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News Headlines Archive

June 26, 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
  • Govt said Singur land bill didnt need Prez nod: Governor
  • Pranab Mukherjee may give Mamata a miss
  • Bengal bailout package after presidential polls?
  • State sets July 29 date for GTA polls
  • Mining project hits land hurdle, PDS seeks govt intervention
  • TMC office ransacked
  • Salt Lake land transfer legal now
  • Trapped youth pulled up with rope around neck
  • Near-complete mall faces legal hurdle in Salt Lake
  • Cigarettes worth Rs 40 lakh looted in Garfa
  • Lack of blood supply stalls surgeries in city
  • Police custody of Nonadanga activists extended
  • City healthcare takes a leap with rare surgery
  • Gender bender not the last word
  • Pinki's SSKM gender test inconclusive
  • Future tense: Kolkata fails sustainability test by miles
  • Pinki's case not uncommon, say doctors
  • CU VC praised new govt, says Bratya
  • Minister bans 'corrupt' principal from school
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Terminally delayed airport
  • Metro plays brolly police
  • New Town hawkers to stay
  • Bratya sets private varsity mark
  • Mutual support scheme
  • Elderly widow hurt in robbery
  • Jails remote-control unruly inmates
  • You share your birthday with...
  • RBU allows tainted five to write exams
  • More police stations in city
  • Kiev to Calcutta: Night of the Italian job
  • England didnt deserve to win
  • How flood zones will fare this monsoon
  • Jewellery thieves arrested
  • Merry-go-wrong in Durgapur fair
  • Digha guards in quit threat
  • Truth in home neglect charge
  • Barla-Trinamul merger in air
  • Gurung takes dig at Trinamul
  • Parishad tells JMM not to aid Morcha
  • Surprise in Sikkim House
  • Lady rescued from roadside by youths
  • Gate repair chokes NH34
  • Camera catches robbers
    • Indian Express
  • Pinkis sex test inconclusive, male cops escort her
  • Govt announces GTA poll on July 29
  • Didi consults govt pleader on Singur
  • State should consider settlement with Tatas, says agriculture minister
  • Thought no need for Prez nod: Governor on Singur Act
  • Tamang killing accused denied bail
  • Taxi outfits threaten to junk cabs outside Writers
  • Task force to check vegetable prices
    • 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
  • Sangma meets Mamata, gets no response
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line