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News Headlines Archive
May 06, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • EC posts additional observers in Bengal, Bihar, UP for today's polling
  • Unease in Trinamool Congress camp
  • JSW Bengal Steel project cost may come down
  • Kolkata businessman is alleged co-conspirator in Rs 71,000-cr tax evasion case
  • Campaigning ends in West Bengal
  • BJP, the new X-factor in West Bengal
  • Congress trains guns on West Bengal election officer
  • Bengal CPI(M) declines to comment on Rahul's statement
  • Poll Pulse in Iconic Bengal: Murshidabad
  • It's change vs change in West Bengal
  • India cbank sets 7.10 pct cutoff yield on West Bengal loan
  • Biman terms Mamata as 'anti-nationalist'
  • Trinamool mob attacks rediff contributor
  • 'Many of us may still be pro-Left but anti-Left Front'
  • JSW Steel inaugurates Siliguri showroom
  • Nayachar: Next Nandigram?
  • Gangtok sends 50,000 votes for Baichung's victory on 'Jhalak'
  • Babul Supriyo is confused!
  • The Telegraph
  • Minus CPM badge, trio branded ‘witch’
  • Class XI boy dies in crossfire
  • Fury on masked hooch shops
  • Patrol off, Nandi in fear
  • Flurry of Cong calls to calm Mamata
  • Stars lined up for city
  • Holes in factory drive
  • Stench torment for school students
  • Terror email taint dogs Salt Lake duo
  • Poll push for child rights
  • Swine flu scare trims menu at food stops
  • Goon return sparks clashes
  • Schools hold out fee truce
  • Nor’wester eludes sultry city
  • Darkness to light, after 23 years
  • Library link for medical files
  • Bomb threat on campus
  • Hope for library in next poll
  • CU extends exam fee deadlines
  • Rape charge against tutor
  • What's on in town
  • NBU college to train teachers
  • Runaway boys on way home
  • Foot & mouth disease hits Jaldapara cattle
  • ‘Sensitive’ Sikkim cases on CID radar
  • Strike in Kurseong tech institute
  • Tribals mull tea union, Morcha shuts college
  • Storm hits homes, crops
  • Bridge to open today
  • Meat hunt after gaur chase death
  • The Statesman
  • A walk down the lane with poll in mind
  • Biman fearful of Trinamul tactics
  • CPI-M may not sail through in Serampore
  • Constituency watch~ burdwan-durgapur
  • Constituency watch~ Howrah
  • Dome steps out of Somnaths shadow
  • GIS map to identify vulnerable booths
  • Hooch toll rises
  • Left banks on Khejuri
  • Minority votes, LF infighting worry Marxists in Uluberia
  • Nandigram towers over Lakshman Seth
  • Nandigram sees some last-minute tension
  • Punishment for work
  • Reward for good work
  • Suchpur martyrs stand in solitary splendour
  • Women top Civil Service examination
  • Times of India
  • Nandigram, Singur Take Poll Position
  • Congress acts fast to mollify miffed Mamata
  • Voters put Sujan over Suman: Survey
  • Investors still have faith in state
  • Case against RSP nominee after EC
  • An alien turf for CPM
  • EC raps Kalyan and CPM candidate for code breach
  • Now, tiger skeleton recovered from Sunderbans
  • 3 held for Howrah attack, Amar visits injured SP leader
  • CESC denies shortfall as power cuts hit city
  • Ishika ties knot with sweetheart, Sudheer
  • Saturday night at Tantra, rocked
  • Party animals let their hair down
  • Slipper thrown at Karnataka chief minister
  • Engaging the youth of Ajmer is my priority: Sachin Pilot
  • Pawar maintains reconciliatory note
  • Indian Express
  • Phase II: Spotlight on Nandigram and Singur
  • Howrah candidate assault: SP files complaint
  • Birbhum police seals Jharkhand border
  • ECI pulls up Kalyan
  • CMCH docs give sight to girl after parents lose hope
  • Tiger skeleton seized from Ajmalmari forest
  • Amar Singh targets PM on Quattrocchi
  • Electing to lift a banner — for profit
  • Rocket launchers come out for Phase-II
  • For Central forces, TMC men on hungerstrike
  • Hindustan Times
  • Four dead, 20 taken ill in West Bengal hooch tragedy
  • Bipasha Basu gets a Bengali buddy
  • Stop! Language police!
  • Sports
  • AFC Cup: Mohun Bagan Hunbled Again
  • The Knight Riders fail to exorcise demons
  • E Bengal to release players for only FIFA-affiliated tourneys
  • Delhi Daredevils crush Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets
  • No takers for Buchanan’s new idea