A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
December 20, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Over 20,000 chicken culled in West Bengal
  • Along the Banks of a River, the India of Old
  • Operators fail miserably on QoS delivery in Kolkata and WB
  • Dance therapy for Kolkata jail inmates
  • Silt has left the Hooghly shallow. Haldia port faces closure
  • Manmohan Singh honours long-time friend Amartya Sen
  • The Telegraph
  • Pal lost on birthday
  • Bangla man with fake notes in net
  • Farmers deny land claim
  • Ash burden shuts power plant
  • Maidan meeting flouts high court ban
  • Blonde Durga in skirt
  • Man who led Maradona
  • Draupadi lives on, solo
  • Seven types of Calcutta
  • New Year clock magic
  • Rebel icon, river art
  • A step towards expansion
  • Fitness focus for special volunteers
  • Shutdown woes strike hotels
  • Civic call to reach people
  • All eyes on Kulik bird haven
  • The Statesman
  • A murder for gain...
  • Centre leaves state to fend for itself
  • Congress keeps Krishnagar
  • Cops nab Gaya gang for Burtolla robbery
  • Girls school gets help from abroad
  • IB alerts Bengal on HUJI-KLO threat
  • NGO workshop to help poor children succeed
  • Runaway prisoner
  • State left to fend for itself
  • Sudip joins Trinamul
  • Violence
  • Widow seeks justice for dead son
  • Wife, sons burn man to death
  • Woman found dead
  • Woman demands justice
  • Times of India
  • NRI buyers accuse Kolkata realtor of breaking promises
  • Rally leaves Maidan in a mess
  • Roads choked, Kolkata held hostage
  • Perfect beginning to the festive season
  • Watch tower at Howrah
  • Third Front a difficult ask: Buddha
  • Police destroy poppy plants
  • CBI unearths library scam after museum raid
  • Fog forces fliers to take bus to Gaya
  • Brain behind fake note racket held
  • Indian Express
  • Bangla national held with fake Indian currency
  • B’day trip claims lives of 3 friends
  • Top cop gives glimpse of new security plan
  • Fund scam: CBI raids Indian Museum again
  • Maoists are cowards, devils: CM
  • Mamata at Basumati: Left has double standards on industrialisation
  • Hindustan Times
  • Over 20,000 chicken culled in Malda district
  • Pritam Chakraborty - Interview
  • Nandana Sen flies across skyscrapers on motorbike!
  • Sports
  • Bose puts Bengal in driver’s seat
  • Bhutia to miss final
  • Kore holds Ganguly