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December 25, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal raises quota for OBC Muslims
  • Chidambaram asks Buddhadeb to disarm armed CPI(M) cadres
  • No need for police on college campuses
  • Left Front to launch Rs 30cr media blitz against Didi
  • WB govt under fire over Rajarhat allotments
  • Buddhadeb's bid to reach consensus on industry
  • Air Deccan plane makes emergency landing
  • Suspected Maoists kill 4 in Jhargram
  • Buddhadeb unaware of any letter
  • Life term for Binayak Sen
  • Neurosurgeon Indrajit Roy will be new sheriff of Kolkata
  • CPM'S toughest fight
  • North Bengal University impasse: VC seeks Guv''s intervention
    • Times of India
  • Rly, doctors battle heart attack on Rajdhani Express
  • Now, pay car taxes online
  • Families plan festive cuts to beat price rise
  • Oppn must help in industrialisation: CM
  • Combo therapy gives hope
  • Joint operation nets Bangla fishing boat
  • Emergency landing after engine snag
  • Court orders social welfare dept to take care of Tahira
  • Shun violence, Guv tells students
  • Banka killer has death term reduced to life
    • The Telegraph
  • Night of revelry and day of gifts
  • Governor protests gherao
  • Rally ruckus takes the cake
  • Life-term for Banka killer
  • Foiled by snow? Fall back on sun and sand
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Protest plea to Tolly producers
  • Maoist clawback in cadre citadel
  • Rebels kill 4 in hotbed
  • CM rues absence of consensus on industry
  • Didi Haldia skip for Pranab no-show
  • Registration ban on 629
  • Yasmin custody to govt
  • Varsity refuses to register 629 students
  • GNLF makes comeback efforts
  • Unwanted by herd, calf finds home in Jaldapara
  • Mamata message in show skip
  • Dalai on solution through talks
  • Heritage tag for 100-yr-old church
  • Plains protest interim panel
  • 2 injured in land clash
    • Indian Express
  • Rescued girl prefers govt home over family
  • Bani Basu shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi award
  • Maoists kill social worker in Belpahari
  • Cops not needed in campus polls: Governor
  • On CPMs reign of terror, Trinamool gives PM 10-volume report
  • Cong takes a step back, accepts Trinamool stand
  • JPC impasse: Dialogue the only way, says Speaker
  • Meanwhile, Buddha heaps praise on PM
  • 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
  • Ajmer blast case: Car used for transporting bombs r...
  • Black money in foreign banks is bigger scam than 2G...
  • 42 killed in Pak suicide attack
  • Pranab rules out JPC probe into 2G spectrum scam
  • Lalit Modi gets relief; disciplinary committee proc...
  • Sixth day of agitation: Gujjars block another rail ...
  • JDS releases booklet on Yeddyurappa govt 'scams'
  • CBI searches Kalmadi home, may book him ...
  • Upgrade to tap millions more: Govt order...
  • NIA gets custody of Aseemanand to questi...
  • Binayak Sen gets life in prison for sedi...
  • How green a state is will decide how muc...
  • CBI questions Raja on Radia too
  • More than onion hike, pricey protein ite...
  • Delayed justice agai... - By sushil verma
  • Please discuss your ... - By rammohan
  • Terrorism - By Kalpathy Venkataraman
  • Anybody forgotten ka... - By Rahul Haldar
  • Faulty logic - By Jitendra
  • Extremely challenging to pretend to be blind: Deepika
  • Spotlight shifts to Pujara
  • Scam effect: Yeddyurappa may quit as CM
  • Tata Steel mulls 'alternatives' after Rio bid for Riversdale
  • PM warns of terror becoming internal intruding problem
    • Hindustan Times
  • Pranab rules out JPC probe into 2G spectrum scam
  • Meira Kumar open to special parliament session
  • Air Deccan plane makes emergency landing
  • Mamata takes on Cong, plans price protest
  • Alert in West Bengal till Republic Day
  • No decision taken yet on hiking LPG, diesel prices: Pranab
    • Sports
  • Aryan to meet Md. Sporting in final
  • Sujit Chakraborty appointed Mohun Bagan coach
  • Same mistakes again and again, says Sourav
  • Arpita is the first casualty