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News Headlines Archive
December 09, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal offers 900-acre Singur land to railways
  • Trinamool against setting up of N-power plant in Bengal
  • West Bengal agrees to hand over Singur site to Railways
  • Solar power: Bengal becomes fore-runner
  • Kolkata apparel units increase capacities, ad spends
  • Chirag logs in to light up PC market
  • Trinamool Minister opposes Haripur nuclear power plant
  • West Bengal Assembly may be adjourned again
  • Kolkata Maidan, a breath of fresh air in the congested Kolkata city
  • I’ve never compromised: Resshmi
  • Neha Dhupia sizzles at golf ramp in Kolkata
  • Mithun Chakraborty inspired by Salman Khan
  • Look, who’s talking!
  • The Telegraph
  • Two ways to play Singur googly
  • Sticky point: Tata damages
  • Rebels shoot cop camp hand
  • Varsity breaks lock for governor
  • Fighter plane draw in victory day parade
  • CU body meet on test demand
  • Corporal punishment ban in slow motion
  • Babus play truant with CM blessing
  • Queen to port trust’s rescue
  • Pool car strike in Howrah
  • 150 per cent fee hike at IIT biz school
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Protest peters out at Presidency
  • Chilli run ends in cuffs
  • Boys back with father
  • Turf battle rages, bullet injures one
  • Highway block threat from KPP
  • Father visits hostel, but son missing
  • Morcha shuts power office
  • Rebel portal exposes SDF rift
  • The Statesman
  • 127 die in Baghdad blasts
  • 26/11 case against Headley
  • An exodus of the worrying kind...
  • Attack on ISI office kills 12
  • Aussies manage a draw
  • Barca in the cold of Kiev
  • Bengal in trouble
  • Bihar preparedness for Swine Flu exposed
  • Biswas wins it for MSC
  • Blair ignored call to delay Iraq invasion
  • CPM raises doubts on Trinamul murders
  • Car sales zoom 61% in November
  • FIR registered in Karkare jacket case
  • Farooq targets 1,300 MW solar power output in 3 yrs
  • House falling apart... literally
  • ICC acknowledges pressure influenced umpires departure
  • ICICI joins home loan war
  • Inadequacies in Prof Sens work
  • India reaches out to LDCs
  • Its advantage India
  • Its time for a southern freight corridor
  • Left, SP walk out over disinvestment
  • Letters To The Editor
  • Link between Headley, Pak terrorists found
  • NDTV to sell Imagine to Turner for
  • Nehrus dream unfulfilled
  • Nepal Maoists call closure of media houses
  • Of balanced batting & effective bowlers
  • PC blames PV for wrong judgment
  • PC slams Parivar
  • PM on way home after satisfying Russia visit
  • Party pooper for Presidency varsity
  • Passing the Singur buck
  • PwC appoints new India head
  • RIL itself sought gas price at $2.34, SC told
  • Rahul quells chopper controversy
  • Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Curly Hair
  • Sea level rise understated?
  • Separatist voices in Andhra Congress
  • State violates Centres order on explosives
  • TRS forces adjournment of session
  • The seedy side of Kovalam
  • The travails of an innovator
  • Volkswagen buys Porsche stake
  • Yuvraj sacked as captain
  • if guilty, Headley faces life term, even death
  • Iran-Pak-Iraq pipeline project still on
  • Times of India
  • Comedy of errors at Kolkata airport
  • Fire breaks out in Burrabazar
  • Writers' surprise: File on fast-forward
  • CM pat for rule-breaking staff
  • Sukhoi buzz to mark Vijay Diwas in city
  • Ex-CPM leader run over by train
  • HC bans parking along Strand Road
  • Haripur braces for long battle against N-plant
  • Farooq proposes green power plant for Sunderbans
  • Tapan Sinha's unfinished dream to turn reel reality
  • Norman never stops
  • Norman never stops
  • Looking for a 'Fresh Face'
  • Desi beats for Kolkata's party hoppers
  • Indian Express
  • Buddha spares the rod, woos Writers’ employees
  • Rs 15 lakh to turn Lalgarh ‘barracks’ to schools again
  • After Trinamool MP, fishermen group opposes nuclear plant at Haripur
  • Three arrested in Rs 3 crore bank fraud case
  • Flash strike by pool car operators leaves Howrah students stranded
  • A first: Air Force to participate in Army’s Vijay Diwas
  • ‘Corporal punishment in schools still on in many districts’
  • Coral Reef Adventure at Science City
  • Rlys ready to go ahead with Singur project
  • 10,000 cases pending, Bengal Rights panel out to celebrate
  • Trinamool sharpens focus on Rajarhat land
  • Premji may yet give shape to CM’s IT dreams
  • State keeps nose to ground, 6 districts mapped
  • Hindustan Times
  • Bengal promises Singur land for coach factory
  • 'Bengal govt to back Railways if Singur gets coach factory'
  • Sports
  • Football: Mohammedan Sporting scores win
  • Chess: Sayantan Das triumphs
  • Bengal shot out for 193
  • Cricket: CAB gets dues