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News Headlines Archive
October 08, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal police told to be alert
  • Buddhadeb to meet Manmohan, Chidambaram on October 11
  • Govt to hike support price for jute
  • War against Naxals: Bengali intellectuals in trouble
  • Maoist arrests made, but Jharkhand yet to notify UAPA
  • ‘Mahato arrest, ploy to thwart people’s movement in Lalgarh’
  • Miraculous escape for baby born in train toilet
  • Man kills wife, tries to commit suicide
  • Press sealed in Kolkata for storing Maoist literature
  • The Telegraph
  • Cong axe on five for Dalkhola revolt
  • Morcha warns BJP of tie-up review
  • Cops seek lights on Buddha’s way home
  • Labourer killed for ‘affair’
  • Checks on Kali Puja
  • 3 boys arrested for murder of teenager in love
  • Teesta rises, rafts on bank
  • Tour agencies fear dull season
  • Plea to open garden bungalows
  • Kalimpong Six eye Sydney music meet
  • Malda flooded, bridge snaps
  • Low pressure-triggered rain hits life
  • North Point assesses itself
  • Shower boon for gardens in Dooars
  • Trinamul lines up protests
  • Wheel the real deal this weekend
  • Joyride fatal for rash trio
  • Cracker norms for buildings
  • Obama envoy on two-day city visit
  • Killer hubby still critical
  • Showcause for horse death
  • Inspection trip for power cancelled
  • What's on in town
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Metro suffers 3-hr hitch
  • Space jam halts port
  • The Statesman
  • A damp squib at Nagpur
  • Apollo Hospitals to invest Rs 1,800 cr
  • Attention Coordinators!
  • Bishnois try to retain Adampur seat
  • Brumby confident of nations judiciary
  • CPM-Trinamul clash, 5 policemen injured
  • Compensation for missing fishermens kin
  • Cong stakes claim to Egra Assembly seat
  • Cops asked to file FIR against Musharraf
  • Cops morale hit
  • DDs new show brings a revival of Indian music
  • Damayanti first woman top detective
  • EC issues notice to Pawar 
  • East Bengal lose a thriller
  • Essars rival bid for Oz coal firm
  • Fair & square, says Pak duo
  • Favourite Wolf Hall proves bookies right
  • Fond memories of a gem gone by
  • For a better tomorrow
  • Forces to go all out: PC
  • Gandhis house in South Africa sold
  • Gurudas meets PM
  • HC orders probe into Howrah water body
  • Hearing on Shiney Ahuja trial adjourned
  • India grouped with South Africa and England
  • Indian-born scientist gets Chemistry Nobel
  • Indias rules complex: Thai PM
  • Its Royal Challengers v Cape Cobras
  • Join work or face pay cuts: Basumati to employees
  • KMC turns to private help
  • KMDA thinks shopping mall
  • Let's celebrate October!
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Mahato remanded in police custody
  • Maoist extortion in a parched land
  • Maoists to counter CoBRA
  • Maradona may call it quits
  • Maya on the mat
  • NBA arrives in London to sell the dream
  • National Library offers Online treat to booklovers
  • New-age marketing
  • No private buses to ply in Burdwan for 2 days
  • Nuclear challenge from Pakistan
  • Of hockey & a few good men
  • Onion prices shooting high
  • Preetha to succeed Dr Reddy
  • Printer-fitted cabs largely a sham?
  • RIL board approves 1:1 bonus shares
  • Reports of Pak Taliban pushed into J&K
  • SC faces HC grilling on assets
  • Serena faces ban, tennis copes with double whammy
  • Sermon from on high ~ CPI-Ms Rectification Campaign Must Be Uniformly Effective
  • Serve VOICES 477: The education ferment
  • Sound Affair: Among the best
  • State delays land for jute parks
  • State to set up office for VIPs security
  • State wakes up to sleeping officials
  • Surge in onion prices bring tears
  • Suu Kyi meets junta minister: Myanmar official
  • This is whats harming Bengals image
  • Truant KMC staff refuse to wear ID cards
  • Units hoarding banned crackers
  • ViBES 2009: NOVEMBER 21 & 22 AT NAZRUL MANCH
  • Voices from orissa: Cambridge School, Cuttack
  • Which way will Dalits sway? Rahul, or Maya?
  • Worlds Largest Dinosaur Prints Found In France
  • Ministers buy Eco tickets but push for J class
  • Pak must dismantle terror outfits
  • RNRL to profit Rs 350,000 cr from gas biz
  • Times of India
  • Left Front in a fix over trust vote
  • Nobel doesn't excite me beyond a point: Mahasweta
  • Horse death: Showcause notice to DC
  • Eye camps at city schools
  • Rain won't spoil Kali Puja, says Met
  • Lalu slams govt for price rise
  • 3 from city killed in NH-6 accident
  • IIM-C profs may be assessed for hikes
  • GJM keeps talks door ajar for Congress
  • US envoy to visit Kolkata next week
  • When Kolkata party hoppers had a gala time...
  • When Kolkata party hoppers had a gala time...
  • Partying with DJ Rink
  • Wine and some fine dining
  • Having fun the bong way
  • Indian Express
  • Snag halts Metro services in rush hour
  • Intellectuals demand repeal of UAPA
  • National science syllabus lacks depth: state HS Board
  • After Siliguri coup, Cong hopes to calm Trinamool in run-up to bypolls
  • Central forensic lab to come up at Rajarhat
  • State shy on donating eyes
  • City gets a new telecom service
  • DC gets notice for killing police horse
  • Ready for talks, but no farewell to arms: Top Maoist Kisenji
  • Lalu’s prescription for Naxal problem: Ahimsa
  • In brutality, Lalgarh Maoists catch up with Jharkhand comrades
  • Mahato slipping out of UAPA muddle, top cops go in a huddle
  • Hindustan Times
  • Eight Maoist sympathizers picked up by police in Kolkata, two arrested in Hooghly
  • I am unaware of Chhatradhar's Maoist identity: Mahasweta
  • Two held for funding Chhatradhar Mahto
  • Mamata warns Bengal Govt against persecuting intellectuals
  • Students, teachers have Maoist links
  • Sports
  • Chirag United stuns Mohan Bagan
  • East Bengal miss out on Oscar