A man suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was admitted in the Raiganj district hospital in North Dinajpur district today. The patient has been identified as Alik Das, 25, a resident of Shikarpur village under the Karandighi police station area in North Dinajpur, and he returned from …
A man suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was admitted in the Raiganj district hospital in North Dinajpur district today. The patient has been identified as Alik Das, 25, a resident of Shikarpur village under the Karandighi police station area in North Dinajpur, and he returned from …
Raiganj, Nov. 2: The North Dinajpur district administration has ordered mandatory blood tests for all migrant workers returning from Mumbai to stem the spread of malignant malaria. The disease has killed four persons and affected 22 others in six gram panchayats in the district. Of the 22 patients, eight were …
Raiganj, Feb. 13: Ten thousand quintals of potato worth over Rs 1. 5 crore have rotted in a private cold storage, forcing the owner of the facility to dump half the stock along the highway at Panisala near here yesterday.
As Chhattisgarh advances to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron, this special report in Down To Earth finds out what affect this fast-paced industrialisation will have on the state and its people. To know more click on the following URL: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/1862 See Also Letter: MoEF …
KOLKATA, 18 AUG: The state government's decision to identify certain districts as drought-hit has raised a howl of protest even within the Cabinet, with Mr Srikumar Mukherjee, the minister from CPI, pointing out that the state was making its decisions based on average rainfall received by a district instead of …
The police barracks in Karnajora, Raiganj, whose roof was blown away and walls flattened by the storm. Picture by Nantu Dey Raiganj, April 15: Inadequate relief in the storm-ravaged belt of north Bengal has forced desperate villagers to barge into a panchayat office and carry away tarpaulin sheets. The villagers …
One of the balloons that will glide at an altitude of 35km with equipment to capture images of the eclipse on July 22 A city based research institute is planning to use balloons to study the total solar eclipse on July 22. Scientists at the Indian Centre for Space Physics …
Raiganj, July 15: The nesting birds in the Kulik sanctuary are facing shortage of food because of lack of rainfall. Like other years, a large number of open-bill storks, cormorants and herons have set up rookeries for breeding with the advent of the monsoon. But for the past one month, …
The Union cabinet today approved an AIIMS-like hospital for Bengal, with 960 beds and 39 speciality and super-speciality clinics, that will come up on the banks of the Kulik river in Raiganj. The institute will be the first in the state to carry the
A 33KV power substation under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme has been scrapped because of the inability of the North Dinajpur administration to acquire land for the purpose. District magistrate Sukumar Bhattacharyya said the project, whose foundation stone was laid in January this year, had been shifted from Gadahat, …
Raiganj: The North Dinajpur district health administration has been put on alert following the out break of malignant malaria in Raiganj, Karandighi and Goalpokhar blocks and the death of one person from the mosquito-borne parasite. Doctors are also concerned about the 2,000 infants suffering from fever in the three blocks. …
The papad factory owned by Sudhir Agarwala at Soharoi near Raiganj. (Nantu Dey) Raiganj, July 17: At least 80 entrepreneurs who had invested crores of rupees to set up small and medium scale industrial units in Raiganj are facing double blows. First, the investors could not start production even two …
