Top Stories

Awareness Drive On Wheat Cultivation Ban

Krishnanagar, Nov. 2: The state government has launched a rigorous awareness campaign among the farmers in Nadia and Murshidabad district so that they do not cultivate wheat in the ensuing wheat farming season beginning from November 15 to avoid spreading of suspected fungus of deadly “wheat blast” disease that damaged…


Girdharpur School: DI Rectified “Mistakes” Of Teachers

Nakashipara, Nov. 1: The Nadia district administration preferred to “rectify” the mistakes the four teachers of Girdharpur High School in Nakashipara which they committed by signing their attendance register in advance while hiring a local tailor to teach the students so that they could spend blissful hours at home without…


Teachers Abstain Classes, Hire Tailor To Teach

Nakashipara, Oct. 31: Some teachers of Giridharpur high school in Nadia’s Nakashipara have hired a Madhyamik passed youth, who runs a tailoring shop, for a monthly contract of Rupees 1500 to take classes on their behalf during their absence. With these arrangements, the teachers have been abstaining school often for…


Kalyani Univ To Felicitate 147 Retired Staff On Its 58th Birthday

Kalyani, Oct. 31: The Kalyani University would felicitate 147 retired teachers and non teaching staff on the occasion of its 58th Foundation day on November 1. The University authorities have invited these teachers and officials tomorrow for a visit to the campus when they will be given a ride inside there…


Verdict On Ranaghat Convent Rape And Dacoity Case On Nov. 7

Kolkata, Oct. 30: The Additional District and Sessions Judge’s court in Kolkata would announce its verdict on the alleged dacoity and gangrape case on November 7 that occurred in Ranaghat’s Convent of Jesus Marry on wee hours of March 14 night in 2015. At least seven miscreants had brutalized a…


MLA Mohua Moitra To Challenge Aadhar In Supreme Court

New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct. 30: A little after the Supreme Court today flayed the Bengal Government for challenging the Narendra Modi Government’s decision to make the Aadhar a mandatory proof for availing benefits of different social welfare schemes, its chief minister Mamata Banerjee bounced back by putting party MLA from Nadia’s…


Woman Riding Pillion Crushed Under Lorry In Krishnanagar

Krishnanagar, Oct. 30: A 43-year-old woman, who was riding the pillion of a motorbike with her husband without helmet, was crushed under wheels of a truck when she fell on the road being hit by it at a crossing during the early hours Monday morning in Nadia’s Krishnanagar. Police said,…


Longest Street Alpona Drawn In Nadia’s Phulia

Phulia, Oct. 29: Residents of Nadia’s Phulia on Sunday morning woke up to a spectacular view as they found that 3km stretch in their locality turned into a canvas of colors with ‘street alpana’ drawn by about 875 artistes and general people responding to a request by a social organization….


Celebrations Begin Again In Nadia With Jagadhatri Puja

The Jagadhatri idol of Krishnanagar Bowbazar Barowari Puja Committee being decorated with the gold made ornaments weighing over 10kg on Friday night. The festivities resumed in Nadia again with the Jagadhatri puja. the maximum number of pujas are held in Krishnanagar, where it is traditionally celebrated for two days –…


Bed Ticket Lost, Patient Died As Treatment Delayed

Kalyani, Oct. 26: Relatives of Situ Swarnakar, a youth from Nadia’s Chakdaha who died at JNM Hospital in Kalyani on Wednesday evening have alleged that the patient could not be administered any medicine by the doctor for about an hour when he was gasping because the attending nurse in the…