A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
October 04, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Two killed in Lalgarh area
  • How a people's war left the people behind
  • Maoists blow up rail tracks in Bengal, Jharkhand
  • Mahato brought to Kolkata for further interrogation
  • RBI allows Bengal to sell securities
  • Didi to 'expose' Congress for its tie-up with Left
  • Bangladeshi held for possessing musk deer sacs
  • Duncans to exit fertilizer unit
  • Cockroach inspires £1,500 heart created by Indian doctor Sujoy Guha
  • Calcutta Coffee House Phoenix will rise
  • Mahato arrest: government open to rewarding CID officials
  • I am flattered, says Manna Dey
  • The Telegraph
  • Siliguri support from CPI
  • Cong to clear ‘misgivings’
  • Lalgarh ‘extortion’ list out
  • Greedy friend betrayed us: Mamata
  • Rules of the game change at new-age schools
  • Day care for memory malady
  • Flier crush in festive rush
  • Streetcar is on track, but...
  • Pandal same, puja different
  • Taxi refusal back with a ban(g)
  • Zoo still litter zone
  • Move to rein in errant Kali puja pandals
  • Shanties razed in Salt Lake
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Traffic signal puzzle for pedestrians
  • Car kills woman at zebra crossing
  • Water tanker strike in hills suspended
  • Man trampled trying to save mom
  • Morcha dress diktat to college students
  • Tracks & trains for ‘backward’ region
  • Steam loses power, diesel to run toy trains
  • Pay-up list of Lalgarh out
  • The Statesman
  • A day of disasters
  • AI floats EoI to lease seven planes
  • Always my home
  • Ancelotti unfazed by Romans flying visit
  • Arunachal trans-state highway by 2013: PM
  • BJP to use Vajpayee CD, Advani
  • Bodies of girl, mother found in Thekkady lake, toll 43
  • CBI seeks legal burial of Q case
  • Centre wants task force on Haldia
  • Cong hits back at Thackeray
  • Congress fissures over Siliguri
  • Court refuses to withdraw fine
  • East Bengal held by newcomers
  • Flood toll 194, troops step up relief
  • Grasim to consolidate cement biz
  • Guerrillas Bangla base?
  • KMC pulled up for failing to reshuffle MAT staff
  • Lankan envoy in line of Tamil ire
  • Leftist posters slam Bengal government
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Lords of the Olympian rings
  • Maoist leader to be taken to Jharkhand
  • Maoists blow up rail tracks
  • Marxists flex muscles on Mahato turf
  • Multiplying security
  • Naveen demands long term action plan for Kandhamal
  • New Zealand romp into final
  • Pak plans attack to break Talibans back
  • Perfect Summer Promises A Vintage Year For British Wine
  • Ponting eyes Tendulkars records
  • RSP exposes LF rift over Siliguri
  • Rajnath accuses Centre of pursuing weak policy on China
  • Rest of India in the driving seat
  • Science Express to cover remote areas
  • Stock exchanges on a roll
  • Taxi owners plan fresh stir
  • Thriving on a dung heap
  • United last-gasp goal rescues a point
  • You scratch my back
  • FTA with Asean wont hit fisheries
  • Pace bowlers let India down
  • Polanski agreed to $500,000 payment in civil suit
  • Times of India
  • Couple fights at airport for 6 hours
  • Drug shortage hits city malaria clinics
  • Deer rescued from river in Sunderbans
  • Polls put off, add to civic mess
  • Another PCPA top gun brought to Kolkata
  • Airport drama: Couple fights for six hours
  • No pitfalls on this smooth ride
  • Needed: Plan to shore up Salt Lake transport network
  • Recycling twist to immersions
  • Schools roped in for anti-cracker drive
  • Wine and some fine dining
  • Wine and some fine dining
  • Having fun the bong way
  • An evening in the movies
  • Cheers to the festive spirit!
  • Indian Express
  • With new trains, Mamata woos North Bengal
  • Ours was a move to save the situation: Siliguri Mayor
  • Kolkata confidential
  • ‘NGOs brought foreign money to fuel Lalgarh standoff’
  • In 18 months, KMC yet to build a single house for slum dwellers
  • Cops act tough on pandal norms, organisers told to mind rules
  • Kharagpur skeptical over pay hike talks
  • Hindustan Times
  • Maoists blast rail tracks as bandh called by ultras begins
  • We’re citizens and patriots, Maoists tell Air Force
  • Chinese intrusion reports false: Buddha
  • Lovers commit suicide in Krishnagar
  • Differences with TC on Siliguri polls a local issue: Cong
  • Sports
  • I-League Preview: Pune FC - East Bengal
  • Tennis: Yuki, Rupesh in final
  • Bhaichung seeks crowd support
  • We have to develop football in India: FIFA