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News Headlines Archive

July 07, 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
  • Workshop to empower blind students for jobs
  • West Bengal passes bill on 17% OBC reservation
  • Stung Mamata hits back at P Chidambaram
  • Rape village up in arms after crusaders killing
  • Top Kolkata schools, govt clash over RTE
  • In tragedy, a lesson in kindness
  • Sports world stands by tainted athlete
  • Cop who held athlete indecently to face probe
  • HC admits petition on Pinkis illegal detention
  • Students beat up teachers, five injured
  • Cocaine kingpin in Kolkata police net
  • Indira Bhavan may house judicial panels
  • Seth in CPMs E Midnapore district secretariat
  • Gautam Deb hits back at CM, TMC leaders
  • Bill circulated without governor consent
  • Singur bill not in a haste, insists Mamata Banerjee
  • Stricken Vietnamese vessel stranded in Kolkata Port's channel
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Exam cheats assault college staff after being caught
  • Two-day taxi strike from 25th
  • Court seeks stand on Pinki PIL
  • Presidency readies list of 21 teachers
  • Access to scripts for CU students
  • Bratya bite puzzles schools
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Private varsity bill passed
  • Passport application
  • Mamata fires three questions at PC
  • Experts see no profit in ISI
  • OBC study quota plan
  • Heist on unguarded train in Bihar
  • Vegetable price protest
  • Trinamul negligence finger at hospital
  • Murder cuffs on CPM leader
  • GTF out of hill contest
  • 12-hour rain inundates Siliguri
    • Indian Express
  • Court asks govt to respond to PIL
  • Singur Act not made in haste: Mamata
  • Sports fraternity speaks up for Pinki
  • Trinamool MP to file fresh case seeking judicial probe into Nandigram firing
  • HC seeks time frame for highway repair
  • East Bengal, George win Goalz soccer titles
  • TMCP students beat up college lecturers
  • LF abstains as Didi celebrates Jyoti Basus birthday
  • Its official, Bimal Gurung will fight GTA elections
    • Hindustan Times
  • Congress squeezing Trinamool to get support: BJP
  • 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
  • Congress squeezing Trinamool to get support: BJP
  • Political leaders without spines, says Mamata on Facebook
  • Pinki case: Bengal government pleads ignorance
  • HC orders probe into Pinki Pramanik's rights violation
  • Boson famous, Bose remains forgotten
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line