Ranaghat, Sept. 12: Nadia district administration organized a quiz competition in Ranaghat for students on ‘Duare Sarkar’ initiative, to make the young generations and common people aware of the beneficial schemes and other facilities offered by the state government at their doorstep. The quiz competition, which the Nadia administration claimed…
Santipur, Sept. 2: Irate residents of Govindapur in Nadia’s Santipur blocked NH12 near a railway crossing for about one hour to protest the shocking condition of the road, while accusing the authorities of negligence in maintaining the road. The villagers alleged that a stretch of about 200 metres of NH12…
Ranaghat, Aug. 29: A Bihar-based gang entered the Senco Gold’s showroom located on Mission Road in disguise of customers and decamped with cash and jewelry worth about Rupees ten crore in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon. However, some brave police officers chased the gang and exchanged fire before they managed…
Santipur, July 27: A young poet from Nadia’s Santipur was allegedly manhandled by a group of Trinamul Congress activists on Tuesday night apparently for authoring a poem and for posting it to social media that has politically criticized the Bengal government for “atrocities” and “lawlessness” in the state. Kallol Sarkar,…
Ranaghat, June 25: An elderly BJP activist was allegedly killed in Nadia’s Dhantala during a clash between the two rival groups of a club with allegiance to Trinamul Congress and BJP on Saturday night. Local residents claimed that the victim Narottam Bagchi, 62, father-in-law of a lady BJP candidate of…
Krisjnaganj, April 25: Three construction workers died apparently of while trying to remove wooden planks from the newly constructed concrete walls of a septic tank in Nadia’s Bhimpur on Tuesday afternoon. The bizarre incident occurred at the residence of one Dipak Biswas, in the Natunpara area of Bhimpur. One laborer…
Krishnanagar, March 27: A farmer couple from a backward Hindu community in Nadia’s Palashipara, have been allegedly slapped with a ‘fine’ of Rupees ten lakhs and ostracized by a self-appointed so-called village committee as ‘punishment’ because their daughter eloped to marry a Muslim youth that apparently caused “shame” and sheer…
Krishnaganj, Feb. 23: Kitab Sing, 60, a BSF Inspector attached to the 54-Battalion and posted in Nadia’s Tungi’s border outpost was arrested on Wednesday night allegedly for raping a 34-year-old lady constable. The alleged rape occurred on the night of February 18 (Saturday). The accused officer had summoned the on-duty…
Gede/Kolkata, Feb 21: An Inspector attached to the BSF’s 54-Battalion deployed in Nadia’s Krishnaganj has been accused of raping an on-duty lady constable outside a border outpost in Tungi village close to Indo-Bangladesh on Saturday night. This is the first occasion a lady personnel has been raped by her superior…
Ranaghat, Feb. 18: Police have arrested two youths with three country-made revolvers and 15 rounds of live ammunition when they were trying to flee ignoring an ‘anti-crime’ naka checking by police on the Ranaghat-Dhantala road in Nadia during the early hours of Saturday morning. A team from Dhantala police station…