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News Headlines Archive

June 14, 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
  • Pranab Mukherjee telephones Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
  • AAI clears plans for metro station near Kolkata airport
  • Mamata Banerjee govt offers IT park status to Infosys
  • Presidential poll: Mamata's politics of sentiment
  • Presidential poll: Mamata eyes Delhi in high-stakes plot, signals distance from Cong
  • CAG hauls up Bengal transport department
  • Youth shot at, stabbed to death on crowded BT Road
  • Clean-up drive: Spit in Mamata's city, cough up a hefty fine
  • Engineering student held for molestation
  • Bengal cops turn away gang rape victims
  • Keep 50% PG seats for students of other varsities: Bengal higher education council chairman
  • Ghisingh to challenge GTA Act in HC
  • Daily targets, police harassment behind taxi refusals: Drivers
  • Pregnant woman, husband assaulted in Kolkata
  • PWD gets Army nod for Red Road beautification
  • Wait for monsoon grows longer, rains unlikely in the next four days
  • Rabindra Bharati may expel 5 TMCP activists
  • ArcelorMittal likely to build islands off Digha
  • Observation wards in government hospital to reduce hospital refusal
  • Patient observation wards in government hospital to reduce hospital refusal
  • Kolkata hospital gets thalassemia unit
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation given responsibility to oversee water tourism
  • It's all about expensive gadgets and brands
  • Too much money in young hands
  • Kolkata boy fights law school bar in Gujarat HC
  • Thanks to Mamata, Kolkata will get a 'welcome' sign
  • Wait for rain in Kolkata grows longer
  • Baptism by fire at passport seva kendra this summer
  • Bengal bypolls: Heat keeps 10% voters away from booths
  • Like it or lump it, midnight curfew is here to stay
  • Radar shutdown delays flights in Kolkata
  • Tribals set BDO office on fire in Purulia
  • Mob attacks Congress councillor's home, TMC blamed
  • Hate letter to painter Shuvaprasanna: CID launches probe
  • Youth hacks friend's email to take revenge over minor altercation
  • Elephant calf shot, hacked to death by villagers
  • Now, Subhendu project hits land hurdle
  • West Bengal govt plans takeover of land without legal heirs
  • Environment activist writes to Bengal transport minister to check overloading of goods vehicles
  • Mamata heads for Delhi to hold talks with Sonia
  • Kanchrapara railway workshop to celebrate 150th anniversary
  • Unknown fever haunts male babies in Malda
  • Cop, 2 others die in accident
  • State plans land use map for Rajarhat
  • Youth with disability found dead at Parnashree
  • Tech-savvy youth, aide held for duping car agency owners
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha team to meet Mamata Banerjee for an honourable deal
  • Theatre, mime workshop enthrals kids
  • Police job aspirant dies, family calls run 'inhuman'
  • Traders held for murder bid
    • The Telegraph
  • Monsoon plays hard to get
  • Little change on rape route
  • Tracks paved for airport Metro
  • Day after, RBU reforms
  • Pupils to assess teachers at JU
  • State awaits Shah Rukh star turn
  • Cash, gadget missing from fliers bag
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Case studies centre at IIM Calcutta
  • Blaze at SSKM Hospital
  • Call to investors to follow in Mittal steps
  • Cop neglect after assault cry
  • Teachers step out of class to turn new leaf
  • Extortion halts flood-control plan
  • Ladies raped & house burnt
  • Trinamul gets ready for Dooars entry
  • Collapse fear looms over toy train unit
  • Ghisingh to challenge GTA Act
  • Trinamul scan on college clerk
  • Bangla kids flee shelter
    • Indian Express
  • No to Pranab linked to debt relief
  • Mir Jafar Mamata has betrayed Bengal, says Cong; Pranab says wont give quote
  • 2 weeks on, CBSE students yet to get mark sheets
  • Citing dipping sex ratio, Centre seeks infanticide report
  • Govt: No rules in place, so couldnt act on complaints of overcharging in pvt hospitals
    • 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'
  • Left yet to take a call on presidential polls: Biman Bose
  • Pranab telephones Buddhadeb for support in presidential polls
  • Jail inmates seek Euro window to world
  • Not all money kept abroad is black money: Pranab
  • Exam protest hits IIT-Kharagpur
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line