Santipur, Dec, 17: In what could be termed as a sheer embarrassment, police on Thursday apparently compelled to seize over a dozen trucks overloaded with stone chips while plying over the NH12 due only after BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar intercepted some of them. The MP alleged that the police and…
Ranaghat, Dec. 5: CID on Saturday filed a supplementary charge sheet against BJP National secretary Mukul Roy before ACJM Ranaghat accusing him as a conspirator in the Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas murder case. The Krishnaganj MLA was shot dead near his home on February 9 last year when he was…
Kalyani, Aug. 10: The Nadia district administration has ordered a probe into an alleged incident of negligence and the apathy on the part of a doctor to treat a gasping patient at a dedicated Covid hospital in Nadia’s Kalyani, who eventually died on Saturday night. Some patients and staff of…
Mohanpur, Sept. 28: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) authorities have asked the Vice-Chancellor of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) to stop the salary of six employees recruited early this month for the four Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVK) accusing him of lack of “transparency” in their recruitment process. These…
Santipur, June 23: On Sunday morning, a Trinamul youth leader was found hanging at Santipur in Nadia. Some party sources suggested he may have committed suicide following demands to refund “cut money”. The deceased leader was accused of taking money with fake job promises. A section of party insiders in…
Santipur, June 20: On the day chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked party councilors to refund the cut money, which many of them taken from beneficiaries of government schemes, a decorator worker in Nadia’s Santipur has lodged a police complaint against a lady councilor of local civic body and her party…
Krishnanagar, April 24: Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of donating money to influence voters. Her jibe at Modi apparently indicated that the BJP has been giving money to buy votes which it managed by converting black money into white through demonetization. Accusing the…
Krishnanagar, Feb. 18: A joint team of Nadia Police and CID have arrested Abhijit Pundari (26), prime accused in Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas’s murder case from South Eastern Railway’s Radhamohanpur station near Debra in West Midnapur district on Monday morning. A special team of eight cops, who were closely following…
Hanshkhali, Feb. 11: Police have so far quizzed 12 local residents of Phulbari Mazidpur village in Nadia’s Hanshkhali, who were present when Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas was gunned down by unidentified assailants on Saturday night during a cultural programme on the occasion of Saraswati puja. However, the interrogation failed to…
Santipur, Aug. 14: Angry local residents beaten up over two dozens of milkmen at Santipur railway station in Nadia on Tuesday morning accusing them of adulterating milk using chemical with which they regularly make curdle and supply to numerous confectioners in the city market. The locals turned violent as they…