Mohanpur, March 23: Around four hundred students of Garden High School-IISER and their parents blocked the main entrance of the IISER-Kolkata campus in Mohanpur on Tuesday morning protesting its alleged inaction to settle the issue of the school’s affiliation that put the students in uncertainty. The agitating students and their…
Krishnanagar, March 11: In a friendly gesture the BSF authorities handed over two minor Bangladeshi boys to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), as they were caught after allegedly sneaking into the Indian Territory apparently to collect wheat bran. BSF authorities said that the two boys, both aged 12, and residents of…
Kalyani, Jan. 25: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kalyani is set to commence operations from January 27, when it is slated to begin its outpatient department (OPD) with “limited services” to a “restricted number of patients” at its premises in Basantpur located on the outskirts of…
Krishnanagar, Jan. 16: The much awaited anti Covid vaccination drive begun across the country on Saturday nearly a year after the disease was first reported in Kerala. The vaccination in Nadia begun along with the other parts of the country with the formal announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who…
Kalyani, Jan. 13: Nirmalya Ghosh, a professor in the department of physical science at IISER Kolkata who is also attached to its Center of Excellence in Space Sciences, has been named the 2021 recipient of the prestigious G.G Stokes Award in optical polarization by SPIE, the international society of optics…
Gangnapur, Jan. 7: Asim K. Duttaroy, an Indian medical scientist, who originally hails from Nadia’s Gangnapur, has been invited by the Nobel committee to nominate his choice for this year’s prestigious award in the field of Physiology or in Medicine. This is for the fifth time Duttaroy, presently attached to…
Chakdah, Jan. 3: Two Kolkata based young women entrepreneurs setting up an export-oriented food processing and preservation unit on a 49 bigha land adjacent to NH12 in Nadia’s Chakdah have been forced to suspend work due to a threat by a group miscreant for their unsatisfied extortion attempt. The company…
Chakdah, Jan. 4: The right palm of a BJP activist was chopped off by a group of miscreants under mysterious circumstances in the Shimurali area of Nadia’s Chakdah on Saturday night. The incident prompted the BJP leadership to accuse the Trinamul Congress of its suspected link even though the family…
Ranaghat, Dec. 5: CID on Saturday filed a supplementary charge sheet against BJP National secretary Mukul Roy before ACJM Ranaghat accusing him as a conspirator in the Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas murder case. The Krishnaganj MLA was shot dead near his home on February 9 last year when he was…
Kolkata, Nov. 8: The Eastern Railway authorities would extend the validity of the season tickets expired during lockdown to the extent of days the passengers had lost. The passengers who had unexpired journey days left in their season tickets when the local train services were suspended due to the Covid…