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News Headlines Archive

June 20, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • West Bengal faces flood threat
  • Prisoner release: Buying truce with Maoists
  • Mamata looks to UPA in a bid to kick-start West Bengal economy
  • Mamata' s Sunday durbar becomes popular
  • West Bengal's lost learning
  • The Singur Bill will mess up things in West Bengal - Gautam Deb
  • Bridging Bengal: PE investors who will drive new Bengal Inc
  • Tough task on hand to check mounting debt
  • Emotionally yours... Kolkata
  • Learning Arabic had a huge impact - Amitav Ghosh
  • Reality TV can give one stardom: Runa Laila
  • Tagore's classic hits the stage
  • Raj Chakrabarty creates Proloy
    • Times of India
  • Subsidence disrupts train services in Asansol
  • Second runway ready for night ops, traffic load to ease
  • Nandan complex to be spruced up soon
  • Killer cop had been missing since Saturday
  • Bailout: Didi to meet Pranab
  • More rain in Kolkata, Howrah flooded
  • Kurseong goes without power
  • Govt on toes as flood alarm looms in S Bengal
  • Bidhannagar civic chief may resign
  • Alumni body plans 35-cr fund for Presi
  • Ministers unhappy with small offices
  • Couple, son found murdered in Bengal eatery
  • Mamata to meet Montek with great expectations
  • Wont allow shutdowns
  • Go-getter Mamata sets terms for business
  • Rise of the model Bengal
  • Howrah school electrified, lucky escape for 200 kids
  • Robbers strike twice during storm
  • Family of three murdered in Digha
  • KMC all set to tackle flood
    • The Telegraph
  • Runaway cop talks, then shoots
  • Quit text from Salt Lake boss
  • Rallying around Rabindranath on a rain-drenched weekend
  • Footpath work toll on trees
  • Rs 10 lakh ring stolen
  • Bengal lags in juvenile justice
  • Deluge creates craters on roads
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Victoria as Opium Memorial
  • Signal snag delays trains
  • Singur bill triggers me-too cry
  • Rain means race with mud and no sleep
  • Crater slows trains to Delhi
  • Rain stops anti-erosion work
  • Varsity head slams CPM torture
  • Bhaichung picks up plot for soccer school
  • Heritage tag plea for Moinaguri sites
  • Bhutni to get block status
  • Constable body found
    • Indian Express
  • Soccer match to woo Junglemahal youths
  • kolkata Confidential
  • Darjeeling agreement likely in a week: Pillai
  • Bright side: Boon for agriculture
  • Flood threat looms large, state on alert
  • Post-deluge: Bengal limps back to normalcy
  • KMC apathy leads to waterlogging woes
  • Left allies not keen on joining June 25 rally
  • Land issues dominate Mamatas first rendezvous with industry
  • Bengal is competing against dynamic states: Blake to CM
  • CM to project herself as industry-friendly
  • Govt will put an end to ongoing violence in the state: Mamata
  • Showers to go on for next 24 hrs
  • Corporation blames old pumps for waterlogging
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata likely to discuss financial package with Pranab
  • Didi's Sunday 'darbar' becomes popular
  • 60 Bengal fishermen still missing
  • Trawlers swept off to Bangladesh
  • 18 of 33 missing trawlers traced
  • 60 Bengal fishermen still missing
  • Trawlers swept off to Bangladesh
  • 18 of 33 missing trawlers traced
  • City normal after heavy rains
  • 33 trawlers with 550 fishermen missing in Bay of Bengal
    • Sports
  • Olympic qualifier: India loses to Qatar by 3-1
  • Bengal has not produced enough champions: Maken
  • Lahiri finishes 8th