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News Headlines Archive

May 11, 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
  • Mamata back on foreign media radar
  • Puff, by invitation only
  • Buying grocery a click away
  • Govt altered hawking zone policy, say unions
  • Kolkata caught in encroachment trap
  • Bhangar College professor surrenders, court grants bail
  • Chargesheet filed in Park Street rape case
  • Girl 'falls' from bridge, rescued
  • Jangalmahal cop job racket busted, two held
  • National Park status for Jaldapara Sanctuary
  • Calcutta Medical Research Institute celebrates International Nurses Day
  • Nine mini zoos now on Kolkata zoo authority list
  • 'Coal mafia' held in Hooghly
  • Security to be beefed up to avoid campus clashes
  • DM locks up National Voluntary Force worker in bathroom
  • Youths abuse couple, walk free on bail
  • Former CPM MLA's son gunned down in Burnpur
  • Tour operators to move HC for emergency services tag
  • Congress seeks poll panel help again
  • Kolkata rape case: Chargesheet filed against five
  • NCC fails to charm youths
  • Malda woman dumped on road after gang rape
  • Staff crunch drives headmaster to wield broom
  • India's rich past becomes the grace in Sakti's art
  • State to develop highway through Jangalmahal
  • Congress candidate attacked, LF seeks free and fair poll
  • Phone tapping rules made tougher
  • Presidency University faculty to be finalised on Monday
  • New terminal ceilings to sport Tagore works
  • Green change hits roadblock
  • Metro work to hit Taratala traffic
  • Yoga to tame anger in drivers
  • Autos switch to cheaper 'kata LPG'
  • Fraudsters held for floating fake NGO
  • Snatching gang finally in cop net
  • Gangster held on extortion charges
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • TV transition talks on pause
  • Urban sprawl is the inspiration
  • Dangerous drive on a dark flyover
  • Get set for Tagore rally
  • Daylight robbery in apartment
  • Cuffs on womans Bypass tormentor
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Pathologist arrested for twin murders
  • IISCO contractor shot dead
  • Tah murder chargesheet
  • Husband kidnap for civic blackmail
  • Minor flees clutches of groom
  • Snow hits Everest climb
  • London boost to Toto tradition
  • Fasts in plains withdrawn
  • Darjeeling tea aroma reaches Argentina
  • Students boycott classes
  • Power office ransack
    • Indian Express
  • Cops call Park Street case gang rape
  • As commoner, minister busts fake ration card racket
  • Javed again: Women no good as fire operators
  • CID names 19, lets off former Congress MLAs husband, children
  • Son of CPM leader shot dead, party points finger at Trinamool
  • Arrested Maoist pleads for death
  • HC adjourns bail plea hearing of AMRI director
    • 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
  • Kolkata rape: Chargesheet contradicts CM's claim
  • Former mayor's son shot dead in Asansol
  • Talented chess player Sankar Roy commits suicide
  • Hillary Clinton touches upon retail FDI, Iran
  • Indo-US economies becoming increasingly interdependent:Clinton
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line