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April 13, 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
  • Goons attack rights rally but cops arrest 6 activists
  • Jhargram and Asansol to be new districts
  • Trinamool Congress revives jinxed bridge project
  • Police name 37 dead persons in poppy FIR
  • Terror charge returns to haunt the acquitted
  • Flying club in state to give aero sports a boost
  • Deer killed for meat
  • Quake alert: Warning bells for Kolkata buildings
  • SC free schooling order has limited scope in Bengal
  • Kolkata Metro lags behind in quake control
  • State to formulate green energy policy soon
  • Car with Bangla singer breaks down, 2 officials transferred
  • Police arrest man in triple murder
  • AMRI fire: Court grants bail to S K Todi
  • Hospital staff accused of molestation
  • CID appeals for custodial interrogation of Debolina Chakraborty
  • Borders melt as government honours legends
  • Weekend of big hitting and big dining
  • Party-pooper diktat holds sway
  • Indian Mujaheedin operative arrested in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Schools set to skip aid to save seats
  • Todi last AMRI boss to get bail
  • Soft-skill schools for better drivers
  • Assault on rights rally
  • Tea n tunes from MC Mamata
  • Airport taxi monopoly ends
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  • Partha deadline for three steel firms
  • Asim finds non-finance forte
  • CM to open coal mine
  • MLA removed from NBSTC top post
    • Indian Express
  • Veteran artistes shower praise on Mamata at Sangeet Mela
  • Suman does it again: Slams Mamata for going the Left way
  • Govt staff to oppose pay cut in court
  • Film takes on dark side of war against terror
  • Rights activist with Maoist links in CID custody till April 21
  • Patient molested in Belle Vue OT
  • Special train for joint entrance exam
  • New green energy policy soon for Bengal
  • KMC overrides fire dept to reopen Nandaram market
    • 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
  • Prof under arrest defamed 'respectable people':WB cops
  • Prof, neighbour arrested over Mamata cartoons
  • Civil society fast emerging as Mamata's prime opposition
  • IM operative arrested in Kolkata
  • Inmates in Bengal jail to stage English drama Begum Samru
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line