Santipur, Nov. 16: A thick cover of water hyacinth infested over a stretch of about 2-square kilometre stretch of a canal of Ganga under Baghanchra panchayat in Nadia’s Santipur has made at least four village almost inaccessible. Water hyacinth is an invasive fast growing aquatic weed that surfaces on water bodies and form…
Ranaghat, Nov. 15: People in Ranaghat today celebrated Bengal’s victory over Odhisa on Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Rasogolla. Members of Nadia Swadhinata Dibas Udjapan Committee with the support of Ranaghat Municipality today distributed more than 2000 rosogollas among people in the town. Pedestrians and others got sweet surprises when…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 13: Father of a newborn today lodged a complaint with Krishnanagar police claiming that the male baby that her wife delivered at a nursing home on Sunday afternoon was exchanged with a female baby by the nursing home authorities a little after he was born. Baban Garai, a…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 13: A weaver from Nadia’s Phulia has been making a 3.85-km long sari, claimed to be the longest one in the world, which he would dedicate to the Nation on the ensuing English New Year’s Day as a mark of his tribute to the Motherland. National award winning…
Bethuadahari, Nov. 11: BJP National secretary and Bengal minder Kailash Vijaybargiya today said that if the Bengal government has enough documents to prove Mukul Roy wrong on what he alleged about the ownership of ‘Biswa-Bangla’, it should then challenge him before court. Yesterday during his first public appearance as a…
Kalyani, Nov. 8: A woman, who was detected having ovarian cancer with a giant tumor during her pregnancy, gave birth to a healthy baby girl at the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital and College of Medicine in Kalyani amidst a great pleasure among the doctors and nurses. Anuradha Sarkar (29), a resident…
Kolkata, Nov. 8: A court in Kolkata today ordered life imprisonment for Nazrul Islam, a Bangladeshi national, for remaining period of his life for raping an elderly nun during a robbery in Ranaghat’s Convent of Jesus and Mary School on the night of october 13.
Kolkatga, Nov. 7: An additional district session judges court in Kolkata today pronounced one of the six Bangladeshi accused guilty of raping an elderly nun and five others for dacoity in Ranaghat convent rape and robbery case that occurred on the intervening night of March 13 and 14, 2015. The…
Kalyani, Nov. 6: A sheer negligence of its own to appoint a professor as a full time Director and four other permanent staff as asked by UGC compelled the Kalyani University authority to discontinue its distance learning courses from the ensuing academic session making the future uncertain for about 11000…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 5: Senior BJP leader and union minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha today said that joining of former Trinamul leader Mukul Roy to the party would not make any division in the Bengal BJP. The Ghazipur MP, who is one of the BJP leaders entrusted the job…