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News Headlines Archive

July 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
  • War of words between Kolkata Municipal Corporation and scientists over arsenic amount in water
  • Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority lines up plans to develop city infrastructure
  • Arsenic may contaminate paddy, vegetables: Subrata Mukherjee
  • Land formalities hold up Katwa power project
  • Worry over E-W Metro route change
  • Didi's dole sparks tension in Singur, political war brews
  • Price worry takes CM to market
  • UBI launches software to combat cyber fraud
  • View from the outside
  • Panic in hospital after mysterious blast
  • Centre to help revive trams
  • No respite from heat
  • Jharkhand girls raped at Rampurhat station
  • Two CPM men shot dead in Nadia
  • Medical counselling in state to start on July 17
  • Kolkata girl gets her flying officer pips at Dundigul
  • Two injured in explosion in Kolkata Medical College Hospital
  • Air India website puts flight chartered for BSF on sale
  • I don't care for death threats, says feisty activist
  • Women in arms fight for justice
  • Traumatized schoolgirl refuses to attend classes
  • Pinki remanded in jail custody for 14 days
  • High court trims down Botanic garden entry fee
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation team to visit arsenic-prone areas
  • CM wants Left to press for moratorium
  • 31 budgets sent to 'guillotine'
  • Boatmens strike cripples Sunderbans vigil
  • Hygiene whip on food vendors
  • GPS helps cops nab hijackers
  • State regularizes transfer policy in colleges
  • Angry over divorce, man hacks wife in court
  • Latest IAF choppers inducted in Barrackpore
  • Birthday celebrations give political fodder in Bengal
  • Funds shortage hits Mamata Banerjee's 100-day work project
  • MGNREGA: Mamata govt fails to perform in Naxalite-affected districts
  • Brand 'Durga' to be marketed in Bengal during festivities
  • Teacher strips girl in co-ed classroom
  • No Monday visits to Botanic Garden
  • Hotel security officer found dead in flat
  • Parties play politics over disabled athlete rape
  • Wedding drama in courtroom
  • Online SSC admit cards from July 9
  • Boy 'ragged' in school, complaint lodged
  • Bride in shock, family files FIR
  • Anger and bonhomie at Mamata-Gurung meet
  • Suicide at Kolkata Metro cripples services
  • Lightening kills five in Basirhat
  • Expelled CPM leader fires fresh salvo
    • The Telegraph
  • Straight talk on the crooked back
  • Health care with a humane face
  • Whose heart is it anyway?
  • Prevention the best treatment
  • Prayer meet for Lapierre
  • Next weekend you can be at ... Rajabhatkhawa
  • City hospital blast, chemical theory floated
  • 11 goals in Euro final
  • Mamata cracks price whip
  • Morcha to contest hill polls for growth
  • CM seals choke channel fate
  • Girl raped at station, cousin molested
  • Gurung signals protest pause
  • Girl drowns in raging river
  • Symbol plea before talks
  • Burdwan airbase plan
  • Quota cry by hill SCs & tribes
    • Indian Express
  • Trinamool-Congress spat reaches Singur
  • Two teens raped at Rampurhat rly station
  • GJM to contest, no truck with Trinamool
  • Discipline to be restored down to booth level
  • One injured in blast at hospital
  • CM visits markets, warns of strict action against hoarders
  • Left Front wants all-party meet
    • Hindustan Times
  • Pranab Mukherjee to resign on June 24 as finance minister
  • Pinki Pramanik suspended from railways' job
  • Trinamool not dependent on Cong: Bengal Minister
  • Mamata happy for 'overwhelming' response to Kalam appeal on Facebook
  • Whatever I have to say I will say on Facebook : Mamata
  • Court directs chromosome pattern test for Pinki Pramanik
  • Fire continues to rage in ECL mine, security guard missing
  • Sangma meets Mamata, gets no response
  • Mukherjee seeks support from all
  • Labourer dies in Bengal well
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line