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News Headlines Archive

June 02, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal govt decides on Rs 3,000 cr of mkt borrowing
  • All stakeholders on Singur will be consulted: Chatterjee
  • Mamata Banerjee announces extension of Rs. 2/kg rice scheme
  • IIT Kharagpur violates privacy law, snoops on prof’s phone chat
  • Family suspects foul play behind MLA's death
  • We wrote twice to Centre for financial assistance: Dasgupta
  • Bengal needs discipline
  • New plans for North Bengal
  • Tea Board to assist small growers set up tea processing unit
  • By the people, off the mark
  • Five Congress MLAs to join Mamata's Ministry
  • Mitra appointed finance secretary
  • West Bengal govt waives tuition fees for poor engineering students
  • US-based Mindlance opens new facility in Kolkata
  • Not having a woman in the National Awards jury is odd - Rituparno
  • First-of-its-kind music launch in mountains!
  • Check out some new Bengali TV show
    • Times of India
  • Caretaker of womens college hostel found dead
  • Pranab son not in Cong MoS list
  • New PDS for Jangalmahal
  • Joka-Behala tram is now history
  • Hospital runs a polluting laundry
  • Lone ward master greets Mamata
  • MLA kin trash suicide theory, to meet CM
  • Transition panel for new terminal
  • Mamata wants wider roads
  • Garbage dumps at city gateway
  • Zoo at Alipore to stay put, new animals to join
  • Presidency University admission online
  • Kolkata boy ranks third in nationwide law test
  • Senior Arambag CPM leader in police net
  • Free tech edu for needy students
  • Don missing, kin suspect abduction
  • Asim ready to talk funds with Mitra
  • Dont use diesel: Greenpeace to telecom firms
  • Kolkata serves as a key transit point for NE rebels
  • Now in oppn, Buddha's turn to blast state terror
    • The Telegraph
  • Presidency plays pathfinder
  • Taxis flee, touts rule
  • Eye on London for zoo facelift
  • Fat chance in slim surgery
  • Bitter pill for schoolgirl
  • Traffic overhaul on the cards
  • Hidco pre-poll strike rate: 372 plots in 90 days
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Green carpet welcome for Mamata
  • To the chief minister
  • CMs lip service: Kiss for baby, lash for hospital staff
  • Howrah craftsman in London contest
  • Auditorium on stilts in Nandan plan
  • More tuition waivers in tech colleges
  • Polluting eateries survive shut order
  • Hostel in-charge found dead
  • Eight fined for smoking
  • Jungle Mahal cheap rice net widened
  • PC backs decision to keep back forces
  • Independent helped Quasem win
  • Gurung sets out for meeting with PC
  • Handcuffed Bangladeshi escapes from court
  • Brothers shot dead, two injured in clash
  • Two held for trader murder
    • Indian Express
  • To every Mitra claim, ex-FM Asim gives a point-by-point rebuttal
  • Didi visits hospitals, assures overhaul of health sector
  • Courtesy Mamata, rice in Junglemahal at Rs 2 per kilo
  • Sole rebel Cong man in Assembly sings paeans for Mamata
  • Bible Society may pull down heritage building
  • Bagan net Odafa with Rs 2-cr deal
  • 14-0: Mudslinging continues
  • Housing dept begins probe into Rajarhat land acquisition, allotment
  • Merit lists make a comeback in West Bengal
  • Left Front put Bengal on brink of insolvency: Mitra
  • Demoralised BJP sees opportunity in govts radical promises
  • Banker-turned-lawyer who stood by Mamatas side
  • Humbled Buddha steps out again, hits out at Manmohan
  • Central grants welcome, but came too late, says Asim
  • Minister sees police-CPM nexus
  • Govt forms panel to frame new land policy
    • Hindustan Times
  • Congress forwards list of five ministers to Mamata
  • Buddha hits out, questions PMs support base
  • CM Mamata debuts in assembly
  • Biman Banerjee elected West Bengal assembly speaker
  • CPM legislator jumps to death in Kolkata
  • Congress forwards list of five ministers to Mamata
  • Rickshawpuller hands over Rs 50K to cops
  • Buddha hits out, questions PMs support base
  • CM Mamata debuts in assembly
  • CPM legislator jumps to death in Kolkata
    • Sports
  • East Bengal beat Chirag to finish second
  • Mohun Bagan signs up Odafa
  • Warm welcome for victorious Bengal football team
  • West Bengal govt to felicitate victorious Bengal football team