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News Headlines Archive
September 27, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Kolkata's oldest Durga puja turns 400
  • Midnight black-out frightens Kolkata
  • Cruise on Ganga from Kolkata to Varanasi from tomorrow
  • Be alert to backlash in Lalgarh, police told
  • ‘Anirban Roy’ aimed a revolver at Mahato, asking him to surrender
  • Special arrangements to draw devotees at Durga Puja Pandals
  • Nandana shocked at Durga ma in bikini top!
  • The Telegraph
  • Stringent law slapped on Mahato
  • Home plan for house acquired
  • Congress divided on civic leader selection
  • Goddess of gold stays in bank vault
  • Scribe garb no big deal: Left
  • Brief rain pain and then relief
  • If this was the spirit for 52 weeks!
  • Navami true spirit in oldies’ day out
  • A theme for Charnock’s dream
  • And now, the waters beckon Her
  • Where pandal-hopping is a way of life for five days every year
  • DHR ride for orphaned children
  • Founder’s return to roots
  • Cong fails to choose civic body leader
  • Wait for Mamata to lay tracks & launch trains
  • Jaldapara care must for jumbo calves
  • The Statesman
  • 16 killed in suicide attacks in Pakistan
  • 25 years of popularity...
  • 26/11: Pak puts 26/11: Pak puts
  • A Puja with a conscience
  • AI pilots stay away, 13 flights cancelled
  • Batsman Johnson scripts Aussie victory
  • Bringing back the castaway, in memory
  • Brown gets some quality time
  • Canada, South Korea to host 2010 Summit
  • Charity takes up good work mantle from shutdown firm
  • Coromandel plans Rs 1,500-cr expansion
  • England surprise Sri Lanka
  • Establishing identity a cellphone call away
  • Fertiliser ministry asked to ensure adequate supply
  • G-20 agrees to a peer review of steps taken to check money laundering
  • Generic versions of Tamiflu on sale
  • IAS men and wives make the most
  • Indians take a tumble
  • Iran defiant as world powers mount pressure
  • KMDA to have its land bank
  • Kalam pearls on Chandrayaan-II
  • Little scope for further stimulus: PM
  • Lohan for Big Brother?
  • Market undergoes correction
  • NPT resolution not directed against India: USA
  • Of Indias multi-purpose duo
  • Offerings mark Mahashtami
  • PM turns 77
  • Rao, Bashir meet in New York
  • Recession hits Idol exports
  • Ref red-carded
  • Samiti replaces Kalavati
  • Security beefed up in Bihar
  • Sense prevails
  • Sunday's double bill
  • Tiger tamed, lion roars
  • Tweets to stay, but in moderation
  • ULTIMATUM, DEFIANCE
  • US stocks slide for third day
  • Union Bank seeks capital infusion
  • Unprecedented stalemate in AP over chief ministers post
  • Watch Out ~ The Spiders Are Coming
  • Wigan stun Chelsea
  • Betting game begins with Indo-Pak match
  • Scribe trap nets Chatradhar
  • Times of India
  • Pandal hopping for the elderly
  • Protest over Mahato arrest
  • Cops raid CPM man's home in Kaliachak
  • Durga Puja: Tradition, rituals and theme for a change
  • Rain fails to dampen Navami revelry
  • Parikrama ends on note of hope & happiness
  • Noise down, air pollution rises
  • Catching Pranab in festive, not fiscal, mood
  • Myth or metaphor for our Devis
  • No Puja for 100 years in cursed Hooghly village
  • Oh Darling, yeh hai Kolkata!
  • Oh Darling, yeh hai Kolkata!
  • A fine award ceremony in Kolkata
  • When tantricks made a kill
  • Abhishek's party celebrate his stint KFW2
  • Do Lucknowites have a traffic sense?
  • Indian Express
  • Kolkata Confidential
  • CU gives nod to PhD entrance test
  • Hoardings at major points blind city’s traffic
  • Record footfall despite evening rainfall
  • Mamata puja avatar now leaves CPM praying
  • Mahato in police custody till October 1
  • Maoist bandh gives Lalgarh a deserted look
  • Principal crunch: 100 colleges in state do not have a chief
  • Hindustan Times
  • Kolkata restaurants not to charge more during Durga puja
  • Two more held for Trinamool leader's murder
  • Sports
  • Bhutia happy over interim decision of AIFF
  • Talukdar finishes last
  • Bhutia gets reprieve, will don East Bengal shirt
  • Bagan to file review to AIFF against arbitrator's order