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BJP Candidate Mukut Mani Can’t Fight Lok Sabha Poll

Ranaghat, April 4: BJP candidate for Ranaghat constituency Mukut Mani Adhikari, a government doctor, will not be able to fight the ensuing lok sabha poll since the state health department refused to accept his resignation. Adhikari is a doctor with Nadia’s Badkulla Primary Health Centre, who submitted resignation to fight…


Elderly Pediatric Beaten Up For Kid Death

Ranaghat, April 2: An elderly pediatric (55) was rescued by police in Nadia’s Ranaghat on Tuesday morning when he was being beaten up by some women accusing him of wrong treatment that allegedly led to death of a five month old girl child.  Sanjoy Sen, father of the deceased girl…


Accept Kalyan And Ensure His Victory, I Am Not Forever: Julu Babu

Krishnanagar, March 27: Unlike some of his senior colleagues in the party elderly BJP leader and former union minister Satyabrata Mookherjee (Julu) on Wednesday said that age is a bar before good governance and a good leader should make way to welcome young leadership. Keeping aside all speculations about his…


Library Members Transplant Trees To Construct New Building

Santipur, March 25: Members of Santipur Sahitya Parishad, a 104 year old private library on Monday began ‘transplantation’ works of four giant trees to pave way for reconstruction of its new building dismantling the old dilapidated structure that became quite risky. With the approval of the state forest department, the…


BJP Nominates ‘Goalie’ Kalyan Chaubey To Fight From Krishnanagar

Kolkata, March 21: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nominated eminent Indian footballer turned entrepreneur Kalyan Chaubey as the party candidate to fight the Lok Sabha election from Krishnanagar parliamentary constituency. His name was announced along with 183 other party candidates after party’s National Executive body meeting in New Delhi on…



Unabated Deaths Of Farmers Are Quite Disturbing: Pranab Mukherjee

Mohanpur, March 19: Former president of India Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday expressed his deep concern over the “unabated” suicide of the farmers across the country which he said are quite “disturbing”. Quoting a news agency report while delivering his lecture as chief guest at the XXI convocation of Bidhan Chandra…


Court Clerk Shot Dead At Home In Palashipara

Barnia, March 19: Ashutosh Biswas (54), a court clerk attached to the additional judicial magistrate’s court in Nabadweep was shot dead  at home by two unidentified miscreants at his home in Barnia area of Palashipara on Tuesday night. The bizarre incident occurred at about 9pm, a little after Biswas returned…


Students, Teachers Angry With India’s First Transgender Principal Manabi Bandopadhyay

Krishnanagar: First transgender principal of India Professor Manabi Bandopadhyay has ignited a major resentment among the students and teachers in her college since she suspended a popular Mathematics teacher allegedly going beyond her jurisdiction. Condemning the suspension the students and teachers of the Krishnanagar Women’s College on Friday took on…


Avigyan’s ‘SAVE’ Can Stop Train If Driver Suffers Heart Attack

Kalyani, March 13: A class seven boy of Hooghly Collegiate School has developed a device that can automatically stop a running train to avert a possible accident in case the driver suffers a cardiac arrest and collapses being unconscious. Chinsura’s Avigyan Kishor Das’s device, titled “Safety and Alert for Vulnerable Emergency” (SAVE)…