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News Headlines Archive
August 15, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Security stepped up in WB on the eve of I-day celebrations
  • House panel may keep govt`s land buy cap at 30 per cent
  • HC slams Kolkata cops' probe in Rizwanur murder
  • Terror operative reveals how men cross the border
  • Bengal CM's carrot and stick approach on Singur
  • Art of Santiniketan comes to prestigious London venue
  • The Statesman
    The Telegraph
  • Formal seal on airport plan
  • Boom time for civil brigade
  • CAS spells trouble for subscribers
  • Threats prompt stricter vigil
  • Paean to Bindra in freedom song
  • Woman hacks 5-year-old son
  • Partial lunar eclipse on Saturday
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • What's on in town
  • Shooter vigil on Sealdah
  • New course to teach flame tricks behind the bar
  • NBU on college recce
  • Spirit of August in Bhaichung’s ‘greatest win’
  • Gorkhaland Personnel to be unveiled today
  • Dial trial for phone users
  • Foresters spot stray jumbo calf
  • Insurgent threat high: Top cop
  • Malda offer for PM
  • Bloc wants to shed Raj tag
  • Cops rapped in Rizwan case
  • Times of India
  • Mishap in school injures 30
  • Rizwan death: HC indicts cops
  • Officer 'asleep'; airport ordeal for elderly NRI
  • Kid asks for biscuits, hacked by mom
  • Stern action against tree killers: KMC
  • Cong-backed goons strip, molest 14-yr-old
  • Rizwanur case: CBI told to chargesheet accused
  • Hunt for martyr skull in cop vaults
  • After insult, fatal heart attack
  • Intruder found on MLA bench
  • Indian Express
  • Builder dupes 78-year-old, arrested
  • After injury, the insult: grave lies forgotten
  • Police learn a lesson, to stay away from family matters
  • Denied entry to city, woman collapses at Kolkata airport
  • Week after SFI member’s death, police grope in dark
  • Independence Day brings hope to Rizwanur Rehman’s family
  • KMC employees demand health insurance money, change in hospital clause
  • On the eve of I-Day, state sounds alert
  • 5 dead, 19 injured in Bankura bus accident
  • 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
  • 'Rizwanur was provoked to commit suicide'
  • Sports
  • Kolkata Football : East Bengal 2 - George Telegraph 1
  • Indian victory hailed
  • ‘The achievement of my career’
  • Injured Bhutia wants a break