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News Headlines Archive

August 08, 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
  • Rights commission seeks report on undertrials
  • Lalgarh tribal leaders gets Political prisoner status
  • First private university inaugurated in the state
  • Chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurates Rabindra Tirtha in Rajarhat.
  • Govt takes a shortcut to meet doctor shortage
  • Molester gang stabs girl's parents in Malda
  • Sex education soon in high school syllabus
  • Meet the young editors of tomorrow's India
  • Kolkata airport: LCD disappears from VIP lounge, insiders blamed
  • Rights team lauds victim's fight
  • Pinki fights for her rights, faces inquiry
  • Class V girl raped on way home
  • Bhanuda letters at Ranu museum
  • Oberoi may reopen Hills hotel, but skip Rajarhat
  • Goons loot house during CM event
  • Belpahari rides on winds of change
  • Best brains choose IIM Calcutta to return home
  • Lalgarh will rise again, warns freed rebel leader
  • Gorkhaland Territorial Administration nominates executive members
  • Pass-fail system to stay in city schools outside RTE ambit
  • 11% women, 94% engineers in IIM-C new batch
  • Urban planning team from Afghanistan meets West Bengal Housing Infrastructure and Development corporation officials
  • Bidhannagar municipality to restart property tax collection in Salt Lake from next month
  • Bidhannagar municipality to restart property tax collection in Salt Lake
  • Pool-car driver held for rape bid on 8-yr-old
  • Starvation stalks Sunderbans tiger
  • Siliguri police hub in legal war
  • RPF seizes e-goods of Rs 14L on Rajdhani
  • Six more years to get a secure coastline
  • Principal gets bail in molest case
  • Class-VII girl raped in Midnapore
  • Land hurdle hits highway project
  • Gour Banga gets 10th controller in three years
  • Bengal may lose two more IAS officers to Delhi
  • Man kills wife, 7-year-old son
  • French agency fined for pirating Ray classic
  • Aug 2013 deadline for Kolkata's longest flyover
  • Epic-pedia on a grand scale
  • 'Solutions' add to expressway's problems
  • Woman fights for unborn baby
  • Rolling machine crushes teen to death in Howrah
  • Twin accidents: IIT-Kharagpur teacher granted bail
  • Protest against gambling costs youth his life
  • BCAS under CAT scanner for flouting government rules
  • Siliguri-Darjeeling toy train run to resume soon
  • TMC bigwigs to attend Sonia's lunch meet today
  • Nursery of success story
  • Tax spanner in transport operators' ad revenue hopes
  • Molestation slur: Malda school closed
  • Strike may push up potato prices
    • The Telegraph
  • Traffic-stopper alarm for Writers II
  • Fourth kangaroo death in 14 months
  • TV missing from airport VIP lounge
  • HC anguish over post
  • Passenger cries RPF assault
  • Molester driver out on bail
  • KO champ counts on Kom
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Full house for Sunny show
  • Pinki meets rights body members
  • Road carpet for first CM trip in years
  • Neglect cry from hunger zone
  • Jhargram plan lapses
  • Bed plea and rage of helpless daughter
  • CPM return bid on land crutches
  • Buses stay off accident route
  • Gang tries to snatch girl from house
  • Ghatak finds land for Siliguri court
  • Drill snaps water supply to hospital
  • Rice to Sikkim halts
    • Indian Express
  • Roshan Giri gets no top post in GTA
  • CM Belpahari visit under Maoist cloud
  • In-laws torture woman over sex test of unborn child, held
  • Ekla Chalo Re for TMC in LS polls
  • Alipore Zoo in red over deaths of Red Kangaroos
  • HC refuses to stay Siliguri Police Commissionerate
  • Bengal moves SC against HC order to reclaim Singur land
  • No blind support to Centres bills: TMC
  • Govt assesses crop situation
  • Blue part of new colour scheme for trains plying in Kolkata
    • Hindustan Times
  • Railways have worsened under Trinamool: Congress MP
  • Short skirts cause women harassment, says Trinamool MLA
  • Pranab's sister predicted he will be President
  • Mamata congratulates Pranab, to attend swearing-in
  • Birbhum, Nadia celebrate Poltus win
  • Hilsa selling at Rs.1,000-1,500 in Bengal, prices to continue soaring
  • Hooda promises action on suicide case
  • 13-year-old student raped in Burdwan
  • WB: Accused of theft, girl strip-searched in school
  • Be proactive to reduce unemployment: Murthy
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line