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News Headlines Archive
May 02, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Right to strike should stay: Basu
  • Fire at printing press in Kolkata
  • Villages set to draw tidal energy in the Sundarbans
  • Fat Kolkata giving in to obesity without a fight
  • Coal India favours EOI route for developing abandoned mines
  • Success of Indian art auctions lifts retail spirits
  • Padma Bhushan a gift from people of Sundarbans: Lapierre
  • Man pulls train with his tuft in West Bengal
  • Darjeeling foothills tense, fast-unto death begins
  • Hot and humid weather keeps Kolkatans gasping for respite
  • GJM supporters arrested in Siliguri
  • Rituparno has a beautiful mind: Riya
  • The Statesman
    The Telegraph
  • Basu echoes hill alarm
  • Patient beaten up over curry
  • Nandi attack slur on CPM
  • Protests greet entry test scrap
  • Derailment to disrupt trains
  • Cuffs on cop test dummy
  • Conditions ripe for rain relief
  • Airport dresses up for A380
  • Aged lady killed in flat
  • Blaze at press godown
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Warning on explosive pilferage
  • Faster road repair on cards
  • Gang targets rural leaders
  • Ramesh hope for closed tea estates
  • Bimal warns supporters of ‘CPM trap’
  • Protests choke Siliguri streets
  • Wage to rise with altitude
  • Promise of hassle-free tours
  • Basu stands by Asok advice to tourists
  • Times of India
  • Woman dies after thrashing by husband
  • Exec injured in snatching attempt
  • Burglaries at Salt Lake, again
  • 'Miscarriages & pollution may be linked'
  • Couple spar at airport
  • IIM-C to publish merit list today
  • Man tries to rob trader with air gun
  • Board for early summer vacation
  • Drugged woman dies, thief eludes cops
  • Indian Express
  • Summer vacation likely to be extended in schools
  • CPM, TMC blame each other over the homeless in Nandigram
  • Basu: Better undertanding within LF on seat-sharing
  • Ray’s 87th birth anniversary remains a low-key affair in city
  • NSD Kolkata to have the flavour of Bengal
  • No rain in the next 24 hrs: Met dept
  • 3 injured in Behala road accident
  • No date set for vacations in KMC primary schools
  • Protest against termination of Nandan film fest
  • Warehouse gutted in Tangra
  • ‘All these separatist forces have one mission — dividing Bengal’
  • Padma Bhushan a gift from Sundarbans: Lapierre
  • ‘Infrastructure to determine land cost for IT SEZs’
  • Only 3 per cent in IIM-C OBC quota this session
  • GJM, CPM clash during Siliguri rally
  • Cong worker hacked to death in Nadia
  • 2 IPS officers’ role suspected
  • Asian Age
  • Body lies on road for 4 hrs
  • 2 constables gunned down by militants
  • RSP worker shot dead
  • Rs 305cr for new pipelines in city
  • Bengal board schools to get early holiday
  • Woman dies from drug in health drink
  • Man foils robbery attempt at shop
  • Racketeer arrested
  • Hindustan Times
  • Ray of hope
  • Where illusions blur the real
  • Sports
  • Warne to complain against Ganguly
  • Warne shouldn't talk about the spirit of cricket - Ganguly
  • Ganguly new to Twenty20 captaincy, has to learn: Gul
  • Md. Sporting return to I-League elite tier