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News Headlines Archive
April 08, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal to close 3 PSEs, privatise 9
  • Caparo's Singur facility to be ready in time: Swraj Paul
  • West Bengal panchayat polls on May 11, 14 and 18
  • “West Bengal is marching ahead”
  • DHL sets up service centre in Kolkata
  • Tata Power synchronizes Unit 1 of Haldia Project in West Bengal
  • Rs 6-cr building in Chanakyapuri for Bengal VIPs
  • Honour Indian artistes, Bangladesh scholar says
  • Mithun Chakraborty named lifetime trustee of Phalke Academy
  • The Statesman
  • Classes to resume in Besu
  • Courier company fails to compensate for opened parcel
  • Airport to go without radar soon
  • Students want deployment of CISF at SRFTI
  • NGOs letter to PM seeking arrest of accused jawans
  • Kestopur mishap: Errant driver in custody
  • The authorities might also appoint a security officer. Again, in order to ensure campus security, the security guards of the main gate have been instructed to maintain a record of outsiders who enter the institute. Students have also been instructed to ca
  • NGOs letter to PM seeking arrest of rape accused jawans
  • Students want deployment of CISF at SRFTI
  • Manglik girl kills self
  • Classes to resume in Besu today
  • Stabbed teacher under medical supervision
  • Kestopur mishap: Errant driver remanded in custody
  • Central team visits flu affected areas
  • Culling suffers as polls get priority
  • Trinamul chief urges womens wing to file nominations
  • CM promises electricity for every household
  • Das Munshi tells Mamata to call off 21 April bandh
  • The Telegraph
  • Basu roots for Subhas double promotion
  • Landlord helps find ammo
  • Asset watch in rural polls
  • Plea to move arms plane
  • Swraj in Singur, jobs on lips
  • What's on in town
  • JU vigil on ragging
  • April not cruellest month, it’s the coolest
  • Results due, scripts lost
  • Suicide bid after tease & rebuke
  • Wife murder motive eludes cops
  • Death in hospital, mishap toll 21
  • Car theft kingpin, aides in net
  • Safe street file in snail mail
  • Priya note to CM on film school
  • Taxi axle breaks at 217B site
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • GNLF cry for probe
  • Move to save education
  • Manager under tea dues siege
  • Model code triggers action & sloth
  • Ballot whiff in meal scheme
  • RSP sticks to meet boycott
  • HIV awareness tops minister list
  • Indian Idol’s first visit to hills
  • Basu pitches for Subhas promotion
  • Swraj with job on lips
  • Asset watch in panchayat elections
  • Times of India
  • 'I saw papa kill my mother'
  • Fee hike pinches parents
  • Reckless bus driver thrashed
  • 7 beaten up for protesting eve-teasing
  • Explosives seized near Siliguri
  • Accident aftermath: Another meeting
  • HPL may absorb contract workers
  • 'State has quality manpower'
  • Swraj heads for Singur today
  • Man plots family murder for property
  • Indian Express
  • Body exhumed twice, 78-year-old awaits justice for son’s death
  • Include Subhas in Central Committee: Basu tells CPM
  • Fearing protests, KMC puts on hold plan to develop New Market
  • Baghi murder case: Cops register statement of 11-year-old son
  • Rizwanur case: DD told to submit Prasun’s press meet video clips
  • Mamata says no to ‘CPM agent’ Cong
  • Inquiry against IPS officer dropped
  • Firm wants to sell Purulia arms dropping aircraft
  • Tipu mosque theft: Police find initial leads
  • Principal faces students’ brunt
  • Explosives haul in Siliguri
  • With a score of organic farm villages, state scores green pat
  • Paul visits Singur, tells villagers not to miss the industrial bus
  • Shah Rukh’s Knight Riders face CAB nightmare
  • Election Commission gears up for panchayat polls in state
  • Antiques stolen from Tipu Shahi Mosque
  • Asian Age
  • Flyover at Baguihati soon
  • ‘Industry is key to progress’
  • SRFTI stalemate resolved
  • Adhir, 5 others acquitted
  • Candidates asked to come clean
  • LF partners agree to close ranks for polls
  • Agitated public beat up bus driver
  • CM unveils Ashok’s book
  • Hindustan Times
  • Delhi worst hit by rising food prices among metros
  • What Buddha thinks today
  • Sports
  • Barreto gets back passport, can travel out of India
  • Bengal downs Mumbai
  • AFC proposals to AIFF