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News Headlines Archive

April 24, 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 to visit Delhi with 10-year debt rejig plan
  • Asim challenges govt's figures on debt
  • 4-min Metro services from August
  • Travel in AC comfort from Howrah station
  • City hosts India's first 'children content' fest
  • CM softens, state Cong backs her
  • From tonight, pay more for a cab ride after 10.30pm
  • Metro commuter 'misbehaves' with woman
  • Bullet hits boy on school campus
  • GJM, rivals clash in Dooars over GTA
  • IAF bid to revive aero sports in state
  • War of nerves before President poll
  • Four Nonadanga activists granted bail
  • Class-VIII girl branded 'witch'
  • Cops seek CID help in cartoon case
  • Be a proud parent, add to city greenery
  • Lalgarh waits for Mamata visit
  • Former Hidco official faces CID grilling
  • Expert team to clear building plans
  • Lover circulates girl's MMS
  • Jangalmahal on high alert
  • Confusion over surrender policy forces Maoists to regroup
  • Tribal woman marries off minor for dowry in Malda
  • Shanties razed on medical college campus
  • Body of 12-year-old found
  • Singur set to switch loyalties again?
  • MP jumps on lorry to escape mob fury
  • Payment woes after Mamata wish
  • Nonadanga protestors call off hunger strike
  • Trinamool ministers sidestep Mullick's hate-fatwa
  • 'Curious' youth hacks off Great Banyan branch
  • Monsoon relief: Sensors to predict waterlogging
  • Fake parking lots mushroom across city
  • Parking space reserved illegally for business group
  • July date for Indo-Bangla joint tiger census
  • Salt Lake girl murder: Prime suspect yet to be nabbed
  • Gang opens fire in Bhawanipore, turf war suspected
  • Metro services disrupted
  • Cop's daughter arrested for abusing police
  • Man arrested for posing as Mamata's brother
  • Skywalk to adorn Dakshineswar soon
  • Must take social media in our stride: Khurshid
  • Oil tanker rams into auto, two killed
  • 3 hurt, houses damaged in political clash
  • Administrative autonomy for Ramakrishna Mission?
  • CPM leader held in Jamuria
  • Former Hidco official held for faking identity
  • Chief minister's cartoon on Facebook wall, professor runs to cops
  • Tyre burst kills CSTC driver
    • The Telegraph
  • Papers vanish, students pay
  • Taxi fare hiked for night
  • Strike stalls airport services
  • Flight to Rourkela, Sunderbans
  • Besu boy wrote JEE for former classmate
  • Showers on the horizon
  • City warms to steamy read
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Salute to green teams
  • Hand signals replace traffic lights on blink
  • Metro delays at rush hour
  • Bullet hits schoolboy
  • Request, no threat, to Delhi: CM
  • Sagar Island plugs into state grid
  • Rape slur on police officer
  • Cable business-grab finger at Trinamul
  • Trips cancelled in peak season
  • Deb poser on royal funds use
  • Back home after Pak jail term
  • Ringtang deadline extension
  • 1 injured in gaur attack
    • Indian Express
  • CM: It was plea, not ultimatum, to Centre
  • Dooars shutdown turns violent, several hurt
  • Mamata wont be allowed to enter Hills
  • Cartoon Row II: Prof files complaint
  • No proof that cartoon is of Mamata: Police
  • Licensed drug distributors under scanner for smuggling narcotics to Bangladesh
  • Ex-HIDCO officer held, sparks CPM factional fight
  • Congress slams Mamata Banerjee for 'sedition'
  • Around Town : 100 thatched houses destroyed in fire
  • Dont mislead, Asim tells Mamata on debt status
    • 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
  • Didi picks Sachin over Saurav
  • Didi sets Centre 15-day deadline for bailout deal
  • Media-mauled Didi wants her own DD
  • Mamata invited to Time Magazine dinner
  • Mamata insists on tax moratorium for Bengal
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line