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2007
September
September 30 – Ashutosh Mukherjee’s legacy tarnished (The Statesman)
September 29 – Tata Motors small car factory in Singur completely submerged (The Statesman)
September 28 – Unfounded rumours of hooliganism by supporters of Indian Idol 3 winner Prashant Tamang leads to street riots in Siliguri, prompting police firing, army intervention and an indefinite curfew. (The Telegraph)
September 28 – Planning Commission clears East West Metro Railways project (The Statesman)
September 28 – 60,000 Darjeeling tea workers to get higher bonus (The Hindu Business Line)
September 27 – Judicial probe ordered into teacher’s death (The Hindu)
September 27 – Subhas Chakraborty trashes judicial probe in Rizwan case (Times of India)
September 26 – DLF plans second IT park in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
September 26 – Guild still wants Maidan for Kolkata Book Fair but books other venues (The Statesman)
September 25 – Green light to new industries – Nayachar chemical hub, acquisition of 4,840 acres for DLF’s Dankuni township, Rs 550-crore Domjur township project, a steel factory by Videocon’s Kitchen Appliances, a captive power plant at Barabani, a steel plant and a captive power plant by Shyam Steel in Kharagpur and Raghunathpur, WBPDCL thermal power plant on 1,030 acres in Katwa. (Times of India).
September 25 – Rizwan: Cabinet members want judicial probe; human rights body to file case in a day or two. (The Statesman)
September 24 – Awash and left stranded (The Telegraph)
September 24 – Rizwan death heat on top cop (Times of India)
September 23 – The day of the idol... – Darjeeling’s Prashant Tamang is triumphant (The Telegraph)
September 23 – Doubts over suicide claim - top cops’ role under cloud in the Park Circus death case (The Telegraph)
September 23 – West Bengal approaches Ministry of Civil Aviation for development of airports (The Telegraph)
September 22 – Singur farmhand found hanging; third suicide after government land acquisition (The Telegraph)
September 22 – ‘Some people came, said I would be murdered’ - Youth's death triggers mob fury in Park Circus (The Telegraph) (Times of India)
September 21 – Haldia Petro in govt hands - court blow to Chatterjee Group (The Telegraph)
September 21 – Behala airport revamp takes off (Times of India)
September 21 – Heritage tag for house of Bengal’s money man – Gouri Sen’s house (The Statesman)
September 20 – US company in wagon deal for manufacture of aluminum wagons at Titagarh (The Telegraph)
September 20 – Shriram Properties ties up with two US equity firms for integrated township project in Uttarpara (The Hindu Business Line)
September 20 – CBI sniffs out self-interest of Tapasi accused in Singur (The Statesman)
September 20 – Missing Chandraketugarh antiquities return (The Statesman)
September 19 – Tata Motors appoints first batch of Singur youth (The Hindu Business Line)
September 19 – West Bengal to tie up with Jusco for supplying drinking water (The Hindu Business Line)
September 19 – Private blueprint for park doll-up in Kolkata (The Telegraph)
September 19 – Private hospitals in Kolkata flout free-bed rule (Times of India)
September 18 – Bengal Govt receives two proposals for shipyards from private players (The Hindu Business Line)
September 18 – Minister raps SFI campus drive (The Statesman)
September 18 – CPI(M) launches damage-control exercise in the wake of allegations of corrupt ration dealers being in league with party leaders in Bankura district (The Telegraph)
September 18 – Leader scuttles car park ban in the New Market area. (The Telegraph)
September 18 – The dawn of a new vision in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
September 17 – ‘Red salute’ to Jindal raises hackles (The Statesman)
September 17 – Land losers refuse compensation at Ondal (The Statesman)
September 17 – Rags to riches, thanks to big rice belly - no grain in outlet, godown full at Barjora (The Telegraph)
September 17 – 'Molest' horror: Cops meet Germans (Times of India)
September 17 – Hind Motor’s Uttarpara factory – trouble brewing over IT township and auto park project (The Hindu Business Line)
September 16 – Bullets fly as villagers near Sonamukhi tell comrades: Give us grain, not nuclear nonsense (The Telegraph)
September 16 – Three German scholars molested at Canning (Times of India)
September 15 – East Bengal wins Federation Cup (Times of India)
September 15 – Salt Lake get pre-paid electric meters (Times of India)
September 15 – Mob torches 16 trucks in Durgapur (The Telegraph)
September 14 – Scholarships for IIT, IIM, minority students (The Statesman)
September 14 – Hawkers tighten grip, KMC helpless (Times of India)
September 14 – Eastern Rly earnings rise (The Hindu Business Line)
September 13 – Land with foundation stones for three projects over the past 30 years finally cleared for garment complex at Maheshtala (The Statesman)
September 13 – Small-scale paint cos urged to gear up for cluster shift (The Hindu Business Line)
September 12 – More locomotives from Chittaranjan Locomotive Works. (The Statesman)
September 12 – Parking agency runs brisk illegal business near New Market (The Statesman)
September 11 – SAIL announces investment plans — Rs. 10,000 crore for IISCO, Rs. 6,500 crore for Durgapur Steel Plant and Rs. 500 crore for Alloy Steels Plant; Kulti plant to be revived. (The Statesman)
September 11 – Sagar bridge on study table (The Telegraph)
September 11 – WBJEE alters paper pattern. Statesman), (The Statesman – earlier news)
September 10 – Jhulan Goswami adjudged the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year (The Telegraph)
September 10 – The Centre withholds its clearance for the state’s six development projects, including the light rapid transport system. (The Statesman)
September 10 – Bypass feels Banjara aftershock - damaged Bagha Jatin bridge to be closed (The Telegraph)
September 9 – Tour operators drop Kashmir package this Puja season Tour operators (The Statesman)
September 8 – Delhi model for E-W metro (The Statesman)
September 8 – Bankura death fans starvation fear (The Telegraph)
September 7 – New airport planned near Ondal (The Hindu Business Line)
September 7 – CM shelves plan for second Kolkata airport (Times of India)
September 7 – Ghurni artisans turn to fibreglass (The Statesman)
September 6 – New bridge to replace faulty flyover (Times of India)
September 6 – Commuters wait and watch meeting mania (The Statesman)
September 6 – CM scoffs at green fears – Nayachar no Hiroshima rerun, Buddha tells rally (The Telegraph)
September 5 – State opted for Nayachar ignoring GSI warnings (The Statesman)
September 5 – DSP registers record growth; net profits increase by 70% (The Statesman)
September 5 – ECL jobs for land oustees in Bankola (The Statesman)
September 5 – Metro extension comes at a price (The Statesman)
September 5 – Industry hub in Bankura barren belt (The Telegraph)
September 5 – ‘Dam Dim Tea Estate management forced to declare lock-out’ (The Hindu Business Line)
September 4 – JU cuts to new vistas; imparts computer training to tailors of Metiabruz and Maheshtala (The Statesman)
September 4 – Diamond testing & grading lab in Kolkata (Times of India)
September 3 – Chemical hub likely in uninhabited Nayachar island, off Haldia; outlying area of Haldia Petrochemical Complex rejected as possible site; Khejuri-Contai discussed as possible sites. (The Statesman) (The Telegraph) (The Hindu Business Line)
September 3 – Nobel probe: Mamata blames CPI(M) (Times of India)
September 2 – CBI’s Nobel probe end hurts varsity (The Telegraph}
September 2 – State CID still on lookout for Nobel clues (Times of India)
September 2 – Hundreds flock to 'miracle tree' at Behala (Times of India)
September 1 – Red hurdle to four-lane connector – Anwar Shah connector widening held up by CPI(M) men. (The Statesman)
September 1 – Left rally throws traffic out of gear (Times of India)
September 1 – CBI shuts Nobel chapter after 3 years (Times of India)
August
August 31 – IIT student ‘clears’ teacher of bribery charge (The Statesman) August 31 – Three jute parks to come up in West Bengal (The Hindu Business Line)
August 30 – State to get 2 new trains – Barrackpore-Jhansi and Azamgarh-Kolkata (The Statesman)
August 30 – Reliance finds farmer voice (The Hindu Business Line)
August 29 – Mother thrashed on train, son tossed out - gang of four women thieves terrorises train passengers before fleeing with ornaments (The Telegraph)
August 29 – Ray home saved from land sharks (Times of India)
August 29 – Bengal tea body demands reopening of estates (The Hindu Business Line)
August 28 – Chief Secretary assures adequate protection to prevent any further attacks on Reliance Fresh outlets. (Times of India),(The Hindu Business Line)
August 28 – SFI form on political link irks students (The Telegraph)
August 28 – Rogue drivers roam scot-free (The Telegraph)
August 27 – Ex- CPI(M) MLA urinates on lady army officer in Darjeeling Mail. (The Telegraph)
August 27 – Anguish, tears and anger - families of bus mishap victims vent ire on rogue drivers, callous system. (The Telegraph) , (Times of India)
August 27 – Reliance halts retail in West Bengal and some other states. (The Stateman)
August 27 – Salwar code: State favours teachers. (Times of India)
August 26 – Sex racket busted in Bhowanipore (Times of India)
August 25 – Hizbul operative nabbed in North 24 Parganas district (The Statesman)
August 25 – Tarapada Roy dead. (The Telegraph)
August 25 – Throw out HIV kids: demands Baruipur parents (Times of India)
August 24 – High Court premium on Victoria Memorial (The Statesman)
August 24 – Nirupom Sen corrects CM, resizes chemical hub (The Telegraph)
August 24 – RPG Cellucom opens 4 outlets in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
August 23 – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie haw their first taste of Bengali cuisine (Times of India)
August 23 – Jhalda will get filtered water in 2 yrs (The Statesman)
August 23 – Japanese funds for IIM-C (Times of India)
August 22 – More industries in state cleared at Raghunathpur, Jamuria and Bijpur (The Statesman)
August 22 – Bridge with children crashes into river in North Dinajpur district. (The Telegraph)
August 22 – Tatas to pay Rs 1,000 crore for Singur land lease (The Hindu Business Line)
August 21 – Flood claims 16 lives, 10 lakh marooned (Times of India)
August 21 – Durgapur township in DLF bag (The Telegraph)
August 21 – KMDA to develop infrastructure for medical college in Kalyani (The Statesman)
August 20 – Jamdani weavers in Nabadwip rendered jobless with inundation of their looms (The Statesman)
August 20 – Forward Bloc threatens “law-and-order problem” if the government doesn’t stop Reliance from entering Bengal’s farm retail market. (The Telegraph)
August 20 – Bengal setting up Green Energy Corporation to promote generation of renewable energy (The Hindu Business Line)
August 19 – Two new universities in North 24 Parganas and Malda (The Telegraph)
August 19 – 5-year-old caught in gang war in Talatala (Times of India)
August 19 – E-W Metro puts Bidhannagar Central Park in peril (Times of India)
August 18 – For some KPOs, Kolkata is talent pool, not base station (Financial Express)
August 18 – McDonald’s blast could have been an act of sabotage, says ONGC adviser on fire, (The Telegraph)
August 18 – Transmission meter snag may affect work at airport (Times of India)
August 17 – State turns down British grant (Times of India)
August 17 – Centre says no to Kolkata Light Rail Transit project (Times of India)
August 17 – Clerics bay for Taslima Nasreen blood (The Statesman)
August 16 – Attack on Taslima Nasreen criticised by social bodies (The Statesman)
August 16 – Bengal’s mega housing projects attract FDI in a big way (The Hindu Business Line)
August 15 – Bomb scare results in tension at Howrah Station (Times of India)
August 14: The Centre will fund a third of a Rs 231-crore project to upgrade the city’s drainage system (The Telegraph)
August 14: LPG caused Big Mac blast (Times of India)
August 14: Malaria scare in waterlogged city (Times of India)
August 14: IPTV, video-on-demand services launched in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
August 14: ADB aid for Bengal’s tourism sector (The Hindu Business Line)
August 13: Cars crawl and stall on key roads of Kolkata under knee-deep water (The Telegraph)
August 13: Book fair venue hits roadblock (Times of India)
August 13: Big Mac AC blast at Park Street, Kolkata on kills 1 (Times of India)
August 13: Chemical hub mulled at Nayachar in Purba Medinipur district (The Statesman)
August 12 – ‘De-industrialisation’ of West Bengal (The Statesman)
August 11 – CU Senate Left bastion; no election for all the 30 seats (The Statesman)
August 10 – Tata Motors staff attacked on way to Singur (The Statesman)
August 10 – HC to look at Singur ‘secret’ (The Telegraph)
August 10 – 21-member Bharat Chamber team to visit Vietnam (The Hindu Business Line)
August 9 – ‘West Bengal IT cruising towards Vision 2010’ – West Bengal trying to rise from 8th to 3rd position in the country. (The Hindu Business Line)
August 9 – Kolkata — the happening city on IT front. (The Hindu Business Line)
August 9 – CM keeps allies at bay, Salim has its way. (The Statesman}
August 9 – Farmer suicides in Singur have been driven by the loss of fertile lands long held dear by them. (The Hindu Business Line)
August 8 – Strike partial, CM in denial (The Statesman)
August 8 – ‘Judges-population ratio has to improve to reduce case backlog’ (The Hindu Business Line)
August 8 – CITU strike in Kolkata today {Times of India)
August 8 – Maoists raid police camp in Midnapore (Times of India)
August 7 – Students of Krishnagar Women’s College mar golden jubilee celebrations. (The Telegraph)
August 6 – Kamal Guha dead (The Telegraph)
August 6 – Coal India Limited initiative (The Hindu Business Line)
August 5 – Rummage through Tagore cupboard - filmmaker’s glare falls on relationship between poet and grandfather (The Telegraph)
August 5 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharya tells the “traditional Left” that the educated jobless could not be asked to wait for socialism (The Telegraph)
August 5 – Gang thrashes girls, throws them off train (Times of India)
August 5 – Maoists blow up forest office in Lalgarh in Paschim Medinipur (Times of India)
August 5 – Maintenance work to affect train movement at Howrah station (The Hindu Update)
August 4 – Land reforms for Sabars, Lodhas in Paschim Medinipur turn into reality (The Statesman)
August 4 – Acquisition of land quietly under way in Haldia (Times of India)
August 4 – KMC scraps hand-rickshaw licence (Times of India)
August 4 – Government breaks job pledge at Bakreshwar, gets HC rap (Times of India)
August 3 – Growth meaningless without new jobs: Buddhadeb (The Hindu Business Line)
August 3 – CPI(M) rejects Benoy Konar claim on compensation (The Statesman)
August 2 - WBSIDC, Mahestalla Garments tie up for garment, textile park (Hindu Business Line)
August 2 - Power bonus for big industry, bite for small (The Telegraph)
August 1 - Government contradicts Benoy Konar on firing compensation (The Statesman)
August 1 - Minerva Theatre opens on 15 September. (The Statesman)
August 1 - Buddha firm on chemical hub at Haldia, bent on consensus. (The Telegraph)
August 1 - ‘Agri Export Zones have not taken off in a big way in eastern region’; stress on pineapple exports from West Bengal. (The Hindu Business Line)
July
July 30 - CPI-M will fight it out with the Trinamul on the streets if police fail to enforce rule of law in Nandigram – Benoy Konar (The Statesman)
July 29 – Nandigram clashes kill one (The Statesman)
July 29 – GEECL in talks with Durgapur Projects for Durgapur – Kolkata gas pipeline revival (The Hindu Business Line)
July 29 – National Library building in Kolkata is in an advanced state of disrepair. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 28 – Himalayan Mountaineering Institute closed indefinitely following civilian employee trouble. (The Telegraph)
July 28 – Police take seven months to demolish the club whose members had encroached on a widow’s land. (The Telegraph)
July 27 – CESC plans Rs 18,000 crore investment in power and retail sectors (The Statesman)
July 27 – DSP package for Rs. 6,000 crore upgradation expedited (The Statesman)
July 27 – Fee parking on 100 more roads in Kolkata (The Telegraph)
July 26 – Indian Newspaper Society slams CITU move to suspend distribution of newspapers (The Statesman)
July 25 – An institute for Chinese language study likely at Rajarhat (The Statesman)
July 25 – West Bengal Assembly congratulates Pratibha Patil (The Hindu Update)
July 25 – Left Front wins Haldia municipal poll (The Hindu Update)
July 24 – Ship sinks in Hooghly River with fish-killer ash (The Telegraph)
July 24 – Rules for school pool cars - code on anvil, announces Buddha; crackdown nets 22 vehicles (The Telegraph)
July 24 – ‘Singur land gifted to Tatas’ (The Statesman)
July 23 – KMC needs Rs 7,500 crore to renovate sewer net. (The Statesman)
July 23 – No flooded streets for Rs 1,500 crore – demand on centre. (The Statesman)
July 23 – Sen effect on land debate - Farm ok but no force: Trinamul (The Telegraph)
July 22 – ‘Prohibiting the use of agricultural land for industries is ultimately self-defeating’ – Amartya Sen (The Telegraph)
July 21 – No talks: Mamata (The Telegraph)
July 20 – Respite for Jagmohan Dalmiya (The Statesman)
July 20 – CPI(M) forces School of Tropical Medicine chief to quit (The Statesman)
July 19 – CSTC takes revival route (The Telegraph)
July 19 – Government plays safe on land consent (The Statesman)
July 19 – Part of boundary wall of Tata Motors car project pulled down (The Hindu Update)
July 19 – JBIC offers crores for Kolkata revamp (Times of India)
July 19 – I have to follow capitalism: Buddha (Hindustan Times)
July 18 – Internet and phones click back to life (The Telegraph)
July 18 – Man makes elephant calf pariah (The Telegraph)
July 18 – Bharat Ophthalmic Glass Limited at Durgapur to be liquidated (The Statesman)
July 17 – Blaze in phone bastion - Power plant flames pull plug (The Telegraph)
July 17 – ‘Tornado’ in Malda (The Telegraph)
July 17 – Tourism development - Mangrove, sand & the sea right till Mandarmani. (The Statesman)
July 17 – Bengal emerging hub for medical tourism (The Hindu Business Line)
July 16 – Government at World Bank door for development of towns. (The Telegraph)
July 16 – Clean chit for ‘goon’ - Twin murder case falls flat (The Telegraph)
July 16 – Great Eastern Energy begins CBM production. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 16 – Citu men vandalise tele-channel (The Statesman)
July 15 – IIT wake-up bell for backbencher Bengal. (The Telegraph)
July 15 – Besu step will steal JEE thunder. (The Statesman)
July 14 – HUJI activist nabbed at Bengal village. (The Hindu Update)
July 14 – Heavy rain ahead (The Telegraph)
July 14 – Mahasweta’s no to Hindi award. (Hindustan Times)
July 13 – Steps initiated for developing Bengal deep-draught port. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 13 – Sudden blaze, flaming death at SSKM Hospital canteen. (The Telegraph)
July 12 – Tapasi Malik murder was committed to create a fear psychosis among the local people spearheading the anti-land acquisition movement – CBI advocate. (The Statesman)
July 12 – Singur math in House – Buddha sticks to land consent figures. (The Telegraph)
July 12 – Bengal ranks fifth in wooing investments: Survey (The Hindu Business Line)
July 12 – Gopalkrishna Gandhi won’t be VP - Governor turns down ‘informal soundings’ (The Telegraph)
July 12 – Half of Bengal Engineering & Science University,Shibpur berths for state students (The Telegraph)
July 12 – Power crisis looms over state. (Times of India)
July 11 – Portraits of Tapasi case suspects released (The Statesman)
July 10 - Post- Biswas, education czars still reign - Autonomy phobia lies in party DNA. (The Telegraph)
July 10 - HS loss is other boards’ gain – ICSE, CBSE students bag more college seats. (The Telegraph)
July 10 - Jobs aplenty for JU arts. (The Telegraph)
July 9 - Rein in tea unions, Jairam tells Buddha (The Telegraph)
July 8 - Mamata plays birthday card. (The Telegraph)
July 8 - Ultimatum to gardens – Tea estates told to accept relief package or face takeover. (The Telegraph)
July 7 – Rain havoc in districts. (The Telegraph)
July 6 – Minister’s Singur figures fire up Opposition. (The Telegraph)
July 6 – CPI(M) in propaganda war. (The Telegraph)
July 6 – Basu salvo at Centre. (The Telegraph)
July 5 – Suhrid somersault on CBI truth test. (The Telegraph)
July 5 – Bangladesh bans export of Ilish to India for six months. (The Telegraph)
July 5 – Heavy rainfall predicted over weekend. (The Statesman)
July 5 – Petro investment region project awaiting Cabinet nod. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 4 – Landslip close shave for toy train. (The Telegraph)
July 4 – Jindal shares and jobs for land losers at Salboni not part of agreement with Government. (The Telegraph)
July 4 – CBI widens scope of Tapasi Malik murder probe, but cuts sorry figure in Delhi court. (The Telegraph)
July 4 – Landfill link to flooding in Kolkata. (The Telegraph)
July 3 – Mayor points to Mumbai while Calcutta goes under water. (The Telegraph)
July 3 – Suhrid finger on ‘others’. (The Telegraph)
July 3 – Intellectuals’ outfits incur Naxalite tag. (The Statesman)
July 3 – Row over liquor ad in Tarapith. (Times of India)
July 3 – ONGC firms up plans to explore at Contai block. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 2 – Singur farmer dies of starvation. (The Telegraph), (The Statesman)
July 2 – Locks loom on Dunlop again, shortage of funds. (The Telegraph)
July 2 – Suhrid strikes back at rivals in party - Another lie test lined up (The Telegraph)
July 1 – The 115,000 sq ft (10,700 m2) parking lot under Laldighi will be sticking eight ft above ground. (The Telegraph)
July 1 – ‘Nivedita Bridge’ to be opened soon. (The Hindu Business Line)
July 1 – CPI(M) backs accused on peace day. (The Statesman)
