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News Headlines Archive

January 24, 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
  • Mamata Banerjee, Jairam Ramesh avoid each other
  • Manipur assembly polls: Mamata Banerjee to address rally
  • Ramesh, Subrata discuss rural jobs
  • New forest rail track sparks fear of jumbo deaths
  • Kids to march dressed as Bapu
  • 6 killed, 20 injured in road accident
  • Now, take a bus from Tagore tank to Nazrul
  • Two senior AMRI staff arrested
  • 'Tagoreana' brings Netaji grandson to city
  • Government plans battery-operated pod cars near airport
  • Fire victims bank on government rehabilitation
  • Book fair to celebrate culture too
  • Farm loan riddle in debt-trap districts
  • ATM's door collapse severs woman's finger
  • Subba hints at fresh stir for Gorkhaland
  • Medha Patekar assaulted after accident
  • 18-year-old paraded semi-naked
  • Left leaders garland Netaji statue first
  • Governor counters Mamata on farmer suicides
  • Mamatas poetic tribute to TMC, mother
  • GTA committee to seek extension
  • Exotic veggies now staple fare
  • Two babies die in front of Bengal minister during surprise visit to Malda hospital
  • Children paint Hooghly dreams
  • Slum fire: Govt promises compensation
  • A cattle track that poses as expressway
  • Mamata may grace mass marriage on Valentines Day
  • Howrah kids traced in Bangalore
  • Lal Dighi parking to get hi-tech security touch up
  • Mamata pens two more Bengali books
  • Slum fire: Woman saves neighbour, baby
  • A few fingers together make a fist
  • Bureaucrats, netas batted for green
  • Wetland wall smashed into pile of rubble
  • Fire rips through 100 shanties in Kolkata, no casualties
  • Mamata meets Siddiqullah at Writers
  • Netaji birthday plan: Asok Ghosh left out in the cold
  • Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri to be part of HS English syllabus
  • State opposes special status for AMRI bosses
  • Drugs kingpin Shamim arrested
  • Bheri vested with govt: Wetland body
  • 136 AI Exp fliers stranded at airport for over 24 hrs
  • Govt stops takeover of 43-bigha city wetland
  • Wait got longer as flight captain needed rest
  • Abducted boy returns home after 80 days
  • Court protects widows pension rights
  • Capsized Italian ships captain misled the crew: Survivor
  • Harassed Presidency University first-year student slashes wrist in hostel
  • State power utility goes hi-tech
    • The Telegraph
  • Book city gets a bookmark
  • A piece of Presidency for sale
  • North Wind in winter sails
  • Trim drive in transport units
  • 90 families affected in slum blaze
  • Mamata kin holds roadhog camp
  • Tagores idea of unity & progress
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Rival courtesy, tempered with barbs
  • MK touches farmer suicide raw nerve
  • Shot through door planks
  • Chhatrey hints at comeback
  • Brand boost for Bhaichung boys
  • Truck smashes into bus, six die
  • Cong student arrested
    • Indian Express
  • Guv counters Mamata: Farmer suicides taking place in Bengal
  • Ramesh bats for RDOs in rural Bengal
  • Didi steals thunder on Netajis birthday
  • Rights body will be given a quiet burial: minister
  • 6 killed in Malda mishap
  • AMRI fire: 2 more held
  • Trinamool plays poaching game on Cong
    • Hindustan Times
  • Trinamool to contest 48 seats in 60-member assembly in Manipur
  • Mamata the fighterand writer
  • Bengal invites Microsoft to set up research base in state
  • Mamata defends doctors in crib deaths
  • GNLF president Subash Ghising to take Govt to Court
  • Medha Patkar's car hits boy, stoned
  • Mamata the fighterand writer
  • Teacher's bank account shows Rs 500 bn - courtesy wrong entry
  • GNLF president Subash Ghising to take Govt to Court
  • 8 infants die in West Bengal's Malda district hospital
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line