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News Headlines Archive

April 30, 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
  • Seminar gives global view on education
  • Art for Mother Earth
  • Birla couple felicitated on 70th anniversary-eve
  • Cops to be under CCTV watch
  • Cuppa cheer: Flash jazz treat for cafe-goers
  • Stranded at the crossroads of change
  • After a year in Bangla jail, boy reunites with family
  • Tainted cop still at large, in touch with kin
  • Cabbie held for misleading police
  • 11 Nonadanga agitators sent to police custody
  • Guards gun down timber smuggler
  • Chief minister plans meets to 'save' party
  • PMO team to visit Kolkata, discuss Teesta water sharing
  • Kashmir coolest spot for Kolkatans holiday
  • CPM suspends Anil Basu for 3 months
  • 14 Nonadanga dwellers arrested
  • Ten cars in pile-up as Kolkata Municipal Corporation truck crashes into a Honda
  • Aviation minister to take stock of airport upgrade
  • Police clueless on Bowbazar gangrape
  • Cops 'very close' to solving Barasat case
  • Haldia Petrochemicals will bounce back this fiscal: Partha
  • Besu keen to replace students' union with senate
  • Power grid extends to Sunderbans
  • Government prepares first energy policy draft
  • Bypoll test for Mamata govt at the turn of a year in office
  • Warm food, cleaner toilets on Duronto
  • AIEEE 2012: Special return trains for examinees
  • 25-year-old found dead, wife detained
  • Trinamool MPs positive on bailout after PM meet
  • Presidency University set to get 10 acres, 16 for Xaviers
  • Torture victim writes to police commissioner
  • Nonadanga poor being incited: CM
  • Oppn reply to Mamatas Promises Delivered
  • Court rejects CEO plea on college polls
  • Job for Jnaneswari accused kin
  • Highrises, cell towers hit flight operations
  • Summit on scope of business in state
  • Govt backs Arabul, TMC student leader after ruckus
  • Governor s healing touch for terrified teachers
  • Police inspector transferred after abuse slur by female colleague
  • Tainted cop accused of assault, again
  • Gang demands Rs 10L to release abducted techie
  • Flyer jittery after twin fires in airport
  • FIR delayed, kidnapped girls family pays ransom
  • 100 years of Tagore's Nobel prize: Visva-Bharati university planning year-long celebrations
  • Give debt relief or Trinamool will step up heat: Mamata
  • Failed Bengal students lock up teachers
  • Didn't recommend anyone to Gautam Deb: Amartya Sen
  • Villagers gherao Malda school over midday meal row
  • Bangladesh air cadet sent back to Dhaka
    • The Telegraph
  • Thud! Welcome to Calcutta
  • Kinship driven by KKR and SRK
  • Tainted cop eludes cops
  • Salute to never-say-die spirit
  • Four die in soiree brawl & mishap
  • First step to remove Salt Lake shanties
  • Rebel courtesans life on jail stage and Bolly set
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Civil society and its limitations
  • IPL saves the day in hospital ethics debate
  • Frown on late seizure in assault
  • Rebel fear lifts, not cash block
  • Differences over CPM secretariat
  • Pocket pinch in exam throng
  • Lightning kills nine puja event organisers
  • Fake AIEEE trio arrested
  • Bijanbari event scrapped
  • Fresh tribal campaign against GTA
  • Blood shortage hits NBMCH supplies
  • Deepas public fund cry
  • 1 killed in forest firing
    • Indian Express
  • Five-year-old returns home from Bangladesh jail
  • Former MP Anil Basu suspended from CPM
  • Mollah out from CPM body
  • Two Cops hurt handling bombs
  • Bolt from the blue kills 10
  • TMC announces bypoll nominees
  • State should change its policies on SEZ: Somnath
  • Countrys BPL population has gone down: Tharoor
  • Ajit Singh to meet Mamata
  • After her anti-strike stand, Mamata plans big May Day
  • Another insurance guy who shoots
    • 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
  • Chit fund money going to TMC, says Cong MP
  • Bengal teachers warned against having any links with CPM
  • Maoists incited Nonadanga slum-dwellers: Mamata
  • NRI kids suffered due to extreme parental neglect
  • Aassaulted by TMC leader, teacher to meet governor
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line