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News Headlines Archive

May 03, 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
  • Snatchers strike twice in Patuli
  • Court stays doctors' PG counselling
  • Gas leak at Charu Market in Kolkata
  • Two more robberies rattle Salt Lake
  • Rain relief in Kolkata after dozen days on sizzler
  • Income tax officer held for taking bribe
  • Jobless MBA graduate burns self to death
  • Teenage girl found dead in Tiljala ashram hostel
  • Two murders in 15 minutes in Kolkata
  • Bengal borrows Rs 2.5Kcr from market to pay salary and pension
  • Want roads? Tax bonanza to go into beautification
  • An enjoyable evening of fun, food, colours and togetherness
  • Meet the 'Americanised' Feluda
  • Kids have a date with Nasa astronaut
  • Tata Consultancy Services' subsidiary CMC to set up new facility in Rajarhat SEZ
  • Satyajit Ray's famous detective Feluda in a new avatar?
  • Crime against women: Bengal rights body wants more teeth to law
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Shaken out of Salt Lake reverie
  • Holly, Bolly and Tolly good time at plexes
  • 250 years of Raja Nabakrishnas dream deity
  • Rain relief from scorcher
  • This is the IPL match for me
  • Spurn whiff in twin murders
  • Blanket ban on car film
  • You share your birthday with...
  • IPL-V fever at the Eden
  • Kin conquer political divide
  • Two more thefts in Salt Lake
  • CID scan on varsity deals
  • Writers makeover for Hillary
  • Public sector officials in CBI cheat net
  • Delhi tests Mamata convergence ground
  • Muezzins to get Rs 1000 a month
  • Hope and discontent on pollution
  • Extortion cuffs on cops
  • Tonsured for tiff with granny
  • May Day boost for CPRM
  • Strike in palace lawn
  • Students on strike lock in NBU staff
  • Storm & hail stunt Mujnai recovery
  • Snow hits Nathu-la trade start
  • Part II exam deferred
    • Indian Express
  • Mamatas nephew gets bail
  • HC hands over Burdwan killings probe to CID
  • AMRI ran blood bank without licence
  • Eye on panchayat poll, TMC plans farmers wing
  • New terminal to boost jobs and tourism
  • Nutrition package for pregnant women on hold for lack of funds
  • Showcause notice for Feb 28 absentees
  • Sex-detection: Govt for stricter vigilance
  • Clash at North City College
  • TMC announces bypoll nominees
  • 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