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News Headlines Archive
April 17, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Now, Tatas to launch housing project in Bengal
  • Cyclonic storm formed over Bay of Bengal
  • Over one lakh Chitmahal citizens left out of voting process
  • Biman Bose urges for tighter security for III phase polling in West Bengal
  • Raima Sen poses like grandma!
  • Taj Bengal Hotel gains Green Globe benchmark status
  • Chowrasta Crossroads of Love
  • The Telegraph
  • Power cut alarm rings
  • Force first batch to ‘spare’ Lalgarh
  • Blue BMW to beat Buchanan boot
  • Cool comfort on wheels for city commuters
  • Combo of travel & biz
  • Kidnap cry in court
  • Patient found dead off clinic
  • News only in beam block
  • Five held for theft
  • Twin car-thief gangs busted
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • To school? Don’t forget mask
  • Poll notice to Giri for carrying gun
  • Bomb threat delays Delhi flight
  • Flash flood in tunnel, 10 feared dead
  • BJP entry upsets Buddha
  • A day spent at Net cafe, barbershop
  • The Statesman
  • A land bank on cards
  • CPM alleges bias towards Jaswant Singh
  • CPM speaks language of music
  • CPM alleges poll officials bias towards Jaswant
  • Coastal areas on storm alert
  • Cyclone alert for coastal areas
  • Extortionist arrested
  • Fresh tension erupts in Nandigram
  • HS board changes admission criteria
  • Joachim Buxla may upset Left applecart
  • KMC mulls solution to water crisis
  • Land deal put on hold
  • MP played role of railway minister
  • Political clashes grip Raina
  • Polls or no polls, Lalgarh not to welcome cops
  • Private firm staff held for stealing office money
  • Times of India
  • Fearing sack, Bengal techie hangs himself
  • Outsider Subrata ready for battle with Basudeb
  • Sex workers discuss polls at parliament
  • CM warmth remark hurt south: Didi
  • Nalco: Bodies of jawans brought home
  • Poorest candidate files nomination
  • Subhendu Adhikary has assets worth Rs 5cr
  • Fans go berserk for Mithun glimpse
  • Car theft racket busted, kingpin in police net
  • Now, a rickshaw race in city
  • PDP set to spoil Congress party
  • With rice, BJD schemes to get third-time lucky
  • Bijli, sadak, paani to count in Jharkhand
  • Riingo takes the Risk
  • Classical music enthrall Kolkaties !
  • Tantra at The Park is my favourite: Anshuman
  • Indian Express
  • Afraid of losing job, Infosys techie ends life
  • Cops clueless as poppy farming pops up in Bengal
  • Volvos to hit city roads by year-end
  • Police jeeps ransacked in Nandigram
  • 50,000 offenders with NBW absconding
  • Team owners take Kolkata out of Kolkata Knight Riders
  • ‘Meltdown caused by poor decisions of Wall Street’
  • Mamata ally Somen bought land in Singur, then agitated
  • After Jangipur fiasco, star shines in Aurangabad
  • Post delimitation, Malda may throw up surprise results
  • Central Police Forces to be deployed
  • CPM’s Salim fights America, not the opposition
  • Hindustan Times
  • Is Mamata ready to accept Cong-Left alliance, BJP asks TC
  • 74 candidates file papers in second phase of WB polls
  • Sports
  • I-League title for Churchill Brothers
  • I-League: Mohun Bagan lose, finish runners-up
  • Md. Sporting blame it on foreigners
  • Without a trophy, East Bengal’s season ends in a quagmire
  • Knight Riders’ preparations hampered by captaincy issues