Chakdaha, Aug. 29: At least 16 families of ‘Dom’ community in Gournagar area of Nadia’s Chakdaha who either lost their home due to erosion of the Hooghly river bank or facing the threat were denied rehabilitation on government land by the local panchayat authorities because of opposition by a section…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 24: A restaurateur in Krishnagar has set up a donation box to garner funds for providing medical care to the street dogs in the town who often die uncared for. Suman Sen (35) has crafted a donation box and set it on a table inside the ‘Koffee House’,…
Kolkata, Aug. 22: A patrolling team of the Border Security Force attached to 141 battalion seized 600 kg Hilsa fish, worth around Rs.9.6 lakhs, from smugglers at Murshidabad’s riverine border on Saturday evening. BSF sources said that the smugglers were trying to push the consignment of the prized fish into…
Kolkata/Mohanpur, Aug. 17: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has filed an appeal before a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging an interim order passed by an earlier bench that had directed the issuance of provisional affiliation to the Garden High School-IISER, located on the IISER-Kolkata’s Mohanpur…
Mayapur, Aug. 10: In the wake of an increasing number of Covid cases in Nadia, the Iskcon authorities announced to shut down of its temple premises in Mayapur suspending the daily ‘darshan’ of the deities from Sunday for at least one month to avoid spreading of the deadly virus. As…
Kalyani, Aug. 10: The Nadia district administration has ordered a probe into an alleged incident of negligence and the apathy on the part of a doctor to treat a gasping patient at a dedicated Covid hospital in Nadia’s Kalyani, who eventually died on Saturday night. Some patients and staff of…
Santipur, Aug. 8: Come August 15, Anupam Sarkar of Santipur would pay tribute to the Martyrs of the Nation on the 74th Independence Day by creating the largest wooden matchstick logo of ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’ while attempting entry to the Guinness Book of World Records simultaneously. Nadia district administration has come up…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 7: Nadia administration on Friday revoked its decision for a weeklong comprehensive lockdown while announcing only two days’ shut down on August 13 and 14 in some specific areas in the district. The decision for the weeklong lockdown has been modified by the district administration apparently after an…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 5: Concerned over the increasing trend of Covid positive cases in the district, the Nadia district administration on Wednesday has announced imposition of a weeklong comprehensive round-the-clock lockdown from August 8 to 14 in the 8 municipality towns and 25-gram panchayat areas in a bid to contain the…
Mohonpur, Aug. 4: The looming uncertainty about the future of 400 students of Garden High School-IISER appears to be over since the Calcutta High Court has directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) authorities to issue provisional affiliation to the school within August 14 so that it can register…