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News Headlines Archive
June 5, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal IT dept shortlists 3 cos for Rs 5000 crore Kalyani project
  • 11-member Central team to assess cyclone Aila damage
  • A seeming threat to West Bengal’s Left Front
  • Bengal governor sets example by cutting energy use
  • Bengali TV channel cameraperson beaten by CPI-M cadres
  • West Bengal teacher donates Rs.8 mn for poor students
  • Viagra gives new lease of life to baby with heart defect
  • Sourav Ganguly promises Rupees 60 lakh for Aila victims
  • Mamata accuses Left of unleashing terror in West Bengal
  • Mithun's break from Bengali films
  • The Telegraph
  • Laid bare by Aila: Left’s panchayat ‘showpiece’
  • Land row after farmer suicide
  • Rain pain ahead of tide fury
  • All-party, but no Mamata
  • Civic election misses LS ties
  • Three killed in road mishaps
  • Dupe shadow on shut tech firm
  • Power returns at dusk
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Buddha talks clean, acts foul
  • DM orders farmer death probe
  • Crude bomb kills cousins
  • Jaswant to meet PM on hill relief
  • Alert after sting deaths
  • Three civic bodies to get babus as ‘rulers’
  • New passwords for online bids
  • The Statesman
  • A lesson in printing technology
  • Bandh passes off peacefully
  • Big cats on the prowl
  • Climate change affects fish breeding
  • Doluis murder triggers violence
  • Fight to begin for free speech
  • Inspiration to rural progress
  • Largest delta fears turning barren
  • Largest delta fears turning barren
  • Livelihood likely to be changed
  • Panchayat official held for rice theft
  • Subarnarekha Barrage project in deep waters
  • Trinamul leader shot
  • Times of India
  • Buddha calls all-party meet on Aila relief
  • CBI busts railway job racket
  • Ministry order hits biofuel sale, producers miffed
  • Buddha calls all-party meet on Aila relief
  • Urban groups make pleasure trips on relief work pretext
  • Second Dhapa: Delay raises health hazard fears
  • Sec V firm cheats 2000 trainees
  • Saline water threat to land
  • Water level rising in rivers after fresh rain
  • PCPA stir threat after rape in custody
  • It was all about great music & great crowd
  • It's party time for Cricket enthusiasts
  • An eve of power packed performances
  • Know your ministers
  • Can seats in medical colleges be manipulated?
  • Indian Express
  • One lakh flee Sunderbans to tide over tidal wave
  • Govt wary of middlemen, to take thumb prints of victims
  • Buddha calls all-party meet, but Trinamool prefers to opt out
  • Government sleeping on Central funds: Cong
  • Act now, says Buddha
  • Mamata effect: Bengal on Rajdhani menu
  • Deadline over, most auto owners choose to stay out
  • Mayor tastes public fury over ‘undelivered promises’
  • Parents protest against fee hike
  • CESC repairs leak in power plant
  • Glam look awaits Eden Gardens ahead of 2011 World Cup
  • CPM, Trinamool trade fire to wrest supremacy
  • 4 die at Mejia thermal power plant
  • Aila blew away solar panels worth Rs 50 cr
  • PMT results out: Khanna girl, rank 68, tops in district
  • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata 'natural choice' as WB CM: senior Cong leader
  • Viagra gives new lease of life to baby with heart defect
  • Music to the aid of Kolkata street children
  • Sports
  • Sandipan Chanda triumphs
  • Mohun Bagan signs Chidi Edeh
  • Manipur hold Bengal
  • Bhaichung's Release From Mohun Bagan Expected Soon - East Bengal
  • ‘Dhoni is doing a great job’ - Ganguly