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News Headlines Archive

November 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
  • New irrigation minister wants flow in work
  • Mamata cautions party ranks on 'cut money'
  • Howrah mayor in water muddle
  • No green plan in PWD's road project
  • Bengal FM takes a dig at Cong over investments
  • Tara: A tale of hope and resolve
  • Defiant MLA waits for deadline to get over
  • Maoists plotting major attack to avenge Kishanji
  • CM wants Manna to 'come home'
  • Adhir project to speed up travel time to northeast
  • Industrial township at Purulia
  • The sound of silence
  • Four persons, 16 cows die in truck collision
  • TMC worker killed in Nanoor clash
  • ABG Group likely to bag project at Kolkata Docks
  • Buddha war cry for panchayat polls
  • Battered and bruised, it's time for women to strike back
  • Techie couple held for card theft
  • IPS officer in govt firing line
  • Friends strangle youth for booty
  • Bike gang loots cash, jewellery
  • CM shifts meet to Singur as minister sulks
  • Netaji kin demand end to secret files
  • Decks cleared for Haldia Dock-II
  • Kolkata to host national school drama festival
  • More camera traps to spot Sunderbans stripes
  • Fair adds colour to Raj Bhavan
  • Car shed to maintain AC Metro rakes
  • Trident probe holds back civic auditor
  • Anuradha Mukherjee appointed as new vice-chancellor of Kazi Nazrul Islam University
  • Singur MLA's 'revolt' may help Panja bag ministry
  • Property confiscated
  • Surjya meets activist's widow
  • Biman sounds communal alarm
  • Howrah Municipal Corporation seeks report as lakhs still at peril
  • State breather for contract carriage operators
  • Son abandons 80-year-old at railway station
  • Hunger pangs gnaw at starved Amlashole
  • Change comes, but muscle power remains
  • Jadu Bhatta's 177-year-old tanpura finds place in Indian Museum
  • Peace ot the edge of fear
  • Unkept promises bind victims and former rebels
  • Mystery shrouds engineering student's death at hostel
  • Will chief minister Mamata replace 'rebel' minister with Shashi Panja?
  • Son promises mother pilgrimage, abandons her at railway station
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Where art tells many a tale
  • Dialogues of the queer
  • Theatre fest bridges divide
  • Myth of a normal family
  • Browse-and-buy buzz at pocket-friendly mela
  • Blaze near SSKM kids ward
  • ABG tests Calcutta waters
  • Grand Krishnendu show
  • SMC pulls down illegal structures
  • Youth killed, glare on gang war
  • Aged couple first to reach for Tibetan march
    • Indian Express
  • Outgoing Bengal minister says people have lost hope in Singur
  • State dept says TADA accused reformed, cops dont agree
  • One more Trinamool man killed in Birbhum
  • Singur MLA wants to quit
  • Lefts number lesson for CM
  • Bus operators ignore new fare structure, call it improper and confusing
  • Recent Trinamool activities are helping BJP: Buddha
  • Didi all praise for Modis Gujarat
  • Dead techies wife, in-laws arrested
  • UK keen to invest in Bengal
  • 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
  • 'Most-dreaded' Aftab wants political prisoner status
  • Didi turns vendor, hawks wares at handicrafts fair
  • Unhappy with post, Singur MLA rebels
  • Hardline strategist to replace Kishenji
  • 'Saviours' of the UPA exposed: Mamata Banerjee
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line