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News Headlines Archive

April 19, 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's reign similar to semi-fascist rule of 1970s: Left leader
  • Mamata dedicates Time magazine's honour to 'Ma, Mati, Manush'
  • Paoli Dams bare back 'Hate Story' posters painted blue
  • 81 Presi teachers await screening
  • State obtains 575 acres for NTPC project
  • BJP objects to office of profit bill
  • Debt may have triggered Moore Avenue tragedy
  • TMC rallies to defend joke arrest
  • After faulty FIR, loopholes in arrest memo
  • CID too hasty on Facebook query?
  • Mystery shrouds youth's death in car
  • Cabs to go off roads today
  • Stock-taking meet with ministers
  • Didi among Time's most influential people
  • Authors wish for easier visa rules to help neighbours meet
  • State stand on remote health areas upheld
  • Baruipur accused still at large, cops' role under lens
  • Former minister rapped by court
  • HC upholds state stand on health areas
  • TMC men strip woman for fighting hooch trader
  • Bengal democracy in darkness, says scientist Partho Sarothi Ray
  • Marine engineering cadet lands in hospital after ragging
  • Woman 'molested' for refusing to join Trinamool Congress
  • Mamata Banerjee wants May 8 to be national holiday
  • 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 Banerjee's admirer, claims FB complainant
  • Police smell murder, suicide in Kolkata case
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Heat hits home in rain lull
  • Friends of Bose sisters in rewind mode
  • Strike brake on taxis
  • Turnout contrast at protests
  • Healthcare on expert radar
  • Arrest fear hounds scientist
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Youth dead after night-long drink
  • Battered and shamed at hooch kangaroo court
  • High court rejects doctors rural plea
  • CM push for success show
  • Partha signs second round of land deals
  • Forcible entry charge sparks ally war
  • Order to open Ringtang
  • Chopra office Congs: SDO
  • Camera tabs on Siliguri
  • Jalpaiguri tea auction to resume on May 8
  • Rs 20-crore makeover plan for sports hub
  • Alert on fraud job letters
    • Indian Express
  • Democracy in tatters, Bengals future dark: Scientist
  • Mahasweta Devi joins Nonadanga chorus
  • CST new flashpoint in Mamata-UPA ties
  • Hearing in Tata challenge to Singur Act concludes
  • NTPC to set up Katwa thermal power project
  • Katju asks Didi to grow up
  • CPM loyalist molested, attempts suicide
  • Mamata in Time list of most influential people
    • Hindustan Times
  • Steep land price scuttles CRPF project
  • 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
  • Three killed in Bengal allegedly over MNREGA work
  • Democracy is in peril in Mamatas Bengal: Scientist
  • Arrested scientist granted bail
  • Case against 32 for assaulting retd scientist
  • Kolkata: Goons thrash retd scientist, strip daughter
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line