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News Headlines Archive
October 13, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Several children fall ill as smoke fills hospital ward
  • Now, Mamta guns for Kolkata top cop
  • Goods train derailed in Bengal
  • Cruise tourism in Bengal may attract global investors
  • Don’t play with fire, says Mamata
  • SC puts brakes on trial in Rizwanur Rehman case
  • Modi’s open letter to Buddhadeb, Mamata
  • IIT-Kharagpur study shows new pill for diabetes, cholestrol: yoga
  • The Statesman
  • Man arrested for temple murder
  • Man stabs wife, then surrenders
  • Medical help reaches diarrhoea-hit area
  • Murder case initiated against Puja organisers
  • Outrage over police excess in Ketugram
  • Property feud claims 62-year-old
  • Thai national held at airport
  • Woman falls to death from balcony
  • The Telegraph
  • CPM sees gain in Singur ‘restraint’
  • Comrades rush to see patriarch in autumn
  • Farmer suicide for stock ‘crash’
  • Nightmare in dream home
  • Funds freedom for college
  • What's on in town
  • Price rise prunes puja
  • Trader missing for four days
  • Bangla goon nabbed in city
  • Power cuts and coal crisis
  • Ticket in hand but seat denied
  • Apex court rider in Riz case trial
  • Woman chief and five aides held for dacoity
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  • House burgled in Salt Lake
  • Fake scribe at Alimuddin
  • No parking zone? Not for taxi stands
  • Challenger call brings cheers
  • Young blood to dominate Gold Cup
  • MA student & girl found dead in hotel
  • 60 down with fever, officials in the dark
  • Express saved with 100 metres to spare
  • Prayer for Priya recovery
  • Talks key to hill solution
  • New cottage for Neora Valley trekkers
  • Search for dead deer
  • Harmless herd in garden to taste tea
  • Fire panic in Malda hospital
  • Bandh in Assam on October 15
  • Pay-up brawl leads to siege
  • Stuck without water & food
  • Times of India
  • Kolkata's killer noise
  • Italian help to revive Kolkata glory
  • Bangla don arrested from Karaya hideout
  • Reports confirm dengue, chikungunya in S 24-Parganas
  • Foresters sound green warning
  • Same-sex couple forced apart
  • Immersion norms: City clean, but outskirts don’t bother
  • Airport link plan for E-W Metro
  • Corporate parks to solve Salt Lake space problems
  • City bikers scale record heights
  • Indian Express
  • Charu Market violence: accused produced in court
  • Rizwanur case: SC asks High Court to complete hearing; family appeals against bail to cops
  • Khejuri bandh peaceful
  • Silence rules Calcutta Stock Exchange
  • 75 children escape death in Malda fire
  • Teachers unhappy over academic parameters fixed by pay panel
  • Shortage of coal results in powercuts
  • Suspicion, hatred led septuagenarian to murder wife
  • KMC lacks data on city’s vector breeding zones
  • Sister Nirmala in Orissa to give healing touch
  • Commercialisation eats into traditional charm of Laksmi Puja
  • Central committee gives clean chit to Buddha govt
  • Bengal gears up to welcome another automobile company
  • Mamata receives threat call
  • Holed up in city for years, Bangla criminal held near Buddha’s house
  • Dasmunsi back to hospital; Cong in a fix
  • Hindustan Times
  • 'Save Nano Committee' to meet Governor
  • Mamata and allies now seek industry and jobs at Singur
  • Sports
  • Air India beat listless East Bengal
  • Chirag United holds Churchill
  • Vishal, Amrita lead the field
  • Royal Bengal Tigers snub Lahore Badshahs