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News Headlines Archive

March 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
  • Fire in Kolkata building, one killed
  • Liquidation: High court grants Dunlop plea
  • National Commission for Women panel to probe recent rape cases
  • No hospital record for babies dying within 4-6 hrs?
  • Bus overturns on highway, 3 killed
  • Boy dies as truck rams schoolbus
  • Mystery deaths in Kasba flat
  • Passports stuck in online maze
  • Fire at office building in city
  • Cellphone photo helps cops rescue abducted kid
  • TOI, 4 other dailies added to library list after rethink
  • Xaviers school goes hi-tech, chucks chalk-n-talk method
  • Jadavpur University faculty gives Darjeeling village a new lease of life
  • Major fire in Kolkata building
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Facility boost for cancer care
  • Tycoons sow green riches
  • Geology gripe in geography
  • Boy abducted and rescued
  • Panel plea on college polls
  • You share your birthday with...
  • l am a Class XII student and have applied for renewal of passport at the Calcutta Passport Seva Kendra
  • Meeting on Star future
  • AMRI director duo released
  • Reading tips on CM mind
  • Murmurs against library daily list
  • Protester youth beaten to death
  • Wait for GTA only till July: Gurung
  • 100 cops for NBU law polls today
  • Govt goes ahead with CBI court plan in Siliguri
  • Chhatrey quits fight for state
  • Experts to save books
    • Indian Express
  • Farmers unions call strike against insensitive govt
  • Trinamool feigns ignorance of taint induction CD
  • Malda villager dies, row over farmer suicide erupts
  • Sacrifice killing? Priest detained
  • kolkata confidential
  • 5 more papers make it to reading list of libraries
  • HC refuses to stay order on Dunlop liquidator
  • Disappointed, Subba quits Gorkhaland movement
  • Govt mulls withdrawal of land bill for labourers tabled by Left
  • City briefs : HC reserves AMRI bail verdict
    • 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