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

News Headlines Archive

October 04, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal to vest 270 acres of JSW land at Salboni
  • Wipro keen to take part in Kolkata beautification drive
  • Crocodile kills tiger in Sunderbans' island
  • Bengal sheds its dilemma over ode to Tagore
  • Trinamool MLAs busy with social events, give political work a miss
    • Times of India
  • Revellers soak in Mahasaptami spirit
  • Apartments spare a thought for the deprived
  • Method brought in traffic madness
  • Parikrama brings smiles to little faces
  • City Pujas not so 'green': Study
  • Mob ransacks RPF booth at Baruipur station
  • Six-year-old girl to be godess
  • Metro Railway answers Durga Puja revellers' prayers
  • Mamata fails to turn up at Gandhi Jayanti function
  • How green is your Durga Puja? PCB is watching
  • Truck kills three, mob attacks policemen
  • Landmines found in Salboni
  • Didi plans 25 high-end hospitals in districts
  • Dhaks replace war drums in Red zone
  • Makeover mishti to sweeten this Durga Puja
  • Panchami blast rocks city, 1 dead
  • State restarts Jangalmahal ops against Maoists
  • Airfares skyrocket with Durga Puja home rush
  • Chile envoy to salvage state agri
  • Snag hits Metro on Panchami day
  • CM move to snap red tape tangle
  • Mischievous SMS leaves Mamata worried
  • Fire breaks out at cotton mill
  • Help cops ensure safe Puja: CP
  • Organizers defy KMC ban on giant wheels
  • Visit the Goddess with 18 arms at Shreesangha
  • Treat for children of a lesser god
  • Dig into the best of Bengali culinary delights this festive season
  • Bank customers concerned over Durga Puja holidays
  • Police seize cache of arms, arrest six
  • Train services disrupted for 48 hours, passengers ransack station
  • State pumps in State to spend 18 cr on studio revamp
  • Salt Lake robbery cases cracked
  • Woman's chain snatched
  • Bank loan racket busted, four held
  • Probe into blocked salary
  • Safer journey: Ground radar commissioned at city airport
  • Med college staff assault expert team
  • GRSE launches three ships
  • Marks breather for Plus-II students soon
  • Buddha relics to be in Bhutan for a month
  • Puja Frenzy Sweeps City Early
  • Away from home, but true to Puja spirit
  • D-Day countdown starts at barir pujos
  • Midnight blaze in 8th-floor office
  • World Heart Day celebrated in Kolkata
  • St Xavier's students to keep a date with US varsities
  • CID asked to probe Nandigram cases
  • High court rejects ex-minister's bail petition
  • Maoist suspect dies, kin informed after two days
    • The Telegraph
  • Through your lens, lovingly
  • Spirit salute in craft and care
  • Fervour and festivity
  • Ticketless travel leads to ransack
  • Two dead in accidents
  • The return of the eternal goddess
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Festive feet jive to Ra.One rap
  • The sword of Lalgarh
  • Didi inspires all-ladies puja
  • The father of all omissions
  • Sharing space alongside army choppers
  • Quake gloom washed away
  • Uphill chug with goddess for company
  • Air service break till Oct 31
  • Fabric stitched in divine form
  • 1 killed in jumbo raid
    • Indian Express
  • Christians sore at proposed Didi Bill for minority schools
  • Mamata, Mamata everywhere
  • Puja, politics and people
  • New energy policy after Pujas: Min
  • Toll in firecracker godown explosion reaches two
  • Terai tea planters send ultimatum, say hike wages or face indefinite embargo
  • Move to recognise madrasas finds few takers
  • Rhino attacks photographer in N Bengal forest
  • Citys new Green ride
  • Gopals Ramayana, Since 1970
    • Hindustan Times
  • Maoists promise to restrict use of arms
  • CPM back to basics in Lalgarh
  • Pranab off to ancestral home to perform Durga Puja
  • Explosion in a cracker factory kills one in north Kolkata
  • First in decades: Bengal ministers plunge into pujas
  • Maoists promise to restrict use of arms
  • Leaders missing, CPM fills up Lalgarh posts
  • Pranab off to ancestral home to perform Durga Puja
  • Passengers stranded, as minister flags off new trains in Howrah
  • Explosion in a cracker factory kills one in north Kolkata
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line