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News Headlines Archive
May 20, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • LF gets six per cent less votes in WB Kolkata
  • Mamata wants Common Minimum Programme, Cong in fix
  • The god that finally failed
  • CPI 'attacks' CPM
  • Mamata can be next chief minister of West Bengal: Pranab Mukherjee
  • Ex-DG of ordnance factory arrested on graft charges
  • Left concern over reverses in West Bengal
  • Mamata does a me-too over 7 seats
  • Former Ordnance Factory official held
  • Third Front lacked credibility: CPI(M)
  • ATM trouble leaves users fuming
  • 'Mamata's win has nothing to do with the Tatas'
  • Dreams of a Communist
  • I like reading gossip: Konkona
  • The Telegraph
  • Allies put state in dock
  • Mom for a Mamata
  • Reel-life action for real
  • Turnout surge for rally at Writers’
  • City shines on scoreboard
  • Swine flu tests for flier from Dubai
  • 8-yr-old injured in blast
  • Life for Aftab in Khadim’s case
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Paddler plea to use stadium
  • Friend finds 7 homes for winner
  • Students set benchmark in board exams
  • Toppers spring surprises in Siliguri
  • Girls shine in ICSE, ISC results
  • Fresh faces in cabinet
  • Left says it’s tough time ahead
  • Mango growers sore about Delhi fair timing
  • 1 killed in CPM-Trinamul clash
  • Babu faces women ire
  • The Statesman
  • CPM men assess failures
  • Charges framed against Katwa O-C
  • Former DIG held for graft
  • Love thy mother tongue
  • Mamata as railway minister?
  • Navy commissions INS Airavat
  • Paramours elope, say wont return
  • Results today
  • Tolly to lose its oldest residents
  • Times of India
  • Aftab, 4 others get life in Khadim case
  • Intellectuals urge Mamata to focus on Bengal, not Delhi
  • City boy tops ISC with 99.25%
  • Trinamool, DMK locked in tussle over railways berth
  • Mamata eyes early assembly polls
  • Stage set for a stormy Front meeting today
  • Five injured in clash
  • State ads OK, but don't highlight politicians: EC
  • Row over Toy Train fare hike
  • Fresh acquisition bid in Rajarhat raises hackles
  • Arjun Chakraborty's enthrall his friend
  • Cast and crew turn up for premiere
  • A perfect weather for films
  • Scramble in BJP for 'ideal' Advani successor
  • Pressure within Cong to keep SP out of govt
  • Cong win spares President crucial role
  • Indian Express
  • Man quarantined for swine flu symptoms
  • On top of the world: toppers say it with a smile
  • Kalyan gets breather from HC
  • Vacancies pile up, few teachers in SC/ST category
  • Ordnance scam gets bigger as CBI digs deep
  • Govt blinks on rising potato prices
  • Tempers run high in defeat; CPM, Buddha may face the heat today
  • Khadim kidnap case: Ansari gets life term
  • Cooch Behar clash leaves 18-year-old
  • Girls do it again
  • Hindustan Times
  • Swine flu: Man quarantined at NSC Bose airport in Kolkata
  • I never told SP to support Congress: Somnath
  • Shibani Kashyap to croon in Bengali
  • Sports
  • Houghton stands behind Bhutia, calls Bagan action "inane"
  • KKR knocks out Rajasthan Royals
  • Mohun Bagan Coach Displeased With AFC Cup Thrashing
  • East Bengal invites Bhutia
  • Bhaichung Is Welcome At East Bengal - Subhash Bhowmick