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News Headlines Archive

August 12, 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
  • Digha Shankarpur Development Authority holds board meeting to take decisions to develop the coastal areas
  • Colourful Independence Day event moved to Red Road
  • Kolkata Metro's expansion plan to change life and times of commuters
  • Farmer in jail for questioning Didi
  • FCI, food department staffers involved in scam: Minister
  • Man killed for wanting his money back
  • Bratyajan opens four branches
  • Cong open to local level alliances
  • Mother ill, 11-year-old turns labourer
  • Union locks up railway engineers for 13 hours
  • 'Populist' CM turns down fare hike plea
  • Robbery plot lands woman in police net
  • Constable shoots self at superintendent of police's bungalow
  • Ticket checker Pinki Pramanik draws public praise
  • Dreaded contract killer, aides in police net
  • Alert in Kolkata after Mumbai violence
  • Dengue sting yet to rouse government, 80 take ill
  • Plea prompts judges to visit Botanic
  • Clean air wait for 6 more months
  • Mamata's populist stance lets down bus owners
  • Mamata govt extends auto emission norm deadline
  • Mamata's very own Independence-Day function
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • When Barreto beat Gullit
  • Wrong man Hump & his desi double
  • More dengue cases than count, govt admits
  • Bus fare hike and ad sop in the offing
  • CM hauls up Delhi fund laggards
  • Congress ministers face party flak
  • Finger at kin for hiring robbers to settle scores
  • 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
  • TMC worker who questioned Mamata arrested
  • Mamata drags feet on renaming Bengal
  • 25-yr-old held for raping minor
  • Man arrested for rape of 7-yr-old daughter
  • The many woes of starvation zone
  • 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
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • 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
  • Man was bent on disturbing Mamata's rally: Mukul Roy
  • Hoisting of tricolour on Red Road instead of state secretariat
  • Farmer held for speaking up at Mamata rally
  • Outbreak of vector-borne disease in Kolkata
  • Bengals Red Fort set for agitation over autonomy
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line