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News Headlines Archive

August 10, 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
  • Tollywood goes to Washington
  • Session begins today, but no clarity on budget
  • Besu student takes sleeping pills
  • Bengal Army installationson high alert
  • Eastern India's first cyber lab in Kolkata
  • Bypass remains riddled with craters
  • Poor drainage leaves Howrah waterlogged
  • Rajarhat gateway under water
  • JU now has a new course on finance
  • Oberoi to set up 2 new hotels in city
  • Rocketing price leaves gold shops empty
  • Ban on plastic cups, plates from Sept
  • Villagers in Hills protest SSB 'torture'
  • After Hidco, chairman's quota abolished in KMDA
  • Skeleton case: CID wants to take Ghosh into 14-day custody
  • Tea talks lukewarm, Dooars bandh continues
  • Did you get my invite?
  • Strumming up a storm of change
  • Trains marooned, Howrah sinks
  • Snag disrupts Metro services
  • String of burglaries hits Kolkata, suburbs
  • Man returns after 20 yrs in Bangla jail
  • Brain drain in IT hardware major deterrent: Experts
  • Cops arrest 'first-class' robber
  • Trinamool leaders refund 'fine' on CPM men
  • South Bengal districts alerted on possibility of flood
  • ABAVP calls indefinite strike in tea gardens
  • More rain misery ahead for city
  • Facelift for Hills Rabindra Bhawan
  • Tribute 'order' has cops in a fix
  • Singing in the rain, Didi leads march for Tagore
  • Grand plans for homage to Bard
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Misery of marooned township
  • Retail reels under gold price blow
  • Cancelled trains spoil holiday schedule
  • CMDA quota struck down
  • Alipore B-school opens doors
  • Tagore trail from music to sport
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Air India in salary dock
  • Probe into jumping cushions
  • Mistaken identity: Hotelier
  • Scripts under RTI: Apex court
  • Net closes in on Sushanta
  • Ultadanga robbery rerun in Farakka
  • Luxury tax push after nudge from Delhi
  • Parishad shutdown kicks off with ransack
  • Monitor on cellphone tower leads to chit fund boss
  • Truancy glare on hospital doctors
  • Strike against SSB torture
  • Encephalitis kills 2 kids
  • 1 month jail for ex-CM
  • College admission amid armed security
  • Boys crushed under truck
  • Plea for Sushanta arrest
    • 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
  • Three trains cancelled, three short-terminated due to rains
  • 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
  • Keshpur case: Bengal CID for custody of CPM leader
  • Residents, traders of Indo-Nepal border on strike
  • Three trains cancelled, three short-terminated due to rains
  • CPM couldn't take up VS issue
  • Bengal CM still has rly police cover
    • Sports
  • National football academy at Pailan
  • It’s Bengal all the way