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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…


Father Abducts Breastfeeding Son To Settle Score With Wife

Chakdah, June 14: A migrant labour from Nadia’s Chakdah has allegedly abducted his 13-months old breastfeeding baby apparently to settle a score with his wife with whom he is having a conjugal differences. The mother of the baby has lodged a police complaint against her husband seeking help to trace…


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…


7 Nadia Migrant Workers Injured In Balasore Bus Accident

Kolkata/Krishnanagar, May 30: 7 migrant workers from Nadia were injured when a bus carrying 28 of them had overturned and fallen into a ditch in Naugaon village of Balasore in Odisha while travelling on NH16 during the early hours of Saturday morning. Early information received by the state administration claimed…


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,…


Trains Carrying Migrant Labours To Arrive In Krishnanagar From Monday

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…


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…