A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
October 20, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • GJM diktat forces tourists to leave Darjeeling hills
  • Is Ratan Tata a Marxist?
  • Nano fallout? Babus bolting from Bengal
  • Air France woos Indian traveller, plans flights to Pune, Kolkata
  • The great divide: Hills on the edge again
  • Trinamool Congress’ march to city police headquarters today
  • Kolkata’s science heritage no longer glitters
  • Tagore studies to find way to Italian varsities
  • Country's first software product certification facility in Kolkata soon
  • The Statesman
  • 1 held for shooting, poaching Sundarbans tiger
  • BkTPP employees want higher paying jobs
  • Geonkhali project: All depends on 182 acres
  • IIT student in custody
  • Inmates Inc. on cop radar
  • Lalbazar cops brace up for Trinamul rally
  • Maoist bandh in three districts
  • One arrested for shooting, poaching Sundarbans tiger
  • Police on anti-crime mission
  • Shift possible for Aerotropolis project
  • Trinamul to gherao Lalbazar today
  • The Telegraph
  • Doctor trauma at clinic
  • CPM cries bias against governor
  • Varsity meet to trim college list
  • What's on in town
  • Late start to Besu inquiry
  • Robotics, gliders set stage for IIT fest
  • Glare on bike’s convoy stunt
  • Bullet-hit trader chases attackers
  • Rally roar ends in whimper
  • Mom fury grounds ‘terror’ trio
  • Coal crisis in power fall
  • Sikkim holiday claims 5 of family
  • Fish seller held with fake notes
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Troubled twists in temple tale
  • Exit Kali, enter theme scream
  • Rooms with a hue
  • Cratered corridor to mishap
  • Company debut on campus
  • Traders fear losses in lakhs
  • Balurghat Museum gets govt tag
  • Hill hotels pledge help
  • Trinamul alleges night firing, cops deny
  • Restore ‘WB’ order to offices
  • Old woman ‘starves’ to death
  • Forensic scan on infant body
  • Police ready with bandh blueprint
  • Paternity test wail by mother of stillborn
  • Assaulted widow seeks justice
  • Times of India
  • Girl barred from airport, sis cooks up terror hoax
  • KMC plans 41-km 'green belt' along Kolkata's canals
  • Lalbazar march chokes traffic
  • Dengue, malaria trigger epidemic scare in city
  • Haldia to get India's first sports city
  • Govt twist to modesty debate
  • TB patient hangs himself at Kolkata hospital
  • Second Japanese encephalitis case sparks fresh scare
  • IAS officers take road out of Bengal
  • TB patient hangs self at hospital
  • Indian Express
  • City’s top hospitals breeding grounds of mosquitoes
  • JE, malaria continue unabated
  • No test kits around, dengue surges on
  • To curb cyber crimes, software to be certified
  • Wait gets longer, no special status in sight for BESU
  • ‘Client list of Biswas was long, included other students’
  • Govt claws through Sunderbans, comes up with watery data
  • No smoke, nor fire, Trinamool’s Lalbazar march a damp squib
  • Prank call finds terrorists in flight to Agartala
  • Delhi Police team interrogates Ansari, associate for serial blasts
  • GJM delegation to meet Gandhi in Darjeeling today
  • IIT-K: Students’ arrest a rare incident, institute’s image intact
  • Hindustan Times
  • ‘Gorkhaland’ erases Bengal from Darjeeling signboards
  • His voice, his virtue
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan 1 - Md. Sporting 1
  • Bengal Tigers defeats Mumbai Champs