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News Headlines Archive

March 20, 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
  • Errors mar higher secondary Physics, Education exams
  • Civic body to reclaim Star Theatre
  • Cameras capture 17 tigers outside Sunderbans reserve area
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation ignores cell tower risk
  • 'Orphaned' road a blind alley
  • Rajya Sabha polls: 2-vote edge for TMC
  • TMC MP's guard urinates on passenger, pulls out gun
  • Rape-sheet shame for Bengal
  • Superbike theft racket busted
  • Two youths fall off packed trains, die
  • Ten-minute blaze razes serial set, actors escape
  • Court summons city police commissioner
  • UK woman plans charity for Kolkata
  • Lakshman Seth arrest: Firm under scanner
  • 5 more held in CPM leaders' murder case
  • Mamata misses chance to reach out to Hills
  • 'Sahaj Path' sold as scrap, investigation ordered
  • TCS gives design contract for Rajarhat SEZ
  • Postal dept to pay 83K compensation
  • State may amend rules to step up fire security
  • Stephen Court renovation to get KMC clearance today
  • Walk to raise Down's syndrome awareness
  • Metro to run peak-hour Tolly-Dum Dum trains
  • Kolkata hospital in a shambles, govt looks for private owner
  • Pause on Presi faculty transfer?
  • 3 injured in Trinamool infighting
  • Bengal's contemporary art loses a gem
  • Goa dreams: Digha to get a facelift soon
  • State prepares action plan on climate change
  • Trio arrested for trafficking minor girls in 'police car'
  • Business firm provided shelter to offenders
  • Lakshman Seth in Kolkata, to be grilled on police role
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha tightens Gorkhaland Territorial Administration noose
  • Congress fields Mannan as Rajya Sabha nominee
  • Man run over by Rajdhani Express
  • Sitarist takes GoAir to consumer court
  • Joka-Tollygunge Metro work to start soon
  • Kolkata cops strike local rapport
  • Byomkesh vs Byomkesh: Producer takes fight to halls
  • Ashden report to boost rural electrification
  • Seth arrest brings relief to victims' kin
  • Independent board to solve water woes in city
  • Unions back Trivedi, plead to PM to save Railways
  • Plan panel lauds state on backward region grant
  • New Act puts Jadavpur University in a limbo
  • Trinamool Congress leaders accused of stalling Kolaghat bridge work
  • City jewellery shops go on 3-day strike
  • 32-yr-old woman 'raped'
  • Best brains deconstruct Union Budget
  • Youth Congress leader leader shot dead in market
    • The Telegraph
  • Fareplay or firing line
  • Students stumped by wrong posers
  • Metro trains every 6 mins
  • Trinamul ignores CM diktat on road-hog hubs
  • HC poser on AMRI bail
  • High court summons Pachnanda
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  • I see the city coming to life
  • Two in fatal fall from local train
  • Rebels take Trinamul refuge
  • Mannan enters fray, ally issues poll whip
  • CID piles Nandi heat, Seth mum
  • PM pledges hill solution
  • Arrest sway slur on Deb
  • Boy abducted, dad in jail
  • Darjeeling lawyers on two-day strike
  • Turturi manager gheraoed
    • Indian Express
  • Congress set to fire Jairam salvo
  • TMC-Cong clash at Rabindra Bharati
  • Cong protest against activist murder
  • Another printing error in HS question paper
  • Centre plans to give cycles to minority girls as study incentive
    • Hindustan Times
  • Tihar Jail to get Kolkatas most infamous convict
  • Suchitra Mahato hospitalised for surgery
  • TMC upbeat about becoming national party soon
  • Kishenjis aide Suchitra surrenders in Kolkata
  • Badal invites Mamata to swearing-in
  • Trivedi's removal: Mamata to visit Delhi tonight, to meet PM
  • Cant read Mamata's mind: Dinesh Trivedi
  • Nothing will be given in writing: Trinamool to Trivedi
  • Six die in accident in northern Bengal
  • Former CPM MP arrested in Mumbai
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line