A flood-like situation was created in some parts of Nadia and East Burdwan district following a large stretch of the river Bhagirathi had overflown and inundated the adjacent areas since Friday night. The water level in Bhagirathi has increased apparently due to continued rain in the North Bengal where a…
Gede, July 27: Indian Railways on Monday as a friendly gesture hand over 10 broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh as ‘gift’ to help it handle the increasing volume of passenger and freight train operations. The 10 locomotives, worth Rs.60 crores were handed over to Bangladesh at the Gede (India) –…
Nabadwip, July 24: Members of Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday sent sacred water of Bhagirathi river stream and earth of the holy Vaishnab hub Nabadwip Dham to Ayodhya to contribute the two to the laying of the foundation of the proposed Ram Temple slated for August 5. VHP’s Nadia…
Gede, July 20: A patrolling team of BSF has seized goods worth Rs.46.5 lakhs from a rail wagon in Nadia’s Gede while being smuggled to Bangladesh through a goods train on Sunday. The goods were noticed by the BSF team in the wagon whose door seal was found tampered barely…
Krishnanagdar, July 8: The Nadia administration on Thursday handed over the birth certificate to the Nabadwip based couple for their newborn son who were earlier denied it by the local Municipality authorities for not affixing a surname to the name of the child in the prescribed application format. The couple…
Nabadwip, July 8: The Nabdwip Municipality has refused to issue a birth certificate to a young couple for their newborn son because they did not affix a surname to his name in the prescribed application. The couple Pratap Chandra Das and Moushumi Debnath, who live in Sarkarpara in Nabadwip, claimed…
Krishnanagar, July 2: A team of 10 scientists from India and Denmark’s Aalborg University has developed a mobile application, a first of its kind that can detect the suspected Beta-Thalassemia carriers by conducting a statistical analysis of the 5 hematological parameters available through a complete blood count (CBC) test. The…
Chakdah, June 29: Armed miscreants with their faces covered by mask blocked Chakdah-Kalyani state highway in the Ishwaripur area with a branch of a tree and looted cash, camera, and gold ornaments worth over Rs.20 lakh from businessmen and farmers when they were heading to different markets on separate vehicles…
Tehatta, June 27: Burglars sneaked into the office cum residence of Trinamul’s MLA Tapas Kumar Saha in Nadia’s Tehatta and decamped with cash and valuables of an undisclosed amount during the wee hours of Saturday morning. Preliminary investigation revealed that the Saha, who represents Palashipara assembly seat in the district,…
Santipur, June 27: The state government has taken up protective works in the erosion-prone areas of river banks in six districts so that a difficult situation likely to emerge upon due to monsoon could be tackled effectively. With the continued spate of intermittent rain that has led to fresh erosion…