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News Headlines Archive

July 26, 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
  • Vietnamese vessel set to sail for Chittagong
  • Petrol price up by Rs 2.52 per litre in Kolkata, diesel by 92p
  • Surgery gives 3-year-old a new life
  • Clamour for prawns a death blow to hilsa
  • Delicious hilsa turns 'bland' due to early maturity
  • Monsoon delicacy Hilsa: Too hard to get, too dear to buy
  • Special number plates to identify legal autos
  • Techie rescues elderly man, cops unfazed
  • Taxis stay off roads in Kolkata, fliers suffer
  • Snatchers 'confess' to Belghoria twin murders
  • Seven injured as Trinamool factions clash
  • Mega science meet to discuss global lab plan for Kolkata
  • Only plastic ban won't do, experts seek law to stop littering
  • Anti-plastic war: Make them pay, stop the menace
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation revives anti-plastic war
  • Woman raped, robbed of gold ornaments
  • Land rights at heart of Bodo-Muslim conflict in Assam
  • Train services to northeast restored; relief for 6000 stranded in Bengal
  • Assam refugees seek haven in North Bengal
  • Fuel price hike: Angry Mamata ready for political confrontation
  • Mother and child care hospitals in Bengal
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Lone woman at male altar
  • Extra buses spare taxi strike blues
  • Right tribute to Tagore by children
  • Woman falls off auto to death
  • Calcutta to London? Thats a bad brand
  • Duo in net reveals murder link
  • Debut for I-Day pageant
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  • Autos flout, we encourage
  • Landlock shadows science conclave
  • Civic board formed after months delay
  • Govt plans hospital, landlosers threaten hunger strike
  • Farmer assault slur on Trinamul
  • Lessons for Visva wardens
  • Baby swap finger at hospital
  • Poll-hit CPM banks on ladies
  • Trains roll, travellers complain
  • 2000 flee to Alipurduar from Assam
  • 500 primary schools stay shut to protest RTE rules
  • Reverse run to clear stations
  • Job mail found on river bank
  • Morcha opposes Siliguri police hub
  • CID probe demand after youth dies
    • Indian Express
  • Going to SC is Sangmas personal decision, says BJP
  • Mamata first CM to invite President Pranab
  • JD(U) chief skips Pranabs swearing-in
  • Omita Paul is Pranab Secy, 3 others to move from Finance Ministry
    • 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