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News Headlines Archive

July 24, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Nation must accept Netaji's death: Biographer
  • Mamata Banerjee government to set up a committee to prevent black marketing
  • West Bengal government trespassing on Singur land: Tata Motors
  • Kanoria Jute Mills to reopen after five years
  • Trinamool Congress eye Congress alliance in Tripura to oust Left Front
  • Eight trekkers from Bengal cremated
  • CSIR to introduce electric rickshaws in Kolkata
  • Ram Gopal Varma couldn't do what I did: Riingo
  • Missing in action
  • Zee Bangla to jazz up your evenings
    • Times of India
  • Restoration bid for Sister Nivedita's house faces hurdle
  • Gang shoots to flee after robbery at car showroom
  • Beliaghata on the edge over gang war
  • Real-time adjustments to decongest city traffic
  • Bracelet of Tripura queen recovered
  • Taxpayer's pain, defaulter's gain
  • A first: Air taxi service to steel towns from August
  • Salt Lake civic body shows its green thumb
  • CMO secy: Mamata adheres to rule book
  • Teen's timely action prevents derailment
  • Long wait for corneas a thing of the past
  • Bekti finds new competitor in basa
  • Railway tracks face cave-in threat
  • State to vest unused industrial land
  • CM bid to ally fears over GTA area
  • Penalty for medical students dropping out midway
  • Sundarbans have only 90 tigers
  • Govt trespassed on Singur land: Tatas
  • Unions in turf war at airport
  • Inquiry ordered into adoption norm flouting
  • Police arrest 13-member robber gang
  • Mishra hits out at Mamata, calls Bengal politics 'plutocracy'
  • Two injured in Canning clash
  • Congress-Trinamool alliance breaks in Malda
  • 5-year-old found dead after tiff with neighbour
  • City votes for hawker eviction
  • State govt removes Alipore zoo director
  • State to submit night train report
  • New Market limps back to normal, but shops still powerless
  • 'Freight corridor land not a problem'
  • Doctors perform beating heart surgery
  • KMC cleans up Maidan, but Brigade loses grass cover
  • Trinamool govt to form union
  • Ambulance caught in rally traffic
  • Modernization plan gathers dust
  • Nandigram boycotts Brigade meet
  • 'Had it not rained it would've required 3 Brigades'
  • Martyrs' kin moved by warm welcome
  • Tollywood steals Brigade show
  • Stars light up Trinamool rally
  • Celebrations in Hills, GJM promises growth
  • Choke-tale of rally and rain
  • New Market a fire trap for its rooftop dwellers
  • Funds plea at power show
  • Seven-year old boy drowns in roadside ditch
  • 'Impostor' attempts suicide in custody
  • Drug-and-loot accused arrested at airport
  • Suicide: Parents and IIT want probe, students tight-lipped
  • Be happy with what you have: Mamata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Of tokens & tokenism
  • Once river-fed, now cesspool
  • Chipping in for backstage artiste
  • Importance of studying folly
  • Next weekend you can be at ... Bhattabati
  • Kid strangled in planned murder for cash
  • Baby survives night in ditch
  • Youth saves train from track crack
  • Minibus, taxi fare hike ruled out
  • Trinamul eyes last Left den Tripura
  • Ally Trinamul to join civic Opposition
  • Defection buzz in Cong
  • Bail for KLO rebel not on Mamata free list
  • Last-minute meet on medical college
  • Order flout slur on NBU head
  • Gesture worries Bangshi
  • Rallyist dies in Calcutta
    • 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
  • 132 Pakistanis have vanished
  • 'Railways not facing land acquisition hurdle in WB'
  • Didi's nephew to give party youth edge
  • Fire in Kolkata's New Market
  • GJM to switch to celebration mode
  • Left govt gave land to Netai probe officers
  • Didi's nephew to give party youth edge
  • Gorkhaland occupies centre stage at GTA clebrations
  • GJM to switch to celebration mode
  • Day after pact, rumble in Hills
    • Sports
  • Goswami hogs the limelight
  • Football World Cup Qualifier: UAE 3 - India 0
  • Red cards were not justified, says dejected Colaco