A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
October 12, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Singur residents plan to meet Manmohan
  • Immersion of 'Durga Puja' idols raises environmentalists' hackles
  • Singur & the Nano impact
  • W. Bengal teen bags first position in NASA-sponsored contest
  • For hands that build Durga idols, nothing has changed
  • Traders protest German retail major setting up shop in West Bengal
  • Gorge on rasogolla to sweeten your words
  • Nostalgia tinged with concern as Lata meets Bhupen Hazarika
  • Bad to worse: In IIT with just 5% in JEE physics
  • The Statesman
  • 62 GPs in Nadia to get Nirmal Gram Awards
  • 75-year-old man lynched, kin assaulted
  • Another means to kick the butt
  • CPM members body found near Khejuri pond
  • CU considers multiple choice questions
  • Coastal PS plans yet to materialise
  • Committee to meet Governor for Nanos comeback
  • Did malaria make it back with KMC help?
  • Faulty complaint forms add to passenger woes
  • First JE death in Kolkata
  • Goons kill man, Howrah tense
  • Infosys to wait & watch
  • Meet on Singur
  • Minor girl injured in police firing
  • NF railway authorities delay compensation
  • No relaxing city security
  • Now, Mamata takes her troubles to Delhi...
  • Rape or politics?
  • State govt to push Centre for bio-safety measures along Indo-Bangla border
  • Sundarbans authorities step up surveillance
  • Tarapith locals believe in one god, one faith
  • Trinamul leaders upset over Charu Market incident
  • Criminal nexus charge against cop
  • The Telegraph
  • Jumbo mom ‘rejects’ baby
  • Gastro outbreak claims 10 in a week
  • Buffalo fight trip kills three
  • Beggar donates plot for school, babus drag feet
  • Blackout scare after bright Puja
  • Mamata bid to beat urban vote ‘worries’
  • JU freezer for fresher food
  • Puff ban works on autopilot
  • War of luxury wheels
  • 77-year-old stabs wife to death
  • Disease scan after death
  • Puja rush delays flights
  • Blog boom in B-school
  • Mamata backs tainted leader
  • Woman falls to death from eighth-floor flat
  • Gun parts ground flier
  • Seven arrested for murder attempt
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Protests stall housing estate makeover
  • Drama school at Minerva
  • Adventure in river claims girl
  • Cellphone gives away abductor ‘cop’
  • ‘Witch’ killed by relatives
  • Road & water for passengers
  • Fire row refuses to die down
  • Cops look other way as taxis change to ‘GL’
  • Airport and varsity on PM priority list
  • Cong fields Ruby kin, rival not ready
  • Rajbanshi deities set for trip to France
  • Times of India
  • Same-sex couple forced apart
  • Immersion norms: City clean, but outskirts don’t bother
  • Airport link plan for E-W Metro
  • Corporate parks to solve Salt Lake space problems
  • City bikers scale record heights
  • Mob violence rocks Domjur
  • 5 Manipuri girls rescued from Malaysia nightclub
  • Infotech tier-II tag may work in Kolkata's favour
  • Mahakaran Metro stn may be shifted after ASI red light
  • Storm brews over Rajarhat IT park
  • Indian Express
  • City remembers Alphonsa’s healing touch
  • Kolkata wants to see ‘Saint’ Mother Teresa
  • 79-year-old man hacks wife to death
  • Relatives kill elderly woman for property
  • Lighting home the solar way catches up with city
  • Shutdown of Santhaldih plant aggravates power crisis
  • Digha to have its own Jurassic park
  • Rising gold price leaves shoppers with few choices
  • Left starts looking for ‘secular’ alliance
  • Small traders in protest mode over entry of Cash & Carry
  • Trinamool rallies for Swarup
  • Kolkata confidential
  • Hindustan Times
  • 'Save Nano Committee' to meet Governor
  • Mamata and allies now seek industry and jobs at Singur
  • Sports
  • Sporting Clube de Goa defeat Mohun Bagan 2-0
  • Standing ovation for Ganguly