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33rd Nadia District Book Fair Begins In Krishnanagar

Krishnanagar, Dec. 22: The 33rd Nadia District Book Fair began on Friday at the Krishnanagar public library ground. The 9day’s fair was inaugurated by academy award wining author Sudhir Chakraborty. This year 81 publishing houses of international and natural repute have taken part in the fair. The fair has been organized…


Nadia Gets Its 22nd Police Station In Palashipara

Krishnanagar, Dec. 20: A new police station would soon be set up in Nadia’s Palashipara . The new police station would be created bifurcating existing Tehatta police station, which was spanned over 519 square kilometers and comprising of 18 gram panchayat bodies under Tehatta-II block. The newly formed Palashipara police…


Elderly Woman Gang Raped; Police Refused to Take Complaint

Krishnanagar, Dec. 18: A 50 year old woman from Nadia’s Krishnanagar, has alleged that the police refused to register her complaint despite she was gang raped by three youths on December 15 night and forced her to sign on complaint written by them only to accuse the youths of abusing…


Surjakanta Calls For Resistance Against Trinamul Terror

Tehatta, Dec. 16: Bengal CPI (M) chief Surjakanta Mishra today called the party men to be prepared enough to resist looting of votes by the ruling Trinamul Congress at any cost in the ensuing panchayat elections. Speaking at a public meeting at Tehatta high school ground on Saturday after that…


Teachers, Clerks Illegally Enjoying Retainership For Folk Artistes

Krishnanagar, Dec. 13:  Nadia strict administration have started scanning the credentials of income certificates of the folk artists enjoying monthly retainership paid by the state government under ‘Lok Prasar Prakalpa’ after it found that over about one hundred school teachers and government employees have been enjoying the benefit illegally suppressing…


Walk To Rebuild Cultural Bond Between Hooghly And Thames

Krishnanagar, Dec. 9: A  group of contemporary artistes, authors and historians from Bengal and London walked in a rally today in a bid to rediscover the cultural relationship between Kolkata and London that developed over the years along the bank of river Hooghly and Thames. The walk which is part…


Mustard Cultivation Near Indo-Bangla Border Faces BSF Objection

Krishnanagar, Dec. 8: The farmers live close to Indo-Bangladesh border areas in Nadia and Murshidabad district who were advised to cultivate mustard by state government as an alternative to wheat, are encountered with serious objections from the Border Security Force. The state government in August declared ‘wheat holiday’ in these two…


Acid Burn Victim’s Family Appeals Mamata To Ensure Security

Dhantala, Nov.7: A farmer from Nadia’s Dhantala has made an appeal to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Director General of Police and Nadia’s police Superintendent requesting them to arrest a person, accused of fatally injuring his wife by throwing acid along with his father, as the Dhantala police did never bother…


High Court Directs MEA, Police To Rescue Girl From Bangladesh

Nov. 29: The Calcutta High Court today asked the Ministry of External Affairs to submit a report about the steps it has taken so far to locate and to repatriate a 19 year college going girl from Nadia’s Tehatta who has been allegedly abducted and kept captive in Bangladesh. Justice Debangsu…


Iskcon’s Gita Jayanti Festival Begins In Mayapur

Mayapur, Nov. 28: The 3-day long Gita Jayanti festival organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) begins at its main hub in Mayapur this evening. The festival aims to promote the understanding of “Bhagawad Gita” among all sections of the society. The Iskcon aims to expand the knowledge…