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Durga Puja Committee Vows To Help Girl To Fight Cancer

NfN NETWORK Ranaghat, July 3: Members of a Durga puja committee in Ranaghat today handed over Rupees 25000 to a girl suffering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer, and also vowed to provide her with more support later during the puja by curtailing expenses so that she could continue…


Homemaker Raped, Blackmailed; Jumped Into Churni

NfN NETWORK Ranaghat, July 3: A 35 year old homemaker from Ranaghat, who was allegedly raped by one of her neighboring youths, today tried to end her life by jumping into Churni from the top of a bridge over the river Churni in Ranaghat being unable to bear the threat…


3 Workers Die In Chapra Septic Tank

NfN NETWORK Chapra, July 2: Three construction workers suffocated to death in an under construction septic tank in Nadia’s Chapra today morning. The bizarre incident occurred at the house of one Ranjit Singh Yadav, a milk supplier, at about 10am when the three workers climbed down into the 15-ft deep…


Fake Dentist Arrested In Chakdaha

NfN NETWORK Chakdaha, July 2: Police today arrested a fake dentist from his chamber in Gorachandtala area of Nadia’s Chakdaha. Accused ‘doctor’ identified as Swapan Sarkar, has been practicing for long claiming to be a ‘Bachelor of Dental Surgery’ (BDS). A resident of Tantla area, Swapan was produced before the…


Birnagar Civic Body Chairman Partha Chatterjee Resigns

NfN NETWORK Ranaghat, June 28: Chairman of Trinamul Congress run Birnagar Municipality Partha Chatterjee has resigned today from his post owing to personal reasons. The former Congress leader who switched over to Trinamul Congress in 2013 today appeared before the Ranaghat sub divisional officer’s chamber and submitted his paper allegedly…


BJP Supports Small State, But Not Gorkhaland:Dilip Ghosh

NfN NETWORK Krishnanagar, June 26:State BJP president today reiterated again that his party principally supports the concept of small state, but not supports the demand of Gorkhaland as separate state. He also made it clear that the state BJP would defend any effort to extract Gorkhaland from the existing structure…


Fake MBBS Doctor Arrested In Bogula

NfN NETWORK Ranaghat, June 27: Police today arrested a fake MBBS doctor from Nadia’s Bogula while he was visiting patients at a clinic attached to a medicine shop claiming to be a skin specialist. Police said that the accused doctor identified as Bapi Nath had been using a fake MBBS…


GJM Imposed A Food Crisis In Darjeeling Hills

NfN NETWORK Ranaghat, June 24: State food and supply minister Jyotipriya Mullick today accused Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (gjm) leader Bimal Gurung of imposing a “food crisis” in the hills of Darjeeling by forcing an indefinite bandh on the people there, which entered 10th day. The Minister alleged that Gurung has…


Sankar And Arindam Join Trinamul Congress

NfN NETWORK Kolkata/Krishnanagar, June 21: As expected senior Congress MLA Sankar Singh today joined Trinamul Congress along with party colleague and first time MLA from Santipur Arindam Bhattacharjee. The duo was handed over Trinamul’s flag by party MP Abhishek Bandopadhyay at a programme held in party head quarter in Calcutta. In…


Mob Fury Erupts In Thanarpara After Police Officer Beats Up Youth

NfN NETWORK Thanarpara, June 20: A violent mob today ransacked residence of a police officer in Nadia’s Thanarpara, torched a police vehicle and two motorbikes after he allegedly beaten up a youth and detained him because his voice interrupted his delayed siesta. The youth happens to be a cement dealer…