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News Headlines Archive
January 07, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Students in Shantiniketan call for class boycott
  • Work on JSW's Bengal project to start in Feb
  • Youth kills girl student, himself in Santiniketan
  • Bengal moves to check elephant deaths on rail tracks
  • CPI(M) duplicity exposed: Sinha
  • Nandigram: Scare still looms large
  • Bipasha sacrifices holiday for Bengali film
  • Yikes! Amar is acting in a Bengali film
  • The Statesman
  • Power cut
  • Radio channel employees held after clash at party
  • Jorasanko fruit market gutted in fire
  • CU to speed up exam process
  • Housing estate still tense
  • CU to speed up exam procedure
  • Housing estate still tense
  • Cops face mob ire
  • 5 killed in two road mishaps
  • The Telegraph
  • SMS tip-off on Saswati ignited killer’s fury
  • Girls too hot to handle, registrar flees
  • Showcause on trio for gun theft
  • What's on in town
  • Computer wing for civic body
  • Facility boon for RG Kar
  • Christian schools threaten agitation
  • Five cabins, zero patients
  • Bihar link in dacoity arrests
  • Govt okays Book Fair site
  • Sign of four at cineplex
  • Unions clash on campus
  • Prized passage to Bypass
  • Land or water, that is the question
  • Two killed in road mishaps
  • Bomb scare at airport
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  • Bird draw at jheel
  • 25 years of Pang Lhabsol
  • Future techies scale 100ft wall & learn ‘ethical hacking’
  • 2 killed in fight over extortion right
  • Payment row lock on gardens
  • Closure miseries in Dooars
  • Casual staff in job fight
  • Cops fail to find ‘torture’ victim
  • NBU beefs up hostel security
  • End of beach fests
  • Girls too hot to handle, registrar flees
  • Times of India
  • Mob pours acid on thief in Bengal
  • Hostel exodus amid security fears
  • Power woes to continue for a month
  • Pregnancy scare in air
  • Boi Mela to be held at Park Circus
  • Facelift plan for Howrah station
  • Mobile bill racket busted, 3 held
  • Taslima must apologise: Dasmunshi
  • Gun theft: Not the 1st security lapse
  • Lunatic runs amok, cops refuse help
  • Indian Express
  • Unions clash at Asutosh College
  • Governor recognises Saswati as a performer at a function he attended
  • Book Fair: Govt to take steps to prevent traffic snarls
  • Chetla: State begins work on homes for urban poor
  • Ad(ding) to the chaos
  • State govt mulls PPP for 27 abandoned ECL coalmines
  • ‘Healthcare in villages of primary concern’
  • Intellectuals join BUPC Martyrs’ Day rally in Nandigram
  • Bihar gang targeting businessmen busted
  • BESU V-C to address students today
  • Visva-Bharati failed to use Central funds for security
  • Unease in campuses, police, authorities increase vigilance
  • Rift widens in Left: Bloc, RSP meets up
  • Asian Age
  • Gandhi visits Viswa Bharati
  • Santiniketan security to be beefed up
  • ‘Broken heart’ led to murder
  • Governor visits coal mines in Raniganj
  • Man accused of killing wife
  • State’s support for Book Fair
  • Burrabazar dacoity: 5 held
  • State-of-the-art healthcare
  • CU requests hostel security
  • Hindustan Times
  • CBI to submit report in Rizwanur case tomorrow
  • Murder in Tagore’s ‘abode of peace’
  • Taslima should apologise to Muslims: Dasmunsi
  • Basu sings capitalism tune for Bengal
  • Sports
  • Football : East Bengal 0 - Sporting Club De 1
  • Football : Mohun Bagan 1 - Mahindra United 0
  • Bhowmick set to be Salgaocar TD
  • Harbhajan race row: Ganguly says India not upset