A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
January 28, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Fog disrupts flight operations in Kolkata
  • Question mark hangs over abandoned Nano land in Singur
  • Liquor dens set ablaze in Kolkata suburbs
  • Kolkata's new leisure class
  • W B GUV condoles Venkataraman's death
  • Nabard sanctions Rs 801 cr for developing rural infrastructure in WB
  • A bodyguard recalls his time with Netaji
  • SUCI to attend GJM sponsored meet in Darjeeling
  • The Telegraph
  • BDO held hostage in airport city protest
  • Bus kills two on pavement
  • Boat stuck, fisherman in killer jaws
  • Party sermon to cadres
  • Sinking baby hearts revived
  • Flyover at clogged crossroads
  • Realty hopes to limp back in new year
  • Holiday weekend screen harvest
  • What's on in town
  • Whodunit the doctor ordered
  • Paralysis, the city’s password
  • Turf war in twin murders
  • Fog hits morning flights
  • Govt delay in Maidan matter
  • Duo with crore in bag
  • 7-month makeover for mela ground
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Orange on cinchona plot
  • Four Nepal residents arrested
  • Dooars & rest of Bengal to figure in talks
  • Tea draft to tap new energy sources
  • Cannabis worry for cops
  • Slippers rain on officer & his men
  • Jadupur murderers still at large
  • CID rules out Mandal connection to pistols
  • R-Day prize for garden girls
  • Halfway to meet Bimal, tribals turn back
  • The Statesman
  • Aerotropolis: Farmers oppose work
  • Baguiati: Kingpin, linkman at large
  • Balm for district fertiliser traders
  • Book Fair opens sans infrastructure
  • CPM men held for assaulting policemen
  • Fair opens sans infrastructure
  • Hooch: Govt plans excise policy for victims, traders
  • RBU wakes up to BEd row, finally
  • Ship pile-up at Haldia Dock
  • Show-cause on Alipore jailor
  • Times of India
  • Time to celebrate the spirit of Kolkata
  • HC rally ban: Govt gets a week to reply
  • Two pen pistols sold in West Midnapore: CID
  • Party rivalry whiff in CPM murders
  • Rs 100-cr rehab package for hooch makers
  • Death certificate points to hooch poisoning
  • Toxic truth about hooch deaths
  • Jindals hint at Salboni review
  • Terror threat due to porous border: CP
  • Bus mows down two at Ultadanga
  • Indian Express
  • Twin murders: It’s about platform stalls
  • Hospital launches gastro-enterology centre in city
  • Baguihati weapons haul leaves CID baffled
  • RBU’s former V-Cs not ready to own up responsibility for irregularity in BEd course
  • Bishnupur by-poll: Mamata thumbs nose at Congress
  • HC asks police to file affidavit on DYFI rally within 7 days
  • Freedom at mid-life: at 35, she is on her own
  • In penury, Howrah family locks itself for a year
  • Siege within: Transport minister scuttles government’s ‘clean-up’ order on autos
  • GJM spews fire as tribals meet Buddha today
  • Mid-air scare: ATC blames Jet aircraft, probe ordered
  • Hindustan Times
  • West Bengal court jails CBI officer for bribery
  • General elections in April-May: EC
  • Bengal Governor unfurls the national flag
  • Adverse comments on Dalits, women in Ramcharitmanas not by Tulsidas: Scholar
  • Sports
  • CAB fines EB, Mohun Bagan
  • India striker Sunil Chhetri excited by Coventry trials