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December 14, 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
  • Voluntary plastic clean-up drive in Sunderbans
  • Railway police on anti-drugging drive
  • Royalty load for cargo handlers
  • Mukti Joddhas to be part of Vijay Diwas celebrations
  • Bill passed to appoint parliamentary secretary
  • Didi all praise for tridents, but mayor stops payment
  • Chit fund owner held
  • Calcutta high court stays primary teacher recruitment
  • Mamata defends cops on Salt Lake violence
  • Loba farmers return with empty hands
  • Bravehearts win CM's heart
  • Besu set to become a central varsity
  • Secondary infections make Dengue deadlier
  • Hi-tech registration office may earn 100 crore revenue
  • Missing winter? Wait for two more days
  • Four killed as bike skids off culvert
  • Lifetime Grammy to honour the Pole Star of sitar
  • Theme Devdas at boi mela screen tribute
  • Kolkata girl stars in dream start to IIT-Kharagpur job season
  • Master of music and diplomacy
  • 'Bold and dutiful' Kolkatans honoured
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Land deadline met but not distance
  • Bangla(desh) focus in Tolly-Bolly biz meet
  • Fiat for timely attendance
  • Dec 27 deadline for digital switch
  • Reprieve for Metro facilities
  • High-tech solution for land deeds
  • Mamata double strike on football pitch
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Fun, fight & friends at fest
  • Money alone cant buy industrial plot
  • HBT free to take cranes
  • Court halts teacher test for govt rule flout
  • Villagers apologise, BCCL rethinks
  • Deb chit fund barb at rival
  • Right place for rural crafts in Pous
  • Teacher job test stalled
  • Land protesters apologise, BCCL keeps mine project
  • Tree hide, tusker below
  • One-time cash to clear power project block
  • Drive to check black fever from today
    • Indian Express
  • Somen stands by wife Shikha, says she said nothing anti-party
  • HC stays Bengal teacher recruitment examination
  • Cabinet approves land policy
  • Loba villagers insists on judicial probe
  • TMC sacks Sikha Mitra for breaching discipline
  • On Day 7, Mamata appears for 3 mins
  • HC allows ABG to withdraw its cranes from Haldia dock
  • Bengal ministers have MPs as advisers, now MLAs as secretaries
  • CM lauds police, slams media again
  • No action yet against Visva Bharati professor in molestation case
  • 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