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December 19, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal Governor talks to Chief Minister on student violence issue
  • Bharati Shipyard defers West Bengal plan
  • Spectrum scam indicates deeply entrenched crony capitalism
  • Purulia bandh passes off peacefully
  • Mock fire-drill at Bengal Secretariat
  • Mamata issues veiled threat to Centre
  • Four killed, eight injured in road accident
  • A day in the life of a garbage dump
  • CPI(M) hiring 'superi killers' to murder students: Mamata
  • Rabindranath Tagore is more relevant than ever
  • Music for the soul
  • Bengali bands rock - and make themselves heard!
    • Times of India
  • Campus violence should stop: Buddhadeb
  • Six schoolkids arrested for torturing
  • CCTVs faulty, security chink at New Market
  • Higher educations sop for minorities
  • Mamata denies TMCP involvement
  • Writers' wakes up to fire hazard
  • Hooghly potato on Israel platter
  • For Bengal's sake, CPM should've gone 10 yrs ago
  • Daylong drama over students' arrests
  • Quiz throws new light on Ray's genius
    • The Telegraph
  • First lady doctor of India
  • Next weekend you can be at ... Hee Bermiock
  • SFI duo arrested for college violence
  • Morcha calls off hills strike
  • CM plea to Opposition
  • Call centre youth run over
  • MA no ticket out of van-pullers job
  • Hope for trapped ship
  • Bloc four visit Purulia
  • See-for-yourself invite to Rahul
  • Gherao for manager ouster
  • Killings a backlash at police informers
  • Night raid on express, jawan hurt
  • Rethink plea on skywalk, plant
  • Tusker hurts son, mom
  • Witch spat ends, mom back
  • NBU dithers over action on ragging
  • Principal falls to 12-hour gherao
  • Boy shot dead in forest
    • Indian Express
  • Katiyar wants PM statement
  • Governor calls for pvt participation in defence sector
  • Parties engage in battle for villages
  • 5 students arrested for Hajra violence
  • CM says people need to resist terror unleashed by Trinamool
  • Target: 2011 Assembly Polls
  • Three arrested with fake currency
  • Mamata calls for CBI probe in student deaths
  • Trinamool supporter held
  • Govt rules out early tripartite talks on Darjeeling
  • Campus violence tarnishing states image: Governor
  • CPM-Trinamool clashes leave six injured in Hooghly
  • Maoists blow up house of CPM man in Lalgarh
  • Maoists kill 7 Bloc members in Jhalda
  • Severe punishment should be given to the corrupt: R...
  • Mulayam slams Mayawati's 'terror' tactics
  • Madhya Pradesh tops in rape cases, Nagaland ranks l...
  • Was a bloody fool to loose talk (with Radia): Ex-CI...
  • 'US was worried about possible Third Front govt for...
  • Man detained for alleged link to Varanasi blast let...
  • Senior Congress leader Kodoth Govindan nair passes ...
  • To play with food when we have no certa...
  • Not by fiery rhetoric alone
  • Corruption - By gp singh
  • No tolerance for cor... - By srikanth nagabiru
  • No tolerance for cor... - By Krishna
  • The year end joke! - By John
  • After anonymous call, Varanasi blast suspect detained at airport
  • Stop blabbering: Thackeray tells Rahul
  • Teenaged girl kidnapped in Delhi
  • Pakistan says India using terror as 'propaganda tool'
  • India fight back, still trail by 294 runs
    • Hindustan Times
  • Accused in Kolkata campus violence case granted bail
  • BJP wants PM's statement on Rahul's 'Hindu terror' remark
  • SFI students marching to Mamata's residence not true: CPI-M
  • Maoists kill 7 Forward Bloc members
  • 15 shops gutted in midnight fire
  • Mamata pulls a prank at pool party
    • Sports
  • Railways thrashes Bengal to enter quarterfinals
  • Sudip and Vivek shore up Bengal total
  • Pune FC holds Chirag United
  • All’s not well with Bengal