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Lockdown Impact: Boom In Indo-Bangla Border Smuggling

Krishnagar, Aug. 2: Border Security Force authorities have expressed serious concern over the increasing trend of migrant workers who lost their jobs due to lockdown are in turn getting involved with the smuggling rackets in the districts located along the Indo-Bangladesh border. Since April the BSF authorities in the South…


Bengal BJP To Build Up Statewide Database Of Migrant Workers

Krishnanagar, June 14: The Bengal BJP would soon begin to develop a databank of migrant workers in the state to streamline their trade imparting necessary training so that they can be offered suitable jobs or financial assistance to launch entrepreneurship. The endeavor of the saffron party is being viewed as…


Mosque Turned Into A Common Quarantine Centre For All Communities

Kaliganj, June 6: While the migrant workers advised home quarantine being compelled to share their one-room residences with the other family members increasing the possibility of covid outbreak, residents of Bhaga village in Nadia’s Kaliganj, which include Muslim and Hindus have launched community quarantine centre at a mosque and adjacent…


Shramik Speical Train Carrying Migrant Laborers Arrived In Krishnanagar

Krishnanagar, May 18: A Shramik Special train carrying 1123 stranded migrant labouers and tourists from Uttarakhand’s Haridwar arrived in Krishnagar junction railway station on Monday evening amidst tight security arrangement. The train had 1188 enlisted passengers, but some of them eventually did not boarded the train. The train left Haridwar…


2 Migrant Laborers Tested Covid Positive In Tehatta

Tehatta, May 17: Two migrant laborers recently returned home in different areas under the Tehatta subdivision were tested Covid positive on Sunday night. Both the laborers were taken to Kalyani based SNR Carnival hospital, the only dedicated Covid care hospital in Nadia district. With the inclusion of two new patients,…


Nadia WBCS Officer Turns Good Samaritan For Trapped Migrant Labours

Krishnagar, May 15: A WBCS (Executive) officer posted in Nadia has so far spent over Rs.65000 to help the migrant laborers from Nadia who are stranded in different parts of the country due to nationwide lockdown for Covid situation. Manish Verma, a 2001 batch officer, who originally hails from Juanpur…


2 Migrant Labours Found Covid Positive, Total Cases Spiked Up To 15

Krishnagar, May 14: Two migrant laborers recently returned from Maharashtra were tested Covid positive in the Baidyapur area of Gangnapur police station on Thursday morning. The new confirmed Covid cases also include a nurse having her residence in the Gayeshpure who is attached to Barrackpore based hospital. With the detection…


Nadia Admin Sent Migrant Weavers Back Home

Phulia, April 29: The first batch of such 150 migrant weavers got the opportunity to return home when the District administration arranged six buses of South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) which left Phulia for Tufanganj and Coochbehar at  4 pm in presence of local Trinamul MLA Arindam Bhattacharya.   Prior…


3 Nabadweep Labourers Suffocate To Death In Septic Tank

Nabadweep, July 28: Three construction workers died apparently in suffocation in Nabadweep town today morning when they entered into a newly built septic tank through a manhole to remove the shuttering from inside over which the top cover of the tank was cement casted. Police with the help of fire…


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…