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News Headlines Archive

July 06, 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
  • Science Express wows students
  • Drive to create awareness among people against rabies
  • Bike-borne gang shoots teacher in Gaighata
  • Civic bodies told to file affidavits on arsenic in water
  • Kolkata mayor-Bengal minister spat over veggie shops
  • Swami Vivekananda a Presidency University alumnus? 132-yr-old coupon claims so
  • Soaring vegetable prices: New band of middlemen playing havoc
  • Jadavpur University professor's arrest: Kolkata Police chief appears before rights body
  • Maoist situation has improved in Bengal, says Chidambaram
  • Romance blooms in pursuit of physics
  • Homemaker tonsured, stripped by villagers in Bengal
  • Mamata govt forms anti-graft branch
  • Gender test result not yet out, but Bengal govt mentions Pinki Pramanik as male
  • HC lawyer to file PIL on Pinki Pramanik's detention
  • Higher education in Bengal set to get 'private' boost through new bill
  • Sibal meets Mamata, skips any mention of Pranab Mukherjee
  • Bengal minister accuses Buddhadeb, opposition leader of housing 'scam'
  • Regional passport office to organise passport mela
  • Rebel who led cops to Kishanji arrested
  • Panel clean chit to CPM leaders in Quasem death
  • 90,000 detonators defused in Kolaghat
  • Amit Mitras date with American business brass in Washington
  • Pinki case: Rights body steps in
  • Price fight too little, too late
  • Dada tax, the missing link in price hike chain
  • God particle: India's city of boson basks in eureka moment
  • Tree census set to begin in Kolkata
  • Tea Board explores possibilities of trade with Taiwan
  • Traffic signals go awry
  • West Bengal creates task force to control rising vegetable prices
  • Kolkata's monumental surprise! Shahid Minar's bronze crown
  • Cool in wholesale, chilli burns in retail
  • Mamata Banerjee sends Amit Mitra to US on business mission
  • Murder syndicate busted, 5 in police net
  • Basirhat Cong leader held for murder
  • Pattaya gets a taste of Tollywood flavours
  • Trinamool Congress wants strong action against Sikha Mitra
  • Two students held for stealing motorcycle
  • Bank official threatens client, held
  • Presidency Jail inmates go on hunger strike
  • Ex-student becomes Jadavpur vice chancellor
  • Woman's body found in drain
  • Victoria Memorial Hall to get mega makeover
  • New lifetime tax to make cars costlier, bill in House tomorrow
  • Battery cars, green buildings to power 'solar city' Rajarhat
  • Got a rupee to spare? You can co-produce a movie
  • Voices come out in support of tormented Pinki Pramanik
  • After rape charge, MMS shock for Asiad gold medallist Pinki Pramanik
  • 'Kolkata has arsenic patients'
  • Webcon plans to set up Entrepreneur Nurturing Centre
    • The Telegraph
  • Aligned: Metro and Mamata
  • House seal on lifetime road tax
  • CMs nod to common test
  • Plea for Pinkis release
  • Eye of the fish for focus on gold
  • Rights summons for top cop
  • Cable man thinks out of the box
  • You share your birthday with...
  • HC seeks drinking water report
  • State veggie sale plan in rot
  • Threat call to principal, finger at drug accused
  • Cop shoots at himself
  • Voice of life from the depths of hell
  • Trinamul exacts parking fee
  • Microchip scanner on library
  • Cong walkout over debt jibe
  • Graft watch on babus
  • GTA list of 32 but no Gurung
  • Sikkim slide halts traffic
  • Murder ignites Raiganj rage
    • Indian Express
  • Trinamool faces flak as UPA beats drum
  • Mamata cartoon row: Rights panel summons police commissioner
  • Govt puts Buddha in dock, alleges scam in flat allotment to CPM leaders
  • After meet with Didi, Trivedi does U-turn on Pranab
  • PIL alleges rights violation of Pinki
  • High Court orders Rs 5 lakh relief for death of undertrial
  • GTA polls: GJM announces candidates for 32 more seats
    • Hindustan Times
  • MMS showing Pinki Pramanik undergoing gender test goes viral online
  • Kolkata hospital to dismiss 80 docs for striking
  • Pranab Mukherjee to resign on June 24 as finance minister
  • Pinki Pramanik suspended from railways' job
  • Trinamool not dependent on Cong: Bengal Minister
  • Pinki case: Bengal government pleads ignorance
  • HC orders probe into Pinki Pramanik's rights violation
  • Boson famous, Bose remains forgotten
  • Moratorium issue will be sorted out
  • Jail officials tread gender tightrope over Pramanik
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line