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News Headlines Archive
April 29, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • WB asks cyber cafe owners to maintain details of users
  • Price rise issue: Sonia tears into Bengal govt
  • Eden match ticket sales soar
  • CPI(M) supporter killed in West Bengal
  • CESC net up 41% y-o-y
  • SUCI threatens to disrupt tomorrow's match at Edens
  • Thackeray and Bengali film industry target cheerleaders
  • Kolkata eyes box boom with plans for growth
  • Schooling them for the world
  • Goa eyes on West Bengal, Karnataka to boost domestic tourism
  • Sonia criticizes West Bengal Government on Nandigram violence
  • Kolkata zoo gets rare attractions
  • Easy to blame Centre for everything
  • Mother-Daughter comes together in Bengali Film!
  • The Statesman
  • Internal tussle may jeopardise CPM chances
  • Police withdrawal opens way for Left violence
  • Nominations close in Nadia, 8,571 filed
  • Opp focus on Red failures in N Dinajpur
  • 10-yr-old cop job racket unearthed
  • Most Bankura booths sensitive
  • Kathmandu flight suffers mishap
  • Youth killed for having an affair
  • Naco orders medical kits test
  • Disease surveillance funds finally released
  • Four arrested
  • Son stabs father for refusing to buy him mobile
  • CPM candidate competes against CPML brother-in-law
  • Rivals at the hustings, pals in the kitchen
  • New flyover in Sector V by August
  • Most Bankura booths sensitive
  • Internal tussle may jeopardise CPM chances
  • Homeo teachers on strike
  • CPM candidate competes against CPML brother-in-law
  • CPM unlikely to take decision on blocking Finance Bill
  • Mamata takes CPM tactics to Governor
  • Suci to stick to Trinamul
  • The Telegraph
  • State go-slow on retail curb
  • Basu silent on Subhas berth
  • Rally hits Darjeeling tourists
  • Doctor in the dock
  • Wanted: police for polls
  • Burnt girl’s family refuses govt’s 5000
  • Politics splits kin, almost
  • Pay-up order on insurance
  • Once again in currency
  • Pothole peril on bridge
  • What's on in town
  • Barreto gets back passport
  • Exam turmoil on Besu campus
  • Fake passport from city
  • Singapore proposal on ring road
  • Presidency signals end to test
  • Trainee times resignation wrong
  • Raid nets cache of pirated textbooks
  • Angelina chase gets city boy gold
  • Court gets Todis’ letters to top cop
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Fair deal for ex-IAF staff
  • Fashion designing goes mainstream
  • New logo for Dooar & Terai tea
  • Foreigners to trek Sikkim
  • Tibetans remember immolation hero
  • Gang shoots dead trader
  • Vehicles off road, power bills in pocket
  • Work on hospital resumes
  • Search for history machines
  • Gurung warns of blackout
  • 32 held over statehood row
  • Times of India
  • Convicts to get phone facility
  • 18-year-old girl run over by Matador
  • Heat claims third victim
  • Plastic spanner in green move
  • Presidency: No admission test for 6 streams
  • Now, political cheer for cheerleaders
  • Bank fined for 'hiking' loan interest rate
  • Tobacco alarm for students
  • Fake police job racket busted
  • Man found dead at Salt Lake home
  • Indian Express
  • Club fight turns into political clash in Kasba
  • CPI toes Sonia’s line, says state not acting tough on hoarders
  • Rice procurement: only half the target met till date
  • Public hearing held for BPL families
  • Subhas not on central panel, has ‘nothing to say’
  • State gets Rs 4,000 cr German solar plant
  • Haldia dock to close down for dredging work
  • ‘Police job racket could have been busted much earlier’
  • Video of Prasun’s press meet submitted in HC
  • No entrance test now for a seat in Presidency College
  • Two arrested for youth’s murder in Howrah
  • Mumbai rides on Eden, raids Riders
  • Govt callous about people’s suffering: CPM
  • Parties want their men off election duty
  • State asks for Central forces again
  • Asian Age
  • Delhi contract killer arrested
  • Temperature drops in city
  • Cheerleaders face Subhas’ ire, ministers demand ban
  • Youth refused admission at 4 state hospitals
  • Apollo plans private medical college soon
  • Hotel to come up on Bypass
  • Airport man held for girl trafficking
  • Buddha to attend rallies
  • Hindustan Times
  • Sonia, Yechuri spar over Nandigram
  • Air-India Express to launch new flights to Kuwait, Dubai
  • Art effect
  • Sports
  • Costliest slap in Indian cricket
  • Bengal company to organise Oliver Kahn's farewell match
  • All eyes on Sachin Tendulkar