Tag: Hooghly

Kolkata: Bandel Church, eastern India’s oldest church built 418 years back, has chosen to promote caring for mother earth as its Christmas theme this year, while a newly-erected 20-feet mural of “The Last Supper” would be an added attraction for the thousands of visitors who visit the Marian shrine in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. A […]

Hooghly: A 20-year-old woman suffered injuries when miscreants threw acid at her in Hooghly district, a senior police officer said today. Sovan Malik, a resident of Ramchandrapur village in Singur was cycling to her home after getting down from a train at Biara station when the miscreants who were on motorcycles follwed her threw acid […]

Kolkata: A 27-year-old youth in West Bengal’s Hooghly district stabbed his family members, killing his grandmother, and then reportedly went live on Facebook after the heinous crime, police said on Monday. “Indranil Roy, a resident of Keota Shibtala, attacked his family members on Sunday night. His grandmother Arati Roy, 80, succumbed to the injuries. We […]

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: A powerful cyclone Amphan that tore into West Bengal has killed 72 people and completely devastated two districts as Kolkata and several parts of the state wore a battered look on Thursday a day after the storm left thousands of people homeless, washed away bridges and swamped low-lying areas. The fiercest cyclone to hit […]