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December 29, 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
  • Police seize bombs from CPI(M) office, 10 arrested
  • Hawkers gone, sales shoot up
  • Wishes from the last partygoers
  • Western twist to festive sweets
  • Pakistan rights panel chief to speak in Kolkata
  • Lady cops in disguise trap eve-teasers
  • Cement major to set up third unit in West Bengal
  • Malda gears up for bypolls
  • Man shot dead in Nanoor clash
  • Rights panel takes up Anisur Rehman remark
  • Official falls to death at new airport terminal
  • Elderly man jumps off building
  • Fliers hit, Met sounds fog alert
  • Fresh charge against rape accused
  • Humayun Kabir says sorry for threatening cashier
  • Mamata Banerjee holds hush-hush meet with Barla faction
  • Lynched woman yet to be identified
  • Villagers lock up MLA over bad road
  • Trinamool MP makes shocking statement on Kolkata Park Street rape
  • At 10 C, it's the coldest Dec day in a decade in Kolkata
  • Salt Lake caretaker's family robbed at gunpoint
  • Centre turns down CM's plea for techno park
  • Leopard strays into Hills colony
  • Tortured at home, widow gets justice in court
  • Gang rape case accused surrenders
  • IIM-C survey raises school stink
  • Kolkata misses digital deadline again, but govt refuses to blink
  • Finally, KMC to procure tridents from workshop
  • West Bengal plans private degree colleges
  • Commuter safety tops railway list
  • Mamata woos poor with special benefits
  • Woman lynched for 'trafficking' girls
  • Police complaint against minister
  • Ex-minister's filthy jibe at CM raises storm
  • Students protest attacks on women
  • Thakurpukur accused held in Bihar
  • 4 killed as car falls into canal
  • Truant cabbie in cop net
  • Official seeks FB help to rescue woman
  • Pranab, Zardari may attend Eden match
  • Recovered Pak patient regrets inability to watch India-Pakistan ODI
  • Mamata govt to eye employees through hidden cameras
  • Transport operators demo to throw city traffic out of gear
  • A bad year gone, will things look up for Mamata in 2013?
  • Mamata to officially kick-start panchayat poll campaign from New Year
  • Katwa girl's kin yet to be traced
  • Belda eatery shut down after attack on owner
  • Higher wages for unorganized workers
    • The Telegraph
  • Slice of life in season of change
  • Next-generation stent in operating theatres
  • Kathi roll record bid
  • Lit meet to host Nobel duo
  • Suicide whiff in elderly mans fatal fall
  • Funds block in sewer clean-up
  • Disney Holiday Magic
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Youll get mail from CPM
  • Scramble to plug damage
  • Darjeeling teacher transfers on hold
  • New Years Eve for you
  • Kabir apology, but to CM
  • CPM wishes Happy Bday
  • 5 die of cold in Malda
  • Mamata land sop for tea tribals
    • Indian Express
  • Another rape remark row, this time by TMC MP
  • Flawed birth control surgery claims 2 tribal womens lives
  • Rights panel seeks report from DGP on Anisur remark
  • CPM MLA asks how much CM will charge to get raped
  • 2 Bengal politicians outrage nation with sexist remarks
  • Amid tea workers, CM shirks starvation deaths
  • Airport official slips from roof of terminal, dies
  • Trinamool man killed in factional clash
  • 65 women police stations to tackle crime:Mamata
  • TMC passes the buck to Kakoli, but CPM slams its MLA for unacceptable remark
  • 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
  • Fate of Baranagar-barrackpore Metro hinges on KMC clearance
  • Land policy may help reduce number of displaced in state
  • TMC mulls social boycott to punish CPM leaders
  • Bengal is fogged out, transport hit
  • Anisur faces more flak under WBHRC scanner
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line