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News Headlines Archive

June 29, 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
  • Brand 'Durga' to be marketed in Bengal during festivities
  • Teacher strips girl in co-ed classroom
  • No Monday visits to Botanic Garden
  • Hotel security officer found dead in flat
  • Parties play politics over disabled athlete rape
  • Wedding drama in courtroom
  • Online SSC admit cards from July 9
  • Boy 'ragged' in school, complaint lodged
  • Bride in shock, family files FIR
  • Anger and bonhomie at Mamata-Gurung meet
  • Suicide at Kolkata Metro cripples services
  • Lightening kills five in Basirhat
  • Expelled CPM leader fires fresh salvo
  • Not 20,000, police found 90,000 detonators in car
  • Pranab to meet Left, Congress MLAs
  • State set to observe B C Roy birthday today
  • Barrackpore gets helicopter unit
  • Man falls into coal pit inferno
  • Passport Kendra a failure: Officials
  • 'Limit climate change or wait for the doomsday'
  • Natural Fibre Mission to be launched in West Bengal
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Rogue cabbie in cop Net
  • Harass charge against teacher
  • Complaint against principal
  • Groom held for bigamy
  • Helpless and humiliated
  • Edge-of-the-seat shootout
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Celsius goes see-saw
  • Pranab lines up meet with Left
  • Dress code diktat Part-II
  • College applicants collapse in the sun
  • Jostle over civic posts
  • Dad-son arrested for cop job fraud
  • Inferno engulfs coal zone
  • Gurung seeks jobs for GLP
  • Flight cancel fine on airline
  • Trade freezes in Kargil vs Mission Kashmir
  • Rain blow to Dooars tea gardens
  • Subsidence blamed for train derail & crash
  • 2 more platforms for Malda
    • Indian Express
  • Minister proposes cradle in hospitals for unwanted babies
  • Morcha to decide on GTA poll tomorrow
  • Move related to presidential poll, says Mamata
  • Singur: Congress questions Trinamool govts intentions
  • State plans to use convicts wages to aid victims
  • Trinamool leader shot at in Dumdum
  • Govt appoints tainted agency to develop health infrastructure
  • 3 yrs on, no benefits for 1,100 BPL card holders in hills
  • Trinamool leader murder: Minister refutes allegations
    • 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
  • Fire continues to rage in ECL mine, security guard missing
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line