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News Headlines Archive

June 28, 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
  • Mamata doubles monthly stipend for farmers who lost land in Singur
  • 20, 000 detonators found in car headed for Kolkata
  • Don Bosco wins inter-school fest
  • Tusks from slain jumbo found hidden in forest
  • Jackal kills 4-year-old in Malda
  • Brace for 3-day taxi strike
  • Pinki gender report in Barasat court
  • Labourers fall into water tank
  • Arsenic alarm grips Kolkata
  • Filter used by Army may save lives
  • A bumpy ride to Bantala office
  • New service tax regime from July 1
  • Higher Secondary students lose out in admission race
  • Girl stops 'hubby' from marrying a second time
  • State appoints administrator for Bally municipality
  • IIT Kharagpur hails council move on CET
  • Govt to file affidavit on activist's murder
  • CPM man held with AK47 ammo names CPM leader
  • Backward regions grant unused
  • MCI breather for Malda medical college
  • Hell of a climate in 9 years
  • Bimal Gurung to meet Mamata Banerjee on Thursday
  • Who will get Mamata's pet film city project? Zee or Prosenjit?
  • National Disaster Response Force teams from Kolkata leave for flood relief operations in Assam
  • Retired Indian Army officer to be honoured by Bangladesh
  • Administrator for Bally Municipality, as chairman absconds
  • Mamata government adopts the reel way against plastic menace
  • Lesson learnt, Mamata re-merges departments
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • He said: Ill take you where I want
  • Playing: Riches-to-rags saga
  • Route change cloud on East-West Metro
  • Alls fine with traffic
  • Architect Scot & art deco
  • Govt pulls board strings
  • Dollys Euro goal: a TV
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  • Bad politics tarnishes campus atmosphere
  • HC seeks grant papers
  • Plea for CBI probe into murder
  • Nightmare on city streets
  • Trader detained in wedding fracas
  • Govt rejects CPM land act tweak plan
  • Singur pill: dole doubled
  • Teachers fight dress code diktat
  • Rehab drive for scavengers
  • Rapist takes sari to buy silence & time
  • Twin towns under water
  • Hospital lacks surgical units
  • Gurung, Mamata meet today
  • Found: missing tusks of dead jumbo
  • Secretary shown door after spat
  • Govt doubles Singur dole
  • Son-in-law in cop home theft
  • Nod for second-year MBBS in Malda
  • SET script copies for candidates
  • Patient dies, finger at doctor
  • To London Olympics 1948
    • Indian Express
  • HC asks govt to file affidavit in Trinamool leader murder case
  • State govts legal adviser missing from Singur action
  • Mamata doubles cash dole for farmers, labourers
  • Verdict raises hope for justice: Widow
    • 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