Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The decomposed body of a medical student was recovered from a hostel room at Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday.According to police, the deceased student has been identified as Pulak Haldar, a final-year student of Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College. He was a resident of Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district.Sources said that Pulak was last seen on February 20 when he went …
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Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday, accused the District Magistrate (DM), also known as District Electoral Officer (DEO), of the sensitive India-Bangladesh bordering the Nadia district of West Bengal, of instructing the electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) of the district to indulge in misappropriations in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s …
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The news of the demise of veteran politician and once her virtual second-in-command in Trinamool Congress had left her totally broken, said West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday morning.In her condolence message that she posted on the wall of her social media handle, the Chief Minister also described Roy as her once “comrade-in-arms”.“I am deeply shocked and grieved by the sudden news of the demise of veteran politician M…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, raised questions over the hyperactive action by the Krishnanagar Police in Nadia district of West Bengal against an individual over a social media post involving Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar constituency, Mahua Moitra. The individual, Rishi Bagri, approached the single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta, and accused the police of registering an FIR in the matter hurriedly and subsequently…
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) The construction work for the Babri Mosque at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, masterminded by the maverick and now-suspended Trinamool Congress legislator, Humayun Kabir, will start from Wednesday.The construction work will start today with the recitation of the Quran Sharif later in the day. The exact time of the beginning of the programme is yet to be confirmed by Kabir at the time the report was filed. However, a close associate of Ka…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA Bimalendu Sinha Roy, who allegedly assaulted some students returning home in West Bengal’s Nadia district, leading to students and angry locals staging a protest in front of his house, on Monday denied the charges.The Karimpur MLA also claimed that it was a conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to tarnish his image.The incident took place on Sunday night in Baliadanga village under Murutia police station in Nadia district.According to local s…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has started conducting random RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests among the bats at the Zoological Garden at Alipore in south Kolkata to check whether these animals are carriers of Nipah virus.It was learnt on Saturday that a team from NIMR collected blood and swab samples from the bats at the zoo on Thursday and Friday mornings. The team collected the samples and left at the break of dawn.To trac…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday slammed the BJP and said a change of government is needed at the Centre. The Diamond Harbour MP’s clear message was that it is not Bengal that needs to change, but the ‘landlords’ of Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted the West Bengal government with a new slogan, ‘Change is needed, we need a BJP government’.Abhishek Banerjee used this statement as a ‘weapon’ to launch a counter-attack.Addressing a…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The CBI on Sunday arrested the kingpin of a Rs 4 crore investment fraud in Tripura from Nadia district in West Bengal, an official said.Tapan Pramanik, who was declared a Proclaimed Offender by a Special CBI Court in Tripura on January 16, 2023, was picked up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and produced before a court in Nadia to seek transit remand for taking him to Tripura, the official said in a statement.His arrest followed inputs collected during field …
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scathing attack on Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress on various issues from a public rally in the minority-dominated Malda district on Saturday, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a video song on social media, the main theme of which echoes the Prime Minister’s call for a change of regime in the eastern state, and the beginning of BJP rule after the crucial Assembl…