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News Headlines Archive
February 16, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Government offices to reopen today in Darjeeling Hills
  • Druk Air to fly via Bagdogra
  • Dhaka audience better than in Kolkata: Manna Dey
  • Half-burnt body recovered in Bengal
  • 118 rebels flee Bangla camps, surrender in Tripura
  • Rizwan case: Second post-mortem on Manna's body
  • ‘I’m glad Zakir has won his first Grammy’ - Ravi Shankar
  • Vikram, Ash in Kolkata
  • The Telegraph
  • DNA test clears man, but rape slur sticks
  • Sewage in city water, kids ill
  • Cong set to call up Mamata
  • Acid to avenge arrest
  • Elocution for a cause
  • Hospital ransack over kid deaths
  • For once, cops beat traffic stoppers
  • Besu degrees minus Gandhi
  • Lawyers in illegal sale of govt plot
  • Scotland on a plate
  • Report adds to suicide angle
  • Rape of new-found friendship
  • A gasp & clasp from Sita
  • Aspiring model found dead
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Rivalry takes toll on gym and pool
  • Crossroads of traffic chaos
  • Flout greets drive debut
  • Varsity Blues to 20 sportspersons
  • Owner unaware of certificate transfer
  • Berlin award for director
  • Tibetans to skip Losar
  • Malda sore about silk tag
  • Drivers on strike target docs
  • Special cell salary from gardens
  • Malda bandh call by Intuc
  • Gurung & seven in arson FIR
  • Partisan slur on police
  • Malda sore about silk tag
  • The Statesman
  • Biometric ID-cards for fishermen
  • Burrabazar traders in fake note net
  • CM praises films on social causes
  • CPM cadres family face tribal ire
  • City traders in fake note net
  • Doctor beats up nurse
  • Former pradhan ends life
  • Highway from Raniganj to Bankura likely
  • JU students cry bias
  • Kolkata-built warships to join fleet
  • Marine security to be tightened
  • Train accident averted
  • Warships from city on Navy job
  • Times of India
  • Engineering student says her friends raped her
  • Model hangs self after row with lover
  • V-B teachers seek pay hike, V-C falls
  • Attack FIR names GJM leaders
  • Ex-govt staff leave Salt Lake flats
  • Tea sellers being quizzed over Manna's final hours
  • Mamata keeps Cong guessing
  • Bird flu scare in S Dinajpur
  • Worrying Budget: Asim Dasgupta
  • Three minors die in Kolkata hospital, relatives go on rampage
  • Indian Express
  • Mamata to approach President
  • Manna’s death will not affect Rehman case, says CBI
  • Relatives ransack BC Roy Hospital after 3 children die
  • KMC pulls Trinamool scheme out of cold storage
  • Govt ready to recruit teachers in primary schools
  • Experts advocate Central status for BESU
  • KMC plans to bring back auto-cleaners to fuel pumps
  • Mumbaikar on a nationwide tour
  • Three sent to judicial custody for molesting Engg student
  • Dasgupta slams Centre’s budget
  • Industry speaks up
  • Diarrhoea strikes in Garden Reach, one dead, 40 ill
  • Hindustan Times
  • 15 injured in police lathicharge in West Bengal
  • Mamata mum on demand to sever links with NDA
  • Dinhata firing probe panel conducts hearing
  • Mamata accuses CPI-M of manipulating crime evidence
  • Sports
  • Football : Mohun Bagan 1 - Md. Sporting 0
  • Bengal defeats Jharkhand by 90 runs in Vijay Hazare one-dayer