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News Headlines Archive

July 28, 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
  • Police recovered fire arms from Kandi
  • Warehouses may be auctioned
  • Police raid hookah bars after TOI report
  • New lab to slash treatment cost for hepatitis patients
  • ITC plans to invest Rs 1K cr in Bengal
  • Burden of loss piles up on Metro Railway
  • Cops nab another Maoist leader
  • Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sukanta Bhattacharya out of higher secondary syllabus
  • New-look higher secondary from 2013
  • Dont club our stir with Citus: Bus operators
  • Women's commission team meets rape victim
  • Couple heckled by auto driver plead for bail
  • Silence, mistrust grip riot-hit villages in Assam
  • Horror replay for East Pakistan immigrants
  • Teacher held for abetting girl's suicide
  • Pleas ignored, scientist seeks explanation from mayor
  • Finally, Kolkata Municipal Corporation admits arsenic threat
  • IAF proposes to name three peaks in Ladakh after its heroes
  • Customs officers sentenced for demanding bribe
  • Government stands to gain on petrol hike
  • No new self-financing course: Bratya Basu to opposition leader Surjya Kanta Mishra
  • Mamata Banerjee slams 'deplorable' violence in Assam
  • Assam violence: Riots snatch home, parents, 7-yr-old boy flees alone
  • Assam violence: Host dilemma over refugee flow
  • West Bengal gets state-of-the-art hovercraft to beef up maritime security
  • 7-member panel frames water policy for West Bengal
  • TMC members defy Mamata's diktat on Gorkhaland territorial administration
  • Mamata Banerjeurges Army chief to clear Metro projects
  • Sunderbans tiger brought to Kolkata zoo for treatment
  • Former Bengal finance minister blames Centre for price rise
  • Called 'cheat' by teacher, 11-year-old girl jumps to death
  • Alcohol addiction trickles down to youngsters still in school
  • Jagachha rape: On-duty police officer suspended
  • Swimming class turns fatal as teens drown in pond
  • Police unfazed with rape complaint
  • Park Street rape victim shocked over Jagachha incident
  • Mamata Banerjee against transport strike
  • 'Pirouette' is SpellBee winning word in Kolkata
  • Commerce ministry hopeful of good business in next two months: Secretary
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Writers II spells heritage doom
  • Objective change at Plus-II level
  • Learn ropes of film production
  • Couple get bail in counter case
  • Attack plotter arrested
  • Tiger health improves
  • HC stay on vacate order
  • You share your birthday with...
  • CM launches anti-strike drive
  • Groom father helps stop minor marriage
  • No listeners for job woes
  • Nominee prize for elderly worker
  • Pregnant ladys run to escape bullets
  • College attack youth and 9 guards arrested
  • HC declines stay on GTA board
  • Protest against college heads appointment
  • Rural office attacked
    • Indian Express
  • CPM politicising everything: CM
  • Rashtrapati Bhavan now on Facebook
  • TMC changed tune on strike
  • Two 12-yr-old girls drown while learning how to swimming
  • ASI suspended for not helping rape victim
  • Forgo extra tax to bring fuel price down: Asim
  • Kokrajhar: A Section of media has forgotten principles, says CM
  • Maoist leader held in south Kolkata
  • New SEZ norms likely in a month
    • 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
  • Work culture has improved in WB: Mamata
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line