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News Headlines Archive

July 23, 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
  • Corporates manage to hold on to bottom line growth, but future is uncertain: ASSOCHAM
  • Branded 'witch', woman flees home
  • Youth nabbed for robbing trader
  • Unused plots in Salt Lake under state scanner
  • Doctors cease work in Midnapore hospital
  • Yuva Kendra makeover high on youth ministry list
  • Two more held in auto molest case
  • Jangipur remembers Dada's contribution
  • The Bengali bhadralok back in focus
  • Addas over cha and muri
  • Simple village boy with big dreams
  • Judicial panel to start AMRI fire probe in August
  • How Kolkata groomed the first President 100 years ago
  • Remembering 'Kabi Deshatma'
  • An extraordinary journey
  • A great honour for Bengal
  • Sisters leave for swearing-in
  • Tusker tramples man to death
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Court grills cops in auto case
  • State slammed for test nod
  • Rally scars erased from road
  • Eye on dollar for Puja travel
  • Change in winds robs city of shower
  • Dialysis units at 8 more state-run hospitals
  • Twin tragedies on track, 22 yrs apart
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Landmark trail to city rediscovery
  • Maoist finds what Maoists hid
  • Scare of Maoists in coal belt
  • Birbhums two Presidents
  • Union accused of taking cash for seats
  • Out-of-poll Morcha faces in panel
  • Nathu-la trade halts for road repairs
  • Higher education chief on VC search panel
  • First President from Birbhum not Pranab
  • Rachhpal first north visit
  • Left Siliguri demand
    • Indian Express
  • Offer from German resident gives hope to stateless in Indo-Bangla border
  • Mamata to attend Pranabs swearing-in
  • Pranabs sisters on way to Delhi for his swearing-in
  • Centre to fund education of SC/ST students
  • Central funds go unused, state to review projects progress
    • 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
  • Was Indian Mujahideen planning a blast in Kolkata on July 21?
  • Birbhum, Nadia celebrate Poltus win
  • Mamata congratulates Pranab, to attend swearing-in
  • Woman Maoist leader Aduri Murmu arrested in WB
  • Son to request newly elected Prez for Sarabjit's release
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line