Krishnanagar, Feb. 04: Sudden rain owing to moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal and for ‘western disturbances’ on eastern India dampened the spirit a day ahead of Saraswati puja and damaged huge cultivation of blooming flowers of different varieties in many districts in South Bengal on Friday. Light to…
Kalyani, Feb. 04: Over 200 junior doctors, interns, and MBBS students attached to the College of Medicine and JNM Hospital in Kalyani staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the emergency section on Friday demanding a police outpost inside the hospital premises after a doctor was allegedly assaulted by the…
Krishnanagar, Feb. 2: A brawl over salary statements required for income tax calculation turned into a violent fight between the headmaster and an assistant teacher in front of media persons at the 175 years old Krishnagar Collegiate School on Wednesday causing sheer embarrassment to the other teachers, students and the…
Krishnanagar, Feb. 1: Police have arrested an elderly person and his young son from Nadia’s Chapra allegedly for killing 12 dogs feeding them food spiked with poisonous substances. The deceased dogs include 11 puppies aged only 10 days and their mother. The Chapra police acting on a complaint lodged by…
Thakurnagar (North 24 P), Jan 24: With the centre yet to complete framing the provisions of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the All India Matua Mahasangha, an influential body of the Matua sect, would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking to know the reasons behind…
Krishnanagar, Dec. 9: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that an exclusive practice and research centre on Sanskrit language and Indological studies, will become functional from January 1 new year in Nadia’s Nabadwip. The centre, an extended campus of Calcutta based Sanskrit College and University, which is being envisaged as…
Krishnanagar, Dec. 7: A doctor attached to Calcutta Medical College was allegedly beaten up by a co-passenger on a train since he advised him to travel wearing a mask as a Covid safety measure. The incident occurred on Tuesday when the doctor and the accused were travelling on a Krishnagar…
Kalyani, Nov. 30: A Durga puja committee in Nadia’s Kalyani in a noble gesture has come up to donate an “Advance Mobile Medical Life Support Van”, a hi-tech ambulance to a non-profit making emergency medical support service provider curtailing its puja expenditure in consecutive two years. The ITI Durga Utsab…
Hanshkhali, Nov. 28: 17 persons including 7 women and a 5 year’s child were crushed to death when a mini truck in which they were heading towards the Nabadwip burning ghat, had a head on collision with a lorry in Phulbari area of Hanskhali town late on Saturday midnight. Out…
Haringhata, Nov. 22: Senior CPM leader and Left Front chairman Biman Bose has wished to be “relieved” from all “party committees” soon to pave the way for new faces in the leadership. Bose, now 81, and party’s Politburo member, has attributed the age factor for such decision and advised that…