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News Headlines Archive

June 30, 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
  • Two injured in explosion in Kolkata Medical College Hospital
  • Air India website puts flight chartered for BSF on sale
  • I don't care for death threats, says feisty activist
  • Women in arms fight for justice
  • Traumatized schoolgirl refuses to attend classes
  • Pinki remanded in jail custody for 14 days
  • High court trims down Botanic garden entry fee
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation team to visit arsenic-prone areas
  • CM wants Left to press for moratorium
  • 31 budgets sent to 'guillotine'
  • Boatmens strike cripples Sunderbans vigil
  • Hygiene whip on food vendors
  • GPS helps cops nab hijackers
  • State regularizes transfer policy in colleges
  • Angry over divorce, man hacks wife in court
  • Latest IAF choppers inducted in Barrackpore
  • Birthday celebrations give political fodder in Bengal
  • Funds shortage hits Mamata Banerjee's 100-day work project
  • MGNREGA: Mamata govt fails to perform in Naxalite-affected districts
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Giant tent on rally road
  • ID cards for garden walkers
  • Plex crowd caught in Spideys 3D web
  • FIR against teacher for harassment
  • Colour mix-up in unclaimed end
  • 2 Italians beat 20 Germans!
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Bonding, bets and Balotelli
  • Cops rush to cut excuses
  • CM takes Left on board in debt-relief fight
  • Durgapur swearing-in chaos
  • Shirt spoilt, doctor strikes
  • Airbase at Panagarh by next year
  • Gurung signals protest pause
  • Girl drowns in raging river
  • Symbol plea before talks
  • Burdwan airbase plan
  • Quota cry by hill SCs & tribes
    • Indian Express
  • Pinki denied bail, counsel cries injustice
  • Mahasweta Devi makes her film debut at 86
  • CPM making Cong, Trinamool fight: Mamata
  • Tagore songs at signals: Didi calls it enchanting, CPM says hypocrisy
  • Water crisis: Hospitals keep surgeries on hold
  • GTA elections: Trinamool to contest all 45 seats
  • Mamata good administrator, but has lost momentum
  • Undertrials death at Presidency Jail: High Court seeks medical record
    • 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
  • Court directs chromosome pattern test for Pinki Pramanik
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line