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News Headlines Archive
June 3, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal seeks Rs 1,000 cr for cyclone relief
  • Kolkata Port Trust treads cautiously
  • In Aila’s wake, saline for Rs 70 a bottle, lives are much cheaper
  • No relief for Buddhadeb from fury of Aila victims
  • Aila loss assessed at Rs 1,300 crore: WB chief secretary
  • Mango production hit
  • Binayak Sen on bail raises the question of the illegality of his detention
  • JSW defers Rs 35,000-cr West Bengal project
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to meet CM to demand Rupees 1000 crore relief package for Darjeeling
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta is back with Rahasyamay
  • Night to remember for Kolkata
  • Karisma in Kolkata
  • The Telegraph
  • Army rush after SOS
  • 3 cops slain for guns
  • 4 lakh for kin
  • Zaheer date for pacer duo
  • Toddler crushed by wheels
  • Watch out for calamity cloud
  • Low salary but wider basket
  • ‘Threat’ in cop molest case
  • Storm hits Tagore bust
  • Tourists few, plans many
  • Move to ease airport road chaos
  • Spinster found dead in house
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Power-cut warning for city
  • A man and his street
  • T20 telecast not ‘exclusive’
  • Cong & ally fail to reach seat consensus
  • Driven out, 85-yr- old mom at court door
  • Sarangi and a tuna together
  • The Statesman
  • Aid deducted from salary, employees in dark
  • Chicken pox outbreak at Dhutura
  • Deadline difficult to meet, feels taxi union
  • Dock labourers go on strike
  • Dumper drivers cease work
  • For Dipankar, hard work pays off
  • HS seats increased
  • High scorers prefer research
  • Higher Secondary seats up
  • In search of archival treasures
  • Locals fear flood re-run
  • Once a topper always a topper
  • PSBPC blocks state highway
  • Principal gheraoed
  • Times of India
  • Bouquet for Guv after brickbats for CM
  • Maoists gun down 3 cops in Bankura
  • St Xavier’s heading for Dubai
  • Industrialist Jit Paul dies at 86
  • Mud scooped out for brick kilns weakened dykes, claim villagers
  • Flip-flop on army may cost dear
  • High tide, storm pose twin threats
  • Jit Paul: A legend who broke social barriers
  • Minister releases Bengal travel guide
  • Social worker hits out at CM
  • Night to remember for Kolkata
  • Bye, bye cricket, welcome discomania
  • A tug of war between Hiran & Rishi
  • Know your ministers
  • Indian Express
  • Tidal alert sounded in Sunderbans
  • State Congress uses NREGA to batter Buddha
  • Delay in getting tigers’ collars adds to woes
  • Minister assures increase of seats in reputed colleges
  • Leading entrepreneur Jit Paul passes away
  • Aila blows quacks into state health system
  • ‘Maoists’ fire at patrol team, kill 3 cops
  • Morcha gives green signal for panchayat polls in Hills
  • PTTI students ransack cars, gherao education officials
  • Army to help repair Aila-hit embankments
  • Hindustan Times
  • No pay, no work say contractors
  • Rs 10 cr for water needs of Aila victims
  • Sports
  • Tamil Nadu holds Bengal
  • Being Anand’s second helped me: Ganguly
  • Were rusty: Raghu