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Excitement of Kartik duel grips Burdwan

Two civic towns of East Burdwan, Katwa and Dainhat gears up for Kartik Lorai (duel) with all devotion and excitement as these are remnants of two key religious and cultural events over centuries here.

Katwa’s golden fibre brings dazzles with good trade

Katwa, an ancient riverside trade and commerce hub of Bengal has dazzled, securing the topmost trading of the golden fibre in India by the ever-toiling Bengal farmers, which has surpassed the previous records, officials claimed.

Bhagirathi erosion poses threat to nearby rail tracks

Three years ago, the irrigation department and the zilla parishad together had planted caged boulder stone blocks to create an artificial wall along the riverbank but Amphan destabilised that wall this year. House of one Suraj Sheikh is located barely 200 metres away from the river now.