A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
January 20, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Rs. 130-crore IT Park in West Bengal
  • GJM invited for talks again
  • Gorkhaland activists turn down Buddhadeb's talks offer
  • Four CRPF companies to arrive in Darjeeling to maintain peace
  • Stop smoking or get beaten up!
  • Mamata ready to contest polls alone
  • Slowdown in hotels business impacts ITC
  • Bird flu in Sikkim
  • Rare collection of old coins in West Bengal
  • West Bengal power department plans renewable power
  • Tapan Sinha The last of the Mohicans
  • The Telegraph
  • Morcha agrees to talks
  • Blackout scare this summer
  • SUCI split threat to Mamata
  • Minister quizzes CM on casual staff
  • Anniversary gala of IIT fest
  • What's on in town
  • Rs 1.27cr booty recovered, 5 held
  • Fish friend for troubled teen
  • JU tunnel to new campus
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Stink of prejudice at every step
  • Court scan on tax slabs
  • Cong veteran to join Trinamul
  • 933 culled on Day I to arrest bird flu spread
  • CPM leader arrested with statehood supporters
  • NHPC back to work
  • Plea to launch mass protests
  • The Statesman
  • 5 convicted in Jayanta Ghosh case
  • Accident victim left to die on Salt Lake road
  • Aerodrome unguarded for want of an order
  • Army angry with govt for Maidan mauling
  • Flats for slum dwellers
  • Mayor advises cooperatives for former slum dwellers
  • Robbers decamp with Rs 25 lakh from bank
  • SP stonewalls power project citing security reasons
  • Talk Of The Town
  • Debt discord a civil issue, not a criminal offence
  • Times of India
  • PM puts off date with city
  • Minister warns of power crisis
  • Cops on bank robbers' trail
  • JU gets third campus at NIL
  • Buddha opens new Sankara Nethralaya
  • Day after slashing spree, teen impassive in court
  • Another tiger strays into Sunderbans village
  • Pilot reports 'hyena' on Kolkata runway
  • Bimal U-turn : Talks with CM today
  • Gujarat better than Bengal: Biz bosses
  • Indian Express
  • City cops crack Rs 1.3-cr robbery plot
  • Out to kill grandparents, boy says job ‘half-done’, sent to juvenile home
  • NSG team zeroes in on 2 sites for its hub in Bengal
  • Court seeks report on delay in Todi’s release
  • SP gets marching orders after stand-off with tribals
  • Port trust keeps hopes afloat
  • Baguihati bank had poor security
  • Centre supports coal import
  • SUCI threatens to withdraw support if Trinamool ties up with Congress
  • Biman: Trinamool, BJP and Cong trying to divide people
  • GJM buckles, agrees to sit on table with CM
  • Waiting for a tie-up, Mamata bleeds Cong
  • CPI(ML) demands return of land to farmers
  • PM cancels Kolkata visit
  • Hindustan Times
  • Buddhadeb invites GJM chief for talks
  • Bangladeshi 'smuggler' killed in BSF firing
  • Sports
  • Bayern boys trample on East Bengal
  • Fortune favours Surya Shekhar Ganguly
  • Md. Sp. aim for fresh beginning