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News Headlines Archive
December 04, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Six killed, eight injured in West Bengal accident
  • 6 companies of BSF withdrawn from West Bengal
  • HC asks Britannia to pay Rs 2.6 cr to KoPT
  • Trinamool demands 'due weightage', MPs to meet PM Friday
  • Physically challenged demand rail travel concession
  • Lifetime Achievement Award for Mrinal Sen
  • VB wants Nobel prize medal theft probe to continue
  • Mamata to visit Cambridge University
  • Anandalok Purashkar: 'Challenge' bags four awards
  • Songs alone don’t make a movie: Surajit
  • The Telegraph
  • Rebels kill resistance trio
  • Job priority promise for land
  • Call of the kid choir
  • Rake runs with lethal flaw
  • Classes shut for CPM lectures
  • Bus crushes single mother
  • Corporal summons to schools
  • Sky’s the limit for exhibits
  • Land scam report ready
  • Terror talk & safety steps
  • Autopsy nod for hospital
  • If it’s your birthday...
  • What's on in town
  • College student run over by train
  • Teen dead in friend home
  • Mother fights rogue driver
  • Cops look other way, IG glares
  • Tourism meet in Gangtok
  • Traders shut down Alipurduar after heist
  • Permanent job for cinchona workers
  • Haldi & mehendi keep MP busy
  • After strike threat, bar on ‘party’ activities
  • Rebels kill 3 for uniting tribals
  • Job hope for Haldia land
  • The Statesman
  • 16 away from history
  • 2,128 posts of lecturers still vacant
  • 25 years on, Bhopal gas victims trauma lingers on
  • 3 axed over public address system row
  • Boat ride turns tragic, three dead
  • CAT applicants to get further help
  • CLB officials under scanner
  • Carbon emissions: The dragon is far ahead
  • Civic body banks on BPL list to regain lost vote
  • Cleveland to Kharagpur
  • College Street market delay: Pvt body pulled up
  • Committee for disabled people on the anvil
  • Confusion over Rajkhowa arrest
  • Cops fail to nab criminal, but trap lover
  • Crickets end of days ~ Even as Test cricket returns to Brabourne stadium after three decades, Indias favourite obsession will change in a
  • Dubai crisis not to affect banks: RBI
  • Emaar MGF offices raided for Koda links, charge denied
  • Fifa rules out ref aids in World Cup
  • Food inflation soars to 17.47%
  • France cry foul
  • Gas price revision on cards: Govt
  • Gatecrash fallout: 2010 US-India Polo match cancelled
  • Gayle is optimistic
  • Girl breathes easy after 3 yrs in jail
  • Google seeks beneficial relationships with publishers
  • Hostess set to admit Tiger affair
  • India will stand to protect farmers at WTO: Sharma
  • Indians seize control
  • Indo-Pak relations critical for stability of the region: USA
  • Joint forces detect landmine in Midnapore, gunbattle ensues
  • KMC cracks the whip on shopping malls
  • Karnataka in quarter-finals
  • Khanakul erupts after team leaves
  • Kiwis on top at Wellington
  • LeT operatives admit involvement in Blore blasts
  • Letters To The Editro
  • Love reaches new heights!
  • Loves labour lost
  • Manmohan Singh for urban reforms to check chaos
  • Marriage BadFor Waistline
  • Much ado about PC remarks
  • Nadal wary of Czech challenge
  • Nearly half of Bengal in BPL list
  • Online helps
  • Promoters buy Mitsubishi stake in EML
  • Proteas in need of quick-fix
  • RBI may revisit economic growth forecast
  • RSP helps farmers
  • Rana hearing adjourned till 15 December
  • Raw jute imports down
  • Rawdon Square to get cultural complex
  • Reddy afraid of going to Parliament
  • Some good words for Centre
  • Special Article
  • Stage set for 2010 draw
  • State-of-the-art lab to purify emitted carbon
  • Syria explosion kills three
  • Trinamul makes inroads in Murshidabad
  • Trinamul, Cong demand arrest of ex-CPM MP
  • US forces to exit in 2011, but conditions apply
  • USA will cooperate in Headley probe: Krishna
  • Warning: Do not take this picture
  • Water riot kills one in Mumbai
  • Wen Jiabao on influential US top-10 list
  • What good is independent India for the Lodhas?
  • Why not Turkey in the EU?
  • World crude steel production increases
  • 20-25% emission reduction by 2020
  • Times of India
  • Couple protests rash driving, beaten up
  • Prison guards beat up don
  • Partymen's delay irks CM
  • Mom saves girl, but comes under bus wheels
  • Mamata drops demand for central rule
  • Sexual violence: NGOs to counsel adolescent boys
  • Ershad to visit Dinhata home first time since 1975
  • 85-yr-old writes about wife's struggle against Alzheimer's
  • Probe into charges against SP
  • Sedition charges dropped against Mahato
  • Gautam Lewis's homecoming!
  • Gautam Lewis's homecoming!
  • B'wood was the flavour at this Kolkata do
  • For Kolkata, fun begins on weekends
  • When audience was left dumbstruck!
  • Indian Express
  • For a change, Left holds Mamata right
  • Health minister defends 3-year medical diploma
  • Ex-Bangla prez to visit ancestral home in Bengal
  • Explosives cargo held up at Haldia dock
  • CM wants charges made by Nadia SP’s mom probed
  • Maoists get a free run, gun down 3 CPM men
  • For next two days, state Cong to brainstorm on its ‘identity crisis’
  • Corporal punishment: High Court summons top education officer
  • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata accuses Tourism Ministry officials of misguiding Ahmed
  • Maoists in PM cabinet 'absurd', Cong tells CPI
  • Rituparno Ghosh’s Abhoman at Marrakech
  • Sports
  • Dipendu set to make a start
  • Diptayan signs truce
  • We have done no wrong: Dempo coach
  • SAFF Cup was like a dream for me