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News Headlines Archive

May 09, 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
  • TMC threat: Congress seeks poll panel help
  • Motorman foils Metro suicide bid
  • Music, games and prizes leave residents craving for more
  • District inspector of schools opposes school dress code
  • Summer camp for Kolkata schoolkids
  • Rampant taxi refusals peeve passengers
  • Crop damage drives farmer to suicide
  • Mt Lhotse team loses 2 sherpas, survives avalanche
  • Bengal at heart of east policy
  • Salt Lake Rabindra Bhavan plot ready
  • 5 speeches in Bengali and a song
  • CM takes Rabindra Jayanti to the masses
  • 'Awareness important for thalassemia treatment'
  • Chess player hangs self
  • Debt noose tightens as state keeps borrowing
  • Online fraud lands city youth in police net
  • Class-XI student held on abduction charge
  • Kothari, Mehta set up final
  • East Bengal to rest key players
  • Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary celebrated with soirees, crafts fair
  • Two arrested for stalking actress
  • CPM leaders pay last respects to Nandagopal
  • St Xavier's ready with unitary varsity draft plan
  • Family gets back 'dead' son after 7 years
  • Gold traders laud duty rollback
  • Trinamool, Congress to go it alone in civic polls
  • CPM legislator gets bail after 68 days
  • State to start work on OBC list soon
  • Hillary Clinton gets a thumbs up from GenY
  • CPM, TMC spar over Hillary visit in RS
  • Heavy security leaves Writers' staff miffed
  • Secretariat visit throws traffic out of gear
  • Government blocks road to celebrate Tagore birthday
  • Fair to mark Tagore's birthday
  • Centre gives Rs 150 crore to Visva-Bharati
  • Baby sold off by uncle for Rs 50K, rescued
  • Hillary lands in fortress city, to meet CM today
  • East-West Metro handover awaits Centre's nod
  • Raiways hygiene tip: Free phenyl for AC passengers
  • Trinamool worker battered to death
  • How to award a song sung wrong
  • Battery-run vehicles for Rajarhat roads
  • Biodiversity register to save city greenery
  • 4 die as axed tree falls on auto
  • Trident lamps land city in carbon credit debt
  • Engineer assaulted by gang at Howrah
  • Hand shadow video on Kolkata goes viral
  • Quiz on Ray gets fans thinking
  • Talent show to draw people to parks
  • Tight security ring for Hillary visit
    • The Telegraph
  • Top marks for cradle of all-rounders
  • Shorter flights on the radar
  • Neglect FIR against doctor
  • Weekend tips for success
  • Writers paribartan to stay
  • Old fleet on tracks, Metro off track
  • Knights ride form and fan high
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Youth held for duping doctor of Rs 7 lakh
  • Chess player kills himself
  • Hall of Bobby largesse back in old hands
  • Different strokes, one platform
  • Suicide attempt disrupts Metro
  • Haldia turf war whiff in MLA letter to CM
  • Rebels lying low, hunt fest in full flow
  • Mungpoo cold to bard birthday
  • Nathu-la trade gets wider
  • BDO aborts minor wedding
  • Trinamul man resigns
    • Indian Express
  • Trinamool MLA takes spat with MP to Didi
  • To battle its toilet stink, Railways to give passengers phenyl bottles
  • Bally: 10 held for kidnapping girl
  • Now, a doctor victim of medical negligence
  • Caught in 2 depts indecision, madrasah runs without chief
  • Kolkata unaffected by AI strike
  • Cong seeks security citing threat from Trinamool
  • Former chess champion commits suicide
  • CESC to revive Balagarh power project
  • CPI leader Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya passes away
  • Another insurance guy who shoots
    • Hindustan Times
  • Clinton visit: US wants oil-thirsty India away from Iran
  • Clinton in Kolkata: Teesta treaty high on agenda
  • Three killed in Bengal allegedly over MNREGA work
  • Mulayam, Mamata likely to join hands for Prez poll
  • AMRI authorities plan to reopen fire-hit hospital
  • Talented chess player Sankar Roy commits suicide
  • Hillary Clinton touches upon retail FDI, Iran
  • Indo-US economies becoming increasingly interdependent:Clinton
  • US to treat WB as partner state for investment: Mamata
  • Hillary wants India cut Iranian oil purchases further
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line