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News Headlines Archive
June 26, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal Cabinet to discuss ban on Maoists
  • India's Naxalites - A ragtag rebellion
  • Kolkata's botanical garden renamed
  • Security forces prepare for a fresh offensive against Maoists in Lalgarh
  • Lalgarh: is it liberated or ruled by fear?
  • CPM using Centre: Didi to PM
  • FIR registered against Aparna Sen
  • Intellectuals pay price for championing Naxal cause
  • IIT-Kharagpur did not receive a single student from the top hundred this year
  • At 50, Trincas still sings merrily
  • Dev to get six-pack abs
  • Prosenjit’s next film is a comedy
  • Hiron sports no-make up look
  • Prosenjit-Arpita rocks Star Jalsa function
  • Shinjini now Tolly heroine
  • Jeet launches his production house
  • The Telegraph
  • Cobras on booby trap hunt
  • No harm to villagers, Gandhi told
  • Relief & fear at Kadashole
  • Principal vs student leader in ward war
  • Yash Pal tells VCs to gear up
  • Court firm on phase-out date
  • Torment for tease victim
  • Travel tips for home ’n’ away
  • Shower hope but power hitch
  • High flu threat within ward
  • Four held for dowry death
  • Man who made our pandals go pop
  • Downturn toll on airports
  • Besu plans tour to attract brains
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • North plans of Ambuja
  • Players plenty, poll contest tight
  • Teachers’ strike for campus security
  • Three PG courses for doctors
  • Gorkha tribute to Manekshaw
  • Cobras clear fields as police move on
  • The Statesman
  • A trip to Japan for tips
  • Aila, Lalgarh setbacks to LF resurgence strategy
  • Around the world on a bicycle
  • CPM calls for change
  • Clashes shut down schools
  • Faulty pump hits water supply
  • Infrastructure tips from Japan
  • Joint move to check illegal coal mining
  • Spanner in Lalgarh OT plan
  • Victims twice over, Aila-hit turn pirates of Sunderbans
  • Times of India
  • Three of family isolated with swine flu fears
  • Govt likely to announce special sops to woo tribals
  • 600 homes for forces in Lalgarh
  • Lalgarh suspect duo in city hospital
  • State boards can exist too, says Yashpal
  • Utilize AAI assets: Civil aviation secretary
  • BDO office ransacked, teacher arrested
  • HC reminder on old vehicles
  • 3 swine flu suspects admitted to hospital
  • B K Birla tweaks will for granddaughter
  • A rocking Kolkata do...
  • Egyptian style bash in Kolkata
  • A Bindaas Bollywood night!
  • Know your ministers
  • Indian Express
  • State boards can stay, says ex-UGC chief Yashpal
  • Buddha’s recovery roadmap puts depts on their toes
  • Panchayat, civic polls postponed in Darjeeling, Bankura, West Midnapore
  • Xavier’s adopts Aila-hit village
  • Cong, Trinamool pin hopes of victory on CPM land acquisition faux pas
  • It’s back to business as neighbours woo Bengal
  • Orissa offers two-to-tango formula for tourist-friendly east
  • Post Aila, students to learn about disaster management
  • Rain at doorsteps bring cheers to power operators
  • Fake pollution certificates freely available: Govt tells HC
  • Man held for defaming woman on Orkut
  • BESU introduces new academic calendar
  • Villages free of Maoists but not of fear
  • Maoists refrain from laying down arms, govt firm on operations
  • Cong shots off letter to Chidambaram, says force state to seize arms from CPM cadres
  • Hindustan Times
  • Lalgarh violence was stage-managed by CPI-M, claims Mamata Banerjee
  • Final assault in Lalgarh likely today
  • Rift in Left out in open
  • Sports
  • Indian football team to depart today
  • Bhutia: Not surprised by AFC’s diktat
  • CAB sacks Satinder
  • Mohun Bagan trying to destroy my career: Bhaichung