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News Headlines Archive

June 25, 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
  • Tea Board gets new vice chairman from small tea growers' association
  • Youth falls into well in Liluah, feared dead
  • Artificial limbs give life a second chance
  • TMC men clash on dais at block meet
  • Unwilling Singur farmers live in hope
  • Detained students lock school gate in protest
  • Gurung to leave for Delhi to discuss 'mouza' with home minister
  • Wrong signals for city traffic
  • Rajarhat plots fetch hefty prices
  • A fusion of fun and food marks Times Evening
  • Pranab renews Belur Math ties, seeks blessings
  • Davy case: CBI's fresh effort for extradition
  • Film fraternity pledges fight against piracy
  • Needless wait, jams after 10pm
  • Route realignment to spell further delay for EW Metro
  • Football fever grips Kolkata
  • The Royal Gallery of Victoria Memorial should be re opened
  • Odhisa raises a stink on latrines, Defence Research and Development Organisation to the rescue
  • Centre to form second national commission on sustainable urbanization
  • Motijheel Mosque and cemetery are now 'protected monument of national importance'
  • Kids get a taste of a sailors life
  • Floatel still in dry dock, repairs to take 15 more days
  • Cheers on field silence gunshots in Jangalmahal
  • Eastern Command gets Dalbir Singh as new chief
  • Trinamool Congress switches to damage control mode in Singur
  • Crimes being outsourced to lowest bidder
  • Dont use wetlands for even public projects, says panel
  • Occupy-Singur call from CPM rebel leader
  • Rural polls on mind, chief minister renews Singur coalition
  • Bengal supports Prasenjit Bose
  • Fire at Ultadanga disrupts traffic
  • Goons fire at molest victim's house
  • Retest for primary teachers
  • 24 techies hurt in crash on way to work
  • Gorkhaland Territorial Administration elections before board formation: CM
  • CM scared of questions: Surjya Kanta Mishra
  • Kids get a taste of guns and cannons
  • Ruckus in House, Bloc MLA expelled
  • Bonding over Bengal with biz and pleasure
  • CPM leader quits over party stand
  • Mamata Banerjee needs to slow down: Kabir Suman
  • 'Pranabda lives simple, thinks big'
  • Pranab Mukherjee reaches Kolkata, asks for support
  • Ancillaries thank court for justice
  • Uncertainty over West Bengal land bill after 'setback'
  • Hope is pain in Singur
  • Anger stays alive in dead Singur
  • Wait for Floatel grows longer
  • Pinki may undergo gender verification test on Monday
    • The Telegraph
  • Finally, feels like monsoon
  • Under water after sharp shower
  • Hidco walks hawker talk
  • Heads we win: Two sides of the quarters coin
  • Benzema is not fit to play for France
  • Clean-up solves township water crisis
  • Urban-rural divide in Bengali film revival
  • You share your birthday with...
  • On the road to make math fun
  • Youth slips into well
  • JEE score likely on website
  • Arrest for loan fraud
  • Women held for robbery
  • Mass breakout by girls to complain
  • Trinamul councillors dare Mukul
  • Canines go on biting spree in Tamluk
  • Coal smuggler arrested with arms
  • Land ghost haunts Trinamul
  • Season of rough ride in Siliguri
  • Cooch Behar waterlogged after night-long showers
  • Team points out health lapses
  • Local hands to protect tiger
  • Water crisis answer in rain
  • Gurung to meet PC, Mamata
    • Indian Express
  • Spitfires romp to rugby title
  • Will miss Dadababu for next five years: Caretaker
  • Cong renews appeal, offers olive branch to Mamata
  • Morcha divided; to meet PC, Pranab
  • Teen falls into well
  • Pranab to meet RBI guv today
  • Mamata mulls expert panel to study HCs Singur order
    • Hindustan Times
  • Pranab Mukherjee to resign on June 24 as finance minister
  • Pinki Pramanik suspended from railways' job
  • Trinamool not dependent on Cong: Bengal Minister
  • Mamata happy for 'overwhelming' response to Kalam appeal on Facebook
  • Whatever I have to say I will say on Facebook : Mamata
  • Mukherjee seeks support from all
  • Labourer dies in Bengal well
  • Bimal Gurung to meet Union home minister and finance minister
  • Bengal Congress appeals for Mamata's support for Pranab
  • Pranab holds 45-minute discussion with WB Governor
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line