A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
Februrary 27, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • China's Sinosteel to begin work on India plant in April
  • Left MPs from West Bengal protest ‘neglect’
  • Gorkha Morcha leaders to meet Buddhadeb today
  • Kidney racket busted in Kolkata
  • Husain work fetches $1.1mn at Kolkata art auction
  • Movie on Kolkata's streetman in Oscars
  • Silent tears for Kolkata boy missing at Black Sea
  • Hill situation turning alarming: Bengal CM
  • All change into buses please
  • The Statesman
  • 7th Natya Mela from 2 March
  • AROUND TOWN
  • Asok flays GJM, Ghisingh meets state brass 
  • Baruipur land
  • Changing the pace of life
  • Gates hopeful India closing N-deal
  • IIM-C fee hiked to Rs 3 lakh
  • Interrogation yields murder details
  • Kanchrapara killing: 6 held
  • Mahasveta condemns police tactics
  • Mamata slams rly Budget
  • Maoists protest against Somens arrest
  • Mother and daughter murdered in Howrah
  • Not kidding around
  • Rabindra professor dies
  • Six arrested
  • Somens arrest to hurt Maoist plan
  • Tardiness still bothers railway passengers
  • Air India flights
  • Another hurdle for NRS haematology course
  • BPL list to be redrafted
  • CM wants East-West Metro mention in Union Budget
  • HC acquits 4 of murder charge
  • HIV infection after transfusion alleged
  • Injured examinee skips test
  • Mamata shoots off a misplaced objection
  • Maoists breathing down citys neck
  • New CU admit cards to beat impersonation
  • Primary teachers prefer old ways to learning kits
  • Promoter killed: Cops still grope in the dark
  • Rally to support fuel conservation
  • Staff crunch, apathy cripple urban renewal projects
  • Students given de-worming tablets
  • Talk of theTown
  • The Telegraph
  • Robbers cornered on train
  • Potato riot for storage space
  • Morcha firm on demands
  • Deal with Changi on Durgapur airport
  • Body haul rumour to trap cops on hill
  • Hoax calls ring alarm
  • Therapy to help kids talk
  • Tagore, rock, ragas and pop
  • What's on in town
  • ‘He has done us proud by doing his duty’
  • Archive of medical feats
  • Date for court view on CBI probe
  • Revenge seen in murders
  • Cops on clue hunt
  • Star back in hospital bed
  • Oil unit inferno doused
  • Delhi cops on heels of jewel thief
  • 90 buses to Boi Mela
  • In net for sari shop burglary
  • Bullet in head kills factory owner
  • Help held for theft at employer’s
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Hoax calls detain train
  • Rs 22cr fraud in Sikkim
  • Ghisingh a poison: Gurung
  • Morcha warns govts and rivals
  • Order changes but not ‘spiritual guru’
  • Kid sketches fetch aid from UK
  • Farmers clash with cops over storage row
  • Trap police didn’t fall in
  • Times of India
  • Go green, Buddha tells realtors
  • Paramount plans film city in town
  • Pvt equity funds betting big on city
  • Suchitra Sen in hospital again
  • 'Howrah killers worked in tandem'
  • Mob burns down house
  • Now, postmen to pick up mail
  • Fire destroys factory and refinery
  • Mom, girl found with throats slashed
  • IIM-C hikes fees by Rs 1 lakh per year
  • Indian Express
  • ‘Howrah double murder committed by acquaintance’
  • Man kills self over pending Rs 2 crore tax
  • CU brings up the rear: Job fair on campus
  • Centre to fund housing for urban poor in state
  • Thirty robberies in 45 days
  • Civil aviation ministry approves airport modernisation
  • Decks cleared for Changi airport
  • CM writes to Pawar on wheat allocation
  • Realtors to adopt women’s industrial training institute
  • Delhi Police nab burglar from Jorasanko
  • Nandigram: CM to distribute land pattas
  • Bengal cops open fire again, now on farmers
  • Sambar shot in Jaldapara by forest guard
  • Talks on track but Morcha refuses to lift blockade
  • Asian Age
  • State-GJM talks to break Hills impasse
  • Zoo hospital lacks needed facilities
  • Woman, child found dead
  • China seeks easy visa rules
  • ‘Rs 6 lakhs state wing’s monthly budget’
  • Cops probe insider’s hand in dacoity case
  • Stone laying by CM on March 5
  • Trouble at university
  • Hindustan Times
  • Nandigram: Bengal dumps Buddha stand
  • Nayagarh plotter is CPM MLA’s son
  • Cop commits suicide
    Sports
  • Shabbir Ali plans to field reserve-bench players in IFA Shield
  • Dalmiya bouncer could force Prasun to lock horns with Shah Rukh
  • Dempo eyeing Dudu for next season
  • Aloke looks for a Super start