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News Headlines Archive
September 5, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Singur: West Bengal Governor, Trinamool Congress meet postponed
  • Tata keeps mum on Singur issue
  • Tata Motors Plant Divides a Family
  • Search for a proper answer to Singur
  • Rumours, drama keep people on edge in Singur
  • Buddhadeb's 'plan B' may end Singur deadlock
  • Tata’s game of chicken in West Bengal
  • Lyricist Dr. Moniruzzaman passes away
  • Amartya Sen named on IMF committee on governance reform
  • 37 acres is all we have: Nirupam Sen
  • The Statesman
  • SEZ to be set up for IT companies
  • Wetland park work to start soon
  • Metro passengers want old reservation
  • Live grenades found in north Kolkata
  • CBI to withhold action in Rizwan case
  • National dementia awareness week to be observed from 20 Sept
  • Citu pressure halts PVD drive
  • Seminar to rememeber Marxist author
  • Birbhum tourist spots ready for face-lift
  • Wetland park work to start soon
  • Religion no bar for Christian youth from Bihar
  • Six bandhs upset locals at Purulia
  • The Telegraph
  • Flank open for trucks
  • Taking no chances, Tata team dials Uttarakhand
  • Canada hotel skirts Calcutta
  • CPM upset with Gandhi
  • Hopes alive at siege
  • Lost and found after 90 days
  • Joint panel to clean river after immersions
  • Delayed help for sick man
  • Man held for bank fraud
  • Youth in net for snatching
  • Tribute beyond Teacher’s Day
  • Boy molested in school
  • Revised schedule for Delhi trains
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Raj Bhavan as Eden
  • Metro drops women-only coaches
  • Rationed rice for the flood-hit
  • Traders shot at, 1 hurt
  • Fish hook in baby’s throat beats doctors
  • Cultivation resumes on acquired plots
  • Cash prize for teachers from 2009
  • Meet on GI status
  • Breather for Reliance users
  • Times of India
  • Farmers eye rehab as way out of impasse
  • Cyanide killer offers Rs 1 lakh to KMC
  • Calcutta Club's new formula to woo youth
  • Metro extension proposal shot down
  • Newborn abandoned at nursing home
  • Willing to shift to save Nano
  • 'Interpret the law liberally to return land'
  • Suicide shock deepens gloom
  • For recruits, a dream lies in tatters
  • 'State and Tatas should have been proactive'
  • Indian Express
  • Home Guards demand a fair deal from Governor
  • Singur in foreign media
  • Students suffer as KMC leases out schools for money
  • Now constituency, booth details in West Bengal just an SMS away
  • Foreign youths in hordes embrace Mother Teresa’s abode for the ill
  • Thousands observe Mother’s death anniversary
  • Minister for joyful learning, opposes lengthy syllabus
  • HC asks agencies to submit plan for cleaning Ganga
  • Freelance Talent
  • On Day 13, Singur manch turns a circus
  • Second round of talks on Singur stalemate today
  • Outside Raj Bhavan gates feel free to participate in the great Bengal debate
  • Trinamool dharna on the highway is illegal, says home secretary
  • Freelance Talent
  • Asian Age
  • LF talks tough on Singur agitation
  • IB to keep eye on bank officers
  • Man dies of heart attack after brawl
  • Security breach at Assembly
  • 2nd, 3rd yr varsity results out
  • Autopsy says hotel worker pushed
  • Hindustan Times
  • Mother Teresa remembered on her death anniversary
  • Talks over Tata's Singur plant deferred
  • Ishani gets her twin brother, 3 years later
  • Sports
  • Utpal Chatterjee new Bengal cricket coach
  • Kolkata Football : Mohun Bagan 2 - Port Trust 0
  • Paes-Black win mixed doubles at US Open