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News Headlines Archive

August 21, 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
  • Bratya Basu new chairperson of the TMC education cell
  • Girl molested by teacher's husband
  • Teen held for raping minor
  • Howrah station turns into mini-northeast
  • Assam team visits train attack victims
  • Facebook community reaches out to cancer patients
  • Bengal's first skin bank set to come up at SSKM
  • No food for Shatabdi passengers from Bolpur
  • Officials hand-in-glove with grain smugglers: Panel
  • Baby dumped in drain, cops suspect abduction
  • Stirs, political backing keep police at bay
  • Cops go soft on rogue driver
  • Disabled woman alleges gangrape
  • CCTVs to watch over 'unsafe' New Town
  • Women break an age-old barrier on Eid
  • After tridents, no tender for ad project
  • Hoarding assault on heritage
  • Drunk goons in rape bid on 14-year-old in Barasat
  • Cleric reminds CM of quota vow, but gives govt more time
  • Kolkata hospitals taking up new age surgeries
  • MAIT urges government for better rules of e-waste management
  • Minority issues: Govt comes under attack from Surjya Kanta Mishra
  • Loudspeakers in your para to warn of disaster
  • Tribal woman gangraped in Malda
  • Four fall off train and die in Jalpaiguri
  • Is Trinamool treading Left's dalatantra path?
  • Apply again for driving licence
  • Historians divided over Kolkata's birthday
  • Mob fury at hospitals after patients die
  • Schoolgirl missing for a week, family fears abduction
  • Crematorium smoke pollutes Kolkata
  • Raped once, victims for life
  • 12-year-old bride married to stigma
  • 'It is as if I am available for all'
  • West Bengal truckers associations wants state govt to take steps to solve their problems
  • West Bengal Pollution Control Board starts tree plantation programme in Kolkata
  • Didi wont rock UPA over reforms
  • Its a dogs life for police canine squad
  • Aim-peror without a crown
  • Hidco ropes in 12 artists to beautify New Town
  • Terror tales emerge after gangrape
  • Metro goes looking for motormen
  • New aircraft refuel system from 2013
  • Elderly couple burnt alive, kin held
  • Ashok Mitra backs JNUs SFI faction
  • Boy drowns in Hooghly after dads slap
  • Kolkata gifts Odisha girl a second life
  • Man tries to set wife on fire
  • Truck strike put off
  • Record bid for Rajarhat plot
    • The Telegraph
  • Salmans Id gift: fastest 100!
  • Delay denies water to Bypass residents
  • Dry-spell forecast revised
  • Man held for rape attempt
  • Tutor pinch after vacancy audit
  • School turns animal farm to joy of kids
  • Passport to a slow-mo age
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Martial art in school
  • 1,800 city cars in Ford service drive
  • Sasha Waltz in charmed spaces
  • More AC buses set to hit road
  • Shot in snatch zone, biker rides to cops
  • CPM to lend ear to district leaders
  • Visva vicinity to get civic seal
  • Voiceless Ravas suffer as foresters and tribals fight
  • Morcha, Barla in joint rural fight
  • Sikkim player in India team
  • Customer slashed with scissors
  • CPM to hear out districts
    • Indian Express
  • In hungry Junglemahal, boy attacked for food
  • Tourists junk NE plan, prefer Goa
  • Bengal to give shelter to migrants
  • Making it to BPL list still a challenge for the poor
  • Scuffle aboard special train, 2 fall off, killed
  • Calcuttas treasure trove lies in tatters at Writers library
  • Anti-graft body may begin work next month
  • Briefly State: Kalyani varsity registrars certificates authentic
  • Couple charred to death over property
  • Bhangor killing: Cops yet to nab accused
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • 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
  • Child falls off auto, driver speeds off
  • WB: Five killed, two injured in road accident
  • 13 thrown off N-E train, 4 dead
  • Trains to northeast arrive filled with 'refugees' in their own homeland
  • Darjeeling, Sikkim and Nepal feel the heat
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line