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May 09, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • 260 Bengal candidates face criminal charges
  • Left's assessment concedes West Bengal
  • Campaigning ends for last phase of WB Assembly polls
  • Maoist bastion Lalgarh ponders whether to vote or not
  • Reappraising Tagore: the debate continues
  • No poll promises for these forgotten villages
  • CPM's last-ditch efforts may fail to
  • Dreary desert of sarkari habit for Tagore
  • Chhatradhar Mahato criticises TMC, Left alike
  • Mamata's museums run into rough weather
  • Orissa HC asks KoPT authorities not to act in haste
  • West Bengal polls: 2 lakh threat complaints received
  • Saree has a tagore touch
  • Tagore's Works Being Converted Into Braille
  • No significance of Mother's Day, say women labourers
  • Riya, Rituparno leave local family starstruck
    • Times of India
  • Political violence: Trinamool Congress to act at 'right time'
  • Writers' decked up for new regime
  • Justice cry in will to vote
  • EC unhappy with Kalyan's reply
  • Mamata Banerjee turns to music and colours to beat poll heat
  • Probe EVM hack mail: Poll panel
  • Meet over post-poll violence
  • Election almost over, now countdown for post-poll violence?
  • CPM complains to EC on EVM 'hacker' mail
  • Terror then, festive spirit now in Purulia
  • Bengal police blind to pepper spray power
  • Husband sets mother of 3 on fire for not bearing son
  • Gurudev goldmine at V-B waits to be unearthed
  • Hailstorm spoils crop, farmer under debt kills self
  • Birthday tunes on Rabindranath Tagores piano
  • Two inmates of Midnapore central jail hurt in clash
  • Merchant shot, stabbed to death
  • CBSE students lose out on lessons without books
  • Land mafia suspected for Bally murder
  • Medical students train without basic devices
  • Will Nano replace autos?
  • Kolkata's mind-boggling variety of street food
  • Satyajit Ray films still the most popular in Bengal
  • Rare gems to be unravelled by Punkaj Mullick Music & Art Foundation
  • Kolkata traffic undergoes a silent revolution
  • Tribute to Tagore by honouring today's maestros
  • State fails to submit fiscal roadmap
  • Patient goes missing
    • The Telegraph
  • Heartless system almost kills girl
  • Akram bats for new KKR
  • Bards words for the blind
  • City set to get second direct China flight
  • Flirting with danger on speed corridors
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Fake IPL ticket cuffs on duo
  • Man held on fraud charge
  • How she was M-powered
  • The fearful turn flag-bearer
  • Scarred kin want change
  • Loan burden kills farmer
  • Trader killed, finger at extortionists
  • GNLF plans teacher, ex-armymen units
  • Man sets mom of girls on fire
  • Petrol station looted, 1 stabbed
    • Indian Express
  • Fingers crossed at Writers
  • EC not keen on Didis presence
  • All roads lead to Tagore celebrations
  • Bagan hold Salgaocar 2-2 in I-League
  • Journalists beaten up by CPM cadres
  • Mahato in, his supporters go all-out in Jhargram
  • They lift purdah to vote for first time
  • Bengal in 5th gear, no lull in voting
  • Rain puts Chennai out of its misery
    • Hindustan Times
  • Congress a winner as Maoists pick on Left
  • State had no choice but to take unpopular decision
  • Security alert for phase 6
  • Last phase of WB polls tomorrow
  • The sight of blood made her change sides
  • Once close to Left, Bengal's thinkers also seek change
  • Docs want Mamata to stem brain drain
  • Trinamool taps into red territory
  • How Left flouted transfer rule framed by Basu
  • Hunted by Maoists, village turns haunted
  • Bratya will be an excellent education minister: Suman
  • Time to give us jobs
  • Who will stay afloat at the port?
  • Intense contest in rebel country
  • Campaigning for the last phase of elections ends
  • Voting right unveiled
  • Disruptions, attacks and forces can shoot
  • Keshpur a quiet picture
  • No change in wall graffiti
  • Adding colour to elections
    • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan holds Salgaocar 2-2
  • Pune leave out Ganguly yet again
  • Once a king, now a bench warmer