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News Headlines Archive

April 30, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • CESC seeks 11% tariff rise to offset coal price hike
  • Nandigram voters want to wipe out terror
  • Left politics a 'shame' for West Bengal: Mamata
  • Trinamool derailed Bengal's industrialisation
  • Whoosh! The simple man
  • Re-polling at two Bengal booths passes off peacefully
  • Special election observer for West Bengal
  • Mamata promises factory at Singur, but only after 400 acres is returned
  • UBI probing draft issue
  • CBI claims to have 'clinching' proof against Kim Davy
  • Purulia: Karat for judicial probe
  • Quake-hit Japan retains flavour for Darjeeling tea
  • Time to listen to Tagore
  • Bhorer Alo
  • The revival of Bangla film industry
    • Times of India
  • Age & illness fail to dampen spirits of voters
  • Inexperienced, but not uninformed
  • Some lucky to vote, others not so
  • Sex workers at Sonagachhi exercise their franchise
  • Chhatradhar injured in accident
  • Violence in Mukul son's constituency
  • CPM tried to rig polls: Mamata
  • Final recce: Asim picture of calm, Amit aggressive
  • Dum Dum 'turns into' Alimuddin St
  • Did minority votes swing right?
  • Pilot lands at airport without requisite flight bag
  • Strike on, flights nosedive
  • Aditya Birla Group ties up with Sankara Nethralaya
  • Portraits of a director caught in frames
  • Purulia: CM for judicial probe
  • Musical treat for citizens, boost to young talent
  • PM assures of justice in Sainbari case
  • Folk songs raise poll pitch this summer
  • State uses up half its borrowing limit
  • Trinamool alleges code violation
  • CPM banks on rift in rival camp
  • Manoj backs Chhatradhar, slams CPM & Trinamool
  • Three-way fight in Maoist den
  • Anil Basu on Buddha dais at Pursurah rally
  • A land of dreams, dashed & new
  • Several Air India flights cancelled from Kolkata
  • Here comes Times intARact
  • Darjeeling bids adieu to Everester
    • The Telegraph
  • After the match, a Knightmare
  • Holiday or hospital, trips take strike hit
  • A massive cover-up, in Delhi & London: Bleach
  • Quicker results at Xaviers
  • Govt caught in HCs beacon glare
  • Eye hospital on expansion track
  • Ripples of royal union reach city
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Poll on banned wheels
  • Left 2011 vs Left 2016
  • Cancer fight on canvas
  • Guilty of second murder
  • Two held for job fraud
  • Rake crunch, gadgets trip Metro
  • Two dead, four hurt in mishaps
  • In poll war, its raining catcalls & dogs
  • CM ignores, then talks
  • Water plant stuck in election muck
  • Buddha calls for armsdrop probe
  • Gurung reels off JAKS scores
  • LIC agent shot dead, bike, cash missing
  • Assam fraud tracked to hills
  • Puff ban fury in Siliguri jail
  • Headmaster abducted on way to school
  • Wish list for tea planters
    • Indian Express
  • For idle jute mill workers, change has no meaning
  • Left vows to make Purulia plot a poll issue
  • Kolkata in the Knight Riders
  • WillKat Wedding Celebrations, in Kolkata
  • CPM trying to malign Mamata, Trinamool tells poll panel
  • Gautam Deb appears before full bench of EC
  • Trinamool supporters beaten up in CMs constituency
  • To counter CPM, Mamata promises her own global Nandigram
  • CPM demands repoll in 40 booths
  • EC notice to Anil Basu
  • One flashes the V, one doesnt
    • Hindustan Times
  • Wrong change for many in Singur
  • Didi takes fight to Red fortress
  • Battle royal for Hooghly
  • Opposition has security, we have people: CPM
  • Safe seat for Nirupam?
  • Rusting pipes haunt farmers
  • What stars foretell about the elections
  • Deafening silence in battlefield Nandigram
  • We paved the way for disaster
  • Time to give us jobs
  • Who will stay afloat at the port?
  • All quiet on the Left Front
  • Chhatradhar is not alone
  • 34 not out: Will SUCI score again in South 24 Parganas?
  • Poll campaign goes green in Bengal
  • Democracy fails voter from SA
  • Dial support: Call from CM
  • Ghost of Marichjhapi returns to haunt
  • When in doubt, just sniff it out!
  • Didi refuses to travel in state govt car
    • Sports
  • ONGC holds Chirag United
  • With love, from the Knights to SRK...