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Fear Of Snakes Confines Villagers Inside Home After Sunset In Chakdaha

Chakdaha, Sept. 18: Around five hundred families in Mosra-Nabapally village of Nadia’s Chakdaha have stopped accessing outside of their homes for over a month once sun sets in the afternoon, due to fear bite of Kalas snake (Common Krait). With the visibility of venomous snakes, like Kalas, has increased alarmingly…


End Of Game For Jhulan’s Parents

Chakdaha, Sept. 24 Jharna Goswami of Nadia’s Chakdah, would probably no more be interested to watch cricket from Sunday. Her key attraction to the game apparently comes to an end with her daughter’s retirement on Saturday. However, she would be happy to see her daughter with flying colors as a…


2 Cousins Drown In Hooghly During Post Death Rituals Of Grandfather

Chakdaha, Nov. 13: Two cousins in their early twenties drowned while taking holy dips in the river Hooghly after performing a ritual in connection with demise of their grandfather in Nadia’s Chakdah on Saturday morning. Divers engaged by the district administration traced out body of one of the girls, identified…


Primary School Building Dismantled Due To Erosion

Chakdaha, Aug. 6:  The Nadia administration began dismantling a primary school so as to save the building materials like bricks, steel bars as well as door and window frames before jaws of erosion embrace the two-storied structure since the river Hooghly is now flowing very close to it eroding the…


Row Over Felling Attempt Of Tree By School Inside Campus

Chakdaha, June 13: A school authority in Nadia’s Chakdaha compelled to stop felling of at least three trees, aged about 50 years, located inside the school campus in the wake of protest by local people and nature-care activists in social media following some pictures and videos of cut-off branches went…


BJP Worker Killed In Chakdaha After Election

Chakdaha: A BJP worker was allegedly killed by miscreants with suspected Trinamul link in Nadia’s Chakdah during the wee hours of Sunday morning, barely within 10 hours polls were held in the area. Dilip Kirtaniya (38), a booth level party worker and a carpenter by profession, was found dead at…


Cloud Over Nadia Food Processing Unit Following Extortion Threat

Chakdah, Jan. 3: Two Kolkata based young women entrepreneurs setting up an export-oriented food processing and preservation unit on a 49 bigha land adjacent to NH12 in Nadia’s Chakdah have been forced to suspend work due to a threat by a group miscreant for their unsatisfied extortion attempt. The company…


‘Caste Bias’ Denies Rehabilitation To Erosion Victims In Chakdaha

Chakdaha, Aug. 29: At least 16 families of ‘Dom’ community in Gournagar area of Nadia’s Chakdaha who either lost their home due to erosion of the Hooghly river bank or facing the threat were denied rehabilitation on government land by the local panchayat authorities because of opposition by a section…


Robbers Block Chakdah-Kalyani Road, Loot Traders

Chakdah, June 29: Armed miscreants with their faces covered by mask blocked Chakdah-Kalyani state highway in the Ishwaripur area with a branch of a tree and looted cash, camera, and gold ornaments worth over Rs.20 lakh from businessmen and farmers when they were heading to different markets on separate vehicles…


Abducted Baby Recovered From Shimurali, Father Held

Chakdah, June 16: The 13-month-old breastfeeding baby who was allegedly abducted by his father was rescued by police with the help of villagers in the Shimurali-Manashapota area of Chakdah on Monday evening. Local sources said the recovery of the baby became possible when Sourav Sharma, a resident of Kanthalpuli-Nimtala in Chakdah…