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News Headlines Archive
January 5, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • Buddhadeb, Biman crack the whip on laid-back ministers
  • No trace yet of 18 missing in West Bengal boat capsize
  • West Bengal Tourism and Food fest starts Jan 6
  • Kingfisher launches direct flights from Kolkata to Patna
  • CPI(M) supporter killed in Lalgarh
  • Bengal Aerotropolis gets 2nd tranche of land from WBIDC
  • Jobs for families that hand over land to railways
  • Kolkata spin-off bags $100m+ PE deal with AZB
  • ‘My friends think I am an idiot’
  • The Telegraph
  • No choice but to give away girl
  • Trinamul stalls work on Haldia project
  • No chopper? Farooq hails a cab
  • Taslima pins hope on visa visit
  • CU makes the highest grade
  • Colder days ahead for city
  • Friend arrested for boy abduction
  • Arms licence fraud nets 4
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Mamata, the twice born
  • Tech team to shed light
  • Govt tea aid after 12 years
  • Axe-rebel challenge for Chamling
  • 9 boys rescued from hotel, 6 held for kidnap bid
  • School meal rivalry kills one
  • The Statesman
  • 10th Auto Expo: Focus on small, green cars
  • Aditya Birla Minacs pact with NorthStar
  • An Artificial Mind?
  • Belated rally by Australians
  • Bosch to invest Rs 2k crore
  • Debating challenges, exploring opportunities
  • Four-nation hockey tournament cancelled
  • GDP could touch 10%: Govt
  • Games over the dead
  • General Motors bets big on small cars
  • Govt strips Rathore of police medal
  • JSW Energy plans to pump in Rs 40,000 cr
  • Letters To The Editor
  • MF assets drop 3.55% in December
  • Mamata lays on the sops
  • Marico buys Code 10 from Colgate-Palmolive
  • Mercedes sales down over 10%
  • Morkel, Steyn keep Test in the balance
  • Moya eliminated, Cilic advances
  • Murray turns back on Davis Cup duty
  • Novartis to buy stake in Alcon
  • Paradip port celebrates foundation day
  • RIL-LIC big block deal
  • Real Madrid fail to cash in on Barcelona slip
  • Scrip opens at premium
  • Security alert sounded in Bihar
  • Sensex at 19-month high
  • Twinning dividends
  • Unbeaten 209 by Dravid strengthens Karnataka
  • Yuvraj doubtful starter
  • Exposure is our watchword
  • Times of India
  • Howrah kidnap: 2 kids held
  • Man shot in clash over midday meal
  • Civic body charts grand canal-cleaning project
  • Four nabbed in gunrunning racket
  • Farooq Abdullah takes taxi ride from airport
  • Drowning boy haunts gutsy saviour
  • Victims' kin block roads to protest rescue delay
  • Break the idiotic mould: IITians
  • Naga sadhus take up green cause
  • Jambination stole the show!
  • Jambination stole the show!
  • Great going with Gary
  • Privy rocked on New Year’s Eve
  • Gautam & belly dancers entertain Kolkata!
  • Indian Express
  • Man missing from Asaram’s ashram, wife cries foul play
  • Arms seized from BSNL office, 4 held
  • Bengal following Telangana talks
  • No ‘healthy’ CPM cadre to induct, government sits on elite rescue team
  • Briefs
  • In Kolkata, Farooq hops into a cab, cops left hopping mad
  • Mamata says CM misled PM, wants joint forces out of Lalgarh
  • Tata junks Bengal claim: No word on Singur land return
  • Karat to be star lecturer at CPM class
  • Centre to come up with plan to save Sunderbans
  • Hindustan Times
  • 15 missing after boat capsizes in Kolaghat
  • Alert against Taliban-trained suicide bombers
  • Sports
  • Will get better: Bhutia
  • Afridi wants to play for Rajasthan or Kolkata in IPL
  • East Bengal arrive amid rapturous welcome