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News Headlines Archive
October 05, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal may allow contract farming
  • Merc E-class eyes top slot in city again
  • Trinamool will have last word in Bengal, not Cong: Mamata
  • Mahato's Supporters Punishable Under UAPA: WB Govt
  • I have never met Chhatradhar: Kishenji
  • Intellectuals to rally for Chhatradhar: Mahasweta Devi
  • Friends have become a little too greedy, says Mamata
  • Milestone invests Rs 110cr in Godrej property in Kolkata
  • Keventer Agro invests Rs 125 cr for first cold store chain in Bengal
  • Eateries in Kolkata divided on elderly discount
  • For Rs 1 lakh a day, travel like a maharaja
  • Mahato people’s leader, not a Maoist, says wife
  • Shree Ganesh to set up gold refinery plant in WB
  • The Telegraph
  • Mamata fuels burning issue
  • Tit for tat ‘exodus’ in Nadia
  • Betrayed Trinamul plans bypoll reply
  • Stringent act against Mahato
  • Crater hurdle on airport artery
  • City centre feels heat of flare-up on fringes
  • Cops to tap old sources
  • Pay peeve for principals
  • HC slams parents in salary row
  • Items worth lakhs stolen from house
  • Stranger stops bridge suicide
  • Officer’s car kills police horse
  • Proposal to change court name
  • Rap on rule-flout Kali puja pandal
  • Rs 3.5 lakh college seat lure leads to arrest
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Puja scars on roads
  • Illegal truck park on widened road
  • Drive to save orchids
  • Honour for DHR Society
  • Film by doctors on sex test
  • Promise of strike-free vacation
  • CPM leader shot at in Malda
  • Mamata chalks out payback strategy
  • Morcha squad to shield boss
  • Didi launches train to Digha
  • Axe-leaders cry in Congress
  • Mamata fuels burning issue
  • The Statesman
  • $100 billion FDI in India
  • Air India pilots de-rostered
  • Air passengers to check-in at Metro stations?
  • Another no-go
  • Australia favourites
  • BSNL, MTNL keen to buy stake in Zain
  • Century by Mukund
  • Chelsea beat Liverpool
  • Cop claims Thekkady boat was overcrowded
  • Dhoni is wrong, says Mishra
  • Didi sorry for Siliguri
  • Employee satisfaction ~ Indian cos best
  • Enlightened democracy
  • Farmers turn into drug traffickers
  • Ficci strategy to boost farm output
  • Food commissioner, secy skip committee meet
  • Gandhis pen name sparks off row
  • Global PC shipments to dip 2%
  • Gloriosa wins Derby
  • Govt snub for Akram?
  • Gujarat train shootout: One dead, another hurt
  • IMF for continuing stimulus
  • Jaswant to lead group of non-BJP, non-Cong MPs
  • Jet likely to lease out 2 aircraft
  • Karnataka, AP flood toll tops 200
  • Khagaria carnage: Nitish suspends SP, SDPO
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ~ Media hype should awaken govt
  • Lalgarh development now a distant dream
  • Mega science project runs into rough weather
  • Mohun Bagan have the edge
  • No vulgar salaries please!
  • Not acceptable
  • Nothing fishy about North Korean ship, says Navy
  • On the backfoot
  • Oppositions intent
  • Overseas students better at English than the British
  • PMK breaks ties with AIADMK
  • Pak guns down 9 militants
  • Pak sorrow
  • Pakistan should walk the talk on terror
  • Sham Marriages Booming In Britain: Report
  • Software for better data on immunisation: Azad
  • Sops for Bengal's 'stepchild'
  • Ten die in Afghan insurgent attack
  • Typhoon kills 17 in Philippines
  • UN date for Iran N-plant inspection
  • Vettel victorious
  • Wen in N Korea for nuke talks
  • Where buses fear to ply...
  • Cong brought Haryana back on path of development
  • Extorted money went for Mahato luxuries
  • Ganguly is the right leader for KKR
  • Naxalite Kobad Ghandy to write memoir on his wife
  • Times of India
  • What's your bid? Royal necklace up for auction
  • Mahato was sidelined in PCPA
  • JU campus under police scanner
  • CPM, Bloc lash out at Mamata
  • KoPT witch-hunt over media leak on dredgers
  • Writers' meet on Anwar Shah traffic mess
  • Cop car runs over Mounted Police horse
  • Burglars flee with goods worth Rs 1 lakh in Behala
  • An 'open toilet' in heritage zone, courtesy PWD
  • Man kills wife, surrenders
  • Partying with DJ Rink
  • Partying with DJ Rink
  • Wine and some fine dining
  • Having fun the bong way
  • An evening in the movies
  • Indian Express
  • Wounded Mamata trains her sights on Siliguri, rains sops
  • Local Cong faces trouble in the ranks
  • Mahato: Activists drag CID to rights body
  • In a spot, Left brass squirms
  • Buddha for a Kolkata in High Court
  • Primary teachers aspirants rush for forms
  • Ninety days since arrest, no chargesheet against ‘Maoists’
  • Plastic ban: KMC to impose on-the-spot fine
  • Eight die in accident
  • Man stabs wife to death, surrenders
  • Mahato booked under UAPA, cops say a tough nut
  • CM Buddha gets cracking, opens a super office — CMO
  • Mamata warns of fire if intellectuals ‘touched’
  • Check ‘railing’ minister, Left tells Centre
  • Hindustan Times
  • Students, teachers have Maoist links
  • 'Manna Dey should have got Dadasabhe Phalke award earlier'
  • Over 400,000 babies die within day of birth in India
  • Attempt to attack GJM chief foiled, one arrested
  • Sports
  • Women's boxing: Sarita and Kalpana suffer upsets
  • I-league: PFC holds East Bengal to goalless draw
  • Bagan, Chirag set for rumble