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News Headlines Archive
January 16, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Rizwan case: Key accused Ashok Todi, brother get bail
  • Kolkata film fraternity mourns Tapan Sinha
  • Konnichiwa! Kolkata residents queue up for Japanese lessons
  • Universities offer fat salaries to IIT grads
  • No, it’s not Abhishek!
  • The Telegraph
  • Hill bandh after Gorkhaland clash
  • Rival unity alert in CPM
  • Calcutta uplift on party lips
  • Cuffs for teen sex on cell
  • School kids love slam-bang
  • Bindra to Bagan, with tips for mind & muscle
  • Twist in Chinese tastebud
  • Double trouble for BA fliers
  • Tech scan on heart patients
  • Apex court grants bail to Todis
  • The science of swing bowling
  • Man held for killing wife
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Net users mull legal recourse
  • Passes for Bayern football match
  • Park for branded brew buyers
  • Ramesh plea for tech college
  • Cell shut, cops on toes
  • Sunday opening for first Balurghat plex
  • Decision on hill bandh period today
  • Central team visits trade zone
  • Govt vehicle kills one
  • Dooars traders fear losses
  • One held for smut clip
  • The Statesman
  • 14-year-old domestic help found hanging
  • Brothers die for a tree
  • Buddha bats for Besu
  • Hurt Pinki set to retire
  • No Citu demonstration in front of HHI, says HC
  • Pilgrims stranded, flights disrupted
  • Thousands bid tearful adieu to Tapan Sinha
  • When brothers die for a tree
  • Win takes better of CPM
  • Times of India
  • Aircraft makes emergency landing as engine catches fire
  • Knockout punch for pan chewers at SSKM
  • Metro extension nod likely this year
  • Book on Bangladeshi cuisine set to tickle taste buds
  • Sunderbans study links straying tigers with vanishing greens
  • Rescued from brothel, girls face bleak future
  • IIM-C looks to US to meet faculty crunch
  • 4 arrested for Suri murder
  • CPM meet focuses on Lok Sabha poll tickets
  • 50 injured in Malbazar clash
  • Indian Express
  • Mela: Transportation woes continue
  • Rehman case: Todis get bail
  • Brace for old vehicle ban from March 31
  • Safiqul helped former Hizbul chief Dar enter India
  • Sattar against Right to Education Bill, demands amendment
  • Govt to conduct tiger census in Sunderbans from February
  • HC directs state government to file affidavit on condition of jails
  • Port trust eyes Raichak sites for its port project
  • After 26/11, experts favour IT-based surveillance systems in public places
  • Centre said yes, but national status remains elusive for BESU
  • City to host international photovoltaic meet from Jan 9
  • Despite court order, CITU-backed union’s posters, banners intact at Hotel Hindusthan International
  • Darjeeling erupts again as GJM, opponents clash; Special IG, DSP among 25 cops injured
  • Congress divided over alliance with Trinamool
  • CPM soon to release list of LS candidates
  • Hindustan Times
  • SC grants bail to Todi brothers in Rizwanur Rehman case
  • Ganguly to be presented with golden bat
  • Robbery accused escapes from police custody
  • Sports
  • It’s important to realise when to go: Ganguly
  • Youth development is the key: Kahn