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October 14, 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
  • Night clubs start making preparations for Puja
  • For Rs 10K/hour, bars may stay open till 2am
  • State's culture clan reels under 'amra-ora' divide
  • Auto driver thrashes father, son
  • Taxi for Puja parikrama just a call away
  • VIP Road transforms into a smooth-ride zone
  • Time to honour the unsung heroes of Puja
  • Girl pushed off train by jilted lover, dies
  • Bengal gang rape victim receiving threats
  • Nobel windfall for Kolkata's 'exclusive' Mo Yan
  • Ten-day Puja holiday for govt staff
  • Kolkata Port Trust cracks the whip on firm
  • Pujo Barir Shera Pujo salutes community spirit
  • PM to chair panel discussion in Kolkata
  • Gunmen raid CPM leader's home, five of family hurt
  • Killer jailed, but victim still an unknown
  • Paper tickets to meet Puja rush on Metro?
  • Trinamool councillors mob police station
  • Centre urges Bengal govt to deny preferential treatment to prisoners linked to banned outfits
  • Gautam Deb's son surrenders, walks out on bail
  • Rural polls in sight, govt expedites port project
  • Media persons assaulted in college
  • Best brains of industry awarded
  • Youth shot at near Ghola
  • Chased by villagers, Dalma calf drowns in canal
  • World Bank team visits Rajarhat
  • Hidco planning radioactive radiation to irradiate sludge
  • Bengal college girl 'drugged, gang-raped, filmed' by Trinamool leader and others
  • KMDA staffer, ex-deputy director try to sell govt land; arrested
  • 'Painting' TV Durga with bits torn off newspaper
  • Waterlogged streets greet commuters in Kolkata
  • Cong office ransacked in mayor's ward
  • Woman comes to the rescue of accident victims
  • Trader shot dead on Howrah road
  • A decade on, Times Shera Puja still a top draw
  • Kolkata district collector to oversee key city services
  • Cops dig up 27 rifles in Salboni forest
  • Politics may derail Metro project in Kolkata
  • Woman gang-raped near Haldia port
  • Amitav Ghosh, Thayil in Kolkata Literary Meet
  • Demand shifts a cause for worry
  • Kolkata Port Trust urges govt to resolve crisis
  • Bengal cops face rights body heat
  • Bengal Congress raises AIIMS rhetoric
  • Time bomb found on bus, Class XII student held
  • Demand to scrap Nandigram cases
  • Mamata refuses extension of central deputation to state cadre officers
  • Big B's sandals worshipped by fans in Kolkata
  • Body of ex-armyman found at Barasat
    • The Telegraph
  • Let the Puja party begin
  • A history mystery solved
  • Lalkamal-Neelkamal in English
  • BJP cashes in on two grievances
  • Congress betrayal finger at Trinamul
  • GTA meet shuts out Trinamul trio
  • Cong in a fix on SMC meeting
  • Thrash protest lock on school
  • Malda fake note haul
  • Bonus cloud clears, 2 gardens to reopen
    • Indian Express
  • Patkar praises Mamatas courageous move to withdraw support to UPA
  • Abhijit scrapes through in Jangipur, alarm bells for Cong
  • GJM submits list of demands to CM, again seeks total autonomy
  • Mamata cartoon: Police quote profs neighbours; they say lies, distortion
  • Girl drugged, filmed, gangraped by Trinamool student leader, others
  • Asansol rape victims family alleges political pressure
  • Visva-Bharati molestation case: Committee begins probe
  • Trinamool govt smells scam in Set Top Box procurement
  • Industry-friendly state allows four companies to hold ceiling surplus land
  • As Bagans defeat continues, fans lose patience again
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
  • English tips from Oxford
    • Hindustan Times
  • Govt hikes LPG price; Mamata Banerjee says very bad, very sad
  • Minister's son who attempted suicide dies
  • City to host Anglo Indians from across the globe
  • Cap on subsidised LPG will affect mid-day meal scheme: Mamata
  • Will oppose FDI in pension: Samajwadi Party
  • Take stand on 'anti-people' policy: TMC to UPA allies
  • Mamata has higher ambitions, says Congress
  • Didi eyes numbers to take UPA battle to Parliament
  • One held in Bengal college student gangrape case
  • Prez son Abhijit wins Jangipur LS by-poll
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line