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…
Majhdia, Oct. 24: He works on daily wage for Rs.120 at a sweet shop in Nadia’s Majhdia and his monthly income seldom crosses Rupees 3200 due to weekly off. Nevertheless, a diamond studded gold ring which he found on the floor of the shop could not lure him for lucre….
Karimpur, Oct. 18: 280 years old Durga puja of Bagchi family in Nadia’s Jamsherpur got a patriotic fervor during the early part of 19th century when the swadeshi movement had began. Poet Jatindramohan Bagchi was the driving spirit behind this fervor, who being one of the young members of the family,…
Karimpur, Oct 17: A teen aged motorcyclist was killed and two of his friends who were riding pillion had suffered fatal injuries when the motorcycle which they were riding rammed on a stack of concrete pillars in Kanthalia on Karimpur-Krishnagar road during the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Deceased boy,…
Kalyani, Oct. 15: The state Public Health Engineering department authorities have offered to supply 700-kiloliter (KLT) clear water on daily basis to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) site from its Haringhata based reservoir on temporary basis so that the ‘Out-Patient Department’ (OPD) could start functioning from April…
Kolkata/Haringhata, Oct. 10: Online retail giant Flipkart would set up a logistic hub in Nadia’s Haringhata hopefully by the beginning of 2021, through one of its subsidiary Instakart Services Private Limited, Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra told reporters on Wednesday. Mitra said that the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC)…
Chapra, Oct. 4: A homemaker was allegedly shot dead in Nadia’s Chapra on Thursday afternoon by a group of five armed miscreants having allegiance with a faction of Trinamul Congress because her husband had provided shelter to the members of a rival gang after a clash in last month. Deceased…
Chakdah, Oct. 2: Satish Chandra Memorial School in Nadia’s Chakdah, a CBSE affiliated higher secondary school, has been chosen as one of the ‘Test Practice Centre’ (TPC) in the state by the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) National Testing Agency (NTA) for aspiring candidates who would appear in higher…
Kalyani, Sept. 26: Two scientists from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata’s (IISER-K) Chemical Science department – Swadhin K Mandal and Rahul Banerjee – have been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest science award in the country annually given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial…