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News Headlines Archive
October 30, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • CPI(M)-CPI clash injures 3 in Bengal
  • Metro signs up 65,000 clients in a month
  • 2,000 arrested in West Bengal for noise pollution
  • Shrink-wrap: Fear of job loss
  • Wildlife crime bureau may move Interpol
  • Sun TV launches FM station at Siliguri
  • Singur: A student's perspective
  • AI's direct flight from Hyderabad to Kolkata
  • Graeme Massie to design Scottish pavilion for 2009 Kolkata book fair
  • CPI(M) creating violence at Salboni: Manas
  • I'll never stop acting in Bengali films: Rituparna Sengupta
  • The Statesman
  • Aerotropolis project sparks controversy in Andal
  • Bank overcomes odds to make profits worth crores
  • Cops shield man with two wives
  • Dense fog causes flight delays
  • Dredging work held up at Haldia
  • How to do it?
  • Low budget railway package tour
  • Official held for illegal firecracker possession
  • Top students dont want to teach maths
  • Who will kick the butt first?
  • The Telegraph
  • Salboni misses another VIP
  • Tata will return land: Buddha
  • Tie-up blow to Trinamul
  • Centre salve for teacher schools
  • Merc of a man from Chowringhee
  • Scholar accuses JU of minority bias
  • Civic service centre for each borough
  • Patchwork and promise washed away by rain
  • Rule review for rickshaw ban
  • Shallow fog delays flights
  • Deadline looms for stay or surrender
  • Trade, travel take a hit
  • Case flood, judges few
  • Hospitals under vector scan
  • Banker’s torture cry in lock-up
  • Blasts there, ripples here
  • Helmet-less & 3 students on bike, 2 die
  • Cop killed by truck
  • You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Cost spiral drives CMC towards cash crunch
  • Tea tourism put to sleep
  • Samsul kin want CBI probe
  • Malda readies for CM visit
  • Assam blasts trigger alert
  • Long wait for rural work wages
  • Truck smashes family on trip to school
  • Puja does a spoof on Singur
  • Widow takes back molestation slur
  • Injury ripples touch Bengal
  • 500 days & Teesta relay fast still on
  • Forester dies in crash
  • Times of India
  • JU laboratory brings out wonder drug for asthma patients
  • Kolkatans eye realty overseas
  • Man slashes daughter with razor
  • Rizwan case accused likely to challenge warrant in court
  • Encroachers resist water theme park
  • Howrah to get international airport
  • Cops thrashed by revellers
  • Two held with 75 kg banned crackers
  • Crackers trigger smog, flights delayed
  • CBI raids prove futile, Todis still untraced
  • Indian Express
  • City in sick bed, but authorities sleep
  • From centres of healing, hospitals turn garbage dumps
  • Fresh dengue cases in Murshidabad, Midnapore
  • Students take over where civic body quits
  • Bank employee accused of fraud slips into coma
  • Village on Wheels: an IRCTC initiative for small-budget tourists
  • Fire destroys wooden building in Topsia
  • Constable killed in road mishap
  • Security tightened after Assam blasts
  • Mamata to revive agitation in Singur from November 2
  • Buddha seeks Centre’s help to solve PTTI crisis
  • Tatas to return Singur land, Bengal CM tells Front
  • Bitten and beaten, he still managed to save this python
  • Hindustan Times
  • Feisty with the lines
  • Ratan Tata’s open letters
  • After 'Palace on Wheels', now a 'Village on Wheels'
  • I want John to play Arjun: Rituparno Ghosh
  • Sports
  • AIFF chief’s illness leaves Md Sporting’s foreign tie-up in limbo
  • Top seeds tumble out of Jassowal challenge