A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
August 21, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal tries to revive shelved Nayachar project
  • Central forces to cover more areas near Lalgarh
  • Trinamool wins by-elections in WB
  • West Bengal received fresh consignment of swine flu drug
  • Bengal CM no friends with his second-in-command
  • EIH stops Flight Kitchen project in Kolkata for now
  • A Fighting Chance - India's Muslim girls box their way out poverty
  • Kolkata bottle manufacturer eyes overseas acquisition
  • I'll be last person to privatise Indian Railways: Mamata
  • Profile Mamata as anti-communist hero: former min tells Brown
  • Habitat and food mark out tigers in Sunderbans
  • Mamata Banerjee rewards intellectuals in West Bengal
  • Siliguri railway bridge collapses due to heavy rains
  • My meeting with Jaitley holds no political significance:Dasgupta
  • Who's afraid of democracy?
  • The Telegraph
  • Trinamul soars in city, riding ‘wave’
  • Doormat no slur for this housewife
  • Mamata slips into Buddha’s shoes
  • Handful then, bagful now
  • ‘Massive’ offensive against Maoists
  • GenX puts its converse foot forward
  • JEE long list opens door to mediocrity
  • Building ban on Victoria grounds
  • Violation begins at police HQ
  • Scan on college clashes
  • Duo held on rape charge
  • Job scam accused arrested in Delhi
  • Police meet tease victims
  • Lynch hint in death of theft suspect
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Isro classes on sky tea watch
  • 4000 bear landslide brunt
  • Morcha confines BDO, shuts office
  • CPM salvo at Spit Sir symbol miss
  • The Statesman
  • 26/11: FBI files case in USA
  • A Broken Heart Really Does
  • Afghan vote turnout low
  • Andal, the day after
  • Arktouros wins
  • At Unescos door
  • BJP panel highlights reasons for poll failure
  • BJP-Jaswant discord not new
  • BSP founders mission: Save the Ambedkar Mission, get rid of Maya
  • Bharti, MTN extend talk period
  • Borrowing limit of states hiked
  • CP, SFI ransack college
  • CU changes pattern of college exams
  • CU changes pattern of college level exams
  • Campaign heats up for Prince dance group
  • Cash reward for stolen marmosets
  • Cell phone now also a lab
  • Chhou dance admits women
  • Cong gears up for Sikkim
  • Controversial book flying off the shelves
  • Cyber criminals
  • Debate over refugee rights
  • EBM in a fix over garbage disposal
  • Final day, but no final nod on GJMM-BJP alliance
  • For better NREGS performance
  • Four-year-old, two others H1N1 positive
  • Four-year-old, two others test H1N1 positive
  • Funds crunch for model schools
  • Governors nominee a fraud
  • Haldia Ports closing in the offing?
  • Help at hand for Indians in distress
  • IPS help for future techies from minority community
  • ITC to market SHG products
  • Inflation up, still in negative zone
  • Inquiry ordered into govt officials acting as polling agents
  • Iraq detains 11 senior officers after carnage
  • Its advantage Australia
  • Jamaica take sprinters out of relay
  • Jaswant dumped
  • Jaswant questions decision
  • Joint forces to stay
  • Kiwis save follow-on
  • Krishnapur back with the Reds
  • LF finds twist in rail awards tale
  • LF smells lobby in rail awards list
  • Landslides claim five in Hills
  • Lightning kills four, injures 16
  • MR DAS AND MR BEACHCROFTS STRICTURES
  • MSP up after drought
  • Maoists step up attacks in Lalgarh, ramgarh, Joint forces to stay
  • Maruti bullish on A-Star exports
  • Media: Still serving people with zeal
  • Mercedes-Benz to increase India R&D staff
  • Metro extension to come at a cost
  • Minority Muslim students demand hostels
  • Monsoon showing revival signs
  • Murali record
  • NELP a flop show, says ADAG
  • New generation, old agenda
  • No magical cure possible
  • No place for Rapunzels
  • Obamas approval ratings slips
  • PHE sees arsenic-free Bengal by March 2011
  • PMs I-Day speech hardly inspiring, feels CPM
  • Patil prime accused in Nimbalkar murder: CBI
  • Pawar should consider NCP-Cong merger, says Digvijay Singh
  • People must bear with price rise: Sikkim govt
  • Politicians have failed people, says Jena
  • Promoting Bengal
  • Rain brings woes in its wake
  • Raje likely to meet Advani, Rajnath
  • Reeve shortlisted
  • SMC polls: Opp still confused
  • School bus catches fire, 20 hurt
  • Security tightened in coastal areas
  • Senior Delhi cricketers playing hookey
  • Shop handicraft products online
  • Sikh cop loses racial discrimination case
  • State studies Delhis plan, turns a new leaf on education
  • Students sponsored
  • TCS,IT wiz quiz begins 4 Sept
  • Telugu daily upsets Chiranjeevi
  • There are many Irans 
  • To check the unpredictable...
  • Tribes of Terai
  • United stunned by Burnley
  • Varieties of Untruth
  • Vijender becomes world number two
  • When Syrians
  • Women dance to the tunes of Chhou
  • CIA hired Blackwater to take out Qaida leaders
  • Considered read
  • Curfew in Shopian against Omars proposed visit
  • Govt not bothered about farmers
  • I too want to play my age
  • Jaswants expulsion will not impact the party
  • Times of India
  • Young minds spread road safety message in colour
  • Mime wizard's final act
  • Duo rapes woman after job lure
  • Mamata business bash bowls over Bengal Inc
  • Simple steps can prevent e-fraud: Specialist
  • Finance companies can seize cars from loan defaulters: HC
  • School bans magic shows after strip row
  • No new structure at Victoria: HC
  • Trinamool wins city bypolls
  • Meet on shortage of taxis
  • It’s fusion all the way
  • It’s fusion all the way
  • Concert of Samidh and Rishi in Kolkata
  • Souvik’s poems impress all
  • Anniversary celebrations in Kolkata
  • Indian Express
  • Lalgarh Mancha asks state to withdraw forces
  • Fed up with student clashes, teachers put their pens down
  • After monkey theft, Alipore Zoo considers overhaul plan
  • High Court pushes stop button on new construction at Victoria
  • Failed KMC schemes make Kolkata sit on garbage heap
  • Intellectuals come out in support of PTTI students
  • Cab service meets red tape speed breakers
  • Old horse Saha owes it to people
  • H1N1 Don’t panic, RAISE ALERT
  • Loans delayed, taxi owners threaten indefinite bandh
  • Trinamool marches on, victors see Indira in didi
  • Hindustan Times
  • Lalgarh again, Maoists clash with police
  • Sports
  • Reeve on Kolkata Knight Riders coaching shortlist
  • Ganguly set to occupy centrestage in CAB
  • Deep consolidates lead
  • Lebanon Captain Impressed With Bhaichung Bhutia