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News Headlines Archive

August 25, 2011
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
  • KMC row over market borrowing
  • Fighter pilot held for wrong parking
  • RTI route for report on Dinhata firing
  • Leg for a pillow: Probe ordered
  • Shiksha Ratna for 100 teachers
  • Mayor rushes accident victim to hospital
  • Loan shark racket at museum?
  • Fake IPS officer arrested
  • 'Tatas shifted Nano factory voluntarily'
  • Sourav's daughter Sana hospitalized with dengue
  • BSF jawan accused of killing wife
  • Headmistress held for midday meal rice theft
  • City to have New IAS training centre in city
  • Paschimbanga it will be, CM tells assembly
  • 40 fishermen taken hostage by pirates
  • Let Lokpal be discussed in Parliament first: Didi
  • TMC leader held for green activist's murder
  • Teen goes to Digha, cooks up kidnap story
  • House burnt in GJM-GNLF clash
  • Newborn dies after being injured by doctor's knife
  • CAS on brink of blackout
  • Cops watch as pavement outside mall vanishes
  • No legislative council till consensus: CM
  • Severed legs made patient's pillow
  • Posh areas in hawkers' grip
  • LF demands more funds for state from Prime Minister
  • Prime Minister's convoy throws traffic out of gear
  • Student kidnapped in Behala
  • Aides give in to CID grill, Sushanta in hospital again
  • ATM money lootedfrom ATM, shoot security guards
  • Arms seized at Howrah station
  • Mausam demands aide release
  • TMC demands Lakshman Seth's arrest
  • Arms won't help CPM win back hearts: Buddha
  • Maoists turn up heat on TMC
  • City-made nano paint to add colour to Gulf
  • Bengal cadre's contribution to Centre: 1 secy
  • Civic body to spruce up Salt Lake transport system
  • Mastic coat for Salt Lake Bypass
  • New drug hope for cancer patients
  • PM promises package to restore glory
  • Auto driver unites lost mother with her sons
  • GJM warns of fresh protest
  • Police 'fudge FIR' to nail victim's family
  • Woman, son hurt in 4.5L robbery
  • Microbes may prevent Sunderbans erosion
  • 4D, the new flavour for cinemagoers
  • Jumbo shifted to Jaldapara Rescue Centre
  • Lakhs of fake ration card in Asansol
    • The Telegraph
  • Court joins congestion battle
  • Total recall in HS result
  • The playwright in Mamatas office
  • Mamata tonic for medicos
  • Catch-14: spot, stop, slam
  • Presidency mentor on Besu tour
  • Where the name is just a game
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Mockery of education
  • Puja sight on Durga height
  • Sana down with dengue
  • Ex-jawan held for fraud
  • Force worry for city cops
  • Cops get trained in quick accident probe
  • Trainee bus driver on phone kills riders
  • Funds cloud on CM meet
  • Backward panel boost
  • Wife murder & affair slur on jawan
  • Highway choked, hospital clogged
  • Wife murdered, finger at jawan
  • Rally vents ire on bill to curb rights
  • Weaponry handed over to ASI
  • Ransack & blockade to protest cattle haul
  • Tour agents guide to Siliguri development
  • Rebels on free list get bail
  • Foresters ask for pay revision
  • NBMCH plea for guards falls on deaf ears
    • Indian Express
  • Hoardings on way out from Dalhousie
  • Its official, Yechury for RS
  • Trinamool gangs attacking farmers, says Biman Bose
  • On Tatas plea for amended Singur petition, govt told to reply by July...
  • At Writers, targets and change are the new buzzwords
  • No marks, report cards at Presidency
  • First batch of 46 political prisoners ready for release: CM
  • Archieji, Bettydidi and Tintinbhai
  • Beehives along rail tracks to prevent jumbo deaths
  • In new panel season, intellectuals refuse Mamata job offers
  • Dooars tribals to knock Centres door over Hill territorial survey
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata gives fresh call to Maoists to return to mainstream
  • Police raid CPM leaders house in kidnap, murder case
  • HC forms committee to monitor, reduce traffic snarls
  • HC gives notice to Centre on Purulia arms drop case
  • Why the hue and cry, let bill be placed in House: Mamata
  • Police raid CPM leaders house in kidnap, murder case
  • HC forms committee to monitor, reduce traffic snarls
  • HC gives notice to Centre on Purulia arms drop case
  • Why the hue and cry, let bill be placed in House: Mamata
  • Late mountaineer Nawang Gombu's proposed memorial runs into red-tapism
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line