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December 24, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • City to face dry future: IISc study
  • SFI asks Bengal Govt. to act on violence
  • Bengal Congress MLAs stage walk-out
  • Kolkata residents protest proposed Nuclear power plant
  • GJM hopeful of setting up regional authority
  • Mamata launches veiled attack on Congress
  • Buddhadeb denies CPI(M) misused Central forces
  • 17 % quota for OBC students in Bengal
  • Mamata Banerjee’s dadagiri continues in West Bengal
  • Trinamool delegation meets PM, talks Bengal situation, price rise
  • Four shot dead by suspected Maoists
  • Theme based Christmas cakes herald social messages in Siliguri
  • Hema to make a film with Aparna Sen
    • Times of India
  • Renowned Bengali writer shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi award
  • Mamata: Time is up for CPM, joint forces
  • State places VAT hike bill in assembly
  • 17% higher edu quota for OBCs
  • Govt boon for underprivileged IIT-ian
  • HC refuses to stop work on rly overbridge in Dankuni
  • Varsity heat on Malda college over admissions
  • Royalty row: Music ban at Swabhumi
  • Season of joy for street children
  • Water supply hit after pipe leak
    • The Telegraph
  • ... Despite the party-poopers
  • Festive scan on tipple and steer
  • Breach disrupts water supply
  • HC scan on test delay
  • 62-yr-old in rescue act as police fail
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Governor made to wait at airport
  • Mamata price-rise jab at Congress, CPM
  • Cong bid to mollify Didi
  • Stab & assault at college poll
  • Buddha nurtures an IIT dream
  • Teacher transfer bill
  • Rivals ready for polls, not hill set-up
  • NOC hurdle for Buddhist school
  • Experts visit green wonder
  • 3 rescued leopards bound for Calcutta zoo
  • Strikes off, its Christmas time
  • Plea to CM for a lit-up Dec. 25
  • Teacher transfer bill passed
  • Peon home attack after molest
  • Officers seek arrest of CPM men
  • Dental college hostel
    • Indian Express
  • In Jan CEC to come calling in Bengal
  • No withdrawal of joint forces now, Buddha tells House
  • Another Mamata broadside for Cong: Bought over by CPM
  • Bengal govt clears 17 pc OBC quota in higher education
  • House silent on onion price, Speaker pulls up both sides
  • More protests against Haripur power plant
  • Ban on 15-year-old vehicles: HC seeks status report
  • Seven members dead in Maoist attack, Bloc sings different tune
  • Mamata rebuffs Cong on joint rally offer
  • Trinamool says youth killed by SFI, cops say train accident
  • Light at the end of Darjeeling tunnel
  • Two killed in Parulia
  • United Opposition tries to block panchayat board education bill
  • On the backfoot, Kalmadi says he didn't take decisi...
  • Human rights activist Binayak Sen sentenced to life...
  • Scam effect: Yeddyurappa may quit as CM
  • Israel destroyed Syria nuclear reactor: WikiLeaks
  • 2G scam: A Raja faces investigator CBI
  • TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu in ICU on eighth day of...
  • Maharashtra on high alert after Assam warns about t...
  • Enough talk, set up JPC: BJP rejects UPA...
  • Want to step down, RAW chief tells PM; b...
  • I-T to set up special cell to track paym...
  • YSR vacuum cures Cong of Rao amnesia: ad...
  • Goods train hit as Pakistan sits on visa...
  • At Bainsla School of Protest, indiscipli...
  • HC refuses interim relief for Adarsh
  • Kalmadi - By Mallikarjuna s j
  • On the back foot... - By k p chandra
  • Yeddy quitting as cm - By NIRANJAN
  • Reddy throws a bone,... - By Indian
  • Late awakening - By KS Raghunathan
  • BJP blames Nehru's 'erroneous' vision for problems in Kashmir
  • Sachins brilliance shadowed Indias first-Test woes
  • Four LeT militants in Mumbai for terror attacks: Cops
  • Katrina, Salman downloads highest in 2010: Survey
  • NKorea 'ready for sacred war' as South holds major drill
  • Naidu shifted to ICU; Chief Minister adamant
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata takes on Cong, plans price protest
  • Mamata Banerjee talks of resignation, then backtracks
  • 'Maoists, Trinamool evil'
  • 10 escape unhurt in Maoist blast
  • WB plans to give Metro stake to railways
  • Investors to watch Bengal polls: Yeo
    • Sports
  • Chirag net one, miss too many
  • Biswas is Sporting's hero
  • Bhaichung to start own football club