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News Headlines Archive
July 24, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Transport strike in Kolkata called off
  • Strike leaves Kolkata commuters in the lurch
  • Kolkata transport strike commuters' nightmare
  • GJM welcomes talks with WB govt
  • Big FM narrows Mirchi's lead in Kolkata, Bangalore
  • Student arrested for creating fake government website
  • Texmaco to make Metro coaches with Japanese firms
  • Bengal to encourage alternative crop cultivation
  • WB govt in dark about metro station names
  • West Bengal widens scope for SHGs
  • Actor poses in chains to protest torture against animals
  • A polio victim who can play 23 musical instruments
  • Trinamool demands Governor's intervention
  • Six houses damaged by wild elephant in Darjeeling
  • Rituparno ‘outs’ himself
  • Ravi Kinnagi’s next
  • Zubeen's enjoying his Tollywood stint
  • The Telegraph
  • Cong stops rural work
  • Mangalkot justifies attack on MLAs
  • Death on IIT campus
  • Quizmaster Sourav takes guard
  • For the city to breathe easy
  • Film crew in fatal crash
  • Save people, says court
  • Bench hears Aftab case
  • Chief nurse held in medical scam
  • Arrested for realty fraud
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Close shave for BSNL exchange
  • Schoolteachers to face music for truancy
  • No office or staff, but 1 crore to spend
  • 12-hour relief from strike in hills today
  • Bandh on August 11 to protest tripartite talks
  • Tribals give ultimatum to clear Terai roads
  • Manas officials to tour Sariska for tiger conservation
  • Trade body on green mission
  • Cotton model in London
  • The Statesman
  • 21-year-old lynched in honour killing
  • 26/11 trial to continue
  • 2G spectrum scam raised in RS
  • A rare breach of privilege
  • A ray of light for Ailas victims
  • Airlines flouting norms
  • Asim to review development work in Malda
  • BJP asks GJMM to attend talks minus rider
  • Blues is their soulmate
  • Brothers damage Wiggins bid
  • Buddha turns to Purulia
  • Cabs, buses to be off the roads
  • Camp for issuing caste certificate
  • Cash from shops via debit cards
  • Chakrabarty
  • Changing the course of democracy
  • Church of England catches up!
  • Citu, Trinamul join hands
  • Congress declares cease-work
  • Cops fight a lonely battle against Maoists
  • Cops mull ways to meet terror menace
  • Cut above the rest
  • Dreams to fulfil
  • Drought threat looms over Bengal
  • ECoR engineers on dharna
  • Fake Brown Gold
  • Fire at secretariat, furniture damaged
  • Fire breaks out in BSNL storeroom
  • Flintoff vows
  • Food prices soar
  • GoM on spectrum to meet on 31 July
  • Goon terror strikes at new Trinamul supporters
  • Grandparents pay with their lives
  • Hard nut to crack
  • Hirakud water may cause crisis
  • How can I comment, asks Kalam 
  • Infrastructure grows at 6.5%
  • Israel to use Hitler in propaganda war
  • Japan to freeze N Korean assets
  • Joint statement not legal document: Tharoor
  • Jumbos on the rampage
  • LF to announce candidates this weekend
  • LS applies guillotine to pass demands for grants
  • Labour protests spread in Haldia
  • Lalgarh: Patta programme hits hurdle
  • Locals gherao inspector over ration card foul
  • MRPL profit down 50 per cent
  • NIA going nowhere?
  • Naxal roots ruled out at Koraput
  • New engineering colleges scare away students
  • New heart care unit lies idle
  • No equity dilution in SBI
  • Now, Serampore scorches
  • Now, Serampore singed
  • Office of Jackos doc raided
  • Pakistan eye face-saving win
  • Pakistan hockey in deep crisis
  • Party MLAs embarrass CM over Salim
  • Poignant plea Have faith in our forces
  • RBI unlikely to change rates
  • Rahul in UP, eye on poll
  • Rainwater crisis affects aman cultivation
  • Robbery at Regent Park residence
  • Row over bandh at Balurghat
  • Rs 25 allowance for Vir Chakra awardee 
  • Russia, Europes other half
  • SAP to acquire SAF for $100 million
  • Security for Mulayam, Maya to stay
  • Sensex above 15,000
  • Sops for exporters likely
  • Spying for Soviets biggest mistake: Blunt
  • State flood toll rises to 41
  • State for giving land rights to long-term occupants
  • Strauss says Hughess catch may have hit the ground
  • Students close jetty protesting assault
  • Teachers tired of playing cooks
  • Terror strikes new Trinamul supporters
  • Test cricket isnt really dying, says Ganguly
  • The case for media censorship
  • Time to rock and roll
  • Trinamul workers agitate over Aila relief
  • letters to the editor
  • surge in crime & riot cases
  • Gerrards hit was
  • LF is isolated from the masses
  • Sourav, great motivator
  • UDIC to be available in 12-18 months
  • Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • City beats transport strike
  • Realtor held for duping firm of Rs 2 crore
  • CPM men attack Trinamool officeThe Trinamool
  • USIS attack: Accused plea hearing begins
  • PTTI graduate kills self
  • Medical racket: NRS nurse held
  • GJM stir spreads to Terai
  • Drug-and-loot domestic finally in police net
  • Students gear up for unique competition
  • Director, assistant killed in accident
  • Mid-week parties also fun
  • Mid-week parties also fun
  • A musical eve with 'Soulmate'
  • Perfect dance party for Kolkata
  • Saturday night fever at 'Underground'
  • Indian Express
  • Govt yet to get its act together
  • ‘American Center attack was not an act of terror’
  • Nurse held for selling govt medicines
  • A year after her first robbery, woman lands in jail
  • GJM to relax bandh for 12 hrs today
  • Rs 100 crore sanctioned for Aila relief
  • Student exodus gives reason for Presidency’s autonomous cry
  • Kolkata gets interim relief after hard day
  • Bus strike withdrawn in Kolkata, govt digs in its heels
  • Lalgarh: Cop abducted by suspected Maoists
  • Lalgarh lessons: now no police camps in schools
  • Hindustan Times
  • Reds clear Mangalkot of Congressmen
  • TC backs transports strike; seeks Guv's intervention
  • GJM mulls ending shutdown in Darjeeling hills
  • 'Sen'sational sisters compete with each other
  • Sports
  • Binny game for the challenge
  • Dalmiya set for another term as CAB chief
  • I was a fielder, will take care of Bengal’s fielding myself: Binny
  • Snehasish Chakraborty fined