A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
June 11, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Strike halted in India tea region
  • West Bengal: Maoists loot Rs 84 lakh from bank
  • McDonald's plans 15 new outlets in Kolkata
  • Award comes “too late in the day” for Soumitra
  • Totally opposed to Singur & Nandigram projects: Mamata
  • Neon Healthcare ties with US based Hayes Lab
  • Be in touch with dealers for Nano ride in October
  • Is Bengal ready for re-industrialisation?
  • National Award isn’t my ticket to Bollywood...’ - Prosenjit
  • West Bengal CII pledges to stop child labour in industries
  • The Statesman
  • Bengal prepares to tackle water crisis
  • The Telegraph
  • Asim begins cost-cut drive
  • Gun in safe, bank robbed of lakhs
  • Hills shut, but not holiday zeal
  • Anarchy equals car chaos
  • What's on in town
  • Plexes have 10 reasons to cheer
  • JU tie-up for dual degrees
  • Girl gang arrested at station
  • Debt suicides after killing son
  • Fake notes net Bangla duo
  • Boy cabbie in gang of robbers by night
  • Four hitch death ride in milk van
  • 20 from Besu off to Belfast
  • Sec V sweats & frets
  • Husband held for dowry suicide
  • Bus knock kills man
  • Motorcycle bursts under bus wheel
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Torture scare for mom
  • Few take special train to Calcutta
  • NBU dashes hopes of re-examination
  • Bandh breather spurs race uphill
  • Traders stock up buses with supplies
  • Italy recce on water project
  • Stocks fly off at instant sale
  • Times of India
  • GJM attacks tourists from city, 8 injured
  • Wife mortgaged to loan shark
  • Citu men halt beer plant, CPM sees red
  • Girl passes MA after moving HC
  • Couple found hanging in flat, son poisoned
  • Rs 84 lakh looted from WB bank
  • Pension after four decades
  • Guns looted from Purulia shop
  • Rescued from kitchen, tiger released in forest core
  • Stuck in roadblock, ailing girl dies
  • Indian Express
  • Cops unaware of anti-speeding drive
  • Wary CPM looks at Trinamool to endorse water tax in city
  • To track the trail, tiger radio collared
  • Firm inks pact with US for path labs
  • Naktala couple ‘poison’ son, hang selves
  • McDonald returns with detective theme
  • ‘Govt keen on tech courses in general colleges’
  • CU employees allege discrimination in granting mass leave during bandhs
  • JU ties up with Virginia Tech to award dual PhD
  • Gang robs bank of Rs 84 lakh in Purulia
  • Activist charged for holding public tribunal
  • 20 BESU students head for Belfast on exchange
  • Clashes in plains, but GJM gives tourists 60 hours to leave Hills
  • Tourists return from Bengal Hills with tales of trauma
  • ‘Buddha failed to feel pulse of the people’
  • Government austerity drive to offset fuel price hike
  • Asian Age
  • CM: Police at fault in JU incident
  • Industry-education partnership stressed
  • Snag raises flight security concern
  • Four city artistes bag honours
  • Girl dies in road blockade
  • Salt Lake meet on property tax
  • WBJEE results on June 12
  • Hindustan Times
  • McDonald's plans 15 new outlets in Kolkata
  • Purulia court grants bail to Soumen
  • Sports
  • Houghton’s note of caution
  • Bengal struggle into semi-finals : Captain Jayanta sen spares the blushes