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News Headlines Archive
September 11, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • New strategy to flush out rebels in Lalgarh
  • From Singur to Vedic Village, cause for concern for Buddha
  • Kolkata to witness 'Puja with conscience'
  • Singing and dancing with the Bauls of Bengal
  • Kolkata Fashion Week-II highlights rural designs
  • Bhaskar silicon to start production by 2011 from Haldia
  • Bengal Congress welcomes Mamata's offer on Singur land
  • Shortfall in tea output likely
  • Arjuna, Akbar, Amartya
  • Kolkata is trying to experiment with colours: Lippi
  • Director Rituparno Ghosh on a weight loss spree to look Gay
  • 'I would be happy to work with Rituparno again': Bipasha Basu
  • The Telegraph
  • Halt, cries govt to fleeing ministers
  • Vedic probe cry on bank
  • Shield for poorest of poor hit by politics
  • Free run for road-hog pandals
  • Court raps CU for admission bias
  • Civic lapses in parking lot deals
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Life term for murder
  • IT minister makes a Mahindra move
  • What's on in town
  • Ex-GNLF leader’s car burnt at night
  • Doctors skip duty, demand security
  • Casual staff on fast from Monday
  • Govt feeler to tribals on school strike
  • Barbs fly for last time
  • The Statesman
  • 4 held for fake currency racket
  • 5 girls killed in stampede in Delhi school
  • 5% DA for govt employees
  • Administration intervenes to reopen schools under ABAVP siege
  • Argentina lose again
  • Ballot blow for Karzai
  • Bari Puja gains in age & opulence
  • Black Rose: Oil spill feared
  • Bus crushes elderly man, locals agitate
  • CDM project launched
  • Cabinets leg-up
  • Captain says England lack confidence
  • Cash-strapped EBM stays away from emergency services
  • Centre deputes experts to fight drought
  • City gets ready for speed fest
  • Club told of Bhowmick-Edmilson confrontation
  • Culling plans put off
  • DGCA cracks whip on fares
  • Docs, locals clash injures 2o at NBMCH
  • England, Spain make it
  • Exports shrink 20% in Aug
  • Fly cheap & say no to 5-stars
  • Frosty scenario ~ Uncertainty deepens in Afghanistan
  • Gopalpur to be all-weather direct berthing port
  • Govt defers decision on homosexuality
  • Govt for caution in land deals
  • Guardians gherao DI, demand fee refund
  • Heaven for power thieves
  • Home loans set to get cheaper
  • Hunt for Oleksandr on
  • Iraq truck bomb kills 29, 81 hurt
  • Is Tibet the wedge or link?
  • Just what Durga likes...
  • Just what God likes...
  • Kohli replaces injured Gambhir
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ~ Law should have taken own course
  • Lawyers bring out rally in Trinamuls support
  • Leaders at PPSS meet flay govt
  • Lokayukta doubts PM on tackling corruption
  • Maintain peace during college polls: Govt
  • Maoists blow up tracks in Orissa
  • Maran outlines agenda for textile growth
  • NTPC may sign pact with RIL this month
  • New York Passes Law To Ban The Term Oriental
  • No Lal Salam: Ranjit Kundu
  • No slowdown on reforms: RBI
  • No water in Behala as supply snaps
  • Not again! ~ Making a mockery of medals
  • Obama presses for healthcare overhaul
  • Obamas Af-Pak strategy
  • Paes-Black lose in mixed doubles final
  • Panasonic to invest $100m in new unit
  • Passengers pay through the nose
  • Potatoes at subsidised rates
  • Puja honours to skip Raiganj this year
  • RIL accused
  • RPF men throw boy out of moving train
  • Rahul skips Karuna meet, DMK fumes
  • Raiganj hotspot for birds this fall
  • Raising the dead... for renovation
  • Roadblock on NH-23 lifted
  • SFI protests against Youth Cong ways
  • SMC polls: BJP may save CPMs day
  • Saffron shadow on school textbooks
  • Shekhawat bats for Jaswant
  • Solution in sight
  • Strike extends CMs N Bengal stay
  • Stronger memories, now a puff away
  • Suicide bid after ragging
  • The riot act ~ BJP Still Cannot Avoid Communal Provocation
  • Travelling through time, since 1851
  • Unavoidable gush ~ Protective measures as important as relief
  • Uncertainty over YSR succession continues...
  • Vijender on cloud nine after world boxing semi-final entry
  • huge support for jaganmohan
  • AutocraticKMC ignores poors plea
  • Indian media engaging in war rhetoric
  • Osama dead, but Zardari seeks aid to fight Taliban
  • Times of India
  • Man rapes woman after job offer, held
  • Snatchers target bus passengers
  • 4 injured in market roof collapse
  • Fraudster in police net
  • Authorities turn blind eye to cratered roads
  • Torture complaint
  • Police start probe into Uluberia college ragging
  • Mentally ill man threatens to jump off fourth floor
  • CU draws flak from court
  • Call for CBI probe into bank role
  • Friday night live!
  • Friday night live!
  • Kolkata grooves to some cool music
  • Mishti ruled the fashion show!
  • Three’s not a crowd
  • Indian Express
  • IT project gone, minister sails with the winds
  • LF’s new formula: To balance acquisition, purchase
  • Buddha ‘resting’ in Siliguri, to be back in city today
  • High Court orders Calcutta University to give admission to Xaviers’ students
  • Gandhi urges students to end campus violence
  • College Street mall comes alive with book fair
  • Senior journalist arrested for rape
  • Police, institute differ on ‘ragging’ case
  • New pension scheme
  • Flood situation improves, IAF chopper withdrawn
  • Vedic case gives Left Front a whip to beat Mamata’s land mantra
  • Gaffar forced villagers to sell land for resort, say cops
  • High drama in Kasba as man threatens suicide, holds family hostage
  • Hindustan Times
  • IAF copters carry out flood relief operation in WB
  • Bengal ministers get shooed away
  • Buddhadeb stays back in Siliguri as Jet flight cancelled
  • Sports
  • Chess: Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem emerges champion
  • Racing: Indian national rally comes to Kolkata after 10 years
  • Cricket: Goa maul Bengal
  • East Bengal hits a new low: Brawl breaks out at camp
  • Football: East Bengal, Mohun Bagan return to Durand
  • Aquatics: Western Railway rules supreme