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News Headlines Archive
March 28, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Bird flu outbreak in Jalpaiguri district
  • Jute board pegs crop size at 97 lakh bales
  • Is the dreaded Stoneman back in Kolkata?
  • Bengal heading for unsustainable debt situation: CAG
  • Bengal to amend VAT rules by April
  • Third alternative an imperative need: Bengal CM
  • Wanted urgently: 'Whole-time' Communists for CPI-M
  • West Bengal: Custodial death of two people, bodies lying
  • IIT-KGP develops new male contraceptive
  • Tata Tea to launch Darjeeling tea next year
  • Hoccheta Ki
  • The Statesman
  • JU polls: SFI defeated in Arts faculty
  • Besu teachers side with students against authorities
  • Co-ordination committee boycotts meeting
  • One arrested for merchants abduction
  • KMC seeks police action against money-lender
  • One held for bank robbery
  • Runway plan runs into rough weather
  • CPM member caught impersonating
  • Subhas aid for Kespur victims kin
  • A sinking school sanitation campaign
  • No bail for social activist Somen
  • JU polls: SFI loses in Arts faculty
  • Bridge over troubled waters
  • The Telegraph
  • Sealdah seat-grab bid ends in death
  • CPM minority trio quit party
  • Right won to scan script
  • Former Besu head to probe flare-up
  • Snag in power line blacks out hospitals
  • Hostage to female wiles
  • Wings, paws runway peril
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • High court frown on twin evils
  • Hawkers must free pavement for people
  • Price spiral hassles homes
  • Man fights leopard, lives to tell tale
  • Boys on rampage for right to copy
  • Focus on support base before statehood fight
  • Sunday bench for erosion victims
  • Culling starts late in Jalpaiguri
  • Islamabad confirms Abdul’s jail term
  • Minority trio quit CPM
  • Times of India
  • Chairs at Metro stations removed
  • Clash at hostel over using lift
  • Student to see answer script under RTI
  • Commuter crushed at Sealdah
  • Spark triggers fire killing 13
  • Man found dead at Tatas' project site
  • Colour makeover for Ray classic?
  • Class-I student beaten by headmaster
  • HC hauls up cops for summoning Riz
  • Luxury tram on Maidan route
  • Indian Express
  • Three die in fire at LIC office in Barasat
  • Tourism crumbles in state, lodges shut down
  • Cong-Left nexus responsible for price-rise, says Mamata
  • Court matters
  • Prateek abduction case solved, 10 held, women used as bait: Cops
  • CAG pulls up housing corporation over rehab
  • JU elections: Another victory for ‘independent’ WTI
  • BESU violence: CM asked to intervene
  • Asian Age
  • Besu teachers’ union wants resignations of VC, registrar
  • Death penalty for twin murder
  • ‘Prices lower in WB than elsewhere’
  • Students thrashed, hospitalised
  • Body with smashed head found
  • FAS wins JU polls, bags all four seats
  • 2 detained in Pratik Gupta missing case
  • Free travel for patients
  • Hindustan Times
  • HC questions role of police in Rizwanur case
  • Seeking a new Bong connection
  • CPI-M sets eyes on Third Front as it seeks to grow
  • Dasmunshi against auction of footballers
  • Sports
  • Srijita en route to double crown
  • Bengal minister assures Eden Gardens for ICL
  • Cricket Association of Bengal to appoint CEO