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News Headlines Archive

July 21, 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
  • Woman 'raped', murdered by husband's friend
  • IAS officer faces probe for hooch tragedy
  • Tenant burnt to death for refusing to move out
  • Left goes to Writers' with price protest
  • Voices from grassroots for TMC leaders
  • July 21 probe panel checks documents
  • Denied copying, students ransack Kolkata College
  • Picnic mood at Trinamool camps
  • Gurap inmate alleges sexual abuse by owner
  • Youth slain for sleaze protest
  • Army restores access to flood-hit village in flood-affected North Bengal
  • Sex workers' sons dribble to Mexico
  • No reins on auto rogues
  • Rights body seeks action against IAS officer in hooch killings
  • Mercedes-Benz on adventure ride
  • Kolkata to host global conference of sex workers
  • Renault comes up with Scala; launch slated before Diwali
  • General Motors to have 300 sales points by year-end
  • First in TMC to back Pranab, Suman abstains
  • Teacher burns student with cigarette
  • Karaya OC shunted to facilitate probe
  • Gurap horror accused held after 8 days
  • High Court raps govt for delay in phasing out old vehicles
  • Floatel returns to its mooring after 2 months
  • Auto drivers bash up couple
  • State power minister Manish Gupta to face July 21 probe
  • 3 of family die in suicide pact
  • Pranab's son invites Mamata home for tea
  • Engineer gheraoed for 'hitting' SER worker
  • Leaders debate scope of industry
  • Kolkata boy tops CA exam, fulfills dad's dream
  • TMC core panel to protest reforms push
  • Ramsar experts to inspect wetland encroachment
  • Nostalgia, dreams soak Mirati on V-Day
  • Swiss adventurer lands in Kolkata
  • Kolkata hosts world sex workers' meet
  • Swiss pilot on world tour touches down in Kolkata
  • No escape from taxi-bus strike
  • Mamata Banerjee's minister to appear before panel probing July 21 police firing
  • Agriculture minister limits scope of industry, commerce minister differs
  • Global AIDS conference: US denies visa to sex workers
  • Tea Board officials visited Iran
  • Superstar Rajesh Khanna's Bengali connection
  • 6-year-old hit with duster for chatting
  • City-wide Metro network may start operating by 2015
  • Student held for kissing girl on street
  • Urine-drinking case: Girl moves to new school in Bolpur
  • Govt builds tourism plan around SRK
  • Alert railway staffer helps rescue kidnapped child
  • Bothered by stray dogs? Call up canine control
    • The Telegraph
  • Drivers taunting laughter
  • Surrender & bail in 3 hrs
  • CM to bring city centre to a stop
  • CBI probe into fake stamp paper
  • City rises for the Dark Knight
  • Old boys to kick & wrestle!
  • Explorers 120 to know city better
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Rain clouds lost to Odisha
  • Cheating free-for-all
  • Robbery at cop house in Nadia
  • Anti-graft body sparks babu fears
  • Twin towns pitch for district centre
  • Elephants kill lady, damage food grain
  • Mahananda water recedes
  • Schoolboy dies after falling from car roof
  • Youths miss cop job test for letter delay
  • Kargil recruit tip-off
    • Indian Express
  • Over 200 border outposts stuck in land deal
  • State not yet ready for food safety
  • Left at CM door for hike in jute MSP
  • Miles away from Gurap horror home, a fresh lease of life for women inmates
  • Joka to come under KMC in 2 months: Mayor
  • HC orders CBI to probe into fake stamp paper complaint
  • GTA poll: Left demands separate dates for SSC exam
    • Hindustan Times
  • Sex workers denied US visa hold their own AIDS conference
  • Pinki files theft complaint against live-in partner
  • Pinki Pramanik claims her life is threatened
  • 4 women missing from Bengal's 'horror home'
  • WB govt orders inquiry into land allotted to Pinki
  • Mamata indicates end of alliance with Congress in West Bengal
  • Hooghly home horror: 2 more bodies dug up
  • College girl goes missing after MMS scandal
  • Shantinekatan girl joins another school
  • BJP criticises Mamata, asks why so much drama
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line