Krishnagar, March 17: A sudden invasion of Rugose Spiraling Whitefly (RSW), a species of pest largely on coconut trees has unfolded a sort of fresh panic among the residents in several parts of Nadia and North 24 Parganas amidst Covid 19 threat. During the past three days, a huge number…
Chakdaha, March 17: Two nature care activists have filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court seeking a directive to the state Public Works Department to stop the ongoing four-laning work of 27.44-km road stretch between Chakdaha and Bangaon unless it undertakes compensatory planting of trees. The duo has alleged…
Kalyani, Feb. 20: Kalyani University authorities on Wednesday evening announced a fellowship dedicated after filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Vice-chancellor professor Sankar Kumar Ghosh while speaking at the concluding day of a symposium Satyajit Ray announced this. University authority claimed that this would be the first fellowship programme in memory of the…
Choumaha, Feb. 18: Residents of Choumaha village in Nadia’s Nakashipasra will always remember actor Tapas Pal, but not the politician, who served them as two times MP. The residents in the village which changed the life of Tapas Pal for his infamous June 2014 ‘rape and kill’ speech mourned the…
Chakdaha, Feb. 16: A team of nature care activists and social workers that include Ananda Puraskar awardee poet Mandakranta Sen and some lawyers of Calcutta high court were allegedly assaulted by the members of a club on Sunday morning in Gorachandtala area of Nadia’s Chakdah when they went there to…
Kalyani, Feb. 15: The state higher education department on Friday has directed the Kalyani University vice-chancellor Professor Sankar Ghosh to reinstate Registrar Debansu Roy whom he sent on ‘leave’ in the wake of an inquiry initiated on disciplinary issues. In a communication issued by the special secretary of the department’s…
Mayapur, Feb. 11: The Iskcon authorities are all set to open the world’s largest pujari seva facilities on 2.5 acres sprawling single floor inside the under-construction Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) in Nadia’s Mayapur. The huge floor that would accommodate the seva facilities will be inaugurated on February 13…
Ranaghat, Feb. 8: A British luxury cruise that has been quarantined at Yokohama port in Japan after 63 of its passengers were detected carrying coronavirus has a crew member from Nadia’s Ranaghat. While Tapas Das, one of the 1100 crew of Princess Diamond has been counting days to return home…
Ranaghat, Feb. 04: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused that the BJP has been spreading hatred across the country and branding people protesting the Citizenship Act as ‘Anti National’. She also blamed the party at the party for terrorizing people for speaking against the act. She told this while addressing a…
Krishnanagar, Jan. 30: Sanju Pal, 37, a lady management consultant from London, who is a non-resident Indian having her ancestral home in Nadia’s Dhubulia, has been conferred with the “Points of Light” awards by the British Government as recognition of her innovative education charity, RISE (Rural India School Enterprise) that aims…