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News Headlines Archive
August 19, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • With Mamata firm on agitation, Nano may miss deadline
  • 35 people injured in TC-CPI(M) clash
  • Mamata to send emissaries for talks on Singur
  • FB to ask for disussion on Singur at LF meet
  • JMM organises Rail Roko movement in Kharagpur section
  • AAI union threatens to disrupt flight traffic
  • Only 34 Bengali teachers for 36,000 students in Bihar
  • WB govt to set up Fifth Pay Commission
  • 14-year-old boy murders nine-year-old girl for I-pod
  • Buddhadeb not to risk land aquisition before LS elections:SUCI
  • US impact on Indian outsourcing not for long: Amartya Sen
  • Indian tea tourism helps spread Darjeeling aroma
  • The Statesman
  • Statesman journalism school starts
  • Docs stipend up from Sept
  • ITs not essential for Citu strike
  • Bandh may hit services at airport
  • Kingpin of bank fraud racket
  • Colleges to set environmental study questions
  • NGOs to launch movement against SEZ
  • Metro Railway will have its own dog squad
  • Bank fraud racket kingpin arrested
  • Naobhanga river reduced to a narrow drain
  • Statesman journalism school starts
  • Hilsas scarcity: fishermen suffer heavy loss
  • Bandh may hit services at airport
  • ITs not essential for Citu strike
  • Docs stipend up from Sept
  • The Telegraph
  • Morcha team to pave Delhi talks path
  • Hearing mom, ‘fearless’ MP4 boy sobs
  • Business and bandh mix
  • Left factors in several rounds
  • Road in shambles for lack of bitumen
  • What's on in town
  • President to unveil civic charter
  • Son scare for cancer mom
  • Howrah realtor duo shot in public
  • Demand for pilgrim fund
  • Anti-CPM lobby sweeps Besu polls
  • Refugee asked to leave India
  • Idol makers in fibreglass fix
  • Pilot high an hour before flight
  • Midnight debut for ‘pricey’ iPhone
  • Tech hub resigns to shutdown
  • JU seniors guilty of ragging
  • Docs in negligence net
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Buddha plea to Zee boss
  • Bail in coach assault case
  • After walkout threat, a trip to Delhi
  • NHPC strike till inspection
  • Siliguri to shift dumpyard
  • Pay panel for Sikkim employees
  • Cattle threat to big cats
  • Spurious liquor kills 5 under cop nose
  • Hills jittery over CM message
  • Protest spurs vaccine action
  • Fined, but for ticket crunch
  • Traders told to go by rules
  • Family smells ragging in death
  • Assault slur on union
  • Docs asked to explain absence
  • Times of India
  • Complete shutdown in state today
  • Shutdown jitters log out airport
  • Mars hoax mails flood planetarium website
  • iPod killer tried to destroy evidence, say police
  • 4 named in JU ragging report
  • CM invites Mamata to talks on Singur
  • Study blames malls for rising pollution
  • Cops arrested for robbing trader of Rs 6 lakh
  • Spectre of drought looms over Malda
  • Kolkata: Rapist offers flowers to girl
  • Indian Express
  • Working overtime to make up for losses
  • Industrialists slam Mamata, ruling party for bandh culture
  • Police escort for IT professionals
  • Met reading: Clear skies with no flights
  • Court orders deportation of Afghan
  • Murder for iPod: Arka produced before juvenile court
  • Bangladesh police drags Indian into their territory
  • Cooch Behar student death: Cops to go for postmortem
  • KMC sits and watches as city sinks again
  • Mamata gets ‘confidential mail from Tata’
  • CPM, Trinamool meet today to discuss Singur
  • Biman urges Mamata to suspend strike
  • ‘US watching situation in West Bengal’
  • Asian Age
  • LF talks tough on Singur agitation
  • IB to keep eye on bank officers
  • Man dies of heart attack after brawl
  • Security breach at Assembly
  • 2nd, 3rd yr varsity results out
  • Autopsy says hotel worker pushed
  • Hindustan Times
  • Buddhadeb invites Mamata for talks on Singur issue
  • A maths lab to remove fear of mathematics
  • Sports
  • Amarnath appointed Bengal consultant
  • Bhutia signs for Mohun Bagan