Krishnagar: Members of the ‘Krishnagar Prayash’, a dog lovers’ association with the support of the police and some like-minded persons have been regularly feeding around two hundred street dogs and homeless persons for about past three months since a day after the nationwide lockdown was announced to prevent an outbreak of the Covid…
Krishnangar, May 25: An Automatic Thermal Screening Gate (ATSG) designed and conceptualized by Nilabhra Guha, a student of class IX of Krishnagar Public School (KPS) has been chosen as the 8th best entry to the ‘Student Innovation Challenge 2020’ in last week. The Innovation Challenge is a National level competition…
Chakdaha, May 17: A mature fish-eating crocodile, commonly known as ‘Gharial’ was trapped in a fishing net on the river Hooghly in Raninagar area of Chakdah town during the early hours of Sunday morning. Fishermen Subhash Biswas and Dipankar Sarkar who were sailing a fishing boat on Hooghly spreading a…
Krishnagar, April 22: Students of Krishnagar Public School (KPS) celebrated the World Earth Day on Wednesday ‘virtually’ while staying at home owing to the nationwide lockdown pledging support for the protection of the environment. The annual celebration of the World Earth Day turned 50 this year. The theme of this…
Chakdaha, March 31: The teachers, students and the non-teaching staff of the Chakdaha College garnered a fund of Rs.1-lakh to donate it to the West Bengal State Emergency Relief Fund as a small contribution on their part to assist the state government in prevention and control of the deadly Coronavirus…
MAYAPUR: Around fifty thousand devotees from across the country as well as from at least 80 countries like Italy, France, Brazil, Spain, UK, US, China, Russia took part in Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra festival organised by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) at its headquarter in Nadia’s Mayapur on Thursday….
Howrah, June 22: Members of the Howrah unit of Indian Railway Medical Service Association (IRMSA) on Saturday handed over a cheque of Rupees fifty thousand each to the family members of slain CRPF jawan Sudip Biswas of Nadia’s Hanspukuria and Bablu Santra of Howrah, who were killed along with 38…
Rajapur, June 17: Devotees of Iskcon celebrated the holy Snan Yatra festival at the Rajapur temple near Mayapur on Monday. Around five thousand devotees from across the globe took part in the festival. The day is otherwise observed as the holy appearance day of Lord Jagannath in the material world….
Santipur: In an attempt to make people aware about local culture and heritage, a mobile documentary film festival cum competition was organised in Nadia’s Santipur on Sunday. 15 short documentary films on local culture and heritage of Bengal each with 10 minutes duration shot exclusive on mobile phones in English…
Mayapur, Feb. 25: To help devotees interested to visit its temples in Mayapur on the occasion of ensuing Gaud Purnima festival set to begin this week, the Iskcon authorities will operate direct cruise services from Kolkata to Mayapur Ghat from February 28. The special cruise, titled as ‘Jaladuta1’ will run…