Santipur, April 10: 36 crew of a private vessel management company were denied to land at the Guptipara ghat in Santipur since the local villagers have forced them to remain confined on board on the Hooghly river without food and water for past nine days fearing that they could spread…
Santipur, April 5: Ajoy Dey, Chairman of Manjusha, a unit of West Bengal Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited has urged Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for granting compensatory financial assistance for the 6.5 lakh weavers in the state who have been struggling for survival due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown announced…
Santipur, March 27: Five school teachers and their family from Nadia’s Santipur town have left stranded in Rewalsar in Himachal Pradesh since the centre has announced Nationwide lockdown in its endeavor to fight the Covid 19. The Himachal Pradesh police stopped their vehicle when they were returning to Shimla from…
Santipur, Jan. 14: Santanu Mahato (34), alias Gana, a Trinamul worker was allegedly hacked to death by suspected party actiarindam vists of a rival group in the Burrabazar area of Nadia’s Santipur on Tuesday afternoon. Police sources said that the miscreants had also shot the deceased from close range first…
Santipur, Dec. 17: Panic gripped the residents of Gayeshpur-Hijuli village in Nadia’s Santipur on Tuesday morning when the local residents noticed a suspicious object fitted with a battery and a blinking light lying in a mango orchard. The object sent local residents into a tizzy as they thought it as…
Santipur, Oct. 31: At least four langurs were found dead and few others in dying condition in an orchard in Nadia’s Santipur on Thursday morning. The incident prompted the forest officials to conduct an autopsy to determine the reason behind the mysterious death. The carcasses were taken to a laboratory…
Santipur, Oct. 26: Family members of the two youths from Nadia’s Santipur, who were killed in a bus crash near the Muslim holy city of Medina last week, have appealed to the state government for help to bring their bodies back home. The family members of Mongal Ahammed Karikar (26)…
Santipur, Sept. 6: In a noble gesture Biswajit Roy, a contractual non-teaching staff of Santipur college has donated a wheelchair to the college authority for its specially able students to mark the 10th birthday of his daughter Bitasta on Friday. A resident of College Para, Biswajit, handed over the wheelchair…
Santipur, Aug. 13: Two friends from Nadia’s Santipur responding to a facebook post have reconstructed a dilapidated residence of an eighty-five-year-old woman and rehabilitated her there on Sunday. For ailing Saraswati Guin of Santipur Rajputpara, it was sort of ‘Griha Prabesh’ as she entered her new looking home holding hands…
Santipur, July 28: Nearly a dozen expectant mothers were allegedly asked to pose for photographs before a nutritious platter before being asked to leave with a packet of ‘Dim-Bhat’ (Egg-Rice) during an awareness programme on nutrition for mothers and children organised by the West Bengal Government at an ICDS centre…