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News Headlines Archive
March 13, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Passenger amenities affected at Kolkata airport
  • Children being trafficked in thousands from Bengal
  • Vedanta to build Rs 20k cr West Bengal plant
  • WB govt should have followed Jindal model for land acquisition
  • Ghisingh's pride, hunger for power did him in
  • Left to protest rice, wheat quota cuts in Kerala, West Bengal
  • ‘Signal about defence preparedness’
  • Rani Mukherjee: almost Lakshmibai?
  • The Statesman
  • Circuit house to come up in Gol Park soon
  • 4 injured in bomb
  • IC wins close contest at Presidency College
  • Booksellers suffer after CU
  • Filthy, dry airport nightmare begins
  • Salt Lake residents may have to pay water tax from April
  • The long road to success
  • Taxi driver turns in exam papers
  • New hope for kidney patients
  • Doctor arrested for molesting ICCU patient
  • Black Day in Nandigram tomorrow
  • Three injured in factory fire
  • The Telegraph
  • Mad dash to doom
  • Cabin 24: 365 days & counting
  • Scamster has jail doctors on knife edge
  • 290 bag jobs at B-school
  • Court slams cop eviction of tenant
  • JU clash over poll ruling
  • Slap sparks gang assault
  • Airport ignores strike victim
  • Lake teenager rescued in Jharkhand
  • SFI’s fifth rout in campus poll
  • Sleuths blamed for son’s suicide
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Kurseong lines up Gorkha fare for track tourists
  • 10 hurt in Malda clash
  • Blow to Citu as workers
  • Dog bites in hills on rise
  • Registrar helps break college deadlock
  • Girl raped and murdered
  • Panel to work from Monday
  • Service betters on Day II
  • Tables turned at Tribeni, a year later
  • SFI’s fifth rout in campus poll
  • Times of India
  • Vanishing vultures make a comeback
  • State puts E-W Metro on fast track
  • IIM-C betters placement scoresheet
  • Rallies may cripple city today
  • 'State safe from bird flu'
  • Police was forced to open fire at Dinhata: Bhattacharjee
  • Maoists kill another DYFI leader
  • Doc accused of molestation
  • Bomb scare at Howrah railway station
  • Indian Express
  • Rajarhat to be a wireless hub
  • Citizens show solidarity with the transgender community
  • At airport, normalcy still some way off
  • Buddha seeks report on Pavlov Hospital
  • SFI down and out this year too at Presidency
  • Fresh protests at Beharilal college
  • IIM-C salaries see over 17 per cent rise, touch Rs 1 cr
  • Temporary relief for slum fire victims
  • Cadaver kidneys to bring down transplant costs
  • SFI, arts students clash in JU over union elections
  • HC pulls up cops for submitting fake papers
  • Murder accused kills self
  • All for an unseen motherland
  • TMC-SUCI alliance tied to Mamata's flirtation with BJP, Congress
  • ‘Last year, only 3.3% Muslims got jobs through exchanges’
  • Another tirade against Centre, now by the CM
  • CPM gets Bloc to vacate a Rajya Sabha seat for CPI
  • Asian Age
  • Uncertain future for fire victims
  • 2-decade-old Ghisingh era comes to an end in Hills
  • Teacher kills BSF man
  • Probe to ascertain causes of twin fires
  • Culling drive yet to speed up
  • Gorkhaland issue raised
  • New state home secy
  • Hindustan Times
  • Culling of 50,000 poultry begins in West Bengal
  • Mamata claims her phones being tapped
  • Clash between two communities, houses burnt
  • Kolkata blaze guts 600 shanties
  • Sports
  • Sell Eden tickets at Rs 200: CAB to SRK
  • Kolkata Tigers clinch thriller against Champs
  • Buchanan for co-existence of seniors and juniors
  • East Bengal disappointed after AFC Cup defeat