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November 28, 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
  • Government to find out an alternative solid waste dumping ground
  • Wooden pedestrian walkway to be set up at Shankarpur beach
  • Unhappy with Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Mamata rejigs key depts
  • Cricket betting racket busted in Kolkata
  • Sobhandeb assaulted by rival faction
  • Maoist posters in CPM leader's house
  • Mamata orders land hunt for Bankura project
  • Water row triggers uproar against Howrah mayor
  • Bengal's starvation village back in focus
  • PWD projects get a boost, govt clears Rs 70 crore
  • Five more babies die in Malda hospital
  • New ministers get rooms in overcrowded Writers' Buildings
  • Govt plans floatels in Sunderbans
  • Fugitive Bangladeshi don nabbed in Kolkata
  • Parkinson's-affected doctor commits suicide
  • Trees at peril in pretty-park drive
  • Kolkata may get new icon in railway overbridge
  • Career boost for college teachers
  • Kolkata school shows the way to hope
  • Namak Shamak chef comes to Kolkata
  • Dubrajpur police firing: Senior cops may face transfers
  • Bengal minister steps up corruption fight
  • Ghani's son and daughter may join politics
  • Mamata govt plans archive of old films
  • Mamata Banerjee flays media again
  • Will Mamata meet Sushma Swaraj on Friday?
  • Mamata government lets down Singur farmers
  • Ramkinker Baij retro planned in Kolkata
  • Adhir rejects Didis railway job plan for land-losers
  • Govt stakes claim to 50% tuition fee of aided colleges
  • Illegal Ballygunge 'club' razed
  • Tax waiver spawns more cheats
  • 13 years later, zoo to get giant tortoises again
  • Pandal chokes road for 5 weeks
  • Techie turns novelist with terror thriller
  • Fire engines for hospitals at night
  • Missing patient's body found in pond
  • Revised fares are profitable: Mitra
  • More neo-natal care units to fight crib deaths
  • Hidco scanner on unutilized plots
  • Trinamool Congress bleeds in faction feud
  • Chamber chief bats for Haldia
  • 19 newborns die in Malda in 5 days
  • Villagers save teen from getting married
  • Transfer of depts to GTA not before 2015
  • Rebel minister stokes 'cut money' debate
  • Disgruntled minister may lose more power
  • Man dies after falling into well
  • St Xavier's may soon be granted full state aid
    • The Telegraph
  • Mamata takes mayor to task
  • TMC vs TMC on campus
  • Fire laxity echo in trade hub
  • Bangla crime kingpin held
  • Metro commuter surge after rail link
  • Winter waits for Tendulkar tryst
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  • Minister drives nail into CMs wall
  • Drug fury on trader and family
  • Dupe finger at travel agency
  • Mukul aid for Tehatta victim
  • Traders resist Panskura station eviction drive
  • Congress requests early bypolls
  • Cabinet status after silent protest
  • Saugatas Caesar scissored
  • Sikkim cheers for Deepraj
  • HC rejects plea on circuit bench
  • VIP visits fail to put hospital in order
  • A year on, Karala still carries filth
  • Private schools in quota fix
  • Tea workers to get ex-gratia for jumbo raids
    • Indian Express
  • NHRC seeks report on Tehatta police firing
  • Indira Bhavan to house offices of probe panels
  • Singur MLAs latest salvo: TMC leaders extorting money
  • Infant deaths return
  • Post-defeat, selectors mull leggie option, Harbhajan place uncertain
  • Wanted Bangla criminal held
  • Criminal cases against 300 withdrawn
  • Govt rolls out college teachers career scheme
  • Suvaprasanna walks with Marxist, enters row
  • Cong demands CBI probe
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata intolerant, wants yes men around her: Katju
  • Eye on Panchayat polls, Mamata rejigs cabinet
  • New conditional permits to be issued after transporters take a no strike pledge
  • Woman dies after husband sets her on fire
  • Kolkata LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) film festivalto kick off on Friday
  • Trinamool stand on FDI only after Speaker takes decision
  • Chief supplier told court the Tagore fakes werent his
  • After Cabinet, CM reshuffles civic team
  • Stop dalal-raj in Loba, say victims of police firing
  • Amending the Jail Act: Govt depts in shift blame game
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line