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News Headlines Archive

July 29, 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
  • Brace up for a surge in your electricity bill
  • Weekend windfall with Tagore death anniversary holiday
  • Gold chain retrieved after 2-hour surgery on snatcher
  • Bright students quit Presi for lack of exposure
  • Lover stabs girl, slashes wrist in city hotel
  • Sushanta to attend assembly
  • Mystery shrouds actress Srabonti Das' death
  • Ralway cops' callousness claims life
  • Engineering college derecognised
  • Nine-yr-old saves money, donates to CM's relief fund
  • Sunderbans algae rich in food value
  • Fire at city hospital
  • Chhatradhar threatens fast
  • 3 nomad kids die in a week at Barasat
  • No bailout package for Bengal now, hints New Delhi
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Slain where she felt the safest
  • Cops cling to shirt clue with Mumbai tag
  • Fire hazard at hemmed-in shop stop
  • Book fair heads home
  • Traffic crown on ex-top cop
  • Holiday on Tagore death anniversary
  • Tampered meters pass test, Salt Lake centre fails sting
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  • Protests rock college
  • Metro commuter held for wrong exit
  • Blaze destroys storeroom in market
  • Boy donates Rs 1 lakh
  • Maoist belt teachers seek shift
  • Tatas deal Delhi card
  • Unilateral appointment jitters spread in Congress
  • Didi meet on squabble
  • Protest wall on retirement
  • On radar: 5 airports
  • Rename gives Left shoehorn
  • Planters warn of halt in pay
  • Assault spurs garden closure
  • Green coat for NBSTC buses
  • PWDs new construction office in Siliguri
  • Javelin throwers body found
  • Repair survey on 109 barrage gates
  • Timber seized, 2 held
    • 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