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News Headlines Archive

March 31, 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
  • Trinamool Congress leader shot dead
  • Five crushed by train near Kolkata
  • Uncle to get Norway kids custody in April
  • Class-V student goes missing
  • HC extends stay on hooch compensation
  • Buses burnt after man mowed down in Rajabazar
  • Boatmens strike hits Sunderbans patrolling
  • Percentile system for HS students from next year?
  • Diplomacy hurdle for Haryana kidnap case
  • Assam militants on state crime radar
  • TMC leader attacked by partymen
  • Are Bengalis any good anymore?
  • Norwester strikes today?
  • Retd SC judge to head state HR panel
  • Basudeb Banerjee may be next home secretary
  • Cops told to record statements on video
  • Panel to supervise govt publicity
  • House OKs entry tax reintroduction
  • Baruipur child is not a polio patient
  • Squatters evicted from Nonadanga
  • Housewife prepares to scale Mt Lhotse
  • Digital divide stifles online system
  • SRK may shoot for Beautiful Bengal
  • Sting of the transition
  • Short-circuit in AC, man chokes to death at home
  • 10000 city cabs have 1 day for meter switch
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • AC fire kills Alaska trader
  • Bomkesh, Bhoot & Bidya trump Vinod
  • Rain hope after hot spell
  • Top cop wants friendly OCs
  • Taxis cant ply without printer
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Fight between Trinamul groups
  • Dream date with Dhoni
  • City grows to include Joka
  • Gautama to be information commissioner
  • Bullet for dog that picked fight with pet
  • Cong for library list change
  • Babys father files complaint on cop
  • Registrar for NBU with EC consent
  • Rift helps SFI win law polls
  • Drive to record hill oral history
  • Left walks out of meet
    • Indian Express
  • Evicted, slum-dwellers cry foul
  • Entry tax returns after 17 years, fuels inflation fears
  • Medical Council bill sparks war of words
  • NCW to meet Mamata on womens rights
  • Suspected polio case tests negative
  • From the high court; Fake pensioners dropped from KMC list
    • 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