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News Headlines Archive

April 20, 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
  • Patuli loot: Cash, valuables worth Rs 9 lakh stolen
  • Tiff with block development officer lands headmaster in lock-up
  • 3 commuters held for vandalism
  • 60-yr-old law shrouds Paoli poster skin show in Bengal
  • 12-year-old kills self
  • Goodricke greets Tirupati devotees with hot cuppa
  • Trinamool Congress worker shot dead; Cong blamed
  • Mongolkote blast kills 3
  • Mystery shrouds Eliot Road death
  • Marine institute promises action in ragging case
  • 6-month deadline for Victoria repairs
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation to acquire Gandhi Bhawan
  • Engeering student goes missing
  • Landlord arrested in Baruipur case
  • Permits will be cancelled if agitation continues: Madan
  • Hakim outburst puts set-top box rollout at risk
  • Cabbies take a holiday, rough ride for city
  • Walk-or-wait torture for thousands
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Landlord arrested for assault on scientist and daughter
  • Fare play in strike unity
  • Weather sting in viral attack
  • Travel trauma of those with special needs
  • Poster child of prudishness
  • You share your birthday with...
  • From Hitler to best buddy
  • 26 ISC scripts go missing
  • PG scan on Salt Lake homes
  • Jewellery, cash stolen
  • Meet of school heads
  • Ragging victim on liquid diet
  • Andal on lips, Delhi stokes coal concern
  • On card: decades finest magic
  • CM sets job policy date
  • NH blocked for 5 hours, cops silent
  • Bail for father of slain baby
  • Strike in Dooars on April 22 to thwart meet
  • Arrest for court bunk
  • KLO militant arrested
    • Indian Express
  • 35,000 Kolkata taxis go off roads, commuters hit hard
  • Ragged marine student critical
  • Explosion kills 3 in Burdwan, TMC infighting suspected
  • Two human skeletons recovered in West Midnapore
  • Around Town : One held for molesting retired scientists daughter
  • Talks with Mamata positive: Kiranmoy
    • 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