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News Headlines Archive

June 27, 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
  • Left bores holes into government's NREGS figures
  • Mitra refutes increased government spending
  • Air Arabia introduces pre-booked baggage policy, hikes cabin bag allowance
  • Mamata non-committal on support to Sangma
  • Disabled athletics champ raped by auto driver
  • Ponds vanish in realty boom
  • Crush-hour snag throws Metro schedule haywire
  • Two die as truck crushes cab
  • Intelligence officer jumps to death
  • Trader beaten to death at Patuli
  • Look Ma! I'm a superhero
  • Neem extract may be used as cancer drug
  • Bankim's writing desk restored at Victoria
  • Doctor with 'woman's voice' gets baritone
  • Governor sticks to Singur claim
  • No respite from price pinch
  • Seth shifted to Alipore jail
  • Rs 1150 crore World Bank loan for state
  • IIT-Kharagpur in 'wait and watch mode' over common test
  • Bhunia on overdrive to dredge Midnapore canals
  • Forest dept hurdle to Jindal Salboni project
  • Jackal menace at Nadia DM's bungalow
  • Temple heists in a row worry Malda residents
  • Mine fire rages out of control in Asansol
  • Mamata Banerjee non-committal on backing PA Sangma
  • Defence Research and Development Organisation trains commanders to bring down suicide and fratricide in armed forces
  • Deaf and mute athlete raped in Bengal
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Speed kills in cut-loose hour
  • Second school to offer IB
  • Drizzle days, not deluge
  • Secy shown door after spat
  • Passengers vault Metro third rail
  • Student copies of SET scripts
  • Metro: MGM roar to plex revamp
  • You share your birthday with...
  • To London 1948 with Olympic old boys
  • Rugby smiles light up little faces
  • School lends hand to braveheart lifter
  • Chance to play a royal name game
  • Bangla team on jail reforms
  • Trinamul criticises MK
  • So far, hope and little else
  • Tagore boat replicas
  • Seth shifted to Alipore jail
  • Sorrow stays, so does pothole
  • Morcha keen on GTA poll, final call Gurungs
  • Trinamuls hill survey
  • 226mm rain floods Alipurduar
  • Impaired girl alleges rape by auto driver
  • Golay slams Sikkim govt
  • Darjeeling hospital stench
    • Indian Express
  • Sangma leaves Mamata door with hope
  • Bailout: Mamata plans war on unresponsive Centre
  • Pinki Pramaniks gender test can be done in city, says SSKM super
    • 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