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[edit] 2006
[edit] December
December 31 – Sweeter deal for farmers. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 30 – Mohun Bagan wins the Federation Cup at Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata. (Source:The Staesman)
December 30 – Trinamool Congress feels cheated by the state government’s extension of Section 144 in Singur. (Source: The Statesman)
December 29 – Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly wins the 44th National A Chess Championship for the fourth consecutive time. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 29 – Great Eastern Hotel being renovated. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 29 – Mamata Banerjee under close observation for 72 hours. (Source: Times of India)
December 29 – State Government needs four more days to trash Mamata Banerjee’s claim on forcible land acquisition. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 28 – Mamata Banerjee ends her 25-day fast as President and Prime Minister plead.(Sources: Times of India , The Hindu)
December 28 – Aged couple found murdered in Singur. (Source: Hindustan Times)
December 27 – No question of Tata Motors pulling out of Singur, confirms Ratan Tata. (Source: Financial Express)
December 27 – Jagmohan Dalmiya quits as President of Cricket Association of Bengal. (Source: The Hindu)
December 27 – Conditional access system vs Direct broadcast satellite: Companys trigger price war. (Source: The Economic Times)
December 26 – The good old piano has fallen from grace. (Source: Times of India)
December 26 – The small car project of Tata Motors at Singur will go ahead, says Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chief Minister of West Bengal. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 26 – Mamata Banerjee has has been put on Oxygen on the 23rd day of her fast but she refused to call off her fast and agitation unless the State Government commits to return to farmers land that has been acquired forcibly for the Tata Motors project at Singur. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 26 – The lessons of land acquisition in Kharagpur. (Source: The Statesman)
December 25 – Kolkata celebrates Christmas (Source: The Telegraph)
December 25 – Tata Motors starts recruitment for Singur factory. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 24 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Rs. 9,600 crore IISCO modernisation - largest investment in West Bengal in the last 10 years. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 24 – “West Bengal must join the march of progress and benefit from rapid economic growth,” says Prime Minister at Burnpur. (Source: The Times of India)
December 24 – Birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis to be celebrated as National Statistical Day. (Source: The Statesman)
December 24 – Mamata Banerjee says she is not scared of death. (Source: Times of India)
December 22 – Day 19 of Mamata Banerjee’s fast. (Source: The Times of India)
December 22 – CPI(M) backs Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Jyoti Basu calls for talks. (Source: The Telegrapgh)
December 22 – Jindal seal on steel project at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur. (Source: The Telegrapgh)
December 22 – PM to inaugurate IISCO Steel Plant expansion. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 21 – Affidavits belie government consent claim about Singur land acquiaition. (Source: The Statesman)
December 21 – Charred bodies can yield little rape proof: Experts. (Source: The Statesman)
December 20 - Trinamool Congress calls back the 48 hours bandh on 21 -22 December in West Bengal. (Source:The Statesman)
December 20 – Rs 600-crore Dunlop India package. (Source: The Statesman)
December 18 – Singur murder shuts down order. (Source: The Statesman)
December 15 – Ground being prepared for land acquisition in South 24 Parganas (Source: The Statesman)
December 15 – CITU questions industry drive in Bardhaman District. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 15 – Cloud over Bengal railway projects. (Source: The Statesman)
December 15 – Rs. 350 crore Asian Development Bank fund to clean up Kolkata. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 15 – US hotel group gets land in Durgapur – wants land in Rajarhat, Darjeeling and Siliguri. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 15 – Mahindra United lifts IFA Shield. (Source: The Statesman)
December 14 – Kerala and Tripura join West Bengal in all-India general strike. (Source: The Hindu)
December 14 – Salt Lake information technology industry attendance down to 15 per cent. (Source: Hindutan Times)
December 13 – Development funds lying unused in the districts. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 13 – University of Calcutta exploring possibilities of speeding up publication of examination results. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 13 – CITU shuts down West Bengal on 14 December. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 13 – Nationwide general strike on 14 December. (Source: The Hindu)
December 12 – Airlines scrap flights, trains to run on 14 December. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 12 – Tata Motors gets cracking, meets WBIDC brass. (Source: The Statesman)
December 12 – Tata Motors to make Singur a mini auto city. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 12 – Unlicensed B.Ed. colleges finally approved. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 12 – West Bengal records the second highest incidence of domestic violence in the country. (Source: Times of India)
December 10 – Suicide rates rising among models. (Source: Times of India)
December 10 – ‘Nationwide’ bandh but only in West Bengal on 14 December. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 9 – State government to go ahead with Tata Motors project. (Source: The Statesman)
December 8 – State lagging in milk production. (Source: The Statesman)
December 8 – Fire minister cautions high-rises. (Source: The Statesman)
December 8 – Strike divide dogs CITU. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 8 – About 50% farmers had refused to hand over land at Singur. (Source: The Statesman)
December 7 – Demand low for conditional access system as date for change-over approaches. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 7 – Kolkata Municipal Corporation to preserve Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore relics in UK. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 7 – Parks to have palm tree landscaping. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
December 7 – Chambers of Commerce unite on Singur. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 7 – Allegations of police torture of women in Singur. (Source: Times of India)
December 6 –Bandhs in a row affect IT sector. (Source: Times of India)
December 6 – Singur land to be handed over to Tata Motors soon. (Source: Hindustan Times)
December 4 – Bill ends run of hand-pulled rickshaw. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 4 – Singur fence: 70% finished. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 4 – Stir against Tata Motors project in Singur hots up. (Source: Hindustan Times)
December 3 – Woman activists force Chief Minister on the back foot. (Source: The Statesman)
December 3 – Fencing crosses half-line at Singur. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 3 – Protest against police atrocities at Singur. (Source: The Statesman)
December 2 – Lufthansa starts Frankfurt-Kolkata flight. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 2 – Bharti puts West Bengal on Wal-Mart map. (Source: The Telegraph)
December 2 – Coal India Limited bid to avert mining accidents. (Source: The Statesman)
[edit] November
November 30 – Berserk in House, bandh outside. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 30 – The land acquired will be handed over to Tata Motors within a few days (Source: The Telegraph)
November 29 – Kolkata hawkers pay Rs. 365 crore as bribe. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 27 – Modernisation and capacity enhancement of Merchant Mills at Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur would be undertaken at a cost of Rs 119 crore. (Source: The Statesman)
November 26 – South Eastern Railway (SER) plans to upgrade its infrastructure in Burnpur with the commencement of the modernisation work of the IISCO Steel Plant. (Source: The Statesman)
November 24 – West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2006, stalled in state assembly. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 23 – Howrah Bridge lighted up. (Source: The Hindu Business Line)
November 23 – Death toll in leather factory fire at Topsia, a Kolkata suburb, rises to ten. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 23 – Hand pulled rickshaw ban cleared by Select Committee. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 22 – The state assembly has passed the West Bengal Panchayat Third Amendment Bill 2006. (Source: The Statesman)
November 22 – Former Darjeeling boy lived his dream in the South Pole winter. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 21 – Sangeet Chatterjee and Ramendu Ghosh have summitted the Deo Tibba (20,110 ft) dominating over Parvati Valley in Himachal Pradesh. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 21 – Cable television is facing challenges from new delivery systems such as DTH and IPTV. (Source:The Statesman)
November 20 – Four killed, fifty-three injured in train blast at Belakoba in Jalpaiguri district. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 20 – Salt Lake Electronics Complex buzz word - “Join the union and get the sack.” (Source: Times of India)
November 20 – Saddam Hussein is on the jatra stage. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 19 – Eastern India’s first nuclear power plant is likely to be located at Haripur under Contai in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. The site is being preferred by Nuclear Power Corporation of India. (Source: The Telegraph)
November 18 – The 19-km metro line from Ramrajatala in Howrah to Salt Lake has been cleared by the central government. (Source: Hindustan Times)( See also earlier news The Telegraph)
November 16 – In the West Bengal Municipal Bill, 2006, to be tabled in the Assembly’s winter session, there are no penal provisions for graffiti (termed “non-commercial advertisement”). (Source: The Telegraph )
November 15 – The state government will place a status report on land use in the winter session of the Assembly. The Opposition, as well as partners of CPI-M, has been clamouring for such a report in view of the rampant use of agricultural land for industry and urbanization. (Source: The Statesman)
November 14 – INS Shardul, the Naval ship, built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, for carrying troops, tanks and Army vehicles, is all set to make its maiden voyage to Karwa in the Western Command of the Indian Navy. (Source:The Statesman)
November 14 – At a workshop on kirtans held at Birahimpur, near Ketugram in Bardhaman District, participants desired to maintain the purity of kirtan tunes. (Source: Ananda Bazar Patrika)
November 12 – Calcutta has the lowest green count among all the cities, according to the Delhi-based National Institute of Environment Studies (NIES). The percentage of green cover as a proportion of the total area for major Indian cities are - Bangalore: 8.60 per cent, National Capital Region (New Delhi): 8.49 per cent, Greater Mumbai: 6.20 per cent, Chennai: 7.50 per cent… Calcutta a paltry 0.95 per cent. Green cover has been continuously depleting in Calcutta, from 1.3 per cent in 1997-98 to 0.95 per cent in 1999-2000, due to indiscriminate felling of trees and a surge in real estate projects.(Source:The Telegraph)
November 12 – A passenger travelling on Kharagpur-Asansol passenger train fell unconscious after taking tea at Garbeta station, and was robbed. He later recovered at Bankura Medical College, where Railway Protection Force had shifted him after he was found unconscious at Bankura station.
November 11 – Top US-based management consultants, neoIT, has now ranked Kolkata among the top three global offshoring destinations in the world for the future. neoIT, a services globalisation consultancy that works with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms, has ranked twenty-four top global sourcing destinations in terms of their current and future attractiveness as the best offshore services delivery locations in the world. Though cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai came out on top of the list of the current destination for offshore service delivery, Hyderabad, Warsaw in Poland and Kolkata were tipped to be the best offshoring destinations of the future..(Source: The Statesman)
November 10 – 12th Kolkata Film Festival was inaugurated by the Governor at Nandan. About half of the 90 foreign delegates invited to the festival have already arrived in the city. (Source:nowrunning.com)
November 9 – Students from different Eco Clubs in schools around West Bengal have gathered at Mangpu in Darjeeling District for participating in a Nature study camp.
November 8 – There are guarding arrangements for only 5 of the 71 bridges in the Jorai-Farakka section of North-east Frontier Railway passing through the Duars.
November 8 – The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will finally table their preliminary report on the proposed Raichak-Kukrahati bridge, proposed near Diamond Harbour. JICA will hand over its report to the state government which might pass it on to consultants appointed by Salim group.
November 8 – A canal bridge linking about 14 villages with the rest of Bankura District near Mailara had collapsed on the very eve of inauguration some 14 years ago. This dilapidated bridge is still a matter of inconvenience to the thousands of residents of the concerned villages.
November 7 – East Bengal Club wins the Kolkata football league title for the 31st time.
November 5 - Complaining with the police against rowdy behaviour and breaking of civic laws puts one at the risk of begetting more rowdy behaviour. Or so says the experience of a railway employee living in Garpar Road, Narkeldanga, Kolkata. A rowdy musical programme was continuing after the decibel deadline of 10 p.m. as specified by the state government. The local councillor was present at the programme.
November 4 - 225 films from 53 countries will be screened in the Calcutta Film Festival to be inaugurated on November 10 at Nanadan, Kolkata.
November 3 - Swastha Bitan, a health care unit of the Peerless Hospital and BK Roy Research Centre, was inaugurated at Prantik near Santiniketan.
November 2 - Jindal Group of industries would be given 5,500 acres of fallow land owned by the state government at Jamberia mouja in Salboni, about 20 km from Midnapore to set up a steel plant, at an investment about Rs 10,000 crore.
November 2 - Utensils made of kansa or bell metal, an alloy of tin, iron and copper, were once a must in almost every Bengali household but most households across West Bengal have gradually shifted to steel and aluminium utensils, which are lighter and cheaper. Nadia District had become famous for high-quality kansa utensils. But today, around 1,000 manufacturers from 11 villages of Krishnagar, Nakashipara and Kaligunj blocks are in the grip of poverty.
November 1 – Three wild elephants stopped all work in the Khottadihi open cast colliery of Coal India Limited in the Pandaveswar area in Bardhaman district for some time. The elephants had come from Bankura district across the Damodar River and after being chased by villagers and mine workers crossed the Ajay River into Birbhum district.
[edit] October
October 31 – The Central Government has agreed in principle to release Rs. 5,000 crore for the development of Kolkata.
October 31 – The foundation stone of Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company Limited (HMC) was laid at Haldia. It is a joint venture between Tata Steel and WBIDC that envisages investment of Rs 1,600 crore. The proposed capacity of the plant is 1.6 million ton of low ash metallurgical coke per annum alongside power generation capacity of 120 MW.
October 30 - Kolkata will soon get USAID funds to set up an energy efficiency centre. An Asia-Pacific fund has been created for energy efficiency centres in India. The Kolkata one will aim at making people aware of how energy-efficient home appliances – compact fluorescent lamps, solar water-heaters, solar cookers and air-conditioners - can conserve energy.
October 30 – Four ladies started the Chhotokulgachi Sisu Siksha Kendra in Gazipur panchayat of Katwa subdivision of Bardhaman District with 25 students in 2000. The number of students has been growing and students are coming from other villages as its reputation for good education is spreading. Now the teachers have purchased land with their own money and are awaiting funds for a building.
October 29 – Sanchita Bhattacharjee of Shibpur, Howrah has won the Little Champ music competition organised by Zee TV.
October 29 – Chhat Puja was celebrated in different parts of West Bengal, mostly in urban areas with considerable Hindi-speaking population.
October 27 – A puppet show group belonging to Bagula village under Hanskhali police station in Nadia District has prepared a new presentation named “Singur Story”, hoping to cash in on the interest that has been generated in rural areas because of the controversy related to acquisition of agricultural land for the proposed small car factory.
October 26 – New Digha sea beach is heading for some real life Baywatch action soon. For the first time in India, the beach will host Surf Life Saving Events in which lifeguards and lifesavers, about 80 to 85 of them from the age group of 10 to 40, will participate in sporting events to create awareness about lifesaving techniques such as resuscitation, rescue and so on.
October 25 - Apart from sporadic cases like dengue, malaria or kalaazar, the Bankura Sammilanee Medical College Hospital is mostly overcrowded with the patients either being referred or rushed directly from three districts including Bankura itself, Purulia and Midnapore (West).
October 25 - After several false starts, renovation of the Kalighat temple has finally got underway. The expenditure has been estimated at Rs 79 crore, of which the Centre has provided its share of Rs 5 crore. The rest of the funds will come from International Foundation for Sustainable Development (IFSD), an organisation of NRIs.
October 24 – West Bengal celebrates Eid ul-Fitr and Brothers’ Day.
October 21 – West Bengal celebrates Kali Puja and Diwali with thunder and lightning.
October 21 - The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has given a plot to Love N Care for Animals, a non-government organisation concentrating on animal welfare, at Ultadanga to cope with northern Kolkata’s stray dogs.
October 13 - Kolkata press lauds Nobel Prize for Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
October 12 – A permanent 100-acres exhibition ground is being planned at New Town (Rajarhat), Kolkata. It will also have a convention centre of international standards.
October 12 – A 32-year old woman was killed by a tiger in the Sunderbans. She was a resident of Patharpratima area and was fishing for crabs in Kendo Island when the tiger suddenly attacked and killed her.
October 10 – An unidentified fever is spreading in some parts of south Bengal.
October 10 – Many areas of Nadia district are still flooded with knee deep water.
October 9 – West Bengal is celebrating Wild Life Week from October 9-15.
October 9 – With a holiday and bandh extended weekend Digha was crowded with tourists.
October 9 – Kolkata Municipal Corporation plans to bring neglected articles of historical significance to Town Hall for display.
October 9 - More than 35,000 private buses and mini-buses and over 90,000 taxis and luxury taxis would stay off the roads in Kolkata because of the bandh call.
October 9 - Calcutta Police has joined hands with its counterparts in North and South 24-Parganas to ensure that 24x7 Sector V of Salt Lake City, housing all the IT companies, is not affected by the 12-hour Bengal bandh.
October 9 – A six-year old boy drowned in the Kestopur canal in Kolkata when he had gone there to watch the movement of launches.
October 6 – The number of temporary supplies to puja pandals by CESC rose to 2885 this year from 2801 lat year.
October 6 – According to ABC Consultants, retail, telecom, financial services, entertainment-media-communication (EMC)) industry, real estate, information technology (IT) and IT enabled services (ITES), business process outsourcing (BPO), hospitality and manufacturing (mainly steel and related industry) are expected to account for the chunk of new jobs in West Bengal in the next few years,
