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News Headlines Archive

November 13, 2011
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
  • Rowdies threw stones at train passengers
  • Kings come and kings go, but tales are forever
  • Kolkata film festival more than a festival
  • Iron curtain off, films find voice
  • Xavier's in India-China edu exchange
  • 'Herge answered all 7 questions'
  • Ground realities & realty ambitions
  • A harsh realty of City of Joy
  • Mother Diary enters brand-wagon
  • Dredger crisis looms over Haldia port
  • Presidency University to recruit faculty from December
  • Son attacked, Dalu blames Trinamool
  • West Bengal govt planning to bifurcate Burdwan
  • Congress plans agitation against Mamata govt
  • Kolkata government hospital: Junior doctors strike enters third day
  • Police seek details of Susanta earnings
  • Land sought in New Town for airport modernisation
  • Mamata tirade on rebel home turf
  • Sex trade: 29 girls to be reunited with families
  • Leave health ministry, CPM tells Didi
  • GAIL may pull state out of gas crisis
  • Seminar on juvenile diabetes
  • 3 more babies die at Malda
  • Undertrials go on hunger strike in jail
  • Mob vandalism at Raveena Tandon show
  • Challenged man pushed off Poorva Exp, dies
  • Power utility faces crisis
  • Doctor in West Bengal arrested for raping maidservant
  • Two held for bike theft
  • New-look film festival comes closer to Kolkata's heart
  • Writers' suicide bid: Woman was 'harassed by in-laws
  • Vidyasagar Setu ramps to decongest traffic
  • 'Cops probing mass killing led Nandigram firing'
  • 11 Trinamool leaders on Maoist hit list: IB
  • Four more babies die at Malda hospital
  • Land hurdle for Joka-BBD Bag metro
  • Infy, Wipro to invest 500cr at Rajarhat
  • Mrinal stays away, Sunil attends fest
  • Committee to probe ragging
  • Docs and patient kin clash at hospital
  • Violence rocks West Midnapore
  • 2 held in Purulia ahead of CM visit
  • Kolkata realty market feels labour pangs, shortfall 50%
  • Blackboards to ensure Red zone work
  • A three-day treat for the music lovers
  • 'Bomb' on tracks disrupts train services
  • Bengal asked to step up vigil on student outfits
  • Gambling racket busted in Howrah, four arrested
  • Girl ragged in Burdwan, hospitalized
    • The Telegraph
  • The house that Sandesh built
  • A platform for poetry
  • Slow rise to sit-down
  • Cong trains attack guns on Trinamul
  • Metro scuffle over token
  • Malda MP caught in gang crossfire
  • Writers for districts: CM
  • Mob rage after Raveena runs for safety
  • Morcha warns dissidents
  • Tested carcass for captive vultures
  • Football talent hunt in Siliguri
  • Music and soccer to fight AIDS
  • KPP changes state stir tactic
  • Quality scan on brew units
  • Doctor arrested on rape charges
  • Workers block road for power, water
  • Mild tremors in north
    • Indian Express
  • New district for industries on anvil
  • A water filter by IIT-Kgp trio for Indias rural population
  • Shifting political sands in foothills
  • After assurances & warnings, junior doctors call off strike
  • In Brief: Section 144 imposed in parts of Burdwan over political tension
  • Survivor on the Airwaves: A Tale of human courage
    • Hindustan Times
  • Shah Rukh Khan evades questions on ED grilling
  • Mamata invites Buddha to film fest
  • 9 more children die in Bengal
  • Biman Bose makes unsavoury comment on Cong-Trinamool ties
  • EC announces bypolls in South Kolkata constituency
  • Prime accused in Jnaneswari Exp accident nabbed
  • Kolkata: Unknown fever grips city, virus not identified
  • Govt comes up with new strategy to fight Maoists
  • Sunderbans voted out of seven-wonder race
  • Mamata urges people to fight Maoists
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line