Santipur, Nov. 28: At least ten persons including a woman died and about twenty others fell ill as they had consumed suspected spurious liquor in Nrisinhapur Choudhury para area of Nadia’s Santipur since the early hours of Wednesday morning. Three persons died at Kalna sub divisional hospital, two at Santipur…
Karimpur, Nov. 27: Narayan Jha (46), a construction labour from Baliadanga-Thakurpar area of Nadia’s Murutia died as he was run over by a speeding train at Salem railway station in Tamil Nadu under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased labourer was going to Tirur in Kerala where he was…
Ranaghat, Nov. 26: A class eleven girl aged 17, from Nadia’s Ranaghat was allegedly molested and beaten up by three youths on Saturday night on her way back home from private tuition as she had protested against their sleazy remarks and indecent proposals. The girl, daughter of a hawker, was…
Hanshkali, Nov. 25: Police have arrested a sub agent of a Delhi based overseas labour supplying agency from Nadia’s Hanshkhali on Sunday for forgery and breach of trust after 13 Indian labourers which include 8 from Hanskhali were arrested by Tanzanian police for entering the country without visa and on…
Kalyani, Nov. 11: Nobel laureate scientist professor Harold Eliot Varmus on sunday inaugurated “Human Genome Hall”, an archive cum exhibition centre at Kalyani based National Institute of Biomedical Genomics. The Human Genome Hall is an unique exhibition to enhance public understanding of human genome and biomedical genomics. The exhibit comprises…
Kalyani, Nov. 1: Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that research works in higher educational institutions in India are still ‘malnourished’ as the country still lack the ideal infrastructure and allocations of sufficient funds in education, at least 6% of the GDP, to meet the world standard…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 1: Over hundreds fish-eating birds of different species are regularly trapped and killed being entangled in nets laid over ponds and wetlands by the fishermen to protect fish in several places in Nadia regularly. While farmers claimed that they are compelled to use the net to protect the…
Krishnaganj: BJP leader and union minster Giriraj Sing has demanded that centre should consider introducing an uniform law to stop people having more than two children irrespective of their religious faith and identity, it should rob their voting rights and initiate legal actions for punishment. While speaking at a religious…
Ranaghat, Oct. 27: An inquiry by state government has revealed that at least ten Kanyashree beneficiaries of Ranaghat College in Nadia during 2016-17 financial year were actually middle aged married women from South 24 Pargana’s Basanti who never been to schools in their life. Police have arrested Debajyoti Sarkar, a young…
Krishnagar, Oct. 26: The Nadia District Primary School Council has scripted an audio drama and advised all the 2643 primary schools in the district to perform it to create awareness among parents to resist them to build pressure on their children to match their expectations. The council thinks that it…