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News Headlines Archive
Februrary 7, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Bird flu: Bengal incurs loss of Rs 500 crore
  • Rs. 11,602.38-crore annual plan for West Bengal finalised
  • Miser Bengal sleeps on welfare money - Funds for job scheme remain unspent
  • New Year brings mixed emotions for Kolkata Chinese
  • Somnath exhorts honest persons to join politics
  • 5 cows die of suspected anthrax in West Bengal
  • Two film institutes to be upgraded to global standards
  • Kailash rocks Kolkata!
  • Konkona does her first TV commercial
  • The Statesman
  • 2 held in law degree scam
  • Army exercise in Rajasthan
  • Centre mulls package for debt-ridden farmers
  • Classes suspended as many choose to stay home
  • Culling relief: Man held for forgery
  • IIM-C students focus
  • It may rain a little today
  • Plan panel pat for Bengal
  • Quake hits five districts, one dies
  • Quick fix
  • Sector V struggles on strike day
  • Sporadic violence marks bandh
  • To support or not to support...
  • The Telegraph
  • Dinhata growls, Calcutta goes silent
  • SMC brings special dumpers
  • Poultry sale despite ban
  • Morcha on fast for panel visit
  • ‘Fiancée’ denies link with victim
  • Poets weave magic at varsity
  • Uneasy calm in front & town
  • Police bullets widen Bloc rift
  • Book grant slashed for ‘reception’
  • Alive after face-off with bear
  • Realty stench in slum rubble
  • Times of India
  • In trams, it's winter till March
  • Tyre bursts, flight averts crash
  • Wet weekend may bring back chill
  • Gas plot to kill tenants
  • 1 killed, 3 injured in Howrah fire
  • Sunrise jobs in line of fire
  • Canadian education fair
  • Quake shock in four districts
  • Mutton prices skyrocket
  • Indian Express
  • Woman dies as house catches fire
  • Burdwan is India’s first e-governed ‘panchayat’ district
  • Bird flu: Culling teams shrinking
  • Solution for staff crunch: ESI decides to set up colleges
  • Cuban children to rally for parents’ release in June
  • Passion drives these lifesavers
  • BESU to adopt JEE route for admission this session
  • ‘Fraud’ doctor held in Jharkhand
  • Park Circus handover: Shop owners get PDCI support
  • State to prepare blueprint for better treatment of patients
  • Why a controversy, asks Padma Vibhushan Mukherjee
  • KMC to spend public money on Nandaram demolition
  • Who asked for CRPF at Dinhata? Home dept asking questions
  • CM lobbies for ADB, World Bank funds
  • Science Express chugs into Howrah
  • Asian Age
  • Spurned lover throws acid on girl
  • Parts of Nandaram market demolished
  • State orders complete ban on poultry products
  • Restaurants in city suffer
  • New foreign agreement
  • Naidu for TMC as partner
  • Naxalite posters
  • Hindustan Times
  • Bandh affects life in Bengal, 166 bandh supporters arrested
  • West Bengal bans poultry trade due to bird flu
  • Mild tremor felt in south Bengal
  • Shattered by mother's death, siblings commit suicide
  • Sports
  • Bose back to old wicket ways
  • Chennai Superstars trounce Kolkata Tigers
  • SQUASH - Abdel Aziz Earns Semi-Final Place In Kolkata