Kolkata/Santipur, Jan. 20: Elderly people in Bengal aged 80 and above and those with physical disabilities for the first time will be able to cast their votes through postal ballot sitting at their home in the ensuing assembly election likely to be held during April-May this year. The postal ballots…
Krishnanagar, Jan. 16: The much awaited anti Covid vaccination drive begun across the country on Saturday nearly a year after the disease was first reported in Kerala. The vaccination in Nadia begun along with the other parts of the country with the formal announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who…
Kalyani, Jan. 13: Nirmalya Ghosh, a professor in the department of physical science at IISER Kolkata who is also attached to its Center of Excellence in Space Sciences, has been named the 2021 recipient of the prestigious G.G Stokes Award in optical polarization by SPIE, the international society of optics…
Habibpur (Ranaghat), Jan. 11: Mamata Banerjee on Monday reassured the Matuas that they are very much Indian citizens and nobody can drive them out of the country. Ruling out the need of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, she said that it would rather put the refugees in deep problem once implemented….
Ranaghat, Jan. 10: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would launch a fresh bid to win back the support of the Matuas ahead of the ensuing assembly poll with a rally in Nadia’s Ranaghat on Monday morning. She will address party supporters in Habibpur Chhatimtala ground under Ranaghat Lok sabha constituency, which…
Kalyani, Jan. 8: Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar apparently slammed ruling Trinamul Congress for creating a political debate using ‘outsider’ tag, which the party also trying to make a poll plank in the ensuing assembly election. He said that such tagging is ‘unconstitutional’ as no Indian can be branded as ‘outsider’….
Gangnapur, Jan. 7: Asim K. Duttaroy, an Indian medical scientist, who originally hails from Nadia’s Gangnapur, has been invited by the Nobel committee to nominate his choice for this year’s prestigious award in the field of Physiology or in Medicine. This is for the fifth time Duttaroy, presently attached to…
Chakdah, Jan. 3: Two Kolkata based young women entrepreneurs setting up an export-oriented food processing and preservation unit on a 49 bigha land adjacent to NH12 in Nadia’s Chakdah have been forced to suspend work due to a threat by a group miscreant for their unsatisfied extortion attempt. The company…
Chakdah, Jan. 4: The right palm of a BJP activist was chopped off by a group of miscreants under mysterious circumstances in the Shimurali area of Nadia’s Chakdah on Saturday night. The incident prompted the BJP leadership to accuse the Trinamul Congress of its suspected link even though the family…
Kalyani, Jan. 2: While the Bengal government has launched a number of outreach programme to develop proximity to people, the ruling party’s Kalyani town committee has envisaged a plan in own way to help the elderly people in the town in health-related distress during the night. On the first day…