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News Headlines Archive

September 01, 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
  • Prakash Karat coal policy differs from what CPM practised
  • Woman jumps off posh highrise with daughters after husbands death
  • Activists work cut off family
  • A crusader for nature
  • Man held for molesting carpool girl
  • Now, pay lifetime tax for your car
  • No end in sight to trident controversy
  • Stations get blue-and-white makeover
  • Its not a bird flu outbreak: Experts
  • High security number to track illegal autorickshaws
  • CBI arrests two persons from Malda for smuggling fake Indian currency
  • Dengue toll rises to 10 in Kolkata
  • Standing water at home could get you fined
  • Genetically modified products flood foodchains, buyers unaware
  • Fresh row over trident lamps
  • Abused woman plots to kill employer
  • Three district SPs appear before high court
  • Mamata Banerjee takes on Congress over Raiganj AIIMS
  • Chicken from infected farms flood Kolkata
  • Hooghly students allege molestation
  • Taxis set to don advertisements, charge Rs 1500 per month
  • Firm threatens to pull out of Haldia port
  • Pollution control board extends ban on Haldia
  • Dengue kills 2 more, toll touches 9
  • Dengue trend alarms doctors
  • Vice-chairman slams inefficient Bidhannagar Municipality
  • No preventive steps against water-borne diseases at Writers Buildings
  • Civic work creates mosquito dens
  • Mystery over cancelled emergency air tickets
  • Dictionary traces maths concepts to Vedas
  • 12 students injured in Kolkata's City College violence
  • Alert taxi driver foils husbands bid to sell wife
  • Chaos at Mamatas Behrampore rally
  • Kolkatas London dreams to take shape soon
  • Court orders warrant against Maoist Ganpathy
  • Under-19 cricketer gets a heros welcome
  • Floating restaurant may be West Bengals puja gift
  • President to be in Kolkata on September 14, keen to visit Golpark house
  • Anti-graft body to prosecute public servants
  • Speed curb on trains via Jangalmahal to be lifted
  • Once in a blue moon on Friday
  • Shalimar terminal to ease congestion at Howrah station
  • Congress councillor stages a sit-in-demonstration in front of Kolkata mayor's chamber
  • Sick doctor flown back to Germany
  • Dengue claims hospital staff, affects new areas
  • Chief minister job hint for dedicated youth
  • Congress fears loss of minority support
  • Twin rallies choke traffic
  • Hospitals run out of room, ask patients to get treated at home
  • Prisoners take sere route to escape Presidency jail
    • The Telegraph
  • Plucky in life, a puzzle in death
  • Shiver down spine of tallest towers
  • Discipline onus on auto unions
  • Pipe lifeline for Tallah
  • Legal firms century of laurels
  • The cabbie said hed hurl us off the bridge
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Man held for pool car molest
  • Lifetime tax for cars, two-wheelers
  • Maoist father-son denied bail
  • Pay pension or no pay
  • Meet nod with riders
  • Pollution lapse finger at sponge iron units
  • Seat protest at Visva
  • Ceiling falls on 12 Class III students
  • Elderly Cong leader beaten to death
  • Mamata pleads for anganwadi land
  • Falling logs injure woman
  • Fed Cup under lights & after 17 years
  • Raiganj protest to offer land
  • Search in Siliguri to house 2 new courts
    • Indian Express
  • Tata promises to return if state turns politically friendly
  • Offer land voluntarily: Mamata to farmers
  • Cong leader killed in Burdwan
  • Most judges to skip foundation stone ceremony of Circuit Bench
  • Ally hits back: Mamata stalling project as it is Cong initiative
  • From Sept 3, pay lifetime or 1-time tax for your vehicles
  • Pepper spray sale hots up
  • Govt denies bird flu report, samples sent to Bhopal lab
  • Woman, daughters plunge to death from city highrise
  • Youth questions CM but this time he gets a reply
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • Kolkata women opt for spicy self-defence
  • Mother, daughters jump to death
  • Family donated property to RBU
  • Heat on civic official over Trident graft
  • Aluminum piece triggered Metro panic
  • Minting on error: Rs. 5 coins go for Rs. 5,000
  • Ministry cracks down on fire safety
  • Police make progress in presidency escape case
  • Mamata wants list of her ministers assets
  • Viral fever, dengue, now a bird flu scare in Bengal
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line