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December 12, 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
  • Darjeeling tribute to Beatles this Xmas
  • Red tape adds to traffic chaos
  • Rising land price a hurdle to Loba project
  • Touts exploit digital divide, run parallel passport kendras
  • CM may skip high court event
  • Park Street carnival to get anthem this year
  • Fair price shop sparks pharmacy shutdown
  • Cancer treatment clue lies in moringa: City scientists
  • Auditors dig deeper into trident row
  • Landlosers stop work in coal mine
  • Digha trawlers net endangered whale
  • Women's body seeks honour killing report
  • Govt gets Rs 3,000cr gift before Delhi meet
  • Speaker won't yield till MLAs seek pardon
  • Business tips for new industrial policy
  • GJM stir hits Hills traffic
  • MCI team's early inspection rattles Malda medical college
  • Mystery shrouds Lansdowne girl's death
  • Snatcher held after mail to senior cop
  • Rs 3-cr party drug seized
  • Man hacked, shot dead on highway
  • Fog disrupts flights
  • Skyscraper project in legal tussle
  • Fog affects air traffic in Kolkata
  • Germans seek security to invest in Bengal
  • Let down by the keepers
  • Sobhandeb set to lose House post
  • House nod to women's varsity bill
  • Eight of wedding party die as Sumo runs into truck
  • Science Congress may bring Mamata, PM on same dais
  • Kalimpong tense after street fight
  • West Bengal turns down proposal to rename university
  • Perfect match, made in orphanage
  • Five hurt as Congress, TMC workers clash in Howrah
  • Wife of IIT Kharagpur staffer kills self
  • Close shave for kid on broken tracks
  • Woman accuses in-laws in dying statement
  • Coordination committee to rally for strikes
  • HC: Derecognizing police unions unconstitutional
  • Sobhandeb faces action, party still wary
  • Jaiswal shows Mamata the way
  • Congress, Left join forces to attack govt
  • No name-dropping for favours, warns Adhir
  • Chief minister mercy for 51 lifers
  • CJI urges state to coordinate with rights body
  • Brace for warmer days, says Met
  • Vivekananda Park beautification stumbles on encroachers
  • Arrows, adivasis & suspected rebels
  • 250-year-old gold idol stolen from temple
  • Senior Trinamool MP shares stage with Adhir Chowdhury
    • The Telegraph
  • Write in Bengali, stay in Bengal
  • CMC to fence film city plot
  • Beacon misuse FIR against top cop
  • Investment is about the future you need to have trust that the engagement pays off
  • Court scan on teacher test
  • Adhir axe on Mamata band
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Infertility on the rise, say experts
  • CM to open gallery by the Lakes
  • Choir hits right note with young and old
  • Shower hurdle to Celsius slide
  • Centre scan on Bengal Ponzi schemes
  • Us-and-them cry at SSKM
  • Left upbeat, TMC chit-hit
  • BCCL mining project moves out after land protest
  • Morcha NH55 block at Sonada
  • Fliers wait, fog keeps all flights off
  • Chowk Bazar to get a revamp
  • PM, Sonia Malda visit
  • Accident in fog, blame on bride
    • Indian Express
  • TMC-Left free-for-all in Assembly sends four MLAs to hospital
  • Earlier this year, three selectors wanted Dhoni sacked as captain
  • Bengal plans Indias first stem cell course
  • NCTE objects to teacher hiring test
  • Kolkata soccer-crazy, no need for probe: Govt
  • Jairam says Mamata taking credit for Central schemes
  • Govt filed no crime data since May: Cong
  • HC cancels govt order disbanding police unions
  • Port Trust moves HC for custody of ABG machinery
  • Year after AMRI fire, 90% city hospitals have NOC
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata intolerant, wants yes men around her: Katju
  • Eye on Panchayat polls, Mamata rejigs cabinet
  • New conditional permits to be issued after transporters take a no strike pledge
  • Woman dies after husband sets her on fire
  • Kolkata LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) film festivalto kick off on Friday
  • Mamatas rail panels dissolved
  • Left, Trinamool scuffle in West Bengal assembly
  • CM Mamata Banerjee releases 51 convicted for life
  • Sadhan Pande is next to join anti-TMC tirade
  • State order on police associations struck down by high court
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line