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News Headlines Archive
April 9, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Poll woe looms for West Bengal left
  • West Bengal to relocate steel projects to non-coal bearing zones
  • In West Bengal, Lalgarh tribals resist police entry
  • Kolkata bound Jetlite flight makes emergency landing
  • MSEs face tough norms in West Bengal
  • Congress leader sees ‘misrule’ in West Bengal
  • Nandigram set to flare up again over chemical hub
  • Sonia to visit north Bengal on April 27
  • Manpower crunch at factories: chief inspector
  • WBIDC realigns steel projects to fit Bengal Aerotropolis
  • Can she hold on to it?
  • The Telegraph
  • Lalgarh talks on EC plate, govt waits
  • Cases many, action none
  • Challenged call for poll facilities
  • Plans on for donor stem cell registry
  • Doctor held after molest cry
  • Grumbles & gasps at shop stops
  • Boy gang in kill net
  • Mauler cites cop cover-up
  • 17-hr siege of JU heads
  • Women who top cop crime list
  • Sudden halt inside tunnel
  • Blame slump for dues: firm
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Fast track to flight door
  • Tolly joins plex pow-wow
  • Cash & ornaments looted from house
  • Workers block road for tea dues
  • Rush to ‘touch’ cheapest car
  • Hailstorm runs havoc in estates
  • Tattered Trinamul hoardings on road
  • Malda babus in search of VVIP houses
  • Sloganeering, rally precede filing of papers
  • Road to Gorkhaland tough: Jaswant
  • The Statesman
  • A new lease of life...
  • Aerotropolis ready for take off
  • CPM tries to scare away deserters
  • Code violation: Police asked to frame chargesheets
  • Destitute home may close down
  • EC secures voters right to refuse
  • Fire department lacks manpower to fight blaze
  • Govt warns Lalgarh rebels
  • Haridebpur deaths: Third persons hand ruled out
  • JU students gherao V-C
  • NRS buys its own machines
  • Nano trouble
  • No decision yet on SRFTI reopening
  • One held for killing sex worker
  • Parents stir after school fee hiked
  • Rao slams CPM, CM hits back
  • Women go begging after CPM attack in Nandigram
  • Panchayat deducts wages for CPM funds
  • Times of India
  • Tree marriage in Behrampore
  • City to have a stem cell register
  • State to get its first film city in Dooars
  • HC seeks photos of DYFI rally
  • Blind man kills boy for eyes
  • Assam cops enter Bengal to take back refugees'
  • Commuters panic after Metro snag
  • Trinamool man shot at, slur on CPM
  • Intellectuals release manifesto of change
  • EC officials in soup over night out
  • Mumbai businessman richest neta in LS race, with Rs514cr
  • Incumbency good for parties’ bottomlines
  • Jaya seals deal with MDMK, to take on DMK in 10 seats
  • Indian Express
  • Jaswant signs up for Darjeeling
  • Court seeks EC reply on different poll timings
  • BJP’s Marx doesn’t buy Ram, says party fine with it
  • Many Nanos rev up to roll into Singur
  • Estranged lovers took life of Class IX girl, say police
  • Subhas ready to ‘pound’ Lalgarh tribal leader
  • Raging JU students get a ‘ragging’ lesson from V-C
  • Countdown begins
  • Hindustan Times
  • Security beefed up in Purulia
  • Slogan war erupts in Bengal as election fever soars
  • Blind candidate hopes to create record
  • Sports
  • AIFF to clear stand on plan
  • AFC war reaches Indian shores