A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
November 21, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Tribal stir: parts of West Bengal still inaccessible
  • Bengal to focus on developing small, medium towns
  • Steel producers renegotiate prices with overseas coal suppliers
  • Chettinad plans to set up two super-speciality clinics in Kolkata
  • Soren blames WB govt for tribal agitation
  • Ghani Khan Choudhary Institute for Technology at Malda
  • Kolkata Jumbo Job Fair Witnesses Over 5,000 Walk-ins
  • Now, Unicef's child rights convention in Bengali Braille
  • Elephant calf rescued from well
  • Govt to issue tender for Kharagpur biotech park
  • Bengali singers compose song of Maradona
  • ‘But Mr Ghosh is an honourable man’
  • Black ruled the night
  • The Statesman
  • 4 women held for duping investors
  • Book Fair on Milan Mela grounds
  • CPM foresees victory in Krishnagar
  • HC directs KMC to submit malaria control details
  • Housewife homeless after refusing to accept husbands affair
  • Lalgarh, Singur to figure in Assembly
  • Maoists woo teenagers into their fold
  • Mayo Hospital to reopen next year
  • New blockades in Bankura
  • Parallel rule, as elsewhere
  • Recession hits Rajarhat construction projects
  • SC stays order against cops in Rizwan case
  • V-B students want Acharyas presence at convocation
  • Woman gets back vision
  • The Telegraph
  • Court seeks malaria report
  • Lorry fells, crushes boy
  • 28 out of 20 in varsity exam
  • Breather for Rizwan cops
  • Tree fell rap for garden chief
  • Negligence cry after child death
  • Scurry over air ambulance
  • Rail pole strikes again
  • Women held for cheating
  • Guild balks at ‘steep’ fair rent
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • CEO held for slap
  • Experts warn of 1968 horror rerun
  • Fuelled, garbage blaze kills kids
  • Airport squatters in Malda cite land rights
  • Cash, job & transport demands after jumbo rage
  • Times of India
  • Hospital ordeal for newborn
  • Cultural icons plan Bengal heritage hub
  • Kid on music-phone run over by truck
  • Mall shoppers caught in stir
  • Tech firm CEO held for slapping guard
  • Chinese 'gopi' collects 20,000 Krishna idols
  • Riz case: Cop trio moves SC against high court order
  • Denied marriage, youth kills man
  • Man slaps aunt to death over property
  • Baby dies in mom's suicide bid
  • Indian Express
  • Spencer’s broke agreement, hawkers protest outside outlet
  • High Court pulls up KMC on malaria control
  • Kashmiris on a date with their virtual love — City of Joy
  • Boy crushed in Behala, locals set truck on fire
  • HC summons Indian Botanical Garden additional director for axing trees
  • After delay, CU sociology students get wrong marksheets
  • Publishers bite the financial bullet, to hold Kolkata Book Fair at Milan Mela Prangan
  • PTTI students unwilling to budge, seek Pranab’s intervention
  • 20-year-old killed by tiger in Sunderbans
  • Kolkata monorail project likely to begin from March
  • 4 women held for running fraudulent chit fund
  • 250 sex workers get voter identity cards in Kolkata
  • Lalgarh tribals hold rally, demand talks with administration
  • Lalgarh unrest: Oppn trains guns at govt
  • Rehman case: SC restrains CBI till Dec 5
  • Dunlop lockout: labour minister to meet Ruia
  • Hindustan Times
  • Three CPI(M) leaders injured in tribal attack
  • Chinese 'gopi' collects 20,000 Krishna idols
  • "Maharaj" and "Delicious" want to fly
  • Sports
  • Dempo beat Mohd Sporting 2-0
  • All-overseas line-up at ITF Challengers semi-finals
  • Bagan on a roll
  • Ganguly in BCCI’s technical panel