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News Headlines Archive

October 16, 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
  • Minor girl raped in Bengal
  • CM sends birthday wish to Cong MP
  • Royal puja a top draw for 233 years
  • Poor cancer patients get a new lease of life
  • Haldia dock crisis: NTPC starts transloading coal
  • Aaja naachle ... for the lens
  • Presidency transfers to start from November
  • CPM offices ransacked, cops round up cadres
  • Mamata Banerjee gets ministers to work on Saturdays
  • 41-acre park in Patuli to thwart encroachers
  • Vivekananda stories being animated
  • Canteens at govt hospitals 'play' with fire
  • Trader slain at home, mutilated
  • Promoters, locals clash over possession of land
  • Govt ignores rights panel suggestions
  • Sleuths differ on shoot-and-snatch 'breakthrough'
  • Land scam: Three cars seized from KMDA staffer
  • Nun helps govt replicate project to give homeless kids a new life
  • Metro crush to get worse
  • Price cant rob gold of its sheen
  • A free sauna called Gariahat
  • Hawkers 'settle down' on fun street
  • Top Kolkata hospitals fail fire test, face shutdown
  • Ei Samay, a game-changer
  • Govt meet on 'Save Ganga' campaign
  • Doctor, wife give up city life to build health Utopia
  • Green lies in greying Kolkata
  • Tree cover stripped to 3% in 30 years
  • Apartments ready to vie for Shera Pujo title
  • Land scam: Rs 2.37cr in typist's home
  • Woman raped by brother-in-law
  • 'Thakurmar Jhuli' now in English
  • Bomb hoax in mall sparks panic among Puja shoppers
  • Auto driver held for assault
  • 1 km of slush between hospital, govt aid
  • Gang-rape victim ignores threats, vows to fight back
  • 'Avoid Eid animal sacrifice in Puja'
  • Visva Bharati girl sticks to molestation charges
  • Salt Lake to turn into science village in Jan
  • Now, call centres to help lodge complaints
  • Mayor defies audit call, clears trident payment
  • BJP's rise may force parties to revise political strategies
  • Five FM channels firm on airing Mahalaya, upgrade can wait
  • Akashvani to jazz up FM channels
  • Whiff of 'politics' in VC selection process
  • Elderly couple out on the streets
  • Malda youth arrested for Hizbul links
  • Children drown while trying to save woman
  • Night clubs start making preparations for Puja
  • For Rs 10K/hour, bars may stay open till 2am
    • The Telegraph
  • Injury heals, trauma stays
  • Therapy nod for zoo tiger
  • Cop scan on road-hog pujas
  • Rain unlikely during Puja
  • Job hope in web design course
  • 2 held for job fraud
  • Alpha kids expand kindergarten lexicon
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Back to books at parliament of nations
  • Trinamul protest toll on plazas
  • Gas heat on Jangipur margin
  • Boy beaten for plucking flowers
  • Lady battered and molested over cow
  • Mamata taps anti-Adhir lobby
  • Dealers to give garden rations
  • Martial arts lessons for hill policemen
  • Pak link to Hizb hand
  • Split bonus rejected
    • Indian Express
  • 10-day puja off will pinch patients
  • Disney fan is national chess champion
  • Bengal to borrow Rs 2,000 cr from market again
  • Cargo handler to move HC against KoPT
  • 285% jump in BJP votes stings Cong
  • Howrah mall staff receive bomb scare SMS again
  • Didis latest: News pollution happening
  • Buffaloes lock horns every year sans nod
  • Mechanised berths face opposition from Haldia dock staff
  • 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