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News Headlines Archive
August 12, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Governor Gandhi meets PM, not eager for second term
  • Tripartite meeting agrees to abolish Gorkha Hill Council
  • Mamata hopeful of early Assembly elections
  • Unregistered autos to pay penalty and arrears
  • 30 kg peacock tail feather seized at airport
  • Bengal govt bans use of multi crop land for industry
  • CU stops PhD registration to follow UGC rules
  • 'Jibondebata' dominates Tagore in his literary creations: Historian
  • Bengal Governor has had enough of the Left
  • Need for proper translation of Tagore's song in English: Scholar
  • DJ Akash's 'Aami Baangali' rocks Kolkata
  • Bill should address malnutrition: Amartya Sen
  • The Telegraph
  • Operation Lalgarh to enter forest
  • Khejuri freeze after turf war
  • Tips to stay off leopards
  • Missing cop mom guns for police
  • Shop for a dream home at the mall
  • What's on in town
  • Debut by luxury wheels
  • Court asks for film scripts
  • Centres exempt from order
  • 11 trainee teachers arrested
  • Twin arrests on terror charge
  • Suchitra tax row in court
  • Puja message to heal Hills
  • Triple blow to traffic
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • All’s not uniform in cops’ eyes
  • Telugu tale tickles city plex palate
  • DGHC in death bed, regular job cry
  • Corridor connect for toy train coaches
  • 6 in net with 3 cars, cop glare on Northeast
  • Govt eyes elected body
  • Asok raps Morcha bid to score brownie point
  • Vets advise liver & kidney care
  • The Statesman
  • 12 MNCs vie for 30 lakh sq ft
  • 50% of posts vacant at health centres: Assocham
  • 55 lakh health cards for 2 crore BPL population
  • A bitter battle
  • A short break for Ponting
  • A wonderful experience
  • ALIPORE BOMB CASE
  • Advanis assertion
  • Agitation against civic body
  • Another suspected Swine Flu case
  • Anti-GJMM bandh near total
  • BJP MPs supporters open fire, kill 1
  • BSF tightens security along Bangla border for I-Day
  • BSP dismisses SP move to withdraw support
  • Baffling reality
  • Baystars damage control
  • Blessing in disguise
  • Boy chained by helpless mother
  • Bus owners threaten strike protesting against bad roads
  • Centre nod for repeal of DGHC Act
  • Citu bails out vehicles at a cost
  • Conflict over civic body chairmanship
  • Confusion prevails in Sixth Schedule: Tamang
  • Congress will rue its decision
  • Crop output to fall 4.7% on poor rains
  • DYFI protests law & order problems
  • Delhi Metro train derails,
  • Dental ward shut indefinitely
  • Divestment mulled in PTC unit
  • Do not panic, say docs
  • Docs booked after 75 donors go back
  • Draft direct taxes code
  • Drought: Govt puts up brave face
  • Easy win for Kashyap
  • Economy picking up: AC Nielsen
  • Experts fail to tackle tusker
  • Falguni case: Didi for CBI probe
  • Fire wrecks Marda Complex
  • Flintoff fit for Oval
  • Gandhiji and education
  • Get a headstart
  • Guv meets PM, dodges query over staying on
  • HC orders probe in harassment slur
  • Hospital hosts wedding, patients suffer
  • House in order
  • How Johnson got going
  • IAF to launch combat
  • India 6th most active nation
  • India Bulls V-P held for illegal trade
  • India unhappy over China analysts article
  • Indiabulls VP held for illegal trade
  • Institutes to train security guards soon
  • Insults Are Better Taken Lying Down
  • Isro eyes mission Mars
  • Issue no licenses: Bench
  • July exports dip 26.2%
  • KIT budget flats for middle class
  • KIT to introduce budget flats
  • Kerala HC stamp on HMTs cyber city
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Lalgarh operation not a failure: CM
  • Learning from nature
  • Life sentence for WWII German officer
  • Life term for sitting MLA, 2 ex-lawmakers
  • Light on luminescence
  • Lockout declared at Neora Nuddy Tea Estate
  • Maoists threaten Similipal forest guard
  • Maytas allowed to withdraw SEZ 
  • Mining scam: Raids conducted
  • Minority schools seek Biman support
  • Mulayam gears up to withdraw support to UPA 
  • Musharraf deal in the offing?
  • Myth shattered
  • NREGS funds embezzled
  • NREGS under scanner
  • No going back
  • No land policy for Sector V
  • Now auto-rickshaws in Worcestershire
  • Order & the message
  • Orphans go without food
  • PM holds first meeting of UIDA
  • PTTI students clash with cops
  • Pak refuses to take bodies of attackers
  • Papaya aid to BPL women
  • Party agitation plagues Suri
  • Patriarchal piffle
  • Pawar concerned over drought, price rise before poll
  • Plane goes missing
  • Plot to kill Rajapakse unearthed
  • Police avert ABAVP, GJMM clash in Siliguri
  • Police crack down on car thieves, 6 held
  • Politics of convenience
  • Poor rain to breed Maoists
  • Power plant punished for anti-green conduct
  • Quake ripples on coast
  • Rangarajan back as PMEAC chief
  • Return ruled out
  • SC agrees to reveal facts about CJI under RTI Act
  • Sarvajnas statue to be unveiled tomorrow
  • Secrets Of Churchills War Room To Be Revealed
  • Shopian: J&K govt for CBI probe
  • Sikkim Commission submits draft to Chamling
  • South Point teachers seek hike in salary
  • Staff allege students misbehaviour
  • Steel demand soars
  • Sterlite Industries revises offer for Asarco
  • Steyn failed IPL drug test
  • Stocks to hit $1.9t cap
  • Structure and Culture
  • Students suffer in absence of Zoology teacher
  • Suu Kyi: jail to house arrest
  • Taliban torch 7 Malakand schools
  • Tamotia gets relief from High Court
  • Tatas cut prices
  • Tatas secure pvt funding for JLR
  • Teachers block road, demand jobs
  • Test of time
  • The best of both worlds
  • The metallurgy of hydrogen
  • The other side of a former dictator
  • The war on malaria
  • Topics for next week
  • Trader robbed, girl gangraped
  • Two new cases in Kolkata
  • Tytler to revive Congs lost ground in Bihar
  • UN divided over Suu Kyi verdict
  • US Marines storm Afghan Taliban town
  • Upgrade security in zoos: CZA
  • V-B students allege ragging
  • Validate for Cup
  • Women held for protesting before CM house
  • Woods to be fined
  • Zoo security upgrade planned
  • China arent pulling out
  • Is Yeasmin eligible?
  • NBSTC lacks infrastructure
  • Price hike of sugar may cause law & order problem
  • Well get thrashed if prices soar
  • Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • Conserve water or face crisis by 2025, says study
  • CRPF jawan's body brought to Nadia
  • 'Can't play music without licence'
  • Youth computer training centres get HC relief
  • Young women latest victims
  • 25% city couples infertile: Survey Jhimli
  • PTTI protests turn violent Kolkata/Siliguri:
  • Govt in fix over HC query on cop
  • Mother appeals to Maoists
  • New council likely for Darjeeling
  • A truly musical night for Kolkata
  • A truly musical night for Kolkata
  • Raising a toast to WBNCCI
  • Silver Jubilee of togetherness!
  • Remembering Habib Tanvir
  • Indian Express
  • Govt gives GJM just a small rope
  • Parent concerns: Uncle Buddha dotes on young ‘scholars’
  • Burdwan prof faces sexual harassment charge
  • South Point teachers, staff demand revised pay
  • 3 Visva-Bharati students may face suspension for ragging
  • Lalgarh constables still untraced, no clue about kidnappers
  • HC stays order on closure of computer centres
  • City students get astronomy motivation class from Swiss astronaut
  • 200 new buses to hit Kolkata roads before Puja
  • Cong, Trinamool hit the streets, turn heat on CPM
  • NIA lands its first catch in Kolkata, picks up 2 terror suspects
  • Mamata offer letter stumps Basumati staff
  • Masks out of stock as city runs for cover
  • Hindustan Times
  • Stung by Left attack, Bengal Guv meets PM
  • Forces to stay in Lalgarh till situation stabilises: Buddhadeb
  • GJM surrenders on municipality issue
  • Howrah soon in a stamp
  • Sports
  • Fitness programme useful: Ganguly
  • SAI (EC) beats Janbazar AC
  • Mitra to meet Colaco on Aug. 17
  • Bengal squad for EZ junior meet