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News Headlines Archive
September 18, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Durga Puja 2009 begins with Mahalaya
  • Bengal to offer 45 acres each to Wipro, Infosys
  • Buddhadeb's offer to IT majors in line with TC's demand
  • Officer dies in Bengal coal mine accident
  • CPM, Trinamool fight over Bengal train
  • TATA Metaliks shelves mini steel plant at Kharagpur
  • Gurkhas to declare independent state in India
  • Mamata prefers flat over bungalow
  • Calcutta University to spread light to world of blind
  • Purulia Association goes in for registration
  • Roopa Ganguly on Sach ka Saamna finale
  • Working magic on body
  • The Telegraph
  • Big school meal for girl with appetite of 7
  • Village funds puja with rice
  • Maoist link doc arrested
  • Power share buzz for mayor chair
  • Life back on track for cancer-hit family
  • Cyclone Aila hits theme puja pandals
  • Shop stops as danger zones
  • Potato is party pooper
  • Cop salute for courage
  • The festive crown that cares
  • River ritual turns fatal
  • Fire brigade notice to errant pujas
  • Perishables rot, prices rocket
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Auto driver fined for abuse
  • Sourav model for comeback
  • Ghisingh ignored regular job plan
  • Girl sold by father rescued
  • Fire safety inspection of pandals from today
  • Excess power awaits fine
  • The Statesman
  • $3b World Bank aid for roads
  • 16 killed in Afghan blast
  • 32 nursing homes pulled up for violating PCB norms
  • A taste of Vigilance whim
  • All pray for safe return of Liyushckenko
  • Austerity measures may hit students hard
  • Austerity tokenism
  • Ayurvedic industry may grow to Rs 5,000 cr
  • BSNLs bid for Millicom rejected
  • Barca held by Inter
  • Benarasi sari gets exclusivity stamp
  • Big boys quit as Renault admit fixing charges
  • Black Rose chief engineer found dead
  • Bone of contention over mayor selection
  • British aid for repressive regimes
  • Buddha all praise for city cops
  • Bungee snag stopped Flintoff deal
  • Bypoll: NDA loses in Bihar, Cong in Delhi
  • CERC notifies tariff norms
  • CM makes fresh land offer
  • CM plays safe on resignation
  • CMAS factions at daggers drawn
  • CPI tries to unite Left forces
  • CVC names and shames
  • Cabinet nod for amendments to Transplant Act
  • Cheap air tickets yet to evade stock
  • Citu men set Malda Cong office on fire
  • Civic bodys infighting stalls city clean-up work
  • Cong, NCP to field common candidates
  • Congress leader attacks Trinamul councillor
  • Cos mop up Rs 40,000 cr
  • DM takes up Anganwadi cause
  • Deadlock continues
  • Deputy mayor resigns, Cong demands normal services
  • Devvarman holds the key
  • Dhenkanal fest
  • District ensures better services during Pujas
  • Draupadi of modern times
  • ECoR wants its workers to be transparent & sincere
  • Fall in Chinas orange exports may help Sikkim: Exim
  • Festive blockade
  • Former Cong MLA dies of heart attack
  • Fritzl rerun in Australia
  • Ganga sweeps away 6-yr-old in Howrah
  • Global hotel prices drop 17%
  • Government embraces alternative medicine
  • Govt passes the buck on gays
  • Govt questions industrial giants, seeks time-frame
  • Green light for Gambhir
  • Greenery loses ground to mining
  • Greenhouse farming answer to global warming rampage
  • Huge currency drowned in river
  • Inflation in positive zone
  • Irfan vows to bounce back
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Malda to implement states housing project
  • Mamata wooing Nitish?
  • Maoists to target Purulia this festival?
  • Meet on incursions put off
  • Mysterious diseases cause panic
  • Nalco holds meet with village heads
  • New luxury buses on the floor
  • New revenue plans for country spirit
  • Notice too short, say organisers
  • Orissa IAS officer drunk before killing family?
  • PHE takes up new strategy to provide safe drinking water
  • Pak orders arms worth 4.5 bn from USA
  • Panel on exporters woes
  • Plea to allow juvenile delinquents go pandal hopping
  • Priyas puja to have no glamour or idol
  • Puja fun on celeb must-do list
  • Rajarhat land body meeting disallowed
  • Re-working Delhi
  • Remembering Jacko the Hindu way
  • SC chides Maha Govt
  • Sigh of relief for DGHC workers
  • Sikkim runner finishes first
  • Sikkim yes to 4th Pay Commission
  • Six UP pilgrims die in accident
  • Skills training joint venture launched
  • Solace for the solitary
  • South Kolkata also in flouters list
  • Students clash over filing nomination papers
  • Sultry weather to continue
  • Tea workers, ABAVP clash over Puja bonus
  • Teachers irked at transfer order
  • The Blue Planet~II
  • Trinamul rally attacked in presence of police
  • Uranium uproar
  • Victor Durga, penitent Ashura in Khidderpore
  • Victor Durga, penitent Asura in Khidderpore
  • WIO criticises govt irrigation plan
  • Wet days feared to mar fun during festival
  • Whats tarnishing Trinamuls image
  • Youth murdered by Trinamul goons
  • Youth pushed out of train, dies
  • Central forces to stay
  • Times of India
  • AI flight takes off without 25 passengers, protest at airport
  • Packed Jet flight leaves behind family of four
  • Police file case against Malda Cong
  • Man gives away daughter in game of cards
  • Duronto menu same as Rajdhani's, barring
  • Bravehearts get police awards
  • State in a fix over Section 377
  • Housing complexes gear up for Shera Puja magic
  • Elephant calf dies in Bankura forest
  • Fire department finds going tough
  • The party's just begun
  • The party's just begun
  • Partying on a rainy day
  • Rocking the night away
  • Putting the ramp on fire
  • Indian Express
  • In city of traffic woes, Buddha seeks Police-Public Partnership
  • At Badamtala, Gautam Ghosh envisages earth mother
  • In New Alipore, a slice of Jharkand
  • Another 35 acres acquired for motors plant in Uluberia
  • Traffic cop run over by truck
  • 32 nursing homes face closure for ignoring waste disposal guidelines
  • PTTI job forms from today
  • L N Mittal to attend Xavier’s alumni meet in London
  • Duronto begins run with a hiccup
  • Cong-Trinamool chasm widens over Siliguri mayoral post
  • CM to set price for Wipro, Infosys land
  • Riders floored by low-floor buses
  • Hindustan Times
  • Woman kills two daughters before attempting suicide in Burdwan
  • WB Govt didn't reject Wipro, Infosys proposals: CPI(M)
  • Local business gets a boost
  • Lajong do the giantkilling act, slay East Bengal
  • Sports
  • East Bengal not to remove Bhowmick despite losses
  • Archery: Indians dominate ranking round
  • Durand Cup: Churchill Brothers in last four
  • Table Tennis: Sougata in two finals
  • Bhutia would lift gloom: Subhas