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News Headlines Archive

January 12, 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
  • Trinidad PM reads a page from Hooghly history
  • Hands-off land policy may not work: Stiglitz
  • Under siege in college for 2 hours, principal faints
  • City CAT toppers score perfect 100
  • Govt gets projects worth Rs 1K crore
  • Follow the bauls and fakirs in Nadia
  • Cheaper liver transplant to save 5000 lives
  • Businessman shot in Howrah
  • Presidency gets UGC green light for funds
  • Education in Bengal on the guillotine
  • Season's first snowfall in Ghoom
  • 4 students injured as buses collide on NH-2
  • Mumbai biz body invites CM
  • Officials told to show up for Bengal Leads
  • Govt may ask chief secy to stay on
  • Bhowanipore riot accused rearrested
  • Retail realty commands unreal prices
  • Airport services hit rock bottom
  • Pranksters' pastime: Dial M for mischief
  • Wild beauties captured on camera
  • College proposal to set up solar modules on wetlands
  • Perfect 100, but will it mean a place in IIM?
  • College principal gheraoed, faints
  • No check on meter fudging
  • KMC drive to clear parks of advertisement clutter
  • Pakistan scamsters on the prowl too
  • Tech or travel, web magazines turn into a craze in Bengal
  • Beware of that unknown missed call
  • TMC man shot over college polls
  • Hunt for concept car hub brings GM to state
  • India's first tiger rescue centre in Sunderbans
  • Hawkers encroach Bankim Setu, arrested
  • Three criminals nabbed
  • 'Excited to visit a country where my roots lie'
  • State plans to boost rural job scheme
  • Gorkha girls to participate in Mumbai marathon
  • Summit to showcase Aerotropolis
  • More proposals as Partha meets biz teams
  • Cops yet to get CCTV cover
  • High court frames rules for termination of para-teachers
  • Tax waiver soon for Salt Lake residents
  • Cops, foresters drive turtles into river
  • Cong, CPM blocking road to development: Mamata
  • Campus violence: Surjya meets governor
  • Mamata clears Presidency 'excellent' tag proposal
  • Rally to reunite kids with parents
  • North Bengal Festival from Feb 10
  • Land Won't Be A Hurdle, CM Tells Biz Biggies
  • CM rises above politics to keep Bengal in business
  • Bengal is your dreamland too, CM tells industrialists
    • The Telegraph
  • Mamata leads, who follows?
  • Rally raj on traffic panel plate
  • HC hands off college poll
  • The future of city travel
  • Play it again, Pervez Mody
  • Putt and drive for a cause
  • Day of the jackal in runway jam
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Presi allowed UGC grants
  • Truck triggers school bus mishap
  • HC seeks pollution report
  • Hasina tells India to be lion-hearted
  • Mining tool project at Andal
  • Look whos wielding Left weapon
  • Assault spurs rural strike call
  • Six flee Sikkim jail
  • New college head goes on indefinite leave
  • KPP cries bias by govt, calls agitation
  • Probe team visits agro varsity
  • Hasina plea for a generous neighbour
  • Ball set rolling for golf course revival
  • MP sees ally role in funds delay
  • Snowfall sweeps Tiger Hill
  • Siliguri trader missing
    • Indian Express
  • Nobel laureate slams Mamatas land policy
  • Another principal beaten up, rift in alliance widens
  • A govt short of funds doles out cash for Jhargram fest
  • Set up panel on air pollution
  • Find ways to decongest traffic
    • Hindustan Times
  • Local fights root of Cong-Trinamool hostility: Mausam
  • Trinamool rally: Bengal ruling allies at it again
  • No Mamata for Cong, TMC pushes ally into corner
  • Skeleton recovery case: 2 Bengal cops suspended
  • Custody of AMRI accused extended till January 19
  • Mamata urges people in junglemahal not to get scared of Maoist
  • GTA Bill at present under inter-ministerial consultation
  • Trinamool-Cong rift deepens, verbal spat continues
  • 'Congress must say if it is with us or Marxists'
  • Trinamool holds fire, offers talks
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line