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News Headlines Archive
August 11, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Congress workers try to enter Singur site
  • Firing in Nandigram
  • Kolkata Korner : Sartorial Issues
  • Ontrack Systems agrees to buy US IT company
  • PwC & IIM Calcutta to partner for IFRS training programmes
  • The Statesman
  • Family threatens fast unto death
  • Mother abandons one-year old
  • Check mail & SMS from school
  • Mob fury after road accident, three hurt
  • Duper of 15 in police net
  • Talk of theTown
  • Hounded family threatens fast unto death at Writers
  • When the school SMSes...
  • Mob fury after car crash
  • Talk of theTown
  • The Telegraph
  • CPM signals Tata-Mamata talks
  • Hotel employee pushed off: Police
  • Cong keen on Singur dharna
  • Bus bays that hold up traffic
  • 4-lane solution to VIP chaos
  • Home away from home for elderly
  • 350 tech seats vacant
  • What's on in town
  • Varsity scraps merit list after protests
  • Vandalism after negligence cry
  • Students in bike gang
  • Warning to junior doctors
  • 2 cyber cafe owners held
  • Help run over by lorry
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • City shoot for Farhan film
  • Slow flow on speed-up connector
  • Rare books in click queue
  • Morcha keen to placate Sikkim CM
  • Tea strike unites hills & plains
  • Rare animal dies, toxic finger at hydel plant
  • Splurge charge on health fair
  • No-trust motion against Kumai
  • Bank on loan recovery drive
  • CPM waits for Buddha visit
  • Girl saved after 10km chase, abductors held
  • Disease watch on migrants
  • Times of India
  • Targeted killings in Nandigram
  • Bongaon CPM leader murdered
  • Docs' stipend to be revised soon: Minister
  • Police stop cycle rally, chaos on Howrah bridge
  • Ruckus at two hospitals, 8 held
  • Day after CM's plea, guns boom in Nandigram
  • Hotel staffer still in coma
  • Speeding vehicles leave 11 injured in 2 accidents
  • Green bags at city malls soon
  • Indian Express
  • With solar power plant for Raj Bhavan, Governor leads the way again
  • Daylight murder in Bongaon: trader gunned down, hacked, 2 held
  • I-Day gift for city: CCTVs at Writers’, HC, Nandan
  • Rs 24-cr plan to revamp the ghats of Ganga, promote river tourism
  • For Pujas, Darjeeling to get a break from bandhs
  • Family on rampage at Devi Shetty’s hospital
  • Trouble at Bangur too as patient dies
  • Dearth of science teachers worries Madrassa Commission
  • Reality show victim dies in hospital
  • Health dept wakes up to junior doctors’ needs
  • WBUT to offer berths to all examinees
  • Tricolour’s absence at Khudiram centenary makes Cong see red
  • Panchayat chiefs hold protests in Nandigram, demand peace
  • Cong ups ante in state, opposes Pranab’s hush-talks with CPM
  • Plan panel pulls up govt for tardy pace of work
  • Uncle says Avinav’s Gold medal was unexpected
  • Asian Age
  • LF govt may acquire alternative Nano site
  • ‘Arms in Nandi under scanner’
  • Cops blame TV crew for hotel staffer’s fall
  • Videocon will set up Rs 200cr solar plant
  • Two city hospitals witness vandalism over negligence
  • Britons visit graves to trace their roots
  • Jamiat head urges Cong,Trinamul to join hands
  • Hindustan Times
  • Alipore, Kolkata
  • Sports
  • Football : Md. Sporting 0 - Railway FC 0
  • AFC final postponed