestrians and others got sweet surprises when…
Hogolberia, Nov. 14: Border Security Force personnel attached to 43Battalion seized 12kg of ganja while being smuggled to India through a porous point of Indo-Bangladesh border near Meghna border outpost under Hogolberia police station in Nadia. BSF sources said that a team of BSF personnel patrolling along the border spotted…
Nabadweep, Nov. 14: Police have today arrested a BA final year student of English honors of Nabadweep College allegedly for uploading some private photographs of her estranged wife, one of her classmates, creating a fake facebook account in her name that eventually led her to commit suicide out of humiliation….
Krishnanagar, Nov. 13: Father of a newborn today lodged a complaint with Krishnanagar police claiming that the male baby that her wife delivered at a nursing home on Sunday afternoon was exchanged with a female baby by the nursing home authorities a little after he was born. Baban Garai, a…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 13: A weaver from Nadia’s Phulia has been making a 3.85-km long sari, claimed to be the longest one in the world, which he would dedicate to the Nation on the ensuing English New Year’s Day as a mark of his tribute to the Motherland. National award winning…
Bethuadahari, Nov. 11: BJP National secretary and Bengal minder Kailash Vijaybargiya today said that if the Bengal government has enough documents to prove Mukul Roy wrong on what he alleged about the ownership of ‘Biswa-Bangla’, it should then challenge him before court. Yesterday during his first public appearance as a…