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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…


Couple Postpones Feuneral Demanding Fresh Probe For Son’s Death

Dhantala, Dec. 5: Family members and relatives of a youth from Nadia’s Dhantala who died on Sunday night in a motor cycle accident, have refused to conduct his funeral demanding a fresh post mortem and a probe suspecting foul play behind his death. Unhappy with the “accident” theory of the…


Rs.85.70Lakhs Withdrawn From Government Account By Forged IDBI Cheque

Kaliganj, Dec. 3. : Nadia Police has started a probe on the basis of a complaint by the Nadia district administration after it found that one cheque from a cheque book issued to Kaliganj Panchayat Samity by IDBI Bank’s Krishnanagar branch was used at least two times and in one occasion…


Rice Ceremony At Hospital For Baby Born To Mentally Unstable Mom

Krishnanagar, Dec. 1: A four months old female child born to an abandoned and mentally unstable woman, who was being raised by the staff and nurses attached to the sick newborn care unit (SNCU) of Krishnanagar Sadar Hospital was given her first rice today – an annaprashan in a formal…


High Court Directs MEA, Police To Rescue Girl From Bangladesh

Nov. 29: The Calcutta High Court today asked the Ministry of External Affairs to submit a report about the steps it has taken so far to locate and to repatriate a 19 year college going girl from Nadia’s Tehatta who has been allegedly abducted and kept captive in Bangladesh. Justice Debangsu…