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News Headlines Archive

August 27, 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
  • Why can't we take our time on name change?
  • Four killed as tourist bus hits truck
  • Foul play ruled out in ISI girl's death
  • Action against rly staffers punished for in Sainthia accident
  • New check post to be a boon for Bengal
  • Haridevpur murder possibly for gain: Police
  • Three more names in Presi faculty search committee
  • 'First task is getting rebels to lay down arms during talks'
  • God particles could be found by Dec 2012
  • Tatas' plea misleading, says AG
  • Kolkata Police to grill Sushanta in jail
  • Orphaned in motherland
  • Lady teachers locked in school by TMC men
  • 'Titagarh vandalism left Railways poorer by Rs 3 lakh'
  • Flood victims loot panchayat office in Malda
  • Man arrested for molesting doctor on train
  • Sense of justice unites the two Bengals
  • FM to visit Indo-Bangla border
  • RTI activist questions land deal
  • Ex-CPM man testifies against Sushanta
  • CID probing ATM robbery in Asansol
  • Tough talk after Maoists kill TMC man
  • Construction slab hit kills student
  • Host of new features to greet CAT aspirants this year
  • 52-yr-old woman killed in Haridevpur
  • Train runs over Class-VII student
  • Entry jitters for airport ground staff
  • Dengue rides monsoon wave, 26 struck ill
  • Police detain victims brother in Beadon St murder
  • Mentors seek Presidency University special status
  • Ananda Margis set probe deadline for CM
  • JU, Besu resent unjust seat fill-up order
  • Behala airport recce to iron out hitches
  • Surgery enables 56-year-old man walks after 15 years
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Presi panel rises above politics
  • Quit wish before ISI suicide
  • Child labour the theme in todays annual salute to little soldiers in uniform
  • Tech colleges fear fall in academic standard
  • Major held for wife murder
  • Debut run spurs Doha-double plan
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Promotion fraud slur
  • HC glare on education plan
  • Maoist-interlocutor talks by August 31
  • Cash boost for closed and sick units
  • Rs 33-crore fertiliser subsidy
  • Tea tragedy on record
  • Cops get blockade dose from minister
  • Smuggler killed in forest raid
  • Doctor cries train molest
  • Sikkim scraps public order bill
  • Cloud over salary at NBU college
  • Cash in office or dry taps, says union
    • Indian Express
  • Mystery shrouding God particle to be solved by 2012: CERN scientist
  • Mamata go-ahead to Maoist interlocutors
  • JU, BESU wont admit students on HS score
  • Research, innovate, get us more PhDs: PM to IITs
  • Mistake to blame reforms, but clean up we must: PM
  • Re-open factory or face music, govt tells Dunlop
  • Skeleton found in Narayangarh village
  • HC pulls up state human rights panel on jail death probe
  • Netai: HC rejects anticipatory bail plea of CPM leader
  • Bengal to get first integrated checkpost at Petrapole
  • Make NCA finishing school and not rehab facility
    • Hindustan Times
  • 30 Jail inmates in Kolkata start fast for Anna
  • Singur land vested, not acquired, claims Bengal government
  • 100 days of Mamata's hits and misses
  • ISI student commits suicide
  • Mamata gives fresh call to Maoists to return to mainstream
  • PM's Bangla visit to strengthen bilateral ties: Mamata
  • Singur land vested, not acquired, claims Bengal government
  • 100 days of Mamata's hits and misses
  • ISI student commits suicide
  • Maoists kill Trinamool man, the first after Bengal polls
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line