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News Headlines Archive
December 9, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal FM for a second dose of fiscal stimulus
  • Kolkata foundry park to attract Rs 25,000 cr investment
  • Bengal's foundry units in deep crisis
  • Unitech, Idea get spectrum in Kolkata
  • Kolkata Mint to be coins, currency museum
  • GJM closes state govt. offices in Darjeeling
  • Judicial custody for Todi kin
  • Chidambaram reviews security situation in Bengal
  • The Statesman
  • Alarm bells ring after Bird Flu hits Assam
  • Bus, Mini strike tomorrow
  • Chidambaram doesnt get to meet Buddha
  • Five RKM teachers refuse to follow dress code
  • Gangsters escape from custody
  • Howrah Municipal Corporation board formed
  • JU for research bags Rs 5 crore
  • Joynagar moa ~ a winter delicacy here to stay
  • Judges split on Todi appeal
  • Now, pick up the phone & book train tickets
  • PWD renders police staff homeless
  • SIM: Cops suspect wider involvement
  • SRFTI yet to have OBC quota
  • Separate body for civic recruitments
  • Media students should be innovative
  • The Telegraph
  • Tribals rally against rebels
  • Carjacker shot in highway fight
  • School colour bar on way out
  • Counter closed, fake tickets on sale
  • Elephants kill 2 in Bankura
  • Winter winds in slow motion
  • Simulator for target practice
  • Court wary of Ansari appeal
  • Mumbai cops steer clear of SIM catch
  • Bird flu alert follows Assam outbreak
  • Cop axe in van escape
  • Tibetans to mark rights day with protest
  • Small tea growers demand easy cash
  • Permit glare on job agency, six held
  • Missing mason found on tracks
  • House raid slur on CPM men
  • Private bus strike today
  • Hotels bank on ‘gut’ feeling for security
  • Fake PAN card seized
  • Morcha relief for census class
  • Ranger & team chase truck, seize wood
  • Special action plan to fight timber mafia
  • Times of India
  • West Bengal police must become 'knowledge-based' force: DGP
  • Dig into Tagore's favourite foods
  • Bus strike in Kolkata today
  • Traffic lights installed without any survey
  • CPM's overnight move to counter Maoists
  • After 3-2 win, Cong seeks Trinamool ties
  • Guests expose chinks in nightclub security
  • Groom of many a wedding caught
  • Hawkers spark mall safety fears
  • Ex-DGP trains private guards
  • Indian Express
  • On Bakr Eid, security stepped up at mosques, temples
  • Mukhtar was a policeman, not a terrorist, says mother-in-law
  • GJM forces shutdown in Hills
  • Upbeat Congress asks Mamata to show her LS cards
  • Buses to halt in tracks to protest arrests under non-bailable section
  • KMC concerned about losses from beautification project
  • A day after escape of undertrials, S-I and constable suspended
  • CPI legislator urges Centre to resolve Bengal jute mill crisis
  • Hunting for a job with offer letter in hand
  • Man sets wife ablaze in Barasat
  • Three hurt in Liluah bomb blast
  • Latest ‘poster’ boy of KMC: mayor’s nephew
  • Not all safe along the West Bengal coast
  • Bengal prepares list of suspects
  • Fire dept raises elite force to combat terror attacks
  • Expert help for cops in tracking SIM cards
  • Hindustan Times
  • To guard PM, kids perch on treetops
  • Maradona visits Missionaries of Charity in India
  • Sports
  • Md. Sporting beats HASC
  • Kolkata reception second biggest: Maradona
  • Henriques to play for Kolkata Knight Riders
  • Bengal reach U-22 semi-finals
  • Willing to help India: Maradona