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Lady Head Teacher Flees Rs.5Lakh From School Kitty

Dhubulia, March 12: Nadia police have started a case against a young headmistress of a private nursery school as she allegedly fled with an amount of Rupees 5lakh which the school management given her to meet necessary expenses for shifting of school from Dhubulia to Krishnanagar. Dhubulia police started an…


Motorbike Theft Racket Busted In Santipur

Santipur, March 12: Police busted a two wheeler theft racket and recovered over 2 motorcycles and arrested three of its kingpins from Nadia’s Santipur on Sunday night. The sleuths got to know about the racket after the arrested youths failed to produce relevant documents of the two motorbikes they were…


Plays Staged At Liquor Den In Chakdah For Cultural Reform

Chakdah, March 11: A Calcutta based theatre group on Saturday began an initiative in Banamalipara village of Nadia’s Chakdaha to bring a cultural change among the residents in a remote tribal village where drinking country liquor is synonymous with entertainment at the end of days work. As the abandoned zamindar…


Tutor Hurt In Accidental Firing By Student’s Father

Ranaghat, March 11: A young private tutor was critically injured in an alleged accidental firing by the father of one of his student’s in Nadia’s Ranaghat when he went to his home on Saturday morning to show him a new firearm, possessed illegally by him. While a panicked teacher Sankar…


Youth Gets 10 Year Jail Term For Sexual Assault On Girl Child

Krishnanagar, March 9: A special court set up in Krishnanagar under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) 2012 today sent a youth to ten years rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a 3 year’s girl sexually and injuring her seriously in the way. Tapas Majumder, a resident of Nakashipara, was held guilty…


Army Jawan From Palashipara Killed In Blast In Manipur

New Delhi/Palashipara, March 7: An army jawan, hailed from Nadia’ Palashipara, was killed when a land mine exploded in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district close to Myanmar border late on Tuesday night. Three other jawans were injured in the incident. The deceased jawan identified as Abhijit Mandal (28), who was a resident…


Road Trouble For School Children In Kalyani

Kalyani, March 7: A 200-meter dilapidated road stretch adjacent to an English medium primary school in Kalyani has become a blemish causing embarrassment to the local civic administration, as the tiny toddlers find it tough to reach their school walking over it. But since it failed to react by repairing the road even in…


Miscreants Molest Girl, Confined Her At Home, Beat Up Parents

Chakdaha, March 2:    Miscreants allegedly kept a BA second year girl and his Madhyamik candidate brother confined at their home since Friday afternoon beating up their parents in a bid to evict them from their residence over a land dispute in Nawda-Durgapur village under Chanduria-1 panchayat of Chakdaha. Miscreants had…


Holi Carnival To Raise Fund For Sanitary Pads At Schools

Kalyani, March 1: A Kalyani based social welfare organization today arranged a carnival on the occasion of Holi with an entry fee to donate sanitary pad vending machines for the girls at three schools in the neighborhood using the fund it garnered for the occasion. Members of US, saved about…


Student Died During Train Selfie Stunt

Ranaghat, Feb. 28: Raj Bhakta, a student of class XII at Purnanagar high school in Dhantala, died this afternoon while taking a selfie using his mobile phone with a fast approaching train on his background. Raj who stepped on railway tracks died on the spot as a Ranaghat bound train…