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News Headlines Archive

August 30, 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
  • Dengue kills 2 more, toll touches 9
  • Dengue trend alarms doctors
  • Vice-chairman slams inefficient Bidhannagar Municipality
  • No preventive steps against water-borne diseases at Writers Buildings
  • Civic work creates mosquito dens
  • Mystery over cancelled emergency air tickets
  • Dictionary traces maths concepts to Vedas
  • 12 students injured in Kolkata's City College violence
  • Alert taxi driver foils husbands bid to sell wife
  • Chaos at Mamatas Behrampore rally
  • Kolkatas London dreams to take shape soon
  • Court orders warrant against Maoist Ganpathy
  • Under-19 cricketer gets a heros welcome
  • Floating restaurant may be West Bengals puja gift
  • President to be in Kolkata on September 14, keen to visit Golpark house
  • Anti-graft body to prosecute public servants
  • Speed curb on trains via Jangalmahal to be lifted
  • Once in a blue moon on Friday
  • Shalimar terminal to ease congestion at Howrah station
  • Congress councillor stages a sit-in-demonstration in front of Kolkata mayor's chamber
  • Sick doctor flown back to Germany
  • Dengue claims hospital staff, affects new areas
  • Chief minister job hint for dedicated youth
  • Congress fears loss of minority support
  • Twin rallies choke traffic
  • Hospitals run out of room, ask patients to get treated at home
  • Prisoners take sere route to escape Presidency jail
  • Writer admitted to hospital with heart ailment
  • Woman faces councillor wrath for molest charges
  • Varsity teachers, officials to face yearly appraisal
  • Rain no cure for pollution this season
  • All flights from new terminal by March
  • NGO men held for abduction bid on Bypass
  • Dengue nails down doctors, family members
  • Armed gang kidnaps schoolgirl at gunpoint
  • Kalam's gifts to Mamata, Indomitable Spirits & Turning Points
  • Workshop on urban governance
  • Worst dengue outbreak in Kolkata, 542 infected, 2 kids die
  • Waste on wetland with 'permission'
  • Boy hit by auto may need surgery
  • Molesters slash teen with razors
  • Darjeeling stalls razed after 40 years
  • Trinamool Chhatra Parishad cadres grab reserved train berths
  • Deceased cop's daughter offered a police job
  • Homemaker set ablaze in sleep
  • Kalam gifts books to CM
  • No water supply on September 1
  • Rains scanty, but Bypass battered
  • Metro sounds death knell for Adi Ganga
  • 'Magic' underpass to ease traffic rush
    • The Telegraph
  • Vector and virus stalk city
  • Trinamul feud leads to college closure
  • Day trip to a Tagore pilgrimage
  • Police target autos as govt withdraws shield
  • Doll-up blow to jail safety code
  • Minister faces chamber fire
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Couple find flight tickets cancelled
  • Library digitisation enters third phase
  • Jewellery sale lights up lives
  • Disease changes its spots
  • Touch of SFI in Trinamul tactics
  • Develop & defect dose
  • Molest replay on Barasat stretch
  • Lady raped over plot tussle
  • Farmer slur on Burdwan eye hospital
  • Teen murdered, friend held in Darj
  • Bias stench in eviction drive
  • Unity hint in plains
  • Gurung seeks quota for poor schoolkids
    • Indian Express
  • On the sidelines of SP meet, Akhilesh-Mamata rendezvous likely
  • Pandemonium breaks out as microphone mutes Mamata
  • Alarm bells ring as more enter Bengal
  • Bird flu scare in North 24-Parganas, govt on alert
  • Shah Rukh Khan in 3-minute promotional film on Bengal
  • TMC Yuva leader assaults cop
  • Youth questions CM but this time he gets a reply
  • Dengue toll reaches 4
  • GTA coffers empty, Hills brace for taxing time
  • Centre told to reply by Sept 3
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • Police make progress in presidency escape case
  • Health awareness through dance, drama and magic
  • Eve teasers beat up pregnant woman
  • Oil tanker hits car pool, students wounded
  • Kumartuli picks Ganesh over Durga
  • Minting on error: Rs. 5 coins go for Rs. 5,000
  • Ministry cracks down on fire safety
  • Police make progress in presidency escape case
  • Mamata wants list of her ministers assets
  • Viral fever, dengue, now a bird flu scare in Bengal
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line