Kolkata, Nov. 8: The Eastern Railway authorities would extend the validity of the season tickets expired during lockdown to the extent of days the passengers had lost. The passengers who had unexpired journey days left in their season tickets when the local train services were suspended due to the Covid…
Subrata Ghosh of Santipur takes his bride Dipa on the pillion of a motorcycle to return home on Saturday morning during the bi-weekly state-wide lockdown. Earlier on Friday Dipa traveled about 200 km from her home in Kakdwip (South 24 Parganas) with her parents and a handful of relatives to…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 7: Nadia administration on Friday revoked its decision for a weeklong comprehensive lockdown while announcing only two days’ shut down on August 13 and 14 in some specific areas in the district. The decision for the weeklong lockdown has been modified by the district administration apparently after an…
Krishnanagar, Aug. 5: Concerned over the increasing trend of Covid positive cases in the district, the Nadia district administration on Wednesday has announced imposition of a weeklong comprehensive round-the-clock lockdown from August 8 to 14 in the 8 municipality towns and 25-gram panchayat areas in a bid to contain the…
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…
Krishnagar: Members of the ‘Krishnagar Prayash’, a dog lovers’ association with the support of the police and some like-minded persons have been regularly feeding around two hundred street dogs and homeless persons for about past three months since a day after the nationwide lockdown was announced to prevent an outbreak of the Covid…
June 02: People in Bengal would find it hard to satisfy their appetite with the delicacies of ‘Machh-Bhat’ from January next year, as the fish traders apprehend a major shortage in supply of fish to the dining tables owing to suspension of breeding due to the ongoing lockdown. Since the lockdown has severely affected the…
Kalyani, May 25: A Kalyani based parents’ organization of special children has come up to send medicines for children suffering from different types of mental retardations since their guardians could not procure it in absence of updated prescriptions, apart from financial constraints due to the lockdown for Covid situation. With…
Chakdaha, May 19: In an attempt to compensate the loss of classes suspended owing to the nationwide lockdown for the Covid situation, the Chakdaha block administration in Nadia has launched an ‘ePathshala’, a cable channel based regular classes for students of state board reading in from class VII to X. For about…
Krishnagar, May 16: At least four special trains carrying migrant laborers trapped in different places across the country due to lockdown are expected to arrive in Krishnagar in a phase-wise manner beginning from Monday next week. The Nadia administration has decided to offer them a grand reception to make the…