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News Headlines Archive
April 8, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • CPM accuses GJM of spreading terror in Darjeeling
  • Communists face biggest electoral test in West Bengal
  • SBI turns Kolkata headoffice into archives-cum-museum
  • 16 arrested for demonstration before Writers' on Basumati
  • CII chief, Buddha to meet on W Bengal image revamp
  • Class 12th student pulls truck by her hair in Kolkata
  • At 95, Basu is still in demand in West Bengal
  • CPI-M's nine missing former sympathisers found in Bankura
  • Cognizant to kick off operations in Kolkata before September
  • First undertrial prisoner in West Bengal files nomination
  • The Telegraph
  • Bengal the most misruled, says Rao
  • CPM ‘extortion’ after job blacklist threat
  • Airport city trimmed to save coal
  • Factory ordeal for residents
  • Safe tag for fake products
  • Security revamp for museum
  • Neutral vote: choice of the young
  • What's on in town
  • Decoded: the big Bollywood Friday face-off
  • Teen raped & murdered
  • Township taps go dry for days
  • Forensic team in death house
  • Wind flow favours a Nor’wester
  • Students write to filmmakers
  • Girl ‘thief’ tied and caned
  • Youth held for woman murder
  • Gherao for ragging rap
  • Suicide bid at Metro station
  • Boy returned to parents
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Fee fight at crisis crossroads
  • Tunnel too on toy train itinerary
  • Adivasi outfit blamed for failed Tirkey meet
  • Decline in travels hits duty-free shops
  • Respect can bring down conflict: expert
  • Tibetans react to Gurung barb
  • ABGL absence strikes jarring note
  • Singh wants to buy hill house
  • Left assured of fair elections
  • Chamling to contest in two Assembly seats
  • Cong jibe at BJP ‘divide’ plan
  • Abu Hashem files paper
  • The Statesman
  • Armed attack on CPM man
  • Birbum tribals speak for Lalgarh natives
  • CPM policy on municipalities boomerangs
  • Default history comes back to haunt CPM civic staff
  • EC not to insure polling officials
  • Factory fire kills three
  • Healthcare scheme to be extended
  • Illegal immigrant gets bail
  • PSBPC comes to Marxists rescue
  • Pool car owners come up
  • SRFTI authorities seek student apology for campus violence
  • Safe pool car ride not impossible
  • Taking smoking ban seriously
  • Times of India
  • Schoolgirl raped & murdered
  • Wrong exam paper in VU
  • CBI appoints new officer to probe Nobel theft case
  • Cab permit scam comes to light
  • Comrades then, foes now: CPM faces insider' test
  • Campaign fever grips Dum Dum
  • The Nano effect: Dealers brace for mad, mad rush
  • IG threatens to arrest Chhatradhar Mahato
  • Sec V eateries go all out to reverse dwindling footfall
  • AC buses prove a hit on city roads
  • In first phase of LS polls, 1,715 candidates will try their luck
  • For Congress First Family, no rest till the polls
  • Shekhawat to campaign for Fernandes
  • Indian Express
  • Girl’s body found, police say gang-raped
  • ‘CPM poll cut’ in NREGS wages: poor see red
  • Govt warns tribals after abduction drama
  • Youth held for sex worker’s death
  • Factory fire death toll at 4
  • Cong’s gloves off: our men ‘butchered’ in Bengal
  • CAB: Prasun not money-wise
  • Darjeeling at stake, Cong taunts BJP for U-turn on hills
  • Ghost of Nandigram looming, CPM in Nayachar bind
  • Trinamool points out ‘fake’ voters in Tamluk, Contai
  • Drivers in the Hills to GJM: At your service and only for you
  • Hindustan Times
  • Maoist posters spark tension in Bengal town
  • Deepa Dasmunshi files nomination from Raiganj
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan loses yet again
  • Special to lead, says Shukla