A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
August 2, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • CPI(M) leaders suggest reshuffle in Bengal ministry
  • Left concerned over law & order situation in Kolkata
  • Kolkata has highest mobile, PC penetration among students
  • SC to hear plea against HC order for phasing out of Kolkata old vehicles
  • Dacoits loot train on Jharkhand-Bengal border
  • CPI(M) meet on improving West Bengal’s performance
  • CPM leader among 2 killed by Maoists in Lalgarh
  • WBIDC continues to acquire land for industry
  • I didn’t get my film because I’m Bapi’s daughter: Rupali
  • The Telegraph
  • Mamata factory plan on Nano site
  • Bengal lives up to killing fields tag
  • Pacemaker hangs from neck
  • Fist greets peace bid
  • Clean-up drive for property brokers
  • Course in pain relief
  • CMC scheme with eye on poll
  • Upgrade plans for varsity PG courses
  • Garden atop Writers’ car park
  • Hut hurdle on runway extension path
  • Calcutta youths show high designs
  • Back in business the day after
  • Elephant steals a Puja march
  • Vehicle ban cripples services
  • Auto switch runs into bottleneck
  • Rail worker confesses to wife murder
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Cops await drug scam documents
  • Third eye bank in city
  • Couple drugged and robbed at home
  • Garden to open after six years
  • One-year-old and left alone in cinema
  • Cry in party for House debate
  • Councillors plan to stay
  • The Statesman
  • ... But commuters suffer
  • A Quantum Computer For The Future?
  • A separate ghetto for homosexuals?
  • Aquino passes away
  • Bagmati pulls a Kosi in Bihar
  • Bal Apte may emerge as consensus choice for BJP chiefs post
  • CPM slams CM on police inaction
  • Caribbeans collapse
  • Centre should issue directives to Bengal under Art 355: Trinamul
  • Cricket board complaisant
  • Day 1: Sedate start to crackdown...
  • Four states that pollute the air
  • Games IOC plays
  • Gloom and doom
  • Govt nixes bailout, IndiGo relents
  • Hockey team get even
  • Howrah-bound train robbed
  • Humidity will pose problems
  • India gives fresh dossier to Pak
  • Iran rioters on trial
  • Kapugedera clinches it
  • Kohli, Saha fashion Indian victory
  • Maruti sales up despite recession
  • Maya, Cong face-off over Bundelkhand
  • Nirupama Rao takes over as Foreign Secretary
  • Not quite anarchic
  • Oh, the joys of a British seaside!
  • Orion to expand operations to SE Asia, Australia
  • PM holds high-level security meeting
  • Pullout decision upsets state Congress leaders
  • Rain spoils sport
  • Salim pressure over Dankuni land
  • Show how EVMs can be tampered with, EC tells parties
  • Softpro Systems acquires SA firm
  • Taliban uses air waves for warning
  • Two die in attacks on Opp
  • Zardari in a spot after SC verdict
  • Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • Trio's wings clipped as CM rejigs team
  • Manic Monday to test city's mettle
  • Homes without address in swanky satellite township
  • Today's pain will be winter's gain, say green experts
  • Schools to go easy on latecomers
  • Pressure tactics rule the road
  • Eye bank opened
  • A window to lost childhood
  • Programme to pay tribute to Tanvir
  • Nursing homes ransacked after patients' death
  • 85 & still going strong
  • 85 & still going strong
  • Of fun and friendship
  • Tantra the place to have fun!
  • It's all about having fun
  • Indian Express
  • CPM pulls up socks with cabinet reshuffle
  • Mamata hums Singur theme, now as minister
  • 2 die in Katwa clashes, CPM team faces public ire in Natungram
  • State govt denies Central remark on post-poll violence
  • Hindustan Times
  • Cyclone Aila victims face acute drinking water crisis
  • CPI-M leader among two killed by Maoists in Lalgarh
  • Didi's Rakhi gift to women: ladies special train to Palwal
  • Sports
  • Kohli, Saha too hot for SA
  • North 24 Parganas champs