Two youths drown during picnic
Two youths drowned in separate incidents in Burdwan and Durgapur on New Year’s Day, Thursday.
Two youths drowned in separate incidents in Burdwan and Durgapur on New Year’s Day, Thursday.
To combat the recurring problem of contractors supplying substandard materials for road construction in panchayat areas, the East Burdwan Zilla Parishad today introduced a new facility termed a civil laboratory to enable on-the-spot scrutiny of construction ingredients.
The body of a missing tribal girl was fished out of an irrigation canal in Memari near here on Tuesday morning.
A pioneering initiative has been launched at Ikrah Free Primary School in Jamuria, West Burdwan district, where the first-ever smart classroom in a state government-run primary school has been inaugurated.
Yet another structure of Mohantasthal — a monastery dating back to the Raj era — caved in this morning in Burdwan town.
Sixteen migrant labourers from Ketugram in Burdwan were detained by the Odisha government over suspicions of their Bangladeshi origin and placed in a detention camp.
A girl student was found hanging from the window grill of the toilet of a rented accommodation in Burdwan town this afternoon she was staying in.
Two students, scolded by their mothers for wasting time over mobile phones, felt insulted and committed suicide by hanging at their respective homes in East Burdwan today.
A Burdwan fast track court, after four days of conviction, pronounced judgment against the chairperson, Burdwan Development Authority and 12 of her political colleagues today, pushing the convicted persons behind bars.
A hospital kitchen staffer received an illegal digital arrest warrant and he lodged a complaint with the cyber police station in Burdwan on Sunday.
