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September 17, 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
  • CM defends move to curb rallies
  • PMO clears Besu upgrade
  • Mamata an important ally: Ambika
  • Soni promises national importance tag for SRFTI
  • Students join SFI rally, another school in trouble
  • KMC places more orders as stock rots in godown
  • Selfless service to the poet
  • Stock splits at OMDC and EIL likely
  • Try out-of-court settlement: HC to Warren promoters
  • Drunk Kingfisher Airlines passengers booked
  • 'Girls undergo systematic rape and torture in brothels'
  • Train rams into truck in Malda, kills four
  • St Xavier's gears up for inter-college cultural fest XADAM to rock Kolkata
  • Partha appears for PhD entrance test at NBU
  • New land bill will help land mafia: CPM
  • State ready to pay compensation
  • Theft at deputy speaker's residence
  • Subhas claims damages from rlys
  • Writers' rotunda to become cabinet room
  • WBIDC spent 240 cr in Singur
  • Cabinet clears land bill sans finance nod
  • Ex-armyman held for robbery links
  • RelCom committed to state project
  • Tajmira case: CID arrests five named in FIR
  • Party diktat keeps Molla away from meet
  • PCPA bandh against Trinamool atrocities
  • Mamata calls all-party meet to discipline rallies
  • Dream in glass at Chaltabagan
  • 'Supari killer' held for Suptendu murder
  • Hearing on Singur compensation
  • Scholarship for talented dhakis
  • Now, smart cards for local train passengers
  • TMC leader tried to kill me: Rambabu
  • Joka robbery: Three burglars in cop net
  • VB needs a strict administration: New VC
  • Didi to campaign from Friday
  • City centre sinks in hour-long rain
  • Japanese touch to riverfront project?
  • 75-year-old kills ailing wife, surrenders
  • Blast suspect brought to Presidency jail
  • Rourkela Abducted trader rescued in Jharkhand
  • Immolation bid by couple near Writers' Buildings
  • I owe all my success to La Martiniere, says Vijay Mallya
  • The museum of Kolkata's genesis
  • Pujo Barir Shera Pujo turns 10
  • Beware of biker gangs
  • Orissa trader abducted in Kolkata , Rs 1.5cr ransom sought
  • Delhi bomb planter held?
  • CID plea in skeleton case
  • Another MLA's bail plea rejected
    • The Telegraph
  • Mamata move to move rally
  • Varsity bodies on the block
  • More courses at film school
  • Snag in AC Metro rake
  • Rally enforcers roam free
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Centre letter on Besu upgrade
  • Metro from noon on Sunday
  • Soni takes back CM concerns
  • Push to break land tangle in Teesta project
  • Puja extortion on roads
  • Officers jail term set aside
  • SC clean chit to former DGP & 15
  • Freeze-pay warning to truant doctors
  • Rail threat to paddy
  • VC away, registrar fails to join duty
  • Festival for Siliguri shoppers
    • Indian Express
  • On rally venues, CM proposes, Opposition disposes
  • Professors 8-yr-old girl grilled twice for info on fathers seminar
  • No children should be made to take part in political rallies: HC
  • Argument concludes in Singur hearing
  • Soni to convey Mamatas displeasure to PM
  • IE correspondent wins first prize for rural reporting
  • Left slams govt, says Trinamool politicising educational bodies
  • PM writes to CM, says looking into BESU upgradation
    • Hindustan Times
  • Kolkata airport official critically injured after fall
  • Soni meets Mamata, assures to convey concerns to PM
  • Maoist woes for Jindal plant in Bengal
  • Trinamool Congress protests petrol price hike
  • Teenager arrested for prank emails
  • Maoist woes for Jindal plant in Bengal
  • Trinamool Congress protests petrol price hike
  • Teenager arrested for prank emails
  • WB govt forms committee to look into Teesta project delay
  • Blood collected for DNA testing of skeleton
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line