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May 11, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Exit polls say Mamata likely to sweep WB
  • Results will prove exit polls wrong: Biman Bose
  • Over 85% polling in West Bengal final phase
  • Trinamool poised to create history
  • Opinion polls predict Left rout in West Bengal
  • CPI-M rubbishes exit poll forecasts
  • Binayak Sen on Planning Commission Committee
  • CPM reports predict losses in WB, Kerala
  • West Bengal: Can Trinamool Party Oust Communists?
  • Bengal Aerotropolis to be operational by July 2012: BAPL
  • Sumitomo, Bhushan conducting study for West Bengal steel plant
  • Is Tagore reserve of the purist?
  • Nandigram, Singur to be Left's undoing: experts
  • Netai and Lalgarh went to the state assembly polls with a vengeance
  • Party workers slog, but remain unsung during election time
  • Tagore, the Unknown Melodies
  • Darjeeling tea companies likely to perform better this year
  • In Tagore's society
  • Ballot scores over bullet in Red hub
  • Kolkata recalls Pankaj Mullick
    • Times of India
  • 84.8% turnout in final phase of Bengal elections
  • Trinamool alliance to sweep Bengal: ORG poll survey
  • Polling ends in Bengal, 83.48 per cent votes cast in phase six
  • 70% votes cast in last phase of West Bengal assembly elections
  • In the once 'liberated zone' people celebrate democracy with a vote
  • CPM may bleed in red zone
  • Political violence: Trinamool Congress to act at 'right time'
  • Writers' decked up for new regime
  • Justice cry in will to vote
  • EC unhappy with Kalyan's reply
  • Village Near Blast Site Defies Fear On V-Day
  • Forces, not parties, took them to booths
  • Few villagers cast votes in Purulia killing fields
  • Rare thalassaemia strain in S Bengal
  • Mamata Banerjee shifts venue
  • Lack of coordination leaves
  • St Xavier`s school students to visit China
  • Delhi youths missing from city loan meet
  • Study reveals excessive iron in city`s water
  • Homemaker`s death: Women block road in Behrampore
  • Shoddy work on tram track creates hazarzous traffic zone
  • TMC allege CPM violated model code
  • 9-year-old punished with death for a melon
  • Brand Bengal a non-starter
  • Brace for sultry days ahead
  • Bards poem rediscovered in autograph book
  • Cosmetics to health drink, he endorsed it all
  • Protests against fake Tagore works
  • No celebrations at poets home, tourists miffed
  • Quiet tribute from CM, Mamta Banerjee
    • The Telegraph
  • Wait for Friday the 13th
  • After election verdict, exam result
  • City misses its mango
  • Malaysian visa office to open today
  • Coach behind Glasgow goal
  • Xaviers culture class in China
  • Fans show their true colours in IPL 4
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Todis plead for reprieve
  • Auto menace on airport road
  • Fire destroys court papers
  • Day of justice, protest & change
  • The house that the Left built
  • Chhatradhar agent faces mom backlash
  • Bloc-massacre village shuns polls for fear of Maoists
  • One shot dead in bus, three hurt
  • Protest lock on education offices
  • Spurned youth wielded the blade: Police
  • Teacher did not kill self, say cops
  • Bandh supporters waylay DM, ransack club
  • Dad retracts FIR in melon death case
  • Worker held for murders in Kerala
  • Peace rallies in Dooars
    • Indian Express
  • DSP injured in accident, driver dies
  • EC failed to dispel fear in voters of LWE areas: Biman
  • Cong urges EC for extended stay of paramilitary forces
  • Exit polls predict entry of Cong, Trinamool into the Writers
  • Last lap ends in high rush, its hush hour till May 13
  • McCartneys Third Knot
  • CPM pins hopes on Gope to take on Maoists, Mamata
  • Veteran Cong leader hopes to win from Bundwan
  • Bank staff complain again over drafts issued to Trinamool
  • DM says police will act if complaint lodged, OC confirms case filed
  • An uninterrupted run in tribal heartland since 1977
  • Trinamool hopes to make a dent in CPM fort
    • Hindustan Times
  • Turnout makes Elections 2011 historic
  • Maoist shadow over Didi campaign
  • Major revamp likely in hill outfits after poll results
  • Buddha talks of hike in budget
  • Voting with a vengeance
  • Foes eat, drink & bury hatchet
  • Voting over, but forces still on alert
  • Voting holds key to talks with rebels
  • The sight of blood made her change sides
  • Few overcome fear to cast vote
  • Will the Red turn green in this seat?
  • Time to give us jobs
  • Who will stay afloat at the port?
  • Exit polls predict Left exit
  • Maoists call shots, but will it be a Left or Right turn?
  • Village banks on Mahato to keep CPM, police out
  • Colour code: Dressed to kill
  • A happy ending in Lalgarh, over lunch
  • Rocket launchers' poll debut
  • Disruptions, attacks and forces can shoot
    • Sports
  • East Bengal holds Persipura
  • Probably the toughest day of my career - Ganguly
  • Sourav Ganguly – the Warrior!