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News Headlines Archive

September 04, 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
  • First house in Salt Lake transferred legally
  • Shashi Tharoor: Soft power can make us a global leader
  • Meeting to sort out NH-34 widening trouble
  • New vector adding sting to dengue spread in Kolkata
  • HC asks Bengal to file affidavit on Ganashakti
  • Bengal finance minister to meet Chidambaram on debt bailout
  • Seniors slash first-year student with razor
  • Agitation may shut down brewery
  • Dengue like an epidemic in some areas, concedes Kolkata mayor
  • Dengue: Minister advises Kolkatans not to panic
  • Woman takes on family for husband's release
  • Burglars beat up woman, son in Kolkata
  • Wedding jewellery goes missing from guest house in Salt Lake
  • Neighbour held for raping mother of two
  • Snatchers grabs earrings, injures victim in Barasat
  • Doctor attacked for protesting lewd remarks at neighbour's daughter, dies
  • Jadavpur University VC gheraoed over admission
  • Luxury taxis in Bengal threaten stir
  • AC bus catches fire, close shave for 40 passengers in Kolkata
  • More water for Salt Lake
  • Between history and housing
  • Kolkata publisher 'harassed' over book on Muslims
  • Visva-Bharati to offer MSc degree in Music next year onwards
  • Yes Bank to install ATMs at Kolkata metro stations soon
  • Generic drugs in West Bengal by Puja
  • Bengal govt plans balloon rides at Lake
  • Chief wants India in CERN inner circle
  • Youths kill supervisor to take revenge
  • Kolkata student one of youngest at Stanford University
  • Tax collection to resume in Salt Lake
  • Bengal govt steps up heat on molesters
  • Triple suicide: Kolkata Police rule out cash crunch
  • Row over book by senior Bengal cop
  • 3 more dengue deaths take toll in Kolkata to 16
  • Tackling dengue: Mosquito nets in Kolkata hospitals to check cross infection
  • Carpool driver held for molesting five-year-old
  • Right to play programme for the urchins in the City of Joy
  • 'Rajarhat new town' to get six community markets
  • Presidency college teachers fail to make the cut
  • Cops piece together suicide puzzle
  • Rush of dengue patients ebbs, worst may be over: Doctors
  • Koel Mullick helps youth reunite with family
  • North Bengal to get its first circuit bench
  • Separate collector for Kolkata
  • BJP advises Mamata Banerjee to quit UPA
  • Girl held for over friend's obscene pictures
  • Prakash Karat coal policy differs from what CPM practised
  • Woman jumps off posh highrise with daughters after husbands death
  • Activists work cut off family
    • The Telegraph
  • boson metamorphoses into Boson on Boses turf
  • Test case of dengue ignorance
  • Note key in suicide report
  • Tech hub abuzz with idea battle
  • Faculty rule tweak mulled for Presi
  • Insider tales from Vatican
  • Prawn fills hilsa gap on platter
  • Salute to tallest trio in statistics
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  • Auto menace on city roads
  • Woman assaulted by robbers
  • Man beaten to death for tease protest
  • Marks reprieve in HC
  • Eggs to sell in hand, an eye on Everest
  • Emergency meet on JU sports seats
  • Court stays education rules
  • Thoughts on business 2020
  • Land ceiling leeway for realtors
  • Parents raise eve-tease cry
  • Mitra Delhi date with PC
  • Assembly session from Sept 21
  • Student body found in pool
  • Sign cloud on Kharagpur civic pay
  • GTA project list sent to Centre
  • Two die of Japanese Encephalitis
  • Lathicharge on high school campus
  • Raid in Sikkim private varsity
  • Short Assembly session from Sept 21
  • Knife attack after ragging
  • 3 dengue cases in Siliguri
    • Indian Express
  • Dengue rush in Kolkata hospitals
  • Officials had gone to buy the book
  • Mosquitoes mutate to carry dangerous virus
  • Barasat Doctor who stood up to eve-teasers killed
  • Dengue toll unclear, blame game begins
  • Woman bats for husband jailed for her abduction
  • TMCP protests against anomalies in JU sports quota admission
  • Financial help: Mitra to meet PC this week
  • Mamata bans IPS officers book critical of her Muslim policy
  • Five-year-old molested by driver
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • Hurdles to Puja deadline of new airport terminal
  • KMC interlocuter paid Rs. 2 lakh to fund Maoist activities
  • Darjeeling hums Beatles tune
  • Pool car driver held for molesting 5-yr-old
  • Rs 155 for 3 babies leave CPM & TMC red-faced
  • Jewellery worth Rs. 10 lakh robbed in Salt Lake
  • Doc killed by drunk goons in Barasat
  • AC bus catches fire, passengers safe
  • Kolkatas groundwater a cocktail of toxic waste
  • City hospitals overflowing with dengue patients
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line