A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
June 23, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Leaders of GJM to visit Kolkata, Delhi
  • Fresh areas in West Bengal submerged
  • Kolkata stays hot amidst cooling realty prices
  • Two offices looted in Kolkata
  • HPCL to take over two units in Bengal
  • KPC healthcare to set up medical city in W Bengal
  • Bengali film bags award in Shanghai
  • No personal feelings
  • Remembering Dhirendranath Gangopadhyay
  • Reverse skills drain brings global execs to India
  • Pranab in IIT push for Bengal college
  • Konkona Sen to chase George W Bush
  • The Statesman
  • Gangster from Jharkhand
  • KMC implements new set of building rules
  • 6 banks cheated of Rs 5 crore
  • Refund received, interest yet to be paid
  • Jewellery shop owner, employee murdered
  • Gangster from Jharkhand under cover in Kolkata held
  • Refund received, interest yet to paid
  • KMC to implement new set of building rules
  • Jewellery shop owner, employee murdered
  • 6 banks cheated of Rs 5 crore
  • Panchayat power shifts disrupt relief efforts
  • Countrys first solar photo-voltaic power plant by year end
  • FB slams farcical probe into Dinhata firing
  • Asiatic Society to reprint rare Ogilby work
  • Ex-MLA to meet Mamata
  • In Midnapore West, the journey back begins
  • Flood victims still wait for relief
  • The Telegraph
  • Elephants raid relief camps in search of food
  • Barge goes down in Hooghly
  • Power cut plagues wet state
  • Girl’s drive to record
  • Drivers honk out no-horn rule
  • Help eludes widow driven out by son
  • Boon for Behala in canal desilt signal
  • What's on in town
  • Disease compounds water woes
  • Query to JEE on scripts
  • Home is where the college is
  • Toughs hit trader with revolver butt
  • Hollywood, served hot in a plex near you
  • Costlier cabs, easier sums
  • College entry rule altered
  • Rain, but no fear of deluge
  • Producer held for bank fraud
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Fish, fun and films
  • Bitter brew for coffee hub
  • PCC chief makes clear his stand is final
  • Kids take unity plea to Morcha door
  • Respite does little, cry for solution
  • Civic funds planned with local donors
  • Czech duo denied bail
  • Centre plans Sikkim recce
  • Woman puts kidney on sale
  • Boulder blocks highway traffic
  • Buddha help to save elephants
  • 30 years on, flood hits back
  • Priya for Balurghat in Lok Sabha, hints wife
  • Ministry deadline for night landing
  • Hungry jumbos circle relief camps
  • Kamakhya, a snatcher’s paradise
  • Youth saves night heron
  • Times of India
  • Bangla barge hits sand bank, sinks in Hooghly
  • Teen 'raped', murdered in paddy field, 2 held
  • Man held for abducting employer's daughter
  • Doctors accused of rape bid on the run
  • Maoist top gun chargesheeted
  • City doctor accuses colleagues of rape bid
  • KIT neglects repairs, woman hurt in crumbling building
  • Pump strike illogical, say oil firms
  • Flights cancelled after aircraft snag
  • Singer's car crashes into bus, 1 dead
  • Indian Express
  • Sikhs demand arrest of Sacha Sauda chief
  • Kolkata taxi unions call off indefinite strike
  • Cargo ship hits sand bed near Nurpur
  • 17-yr-old girl’s body found in jute field
  • ‘Will never go for vacations during the monsoons’
  • Relief looted, govt pins hope on Army
  • GJM climbs down to meet Buddha
  • Concerned with security, govt plans to relocate Assembly House to Rajarhat
  • Enteric comes to city, but KMC is not ready
  • Law university responds to RTI a year and a half on
  • High Court stays evacuation of flat after resident fails to pay EMI
  • Asian Age
  • State-GJM meeting on June 27
  • CM to ministers: Visit flood areas
  • Water woes: Mayor blames Trinamul
  • Demands for Siraj relic at site
  • Enteric disease outbreak feared
  • 2nd phase of Budget Session
  • Hindustan Times
  • West Bengal flood toll rises to 30
  • Going under every monsoon
  • Sports
  • Gangjee wins PGTI Players’ championship