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News Headlines Archive

November 15, 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
  • Chemical unit makes life miserable for Lake Town residents
  • Pfizer The Times of India World Diabetes Initiative launched
  • Mamata Banerjee may take aerial route to boost industry
  • Children's Day with a difference
  • Children speak their minds
  • No alternative to nuclear energy: Kalam
  • Two engg students held for ragging junior
  • Radical syllabus revamp suggested
  • Civil Military Liaison Conference convened
  • Govt, Maidan Market stall owners lock horns
  • Cop blown up while defusing bomb
  • Uproar over Gandhi book at Siliguri Book Fair
  • Gang attacks govt employee's house, loots cash, valuables
  • Air Force to allow unused airstrips for civil flight operations
  • Abdul Kalam to address convention at IIMC on its 50 years
  • Fraudster arrested for duping several girls
  • Nature lovers clean up Santragachi Jheel
  • Faces from an album of Muktijuddha
  • Fire at Malda power station
  • Surprise raids on trains passing through Bihar, UP
  • Kolkatans relish a journey down familiar terrain
  • The cosmic sigh of a Turin horse
  • Healing touch from self-taught vet
  • Certified Copy enthralls Nandan
  • Bengali cinema needs better marketing
  • 'Fiscal deficit target is difficult to meet'
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Two fans and a ton too far
  • Runs, not rain, in Eden sky
  • Lottery breather for schools
  • Yale looks for city partners
  • Undertrials on protest path
  • Robbery trail reveals murder
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  • Plan to revamp student evaluation in schools
  • Karat term bid sparks resentment in CPM
  • Shorn of cop power, CPM to skip polls
  • PCC backs Deepa show
  • Bhupen Hazarikas ashes immersed in the Teesta
  • GTA support claim rejected
  • Trader murders wife of 22 years
  • 11 babies die in same Malda hospital
  • World of books opens for free
  • Bus strike called off
    • Indian Express
  • Governor defends govt, says it is seized with the issue
  • 4 more infants die in Malda hospital
  • In Hills, GJM to contest civic poll minus its rivals
  • For swap deadline, elderly enclave residents to fast
    • 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
  • Kalam downplays frisking incident
  • Maoists call off truce, say Mamata broke promise
  • Hill municipalities elections might skip polls
  • Kudankulam plant safe: Kalam
  • Prime accused in Jnaneswari Exp accident nabbed
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line