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News Headlines Archive

December 15, 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
  • Ace film-maker Rituparno Ghosh turns lyricist
  • Mamata govt mulls coffee cultivation
  • Chief minister makes unscheduled visit to inaugurate handicrafts fair
  • Goons threaten doctors over fair-price store
  • No legal dispute over skyscraper land: Lawyer
  • Kolkata to host 100th Indian Science Congress
  • Woman 'jumps off' Howrah bridge, dies
  • 'No treatment for MLA at SSKM'
  • Home secy prods DMs on Aadhaar card delay
  • Gorkhaland Territorial Administration roots for Lepcha Development Board
  • Newlywed woman held for robbery
  • Man arrested for loan fraud
  • An Indian dancer from France
  • Goons invade Howrah bus stand sheds
  • Trinamool 'damages' dais for CPM rally
  • Teacher hiring: State may appeal against order
  • Blood crisis hits state
  • Critical power to be back in a min
  • Doomsday? Just a reason to party
  • Girl stabbed by relative
  • 14-year-old blind girl molested
  • Youth held for raping 65-year-old woman
  • Asia's World City beckons Kolkatans
  • CM eyes bigger role in national politics
  • Students, NGO join hands to clean up Sunderbans
  • Films to spread word on special abilities
  • Albert Ekka's widow to be felicitated in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Students rise to the challenge
  • Unexpected glitch mars Hobbit run
  • Through a hotel room, into the lives of others
  • Workshop focus on sex trafficking
  • Touts threaten govt doctors
  • Fog screens out chill
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Cable dials M over deadline
  • Clerks play gods and Sumitra turns 105
  • A year on, hooch flows in death den
  • Fare hike plan kept on hold
  • Gurung signal to Lepchas
  • Congress to shuffle SMC posts
  • Circus jumbo injures guard
    • Indian Express
  • Fog cropper to Nitish-Didi meet
  • New Chief Justice of Calcutta HC
  • Bengal will lead India from Delhi: Mamata
  • Day after, Sovan keeps dissension lid open
  • Feeling suffocated, Shikha waits for suspension letter
  • HC first orders jail to Fin Secy, then relents
  • I-T commissioner faints during raid
  • On Day 7, Mamata appears for 3 mins
  • HC allows ABG to withdraw its cranes from Haldia dock
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
    • Hindustan Times
  • Wife gets lessons in burglary on 1st night
  • Haldia Dock II project gets central government nod
  • 'Mamata knows TMC workers extorting money'
  • Spate of baby deaths rocks Bengal again
  • Nano a no-no for Mamata, but nano-science fine
  • Wife gets lessons in burglary on 1st night
  • 3-day old baby denied food for 19 hours, dies
  • Mamatas rail panels dissolved
  • Left, Trinamool scuffle in West Bengal assembly
  • CM Mamata Banerjee releases 51 convicted for life
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line