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News Headlines Archive
October 26, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal and Union govt headed for spat over mill land
  • Retail space in Bengal expands with increase in average spend
  • Alert in Bengal district for Chikungunya
  • CIL may offer equity to land losers
  • Al Kabeer aiming at 37% growth in West Bengal
  • Arsenic-free water supply in West Bengal by 2011
  • Gorkha Janamukti Morcha threatens to intensify agitation for separate State
  • Sad at the way Nano had to be shifted out from WB: PM
  • Cyclone alert likely in Coastal West Bengal
  • Bimal Gurung calls tourists to visit Darjeeling
  • Economic meltdown doesn't impact fashion designers
  • Shah Rukh Khan To Inaugurate The 14th Kolkata Film Festival
  • The Statesman
  • CPM cadres on rampage in Garbeta
  • Jewellery shop owners may be fined
  • Santiniketan buildings to be restored
  • Unique feature or a defect?
  • The Telegraph
  • Civic poll tie-up gets Cong seal
  • Farmers seek investors’ ear
  • False claim rap for two officers
  • Beware of decibel devil
  • Diwali misery & memories
  • ‘If only they had taken my son to hospital’
  • Drenched and downcast, city shoppers give Dhanteras midnight tryst a miss
  • Unions clash at Writers’
  • Baby snatcher beaten, booked
  • What & why of vector diseases
  • Fifth sting in Dufferin tale
  • 5 caught with crackers
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Court orders Todis’ arrest
  • Stranded? Hail a convoy!
  • Taxis stand on way
  • What's on in town
  • Morcha plans conduct code
  • Czech forester flees without passport
  • Forester thrashed for timber
  • Down after 30 hrs on tower
  • Cong leader dies after ‘insult’
  • Cops sniff witch-hunt plot & rescue couples
  • 18-year-old down with dengue
  • Puja in absence of men
  • Times of India
  • Local train jumps tracks in Howrah
  • Stranded fliers get a lift on Guv’s convoy
  • Experts fear 50% jump in dengue cases
  • Writers’ clash leaves 2 injured
  • WB Governor offers lift to elderly man
  • Warrant for Todis in Rizwan case
  • Women's compartment derails near Howrah station
  • Dengue bite worsens, 26 nurses down
  • Cops squabble for 4 hours as man dies
  • After weekend washout, rain threatens to ruin Diwali too
  • Indian Express
  • Dasmunsi indisposed, Cong puts two on hotseat
  • Clouds gone, city gears up for Kali Puja, Diwali
  • Fire Department, police make special arrangements
  • Coal India to go for new ventures, aims for global status: Chairman
  • Pollution board ultimatum to 31 industries to bring down emissions
  • Arrest warrant issued against the Todis in Rizwanur case
  • CBI raids Todi house, finds it empty
  • TMC-Cong link puts a question mark on PSDF’s survival
  • Vector-borne diseases spread to districts
  • Governor Gandhi gives father-daughter duo a lift to airport
  • Hindustan Times
  • Singur issue: Mamata seeks Central solution
  • Mamata to begin fresh protests against CPI-M
  • Sports
  • Bengal defeat Jharkhand by an innings and 163 runs
  • Royal Bengal Tigers thrash Dhaka Warriors by eight wickets
  • Bhutia: I-League Title Will Come To Kolkata
  • Dasgupta blasts Bengal to thumping win