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News Headlines Archive

July 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
  • City kids opting for foreign undergraduate education
  • Visva Bharati officials meet girls family
  • Auto drivers daughter sails into IIT
  • Rainfall leaves north Kolkata waterlogged
  • Comptroller and Auditor General lens on trains introduced by Mamata Banerjee
  • Mamata Banerjee to skip UPA Delhi meet
  • Mamata softens stand on enclave exchange
  • Industry hub promise for Cooch Behar
  • Democratic attack on Mollah
  • Rain, carcass on runway in airport mess
  • Body dug up at home for disabled funded by govt
  • Man disowns newborn girl, wife
  • Gang of five hacks farmer to death
  • Schoolgirls struck dead by lightning
  • Trees felled at Sealdah, civic body suspects ad agency
  • Pollution watchdog may take tanners' body to court
  • Billboards banned on VIP Road
  • Avtar threatening players to sell plots, alleges Madan
  • Rousing welcome for fallen star
  • Fires rage underground, officials sit idle
  • Visva-Bharati student to leave school
  • Pinki Pramanik incapable of rape, gets bail
  • Parents scoff at Visva-Bharati offer to let girl study from home
  • Mediclaim refusals continue
  • Excuses galore for refusals, patients feel cheated
  • Celebration of liberty: Rainbow groups gear up for pride parade
  • Driver spots rail fracture and stops train
  • World crumbles for shamed girl
  • Paying guest accuses landlord of rape
  • Jealous husband attacks wife
  • Assess your own property to pay tax
  • Speed up North Bengal projects: CM Mamata Banerjee
  • Goons barge into CPM meet, attack Abdur Rezzak Mollah
  • Congress fires salvo at CM, but alliance still holds
  • Jilted girl drinks acid in school
  • Fire at Dankuni diesel depot
  • Bail rejected but accused walks free
  • West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee saves child about to fall off a bike, scolds dad
  • Vishva Bharati case: Girl yet to recover from shock
  • TMC threatens to go for movement against NHAI for poor road condition in north Bengal
  • Will talk to Mamata when shes ready to talk: Pranab
  • Love in Tokyo: Bengal's second-biggest FDI pact today
  • Shorter, greener flights may slash air fare
  • Woman refuses to marry, brother kidnapped
  • Morcha in for a fight in 31 GTA seats
  • Anger grows against 'vindictive' varsity
  • Girl may need long-term therapy: Docs
  • Cable operators fleece clueless set-top-box customers
  • Business houses and NGOs pledge to nourish greenery, add to it
  • Gang hired students to kill teacher
    • The Telegraph
  • Mind the gap: rain adds to great divide
  • Drizzle here, deluge there
  • 3 held for jewellery thefts
  • Boys go to Kashmir, girls host the world
  • Still, safety sieve on flyover
  • Lakhs lost in thefts
  • Extortion cry by councillor
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Job fret for free Pinki
  • Land right demand cloud on AMU project
  • Meeting leash on Keshpur Trinamul
  • Rivals rally face-off
  • Funds fear in rush to retain kid
  • Arrest in Hooghly home death
  • Miner death in coalfield
  • Before poll, Morcha 1 short of majority
  • Speeding bus crushes schoolgirl
  • College and cop come to Balurghat boys aid
  • Medical college for Cooch Behar
  • First animal census in Buxa
  • Trinamul threat to shut down NHAI office
  • Residents block truck with waste
  • Abducted teacher returns home
  • 600 demand Raiganj College admission
    • Indian Express
  • Trinamool to attend UPA meet on V-P nominee
  • Pinki out on bail, accuses police of harassment
  • TMC sees Cong gameplan in UPA ministers attacks
  • Conspiracy cant halt Bengals progress: CM
  • GTA polls: Top GJM leaders get walkover
  • CRPF man held with illegal arms
    • Hindustan Times
  • President has to live up to traditions: Pranab
  • 'Pranab's nomination for President not a reward'
  • 'Pranab had resigned as chairman'
  • CPI(M)'s decision to support Pranab correct: Buddhadeb
  • FDI: Basu proposes, Mamata disposes
  • Univ sorry for urine incident, promises reforms
  • Deranged girl battered, buried in WB welfare home
  • Pinki faces land scam charge, denies allegation
  • I was harrased in jail, says Pinki Pramanik
  • PM speaks to Mamata, CPI leader Bardhan
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line