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News Headlines Archive

August 11, 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
  • Man arrested for questioning Mamata
  • Bureaucrat holds up Air India flight for 45 minutes
  • Maoists expel Italian kidnap mastermind
  • Didi too informal for government
  • Tracing Bengals legacy of cartoons over 140 years
  • Olympian aims for new targets
  • Italian students rediscover Kolkata
  • Nigerian duo held for fraud
  • Habra twin-murders accused arrested in Rajasthan
  • Students body found in pond, kin cry foul
  • Dengue panic sweeps but Kolkata Municipal Corporation sleeps
  • Rs 2.75cr wheat seized at Kolkata port
  • DGP tells officers to check crimes against women
  • Soon, you can walk under the bypass
  • Audit lens on V-Cs, travel under watch
  • Bengal Engineering and Science University, Jadavpur University refuse govt order on seats
  • Bengal, Jharkhand to hunt Maoists jointly
  • Akzo Nobel plans for bigger footprint in powder coatings
  • Pinki gets back railway ticket inspector job
  • Gandhians vow to fight for anti-rape crusader
  • Left Front slams 'populist' Mamata
  • New Town to get country's biggest convention centre
  • DPS New Town hosts table tennis tournament
  • Rajarhat Metro project hits land hurdle
  • Mahesweta worries for undertrials on fast
  • Taste test: Lab hunt for the best rice for Bengal palate
  • Dengue makes deadly comeback
  • Malda medical college has 342 posts but 4 staffers
  • Innovation mantra from business guru
  • Elite campuses fret over 170 vacant seats
  • High-speed rail corridor feasible: Consortium
  • Rare surgery gives lease of life to newborn
  • Trinamool bleeds in Keshpur faction fight
  • No CCTV footage of murderer
  • Man snatches gold chain ofmorning walker
  • Mob fury outside Lokenath temple
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Engineering loses magnetic power
  • Tips for scourge season
  • Infertility shadow on Sec V
  • JU, Besu united on tech entry
  • Teacher alleges cut-off fix
  • Metro service disrupted
  • A mean punch and Mary for inspiration
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Students bond over kho kho
  • Gang of six in net for snatching
  • Petrol pinch ends cops Bullet ride
  • Sleaze couple denied bail
  • Two held for phishing fraud
  • Board in test paper debut
  • Missing girls body found
  • Plan for anti-Maoist drive
  • Shuffle in TMC trade wing
  • Cong divided on rural poll tie-up
  • Fire at nursing home, finger at building owner
  • Twin quests bolster Morcha
  • Route plan to avoid highway holes
  • Bank official found dead
  • Maternity ward repairs at Siliguri
  • Road blockade against Bhaktinagar shift
  • GTA portfolios for executive 14
    • Indian Express
  • The many woes of starvation zone
  • Gurung does a Didi, keeps key GTA depts
  • Mamata bans transport strikes, rallies
  • 8 yrs after hunger deaths, this village has little rice, no jobs
  • 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
  • Outbreak of vector-borne disease in Kolkata
  • Bengals Red Fort set for agitation over autonomy
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line