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News Headlines Archive
January 9, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Oil strike delays flights across airports
  • UK enterprise expert to advise West Bengal
  • Trinamool's Firoza Bibi wins Nandigram by-election
  • Many petrol pumps go dry in West Bengal
  • ‘Mourning’ jackals hold up traffic
  • Documentary on Mahasweta Devi
  • Coal India set to achieve target
  • Your Honour, countless lives are in your hands and under the govt’s feet
  • Tin of biscuits unopened becomes heritage
  • Caught in the act!
  • Bengali cinema’s first-ever film on martial arts
  • A part of me wants recognition
  • The Telegraph
  • Ballot gap bothers Left
  • Trinamul bags Nandi by 39000 margin
  • Lesson for teachers on sparing stick
  • Cosmic tales for hungry minds
  • April-March session for ICSE-ISC
  • Cambridge comes calling with ‘happening’ card
  • Kerala comes to Bengal
  • Roof collapse traps woman
  • Their promises & our posers
  • Teen held for kid’s murder
  • A touch of fantasy
  • Ballot box trouble in Brahmo battle
  • Mandeville killer in city remand
  • Undertrials not produced in court
  • Road mishap claims one
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Petrol pumps still dry
  • Trolley pulls tourists to forest
  • Three women make Assembly debut
  • DYFI cry against cop ‘failure’
  • Transfusion of blood resumes
  • Morcha promises aid to rebuild Rohini houses
  • Cong wants halt at Priya home town
  • Principal assault slur on CP
  • Strike hits life, relief by evening
  • The Statesman
  • Auto: Authorities to play it safe
  • Bon jour Kolkata...
  • Cadres houses set ablaze
  • Coal lifters block road, 12 hurt
  • Cops confuse Pintus family
  • Cops tell Durgapur traders to arrange personal security after kidnapping spurt
  • Fog flights
  • Four held for cheating HC lawyer
  • French connection...
  • Golden jubilee celebrations end at RKM
  • No petrol at pumps
  • Pumps run dry
  • Rare heart surgery performed at SSKM
  • Tired of delays, DVC bows to demands
  • Transport stir may push up prices by 20%
  • World Bank to fund college courses
  • Times of India
  • Better safe than sorry: Drivers
  • Green light to pollution fight
  • Drivers brace for uncertain times
  • HC fumes, says no to new deadline
  • Bio-fuel saviour to meet stricter emission norms
  • Transport strike, oil crisis push up prices
  • Rush to clean up auto act
  • Govt chided for not doing auto homework
  • Doc clicks obscene snaps, held
  • Cop thrashes conductor
  • Indian Express
  • Bengal will not snap land deal with Satyam: Minister
  • Govt pays extra for coals extracted from its own mines
  • Mamata’s Singur act is teachers’ tool for anger management
  • Remark against judiciary: Court asked to see footage of CPM leaders
  • ‘GJM backed down over promise made during talks’
  • Culling operation not hit by Morcha shutdown
  • New face of debating: Be natural and mind your points
  • ‘Number of Indians at Cambridge on the rise’
  • Now sanyasin, ex-govt employee finds spiritual calling in Sagar
  • US citizen gets back his lost valuables
  • Pumps ran dry before strike was lifted
  • Day 5 of truck strike triggers LPG crisis
  • Nandigram nightmare continues for CPM, Trinamool wins Assembly by-poll
  • HC pulls up Bengal govt for failing to implement auto ban
  • Hindustan Times
  • TC wins Nandigram
  • Youth held for trying to enter airport's operational area
  • Sports
  • Punjab Police take on Bank in Beighton final
  • Bibaswan, Shreya in line for double crown
  • History revisited as CAB, MCC join hands
  • Sizzling Somdev stuns Carlos