A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
October 26, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Maoists network can't be cracked overnight: West Bengal police
  • Karat says Maoists will be fought politically
  • West Bengal takes steps to counter poaching
  • West Bengal police to be strengthened
  • Darjeeling toy train gets vestibule coaches
  • Tribals set afire power sub-station in West Bengal
  • Refusing Rajya Sabha membership no message to CPI-M: Somnath
  • I beat the Aussies: Amartya Sen
  • Madly Bengali!
  • Chandan has no hassles about going nude
  • The Telegraph
  • Guard ‘clue’ to missing constables
  • Cops shoot rebel, committee threatens attack
  • Ready road left unused
  • Recruitment row at JU
  • Garbage vat woes for Buddhist temple
  • India to partner 2010 German trade fair
  • Eviction eyewash on street
  • 15-day bonus for old bus
  • 20-hr wait for helping hand
  • Fresh puff on JU smoke ban
  • Held for Rs 83 lakh fraud
  • Joint drive for station facelift
  • Help finger at unknown youths
  • Puppies in cages saved by cops
  • One killed in road mishap
  • Man lying in park
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Cash crunch halts rifle cradle upgrade
  • Treasury bar on pension loans
  • Education, another casualty of fire
  • Comfort at 48 degrees Celsius
  • Cellphone clue for hunter trace
  • Recipe for disaster, say officials
  • Bloc protests hospital ‘murder’
  • Demand for principal spurs head teacher to resign
  • Cops were alive a month ago
  • Sikkim cries for organic subsidy
  • The Statesman
  • A Citu Sen-sation
  • A ruse to divert attention
  • AI seeks Rs 5,000 cr additional equity
  • Age no bar for fear factor
  • An eight-goal thriller
  • Army could take 20 years to bridge officer shortage
  • Baghdad twin blasts kill 136
  • Blood bath in Baghdad
  • Blues want Pollard
  • Brawn, brains and quite a lot besides
  • CII sees sustained economic recovery
  • Cross-currents of art
  • Deflecting truth
  • Eternal vigil
  • FM lays down taxation treaty for Swiss banks
  • HC sets deadline on MAMC
  • Haven of chaos
  • Heartbreak at Vadodara
  • Hiring picks up 4.1% in September
  • IIM tips for school heads
  • Impressive Liverpool halt poor run
  • Inflation likely to reach 10% by March 2010
  • Israeli forces storm shrine in Jerusalem
  • Kishenjis fan following irks parents
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Mayhem reigns supreme in Midnapore 
  • McCullum no longer vice-captain, aims at leadership
  • Money mocked
  • No other choice
  • Now Vijay Goel to pen book on his
  • PM asks states to control menace
  • PM confident of CWG success
  • Pak plans to push ultras into India: PC
  • Pakistan arrests Taliban rebel
  • RCom debunks special audit report
  • SBI raises $750m from overseas
  • State gears up to fight Maoists
  • Stimulus to continue: PM
  • Stop marketing margin on KG gas: ADAG
  • Sweeping success
  • Trinamul, CPM slugfest on
  • UN inspectors to visit Iranian nuke plant
  • V-B stalemate: Enter Subrata
  • Villagers stall Hidco project work
  • Well done, Somnath 
  • What Muslims were to BJP, Maoists are to Cong: Arundhati Roy
  • When an Indian visitor left UK officials baffled
  • Woman held for stealing baby
  • You need glamour in politics, says showstopper Jaya Prada
  • Youths battle for tribals here...
  • Dalai Lama an honoured guest
  • Opp charges of spectrum irregularities not correct
  • Times of India
  • Howrah walks past man struck by bus
  • HC extends stay on disputed land
  • KoPT awaits go ahead to build jetties
  • Howrah clean-up drive by KMDA
  • Soccer revellers blow firecracker norms sky high
  • Metro smart cards in a mess
  • Alipore Zoo plans massive revamp
  • IIT forecast system for Oman, Maldives
  • A treasure trove to dye for
  • Music lovers have a blast
  • Music lovers have a blast
  • Tantra is the place to be
  • Music drives this audience crazy
  • Let's have some party folks!
  • Indian Express
  • Left, Trinamool one in Sunderbans
  • Delhi stage set, missing cops’ kin board train with Trinamool leader
  • Fright before the fight: LF leaves bypoll strategy to district units
  • Illegal non-LPG autos continue to ply under ‘green cover’
  • CISCE chairman not happy with optional Class X exams
  • Visva-Bharati crisis: Students join striking staff
  • No hurdle before Purulia steel project
  • Investment company official arrested for Rs 83 lakh fraud
  • Govt furious as hostage cop turns TV celebrity
  • Left leaders talked joint operation, UAPA with Kishenji
  • Bhowmick quits East Bengal post
  • Bengal cops switch sides as tides turn
  • Hindustan Times
  • Home Minister P Chidambaram slams Naxal sympathisers
  • Two killed, 250 houses gutted in fire
  • Forces, Maoists exchange fire in West Bengal
  • CPM targets red barons, fixes tenure for top leadership
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan’s high fives in derby goal rush
  • Sukanta Nagar wins U-14 Subroto title
  • Chidi shines in Mohun Bagan's historic triumph
  • East Bengal fan suffers heart attack
  • It could be all over for Bhowmick