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[edit] 2008
[edit] March
March 31 – CITU calls first-ever strike at Haldia Petrochemicals demanding absorption of casual staff (Times of India)
March 30 – Singur ancillaries pick up speed (Times of India)
March 30 – Shyam Sel biomass power unit goes on stream at Bardhaman. (The Hindu Business Line)
March 28 – ‘World class’ varsity for city (The Telegraph)
March 28 – CLW poised to hit best-ever performance and target of 200 locos (The Hindu Business Line)
March 28 – Man found dead at Tata Motors' project site at Singur (Times of India)
March 27 – Bengal tops in animal cruelty cases (The Statesman)
March 27 – Even teachers think that BESU student unrest could have been tackled in a better manner had university authorities been politically unbiased. (The Statesman)
March 27 – Luxury tram on Maidan route (Times of India)
March 27 – ‘Dead’ son writes from Pakistan prison to parents in Islampur (The Telegraph}
March 26 – Four Left Front candidates and an Independent elected to the Rajya Sabha (The Telegraph)
March 26 – No diesel without pollution under control certificate in Kolkata from June (Times of India)
March 26 – IIT-K students bag coveted jobs (The Hindu Business Line)
March 26 – Bardhaman has high hopes for satellite township (The Statesman)
March 25 – Kolkata under sea in 50 yrs because of climate change? (The Statesman)
March 25 – Kolkata Municipal Corporation yet to realise Rs 1,000 crore as property tax over the last few years. (Times of India)
March 24 – Besu students in an act of defiance (The Statesman)
March 24 – Spurt in import activity at Kolkata airport; 30% growth seen; exports stagnating (The Hindu Business Line)
March 24 – Another strike to paralyze airport on 10 April. (Times of India)
March 24 – State government overhauling school education system in tune with the recommendations of the NCERT (The Telegraph)
March 23 – PM gifts a lakh, village stops food for blind man in Nadia district (The Telegraph)
March 23 – Braveheart teen tames molester in Behala (Times of India)
March 22 – Farmer kills self at Memari as the on-field price of potato hits the nadir; state announces support price (Times of India) (The Telegraph)
March 20 – Night landings soon at Netaji airport’s second runway (The Hindu Business Line)
March 20 – Engineering college turns battlefield (Times of India)
March 20 – Bagmundi girl braces for Beijing Olympics (The Statesman)
March 19 – Rs 4000-cr plant for Nayachar petro hub (Times of India)
March 19 – Vedanta agrees to revive Balco plant at Bidhanbag in Bardhaman district (The Statesman)
March 19 – Writers’ seeks report on starving Dadra village in Binpur Bloc in Paschim Medinipur district (The Telegraph)
March 19 – Bihar leads the ST dropout pack, Bengal rides piggyback (The Satesman)
March 18 – SAIL funds bridge over Damodar that will connect Burnpur with Madhukunda in Purulia district (The Hindu Business Line)
March 18 – CPI(M) leaders lobbying for Dum Dum flyover (The Statesman)
March 17 – Rs 75-cr tax proposals in West Bengal Budget (The Hindu Business Line)
March 17 – Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has demanded that a high powered commission be set up to investigate “cases of corruption” in the DGHC (The Telegraph)
March 16 – Textile policy to give thrust to job creation in West Bengal (The Hindu Business Line)
March 15 – CAG pulls up Indian Museum for not balancing books (The Statesman)
March 14 – Kshiti Goswami on NH-34 - land problems delaying widening (The Statesman)
March 10 – Citu members beat striking worker to death (Times of India)
March 10 – Ghising quits as administrator of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (The Hindu)
March 9 – IIM-C student bags highest offer again (Times of India)
March 9 – Belur Math observes 173rd janmatithi of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa (The Telegraph)
March 8 – Bird flu back in Murshidabad villages (The Telegraph)
March 8 – City gets fatter, courtesy malls (Times of India)
March 8 – Husband finally files FIR with Maniktala police station (The Telegraph)
March 7 – Los Angeles trade team to explore opportunities in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
March 7 – Tripura “experiment” ahead of West Bengal panchayat polls: As CPI(M) cakewalks to power for the fourth successive term, ally Forward Bloc, fighting on its own, draws a blank. (The Telegraph)
March 7 – Husband was halted from going to police by CPI(M) local committee members in Maniktala (The Telegraph)
March 6 – KMDA inks pacts for three projects worth Rs. 850 crore located at Salt Lake (The Hindu Business Line)
March 6 – Five-year tax holiday to boost hospitality, tourism sectors – Sundarbans may benefit (The Hindu Business Line)
March 6 – Crime against women, highest in West Bengal (Times of India)
March 5 – Railway freight terminals to come up at Dankuni and Sankrail (The Hindu Business Line)
March 5 – Solution to problems on-air in Khatra (The Statesman)
March 4 – State solves Infosys land puzzle (Times of India)
March 4 – Rs 1-cr loss in engineering exports costs 44 jobs: EEPC survey (The Hindu Business Line)
March 2 – South 24 Parganas district HQ to be ready at Baruipur by 2010 (The Statesman)
March 1 – Low-key launch for Boimela (Times of India)
[edit] February
February 29 – Private equity players eye real estate mart in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
February 29 – Bengal seeks information security course in IIITs (The Hindu Business Line)
February 29 – Veteran CPI(M) leader and former state minister Prasanta Sur passes away (Times of India)
February 29 – Subash Gishing would step down as caretaker administrator of the DGHC within 10 days (The Telegraph)
February 28 – Mamata donates from the sale proceeds of her paintings to the victims of Nandigram and Singur disturbances (The Statesman)
February 27 – New policy on private investment in airport infrastructure soon - Pact signed for Durgapur airport project (The Hindu Business Line)
February 27 – Patel’s comments signal a reversal of Aviation ministry’s earlier stand that instead of a second airport in Kolkata, Dum Dum should have a third runway. (The Telegraph)
February 27 – Paramount plans film city in Kolkata (Times of India)
February 26 – Rail Budget - West Bengal gets three new train services but no new Garib Rath, no extension of services, nearly no increase in frequency of existing trains (The Hindu Business Line)
February 25 – CM wants East-West Metro project in Union Budget (The Statesman)
February 25 – WBIDC officers thrashed after Singur spat (Times of India)
February 25 – Kolkata edition of EEPC buyer-seller meet kicks off (The Hindu Business Line)
February 24 – CM calls Hills delegates for talks (Times of India)
February 24 – Kolkata to have contemporary art museum (Times of India)
February 24 – Singapore real estate firm eyes heritage buildings (The Hindu Business Line)
February 23 – Maoist mastermind in police net (Times of India)
February 23 – Water tax to be imposed in city by KMC (The Statesman)
February 22 – Kolkata airport employees to go on strike from February 26 in support of the Airports Authority Employee Union's decision to call a nationwide indefinite-period strike from that day. (The Hindu Business Line)
February 21 – Centre urged to come out with hardware policy (The Hindu Business Line)
February 21 – Prime Mininster’s Office agrees to the state’s proposal to find a developer for deep sea port (The Telegraph)
February 21 – Leather industry in the state struggling for survival. (The Statesman)
February 20 – Tata Nano will roll out of the Singur factory by October this year (The Telegraph)
February 20 – Truck driver burnt to death after crash in Burnpur (The Telegraph)
February 19 – Callous Metro Railway messes with Anjolie Ela’s mural worth crores - Art work was covered by another painting hammered on top of it (The Telegraph)
February 19 – Inspector raj in property tax valuation to end in KMC (Times of India)
February 18 – Bengal fifth most attractive but fastest growing IT destination (The Hindu Business Line), (Rediff News)
February 18 – Salt Lake safer in resident hands - do-it-yourself model as cops go missing (The Telegraph)
February 17 – Finally, 24x7 taxi stands across city (Times of India)
February 17 – Demolition angers Asansol traders (The Statesman)
February 16 – Esplanade bus depot shift to miss deadline (Times of India)
February 16 – Tea fund payout hit by land lease snags (The Hindu Business Line)
February 15 – West Bengal Government hands over 54 sq km of land at Nayachar to PC Ray Chemicals Pvt Ltd for conducting feasibility study to set up chemicals hub (The Hindu Business Line)
February 15 – 7,44,927 sit for Madhyamik examinations (The Telegraph) (The Statesman)
February 14 – Envoy blasts government for city pollution – Kolkata one of the most polluted cities in the world (The Statesman)
February 14 – 2 MW solar power project at Dishergarh in Bardhaman district – largest in India (The Hindu Business Line)
February 14 – West Bengal students top learning survey by NCERT (Times of India)
February 13 – CPI(M) urges cadres to take on NGOs it frowns on (The Statesman)
February 13 – Potato crop loss: Centre urged to release money under crop insurance scheme (The Hindu Business Line)
February 13 – Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi new PCC chief (The Hindu News Update)
February 12 – No industry in agri-rich districts... all in Kolkata or thereabouts! (The Statesman)
February 12 – Ban on poultry lifted in most areas of Bengal (Times of India)
February 12 – Burrabazar fire casts shadow on South City residential project (The Hindu Business Line)
February 12 – Elevator News Network launches digital signage in tie-up with Helius Inc (The Hindu Business Line)
February 11 – West Bengal to hold talks with Gorkhaland supporters (The Hindu)
February 11 – $60,000 British aid for mangrove project in Sundarbans - Project aims at creating awareness about climate change (The Hindu Business Line)
February 11 – Tidal power plants given go-ahead in Sundarbans (The Statesman)
February 10 – Kolkata gets a new hero (The Telegraph)
February 10 – Judicial probe into Dinhata firing (Times of India)
February 10 – Armymen held for disco ruckus in Park Street (Times of India)
February 9 – Left should bear responsibility for Nandigram: NHRC (Indian Express)
February 9 – Rs 600 cr soft loan for poultry owners (Times of India)
February 8 – Employees State Insurance Corporation to issue smart cards with unique identification number (The Hindu Business Line)
February 8 – Bengal forms panel for steel projects (The Hindu Business Line)
February 8 – Police open fire again, at Mejia, 4 hurt (Times of India)
February 7 – Bandh disrupts life in state (The Statesman)
February 6 – West Bengal’s annual Plan size fixed at Rs 11,602 crore (The Hindu Business Line)
February 6 – Sunrise jobs in line of fire (Times of India)
February 6 – Big Brother feels bandh bite (Times of India), (The Statesman)
February 6 – CPI(M) seeks to justify police firing on FB workers; opposes the 24-hour state-wide bandh (The Hindu News Update)
February 5 – Bloc bleeds in friendly fire; five killed in Dinhata firing (Times of India)
February 5 – Shutdown? Count us in (The Telegraph)
February 5 – Railway panel moots ways to cut Kolkata Metro’s losses (The Hindu Business Line)
February 4 – Shyam Group plans Rs 9,900-cr integrated steel, power plant at Jamuria (The Hindu Business Line)
February 4 – Irish students help to construct school building at Raotora in Ranibandh bloc of Bankura district (The Statesman)
February 4 – Nandaram demolition from today (Times of India)
February 4 – Revival of the Lakes – confidence booster initiative (The Telegraph)
February 3 – “Congress dividing anti-Left vote” (The Hindu)
February 3 – Tagore medallion theft: one held in Dhaka (The Hindu)
February 3 – South City shopping mall a big draw (The Hindu Business Line)
February 3 – Food for Sabars ahead of polls in Belpahari Bloc, West Midnapore (The Statesman)
February 3 – Birdflu spreads in WB; fresh cases reported (The Hindu News Update)
February 2 – Book fair: Guild cracks out in open (Times of India)
February 1 – Book fair to be held at Salt Lake from 1 March; hint of a permanent fair ground (The Statesman)
February 1 – Spencer's Retail to invest Rs 2500 cr; hyper store inaugurated (Financial Express)
February 1 – ‘No logic in opposing Reliance Retail’ (The Hindu Business Line)
February 1 – IBM dismisses 700 freshers in India, including 180 in Kolkata (The Economic Times)
February 1 – West Bengal plans Hardware IT park at Rajarhat in public-private partnership model (The Economic Times)
[edit] January
January 31 – Mukesh to bring gas to Bengal by 2011 (Times of India)
January 31 – Bengal for 100 % FDI in textile, tourism (The Statesman)
January 31 – It’s final now, no Book Fair in 2008 (The Statesman); Mayor in Maidan muddle (Times of India)
January 30 – Videocon proposes knowledge parks in Siliguri and Kalyani and a satellite airport at Kanchrapara (The Telegraph).
January 30 – Brace for longer, colder winter (Times of India)
January 30 – Fortnight after outbreak, awareness zero in Nanoor area (The Telegraph)
January 29 – 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal : No chicken in city markets from today (Times of India)
January 29 – KMC set to draw up list of ponds (The Telegraph)
January 28 – Kolkata Book Fair: HC disallows Park Circus venue (The Hindu Business Line) (The Telegraph) January 28 – Writers' buzz over DGP transfer (Times of India)
January 27 – Flu man-made, says Mamata (Times of India)
January 27 – 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal : State passes alarm bells buck - Central officials pick holes in defence for lack of threat awareness (The Telegraph)
January 27 – 19-yr-old dies while trekking with team at Joychandi Pahar (The Statesman)
January 26 – Republic Day parade curtailed in Kolkata following heavy rains (Times of India)
January 25 – Padma Vibhusan for Pranab Mukherjee, Minister for External Affairs (The Hindu)
January 25 – 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal: Howrah falls as Avian influenza flu tightens grip (The Telegraph)
January 25 – Shalimar and Santragachi being developed to accommodate more SER trains (The Hindu Business Line)
January 24 – Alumnus donates $1 mn to IIT (Times of India)
January 24 – Bird flu; Mamata stands by CPI(M)’s side (The Telegraph)
January 24 – Eastern Railway: Book train tickets 90 days in advance (The Hindu Business Line)
January 24 – Shutters down in Ballygunge flop mall - Low footfall forces route rejig (The Telegraph)
January 24 – Auto SEZ to come up in Jhargram (The Statesman)
January 23 – Rob tax-payer, prop book fair (The Telegraph)
January 23 – Kebab-makers reinvent menu (The Telegraph)
January 23 – KMDA plans new sewerage system off EM Bypass (The Statesman)
January 22 – Singapore Changi Airport shows interest in developing Durgapur Aerotropolis (Times of India)
January 22 – Demand for chicken drops by 40 % in Kolkata (The Statesman)
January 22 – Bird Flu in WB spreads to seventh district, chicken-seller commits suicide in Malda district (The Hindu News Update)
January 20 – Bird flu spreads in West Bengal – Bankura district also affected (The Hindu)
January 20 – Lakshmi Mittal sees goldmine in West Bengal (Times of India)
January 20 – First reverse buyer-seller meet organised by Engineering Export Promotion Council to be held in Kolkata (The Hindu Business Line)
January 19 – Bird Flu surges to Nadia, Burdwan (The Telegraph)
January 19 – Family thrashed in Barasat for skipping CPI(M) rally (Times of India)
January 19 – CPI(M) men go on rampage in Belpahari (Times of India)
January 18 – Kolkata High Court dismisses all petitions that challenged the land acquisition at Singur (The Hindu) (The Telegraph)
January 18 – Rs 10,000 crore for 2,300 acres Durgapur Aerotropolis – India’s first (The Hindu Business Line) (Times of India)
January 18 – State government sets up committee of KMC, police and CESC to inspect Nandaram complex and Tirpalpatti in Burrabazar and assess if trading can resume there on Monday. (The Telegraph)
January 17 – Houses of Trinamool Congress supporters torched in Nandigram (Times of India)
January 17 – Aftab Alam Ansari, CESC employee, suspected of terrorism, released after twenty days in captivity (The Telegraph)
January 17 – Bird flu spreads; WHO issues grim warning about current outbreak (The Statesman)
January 16 – Burrabazaar fire finally contained; Basant Kumar Birla donates Rs. 2 crore to start fund raising for rehabilitation of traders (The Hindu)
January 16 – Kolkata South City Mall opens – largest in Eastern India (The Hindu Business Line)
January 16 – Govt to upgrade West Bengal Fire Service (Times of India)
January 16 – Five injured in transformer explosion in Kolkata (Times of India)
January 16 – CPI(M) worker shot dead in Cossipore (Times of India)
January 15 – Nandaram is nobody’s baby - fire 'under control' (The Telegraph)
January 15 – KMC to raze illegally built floors at Nandaram Market (The Statesman)
January 15 – Almost five lakh pilgrims throng Sagar Island (The Statesman)
January 15 – Centre confirms bird flu in Bengal (Times of India)
January 14 – Stocks of naphtha don't let blaze die (Times of India)
January 14 – Mobfights erupt under burning building (Times of India)
January 14 – Bird flu in West Bengal? (The Hindu)
January 14 – ‘Workers wanted’ at Bengal jute mills (The Hindu Business Line)
January 13 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharya asserts his concern is for capital no matter who provides it, the Tatas, the Jindals, the USA, China or Japan. (The Statesman)
January 13 – Fire at Kurseong tea estate, crores of loss (Times of India)
January 13 – Tata Motors move to win over Singur folks (The Statesman)
January 13 – Army joins in fire-fighting in Kolkata’s “bigget illegal structure” (The Statesman)
January 13 – Kolkata buiding fire; top floor explodes; fear about collapse of building (Times of India)
January 12 – Kolkata fire: Over 19 hours after break out of fire at Nandaram Market, firefighters unable to get close to the flames (Times of India)
January 12 – 2,500 shops gutted in devastating fire in Kolkata (The Hindu News Update)
January 11 – Genpact signs pact with Unitech for space in Infospace - employment potential: 7,000 {The Hindu Business Line)
January 11 – New elevated railway terminal likely for local trains entering Howrah Station (The Hindu News Update)
January 11 – Nandigram: HC directs West Bengal govt. to file affidavit (The Hindu News Update)
January 11 – Fire safety cloud on book fair venue (Times of India)
January 11 – HC contempt notice to Biman Bose, Binay Konar and Shyamal Chakrabarty (The Hindu Business Line)
January 11 – Singur project work affected by CPI(M) protest against dismissal of security staff by WBIDC (The Statesman)
January 10 – Metro to reach Naktala by September (Times of India)
January 10 – Grant for revamp of Howrah sports stadium (The Statesman)
January 9 – Cheapest car on earth - commercial launch in September, despite agitations at its Singur plant. (The Statesman)
January 9 – West Bengal Governor visits fire-ravaged mines in Asansol (The Hindu)
January 9 – West Bengal ranked No 2 in potato production volume, after Uttar Pradesh and in productivity level it is ranked No 1 in India (The Hindu Business Line)
January 9 – Bangladesh Hilsa lands in Kolkata marts after 6 months (The Statesman)
January 8 – Maoists force CPI(M) leaders to quit party in Purulia district (Times of India)
January 8 – Rizwanur Rahman case: CBI submits report to Kolkata High Court (Hindustan Times)
January 8 – Youths assault, ransack house of hotel singer at Napara near Barasat (The Statesman)
January 7 – Mob pours acid on thief in Jalpaiguri (Times of India)
January 7 – West Bengal keen on potato exports to Bangladesh (The Hindu Business Line)
January 7 – Bengal to take over discarded coal mines (The Hindu Business Line)
January 7 – Central Warehousing Corporation to start work on railside cargo complex at Dankuni (The Hindu Business Line)
January 6 – Girl shot dead in Santiniketan hostel (Times of India)
January 6 – ‘Shift in CPI(M) stance not new’ (The Statesman)
January 4 – Rizwanur Rahman case: Murder probe hits on suicide - CBI sees threats, separation as causes (The Telegraph)
January 4 – Sahitya Akademi Award award for Santhali writer (The Statesman)
January 3 – A mirage known as the ‘permanent’ Book Fair venue (The Statesman) January 3 – Villagers in Jamuria block National Highway 2 demanding that the fire at an abandoned coal mine be put out immediately. (The Telegraph)
January 3 – CM pays homage to Rakhalda (Times of India)
January 3 – “No alternative to capitalism now” (The Hindu)
January 2 – Industrialist Sadhan Dutt passes away (The Hindu)
January 2 – CM steam for Salim projects (The Telegraph)
January 2 – CPI(M) retains Balagarh assembly seat (The Hindu News Update)
January 2 – Another CPI(M) leader murdered, now in Chapra (The Telegraph)
January 2 – CPI(M) threat to CBI witnesses in Nandigram (The Statesman)
January 2 – CPI(M) leader gunned down by Maoists in Balarampur, Purulia (The Hindu News Update)
January 1 – Pratap Chandra Chunder dies (The Statesman)
January 1 – CPI(M) zonal committee member beheaded in Burdwan’s Mangalkot (The Telegraph)
January 1 – CU maths prof branded plagiarist (Times of India)
January 1 – Singur unit of Tata Motors will start production in mid-June (Times of India)
