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News Headlines Archive

May 25, 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
  • Swanky riverfront opens to public
  • Madan bans CPM leaders' pictures
  • Internal tests a hit among CBSE students
  • Govt to overhaul lottery system in school
  • Hilsa to perk up Jamai Shashti celebrations
  • Water crisis sparks Howrah mayor gherao
  • Rs 162 crore worth crops lost in hailstorms
  • Petrol price demon stalks homes
  • PM to meet Mamata in Kolkata on June 2
  • Slutwalk hits Kolkata streets
  • AC makers struggle to meet piling orders
  • Body found on varsity campus
  • Now, office space set to get a green touch
  • Former DGP questioned in Nandigram case
  • Suspect cuts guards wrist, flees from hospital
  • Five suicides on a single day
  • Bengal sweats, frets in the heat
  • Cabbie strike in Kolkata after bandh
  • Kolkata organises 'SlutWalk'
  • Land sharks gobble up 80-cottah pond
  • No domestic flight from new terminal till year-end
  • Teenagers caught with revolver in Howrah
  • Cop's daughter kidnapped, no ransom call yet
  • Mosquitoes run riot at East-West Metro site
  • Government to scrap Special Economic Zone Act
  • Gandhi Bhawan stuck in a limbo
  • Trinamool Congress's oppression rising in West Bengal, says Brinda Karat
  • Traffic woes on D H Road after trucks overturn
  • Minister-mayor meet on water crisis
  • Hospital fire: Close shave for newborns
  • Kishanji's bodyguard, six other Maoists surrender
  • If you live in a highrise, solar panel is must
  • Trinamool Congress cautious on red carpet welcome to Mulayam Singh Yadav
  • Kolkata fumes over petrol price hike
  • Kolkata sees its worst day this summer
  • Mamata sets up state zoo authority
  • Survey shows sharp fall in strikes, rise in mandays
  • Abacus competition in Kolkata
  • Meet on Dunlop factory on May 25
  • Calcutta University boss gets a second term in office
  • Crores lost in Railway post office savings scam
  • Justice Markandey Katju heaps praise on Mamata 'behen'
  • Morning blaze razes Sarkar Bazaar
  • US media dubs Mamata obstacle to liberalization
  • Telecom executive abducted
  • Congress invokes Jyoti Basu to protect Indira legacy
  • Dilli Haat-like platform for Bengal craftsmen
  • US historian gives Kolkata 'key' lessons in poll prediction
  • Filmmaker who launched Arnold Schwarzenegger zooms in on Sunderbans
    • The Telegraph
  • Eden boys on Mission Chepauk
  • Its payback time for city
  • Taxi strike from June 6-8
  • Axe on party colours
  • First glimpse of London
  • Heat and humidity high kill cop steed
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  • CBSE Class X results 3 hours late
  • Petrol price hike protests hit traffic
  • Vohra grilled, eye on ex-CM
  • Ally attack on Congress
  • Tea workers turn away court officer
  • Host of career tips on a single platform
  • Dooars on wheels from October
  • Rs 50000 snatched from teacher
  • Inter Milan picks Sikkim boy
  • Brew to yield lotion, perfume
  • Staff gherao agro VC
    • Indian Express
  • Youths join citys first SlutWalk
  • Winds of poriborton at Presidency
  • CBSE results three hours late
  • Nandigram case: CID grills ex-DGP
    • 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
  • Mahasweta Devi quits post given by Mamata
  • Kishenjis bodyguard surrenders
  • Trinamool now seeks job quota for Muslims
  • BJP to Mamata: join us, we will push for bailout deal
  • Mother detained for selling baby girl
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line