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News Headlines Archive
April 24, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Sweltering heat claims three lives in Bengal
  • IIT student's body found in hostel
  • The demand for Statehood in north Bengal
  • 7 millionaires, four convicts among West Bengal candidates
  • One injured in north Bengal bomb blast
  • Kolkata to host SBI brass for FY09 results
  • Ambuja Realty to invest Rs 400 Crore in two new Kolkata properties
  • Star Jalsha: No.1 In West Bengal
  • Kolkata sees least mobile penetration, telcos strategise
  • 9th time in fray, CPM stalwart still running strong
  • We are not taking good cinema to the audience: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
  • The Telegraph
  • At Cleverness Crossing, stains of a tool
  • Lalgarh mob lays siege to Calcutta
  • Death before Chhau dance
  • T20 touch to Trinamul
  • Court order on hotel in park
  • Accountant held for fraud
  • Principal attacked over attendance
  • Basement blaze rages through the day
  • Curious address for Rahul
  • Poll panel inches towards invasion
  • Mishap drill at station
  • High court rap on Howrah civic body
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Air force officer ‘strangled’ to death
  • Stem cell transplant for girl
  • IIT Kharagpur student found hanging
  • Please, please, plead police in Lalgarh
  • Narbula fails in balancing act
  • Curious about celebs, but not star-struck
  • Poll brings poultry cheers
  • 7 injured by gaurs
  • Foresters showcaused on poaching
  • Rahul promises land rights to tea belt
  • The Statesman
  • Abducted CPM leaders body recovered
  • Cops fire to scare women
  • Dock has its own worries
  • Fresh firing in Nandigram to scare women
  • Ghosh blames media for sparking off controversy
  • KoPT meet to discuss tender to private firm
  • Lalgarh: Maoists may have last laugh
  • Lifer gets university gold medal
  • NO RESPITE IN SIGHT
  • Protests clog city traffic
  • Times of India
  • Rahul tears into retrograde Left
  • Pranab calls for life term for Left butchers
  • 500 Rahuls on the march in Barasat
  • Tribal tremor in heart of city
  • Fear of Maoists empties villages, swells rally ranks
  • Mob fury at Sonarpur station
  • Liver transplant on infant successful
  • Trio in snatching bid, two nabbed
  • Ruckus at Jogamaya college again
  • Truck hits sleeping men, 1 dead
  • Rina Dhaka's collection beats the heat
  • Big day for PC Sorcar Jr
  • A musical extravaganza for Kolkata
  • Sanjay sorry for 'jhappi' remark, says Maya like his sister
  • Police raid office of filmmaker-politician Prakash Jha
  • I don't fear going to jail: Varun Gandhi
  • Indian Express
  • Rahul loses in translation, gains in hope at Purulia
  • CPM, Trinamool clash in Nandigram
  • There is no entity as the Third Front: Congress
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Armed tribals display their might on Kolkata streets
  • Fire at Strand Road godown, Army called in for advice
  • No healthcare, water, they look to Maoists for help
  • In High Court
  • Life convict tops university, now eyes PhD in panchayat studies
  • Hindustan Times
  • Left Front to face its biggest challenge yet
  • Tribals not to allow police in Lalgarh; booths to be shifted
  • Vote against CPI-M, Lalgarh tribal body tells voters
  • Sports
  • YBK Kolkata to have India's first artificial grass pitch
  • Sourav’s fighting 46 in vain as Yusuf clinches thriller