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News Headlines Archive
October 18, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • CPI(M) ducks, Trinamool smiles at Tata's Singur ad
  • Tata stigmatises Bengalis' political thoughts:Ashok
  • Mamata dares Tata: Apologise or face legal action
  • Budhha takes up Kolkata port issue with Baalu
  • We are committed to West Bengal: Apeejay
  • JSW Steel delays West Bengal project on credit crunch
  • Ratan Tata criticised for open letter
  • Don Dawood funding Bengali films: Police
  • Third wheel: What will come first, road or car?
  • Darjeeling gears up for Gorkhaland stir
  • Bangalore’s Bengali flavour
  • The Statesman
  • 40 suffering from dengue
  • Another Bangladeshi criminal held
  • Authorities hold talks on Geonkhali shipyard
  • Citu activists threaten Prashar Bharati shutdown
  • Clash over land
  • Shaping the future of states youths
  • Singapore developer to set up commercial hub in state
  • Trainee teachers blame both Centre and state
  • Trinamul demands apology from Tata
  • The Telegraph
  • Fitting reply, say fans
  • IIT student peddles heroin near gate
  • ‘GL’ block on road to hills
  • Money and a tradition
  • Slump heat on global warming
  • The man who would be Punglish!
  • Blot-out ‘WB’ mission meets no resistance
  • Widow in chains for 14 hours a day
  • Intensive movement after Nov. 7
  • BSF & Tata team enter quarter-finals
  • Couple in net for trafficking
  • Trinamul threat to Tata
  • Times of India
  • Bus workers go on strike against tough road law
  • Book fair organizers file FIR against actress
  • Cremation stopped after whiff of foul play
  • Police get ready for Mamata stir
  • IIT-Kharagpur student held with 94 gm of heroin
  • Kolkata: 5 died of vector-born illness
  • Week into job, IIM-C alum gets Lehman pink slip
  • Shipyard project: Investors willing to wait for land
  • Jubilant Jet crew uncork bubbly
  • Home-grown IT firm opts for Bangalore
  • Indian Express
  • CPM’s youth wing demands arrest of Partho
  • ‘New measures must for curbing cyber crime’
  • Police take away woman’s body from crematorium for postmortem
  • Top officers transferred
  • Bus drivers put a brake on city’s transport
  • Briefly State
  • Hindustan Times
  • Tata gives people of Bengal 'choice', TC mulls legal action
  • Parties not amused by Tata’s letter to Bengal
  • Sacked Jet employees resume duty
  • Sports
  • Ganguly scores century; India all out for 469
  • East Bengal look for a fresh start
  • United SC seek Mumbai double