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News Headlines Archive

July 25, 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
  • Global social media revenue to touch $16.9 billion in 2012: Gartner
  • Tourism ban trips poaching alarm in core tiger areas
  • Uday Shankars Kalpana rots in Mumbai godown
  • CM pacifies warring cabinet colleagues
  • West Bengal showers Rs 50L bounty on stars
  • 22,000 taxis to go off Kolkata road today
  • Visionary who made a dream come true
  • Hooghly officer bunks meet, served notice
  • Two more cocaine peddlers in police net
  • Pranab Mukherjee's son keen to contest from Jangipur
  • Attending child marriage can land you in jail
  • Robber nabbed in Howrah
  • No hilsa on platter? Blame scanty rains
  • Exclusive park for grandmas, grandpas
  • 20% OBC quota in education soon
  • Hooghly teen raped, murdered
  • No compulsory environment studies in HS
  • CM's 'London' lights a bill too much
  • West Bengal emerges on top for job generation in SMEs: ASSOCHAM
  • Sex Workers' Rally marks Global Day of Action to end AIDS
  • State to get its first child rights commission
  • Bengal government to send rice brands to London Olympics
  • 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 Telegraph
  • Spoilt child of chaos streets
  • Extra buses for taxi strike
  • Why OUP is amped about biryani
  • CMs Uttam salute for 46
  • Meet suggests steps to boost hilsa yield
  • Infection spurt in sick city
  • Two youths held for killing boy
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Wifes days as teacher
  • Bills in crores follow success drumbeat
  • Tool for simpler tax collection
  • Jindal deal in August
  • Wait prolonged on Assam trains
  • Craters drive buses off roads
  • Youth held by cops dies
  • Health test rates rolled back
  • Rai move to get ST status
    • Indian Express
  • Didi hosts award bonanza for Bengali film industry
  • CPM slams Mamata for electricity, petrol price hike
  • After hammer blow, govt to set up single window grievance cell
  • State plans scheme to aid Muslim women
  • In-charge of anti-Naxal operations shunted out
  • IAC to launch hunger strike in Kolkata today
  • Not included in GTA, Nepalis of Terai and Dooars threaten strike
  • NIA to get voice recordings of IM chief
  • Documentary on 100 years of films screened
  • Kolkata Port keen to use land commercially
    • 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