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News Headlines Archive

May 13, 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
  • Jilted youth lynched for killing ladylove's father
  • Luxury eyewear makes way into Kolkata
  • Partha Chatterjee bats for Bengal in Singapore
  • Flights to get cheaper with new navigation system
  • Pilgrims die in Hooghly river tragedy
  • Chief minister helped Xavier's College save crores on Rajarhat land: Principal
  • Rally, match choke city heart
  • Private agency to manage Sarobar traffic and parking
  • Portraits of 3 indomitable mothers
  • Gang molests woman, beats her up for fighting back
  • University Registrar, controller wish to step down
  • Fake passports seized from Tiljala youth
  • Furniture shop razed in hour-long fire
  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation gifts more water to Salt Lake
  • Railways hologram to battle fraudsters
  • CM warning for health department staff
  • Lightning kills 12 in North Bengal
  • 'Character assassination isn't cartoon'
  • Colleges to offer more courses to meet rush
  • Malda DM faces heat over National Voluntary Force worker abuse
  • Close shave for Duronto passengers
  • Six bravehearts awarded
  • Accused 'confesses' to killing fiancee
  • 12-year-old killed in crude bomb blast
  • Await a scorching weekend
  • Trees face the axe for flyover
  • Rape victim pins hope on judicial system
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Little time to eat right
  • Mamata the Xaviers saviour
  • Tagore & sea of stories
  • Style in perfect pitch
  • CU goes slow on college panel nominations
  • Private varsity bill
  • Trinamul anniversary march
  • 6 feared dead in boat capsize in Hooghly
  • Linguistic data elude territory panel
  • Special exam for hill ad hoc teachers
  • It wasnt a cartoon: CM
  • Lightning strikes kill 12 in two districts
  • 3 missing in boat capsize
    • Indian Express
  • Didi honours golden boy
  • Trinamool rally celebrates one-year-rule in state
  • Mamata a leader of impeccable integrity: Katju
  • To ensure adequate security, panchayat polls in 3 phases
    • 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
  • Mamata Banerjee completes one year as CM: The change & after
  • Mamata warns Facebook, Twitter
  • WB: One drowns, six missing in boat capsize
  • Lok Sabha poll may be advanced, claims Mamata
  • Mamata does a U-turn, sayswill be happy to see UPA last full term
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line