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News Headlines Archive
April 7, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata Port Trust slips to fifth position during 2008-09
  • Centre’s nod for Bengal petrochem region
  • Protests delay construction of TVS’ West Bengal unit
  • Kolkata businesses offer to invest big
  • Elections in a smugglers’ paradise
  • Figures reeled out by Pranab not true: Biman
  • Basu rues inability to participate in campaigning
  • Vigilance Commission gets complaints over Haldia docks tender
  • Lalgarh tribal group warns of mass resistance
  • All eyes on Jangipur LS seat in West Bengal
  • Graffiti, banners and high tech campaign raves in Bengal
  • Bipasha Basu dazzles at Kolkata fashion week
  • Star Jalsha emerges as number one Bengali channel among youth
  • The Telegraph
  • Maoists run from villagers’ arrows
  • Jaswant’s hill ride: 9 hours, 40 stops
  • Lalgarh kidnap and release
  • Congress, SUCI in seat tussle
  • Financial brakes on Audi roll-out
  • Overseas plans on the back burner
  • City saviour for Aussie club
  • Top cop tips to stop snarls
  • Fliers few and buyers fewer
  • Billboard ban on the cards
  • What's on in town
  • Booty in buried bottle
  • Principals meet UGC for grants
  • Tramways boss guilty of contempt
  • Test hints at suicide after 3 murders
  • Film school head meets students
  • Sprawl of illegal units
  • Trapped trio die in blaze
  • Man dead, wife accuses kin
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Roar of Maidan mauler
  • Herd back in the morning
  • Lalgarh under Maoist rule
  • Woman’s week-old body found
  • Deepa cavalcade chokes town
  • The Statesman
  • Aerotropolis: Landowers to get Rs 16 for a cottah?
  • Bangur neuro patients having a tough time
  • CPM to steer clear of Singur
  • CPMs promises and projects
  • Campaigning through social networking
  • Father, three daughters kill selves
  • Funds for child welfare go missing
  • HS papers go missing, found
  • Lalgarh: State passes the ball to ECs court
  • Mystery death of 4 in family
  • Not a mission impossible
  • PSBPC warns police
  • Piracy doing Bengali films industry in
  • Police to probe Mamata convoy block in Mejia
  • Properly filled affidavits only, says EC
  • Reopening of SRFTI still an uncertainty
  • Report exposes NREGAs failure
  • Woman dies of renal failure, local promoter blamed
  • EPICs handed over to CPM offices
  • Times of India
  • MLA makes a rival out of wife
  • Chemical factory fire leaves 3 dead
  • Heat kills woman as mercury nears 39°C
  • Leaders mouth platitudes, play votebank politics
  • Howrah's heart of darkness
  • Arrests, kidnaps in Maoist citadel
  • Mamata lashes out at CBI
  • Jai Gorkhaland' greets Jaswant
  • Brigadier recalls time with IMA buddy
  • FIR lodged against RSP candidate for threatening tribals
  • Parties get 20% less from companies this time
  • Lalu booked in two cases, arrested
  • Aamir's poll ad gets EC's seal
  • Indian Express
  • Haridevpur deaths: ‘Man killed family before hanging himself’
  • Udaynarayanpur suicides: Poor job forced youngest sister to end her life
  • Two arrested with heroin worth Rs 8 crore
  • CII chief meets CM, roots for private players in agriculture
  • HC pulls up Tram chairman
  • Poacher held 7 months after killing Bengal tiger
  • After 42 years, NRI returns to homeland to fight polls
  • Jaswant on a high in Darjeeling: says will solve all problems
  • Down, Ghisingh eyes Cong push to reach Hill top
  • Junior allies in Left get it right
  • EC in ‘evidence’ fix over code violations
  • Lalgarh face-off: Naxals take 9 CPM members hostage for hours
  • Hindustan Times
  • BJP candidate woos voters through drama in West Bengal
  • Love is a many-storied thing
  • He is nothing special
  • Sports
  • Recurve bronze for Dola
  • Nimta HS wins Kolkata stage
  • Mohun Bagan looking for first points
  • Indian men enter recurve final
  • Shah Rukh takes pot shots at Gavaskar for criticising Buchanan