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News Headlines Archive
November 11, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Nasscom CEO Summit kicks off in Kolkata
  • 14th Kolkata Film Festival inaugurated
  • Two CPI(M) men convicted in Tapasi Malik murder case
  • Buddhadeb votes for Sunderbans and Ganga as global wonders
  • CESC signs MoU with Singapore Power to improve power supply in Kolkata
  • Scottish team in Kolkata to restore 200-year-old cemetery
  • 'IM founder also involved in US Centre shooting in Kolkata'
  • RPG companies go in for production cut
  • Bengal sports minister sneers at Ganguly
  • Doctor beaten, hospital ransacked after patient dies
  • Amartya Sen turns 75
  • Kolkata art collector seeks to revive traditional embroidery art
  • The Statesman
  • Awareness programme for saving water
  • Bond between the best & worst times...
  • Buddha links both worlds at festival opening
  • CESC upgradation the Singapore way
  • Dept moots correspondence course for PTTI students
  • District cops asked to solve murder case
  • Dongfang service centre to be set up at New Town
  • Hate pollution? Use green bags
  • Lalgarh on the boil over arrests
  • Mentally-challenged mom throws child into river
  • Minister hopeful of status upgrade
  • Minister hopeful of status upgrade
  • State urge CRPF redeployment
  • Students stage hunger strike at Durgapur
  • Sufferings of the dead
  • Wanted mans mother held
  • Any one from the martyrs families would get ticket
  • The Telegraph
  • CPM duo guilty in Tapasi murder case
  • Teacher rape bid on 4-yr-old
  • A mile too far for babus
  • Frankfurt rolls out red carpet
  • Clash keeps residents on tenterhooks
  • Land-locked IT giants await allotment
  • Besu eight granted bail
  • Held to ransom by a handful
  • Terror kingpin the missing link
  • Summer offers dispel B-school job fears
  • Fewer jobs, lower pay hike
  • Promoter held for harassment
  • 15 hurt in accident
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Drive to curb dog menace at stations
  • Stars too few at festival of films
  • Song fest in December
  • Bomb squad, map for Rashmela
  • Drive slow to save wildlife, kids plead
  • Men in uniform to play soccer
  • School students on fast for Gorkhaland
  • Logo marks college transition
  • Squatters find new ‘home’
  • Times of India
  • Kolkata couple donates infant’s eyes
  • Metal menace on Kolkata’s streets
  • Thrashed woman dies at city hospital
  • Riz case: ‘No reason to cancel bail’
  • 8 Besu students granted bail
  • Health dept can't send detection kits on time
  • Metro Cash & Carry to open outlet on Dec 4
  • Mayor of Kunming wants stronger ties between cities
  • SC grants Todi one-week breather
  • 1 cr mobiles in city by year-end
  • Indian Express
  • Seige enters fifth day, Lalgarh remains cut off
  • HC lawyers threaten protest if posts of judges remain vacant
  • Students gherao Gorkha League office
  • Staff against minister’s plan to shift office
  • Builder locks elderly woman in her house
  • Travel agents take to Gandhigiri, present bouquet to Kingfisher manager
  • Fresh trial to start in Bankshal court
  • GUILTY: CPM’s Suhrid Dutta, ally Debu Malik for killing Tapasi
  • Buddha, Gandhi at loggerheads over transfer order to press secretary
  • ‘Sadik brought youths from Azamgarh to execute terror plans’
  • Mamata announces ‘Tapasi Malik Divas’
  • Hindustan Times
  • Rizwanur's suicide letter retrieved; report likely within a week
  • Rizwanur case: Apex court bars CBI from arresting Todi
  • Kishore Kumar: Always around
  • Archery coach Soumen Das passes away
  • Sports
  • Maradona to arrive in Kolkata on Dec. 6
  • Ganguly, the last Bengali hero
  • Ganguly gave India strength of character: Sangakkara
  • Sourav not to be present during Maradona's felicitation
  • Hitting sixes was Ganguly's self-expression
  • Farewell gift for Ganguly
  • 'Ganguly was a treat to watch'
  • I was one of the most misunderstood captains: Ganguly
  • The last hour was special: Ganguly
  • Sourav Ganguly, a hero of New India
  • I see a lot of myself in Dhoni: Ganguly