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News Headlines Archive

March 06, 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 to upgrade hospitals in Hills
  • Woman dies in acid attack
  • Son-in-law arrested for trader's murder
  • Fingerprint-based attendance atstate govt offices
  • Fraudster dupes job-seekers posing as Army officer, held
  • Rocket making materials manufactured in Kolkata seized in Raipur
  • City police to get India's first attack dog squad
  • Committee to select Jadavpur University VC
  • Cards passe', use cell phones to pay bills
  • Short film fest cut short to 3 days
  • Scribe dies of heart attack
  • No land? Let's go digging: Madan
  • Giving a ray of hope to less fortunate lives
  • Bengal masters to go under the hammer at Sotheby's
  • Bohra Muslims display their sartorial traditions
  • Bengal student alleges ragging
  • Burdwan cop suspended after court rap on twin murders
  • Teachers have right to take a day off, says Bengal's education minister
  • Trinamool takes out rally, chokes Rajarhat
  • Trinamool minister faces ire of party workers
  • Cops face the heat over application
  • TMC blood donation camp draws locals' ire
  • Out on bail, rebel PCPA leader joins Trinamool
  • Spiritual session for business students
  • Two killed in tusker attack
  • Congress activist murdered in Bengal
  • Priceless memories etched in metal
  • Chittagong revolt captured on film
  • A walk down pages of history
  • Land sharks dupe steel major in Howrah, two arrested
  • Soon, spoken English for primary classes in Bengal
  • Maoists camped in Kolkata to procure arms
  • Jodhpur Park woman was murdered
  • Mamata back to street politics, city to chaos
  • CM can't shake off street politics past
  • Elderlywoman robbed in house
  • Salt Lake autos to be regularised
  • Nine more baby deaths in Malda
  • Vidya Balan offers to be face of Kolkata Metro
  • Forest force caught in a bind over two bosses
  • Ragging shock in engineering college
  • More parking lots in city centre
  • Cryptic call leads cops to dead woman
  • Burdwan murders: CID begins probe
  • Defaced portraits spark campus row
  • Government to upgrade 126 schools in Jangalmahal
  • 16-year-old student hangs self
  • Bengal and Odisha to hold coastal exercise
  • Police initiate suo motu case against Eastern Frontier Rifles
  • Govt agencies need cabinet nod to sell land
    • The Telegraph
  • Tax-ortion hits property owners
  • Filtered water for Salt Lake
  • Complaints against tainted cop
  • Presi poll in September
  • Armed gang in twin robberies
  • Designer robbery at store
  • You share your birthday with...
  • A toll on young minds
  • Scientists in JU head search team
  • State back on road to budget
  • Ordered, CID does what cops wont
  • Thumb lost to pothole before exam
  • Stones fail to stop illegal house demolition
  • Asok sees CM skirt-poll agenda
  • Hospital chief on leave
  • Darjeeling civic body richer by Rs 10 lakh
  • EC nod to graft chargesheet
    • Indian Express
  • Burdwan murders: Four arrested Trinamool men in CID custody
  • Software giant loses product code, stands to lose $500 million
  • Snub to Didi: Left invited to Congs union meet
  • Centre pulls up Mamata govt for slow progress in using funds
  • New norm backfires, 18,000 bus, taxi drivers left without licence
  • Awaiting Guv nod, Presidency faculty council stuck
  • Advocates divided over going to court on weekends
    • Hindustan Times
  • Infosys not to get SEZ status: Mamata
  • Kolkata woman raped, assaulted, left to die
  • Kolkata rape: 14-day police custody for accused
  • Woman with cerebral palsy denied permission to fly by SpiceJet
  • Kolkata police chief may be removed over rape case
  • Two arrested in Katwa rape case
  • 13-year-old gangraped in Raigang in Bengal
  • Mamata Banerjee's nephew granted bail
  • Doc held for raping disabled in Bengal
  • Dismantling of 160 year old heritage park invites citizen's flak in Darjeeling
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line