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News Headlines Archive

August 08, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Court: why hasty takeover of Nano site?
  • West Bengal likely to be renamed after 12 years
  • Wipro to acquire land in West Bengal for second campus
  • GJM discusses inclusion of reserve forests in GTA
  • Jindal Steel asked to submit status report on Salboni project
  • NSDC, Britti Prosikshan to train youth in Bengal
  • Sale of land: HM in Mamata crosshairs
  • Pranab discusses West Bengal finances with Amit Mitra
  • 'Ichchhe', if only parents wished less
  • Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' is disappointing
  • Swastika remembers Somak
    • Times of India
  • Water treatment plants in Nadia
  • Rare gems in new Rabindranath Tagore collection
  • Time to say, goodbye nostalgia
  • Prefix? Not worth the weight
  • Govt ignoring attacks on Left: Karat
  • Singur ghost haunts JSW project
  • Central grant may be used in next fiscal too
  • In search of true music
  • Students vacate hostel to protest ragging charge
  • Tagore lit fest may draw big names
  • Man smokes on flight, arrested
  • Green police to help manage Salt Lake traffic
  • Brace for more rain today
  • Mangeshkar siblings pay tribute to Rabindranath Tagore
  • It's time we got rid of old baggage
  • 'Bailout' arrives, CM gets Rs 9240cr for development
  • Kandi suicide: Govt keeps an eye on family
  • Son kills father for marrying again
  • Heavy rainfall throws city out of gear
  • 2 RBU students killed in accident
  • Train stranded on flooded tracks
  • Decrepit Presi welcomes panel
  • Didi announces new museum in memory of Rabindranath Tagore
  • Bolpur college ransacked over ragging row
  • It's a different story at Darjeeling zoo
  • INTTUC members gherao Birlapur jute mill
  • 'Reduce tax burden on locals'
  • Alone and ailing, senior citizens make soft target
  • Cops gear up to secure Salt Lake
  • From last in the order to top of league
  • Youth with Hizbul link held
  • Man stabs son and wife, attempts to kill self
  • GJM team meets PC with forest demand
  • Look for alternative revenue: Didi
  • JSW's Salboni project faces land hurdle
  • It's all in the name
  • Minister seeks new agri varsity
  • Apollo opens paediatric care facility
  • Another skeleton found
  • CM asks DGP to take action
  • Buddha takes on Mamata govt
  • Youth stabbed near Vidyasagar Setu
  • Salt Lake girl flees from traffickers
  • NSG may get 35 acres for hub
  • Car theft racket busted, four held
  • Criminals threaten trader from lock-up
  • Mamata asks for debt waiver
  • Questions over Metro flap gates
  • CU head takes a dig at Presi panel
  • Teachers may work 8 hrs a day
  • Zoo animals go 54 hrs without food
  • Trinamool expels two leaders
  • Writers' breaks into a song
  • 'Singur law enacted to deprive Tata'
  • Fresh violence in Mongolkote, 2 killed
  • Haste to build Sagar port may ruin Haldia dock
  • No plans to hand over Bypass to KMC: KMDA
  • A zone crater called Bypass
  • Doctor arrested at airport for shoplifting
  • Ailing tiger dies in captivity
  • Barasat: City's northern fringe appears to be in
  • Power utility's jinx with Jeerat continues
  • Cops probe Badal Sircar death case
  • Mobile services on Kolkata buses
  • Bitter foes bond over state name change
  • Goons attack cops wife, mom-in-law dies of shock
  • Armed Salt Lake robbers batter 65-year-old woman
  • Fire at Paharpur factory
  • Govt to intervene in Hindmotor
  • Malda flood man-made: Ratua MLA
  • Mamata mulling renaming West Bengal
  • KoPT circular may hit iron ore exports
  • Light up tracks, put up CCTVs in Red zone: State
  • Police fail to control crime in Salt Lake
  • Chandraketugarh smuggler in cop net
  • Mob torches police bikes after accident
  • Hathkata Dilip acquitted of soiree murders
  • Ragging panel finds both accused & victim guilty
  • Taxi refusal forms at airport soon
  • GJM suggests Darjeeling split
  • Weak monsoon raises heat, humidity
  • In crisis, airport officials forget back-up switch
  • Cop pays for defying union
  • Zoo turns into political circus
  • Art students on hunger strike
  • Mystery shrouds death of woman
  • Locals clash with cops after accident death, 15 arrested
  • Land bill: CM overrules Trinamool MP's view
  • Drunken gang attacks doctors
  • CM announces Rs 5 lakh for Netai victims' kin
  • Transport dept bleeds as bus owners stop paying EMIs
  • Besu freshers complain of ragging on Facebook
  • Cop assaulted by auto driver
  • Seminar unites science & business
  • Bakharpur mishap: 8 trains cancelled
    • The Telegraph
  • Weather relief & water woes
  • Flip side of soothing rain
  • Traffic will march to Tagore tunes
  • SC rejects majors bail plea
  • Idol melt plan to save river
  • Mamata to launch film city project
  • Eye in the sky for Mamata high
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Trinamul minister heckled in own constituency
  • Gunpoint threat to firm: hire or pay up
  • Videocon eager after prod
  • Hill barriers hold key to orographic effect
  • Glare on job agencies but court points to need for law
  • Mall plays host to Rabindra performers
  • Morcha spoiler for Anna support
  • Kick-off for Bhaichung boys
  • Security for college
    • Indian Express
  • Hoardings on way out from Dalhousie
  • Its official, Yechury for RS
  • Trinamool gangs attacking farmers, says Biman Bose
  • On Tatas plea for amended Singur petition, govt told to reply by July...
  • At Writers, targets and change are the new buzzwords
  • No marks, report cards at Presidency
  • First batch of 46 political prisoners ready for release: CM
  • Archieji, Bettydidi and Tintinbhai
  • Beehives along rail tracks to prevent jumbo deaths
  • In new panel season, intellectuals refuse Mamata job offers
  • Dooars tribals to knock Centres door over Hill territorial survey
    • Hindustan Times
  • CPM couldn't take up VS issue
  • Centre not willing to take steps against price rise: Karat
  • Present food security bill unacceptable: Karat
  • PM's role 'questionable' in 2G scam, CWG
  • Six injured in roof collapse in heavy rains
  • CPM couldn't take up VS issue
  • Bengal CM still has rly police cover
  • Centre not willing to take steps against price rise: Karat
  • PM's role 'questionable' in 2G scam, CWG
  • Six injured in roof collapse in heavy rains
    • Sports
  • National football academy at Pailan
  • It’s Bengal all the way