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News Headlines Archive
March 27, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal keen to spread organic cultivation
  • CPI-M admits committing mistakes in Bengal, Kerala
  • Fight in Congress over Bengal's Malda seat gets ugly
  • India’s Nobel Laureate Dreamt of a Borderless World
  • Jyoti Basu, 94, is a star in cyberspace
  • Tiger skin recovered from Sundarbans, two arrested
  • Bengal to go for Rs 4,100 crore market borrowing
  • Artists in Kolkata raise their voice against terrorism
  • Centre approves double-lane highway in West Bengal
  • West Bengal CEO to communicate via blog with officials
  • Congress -TC backed by Maoists killed our cadre: CPI(M) Polit Bureau
  • Fire destroys Darjeeling school
  • Foot soldiers of capitalism
  • Coach Coach Hota Hai SRK drops ‘Kolkata’ Is Dada next?
  • Golden retriever gives birth to 16 pups in West Bengal
  • The Telegraph
  • CPM plays down Pandhe remarks
  • Students want new IIT ‘judge’
  • Bus kills three in escape bid
  • BA bids bye to city of low yield
  • SFI routed in JU elections
  • Sister Prema in Mother’s footsteps
  • Dud firm director sent to lock-up
  • Chief justice rap for tardy lawyers
  • Improved landing gear ready
  • Blow from bus tyre burst kills woman on board
  • Ladder man in kid rescue act
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Close shave in tinderbox blaze
  • Elections pull back tourists
  • Sikkim readies for Earth Hour
  • Intuc cries foul against rally holiday
  • Siliguri boy wants to show his best at IPL
  • No leaders at Mausam reception
  • Candidate cries murder attempt
  • CPM team caught in hill protest
  • Naser off to Delhi in hope of change
  • The Statesman
  • Amendment Bill passed, Opp frowns
  • Bandhs do disrupt life, say leaders
  • Clash between CPM, Trinamul activists
  • Coal mine catches fire, one dead
  • Film laboratory to be privatised
  • Foundation laying ceremonies flood Purulia
  • Krishnapur residents breathe easy as transport flow resumes
  • Mamata takes up workers plight at Bhadreswar
  • Man in net for crime against wife, daughter
  • Man on a mission to check misuse of govt vehicles
  • Mosque structure gutted in New Market fire
  • Sisters drowned
  • State affairs mirrored in JU polls
  • Sujapur MLA N Malda candidate
  • Techie: 3 friends nabbed
  • The much needed shower ...
  • Two arrested for credit card fraud
  • Two held for eatery owners death
  • Two arrested for credit card fraud
  • VU dean plays field trip card
  • Model Code of Conduct violated
  • Times of India
  • Splinters from bus tyre blast kill woman
  • Shallow river may sink chem hub
  • CAT II trial run at Kolkata airport
  • Keep off govt buildings, KMC tells graffiti brigade
  • Cong, Trinamool lens on non-cooperation
  • New Market fire sparks panic
  • Two arrested for credit card fraud
  • City in the dark about Earth Hour
  • Season change: Ticket for Mousam
  • Act to stop illegal land deals in Salt Lake
  • Azhar to contest LS polls from Moradabad
  • Women have special place and respect in SP: Mulayam
  • Advani challenges PM Manmohan to TV debate
  • Indian Express
  • Few takers for missionary work, Mother’s dream faces crisis: Sister Prema
  • HC pulls up truant lawyers, says are we here to adjourn
  • Staff down shutters of Academy of Fine Arts
  • Bengal pushed out of Bangla chobi, filmakers lament
  • Family feud takes over Malda North seat, uncle leaves for Delhi to overtake niece
  • Left goes digital, scripts Nandigram, Singur stories to win back rural Bengal
  • Fearing to upset squatters, govt makes NSG wait for land
  • EC asks police to seize illegal arms
  • Differently-abled hope for an election with a difference
  • Death at IIT-K : students oppose inquiry panel
  • Hindustan Times
  • Sister Prema is new head of Missionaries of Charity
  • 'Go back Buchanan', shout protesting Kolkatans
  • Sports
  • No fixed captain for Kolkata Knight Riders: Buchanan
  • Sourav says he was not consulted on captaincy issue
  • AIFF gets tough with Derrick