A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
April 14, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata-Dhaka train service resumes after 43 years
  • India hit by two Maoist attacks
  • Kolkata tops 'fatigue list' in India: Survey
  • Kolkata FM stations find innovative ways to celebrate Poila Baisakh
  • Safe image of West Bengal attracting foreign tourists
  • Early human history dug out in WB
  • Fire-affected flower sellers in Kolkata being rehabilitated
  • The Statesman
  • Customer-friendly service? Not at Central Bank of India
  • Customer-friendly service? Not at Central Bank of India
  • Suicides after family fight over money
  • The Telegraph
  • Nandi out of manifesto
  • Joint team for Haldia job solution
  • Wanted: woman face in blasts
  • Rebel gun for revenge
  • Cadres take over library, school
  • Wheel a cool deal
  • Six block markets eye makeover
  • A question of costs that cost lives, a barrier too weak to save lives
  • What's on in town
  • Tech tools to fight passport forgery
  • Railing at mishap site
  • Art fair after decades
  • Spark & breeze whiff in flower-mart fire
  • Relatives refuse to accept body
  • VIP mishap kills 1
  • First ticket wins tryst with SRK
  • ‘Cripple’ woman with fake passport
  • Mother drowns in attempt to save girl
  • Pedestrian hit by taxi
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Electricity bill tussle leaves garden dry
  • Suicide to escape dowry arrest
  • Lepchas set off on protest pilgrimage
  • Ghani Khan residence gets ready for Sonia visit
  • Girl stabbed for trying to end affair
  • Bonds caught with bullets
  • Hunt for woman linked to blasts
  • Former jawans bank on service experience
  • Demand rises for tenant forms
  • Morcha nod to DM entry
  • Tea gherao for wage cut
  • Cong-CPM clash leaves 10 injured
  • Joint agenda for split units
  • Times of India
  • Train unites hearts across borders
  • School switches off AC to toughen up kids, save power
  • Truck runs over cyclist
  • Body swap ruckus at MR Bangur Hospital
  • Maitree Express tracks history
  • Woman held at airport with fake passport
  • Crude bombs found near rail track
  • Thundershower disrupts flights
  • 6 die in highway accident
  • Lalu's day out in City of Joy
  • Indian Express
  • Link between two Bengals reforged on Poila Baishakh
  • New chip on the block: Tea tourism, luxury resorts amid green estates
  • Relatives on protest, claim body was swapped
  • Poila Baishakh, ushering a new beginning
  • Informer of police shot dead in Hooghly
  • Immigration department of Kolkata airport revamped
  • 12-year-old boy knocked down by bus
  • Dum Dum jail prisoner escapes, manhunt launched
  • State government asks MCI to relax norms
  • Train to Bangladesh reaches at last
  • In panchayat poll manifesto, CPM deletes industrialisation
  • No pulling down UPA govt on price rise: Yechury
  • Karat sets politburo stage, second chance for Subhash
  • Asian Age
  • Left to raise price rise issue
  • Security delay irks passengers
  • Yechury asks Maoists to follow Nepal counterparts
  • Basu lauded for admitting his mistake
  • Two die on first day of Bengali new year
  • Crowds throng hotspots
  • Relatives given wrong body at hospital
  • Governor’s concern
  • Hindustan Times
  • Fire devastates Asia's largest flower market in Kolkata
  • Basu says he has violated party discipline
  • The magnificent Mukherjees
  • India tells China: Will not ban protests by Tibetans
  • Sports
  • Former Olympians discuss future course of action
  • Abhijeet, Sandipan lose
  • Pillay is appointed BHA coach
  • Bengal football set to go the Everton Way