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April 16, 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
  • Five of family found dead in Kolkata fire
  • Less than 5% city buildings have undergone repairs
  • PCB catches hospitals on wrong foot
  • JEE racket busted in Kolkata, 5 impostors held
  • Airline staffers steal flier's cash, held
  • Salt Lake set for facelift in golden jubilee year
  • Corporates spend less on medical bills
  • Stressed out and sleepless in City of Joy
  • Shah Rukh mania grips Bengal village
  • Bypass widening work begins
  • Garia housing residents choose protest path
  • Professor arrest: Attackers unaware of email
  • Take literature to people via stage
  • Slum boy fights all odds to crack IIT entrance
  • Fire at Princep Street building
  • Tusker dies in fight over female elephant
  • Gangster's escape bid throws cops into tizzy
  • Parking goons vanish after crackdown
  • Breather for Bengal Taxi Association's airport booth
  • Attackers get bail, Jadavpur University professor feels insecure, fears for familys safety
  • Tussle over society led to joke mail arrests
  • Maitree Bandhan brings brotherhood on stage
  • City's party zone finds a new address
  • Gandhi Bhawan on auction block?
  • Mamata cartoon: Four arrested for assaulting Jadavpur University professor
  • Mamata Banerjee cartoons: I fear for my life, professor Ambikesh Mahapatra says
  • Poila Boishakh merely a party day for Gen Y
  • Cops injured in clash with students
  • Debolina starts hunger strike in jail
  • Lightning kills eight, more rain in store
  • Indian Mujahideen members arrest proves citys terror link
  • Reserved reactions from Cong, BJP
  • Chief minister smells conspiracy amid gag outcry
  • Wary of fourth girl child, man poisons wife, daughters
  • Mamata cartoons: Outrage in West Bengal, CM defends action, Congress unhappy
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Feel-good mascot of feel-bad state
  • Dimpled face of dream city
  • Besu student in JEE fraud net
  • Germany eyes business links
  • Award for a quiet effort
  • Caught on cam: airport theft
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Low-down on Bypass eviction, protest
  • Holiday ends in fatal accident
  • VC to focus on filling JU vacancies
  • Govt job reservation policy on Left lines
  • Mitra to fill in for Mamata at Delhi meet
  • Trinamul donate cry for bust
  • Rebuked over debt, farmer ends life
  • Rallies bring back unrest memories
  • Traders strike woes: loss, snub and apathy
  • Youth held for lewd text to MP
  • Sikkim to get soccer school for U-14
  • 1 dead, 35 hurt in crashes
    • Indian Express
  • Bengals film city gets SRK push
  • Rift widens, Congress-Trinamool pact unlikely for panchayat polls
  • Govt plans rural roads, more NREGS job days
  • Silent rally against JU professors arrest turns acrimonious as TMC group protests
  • Govt works on stricter norms for promotion of doctors
  • Impersonation: Police bust inter-state racket
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata will only attend May 5 meet
  • CMs meet should focus only on NCTC: Mamata
  • Cartoon arrests: Nation responds with outrage
  • I'll do it again, says professor arrested for Mamata spoof
  • Cartoons cant spoil image, people can
  • Five of family found dead in Kolkata fire
  • Mamata's team tracks net for more spoofs
  • Not monitoring social networking sites: Trinamool
  • Cartoon a conspiracy, prof an offender: Mamata
  • Cartoons cant spoil image, people can
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line