New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Sunday announced that elections to constitute 17th Lok Sabha would be held in seven phases which beginning from April 11. Lok Sabha Polls for the 42 seats in Bengal to begin from the same day and to be completed on May 19 in…
Haringhata, March 3: State government on Sunday handed over cheques of compensation to 121 farmers who have been cultivating on s piece of 100 acre land in Nadia’s Haringhata which ecommerce giant Flipkart had procured to set up a logistic hub. The payment of compensation to the farmers ensured a…
Kalyani, March 1: Health condition of Matua community chief Binapani Devi (102), continued to be critical on Friday with respiratory problem owing serious lung infection coupled with fever that she has been suffering for about past few days. The elderly matriarch of the religious organisation was admitted to Kalyani based…
Kalyani, Feb. 28: 102 year old matriarch of Matua community Binapani Devi has been admitted to Kalyani based Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital on Thursday night in serious condition. A team of some close family members along with a doctor rushed her to the hospital in Kalyani at about 9pm with fever…
Chakdah, Feb. 28: A Trinamul youth wing leader hacked to death inside an orchard barely two hundred meters away from his home by one of his neighbors in Nadia’s Chakdah on Thursday afternoon. Police said, Sudhin Som (45), party’s youth wing president of Ward-12, was summoned from home by suspected…
Taherpur, Feb. 20: In an incident that apparently caused sheer embarrassment to the West Bengal Government, a Kashimiri shawl seller was ruthlessly beaten up by a violent mob in Nadia’s Taherpur for his alleged inflammatory comment on the Pulwama terrorist attack on CRPF convoy in last week. The incident came as…
Mayapur, Feb. 19: Eminent industrialist and JSW group chairman Sajjan Jindal will ‘help’ the Iskcon authorities in Mayapur in its flagship project ‘Chaitanya Cultural World Heritage Centre’. Iskcon authorities in Mayapur said, the industrialist met Iskcon’s Alfred Ford alias Ambaris Das on Sunday and has agreed to be a part of the…
Haringhata, Feb. 19: A four member team of eCommerce giant Flipkart has urged the Nadia administration to clear all sorts of encroachments and agricultural works from the 100-acre land in Birahi area of Haringhata which the state government has allotted them for setting up a its proposed logistic hub. The Flipkart…
Ranaghat, Feb. 19: Abhijit Pundari, suspected killer of Krishnaganj’s Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas, on Tuesday claimed that he has been falsely implicated by police in the murder case due to political reasons. He said this inside additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Ranaghat where he was produced by a CID…
Krishnanagar, Feb. 18: A joint team of Nadia Police and CID have arrested Abhijit Pundari (26), prime accused in Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas’s murder case from South Eastern Railway’s Radhamohanpur station near Debra in West Midnapur district on Monday morning. A special team of eight cops, who were closely following…