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June 17, 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
  • First step to clean up Sunderbans
  • Trinamool leaders fear cross-voting
  • Buddha brigade bats for Pranab, Front unsure
  • Old friends recall 'Chanakya'
  • Hakim dares Congress to leave government
  • Potshots and praise flood the web
  • Car dealer robbed of Rs 2.5 lakh in Dum Dum
  • Monsoon may hit city by Tuesday
  • Pinki's railways job fate hinges on court order
  • Missing bow box puts Rahul under pressure
  • Two day workshop for station managers of important stations under South Eastern Railway
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Portrait of an artist as a terrorist
  • Damning evidence of books
  • Till the clouds roll by
  • Mamata debuts on FB to canvass for Kalam
  • Cong free to leave govt: Firhad
  • Somnath texts Pranab wishes
  • Panel to look into hill report
  • Fire in city highrise
  • Monsoon hope in 48 hours
  • 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
  • Conversion: Sisters afraid to return home
  • Govt sets up panel to verify Sen report on GTA
  • Sisters beaten up for converting to Islam
  • Fresh shadow over Nayachar project, PIL seeks stay
  • Trinamool wins but its vote share falls
  • Latin fest in Bengal
  • Slain TMC leaders wife moves HC for CBI probe
  • Briefly State : 14-day jail remand for Pinki
  • Assembly adjourns after obituary references
  • Sticking to their VISION
    • Hindustan Times
  • Sangma rings up Mamata for support
  • 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
  • Sangma rings up Mamata for support
  • GJM Supremo mounts pressure on West Bengal, unwilling to call of agitation
  • Whatever I have to say I will say on Facebook : Mamata
  • Mamata debuts on Facebook, says Kalam the choice of millions
  • Somnath for Pranab Mukherjee as President
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line