Chakdah, Dec. 5: Police on Wednesday arrested seven members of an Uttar Pradesh based cannabis supply racket wearing army uniform apparently while they were waiting to deliver the consignment in Raninagar area of Chakdah town on Tuesday night. The cops have seized 26kg of cannabis; two sets walkie talkie often…
Khardah, Dec. 3: Body of a six months old female child got entangled to the cow-catcher of the engine of a Lalgola bound EMU train and could be recovered around 54km away in Ranaghat after it hit her and her father while he was crossing railway tracks near Khardah railway…
Santipur, Nov. 29: Death toll in the Santipur hooch tragedy increased to 12 since 2 more persons died at the District hospital in Krishnagar on Thursday morning. The medical team which has camped in the tragedy stricken Nrisinhapur village has found 13 more persons writhing in pain at a brick…
Santipur, Nov. 28: At least ten persons including a woman died and about twenty others fell ill as they had consumed suspected spurious liquor in Nrisinhapur Choudhury para area of Nadia’s Santipur since the early hours of Wednesday morning. Three persons died at Kalna sub divisional hospital, two at Santipur…
Karimpur, Nov. 27: Narayan Jha (46), a construction labour from Baliadanga-Thakurpar area of Nadia’s Murutia died as he was run over by a speeding train at Salem railway station in Tamil Nadu under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased labourer was going to Tirur in Kerala where he was…
Ranaghat, Nov. 26: A class eleven girl aged 17, from Nadia’s Ranaghat was allegedly molested and beaten up by three youths on Saturday night on her way back home from private tuition as she had protested against their sleazy remarks and indecent proposals. The girl, daughter of a hawker, was…
Hanshkali, Nov. 25: Police have arrested a sub agent of a Delhi based overseas labour supplying agency from Nadia’s Hanshkhali on Sunday for forgery and breach of trust after 13 Indian labourers which include 8 from Hanskhali were arrested by Tanzanian police for entering the country without visa and on…
Krishnanagar, Nov. 1: Over hundreds fish-eating birds of different species are regularly trapped and killed being entangled in nets laid over ponds and wetlands by the fishermen to protect fish in several places in Nadia regularly. While farmers claimed that they are compelled to use the net to protect the…
Krishnagar, Oct. 26: The Nadia District Primary School Council has scripted an audio drama and advised all the 2643 primary schools in the district to perform it to create awareness among parents to resist them to build pressure on their children to match their expectations. The council thinks that it…
Krishnanagar, Oct. 26: Veteran journalist and author Narugopal Ghosh (83) has passed away on Friday afternoon at Saktingar district hospital in Krishnanagar. Born on June 1, 1935, the elderly author and former CPI leader, was suffering from sodium deficiency apart from old age ailments. He was admitted to the hospital…