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News Headlines Archive
August 5, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Lightning kills 10 in Bengal village
  • GJM forcibly takes over 3 municipalities in Darjeeling
  • Visitors barred from entering Kolkata airport
  • SC refuses stay, drive against old vehicles to go on
  • Vodafone brings special Tuesday in Kolkata
  • Thousands bid adieu to Subhas Chakraborty
  • I will kill rapists with my own hands: Bengal MP
  • Buddhadev opens national film fete
  • Dipannita replaces Rambha
  • Bipasha forgives Rituparno
  • The Telegraph
  • Clawback to lost turf
  • Rs 5-lakh claim for fourth child
  • Father kills son for rakhi
  • Infosys to ‘wait’ on Bengal unit
  • Death in tech hostel
  • Buddha ‘contest’ over rally strength
  • Land for pumping station
  • What's on in town
  • Of justice, prison, rice
  • Judge to watch Poran Jai...
  • Polluting vehicles elude police
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Tragedy strikes family of three
  • Modern High School rejoinder
  • Sikkim to ‘push back’ spy
  • Jaigaon gets 20-bed hospital
  • Asok holds bank liable for cheques cleared
  • Morcha patrol stays off highway to Sikkim
  • Leave plan for human chain
  • Cinema girl united with mother
  • The Statesman
    Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • Japanese student in city hospital
  • Mumbai murder accused held in city
  • Teacher held on molest charge
  • PCB green light to KMC's tree-felling
  • Plagiarism row: Court to watch both films on DVD
  • No birds & bees for Plus II, for now
  • Remove unjust practices first: Sen
  • Manab seeks Rly land for industry
  • State to get 2nd bird flu lab
  • Revolution' back in CPM lingo
  • Insomnia's rocking birthday bash!
  • Insomnia's rocking birthday bash!
  • Can't stop loving you, MJ!
  • 85 & still going strong
  • Of fun and friendship
  • Indian Express
  • Cong, Trinamool may cut a deal on Land Bill
  • CPM, Trinamool take their battle to Raj Bhavan
  • Left’s Bengal fills the middle slot in Transparency’s corruption index
  • Minister writes to Mamata for railway land
  • PTTI crisis claimed over a dozen lives of desperate students
  • Fresh batch at IIM-C: from Indian Idol contestant to butterfly farmer
  • Film tussle plays out in High Court
  • Auto-rickshaw owners move HC on transport dept order
  • Buddha, Biman give a pep talk
  • State ready to provide land for IT township
  • ‘Tatas should have bought land in Singur for Nano unit’
  • Bumps pop up ahead of tripartite Gorkha talks
  • Hindustan Times
  • Ticketless passenger alleges she was stripped, railways denies
  • Ten killed, 35 injured in lightning
  • Subhas Chakraborty cremated
  • Sports
  • 1956 Olympics team members to return monetary grant
  • Maradona condoles Chakraborty’s demise
  • West Bengal footie star to build temple in Robson's honour