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News Headlines Archive

January 02, 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
  • Park Street begins New Year with office building blaze
  • Death plunge after party
  • Ustads sarod damaged during flight to city
  • Drunken youths thrash cops at picnic spot in Howrah
  • Ustad may take legal action
  • Statues at Maidan decked up in festive colours
  • Friends held for teen's death
  • Four killed in accidents in the city on New Year
  • Blaze at garments shop in Sealdah
  • Quick response helped: Fireman
  • Fire spoils New Year mood
  • City hits panic button after Park Street fire
  • Rally to seek Norway kids' release
  • Season's first snowfall in Hills
  • When They Struck A Chord
  • Cervical cancer cases on the wane in state: Study
  • Ambulances lose precious minutes at toll plaza queue
  • Wetland encroachment continues
  • Is everything lost? Artistes don't think so
  • Survey of 16 new Metro routes
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Whatever good has been done in the last 32 years will stand, it cant be negated
  • Year begins on perfect note for Rabindra Sarobar
  • Arrests on festive night
  • Fatal fall from highrise
  • HNY with speed thrills & a quick buck
  • Twin trials by fire on New Years Day
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Celsius 5, winter clothing 0.5 per head
  • Farmer ends life, cloud on cause
  • Miffed Mamata calls Delhi
  • Highway traffic in a shambles
  • Trinamul vows to obliterate Cong in Malda
  • Field day for merry-makers
  • Govt dusts off Karala clean-up plan
  • Party warms up with music, dance and food
  • Father kills 24-yr-old
    • Indian Express
  • No compromise on federal structure of Constitution: TMC
  • Cop-hiring drive a hit in Junglemahal
  • Asansol gets the first all-woman police station
  • Trinamool MLAs who forced Tata Motors Singur exit to visit Sanand Nano factory
  • Kolkata Confidential : Fair rise
    • Hindustan Times
  • Trinamool Congress rules out compromise on Lokpal Bill
  • Fire in Kolkata factory, no casualities reported
  • AMRI: 91 lives lost to save goods worth Rs 3 lakh
  • Six AMRI directors remanded in judicial custody till Jan 5
  • Honest cab man turns criminal
  • Trinamool Congress rules out compromise on Lokpal Bill
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line