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December 23, 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
  • Chief minister takes stock of vegetable prices
  • Ex-Additional Solicitor General's book criticizes Centre
  • Shoppers, traders take on hawkers
  • Heli-charter services in state
  • Trader found murdered in Liluah
  • CM grants 16-acre land to Xavier's
  • Realty biz outshines religious Paus Mela
  • Leopard beaten to death by villagers
  • Support pours in for school
  • Govt launches Rs 41-crore drainage project for coastal areas
  • 14 injured in CPM-TMC clash
  • India's last polio victim waits in hope
  • Robbers barge into Salt Lake house, loot at gunpoint
  • Tea garden workers seek BPL status
  • Mamata Banerjee turns down 'Aadhaar' enrolment
  • 7-hour trauma for teachers, inspector
  • Union govt plans uniform coal supply
  • Not hankering for HoD's post, says Benjamin Zachariah
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Facebook protest hits the street
  • Fear and fury: What our readers have to say
  • Chhau is modern & traditional
  • Online passport boost
  • Leader joins exam protest
  • Santa CM lands early
  • Is it a gun or a rod, robber?
  • Raiganj youth held for court firing
  • Chhaiya Chhaiya on Darjeeling toy train
  • Gurung block on transfers
    • Indian Express
  • Senior Trinamool leader resigns during meeting at CMs residence
  • State govt announces flats for 78 of 132 evictees
  • Schemes for farmers: CM worried as banks miserably fail to meet target
  • CPM procession attacked, Biman lashes out at TMC
  • HC restricts new probe panel
  • Hooch deaths: Act against excise officials, WBHRC tells govt again
  • Tehatta firing a mistake: Mamata
  • Demise of Claudius irreparable loss to sports world
  • Delhi gangrape shocker makes govt act on buses with tinted glasses
  • English tips from Oxford
    • 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