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News Headlines Archive
January 22, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Coal shortage may trigger power crisis in W Bengal
  • Security stepped up across West Bengal for Republic Day
  • PM's trip to Kolkata put off
  • JSW Bengal unit to tie up funds by end-March
  • 'I'm 15 and have seen all the ugly faces of poverty'
  • GJM delegation to meet Buddhadeb today
  • Loyalty card unit sees revenues surging
  • Is Pranab wooing the Left to reconstruct old alliance?
  • We don't want split in anti-CPI(M) votes: Mamata
  • SUCI threatens to sever ties with Trinamool
  • The Telegraph
  • Pranab back as state unit boss
  • Opposition poll pot boils
  • CM works on peasants to minimise land effect
  • Dooars campaign on hold
  • What’s in a name? Ask namesake
  • Attacker held, kids in trauma
  • Fear of fire at Book Fair
  • A hero’s last stand
  • Nightmare ride with rogue cop
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Subhas in taxi tantrum
  • Buddha hope for homeless
  • Vehicles few, attendance low in offices
  • Forest pellets fell poacher
  • 5 injured in clash over land
  • Search on to trap sick jumbo
  • Cop boat hijacked and rescued
  • Bias charge after Calcutta meeting
  • The Statesman
  • 10 hurt at Esplanade
  • Buddha at Xaviers do
  • CM lauds Xaviers role
  • Central funds herald uplift of tribal women
  • Degree of deceit
  • Ex-civic chiefs in a tussle over land
  • Gang of robbers busted
  • How To Do It
  • Man hacked to death in bus
  • Perfect day to call a bandh!
  • Resentment brews at KoPT over false statements
  • SSKM steals CMCH thunder with reminder to CM
  • Security upped for R-Day
  • Teenager attacks employer, robs cash & jewellery
  • Two commuters fall off train, hurt
  • Times of India
  • Villagers fight off goons in Malda
  • Buzz over Slumdog, but kids left out
  • Forest guard may get sack, says dept
  • CPM invokes Basu at kisan meet
  • Four killed in Malda highway accident
  • CPM instigating tribals in N Bengal: GJM
  • IIM-C course for accountants
  • Parents strangle ailing baby
  • Maid held for throwing hot water on kids
  • Box stuck in child's mouth
  • Indian Express
  • India, Pak meet halfway at Hungry Tide
  • GJM calm, CM to meet adivasis now to buy peace
  • Bengal moves fast on coastal security
  • Mothers’s saree will travel to her birthplace — Macedonia
  • Govt to buy 3,000 eco-friendly buses to replace the old ones
  • KMC staffer run over by bus
  • Woman arrested for pouring boiling water on schoolchildren
  • Stunned, RBU B Ed students close ranks after HC order
  • Kolkata meets the state bandh half-way
  • Suburban rail services hit
  • Mamata plays hardball, foxed Cong looks to Delhi
  • Wooing voters? Govt allots Rs 50 cr for minority projects
  • Hindustan Times
  • Security stepped up across West Bengal for Republic Day
  • Shipping Corp not to place any new order till March
  • GJM delegation to meet Buddhadeb tomorrow
  • Sports
  • Mumbai FC thrash Mohammedan Sporting 3-0
  • Zee Sports gear up to telecast live Indian League
  • Bengal's J C Mukherjee's T-20 final ends in fiasco
  • Final drama not yet over