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News Headlines Archive

April 18, 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
  • Engineering student rusticated for beating cops
  • Scientist gets bail after Mamata govt faces public ire
  • Rebel TMC MP pens song mocking Mamata
  • Minor resists marriage
  • Ex-zilla parishad chief arrested
  • Student brings gun and bullets to school, held
  • CAG lens on KMC over midday meal scam
  • School building collapses in quake, close shave for kids
  • Six-yr-old, three others murdered in Nadia
  • Mysterious sixth man turned prime accused in Park Street case
  • Besu expels erring students
  • Security guard foils robbery bid
  • Bengal back in Animal Farm
  • JEE fraud probe exposed inter-state racket: Cops
  • Thespians touch hearts with poems and Tagore's songs
  • I'm just a Mamata admirer, claims FB complainant
  • Dad on fire, blocked escape: Police
  • Left blasts minister's marriage advisory
  • Special cell to curb highway crime
  • HC upholds curb on bare-back poster
  • Scientist alleges assault by house-owner
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Scientist in search of justice
  • Cops fret in FB wait
  • Scientist protester gets bail
  • Alert help foils robbery
  • Snag throws Metro service off track
  • Paoli remains under wraps
  • Day after, few new theories
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Body of art from Japan
  • Tagore festival on the street
  • Besu student expelled, 8 punished for clash
  • CPM rally blitz with central leaders by side
  • Teacher takes away phone, boy brings gun
  • Mullick defends hate CPM speech
  • Samajwadi national chat with Mamata
  • Strike off, nod to protest meets
  • Cop accused of collection in CMs name
  • Hill tourists taken for a ride
  • United Sikkim enters I-League
  • Fire razes homes, shops
    • Indian Express
  • With a warning to Mamata, her estranged supporters march on
  • Mallick retracts, says never said dont marry into CPM households
  • Slum protests: Scientist Ray granted bail
  • Police pulled up for floating taxi booth tender
  • Daughter of retd scientist molested
  • SET results out, only 274 make the cut
  • Two-day bandh postponed in Terai-Dooars
  • Mulayam sends minister to meet Didi
    • 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
  • Case against 32 for assaulting retd scientist
  • Kolkata: Chomsky seeks release of scientist
  • Cartoonists strike back with online show on Didi
  • Five of family found dead in Kolkata fire
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line