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News Headlines Archive
April 3, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal taps Nabard for more funds
  • 'Didi' to battle it out again in Kolkata South
  • Kolkata's Fashion Week debut amid slowdown
  • ‘First Film City in West Bengal’
  • West Bengal banks providing loans to SHGs
  • Kolkata Knight Riders take to Twitter
  • Jaswant to contest from Darjeeling
  • Tata Motors moving out bad for West Bengal, opinion poll
  • Neha Dhupia charges up Kolkata Fashion Week
  • A new light for Purulia children
  • Buddha violates EC order, won't remove Tagore photos
  • Film on Tagore Novel to be Screened at SF Fest
  • The Telegraph
  • 500-car reception for Jaswant in the hills
  • Power tonic for CPM cadres
  • Concern in Cong over alliance
  • Commuter hassle in clog corridor
  • Mixed menu replaces Bolly diet
  • Tests prove tamper truth
  • DIY mission for clean city
  • Study options in France
  • Ad hoc payment to open club office, bar
  • Spurned tutor in razor revenge
  • Driving schools set to roll
  • Foreigner held at child shelter
  • Seven hurt in Howrah blaze
  • Cemetery records to be digitised
  • Youth dies, crushed by buses
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Woman trapped in airport elevator
  • 12 injured in blaze
  • 10% loss in tea yield feared for dry spell
  • Survival hope after swamp deer flees
  • Beti Bachao movement to start soon in region
  • IED fitted to thermos found in Imphal
  • New cameras to snap tigers
  • ABGL upset, others glad it is Jaswant
  • 14 hurt as parties clash
  • Minorities sore on choice
  • Hashem by side, Mausam submits papers
  • Buxla files as Independent
  • 20 new faces on SDF list
  • BJP mentions ‘Gorkha’, hill leaders happy
  • The Statesman
  • 18-yr-old dies of cardiac arrest
  • Agitating SRFTI students will be penalised
  • Army reports state of Maidan to HC
  • Biman accuses USA of plotting LFs defeat
  • CPM admits money misuse charges
  • Celebrity scores
  • Cong does it differently
  • Cops asked to probe wall defacement by political parties
  • Diarrhoea kills one, KMC faces the heat
  • Four of a family pay the price of protest
  • KoPT goes to Centre after state fails to help
  • Laxman shocks Gandhi, distorts history
  • Mamata refuses Nano
  • Nominations for third phase filed
  • Parents protest against fee hike in missionary schools
  • Polls keeping police from pursuing criminals
  • UK body digitises burial records
  • V-B heads for another crisis as finance dept differs with V-C
  • Times of India
  • Reliance Retail set to exit city project
  • HC tells club to pay KMC dues
  • Primary teachers meet CM
  • Road rage victim still critical: Doctors
  • Panel to monitor polls in state
  • 1 dead, 2 hurt in accident
  • Builders get houses of their own at long last
  • A cramped cot to call home
  • GJM, Adivasis queer CPM pitch in Darjeeling
  • Slumming for survival
  • Azhar to contest LS polls from Moradabad
  • Women have special place and respect in SP: Mulayam
  • Advani challenges PM Manmohan to TV debate
  • Indian Express
  • Police deployment in Lalgarh irks tribals
  • Railways beef up security after terror threat to Rajdhanis
  • Log in to trace ancestors’ grave in City of Joy
  • Gorkhaland: CPM slams BJP for dividing Bengal
  • Bloc rejects CM’s industry mantra, sings own tune
  • Denied love, teacher attacks student, slashes own wrist
  • Government promises job to PTTI students
  • With French firm’s help, Kolkata soon to have its first
  • 150 yrs on, police band finds its tune
  • Pitting muscles against HIV, Mr Manipur finds no sponsor
  • Top cop wages battle for inmates
  • Even death won’t do us part, says Subhas
  • To rise again in rural areas, CPM falls back on land
  • Hindustan Times
  • Left manifesto ignores land rows
  • Tatas to discuss with West Bengal Govt Singur issue
  • Nandigram still simmers
  • 'Didi' to battle it out again in Kolkata South
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan beats Vasco by 3-0
  • Md. Sporting looses to Dempo by 1-4
  • East Bengal need one point to avoid relegation
  • Time to move on: Ganguly