A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
October 21, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • JSW Steel’s Bengal project on schedule
  • Now, Bengal IT hub runs into farmers' roadblock
  • Two cheetahs found dead in West Bengal
  • Governor was partial on Nano row: CPM
  • Bengal defends policy of non-confrontation against GJM
  • Shillong gets country's seventh IIM
  • Signboards of WB govt replaced by that of 'Govt of Gorkhaland'
  • Satyajit Ray films to get Big at home
  • Amartya Sen puts his faith in Obama
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Swapner Din
  • The Statesman
  • 2-year-old suffering from JE
  • A fate worse than Bengal?
  • Cops keep order, supporters keep peace
  • Districts to have 14 new government schools
  • Doting mom lands self and all in trouble
  • Gymnastics a neglected sport
  • Held and freed for CM convoy breach
  • Home secretary denies bandh call
  • It takes a lot to acquire a passport...
  • KMC seeks health depts help for vector control
  • Singur: A lesson learnt
  • Special team of doctors to be deployed
  • Surprise checks to be conducted
  • Used paper for studying material
  • When cricket bosses get hot under the collar
  • Where speaking out against social ills is a sin...
  • The Telegraph
  • ‘Worried’ Buddha mum on Morcha
  • Govt help to primary teachers
  • Land talks, minus crusaders
  • Kids killed in Howrah fire
  • City moons over mission
  • Bank agent held for theft bid
  • Rs 27 lakh recovered, two in net
  • Glare on hoax call family
  • ‘Bribe for bail’ ends in arrest
  • Malignant malaria, dengue count rises
  • Train mishap kills gangman
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Money, mission & market
  • What's on in town
  • East-West protesters at Subhas door
  • Blaze razes pulses mill
  • MLA smarts from slipper act
  • Suicide bid after cops refuse to let ‘wife’ go
  • Assault slur on jawans
  • Down with defaced boards, govt orders
  • Crash bodies handed over
  • Trainees lock up education office
  • People shut out bandhs
  • Nooks to get new look
  • Sale of costlier petrol earns DM wrath
  • Times of India
  • Train on wrong track, 2 crushed
  • 3 city schools among top 10 in country
  • Woman, 4 kids die in Shibpur fire
  • Tortured boy rescued from eatery
  • 20-yr-old foils bank robbery bid
  • Model's mum brands managers 'terrorists'
  • 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
  • Indian Express
  • Bill not paid, hospital shows encephalitis-hit child the door
  • Denmark group comes up with brewery unit near Nano site
  • Day after hoax call, family tenders apology
  • Five from state die in Sikkim accident
  • CID claims poaching kingpin will be arrested soon
  • Pollution board conducts study for rainwater harvesting in city
  • Armed robber attacks bank agents in Sealdah
  • Protests against MNS reaches Kolkata
  • Buddha calls for peace as plains match hill heat
  • Rungta in CBI net for taking Rs 1-crore bribe
  • ‘We will lie down before trucks, but not let Tatas leave’
  • Transport dept to review Metro rehabilitation project
  • Hindustan Times
  • ‘Gorkhaland’ erases Bengal from Darjeeling signboards
  • His voice, his virtue
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan 1 - Md. Sporting 1
  • Bengal Tigers defeats Mumbai Champs