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…
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…
Ranaghat, March 21: A keertan singer who was hit by a lorry on NH12 on Wednesday night had succumbed to injuries and his pillion rider lost a leg as they had to wait for about two hours after initial treatment at the Ranaghat sub divisional hospital for an ambulance to…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
Kolkata, March 12: In a surprising move, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has nominated slain party MLA Satyajit Biswas’s wife Rupli as the party candidate to fight the Lok Sabha poll from the Ranaghat (SC) constituency replacing sitting MP Professor Tapas Mandal. For Krishnanagar seat, she has nominated party’s Karimpur…
Kalyani, March 11: Bengal government would soon launch ‘Roll-on-Roll-off’ (“Ro-Ro”) boat service between Kalyani and Bansberia over river Hooghly to ferry trucks and heavy loaded vehicles since it has decided to stop plying of heavy vehicles over the 30 year old Iswar Gupta Bridge from April owing to its poor…
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…