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East Burdwan

Deer antlers recovered

Disguised as customers, the forest officials recovered hefty deer antlers and arrested five traffickers from a village in East Burdwan today.

British firm helps setting up spice unit for women

A British firm, celebrating International Women's Day, in collaboration with the state, has extended cooperation to set up a spice processing unit to help sustenance of around 750 women in Ausgram-II of East Burdwan.

DM likens Mamata is Devi Durga, BJP objects

The DM of East Burdwan landed into a controversy after she compared the chief minister Mamata Banerjee with Devi Durga during the inauguration of the state government's Srishtishree Fair, this afternoon.

DM likens Mamata is Devi Durga, BJP objects

In 2003, the BJP's mentor organization, RSS incidentally had hailed Mamata Banerjee as Bengal's Durga, after she'd visited the Nagpur headquarters of the organization seeking the Sangh Parivar's support in her struggle against the then ruling Communist brigade in Bengal.

Manpower shortage forces minister without X-ray

The medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr Debashis Bala, said, “After our respective physician suggested for an X-ray, the minister expressed his desire to get the imaging done at our hospital itself, but this wasn't possible as we don't have adequate strength of technicians to run the department after 2pm everyday.”

Burdwan tries its luck in producing `3L-per-kg mango variety

Burdwan known as Bengal's rice bowl is set to go for cultivation of Miyazaki variety of world's costliest mango and the zilla parishad already has allocated land and funds for the purpose. Miazaki was sold at Rs 3 lakh per kg in Birbhum