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News Headlines Archive
March 02, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Cong wants seven seats from Trinamool in south Bengal
  • CPM faces one of the greatest challenges
  • Rising prices deter gold buyers in Kolkata
  • Train yet to return, 37 years after
  • Beyond Bengal
  • Actress Satabdi Roy, singer Kabir Sumon to contest for Trinamool
  • Left prefers two phase poll in West Bengal
  • State extends SWAN to all districts
  • Congress, Trinamool to fight polls together
  • CPI-M cadre burn down CITU office, angry CITU men attack mall
  • Congress not to field candidate against Mamata
  • Low rainfall may hit tea production in Darjeeling, Terai
  • Retiring Somnath says communism no party's monopoly
  • KoPT to see drop in cargo traffic
  • Huts gutted in fire in West Bengal
  • Bengal to utilise unused properties for textile industry
  • Siliguri IT market braves Gorkhaland movement
  • IT hub survives on diesel as Bengal govt trips on power
  • Tripura’s Sourabhee Debbraman wins Indian Idol
  • Ravi Jaipuria to buy Pepsi's Bengal bottling plant
  • The Telegraph
  • RSP, Bloc go for new look
  • Hunt for greens to hone golf talent
  • Family battles cancer bill
  • What's on in town
  • Accountant in net for 32-lakh gamble
  • Hospital is exam centre for car-hit girl
  • Another director of fraud IT firm held
  • Results spark student unrest
  • 3 Howrah youths drown in Mysore
  • Held for taxi robbery
  • Boys in dock for gang rape denied bail
  • Rap on mall mob minus auto goons
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Parking menace on chaos corridor
  • Wanted: water & power
  • Highrise hindrance on flight path
  • Neemrana man on heritage and hotel hunt
  • CU to climb Mt Answer Script
  • Manna’s second mobile recovered
  • Neglect cry after death
  • Lawyer out to free ‘infiltrator’
  • Children match steps with Ash aunty
  • Mishap reveals smuggler trick
  • Probe on attack by cop
  • Ghisingh to depose in court today
  • Parishad cries power bias
  • Hills protest pre-poll sops
  • Border alert to prevent BDR entry
  • Truck runs over madarsa girl
  • Meeting fails to solve centre impasse
  • The Statesman
  • Debt drives brothers to death
  • Hooch den: HS examinee attacked
  • Hooch: HS examinee attacked
  • ISCE, CBSE exams begin today
  • Moynagarh~ Days of neglect finally over
  • Parties spar as spread of education suffers
  • Rebels torch Citu office
  • Times of India
  • Big rush for voter card coverage
  • Bloc & RSP go for fresh faces
  • DMs told not to come to Kolkata
  • Cong ties complicate Trinamool-SUCI alliance
  • Robbery accused arrested
  • Centre asks state to beef up border vigil
  • Guv wants Raj Bhavan statues restored
  • MPLAD in focus
  • Boat ride turns fatal
  • Fraud IT firm director held
  • Indian Express
  • For once, CPM, Trinamool join chorus to slam EC for poll dates
  • City Centre violence: CITU, CPM blame each other
  • LS polls on, KMC opens school sans teachers
  • Three held for robbing girl in shuttle car
  • Centre’s doubles fund for police modernisation
  • Education minister blushes at sex education
  • 3 Howrah youths drown in Mysore river
  • Police find Manna’s second mobile phone
  • Tempers run high at hospital after child dies of fever, kin stage protest
  • Bangla aftershocks: BDR revolt rattles BSF brass
  • With new riders, RIL too finds the going tough
  • After tie-up, Trinamool, Cong in a battle of nerves over seat-sharing
  • Hindustan Times
  • Congress, Trinamool form alliance for Lok Sabha elections
  • 22 school students fall sick after taking midday meal
  • Setback for left at home
  • Bypoll result, prelude to a new dawn: Mamata
  • Sports
  • I-League is wide open : P K Banerjee
  • Perfect 10 by Suvadip