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News Headlines Archive

June 16, 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
  • Armed forces tribunal exonerates Lt Col Mukul Dev
  • GTA meeting at Writers' Buildings
  • Two fires break out in Kolkata, no casualties reported
  • ITBP campaign for a clean Ganga
  • She is my daughter, says mom
  • Aggressiveness a symptom: Experts
  • Shibu Soren backs Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's Gorkhaland demand
  • Ticket checker beaten up as youth falls to death
  • Fishing trawlers to get green engine
  • Trinamool Congress wins assembly bypolls
  • Biman flight returns to Dhaka with 'snag'
  • Brothers cross border in search of father, return after 10 years
  • Dance with stars, act like one
  • Asiad gold medallist sent to jail for 'rape'
  • IIT-Kharagpur faculty opposes common test
  • Auto rams into lorry, 5 killed
  • Doc kills self, writes 7-page note blaming professional victimization
  • 14 bills will be tabled in assembly today
  • Shibu Soren on his way to Darjeeling to meet GJM leaders
  • 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
  • Rs 200 fine for spitting in Kolkata
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • On board with jungle royalty
  • Breeze but not of monsoon
  • Jail seclusion & sex scan for sprinter
  • Mountain sentinels in quest of river crown
  • CU pupils to assess teachers
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Cop-slap cuffs on woman
  • Facebook meet at Lalbazar
  • Consent claim faces teacher challenge
  • Change of guard at Fort William
  • Mamata says game not over but party speaks of face loss
  • Trinamul wins bypolls but edge thins
  • Youth dies in train scuffle
  • Morcha sends Soren signal to tribals
  • Farmers burn own paddy after low yield
  • 10 held for bid to abduct girl
  • Plains seek govt word on GTA report
  • Landslide halt to Nathu-la permits
  • College stops form sale after ruckus
    • Indian Express
  • Sisters beaten up for converting to Islam
  • Fresh shadow over Nayachar project, PIL seeks stay
  • Trinamool wins but its vote share falls
  • Govt website junks Mamata claims on Lefts dismal show
  • Briefly State : 14-day jail remand for Pinki
  • Assembly adjourns after obituary references
    • 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'
  • Being painted as UPA villain, Mamata unfazed
  • Mamata debuts on Facebook, seeks support for Kalam
  • Pranab Mukerjee has 'touched the sky': family
  • The Mukherjees of Kirnahar celebrate
  • Shibu Soren - Bimal Gurung plan to carve out Gorkha Adivasi Pradesh from Bengal
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line