A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
April 28, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • Bandh ride: 18 km in a rickshaw
  • Learning to live with hawkers
  • People of Kolkata doubt utility of strikes
  • Kolkata Metro services offer respite on bandh day
  • Big response to strike call: Left parties
  • Bengal Congmen prove they are not Trinamool
  • A rescue centre for rogue elephants
  • Dissidence surfaces over Congress-Trinamool tie-up
  • Intention was not to pull the govt down : CPI(M)
  • Left Front-led strike inhuman, unethical: Mamata Banerjee
  • CPM vs CPM: industry down, bandh up
  • KoPT brass on the move, revival suffers
  • 'The Japanese wife' Raima Sen looks forward to 'Mirch'
  • The Telegraph
  • Left throws in the towel on Trinamul turf
  • Politics focus, not civic score
  • Stolen coal cart crushes boy
  • NSG told to get land on its own
  • Mamata list, 25 for Cong
  • Twin faces of foul fume fight
  • Puff ban penalty set for May debut
  • Housefull hits a copyright chord
  • Hospital faces closure notice
  • Blackouts rob city of heat relief
  • Security alert across town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Two held for flight antics
  • City teens head for US science fair
  • Want a driving licence? Get into the back seat, watch the driver & pass the test
  • Madhyamik in exam shift
  • Bolly back in business, all shows blazing
  • Seat of power turns garbage dump
  • 2 workers dead, Malda kilns flout HC order
  • Governor misinformed on storm
  • Remove SDO cry in Left hub
  • Statehood strife & sloth steamroll sports dreams
  • Garden SOS to forest to drive away wild animals
  • 3 years on, Idol sings to hill tune
  • Left changes election tack
  • Cong-Trinamul pact eludes 5 of 7 civic bodies
  • Times of India
  • Fliers show porn clips to woman, held
  • Kolkata next on IM terror radar?
  • Boy bags Nasa prize again
  • Emission rules bent for Ambassador taxis
  • Trouble erupts at city school
  • Postal agent held for duping client of Rs 6.6 lakh
  • Hartal puts work in fast lane
  • Overflowing garbage? Stinks like bandh spirit
  • Maitree halted, Metro on tracks
  • Tech town beats bandh brigade
  • Indian Express
  • 15 flat owners allowed to return
  • Short of hands, CBI says states not sending their quota of officers
  • CMRI gets ultimatum, told to treat bio-medical wastes within a month
  • In jail for 5 yrs, suspected Maoist gets bail
  • Teachers demand action against ‘corrupt’ official
  • Trinamool announces KMC list, leaves crumbs for Congress
  • For Maoists willing to give up guns, Bengal has little to offer
  • Maoists kill another CPM worker
  • Trinamool picks Rizwanur Rehman’s brother as candidate for KMC polls
  • Hindustan Times
  • Strike hits life in West Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh
  • CPM gets own force to fight Naxals
  • I-T dept serves questionnaires to KR Sports, Gameplan
  • Three Naxals arrested by security forces
  • TC asks its MPs to be present to oppose Oppn cut motion
  • Sports
  • Al Nejmeh beats East Bengal by 4-0
  • Double for Anushree
  • Mohun Bagan to face Dempo heat
  • East Bengal hit rock bottom