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News Headlines Archive
September 13, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Discord over return of land
  • Why did Tatas choose Singur?
  • In fresh blow, Satyam decides to quit Kolkata
  • TIL’s 250-crore plant to come up at Kharagpur
  • Tatas move court to block Singur contract release
  • Misery and death on West Bengal's tea estates
  • Trains cancelled due to floods in Kharagpur-Bhadrak section
  • Nano finally hits a dead end in Singur
  • Basu undergoes Holter monitor test
  • Engine gets unhitched from train, passengers unhurt
  • West Bengal 'proposals' on table to resolve Nano impasse
  • West Bengal employees who injured 12 cops identified
  • Tatas eye new 'mother house' for Nano
  • Sudhindranath Dutta - A Modern Master's Musings
  • Rituparno Ghosh merges theatre and cinema in 'The Last Lear'
  • The Statesman
  • 3 students killed, 5 injured in lightning storm
  • Bengali scholars meet
  • Day labourers decry Singur cease-work
  • Facelift for 12 ghats
  • Fake doctor escapes wrath of patients
  • Guidelines to protect Puja shoppers
  • HC shoots down SSC regulation
  • Hope for Subarnarekha Barrage Project?
  • How to do it?
  • Nandigram clashes hurt 6
  • Political rallies disrupt traffic
  • Rise of sea level affects riverbank vegetation
  • SSDA nearly defunct after Somnaths exit
  • Six killed, 39 hurt as bus falls into pond
  • Vegetation changes point to rising sea levels
  • WBIDC owes Rs 59 lakh to land dept
  • WBSUB introduces semester system
  • The Telegraph
  • Mamata to Buddha: I won’t be CM
  • Left unites in Singur offensive
  • Violent brush, peacock throne
  • Nano poems on a nano phone
  • Appeal to lift forest ban
  • Former top cop’s house yields cobras
  • CM urges hills to pay power bills
  • Siliguri set to get speciality hospitals
  • Prisoners to get better facilities
  • Dress code relief for Lepchas
  • Abandoned by son, 70-year-old at govt door
  • Govt censures Sikkim VC
  • Trinamul storms Katwa meet
  • Times of India
  • Special Puja trips by tourism dept
  • Heart heavy, but not without hope
  • Experts hail 'best package ever'
  • KMC lens on errant hawkers
  • South Kolkata roads to bear brunt of pandal blocks
  • Cop beaten up by auto driver
  • Robbers strike at retired IAS officer's flat
  • Dadu, who saved a little girl's life
  • Good to be back in Kolkata: Amitabh Bachchan
  • Indian Express
  • Patients at receiving end as R G Kar Hospital reels under powercut
  • BSF hands over 150 Bangla infiltrators to police
  • 25 fresh cases of enteric in Jadavpur
  • After mapping the world, woman ‘tests’ motherhood in City of Joy
  • Toppers’ answers now online
  • Tata in reverse gear, silently begins moving out of Singur
  • All is not well at Singur yet: Left Front backs Buddha’s compensation package
  • Game of one-upmanship: Mamata to take out rally in Singur too
  • Child dies of medical ‘negligence’
  • 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
  • Mamata-Buddha talks fail
  • Bookest of them all
  • Sports
  • Mohun Bagan claim Calcutta league title
  • Mohun Bagan win league, post-match violence leaves six injured
  • East Bengal coach hints at quitting