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News Headlines Archive

May 12, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • 75 companies of Central forces to be deployed for counting in Bengal
  • Mamata appeals for acceptance of poll verdict
  • Court grants bail to CPI(M) strongman
  • Chidambaram right on Bengal's law & order: CEC
  • There is a political game plan behind Anna Hazare campaign: Forward Bloc
  • Discovery channel now available in Bengali
  • West Bengal awaits results with bated breath
  • Tight security for Bengal vote counting
  • Personal attacks, abuse marred Bengal campaign
  • West Bengal's booming carpet industry helping to create new jobs
  • Bengali poet who will not be lost in translation
  • Calvin Klein opens Kolkata store
  • Mamata could inherit a healthy power sector
  • Parties tense as Bengal poll result countdown begins
  • IIT Kharagpur changes norms
  • JSW Bengal Steel sets Sept-Oct dateline for placing orders
  • Rituparna's baby shower
  • Moubani Sorcar in Pintu Chatterjee's 'Sorry'
    • Times of India
  • Drivers seat view of Didis battleground campaign
  • Bengal: Left hopes it will prove detractors wrong
  • 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
  • Writers' date with history
  • The day Mamata posed as 'lover' to fool cops
  • TMC elated, LF calls it a gimmick
  • Oath-taking at Brigade or Raj Bhavan?
  • Bail for Majid after polls end
  • Poll panel warning for Anil Basu
  • Four from city crack UPSC exam
  • Centre clamps down on plastic bags
  • Addict stole Presidency taps to buy drugs
  • 2 students drown in Subhas Sarovar
  • Domestic help steals Rs 4.5 lakh
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Laggard airport fails
  • Injured langur gets treatment at zoo
  • Cops to clear pedestrian path
  • Schoolboys drown in lake
  • Stop! Counting next door
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Court slams code excuse
  • Poll brush with poverty
  • Debasree arrest order
  • Flights cancelled after collision
  • Trader gets extortion call
  • Worst fact comes with good name
  • Tick-tock, tick-tock
  • Partys twin fears: exodus and ally ache
  • Officers follow poll code, people go thirsty
  • In red den and ballot box, CPM fights loosening grip
  • Morcha govt wish with quit rider
  • Morcha keen to join govt for Gorkhaland
  • Trinamul declares CM before results
  • Classes off on counting day
  • 200 stuck in hospital
  • Congress blames cops for bus kill
  • Mujnai to open today with wage & ration
  • Chamlings state tour to review projects
  • Varsity fest from May 15 to mark 50yrs
  • Dog seizure: Debasree faces arrest
  • Jail for drug peddlers
    • Indian Express
  • Gambhir tipped to be Dhonis long-term deputy, successor
  • Parties earn praise from PCB for green poll
  • Voters queues at flashpoints got longer & longer
  • SS Ray to possibly Mamata in one service tenure
  • Peaceful polling, violence before and after
  • 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
    • Hindustan Times
  • Didi puts her men on tight leash
  • Exit polls predict defeat of Left heavyweights
  • Waiting for the verdict
  • Destress mantra: Dylan to adda
  • 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
  • Trinamool keen to bury Adhir hatchet
  • Time to give us jobs
  • Who will stay afloat at the port?
  • Exit polls predict defeat for almost entire cabinet
  • CPM deploys maximum agents
  • Maoists call shots, but will it be a Left or Right turn?
  • What is to unfold on Friday the 13th?
  • Colour code: Dressed to kill
  • A happy ending in Lalgarh, over lunch
  • Rocket launchers' poll debut
    • Sports
  • East Bengal holds Persipura
  • Probably the toughest day of my career - Ganguly
  • Sourav Ganguly – the Warrior!