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News Headlines Archive

October 08, 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
  • CPM ex-MLA arrested in Arambag
  • Mamata walks tightrope before trip to Jangalmahal
  • Kolkata mourns Steve Jobs
  • Theft at Salt Lake on Nabami night
  • Couple beaten up by checker, RPF men at Midnapore rail station
  • Kolkata Film Festival opening at Netaji Indoor
  • Matri puja in land of Matryoshka
  • A river ritual that reunites two nations
  • Ganga garbage divide: Clean up here, pollute there
  • Panel to assess West Bengal's tech college standards
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Bright, beautiful and a few blips
  • Day-after crowds at top draw pandals
  • SMS cap toll on Vijaya greetings
  • Biryani sandesh on Dashami platter
  • Immersed: bhashaan demons
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Centre query on rebel stand
  • Death arrives, not pension
  • Jadavpur scholar missing
  • IIM Calcutta student dies on Dzongri trail
  • CM tour hints at project bounty
  • Morcha: Turf before polls
  • 12-yr-old killed in Sujapur gang war
  • Three caught with arms
  • Scholar missing in river
  • Lights around lake ripped off
  • Murder revenge for dads extortion protest
  • Minister car hurts couple
    • Indian Express
  • Amid Maoist truce, Mamata to reach Jhargram next week
  • 1 killed in clash with police over route of immersion
  • A marginal increase in number of CAT aspirants
  • CoBRA teams return to Maoist-hit Junglemahal
  • Former CPM MLA arrested on attempt to murder charge
    • 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