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April 17, 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
  • Mamata Banerjee should have attended chief ministers meet: D. Raja
  • Mamata Banerjee: Media paints negative picture of Bengal government
  • Police ask Facebook to delete morphed Mamata pictures
  • Sharoni would never kill herself: Friends
  • Stories of three women dominate literary meet
  • Mother sent to judicial custody
  • Nightclubs allege breather bias
  • Ex-head of RG Kar medicine department passes away
  • Mamata Banerjee seeks Centre's help to tackle cyber crime
  • KMDA may lease out Nonadanga land
  • Maoist sabotage whiff in goods train derailment
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Secret Seven loses its soul
  • Probe focus on divan and debt
  • Wanted criminal turns himself in
  • Station unveil deferred
  • Besu boy needed money for mom
  • Extortion racket at bus hub
  • Belated arrest in Bypass harass
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  • Colleges get term extension
  • On auto run for a cause
  • AMRI accuseds remand extended
  • Smugglers on back foot in coal zone
  • State power grid reaches island hamlet
  • Govt invites GTA forum for talks on strike
  • Incite finger at tea union
  • Scared scientists skip office
  • Toy train derails in darjeeling
  • Health tips & more on hospital speakers
  • 5 killed in Teesta car crash
  • 4-yr-olds body exhumed
    • Indian Express
  • 5 of family found dead in locked room of burning flat
  • Outfit seeks ban on Bangladeshi book on 1971 war
  • More troop in to show solidarity with JU prof
  • Bengals film city gets SRK push
  • Rift widens, Congress-Trinamool pact unlikely for panchayat polls
  • Pharmacy, dental councils in limbo as they wait for govt nod to hold polls
  • In red, JU to seek more fund from Centre
  • Pundits want pension benefits on the lines of Imams scheme
  • Silent rally against JU professors arrest turns acrimonious as TMC group protests
  • Govt works on stricter norms for promotion of doctors
    • 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
  • Goons thrash retd scientist, strip his daughter near Kolkata
  • Kolkata: Goons thrash retd scientist, strip daughter
  • Kolkata: Chomsky seeks release of scientist
  • Cartoonists strike back with online show on Didi
  • Five of family found dead in Kolkata fire
  • Mamata's team tracks net for more spoofs
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line