A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.

News Headlines Archive

July 26, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Nation must accept Netaji's death: Biographer
  • Mamata Banerjee government to set up a committee to prevent black marketing
  • West Bengal government trespassing on Singur land: Tata Motors
  • Kanoria Jute Mills to reopen after five years
  • Trinamool Congress eye Congress alliance in Tripura to oust Left Front
  • Eight trekkers from Bengal cremated
  • CSIR to introduce electric rickshaws in Kolkata
  • Ram Gopal Varma couldn't do what I did: Riingo
  • Missing in action
  • Zee Bangla to jazz up your evenings
    • Times of India
  • Bengal roses for Europe's V-Day
  • Catering staff thrash Gitanjali passengers
  • Rs99cr for Sunderbans power
  • Govt's populist stance faces 'power' hurdle
  • Implementation of Singur Act illegal: Pal
  • Weather, fuel hike hurdle for hilsa
  • Phone tap probe makes no progress
  • State honours nine with Banga-Vibhushan
  • Woman molested on Metro
  • Visva-Bharati VC bares all to PM
  • KMC lens on errant parking staff
  • Murthy agrees to be IT panel mentor
  • Top-level shuffle in police posts
  • State govt raps transport bodies
  • Fraudster poses as Buddha daughter
  • Focus on curbing tax evasion
  • One-way traffic rule limits tram network further
  • Man poses as IPS officer, arrested
  • High court directs school to promote Class-V student
  • Alipore zoo upgrade far from over
  • Major funds crisis hits KMC
  • Madan, cops force college to bend rules
  • Biotechnology course to stop exodus of students
  • Spurt of crime in North 24 Parganas
  • Teachers ready to take transfers
  • Bus rams into stalls, 1 dead
  • Homoeopathy hospital proposed
  • Jumbos feared hurt in leadership fight
  • Youth with terror link held in Malda
  • Student held on fraud charge
  • Advocate held for forgery
  • An evening to remember
  • Social media for medical science
  • Skeleton case: Former minister's aide arrested
  • Govt to abolish old norms, put brakes on errant buses
  • State may have CNG, battery-run vehicles soon
  • Two factories gutted in Howrah
  • Mamata names award after Mahanayak
  • Girl at cop door to stop wedding
  • Restoration bid for Sister Nivedita's house faces hurdle
  • Gang shoots to flee after robbery at car showroom
  • Beliaghata on the edge over gang war
  • Real-time adjustments to decongest city traffic
  • Bracelet of Tripura queen recovered
  • Taxpayer's pain, defaulter's gain
  • A first: Air taxi service to steel towns from August
  • Salt Lake civic body shows its green thumb
  • CMO secy: Mamata adheres to rule book
  • Teen's timely action prevents derailment
  • Long wait for corneas a thing of the past
  • Bekti finds new competitor in basa
  • Railway tracks face cave-in threat
  • State to vest unused industrial land
  • CM bid to ally fears over GTA area
  • Penalty for medical students dropping out midway
  • Sundarbans have only 90 tigers
  • Govt trespassed on Singur land: Tatas
  • Unions in turf war at airport
  • Inquiry ordered into adoption norm flouting
  • Police arrest 13-member robber gang
  • Mishra hits out at Mamata, calls Bengal politics 'plutocracy'
  • Two injured in Canning clash
  • Congress-Trinamool alliance breaks in Malda
  • 5-year-old found dead after tiff with neighbour
  • City votes for hawker eviction
  • State govt removes Alipore zoo director
  • State to submit night train report
  • New Market limps back to normal, but shops still powerless
  • 'Freight corridor land not a problem'
  • Doctors perform beating heart surgery
  • KMC cleans up Maidan, but Brigade loses grass cover
  • Trinamool govt to form union
  • Ambulance caught in rally traffic
  • Modernization plan gathers dust
  • Nandigram boycotts Brigade meet
  • 'Had it not rained it would've required 3 Brigades'
  • Martyrs' kin moved by warm welcome
  • Tollywood steals Brigade show
  • Stars light up Trinamool rally
  • Celebrations in Hills, GJM promises growth
  • Choke-tale of rally and rain
  • New Market a fire trap for its rooftop dwellers
  • Funds plea at power show
  • Seven-year old boy drowns in roadside ditch
  • 'Impostor' attempts suicide in custody
  • Drug-and-loot accused arrested at airport
  • Suicide: Parents and IIT want probe, students tight-lipped
  • Be happy with what you have: Mamata
  • Heavy rains inundate many areas in Kolkata, traffic hit
  • Sister Nivedita's house in Kolkata may be acquired for conservation
  • Leopard attacks 11 in fierce fight at Indian village
  • Heritage hurt, livelihoods lost in fire at New Market
  • Bengal health varsity V-C shunted out in two days
  • State nod for over 8,500 posts
  • 'Depressed' IIT student kills self
  • Jobs largesse despite fund crunch
  • Dry fish can give you cancer
  • No land yet for Rs 6,000cr SINP project
    • The Telegraph
  • Height & hi-tech pill for Presi
  • Court orders promotion of failed student
  • Battle for life, in and outside killer bus
  • HS results eye Class XI marks
  • CAT race against the clock
  • CU launches courses with research hubs
  • Bose and Basu team crack cancer puzzle
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Right person for right post
  • East-West too slow for 2014 deadline
  • Canada eyes Bengal pie
  • Pantry staff held for train assault
  • States e-tax signal to Centre
  • Jalsaghar authors letters surface
  • Fake Maoists arrested
  • Coal theft crackdown hurts school meal
  • Leander, Farhan made TMC Yuva guides
  • Takeover bad in law: Tatas
  • Tea supply threkat with rehearsal
  • Govt mum on fast for state
  • Rural boys keep Sikkim soccer legacy intact
  • Another leader leaves Congress
  • Year-old unit yet to open
  • Doc MLA sermon for pharma agents
  • Deal done, now growth survey
  • Kalimpong taps dry for two days
  • Jobs for wild attack victim kin
  • National TT meet in Siliguri
    • Indian Express
  • Hoardings on way out from Dalhousie
  • Its official, Yechury for RS
  • Trinamool gangs attacking farmers, says Biman Bose
  • On Tatas plea for amended Singur petition, govt told to reply by July...
  • At Writers, targets and change are the new buzzwords
  • No marks, report cards at Presidency
  • First batch of 46 political prisoners ready for release: CM
  • Archieji, Bettydidi and Tintinbhai
  • Beehives along rail tracks to prevent jumbo deaths
  • In new panel season, intellectuals refuse Mamata job offers
  • Dooars tribals to knock Centres door over Hill territorial survey
    • Hindustan Times
  • Bengal gets advisory on perfume bombs
  • IIMs to change question pattern of CAT exams
  • Farhan Akhtar, Paes turn Trinamool advisors
  • Bengal toes soft line on Maoists
  • 132 Pakistanis have vanished
  • Bengal toes soft line on Maoists
  • Left govt gave land to Netai probe officers
  • Didi's nephew to give party youth edge
  • Gorkhaland occupies centre stage at GTA clebrations
  • GJM to switch to celebration mode
    • Sports
  • Goswami hogs the limelight
  • Football World Cup Qualifier: UAE 3 - India 0
  • Red cards were not justified, says dejected Colaco