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News Headlines Archive

April 09, 2012
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal to vest 270 acres of JSW land at Salboni
  • Wipro keen to take part in Kolkata beautification drive
  • Crocodile kills tiger in Sunderbans' island
  • Bengal sheds its dilemma over ode to Tagore
  • Trinamool MLAs busy with social events, give political work a miss
    • Times of India
  • Tsunami atlas to help combat disasters
  • Youth arrested in skeleton case
  • Dowry stink in woman's death
  • Metro enters automatic signal era
  • Armymen rescue youths drowning in Hooghly
  • Nor'wester hits city again, more in store
  • Count on me, says free Tibet martyr in last SMS
  • Jilted lover kills girl
  • Child spends 9 hours in police lockup
  • Trinamool Congress worker stripped, tortured
  • Pharma executive found dead in housing complex
  • A toast to Bengal through its art
  • Evening of grub, games and more
  • Ballygunge shares woes with cops
  • Crime against senior citizens rise, separate crime wing likely
  • Two killed in Kolkata blast
  • Youth jumps off Howrah bridge for Free Tibet cause
  • Late singer's wife found dead in pond
  • Garbage choking Nayanjuli stretch
  • College student killed in accident
  • Truck-jacking racket kingpin held
  • Promoter gunned down in apartment
  • 2 hurt in bomb blast in police station
  • CPM leader on the run, held in Contai
  • Trinamool Congress to mark May Day
  • Denied compensation, villager commits suicide
  • Fast effect: Mamata Banerjee blinks after 27 days
  • Didi sounds warning bell for 'rebel' leaders
  • Congress leaves Trinamool guessing on coalition
  • Stress-buster sessions for men in uniform
  • Squall claims seven lives in state
  • Safety and cleanliness high on Railway board chairman's agenda
  • Midnight raid on parking goons
  • City in grip of viral diarrhoea
  • Syllabus row misplaced: Teachers
  • 11 babies die in West Bengal's Malda in 36 hours
  • Counselling sessions for men in uniform soon
  • No check post to collect entry tax
  • Hurdles for industrial rejuvenation
  • Rights of common people need to be protected
  • Humiliated over affair, teen commits suicide
  • ITC godown guard found dead
  • Slain traders kin seek CBI probe
  • Schoolkids stung by 'brand' bug
  • Vedas, slokas to calm young minds
  • Man spends night at station guarding answer scripts
  • CID starts probe into TMC leader's murder
  • TMC factions clash at Keshpur
  • Somnath slams Mamata over exclusion of Russian revolution from syllabus
  • Unseasonal snowfall in Darjeeling
    • The Telegraph
  • A-team to tackle sex-ploitation
  • Fare panel on auto pilot
  • Signal of chaos in Metro
  • Man dead in Bypass estate
  • List of Waqf premises
  • Bailout plan for errant taxis
  • To sir with love, a T20 tribute
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Squall, shower on the cards
  • Citizens drive to clean lake
  • Focus on rail food, cleanliness
  • Two dead in explosion
  • Trinamul charity cry for Singur farmers
  • Boy killed after kidnap
  • Cop transfer cloud on rebel operations
  • Goodwill gesture in partial strike
  • Deb in storm-hit zone to quell ire
  • Hailstorm curse in boon year for mangoes
  • Trinamul wins doc college polls
  • Panel orders boy back in class
  • 2 killed in twin crashes
    • Indian Express
  • Youth Cong slams Didis divisive allowance for imams
  • Govt forms committee to decide on hiking auto fare
  • Wont resort to violence like TMC: Biman
  • Trinamool to prepare employment bank
  • Constable sets sons wife ablaze for dowry
  • Teen found dead within minutes of ransom call
  • 67 arrested during protest against eviction
  • CPM womens wing plans offensive against govt
    • Hindustan Times
  • Myanmarese rebels give up home for Netherlands
  • Six policemen beaten up by mob in Bengal
  • Don't bulldoze federal structure, Mamata to centre over NCTC
  • Major fire doused on 10th floor of South Kolkata building
  • No rift between chief, govt: Pranab
  • Suicide bid on Kolkata Metro tracks
  • First of its kind "Gorkha war musuem" in the country
  • Darjeeling witnesses unusual 'white Easter'
  • WB: Cong may go it alone panchayat polls
  • Unseasonal snowfall in Darjeeling, heavy rains in Kolkata
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line