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Trinamul Congress Activist Shot Dead In Chakdaha

Chakdah, Feb. 11: A Trinamul worker in Nadia’s Chakdaha was shot dead at from close range allegedly by miscreants having proximity to a rival section of the party in the KBM area of the town on Sunday night during a cultural programme. Santanu Sil (32), who owns a mobile phone…


Blind Cricketer Dies Being Hit By Ball While Fielding

Nabadweep, Feb. 11: A 14 year visually  challenged cricketer from Nadia’s Dhubulia died at Kalyani based Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial hospital late on Saturday night around 10hours after he was hit by a ball on his ear shot by one of his school mates at a blind school in Nabadweep. The…


Uncovered Dug Up Stretch Turned Into Death Trap In Chapra

Chapra, Feb. 10: Family members of the 7 victims who were mowed by a lorry on Friday night in Nadia’s Chapra on way to a religious soiree riding a Toto, today blamed the local panchayat and police for their ‘callousness’ to fill up a 25ft long ditch for laying pipeline that…


Lorry Mowed Toto,7 Died Near Chapra

Chapra, Feb. 9: At least 7 persons including four women died near Hatra market of Chapra on Friday night when a lorry had hit a toto in high speed and mowed its 8 passengers on Krishnanagar-Karimpur road. All the victims except the driver of the ill fated toto belonged to the…


Chakras Installed Over ISKCON’s Vedic Planetarium Domes

Mayapur, Feb. 7: The ISKCON authorities in Nadia’s Mayapur on Wednesday installed two giant Chakras (wheels) on to the two domes of the “Temple of Vedic Planetarium” (TOVP). A crane pulled the two chakras above and put them on the top of the two domes, one big and the other…



No Cold Store, Farmers Throw Unsold Flowers On Road

Ranaghat, Feb.1: The farmers producing flowers in Nadia’s Ranaghat-II block have been regularly throwing out the unsold flowers on the street because the state run cold store available in the locality is out of order for over last six years. The farmers in the block, who exclusively earn their living…


36 Died In Karimpur-Malda Bus Tragedy, 17 From Nadia

Karimpur/Daulatabad, Jan. 29: A Maldah bound bus of North Bengal State Transport Corporation packed with over 50 passengers plunged into a canal in Daulatabad in Murshidabad district crashing through the concrete railing of a bridge while running over it in high speed this morning. Till late evening bodies of 36…


Farmers Set Ablaze Boat Of Soil Mafias In Santipur

Santipur:  Farmers in Nadia’s Santipur today set ablaze a motor operated boat and damaged two others loaded with earth   for supply to brick kilns in Kalna in Burdwan by miscreants who were removing earth from a ‘char’ land which they have been using for farming for over two decades since…


Largest National Flag Flown In Phulia

Phulia, Jan. 26: Members of Junior-100 club in Phulia today hoisted an Indian National tricolor on the occasion of 68th Republic Day measuring 121.5ft x 81 ft, which they claimed as the largest Indian flag hoisted so far in the country. The flag, weighs about 65kg was raised by 95…