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December 22, 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
  • Derailment affects train services
  • Kolakata marches against rape
  • Business body bats for Singur settlement
  • New professor accuses President of breach of trust
  • Cops on hunt for wily agent who preys on elderly people
  • Imagine Kolkata without garbage vats
  • Two cops injured in clash
  • Bangla man held for HuJI links
  • Missing girl rescued from Bihar
  • Tehatta firing: Media under lens
  • King of small screen passes away
  • Hooghly doctor fined
  • The blind seek their due in teacher recruitment
  • Teen kidnapped at gunpoint, gang-raped
  • HC: Sainbari panel can't probe 2 terms
  • Hooch tragedy: Rights body takes on govt
  • Hills celebrates fest, Chaiyya Chaiyya style
  • Fog disrupts several flights
  • Kids' films to spice up season of merrymaking
  • Desi look for Christ this Xmas
  • CM, Amit Mitra meet bankers
  • Kind words, tough action
  • Allow Bengal films in Bangla: Partha
  • Locals send failed girls' boyfriends packing
  • Goons pose threat to 'Gunday' shoot
  • Kolkata train's women vigilante's losing fight
  • Visiting Darj? Brace for paying taxes
  • HRC slams 'review' on Mamata in hooch killings
  • Stolen and found in Kolkata: A bus
  • Somen visits Cong MP's function
  • Burn Standard holds back part of salary of over 700 staff
  • West Bengal finance secretary to attend Cabinet meet
  • Tehatta remains cold to Mamata bounty
  • Suspected HuJI activist arrested
  • Minister eyes 'Incredible India' ad to showcase Bengal
  • Panel formed to probe Howrah girl's death
  • 3 new GoAir flights from February
  • 20 senior cops transferred in IPS reshuffle in Bengal
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation land auction may fetch 1K crore
  • Mamata to meet Burdwan TMC leaders on December 22
  • Arrests put Bongaon on a knife's edge
  • CPM-TMC workers clash in Keshpur
  • Scientists develop software to help the hearing impaired
  • 40 families return to Nonadanga
  • Cinema is business, and cultural connect too
  • Buddha rally on Nandigram border
  • World experts in Kolkata to chart history on waves
  • Dog hospital gets a cool facelift
  • Higher Secondary exams: Teachers get death threats
  • School agitation in West Bengal: Glimmer of hope in campus of anarchy
    • The Telegraph
  • Residents block school virus
  • Winter winds hit a block
  • Bangla focus at film conclave
  • HuJI man on hire drive
  • Daily flight to Singapore
  • Salman plays Santa to fans
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Passports returned to AMRI duo
  • School sticks to stand
  • Passport touts rule as cops nap
  • Cant control, says Trinamul
  • HC sets Sainbari probe limits
  • Tighter vigil at pous mela
  • Raiganj youth held for court firing
  • Chhaiya Chhaiya on Darjeeling toy train
  • Gurung block on transfers
    • Indian Express
  • School gherao: Govt gives clean chit to Education Council
  • Huji operative wanted in Khadim abduction case held
  • Norway row: Mother moves High Court for custody of children
  • At Singur, chorus of talk to Tatas grows loud
  • President urges students to focus on research works
  • Hooch deaths: Act against excise officials, WBHRC tells govt again
  • Delhi gangrape shocker makes govt act on buses with tinted glasses
  • Demise of Claudius irreparable loss to sports world
  • Tehatta firing a mistake: Mamata
  • Santoshpur school gherao replicated across state
  • 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
  • Direct cash transfer won't push up inflation: Basu
  • Students fail, hold teachers hostage
  • Power sector rise must to spur growth, says Scindia
  • Congress asks Mamata to reveal land bank in state
  • PIL filed seeking removal of VB vice-chancellor
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line