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News Headlines Archive
October 10, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal has deep reservations over ‘biased’ Land Bill
  • Nano vendors may seek compensation from Bengal government
  • Singur to start 'satyagraha' from Friday against Nano exit
  • Durga Puja celebrations come to an end in West Bengal
  • Irresistible: The sweeter side of Bijoya Dashami
  • Durga puja festival comes to an end
  • Divine treat: Puja helps elderly to get over loneliness
  • Gurung sets sight on attaining Gorkhaland by 2010
  • Haldia port draught would have put Tata at odds if Singur site had come through
  • Riya Sen pampered silly on the sets of Naukadubi
  • The Statesman
  • Better connectivity by the end of 2009
  • CPM, FB butt heads at Basra GP
  • Charu Market ruckus: Leader in police custody
  • Detailed city map just a click away
  • Few NREGA jobs for Singur cardholders
  • KMDA to investigate 20-year-old fund fraud
  • Metro Cash & Carry licence renewal today
  • The wait begins anew...
  • Welfare plans for polling personnel
  • Queen of Hills has less visitors this year
  • The Telegraph
  • Taxi worry in hill tourist season
  • CPM finally ‘disagrees’ with the Tatas
  • From Nano dust rises a poll plank
  • Tiger death glare on deer poachers
  • Crores for Rajarhat landlosers
  • Plants for green power
  • Sec V quivers in global quake
  • Workshops to curb ragging
  • Stock shock in festive wake
  • Puja clash claims one
  • Disease rears head after decade
  • Suicide leads to four deaths
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Bookstall burnt after rivals clash
  • Divers on Puja call
  • Assault brakes on taxi service to hills
  • Civic body under fire for demolition decision
  • FIR against border force
  • Pandals pay for extra watts
  • Bamboo misses mom, but hits baby
  • Boy found with throat slit
  • Times of India
  • 40 yrs on, Japanese encephalitis claims life in Kolkata
  • Metro gets licence, to open in 8 weeks
  • CCTVs at phone booths soon
  • Power cut at airport sends flight schedules haywire
  • Mob fury after bus kills teenager
  • Puja tour with designing tips
  • Security fears to take toll on Taki ritual
  • 2 'thieves' lynched in Malda
  • Charu Market violence: MLA's brother nabbed
  • Jain idol goes missing from Alipore temple
  • Indian Express
  • Singur farmers to meet Governor, demand Tata return
  • Docs on leave, 25 babies die at Behrampore Hospital
  • Clean Ganga after immersion, courtesy NGOs, civic body
  • 3 arrested for poaching
  • Three die in train accidents
  • IIT-Kharagpur study shows new pill for diabetes, cholestrol: yoga
  • Encephalitis claims a life in Kolkata
  • Khejuri tension may enter Nandigram before polls: police
  • Nano exit makes local firms jittery,hope for call from Sanand
  • City’s real estate prices register a slump
  • Encephalitis claims a life in Kolkata
  • Metro Cash & Carry gets licence to do business, cannot touch retail
  • Hindustan Times
  • Bengal: 27 infants dead in 7 days
  • 2 children die, 500 suffer from diarrhoea in Bengal town
  • Sports
  • I was not prepared to take any more humiliation: Ganguly
  • Embittered Ganguly lashes out at the selectors
  • Ganguly's words will harm dressing room: Gavaskar
  • Football AFC Cup U-16 : India finishes off with a win