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News Headlines Archive

October 23, 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
  • ESI hospital & medical college to come up at Howrah
  • Unidentified animal chopped to death
  • Goons shoot at Trinamool activist
  • Man found dead near tank
  • Mamata agrees to tighten security ring
  • Heritage ride running out of steam
  • Inter-state car theft racket busted
  • Salt Lake residents to get self-assessment forms
  • Infy to inspect Rajarhat land after Diwali
  • Graft charge against school secy
  • Mamata's envoys meet Chhatradhar
  • Maoist bandh not total, TMC holds rally in Red zone
  • Traders reject proposal to shift Mangala Haat
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Homegrown label vs giant
  • MP bid to shrug off rebel ties
  • House tax tied to zone and four factors
  • Negligence slur on RG Kar doctor
  • Minibus fire after oil leak
  • Blow to Deepa in hospital shift cry
  • Panel to probe union comeback on campus
  • Arab Spring spurs Tibetan hopes
    • Indian Express
  • IRB jawans end strike, govt breathes easy
  • CPM men infiltrated state administration: CM
  • Panic in high court as mock drill goes awry
  • Dams to release water, Mamata issues flood alert
  • Rs 1.77 cr rap on negligent Kolkata doctors
  • Quake damage in Darjeeling hills being assessed
  • 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
  • Visual documents of culture
  • Against violation of right to livelihood
  • Leheriyas in the Desert
    • Hindustan Times
  • Mamata appoints two new interlocutors for peace 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
  • Utter carelessness behind Darjeeling bridge collapse
  • Darjeeling bridge collapse: More than 30 killed
  • Mamata appoints two new interlocutors for peace talks
  • Junglemahal: Maoist bandh call has partial impact
  • Mamata's seven-day deadline to Maoists ends today
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line