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News Headlines Archive

July 24, 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
  • Lakshmi Sahgal was Jhansi ki Rani: Sugata Bose
  • Gorkha Janamutki Morcha may reject Gorkhaland Territorial Administration if funds arent released
  • The poet lives here, now and aeons ago
  • Information panel puts off cyber drive
  • Lakshman Seth aides get bail, FIR against wife
  • Guns seized at Howrah station
  • Flyover exit ramp may be ready before pujas
  • Man reunites with wife after 17 years
  • Patients stuck in Calcutta Medical College elevator for 40 minutes
  • Rabindra Bharati University gets full-time vice-chancellor after 7 months
  • Cop's wife kills self in front of daughter
  • Transport meet falls flat, brace for twin strikes
  • Dengue claims year's first victim
  • Power puff generation likes it the bong way
  • Hookah issue: Mumbai lessons for Kolkata
  • Loan agents whisk away woman in car
  • Romesh Sharma sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment
  • Three women run-over by express train near Jhalda station
  • Panchayat polls in December, says minister
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Rule of the road rogues
  • East-west divide in hilsa platter
  • Woman jumps to death
  • Missing rain tale in mercury high
  • Stuck in hospital lift
  • Bus & taxi strikes on despite Writers meet
  • Revamp for tram depot
  • You share your birthday with...
  • CU list for nominees in college bodies
  • Civic body contests dengue death claim
  • Threat twist to molest cry
  • PhD port of call in Nobel cradle
  • Farm worker killed at meet over wages
  • Blunt weapon in home case
  • Vrindavan widow prod to Bengal
  • Bhaktinagar protest outside court
  • Assam protest stalls trains
  • Tragedy rerun on highway
  • Lone opposer Subba refuses to stand back
    • Indian Express
  • 17 years on, Bankura man unites with wife in Amritsar hospital
  • Mamata downs Left wall, Saumitra, Mithun agree to accept state film award
  • To checkmate Oppn, Mamata for panchayat polls after Puja
  • No invite to Cong minister in own depts function
  • Offer from German resident gives hope to stateless in Indo-Bangla border
  • Centre to fund education of SC/ST students
  • Central funds go unused, state to review projects progress
  • Cabinet approves setting up of child rights commission
  • Kalyani V-C submits scam report, shrugs off own role
  • Rice from Bengal to be served at London Olympics
    • 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 Mukherjee's son wants to contest from Jangipur LS seat
  • Was IM 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line