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News Headlines Archive

May 15, 2011
Miscellaneous
  • Mamata Banerjee's new challenge is to arrest economic decline
  • Writers Building being spruced up
  • Land-losers begin to dream again in Singur
  • Left Front will strive for early recovery
  • What Bengal women want from Mamata Banerjee
  • Badal Sircar passes away
  • Under the Empire's gaze
  • Results prove success of alliance
  • Unconditional support for Trinamool-led government
  • China to build museum at Tagore's Kolkata residence
  • Arrogance, corruption led to isolation in West Bengal, says Bardhan
  • CPI(M) alleges attacks by Trinamool workers
  • TMC leader describes her win in West Bengal as "victory of democracy"
  • Like Berlin Wall, Left is history
  • Didi, mishti doi and adda: C R Park celebrates
  • Drono Acharya scores for Dulal De
  • Trinamool Congress' Tollywood team a poll superhit
  • Seeking Tagore
  • Left leadership in West Bengal in crisis
  • Let Me Have A Daughter Like Mamata
  • For Left, buck doesn’t stop here
    • Times of India
  • Mamata elected Trinamool legislature party chief, says Cong will join ministry
  • New script for Writers'
  • One killed as post-election violence spreads
  • CPM allies blame big brother
  • No house for Comrade Biswas
  • New Bengal FM has a tough task
  • Power play: It's not about gender, stupid!
  • 'Call me Mamata, I'm one of the masses'
  • Mamata keen to have Pranab's son in cabinet
  • Left in the lurch, CPM leaders harp on conspiracy theory
  • Dramatist Badal Sircar dies at 86
  • 'Ray govt introduced panchayati raj'
  • I'll remain a rebel in the party: Mollah
  • 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 West Bengal booths
  • Few villagers cast votes in Purulia killing fields
  • Rare thalassaemia strain in S Bengal
  • Mamata Banerjee shifts venue
  • Lack of coordination leaves
    • The Telegraph
  • 1977 to 2011: Worlds Apart
  • He who took portable drama where no group had gone
  • Next weekend you can be at ... Hemnagar
  • Two giant killers focus on road ahead
  • Amit works on fiscal revival
  • Singur hopes to get back 400 acres
  • Be our MLA: Nandi to Didi
  • Trinamul win with cherry on pudding called Asok
  • Congress rues lost Malda seats
  • Parishad, a spoiler in Dooars
  • First electoral mandate for Morcha and more
    • Indian Express
  • Mamata to take oath on the lawns of Raj Bhavan
  • Youth Cong candidates all praise for Rahul
  • Badal Sircar, the rebel who added realism to contemporary drama
  • Hours after Didi victory, Singur villagers pull down wall, enter Tata ...
  • On Mamata, Pranab table: Cong participation, economic package
  • Ghising down and out as Morcha bags all four seats in the Hills
  • Didis phoenix like rise...
  • Somnath: There was a disconnect, CPM could not get mood
  • Rahul scores, 4 of his 7 win
  • Buddha becomes only 2nd Bengal CM to lose seat
  • Bengal, 34 yrs later
  • Saha pips Rayudu as selectors ignore IPL factor
  • CPM pays for Netai, suffers losses in Junglemahal
  • Green signal for Ma-Mati-Manush
  • 2 CPM men killed in Canning
  • Calcutta HC stays Rizwanur death trial for 2 months
    • Hindustan Times
  • Comrade blames Buddha for defeat
  • Make or break for Left, DMK today
  • Poll verdict could be mid-term trust vote for UPA
  • Its not over till the...
  • Waiting for the verdict
  • Counting for WB assembly polls to take 10 hours
  • Didi puts her men on tight leash
  • Development without displacement a test for Didi
  • Singur, Nandigram leave poster boy a tragic hero
  • Code green for zone red
  • Congress reaps dividends from green belt
  • Nandigram firing nailed CPM
  • Green blues for Red in home turf
  • Its a clean, green sweep in Kolkata
  • Time for justice in Jangalmahal
  • Time to give us jobs
  • Who will stay afloat at the port?
  • A clean, green sweep
  • Result is miracle: Mamata
  • Results unexpected, we accept people's verdict: Left
    • Sports
  • Bangalore beats Kolkata by 4 wickets
  • Anupam Sarkar to lead Bengal