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News Headlines Archive

May 02, 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
  • Fly from revamped airport this Puja: CM
  • Durgapur civic election date announced
  • Birlas help 71 couples tie the knot
  • Left fields new faces for assembly bypolls
  • International seminar on innovation in the media
  • Bangladeshi foreign minister Dipu Moni meets relatives in Midnapore
  • Two passports to same person set off security alarm
  • CM's nod for tax waiver extension
  • Suicide spoils Metro 'record'
  • Mamata's Rabindrasangeet enthralls crowd at Thakurbari
  • Trinamool Chhatra Parishad factions clash, 4 held from campus
  • Cops refuse to mend ways
  • Arabul surrenders, walks out on bail
  • Lust for life and music
  • Catch Satyajit Ray's favourite 5 at Nandan
  • Trauma tears into tender minds
  • Township residents want meet with police
  • Nancy Powell meets CM
  • Helpline sits on SOS, Kolkata has 100 reasons to worry
  • Tagore's ancestral house in north Kolkata to become museum
  • Seminar gives global view on education
  • Art for Mother Earth
  • Birla couple felicitated on 70th anniversary-eve
  • Cops to be under CCTV watch
  • Cuppa cheer: Flash jazz treat for cafe-goers
  • Stranded at the crossroads of change
  • After a year in Bangla jail, boy reunites with family
  • Tainted cop still at large, in touch with kin
  • Cabbie held for misleading police
  • 11 Nonadanga agitators sent to police custody
  • Guards gun down timber smuggler
  • Chief minister plans meets to 'save' party
  • PMO team to visit Kolkata, discuss Teesta water sharing
  • Kashmir coolest spot for Kolkatans holiday
  • CPM suspends Anil Basu for 3 months
  • 14 Nonadanga dwellers arrested
  • Ten cars in pile-up as Kolkata Municipal Corporation truck crashes into a Honda
  • Aviation minister to take stock of airport upgrade
  • Police clueless on Bowbazar gangrape
  • Cops 'very close' to solving Barasat case
  • Haldia Petrochemicals will bounce back this fiscal: Partha
  • Besu keen to replace students' union with senate
  • Power grid extends to Sunderbans
  • Government prepares first energy policy draft
  • Bypoll test for Mamata govt at the turn of a year in office
  • Warm food, cleaner toilets on Duronto
  • AIEEE 2012: Special return trains for examinees
  • 25-year-old found dead, wife detained
  • Trinamool MPs positive on bailout after PM meet
  • Presidency University set to get 10 acres, 16 for Xaviers
    • The Telegraph
  • Dial C for distress crawl
  • Bail in 25 minutes for Arabul
  • Starry show at film campus opening
  • Bail a breeze for Arabul
  • Lalbazar at heels of tainted cop
  • Cops turn blind eye to absconder
  • Sleepless night for passage
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Utopian, impractical and risky proposal
  • Taxi trauma at night
  • Centre mulls private partner to run city airport
  • Many faces of Shakti explored
  • Additional flight to Bagdogra
  • Project in non-lab HS subjects
  • Crime: you are a CPM leader
  • BSNL legal notice to extract hill dues
  • Heat on Left leaders hospital
  • Prod to govt for NH land acquisition
  • BSNL notices to defaulters
  • Sillery beckons holidaymakers
  • Girl fends off marriage
  • Extortion cloud on attack
    • Indian Express
  • New terminal to boost jobs and tourism
  • Bright future awaits Bengal: Powell
  • Former MP Anil Basu suspended from CPM
  • Getting a job abroad? Govt to offer orientation courses
  • Give law more teeth to check crime against women: SHRC
  • Sex-detection: Govt for stricter vigilance
  • Clash at North City College
  • Nutrition package for pregnant women on hold for lack of funds
  • TMC announces bypoll nominees
  • State should change its policies on SEZ: Somnath
  • Another insurance guy who shoots
    • Hindustan Times
  • Steep land price scuttles CRPF project
  • Mamata's team tracks net for more spoofs
  • Not monitoring social networking sites: Trinamool
  • Cartoon a conspiracy, prof an offender: Mamata
  • Cartoons cant spoil image, people can
  • Chit fund money going to TMC, says Cong MP
  • Bengal teachers warned against having any links with CPM
  • Maoists incited Nonadanga slum-dwellers: Mamata
  • NRI kids suffered due to extreme parental neglect
  • Aassaulted by TMC leader, teacher to meet governor
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line