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News Headlines Archive
November 9, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • 175 years later, West Bengal case goes on and on
  • United Spirits to expand distillery in Asansol
  • Maoists own responsibility for attack on Buddhadeb
  • West Bengal parties cry foul over police action at Salboni
  • Three killed in West Bengal road accident
  • The Statesman
  • 11 arrested for attack on Dey
  • Des agricultural stroke leaves dept red-faced
  • Man branded as warlock
  • Manipuri militants held in Kolkata
  • Measures to check Bird Flu intensified
  • Land being forcibly acquired from Christians
  • The Telegraph
  • Tribals want police boss to do ‘sit-ups’
  • Doc thrashed over death
  • Hut fire kills 3 brothers
  • Development agency stays on paper
  • Willing farmers pay a price
  • Standalone strategy in flop show
  • Stalemate at Besu, teachers plan protest
  • Clinic in upgrade mode, plans nursing school
  • Axe on Nandaram floors
  • Milestone for mountain monitor
  • Woman held for robbery
  • Ticket trouble grounds family
  • Wife set on fire for dowry
  • Howrah road caves in
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Deaths after fever stoke vector fears
  • Terror tag turns false
  • Rural mother care centres soon
  • Elephants foray out of forest, target humans
  • Thai team to fly down with Buddha relic gift
  • Five of vehicle theft gang held
  • Widow plans plea before CM
  • Death protest in hospital
  • Female jumbo body found
  • Two-hour wheel jam on Tuesday
  • Back to Prashant, to mend Sikkim ties
  • Ticket trouble grounds family
  • Times of India
  • Tragedy crushes family’s happiest moment
  • No one to rein in 3-wheeled menace
  • Beautified lake turns into garbage dump
  • FM songs butt into ATC talk
  • GJM stir forces out tea research unit
  • Manipur cops to quiz 'militants'
  • Teenage girl 'abducted' near Sealdah station
  • Craters turn roads into death zones
  • Parking ban spoils Maidan party
  • Youth thrown off as auto hits crater, gets run over
  • Indian Express
  • Seth Left Front’s choice for Nandigram
  • Tamang gets ultimatum to prove allegations
  • After talks fail in Lalgarh, govt appeals to priests
  • Banned giant wheels at work during Jagadhatri Puja, police clueless
  • Post Salboni, special security cover in place for film festival
  • Kolkata confidential
  • Fever’s latest victim: Trinamool leader
  • Med officer’s wings clipped for fudging data
  • Traffic snarl at Maniktala after residents, auto drivers clash
  • Two robbed, beaten up in broad daylight
  • Maternity benefit scheme for positives
  • Hindustan Times
  • Body of police officer found in a ditch
  • Bidi workers slave it out, for nothing
  • Govt approves rail link to Sikkim
  • Collision averted at NSC Bose Airport
  • Sports
  • Football : Chirag United 1 - Md Sporting 0
  • Cricket: Hyderabad Heroes too good for Bengal Tigers
  • Farewell Ganguly - a man not afraid of controversy