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News Headlines Archive

May 04, 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
  • Bengal panchayat polls likely in December-end
  • Actor Soumitra Chatterjee receives Dadasaheb Phalke Award, but still awaits dream role
  • Metro train stalls high up, 20-minute scare for commuters
  • No class suspension at Surendranath college
  • Woman raped in Darjeeling, two held
  • Fair to mark Mamata Banerjee government's one year in office
  • Three ex-PSU officials held in Rs 464-crore export scam
  • Delhi official meets Bengal chief secretary, talks Teesta
  • Passport office migrates to single processing system
  • Youth held for selling fake Mamata books
  • Daylight robbery in crowded locality in South Kolkata
  • Batanagar double murder suspect still on run
  • Howrah teacher held for showing porn to school students
  • Forged letter rattles Kolkata Municipal Corporation, minister
  • Taiwan to soon open trade promotion centre in Kolkata
  • Kolkata's test of loyalty: Dada or SRK?
  • Court puts music concert on hold
  • Mamata tries to streamline funds use
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Knights find a Korean fan club
  • Rehab plan to save East-West Metro
  • Off the field, a few small battles
  • Booked for CM poem piracy
  • Daylight robbery in apartment
  • Short weekends at Nandan
  • Out of Hillary path: flowerpots
  • You share your birthday with...
  • AC Metro overshoots platform
  • In-laws held for torture
  • Constable eludes cops
  • Cops lie and leave lady to mob
  • Trinamul, Cong test waters for civic pact
  • Farmers vent cheque ire
  • Relay fasts start on low note
  • Carnival to lure tourists to Sikkim
  • Car crash kills 3 Britannia executives
  • Pump pegs out, tank dries up in Raiganj
  • Deadline to get fire licences
  • Trinamul leader killed
    • Indian Express
  • Dada vs SRK, Bollywood vs Tollywood in Kolkata on Saturday
  • Madhyamgrams royal moment
  • CPM, Trinamool join hands in Lalgarh for development
  • Mamatas nephew gets bail
  • HC hands over Burdwan killings probe to CID
  • HPL dispute: Promoter argues for international arbitration
  • After govt assurance, Surendranath College to reopen today
  • Only 12 out of 30,000 imams get honorarium
  • US spends more on pizzas than on space missions: Ex-NASA astronaut
  • Facing nurse exodus, hospitals look south
  • 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