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News Headlines Archive
May 22, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal creates history
  • Mamata Banerjee youngest of the ministers sworn in
  • Wheel turns full circle for Mamata Banerjee
  • Despite Left's rout, industrialists feel all's well in West Bengal
  • 3 snow leopard cubs born in Darjeeling zoo
  • “My daughter will do good for Bengal”
  • International children’s film festival at Kolkata
  • The Anjan Dutt Bangalore weekend
  • West Bengal shelves plan for Kharagpur city centre
  • Mamata set to get rail ministry
  • Mamata mollified, settles for railways
  • Mamata stops Buddha in his tracks
  • Pranab may be new Finance Minister; few berths for allies
  • Impose President's rule in West Bengal: Trinamool
  • No need for imposing President's Rule in Bengal: Bose
  • Festivities for Trinamool MPs on their first day in Delhi
  • Winning back Bengal will be tough: CPM
  • Bengal Left opts for 'standstill' policy on industrialisation
  • Actor, singer among Trinamool's LS crew
  • Create Gorkhaland, says Jaswant Singh
  • ‘It is Congress’ prerogative to allocate portfolios’, says Mamata
  • Allegeation against LF a lie : Biman
  • Bodla: A masala flick
  • Lucky transition
  • The Telegraph
  • Didi sari wraps hope around Dhanekhali
  • CPM reviews minority plan
  • Cong link makes mom happier
  • Sops for hospitals to treat poor
  • Polls drain blood banks
  • Gun graft trail leads to gold, cash in locker
  • One child in 10 prey to asthma
  • Foreign flights in fare cut
  • Court’s stern eye on teacher assault in class
  • Teen shouts away raiders
  • Two toppers minus tuition
  • Pressure belt key to monsoon
  • Truck runs over Howrah cyclist
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Gear up for Nano add-ons
  • Cyber care plan for children
  • CBSE Class xii roll of honour
  • Girl power saves the day
  • New course in NBU
  • Girls top CBSE result list
  • Nature & economics are toppers’ choice
  • Morcha vows fight despite BJP rout
  • Row in Trinamul over post
  • Ghisingh tries to get closer to hills
  • Malda Cong crack widens
  • Leopards trapped and tranquillised
  • Van hijacked, cash snatched
  • The Statesman
  • 12-hour Trinamul bandh in Howrah peaceful
  • Boy hit by cricket bat,dies
  • Death sentence for murder of friend
  • Diarrhoea outbreak claims 3 lives
  • Early monsoon predicted
  • Forward Bloc margin down
  • Hard times in bleak houses
  • Howrah bandh peaceful
  • One day, two heists
  • Playmate kills with cricket bat
  • Prasad poison kills housewife
  • RSP takes defeat in Joynagar hard
  • Salman comes clean on voting
  • Woman set ablaze over dowry
  • Woman dies after having prasad, poisoning alleged
  • Times of India
  • Sultan: The goal ahead
  • Sisir: raising the bar
  • Saugata: to serve with love
  • Dinesh: dream come true
  • Celebrating Didi's success with sweets and crackers
  • Still her father's daughter
  • Bureaucrats, biz heads count on Mamata, Pranab for development
  • July 21 victims' families hope for justice now
  • State KVs notch up stellar performance
  • Music launch of 'Madly Bangalee'
  • Arjun Chakraborty's enthrall his friend
  • Cast and crew turn up for premiere
  • Indian Express
  • Even before Mamata takes oath, rail workers ready their wishlist
  • Away from home, Kolkata boy puts up in a guesthouse to top Delhi
  • Another test for Left Front: civic body polls
  • Mahato relents, peace returns to Lalgarh block
  • 10 of a family taken ill, helps’ role suspected
  • CBI unearths vital clues in Ordnance scam
  • Bengal hopes a windfall of ministers
  • All eyes and ears on Mamata
  • Mamata reserves berth for Left’s foe in her train
  • CPM finds Nayachar hub to atyachar Mamata
  • Hindustan Times
  • Trinamool demands president's rule in West Bengal
  • Congress, Trinamool hold another round of talks
  • Sports
  • Ganguly ensures World Cup berth
  • 'KKR would have done better under Ganguly'
  • Santosh Trophy is back … will the spectators?