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Science Camp At IISER-K To Find Out Tomorrow’s Researchers

Mohanpur, Dec. 10: In a bid to fascinate students at the higher secondary level to motivate them for pursuing basic science courses and research career in science, a dedicated three day long National science camp commenced today at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Resear-Kolkata (IISER-K) campus in Nadia’s…


Students of Ranaghat ‘Convent Of Jesus And Mary” Staged ‘Prem Dhara”

Around 1000 students of ‘Convent of Jesus and Mary’ performed in a musical play based on life of Saint Claudine Thevet,  mother foundress of their congregation on the occasion of the bicentenary of foundation of the congregation at the school campus  Ranaghat town on Thursday night. The celebration was concluded…


Iskcon’s Bhakti Vedanta National School Organised Science & Craft Fair

Mayapur, Dec. 1: Bhakti Vedanta National School of ISKCON in Mayapur  organised a Science and Crafts fair on Friday at school campus where more than 200 students of different classes took part actively. Around 50 projects on various fields of science focussing the traditional means of agriculture, earthquake, solar panels,…


DST Nominates IISER-Kolkata Professor For Swarnajayanti Fellowship

Mohonpur, Nov. 29: Rahul Banerjee, an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata has been nominated for the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2016-2017 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The Swarnajayanti Fellowships are bestowed upon only a few young scientists…


Iskcon’s Gita Jayanti Festival Begins In Mayapur

Mayapur, Nov. 28: The 3-day long Gita Jayanti festival organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) begins at its main hub in Mayapur this evening. The festival aims to promote the understanding of “Bhagawad Gita” among all sections of the society. The Iskcon aims to expand the knowledge…


4th Chakdaha Book Fair To Begin From December 9

Chakdaha, Nov. 22: The 4th Chakdaha Book Fair is all set to begin from December 9 at the Nabaraun Samity ground in the town. The six days long event will be concluded on December 14 with a gala cultural programme. The fair will be inaugurated by state education minister Partha…


BSF Seizes 12Kg Ganja From Meghna

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…


Youth Arrested For Abetting Wife’s Suicide

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….


School Students Visit Kalyani Univ Laboratories

Nov. 1: Around 500 students of different schools in Nadia today got the access to visit the science laboratories of Kalyani University as a special gesture on its 58th Foundation day. Vice chancellor professor Sankar Kumar Ghosh said: “From this year we would observe the University’s foundation day as the…


KU Felicitates Retired Staff On Foundation Day

Nov. 1: Kalyani University today felicitated 147 retired teachers and non teaching staff on the occasion of its 58th foundation day. The felicitation was given at the newly built APJ Abdul Kalam auditorium inside the University campus.