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News Headlines Archive

July 21, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • GJM to celebrate signing of agreement
  • Tata Motors: we were evicted in haste
  • Mamata announces release of 52 Naxals
  • CPM Alleges Trinamool Attacking Its Workers
  • Sikkim cut-off by landslides
  • West Bengal Government to create 6,900 new home department posts
  • Mimoh signs film riding on Mithun's popularity
  • Arindam Sil's tribute to Satyajit Ray
    • Times of India
  • Heavy rains inundate many areas in Kolkata, traffic hit
  • Sister Nivedita's house in Kolkata may be acquired for conservation
  • Leopard attacks 11 in fierce fight at Indian village
  • Heritage hurt, livelihoods lost in fire at New Market
  • Bengal health varsity V-C shunted out in two days
  • State nod for over 8,500 posts
  • 'Depressed' IIT student kills self
  • Jobs largesse despite fund crunch
  • Dry fish can give you cancer
  • No land yet for Rs 6,000cr SINP project
  • Gorkhaland back on Gurung lips
  • Police keep mum on cause of studio fire
  • Mill worker survives grievous knife injury
  • Eco-tourism dreams for Rajarhat
  • Safety board plan to prevent rly accidents
  • Leaders are always under political pressure: Gurung
  • Tea estates in a fix over land lease impasse
  • Fresh Cooch Behar statehood stir
  • Sops galore for Dooars, Terai
  • NASA experience enthralls city students
  • Singur battle turns 'personal'
  • HuJI men sneaked into India: Sleuths
  • Artist fights cancer to create soulful art
  • Boy goes missing, found later
  • TMC to launch youth platform at Brigade
  • 15000 from N Bengal already in city
  • Exide meeting preponed
  • Maidan readies for mega TMC show
  • CRISIL: Towns will drive growth for branded gold jewellery
  • Education minister sets up committee for surprise inspections
  • Ghisingh mum to media queries
  • Hills celebrate, plains jittery
  • Gorkhaland pact: Chidambaram credits Didi, Gurung with deal
  • Didi touched a chord in the Hills
  • Biman protests 'method' of signing accord
  • Trust, the new change in Darjeeling
  • Rights body for release of political prisoners
  • Bus hits father-son duo on bike, locals block NH-6
  • Kolkata airport deputy director heckled by staff union
  • Susanto Ghosh gets anticipatory bail
  • Tata didn't abandon Singur: Counsel
  • Local youths risk lives to help
  • Bharat Laxmi stored classic memories
  • Lights out: Vintage film studio goes up in flames
  • Wetland official's flip-flop on atlas omission
  • Renowned classical singer passes away
  • Bengal wants more A-grade cities
  • Fire in Kolkata studio, two injured
  • Fingers crossed in Hills ahead of landmark deal
  • Nadia vehicles fined for sound pollution
  • East Kolkata Wetlands missing from national atlas
  • 'Govt trying to bring down foodgrain prices'
  • Man dies after stepping on bomb in Howrah
  • Meet Mamata Banerjee on her website soon
  • 'We must fight for survival'
  • West Bengal govt amends lottery law
  • Shoe baron kidnap accused in custody
  • Kolkata pays homage to Don Bosco relic
  • Reshuffle in Salt Lake civic body
  • 10-yr-old dies in Panihati gang war
  • Corruption, complacency behind debacle: CPM
  • 10-day police custody for fraudster
  • Two kids, parents die after subsidence in Andal mine
  • Kadambini Ganguly, woman of substance
  • Hills pact spurs speculations, fear
  • Fraudster held for extortion bid
  • Doubts over opening of Cooch Behar airport
  • Bank manager arrested for locker theft
  • Bratya forms 19-member panel to revamp syllabus
  • CPM needs to reposition itself: Biman Bose
  • Mumbai blasts suspect may be in Bangladesh
  • Mamata tells party loyalists of challenges facing her government
  • CRPF men on the lookout for Maoist leader Bikash
  • Howrah youth loses life's battle at Mumbai hospital
  • Mistaken identity: Villager shot by forces
  • Army havildar held on molestation charges
  • Pitroda roadmap for resurgent West Bengal
  • BSF jawan attacked near Bangla border
  • Census begins in enclaves to recognize 'stateless' people
  • Mamata, Pranab meet in Kolkata, seal 'give & take deal'
  • WB labour minister serves ultimatum to Dunlop management
  • Left to stay away from signing of Hills accord
  • GJM insists on signing pact at Pintail village
  • Hills and Dooars at crossroads
  • Fisheries dept plans to rev up output
  • Tourism fair a big draw for travel freaks
  • Trees planted, but what about care?
  • 56 species of birds left in Kolkata: Study
  • Kolkata facelift may include bus terminuses
  • Concrete blunder killing off trees
  • Four new names on education panel
  • Potter magic wins over muggle world
  • Constable commits suicide at barracks
  • Sushanta's anticipatory bail plea judgment on Monday
  • 'Jnaneswari accused not political prisoners'
  • Tagore to bind culture hub
  • Gene therapy hope for ovary cancer patients
  • Land sought for new police stations
  • We didn't come to Bengal on our own: Tatas
  • Land dept nod must for industry now
    • The Telegraph
  • All roads lead to a rally
  • Bracelet stolen from royal family
  • Studio roof collapses
  • He who sets Mamatas stage
  • Plane slides off runway
  • New Markets trial by fire, 25 yrs apart
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  • Guidelines on rallies
  • Plan to free 52 prisoners with message to rebels
  • Brigade focus on party
  • 700 posts to boost tax collection
  • Tatas hurl letter salvo
  • Cave-in clogs Sikkim road for 8 hours
  • German soccer tips for two
  • Revelry starts a day early
  • Youth held with firearms
    • Indian Express
  • Hoardings on way out from Dalhousie
  • Its official, Yechury for RS
  • Trinamool gangs attacking farmers, says Biman Bose
  • On Tatas plea for amended Singur petition, govt told to reply by July...
  • At Writers, targets and change are the new buzzwords
  • No marks, report cards at Presidency
  • First batch of 46 political prisoners ready for release: CM
  • Archieji, Bettydidi and Tintinbhai
  • Beehives along rail tracks to prevent jumbo deaths
  • In new panel season, intellectuals refuse Mamata job offers
  • Dooars tribals to knock Centres door over Hill territorial survey
    • Hindustan Times
  • Fire in Kolkata's New Market
  • GJM to switch to celebration mode
  • Mamata announces projects for N Bengal
  • NTPC hopeful Bengal power project issues will be resolved
  • Gujarat government for better upkeep of Bapuji's places
  • GJM to switch to celebration mode
  • Day after pact, rumble in Hills
  • Differences withing 24 hours of inking of GTA agreement
  • Gurung's signing ceremony lacks earlier adventerous uncertainty
  • Singur case: Judge refuses to gag media
    • Sports
  • IFA unveils new local league format
  • Mohun Bagan rope in Steve Darby