There is a popular joke about apples in the district of Murshidabad. A middle-aged father asked his ailing son whether he was gaining in strength each time the latter finished a slice of apple offered to him during his recovery from fever.
The much-anticipated Murshidabad Heritage Festival 2025 commenced on 7 February with great enthusiasm, drawing a diverse group of delegates who arrived by train and bus.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to visit Malda on 21 January, following a public distribution programme in Berhampore, Murshidabad, on 20 January.
A woman severed her sleeping husband's genitals amidst growing marital tensions in the Pecherpara area within Domkal police station limits in Murshidabad on Saturday night, sending shockwaves through the community.
These 17 urban local bodies in the state are, Asansol, Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum, Burdwan, Siliguri, jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, West Midnapore, Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia, Hooghly, East Midnapore etc.
“Polls were overall peaceful and Covid protocols were completely enforced. There were 742 preventive arrests of which 11 arrests were in connection to violation of section 144. While 57 bombs were recovered though there were no incidents of bombing. A total of 1146 complaints were lodged in this phase,” said CEO Ariz Aftab at a press con ference today.
Abdul Momin Mondal, Mondal, who was arrested on Sunday by NIA, was found to have links with the nine al-Qaeda terrorists, who were arrested in September.
In such a cataclysmic situation, many distraught families in a state of utter helplessness, are likely to marry off their minor daughters, the 'perceived burden', just as a 'survival mechanism', as 'poverty is a known driver of child marriages'. For many families, it may be a way of reducing the number of children to support or paying a lesser amount of dowry and doing it during the period of containment, is a means to make the affair less expensive and concealed.
The strong wind with an estimated speed of 90 kmph continued circling over the Burdwan (East) blocks of Memari, Monteswar, Kalna – 1 till 11:45 pm last night also caused extensive damage to the residential quarters razing 254 houses to ground and leaving partial damage to 1564 residential houses.
“During the lockdown period we have delivered about 2750 numbers of ‘Mylab’ Covid -19 test kits ( each containing 100 individual testing capacity) from Pune to hospitals, R&D centres, laboratories in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, MP, Telangana, TN, Delhi, Karnataka. We also handled diplomatic consignments of MEA,” she added.
