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News Headlines Archive

June 08, 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
  • UFO ties up with Dolby for eastern markets
  • Woman raped in moving car in Kolkata
  • Rebel CPM leader Rezzak Mollah wants to quit from chief whip's post
  • Lover 'kills' sex worker's 3-year-old child
  • Tamluk autopsy surgeon decides not to quit
  • CM touches young hearts
  • Man found hanging at in-laws' home
  • Haryana 'Baba' faces blockade in Darjeeling
  • Patients suffer as doctors cease work at RG Kar Hospital
  • Police seize fake marksheets from Baranagar house
  • Trinamool Congress men on rampage at ferry ghat
  • Six more die due to heat wave in West Bengal, health dept issues heat advisory
  • 'Relax endurance tests in summer'
  • 11 injured as Trinamool Congress rival groups clash
  • 5 injured in college clash
  • Policeman run over by truck in Kolkata
  • Nandigram firing: CBI seeks Bengal govt permission to prosecute cops
  • Another principal attacked in Raiganj
  • Couldn't the test wait, asks family
  • Fatal run: Cops ignored warning signs at job test
  • How Arambag link was completed in record time
  • Alimuddin Street set to expel seven-time MP Anil Basu
  • Trader killed by robbers in Nadia
  • Lubricating oil worth Rs 3.5 crore seized
  • Mirik Lake makeover takes off after eight years
  • Trinamool Congress worker accused of torturing wife
  • Building collapses, two labourers killed
  • Mamata Banerjee gifts laptops to minority students
  • Young trees chopped to make way for billboards
  • One lakh saplings to adorn Kolkata outskirts
  • Education panel holds first meeting
  • Railway job racket busted, kingpins escape arrest
  • West Bengal posts rise in revenue collections
  • Mom outscores son in higher secondary exam
  • No respite from scorching heat conditions
  • Monsoon may hit next week
  • Few cool buses on the road, commuters fret in heat
  • Kitchens, ACs add to 'heat wave' in Writers' Building
  • Voltage fluctuation returns to haunt Kolkata
  • Madarssa toppers get laptops
  • For the first time, Mamata govt revenue up
  • Audi launches Q3 in India at Rs 26.21 lakh
  • Heat wave: Bengal govt extends summer vacation in schools
  • Horse deaths send Kolkata clubs into a tizzy
  • Power demand surges as Kolkata cools off with ACs
  • Beware of killer heat, stay away from the sun
  • Bypass projects to spark green massacre in Kolkata; experts sound alarm
  • Rs 74k per month for Presidency University chairs
  • Higher secondary passout commits suicide
  • Partyman died in torture detention, alleges BJP
    • The Telegraph
  • Morning trailer, evening show
  • Endurance test death turns heat on risky run
  • Azzurri jersey designer with city goal
  • Docs continue ceasework
  • Teenager killed in bike crash
  • Thief caught napping
  • Pain no barrier in making a mark
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  • Land holds up Aila dam plan
  • Don Bosco student drowns
  • Guardian officers for panchayats
  • Polls show up CPM vacuum
  • Sikkim landslides wipe out seven
  • Principal, staff trade blows on timing
  • Bank to pay if papers genuine
  • Mom held for murder of girls kidnapper
  • Constable shoots at himself
    • Indian Express
  • Didi writes to Azad for MCI seal on two colleges
  • Be fearless, govt will help, Mamata assures students
  • Explain anti-govt views, Bengal tells prof
  • Junior doctors strike continues
  • Stung by Mukul, Cong withdraws from campaigning
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata no-go holding up FDI in airlines
  • Mamata hits the streets to protest petrol price hike
  • NRI kids in fresh row, state panel orders probe
  • Modi praises mamata for opposing wrong policies
  • 'Bihar's 11% growth despite non-cooperation'
  • Cong presents scorching report card to Mamata
  • Mamatas name game scales new heights
  • Bengal heat wave toll crosses 100
  • Heat makes anti-Naxal forces change tack
  • Mamata sweeps urban Bengal, but loses Haldia
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line