Ranaghat, Dec. 17: Trinamul National general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has accused the BJP of lying about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and stated that the saffron party has been deliberately trying to ‘fool’ people ahead of elections. He also alleged that the BJP has nothing to offer new for the…
Gede (Nadia), Dec. 02: A stretch of 800 meters of an existing concrete road is to be widened soon in Nadia’s Gede as a route for cargo movement to carry out export and import activities with Bangladesh. The said road connects Darshana on the other side of the border in…
Kolkata/Krishnanagar, Oct. 14: Overwhelmed by the huge amount of sale of books at the book stalls set up near the Durga puja pandals across the state, the Bengal CPM leadership has decided to put similar stalls during the ensuing Kali puja and other festivals like Raasa Leela, Jagaddhatri puja as…
Gede, Oct. 13: The suspension of the issue of tourist visas for over the last two years to the Bangladeshi Nationals who like to make walk-in access to India through the Darshana-Gede check post has put a few thousand people in Gede in a survival crisis. Employees of money exchanging…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 11: A patrolling team of Border Security Force (BSF) attached to the 82-Battalion rescued nine exotic birds while being smuggled to India from Bangladesh through a porous point of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Nadia’s Hridaypur on Monday night. The rescued birds include 4 Toucans, 4 Black Cactus wrens, and…
Krishnaganj, Oct. 10: A young couple and their minor son from Habra of North 24 Parganas, who were arrested by Border Guard Bangladesh for illegally sneaking into Bangladesh territory to meet a relative, were repatriated on Monday after a year. Suman De (32), Sujata De (30), and their son Subhajit…
Kolkata, Oct. 09: A hike of 9.6% in the material cost of the mid-day meal for students up to class VIII, announced by the centre on Friday, which in real term amounts to less than Rupee 1, has angered many teachers in the state who implement the scheme at ground…
Krishnaganj, Oct. 09: A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by a patrolling team of Border Security Force (BSF) in Nadia’s Krishnaganj under Krisnanagar sector during the early hours of Sunday morning while trying to foil a cattle smuggling bid by a group of armed miscreants. The BSF sources claimed that…
Karimpur, Oct. 08: A young couple riding a motorcycle along with their three-year son was killed as they suffered fatal head injuries due to hitting a roadside tree while trying to avert a head-on collision with a lorry that was desperately trying to overtake another one on Krishnnaangar-Karimpur state highway…
Dhantala, Oct. 8: BJP’s Ranaghat south MLA Mukutmani Adhikari was allegedly heckled and his car was vandalized by a group of suspected Trinamul supporters in Nadia’s Dattapulia on Friday evening while he was trying to pass through along the other side of the road that was crowded due to ongoing…