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December 17, 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
  • Trade union gang attacks steel firm GM at home
  • 2 killed as car falls into canal
  • Highway repairs in focus ahead of CM's N Bengal visit
  • Now, visa on arrival for Bangla citizens
  • Statehood demand in Gorkha Janmukti Morcha conference
  • 3 schools to switch board
  • Counselling put on hold, doctors suffer
  • 'You can't run a plant under cop watch'
  • When Grandpa Kapoor turned 100
  • Cops rescue Malda girl from traffickers
  • TMC-Cong clash over road project
  • Party begins on fun street
  • Archer shares the story of his life
  • Govt apathetic to tram track woes
  • The evergreen professor
  • Portrait of the Pandit as a pun-dit
  • Bar owner on the run after molesting singer
  • Class VI student dies in freak accident
  • Centre seeks states' help on chit funds
  • Railway job racket busted, 4 held
  • Rickety building to be razed for varsity
  • India better prepared than in 1962: Lt Gen Dalbir Singh,Eastern Command
  • Families come together in felicitation of Ekka family
  • Fake railways job racket busted in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Quiver full of quips in Oxbridge war
  • Power struggle corrodes culture centre
  • Baby-sale doctors under scan
  • Four in net over Rs 4cr job racket
  • 3 dead in twin accidents
  • Early close snaps Metro-suburban link
  • Spirit the winner at school fest
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Green tram with Aussie friends
  • School too far for cycle-less girls
  • Trinamul office in Burdwan hospital
  • Absconder molest accused roam free
  • Gurung casts Morcha net wide
  • Cong black flags greet ministers
  • Tea pals to garden aid
    • Indian Express
  • Bengals paddy cash transfer falters
  • TMC opposes UPAs direct cash transfer scheme
  • Centre will crack whip on chit fund: Pilot
  • Didi goes all out to woo investors to Bengal
  • UPA considers common mans concerns outdated
  • Enclaves new hub of cannabis cultivation
  • DVC expects to commission Purulia power plant in March
  • Mamatas policies driving away industrialists from state: Cong
  • President to visit Birbhum next week
  • 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