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'Militant seven' in flat (21 December 12:15) |
| Seven alleged Manipuri militants, including three women, were rounded up from a Jadavpur hideout early on Thursday, following a joint raid by the South 24-Parganas police and the Military In... |
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Welcome mat missing for Friday stars (21 December 12:15) |
| The two-player plex market has hit Calcutta's cinegoers yet again. |
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Fares soar with season (21 December 12:15) |
| Low-fare tickets are a vanishing commodity this Christmas-New Year season ' they have been booked a couple of months before. |
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Reformed criminal gunned down (21 December 12:15) |
| Ramesh Bhodok, an accused in a couple of murder cases, was shot dead near his house on Benaras Road, in Liluah, on Thursday night. |
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He breathes easy again (21 December 12:15) |
| A nine-year-old boy with a pen cap stuck in his lungs for a month breathed easy again on Thursday, after a team of ENT surgeons at SSKM Hospital took out the object. "The cap was lodged in t... |
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Cops get layout of book fair (21 December 12:15) |
| The Publishers and Booksellers Guild on Thursday submitted a "ground plan" to Calcutta police for organising Book Fair 2008 on the Park Circus Maidan. |
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Senate nod for VC term (21 December 12:15) |
| The newly elected senate of Calcutta University held its first meeting on Thursday and put its seal of approval on the governor's order of extending the tenure of vice-chancellor Ashis Baner... |
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Kids, parents bear the brunt (21 December 12:15) |
| School students and their parents faced harassment on Thursday, as more than 6,000 pool cars stayed off the road as part of the indefinite strike called by the Car Pool Owners' Association o... |
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Circus jumbo yet to cool down (21 December 12:15) |
| Bhola, the 42-year-old male elephant of Nataraj Circus, shook off the effects of the tranquilliser that was administered to him on Wednesday evening and tore down a part of the big top on Th... |
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Kids pay in car ritual (20 December 12:30) |
| More than 25,000 students were stuck in school for hours on Wednesday afternoon as their pool cars did not pick them up. |
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A Maoist, behind every bush (20 December 12:30) |
| Young, nocturnal, loitering around Writers' and a college student to boot? |
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Mishaps claim four (20 December 12:30) |
| Four people were killed in road mishaps in Calcutta in the past 24 hours. Over the past three days, seven people have died on the city streets. |
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South City (20 December 12:30) |
| Calcutta High Court on Wednesday put its seal of approval on the South City project on Prince Anwar Shah Road. |
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Market effect on English (20 December 12:30) |
| Market forces have prompted the Marxist government in Bengal to introduce English as the medium of instruction in five state-aided schools in and around Calcutta. |
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Fine up for road cell use (20 December 12:30) |
| Tuesday's accident on VIP Road was no exception. Use of cellphone by drivers has reached alarming proportions in the city, leaving Lalbazar groping for ways to curb the menace. |
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Fire at police station (20 December 12:30) |
| An accidental spark in a crate containing seized firecrackers set Bally police station on fire on Wednesday morning. |
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39-year stay ends in death (20 December 12:30) |
| Bhanumati, whose address was bed 9 of Howrah Orthopaedic Hospital for the past 39 years, died on Wednesday morning following a renal failure. |
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Teachers' barb at Besu VC (20 December 12:30) |
| The teachers at Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) have demanded that vice-chancellor (VC) N.R. Banerjea withdraw his allegations against them and admit responsibility for the ... |
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Snag forces flight to land (20 December 12:30) |
| An Air India flight made an emergency landing at Calcutta airport on Wednesday after a snag mid-air. |
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Circus elephant on rampage at park (20 December 12:30) |
| A full-grown elephant of Nataraj Circus left a trail of destruction at Tallah Park on Wednesday in an attempt to break free. |
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National entrance test for retail course (20 December 12:30) |
| The first countrywide entrance examination for postgraduate programmes in retail management will be held on January 27. |
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Wish list for road (20 December 12:30) |
| How should Park Street fight the urban decay and reinvent itself? |
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Concrete cover: do it, regret it (19 December 12:20) |
| Three years after the dereservation of tram tracks was rolled out with much fanfare, the city's civic managers have suddenly woken up to the fact that concrete is more difficult to dig than ... |
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Driver on mobile, pool car mangled (19 December 12:20) |
| A pool car carrying school students rammed into a stationary tourist bus on VIP Road early on Tuesday, injuring eight children. The driver was reportedly drunk and was also speaking into the... |
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Teen run over during gully cricket (19 December 12:20) |
| A game of gully cricket claimed a teenager's life as Kanhaiya Kumar was crushed under the wheels of a speeding minibus on KK Tagore Street on Tuesday morning. |
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Daughter nails killers (19 December 12:20) |
| The testimony of a six-year-old girl resulted in the conviction of two men who had murdered her mother three years ago. |
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Torture cry in death (19 December 12:20) |
| Undertrial Raju Roy, 30, died in the custody of railway police on Friday. Three days have passed but his body has not been handed over to his family. |
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Police boost for girl power (19 December 12:20) |
| How to tackle a Road Romeo? First, protest. Then, head straight for the nearest police officer and seek help. |
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First bite after a year (19 December 12:20) |
| A 64-year-old cancer patient from the UK, who could not eat solid food for more than a year, has been successfully operated upon in a city hospital. |
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Judge demand for pilot car (19 December 12:20) |
| A high court judge is angry with Calcutta police for failing to provide a pilot car when he went to attend a wedding last Saturday. |
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Campus fair of books (19 December 12:20) |
| More than 50 bookstalls, musical performances, panel discussions and seminars will be the draws at the first book fair on the St Xavier's College grounds. The fair, organised by the college'... |
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Narrow road, traffic trauma (19 December 12:20) |
| Snarls are a common occurrence on Bijon Setu during office hours, as buses, cars, taxis, autos and trams vie for space on the narrow Bypass connector. The traffic volume may treble by 2009, ... |
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IPTV in new year (19 December 12:20) |
| Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has set January 1, 2008, as the new deadline for the launch of its Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service in Calcutta. |
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Real-life biz lesson (19 December 12:20) |
| Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), known for producing the best brains in finance, has turned to the industry for a course on a new branch of marketing. |
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Murder ring price-less (18 December 12:37) |
| The ring for which Shyama Prasad Roy was gagged, tied-up and murdered at his Tollygunge residence would not have fetched even a fraction of the "Rs 1 crore" that the 54-year-old advocate alw... |
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Big bite for merry Christmas (18 December 12:37) |
| This Christmas, munch-happy Calcutta will get its largest food and beverage zone. |
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Govt drags feet on diesel vehicle curb (18 December 12:37) |
| The state environment department has woken up to the dangers of diesel vehicles, especially old commercial ones, plying on city roads but the transport department is scuttling the possibilit... |
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Estate to sell power (18 December 12:37) |
| Solar power may soon be a source of income for the residents of Orbit City in Jadavpur. |
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CBI gets time for Rizwanur report (18 December 12:37) |
| Calcutta High Court on Monday granted the CBI time till January 8 to submit its report on the mystery shrouding the death of Rizwanur Rahman. |
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Follow rules, hit fast track (18 December 12:37) |
| The state government has promised to fast-track the process of issuing no-objection certificates (NOCs) to new schools and of approving proposals for upgrade. |
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Teachers take on varsity authorities (18 December 12:37) |
| Teachers at the Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) are up in arms against vice-chancellor N.R. Banerjea over his decision to suspend the university sine die on Friday and his s... |
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Held for disc brawl (18 December 12:37) |
| A tiff between two groups over a girl turned into a brawl at Sourav's on Sunday night. Two were injured and furniture at the food pavilion, off Park Street, were damaged in the fight. Najish... |
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Bail for Idris (18 December 12:37) |
| All India Minority Forum president Idris Ali was granted bail by the high court on Monday. He was arrested on December 7 for allegedly blocking roads in Amdanga, in North 24-Parganas, on Nov... |
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Fire heat on godowns (18 December 12:37) |
| Mahesh Babu had to spend over six hours to rub out the black mark left on his skin by ash and soot after two godowns next to his house in Tiljala caught fire early on Sunday. |
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Fast-track blueprint for Bypass (16 December 11:47) |
| Dedicated bus lanes and a flyover at the Ruby rotary are part of a Rs 250-crore state blueprint to transform the EM Bypass into a high-speed corridor. |
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Fairways lure foreigners (16 December 11:47) |
| Move over Memorial, the fairways are here. A growing band of foreign tourists is seeking a slice of Calcutta's history ' not with a tour of colonial architecture but by teeing off on the wor... |
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Doubts over safety in sky (16 December 11:47) |
| any airline, any airport, any time, you are safe. |
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Tiger skin in bus stop bag (16 December 11:47) |
| A tiger skin was found in an unclaimed gunny bag at a bus stand near Ruby General Hospital, in Kasba, on Sunday afternoon. |
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4 mishaps kill 3, spark road rage (16 December 11:47) |
| Four mishaps in a span of six hours on Sunday claimed three lives, injured four people, triggered violence in the port area and spurred allegations of lax traffic vigil on public holidays. |
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Who's who at IIM event (16 December 11:47) |
| The best brains from the public and private sectors and the B-schools will come together at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) on Tuesday to pick the brains of a marketing guru. |
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