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News Headlines Archive

July 27, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • TMC attempts to woo youth, taps social media
  • TIL Ltd's greenfield Rs 450 cr Bengal plant to go onstream
  • Singur case reassigned to new judge
  • Nasscom positive on West Bengal's cluster approach
  • Narayana Murthy accepts Bengal position as Chief Mentor
  • WB govt launches initiatives to boost revenue collection
  • West Bengal CPI-M to launch agitation on August 10 against TC 'atrocities'
  • Kerala, a 'Dubai' for Bengali migrants
  • Golden era of Bengali culture will return
  • Sananda TV to tap Bengali market
  • Good to bad but not so ugly!
  • Subrat Dutta and Rituparna Sengupta pair up again!
    • Times of India
  • Calcutta HC judge opts out of Singur hearing
  • Youths held for robberies
  • Two arrested for smuggling trees
  • Alarm bells sounded for Sunderbans ecology
  • Bangla HC asks squatters to leave Suchitra home
  • Skilled labourers abandon Kumartuli before Puja season
  • Accenture has big dreams for Bengal
  • Pranab's son resigns as WBIDFC chief
  • Docs for holistic treatment of kids with disabilities
  • North Bengal tea garden stir may hit supply
  • Maoist sympathizers burn Mamata effigy
  • 'Delhi clout bails out errant rly catering staff'
  • Chained man's pleas go unheard at rly station
  • HC to watch edu panel work
  • Tariff rates may go up sharply in SEB areas
  • Marmosets die in Alipore zoo
  • Sushanta appeals for interim bail
  • Guv asks FM about state funds
  • KMC slashes funds for roads, health & parks
  • Ammonia leak triggers panic on science campus
  • Frauds pose as CM nephews
  • Locked in room, twins perish in fire
  • Bengal roses for Europe's V-Day
  • Catering staff thrash Gitanjali passengers
  • Rs99cr for Sunderbans power
  • Govt's populist stance faces 'power' hurdle
  • Implementation of Singur Act illegal: Pal
  • Weather, fuel hike hurdle for hilsa
  • Phone tap probe makes no progress
  • State honours nine with Banga-Vibhushan
  • Woman molested on Metro
  • Visva-Bharati VC bares all to PM
  • KMC lens on errant parking staff
  • Murthy agrees to be IT panel mentor
  • Top-level shuffle in police posts
  • State govt raps transport bodies
  • Fraudster poses as Buddha daughter
  • Focus on curbing tax evasion
  • One-way traffic rule limits tram network further
  • Man poses as IPS officer, arrested
  • High court directs school to promote Class-V student
  • Alipore zoo upgrade far from over
  • Major funds crisis hits KMC
  • Madan, cops force college to bend rules
  • Biotechnology course to stop exodus of students
  • Spurt of crime in North 24 Parganas
  • Teachers ready to take transfers
  • Bus rams into stalls, 1 dead
  • Homoeopathy hospital proposed
  • Jumbos feared hurt in leadership fight
  • Youth with terror link held in Malda
  • Student held on fraud charge
  • Advocate held for forgery
  • An evening to remember
  • Social media for medical science
  • Skeleton case: Former minister's aide arrested
  • Govt to abolish old norms, put brakes on errant buses
  • State may have CNG, battery-run vehicles soon
  • Two factories gutted in Howrah
  • Mamata names award after Mahanayak
  • Girl at cop door to stop wedding
  • 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'
    • The Telegraph
  • HS revamp to stay relevant
  • Presi quota for its students
  • Tagore plans unveiled
  • Global giant to expand in state: Minister
  • Touch-screen guide for Sector V visitors
  • Job fraud in Mamata name
  • Help turns traitor with theft & taxi
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Locked up, twins killed in fire
  • Govt to get CNG from Asansol
  • Singur case from scratch
  • Pranab son quits post after prod
  • Death after study tiff
  • Asim claims e-tax credit
  • Morcha martyr rally in Sibchu today
  • Double whammy for gardens
  • Jelep-la trade hope brews after promise in hill deal
  • Health employee hit for name error
  • Captive leopards get pedicure
  • Kerosene stove blast dents bus floor
  • Keep away, hospital in poor health
  • NBSTC plans Dhaka service
  • 1 killed in border firing
    • 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
  • Bengal gets advisory on perfume bombs
  • IIMs to change question pattern of CAT exams
  • Farhan Akhtar, Paes turn Trinamool advisors
  • Bengal toes soft line on Maoists
  • 132 Pakistanis have vanished
  • Bengal toes soft line on Maoists
  • 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
    • Sports
  • Goswami hogs the limelight
  • Football World Cup Qualifier: UAE 3 - India 0
  • Red cards were not justified, says dejected Colaco