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News Headlines Archive
November 25, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Haldia Petrochem strike called off
  • Haldia Petro loses Rs 40 cr as strike enters day-4
  • JSW Steel may sell 40% in Bengal unit
  • West Bengal bandh flops on lack of political support
  • Pvt airlines to launch new flight on Kolkata-Patna route
  • AIIMS-like institution in West Bengal by 2010 end
  • Say no to nuclear plant, Mahasweta tells tribals
  • Special pay for police in Maoist-infested areas
  • CPI(M), Trinamool supporters clash
  • Chrome hotel Kolkata opens KhanaSutra
  • Peace Concert in Kolkata on first anniversary of 26/11
  • Two CPI(M) leaders shot dead
  • France plans to restore Chandernagore's glorious past
  • The Telegraph
  • Barred from toilet, boy dies in pond
  • Offensive in a ‘fortnight’
  • Land fix in Bengal
  • Why keep Calcutta port, asks Centre
  • 5-yr-old in fight with cancer
  • Pay civic fees in cash
  • Wake-up call for sleepless street
  • Charges fly after college clash
  • Goodness as reflex action
  • Cess for commercial vehicles
  • Houses for the poor
  • JU takes up fee-hike plan
  • Robbed during morning walk
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • GenX works & plays all night
  • Browse & borrow books from home
  • Third robbery in a month
  • 6 die in accidents
  • Freedom for tiger with 3 legs
  • Washroom locked, boy drowns in pond
  • The Statesman
  • 100% placement cushions dip in
  • 14 fishemen still missing post Phyan
  • 15 militants killed in Pak tribal stronghold
  • 3264 villages drought-hit, govt seeks assistance
  • A bandh that hardly was...
  • A joint agenda on terror
  • A year on, a nation remembers
  • Altered norms worry readers
  • Another V-B case of student neglect
  • Army event a huge draw in Sambalpur
  • Asif announces return as New Zealand struggle
  • BPUT foundation day observed at Rourkela
  • Bank of India cuts deposit rates
  • Bhupathi-Knowles sniff semis spot in World tour finals
  • Blatter calls crisis meeting
  • Boost for the police force
  • Brawl and bonhomie mark RS proceedings
  • Briefs
  • CBI files second chargesheet in Satyam scam
  • CLB acting chairman in CBI net
  • Can Parents White Lies Harm Kids?
  • Cash-strapped English Bazaar Municipality to get
  • Centre says no to funds for new fleet of buses
  • Centres no to funds for new buses
  • Chakde Dillip adds colour to birthday bash
  • Chamber of commerce writes to Mamata urging coach factory set up in Jalpaiguri
  • China executes 2 over tainted milk
  • Chinsurah tense a day after hospital violence
  • Colleges dont think too well of grade system
  • Cong to boycott Buddha visit to Murshidabad
  • Dam of contention in Kerala and Tamil Nadu
  • Darjeeling divided before tripartite talks
  • Di Resta gets F1 trial
  • Drive against violence on women
  • Dunlop to reopen on 2 Dec
  • Edits
  • Employees try to discipline bosses
  • Exchanging ideas
  • Eye on polls, Nitish doles out goodies
  • Film screened to create awareness against trafficking
  • Fonseka to challenge Rajapakse in snap Presidential poll
  • Funds crunch not to hit Ukhand progress
  • GJMM prohibits use of cell phones & two-wheelers by school, college goers
  • Ghisingh to return to Darjeeling?
  • Giving prisoners a second chance
  • Giving with a difference~ With the recession, there is a shift from giving people things to giving them services, says HAMISH McRAE
  • Good earth up for grabs~II
  • Goons attack Trinamul men inside hospital
  • Guidelines laid down for pool cars
  • HC asks state to vacate schools in Junglemahal
  • HC refuses to stay Amar arrest in contracts case
  • IOCL project to generate 1,000 jobs
  • Indelible impressions
  • Israel retaliates after rocket fire
  • Kalyan Singh dubs Liberhan report a political conspiracy
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ~ Hoping for a whiff of fresh air
  • Labour unrest paralysing industry town
  • Land for Haldia development
  • Land leased out to private company without Corporations knowledge
  • Land leased out without KMCs knowledge
  • Left parties protest against BJD & UPA
  • Letters To The Editor
  • Liberhans lapses ~ The Justice Liberhan Commission Report is full of opinions, assumptions and recommendations. But after 17 years, has the commission unearthed a single fact that was not known earlier, asks RAJINDER PURI
  • Locating the locus
  • Look whos on Facebook!
  • Mamata wants memorial, KMC says we have enough
  • Merchants house looted in N Dinajpur
  • Met dept blamed for poor monsoon prediction
  • Mining halted at Raniganj following water leakage
  • Mohun Bagan count on Japanese recruit
  • Muted protest
  • New HRD secy takes charge
  • New township project agitator threatened over phone
  • Nikam to rest case before 26 November
  • No compensation for College St traders
  • No students in govt-run primary schools
  • Officials to expedite welfare projects
  • PEOPLE AND PLACES
  • PM invites US investments
  • PUCL pleads police to end its reign of terror
  • Paddy still growing, potato in the queue
  • Panel to smoothen fund inflows
  • Partha leads protest rally at NBU campus
  • People against resumption of talks with Pak: India
  • Pool car owners in two minds over PVD guidelines
  • Power sector improvement on priority list
  • Pure for sure
  • Pvt engineering colleges making a loot: Legislators
  • RIL reopens 900 oil pumps
  • Railway establishments on high alert in Malda
  • Ravenshaw varsity strike called off
  • Religious leaders stress on unity
  • Renegades return
  • Repaid with interest
  • Sangh not happy with Naveen speech
  • Satyam probe under cloud
  • Saurashtra make merry
  • Security loopholes in three-year old marine station
  • Severe winters expected this year
  • Sex-determination gadgets filling markets
  • Shopkeeper poisons 14-yr-old for indebtedness
  • Siliguri awaits documentary film festival
  • Socio-economic panel to look into development
  • Special Article
  • Sri Lanka toil as India march on
  • State accuses Centre of step-motherly attitude
  • State prepares to ward off threat from warring crimnals
  • State urged to make Urdu second language
  • Students, cops hurt in college clash
  • Students, policemen injured
  • The French connection...
  • The skins in, too
  • The white elephants of South Africa
  • Trackers deployed to trace elephants
  • Tribal forum to meet Governor
  • Two IPS officers to join Railways
  • Uma owns moral responsibility
  • Under-staffed PS a cause for concern
  • Upgraded air monitoring units to cost dear
  • Vigilance raid unearths crores
  • Why Obama is not progressing too much
  • Ziani village finds hope in Chatshali
  • Assertiveness by China noted
  • Cops, paramilitary unfolded a reign of terror at Narayanpatna
  • Demolition a BJP plot
  • India has not changed stand on climate
  • No ambiguity in family pact over gas price
  • No feeling of lack of security
  • Times of India
  • Woman robbed in Salt Lake
  • KMC row over building martyrs' column
  • Won't give up before 2011: CM
  • Cess likely for private car owners
  • Bomb scare at airport
  • Govt's steps to woo urban poor
  • Biz students bag Rs 48-lakh offers
  • Contractors happy with HPL deal
  • No compensation for book mall delay
  • Govt worried over missing Pak, Bangla nationals
  • Dhamaka SoHo style!
  • Dhamaka SoHo style!
  • Satarday night fever
  • Fashionistas cheer for Paras, Shalini
  • Celebrating Tagoreana
  • Indian Express
  • Singur politics back on table, Mamata, Buddha out to score a point
  • CM to discuss ‘pitiable’ life on the border with Centre
  • Cabinet okays creation of 606 new posts
  • Afraid of landing in a soup, Govt to withdraw Land Bill
  • Tagore birth anniversary gives fillip to infrastructure upgrade in two universities
  • As CERN unravels universe mystery, city scientists log in
  • Goods train derailS in Malda, train services hit
  • Down with genetic disorder, Khan siblings keen to meet ‘lookalike’ Big B
  • Malda on terror radar, security stepped up at stations
  • Naming cops under scanner, Trinamool minister issues warning
  • Year after 26/11, ports yet to see better security
  • Buddha says won’t quit, have commitment to people
  • Hindustan Times
  • Flight gets delayed after passenger opens window on runway
  • Post-modern Ramayana scrapbook found
  • Rly exams in regional languages simultaneously: Mamata
  • Sports
  • KKR's past is not my concern, says Dav Whatmore
  • Uga Okpara hails new East Bengal coach De Ridder
  • Chirag, Sagar slam tons as Saurashtra take Bengal bowlers to the cleaners
  • Mohun Bagan picks Japanese midfielder