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News Headlines Archive
August 6, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • 8 West Bengal districts on watch-list for being declared drought-hit
  • Silent Bengal tops teen mother list
  • West Bengal announces subsidies on diesel, power and kerosene
  • Another poll pitch, govt announces power subsidy for farmers
  • Trinamool won't hesitate to take Maoist support: Buddhadeb
  • No restriction on Mamata's rally in Lalgarh: Bengal govt
  • West Bengal govt agrees on interim council in Darjeeling hills
  • No logic behind rally row: Congress
  • Magma Fincorp to disburse Rs.447 crore in West Bengal
  • Student escort rackets are rampant in Kolkata
  • WBPCC demands White Paper on Central funds
  • PCPA is not a banned organisation: Congress
  • Asha Bhonsle releases Tagore compilation
  • CIL board nod for draft prospectus
  • Two elephants shifted to Bengdubi to search for injured elephant
  • CBI probe into Tagore Nobel medal theft closed
  • I am a fighter: Chandan Sen
  • Reimagining Ray
  • The Telegraph
  • On rally day, a Cong counter
  • SC prod on tea workers
  • Getaway horses on call, gang robs Calcutta train in Bihar
  • Hostel girl falls to death
  • Mall makers to build luxury lairs
  • Court seal on anti-cane guidelines
  • Long vigil for Leh tourists
  • Campus shut over molest protest
  • Court seeks elders pay list
  • MLA guard held with illegal gun
  • Charges framed in child murder case
  • Toxic turmeric invades kitchen
  • Four in car theft net
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Officer shifted for duty lapses
  • Probe into school job
  • 3 robbers lynched after firing
  • River flows, leaving land on banks infertile
  • Chopper crew falls from 10000ft
  • Two national highways paralysed
  • World Bank funds for NH repair
  • History meet in Malda
  • Mini plants to light up hill homes
  • Blockade with body to press for arrest
  • Times of India
  • Political riddle over Mamata's Lalgarh rally
  • Even Writers' calls for private help
  • Garbage disposal is in a mess' Subhas
  • Two landfills to divide load
  • A step from disaster
  • Class-VIII student run over by truck on way to
  • Yash murder: Howrah goon chargesheeted
  • Anxiety turns to relief for kin of stranded
  • Girl falls to death from hostel
  • 42 stone units allowed to operate
  • Indian Express
  • CPMs crucial Vijaywada meet starts today
  • Protest against Haripur N-plant
  • Hill parties formally reject interim council
  • Alipore Zoo to get Asiatic lions from Hyderabad for captive breeding
  • In brief
  • In rally run-up, Maoist-Mamata line gets very blurred in Lalgarh
  • Kin of Sidhu, Tudu, other victims may be honoured
  • Illegal transfer of tribal land brought to High Courts notice
  • Unrest at Rabindra Bharati after student molests girl
  • Hindustan Times
  • Maoists might filter into Mamatas rally: Police
  • Fire in Kolkata mayor's ante-chamber
  • Sounds on Tagore
  • Sports
  • Shaky Bengal look to rock Goan boat
  • Champion Goa to take on 29-time winner Bengal