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News Headlines Archive

July 28, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Will Tata Motors give up land after compensation is paid, asks new judge
  • Bengal to set up IT hubs in Durgapur, Asansol, Siliguri, Haldia
  • Install CCTVs in all multi-storied buildings, orders Mamata
  • Bengali short stories on Vodafone
  • Tagore's poems to take shape as films
  • Double punch of Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray
  • Farhan Akhtar joins hands with Mamata Banerjee
  • Wind beneath their wings
    • Times of India
  • Cops don't heed SOS, 90-yr-old dies
  • Snatcher swallows gold chain and pendant
  • Congress leaders to meet over coalition terms
  • Panel to focus on cutting down tuition
  • Brace to pay more for your favourite booze
  • Topsia-Tiljala remain fire-prone and neglected
  • MBA, myth and 'Meluha', a phenomenon called Amish
  • 8 hurt in TMC-Congress clash
  • Temple sends filmstars packing
  • Policemen's families feel insecure
  • Gitanjali passengers were 'attacked' with daggers
  • Residents tried to face robbers
  • Distress calls to cops go unanswered
  • CPRM takes over Gorkhaland call
  • Need to assess reservation: Amitabh Bachchan
  • Robbers kill 90- year-old woman
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Horror run with gun and gag
  • Tragedy hits joint family
  • Rs 200cr for tech colleges
  • PWD prunes ministers wish list
  • Thiefs swallow job caught on X-ray
  • State monitor for zoos
  • Bachchan then & now: an outsider & a superstar
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Good ol snail mail hits infotech highway
  • Turnaround hope for Academy
  • Antony nod to riverfront project
  • Plea for new-age subjects in test
  • Fire safety measures
  • How green is my valley (if Delhi funds)
  • Nanoor delay finger at Somnath
  • Order to boost Buddha security
  • Inaction led to loss: CPM
  • Pay tax from Aug 1, not dues: Morcha
  • Strike off, tea embargo stays
  • Civic plan for added wards
  • Rivers rise, water in towns
  • Swollen Ganga threatens Bhutni
  • Jobs promised for martyr kin
  • MLAs roster for doctor
  • Cong request to Mamata
  • Notice to NBSTC official
    • 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
  • Pranab's son quits as Bengal PSU chairman
  • 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
  • Pranab's son quits as Bengal PSU chairman
  • Gurung hints at waver of tax and electricity arrears
  • Bengal toes soft line on Maoists
  • Left govt gave land to Netai probe officers
  • Didi's nephew to give party youth edge
    • Sports
  • Goswami hogs the limelight
  • Football World Cup Qualifier: UAE 3 - India 0
  • Red cards were not justified, says dejected Colaco