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News Headlines Archive
July 22, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata witnesses 91 per cent eclipse
  • West Bengal sets terms to discuss Gorkhaland
  • West Bengal farmers fight bad monsoon with frog marriage
  • Didi seeks help to oust Left from Bengal
  • Mamata: oust CPI(M) in West Bengal by 2011
  • Sourav gets brother's support in CAB bid
  • Teacher arrested for thrashing student
  • The thinker: Inside the mind of prized intellectual Amartya Sen
  • 30 injured in Trinamool-CPI(M) clash
  • Schools in Lalgarh likely to be reopened by August one
  • Rachna’s first with Abhishek
  • Sen sisters to play contrasting roles in 'Noukadubi'
  • The Telegraph
  • Morcha says hill bandh on
  • Biman wants schools freed
  • Maoist whiff in hunger strike
  • Rebels butcher CPM leader
  • Traffic class in schools
  • Drug resistance leads to rise in malaria cases
  • What's on in town
  • Strike worry for schools
  • Brace for roads minus transport
  • Call for young golf talent
  • Script changes in JEE dispute
  • Six held with arms cache
  • 8 lakh snatched from woman in city centre
  • Trio dupe trader of Rs 1 crore
  • Rain but Orissa takes a bite
  • Subhas peeved at Metro renaming
  • Man held for wife murder
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Fleeting glimpse of darkness at dawn
  • Minister to meet bus, taxi lobby
  • Wait pays off for only a few
  • Ulfa arrest miffs peaceniks
  • Clouds play spoilsport for Siliguri sky watchers
  • Govt denies change in stand
  • Plan to revive lost glory of Assam wetland
  • BJP voice for state rises in Lok Sabha
  • ‘GNLF’ men shunted out of hills
  • Morcha links stir withdrawal to cop transfer
  • Malda courts award life terms to 11
  • The Statesman
  • 2 get death for rape & murder
  • A mammoth undertaking
  • A man of letters
  • Aerotropolis: Gurus chant CPM mantra
  • Ambuja Realty to set up hotel chain
  • Anti-GJMM groups threaten bandh
  • Are these a no-brainer?
  • Bangladesh savour Test series victory
  • Boy wizard casts his spell
  • Bus phase-out may wait
  • CPM protest against police inaction in Malda
  • CPM rally at Krishnapur deferred
  • Clarke comes of age in a fading side
  • Coastal blender
  • Collective failure,
  • Court orders protection for inter-caste couple
  • Courts call on Kasab confession
  • Darkness at dawn today
  • Death sentence for rape accused
  • Defence ministry bypassed on End-User arrangement
  • Defence ministry bypassed on End-User arrangement?
  • Dists under water after 2-day downpour
  • End-use accord
  • Flintoff to play full series
  • For a glimpse of the one whos been there for all
  • Funding still an issue for SMEs: RBI
  • GJMM shutdown to continue in the Hills
  • Gambhir still at the top
  • Govt mulling flood control project in Midnapore
  • Govt put through the wringer on Euma
  • Has 2008 flood damage been repaired?
  • Increase in forest cover envisaged
  • Indian troops slammed by Israel
  • Infosys wins eBiz project
  • Joshi row: Cong threatens stir
  • Kalam frisked at IGI, govt orders probe
  • Kargil martyrs family fights over compensation
  • Language row: SC order a setback to Yeddyurappa govt
  • Man and the moon
  • Mitra new disinvestment secretary
  • NBU mulls setting up second campus
  • Nayachar: Not all is well
  • Now, Bihar Cabinet to meet aboard floating restaurant
  • OBC Q1 net profit up 17%
  • Obama transmits first report on N-deal
  • Pakistan exonerated
  • Pakistan pull ahead
  • Patro proved wrong, people now feel safe
  • Petroleum pricing policy criticised
  • Population registration begins in coasts
  • Protest over molestation of school girl
  • RSP provides technical training
  • Ready for Writers
  • Ready for Writers
  • Rel Cap mulls IPO
  • SMP swearing-in a flop show
  • Shortage of rainfall worries all
  • Some stand to gain... some to lose
  • Stand united against Naxals, says Naveen
  • State mulls steps to combat bandh
  • Tactical pest war
  • Taliban bombers in burkha kill 6
  • Tata Steel raises $500m via GDR
  • Tax variants & the economy
  • The Hogwarts effect on 5 US universities
  • The global value chain
  • The scheme is dead; long live the scheme
  • The voice of tradition ~Gangubai Hangal
  • This may prove Freds last stand
  • Train derails at Dalkhola
  • Tsunami warning system passes test
  • WBUT introduces course sans set-up
  • Want better grades?
  • What it was like
  • When the city stood still...
  • Divestment to start with listed firms
  • Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • Overcast sky spoils show in Kolkata
  • Crows foil jailbreak bid
  • JEE candidates' writs dismissed
  • GJM comes up with new set of demands
  • Eclipse lays bare tale of two cities
  • Great Eastern to reopen in Dec '10 in swanky avatar
  • Cops use Press stickers to evade Maoists
  • CPM men publicly humiliated
  • CPM leader shot in Belpahari
  • Transport strike: Get ready to go to office in a truck
  • Perfect dance party for Kolkata
  • Perfect dance party for Kolkata
  • Saturday night fever at 'Underground'
  • People enjoy their weekend at Soho
  • DJ Akhtar enthralls Kolkata
  • Indian Express
  • Terror rules charred Mangalkot villages
  • CPM rallies cadres to halt Mamata’s march
  • Activist’s murder: Top Trinamool leaders on spot
  • ‘KMC diverted funds meant for schemes to its private partner’
  • School off-limits for teachers defying sari diktat
  • Schools fear students will bear the brunt of transport strike
  • BESU’s central status demand gets fillip ahead of Sibal’s visit
  • Hilsa crosses border finally, hits Kolkata market
  • ‘Youth’s death in lock-up a suicide’
  • Clouds clear for eclipse glimpse
  • Subhas strikes back, warns transport operators of dire action
  • Govt letter lifts GJM spirits and Sikkim blockade
  • Maoists kill CPM cadre in Lalgarh
  • Hindustan Times
  • Darjeeling crippled again by indefinite bandh
  • Trinamool team to visit West Bengal's Lalgarh
  • A written note
  • Sports
  • Bhutia sends reminder to AIFF, Bengal PSC member yet to decide
  • Dr. Paes’s new role in CAB
  • AIFF contest hots up