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News Headlines Archive
December 17, 2009
Miscellaneous
  • Land unavailability for towers may hit power supply: WBSEDCL
  • HCC Secures Rs.318 Cr. Road Project In Kolkata
  • Jute mills strike enters third day
  • AC coaches in Kolkata Metro soon
  • ‘Mamata’s proposal to set up Railway project at Singur is welcome’
  • Talks on alternative to Gorkha Council likely
  • Singur: Tatas may return land if. . .
  • Bengal villagers’ wait for rail terminal continues 28 yrs on
  • Disguised Aamir Khan visits Sourav Ganguly's home in Kolkata
  • Sumitomo eyes stake in India steel plant
  • West Bengal passes controversial health bill
  • West Bengal to set up first silk park
  • The Telegraph
  • IIM works on freedom plan
  • Docs protest rural practice bill
  • Thieves empty Salt Lake home
  • Transport hire right to owners
  • Strokes, master to master
  • Court orders OC’s arrest
  • Court aid for duo
  • Death triggers torture cry
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Nachiketa numbers disturb examinees
  • Intuc bandh in Malda today
  • Gurung doubts no-statehood-in-talks claim
  • 2 hospitalised in Kalimpong
  • Dooars body calls strike
  • Forester seeks report on junior
  • The Statesman
  • A payment system that dates back to Cromwell
  • As Lake Town turns 50
  • BJP shaky again in Karnataka
  • BSE, NSE to start trading at 9 am
  • Bajaj hurt by sons move
  • Ban on onion exports mooted
  • Bank strike hits clearing
  • Bengal in control
  • Beware! says TRS chief
  • Bishnupur Utsav on lines of Konark and Khajuraho festival
  • Busy students give kites a miss in Pink City
  • CPM leader has no faith in half-doctors
  • CPM stir over Health Bill
  • CPM winks at KMC slip on minister
  • CPM worker dies of splinter injury
  • Civil defence employees deprived of uniforms
  • Cong, Trinamul backed forum demonstrates during BCA exams
  • Controversy over Madhyamik test results
  • Death compensation failed, victims widow cheated
  • Dooars-Terai Nagarik Mancha threatens bandh on 21 Dec
  • English Bazaar seeks Central assistance
  • Excise dept helps liquor, drug traders
  • Fresh tension at Tamluk, many hurt
  • Funds remain unspent amidst demand for separate state
  • Govt rapped on price hike
  • Govt seeks time from doctors
  • Group D staff demand posts in state-run medical colleges
  • Gurung welcomes all to the Hills for talks
  • Headley visa papers go missing
  • Health dept steps up fight against malaria in tea belt
  • High drama at climate conference
  • Injuries rule Muralitharan & Fernando out
  • Intel showcases new processor
  • Italy invites Mahindras, Tatas to buy Fiats unit
  • Jaswant quits as PAC chief
  • KMC sits over crores meant for development
  • Kallis punishes Poms
  • LF wakes up to Cooch Behar development need after 32 yrs 
  • Let pragmatism prevail
  • Mercedes lure Schumacher
  • Mismanagement plagues Islampur hospital
  • Moves and counter-moves
  • NGO to set up hospital
  • NREGS helps villagers build road to happiness
  • New visa rules would hit Indian-Americans
  • No lessons learnt just yet
  • Obama writes to Kim Jong II
  • Only 50% Britons Consider Themselves Christians: Study
  • Orissa rocked by scams, Naxal violence in 2009
  • Pak hails SC decision on amnesty
  • Parliament passes sugarcane Bill
  • Petty crime on rise in Raiganj station
  • Pilgrim dies in plane
  • Sanitation rating for cities soon
  • Shell transferring jobs to India
  • Sops for exporters in Jan
  • Two killed, teacher & student shot at
  • Val steady on its commitment to build aluminium park
  • Vani Vihar elections deferred sine die
  • Villagers seek police protection against Maoist cadres
  • Womens quota Bill gets House panel nod
  • Woods set to lose a lot
  • Day-night Tests in two years
  • Days darker than the 70s coming
  • Situation conducive for tripartite talks
  • land swap for settlements
  • Times of India
  • Taxi unions propose costlier pre-paid rides from airport
  • Trees hacked in Golf Green, residents mum on culprit
  • Who's who to meet in city for former teacher's b'day
  • Burglary at Salt Lake home
  • PIL to promote green energy
  • Now, highrise IT destination in Sec V
  • Rectify faults and unite: Front leader
  • Maoists trying to cash in on potato farming crisis
  • State ‘violates’ wetland Act for 4-lane road project
  • And the show goes on...
  • And the show goes on...
  • 'Bonjour India' themed fashion show!
  • A night dedicated to all music lovers
  • Students from BESU fight for Fresh Face title
  • Indian Express
  • Teacher shot at by Maoists in school
  • In red corridor, Marxists get dos and don’ts from cops
  • Bloc begins its session, Karat to join today
  • Panel figures ‘non-CPM’ nominee for V-C
  • No pause to Bengal slide in NREGA implementation
  • Delhi gifted spot in last eight
  • Buddhist monks may soon learn science in monasteries
  • Free hand
  • In run-up, home secy somersaults again
  • Mamata-Maneka spat in House
  • Chief Minister’s convoy diverted after protests by Trinamool workers
  • Hindustan Times
  • Maoists announce ‘loan waiver’ for farmers
  • Presidency university bill placed in Bengal Assembly
  • 'Two persons die of TB in India every 3 minutes'
  • Sports
  • Delhi faces an uphill task
  • Md. Sporting moves a step closer to Federation Cup
  • Can’t change the past: Shukla
  • EB-Bagan may play on April 2