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News Headlines Archive

January 01, 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
  • Fire in Kolkata building, no casualties
  • Fear & frenzy on Park Street
  • Coal price hike to hit power utilities in state
  • Meet your favourite authors this book fair
  • Our envy their pride
  • Rajarhat to get new arterial road
  • Chaos at hospital after woman diagnosed with HIV
  • Nobel laureate's life on silver screen
  • Media executive passes away
  • Cong men, train passengers clash
  • IAS postings: Govt adopts trial and error method
  • Trinamool supporter gunned down
  • Power officials dismayed
  • PCC jittery over Big Brother's flip-flop
  • Another held for attack on ONGC officer
  • IPS officers balk at decision on posting & transfers
  • Airport fire triggers panic at upcoming terminal
  • KMC-commissioned report listed Chowbagha bheri in 2003
  • Stop-work notice to save Ramsar site
  • State raises age limit for Group C & D jobs to 40
  • Riverside beautification: Howrah to get first makeover in decades
  • 14th century manuscripts restored
  • Motorman foils Metro suicide bid
  • Mamata campaigns against hooch menace
  • Allies bicker over Indira Bhavan name change
  • Tea garden deaths spark starvation controversy
  • Presidency University waits for 'excellence' tag
  • Reviving a temple town
  • Weaving a heritage dream
  • Man rapes wife, kills her
  • Lack of coordination in Team TMC
  • Mamata may keep Cong guessing till rural polls
  • Campaign launched against bheri fill-up
  • "Repentant" Hossain to sit out a few matches for team
  • Govt may lose 6K cr on specified UTI assets
  • Court to decide on R S Agarwal's custody on Jan 2
  • Bandel residents relieved after arrests
  • Music fair play at party zones on New Year's Eve
  • Commuters spot smoke, panic at Metro station
  • CP demonstrates at Writers'
  • Man shot dead in front of son
  • Seven nabbed for promoter's murder
  • Gang of five raids bank in Howrah, loots Rs 36 lakh
  • Land sharks devour 43 bigha at Ramsar site
  • PM writes to Didi on law for slum-dwellers
  • Madan Tamang murder accused killed in Hills
  • School service commission
  • Bank refuses to issue credit card to Armyman serving in J&K
    • The Telegraph
  • Dad, never late in Didis land
  • Left closing in on govt soft spot: industry
  • CM not to rename Indira Bhavan
  • Barrage water for clean-up
  • Night to heat up for New Year
  • Rs 3 crore to rebuild houses
  • Rare wild dogs spotted in Buxa
  • Fun-packed fair lined up for Darjeeling farmers
  • Siliguri eatery sealed
    • Indian Express
  • 4 hurt in Park Street fire extinguisher explosion
  • Cong expresses serious concern over renaming of Indira Bhavan
  • Bengal govt sanctions Rs 6 crore for Karala river clean-up
  • Minor fire at under-construction airport terminal
  • Scrolls of traditions
  • Scoring against odds
    • Hindustan Times
  • Post-Kishenji, Maoists maybe down, but not out
  • 21-day-old dies after drunk sweeper pulls off O2 mask
  • People punished Left Front for corruption: Buddha
  • Up in arms against hooch sale
  • Bengal seeks Rlys help to curb hooch menace
  • Former Goa CM DSouza to join Trinamool today
  • Rai murder case: Darjeeling Police launch man hunt
  • Madan Tamang murder accused found dead
  • Aussie couple visits Darjeeling every year on Christmas
  • Six infant deaths in 10 hours in Malda hospital
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line