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News Headlines Archive

October 22, 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
  • Woman found hanging, husband and in-laws held
  • WBPDCL to propose publishing power-cut schedules in newspapers
  • Touch kiosks inaugurated
  • On board meal on trains to get costlier
  • Santragachi Jheel limping back to life
  • Smart shower cools city, Met says more rain expected
  • Deshapriya Park loses trees to revolving stage
  • No more writing, JEE may go all objective in 2012
  • Childhood lost adding sparkle to others lives
  • Bus-stand shift still on paper
  • Slow Mo On Court Green Prod
  • From next yr, pay Rs500 to see HS answer script
  • Hit by tanker, bus rolls over 40 tourists on NH-6 , 12 die
  • Kunals claim was highest ever
  • Child rights body criticizes police inaction
  • Two youths lynched by villagers in Malda
  • Air travel to become shorter, greener
  • Power cut schedule to list dark days
  • City hospital rejoins severed fingers of child
  • Train meals may get costlier
  • Touch-screen kiosks at Sec V
  • Subhendu rally to challenge Maoists
  • 7-day deadline given to Maoists ends in Kolkata
  • New hoarding policy to prohibit billboard stands
  • Maoist had been thrashed by comrades
  • Flim city plan hits brick wall
  • Fight for mate kills leopard pair
  • Blame game on, fresh storm brews in Red zone
  • Didi pays tribute to Ray
  • Use Centres grant for Aila at once: CM
  • RK Mission VP passes away
  • Jheel gets no state fund assurance
  • Deb questions move to scrap Jyoti Basu Nagars name
  • Maoists respond to CM deadline with bandh call
  • More personnel for city and state police
  • 'Framed' doc recounts ordeal
  • CM stresses on project deadlines
  • Don on the run caught at Esplanade
  • Hasina hints at NE transit if India signs Teesta pact
  • Dalma herd destroys crops
  • Jt action team to monitor sound pollution during Diwali
  • Irate mob stones man to death
  • Leader's house ransacked
  • Chief minister to hold cultural meet
  • High-tension wire electrocutes elephant
  • 'Govt must address farmers' plight'
  • Withdraw forces: Mahasweta
  • Technical audit in Haldia Petro on cards
  • CID interrogates Sushanta kin
  • Nayachar: State set to sign revised pact by October 31
    • The Telegraph
  • Record penalty in neglect death
  • State to retain pass system
  • Weekend relief from swelter
  • Puja salute to homes with a heart
  • Girl gets back fingers
  • Axe on billboards by parks
  • A drive down memory lane
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  • E-kiosks in tech town
  • Blow to Deepa in hospital shift cry
  • Panel to probe union comeback on campus
  • Arab Spring spurs Tibetan hopes
    • Indian Express
  • Rs 1.77 cr rap on negligent Kolkata doctors
  • Govt circulars on fees, detention of students violate RTE: NCPCR
  • Dunlop to reopen Sahagunj unit but with conditions
  • Bangladesh upset over Teen Bigha snub
  • The great Junglemahal rush: Police aspirants defy Maoists to collect forms
  • Security forces get priority in CMs land bank project
  • Tableaus, pamphlets, monitoring vans ideas of PCB to check noise this Diwali
  • Twist in Maoist Kalighat surrender tale
  • Labour minister appeals for merger of like-minded unions
  • Speak out against corruption in UPA, Advani tells Mamata
  • Visual documents of culture
  • Against violation of right to livelihood
  • Leheriyas in the Desert
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata appoints two new interlocutors for Maoists talks
  • Slight intensity quake shakes Imphal
  • Tibetan Administration eager to revive Nepal-Tibetan ties
  • Advani on PM: Calling spade a spade
  • GJM chalks strategy for Uttarakhand elections
  • Mamata appoints two new interlocutors for Maoists talks
  • Junglemahal: Maoist bandh call has partial impact
  • Mamata's seven-day deadline to Maoists ends today
  • Slight intensity quake shakes Imphal
  • Tibetan Administration eager to revive Nepal-Tibetan ties
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line