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News Headlines Archive

March 25, 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
  • Now fire in Bengal bus depot, transport minister says sabotage
  • Mamata softens on Gorkhaland Territorial Administration ambit to placate Morcha
  • Witch hospital in state of health horrors
  • Lonely in the last days
  • For some, it's a choice to live with dignity
  • Snatchers shoot braveheart
  • Bengal to get two more hospitals
  • Robbery at Sealdah station
  • Locals feel left out as political parties decide their fate
  • Four die in two road accidents
  • Technology student 'thrashed' by seniors
  • Meet to spruce up disaster management
  • Nagerbazar flyover finally opens to public
  • No 'blue' look for Girish Ghosh's house
  • Hamidul Rahaman joins Trinamool Congress
  • Business houses fear return of octroi nightmare of the nineties
  • Lalgarh stations to get CCTV cameras
  • New panel to ease up fire safety clearance
  • Air India reintroduces Kolkata-Hyderabad flight
  • Management firms to maintain new terminal
  • Haripur still on NPCIL radar
  • Maoists using trains to carry ammunition
  • Nandigram case: CID may grill former DGP
  • Rape victim sold off by husband?
  • Second day of students clashes at city hospital
  • Vidyasagar college girls on the rampage
  • Hatibagan traders set to start afresh
  • Entry tax returns with eye on revenue
  • Entry tax hole in traders kitty
  • Optimistic estimates a cause for worry
  • Fare rollback may hit state projects
  • Courageous schoolgirl helps bust sex racket
  • Teen bride alleges rape by husbands friends
  • Hatibagan Market gutted in fire-cursed city
  • Ex-advocate general passes away
  • Tech festival a top draw
  • Mannan withdraws Rajya Sabha nomination
  • Poverty drives mother to abandon baby
  • Ex-minister Naren De grilled in iron ore scam case
  • Congress MLAs attack govt
  • State eyes export route to shore up agricultural products prices
  • CM appeals to maintain peace in state
  • Pranab makes it easy for Mitra
  • Knife stuck in stomach, man runs for help
  • Students clash on SSKM campus
  • Treat CU on par with Presi: Narayanan
  • Major fire in Kolkata, no casualties so far
  • This award is different: Soumitra Chatterjee
  • Soumitra Chatterjee happy to win Dadasaheb Phalke award
    • The Telegraph
  • Lets rule Calcutta from London? NO WAY!
  • Stand up for the bard
  • Many flowers blossomed in her garden
  • A dancers story, set to rhythms of darkness
  • In defiance of death
  • Asim dubs Amits budget incomplete
  • Morcha agrees to hill polls
  • Presidency, Oxford rub shoulders
  • Bus race kills 2 on Jessore Road
  • Mamata offers exemptions to KKR
  • Drivers halt water supply
  • Cess breather of Rs 15cr for tea
  • Arrested with wireless
  • Road blocked for varsity jobs
  • Defamation greets NBU axe consent
    • Indian Express
  • GJM nod to GTA poll, but with rider
  • Mitras budget uncertain, debt claim false: Asim
  • Cong sides with CPM in Murshidabad to pass zila budget
  • Oxford V-C slams campus clashes
  • Varsities must collaborate: Presidency mentor group
  • CM inaugurates Nagerbazar flyover
  • Racing each other, buses kill two
  • From Cologne to Kolkata
    • Hindustan Times
  • Tension brews over smoke at Kolkata hospital
  • Sailing through controversies, Mukul ship reaches railway port
  • Kolkata cop injured in clash, succumbs to injury
  • Mamata keeps backroom negotiations open with Akali and SP
  • 2 wks after eradication, 'polio' resurfaces
  • NGO seeks permission to bring back kids from Oslo
  • Smoke comes out from Guwahati-Bangalore Express
  • Railway employee shot at in Kharagpur
  • High-powered committee on GTA emerges as a perfect instrument to resolve impasse
  • Darjeeling must be represented in RS
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line