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News Headlines Archive

September 12, 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
  • Kolkata's poor poorer than the rest
  • Children's pilot dream now within touching distance
  • Sanjay Mitra may be new chief secretary
  • East-West Metro left with no land for Central station
  • Girls in suicide pact jump from highrise
  • CM heads for Jangalmahal again
  • CM lays out red carpet for President
  • Samajwadi Party may explore possibility of Third Front formation
  • Now, catch a chopper to Bagdogra
  • Congress, SP leaders descend on Kolkata for twin meets
  • Citu loses 26,000 members in Kolkata
  • Will Bengal's Panorama go Indian?
  • Music for peace to rock Kolkata
  • Morcha wants more money, 'absolute control'
  • Rape victim brought to Kolkata for treatment
  • Home cure for dengue death sting
  • Couple arrested for killing newborn
  • Panicky boarders leave Hindu Hostel
  • Toll rises, KMC health officials 'suspended'
  • Salt Lake civic body gets Rs 10lakh for battling outbreak
  • Cheap filter to solve arsenic crisis
  • Get set for a taste of Myanmar hilsa
  • Ten nabbed for Durgapur gang rape
  • CM takes up US child custody case with Centre
  • Awareness drive for care of mental patients
  • 3000 school buses to go off roads today
  • Brick aimed at bus conductor kills passenger
  • 38 years old gang-raped in Bengal, 10 held
  • Coalgate: CBI lens on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government's recommendations
  • 15 kids injured after school van overturns
  • Congress writes to S M Krishna over baby custody battle in US
  • Girl lodges complaint against landlord, cops
  • Test confirms Kharagpur gang rape
  • Tainted juvenile official denied bail
  • 32-year-old gang-raped, husband beaten up
  • Calcutta University journalism head 'quits' after report
  • We'll resolve land disputes: Partha Chatterjee
  • Govt waits for Infosys' next plan of action
  • CBI courts in a fix over unequal case distribution
  • Woman's headless body found in sack
  • Professor's apology ends impasse at Jaipuria college
  • Trainee doctor plays a 'lottery' to shoot himself
  • SAI hostel shut after dengue panic
  • Parents keep 17-year-old alive through book of poems
  • 'Haunted' flyover turns into addicts' adda
  • Donation used as last resort
  • Single, and looking for a donor
  • Trinamool lid on donor info to Election Commission
  • Honeybees hijack 3 planes at new airport terminal
  • Public finance research and training unit to facilitate officials in eastern and northeastern India
    • The Telegraph
  • Victims of my way or highway
  • A closer look at Victoria
  • Order to return East-West land
  • Teens jump off high-rise roof
  • Passenger dies after stone hit
  • Mamata blasts Sovan for dengue delay
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Pool cars & buses off road
  • Bill shock for 40 minus electricity
  • Couple caught for baby murder cite poverty
  • CPM plan for districts
  • Centre plan first in Sisir district
  • Union-less college finds favour in Cooch Behar
  • Malda airport once, now soil digging site
  • Transfer charge on GTA, victims to protest
  • Heroin haul in hills
  • Freedom for intruder
    • Indian Express
  • 10 held for Durgapur rape
  • SP convention kicks off today with an eye on forming third front
  • On rising crimes against women, DGP says: Cant say about perceptions
  • IB counts kharezi madrasas for CM
  • Parents held for burying alive newborn girl
  • Under Trinamool pressure, Centre may shift AIIMS site to Nadia
  • Mamata pulls up Mayor for his report on tackling dengue
  • HC scraps acquisition of plot for Metro
  • Legal tangles halt hearing of key CBI cases
  • CPM-controlled civic bodies under probe for scams
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • India's only school to crack codes to come up in Kolkata
  • Mulayam praises Mamata, says UPA directionless
  • Rape-accused in Durgapur were staff of printing press
  • Mulayam praises CM, declines to meet her
  • No govt can come to Centre without SP's support: Mulayam
  • BJP destroying thesis of democracy: Sibal
  • India's only school to crack codes to come up in Kolkata
  • Panel issues scathing report on ex-CU journalism head
  • 'SP will have a decision making role in 2014 LS polls'
  • Mulayam praises CM, declines to meet her
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line