A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
January 13, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata may get monorail running on LPG in two years
  • Police rescue abducted boys in West Bengal
  • Tamil writer sues Bengali dramatist for plagiarism
  • ABB sets up global centre of excellence in Kolkata
  • West Bengal announces compensation for tribal women in Lalgarh
  • KoPT’s navigation constraint draining forex reserves
  • West Bengal Cong delegation to discuss on TC tie up with party heads
  • CID arrests ISI agent from West Bengal
  • The Telegraph
  • Karat fights Somnath return buzz
  • Plan to scrap varsity quota
  • Villagers donate land for hospital
  • Mall miss in ghost town
  • Fee hike for free seats
  • What's on in town
  • Stem cell hope for diabetics
  • Eatery vaults fire hurdle
  • Toxic toll on nervous system
  • Bail after twist in Belur kidnap tale
  • Check-up of home inmates
  • Now, hear it from the koel of Kalighat
  • Dead baby in canal
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Time up for illegal autos: Subhas
  • Protest holds up traffic
  • Buzz about buried riches
  • Bayern tips for budding coaches
  • Hooch flows, excise pleads helplessness
  • SWOT window for garden investors
  • Rohini counts losses as relief pours in
  • 5 arrested for court assault
  • Bribe slur: Cop faces probe
  • Siliguri to get home for girls
  • Mela to boost cultural bond
  • Science feat for student
  • ‘VIP’ doc in molest net
  • Rowdies harass & thrash mom, teen
  • A chequered history of terror
  • Assault slur on railway builders
  • Workers chase out managers
  • The Statesman
  • 3 dacoits held, cops recover 9 lakh
  • Autorickshaw
  • Cop hand in spurious liquor trade?
  • Damages for Lalgarh women
  • Disabled boy dies of malnutrition
  • Extra students get past CU scanner
  • Fair to begin under poor security cover
  • Few takers for NREGA in N 24-Pgns
  • Four held for abducting 2 boys
  • Krishnapur locals now on guard
  • Microchips to stop elephant torture
  • Monikhal evictees get flat keys
  • Private attendants beat up patient, held
  • Renal failure on the rise, say SSKM docs
  • Sadhu runs away with devotees money
  • Trouble at SSKM hospital
  • Times of India
  • Pak flight makes unscheduled landing at Kolkata airport
  • LeT recruiter, aide nabbed from Malda
  • Rajbari treasure hunt triggers frenzy
  • Drunk jawan gets into station brawl
  • Nature fair for city students
  • Jumbo pair wreaks havoc in Bankura
  • Rs 4.69-crore bank scam
  • Howrah slum under hills of filth to be razed
  • Buddha slams green NGOs
  • Squatters still defiant, demand rehab package
  • Indian Express
  • The holy dip day: All ways lead to Gangasagar today
  • Left, Bajrang Dal vie for the pie in ‘fair’ play
  • Minor girls an easy prey in Midnapore
  • Kolkata gets its own cord blood bank
  • Mamata blasts Left for text-book smear campaign
  • Lalgarh tribals want unconditional apology
  • Minority panel all praise for Bengal
  • NGOs blocking development, says Buddha
  • With govt touchy on Nandigram, KoPT scouts for other sites
  • Left sees no right in Somnath’s return to party
  • CPM-backed union on backfoot over fake air tickets, travel bills
  • To discuss NSG hub, five-member team to visit city on Jan 19
  • Suspected LeT man picked up from Malda
  • Log-out fear stalks Wipro BPO centre
  • Hindustan Times
  • 10 boatmen abducted by river pirates
  • Schoolboys abducted, released
  • Sports
  • Lahiri stuns Solodovnichenko
  • India to train in Spain
  • Bagan face tall order