Chakdaha, July 17: Bodies of two class twelve students, who drowned in the Hooghly river on Monday afternoon, were recovered on Tuesday evening from two different locations near Sannyalchar area of Chakdaha. Jyotirmoy Ghosh and Utpalentdu Singha, both aged about 18, drowned in Hooghly when they were taking bath at…
Mayapur, July 14: Justice Sambuddha Chakraborty of Calcutta High Court flagged off the Rath Yatra festival of Lord Jagannath at the Iskcon hub in Mayapur on Saturday afternoon. Flagging off the festival, the senior judge said that Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra signifies the progress of life and humanity. Nearly one lakh…
Nabadwip, July 11: The Nadia district police have busted a racket trading human skeletons illegally after raiding an isolated “char” land that recently surfaced up over river Bhagirathi on Tuesday night. So far two persons involved in the racket have been arrested. As many as 3 skulls, 38 ribs, 4…
Bethuadahari, July 9: A sub inspector and a constable of North Dinajpur district police were killed and another constable was critically injured when the Mahindra Bolero they were travelling in had hit a stationary truck laden with stone on NH-34 in Nadia’s Nakashipara on Monday morning after the driver had…
Krishnanagar, July 6: 19 teachers of Krishnanagar Women’s College sat on dharna since Friday afternoon in college campus after they found that the staff room has been allegedly locked by principal Manabi Bandopadhyay when they went to meet District Magistrate Sumit Gupta to submit a deputation against her. The teachers…
Krishnaganj, July 5: Fishermen and nature care activists on Thursday collected water samples from over 30km stretch Mathabhanga and Churni rivers to get it tested and to submit the report to the centre so that it could take up the issue of its pollution allegedly done by a Bangladeshi sugar…
Nabadwip, July 3: A 12 years old spotted deer died at a Vaishnab temple premise in Nabadwip town apparently due to illness on Monday morning. The state forest department sent a team to the Sri Chaitanya Saraswata Math in Kelerdanga area of the town to conduct autopsy and a probe…
Ranaghat, July 2: A 20-year-old woman was found murdered at her home on Monday evening in Nadia’s Pairadanga. Police said, deceased Sushmita Sarkar, who left her in-law’s house in Sheoraphuli six months ago and was living at her paternal home, was killed by a grab hoe. Police said, the deceased…
Santipur, June 27: 32-year-old Anupam Sarkar of Nadia’s Santipur had a long cherished dream to make an entry to the Guinness Book of World Records through the ‘cheapest’ possible way. The search prompted him to take up an endeavour to make the longest handmade ‘staple chain’ in the world. The professional television…
Krishnanagar, June 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be happy enough if he could see that a 45 year old medicine shop owner from Bengal’s Sabang has taken up a toiling mission to create awareness about his “Swachh Bharat” programme through an unusual cycle ride across the country. Debendra Nath Bera of Sarta…