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News Headlines Archive

June 11, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • New Kolkata airport terminal to be ready by next March
  • Illegal guns seized
  • Singur ordinance not to be notified
  • Left slams ordinance to reclaim Singur land
  • Government to recognise over 10,000 unrecognised madrasas
  • Singur Ordinance falls through on Mamata faux pas
  • Nazrul and Tagore: Two contrasting offerings
  • Duty waiver can turn around HPL: MD
  • The tale of two doyens
  • All set for a new talent show
    • Times of India
  • 'Varsity can't afford to ignore past traditions'
  • Singur land has to be made cultivable
  • Die cast for return of `reaquired` land
  • Wait 3 more days for rain
  • Joka-BBD metro to change course
  • Pradip appointed interim PCC chief
  • More arms seized in Midnapore
  • The buzz is back in Darjeeling
  • Hooghly prankster held for issuing 'al-Qaida' threats
  • GJM's territory demand worries Bhutan
  • Guards foil poaching attempt at Jaldapara
  • Bolly stars to shine in Darjeeling
  • Mamata visits Matua Ma in nursing home
  • CPM man kills self, wife blames Trinamool
  • Coal mafia don arrested
  • A place where Husain still lives on
  • Narrow escape for kids in pool car
  • Noted Presi alumni to chart roadmap on varsity overhaul
  • Study reveals state in HIV grip
  • Biman scepticalof Hills treaty
    • The Telegraph
  • Travel by tunnel to take off
  • NSG revives Rajarhat plan
  • Glare on missing resident
  • Youth arrested for airline job dupe
  • Man held for bomb hoax
  • Garden earns court rap for waste dump
  • Experts for Kalighat upkeep
  • You share your birthday with...
  • A restless soul with playful imagination
  • Plan for flight to Phuket
  • Alumni meet on Presi future
  • 10000 madarsas recognised for central aid
  • Haste bares inexperience
  • Lost kid rescued metres from train
  • Unilateral choice exposes Cong rift
  • Hiten targets forest mafia
  • Darjeeling to turn Bollywood set for Barfee
  • Moner Manush screened at shoot site
  • Poaching fear stalks Jaldapara
  • Karim seeks crackdown on arms
  • Fine for plastic dump on Sikkim slopes
  • Dad held for baby murder
    • Indian Express
  • Cong gets a new interim-president
  • Metro ready to shell out more to avoid land issues
  • Ordinance unconstitutional
  • Giant leap in recognised madrasa number
  • No ordinance, Mamata now talks of Bill to return Singur land
  • Coal mafia leader arrested from Asansol
  • Great admission rush begins in Kolkata
  • 10-member panel to advise govt on higher education
  • Azad Hind Dhaba: Husains favourite haunt
  • He was fond of Kolkata, remember artistes
  • Husain designed wedding card for Kolkata businessman
  • Left skeptical of Gorkhaland pact
  • Wont allow interference in skeleton probe
  • Didi revives hope for restoration of Nazruls works
  • 72% HIV-hit children in Bengal from BPL families: Unicef
  • Ordinance for reclaiming Singur land gets Guv nod
    • Hindustan Times
  • Governance first, party later: Mamata to partymen
  • Singur landowners to get back 400 acres
  • Mamata wants to revive MAMC
  • Left may draw blank if Lok Sabha polls held now
  • Darjeeling issue settled, says Didi
  • It's a good decision : Pranab on the bill on Singur land
  • 49 firearms, 1,000 detonators seized in West Bengal
  • Guv takes back consent given to Singur land ordinance
  • Governance first, party later: Mamata to partymen
  • Mamata keeps Singur promise
    • Sports
  • Bhutia's boys
  • Second title for Mohun Bagan
  • Shabbir set for Tolly job