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News Headlines Archive
April 06, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Rs.50,000 for kin of persons killed in bus accident
  • Rs. 100-cr meal scheme for poor
  • Retail food prices rise 40 pc in 4 metros
  • Emaar MGF to invest Rs 1,300 cr for three hotels in Kolkata
  • Rs.1.25 bn sanctioned to combat Ganges erosion
  • Aptech aviation academy in city
  • Palace-on-wheels, medicities in new West Bengal policy
  • Goodricke to tone up replantation
  • In Kolkata, the ‘Last Days of the Rickshaw’?
  • Export-oriented foundry units facing closure
  • Port opens its hospital to public, for a fee
  • The Statesman
    The Telegraph
  • Mamata faces bandh backlash in party
  • Buddha focus on jobs in Purulia
  • Christian schools cry bias on quota
  • Bird culling begins in Nadia
  • Seth threatens Haldia strike
  • Dublin kids build Bankura school
  • Cop tips for safe surfing
  • East-West Metro debut in 2012
  • CU huddle on script scan
  • Easy street for deadly wheels
  • Ailing husbands can get alimony
  • Radar due for key repair
  • Bangla flier falls ill in transit
  • Mothers won’t be consoled
  • In pain and trauma
  • Car in pond after crash
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Rajbanshi captivates Bengali filmdom
  • Fire team to check buildings
  • Big cat falls foul of breeding rule
  • Bandh pressure on Mamata
  • CPM blames ‘new forces’
  • Blast heat scalds hills and plains
  • Dowry arrest fast called off
  • Golf course, spa & mall on table
  • Women march for clash arrest
  • Hydel warning from CM
  • Motorcycle diaries of exiles fighting for Tibetan cause
  • Times of India
  • Govt unaware of WB's CNG reserve
  • CRPF convoy mows down woman
  • Radar repair to disrupt airport traffic
  • Rejected by suitors, girl hangs self
  • Decision on IIM-C fee hike on hold
  • Unruly bus transport system
  • Lives shattered in a moment of lapse
  • Day after bus plunge, state pays lip service
  • Teacher stabbed for spurning colleague
  • Indian Express
  • Jyoti Basu is an institution: Lord Swraj Paul
  • Subhas meets members of bus syndicate
  • CISF deployment at Ray institute likely
  • For ailing tourism, state succumbs to FDI lure
  • Central team ‘satisfied’ with mopping operations in districts
  • ‘IIMs aiding services instead of industry’
  • CRPF bus crushes girl in Kolkata, mob beats up driver
  • Marx dose over, new politburo face Nirupam is ready to woo capital
  • Minority report
  • Buddha inaugurates Purulia hydel plant
  • Asian Age
  • 20 die as Bus falls into canal
  • Public fury over delay in rescue
  • Mamata calls April 21 bandh
  • Seven Maoist leaders held
  • Rs 4,000 cr for state tourism
  • Besu teachers meet Gandhi
  • I am a maha purush: Subhas
  • Hindustan Times
  • Lord Paul to lead Par team to Bengal
  • IIM-Calcutta raises fees for PG courses to Rs seven lakh
  • Sports
  • Rain not to affect Eden ties
  • We will bounce back: Anil Kumble