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News Headlines Archive

August 13, 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
  • Criminal held for rape, murder of seven-year-old
  • Are you being shortchanged?
  • Snag disrupts train services
  • Metro scraps plan for all-AC fleet
  • Sex racket cuffs on CPM leader's son
  • New Town may get a civic body
  • Man held for raping stepdaughter
  • Talk to Tatas on Singur, Congress tells Mamata
  • CM's 'Maoist' attended CRPF course
  • Medica sets 2014 date for public offering
  • Tibetan monk charms with flute
  • Grand plans for culture complex
  • Snake triggers panic at SSKM Hospital
  • Trader held for fraud
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Home alone & afraid in highrise
  • Lapse sting in dengue spurt
  • Plan to extend delayed flyover
  • City lab for advanced virus test
  • Mumbai youth held for phishing
  • Warrior god wins a battle
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Wander of wonders in rewind mode
  • Mother-kid duo in jail
  • Kidnapped girl rescued
  • Pangs of Shiladityas Trinamul family
  • Paddy protest on mud road
  • Somnaths law and order advice
  • CM plains prod to ministers
  • Babel of blame rips at mini-India
  • Farther from Visva, closer to hostel seat
  • Posco engineer missing
  • Governors tea garden gets acres
  • One held for student murder
    • Indian Express
  • Mamata dictatorial, intolerant
  • Cornered Suvendu may skip YUVA meet
  • Trinamools Yuva-raj to expand his role
  • TMC worker who questioned Mamata arrested
  • Mamata drags feet on renaming Bengal
  • 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
  • Jundal taught Hindi to Kasab, others
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line