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News Headlines Archive

November 23, 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
  • Children master the art of storytelling at fest
  • Rhino killed in fight with jumbo
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha demands three-tier panchayat
  • Fleece brigade preys on air passengers
  • Passengers stuck in flight
  • Rare surgery saves farmer's leg
  • Constable arrested for duping trader
  • Bus mows down 17-year-old boy
  • More funds for integrated terminal
  • Mahasweta speaks up for Taslima
  • Howrah water unsafe, 10 lakh at peril
  • Plastic crates may replace jute bags soon
  • Parties corner Mamata on no-confidence move
  • Mercury act wins city boy ticket to Finland
  • Global help sought to turn Bengal into a film hub
  • Celeb Namak Shamak chef to serve Funjabi Tadka
  • A year after tragedy, smoke control still a gray area
  • Team Mamata gears up for rural polls with 8 new faces
  • No-strike clause in bus, taxi permits
  • Government schools in bad shape: Governor
  • Meet called to clear Metro roadblocks
  • Kolkata chokes as vehicles duck pollution test
  • Government gets two more weeks to publish beacon list
  • Winter still a week away, says Met department
  • Four landmarks on revival track
  • SC summons museum and Victoria chiefs
  • Follow Clean Up Now message, or pay fine for littering
  • Chamber chief raises law and order concern
  • Seven hurt in roof collpase
  • Court orders former cop to appear before commission
  • Shashi Panja second-time unlucky
  • New ministers scout for rooms at Writers
  • Mamata bid to put projects on fast track
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha delegation meets home secretary with department transfer demand
  • Hawker eviction for twin road repairs in Hill
  • Power woes put Haldia Petrochem at peril
  • Derek O'Brien shares UN experience with students
  • CID questions Tehatta SDO
  • Kasab deserved barbaric death: 26/11 victims kin
  • Kolkata boy brings alive terror attack on stage
  • Mamata handles monkey with care
  • Mamata's jumbo cabinet despite acute funds crunch
  • Shashi Panja misses Mamata's jumbo cabinet again
  • Can go to CPM headquarters for no-trust vote support: Mamata Banerjee
  • Mamata's cabinet reshuffle today, 9 get call-up
  • Harassment in LPG muddle
  • Chhath leaves lake in a mess, KIT in lone clean-up act
  • Christmas fest to get bigger this year
  • Adyapeath head to address meet of religions in US
  • Calcutta University software to improve breast cancer detection
    • The Telegraph
  • Bridge legs suffer water bite
  • Student crushed by bus
  • Airport upgrade cost hiked
  • Trinamul factions clash
  • Cartoons to get your kid to have carrots? Tsk tsk!
  • You share your birthday with...
  • First voice of dissent in CMs team
  • Tagore-tied house tragedy
  • Trucks block NH to city after accident
  • Block after train runs over man
  • Boy and mother pushed out of bus
  • Agriculture varsity VC removed
  • College rampage after exam bar
  • Youth injured in gang war re-run
  • Two held for rape in car
  • Fuel eludes anti-jumbo drive
  • Neglect finger at RSP leaders
  • Ten mini hydel power plants in Sikkim get central approval
  • Push for 3-tier rural system in GTA area
    • Indian Express
  • Post reshuffle, Mamata faces first open dissent
  • Post No-trust motion, the sound bites
  • Intel report blames ABG, port officer for triggering crisis
  • Govt limits anti-graft bureaus role in probes
  • GJM sets deadline for power transfer to GTA
  • GTA wants 3-tier panchayat for hills
  • For positive publicity, govt to post two officers in Delhi
  • Transporters threaten fresh stir
  • JU prof yet to get compensation from govt, mulls legal action
  • TMC likely to be seated with the Left in Lok Sabha
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
    • Hindustan Times
  • Will back Left if it moves motion: Mamata
  • Nephew of slain green activist attacked
  • Coal ministry deallocates eight coal blocks
  • TMC plans no-trust vote on 1st day of winter session
  • CID takes over probe into Nadia firing case
  • 'Saviours' of the UPA exposed: Mamata Banerjee
  • Left pokes fun at Mamata's failed no-trust bid
  • Petition filed on girl-trafficking
  • Kolkata LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) film festivalto kick off on Friday
  • Woman dies after husband sets her on fire
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line