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News Headlines Archive
May 04, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • CPM keeps Darjeeling issue on back burner for time being
  • Basu: situation in Darjeeling grim
  • Satyajit Ray's films restored but no place to keep them
  • Buddha invites Prachanda - Maoist leader accepts first call from India
  • Red FM Kolkata turns five, celebrates birthday in style
  • Big B to play Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujib in new movie
  • “I have some apprehensions”
  • Kolkata to get its first ENT hospital
  • A ponytail can help a chap to pull
  • The Statesman
  • Education to fight evil
  • Lathicharge on Maoist supporters
  • Finally, wait for top gun is over
  • Sunstroke claims 1 at CM meeting
  • Beware! Bank tells credit card users
  • Finally, wait for top gun is over
  • Guardians protest to protect kids right to play
  • CM promises zero poverty in state
  • Latvian aircraft to be sold as scrap
  • Besu drags its feet, Centre delays INI status
  • Studio owner held in job racket case
  • Teacher quits over head's behaviour
  • Picnic spot lies unseen, neglected
  • How to do it!
  • Cong worker murdered in Tehatta
  • Religion no bar in this arranged marriage
  • It drizzles at last!
  • Jute rope makers still trapped in poverty cycle
  • Eight hurt in pre-poll clash
  • New pipeline from Palta to Tallah 
  • IPS officers in job racket?
  • Fire destroys Beliaghata printing press
  • Top cops in job racket?
  • Darjeeling a favourite, caution or not
  • Jute rope makers still trapped in poverty cycle
  • New V-C of CU takes over
  • Eight held in silver robbery case
  • It drizzles in Kolkata, districts sweat
  • Arranged marriage: Muslim orphan weds Hindu trader
  • Somen successor arrested in Nadia
  • Pilot car: SEC seeks report
  • NH-34: Locals still saying no
  • 3 KLO suspects held
  • Nandigram: 20 hurt
  • Villagers refuse to rely on NREGA
  • CPM nominee braves Maoists to win seat uncontested
  • Now for m-governance...
  • CPM cadres 'terrorise' Trinamul nominees
  • 30 injured in Nandigram clash
  • The Telegraph
  • Santiniketan girl hangs herself
  • ‘Maoists’ kill CPM leader
  • On rally day, walk and see Darjeeling
  • Lake Market mall by 2009
  • Rivers unite in museum gallery
  • Mobile towers cut down to size
  • Shops for blaze-hit flower traders
  • Unfit, but running all the same
  • Life lost for police laxity
  • Soft targets for terror attacks
  • Tashan falters, Yash Raj falls in
  • 1 dead, 4 injured in mishaps
  • Women in net for theft
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Clash with cops after mishap
  • Flying? Keep life jacket in bag
  • Besu study blames autos, buses for snarls
  • Terminus race against rain
  • 25 years of study mission
  • Malda faces staff shortage
  • Forest uniform for green group
  • River cruise and trek to woo tourists
  • Tashan falters, Yash Raj falls in
  • CPM banks on kids, Congress on bonhomie
  • Priya in Trinamul vote cry
  • Appeal for hills-plains unity
  • Morcha books all vehicles for May 7
  • Asok ‘free’ to visit Darjeeling
  • Man beats boy to death, cops watch
  • ‘Maoists’ kill CPM leader
  • Times of India
  • Victoria robs kebabs of flavour
  • Maoists gun down CPM man
  • Mom, daughter held for theft
  • Fliers cautious after phone theft
  • Storm disrupts air traffic
  • 6-yr-old beaten to death as policemen look on
  • Woman was hit for radio, cigarettes
  • Ministers' aides in war of words
  • Indian Express
  • ‘Anti-CPM alliances being formed at grassroots’
  • CPM, SUCI members clash in Nandigram
  • Thundershowers pour relief on Kolkata
  • Bush has lost his senses: Buddha
  • Board yet to decide on missing Madhyamik papers
  • Tech check before you apply
  • Finance firms, public sector too line up for IIT graduates
  • Govt botched up Darjeeling crisis, says Dasmunsi
  • State keen to regulate private schools
  • Kolkata spreads the cheer on ‘World Laughter Day’
  • Kolkata confidential
  • 2 Bangla nationals held for stealing life jacket
  • Four down, Kolkata pins hope on its Rawalpindi knight
  • 7-year-old boy beaten to death in presence of cops in Bengal
  • Naxals gun down CPM leader in Purulia, another injured
  • EC observers have no time to visit districts
  • 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
  • Two assaulted, two houses ransacked in Nandigram
  • Riya Sen to make her Bengali debut
  • Mithun refuses to do fatherly roles
  • Sports
  • Ganguly and Warne punished for bad behaviour
  • Santosh Trophy groupings