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News Headlines Archive

August 09, 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
  • Hilsa supply drops, price shoots up to Rs 1,500 a kilo
  • Govt to buy Strand Road warehouses
  • Work culture anomaly helps nab TV thief
  • Water woes for Kolkatas landmark buildings
  • March 2013 date for state crime record network
  • Expect downpour in a day or two
  • Chief minister sows hope in Belpahari
  • No end to traffic ordeal for fliers
  • Band of Kolkatans cheers Team India in London
  • 7-year-old raped, killed
  • Blackout lessons to protect power grid
  • Cholti Bangla finally gets a grammar guide
  • Pride Hotels Group enters Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Cash-for-seats buzz in colleges
  • Unions broker admission deal
  • Downpour likely in next two days
  • Marydi strikes a blow for boxers
  • HC on sex workers kids
  • Employee held for airport theft
  • Loot and assault at dawn
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Decadent education system
  • Proud of the airport
  • Court order on parent care
  • Spaces living and empty
  • RPF trio suspended for assault
  • Transport bills under scanner
  • Lagadoris only child of change
  • Mamata project push in rebel belt
  • CM catches one of them
  • Centre grants Rs 150cr to Visva
  • Bratya ire at VC speech
  • Hospital sheds a malaise
  • GTA Sabha seal on invitee resolution
  • Pharmacy students go on strike for teachers
  • Plot no hiccup in AMU plan
  • Teacher blamed for fracture
  • 2 held for bid to kidnap girl
    • Indian Express
  • For peace, Mamata warns Maoists
  • Over green energy policy, Partha gives a self goal
  • Treat Mahato, Maoist Dipak as political prisoners: HC
  • IT brains prefer to keep silence on IT policy draft
  • Ghost Naxal couple worry for cops, locals
  • 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