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Ranaghat Artiste Pays Tribute To Somnath Chatterjee

Ranaghat, Aug. 13: Sujit Mandal, a young artiste paid tributes to the departed former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee by drawing portraits in Ranaghat on Monday morning. Sujit, who runs an art school in the town, had drawn five sketches of Chatterjee’s different moods as speaker which also mark his…


Ranaghat Residents Demand Motorable Underpass, Blocked Trains

Ranghat, Aug. 4: Train services were disrupted for about three hours in Sealdah-Krishnanagar section under Sealdah North division of Eastern Railway during the peak hours of Saturday morning when a section of residents of Ranaghat backed by Trinamul Congress blocked railway tracks near Ranaghat station demanding an mtorable underpass connecting…


Mamata Slams Gouri Over His Sordid Functioning, Son’s Role

Kolkata, July 28: Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today slammed a number of party MLAs from Nadia district including party’s district unit president Gourishankar Dutta about their role and functioning in party affairs and asked them to work unitedly leaving personal differences so that the party could retain both Ranaghat…


Young Homemaker Killed At Home

Ranaghat, July 2: A 20-year-old woman was found murdered at her home on Monday evening in Nadia’s Pairadanga. Police said, deceased Sushmita Sarkar, who left her in-law’s house in Sheoraphuli six months ago and was living at her paternal home, was killed by a grab hoe. Police said, the deceased…


Train Rams Into Guard Wall As Mentally Unstable Man Enters Driver’s Cabin

Ranaghat, June 24: At least six passengers were injured when a Ranaghat bound Bongaon local hit the guard wall at the terminal platform in Ranaghat  as a mentally unstable person took a forced entry inside the motorman’s cabin distracting his attention and tried to push him out on Sunday morning….


Elderly Ration Dealer Donates 2-Bigha Land For Orphanage, Old Age Home

Ranaghat, June 22: A 73 year old ration dealer in Nadia’s Ranaghat has donated 2-bigha land to a social welfare organisation that has constructed an orphanage and an old age home  respecting his wish. Santosh Das, a resident of Shyamnagar village, who is known in the area as a ‘good…



BJP Leaders Defy Order, Display Arms In Ram Navami Rally

Ranaghat/Krishnanagar, March 25:The Ram Navami literally turned to be a major festival as the event was celebrated on Sunday on a large scale across the district and in the state as a whole courtesy Sangh Parivar and the ruling Trinamul Congress, which took on road chanting ‘Jay Sri Ram’ slogans out…


Lady Head Teacher Flees Rs.5Lakh From School Kitty

Dhubulia, March 12: Nadia police have started a case against a young headmistress of a private nursery school as she allegedly fled with an amount of Rupees 5lakh which the school management given her to meet necessary expenses for shifting of school from Dhubulia to Krishnanagar. Dhubulia police started an…


Student Died During Train Selfie Stunt

Ranaghat, Feb. 28: Raj Bhakta, a student of class XII at Purnanagar high school in Dhantala, died this afternoon while taking a selfie using his mobile phone with a fast approaching train on his background. Raj who stepped on railway tracks died on the spot as a Ranaghat bound train…