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October 19, 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
  • Dedicated intensive care facility for pregnant mothers for the first time in government hospital.
  • Kolkata Municipal corporation officials clearing debris at Nimtolla Ghat
  • Prison official gets show-cause notice after murder accused flees hospital
  • Calcutta high court seeks state report on Haldia crisis
  • MBA graduates swindle Rs 30 lakh with cloned cards
  • Asansol gang rape accused gets seven days in police custody
  • Mamata Banerjee's official sent to Kolkata Municipal Corporation instead of poll panel
  • Foreign players hooked on festive flavour
  • Incomplete Durga Puja pandals struggle to meet deadline
  • Dengue kills woman, death toll touches 60 in Kolkata
  • Fake Tagore paintings: Art school professor faces police probe
  • Crooks fake credit history, dupe banks in Kolkata
  • Diesel toy trains back in Darjeeling hills
  • Goons running berserk in free-for-all land
  • Political meddling muddles crime fight in West Bengal
  • Behala dazzles more than rest of Kolkata
  • Youths chuck Durga Puja fun to help cops in crowd rush
  • Cop attempts suicide inside Writers Buildings
  • Girl, 14, raped, set on fire by neighbours
  • Mamata prods task force to keep tabs on prices
  • Kolkata airport finds place for 'forgotten' hero
  • People's hospital now offers free ICCU
  • Ramp ready, but Kolkata has to wait for MP
  • Garba brings the flavour of Gujarat this Durga Puja
  • More cops to ensure safe Durga Puja and Eid
  • Three wise monkeys with a Durga Puja message
  • Five days on, first arrest in Asansol gang rape case
  • Toy train rides cancelled, tourists left in the lurch
  • Ropeway on Hooghly to add to Kolkata's charm
  • 100 pujas on Mamata pandal-hopping list
  • Pensioners get bonus 10 days before Durga Puja
  • After surprise transfer, probe shock for doctor
  • Bike theft racket busted
  • Truck veers on pavement, kills woman
  • Poor kids to have a blast on Sharad Parikrama
  • 16-year-old pushed off bus, crushed under wheels
  • Witch hunt: Three women beaten to death
  • West Bengal going slack on banned crackers: NGO
  • No break from Writers' Buildings for ministers
  • Woman held for stealing jewellery
  • A master's degree isn't all: Bratya Basu
  • Welfare cover for West Bengal folk artists
  • Kolkata port authorities keep contingency plan ready
  • Three women branded witches, lynched in Bengal
  • Assam tea garden heritage documented by INTACH
  • During Durga Puja CM prods task force to keep tabs on prices
  • Congress urges Centre to reduce LPG, fertilizer prices
  • Congress leader may switch to TMC, trigger exodus
  • Young designers steal the show
    • The Telegraph
  • Crowd-crush lesson Metro didnt learn
  • Yearning for Puja in a heady UNiverse
  • Pujas vie for attention with burning issues
  • Boy hit for stepping out of class
  • Molest after parking row
  • Chaturthi stumps cops
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Xaviers eyes varsity crown
  • CM on hurricane puja tour
  • Medical PG entry to be recast
  • At 54, hard-won job begins
  • HC seeks report on Haldia port unrest
  • Toy trains run on diesel engine
  • Suspend stick for molestor cop
  • 150 of Pranab kin to get Puja ID cards
  • Nathu-la trade resumes
    • Indian Express
  • Suman slams Mamata for her rape remark
  • SP, DM told to submit report on law and order over Haldia logjam
  • HC scraps remote area work marks
  • 12 pandals in 48 hours: Mamata on puja inauguration spree
  • ISI helping Naxals: DGP
  • TMC hopes to make splash in Himachal polls
  • Baruipur gangrape: Police say could be suicide attempt
  • Bratya: No govt control over college bodies
  • Teenage girl gangraped, set ablaze
  • 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
  • Slice of Bangla in Bengal
  • No Saugata treatment for Arabul
  • Metro issues tickets with old & new names this Puja
  • Presidency jail installs jammers to block inmates' mobile phones
  • Minors rape 14-year-old at Baruipur, set her on fire
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line