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News Headlines Archive

May 15, 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
  • Maoists hang explosives to train engine in Jharkhand
  • Mob clashes with Howrah cops
  • Hatkata Dilip back behind bars for guard's murder
  • Waterlogging poses threat to Thakurbari
  • Writers' staff wants ACs
  • Ghola girl staged her abduction, suspect cops
  • 'Master of Indian cinema' turns 90
  • Soumitra felicitated for lifetime contribution
  • HC hears Lakshman bail plea
  • Crime follows realty boom in Ghola
  • 100 devotees fall ill after having prasad
  • La Mart NCC room now a treasure trove of history
  • Teen dies waiting for gates on border to open
  • Why not go for 3-tiers and NFA shortlist?
  • Presi appoints 16 top-notch professors
  • Library panel flouts book selection norms
  • Metro suicide hits services
  • Online counselling for engineering candidates
  • Teacher killed, 7 injured in excursion tragedy
  • CM sends anniversary book back for rework
  • Murder of SUCI worker leads to clash, blamegame on
  • Green energy funds: Germany to go for full bidding in power from 2013
  • Don't even go near CPM men: Mullick
  • Mamata Banerjee walks 12 km on victory anniversary
  • Capsize: 3 more bodies found
  • Residents jive to pop music at Times Evening
  • Cops beaten up in bid to stop child marriage
  • Presidency may have two-tier admission test
  • Doctor arrested for 'molesting' teenager, granted bail
  • Police commissionerates fail to curb crimes
  • 10 lakh ransom call after college girl's abduction
  • Molest victim to carry on with fight
  • Kolkata joins big boys' club, Harley-Davidson zooms in
  • Jilted youth lynched for killing ladylove's father
  • Luxury eyewear makes way into Kolkata
  • Partha Chatterjee bats for Bengal in Singapore
  • Air tickets 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Heat hastens school break
  • Presi names cleared amid squatting
  • Food for thought and kids
  • Blockade after mishap
  • Mellow Arabul at college board meeting
  • Abducted girl rescued
  • Ladies stock up on Buffet(t) of trade tips
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Cradle of all-rounders
  • Archive tells school tale
  • Ties tenuous, SUCI bleeds
  • Spectators of torment in bus
  • Unuttered, a feeling of twice victimised
  • Idea of Class IX adventure
  • Morcha plans to lie low in plains
  • Unions to dangle land right carrot in tea belt
  • Woman dies at BSF gate
  • Protest lock on college
    • Indian Express
  • 90 years old, but every day I feel like making a film
  • Cops nab abductor, rescue girl
  • SUCI worker murdered in Joynagar
  • Cong report card to list Mamata govts failures
  • Ignorant nurses to get training for treating malnourished kids
  • Girl goes missing, family receives ransom call
  • Jilted lover kills fiances father, lynched by locals
  • Doctors to keep records of HIV patients for three years
  • TMC blames Centre, Left for debt crisis
  • In first round, Presidency selects 16 faculty, only 3 from abroad
    • 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