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Nadia Judge Visits Police Station To Find Out A Motorcycle

Tehatta, Dec.15: A Nadia judge today paid a surprise visit to the Tehatta police station after the officer in charge had mysteriously ignored to inform him whether police had seized a motorcycle of youth while arresting being accused in a case of assaulting police during April this year. As the…


Newton-Bhabha Workshop Begins For Collaborative Researches

Mohanpur, Dec.14:  In an endeavor to develop an international partnership bringing together young researchers from the UK and India for industry friendly research output, a researchers link workshop under the aegis of Newton–Bhaba Fund began today at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata’s (IISER-K) campus in Nadia’s Mohanpur. The…


Teachers, Clerks Illegally Enjoying Retainership For Folk Artistes

Krishnanagar, Dec. 13:  Nadia strict administration have started scanning the credentials of income certificates of the folk artists enjoying monthly retainership paid by the state government under ‘Lok Prasar Prakalpa’ after it found that over about one hundred school teachers and government employees have been enjoying the benefit illegally suppressing…


Youth’s Body Exhumed For Investigation In Tehatta

Tehatta, Dec. 12: Body of a youth from Nadia’s Tehatta, who was allegedly killed by his uncle, was exhumed today for investigation. The body of Ayatullah Seikh (21), an unemployed youth from Jitpur-Muslimpara village, who was found hanging in a bamboo orchard close to his house on November 11, was…


Promising Kho-Kho Player Ends Life In Cooper’s Camp

Ranaghat, Dec. 11: A class VIII girl died on Monday morning after she apparently set herself ablaze at her home being admonished by her mother for bathing in the rain on Saturday morning. Deceased girl Pinki Mandal (13), who was a promising Kho-Kho player died at Kalyani’s Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial…


Fresh Directives For Schools To Ensure Students’ Security Soon

Krishnanagar, Dec. 10: Concerned over recent incidents of alleged sexual abuses a on students at different schools in the state, the state government would soon issue fresh guidelines for the schools to ensure security of the students. State education minister Partha Chatterjee today said that he would hold a meeting…


Walk To Rebuild Cultural Bond Between Hooghly And Thames

Krishnanagar, Dec. 9: A  group of contemporary artistes, authors and historians from Bengal and London walked in a rally today in a bid to rediscover the cultural relationship between Kolkata and London that developed over the years along the bank of river Hooghly and Thames. The walk which is part…


Mustard Cultivation Near Indo-Bangla Border Faces BSF Objection

Krishnanagar, Dec. 8: The farmers live close to Indo-Bangladesh border areas in Nadia and Murshidabad district who were advised to cultivate mustard by state government as an alternative to wheat, are encountered with serious objections from the Border Security Force. The state government in August declared ‘wheat holiday’ in these two…


Encroachers Attack Labourers, Stall Anjana River Reform Works

Taherpur, Dec. 8: The initiative by the Nadia administration to clear the obstructions and encroachment from the 45km dry course of of the Anjana river that flows through the district faced a jolt today as armed miscreants engaged by encroachers allegedly attacked around 50 labouers, mostly women, when they were…


Acid Burn Victim’s Family Appeals Mamata To Ensure Security

Dhantala, Nov.7: A farmer from Nadia’s Dhantala has made an appeal to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Director General of Police and Nadia’s police Superintendent requesting them to arrest a person, accused of fatally injuring his wife by throwing acid along with his father, as the Dhantala police did never bother…