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News Headlines Archive

January 11, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • PSBJC calls bandh against Netai killings
  • Paddy output may fall 40% in West Bengal
  • Court admits plea for CBI probe into Netai violence
  • Post-Lalgarh, CPM strengthens armed camps near site
  • Buddhadeb flags off Mobile Archaeological Museum
  • Senior officer to monitor recovery of illegal arms in West Bengal
  • Bhunia writes to Mamata for 'joint movement'
  • West Bengal to intensify drive against illegal arms
  • Trinamool leader found with Reds arrested for aiding them
  • Another CPI(M) supporter killed
  • Buddhadeb to visit Delhi in January third week
  • Police bullets used in Lalgarh firing: Mamata
  • Bengal violence "unacceptable"
  • Ten picnickers die in accident
  • Fire in Kolkata cold storage triggers panic
  • Ganguly a victim of politics: Somnath Chatterjee
  • Lalgarh killings: Court asks Bengal govt to produce case diary
  • West Bengal's violent politics
  • Support for Dada grows after IPL snub
  • Railways sign deal for axle unit in Bengal
  • Love and other Variables
    • Times of India
  • Nabbed TMC leader's kin in dark
  • Three held for clash
  • Buddha shows the way by giving up discretionary quota
  • Buddha keeps PC call' on hold
  • Top law officer wants CBI to probe Netai
  • Pre-'93 taxis defy HC order, back on roads
  • Lift to encourage use of 1st floor waiting room at Howrah station
  • Kolkata scholars to get access to British Library's Bengali shelf
  • Close shave in gas inferno
  • Keep out, say Botanic authorities
    • The Telegraph
  • Day of blaze & bridge collapse
  • Overloaded trucks take a tumble
  • Infrastructure lack trips Bypass traffic
  • Jewel thief in jail after twin
  • Data on lifestyle ailments
  • Govt rejects UGC proposal on principal
  • Celsius sights sub-10 in chilly city
  • You share your birthday with...
  • 100 buses for book fair
  • Firemen fail readiness test
  • Fog upsets railway schedule
  • Political clash disrupts trains
  • CM Delhi trip after politburo evidence
  • Adequate seats plea to Sonia
  • Poll account, shadow roster to plug bribe
  • Lawyers association files PIL on Netai
  • CPM sees own failure
  • Winters tale: blocked sun & wind
  • Assam rally to garner state support
  • More forces sought for NH31A
  • Too loud to be music to Gangtok ears
  • Plea for tiger breeding
  • Curbs slash wild produce sales
  • Boy missing after van crash
  • Students seek study tour out of Bengal
  • Siliguri link to cyber arrest
  • Trinamul for selfish cadres: Biman
    • Indian Express
  • PCAPAs bandh against killings shuts 3 districts
  • Buddha writes back to PC, will visit Delhi by next week
  • Fearing Central teams visit, CPM dismantles armed camps
  • HC admits PIL for CBI probe
  • EC takes over voter slip distribution from Bengal officials
  • IIM-C fest ends with a novel deed
  • Partners demand more seats from CPM
  • Singur will get factory: CM
  • Intellectuals take out protest rally, seek early polls to end violence
  • Seizure of arms top priority in Bengal: CEC
  • Lalgarh massacre: 2 km from spot, cops took 4 hours to reach
  • PM: India ready to utilise nuclear opportunities
  • Jaitapur project safe, say nuclear experts
  • HC asks civic body to take action against illegal construction
    • Hindustan Times
  • Killings and political clashes in Bengal totally unacceptable : Pranab
  • Congress block president shot dead in WB
  • Police use teargas to disperse mob near Buddhadeb's rally site
  • Who is responsible for worsening law and order in WB: Pranab
  • Will set up industry in Singur if people want: Buddhadeb
  • Pranab, Moily express concern over law and order in Bengal
    • Sports
  • You don't have a team in Kolkata without Sourav Ganguly: Shah Rukh Khan
  • Kolkata open to Ganguly involvement
  • Ganguly's exclusion not purely on cricketing basis: Kapil Dev
  • Poulomi to miss Nationals