Krishnanagar, Oct. 8: A 28-year-old man was arrested today by Nadia police for allegedly beating his mother to death on Saturday night in Tehatta following an altercation with her. Bijoy Roy, a resident of Jitpur who is a farm hand by profession, was arrested on the basis of a complaint…
Ranaghat, Oct. 7: Unable to bear the shock of his mother’s death, a 14 year’s boy today ended his life by jumping in front of a running train near Ranaghat railway station in Nadia. Deceased boy, identified as Soumen Biswas (alias Riku), a student of class eight Hijuli Sikshaniketan School,…
Chakdaha, Oct. 6: The cyber crime cell of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today nabbed three members of an inter-state ATM card fraud racket from Nadia’s Chakdaha while they were approaching toward Kolkata on Maruti Brezza. A team of plain clothed sleuths of CID and Nadia police intercepted the car being…
Ranaghat, Oct. 3: Police have arrested three youths and recovered Rupees 43lakhs along with two revolvers barely within an hour they snatched from an employee of corporate cash pick up firm in Nadia’s today afternoon. The police, however, yet to trace out two other miscreants who snatched a bag containing…
Ranaghat, October 3: Three motorbike riders, all without helmets, were killed and two of their friends were injured in two separate accidents occurred on NH-34 and Ranaghat-Duttapulia road in Nadia last night. The first accident occurred around 9am at Duttapulia more, when two youth riding a bike were approaching towards…
Ranaghat, Oct.2: 10 community puja committees today took part in the ‘Puja Carnival’ organised by the Ranaghat Municipality as a small edition of the road show of Durga idols introduced by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee in last year that held on Red Road in Kolkata. Copying the concept, the…
Muragacha (Nadia), Sept. 30: A simple gesture by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar made permanent impression of gratitude among the members of Bhattacharyya family in Bahirgachi village of Nadia’s Muragacha. The family members remained indebted to this great social reformer of Bengal as around 160 years ago he rescued the family from…
Ranaghat, Sept. 30: The members of Sharma Chaudhury family of Sharma Para in Ranaghat still ‘beg’ from their neighbors to organize Durga Puja at their home as their forefather done it many years ago. Even though it is now done in a symbolic way, but family members do it not…
Thanarpara, Sept. 30: Gold and silver jewelries worth over Rupees 7 lakhs were stolen early this morning from the Durga idol of the 353 years old Puja organized at the house of the descendants of a zamindar family in Dhoradaha village of Thanarpara. This is the first time in over three…
Krishnanagar, Sept. 29: Police have arrested a young railway gateman allegedly for setting her girlfriend on fire after he came to know that the girl’s father has negotiated her marriage elsewhere. The girl was critically burnt and died late on Thursday night in Saktinagar district hospital, where in a dying…