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News Headlines Archive
January 17, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Jetlite flight lands in Kolkata Airport after Engine Catches Fire
  • Gorkhas clash with tribesmen in West Bengal
  • West Bengal CPM to announce list of candidates
  • Exorcising Nandigram ghost: Villagers part land for ITI
  • Foundation laid for tea park
  • Bid to save endangered red panda from extinction in Sikkim
  • The pishi &...
  • The Telegraph
  • Land for industry on minister lips
  • 2 years less, thanks to pollution
  • Party votes to remove MP
  • Bandhs off, with a tea stricture
  • The young air warrior
  • Too crowded for comfort
  • A year of tall talk, no action
  • 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
  • Adivasi development inadequate: NGO
  • Adivasi development inadequate: NGO
  • Better late than never!
  • Bolpur kids in science congress
  • Dwindling supply puts sugar mill in jeopardy
  • Rs 150 cr needed for new fleet
  • Spurned youth attacks girlfriend
  • State to seek Rs 150 cr for old bus replacement
  • Tides in two minds make Sagar trips tiring
  • Tides make Sagar inaccessible
  • Adulterous mother sets 9-yr-old on fire
  • Times of India
  • Now, Indian pilot lands a miracle
  • 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
  • Jetlite flight bird-hit, makes emergency landing
  • Jalpaiguri on the edge after fresh violence
  • CPM leaders ask cadres to buck up
  • Pilgrims injured as bus rams truck
  • 5 students held for robberies
  • Terror strikes to halt our march: Pranab
  • Minister calms industry’s nerves, says Satyam was one-off
  • Pollution making people deaf in city
  • R-Day alert sounded across Bengal
  • Hindustan Times
  • Bangladesh considers offering port facilities to Indian states
  • 'I lost a dear friend in death of Tapan Sinha'
  • Sports
  • TFA takes new approach to groom trainees
  • Indian presence quite encouraging
  • Grey to replace Sunday