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News Headlines Archive

August 14, 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
  • Woman dragged into car in Kolkata and gang-raped
  • Gorkhaland Territorial Administration takes stock of financial crisis
  • New transfer policy for Writers employees
  • Man nabbed for rape of doctors wife
  • Singur Act a landmark: M K Narayanan
  • Independence Day security keeps police on toes
  • 70-year-old starves in Malda village
  • Lack of coordination puts Esplanade's facelift on hold
  • HC restrains entry tax on goods
  • Govt awaits central funds for Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission buses
  • Hindustan Motors to cash in on 6-month breather
  • Rowdies beat up students, two critical
  • Woman battered over dowry demand in Madhusudanpur
  • Abduction from busy road leaves locals jittery
  • Man lures 5-year-old with gifts, rapes her
  • Immersion nightmare forces idols to shrink
  • Artists ride on themes for Puja dazzle
  • Bonny Pal strikes a new goal
  • Cartoon row: Rights panel wants Rs 50K compensation for Jadavpur University professor
  • Gen V K Singh's autobiography to be released in September
  • Rights body pulls up Mamata govt over cartoon "fiasco"
  • Woman alleges gangrape in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Raped after Chetla bridge kidnap
  • Mamata eyes Red Road, Writers hits holiday trail
  • Tableaux take Rs 5cr toll
  • Bullies who stride over our rights
  • Lateral entry resolves tech seat fill-up row
  • Home secy, top cop face contempt charges
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Everybodys responsibility
  • Board test for class IX, XI
  • Bus and tram fares raised
  • Professor to jumbo, rights distress
  • Elephant catch plan protest
  • Govt defends move, farmer bail rejected
  • Rs 1.5-lakh temple theft
  • Sex assault slur on school council chief
  • Trinamul lock on CPM rural office
  • Bhaktinagar bandh halts Jalpaiguri
  • Raiganj market firing kills 1
  • Garden women protest pay slash
  • Firing and felling row cloud on forests
  • Siddika kin cry foul
    • Indian Express
  • Rights panel for compensation to JU professor
  • CPM leaders son sent to police custody, rest get bail
  • Belpahari farmer denied bail again
  • Mamata dictatorial, intolerant
  • Cornered Suvendu may skip YUVA meet
  • 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 who dared to question Mamata Banerjee denied bail
  • Probe on to find motive behind farmer's questions to Mamata
  • Farmer held for speaking up at Mamata rally
  • Cartoon a conspiracy, prof an offender: Mamata
  • I'll do it again, says prof held for Mamata spoof
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line