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December 13, 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
  • KMC to take possession of land to build Bengal's first film city
  • Mastery over tehais, taal unparalleled
  • Will we ever get to hear such music?
  • Estranged for 50 years, first wife breaks down
  • 'Panditji shouldn't have performed on November 4'
  • Master of maestros, guide forever
  • Panditji cherished decade-old relations
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation teeters on brink of fiscal collapse
  • Govt workers voice demands
  • Civic body renews crackdown on tax defaulters
  • 5-day fest to mark Bangla victory
  • Veteran singer Manas Chakraborty passes on
  • General to meet Bratya for more aid to Sainik School
  • Shikha Mitra under suspension cloud
  • Mystery over lawyer's 'suicide'
  • Talks fail, Left Front continues House boycott
  • Excise department to get more teeth with 600 new posts
  • Global folk music fest starts today
  • Police did the wrong thing at Loba: CM
  • Mamata gifts 10-day Puja break next year
  • Dark moon shadow over baby boom
  • 'Robu, surely you've not forgotten...!'
  • Contemporaries recall a great musician
  • Happy Pujas 2013: Mamata gifts govt staff 10 days off
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • A baby girl to beat all 12-12-12 births
  • Highest December rain in a decade
  • Mamata mayors leading light!
  • The city you never get to see
  • Stage set for annual Nandikar theatre fest
  • Besu upgrade on cabinet table
  • Welcome to Oxbridge war
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Focus on vocational skills
  • Test paper in CM colour
  • Duo held for stealing laptops
  • Student died in hit-and-run
  • First stick on dissident Trinamul MLA
  • Protests in Gouranga & Hebram seats
  • Power minister rises to speak, power goes off
  • Ex-judge to probe Walmart lobbying
  • No takers for Bengal: CM
  • Party mum, MLAs uneasy
  • Trinamul silence bothers leaders
  • Truce meet falls through
  • Protests in CPM seats
  • Hill CPM meets GTA chief
  • Home fair in Siliguri
    • Indian Express
  • TMC sacks Sikha Mitra for breaching discipline
  • Mamata wants voluntary retirement scheme for cops to make way for their kin
  • House violence: All-party meet fails to resolve row; probe on
  • BJP delegation to visit enclaves in Coochbehar
  • TMC-Left free-for-all in Assembly sends four MLAs to hospital
  • No action yet against Visva Bharati professor in molestation case
  • 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
  • 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