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December 16, 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
  • Mamata's speech at FICCI strikes chord, not business plans
  • Government rethink on township bar
  • Youth on the run after molesting kids
  • Pandit Ravi Shankar: A performer, a guru, an inspiration
  • Pandit Ravi Shankar: Music was his universe, his love, his weakness
  • Government plans urban haat in Rajarhat
  • New evaluation to make learning fun
  • Congress wants all-party meet on land bank
  • Tax defaulters dodge notices
  • Man held for killing woman
  • Scholars oppose Nobel celebration
  • A long-term plan to foil medicine fair pricing
  • Bus terminus in Salt Lake to get a facelift
  • Mamata Banerjee to shift key departments out of Writers'
  • Jobs soon for rebels who gave up arms
  • Sankrail land losers left in lurch
  • Mamata keeps her promise to Maoists
  • Chief minister inspects Eco Park project at Rajarhat
  • Mamata starts making room for parliamentary secretarys
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Theatre of World War III
  • Writer of many parts
  • I am a former IITian and attended the Pan IIT conference (Paribartan poser and Singur slap, December 9)
  • On sting radar: docs in baby sale near city
  • Gurung signal to Lepchas
  • Congress to shuffle SMC posts
  • Circus jumbo injures guard
    • Indian Express
  • Didi goes all out to woo investors to Bengal
  • UPA considers common mans concerns outdated
  • State to set up separate homes for children from minority communities
  • Fog cropper to Nitish-Didi meet
  • New Chief Justice of Calcutta HC
  • Mamatas policies driving away industrialists from state: Cong
  • President to visit Birbhum next week
  • HC first orders jail to Fin Secy, then relents
  • I-T commissioner faints during raid
  • On Day 7, Mamata appears for 3 mins
  • 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
  • Congress asks Mamata to reveal land bank in state
  • PIL filed seeking removal of VB vice-chancellor
  • Hakim unaware about high risk at Andal airport
  • Congress and Trinamool join hands for airport elections
  • Wife gets lessons in burglary on 1st night
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line