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News Headlines Archive
January 31, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Chicken smuggling poses threat to Kolkata
  • High Court has overstepped: Somnath
  • 'Bangladesh dumping dead poultry in no-man's land'
  • Buddhadeb a greater fundamentalist: Mahasweta Devi
  • Bengal woos steel majors, plans to allot coal fields
  • WB govt. wants CRPF to stay at Nandigram till panchayat poll
  • West Bengal businessman detained
  • Airtel Kolkata Marathon to be run on Feb 3
  • Times of India to launch quarterly Bengali magazine ‘Amar Somoy’ on January 31
  • The Statesman
  • Angry locals block road after injury to schoolgirl
  • Bird Flu hits Kalyani again
  • Birds off airlines menu
  • Free-of-cost treatment for people of Bankura
  • KOLKATA CONNECTION
  • Leprosy cases on the rise
  • Locals block road after injury to kid
  • Mercury will dip further tomorrow
  • Nandigram legislator questioned
  • Publishers urge CM to allot permanent fair site
  • Salt Lake quits after two days of precautions
  • Woman murdered at home
  • The Telegraph
  • Damages cry to CM, via video
  • Sen courts business in silence
  • A pool car ride to trauma
  • Masseuse wants to confess
  • Driver hits, pays & flees
  • Brace for 48-hour cold wave
  • Judicial custody for quack widow
  • Custodians cross at fair mess
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Polio boy came on Dec. 11
  • Karma cuts first album
  • 3 rustlers shot dead by BSF
  • Malkhan Singh set free
  • 13-year-old flees home for FM radio
  • Hill council workers on warpath over jobs
  • Mirik & Gangtok boys to rock Asia
  • Suspended on last day in office
  • Centre rides aviation boom
  • Damages cry to CM, via video
  • Marriage law from February
  • Times of India
  • Mukesh to bring gas to Bengal by 2011
  • Mayor in Maidan muddle
  • Safety norms ignored for culling teams
  • Quack widow held for killing daughter
  • Compulsory nuptial listing from Feb 4
  • Bird flu scare in Darjeeling
  • Pool car crashes, 5 hurt
  • Gun-toting cop sacked
  • Brace for longer, colder winter
  • Woman bludgeoned, masseur suspected
  • Indian Express
  • Govt mulls software IT park
  • Polio alert: Migrants under scanner
  • Home Guards won’t get salaries of constables: HC
  • After the fire
  • Workshop on Vivekananda’s teachings at IIM-C today
  • Teachers protest NKC guidelines on outlay
  • Lack of funds, awareness ail JC Bose programme
  • It’s compulsory to get your marriage registered now
  • Therapist remanded in police custody
  • ICICI plans tie-up with city varsities, meets CM
  • With culling on, no one wants the chicks
  • Army pulls up Guild for token fair at Maidan
  • Tollygunge poultry farm turns high-security zone
  • Guild ready to hold book fair anywhere
  • Asian Age
  • Subhas enters book fair scene
  • Ration dealers threaten strike
  • State makes marriage registration compulsory
  • Murder had personal angle: Police
  • City gets no respite from chill
  • Luxury cruise service soon
  • Hindustan Times
  • Bird flu keeps spreading in West Bengal
  • Disinfectants sprayed to halt bird flu outbreak
  • Sports
  • A-I force EB to goalless draw
  • East Bengal held
  • Abhishek shines for Kolkata Tigers
  • No selfish cricket, please: Coach Arun’s message to EZ players
  • East Bengal to lodge protest with AIFF
  • Bhaichung uncertain