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News Headlines Archive

July 22, 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
  • Tea estates seek govt aid to set up hydel plants
  • Mamata strikes a chord with GJM
  • Congress ready to go it alone in rural polls
  • 'July 21 is about moving on in life'
  • Ojhas called in to resurrect dead, autopsy kept on hold
  • Class-VII kids drink alcohol in school
  • Testing time for JU officials too?
  • Cops pull off a chain feat
  • KMC awaits Army nod for revamp of waterbodies
  • Govt sits tight on bus terminus shift
  • Father beheads son for land
  • All in a day's work for supermoms
  • Three of family drown in Mondarmoni
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation plans major beautification drive for city
  • Coast Guard's pollution control vessel for Visakhapatnam commissioned in Surat
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Bengal revisited in Pennsylvania village
  • Superstar friend in need with friends too few
  • Tales from the Indian outland
  • Trinamul pulls out of GTA poll fray
  • 3 of city family drown in sea
  • Delhi bid to repatriate muktijoddha remains
  • Three die in car crash
  • Mahananda water recedes
  • Schoolboy dies after falling from car roof
  • Youths miss cop job test for letter delay
  • Kargil recruit tip-off
    • Indian Express
  • Bloc member gets rap over Mamata remark
  • Farmers will get back their land: Govt
  • How long can we continue to fight, ask farmers
  • Maoist arrested near Jhargram
  • Fresh exam for PTTI candidates
    • 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
  • Pranab's sister predicted he will be President
  • Mamata snaps poll ties with Cong in Bengal
  • Hooghly home horror: 2 more bodies dug up
  • College girl goes missing after MMS scandal
  • Shantinekatan girl joins another school
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line