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News Headlines Archive

March 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
  • New rate card will skewer your wallet
  • Party over when the nights still young
  • Outrage over Mamata Banerjee's ban on English dailies in libraries
  • Infrastructure tops Sector V budget plans
  • Journalists thrashed by junior doctors in Burdwan
  • Traders in Hatibagan open shops
  • Cops rescue girl 'sold by parents'
  • Robbers kill farmer, rape his wife
  • Auto strike at Park Circus Area
  • Karnataka paper leak: Lens on city press
  • Bomb scare at city mall
  • Twin towers to grace Rajarhat skyline
  • Govt employees get pay-cut notices
  • Renewed agriculture focus: Road to 'TMC socialism'
  • Bengal jewellers resume indefinite strike
  • Bengal set to amend panchayat act amid protests from opposition
  • Delhi cops hunt for fake Scotch factory in city
  • East India Company mints mohur, cash again
  • Jewellery traders in West Bengal to go on indefinite strike
  • Woman raped, husband and child battered
  • Phaetons shut out of Victoria zone
  • Centre refuses funds to cover Asiatic Society workers pay hike
  • Weekend breather for sizzling city
  • Finally, more bus routes in Sector V and Rajarhat, leash on autos
  • Uncertainty looms over Star Theatre's fates
  • Eviction tussle in migrant haven
  • Kingfisher's operations in city to shrink further
  • Police Commissioner in police station to probe lapses
  • Girl kills 'molester', surrenders to cops
  • Raids on trains to curb trafficking to check trafficking
  • Former secretary of police body suspended
  • Search for roots brings UK woman to Kolkata
  • Spurned by sons, widow dies in court
  • Schoolboy held for gory murder
  • Uproar over zilla parishad 'takeover'
  • Two minors raped in West Midnapore
  • Tidal flow and salinity has changed in Sunderbans
  • Mom returns from Norway, wont give up fight
  • 105-yr-old vows to beat cancer
  • Liquidator appointed for Dunlop India
  • Delhi Police trying to stall Aftabs transfer to Tihar
  • Three zilla parishads lose fiscal power
  • Stateless enclave dwellers observe Bangla Independence Day
  • Mukul meets railway officials to expedite state projects
  • Fire sparks panic at citys IT hub
  • Commuters suffer as snag paralyses Metro services
  • Drunk biker arrested near CMs house
  • Tenth century relics unearthed in Dantan
  • Dunlop staff bank on state for bailout
  • Car-rape prime accused back in city?
    • The Telegraph
  • Reopened: passport counters
  • Hands-off post earns Goenka duo bail
  • Freeze on teacher incentives
  • Eden fix-it team for IPL
  • Bomb & fire scare at mall
  • Sixth AC rake joins Metro fleet, tried & tested
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  • Court order to keep ghat clean
  • Student protest stalls traffic
  • New force, same old auto-cracy
  • Amherst Street OC transferred
  • Robbers kill farmer, rape wife
  • Govt reworks land deal for 66 firms
  • Strike whip strikes 39
  • Library nanny, give us daily good news
  • Cops attacked with choppers in night raid
  • Forums in plains reject plea to call off protest
  • Do or die for Sikkim boys
  • 9 injured in clash over cycle
    • Indian Express
  • Paper circular sparks protests, govt cites financial constraints
  • Tourism takes a walk through history
  • JSY incentive runs into bank account hurdle
  • Tourism budget up 104 per cent, industry upbeat
  • Didi chooses friendly papers for govt libraries
  • Entry tax worries business community
  • Getting US visa now easier
  • HC grants bail to two AMRI directors
  • Primary education: Age limit raise discriminatory
  • Now, Norway seeks Indias assurance for safe custody of kids
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mild quake hits Bengal, Bihar
  • Former Army chief terms Gen Singh's bribe allegation 'serious'
  • Dadasaheb Phalke Award recognition of my hard work: Soumitra
  • Father denies split report, says focus now on kids
  • Fire in Kolkata's oldest market, no casualties
  • Six policemen beaten up by mob in Bengal
  • Darjeeling to get first of its kind 'Mountain Centre' in the country
  • Stress on safety, security, punctuality: Mukul Roy
  • NGO seeks permission to bring back kids from Oslo
  • Smoke comes out from Guwahati-Bangalore Express
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line