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News Headlines Archive

October 07, 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
  • Parents of BArch students join protest against anomalies
  • Poor show in exams forces BTech student to end life
  • Sharad Parikrama brings smiles to their faces
  • Will follow immersion guidelines next year: KMC
  • Neonatal docs at SSKM set an example
  • Prisoners in Mumbai with Tagore ballet
  • TMC sceptical over ceasefire deal
  • Trinamool stifling voices of other parties
  • TMC blamed for attack on varsity team
  • NGOs roped in to run health camps
  • Burglary at EFR Cooperative bank, guards clueless
  • Cranes: KoPT's answer to immersion woes
  • Religion study centre at JU
  • Pujas flouting ban on Ferris wheel
  • Robbery victims face tough time filing FIR
  • Double-decker train clips overhead wires
  • Now, car stalls at pandals
  • Speeding train mows down jumbo in Dooars
  • Triple murder or suicide pact? Note may hold clue
  • Interlocutors waiting for govt stand on Maoists
  • Power demand soars during Puja
  • Students to be made job savvy
  • Revellers soak in Mahasaptami spirit
  • Apartments spare a thought for the deprived
  • Method brought in traffic madness
  • Parikrama brings smiles to little faces
  • City Pujas not so 'green': Study
  • Mob ransacks RPF booth at Baruipur station
  • Six-year-old girl to be godess
  • Metro Railway answers Durga Puja revellers' prayers
  • Mamata fails to turn up at Gandhi Jayanti function
  • How green is your Durga Puja? PCB is watching
  • Truck kills three, mob attacks policemen
  • Landmines found in Salboni
  • Didi plans 25 high-end hospitals in districts
  • Dhaks replace war drums in Red zone
  • Makeover mishti to sweeten this Durga Puja
  • Panchami blast rocks city, 1 dead
  • State restarts Jangalmahal ops against Maoists
  • Airfares skyrocket with Durga Puja home rush
  • Chile envoy to salvage state agri
  • Snag hits Metro on Panchami day
  • CM move to snap red tape tangle
  • Mischievous SMS leaves Mamata worried
  • Fire breaks out at cotton mill
  • Help cops ensure safe Puja: CP
  • Organizers defy KMC ban on giant wheels
  • Visit the Goddess with 18 arms at Shreesangha
  • Treat for children of a lesser god
  • Dig into the best of Bengali culinary delights this festive season
    • The Telegraph
  • Happy homes with festive feel
  • A shining example of secularism & syncretism
  • On top, in the right spirit
  • Pray together, stay together
  • Puja seen through the eyes of the other
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  • Presidency VC refuses extension
  • Mamatas greeting card bridges a divide
  • 200% hope rides on Bank loan
  • Drunken frenzy at pandal
  • United Sikkim kicks aside quake trauma Players reach Delhi for Durand Cup
  • Time to greet friends and family
  • Workers fear lean season hindrance to tea wage talks
  • Detained for teen death
    • Indian Express
  • Chaotic traffic this puja, blame it on expanded Kolkata
  • CPM sees Trinamool hand in declining sale of its books
    • Hindustan Times
  • Bengal Maoists offer 1-mnth conditional ceasefire
  • CPM back to basics in Lalgarh
  • Pranab off to ancestral home to perform Durga Puja
  • Explosion in a cracker factory kills one in north Kolkata
  • First in decades: Bengal ministers plunge into pujas
  • Three children injured in bomb blast in Nadia
  • Congress to project Rahul as future leader: Pranab
  • Differences with Chidambaram a closed chapter
  • Bengal Maoists offer 1-mnth conditional ceasefire
  • Leaders missing, CPM fills up Lalgarh posts
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line