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News Headlines Archive

June 09, 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
  • NIA chargesheet exposed Maoist-PLA nexus
  • Showcause to professor for anti- government remarks on TV
  • Inside the tunnel to future
  • Sunderbans may soon feature on Ramsar list
  • Trinamool worker hacked to death
  • R G Kar Hospital junior doctors lift cease-work
  • State government takes step to fill up vacant IPS posts
  • Microsoft teaching tools to make studies fun for kids
  • Muktijoddha searches for comrades' remains in foreign land
  • Armyman's wife raped by cabbie in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Streets out of police sight
  • Cool schools... just do IT
  • I will tell investors, now Bengal is different
  • Why Mamata should watch Shanghai
  • Besu boys held for cop assault
  • Tech college fees hiked
  • Proxy hope for slow monsoon
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  • Turf club prod to shift constable test
  • Besu back to base after Rajarhat snub
  • Air safety complaint
  • Campus clash slur on Arabul son
  • RG Kar docs back at work
  • Poll backlash on Mitsubishi staff
  • Govt poser on professors TV attendance
  • Sujan confined by Trinamul activists
  • Facebook hunt for techie killers
  • Student killed, finger at cop
  • Teachers skip classes for punch justice
  • Timber panels to rein in smuggling
  • CM orders rehabilitation in a month
  • Skeleton stirs murder theory
  • 5 killed, 15 hurt in crash
    • Indian Express
  • 48 hrs later, strike called off
  • Professors told to explain their TV run
  • GTA panel submits report to Didi
  • Mamata reviews performance of key departments
  • Mamatas silence has message for UPA
  • Mollah says he has resigned as CPM whip
  • Briefly State : Woman hurt in Purulia bank fire
  • Woman raped in cab in Kolkata, 2 held
  • Woman cops at the forefront in drive against eve teasing
    • 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