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News Headlines Archive

April 12, 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
  • Offices vacated, Metro stopped in shaken city
  • Metro officials save suicidal girl after 3-hour hunt
  • Petition filed against Sainbari commission
  • 3 of family hacked to death
  • Reports of 'cracks' add to panic
  • Govt sounds alert in coastal districts
  • An initiative to forge a literary bond
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation tax bills after no-dues certificate
  • Park Circus, Rajabazar footbridges to go
  • A tribute to Badal Sircar
  • Bus runs over 2 in Malda
  • Kolkata jewellers struggle with piling orders
  • Transport corporations to hire drivers on contract
  • Calcutta Tramways Corporation to run trams in heritage zone
  • Man dies in air cylinder explosion
  • State pins hope on German investment
  • Mamata to visit Durgapur tomorrow
  • Staff crunch hits special train services
  • Nonadanga evictees on fast, govt goes slow
  • Woman injured trying to save kin
  • Tremors felt in Kolkata, buildings develop cracks
  • Mamata Banerjee wrests more funds for Bengal, Plan outlay hiked by 16%
  • Kolkata connects India to 4G era
  • Where have Bengal's babies gone?
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation in a fix over water-meter diktat
  • Sukanta poems to stay in syllabus
  • Showdown shadow over Nonadanga
  • Cop found dead in police lines
  • Man stabbed to death for protesting power theft bid
  • Squall uproots trees in the Lake area
  • Felling of trees starts at EM Bypass
  • Panchayat official's office set on fire
  • Anti-Gorkhaland Territorial Administration bandh shuts down Dooars, Terai
  • Seminar on economic theory
  • Japan boost for state forests
  • Man poisoned on wedding night
  • Trinamool Youth Congress leader attacked
  • Cops yet to act on Additional district magistrate assault
  • Now, shop while buying fuel for vehicle
  • Silence shrouds Jamini Roy's 125th birth anniversary
  • Two infants die in Malda hospital
  • Indian Museum in Kolkata wallows in apathy
  • Cholbe Na: Old order resists change
  • Automatic signaling a green light to safer travel
  • CPM member held for fraud
  • Squall holds Kolkata hostage, one dies
  • Maoist hand in Nonadanga?
  • Salt Lake tax collection hits a rough patch
  • Metiabruz blast: One held, 3 accused at large
    • The Telegraph
  • Metro pause in prompt response
  • Colleges in tenure quandary
  • Temblor test for city structures
  • Broker, parents killed over land deal
  • Quake focus on Aila lessons not learnt
  • Salary cut for strike teachers
  • Highrise fear followed by feast
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Metro fare freeze risks passenger safety
  • Music fair set to touch new chord
  • Counters for organic veggies
  • Biz talks with German minister
  • Few takers for easy drug scheme
  • Sorcar scion finds suitable boy
  • Soccer cradle scores twin goals
  • Bidi seller returns cash found in train
  • Panel nod to imam scheme
  • Relief ire & posers for minister
  • Inter Milan tips await 4
  • Indoor unit for dental college
  • Bus runs over two in Malda
    • Indian Express
  • Sumatra quake trembles Kolkata
  • A first, tremors halt Metro service for 50 mins
  • Rs 1.29 cr bungling in Blood Transfusion Council
  • CBI wants to chargesheet CID official for Nicole escape
  • Alipore inmates to bring alive 18th-century Begum in Queens language
  • Expert group forms six teams to assess health services in hospitals
  • Transfers of primary school teachers comes under High Court scanner
  • Three of a family hacked to death
  • Transports next target: Pvt vehicles used commercially
  • CID to file supplementary chargesheet
    • Hindustan Times
  • Civic polls: Mamata pampers minorities
  • Somnath slams Mamata for syllabus change
  • Mamata makes Marx history, bans him from school books
  • Didi's left turn: Marx and Lenin are not 'untouchables'
  • Unseasonal snowfall in Darjeeling, heavy rains in Kolkata
  • Kolkata hospital fire: AMRI director gets bail
  • After NCTC, Mamata is upsetover sales tax payment
  • Humble farewell for Tibetan martyr from Kolkata
  • Tremors cause panic, rush in Kolkata
  • Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri hit by strike
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line