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News Headlines Archive

February 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
  • Three friends found dead in paddy field
  • One held for student's gang rape in Falta
  • Congress joins Left to protest CM's no-bandh order
  • Business leaders slam Left for bandh call
  • Political violence batters state
  • The hostel room where Mujibar Rahman stayed
  • Dropout commits suicide in school
  • Businessman murdered
  • Tollywood stands by Nusrat
  • Fugitive duo dodges cops in Mumbai
  • Will Park Street cops answer for lapses?
  • Airlines insensitive towards disability
  • Notice to Ganga authority on pollution
  • Poet's birth centenary celebrations kick off in city
  • Five-star wedding bash for Didi nephew
  • Park Street rape case: Accused come up with a mystery sixth name
  • February 28 strike wont mean a holiday for WB govt staff
  • Whispers in tense Kolkata police headquarters reveal officers angst
  • Cops shunted in Kolkata car-rape case
  • Kolkata rape case fallout: Transfer of cops likely after budget session
  • Stags barred from most nightclubs in Kolkata
  • Anglo-Indians feel betrayed by WB govt, community leaders
  • Woman executive jumps off terrace in Kolkata
  • Most Presidency teachers opt to face interview
  • Mob ransacks Calcutta Tram Company's depot, wrecks 59 buses
  • Rs 10cr machine lying idle in BINP cathlab
  • Kingfisher may resume all Kolkata flights from Sunday
  • Woman molested in hotel room
  • Cars fail to meet green norms, taxi owners in a fix
  • Kolkata trader goes missing, cops fear kidnap
  • HC stays union polls at five colleges
  • Bill Gates lauds Mamata for fight against polio
  • Bomb scare at high court
  • I always work in a team, not alone: Damayanti Sen
  • Presidency lures foreign scholars
  • Student thrashed over loudspeaker protest
  • Notices to leaseholders of idle Salt Lake plots
  • Stir in Hooghly hits train services
  • Kingfisher to resume service today
  • Metro suicide disrupts services
  • CPM and Cong gun for top cop
  • Man accused of raping neighbour
  • Officers should've said no: Bedi
  • Family helps victim cope
  • Medical report not a must to prove gang rape: Lawyers
  • No SEZ status for Infosys, says West Bengal government
  • Metro services to go up by March end
  • Harappa gallery locked for 10 years
  • Couple found dead on tracks in Nadia
    • The Telegraph
  • First slur, then stigma
  • Trader trail ends in a canal
  • Mike ban gets back muscle
  • Govt tough on truant teachers
  • Craft from quake zone
  • Leave curb sparks protest
  • Cambridge calling: city boys stock up
  • You share your birthday with...
  • No need for sympathy, its empathy that is lacking
  • First-class status for AMRI five
  • Hospital reborn in satellite avatar
  • Tribute in verse on writer centenary
  • Single screens shut today
  • Echo of jumping the gun (continued)
  • Murder pre-planned: Wife
  • Surjya direct blame on CM
  • Beaten, then face smashed
  • Peoples anger claimed duo, says Trinamul
  • 31 patients stay away
  • CPM 7 get life for murders
  • GTA queries hit Trinamul growth
  • Gurung to meet PC on Feb 28
  • Duo raid traders house
    • Indian Express
  • Ex-CPM MLA among 2 killed in Burdwan
  • Govts leave circular hands ammo to Congress
  • CPM deaths due to mass outrage, not TMC instigation: Partha
  • CPM hits out at Trinamool, calls murders pre-planned
  • Infant dies at BC Roy Hospital, tension mounts
  • Bengal set to scrap its SEZ Act
  • New bridges in limbo as land acquisition dispute drags on
  • 485 Little Mahatmas win spot in Guinness Book of World Records
  • Kolkata Book fair Diary : Million footsteps
  • Protest disrupts Howrah-Burdwan rail line
    • Hindustan Times
  • No compromise on lokayukta, pension bill or FDI in retail
  • Kolkata: One AMRI director gets bail
  • Mamata skips NSG hub inauguration by Ch'baram
  • Country's security a shared responsibility: Chidambaram
  • 2 arrested in Kolkata rape case
  • Mamata to discuss NCTC, Teesta pact with PM tomorrow
  • Mamata to take up Farakka sluice gate issue with PM
  • Kolkata rape: Officer denies division among police
  • Kolkata rape: 14-day police custody for accused
  • Mamata targets centre over Farakka
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line