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News Headlines Archive
July 29, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Lalgarh: police teargas women protesters
  • Kolkata band nominated for ‘Grassroot Grammys’
  • Bandh at Sonarpur peaceful
  • The Secret Diary Of Pranab Mukherjee
  • Satyajit Ray planned film with Leela Naidu, Brando
  • Jharkhand coal idles sans rail link
  • Pankaj Roy's house accorded heritage status
  • Instant Justice at LSE: students snap up Amartya Sen book in 15 minutes
  • Darjeeling waits for another indefinite bandh spell
  • Bengal govt to give security for Trinamool leaders
  • Three arrested for bank fraud
  • IIT Kharagpur researcher working on in-car yawn-detection system
  • The Telegraph
  • Trinamul duo and villager butchered
  • CPM guns for Lalgarh ministers
  • Shuffle in Bengal police
  • Luxury hatches zoom into city
  • What's on in town
  • Hilsa haul raises hope of price cut
  • Businessman dies in fall
  • ‘Deserted’ woman sues husband & son
  • Girls stripped in class
  • Madhyamik course split from 2012
  • Seat-cut row in varsity
  • School bus crushes boy
  • Bangla flight in city
  • Cops protest phone ‘slur’
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Transporters move apex court
  • Ramjhora land deed on cards
  • Cops rule out Maoist link to death
  • Students stay off labs
  • BJP keen on pact with hill party for civic polls
  • Morcha wants SDOs out
  • Sex worker loses home for HIV
  • The Statesman
  • 3 accused escape, 2 re-arrested
  • Anil flays Mukesh at RNRL AGM
  • BJP for CBI probe in multi-crore scam
  • CIL seeks coal price hike
  • CPM activists stab DYFI leaders, 3 held
  • Car runs over Dalit women
  • Committee to monitor central funds
  • Cong forms Uluberia civic board sans Trinamul
  • Cops held for shooting youth
  • Corruption charges on civic body
  • Crores go down the drain but Ganga plan stagnates
  • Embezzlement allegation against Red Cross
  • England apprehend backlash
  • Fake currency worries Malda
  • Fathers HIV causes trouble for daughter
  • Focus on justice, care & grievances
  • Garbage van phase-out raises stink
  • Gujarat passes anti-terror Bill, rejects Patils suggestion
  • Heads roll in Metro mishap
  • High-tech swimsuits lead to amazing records
  • Impression, coincidence and plagiarism
  • Indo-Afghan vow to fight terrorism
  • Inferno for Dantes descendants
  • Jail with protesters asked to be closed
  • Kargil War hero: A forgotten identity
  • Leela Naidu dead
  • Letters to the editor
  • Locals apprehend Fulohar rise
  • MLA seeks time to speak, falls flat in House
  • Malda campaigns for sanitation across district
  • Maoists blow up mobile towers
  • Massa may not race again
  • Mind the language
  • Misson school calls back teachers
  • Mitsubishi wage dispute settled
  • Mohanty wins nomination for Speaker
  • Monsoon weak, but Pawar does not panic
  • Morality and Decency
  • Mother throws newborn from toilet window
  • NBSTC opens new routes
  • NDA protest to President on PM
  • Naveen requests PM to revise mid-day meal
  • Nyamgiri protests knock at Delhi door
  • Omar quits, to stay on till Governor decides
  • Pakistan rely on youngsters
  • Polavaram issue figures in Assembly
  • Police gheraoed over minors murder
  • Policy on expected lines: India Inc
  • Power play: Wary Bengal offers sops
  • Pranab holds meeting with Deora, Moily
  • Prohibition law made stringent
  • Public fund put to waste
  • RBI concern over inflation
  • RBI keeps rates unchanged
  • Rathyatra held in Birmingham
  • Retired soldier blames bank for paying less pension
  • Row over factory ownership
  • SMP chief urges hospital to absorb trainee nurses
  • School calls back teachers
  • Scientists Unravel How Brain Perceives Information
  • Silent entry into silver screen
  • States first: Loyal docs for own medical college
  • The Boycott trumpet
  • The demon of maternal mortality...
  • Three held for 42-lakh bank fraud
  • Unbeaten century by Dowlin lifts Windies
  • Unwitting help for a species in trouble
  • Vedanta firm on mining holy foothill
  • Voters against Afghan war
  • Water fills mine, threatens flood in Talcher
  • Whiz-kid exposed
  • Women lathicharged in Lalgarh
  • Youth leaders murder stuns everyone
  • Further interest rate cuts unlikely
  • Obama born US citizen
  • Times of India
  • CEO toons
  • Schoolgirls strip, searched by teachers
  • Schoolgirls strip, searched by teachers
  • Cong, Trinamool file papers for both bypoll seats
  • Princess reigns on in Cooch Behar
  • State acts tough, warns bus owners against total shutdown
  • RKM urges teachers to rejoin
  • Constables protest over tiff with ACP
  • Bifurcated Madhyamik from 2012
  • Six-year-old mowed down by school bus
  • Cloud over Rs 600-cr Dhapa power project
  • JU okays leave for adoptive parents
  • Men adorn chef’s hat at this event
  • Men adorn chef’s hat at this event
  • Kolkatians pays tribute to Tagore
  • In loving memory of Mahanayak
  • A dose of fashion for Kolkata
  • Indian Express
  • Karat coming, Cabinet shuffle likely
  • Ration shops will now sell branded food items
  • Bengal indifferent to mid-day meal scheme: CAG
  • Bird flu awareness drive to take wings soon
  • 65-yr-old bags bravery award for Humanity Hospital
  • Swabhumi’s plea for construction rejected
  • Mahajot shows cracks ahead of bypolls
  • Left buys Mamata’s land line
  • Cong calls for CBI probe in Mangalkot CPM leader’s killing
  • Two Trinamool cadres killed in Burdwan clash
  • From 2012, only Class X syllabus for Madhyamik
  • Hindustan Times
  • Maoists kill CPM activist in West Bengal
  • Protests continue against security forces in Lalgarh
  • Sports
  • Kundu stuns Anirban
  • Move to save Mohun Bagan's birth house
  • India must do away with the slave mentality - East Bengal General Secretary