Nadia District News

Kalyani University Offers Fellowship For Research Works On Filmmaker Satyajit Ray

Kalyani, Feb. 20: Kalyani University authorities on Wednesday evening announced a fellowship dedicated after filmmaker Satyajit Ray.  Vice-chancellor professor Sankar Kumar Ghosh while speaking at the concluding day of a symposium Satyajit Ray announced this.  University authority claimed that this would be the first fellowship programme in memory of the…


Choumaha Will Always Remember Tapas Paul As Actor, Not The Politician

Choumaha, Feb. 18: Residents of Choumaha village in Nadia’s Nakashipasra will always remember actor Tapas Pal, but not the politician, who served them as two times MP. The residents in the village which changed the life of Tapas Pal for his infamous June 2014 ‘rape and kill’ speech mourned the…



Controversy Over State Govt’s Order To KU VC To Reinstate Registrar

Kalyani, Feb. 15: The state higher education department on Friday has directed the Kalyani University vice-chancellor Professor Sankar Ghosh to reinstate Registrar Debansu Roy whom he sent on ‘leave’ in the wake of an inquiry initiated on disciplinary issues. In a communication issued by the special secretary of the department’s…


Nadia Youth In Coronavirus Affected Quarantined Cruise At Yokohama

Ranaghat, Feb. 8: A British luxury cruise that has been quarantined at Yokohama port in Japan after 63 of its passengers were detected carrying coronavirus has a crew member from Nadia’s Ranaghat. While Tapas Das, one of the 1100 crew of Princess Diamond has been counting days to return home…


Nadia Teacher Gets UK Government’s ‘Points Of Light’ Award

Krishnanagar, Jan. 30: Sanju Pal, 37, a lady management consultant from London, who is a non-resident Indian having her ancestral home in Nadia’s Dhubulia, has been conferred with the “Points of Light” awards by the British Government as recognition of her innovative education charity, RISE (Rural India School Enterprise) that aims…