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News Headlines Archive

October 09, 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
  • Mamata govt not keeping pre-poll promises
  • NRI scholars keen on joining Presidency faculty
  • Police were forced to fire, says SP
  • Read Bankims works online soon
  • After river, cranes clean up ponds
  • Researcher's body found in Bangladesh
  • Immersions clog Adi Ganga
  • 'Migration bringing down Parsi population'
  • Pilots make a beeline for IndiGo
  • Fire at Howrah markets, politicians play blame game
  • Birla Planetarium in makeover mode
  • Trinamool men 'tormenting' villagers
  • Suspension of work at Dunlop unit
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Next weekend you can be at ... Rajnagar
  • Need to slay the noise demon
  • Dunlop shuts Sahagunj plant
  • Online tool to haul up irregular doctors
  • JU scholar body found
  • 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
  • Dunlop unit closed, govt to seek explanation
  • State lags behind in compiling identity database
  • Woman killed in police firing during immersion
  • Mamata quits Lok Sabha
  • Amid Maoist truce, Mamata to reach Jhargram next week
  • A marginal increase in number of CAT aspirants
  • CoBRA teams return to Maoist-hit Junglemahal
  • Former CPM MLA arrested on attempt to murder charge
  • Impassioned five-day celebration
  • Will Eden be ready in time?
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata resigns from Lok Sabha
  • 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
  • Mamata resigns from Lok Sabha
  • 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
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line