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News Headlines Archive

July 31, 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
  • Bengal food poisoning: 2 kids dead, 435 in hospital
  • 273 acres available to Aligarh Muslim University to start campus: Mamata Banerjee
  • 200 fall ill after eating at Iftar party in Bankra
  • Hijli to ease congestion at Kharagpur station
  • NR Narayana Murthy to visit Kolkata, no word on Infosys impasse
  • Ramakrishna Mission to get autonomy on teachers' recruitment
  • District food controller shunted in wheat scam
  • Water meters in New Town
  • Trader murder: Gangwar fears haunt Kharagpur
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation yet to act on arsenic menace
  • No legal hassle to School Service Commission re-test: Chairman Chittaranjan Mandal
  • Class-IX girl goes missing, family fears kidnap
  • Cops crack down on rowdies in Barasat, 10 held
  • Three college girls drown in Hooghly
  • Bikram squad members give up arms at Writers'
  • Schoolboy shot on way home in Howrah
  • Police insensitivity towards rape victims draws flak
  • Kolkata signs up for a 'licence' to hack
  • Dragonair flies into Kolkata in November
  • Pinki Pramanik meets Madan Mitra, academy on wishlist
  • Presidency University recruits four more teachers
  • Speedboat shuttle plan on Hooghly
  • Power from Bengal saves the day for Delhi, neighbours
  • Mamata's threat forces Citu to withdraw Strike
  • Transport strike off after Biman Basu plea
  • A tender soul left scarred and scared
  • Sec V to get ring road, parking lot
  • Trauma signs will abate, but not disappear: Experts
  • Smuggling of foodgrain a regular phenomenon
  • Question paper crisis mars SSC exam
  • SSKM hospital to get Sambhunath Pundit hospital as annexe
  • Presidency University mentors chalk out third set of proposals
  • Doctors fear dengue epidemic in Kolkata this year
  • Kolkata students brainstorm at vocabulary contest
  • First Gorkhaland Territorial Administration elections end on peaceful note
  • Molest cases routine affair in Barasat
  • Disabled minor raped in Hooghly
  • Youths book on fight against disability on West Bengal library shelves
  • Leaders groom youths for political career
  • Trident light controversy far from over
  • Seizure of PDS wheat puts scanner on section of FCI staff
  • Bus owners call off strike, Citu unmoved
  • Bengal tourism in London fair
  • PWD submits report on potholed road repair
  • Will government honour Sushanta Ghosh in platinum celebrations?
  • Woman burnt alive in front of daughters
  • Youth shot dead by friends in drunken brawl
  • Rights violation fears keep police away
    • The Telegraph
  • On strike-free pedestal, time to place common sense
  • Shopkeeper shot dead in road heist
  • Knitting lessons for ex-rebels
  • Murshidabad fans farewell ceremony for Kaka
  • College principal locked up over seats
  • Adivasis seek GTA berth for Barla
  • Process to restore tribal land starts
  • Murshidabad fan performs last rites for Kaka
  • Malda principal confined
  • Shaman in hospital ward
    • Indian Express
  • Two women from Maoist Ayodhya squad surrender
  • Govt orders two more probes
  • HC stays Bengal notification of Right to Free Education rules
  • On Cong target Didis errand boy Mukul Roy
  • Presidency to advertise in foreign journals
  • Complete AMUs Murshidabad campus soon: CM
  • Probe ordered after Left smells scam in citys trident lights
  • Social welfare dept director shifted
  • Bengal sets up Natural Fibre Mission
  • Nigerians, second to Bangladeshis, in Bengal jails
    • Hindustan Times
  • Railways have worsened under Trinamool: Congress MP
  • Short skirts cause women harassment, says Trinamool MLA
  • Pranab's sister predicted he will be President
  • Mamata congratulates Pranab, to attend swearing-in
  • Birbhum, Nadia celebrate Poltus win
  • Power cut traps hundreds of miners: Mamata
  • Power failure affects five eastern states
  • Rail minister suspects sabotage, orders probe
  • Railways have worsened under Trinamool: Congress MP
  • Reign of terror at Visva-Bharti: ex-VC writes to PM, President
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line