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News Headlines Archive
November 13, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata Port misses H1 target
  • Tourists leave Darjeeling as GJM wing strike enters third day
  • Kolkata Trams offer a nostalgic journey to commuters
  • UK varsity leads EU-India body on safe drinking water
  • Aircel eyes 4 lakh connections in Kolkata
  • CPM backs Tapashi case murder convict
  • Fortune now favours tea cos after a decade
  • Yunnan Tourism signs MoU on tourism exchange with West Bengal
  • West Bengal government mulls blueprint for alternative unit at Singur
  • One killed in fight over balloon in West Bengal town
  • Gracy Singh excited about enacting Tagore's 'Shyama' on stage
  • The Statesman
  • Accident kills 12, injures 23
  • Bodies of driver, help found in owners house
  • Bus shortage: Commuters take hit
  • From acting to direction, Das has come a long way
  • Headmaster held for torture
  • JU students to frame academic calendar
  • KoPTs new plan sparks controversy
  • Malarial parasites have become drug resistant
  • NIT looks for foreign tie-ups
  • Terror takes its toll on tour firms
  • Dari Baba bearded in his den
  • Surhid is being targeted
  • The Telegraph
  • Army truck kills North Point boy
  • Delhi turns down CRPF plea
  • Tribals stick to tree siege
  • Neglect cry after patient deaths
  • Besu code for pupils, tutors
  • Cargo war on the waterfront
  • Ritual dip kills teens
  • Pay-scale protest brews at Besu
  • Cracker in garbage injures two
  • Bus wheels crush 5-yr-old
  • Sting in the tail of unseen film
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Classroom help to detect diabetes
  • Morcha stops repaint work
  • Cops caught in bar brawl
  • A nine-year-old’s seven-day escapade
  • Painter held with arms
  • Briefcase creates scare, police wait for bomb squad
  • Student body found near tea garden
  • Teacher killed, finger at wife
  • Bhutan mines fear for forests
  • Times of India
  • Careless bus driver runs over 8-year-old
  • Deaths spark negligence cry at city hospitals
  • Youth shot at in Behala
  • Besu clamps code of conduct, again
  • Scottish graveyard gets a fresh breath of life
  • Trees felled to make way for VIP Rd flyover
  • Armenians celebrate Kolkata link
  • Soundtrack snag in rare Ray screening leaves organisers shame-faced
  • 'Criminal conspiracy drove Rizwanur Rehman to suicide'
  • Ajit Panja critical
  • Indian Express
  • ‘Every time a blast takes place his name crops up... when the Assam blasts took place, I got scared’
  • PETA activists hold protest outside KFC outlet
  • CII plans seminar to attract investors to eastern region
  • Technicians make up for Tollywood at film fest
  • PTTI crisis: Govt banks on Pranab to solve deadlock
  • Ray’s childhood home gets revamped
  • Trinamool prepares for Nov 15 Singur rally
  • Malaria finds a home in city hostels
  • No health unit, no respite from malaria in Mayor’s ward
  • Santhal students head for home
  • Hindustan Times
  • Two CPM men convicted in Singur murder case
  • Sports
  • Bayern Munich to set up academy at Burdwan
  • Criminal proceedings against BCCI chief ordered
  • Ganguly kept Ponting waiting during IPL
  • Maradona bigger than Pele: Rummenigge