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September 16, 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
  • Mamata Banerjee may pull out ministers from UPA
  • Blind student is IIT topper
  • South sinks, but its dry up north
  • Man hacks wife's lover to death
  • Kishanji met Mamata before polls, says Maoist leader
  • Woman passes dead lover as hubby
  • State plans to end impasse over NH-34
  • Immigration hurdle stalls flight trials at new terminal
  • Former national footballer injured in road accident
  • Trader abducted from Park Street, Rs 6 lakh ransom demanded
  • Medical student found dead, classmate held
  • Lakhs looted in Ghola
  • Pranab sermon to fight fiscal crisis
  • President Pranab Mukherjee rues no Indian university in world's top 200
  • Left Front may go all out for Thursday shutdown
  • Goons break into KMC auditor's officeMiscreants try to break open auditor's office at KMC
  • US agency honours works of J C Bose and C V Raman
  • History can mean big business too
  • Heritage crumbles under hammer
  • Music brings peace message
  • Kite trade flutters to a slow death in Metiabruz
  • PWD to hand over vats to Kolkata Municipal Corporation
  • Didi sets 72-hour deadline for FDI, diesel rollback
  • Tougher anti-terror act with CM nod
  • Dengue kills 19-year-old at Golf Green in Kolkata
  • Railways blames kite strings for train delays
  • Maoists copy Iraqi rebels' terror bomb
  • Harass cry from rape victim
  • Bank shut down after TMC men assault staff
  • Didi celebrates President Pranab Mukherjee 'home-coming'
  • Man held for Jadavpur University girl's molestation
  • Pranab Mukherjee's son to contest Jangipur bypoll
  • Tainted cop accused of ransacking Citu office
  • 'Match-fixing' by Cong, Trinamool on diesel hike: Karat
  • Shutdown threat looms over Kolkata
  • 3 more subsidized cylinders till March
  • The 50 of 1956: A tale of rare bonding
  • Railways washes its hands off train blaze as questions are being raised on RPF's role
  • Mystery shrouds job-seeker's death
  • Clean up Howrah canals, orders HC
  • Locals chase down eve-teasers
  • CPM prepares for Oct 1 showdown
  • Tiger-prawn cargo stuck in Japan, CM moves Centre
  • Midday murder near schools shocks Sodepur
  • West Bengal tops chart in crime against women
  • Rampurhat blast toll rises to six, police raids on
  • Union minister says crime going down in Bengal
  • Small IT companies reel under tax and rent burden
  • Barasat molestation: Two held, family still lives in fear
  • Mamata model in Maoist fight
    • The Telegraph
  • Shooting is my only capital
  • Love and longing in Goa
  • Feel of a photograph
  • Threat of indefinite bus strike from Monday
  • Bypass death rerun, footballer injured
  • Pranab IIT rank dismay
  • Dental student dead in flat
  • Landslides hit tea gardens
  • Private buses off roads after fuel hike
  • Barfi! treat for Darjeeling
  • Slide blocks NH31A for 12 hours
    • Indian Express
  • Mamata warns of drastic step if there is no rollback
  • Medical student dead, doctor held
  • No eyesight but has a vision
  • Land makes NH project standstill
  • Mamata talks of getting back black money to offset fuel hike
  • Drug peddler names BSF jawan as liaison
  • Around Town: Flood like situation in Jalpaiguri
  • Constitutional amendment necessary for GTA Act: Centre to HC
  • HC stays eviction of shops in Budge Budge
  • Alert at Raj Bhavan: Daughter of secy down with dengue
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • Land could play spoiler to major road project
  • Tagore gallery closes again, chaos reigns at Academy
  • State scanner on pvt engineering colleges
  • KMC ropes in consultants for Curzon Park makeover
  • RBI ranks Bengal among laggards in drawing FDI
  • Hard decision if decisions not rolled back: Mamata
  • We need reforms, but not to sell out everything: Mamata
  • Big B to open film fest?
  • Prez Pranab moved by Mamatas gesture
  • Eve-teasing is punishable, do not endure it silently
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line