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News Headlines Archive
October 29, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Rajdhani hostage saga: Motive still a mystery
  • Bengal transfers 533 acres for airport city project
  • West Bengal wants armed escorts for some trains
  • Mamata, Maoists behind train detention: CPI(M) leader
  • Pirated version of Windows 7 on sale at Rs 50 per CD
  • McDonald’s opens its Third restaurant in Kolkata
  • PCPA calls off strike in 3 districts of West Bengal
  • Now, Emami forays into homeopathy
  • Why the restaurant biz just isn’t cricket
  • Himalayan Tahrs, Blue sheep for Darjeeling zoo
  • Amar turns actor-cum-advisor for Bengali film
  • San Banerje awed by Soumitra
  • The Telegraph
  • Centre clears road project
  • FIR politics, colour no bar
  • Rebel wants formal offer
  • Rebel threat real: Singh
  • Durgapur IIT boy missing
  • VC seeks PM help
  • Tuition row in school
  • Parents faint in romance case
  • Block it, shut it, forget it
  • AB loses Friday fight
  • Security tightened at sleuth hub
  • Knee-jerk drive against hawkers
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Eden, catch a sneak peek
  • On road, losing home to river
  • Rinpoche wanted to be zoo keeper
  • Job office evokes vote hope
  • Hint at railway sops before byelections
  • The Statesman
    Times of India
  • IIT boy from state missing for a month
  • Mamata woos voters at train flag-off
  • Trinamool man killed in Mandirbazar
  • Case over river encroachment
  • Nandaram Market to be demolished
  • Congress backs Mamata on Maoist stance
  • Drowning: Autopsy points to murder
  • Clash over procession
  • Schools, hospitals to be fortified
  • Chinese engineers detained at airport
  • Music soothes the crowd at Roxy
  • Music soothes the crowd at Roxy
  • Tantra welcomes Ma Faiza
  • A rocking affair
  • SoHo is the place to be!
  • Indian Express
  • Special force to hunt down Kishenji
  • Hit by ‘costly’ coal, CESC seeks revision of tariff
  • Bengal lagging in RTI, admits state CIC
  • Trinamool men gherao Barasat police station
  • Visva-Bharati strike: V-C won’t resign, writes to PM
  • Trinamool still hopeful Nayachar won’t get environmental nod
  • HC rejects bail to PCAPA leader
  • All the Mamata men & women tweak their pro-Maoist tune
  • 2 murders, 4 kidnaps as Maoists, PCAPA slug it out with CPM
  • Durgapur school suspends over 700 students for taking tuition
  • Jhargram resort staffer held for supplying arms and money to Maoists
  • Trinamool leaders skip Buddha, but meet Asim
  • Hindustan Times
  • Lalgarh development plans depend on law and order situation: WB govt
  • Trainjack: CPM targets Mamata
  • Railways decide to set up commando force to counter naxal threat
  • Three CPI(M) supporters kidnapped in West Midnapore
  • Sports
  • East Bengal reappoint Belgium's Philip De Ridder as Head Coach
  • Bengal names Ranji Trophy squad
  • Nuruddin scores hat-trick