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Bangladeshi Boy Rescued In Santipur

Santipur, April 20: Police have rescued a 13 year old Bangladeshi boy from Kalnaghat area of Santipur town late on Thursday night.   Police sources said that the boy who has identified himself as Mohammed Ashiq, son of Mohammed Saiful, a resident of Kamalpur in Dhaka, was handed over to “Child Line”,…


‘Killfie’ Craze: Motorcyclist Dies While Filming Ride Video

Santipur, March 17: Craze for an ambitious picture while riding a motorcycle claimed life of a second year polytechnic student in Nadia’s Santipur on Friday evening. Subhranil De (19), a mechanical engineering student at Hooghly’s Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology   (SMIT), died on Guptipara ghat road as he lost control…


Motorbike Theft Racket Busted In Santipur

Santipur, March 12: Police busted a two wheeler theft racket and recovered over 2 motorcycles and arrested three of its kingpins from Nadia’s Santipur on Sunday night. The sleuths got to know about the racket after the arrested youths failed to produce relevant documents of the two motorbikes they were…


Farmers Set Ablaze Boat Of Soil Mafias In Santipur

Santipur:  Farmers in Nadia’s Santipur today set ablaze a motor operated boat and damaged two others loaded with earth   for supply to brick kilns in Kalna in Burdwan by miscreants who were removing earth from a ‘char’ land which they have been using for farming for over two decades since…


Initiative By Santipur Police To Protect Vagrants From Cold

Santipur, Jan. 14: Policemen attached to Santipur police station with support of some local youths have launched a noble initiative  to protect the mentally unstable vagrants from the chilling spell of cold. While icy winds walloped most areas in the state intensifying the prevailing cold conditions dropping the mercury level as low as around…


Kalyani Medical College Student Walks To Save Birds

Kalyani: A final year MBBS students of Kalyani College of Medicine today celebrated the New Year’s Day by walking 48km from Kalyani to Santipur distributing seeds of plants among people and requesting them to plant trees to save birds and the environment. Humbly avoiding an offer by his classmates to join…


Coin Impact! Bakeries Reduced Productions, Took Private Orders More

Ranaghat, Dec.25: A good number of small and medium bakeries in Nadia this Christmas have taken more private orders for cake from local residents taking the raw materials from them instead of making bulk quantity for retail sail as they could not procure raw materials as per their requirement due…


Hyacinth Stalls Life, Development In Char Panpara

Santipur, Nov. 16:  A thick cover of water hyacinth infested over a stretch of about 2-square kilometre stretch of a canal of Ganga under Baghanchra panchayat in Nadia’s Santipur has made at least four village almost inaccessible. Water hyacinth is an invasive fast growing aquatic weed that surfaces on water bodies and form…


Trader Arrested In Santipur For Stocking Banned Fire Crackers

Santipur, Oct. 15: Police have seized a huge cache of banned fire crackers from a shot and arrested the trader selling it illegally. The trader, identified as Dilip Biswas (40), a resident of Baigachipara in Santipur was arrested after police recovered about 50kgs of banned crackers stocked in his shop…


3 Bikers Without Helmet Died In 2 Separate Accidents

Ranaghat, October 3: Three motorbike riders, all without helmets, were killed and two of their friends were injured in two separate accidents occurred on NH-34 and Ranaghat-Duttapulia road in Nadia last night. The first accident occurred around 9am at Duttapulia more, when two youth riding a bike were approaching towards…