Nazirpur, Jan. 4: A Border Security Force jawan from Nadia’s Nazirpur, who was working as a head constable with the 173-Battalion deployed in the Chak Dulma post of Samba district in J&K was killed in a Pakistani sniper attack on Wednesday afternoon. The demised jawan, Radhapada Hazra, was martyred on…
Kalyani, Jan. 2:The outpatient department (OPD) services at Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial hospital in Kalyani were affected today largely due to the 12 hours strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) protesting the medical Bill that seeks to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI), was sent to a Parliamentary Standing…
Hanskhali, Jan. 1: A BA second year student, picnicking with friends, was allegedly killed by a group of armed villagers in Kulgachi forest park on Monday evening. The incident occurred when some villagers armed with sharp weapons attacked picnickers from Kulgachi Bazarpara killing one of them at the spot and…
Kalyani: A final year MBBS students of Kalyani College of Medicine today celebrated the New Year’s Day by walking 48km from Kalyani to Santipur distributing seeds of plants among people and requesting them to plant trees to save birds and the environment. Humbly avoiding an offer by his classmates to join…
Nakashipara, Jan.1: A large section of sugarcane farmers in Nadia’s Nakashipara and Kaliganj block have been burning their produce in the field as they are not getting good price from the jaggery manufacturers. Many farmers this year tried to sell sugarcane to the jaggery makers as the only sugar mill in…
Krishnanagar, Dec. 30: Matangini Ekota today become the first club in the district to win the first ever Nadia district women’s hockey league title. The ME girls today outplayed girls of Nivedita XI defeating them by a solitary goal in the title fight that was played at the Krishnanagar Government…
Kalyani, Dec. 27: An elderly Irish woman born in India, who spent over 50 years in teaching in Kalyani and Calcutta, but migrated later to UK, was flown back to the city from Birmingham in a casket on Wednesday, only to rest in peace as per her wish at a…
Kalyani, Dec. 26: Even as tragedy struck making an irrecoverable personal loss due to sudden death of his father in a road accident, a young teacher showed great compassion by donating his eyes to fulfill his father’s last wish. On Monday night a little after his father succumbed to injuries at…
Ranaghat, Dec.25: A good number of small and medium bakeries in Nadia this Christmas have taken more private orders for cake from local residents taking the raw materials from them instead of making bulk quantity for retail sail as they could not procure raw materials as per their requirement due…
Thanarpara, Dec. 24: Asma Biwi (65) was hacked to death by her younger son Mustafa Mandal (45), at her home following a tiff over share of property in Nadia’s Dogachi-Pagalpara village on Sunday morning. Police said, Mustafa, a farm labour by profession, had first hacked her mother Asma Biwi with…