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December 16, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • 7 arrested for indulging in violence in Durgapur
  • Congress workers clash with police
  • Visually-impaired students felicitated
  • Panchayat tax collectors to be government employees
  • Pranab fails to turn up at Mamata function
  • Commoners to tour Bengal jails, mingle with convicts
  • 5 die after consuming spurious liqour
  • Crisil rates Bengal best MSME performer
  • Dada's 'reality' check
  • Children's Book Fair from Dec 23 in Kolkata
    • Times of India
  • Man pushed off' Katwa local train
  • Elephant kills forest guard in Midnapore
  • The dark goddess, illumined in coal tar
  • No Mahajot bonhomie at Balurghat
  • No handover of KMC schools: State
  • Posters create a flutter in Writers
  • Facelift for Indian Museum
  • Lathicharge on students in Malda
  • Spurious liquor claims two
  • Gas grid sparks clean fuel hope
    • The Telegraph
  • Boy punches principal
  • Sorry, but not for boycott
  • Presi gets varsity council
  • Close shave after bus mishap
  • Quarter rent for book fair
  • Dismal fire safety at CU
  • Here come the hooves & heroes
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Mercury dip as winter arrives
  • Green lamp scheme for roads
  • Traffic hit by rally trio
  • Mamata to nurse Cong turf
  • False case for puja cash refusal
  • Slash revenge on schoolgirl
  • Station ransack after show
  • Morcha banks on Rahul for early set-up
  • Whip on tea garden absentees
  • Toppers take school entry test
  • Counselling protest on campus
  • Infrared cameras for Buxa
  • Drug abuse for lack of religious study: Dalai
  • 4-yr-old killed on road
    • Indian Express
  • Azim Premji to meet CM today
  • Davy extradition: Officials to discuss affidavit on Indian jails
  • La Marts teachers challenge suicide abetment charge
  • Bengal gets all is well certificate from RBI on financial crisis
  • JU likely to get Rs 25 cr UGC grant
  • Bengal gets countrys 7th largest fishing harbour
  • Violent protests will have dire results: CM to Trinamool
  • Five more Maoists arrested in state
  • CID gets stick from HC for its probe
  • State asks RBI to relax loan repayment norms
  • Girls held for circulating juniors nude picture
  • Custody of arrested Maoists extended
  • Jalpaiguri not to get HC Bench in near future
  • Female crocodile in sanctuary dies
  • HC asks govt to produce statement of the witnesses
  • Dialogue with Maoists can bring peace
  • UAPA charges slapped against Kanchan, 4 others
  • Inadequate fire-fighting arrangements at Calcutta University
  • Maoist devices throw up leads on China links
  • Insolvency scam: HC seeks report from police
  • Villagers stall railway project, demand jobs
  • For sanitations sake, UNICEF joins hands with state govt
  • Top Maoist leaders face rape charge too
  • After Infosys, Wipro extends a prop for Rajarhat
  • Buddha rules out FDI in agri-retail
  • Trinamool finds a thousand reasons to gherao HIDCO
  • To put CPM on mat, Cong, Trinamool agree on floor coordination
  • Tables turned on Mamata as Railways faces land trouble in Bengal
  • Justice Sen files reply, challenges impeachment move
  • Farmers air grievances from Trinamool platform
  • State to make jail comfortable for Kim Davies
  • Mamata talks politics at rly meet
  • CPM plans to hold rallies in Hillsc
  • Parliament impasse punctures BESUs bid to acquire national character
  • Kolkata Confidential
  • To widen CPMs mass base, CITU brings para teachers under its fold
  • After SC rap, CM to head security panel
  • Cong backs Adhir against ally Trinamool
  • PCAPA not a banned outfit under UAPA: State tells HC
  • Bengal a lucrative investment destination
  • CPM takes on Mamatas Dankuni corridor project
  • Pranab skips Mamatas Railway function
  • Adhir stages rail blockade, Cong rallies behind him
    • Hindustan Times
  • Senior citizen jumps onto Metro track, dies
  • Politicians and Powerpoint! Bengal minister takes on Mamata the hi-tech way
  • Complete elections by Feb 15: HC to East Bengal
  • Maoist posters surface in south Kolkata
  • 15 shops gutted in midnight fire
  • Mamata pulls a prank at pool party
    • Sports
  • Kalighat beats Chirag United by 2-1
  • Sayantan, two others share lead
  • Saurav Ghosal scripts a fine win
  • I was ready for the blows and bruises, says Sourav